Chapter 1566: Ten Thousand Empty Alleys
72_72291 In general, people talk about the opening weekend box office together, but in fact, even the three-day opening weekend box office has ups and downs.
Most of the time, the box office number on Saturday should be the peak, followed by Friday, and the lowest on Sunday. Because on the day of the premiere on Friday, the box office has increased, and after the first word of mouth is reported, if it is recognized by the audience, the crowd is bound to rise on Saturday, and it will fall back on Sunday.
Of course, there will occasionally be a situation where the box office on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays is almost the same, which is also good news, indicating that the audience base of the movie is very stable, and the reputation is also very stable. The most terrible thing is that Friday is the highest, Saturday is the second, and Sunday is the worst, showing a downward curve, which also means that the audience's reputation of the movie is very average, and it is difficult to deliver a brilliant answer to the decline in the next week.
Productions like "Independence Day" are a special case because they don't premiere on Fridays, but generally speaking, movies that are released in the middle of the week, and by the weekend, the box office trend is basically what the film will do at the box office in the future. As a result, "Independence Day" handed over $25 million at the box office on Friday, and the shards of glasses all over the ground could not be found at all, and even the eyeballs on the ground were no longer shocking.
In such a situation, no one can predict the box office trend on Saturday, because all the previous empiricism is no longer applicable to "Independence Day", and logically speaking, the single number of $25 million on Friday is already an unsurpassable peak, so Saturday is bound to fall slightly, but will "Independence Day" really be like this? Will Saturday's box office count really be lower than Friday's? But what if the box office numbers on Saturday are higher than those on Friday, especially after the frenzy of Thursday? This...... It's unimaginable!
There is no doubt that "Independence Day" is creating a new history in a devastating manner, inspiring the unprecedented potential of the North American film market, and no one can predict the box office on Saturday!
Saturday, every week of rest holidays, every time at this time, after a week of busy work bombardment, people are always used to relax on Saturday, although many times the so-called "relaxation" will also be occupied by boring and boring daily life - supermarket shopping, family gatherings, couple dates, work overtime, etc., but Saturday still means a rare leisure moment, at least from the intense work escape, a temporary respite.
So, in general, Saturdays in major cities are always bustling with people, with streets crowded, supermarkets crowded, restaurants crowded, theatre shows hard to come by, shopping malls overcrowded, tourist attractions and holiday inns in short supply, as if the whole city had woken up.
But on the first Saturday of July, Los Angeles looks a little weird, and the usually bustling and noisy Rodeo Avenue is even more deserted today, with only two or three kittens scattered on the main street wandering in the sun, and even the cafes on both sides of Sunset Boulevard seem crowded, like a city on Thanksgiving - everyone has gone home for the holidays, leaving only an empty city.
But now it is July, the sunniest July, but the streets are deserted, even the scorching sun seems a little lonely, and the sound of knowing makes the shadows of the palm trees more and more lonely, which is really too abnormal.
However, with the footsteps, you can soon find the location of the crowd, the surging crowd on Hollywood Boulevard almost makes the entire long street have no place to stay, the noisy discussion breaks through the sky, so that the hot summer sun can't help but retreat, and the expressions of excitement and excitement decorate the entire Hollywood Boulevard, as if it is a boiling blister, so that time and space begin to writhe excitedly.
Not just Hollywood Boulevard, but the entire City of Angels is centered around movie theaters, including the Royal Entertainment Group (Regal). eai。 Group), AMC Cinemas, Emark Cinemas and other five major movie theater chains in the United States, including the largest movie theater chains, have become crowding centers.
Walking into the cinema became the first choice of entertainment for all city residents on the first Saturday of July, which created a spectacular scene of thousands of empty alleys!
From Los Angeles to New York, from Boston to Miami, from Seattle to Houston, from Chicago to Salt Lake City...... Almost every city is staging such a scene of thousands of empty alleys, which can definitely be said to be since the "alien e." The most powerful mobilization in the United States since its release, the surging crowd of people pouring out of the movie theaters, such a grand occasion, made everyone jaw-dropping, and at the same time, 1996 swept away the embarrassment of the film market in the past year, and bloomed far beyond 1994.
CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox all reported the scene in major cities for the first time, and this carnival that began on July 4 has continued to this day, making the holiday directly an incomparable carnival!
This qiē originated from President William Clinton, who is determined to be re-elected this year, at the regular White House press conference yesterday, after accepting a regular interview, a reporter asked a simple question, "How did the president celebrate the Independence Day holiday with his family on the Fourth of July?" ”
William Clinton was clearly in a good mood and said with a smile, "I was honored to be together with Hillary Clinton and Chelsea to enjoy the Independence Day movie in advance at the White House, and I think there are some privileges to be president." Today, we are celebrating our Independence Day! Hugo is a great actor, and if I had the chance, I would have gone to the cinema and watched it again, and I think you should go and see it too. ”
What Clinton said in the interview was that before the final battle of "Independence Day", Steve, played by Hugo, stood on the truck to mobilize all the civilians and troops on the scene, which was impassioned, emotional, and excited. From this small detail, it can be seen that Clinton is obviously very satisfied with the movie "Independence Day".
Everyone knows that this is a quadrennial presidential election year, and Clinton hopes to become the successor to Franklin D. Roosevelt. roosevelt) after the first successful re-election of a Democratic president, so every public interview this year is incomparably important. Clinton's mention of "Independence Day" is absolutely not unfounded.
At the end of last year, "Independence Day" released rumors, expressing the hope of on-site filming at the White House, although it was not able to make the trip in the end, but it still created a lot of topics. However, Roland Emmerich kept a clear enough head when writing the script, he knew that the audience he needed to capture was not the whole world, but the American audience, just the American audience, and under this clear and precise goal, Roland integrated a strong patriotism into all corners of the script, and the two characters of Guò Thomas and Steve were vividly displayed.
It can be said that "Independence Day" is a patriotic movie with the main theme. Although in the movie, Roland had the audacity to blow up the White House and the Statue of Liberty, but Twentieth Century Fox still did a good job of public relations, and the Clintons watched the movie at the White House first. Obviously, Clinton was very satisfied with the patriotic effect of the film.
William Clinton's penchant for movies has never been a secret, but as president, he knows exactly when to show his preferences and when to shut up. In particular, as an important means of cultural export, Hollywood is an important weapon for the influence of the North American continent and the world, and if used properly, the effect is far more effective than that of the news media.
During Clinton's tenure over the past four years, he has said that he has a preference for two films, and even called on people to go to the cinema to watch them, the first being "Schindler's List" and the second being "Independence Day."
The interview was disseminated by major media outlets, and even aired on TV news programs that night, and was teased by NBC's "Saturday Night Live."
People's attention to "Independence Day" has reached an unprecedented height, and now it has lit a fire, so there was an unimaginable scene of empty alleys on Saturday!
It is this time that the empty alleys of 10,000 people make people deeply aware of the significance of the Independence Day holiday, not only in the holiday, but more importantly in the meaning of the festival itself, which is also the fundamental factor that distinguishes Independence Day from Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
On July 6th, a crowded Saturday, "Independence Day" set off an unparalleled movie-going frenzy, and no other work can compare with it, which is the single biggest hot spot, which has set off the enthusiasm of the entire North American continent in the form of Mars hitting the earth.
In anticipation, "Independence Day" on Saturday directly generated a box office of $29 million with its incredible box office attraction - this is the third day of the movie's release, but it still broke out a single-day box office of nearly 30 million, so explosive has reached the ability to make people speechless.
There is no need to wait until Sunday for people to come to conclusions, no one has guessed the beginning, let alone the end, even the bold and arrogant "Chicago Tribune" has pale in their predictions for "Independence Day", not to mention the so-called "worries" of the "New York Post" and "USA Today" like clowns.
From Thursday's shock, to Friday's astonishment, to Saturday's sluggishness, "Independence Day" took one step at a time, destroying all shackles with powerful energy, breaking everyone's fixed concepts, and setting off an unprecedented box office frenzy, illuminating Hollywood throughout 1996 with an epoch-making light that went down in history!