Summer file, a battleground for soldiers.

Because of the climate in the middle of summer, people are often more willing to leave their homes and go to public to enjoy rare leisure time, which also makes summer movie theaters more popular and prone to box office miracles.

Last year, "Los Angeles Confidential" achieved incredible results in the autumn file, almost breaking all the records in the autumn file - those that were not refreshed temporarily belonged to the "Seven Deadly Sins"; Now, "Truman's World" has landed in the summer file, and although it is very difficult to surpass the ultra-high standards erected by "Independence Day", there is no doubt that this film has achieved better results than "Los Angeles Confidential".

However, the premiere of $45 million, the next Wednesday $18 million, and the cumulative box office of $108 million, such a result is only unbelievable and inferior, which is enough to match the performance of "Independence Day" and "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World", which directly pushed "Truman's World" to the box office blockbuster position.

Is this a joke?

A comedy movie, a black fairy tale that reflects the problems of social reality, a realistic work that excavates the shortcomings of conservative ideology, and a heretical work that criticizes religious beliefs has actually become a box office blockbuster!

This is not a joke, this is precisely the process that the entire American society must go through after the economic crisis and turmoil, and gradually move towards prosperity again, with different ideas of different classes colliding fiercely, so that the social contradictions hidden under the surface of the water erupt, and then arouse everyone's vigilance.

However, these problems are deeply rooted in the soil of society, and whether they can be solved is always unknown. It's like a seed. Tribe. The problem of discrimination is general, even if the whole society has standardized relevant policies in all aspects and made unremitting efforts to protect ethnic minorities, but in life, discrimination still cannot be completely eliminated. The conflict between conservatives' thinking and the pursuit of freedom, as well as the conflict between free will and spiritual homeland, reflected in "Truman's World", has run through almost every period of human history, and is bound to continue in the future.

Therefore, "Truman's World" is not just a comedy movie, nor is it just a sensitive nerve of a certain part of the group, this movie is a combination of the entire ideological contradiction, and the movie hints at the idea of the entire creative group with the exodus of Truman Burbank: the pursuit of freedom is the nature of human beings, which is the essence that cannot be annihilated by any force.

It is under the implementation of this spirit that "Truman's World" set off a heated frenzy within two weeks of its release, and also set off a box office storm.

"Six Days and Seven Nights" staggered over $16 million at the opening weekend box office under such a strong performance from its competitors. This result is basically the same as the premiere data of "Super Perfect Murder" last week, but because there are only 2,600 theaters, in fact, the overall performance of "Six Days and Seven Nights" is better than "Super Perfect Murder", and Harrison Ford, although his popularity has declined, still attracts a lot of audiences for the movie.

However, this achievement still has no way to launch an effective attack on the "Truman's world", and can only become a witness to the strong two consecutive championships of "Truman's world".

"Truman's World" and "Six Days and Seven Nights" ranked first and second respectively in the North American box office charts in the second week of June, and the intensive publicity of "Super Perfect Murder" finally played an effect, and the topic effect drove many audiences to enter the cinema, but due to their own poor reputation, the final decline reached 35% the next week, and this week barely maintained the level of $10 million in three days over the weekend, ranking third on this week's list.

There was a very interesting phenomenon in the summer of 1998, "Heaven and Earth Collision", "Godzilla" and "Truman's World" have completed two consecutive championships, regardless of the movie's reputation, it seems that they can always complete the championship re-election, but so far "Heaven and Earth Collision" and "Godzilla" have only stopped at two consecutive championships, and have not been able to achieve three consecutive championships, so what will be the performance of "Truman's World"?

In order to achieve a triple crown, "Truman's World" faced an unprecedented challenge - "The X-Files: Conquer the Future" (The. X-Files:Fight。 The。 Future)" and "Mulan" are coming together this week!

After its release in 1993, the "X-Files" TV series became a huge hit, and the story of exploring unknown worlds and unknown creatures sparked a cult following among fans, becoming one of the hottest dramas on the small screen at present. Thanks to the huge success of the TV series, the creative team decided to bring the TV series to the big screen, an idea that was supported by Twentieth Century Fox, so they were given a budget of $70 million to shoot "The X-Files: Conquer the Future".

The X-Files: Conquest of the Future is an interesting setting, it's not a standalone story, the entire cast of the movie uses the full cast of the TV series, and the story continues to develop in the fifth season, which aired in May not long ago, and the story will leave a suspense at the end, which will be connected to the sixth season that will start in September. It can be said that this movie is equivalent to a special edition of the connection between the fifth and sixth seasons of the TV series, which can exist independently, but it is more about connecting the whole story completely.

This bold idea of the creators is bound to attract countless loyal viewers of TV series into the cinema, and at the same time, there are countless viewers who are curious about the unknown world but are unwilling to watch TV series for a long time into the cinema.

Therefore, the box office prospects of "The X-Files: Conquer the Future" are optimistic by countless professionals, even if the performance of "Truman's World" is still strong, but "The X-Files: Government Future" can also use the box office of 33 million to 35 million US dollars at the opening weekend, defeat the opponent and successfully reach the top, ending the dream of "Truman's World" three consecutive championships.

If that's the way it ends, then the box office trend of this year's summer season is even more interesting - because "Truman's World" also continues the pattern of the previous two works only having two consecutive titles.

However, before "The X-Files: Government Future" can defeat "Truman's world", it still needs to withstand the strong impact of "Mulan".

"Mulan" is Disney's $70 million animated blockbuster, in the past few years, Disney has maintained a frequency of one classic every year, continue to hit the film market, "The Lion King", "Toy Story", "Beauty and the Beast" and so on, almost every work has gone down in history and achieved great success at the box office.

This time, Disney has once again introduced the change from the middle. The country's "Mulan" was favored by people when it was finalized. The director of this work is Barry Cook, who previously served as the VFX supervisor of "Aladdin" and "Beauty and the Beast". Cook), which gave people more confidence in the film, and Disney spent four years researching countless of them. Traditional Chinese ink painting and martial arts ensure the quality.

In the summer season, movies with families such as cartoons have always occupied an important market position - although comedy movies are also targeted at family audiences, if you choose between comedy and animation, most families with children will choose animation. Part of the reason why "Truman's World" has been so popular in the past two weeks is that there is no competition from the same genre, but now that "Mulan" is bound to steal the market - and "Truman's World" is a black fairy tale - parents have almost no question when choosing between the two.

Therefore, the impact of "Mulan" on the box office market of "Truman's World" is even more violent than "The X-Files: Conquest of the Future".

If you compare the box office data of "The Lion King" and "Toy Story" before, the opening weekend can explode with more than 30 million results, and if "Mulan" can also maintain this level, it also means that the weekend box office list in the third week of June will fall into a big scuffle.

Three weeks after the release of "Truman's World", even if the decline is against the sky, it will inevitably fall back to about 30 million; And the predicted box office of "The X-Files: Conquer the Future" and "Mulan" is also about $30 million, and the fight between these three works can definitely be said to be short-handed.

Among the predictions of many media, it is generally believed that "The X-Files: Conquer the Future" will win this week's box office championship by a narrow margin of less than two million, "Mulan" narrowly defeated "Truman's World" to occupy the runner-up position, and "Truman's World", which has won two consecutive championships, will once again hand over an incredible decline, but unfortunately can only rank third.

This prediction is not deliberately biased, and it has also been recognized by authoritative media such as the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. After all, in the face of the strength of "The X-Files: Conquer the Future", even if the decline of "Truman's World" is against the sky, it is difficult to form a head-on confrontation, not to mention the "Mulan" who is eyeing up.

This week can be said to be the top three players, originally "The X-Files: Conquer the Future" and "Mulan" The duel is a collision of strong and strong, and now with a time bomb "Truman's World", it is very likely that there will be a tragic ending of three defeats, this is the most exciting situation in the summer file, and the expectation value even exceeds the "Saving Private Ryan", which is scheduled to be released a month later, and is considered to be the most noteworthy week in the summer of 1998.

In the third week of June, the North American film market ushered in the busiest week since the start of this year's summer season, and more than 500 media outlets focused on the box office battle of the bayonet this week.

"The X-Files: Conquer the Future" was the first to occupy the bridgehead at the premiere, and the grand premiere of more than 1,000 people attracted everyone's attention, even if "Mulan" held a meeting with the main creative staff at Disneyland, it was difficult to compete, and the smell of gunpowder in the air had already begun to permeate.