Many movie theaters in Los Angeles lined up, and the long queues, the most popular movie theaters, and the crowd of more than 100 meters long, all lined up outside the movie theaters, so that the Los Angeles Police Department had to temporarily increase the police force to maintain order on the scene.

Most of the people queuing up are almost all young people, with three or five people coming together, and only a few middle-aged people.

"Hello, five Saw 2. ”

"Six Saw 2, thank you. ”

"Two Saw 2. ”

“............”

Fortunately, the theater company gave enough screening rooms, and there was no confusion.

Robert of ADC Cinemas, looking at the growing crowd outside, was somewhat emotional, a small-budget horror film, but it achieved an unbelievable result, which in itself can explain a lot of things.

"Notice, tomorrow will continue to increase the screening scale of "Saw 2", and some films with too poor results can be screened in advance. ”

Almost at the same time, a number of theater companies in North America decided to continue to increase the screening scale of "Saw 2" on Christmas Day.

The release scale of "Saw 2" may not be as large as "Forrest Gump" and "The Lion King" released in the summer, but it has also reached more than 2,000 screens, and it is a proper Hollywood first-line commercial production treatment.

Let's put it this way, during the Christmas holiday in 1994, the North American film market belonged to "Saw 2".

Several films released at the same time, although they are not on the street, are constantly reducing the scale of their releases.

For example, the box office performance of "Burning Years" in the previous life was $14 million, which is not too good, but it is barely acceptable.

But at the moment, it is expected that the box office performance of "Burning Years" in the three days of Christmas will be difficult to exceed $8 million, and the final North American box office is expected to be about $50 million, which is more than $10 million less than in the previous life.

The reduced box office naturally went to "Saw 2".

The number of moviegoers in North America every year is almost fixed, and while a film is a big box office hit, it will inevitably squeeze the box office of other films.

In just one day on Christmas Eve, "Saw 2" once again won $17.56 million at the box office from North America.

On Christmas Day, as a number of theater companies increased the scale of screenings again, the box office performance of "Saw 2" did not decrease but increased, ending the screening with a box office score of $18.56 million.

A total of three days of release, $13.11 million box office on Friday, $17.56 million at the box office on Christmas Eve (Saturday), and $18.56 million at the box office on Christmas (Sunday), the three days combined, the total box office in North America was $49.23 million, and the top position in the box office list for the Christmas holiday was airborne.

even surpassed the summer file "The Lion King", which had a three-day box office performance over the weekend, becoming the highest-grossing film released in the first weekend of 1994, and even set a box office record for horror films to be released during Christmas.

The North American media almost unanimously believes that the final box office performance of "Saw 2" will exceed 100 million US dollars, which is at most a matter of time, becoming the second horror film in North America to break 100 million at the box office.

At the top of the list is a 1973 Warner Bros. horror film based on William Peter Brady's novel of the same name, "The Exorcist", which grossed $233 million in North America and $441.3 million worldwide, beating most commercial blockbusters.

With the end of the Christmas holiday, the box office of "Saw 2" inevitably fell sharply, and theater companies began to gradually reduce the film scheduling rate.

There is no way to do this, the box office of a horror film cannot remain high all the time, but fortunately, there are still many loyal horror fans who would rather return to the cinema again and again to watch "Saw 2" than choose other films.

This has caused a strange phenomenon, in addition to the sharp decline in the box office of "Saw 2" on Monday, the box office of "Saw 2" has been stable in the following days, and there was a small rebound on Friday night.

However, compared with the explosive box office of $49.23 million in three days last weekend, the second screening cycle saw a 50% drop, and it took seven days to finally earn $23.59 million at the box office.

Ten days after its release, "Saw 2" had a cumulative box office of $72.82 million in North America.

Before March next year, there will be no commercial blockbuster release in the entire North American film market, and even ordinary audiences believe that the box office of "Chainsaw 2" will eventually break 100 million.

Christmas has just passed, "Saw 2" began to officially land in some countries in Europe, overseas is different from North America, it is inevitable to be colder, and it is impossible to reappear the hot scene of Christmas.

Australia grossed less than $1.3 million in its first week, Brazil, South America's largest film market in Hollywood, had a measly $600,000 in its first week, and Europe was not as hot as expected, with France grossing $1.5 million in its first week and Germany barely grossing around $1 million.

However, Hollywood's three largest overseas markets are not bad, with RB grossing more than $2.3 million in its first week, $4.63 million in the UK and $3.1 million in Mexico.

The overseas box office of "Saw 2" was about $14.4 million in the first week overseas, which is far less hot than in North America.

Based on the prediction of Twentieth Century Fox, the overseas box office performance of "Saw 2" should be similar to that of the previous "Saw 2", and it is impossible to break 100 million, at most tens of millions of dollars.

In the face of Twentieth Century Fox's somewhat regretful tone, many film companies have a trace of sourness, what is tens of millions of dollars at most?

You must know that the filming costs, publicity investment, printing and copying expenses of "Saw 2" are all counted together, and it is less than $20 million invested, that is to say, the overseas box office alone is enough for Twentieth Century Fox and investors to recover their costs.

Ryan was somewhat surprised to get this data, he didn't know much about the market in some countries in Europe or South America.

However, RB's first-week box office performance surpassed that of some English-speaking countries and regions, and it deserves to be the world's second largest box office market.

However, Ryan is very aware of the overseas box office of "Saw 2", which is not very ideal, and can only be said to be barely.

Hollywood in the 90s has not yet conquered the global film market, and some countries and regions have little awareness of Hollywood movies, and except for a few big-name stars, they hardly pay attention to Hollywood films.

What's more, "Saw 2" has no special effects or big-name stars, and the investment is even less pitiful, and the only selling point is horror and gore.

This aspect is obviously not pleasing to all offshore audiences.

They want to see big-name Hollywood stars, grandiose special effects scenes, a Star Wars-like movie, not an American horror movie.

In contrast, the North American market is the home of Saw 2.

In the third week, it continued to dominate the weekly box office with a box office performance of $15.03 million, and finally fell sharply again in the fourth week, collecting only $9.35 million.

The cumulative box office revenue has finally passed the $90 million mark and is about to officially break 100 million.

January and February in North America have always been the off-season for movies, and there are few commercial blockbuster releases, resulting in the scale of "Saw 2" not being reduced too badly, and it still achieved $7.5 million at the box office in the fifth week.

So far, the cumulative box office performance of "Chainsaw 2" in North America has officially exceeded 100 million, reaching a box office of 104.7 million US dollars.

It was a watershed moment for the $100 million box office in the '90s, for which Twentieth Century Fox threw a grand celebration banquet that brought almost all of Hollywood's biggest names to it.

As the creator of the series, the director of the first "Saw Horror", and the producer of "Saw 2", Ryan has naturally attracted the attention of many film companies and the media.

Even, as soon as he left the apartment, a reporter would immediately follow him and take pictures secretly, which was annoying.

What made him speechless the most was that there were reporters hiding in the car at night to shoot secretly, and he completely enjoyed the treatment of a popular director.