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In the first week of December, The Twelve Arhats vs. Murder with a Borrowed Knife, the battle for the premiere box office came to an end.

Murder with a Borrowing Knife swept a box office of 45 million in almost all disadvantaged situations, and strongly won this week's North American weekend box office champion. , just behind the trilogy of the Lord of the Rings series, the excellent performance surprised everyone.

Ocean's Twelve debuted with great momentum and vigor, but in the end it suffered a disastrous defeat. It earned 39 million in three days on the weekend, falling behind its direct competitors that premiered on the same day, and ranked second. In fact, this achievement ranks fifth on the historical list of December premiere box office data, just behind Murder with a Borrowing Knife and before Ocean's Eleven.

From this point of view, the box office performance of Ocean's Twelve is not bad. After all, the box office harvest of 39 million US dollars is already very rare in December, but this is only in relative terms.

In fact, the premiere box office of Ocean's Twelve is only two percentage points higher than that of the previous film Ocean's Eleven, and the increase is almost negligible. This means that the sequel film did not bring any bonus to the film. , this is the biggest failure for the series of films; at the same time, Ocean's Twelve lost to Murder with a Borrowing Knife by a gap of 6 million in the case of overall dominance. Grand grand and grand have not been able to cash in as profit income, which already means a loss.

In contrast, Murder with a Borrowing Knife has exploded with such amazing energy even though it lags behind its competitors in terms of the number of theaters released, the ratio of film schedules, and the promotional momentum, and it has become the most beautiful scenery in the December holiday file. . At this time, people realized that among the previous box office predictions for Murder with a Borrowing Knife, the New York Post, which was generally considered the most unreliable, was the closest to the result.

Murder with a Borrowed Knife won the box office championship in the first week of December. This also became Lance's second consecutive weekend winning work as a director, continuing the wonderful performance of The Day After Tomorrow in the summer file; Going a step further, he not only gained the box office, but also received praise from the media. He has become the most interesting newcomer director in the past two years, with the most topical discussion and the strength of his works. His rising momentum is simply unstoppable.

What's even more surprising is that Murder with a Borrowed Knife is still Lance's debut as an actor—it's not just for fun. Lance's dedicated performance has almost been unanimously praised by many media, which is impressive.

From City of God to The Day After Tomorrow and then to Murder with a Borrowed Knife, Lance completed an incredible triple jump in two years, making the penniless Chaos Films instantly become a Hollywood upstart, even in the process of preparing for it. The Sin City all became hot in an instant, unbelievable.

However, this is Hollywood, which has never lacked fairy tales of overnight success, attracting thousands of young people with dreams to rush to this radiant Vanity Fair.

In the first week of December, in addition to the much-anticipated Borrowing Knife and Ocean's Twelve, the performance of National Treasure also became another focus. The film only earned 35 million in its opening weekend. After the mediocre performance, the next week handed over an astonishing 8% drop and won the championship again. This week, it once again harvested 17 million weekend box office with a 45% drop, still ranking first this week. three. Despite being unpopular at the beginning of its release, the cumulative box office of this work reached 110 million U.S. dollars in three weeks after its release, and it has become a dark horse in this year's holiday season.

Especially considering that the two works of Borrowing a Knife and Ocean's Twelve have achieved a box office of 30 million, and National Treasure can achieve such outstanding results, which is even more exciting.

After these three works, Escape from Christmas, The Polar Express, The Incredibles, Stolen Heart, The Adventures of SpongeBob SquarePants, Alexander the Great, and Finding Neverland respectively ranked fourth to tenth place.

What is worth noting is that last week's Alexander the Great had a box office of only 13 million at the premiere, but the next week actually ushered in a 65% drop, and the second week earned 470 million. One hundred thousand dollars, the cumulative box office in two weeks did not even cross the 30 million threshold, and the investment of 155 million dollars almost made Warner Bros. even lose their underwear.

According to internal rumors, Warner Bros. has decided to abandon Alexander the Great in advance, not only because of the disastrous box office and word-of-mouth failures, but also because of the overwhelming negative news of the crew, which is almost unbearable.

Angelina's news was brought up again. Although there was no campaign to boycott Alexander the Great on the Internet, in the street interviews of David Letterman Late Show, it was found that people generally sided with Jennifer Anne. On Stone's side, Angelina's impression of Angelina is very bad-not only because of the positive impression that Friends brought to Jennifer, but also because of Angelina's role in this cheating door, but also because of the past. For several years, her rebellious image has been challenging people's bottom line. This also led to people's lack of any interest in Alexander the Great.

At the same time, the leading actor Colin Farrell is also plagued by negative news. The paparazzi broke the news that he entered rehab again because of alcoholism and drug problems. There will be distractions in the middle of the day, and the private life is really too bad.

It can be said that Alexander the Great has now become an abandoned son.

To make matters worse, the relationship between Angelina and Brad once again became the focus of attention after the box office rankings were released in the first week of December. Their works were released one after another, and the promotion period overlapped. How could the media be willing to let it go easily.

At this week's Alexander the Great fan meeting in New York, a reporter directly asked Angelina, Will you go to the cinema to watch 'Ocean's Twelve'? The atmosphere at the scene was frozen into ice, and Angelina choked It's none of your business what movie I'm going to watch in the cinema! The smell of gunpowder got out of control for a while, and then some reporters even asked without any scruples, The movie's box office is so bad, who should be responsible? Na, do you think it has something to do with you?

At present, Ocean's Twelve has only experienced its premiere, and the publicity has not been fully launched. However, the current box office of the film's premiere weekend is really unsatisfactory. It is conceivable that the crew will face a severe test during the next promotional period.

Jason raised his head and looked at the room, the room was full, not only the main actors of Ocean's Twelve, but also the director, producer, Warner Brothers executives, etc. all came to the scene, Diorama Pictures and B Key members of the planning company were also present.

However, at this moment, the entire room was silent, everyone lowered their heads and remained silent. The depressive emotion was almost breathless.

George, who has always been calm and calm, was smoking a cigarette at this time, and his face was covered by the curling smoke, making it impossible to see his expression clearly. His steady fingertips and elegant Erlang legs seemed to show his inner peace. But Jason knew that this was already George's fourth cigarette within an hour, and just this one detail could tell George's true emotions at this time.

Although the box office of the opening weekend was not as good as expected, it is far from bad. Jerry Weintraub said, but his jerky words were dry and powerless, echoing lightly in the room After two laps, it was all gone—no one responded.

Jason glanced at Ryan and Tucker, and he wanted to say, from Troy to Ocean's Twelve, all of this has proved that publicity is only an auxiliary means, and the work is the essential work. They are now adjusting the Saharan Cavalry The plan is still in time. But... the words circled in his chest twice, and finally swallowed them down.

George put his left hand on his knee, tightened, tightened again, even so, there was still no way to vent the aggrieved and angry in his heart. He can accept that the premiere box office data of Ocean's Twelve is not ideal, and he can also accept that the media feedback and audience response of Ocean's Twelve did not meet expectations, but he absolutely cannot accept that Ocean's Twelve lost to Ocean's Twelve. Killing someone with a knife is a disgrace, a great shame!

As long as I recall my self-confidence and elegance at the premiere, as long as I recall my condescending posture in front of Lance, as long as I recall that Lance who was thrown around by me actually climbed on my head, as long as I recall Lance's stupid obsession with the movie... he felt like his chest was about to explode, and the whole world was spinning. No, he can't accept it! He couldn't accept the ugly performance of the premiere box office, he couldn't accept the criticism of the film from the media and the audience, he couldn't accept Knife won the weekend box office champion, and he absolutely couldn't accept losing to Lancelot Strelo.

The hot cheeks seemed to have been slapped more than a dozen times, and Lance's shining eyes in his mind were laughing at his cowardice and failure.

George just felt his stomach churning and he felt like throwing up.

Maybe I should be absent from the following publicity... Brad rubbed his aching temple, and said impatiently, but the words were interrupted by a voice, Coward. Rad opened his eyes suddenly, followed the voice angrily, and then saw George's deep eyes. George looked straight over and said again, Coward! Brad directly said Take the case!

But George was unmoved, he retracted his left hand, If you escape now, you are just telling others that you are scared, and they need weapons to attack you, so you hand them the weapons, and then lift yourself up They are still punishing you, not cowards! George's thunderous voice made people clearly feel his emotional trembling, We haven't lost yet, if you want to surrender, please feel free, I will never Admit defeat!

He will return ten times the shame of today!