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In the fourth week of December, Meet My Father-in-Law 2 won the North American weekend box office championship with the third highest December premiere score in film history, and once again awakened the silent holiday box office market; more importantly, This new record high was created when it was released ahead of schedule on Wednesday and Thursday. The film earned 70 million box office in the first five days of its release, and the outstanding performance was amazing.

This is really a huge surprise. In the midst of a chaotic holiday season, in just one month, two works with a premiere box office of 40 million have appeared in a row, and both of them are among the top five in film history. With The Incredibles and National Treasure currently in theaters, the 2004 holiday season can really be said to be full of flowers. But what are the rules?

The Incredibles is an animation, National Treasure is an adventure, Borrowing a Knife is a crime, and Meet Your Father-in-Law 2 is a comedy. These are four completely different types of movies. Joy”, the festive atmosphere of the holiday season is always linked to the family-but this is not news, and this week’s North American weekend box office trend also proves that not all family-friendly works can win audiences during the holiday season Yes, so... I went around in a circle, saying that I didn't say anything, and I went back to the original point.

Murder with a Borrowed Knife continued its strong performance since its release this week. Due to the different types of themes, it hardly felt the impact of Meet Your Father-in-Law 2, which can be seen from the 25% drop data. This allowed the movie to earn more than 18 million US dollars in three days on weekends after its release. This result is already comparable to the box office blockbusters in the summer, and even surpassed the performance of National Treasure, becoming the first movie of the year. The brightest dark horse in the holiday season.

The 18 million weekend box office not only allowed Murder with a Borrowing Knife to easily win the runner-up, and won the championship for two weeks and the runner-up for two weeks in four weeks after its release. Such dazzling results made all words meaningless; 156 million, the meaning of success of the work immediately entered a new level.

At the end of November, National Treasure was released. Despite being underestimated, it achieved a counterattack and repeatedly broke out amazing figures. The cumulative box office in six weeks of release was 140 million, which made Disney smile; but now it is only four weeks away. , the cumulative box office of Borrowing a Knife has exceeded 150 million, which is simply an incredible achievement. This also makes Borrowing a Knife second only to The Incredibles and has become the runner-up in the box office so far this year's holiday season. It was an accident among accidents.

Originally, people were still questioning that the starting point of killing with a knife is not high. It is not an easy task to break through 100 million. As for 200 million, it is even farther away; Breaking through the 100 million threshold is already very rare. In the long film history, there is only one crime movie that has exceeded 100 million at the box office. Pulp Fiction was released in 1994. After that, it performed the best at the box office. The most famous one was Mystic River which was released in 2003. Its box office finally settled at 90 million. For crime movies, 200 million box office is almost an impossible task.

But now, the cumulative box office of Murder with a Borrowed Knife has reached 156 million in four weeks, not only easily surpassing Pulp Fiction and breaking the box office record of crime movie history - but also raised a big step, The record for Pulp Fiction is 107 million; at the same time, because of the coming New Year's Day holiday, it is very hopeful that there will be a gratifying rebound in the box office, so 200 million is no longer an unattainable moat.

Almost without anyone noticing, Borrowing a knife has made history, and is close to writing a new history.

Regardless of whether Borrowing a Knife can achieve this breakthrough, Lance has successfully attracted the attention of Hollywood. Demonstrated Lance's superb ability to control commercial films - The Day After Tomorrow is a multi-line large-scale scene scheduling; Murder with a Borrowing Knife is the atmosphere control in a narrow space, and both works can feel Lance's rhythm. The maturity of control is very important for a director, especially a commercial director.

Compared with a visual effects blockbuster like The Day After Tomorrow, Borrowing a Knife as a thriller crime movie was originally at a disadvantage in the box office competition, but Lance still turned decay into magic and created a historical record. For big film companies, it is the most precious asset.

Of course, if you go deeper, Murder with a Borrowing Knife can achieve such a good result, Tom's appeal and the box office duel hype of Ocean's Twelve are all contributed. But compared to the general public, what the film company sees is deeper: Lance, who is also a producer, director, screenwriter and actor, definitely deserves the most credit!

Therefore, the final cumulative box office of Borrowing a Knife is no longer important. The performance so far is enough to prove Lance's ability and talent. For Hollywood, this is an important breakthrough that changes the game. Of course, everyone is keen on the record being broken—because only when the record is broken can it have historical significance. People are now looking forward to it, looking forward to the killing with a knife to reach a new high.

The box office of the comedy movie Meet My Father-in-Law 2 broke out at the premiere, and the box office of the crime movie Murder With a Knife continued to be high in the fourth week. The trajectory, and the next ranking is even more confusing.

The box office of the fantasy movie Lemony Snicket's Unfortunate Adventures plummeted by 58% in the next week, and only earned 12 million weekend box office. It was completely announced that the cost of this film was as high as 100 million in two weeks. Forty million works will bring huge losses to Paramount, occupying the third place on this week's list.

The comedy movie Fatty Albert premiered this week, and it was blown away by its competitor Meet the Father-in-Law 2. Submerged in a pile of lively news, disappeared, ranking fourth this week.

The feature film The Aviator continues to expand. This biographical film by Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio has become a hot spot in the awards season once it is released. Leonardo's Voice of the Best Actor is even more in the limelight, with a box office of 8.6 million US dollars this week, occupying the fifth place on the list. Compared with the huge investment of 110 million US dollars, the ambition of this work is not above the box office, and the intention of aiming at the Oscars can be called Sima Zhao's heart.

The comedy-crime movie Ocean's Twelve was released for the fourth week, and the box office continued to decline, with a 40% drop and only earned 4.5 million US dollars. It was so bad that people couldn't laugh or cry, and they couldn't even get angry Yes, the cumulative box office came to 88 million. The hope of breaking 100 million is all pinned on the outbreak of New Year's Day next week. It ranks eighth on the North American box office list this week.

When Murder with a Borrowed Knife is constantly setting new records, Ocean's Twelve has completely lost its competitiveness. Even the crew raised a white flag and retreated to Europe. They are making unremitting efforts to expand the world market. Leave it to kill with a borrowed knife.

Only at this moment did people realize that everything was as expected. Two works of the same genre premiered at the same time. There is no tie in the head-to-head competition. One side is bound to be completely defeated. This is a life-and-death battle direct confrontation. Although the result came later, it still did not deviate from the track.

It's just that people didn't expect that it was the Twelve Arhats that completely collapsed.

In addition, the blockbuster Polar Express and the small-scale release Darkness ranked sixth and seventh respectively; last week's Spanish Maid slipped directly to ninth.

On this list, Meet My Father-in-Law 2 and Fat Albert are both comedy movies, Borrowing a Knife and Ocean's Twelve are both crime movies, and Meet My Father is also a family-friendly movie. Father-in-Law 2, Ramony Snicket's Unfortunate Adventures, Ocean's Twelve, The Polar Express...the performances are completely different, but the horror movie Darkness which has nothing to do with the holiday file has achieved Not bad results, coupled with the expected outbreak of the awards season movie The Aviator, the box office performance of genre movies does have obvious differences.

Therefore, the pattern of the holiday schedule is still a cloud of fog; this pattern has also continued to the fifth week of December, not only the last week of 2004, but also the first week of 2005 - New Year's Day is Saturday.

In the fifth week of December, when no new works were released, the audience ushered in a movie-watching frenzy, so almost all works ushered in a counter-attack at the box office. The two works of Adult 2 and Murder with a Borrowed Knife are unfolding - as for The Twelve Arhats, it is already a thing of the past, and the attention of the media is always limited, even if the cast is as strong as The Twelve Arhats.

Meet My Father-in-law 2 only surrendered a 9% drop in the case of a large number of audiences flocking to the cinema. The crowds are surging, and the film's two-week cumulative box office has reached an incredible 160 million. It is only a matter of time before it surpasses Murder With a Borrower, and it will soon compete with The Incredibles for the holiday box office champion.

The innate advantages of comedy movies are fully demonstrated at this moment; while the innate disadvantages of crime movies, although they can be seen in Murder with a Borrowing Knife, are not obvious.

This week, Murder with a Borrowed Knife ushered in an astonishing increase of 26%, only one step away from the box office of 200 million!