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Praise, criticism, support, opposition, controversy, disagreement, focus. Sin City rode the wind and waves in the climax beyond imagination, and in just one day on Friday, it crazily harvested 17 million US dollars in single-day box office data, and handed over a record that shocked everyone. transcript.

Before the release of Sin City, numerous unfavorable factors swarmed in, which made the media generally not optimistic about its box office prospects.

As the first work independently released by Chaos Films, Sin City was finally released in 2,700 theaters. For an R-rated movie released by an independent film company, it can be said to be a dream. However, considering the lack of supporting publicity resources and distribution strategies of Chaos Films, the resource allocation of theater chains is bound to be unable to compare with other works, which means that it is difficult to gain an advantage in the film scheduling rate.

That's the first hurdle for Sin City to break through at the box office.

Before the film was released, the promotional activities of Sin City were vigorous, but this is a new thing. The topic effect caused by the freshness is undeniable, but how much influence of the activities can be converted into box office, no one can do it make accurate predictions. It seems that last year's Troy had a huge publicity, but it still failed to avoid the fiasco at the box office.

Or to be more direct, American Idol has already decided three champions, but apart from Kelly Clarkson, the album sales of the other two champions are hard to say. Every time the champion is voted by the American people, but actually asking people to walk into a record store and pay for an album is another matter. The same goes for Welcome to Your Sin City.

This is the second threshold for Sin City to win at the box office.

From the previously released movie trailers of Sin City and the video materials of related activities, it can be seen that the stylization of this movie is very obvious. Anyone in the Hollywood industry knows that this is an adventure and a failure An adventure that could reign supreme.

Take Kill Bill as an example, Quentin Tarantino's signature is the backing, and the stylized shots are even more impressive, but the final North American box office of the film is only 70 million. Of course, compared to its 30 million investment, coupled with the outstanding performance of the overseas box office, the film has successfully achieved profitability. But purely talking about the box office in North America, it is far from satisfactory.

This is the third hurdle for Sin City to succeed at the box office.

Under the influence of multiple negative factors, even if there is Lance in charge, even if there are a lot of hard-core actors joining, even if the promotional activities are in full swing, the media still seems cautious when predicting the box office of Sin City.

The Los Angeles Times was very cautious in its predictions, thinking that the film's 13 million debut box office could be called a victory. Considering the 40 million investment cost of the film and the ultra-low-cost publicity expenses, it may be difficult to achieve profitability, but it is not a problem to recover the cost.

Cliff Robinson commented, This is already a huge victory for the first work released by Chaos Films. Such an achievement is far better than 'City of God'. Objectively speaking, Cliff is right. Many small distribution companies are cautious in the initial stage. They can avoid losses and build word-of-mouth steadily. This is the right choice. However, Cliff's words are full of contempt and underestimation of Chaos Films, but it makes people feel unhappy.

However, the Los Angeles Times is not the lowest figure in the forecast stage, and the San Francisco Chronicle's 8 million opening weekend figure is even more shocking. Brian Barlow predicted, Lancelot is playing with fire again. Obviously, this time his self-confidence has inflated into arrogance. Discomfort, even fleeing the cinema.

During the screening of Kill Bill, many audiences vomited because of the bloody and violent scenes. Most film critics emphasized that Quentin had tried his best to make the bloody scenes beautiful and fresh, and even made the violent scenes It has also become an artistic expression method, and the stimulation is not so strong. Even under such circumstances, the audience still can't bear it.

Brian's subtext is: Lance is far worse than Quentin.

Since the Welcome to Your Sin City campaign attracted a lot of attention, the box office of the movie has also become the focus of people's heated discussions. Twenty-six media outlets have made contributions to the premiere box office of Sin City. According to predictions, this is also the work that has sparked the most discussion among all Lance's films so far-even surpassing The Day After Tomorrow and Murder with a Borrowing Knife.

Among the twenty-six media, the most optimistic prediction is Entertainment Weekly. Chris Rosen believes that the premiere score of this work can reach 30 million. If the premiere data of Sin City really reaches such a high level, then it can rank third in the April premiere box office in film history, which shows Chris's strong confidence in this work.

In addition, Nancy Black of the Chicago Tribune also believes that the film's premiere score can reach 28 million. Lancelot's appeal, ingenious innovation, and massive publicity The reason why the movie exploded at the box office during its premiere weekend is that this result also occupies the third place in the film history list, but it is a little more precise and cautious than Chris.

In addition, most of the other media's predictions hover around 20 million, and overall, it is around the tenth place in the film history's April premiere score list. It can be seen that everyone is not sure about the prospects of this movie. Of course, there are some examples of going to extremes, but it is still not comparable to the grand occasion after the premiere.

For reference, Kill Bill 2, which opened in April 2004, grossed $25 million in its opening weekend.

Now, after Sin City hit the box office on Friday, everyone was shocked, even Entertainment Weekly Chris was completely dumbfounded. What does Friday's 17 million box office figure mean? This means that the three-day weekend box office should be directly adjusted from 30 million to 40 million, and it may continue to rise. This is definitely a qualitative leap.

No one expected such a situation, no one dared to make such crazy predictions!

The San Francisco Chronicle became a joke overnight, regardless of the film reviews - after all, this is the subjective opinion of each film critic, some people like it, others hate it, there is nothing wrong with it, but Bryan's predicted 8 million premiere box office But it was instantly blown to pieces. The single-day box office of Sin City has more than doubled the forecast, as if a resounding slap was slapped on Brian's cheek.

As good as the 17 million single-day box office is, Brian's situation is just as embarrassing.

Sin City opened the prelude to the box office campaign vigorously by breaking the single-day box office performance data of the film's premiere in April. Under the hype of the media working together, after entering Saturday, the box office achieved a gratifying record Upward curve, although the 14% increase rate is not shocking, but it is obviously a data that makes everyone dumbfounded in April-Sin City has set a historical record on the first day However, the next day actually ushered in an increase, which can be called a heaven-defying performance. It handed over the Saturday peak weekend box office that everyone envied, and the words of admiration lost their color.

This is indeed a very interesting thing. Under the collision of a hundred points and a bunch of zero points, the box office data of Sin City is getting stronger and stronger. The winner is not the punishers of the West Coast, nor the East Coast. The supporters are also not those spoilers who come out to join in the fun, but Chaos Films.

On Saturday, Sin City made persistent efforts, capturing 19.3 million single-day box office, and the cumulative box office in the two days of its release has reached 35 million, which also means... Sin City 's premiere box office is very likely to exceed the 45 million opening weekend figure of Borrowing a Knife not long ago, shocking!

In addition to shock or shock!

Borrowing Knife at least has Tom in the lead, and one can understand that the audience went to the cinema because of Tom's appeal; but Sin City has nothing, and even the biggest blues has long passed its golden years. , His audience appeal is almost negligible.

In other words, people went to the cinema because of Lance.

Sure enough, after entering Sunday, the single-day box office of Sin City fell by 30%, and achieved a figure of 13.5 million, which once again ushered in a burst of exclamation. Sin City came out of the excellent box office curve of Saturday being bigger than Friday and bigger than Sunday, which also means that Sin City made a box office figure of 49 million US dollars in its opening weekend!

Forty-nine million dollars!

Sin City not only far surpassed the results of Kill Bill 2, but also easily broke the April premiere box office record of 42 million US dollars created by Anger Management in 2003, rewriting the North American box office record. History. What's even more incredible is that Sin City was only shown in 2,700 theaters, and the box office of a single theater was as high as 18,000 US dollars. Top twenty——

Although the top 20 does not sound like an exciting record, Sin City is the only work among the top 20 that was released in the spring file, and it has a history of being able to gather in the summer and holiday files. Occupying a place in the list, Sin City represents an incredible breakthrough in such a cold April schedule!

What is even more commendable is that in the spring files of March and April, the premiere box office data of Sin City ranked second, only behind The Passion of the Christ, which created a box office miracle last year. Under the circumstances that no one expected, Sin City released a box office crit, which made all the news media in North America fall into a brief dizziness, speechless!