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Under the escort of the 82-point media review, City of God landed in the North American film market. Although it only had the screening scale of seven art theaters, it deservedly became the king of this week's topic, and even snatched The limelight of Daredevil continued to be screened in 3,400 theaters.

In the third week of February, City of God had a box office of US$298,830 with a single box office of US$42,690. On the list, ranked twenty-sixth.

At first glance, this result is not eye-catching. It is only in the top 30 on the ranking list. The 40,000-level single-house box office data is only ranked 46th on the current film history list. There is still a long way to go before making history. A long, long way to go that doesn't seem worth mentioning at all.

But people in the industry exclaimed, Paramount Pictures cheered even more, and the whole Hollywood was full of admiration.

In the North American film market as of 2003, the top three box office of non-English works were Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with 128 million, Life is Beautiful with 57 million, and Amelie. ; and the top three single-house box office box office during the current period of non-English works films are Amelie with 45,000 US dollars, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with 41,000 US dollars, Monsoon Wedding Banquet for thirty-four thousand dollars.

Simple two sets of data show the obstacles and neglect of non-English works in the North American market.

As a Portuguese-language work, City of God is naturally unable to compete with the historical record of English-language works, but its single-house box office of US$42,000 is enough to make it the runner-up in the history of single-house box office of non-English works. , even exceeding

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

This achievement is not only amazing, but also makes everyone exclaim. Obtaining such excellent box office data during the screening period shows that the film has gained excellent reputation and recognition among professional movie fans, and it also laid a solid foundation for the film's box office to hit 10 million or even a higher threshold.

Against the background of this outstanding performance, City of God was screened in seven theaters, among the top 50 works this week, the only one with less than 100 theaters , it seems insignificant.

Generally speaking, the winter season formed by January and February every year is the most deserted time. First, the cold winter makes everyone hide at home to keep warm. Second, the noise of the awards season steals all sights. Even the Valentine's Day schedule is difficult to achieve brighter results. But this time, City of God has achieved such excellent and outstanding results in the deserted February. It has won a lot of praise from film critics, media people and audiences, especially thanks to the existence of Javier's blog , so that the discussion of the film on the Internet has always remained high, which is obviously an incredible thing, which makes Paramount Pictures happy all over.

Compared with Daredevil, whose box office plunged 55% this week, City of God's single-house box office, which is approaching the historical record, is obviously the biggest attraction.

Daredevil won this week's North American box office champion with an ordinary score of 18 million. The diving drop and bad reputation made this work a huge joke; this week's premiere work Single Men's Club gained a Seventeen million dollars in the weekend box office, came in second.

However, the battle for the title of champion seems weak and lacks sparks. Objectively speaking, the box office data of the two works is still very good in the cold February. Unfortunately, the bad reputation and weak topics can't attract people at all. more interest.

In comparison, City of God has achieved such outstanding results as a dark horse in non-English works, and has made breakthroughs in word of mouth, topics, publicity, box office, etc., easily occupying the headline position in Hollywood this week .

After the first week's single-house box office statistics came out, Paramount couldn't wait to cater to the hearts of the people, announcing immediately that City of God will have its first round of expansion in 47 theaters in major cities in the United States next week! Although the pace of expansion is still cautious, but for a Portuguese work, this is already an unimaginable big leap forward.

The appearance of City of God not only aroused a lot of discussion in the film circle, but also attracted attention from the society.

As time progresses, the possibility of the United States launching a war continues to heat up, even triggering condemnation from all directions around the world, but the United States is still stubbornly trying to obtain the consent of the United Nations to launch a war. International disputes have intensified, which has also led to growing contradictions between the anti-war faction and the main war faction in the United States.

As expected by Paramount Pictures, as a non-English work, City of God is so soft that it is difficult to arouse too much response, but it still attracts a small amount of attention. On the Late Late Show with David-Letterman, he half-jokingly said, We've seen what's going on in the City of God, so let's just pray Iraq doesn't have to deal with it. Such desperation and fear, at least in our homeland, we don’t need to worry about what our children will face.”

As one of the most popular talk shows in the United States at present, the ratings of Late Night Show has always been among the top ten, and it can attract an average of 4 million viewers in the late-night schedule. , Saturday Night Live and so on are listed as Americans' favorite talk show, and their influence cannot be underestimated.

The fact is also true. David's remarks on Late Night Show fermented rapidly, and Saturday Night Live also arranged a paragraph in City of God in this week's program. It is to further heat up the anti-war rhetoric. The voices calling for the Academy to stop hosting this year's Oscars ceremony are also getting louder, but the Academy's response is intriguing. They have always firmly maintained their stance on maintaining peace, but they gritted their teeth and refused to let go of their position on the issue of the suspension of the awards ceremony.

All this makes the whole of Hollywood become very lively. As a side effect, City of God has not always been the main focus of people's attention, but even so, the movie viewing craze is still heating up step by step.

In the fourth week of February, City of God continued its fiery attitude. After a small-scale expansion in 47 theaters, the score of 33,000 US dollars for a single hall once again surprised everyone. The data lagged behind Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which was screened in the second week's US$34,000 single-house performance. Following in the footsteps of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, it turned over a sky-defying curve at the box office.

The box office data of more than 30,000 in a single hall allowed City of God to harvest 1.55 million US dollars within three days of the weekend, which made City of God directly rank among the top in this week's weekend box office list. Twenty, ranked sixteenth. It is worth mentioning that among the top 50 works, there is still only one City of God with less than 100 theaters.

God! God! God!

The amazement of Entertainment Weekly has become a microcosm of the reaction of the whole Hollywood. When the weekly single hall box office delivered amazing results, people were already amazed for the second time. However, at this moment, people still couldn't help exclaiming.

In just two weeks, the box office of a single theater has continuously delivered 30,000-level results, and the cumulative box office has directly reached 2.35 million US dollars. This is for a small-cost independent film with an investment of only 3 million US dollars. , an incredible box office performance.

Entertainment Weekly reporter Chris-Lawson (Chris-Lawson) commented, While everyone is wondering, where did this director named Lancelot Strelo come from? At that time, we should be even more puzzled as to why this Portuguese-language film has aroused such extensive discussions. It seems that within a short period of one month, Sundance The heat wave has already begun to spread across the United States.

As Chris said, almost everyone is curious: How did City of God create this miracle of a foreign language film.

Different from the distinctive Chinese martial arts style of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hollywood has long been admired and loved; different from the unique and bright French style of Amelie, Hollywood has never had much resistance to it, City of God is full of enthusiasm, restlessness, darkness, chaos and turmoil in Latin America, which Americans have always disliked - the difficulties and embarrassments of Latino immigrants living in the United States have a long history, racial/racial/discriminatory/ Vision is deeply rooted in the bone marrow of many white people.

However, it is precisely this kind of Latin American film that has achieved outstanding results at the box office in a single theater for two consecutive weeks. The rapid accumulation of data has made the possibility of City of God hit the box office of 15 million US dollars soaring. , Such a sky-defying performance made City of God look like a strange shape popping out of the cracks in the rocks, which aroused countless interests.

Everyone is trying to figure out how this miracle was born, and the topic has invisibly focused on the City of God; Gradually burst out more powerful energy.

Under Lance's suggestion, Javier's blog teamed up with Paramount Pictures to organize an ingenious activity. They encouraged all netizens to go to the cinema to watch City of God in person, and then write about their feelings or feelings, or even It is a film review, and Javier will personally select some of his thoughts and publish them on his own blog, so that everyone can communicate on the same platform. The creators of the most discussed articles will have the opportunity to visit the headquarters of Paramount Pictures, a day trip to Universal Studios, and the opportunity to talk face-to-face with the City of God crew.

This immediately ignited the enthusiasm of all netizens!