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The poor publicity of Ghost Crying and God Howling and the weak combat effectiveness of Saharan Cavalry all made the North American film market in the third week of April full of a thick layer of bubbles. Big disappointment, fortunately, Sin City is still the focus of attention going into its third week of screenings.

With the box office performance exceeding 100 million in two weeks, the discussion of Sin City has reached a new height. Everyone who has watched the movie has stood up to express their opinions. More than 60,000 viewers have conducted a discussion on IMDB. Score, the score dropped from 8.6 to 8.3, and it is temporarily ranked 77th on the IMDB 250 best film list.

Although Sin City fell out of the top 30 on the list, this result is not surprising. It was originally a controversial work, and it is a great achievement to be on the list of 250. Important affirmation. More importantly, it can be felt from the number of voters to the enthusiasm of the discussion that the audience's differences and controversies over the film have not cooled down, on the contrary, there are signs of heating up with the increase in the number of viewers.

As expected, there are quite a few viewers who hate and sneer at this movie. They give the greatest support to the nine zero points of media reviews, thinking that this movie is completely rubbish, and there is no need to watch it at all. What a waste of time, especially Lance's showing off of his camera skills is superfluous and totally incomprehensible.

Similarly, the 15 out of 15 points in the media reviews have also been enthusiastically sought after. There are quite a few fans who regard this film as an epoch-making work. From the perspective of the completion of the work, perhaps Sin City is far from perfect. There is still a long way to go, but in terms of the profound meaning and social impact of the work, this work is enough to be compared with 2001: A Space Odyssey, especially the crime trilogy watched together.

Just citing one statistic is enough to prove that the current discussion heat is breaking the table index. Among the Google search engines, the related searches of Sin City have been in the top three of the list for 15 consecutive days, and the search heat remains high.

Amid such a frenzy, Sin City dropped 35 percent this weekend to take in $22 million at the weekend, just shy of Howling by less than 900,000. Unfortunately, they failed to achieve three consecutive championships and slipped to the runner-up position.

In the third week of April, Ghost Cries and Gods Howl overcame its powerful rival Sin City and snatched the top spot on the North American weekend box office list; Sahara Cavalry narrowly beat its opponent for less than 250,000 US dollars and ranked third; Extreme Fanatic was only able to occupy this week's third place because of a slight difference.

Such a list is unexpected, but within reason.

Although Sin City missed the opportunity to continue its advantage and missed the three consecutive championships, its outstanding performance is undoubtedly the biggest highlight of this week, whether it is 35% of the third The weekly decline, or the conversion rate between the popularity of online discussions and the actual box office data, are very gratifying. More importantly, the mid-week box office from Monday to Thursday also delivered an excellent answer, making Sin City cumulative box office reach 136 million US dollars after three weeks of release.

Many media have compared Sin City with Passion of the Christ, but in fact, there is still a huge gap between the two works in terms of box office performance. Sin City has fallen behind The Passion of the Christ by a total of 130 million U.S. dollars in the same period after its release three weeks ago. However, Sin City only has the possibility of hitting 200 million, and there is really no comparison between the two.

Still, the media has never tired of comparing the two, ultimately because of the commonalities between the two: idiosyncratic, controversial, gory, R-rated, spring, box-office wonder, and so on.

Sin City accumulated a box office of 136 million in three weeks, ahead of the 130 million earned by Borrowing a Knife in the same period. After that, it went beyond a lot, and Sin City didn't have any advantage in this respect. On the contrary, the next summer file is coming, and the movie will be bombarded in turns, and the stamina of the box office is obviously not optimistic; but The outstanding performance so far has made people express more expectations for the film's box office prospects - expecting that this work can become the eighth R-rated film in North American film history to exceed 200 million.

If the box office of Sin City can break through 200 million again, it means... as a director, Lance has achieved the feat of breaking 200 million for three consecutive works. This is absolutely unprecedented, and it may be the future There is no record of comers, just like Tom Cruise's five consecutive works with over 100 million box office. The focus is not on 100 million or 200 million, but on continuity, which not only means stability, but also market recognition.

Steven Spielberg established himself as a box office maestro with Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T. James Cameron with Terminator 2, True Lies , Titanic has established himself as the king of commercial movies, and now it seems that Lance will very likely use The Day After Tomorrow, Murder with a Borrowing Knife and Sin City to achieve this achievement.

Objectively speaking, none of Lance's three works has amazing explosive power. When Alien E.T was released in 1982, it made a box office of 359 million U.S. dollars, and Titanic made even more. Compared with the US$600 million recorded in film history, the performance of Lance's works is really a bit underwhelming. But if you consider that two of Lance's three works are R-rated movies, and these three works have created miracles in a row, and Lance has only shot four works so far, then all of them can be dispelled. questioned.

However, the premise is that the box office of Sin City can break through 200 million again.

It's obviously not going to be easy, but even if Sin City doesn't reach those heights, it won't do Lance any favors other than delaying the time when he'll be able to stand up to the greats of cinema. In fact, as a rookie director, Lance has written so many miracles in just three years, which is comparable to a myth. At present, all four works have achieved profits, two of which broke 200 million, and one broke 100 million. The performance was truly appalling.

Now people are even more looking forward to whether the box office of Sin City can exceed 200 million, what height will the box office myth belonging to Lance reach, and when will it last. That's how history is made.

Ryan had foreseen such a scene in his nightmare. Sahara Trooper failed at the box office, but Sin City ushered in a box office success, but even in the nightmare, the situation was not so dire. In the two weeks of accumulated box office, Sahara Cavalry is only 29 million, not even a fraction of Sin City. The gap like a gap cuts off all possibilities, not to mention counterattacks, even the qualifications for side-by-side comparison nothing. Nobody compares Sin City to Sahara Troopers any more than Chaos and Diorama.

Although Ryan knows that for Diorama Pictures, the results of Sin City are irrelevant.

In fact, this was already the case when the Oscars were held. Whether or not Murder with a Borrowing Knife won the award has nothing to do with Diorama Films; now, whether Sin City breaks through 200 million at the box office has nothing to do with Diorama Films. . A long time ago, Diorama Films had already entered the stage of fighting itself, and the box office of Sahara Cavalry was their life-saving straw.

But Ryan still felt deep despair. They failed, and it was a spectacular defeat; Lance won, and it was a hearty victory. The stark contrast was like a sharp knife, it stabbed into Ryan's chest fiercely, but not a single drop of blood seeped out, even the pain had disappeared from the nerve endings, leaving only the short suffocation, as if the whole world was blurred average.

He thought that this final decisive battle would be more intense, closer, and longer, but the end came so quickly that people were caught off guard, and even before they were ready, the full stop was coming.

After all, the North American box office of Saharan Cavalry failed to usher in an improvement, and it was only lingering under the impetus of a huge publicity campaign. In the fourth week of April, the box office of the third weekend of the film once again ushered in a 36% drop. It only received a score of just over five million, and the cumulative box office reached 36 million. , this is their last effort. It seems that after three weeks of struggle, it seems that all the energy in the body has been drained, and no promotional activities can awaken the audience's desire/desire to go to the cinema again.

In the first week of May, Sahara Cavalry directly fell out of the top ten of the weekend box office charts in North America. Period, coming.

In the end, Sahara Trooper was released in North America for 12 weeks, with a cumulative box office of 48 million US dollars. After all, it still failed to cross the critical line of 50 million. From any point of view, this is a A failure, a tragic failure, no room for sophistry, and no room for appeal.

The ridiculous thing is that the final North American box office of Sahara Trooper is not even comparable to the box office of Sin City in its opening weekend.

At the same time, the overseas box office also collapsed like dominoes. Not only did their dying struggles not have any effect, but it also accelerated the progress of failure. In just three weeks, the box office of Sahara Cavalry was completely destroyed. Declared dead.