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On the first day of its release, The Matrix 2 earned $39.51 million at the box office, easily surpassing The Bourne 2's $15.6 million, and became the champion of the box office.

Moreover, this first-day box office performance also made people see the possibility of over 100 million box office in the first weekend.

Just as there has never been a non-sequel original film that has grossed over 100 million in North America, there has never been an R-rated film in North America that has surpassed 100 million in its opening weekend.

The Matrix 2 made people see this possibility.

However, contrary to everyone's expectations, the word-of-mouth of The Matrix 2 has declined severely.

The film's freshness dropped to 76% in just one day after it was released. If Rotten Tomatoes and film critics have limited influence on the summer film, the IMDB score of ordinary movie fans is only 7.4 points.

Ordinary commercial movies, with such word-of-mouth data, are completely justified, but this is a sequel to a masterpiece!

How many of them are still influenced by the classic predecessor?

The first part of The Matrix caused a very strong response in the United States, because this is the first time that cyberpunk has been expressed in such a complete and even perfect posture in a movie, and the action design, special effects production, and lens of the entire movie The clips are so classic and stylish that many people and advertisements began to imitate the classic footage of The Matrix in large numbers.

In the second part, these are still there, but the plot, editing and lines, etc. are too unfriendly to the audience.

Cinema audiences of The Matrix 2: Reloaded scored only B on the spot, and most of the fans mentioned a problem: obscurity!

The first one is really good to watch, cool action, compact plot. The extreme development of science and technology has brought endless disasters to human beings. It is very lofty to strive to free human beings from the enslavement of computers.

The second part was a disaster...

Faced with a far worse reputation than the first one, many die-hard fans of the Wachowski Brothers emphasized that The Matrix 2 actually discusses philosophical issues.

The philosophical speculation after the release of the first part of The Matrix was once praised by film critics. Perhaps the Wachowski brothers were affected. Under the misleading of professional film critics, they fell into the ditch and never climbed up again.

Returning to the movie itself, the movie is about telling a story after all,

The director can use cool video and audio, high-energy shooting skills, so that the audience can listen to you tell the whole story in the process of being pleasing to the eye and wanting to stop.

Even, for commercial films, the form of expression like Michael Bay far exceeds the story itself, and it is more interesting than divine philosophical speculation.

In the minds of many movie fans, there is one and only one The Matrix, and the last two are two other irrelevant stories. Moreover, the dialogue is half-half ambiguous, and the audience always struggles to guess riddles.

As far as movies are concerned, no matter how complicated the content is, they are proud of making the audience easy to understand. After all, telling a story, half-told and half-told to confuse the audience, is just to cover up the paleness of the plot.

Due to the fact that the film itself is too unfriendly to the audience, coupled with various negative word-of-mouth and the energy released by many sequel films on the first day, the box office of The Matrix 2 plummeted on Saturday, with a single-day drop of nearly 20%. $30.31 million.

In contrast, Bourne Shadow 2, which entered its second week, rebounded strongly on Saturday, earning $19.54 million in a single day.

It seems that a part of the audience who should pay attention to The Matrix 2 has shifted their attention to Bourne Shadow 2.

It can only be said that the overall reputation of The Matrix 2 in North America is not bad, but compared with the first one, it is still far worse.

After the first week of screening in North America, this film not only won the box office championship with US$86.2 million, but also set a new record for the opening weekend of an R-rated film!

However, the film's sharp drop on Saturday and the unsatisfactory audience reputation made everyone understand that the North American box office of The Matrix 2 cannot reach the $300 million expected by Warner Bros.

According to the latest forecast released by Cinema, the North American box office of this film may be around 270 million US dollars.

In any case, The Matrix 2 is still a hugely successful movie.

The second place this weekend is Bourne Shadow 2. The release of The Matrix 2 has brought far less impact than expected. Bourne Shadow 2 has maintained a healthy and stable box office trend. , the box office of the second weekend was only 42% lower than that of the first weekend, and it ranked second in the North American box office list with US$49.1 million.

X-Men 2 slipped to third place.

Ten days after its release, the North American box office of Bourne Shadow 2 reached a total of 163.93 million US dollars.

Also this weekend, the film began to be released overseas, and the first regions to be released were still markets such as Latin America, Western Europe, and Australia. The overseas box office also earned $51.2 million in the first weekend.

The global box office of Bourne Shadow 2 has successfully exceeded 200 million US dollars.

Perhaps it is because the CIA and the reckless and reckless hegemony of the United States in other countries are somewhat disgusting. Similar to when the first film was released, the response of The Bourne Shadow 2 in overseas markets is not as good as that in North America.

By the third weekend of the release of Bourne Shadow 2, that is, the fourth weekend of the North American summer vacation, Fake God released by Universal Pictures was released hotly, with an opening weekend score of 67.95 million US dollars, It stole the box office title from The Matrix 2.

In 2003, it can be called the big year of North American movies. The whole summer was squeezed into a large number of first-line big productions with an investment of about 100 million U.S. dollars, and the overall box office results were good, which led to a situation where the box office champions took turns.

For example, the weekend after Fake God, which is the traditional Memorial Day holiday in North America, Finding Nemo, produced by Pixar Studios and distributed by Disney, hit.

This big animation production is bound to become the new North American box office champion.

The Matrix 2 lost the box office championship, and the box office trend in the second weekend was not particularly satisfactory. Compared with the first weekend, it dropped 60% and ranked second in the box office list with US$34.1 million.

Bourne Shadow 2 slipped to the third place, but the box office of the third weekend was significantly closer to that of The Matrix 2. The box office score of 28.2 million US dollars kept the film in the North American film market. steady trend.

Combined with the previous four working days, the film's North American box office exceeded the US$200 million mark, with a total of US$210.21 million.

As the film was released in more overseas countries and regions, the combined global box office was close to 300 million US dollars.

Bourne Shadow 2 shouldn't be worse than The Matrix 2, right?

In the post-editing room of the Warner Studios office, Jessica Felton, wearing a dark professional attire, asked Ronan: According to the current box office trend, Bourne Shadow 2 is not a problem if it exceeds 250 million US dollars. big.

Ronan shrugged slightly: The higher the box office, the better.

The two are old friends, and there is no need to hide their true thoughts: I also hope that it will get a billion dollars in the world.

This is of course a joke.

Jessica Felton smiled, and tossed the ponytail that had fallen to her shoulders behind her head, causing the entire front of her chest to tremble, as if a magnitude nine earthquake had occurred.

Ronan changed the subject and pointed to the glasses on her face: Why are you wearing glasses all of a sudden?

Jessica Felton said directly: Myopia.

It's not surprising that Ronan is like Jessica Felton. Myopia will find her sooner or later.

Be more careful. Ronan said with concern, Be more careful about rest.

Jessica Felton rolled her eyes helplessly, and said, I also want to take some time off for vacation, but I just finished the post-editing of Pirates of the Caribbean, and you asked me to be the director of Summer of Jeans. Post-producer on the show, followed by Mean Girls, where do I get time off.

Ronan scratched his head and said, Jesse, you are doing more work for those who are capable.

Jessica Felton muttered: If I had known, I would have become an actor.

Ronan shrugged: It's not too late now.

As a woman with breasts bigger than Salma Hayek and a face comparable to Jessica Alba's, she's the ideal actress for the Vase type.

Jessica Felton turned back to the topic: You just watched the final cut sample of Summer of Jeans, are you satisfied?

Ronan nodded: You did a great job, a very girly movie.

Jessica Felton said regretfully: It's a pity that many of the things I studied are useless.

Ronan thought for a while and said, Jesse, you have been a post-producer for three films in a row. If you have the right opportunity, you must be ready to be a producer.

Jessica Felton asks: You put me in charge of the movie project?

You already have this ability. Ronan said: I will start many female film projects in the future.

Jessica Felton said: I know, you mentioned it when you called me last time, women's empowerment.

Ronan laughed: The so-called awakening of women's rights in this movie is actually just a fake feminism, which has no practical significance at all.

In fact, feminism in Hollywood is more formalized. Is menstruating aunt followed by a bunch of women the so-called feminism?

What is real feminism? Jessica Felton asked curiously.

You are the real feminist. Ronan said seriously: Jessie, just like you said, you can achieve success by relying on your skills and strength alone, not relying on any ability, and relying on your own ability. It's not other people's sympathy that you are the real feminist.

If Jessica Felton is not a representative of feminism, there are really few people in Hollywood who can be called feminists.

Ronan encouraged: Jesse, keep working hard.

All post-production of Summer of Jeans has been completed, and there is no problem in itself. Ronan left Warner Studios after discussing the next post-production of Mean Girls with Jessica Felton.

Then, he will rush to Cannes, France, to attend the premiere of Lost in Translation.