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Every year, starting from the public holiday Veterans Day, going through Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years, it constitutes the second largest prime-time holiday file in the North American film market except for the summer file.

In this season, commercial films tend to have more of a family atmosphere, and independent small productions are aiming at the awards season.

The weekend before Thanksgiving is the prime time for holiday gear.

Although Alexander the Great produced and released by Warner Bros. is not suitable for the atmosphere of the Thanksgiving schedule, compared with other films of the same schedule, it is definitely a Big Mac-level existence.

Universal Pictures' BJ's Birth Diary 2 is a sequel to a blockbuster movie, and it is also full of confidence. The premiere was held a week before the North American release, and it was the first to open in more than 2,600 theaters in North America on the Wednesday before the weekend. To get a head start.

However, the box office of 1.48 million US dollars on the first day of the painting gave Universal Pictures a blow.

Thanksgiving is one week away, and Alexander the Great and Night at the Museum also held premieres.

Miramax is more sensible. The Spring of the Cow Herding Class is a French film after all. It has no premiere, and the opening scale is only less than 400 theaters.

The premiere of Embassy Pictures at Nokia Plaza in Los Angeles ushered in a large number of family-based audiences.

All kinds of publicity before the screening, together with the content revealed in the trailer, clearly told all audiences in North America that Night at the Museum is the most suitable movie for the whole family to watch together.

The museum itself is also an attractive subject.

Many people must have wondered when browsing in museums: For example, how much is something worth, and if you get it secretly, regardless of success or failure, will you not worry about eating and drinking for the rest of your life?

Are some worth a pennant plus 500 yuan in cash?

There are more reliable ideas.

Will the stagnant statues of ancient figures and stuffed animals move suddenly, get out of their fixed positions, and reinvigorate the once dry bodies?

Everyone has daydreams, such as watching the Victoria's Secret fashion show and fantasizing about killing hundreds of people in a day, such as when passing by a portrait, feeling that the eyes in the painting are always moving.

when no one is around,

Will museums suddenly come to life?

All of this seems impossible, but people immersed in daydreams seem to be unbelievably real.

Everything in the museum seems to come alive, just like after watching the Victoria's Secret show, I feel that the models will line up and applaud in front of them.

Daydreams are dreams after all, and it is impossible for people to worry about food and drink for the rest of their lives, but they are spiritual comfort for people.

Movies are just the best daydreams, and in the world of the big screen, nothing is impossible.

Even if you want to watch Victoria's Secret Angels or superheroes line up to applaud, you can find similar plots in the movies in the San Fernando Valley.

Therefore, a movie suitable for the whole family to watch together during the holiday appeared in the most suitable schedule.

In addition to the movie itself, the leading actor cannot be ignored.

In this era, Ben Stiller has great appeal in comedy, and even many people in the Hollywood industry are wondering why such an ugly shitty male star is so popular?

But the huge success of Meet Your Father-in-law made Ben Stiller an A-list comedy star.

In Night at the Museum, Ben Stiller still performed well.

The characters he played perfectly fit the fun-filled plot.

The most colorful movement of this film is the resurrection of the exhibits in the museum at night. The audience seems to have traveled through the tunnel of time and entered a wonderful world that combines history, legends, fairy tales and nature.

In a way, this is a live-action museum version of Toy Story.

In the increasingly homogeneous Hollywood, this film undoubtedly has a freshness that has not surpassed the audience's appreciation.

Although the original book is an illustrated story about putting children to sleep, the film is funny and not childish.

Night at the Museum has been sought after by family audiences since its premiere, and the attendance rate is extremely impressive. Every family audience is a group, which means that there are at least two audiences, or even four or five members of the family.

Once the family carnival is popular, its power is often amazing.

According to the data collected by Embassy Films, the average rating of the family audience for the film is as high as A!

When the awards season is about to start, a commercial film like Night at the Museum, which pleases audiences, especially younger audiences, often means being hated by another group.

The film's Rotten Tomatoes index is rotten from the beginning, with a freshness rating of only 44%.

But it's not the worst movie to open this weekend, nor is it the worst to be scolded by critics.

Alexander the Great, produced and distributed by Warner Bros., started drawing on a large scale after the premiere. This giant epic film was released on the first day. The freshness of Rotten Tomatoes is 16% and the average score of IMDB is 5.7. As well as the on-site scores of theater audiences, it shows that this film neither attracts the price of film critics, but also is disgusted by the audience.

Therefore, Alexander the Great only earned $5.55 million on the first day of painting.

Battered by critics and dismissive by audiences, Alexander the Great was a flop after its first day of release.

There is a considerable degree of surprise in the Hollywood industry, because this means that an epic box office tragedy worse than King Arthur has already occurred.

What happened to an epic war movie?

Hollywood practitioners with a keen sense of smell gradually realized this.

Even within Relativity Entertainment, there are doubts.

Some people suggested to suspend the project of Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta, but considering that the film project was promoted by Ronan himself, these suggestions only stayed in the internal meeting of Shahai Entertainment, and were all suppressed by George Clint go down.

Ronan didn't say much. Zack Schneider's thick black Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta should actually be classified as a comic book adaptation of a superhero movie.

Leonidas performance in the movie and even the original book is simply a superhero.

In contrast, orthodox Hollywood epic films have generally performed poorly in recent years, and even Troy is far from the expected results of Warner Bros.

Audiences seem to be tired of epic movies, no matter how good or bad the word of mouth is, the market response is always mediocre.

Another film, The Spring of the Cow Herding Class, which was bought out by Miramax, has far less reputation than in markets outside North America.

Of course, the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes is 69%, and the imdb average score is 7.9, which is also the most outstanding among the films released in the same period.

But on the contrary, the box office data of The Spring of the Cow Herding Class is the worst.

This is, after all, a French film.

The box office of more than 300 theaters in North America at the box office of 430,000 US dollars in the first weekend made this French comedy an infinitely long road to return.

If it doesn't gain something at the Oscars, Miramax will most likely lose a lot of money.

One must be cautious when purchasing overseas films. Facts have proved time and time again that, except for extremely rare cases where the proportion is extremely low, if a foreign-language film is brought from overseas to North America, the chances of hitting the market are infinitely close to 100%.

Therefore, except for a few foreign language films that Ronan remembered clearly, he didn't even touch Ang Lee's famous works.

Similarly, BJ's Diary 2, which is more like a British movie, did not receive a good response in the North American market. It only earned $3.07 million on the first day of the opening weekend.

However, the film's biggest market is the UK, not North America.

If only relying on the North American market, Universal Pictures would not even be able to recover the production costs.

The North American box office of the first film was just over 70 million U.S. dollars, but the overseas box office led by the United Kingdom and Western Europe was as high as 210.38 million U.S. dollars.

Night at the Museum, which is most suitable for the Thanksgiving schedule, became the biggest winner on the first day of the weekend.

In 4,215 theaters, the film earned $15.12 million in a single day.

On the second day, Night at the Museum still topped the list, with a box office of 15.88 million US dollars.

Despite a poor reception from the press and critics, the film rallied to the No. 1 spot on the back of home audiences as it blasted its way through the pre-Thanksgiving weekend.

In the three days of the first weekend in North America, Night at the Museum earned US$39.81 million, firmly occupying the first place in the box office list.

Entering its third week of screening, National Treasure successfully stole the limelight from the rest of the new films and became the second runner-up at the box office with an income of 17.04 million US dollars.

In third place was Alexander the Great, which grossed just $12.11 million over a cost of $155 million to make.

The investor is doomed to lose everything. This is an epic disaster worse than King Arthur.

Some small investors may go bankrupt because of this project.

Bj's Single Diary 2 did not perform well in North America, but it was not bad either. The box office of 10.73 million US dollars basically met the expectations of the film studio.

Miramax's The Spring of the Cow Herding Class has a limited release scale, regardless of attendance, and the box office of a single venue is average. income.

This French film entered French theaters as early as August, and not only exploded in word-of-mouth, but also exploded in the market. The box office revenue in France reached nearly 6 million US dollars in the first week, and the total French box office has exceeded 45 million US dollars.

Its overseas box office revenue is close to 70 million US dollars.

But North America is such a wonderful market.

It is estimated that this is also related to the mentality of the Americans. They only have the United States in their eyes and do not pay much attention to the situation overseas.

This probably carries over to the film and media industries as well.

Night at the Museum has undoubtedly become a big winner for the time being.

With the arrival of the Thanksgiving holiday, the popularity of Night at the Museum continued unabated. After three short working days, the film's single-day revenue in North America has remained at around $15 million.

Although the Rotten Tomatoes index has been falling all the way as more filmmakers' comments are released, Night at the Museum has unbelievably shown a trend.