Chapter 937: King of North America
In the last weekend of 2014, there were five large-scale opening films that joined the North American Christmas box office battle, but these films are only candlelight compared with the momentum of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The new movie isn't going to slow down Star Wars: The Force Awakens from breaking more records.
Although it has been in theaters for a week, after breaking the Christmas Day box office record of US$24.6 million created by Sherlock Holmes when it premiered in 2009 with US$59.34 million on Friday, in the two days of Saturday and Sunday, it has won the highest number in the world. The North American theater market received another US$68.92 million and US$58.17 million respectively. The cumulative box office of the second weekend in North America was as high as US$186.43 million, easily breaking the record for the highest weekend box office, surpassing the US$111.77 million of The Avengers. The weekend box office record was directly improved by two ranks.
Even apart from films such as The Dark Knight and Avengers directed by Duke, there is no other film in the world that was not produced by Duke Rosenberg with a North American box office in the first weekend, which can compare with It won the second weekend box office of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
In front of Duke Rosenberg, only myself is left!
Many media in North America and Europe can't wait to issue such headlines.
Ten days after its release, the cumulative North American box office of Star Wars: The Force Awakens climbed to 729.41 million US dollars, surpassing the final North American box office of 725.86 million US dollars of The Avengers, standing on the North American total box office list second!
Avatar, which is at the top of the North American box office list, has a box office of 749.76 million US dollars. It is inevitable that Star Wars: The Force Awakens will surpass it. The biggest remaining suspense is undoubtedly whether the global box office can also be completed. beyond.
During the seven days of this week including the three weekends, Star Wars: The Force Awakens appeared in theater markets in more countries and regions. Take another $385.2 million. As a result, the film's global box office was pushed up to 1.66921 billion US dollars.
Undoubtedly, this is also the fastest time for the global box office to exceed US$1.5 billion since the film was born and evolved into a cultural commodity.
In the new week, due to the upcoming New Year holiday, the box office trend of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is still optimistic by the industry, and the film has lived up to expectations. Even the box office on weekday Monday was only 25% lower than last Sunday, earning 43.63 million US dollars.
This number also ensures that the film's North American box office will reach US$773.03 million, thus completing the surpassing of Avatar's US$749.76 million North American box office, ranking first in the North American total box office.
A new king of North America is born, will the king of the world change hands?
That was the headline on the front pages of many North American media outlets on Tuesday. The craze triggered by Star Wars: The Force Awakens has long since surpassed the scope of movies and has become a social and cultural phenomenon.
Compared with other media, the Hollywood Reporter, which pays more attention to Hollywood dynamics, pointed out that Duke Rosenberg will become the first North American box office of a single film to exceed 1 billion in the next two to three months. Dollar Director!
This view has not been refuted.
Duke himself is very clear that the North American box office of Star Wars: The Force Awakens will not be a problem. The most important thing now is the global box office, and only overseas markets will make efforts. Only in this way can the global box office of Star Wars: The Force Awakens be pushed past the two billion dollar mark as soon as possible.
North America has a limited population, the US and Canada combined. The total population is only over 350 million. Counting the immigrant population and the stowaways who will buy tickets for movies, the market is at most 400 million people, and the billion-dollar box office has almost reached the ceiling. After all, it is impossible for everyone in North America to like Duke and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, nor can any one film do this.
Therefore, Duke led the crew to leave North America altogether, starting from Europe, and traveled through every important market, trying every means to gain attention and attention, arouse the interest of the audience, and prompt them to buy tickets and go to the theater to watch.
On the mainstream media in every country, you can see information related to Star Wars: The Force Awakens everywhere.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens and its director, Duke Rosenberg, are hitting the record books. The film became the number one box-office film in every country where it was released, creating a unique phenomenon where parents bring Children go to see it, and the younger generation takes the elders to watch it. This is a cross-age experience sharing. It breaks the barriers of language, culture, and religion, and sets off a movie-watching craze all over the world, and this trend continues...
Sitting on the subway, you can hear people around you talking about this movie, talking about BB-8, the Millennium Falcon, and the Jedi Knights, and discussing Duke Rosenberg's various settings about the life experience of the heroine Rey. possible……
During the intersecting period between 2014 and 2015, Duke, Kathleen Kennedy and Charles Rowan took the crew and spent them entirely in flight promotions, taking London as the first city of the European promotional itinerary, they passed by Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Milan, Madrid and other famous European cities always set off an unprecedented trend wherever they go.
The influence of Star Wars: The Force Awakens has gone beyond the scope of movies and has become a cultural or social phenomenon.
Although those directors in Europe who are full of envy, jealousy and hatred try their best to criticize Star Wars: The Force Awakens as having no artistry at all, except for advanced computer technology, it is just for sensational and sensational plots, but they can't do it at all. Stop this movie from moving forward.
Their views do not affect mainstream audiences at all. What kind of movies do most people like? This question can be answered without asking.
Even the mainstream media in Europe, seeing the ticket queues getting longer and longer and facing the increasingly frightening box office figures, even if they are unwilling, they can only give compliments.
Especially on Fleet Street, as long as these people can gain attention, they don't care about infinitely promoting or belittling a person.
Duke Rosenberg, the number one director in Hollywood! The leader of the world's popular culture!
In order to cater to the audience's word-of-mouth and attract enough people's attention, Fleet Street gave Duke a high evaluation without hesitation. The headline on the front page was blackened and bolded, matching the Star Wars: The Force Awakens promotion in London. The photos are striking.
Even though 2015 has only just started for a few days, we can confirm that no one is more influential than Duke Rosenberg. His place is simply the focus and center of the world! He Any sentence, any action, can easily attract the public's attention and make headlines on the front pages of major media.
Everyone knows how good he is, but who would have thought that after the sensational Batman Trilogy and Avengers, he would team up with the Star Wars series to bring such a big surprise to the world !
Although he has no British nationality, Duke Rosenberg has made great contributions to the spread of global culture. The royal family should consider awarding him the honor he deserves!
Although the whole article is full of British self-righteousness, the praise of Duke is not spared.
Of course, in the eyes of Duke fans, these are the most basic facts.
The crew travels in major cities and enjoys the treatment that the world's top political figures can hardly get. When they arrive at the airport, there are always thousands or even tens of thousands of fans spontaneously coming to greet them. When the meeting is held, the whole city will be paralyzed , When leaving, there will be thousands of loyal fans crying and begging the crew to stay longer.
Among them, Duke is the most popular object, and countless Duke blows are coming for him!
Since the birth of the film industry, there has never been a director who has established a commercial appeal far stronger than a Hollywood superstar like Duke.
In addition, hundreds of reporters headed by North American media and Fleet Street directly followed the crew. Even if Duke and others left the center of the entertainment industry for the Far East, they still persisted and vowed to dig out the privacy of everyone on the crew. !
Even after arriving at the hotel in Hong Kong, a female paparazzi from The Sun bought a waitress and almost sneaked into Daisy Ridley's room...
Things like this emerged endlessly throughout the promotion process. Lucasfilm hired a professional enough security team to protect the safety and privacy of the The Force Awakens crew throughout the process.
Hollywood's most influential super director in the Far East!
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been released in Hong Kong for some time, and the arrival of the crew made this city that has just experienced an accident become frenzied, and the media rushed to report.
This is Duke Rosenberg's second visit to Hong Kong. Those outstanding works let us know this young super director thoroughly. His influence has spread to every corner of the world...
Perhaps the reports are a bit exaggerated, but in several places where Hollywood culture is dumped in the Far East, the name Duke Rosenberg has been engraved in the hearts of many people through one mainstream production after another!
The sensation caused by the crew in the Far East is no less than that in North America. Cities such as Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo and Manila were completely conquered by Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Among them, when the crew left Tokyo and were about to go to Sydney, several female fans who heard the news, in order to keep Daniel Wu, committed suicide by cutting their pulse in public, which is really dumbfounding.
After more than ten days, after a long journey, the physically and mentally exhausted crew finally arrived at the last stop of this promotional tour, which is also the only mainstream market where Star Wars: The Force Awakens has not yet been released - China.
Although the traditional Lunar New Year and New Year's Day holidays in China have just passed, according to general principles, the market should enter a relatively cold period, but Duke led the entire crew to bring it, which caused a huge sensation. (to be continued ^)
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