Chapter 937 The King of North America
On the last weekend of 2014, five large-scale films joined the box office of the North American Christmas season, but these films are just lights of fireflies and candles compared to the indomitable "Star Wars: The Force Awakening". These new films cannot slow down the pace of "Star Wars: The Force Awakening" breaking more records at all.
Although it has been released for a week, the film has set a Christmas box office record of $24.6 million when Detective Sherlock Holmes was premiered in 2009 on Friday. In the two days of Saturday and Sunday, the North American theater market received another $68.92 million and $58.17 million respectively. The cumulative box office of the next weekend in North America reached $186.43 million, easily breaking the highest weekend box office record and directly increasing the Avengers' $111.77 million second weekend box office record by two levels.
Even apart from films such as "The Dark Knight" and "The Avengers" directed by Duke, there is no more films in the world that are not Duke Rosenberg's first weekend North American box office, which can compare to the next weekend box office of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens".
"There is only myself left in front of Duke Rosenberg!"
Many media in North America and Europe can't wait to issue such titles.
Ten days after its release, the cumulative box office of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" in North America climbed to $729.41 million, surpassing the final North American box office result of "Avengers" of $725.86 million, and standing second in the North American total box office list!
"Avatar", which is at the top of the North American box office list, had a box office of US$749.76 million. "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has been inevitable. The biggest suspense remaining is undoubtedly whether the global box office can also be surpassed.
This week, including three days and seven days on the weekend, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" appeared in theater markets in more countries and regions. Although it has not been released in China, the world's second largest film market, it still regained $385.2 million from overseas markets, thus pushing the global box office of the film to $1.669.21 million.
There is no doubt that this is also the fastest global box office rate since the movie was born and evolved into a cultural commodity.
In the new week, as the New Year holiday is approaching, the box office trend of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is still optimistic in the industry. The film does not disappoint, even on weekdays and Mondays, the box office fell by only 25% compared to last Sunday, earning $43.63 million.
This number also ensures that the film's North American box office reaches US$773.03 million, thus surpassing the North American box office of "Avatar" of US$749.76 million, ranking first in the North American total vote list.
"Will the new King of North America be born? Will the King of the World change his master?"
This was the front page headline of many North American media on Tuesday. The craze triggered by "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has long exceeded the scope of the movie 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 director to have a single film with a box office of more than $1 billion in North America within the next two to three months!"
No one refutes this view.
Duke himself also knew that the North American box office of "Star Wars: The Force Awakening" would not be a problem. The most important thing now is the global box office. Only when the overseas market makes efforts can the global box office of "Star Wars: The Force Awakening" be pushed through the 2 billion dollar mark as soon as possible.
North America has a limited population. The United States and Canada combined have a total population of only more than 350 million. Including foreign populations and stowaways who buy tickets for movies, the market is at most 400 million people, and the box office of one billion US dollars has almost reached the ceiling. After all, it is impossible for everyone in North America to like Duke and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", and no film can do this.
Therefore, Duke led the crew to leave North America, start from Europe, walk through every important market, and try every means to attract attention and attention, and stimulate the audience's interest. It prompts them to buy tickets and go to the theater to watch.
Information related to "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" can be seen everywhere in the mainstream media in every country.
"Star Wars: The Force Awakening" and its director Duke Rosenberg are launching an impact on the record. The film has become box office champions in all distribution countries, gradually forming a unique phenomenon. Parents take their children to watch, and juniors take their elders to watch. This is a sharing of experience across ages. It breaks the barriers between language, culture, and religion, and sets up a movie-watching craze all over the world. This trend continues to decline..."
"Sitting on the subway, you can hear people around you talking about the movie, talking about BB-8, Millennium Falcon and Jedi, discussing Duke Rosenberg's various possibilities about the life experience of the heroine Rey..."
During the intersect between 2014 and 2015, Duke, Catherine Kennedy and Charles Rowan took the crew to spend the entire flight publicity, taking London, the first city of the European publicity itinerary as the starting point. They passed through major European cities such as Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Madrid. Every time they went, they always set off an unprecedented trend.
The influence of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has exceeded the scope of movies and has become a cultural or social phenomenon.
Although the directors of Europe who were full of envy and jealousy tried their best to criticize "Star Wars: The Force Awakening" for no artistic quality, except for advanced computer technology, it was a bloody plot that was sensational for the sake of sensation, but it could not stop the film from moving forward at all.
Their views do not affect mainstream audiences at all. What kind of movies do most people like? You can get the answer without asking such questions.
Even if the mainstream media in Europe sees the longer and longer ticket buying teams, and faces increasingly afraid box office numbers, even if they are unwilling to do so, they can only give them praise.
Especially on Fleet Street, these people do not care about being extremely proud or belittling a person as long as they can attract attention.
"Duke Rosenberg, the number one director in Hollywood! The leader of world pop culture!"
In order to cater to the audience's reputation and attract enough attention, Fleet Street has given Duke a high evaluation. The black and bold front-page headline title is particularly eye-catching with the photos of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" when it was promoted in London.
"Even if 2015 was just a few days ago, we can confirm that no one can compare to Duke? Rosenberg is more influential. The place where he is is simply the focus and center of the world! Any sentence or action of his will easily attract the public's attention and make the front page headlines of major media."
"Everyone knows how excellent he is, but who would have thought that after the sensational Batman Trilogy and Avengers, he would join forces with the Star Wars series to bring such a big surprise to the whole world!"
"Although he has no British nationality, Duke Rosenberg has made great contributions to global cultural communication, and the royal family should consider awarding him the honor he deserves!"
Although the whole article is full of British self-righteousness, he spares no effort to flatter Duke.
Of course, in the eyes of Duke fans, these are the most basic facts.
The crew travels around major cities and enjoys treatment that is difficult for the world's top politicians to get. When they arrive at the airport, thousands or even tens of thousands of fans spontaneously come to greet them. When they hold a meeting, the whole city will be paralyzed. When they leave, thousands of loyal fans will cry and beg the crew to stay for a while.
Among them, Duke is the most popular object, and countless Duke blows are coming to him!
Since the birth of the film industry, no director has ever been able to establish a commercial appeal that is far stronger than Hollywood superstars like Duke.
In addition, several headed by North American media and Fleet Street followed the crew's action. Even though Duke and others left the center of the entertainment industry and went to the Far East, they still remained unyielding and vowed to dig out the ** of everyone in the crew!
Even after arriving at a hotel in Hong Kong, a paparazzi from The Sun bought a waitress and almost sneaked into Daisy Ridley's room...
Things like this emerged one after another during the entire publicity process. Lucasfilm specially hired a sufficiently professional security team to protect the safety and safety of the crew of "The Force Awakens" throughout the process.
"Halry lives in the most influential super director in the Far East!"
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has been released in Hong Kong for some time. The arrival of the crew has made this city that has just experienced the chaos become a fanatical one, and the media are even rushing to report it.
"This is Duke Rosenberg's second time in Hong Kong. Those outstanding works have allowed us to fully understand this young super director. His influence has spread to every corner of the world..."
Perhaps the statement in the report is a bit exaggerated, but in several Hollywood culture dumping places in the Far East, the name Duke Rosenberg is remembered in the hearts of many people through one mainstream production after another!
The crew caused a sensation in the Far East, no less than that in cities such as North America, Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo and Manila, and was completely conquered by Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Among them, when the crew left Tokyo and was about to go to Sydney, several female fans who learned the news actually committed suicide by cutting their pulse in public in order to keep Daniel Wu. It was really ridiculous.
More than ten days later, after a long journey and exhausted crew, finally arrived at the last stop of this publicity journey, and China, the only mainstream market that has not been released yet.
Although the traditional Chinese New Year holidays and New Year's Day holidays have just passed, and according to general principles, the market should enter a relatively cold period, Duke led the entire crew to bring it, which still caused a huge sensation. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!