Technically, Megill's estimation was not wrong. The total box office of the movie was six times the box office of the first weekend. This was also one of Hollywood's time-tested experiences.
The reason why only the box office of the first weekend was that people in the United States were used to watching movies on weekends. There were very few people who watched movies on weekdays. The box office of the movies from Monday to Friday was probably less than half of the box office of the movies on Saturday.
Moreover, this was a box office of 200 million USD. This was enough to become the box office champion of 1995 and be ranked in the top 40 box office in the history of the United States. Pokemon was an animated movie. What was there not to be satisfied with?
Moreover, the children's enthusiasm was unrestrained. They also had to go to school on weekdays. They did not have time to go out and watch movies on Monday to Friday. It was impossible to create a high box office. It might not even reach 200 million USD in the end!
However, Megill's estimation was destined to be wrong. He forgot that although the children did have to go to school on Monday, all the children had a chance to gather together.
Although the children had created a box office of more than 30 million USD, it was still a small number compared to the total number of children. It was only about 10%.
Once the children gathered together, they naturally began to crazily discuss the plot of Pokemon. The remaining 90% of the children who had not watched the movie were itching to watch it.
Especially after being promoted by the students for a week, these students who discussed Transcendent Fantasy, Phoenix, 3D animation and other themes rushed to the cinema as soon as the weekend arrived.
Right, Pokemon relied on their cute appearance to have a large market among girls. Although these girls did not play games, they would not miss out on animation.
Moreover, the children in the US were more open-minded. There were many boyfriends and girlfriends in junior high school. As a boyfriend, it was normal for him to invite his girlfriend or the girl he wanted to pursue to watch a movie.
Even if these boys had already watched the movie before.
Therefore, when the box office of the second week was released, the box office of the weekend was even more terrifying than the box office of the first weekend. It created a shocking 40 million USD. If the box office of the previous five days was included, the box office of the entire second week was 50 million USD. Together with the 40 million USD of the first week, the box office was 90 million USD.
When Megill saw the second week's box office data, he was speechless. He didn't dare to predict the box office of Pokemon anymore.
"The third week's box office shouldn't exceed the second week's box office …" Megill muttered in the end. He originally thought that this sentence would never hit him. However, when the total box office of the third week was 62 million USD, Megill almost went crazy. He shouted, "What a monster!" and almost fainted.
Later on, someone analyzed the box office data and realized that the box office of Pokemon in the third week was not that monstrous. This was because the main audience had basically watched the movie in the first two weeks. From the third week onwards, there were very few children who came to watch the movie alone.
On the contrary, more and more people brought their families to watch the movie.
Children who could watch movies alone should be above the age of 12. However, these children only accounted for about half of Pokemon's audience. The other half were mainly children under the age of 12.
These children couldn't watch the movie by themselves. They could only ask their parents to bring them to the movie.
In the beginning, the parents were naturally unwilling. This was because they found out that it was an animated movie. Moreover, it was a very ordinary movie according to film critics. Naturally, they were not interested. They kept dragging their children and didn't bring them to the movie theater.
However, these parents didn't think about the children's obsession with Pokemon. Especially when the few students in the class who had watched Pokemon began to crazily talk about Pokemon in class. They boasted that they had experienced an epic movie in the movie theater. How could these children bear it?
People who raised children at home all knew that children were the most tenacious creatures in the world. For something they liked, they could fight for half a year or even a year. Even if they had to lie down on the road and cry, they wouldn't care.
Ordinary parents couldn't bear the children's pleas. Moreover, the children only asked the family to watch a movie. This was such a warm request. How could a good parent not agree to such a request?
Therefore, after the children under the age of 12 struggled for about two weeks, their parents finally couldn't take it anymore and began to bring their children to the movie theater.
Unlike the previous movies where each child had one pit, this time, each child had at least two pits. Most of the time, it was three pits. Naturally, the box office increased by several times.
Therefore, when the results of the third and fourth weeks were released, everyone's eyes were completely shocked.
After achieving a total box office of 62 million USD in the third week, the box office of the fourth week actually reached 76 million USD. The total box office had exceeded 200 million USD and reached 238 million USD.
This was only the fourth week. Based on this data, it was almost certain that the box office would exceed 300 million USD.
By the fifth week, the box office finally stopped increasing and fell to 42 million USD.
By the sixth week, it fell to 26 million USD.
By the seventh week, it fell below 12 million USD.
From the eighth week onwards, the box office stabilized below 10 million USD.
Although movies in the United States had a screening period of about half a year, the box office of the first ten weeks was basically all the box office. In the end, the North American box office of Pokemon was fixed at 320 million USD. There was no doubt that it was the overall box office of the United States in 1995.
Even in the entire United States box office before 1995, it could be ranked in the top ten.
Not to mention the global box office journey of Pokemon!
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However, before talking about the global box office of Pokemon, we still need to talk about another movie and another film production company.
"Bastards, these bastards actually said that our movie can't even compare to a finger of Pokemon, these bastards!" In the office of Pixar Studio, the vice president of Pixar Studio, Ed Catmull, cursed while carefully looking at the expression of his boss beside him.
"Stop scolding them. These critics are right. I've watched Pokemon: The Counterattack of Transcendent more than three times. This movie has surpassed our Toy Story in terms of production and content. It's normal for us to lose to them!" The bald middle-aged man said calmly.
Oh, it seems that the boss isn't angry, but the vice president, Ed Catmull, shuddered. He was very familiar with the current boss. His calmness was often the calm before the storm.
"Come on, call the director, screenwriter, and so on. Call everyone over, let's have a meeting!" The bald middle-aged man added. Ed Catmull rubbed his head. It seemed that he had to be prepared to endure a storm from President Jobs.
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