In history, the box office of Titanic was actually as uncomfortable as constipation.
Because of the lack of publicity and the general public's lack of interest in a shipwreck movie, when Titanic was released on December 19, 1997, the box office for the midnight session was only more than 2 million US dollars, and the total box office for the first weekend was only 28,638,131.
At this moment, the box office for the midnight session of Titanic reached 12 million US dollars (60 million was purely stupid because it was only the result of "Avengers 4" in 2020. 1995 was too ridiculous, so it was more appropriate to correct it to 12 million!). It was six times the box office of Titanic in history.
Doesn't this mean that the current Titanic may also have six times the box office for the first weekend, which is 170 million US dollars for the first weekend box office?
In history, the first three weeks of release of "Titanic" were quite bad. Just when Cameron himself was almost desperate, the box office of "Titanic" suddenly rose in a strange degree from the third week.
By the sixth week of release, the box office of this movie had suppressed the blockbusters released at the same time, and finally dominated the box office for ten weeks in a row, which could be called a miraculous result.
Later, after investigation, it was found that this was a miracle born from word of mouth.
Fortunately, because the early box office of Titanic in history was so bad that many overseas film companies directly gave up importing it, so the early stage of Titanic was not released at the same time worldwide.
It was not until two months after the release in North America that Titanic was released in the second country. At this time, Titanic had become famous in the United States. Countless people were moved to tears by this movie, and all the news media reported the popularity of this movie. Many people even crowned the title of the first masterpiece of the 20th century on Titanic's head, which led to Titanic accumulating a lot of curiosity in other countries around the world.
After it was finally released after two months, it quickly triggered a global movie frenzy. Almost everyone came to watch this movie curiously. It was said that no one could not be moved, and the special effects were earth-shattering.
As a result, Titanic created an unprecedented miracle. The domestic box office of the United States was only 650 million US dollars, which was actually ranked third in history at that time.
However, the global box office outside of the North American market had earned 1.45 billion US dollars, which was five times more than the previous first place. When the global box office statistics were completed, people were surprised to find that, except for Japan, Titanic had taken the top spot in the box office of all the countries where it was released. This was something that even the later "Avengers 4" could not achieve!
This was the first movie in history to truly dominate the world.
Many years later, countless audiences would sigh with emotion. Hollywood's history of sweeping the world actually began with "Titanic."
After returning to this world, compared to the Titanic of the other world, the Titanic of this world had made up for all his shortcomings.
Because Boss Jia and Fox worked together to do a live broadcast of a sinking ship, Titanic was no longer the movie that no one cared about and lacked interest in the early stages of its release. On the contrary, countless people were looking forward to the release of this movie. Therefore, it set a new record of 12 million US dollars for the midnight opening.
Of course, there were pros and cons to this. The downside was that the audience's psychological expectations of Titanic had been raised by Boss Jia. If the quality of Titanic did not meet expectations and satisfy the audience, then Titanic's reputation would drop instantly. The subsequent movies would also explode in all kinds of ways. By then, it might not even achieve half of the 2.1 billion US dollars in the global box office.
There were many examples of this, especially in the movie market of Hua Xia. Many movies liked to brag in the early stages of their release. They wanted to boast that this movie was the best in the world, and then it exploded. This was the negative effect of artificially raising the expectations of a movie.
On the contrary, if the quality of a movie was really high, even if the audience's psychological expectations were raised by one or two times, then the popularity of the movie would also skyrocket.
Therefore, two days later, the first weekend of Titanic's release ended. When Boss Jia saw the final box office results, he could not help but gasp. As for James Cameron, he was so happy that he fainted.
Of course, the 170 million first-weekend box office that Boss Jia had calculated based on the midnight box office had also been slapped hard in the face in reality. However, this slap made people very happy.
Because according to the final results, the box office of Titanic exceeded 200 million US dollars in the first weekend, reaching 204,132,125 US dollars. This meant that all the Americans, regardless of whether they were filmmakers or ordinary people, were stunned by the data.
According to the data released later, during the two days of the weekend, Titanic occupied 42% of the showtimes on Saturday, and this number rose to a terrifying 68% on the weekend. Titanic alone occupied 23% of the showtimes in cinemas.
This was nothing. The really terrifying thing was the attendance rate. According to the statistics, the attendance rate of Titanic was as high as 62% in the first week. This meant that if there were one million seats in all the cinemas on the first weekend, then 620,000 seats would be occupied.
This was including the morning showtimes when no one was watching the movie. If the showtimes before 1 o 'clock in the afternoon were not included, then the attendance rate reached an even more astonishing 86%. This was truly invincible.
In the span of one weekend and two days, Titanic had created an unprecedented record that would take more than ten years to achieve. It crushed the previous box office record of the first weekend by more than twice.
This was a data that put infinite pressure on the latecomers. Forget about breaking this record, the filmmakers in the future would probably have a headache just thinking about it.
Well, if they wanted to break this record, they would probably have to wait for "The Avengers 4" more than a decade later. During this period, Titanic would probably dominate the world.
The box office on the first weekend was just the beginning. As Titanic entered its second week, miracles were still being created. In the second week, Titanic took a total of 380 million US dollars at the box office. In addition to the 170 million US dollars from the previous box office, Titanic took a total of 550 million US dollars at the North American box office in just nine days. In Zhang Tie's previous life, Titanic only made 650 million US dollars at the box office after 30 weeks of screening.
It was said that after seeing this data, many film company bosses locked themselves in the cinema for a day and kept watching Titanic over and over again, trying to discover the secret of its success.
In the end, they suddenly realized that love, handsome men, beautiful women, special effects, a famous director, and a lot of money = Titanic.
Although they did not know whether this formula was right or wrong, in the future, Hollywood blockbusters basically followed this formula. The only thing that could be omitted from this formula was probably the famous director.
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