Chapter 902 $320 Million Box Office
Megil's estimate is not wrong. The total box office of the movie is 6 times that of the first weekend, and it is also one of Hollywood's long-tested experiences, so there will be no mistakes.
The reason why the first weekend box office is only calculated is that the United States is generally accustomed to watching movies on weekends. Usually, there are very few movies. The five-day box office of the movie from Monday to Friday may be less than half of the movie box office on Saturday.
Besides, this is a box office of $200 million, which is enough to become the box office champion in 1995 and rank among the top 40 local box offices in American film history. What else is there to be anime movie like "Pokemon".
Moreover, the children's enthusiasm is full of energy, and they usually have to attend classes. From Monday to Friday, there is no time to come out to watch movies. It is impossible to create a high box office. Maybe in the end, there will be no box office of 200 million US dollars!
But Megil was destined to make a mistake in the estimation because he forgot that although the children were indeed going to class on Monday, all the children also had the opportunity to get together.
Although the children had already created more than 30 million US dollars in box office at this time, they were still a minority compared to the total number of children, about less than 10%.
Once these children get together, they will naturally start to discuss the plot of Pokemon wildly, and the remaining 90% of children who have not watched the movies will start to feel itchy.
Especially for the students who have been promoted for a week, students who discuss themes such as Super Dream Dream, Phoenix, Sand Animation, etc., can't wait to rush to the cinema as soon as the weekend arrives.
By the way, Pokemon rely on their cute appearance and have a huge market among girls. Although these girls don’t play games on their own, they really never miss the animation.
The American children are relatively open, and there are many boyfriends and girlfriends in junior high school. As boyfriends, it is normal to ask your girlfriend to watch a movie, or ask the girl you want to chase to watch a movie.
Even if these boys have read it beforehand.
So when the box office in the second week came out, the weekend box office was even more terrifying than the first weekend box office, creating an astonishing record of $40 million. If we count the total box office in the previous five days, the box office in the second week reached $50 million, plus the $40 million in the first week, that would be a full $90 million box office.
When Megil saw the box office data for the second week, he basically lost his speech and he no longer dared to predict the box office of Pokemon.
"The box office in this third week should not exceed the second week..." Finally, Megil muttered. He originally thought that this sentence would never hit you, but when the total box office in the third week was released, Megil almost went crazy. He shouted "A monster" and almost fainted.
Later, someone analyzed the box office data and found that the box office in the third week of "Pokemon" was not very evil, because the main audience basically watched the movie in the first two weeks. Since the third week, they have rarely seen children watching the movie alone.
But on the contrary, more and more people are visiting movies with their families.
Children who can watch movies alone should be around 12 years old, but these children only account for about half of the Pokemon audience, and the other half of the main audience is children under 12 years old.
These children cannot go to the movies themselves, they can only ask their parents to take them to the movies.
At the beginning, parents naturally didn't want to do so because they found that this was an animated movie, and it was a very ordinary movie among film critics. Naturally, they were not interested and kept dragging their children to the cinema.
But these parents did not expect their children's obsession with Pokemon, especially when the few students in the class who watched Pokemon, began to talk wildly about Pokemon topics in the class and boasted that they were experiencing unprecedented epic movies in the cinema, how could these children still bear it!
Everyone who raises children at home knows that children are actually the toughest creatures in the world. For the things they like, they can fight for half a year or even more than a year, even if they are lying directly on the road and crying loudly.
Generally, parents cannot stand their children's begging, not to mention that all the children ask for is a family to watch a movie. What a warm request. How can a good parent not even agree to such a request!
So after the children under the age of 12 had been tossing for about two weeks, their parents finally couldn't stand it and began to take their children to the cinema.
Unlike a child who watched movies before, this time, a child has at least two pits, and more often there are three pits, so the box office naturally doubled and rose.
So as soon as the results of the three-week and four-weeks came out, they completely fell below everyone's attention.
After creating a total box office of $62 million in Week 3, the box office in Week 4 actually reached $76 million, with the total box office exceeding $200 million, reaching $238 million.
This is only the fourth week. Judging from this data, it is basically a foregone conclusion that exceeding US$300 million.
By the fifth week, the box office finally stopped growing, falling to $42 million.
Week 6 fell to $26 million
Week 7 fell below $12 million
Since week 8, the box office has basically stabilized below $10 million.
Although American movies have a release period of about half a year, the box office in the first 10 weeks is basically all the box office. In the end, Pokemon's North American box office was frozen at $320 million, and he undoubtedly won the 1995 American box office championship.
Even in the box office of the United States before 1995, it was able to rank in the top ten.
Not to mention the global box office journey of Pokemon next!
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But before talking about the global box office of Pokemon, we need to talk about another movie and another film production company.
"Bastards, these bastards actually say that our movie is not even as good as a finger from "Pokemon", these bastards!" In the office of Pixar Studios, Ed Cartermore, the vice president of Pixar Studios, cursed while carefully looking at the expression of the boss beside him.
"Stop scolding, these critics are right. I have watched "Pokemon Super Dream Counterattack" more than three times. This movie surpasses our "Toy Story" in terms of production and connotation. It is normal to lose to the other party!" The bald middle-aged man said lightly.
Oh, it seems that the boss is not angry, but Vice President Ed Cartermore shivered all over. He is very familiar with the boss now, and his calmness is often the calmness before the storm.
Chapter completed!