In June 3rd week, 1997, "Batman and Robin" and "My Best Friend's Wedding" came together, which was widely believed to be a weekend that was enough to change the current Hollywood movie landscape - 00-00-[The website is refreshing, there are few advertisements, I like this kind of website the most, I must review it]

However, when the box office statistics were released on the weekend, everyone was shocked. They could hardly believe that their glasses were not because the box office was too outstanding, but because the box office was far lower than expected, which made people suspect that the box office statistics were wrong.

"Batman and Robin" has become a hot topic. With more than 3,000 theaters released simultaneously, the box office of only $40 million was sold for three days. The box office data of "** Day" was only comparable to the box office of $36 million on the first day of last year's release. What's more serious is that this work plummeted by 23 percentage points compared to the box office data of "Forever Batman" premiered by $52 million, which is almost a devastating blow to a sequel movie.

Before the movie was officially released, people predicted countless possibilities, but only this one was missed: not to mention that it has created history after more than "**day", even the achievements of their own previous works cannot be surpassed.

In the past month, "Batman and Robin" has been almost bombarded. The entire publicity period has covered every corner of the North American continent with a carpet-like layout. There must be topics, focus, and popularity.

Regarding handsome guys, there are George Clooney, there are Uma Thurman, the focus is Arnold Schwarzenegger, the script is Aziva Gossman, the director is Joe Schumacher, the story is original comics, the characters are Bruce Wayne, and the mass base is "Eternal Batman"... From any perspective, there is no question about the brilliant creation of this work, and even the New York Post boldly predicts, "The only question is: how high can this work reach - 00-00-"

But the fact is that Batman and Robin encountered the strongest box office cold air ever, a box office weekend called "June Winter" by The Los Angeles Times was almost disastrous.

Objectively speaking, the weekend box office data of 40 million US dollars is not a bad result for ordinary works. On the contrary, it is enough to win the weekend box office championship in the fierce competition in the summer. However, for a highly anticipated work, for a work that is committed to breaking records, this result is not only far below expectations, but can even be said to be a complete defeat. Read the latest chapter full text strong>

This ending that made countless people puzzled immediately sparked heated discussions among the media and the audience. After investigation, it was found that everything actually had a source: because this is really an extremely bad work.

The media review scored only twenty-five points, which attracted a lot of complaints and bad comments. Roger Ebert even commented, "This is perhaps one of the worst comic adaptations in film history, and it's okay to even remove the 'one'."

In the film review, it is widely commented that not only the story is so mentally retarded that it is intolerable, but it is completely the plot level of the kindergarten cartoon; and the characters have no quality at all. Even if the character creation in art movies is not mentioned, it is far from the image in the original comics: the poison ivy girl who always has a flat mouth can't even be even a vase, the frozen man who is always clumsy and overwhelmed is probably the first villain in history to be stupid, always with a sexy smile on his face, the playboy-like Batman looks like a quarterback in a youth campus movie, the Batwoman who is always ignored by the audience but shows his presence in an inappropriate situation, and the Robin who is always at a loss...

The phrase "Chicago Tribune" represents the voice of the film critics. "Batman with a full smile looks like Iron Man in the wrong armor." In the comments, they said that George's rich second-generation temperament does coincide with Bruce Wayne, but his smile makes the Gothic dark-style Batman look like a little guy playing house games in kindergarten.

Although hero comics movies have never had any direct connection with acting skills, the image of Batman created by George has attracted a strong backlash. Not to mention the original comic fans, even ordinary audiences are seriously unacceptable to the local conditions and say that this may be "the stupidest Batman in history."

The theater ratings representing the audience's reaction are only a bad "d-", which is undoubtedly the most terrible bad news. Even the audience doesn't buy it. How should commercial blockbusters be sold at the box office?

Such a terrible pathetic is nothing more than adding insult to "Batman and Robin". This not only explains the reason why the box office of the premiere weekend failed so much, but also quickly sounded the alarm for the future total box office of this work.

Judging from the movie's single-day box office, Friday's single-day box office reached 22 million US dollars, which also shows that the overwhelming publicity was very effective, attracting a large number of viewers to enter the cinema at the first time. However, the movie's messy quality dragged down. No one wanted to go to the cinema to see a "silly" work. Saturday's single-day box office data fell rapidly to 12 million US dollars, while Sunday's single-day data further dropped to 9 million US dollars. Such a decline curve almost indicates the avalanche of the box office decline in the next week.

Behind this box office tragedy, it is worth noting that even though the previous publicity campaign completely occupied everyone's attention, the box office on the first day was only 22 million US dollars, and it is not even comparable to the box office on Friday after the outbreak of Thursday on "** Day". This is undoubtedly the biggest question of George Clooney's box office appeal:

As a sex-sensual and sexy god on a small screen, no one will deny George's charm. Even compared with Hugo, Brad, Tom and others, he is definitely not inferior. However, if you want to evolve this charm into the motivation to let audiences enter the cinema, George obviously has a long way to go, and he cannot even compare with Brad, let alone challenge Hugo's hegemony. This statement seems just a joke now.

It was like a bucket of ice water that quickly cooled down the overheated brains of major Hollywood film companies, and they questioned themselves, "Can George really compete with Hugo?"

Ninety-five million dollars? No, it's forty-million dollars.

The premiere weekend of "Batman and Robin" can be said to be a disaster, especially after the vigorous and controversial farce in the early stage, the disaster became even more embarrassing, and even Warner Bros. itself was completely panicked. Some people in the company were looking forward to the decline of the movie the next week, hoping that fans of Batman's original comics could enter the cinema, but they were destined to be disappointed. The collapse of 70% of the next week had completely declared the death penalty for the movie.

Who would have thought of it? "Batman Forever" created glory, while the sequel "Batman and Robin" was nailed to the pillar of shame.

The Avengers, the title of Avengers, has become increasingly widely spread in the circle as a kind of irony, and has even become a title of people in the circle for a long time to Joe, George, Arnold, Uma, Chris, etc. George is Iron Man, Arnold is the Hulk, Uma is the Black Widow, Chris is Hawkeye, and director Joe is the Director of S.H.E.L.D.

The aggressive Avengers only lasted for the premiere of Friday for one day, and then went straight to a huge splash. Even the top Hollywood screenwriter could not write this ending, and it was even more exciting than "Batman and Robin" who returned to the king and surpassed "** Day".

Interestingly, the premiere of "My Best Friend's Wedding" adds a touch of black humor to this situation.

The romantic comedy, which cost only $38 million, was released in 2,100 theaters, but it delivered an excellent box office result of $2,200 and was also a box office data created in the same period as "Batman and Robin", which is almost amazing.

In addition, in sharp contrast to the direct competitors, both media reviews and theater scores have surpassed, and praises to Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz are endless. All of this seems to indicate that "My Best Friend's Wedding" has completed an impossible task, winning the battle with superhero comics in the form of a romantic comedy.

For reference, the weekly box office decline of "Life and Death Speed ​​2" was as high as 54%, the weekend box office was less than 7 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office had just crossed the threshold of 30 million US dollars. This also means that the investment of this sequel movie of $130 million will be shattered.

Faced with such a situation, it is really easy for major film companies to make a decision.

Warner Bros. immediately revoked his position as the publicity director of "Batman and Robin" and announced that he would put Batman's adaptation on the shelf and would not talk about it in the short term. Barry Meyer even visited the "Los Angeles City Confidential" crew in person and expressed his condolences to the hard work of the crew staff.

Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures and Sony Columbia Pictures joined forces to ban Uma. After that, Uma fell into a long window period without knowing the end, so many people almost forgot that there was such an actress in the circle.

Even Joe Schumacher, George Clooney and Arnold Schwarzenegger were seriously affected. Joe was facing a situation where there was no film to shoot for the next three years; Arnold was completely depressed after suffering such a blow, and in 1994, the "true lies" became his last glory. Although he still had film contracts one after another, his box office results were not ideal and he was silent for many years. After suffering such blow, George returned to the field of TV dramas and entered the dormant period again.

The ambition was just as soon as the tip of the iceberg emerged, and it was ruthlessly extinguished. Is this a tragedy or a comedy? If you understand it from the perspective of the Avengers, it is actually a comedy.

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