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Although the box office of "The Walker of the Infernal Affairs" did not hit the big hit, and only achieved "only" $38.41 million in more than 3,200 open-air theaters in the first weekend, no matter how much speculation about Wayne appeared in the media, it was impossible to prevent the theater alliance from maintaining the scale of "The Walker of the Infernal Affairs".

So naturally, starting Monday, the number of theaters in "The Walker of the Stop" in North America has remained at around 32oo.

The various news that appeared in the media did not affect the confidence of theater companies in Wayne. The reason is very simple. The box office of "The Walker of the Insular" did not explode, but the box office trend was extremely steady.

There is another point that cannot be ignored. It is now mid-to-late June in North America, and a large number of large-scale productions should have been released in large numbers. Because Wayne's random operations have led to all small and medium-sized production companies avoiding this point of time, and no one wants to become a victim of the collision of large companies.

The situation is quite embarrassing now. In addition to Wayne's "The Walker", the main movies that occupy the North American theater market also have "Tornado" with a healthy box office trend, and "The Matrix", which maintains the screening scale of 1,300 theaters. It is the "Ranstorm" produced by Disney and released by Bowei International.

In the current situation, even if theater companies reduce the screening scale of "The Walker of the Infernal Affairs", there is no place to give it, because among these films being released, "The Walker of the Infernal Affairs" is already the most worth looking forward to.

All of this has caused a strange theater market trend. It can be said that until the end of June, before the release of 20th Century Fox's "Independence Day" and Universal Pictures' "Fatty Professor", it was completely controlled by Warner Bros. in the first two months of the summer vacation.

Regardless of luck or other factors, the fact has evolved into this. Now all production companies in Hollywood are staring at Warner Bros. No one wants to see the dominant situation, but no one can stop Warner Bros.

Anyone in the circle believes that all this is just caused by the luck of Warner Bros. after indulging Wayne to go crazy, the tastes of movie fans are always changing at any time. No one can predict whether a movie will succeed before it is released.

However, since Monday's working day arrived, the box office trend of "The Infinite Walker" inevitably showed a downward trend. It only received $3.47 million on Monday, and on Tuesday ushered in the traditional discount day of the North American theater market. The folk remedy rebounded to $4.87 million, fell again to $3.39 million on Wednesday, and continued to fall to $3.31 million on Thursday.

"The Walker" closed a total of US$15.04 million in North America within four working days. The film was released in North America for a full week, with a total box office of more than US$50 million in seven days and a total box office of US$53.45 million.

This number can only be said to be unsatisfactory, but it is definitely not a surprise. At the same time, the Disney masterpiece "Ranstorm", which was released on the same weekend with "The Walker", has accumulated a box office of only $29.97 million in the past week, under the squeeze of many Warner Bros. films.

As if everything Nina said was happening. After finding that the film had no hope of turning around, the media's discussions about Wayne suddenly disappeared when the second weekend came, and only some gossip tabloids who spontaneously chased popularity were still following up on the hype.

On the second weekend, there were almost no eye-catching changes in the North American theater market. "The Walker" also has no heavyweight competitors. With its neither swelling nor popular pace, this film continues to harvest box office steadily. It is worth mentioning that this film is still the best box office in a single-stage film of all released one week after its release.

Warner Bros. will naturally not miss this opportunity. With the hard communication of the distribution department, theater companies still maintain more than 3,000 theaters, and have not reduced their screening scale.

In the three days of the second weekend, "The Walker" started to rebound strongly on Friday with a huge screening scale, closing at $6.71 million on the same day, and rose again on Saturday, earning $9.12 million, because the next day was a working day, and Sunday inevitably fell to $6.19 million.

It can be said that it can achieve a good box office trend. On the one hand, Wayne and the three male protagonists have appealed to attract passers-by and fans to enter the theater anytime and anywhere. On the other hand, the screening scale is not reduced compared to the first weekend of release.

Ten days after the "Walking Walker" was launched, the box office in North America reached 75.47 million US dollars, and it won two consecutive box office championships in the North American summer season without any suspense.

Because this film aims to be an academic award, from behind-the-scenes jobs such as directors to several starring actors, they all received salary cuts, and the cost of the film is only about 40 million US dollars.

The promotional and distribution cost about half of the production cost, about 20 million US dollars. It can be said that the box office earned by the film since it was released, has exceeded the production cost line.

This is very important. Fans and media may not care about this, but the production company is watching this number. Now this film has just been released in North America for ten days, and after this week, it will appear in dozens of countries and regions overseas.

This shows that even if "The Walker of the Stop" does not count other income, it can recover all investments based on the box office alone. If the film performs well in the overseas theater market, it may even make a considerable profit.

At the same time, after the second weekend of the film's release, major third-party forecasting companies in North America readjustled the data they released. Many forecasting companies said that the data released before was too conservative, and the North American box office location of "The Walker of the Insular" is likely to exceed US$150 million.

At the same time, even Spinach, which is in Las Vegas, lowered the odds of the film's North American box office to $150 million and the global box office to $400 million. A small number of companies with a keen sense of smell simply stopped betting on the North American box office forecasts and retained the global box office forecast channel alone.

As long as everyone in the circle knows, the biggest difference between this film and Wayne's previous works is that its commercial attributes are not that strong, but this is not only a bad thing, but also brings a good side to the film.

Generally speaking, theater companies and production companies will tacitly maintain a certain screening scale and maintain a long screening time for award-winning works such as this, so as to completely drain all the box office potential of the film while preparing for the awards season.

Therefore, this "Walking Walker" is destined to stay in the theater market for a long time until the arrival of the Oscars in March next year.

This also creates more box office for the film and provides sufficient convenience. In fact, even most media have discovered that although this film has not had a big box office hit, it must not be classified as a bad film. It is loved to death among some groups, and some viewers also expressed their unacceptance.

If it were another director, this would definitely be a highlight of this summer. However, Wayne's past is too brilliant, and the media and movie fans have become accustomed to it. His films exploded at the box office as soon as it was launched, causing a national movie viewing frenzy.

When the second weekend passed, the film continued to maintain a healthy decline in the following four working days, earning $2.61 million, $2.75 million, $2.55 million, and $2.45 million respectively in four days, with a total closing of $10.36 million.

Just as Wayne led the crew's creative team to board a flight to the British Isles, the North American box office of "The Walker" had reached 85.83 million US dollars.

The next video will land in various European regions led by the British Isles this weekend and start an overseas journey.

When Wayne led the crew to appear in London, the North American theater market finally ushered in a major reshuffle, and Warner Bros. temporarily withdrew from the stage.

On June 28, 1996, "Independence Day", which was decided to release one week in advance, was released with another ambitious work of Universal Pictures, "Professor of Fat", and at the same time, it started its release with a screening scale of more than 2,800 theaters.

On Friday, the two films were launched on a large scale and ended with a shocking ending to everyone's chin. Independence Day, "The Fatty Professor" was pressed to the ground and rubbed it. This result was probably not even Twentieth Century Fox.

This Roland Emmerich's market-winning work, with an unparalleled box office trend, won $502.28 million in the first three days of the first weekend, and the box office was higher than one day. Amid the media's exclamations, it took away the box office champion this weekend from "The Walker".

In contrast, Universal Pictures' ambition work "Fatty Professor", was squeezed out by Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century Fox on the first weekend, and only achieved a far less than the expected $25.65 million.

If anyone who earns the most in this film is undoubtedly Will Smith, which makes him, who already has a good box office appeal, become the darling of all North America in a few days.

Perhaps he is not comparable to Denzel Washington in professional awards, but in terms of market appeal, Will Smith has completely surpassed him, and with his box office performance of "Independence Day", he has undoubtedly completely entered the front line.

In the subsequent promotional activities, this African-American movie star who was so likable that people could ignore his skin color was mentioned abnormally frequently, and unconcealedly supported his new film "The Walker". More than once, he admitted in public to reporters that the reason why he developed so smoothly in Hollywood was inseparable from Wayne's support and invitation in 1991.

"You know, Wayne Greenberg is a great director, and there is no doubt that. Of course, I have always been grateful for his support. A few years ago, I was a hip-hop singer who was the first to accept my skin color and gave me a rare opportunity. So Wayne is the best brother of my life and I will support him any time."