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In the midst of the bustling award season, "Black Swan" made its debut in the first week of December, and finally won a media review score of 88 points and a Rotten Tomatoes fresh rating of 86%. It can be said that It has been unanimously sought after by the mainstream media. Natalie Portman's outstanding performance has won the hearts of most film critics, and the media who believe that Evan Bell is enough to join the ranks of "masters" have even praised the film.
Even though there are not many viewers commenting on the movie on imdb because it is a drop-in screening, the real-time score of the work still reaches a high score of 8.4, which is very good!
"Power and passion coexist, glory and darkness shine together", "Imagination extends the wings of reality, and the calm fear is full of the absurdity of dreams", "Under the seemingly gentle surface, there is a world full of violent elements. At its core, this kind of violence is not only at the emotional level, but also physical!", "After a seemingly calm prologue, there is a sudden turn into a crazy plot, and what is outrageous is that, even so, the movie Still maintaining a dignified rhythm like ballet steps", "a wine fermented by cunning and madness", "containing the distortion of 'Shutter Island' and swallowing the overlap of 'Inception', this is 'Black Swan' '", "Just like most terrifying nightmares, the 'Black Swan' will almost lead you into the darkness before you are ready."
At the same time, Natalie Portman's performance in the movie also won unanimous praise, "Without a doubt. Natalie twirled her way to the Oscar podium in this dance psychological thriller." . Likewise, Evan Bell's direction received similar praise. "After 'Inception', Evan has taken the art film market by storm. His amazing directorial talent is enough to eclipse all rhetoric."
If it were five years ago, it would have been almost impossible for such a highly dark, extremely independent, and personal work to win a place in the awards season. But times have changed now. Ballet is the vehicle. With a work with a split personality, a nightmarish soundtrack and a Swan Lake-style classical tragedy, it¡¯s no surprise that it¡¯s loved by film critics.
Although "Black Swan" itself has nothing to do with box office. Not to mention the small area that was only screened in 18 theaters, but the entire North American box office list in the first week of December was so sluggish that people had to focus on the box office. Black Swan".
This week¡¯s North American box office champion is the three-dimensional computer animation ¡°Enchanted¡± released by Disney. This 260 million-dollar work was released last week. Although he won the championship again this week. However, this week's box office only narrowly beat "Harry Potter and the Deathly Grail (Part 1)" with a box office of 21 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office in two weeks was only 96 million, so the loss is already certain. It seems that it is more reliable to rely on Illumination Entertainment to revive Disney animation.
The runner-up "Harry Potter and the Deathly Grail (Part 1)" is not much better. It has accumulated a box office of 245 million in three weeks of release. The results are still very good, but it still has some time to cross the 300 million threshold. Not a small gap, the weekend box office dropped by 65% ??in the third week of release. Just winning 17 million really makes people unhappy.
in comparison. "127 Hours", released on November 1, continued to expand in its fifth week of release, and was released in 430 theaters. It also achieved a box office of US$3,700 per theater, which is impressive.
Of course, the biggest highlight this week comes from Evan Bell teaming up with Natalie Portman and Meryl Streep's "Black Swan". This work is being screened in 18 theaters. The box office of a single theater of US$87,000 is very close to the results of "In the Cloud" released in the same period last year. However, the box office of "Black Swan" in a single theater is still US$2,000 more than that of "In the Cloud". The single-venue box office ranking of Wen Beier's personal works has become "Brokeback Mountain", "Adapted Screenplay", "Juno", "Black Swan" and "In the Cloud".
To put it simply, the historical ranking of box office in a single theater has become a duo between Disney and Evan Bell. And in the historical ranking of box office in a single theater of live-action movies, Evan Bell has almost eliminated all the top ten spots. Well, with the first five works plus "There Will Be Blood" and "Into the Wild", Evan Bell alone occupies seven positions in the top ten. This kind of dominance is indeed unparalleled.
As a result, "Black Swan"'s weekend box office performance in the first week of December reached US$1.6 million, occupying the thirteenth position on this week's North American box office list, just ranking " 127 Hours¡± performed very well behind the scenes.
The following week, the releases of "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" and "The Journey" topped the box office charts.The biggest highlight on this page is that the former is an adaptation of the novel that Disney aspires to create into the "Harry Potter" series. Although it has not become a money-making machine, it still cannot be underestimated; the latter is an adaptation of the novel starring Angelina Jolie and The film stars Johnny Depp and is directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarm, who became famous around the world with "Overheard."
But what is disappointing is that the box office of both works was not as expected. The opening weekend box office of "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" with an investment of 155 million was only 24 million. "The Journey", which cost as much as US$100 million, only received a premiere of US$16 million. Although it occupied the first and second place in the North American box office rankings in the second week of December, it was difficult to make it. People are satisfied.
Relatively speaking, "Black Swan", which was further expanded to 100 theaters, performed even better. With a box office figure of US$50,000 per theater, this work earned US$5 million in the second weekend of its release. The U.S. dollar box office has soared directly to fifth place on the North American list, preceded by "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Part 1)". Such an outstanding box office record is really unexpected. Yes, this can also be considered as another manifestation of the "Bell-style miracle".
Eleven Distribution is now very sophisticated. After accurately grasping the pulse of the market, it was discovered that the box office potential of "Black Swan" far exceeded expectations, and the audience's popularity for this work also exceeded predictions, so Eleven Distribution simply released it in the third week of its release. The smooth release of "Black Swan" in a thousand theaters across the United States also means that "Black Swan" has left the screening stage and has been fully released.
The general release is the true test of "Black Swan's" box office potential, and the box office numbers are a sign that "Black Swan" has withstood the test, with a single theater box office of $11,000 and a third weekend of $11 million. , still ranked fifth in the North American box office rankings, but the fourth-placed film was replaced by "The Fighter", which was widely released in 2,500 theaters.
The outstanding performance of the market has given the National Day release more confidence. "Black Swan" was released in 1,500 theaters in the fourth week of December, and the single theater still handed over 8,000 US dollars, and 1,200 US dollars on weekends. Wan's box office figures pushed "Black Swan" up one spot on the box office charts to fourth place.
It can be seen from the box office performance of single theaters in large-scale releases that "Black Swan" has received unanimous praise from the audience, and because the details of the film are worthy of repeated appreciation, they are willing to return to the cinema for the second and third time. There are also a lot of viewers watching. After four weeks of release, the cumulative box office of "Black Swan" has reached 45 million US dollars.
"Black Swan" only invested 13 million US dollars in this work, and it has achieved such excellent box office data within four weeks of its release. This has also continued Evan Bell's undefeated record, and Evan Bell's directorial work department The tradition of fine products has become more and more solid.
The so-called box office appeal is the trust accumulated in such works one after another. The audience is willing to believe in Evan Bell's vision for selecting works, and Evan Bell has not disappointed the audience every time, so this is This makes independent dark movies like "Black Swan" still shine at the box office.
After that, the expansion of "Black Swan" never stopped, reaching its peak in the third week of January, with a total of 2,500 theaters showing, and staying at this peak for three full weeks. , you can see the enthusiastic response from the audience from here.
The movie's excellent reputation undoubtedly gave "Black Swan" a deeper and more lasting box office driving force. In the eighth week of its release, which is the third week of January, with the highest peak of the expanded theater chain, "Black Swan" "Swan" also relied on a weekend box office of 8 million US dollars, allowing the film's cumulative box office to officially cross the 100 million threshold!
"Black Swan" then continued its success in the North American market, and finally set its North American box office at US$130 million, which is definitely a great victory!
But what is even more surprising is that the performance of "Black Swan" in overseas markets is truly outstanding. After being released in 58 countries and regions around the world, it has won the championship in 13 countries and regions, and has won the championship in two countries. The place was re-elected. The box office of "Black Swan" in the United Kingdom, South Korea, Spain, Mexico, Japan, Germany, France, and Australia has exceeded the 10 million threshold. Among them, Japan, which won the overseas box office championship, contributed 30 million US dollars in box office. Data, this also makes the overseas box office data of "Black Swan" finally reach 290 million US dollars, which is really incredible.
As a result, the total global box office of "Black Swan" has reached 420 million U.S. dollars. Such a box office figure is something that no one could have predicted, whether it is an investment of 13 million U.S. dollars or a psychological thriller. I can¡¯t even watch any art movies.??Such a sign. But that's what happened, and Evan Bell once again created a miracle.