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Brad Pitt's heart is broken. "Troy" has been united and highly anticipated since the filming stage. Almost everyone believes that this work will be able to achieve an explosive effect. People are expecting the North American box office of "Troy" to exceed 400 million, at least 300 million is the bottom line, while the global box office starts at 600 million, and 700 million is the normal target. Make every effort to create a splendid epic masterpiece!

To be honest, when everyone is hyping the box office match between "The Day After Tomorrow" and "Troy", he is disdainful, because the two works are not at the same level; when "The Day After Tomorrow" premieres at the box office, he is Confident, he firmly believes that "Troy" can achieve better results; when Lance shows up at the premiere of "Troy" in person, he is contemptuous, especially as he quickly understands Lance's true intentions, anger The defiance afterwards filled him with confidence.

But now, his self-confidence is falling apart bit by bit, like a helpless corgi lost in a hurricane, shivering and trying to retreat step by step to his safe fortress, but he can't find a clear path at all. No matter how fast the little short legs run, the road is still far away.

Accompanied by every publicity, the shame in his heart was like a loud slap in the face, one after another, crushing him fiercely and loudly. The crew of "The Day After Tomorrow" didn't do much publicity at all, as if they won the response of the entire market without any effort; but the crew of "Troy" had to spend a lot of time and energy traveling around the world, and he had to squeeze out sex/sensuality And the charming smile to win the hearts of more audiences, but the effect is still not satisfactory.

In the dead of night, he felt very cheap.

The global publicity of "Troy" covers every corner of the five continents, including Africa. Even after seeing the outstanding performance of "The Day After Tomorrow" in the mainland China market, Warner Bros. also won the qualification to release the film, but unfortunately, the effect was still not satisfactory. In the end, the total box office in mainland China was only Four million dollars is lower than the first week of "The Day After Tomorrow". Even "sell on the street/laughing" is not enough to describe the mixed emotions in Brad's heart.

"Troy" has been released in 51 countries and regions around the world. The German market is undoubtedly the one with the best box office performance. This also means that no region in the overseas market has achieved a box office of 30 million. Such a performance is a humiliation for a giant crocodile with an investment of 175 million.

But compared with the performance of other countries and regions, Germany's box office data will not look so bad. In addition to Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, Spain, and South Korea are the countries and regions with the best performance in overseas markets, and these are the only five regions where "Troy" has an overseas box office of more than 20 million US dollars. This result was not only far lower than expected, unable to match the momentum of "Troy", but also dealt a heavy blow to the crew, and the road to recovering costs became extremely long, with no end in sight.

The only gratification for the "Troy" crew is that the film's box office data in Japan and South Korea successfully ranked among the top five in overseas markets, which also proves that the efforts of Brad and Orlando in Asia were not in vain. Proportional only two areas.

It is a pity that even so, there is still no way for "Troy" to break through the 300 million overseas box office threshold. After the "300 million" dream of the North American box office was broken, the "300 million" dream of the film's overseas box office was also completely stranded. The overseas box office of "Troy" finally stopped at 260 million US dollars. Including Australia, France and Italy, there are only eight countries and regions whose overseas box office has crossed the 10 million threshold. This has also become the failure of the film's overseas box office. Most immediate response.

It can be seen that not only in the United States, but in fact, "Troy" has been completely cold in various overseas regions, including Germany and Japan, and the results are all far below expectations. Well, this is not just a question for North American film critics, but we still need to find answers from the works.

To make matters worse, the "Chicago Tribune" broke the news that director Wolfgang Petersen said that the released version is not his most satisfactory, and the director's cut version should add at least 24 minutes of content. These twenty-four minutes of content will play a crucial role in shaping the role of Achilles.

In other words, Wolfgang's remarks are condemning Warner Bros., Plan B Pictures and Diorama Pictures for their negligence. In the end, the loss of editing rights made Wolfgang lose control of his own works.

Although these remarks were quickly clarified by Wolfgang, he said that the released version was the result of a joint decision between him and the production company. But even so, it still hasn't been able to completely eliminate the rumors, which is undoubtedly worse for "Troy" at the box office.

Of course, compared to "Troy"'s North American box office lingering, the film's overseas box office is undoubtedly a shot in the arm, which also prevents "Troy" from becoming another shipwreck tragedy after "Future Water World". It is also a "300 million" level seed player. Compared with the book cost of 175 million, "Troy" has achieved profitability!

However, this is just to fool the layman. The seemingly "big profit" results in terms of statistics will at least not embarrass Brad; but the real insiders know clearly that Warner Bros. has been able to calculate Lost, after deducting theater dividends, deducting crew fees, deducting promotional expenses, etc., the high risk brought by such a high investment in "Troy" is already shaky at this time, the only thing they can pray for is not profit, but It is to lose as little as possible.

In stark contrast to the lackluster performance of "Troy" in the overseas market, it is "the day after tomorrow" who fought more and more bravely.

After careful analysis of box office statistics in overseas markets, many experts found an answer: "The Day After Tomorrow" has completely suppressed "Troy" in major markets, especially the outstanding performance of the box office market in mainland China, making all His eyes lit up.

"The day after tomorrow" won a box office of 30 million US dollars in the mainland, which also made "the day after tomorrow" surpass the 160 million yuan/RMB/yuan of "Kung Fu", becoming the first box office in the history of Chinese/Chinese films to break through two. The works of 100 million people/renminbi/coin have proudly written eye-catching historical records. No one expected that the mainland China market would explode with such a powerful energy that it would become one of the four overseas markets of "the day after tomorrow" with a box office of 30 million US dollars, and it would be ignited almost overnight. The passionate enthusiasm of the eight major Hollywood film companies.

This land full of countless possibilities has once again entered the sights of Hollywood and Wall Street!

In addition to mainland China, "The Day After Tomorrow" has also achieved a box office of more than 30 million in Japan, the United Kingdom and Germany, among which Japan has become the largest box office in overseas regions. Although the crew did not arrive in Japan to promote it, but The Japanese market's pursuit of disaster films has continued, and in the end "The Day After Tomorrow" swept the box office of 49 million US dollars here, making it proud of the crowd.

Where there is a comparison, there is a gap. The difference between the two works of "The Day After Tomorrow" and "Troy" in the Japanese market is not only shocking, but also makes Warner Bros. It's resentment, and it's hard to find the right language to express it.

Not only in Japan, "The Day After Tomorrow" also took back 47 million US dollars in the UK, while the German box office was as high as 36 million US dollars, easily surpassing the corresponding data of "Troy", and the gap is huge, the gap The clarity is really eye-catching. In these four countries alone, "The Day After Tomorrow" has earned more than $160 million at the box office, more than half of "Troy"'s overseas total.

Crushing potential!

In addition, the box office of "The Day After Tomorrow" in nine countries and regions, including Australia, Brazil, France, Italy, Mexico, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, and Russia, has both passed the 10 million threshold. The box office data of China, Spain and South Korea all exceeded 20 million US dollars.

Mexico, in particular, broke out with the best box office figure of the year at $25 million, sparking countless discussions.

Numbers never lie, "the day after tomorrow" has achieved comprehensive suppression of "Troy" in various countries and regions around the world, from Britain to Mexico, from Germany to South Korea, from France to Japan, from Spain, Italy to Australia, and even Even Russia has completed a strong suppression, and even Egypt and South Africa have taken the lead in box office results. The outstanding performance has already made the media numb.

People are no longer discussing how strong the dark horse of "The Day After Tomorrow" is, and how exciting the box office matchup between "The Day After Tomorrow" and "Troy" is, as if the situation where "The Day After Tomorrow" suppresses "Troy" has become A habit, even a matter of course.

This is the real sign of the decline of "Troy".

In the end, "The Day After Tomorrow" was screened in 64 overseas countries and regions one after another, and achieved a box office of 430 million U.S. dollars - not only easily defeated "Troy", but also broke through the 400 million threshold strongly, becoming the 2004 No. Since then, it is the first work whose overseas box office exceeds 400 million.

It is unimaginable that "The Day After Tomorrow", which is generally considered to be the cannon fodder for the warm-up, exploded with such amazing energy, and even showed enough energy to compete with "Shrek 2", "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" and so on. Works comparable to the box office pull power. Such a box office performance is undoubtedly a hearty victory for disaster movies that have gradually declined, detonating all hot topics of discussion.

The excellent performance in the overseas market is projected to the North American market, and the duet between "The Day After Tomorrow" and "Troy" has completely become a one-man show!