Schindler's List was originally scheduled to expand in just 250 theaters in its fourth week, but in the past two weeks, the situation has changed and Universal Pictures has been caught off guard.

The release of 250 theaters is obviously unable to meet the audience brought by this storm of public opinion, even if all the audiences flock to these theaters, even if the theaters are broadcast 24 hours a day, there is no way to satisfy those audiences who pour into the theaters, from the third week, some audiences have continued to ask Universal Pictures to speed up the pace of expansion, and even a petition signed by 10,000 people was sent to Universal Pictures, expressing the sincere wishes of the audience, which made Universal Pictures have to temporarily change the expansion plan.

After no new movies were released last week, this week's North American film market ushered in three new films with large-scale premieres, which also squeezed the expansion space of "Schindler's List", so that Universal Pictures' original plan to expand directly in 1,000 theaters had to slow down the pace of expansion, and finally held an expansion for the film in 700 theaters, barely able to meet the audience who flocked to theaters because of the frenzy of public opinion, which also made this week's box office competition present an open competition situation.

This week, two sequel films premiered in more than 2,000 theaters, namely Wayne (S.World). 2)" and "Sister is also crazy 2 (sister. act。 2：back。 i)", the predecessors of both films have achieved very impressive box office results, and the sequel to the interim producers undoubtedly have strong confidence, and their confidence can be seen in the wide range of premieres.

Another film released on a large scale is a work based on a true story, "Gronimer: An American Saga" (Geroeri. legend)", the film was chosen to be released in 1,600 theaters, directed by Walter Hill (er. Hill) directed the classic "The Long Rider (the. long。 Riders)", "Alien 3aiien3)" can also be seen in the screenwriter column, but the actor is lacking. The only thing worth the media hype is probably the competition between Joseph Gibbs's actors, because Matt Da 'Mon' participated in the film.

In fact, Joseph is still not the top agent in the circle, but the two actors Nicolas Cage and Hugo Lancaster have indeed won Joseph a lot of attention. This time, Matt's appearance was the first job he won under Joseph, and it was also the second official role of his career as an actor.

Generally speaking, it is very normal for actors under the same agent to compete, and the more duels there are, the more 'outstanding' the agent's ability is. But this time Matt met Hugo, who climbed a new peak in his career, and it had to be suffocating, but the release scale of "Gronimer: An American Legend" was exceeded, and the outcome was still unknown.

On December 13, 1993, when the North American box office charts came out in the second week of December 1993, the media was flooded with exclamations, an unexpected but reasonable result

"Schindler's List" expanded in 700 theaters, and swept $13.3 million over the weekend, with a single box office of $19,000

That's almost an unrepeatable inversion for a film that's been in theaters for four weeks, more than three times the million-dollar box office last Thursday, and such a box office increase has made almost every theater red-eyed. In fact, this weekend's box office is not inferior even to the opening box office of many movies, you know, in the early 90s, there were not so many works that could sweep the 10 million level at the weekend box office. This also sets off the incredible box office blowout of "Schindler's List" this week.

But, for reason, over the past three weeks, Schindler's List has had an almost limitless impact, not just for Jews or for audiences interested in war films, which have reached the level of much commercial film publicity.

In particular, President William Clinton's recommendation made "Schindler's List" have a different flavor in the eyes of the public, and at the same time, the promotion of the film around the world has been unprecedentedly smooth. Among them, Germany, Poland, Israel and other countries can't wait for the release of "Schindler's List", which is definitely a situation that makes Universal Pictures overjoyed.

And the film's strategy of promoting it under the name of "Spielberg's most artistic, 'sexual' and commercial 'sexual' work ever" obviously hit the audience's excitement, not to mention the tireless praise of sociologists and professional film critics for the theme of the film and Hugo's performance.

Even movie-dismissive viewers will want to go to the cinema and see it for themselves, and then seek more excuses to critique the film.

Under the stinging of various objective and subjective factors, "Schindler's List" unexpectedly ushered in a volcanic explosion at the box office in the fourth week of its release, and the weekend box office of $13.3 million also made the film bring its cumulative box office to $25 million four weeks after its release

"Schindler's List" is only a small-cost system with an investment of no more than 22 million, but in the process of expanding the screening step by step after the screening, it took the lead in exceeding the standard of book cost, and the next film is more hopeful to achieve good results in major award ceremonies, it is conceivable that the income of the film is definitely far beyond expectations.

Recalling that Steven was in the process of preparing for this work, major film companies were hesitant, and Universal Pictures even repeatedly cut Steven's budget for this, and the sentence "Instead of making this movie, it is better to donate the money to the Holocaust Museum" completely "angered" Steven, so that Steven refused his salary in anger, and relied on his appeal to directly compress the cost of the film to about 20 million. Now, the film has achieved such an amazing success that it has made Universal's position a little awkward, after all, Steven is not a small director who can be bullied by anyone.

While everyone was lamenting the incredible miracle that Schindler's List had done this week, the National Jewish Association announced a statement by Steven Spielberg that Steven would use all the royalties he received for the film, as well as the additional honoraria promised by Universal Pictures, to form a foundation dedicated to documenting and preserving the written and recorded testimonies of survivors of the systematic genocides and massacres around the world, including the massacre.

Apparently, Universal Pictures also realized that it had made a mistake and paid Steven more, but it was an insult to Steven, and he did not hesitate to set up the Holocaust Foundation (SHCAH) with all proceeds. In an interview, Steven said, "This is my conscience, and I can't take any of the proceeds from this movie, otherwise it will become blood money." ”

In the face of Steven's reaction, Universal's public relations department "door" naturally did not sit still, and they donated two million dollars to the American Holocaust Museum in the name of the company, and said that this was a part of the heart of the entire crew. At the same time, Universal Pictures also announced the salaries of the cast and crew, Steven did not take a penny, and the three leading actors only took a million dollars as a payment for symbolic 'sex', and all three leading actors donated this part of their salary to Steven's newly established Havoc Foundation.

Originally, people were still talking about how much Steven, Hugo and others earned because of the film "Schindler's List", which was obviously another successful investment, but the enthusiasm was directly extinguished. Many reporters were even more surprised by Hugo's ultra-low salary, Hugo joined the crew for only one million dollars, which was really unexpected by many people.

It must be known that Hugo's current worth has easily exceeded 10 million salaries, and even when he took over the filming of "Schindler's List", it should be at the level of 6 million. It can be seen that the rumors that Hugo only accepts remuneration that have been circulating in the past few months have once again proved his absurd 'sex'.

The box office explosion of "Schindler's List" obviously exceeded the predictions of countless experts, and it completely 'disrupted' the North American weekend box office charts in the second week of December.

The three newly released films were treated coldly, and "Schindler's List" counterattacked to win this week's weekend champion "Fighting Wisdom Multistar", which was only behind the number of $150,000 in second place; "My Slender 'Milk' Dad", which has entered the third week of its release, has strong stamina and holds the third place. This week, all three works exceeded 10 million at the weekend box office, which is a rare outbreak in December.

"Nuns Are Crazy 2" and "Gronimer: An American Legend" are not satisfactory and can only be ranked fourth and fifth, respectively.

The counterattack of "Schindler's List" is undoubtedly the biggest highlight of this week, and it has also become the most true and direct portrayal of the frenzy of public opinion in the whole society. Another focus this week is "Farewell to Love", which is unfortunately not good news.

Caught in the malicious hype of "Farewell to Love", although it tried to further use the expansion to attract the audience, but the audience did not buy it at all, the expansion not only failed to play any role, but the box office plummeted by nearly 50 percent, and only earned $700,000 at the box office in three days over the weekend, and the total box office accumulated 13 million in six weeks of release.

This is definitely bad news for "Farewell to Love", the book cost of 15 million is almost within reach, but it almost declares the dream shattered. The gap between these two million is almost an insurmountable gap.

Now, the only hope for "Farewell Love" is to win at the Golden Globes, Oscars and other awards, and then look to the video rental market to recoup costs rather than make a profit. Under such tremendous pressure and blows, Columbia Pictures reluctantly announced that "Farewell to Lovers", which had only been released for six weeks, was taken offline ahead of schedule.