Hollywood's first behemoth of 2013 landed with a giant thud.
好莱坞2013年首部巨制出师不利。
'Jack the Giant Slayer' opened to $28 million in U.S. and Canada ticket sales, according to an estimate from distributor Warner Bros. That was a weak start for a movie that cost nearly $200 million to make.
据发行方华纳兄弟(Warner Bros.)估计，《巨人杀手杰克》(Jack the Giant Slayer)在美国和加拿大上映首周末的票房收入仅为2,800万美元。对于一部制作成本近两亿美元的大片来说，这无疑是个弱势开局。
The revisionist fable kicked off a month crowded with costly movies seeking global blockbuster status.
这个带有修正主义色彩的神话传说影片揭开了本月序幕。这个月云集了多部有志在全球范围内造成轰动的高成本电影。
Hoping to follow in the footsteps of late-winter hits such as 'The Hunger Games,' Hollywood studios scheduled three other movies this month with budgets at well over $100 million each: 'Oz the Great and Powerful,' 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation,' and 'The Croods.'
由于希望追随《饥饿游戏》(The Hunger Games)等去年冬末大片的脚步，好莱坞电影公司计划本月上映《奥兹大法师》(Oz the Great and Powerful)、《特种部队2：复仇》(G.I. Joe: Retaliation)和《克鲁德一家》(The Croods)这三部影片，每部片子的预算都远超1亿美元。
In good news for those releases, 'Jack' turned out to be feeble competition. The opening was worse than that of last year's infamous flop 'John Carter,' and only slightly better than 'Battleship,' though both of those had even higher budgets.
对于上述影片来说，好消息是实践证明，《巨人杀手杰克》的竞争力很差。该片上映的首周末票房还不如去年一败涂地的《异星战场》(John Carter)，相比《超级战舰》(Battleship)也只是略好而已，尽管那两部影片的预算甚至更高。
The pint-size receipts for 'Jack' likely will mean big losses for Time Warner Inc.'s Warner and Legendary Pictures LLC, which paid for half the production costs.
《巨人杀手杰克》惨淡的票房可能意味着时代华纳公司(Time Warner Inc.)旗下的华纳兄弟与传奇影业公司(Legendary Pictures LLC)将面临巨大损失。传奇影业承担了该片一半的制作费用。
Opening-day grosses Friday were so low that most people in Hollywood had expected 'Jack' to finish the weekend with less than $25 million. But in a sliver of good news, ticket sales jumped a higher-than-average 56% on Saturday, a sign of positive word-of-mouth.
《巨人杀手杰克》上周五上映首日的票房表现非常糟糕，令好莱坞大多数人以为该片首周末票房收入不会超过2,500万美元。但好消息是，此片票房周六出现了56%的高于平均水平的涨幅，这表明该片口碑良好。
Two other new films had unimpressive starts, though they cost far less. Relativity Media LLC's raunchy comedy, '21 and Over,' opened to $9 million at the box office. 'The Last Exorcism: Part II,' from CBS Corp.'s CBS Films, opened to $8 million. That was less than half the $20 million opening of its predecessor, a surprise horror hit in 2010.
另两部新片的开局表现乏善可陈，不过其成本也小得多。电影制作公司Relativity Media LLC出品的蹩脚喜剧《年满21》(21 and Over)上映首周末入账900万美元。哥伦比亚广播公司(CBS Corp.)旗下CBS Films出品的《最后一次驱魔2》(The Last Exorcism: Part II) 上映首周末斩获800万美元。相比2010年大获成功的恐怖片黑马、其首部系列影片2,000万美元的开画成绩，《最后一次驱魔2》的表现还不及前者的一半。
Meanwhile, 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,' from Warner and Metro-Goldwn-Mayer Inc., became the 15th movie ever to have grossed more than $1 billion world-wide. The last film to join that club was the James Bond sequel 'Skyfall,' which was released in November.
与此同时，华纳兄弟和米高梅公司(Metro-Goldwn-Mayer Inc.)共同发行的《霍比特人：意外旅程》(The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)成为史上第15部全球票房收入超过10亿美元的影片。上一部跻身10亿美元票房俱乐部的是去年11月发行的007系列影片《大破天幕杀机》(Skyfall)。
Ben Fritz
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