Chapter 977 First Day Box Office

Since "City of Angels" and "Ace Power Spy 2" were released on the same day, Elizabeth hoped that Eric would accompany her to watch the movie two days ago, so Eric had people in downtown Santa Monica A movie theater has a screening room.

However, Elizabeth called Eric in the morning and flew to New York without saying any reason. Although Elizabeth didn't say it explicitly, Eric still guessed something. At the beginning of the year, Murdoch visited Asia, and when he came back, he still brought back a certain woman, and then, it is estimated that it has happened now.

Eric would not get involved in this kind of family affairs. Elizabeth returned to New York, and Eric did not return the reserved theater.

Some time ago, Warner's promotion of "City of Angels" was a gimmick of another "Ghost Love". Eric had not seen this film before, and he also wanted to personally evaluate the quality of this film. , so I took Natasha Henstridge with me as a way to relax after a week of work.

After leaving Firefly Studios, the two had dinner at nearby Venice Beach before heading to the cinema.

Under the guidance of a staff member of the theater, Natasha Henstridge held popcorn and drinks, followed Eric into a luxurious screening room with only more than ten seats, and saw Eric beside him. Rick seemed hesitant to stand beside the sofa seat, and Natasha asked, "Eric, what's the matter?"

"It's nothing," Eric shook his head, and walked over and sat down on the sofa.

Natasha also sat down, and Eric nodded to the staff member and said, "Let's start."

The other party responded politely and exited the theater.

The lights in the screening hall dimmed quickly. When the Warner Bros. logo appeared on the screen, Natasha asked, "Eric, Warner's movie?"

"Yeah, you don't think I only watch my own movies, do you?" Eric nodded with a smile and explained, "This is "City of Angels", played by Cage and Meg."

"Oh, I saw the poster," Natasha smiled embarrassedly and said, "I thought you would take me to watch "Ace Powers 2"."

"Why do you say that?"

Natasha thought about it, she felt that she could often see "Ace Power 2" and the other two films of the Firefly system on TV or various billboards during this time, so she said: "This movie, it seems , let's be hotter."

On the big screen, after the title of Warner Bros., the angel Seth, played by Cage, leads a little girl's soul into heaven, followed by a conversation between the two angels about touch. Angels cannot touch mortals, and mortals can't To the touch of an angel, the two live in the same space, but they are like two worlds.

Having been in Hollywood for a long time, Eric also found it difficult to appreciate a movie with a pure audience mentality. Sitting in front of the big screen, he would almost subconsciously analyze the merits of a movie.

The beginning of "City of Angels" seems a little mediocre to Eric, and the subsequent soundtrack is also a bit abrupt.

In addition, although he and Cage are good friends, Eric still complained secretly in his heart, and now Cage is playing an angel, which is too inconsistent. This guy has passed the peak of his appearance, and his hairline is like the sea at low tide. He is no longer handsome enough to make nympho girls cry in "Moonlight" ten years ago.

Afterwards, the plot and narrative rhythm of the film also seemed a bit chaotic and rushed, but after watching it for about twenty minutes, Eric was completely relieved. At least, "City of Angels" is definitely not a threat to the three films of the Firefly system.

When Eric took Natasha Henstridge to watch "City of Angels" together, in Chicago in the middle of the United States, Michael Wilmington, the resident film critic of "Chicago Tribune", also bought a ticket to enter "Ace Big". The screening room of Power Spy 2.

Michael Wilmington would never have bought a ticket to watch such a spoof movie if he hadn't submitted a review of "Ace of Power 2" to the "Chicago Tribune".

He has always preferred literary films.

Also, Michael Wilmington was in a really bad mood today, because during the day he watched "City of Angels" with high expectations, only to be disappointed.

In the early stage of the publicity process, Warner Bros. wanted to create another "Ghost Love"-style romance film, but after watching "City of Angels", Michael Wilmington was very impressed with the film. If there is only one word to describe the evaluation, it is mediocre.

Whether it's a script with no bright spots, or a tragic ending that is deliberately created, it makes people feel very uncomfortable. As for the idea of ​​angels and mortals, after "The Unfinished Man", this kind of idea is definitely not an innovation in Hollywood.

Thinking back to that time, Cage in "The Ghost Story" and Meg Ryan in "When Harry Met Sally", how amazing it was.

But now, Michael Wilmington feels that "City of Angels" does not show the charm of two Hollywood A-list stars, which is absolutely a great waste.

Without buying snacks such as popcorn, and without bringing a notebook, Michael Wilmington sat down at random in the screening room. He was prejudiced in his heart, so he didn't take "Ace Powers" too seriously. 2", as for the movie review to be submitted, just write it down later.

Before the lights went down, Michael Wilmington still looked around. Although it was in the bustling downtown of Chicago, over 80% of the attendance in this screening room, which could accommodate about 200 people, was still made by Michael Wilmington. Dayton was a little surprised.

However, thinking about the large-scale publicity of Firefly, Fox and MGM in the early stage at no cost, Michael Wilmington is relieved.

As a film critic, he naturally knows the film industry very well. In recent years, advertising marketing has become more and more important in the film industry. Accordingly, the release cycle of films has become shorter and shorter. Most commercial films have recovered more than 70% of the total North American total in the first four weeks of film release. box office.

Due to this change, there have been fewer and fewer cases of relying on word-of-mouth to create box office miracles in the past few years, and the threshold for Hollywood film production has become higher and higher. Many people feel that this development trend will eventually kill the newly rejuvenated The vibrant Hollywood film industry, but this industry trend is obviously not something that can be easily changed.

With these things in mind, in the screening room, the screening of "Ace of Power 2" has already begun.

The first glamorous heroine, Elizabeth Hurley, still made a cameo at the beginning, turning Mike Myers naked out of the hotel room as a female robot and running around. The film still uses the kind of hilarious blocking technique in the first film, and the various nasty and interesting postures made the audience in the theater burst into laughter.

As a film critic who has read countless films, Michael Wilmington is well aware of all kinds of spoofs in the film, but the instinctive disgust in his heart makes it difficult for him to feel this film.

Watching patiently for dozens of minutes, Michael Wilmington was considering whether to leave the stage early. At this time, there was a continuous spoof scene in the film in which the heroine kept taking out all kinds of small things from the hero somewhere. , once again let a series of laughter erupt in the theater.

Michael Wilmington looked around and recalled the dozens of minutes he had just spent. It seemed that an average of two or three minutes in the theater would cause a burst of laughter.

Suddenly giving up the idea of ​​leaving the stage early, Michael Wilmington sat in his seat with peace of mind, but instead of focusing too much on the screen, he focused on the audience around him.

The uninterrupted laughter lasted for a full ninety minutes. Even after the subtitles were raised, the audience did not get up and leave immediately, because the tidbits accompanying the ending subtitles were still hilarious.

"Haha, it's too funny, maybe we can take time to watch it again."

"Borgy Xiaosi is still so hot."

"Peter and the others didn't watch the movie together. It was definitely a mistake."

"That Luben scene was really messed up, and I don't know if it will really be exposed during filming."

"Mike Myers is a fucking genius."

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Walking out of the screening room along the flow of people, and listening to the chattering comments of the people around him, Michael Wilmington also seemed thoughtful.

It is still difficult for him to give a positive evaluation to this film. Compared with the first film, this time it just fired a lot of old memes again. Still, it can make the audience laugh, at least, better than the embarrassing, even embarrassing films of "City of Angels."

All the way home, Michael Wilmington opened his laptop and was about to write a movie review of "Ace of Power: Impossible 2". When he remembered something, he closed the document, opened the browser, and landed on the movie section of the Yahoo portal.

Found the page of "Ace Power 2", Michael Wilmington glanced at the general evaluation of the film.

Yahoo Movies' evaluation system for movies is quite novel in the eyes of many people, and it is divided into professional movie critic ratings and general audience ratings.

Everyone knows that Yahoo Portal is actually the online media platform of the Firefly system. Therefore, the fairness of this portal has always been questioned.

The critics' score for Power Loss 2 is only 5.1, which may be a bit high in Michael Wilmington's opinion.

Because it is an emerging media, many well-known film critics have not been stationed in Yahoo Movies, and Michael Wilmington has also received an invitation from Yahoo Portal, and he has also not been stationed. Professional film critics of Yahoo Movies either belong to the media within the Firefly system, or they are not well-known. Whether these people can rate a film without prejudice is, in Michael Wilmington's view, simply impossible.

Looking at the back, the general audience score of "Ace of Power 2", oh, Yahoo Portal calls it the "Popcorn Index", is as high as 7.6.

Even though it had been expected in the theater, Michael Wilmington felt that the number was a bit high. If he was asked to rate, he would only give 3 points for the professional rating of the film, and as for the so-called popcorn index, he could only give a passing rating of 6 points.

I looked at the rating of "City of Angels" again. The critics' rating was 6.3 at this time, which just passed. The popcorn index is even lower than that of "Ace Power 2", only 7.3.

Although he also doesn't like "City of Angels", Michael Wilmington feels that the so-called popcorn index of "City of Angels" should theoretically not be lower than that of a vulgar spoof like "Ace of Power 2" .

Questioning the impartiality of Yahoo's portal, Michael Wilmington doesn't feel that his own prejudice is wrong.

So he found several other movie review websites. Although the scores of these websites are obviously different, the overall movie review trend is basically the same. Film critics don't like "Ace of Power 2" and reluctantly approve of "City of Angels", while ordinary audiences obviously prefer "Ace of Power 2", but they are not very impressed with "City of Angels".

Since the appearance of films, the situation in which film critics dominate the word-of-mouth of a film has not changed in North America. This is also the source of Michael Wilmington's sense of superiority in the face of "Ace Power 2".

But at this time, after flipping through several movie websites, Michael Wilmington suddenly felt a faint threat.

How can ordinary people dominate the word-of-mouth of a movie? This is completely destroying the jobs of traditional film critics.

Because of this instinctive revulsion and vigilance, Michael Wilmington's sense of identity with the rise of "Ace of Power 2" also disappeared.

Re-opening the document, Michael Wilmington began to pound on the film review of "Ace of Power 2": It seems that Mike Wells will never be able to get rid of the influence of "Saturday Night Live" on him, he must not Not to mention, "Ace Powers 2" is another shit and piss movie that has been piled up with all kinds of rotten bridges...

Neither "City of Angels" nor "Ace Power 2" are blockbuster movies. Although both film companies have arranged premieres for competition or promotion, the film did not have a midnight show. .

So it wasn't until Saturday morning that reviews of both films went viral.

Different from the original score of 7 points or more, after the large-scale release on Friday, the critics' evaluation of "City of Angels" has obviously begun to decline, and the overall score can only barely maintain a passing line of more than 6 points.

In comparison, "Ace Powers 2" is much more "simple", and the media film review directly fell to the level of a 5-point bad film.

However, although the North American media basically do not recognize the word-of-mouth of the two films, the first-day box office data of the two films surprised everyone, especially the first-day box office of "Ace of Power 2".

Joe Ross, president of 20th Century Fox in Beverly Hills, woke up early in the morning by the ringing of his phone. He even thought he was still dreaming when he heard his assistant report the first-day box office data of "Ace Spy 2". After confirming it several times, Joe Ross was able to believe it and quickly spread the news.

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ps: I made a female protagonist mix cut and put it on station b, search for '[European and American group portraits] those flowers', that video is.