Hollywood Hunter

Between the Thanksgiving and Christmas stalls, "Piano Love" produced by Gaomen Films officially opened on December 6 in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, etc. with the size of 21 screens.

This work, which won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival in September, received almost one-sided praise. The film's comprehensive score was as high as 9.2 points, which became another high-score masterpiece after the "Toy Story" at the end of the year.

Roger Albert, a well-known American film critic, does not hesitate to rate this film as'the most unusual and unforgettable film I have ever seen'.

After the first week's screening, "Piano Love" finally received $1.55 million in seven days, and the museum reached $73,000.

Another grand prize film, "Grand Canyon", released at the same time as "Piano Love", produced by Fox Pictures and directed by Hollywood's well-known screenwriter and director Lawrence Kasdan, describes the problem of racial conflict caused by a black man mistakenly entering the white community. The film has only two smaller screens, and it is entirely for the nomination qualification of the awards season. It won the box office of $190,000 with the two screens opened in the first week.

However, as a prize-winning film, the film's reputation as a film critic is only average. The overall score is only 7.6 points. Compared with 9.2 points in "Piano Love", it is obviously difficult to make a difference in the award season.

Friday, December 13.

Although in theory this week is still an intermittent period between two major stages, but if you look at the size of the film released, the Christmas stage is considered to be opened in advance.

Because this week, Steven Spielberg's "Captain Hawk" was officially released, and at the same time, he also painted "Assassination of Kennedy" produced by Paramount Pictures.

Columbia Pictures has great expectations for "Captain Hawke". The final production budget of the film has reached 70 million US dollars, and the size of the opening screen is 2197.

However, with the opening of the film, the word of mouth of Captain Hawk broke down directly, and the media score fell to 2.8 all the way. "Variety" magazine criticized the film for being "messy and unrestrained." "Newsweek" Even more cynically commenting on watching "Captain Hawke" is like "watching an 80,000 pound dwarf dancing".

In the three days of painting, the first weekend box office of Captain Hawk was only 13.52 million US dollars, which was far below the expectations of Columbia Pictures.

In the original space and time, "Captain Hawke" North American box office eventually exceeded 100 million US dollars, relying on the global box office of more than 200 million US dollars and subsequent revenue, this film barely allowed Columbia Pictures to recover the cost.

However, this time, this blockbuster bomb with poor reputation won't have such good luck anymore.

Because in the following week, another new film of the high-profile DC movie universe "The Flash" is about to be released.

In the memory of "Assassination of Kennedy", which was drawn at the same time as "Captain Hawk", in the memory of Simon, this new film by Oliver Stone should have been produced by Warner, but because most of Warner's attention at the end of this year's schedule is focused on " On Flash, the project was abandoned at the beginning.

Compared with "Captain Hawke", the situation of "Assassination of Kennedy" is much better. This slightly alternative historical drama film has received an excellent media score of 8.3 after opening.

At the box office, the screen size of "Assassination of Kennedy" was 1,164. The box office in the first three days of the weekend reached US$5.22 million. This is unsatisfactory.

You know, because of the success of Oliver Stone’s previous films, and the joining of Kevin Costner in this film, the production budget for "Assassination of Kennedy" is as high as $40 million.Although it did not reach the level of "Captain Hawke", the $40 million budget is definitely a big production.

In the first three days of the weekend, US$5.22 million was received at the box office. Compared with the US$40 million production budget and about US$20 million in advertising expenses, if the film cannot follow an excellent long-term follow-up, Paramount may be fired again. .

In the original timeline, the box office of "Assassination of Kennedy" was very good.

However, this time, no one is sure.

It is also because, on December 20, "The Flash" is about to be released.

Such a highly-anticipated heavyweight bombshell lay ahead, and other films in the same period almost felt a sense of sorrow.

The first two works of the DC movie universe are really too powerful.

Moreover, according to the internal news from Warner Bros., the filming effect of "The Flash" is also amazing.

After intensive propaganda in the past two months, the Los Angeles premiere of "The Flash" was held on December 18.

Because of his confidence in the film, Warner mentioned the premiere at the same standard as the summer film "Batman: The Dark Knight", and still chose to be a superstar in the Los Angeles Citizens' Auditorium enough to accommodate two thousand people.

Dumei Point Estate.

At about five o'clock in the afternoon, Janet finally took care of her makeup and walked downstairs in the company of the two AB women with her skirt.

When Simon in the living room downstairs turned his head on the sofa and looked over, the woman was wearing a burgundy silk dress she always liked, a small black high-heeled dress, shaggy fluffy blonde hair, and shoulder-exposed skin because of her pregnancy. More and more white and moist, people can not help but have a urge to bite.

Yingying fluttered to Simon's side, Janet bent down beside the sofa and smiled Yingying: "Little boy, do you want to take a bite?"

This tone is the same as before.

With a smile on Simon's face, he looked up and kissed Janet who had come over, and said, "Let's go."

"Well, I said goodbye to Moore first."

Janet said as she walked to the crib next to the floor-to-ceiling window in the living room. Girl D Deborah was guarding a little guy who was sleeping in the crib.

Compared with the ugly appearance that was inevitable when he was just born, in two weeks, the little guy has restored the delicate appearance that the baby should have, and the shadows of Simon and Janet can be seen more or less in the eyebrows.

After looking at the baby by the crib together for a while, and explaining the three ABD girls, Simon and Janet drove to the city.

In the evening, Los Angeles was somewhat congested. Until 5:40, Simon and his two men arrived outside the Holy Civic Auditorium in the city center. The premiere started at 6 o'clock. The previous hour was a red carpet time, although there was no red carpet like Oscar. Scale, but the lively battle here is no less than the Oscars.

Simon just got off the car at the entrance of the red carpet, and there was a cheer of surprise in his ear.

Unexpectedly, he wanted to grab the limelight of the protagonist of the camera. Simon smiled on the face and nodded slightly to the media and fans on both sides. Without a pause, he entered the auditorium.

After taking pictures in front of the photo wall, Warner Bros. CEO Terry Semel has already greeted him.

Everyone beckoned into the backstage of the auditorium, here is also star-studded.

Many stars such as Clint Eastwood, Barbara Streisand, Cher, Don Johnson, Melanie Griffith, etc. came here to support.

Of course, Adam Baldwin, Valerie Galino, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and other main creators of the "Batman" series will not be absent, and Famique of "Wonder Woman" will not be absent. · The founders of Jensen, Linda Hamilton and Joanna Cassidy are all here.

In contrast, it is George Cosmatos, the actor Jason Jedrick, and the heroine Robin White, who appear to be a bit of an eye-catcher among the big crowds.

Of course, everyone understands that, considering the popularity of Adam Baldwin and Valerie Galino before the "Batman" series, several of the main creators' "unremarkable" will be completely changed in the next few weeks.

After a brief greeting, the six o'clock approached, and everyone began to enter the hall of the auditorium.

After everyone sat down and the host made a speech, the screening officially began.

The first "Flash" story mainly tells the origin of this superhero.

Simon didn’t like the old narrative mode that started in childhood, so the original "Batman: The Wartime" opened the story directly from Bruce Wayne to a superhero, and the facts proved that this was very success.

"Wonder Woman", which is in the later stage, is also not intended to involve Diana Prince's childhood.

However, in this "Flash", the story must also return to some "legal".

Similar to Bruce Wayne’s parents being killed in the alley, the childhood shadow of the flashman Barry Allen witnessing his mother being killed as a child is also a topic that this superhero can’t bypass.

However, out of his instinctive resistance to childhood narrative, Simon still made Barry Allen's childhood experience into an opening story wedge.

By the time the feature film begins, Barry Allen is an adult.

The story continues most of the basic settings of the comics. Barry Allen is an expert in physical evidence technology in the Central City Police Department.

Of course, in order to adapt to changes in the movie version is essential.

The rough plot of this origin story tells that Barry Allen, an expert in physical evidence technology at the police station, accidentally encountered a laboratory accident in a collaboration with Professor Albert Swan. Obtained super speed ability in the accident.

However, Professor Swan was paralyzed by the accident.

Barry Allen entrusted Professor Swann with his superpowers, trying to find the reason, and at the same time dealing with the'climate wizard' who also gained superpowers because of this accident.

As the story progressed, Allen successfully defeated and arrested the'climate wizard', but unexpectedly discovered that he had fallen into another conspiracy unconsciously.

It turned out that Professor Swan, who was paralyzed on the surface, actually also obtained super speed super powers.

It's just that because of the accusations and troubles made by Professor Swan after the laboratory accident, all the superpowers have an anti-social mind.

In summary, there are three lines in this origin story.

The first is Barry Allen's life and childhood, including the unsolved case of the mother's death and the father who is still in prison.

The second is Barry Allen’s decision as a superhero attribute of the Flash, which was obtained in the confrontation with the climate wizard.

The third is the confrontation between Barry Allen and Professor Albert Swann, who hit the enemy "Reverse Lightning".

The first and third day story lines are actually closely related. Professor Swan was the'killer' who killed Barry Allen's mother. This reverse lightning unexpectedly returned to the past in a duel with Allen , So created Allen's childhood tragedy.

For the audience in the hall of the Holy Citizen, the three story lines intertwined are not complicated and very clear.

However, most people's attention is attracted by the special effects of this "Flash".

In the "Superman" series that began in 1978, Clark Kent flew around the earth and reversed the "special effects" of time. It was so rough that it was terrible.

However, this "Flash", with the technical support of Daenerys special effects company, the film not only perfectly shows Barry Allen's high-speed motion scene, but also made a similar to the original "X-Men" The kind of slow-motion footage of Kuaiyin.

Of course, the specific effect cannot reach the level of twenty years later. However, in the eyes of the audience in this era, the stunning degree is no less than the visual impact of the previous two "Batman" series.

When the final battle on the big screen ended and the subtitles rose, suddenly, thousands of viewers in the hall of the Sacred Citizen realized that the two-hour screening ended like this.

Simon has always felt that the most important criterion for evaluating the quality of a movie is to see whether the audience experiences the passage of time during the movie watching.

If a movie allows the audience to see from beginning to end without even knowing it, or even forgets the coke popcorn in hand, then this project will be hard to fail.

On the contrary, if a film always lets the audience play, and other ideas come to mind, or even give up the idea of ​​watching movies, the box office prospects of this film can be seen.

This "Flash" may not reach the height of two "Batman", but in terms of plot, the fluency of one go is absolutely beyond.Coupled with the popularity of the "Flash" IP itself and the high-speed special effects of the movie, there is basically no possibility of failure.

The subtitles proceed to the end, the customary plot eggs.

This time, the eggs were played by the catwoman played by Valerie Gallino.

The female superhero, who is also justified and evil, has a tired look on the big screen. It seems that she has also experienced battles, and the catwoman uniforms have been damaged.

In Barry Allen's surprised and puzzled eyes, Catwoman didn't talk too much nonsense, and said straightforwardly: "Hey, livelihood, I know you are special, so now some guys need your help."

The words ended, and the big screen was completely dark.

For core fans, just this simple interaction is enough to be exciting.

The Flash and Catwoman in the comics have encountered, of course, but the encounter between the Catwoman and the Flash, who has become one of DC's own goddesses, and thinking about the progress of the follow-up story, it is too exciting.

Even people who don’t know much about comics, have seen the first two Batman, and are full of expectations for the DC superhero contract.