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After "Crisis in the Air" was released, it was unsurprisingly ridiculed by film critics -

"The film seems to have broken through the old routines of traditional aerial disaster movies, but the plot is not as good as the old routine designs of films such as "Prison in the Air" and "No. 1 in the Air"."

"I don't know what I want to talk about in this film, and I don't know where there can be such a stupid villain. The end of the solo scene is even less eye-catching, forcibly lowering wisdom, rounding the field, and highlighting the heroine. The filming is too blunt and suspenseful. sheet."

"Judy's participation in "Crisis in the Air" was her worst choice."

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As soon as the new film was released, it encountered a crisis of criticism.

And compared to "Dead Silence", which is sought after by some fans, even if many viewers are very popular with Judy Foster, after all, she rarely appears in the spotlight except for filming, but she is really incompetent.

Therefore, after the first day's release and the midnight show, "Crisis in the Air" received $15.03 million, which is not only inferior to the niche horror themes "Death" and "Exorcism" in the same period, and the box office boss in the latter part of September last year. The $47.6 million in "Shark Story" is a far cry.

Even so, by virtue of the freshness of the new film premiere, "Aerial Crisis" still holds the top spot at the box office, but the gold content of this top spot is really a flat devaluation.As a result, the film market fell by 26 percentage points compared with the total box office in the first half of September.

After all, "Dead Silence", which was screened in the third week, had fallen out of the top three and only won 6.87 million. "Exorcism" was directly downgrade in North America.

And this week, there are actually a total of three new works in the North American film market to start the battle, but they are obviously not even the collapse of the "Crisis in the Air" competition.

Among them, there is a sci-fi movie "Firefly" adapted from a series of TV series, which ranked second on the daily rankings with a score of 10.14 million US dollars; there is a new Hollywood favorite, relying on "Sin City", the beautiful vase Jesse that is getting louder and louder The thriller action film "Blue Sea Tracking" starring Kar-Alba, won over 7 million and won third place. The fifth is the sports inspirational movie "Ultimate One Shot", which was released with the help of Disney, which told the theme of golf, which won 6.35 million box office. .

Time entered the second week, that is, after October, "Crisis in the Air" relied on a little resilience and desperate propaganda to continue to lead the North American box office market and win the championship in a series of new films that compared with each other.

Ten days after its release, "Crisis in the Air" had a total North American box office of 46.2 million. Although the National Flight Attendants Alliance called on the media and fans to boycott the film on the grounds that the plot vilified the image of the flight attendants, it seems that the crew and the media are arguing with each other. "Crisis in the Air" has received special attention.

I have to say that there may be the shadow of Bowei International. If you can't make a good reputation, you will make a bad reputation.

Anyway, anyway, it must be better than not having a reputation.

People in the industry know this. It doesn't matter how you fight with words, it doesn't matter who gets the money.

Obviously, with such a hype, the final box office of "Crisis in the Air" can increase by 10 to 20 million, and it will not make a loss business.

As for "Dead Silence", because the horror theme is naturally not suitable for long-term screenings, in the nearly one-month schedule, the total accumulated in North America has passed 120 million, and now it is earning less than 2 million box office every day. It is estimated that the painting will be around a few days ago.

On October 8th, Lehman saw the top with a haggard face at Firefly Pictures.

"what happened to you?"

As a studio partner who can provide film sources, Lehman asked with concern.

Because he looked like he hadn't rested for a few days, his eyes were bloodshot.

Top shook his head and smiled barely, "I'm fine. I just wrote a script and want to show it to you."

"Do you want to invest?"

The top did not deny, and handed it over with the script with the prepared shooting plan.

Lehman flipped through it, and roughly understood the film's creative ideas.

Well, this guy is still going to make a fantasy movie.

The background is the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship during the Franco period.

In fact, after finishing filming the first four episodes of the first season of The Walking Dead, Gyro went back to his hometown to rest for a few months, and the filming idea of ​​this movie was born during this time.

In 2001, he filmed a "Ghost House", which was about a strange type of work in the Spanish Civil War orphanage, and this "Pan's Labyrinth" was re-created on the basis of "Ghost House".

But after returning to Los Angeles, Gyro felt that it was too weird to change its original intention-because the performance of "Ghost Boy Academy" was not as good as the works of recent years, so he wanted to write it in the style of a fairy tale fable.

During this period, he read many books such as "One Thousand and One Nights" and "Grim's Fairy Tales", deeply influenced by the illustrations inside, and opened up his vision.

So, in the end, this work has become unsuitable for children to watch, but it is indeed an evil version of "Alice in Wonderland" created by fairy tales.

Lehman also sees the seriousness of the spinning top instead of the playful entertainment like in "Hellboy". The design of many scenes is very serious, with high emotional connotation and critical in nature.

In other words, in this work, the top is intended to be a little deeper, and it can bring the audience to think about the high pressure and harm the people have suffered under war and dictatorship.

After reading the script, Lehman recollected it lightly before saying: "I invested in this project. I am willing to support it whether it is funding or distribution. What do you mean?"

Top can feel his attention and concern from Lehman's attitude. To be honest, he really spent a lot of effort on this work.

On preparation, he revised three versions before the final script was finalized.

In parallel time and space, Gyro used the project to find many people but failed to attract investment. The most important reason is that this guy does not intend to talk in English, but respects the background, shoots in Spanish, and makes a foreign film.

In this way, how can Hollywood studios be willing to risk investment.

In the end, his good friend Alfonso Cuarón strongly supported him. Not only did he serve as a project producer, but he also helped to attract funders with personal connections. He also distributed the funds to three or five independent studios. The idea of ​​losing money is the final product.

In fact, Gyro is worthy of a monster fantasy professional. This movie does not invest much. In order to save money, the actor sought is even less famous, but he won the Palme d’Or in one fell swoop, and subsequently won quite a few Oscars. Business enters the field of awards and literature.

Everyone knows that this ghost has a quirk. After all, he has been very different from others in his hobbies. It can be said that he is a very persistent person.

And now, he insists on insisting that the language setting of the movie cannot be changed. For English or something, watch the subtitles-completely not aiming at respecting the audience in the English-speaking area.