I’m in Hollywood Chapter 977: First day Box Office
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Because "City of Angels" and "Austin Powers2" were on the same day, Elizabeth hoped that Eric could accompany himself to watch this movie two days ago, so Eric made a movie theater in a Santa Monica urban area.
It's just that in the morning, Elizabeth called Eric, without any reason, he flew to New York in a hurry. Although Elizabeth did not make it clear, Eric still guessed something. At the beginning of Murdoch's visit to Asia at the beginning of the year, he still brought a woman back when he came back. Then, it is estimated that something happened.
Eric will not be mixed for this kind of housework. Elizabeth returned to New York, and Eric has not returned the booked screening room.
Warner's promotion of "City of Angels" some time ago played a gimmick of another "Ghost". Eric had not seen this film before, he also wanted to personally evaluate the quality of this film, so just Bring Natasha Henschy together and relax as a week's work.
Leaving Firefly Studios, the two had dinner at nearby Venice Beach before rushing to the cinema.
Under the guidance of a staff member of the theater, Natasha · Hunschweich took popcorn and drinks, followed Eric into a luxurious screening hall with more than ten seats, and saw the Eric standing beside him The sofa seat seemed a little dazed, Natasha asked: "Eric, what's wrong?"
"Nothing," Eric shook his head and walked over to sit on the sofa.
Natasha also sat down, and Eric nodded to the staff member and said, "Go ahead."
The other responded politely, and then exited the screening room.
The lights in the screening room quickly dimmed. When the Warner Bros. factory logo appeared on the screen, Natasha asked: "Eric, Warner movie?"
"Yeah, don't you think I only watch my own movies?" 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, said: "I thought you would take me to see" Austin Powers2 "."
"Why do you say that?"
Natasha thought about it, she felt that she could often see "Austin Powers2" and two other movies of the Firefly system on TV or various billboards during this time, so she said: "This movie seems to be more popular Some. "
On the big screen, after the opening of Warner, the angel Seth played by Cage led the soul of a little girl into heaven. Then came the conversation between the two angels about touch. Angels could n’t touch mortals. Can't feel the touch of angels, the two live in the same space, but they are like two worlds.
After Hollywood took a long time, Eric also found it difficult to enjoy a movie with a pure audience mentality. Sitting in front of the big screen, he almost subconsciously analyzed the merits of a movie.
The opening of "City of Angels" seems to me to be mediocre in Eric, and the subsequent soundtrack is also a little abrupt.
In addition, although it is a good friend with Cage, but Eric still secretly vomited, the current Cage plays an angel, it is too inconsistent in any way. This guy has passed the peak of her face value, and her hairline is like the seawater at low tide. There hasn't been a handsome cry of love-struck fool girls in the "Moonlight" ten years ago.
Later, the plot and narrative rhythm of the film also seemed a bit confusing and hasty, but after watching it for more than 20 minutes, Eric was completely relieved. At least, "City of Angels" is definitely not the third of the Firefly system. Threat from the movie.
Eric took Natasha · Hunschüche together to watch "City of Angels", Chicago in the middle of United States, the resident of the Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Wilmington also bought tickets to enter the screening room of "Austin Powers2" .
If you are not going to submit a movie review of "Austin Powers2" to the "Chicago Tribune", Michael Wilmington will never buy a ticket to watch this kind of spoof movie. He has always liked literary films.
Moreover, Michael Wilmington's mood is really not good today, because during the daytime, he watched "City of Angels" with expectation, but the result was only disappointment.
In the early publicity process, Warner Bros. wanted to create another "Ghost" -style love film, but after watching "City of Angels", Michael Wilmington's evaluation of this film in his heart In one word, it is mediocre.
Whether it is a script without highlights, or a tragic ending deliberately created, people feel very uncomfortable. As for the creativity of angels and mortals, after "Ghost", this idea is absolutely not an innovation in Hollywood.
Think about how amazing Cage in "Ghost" and Meg · Ryan in 《When Harry Met Sally》 were.
But now, Michael Wilmington feels that "City of Angels" does not show the charm of the two Hollywood first-line superstar at all, which is definitely a waste.
I did n’t buy snacks like popcorn or bring a notebook. Michael Wilmington found a place in the screening room to sit down. He had prejudice in his heart and he did n’t take "Austin Powers2" seriously What does it mean, as for the movie reviews to be submitted, just write them later.
Before the lights were turned on, Michael Wilmington still looked around. Although it was in the bustling Chicago City Center, this screening room that could accommodate 200 people, more than 80% of the attendance, still let Michael Wilmington was slightly surprised.
However, if you think about the large-scale publicity of Firefly, Fox and Metro Goldwyn Mayer in the early stage without cost, Michael Wilmington will be relieved.
As an 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 film release cycle has become shorter and shorter. Most commercial films have recovered more than 70% of the total North America total in the first four weeks of the film release. Box Office.
Due to this change, there have been fewer cases of relying on word of mouth to create Box Office miracles in recent years, and the threshold for Hollywood movie production has become more and more passed. Many people know that many people feel that this development trend In the end, it will even stifle the Hollywood film industry that has just revived, but this industry trend is obviously not easy for anyone to change.
Thinking about these things in my heart, the screening of "Austin Powers2" has begun in the screening room.
The beautiful Heroine Elizabeth · Helly of first part still made a guest appearance, and the avatar female robot shot Mike · Mel Si out of the hotel room naked, running around everywhere. The film still uses the quite occult occlusion technique in first part here, and all kinds of funny positions make the audience in the theater burst into laughter.
As countless film critic viewers, Michael Wilmington knows all kinds of spoofs in the movie, but the disgust of Basic Instinct in his heart makes it difficult for him to feel how this movie feels.
Patience watched for dozens of minutes. Michael Wilmington was thinking about whether to leave early. At this time, a section of Heroine in the film kept taking out various small things from the male host somewhere in a row. The spoof plot again caused a burst of laughter in the theater.
Michael Wilmington looked around and recalled the tens of minutes that had just been spent. It seems that an average of two or three minutes in the theater will burst into laughter.
Suddenly gave up the idea of leaving early, Michael Wilmington sat on the seat at ease, but instead of focusing too much on the screen, he focused on the surrounding audience.
The uninterrupted laughter lasted for ninety minutes. Even if the subtitles rose afterwards, the audience did not get up and leave the scene immediately because the accompanying tidbits in the end captions were still popular.
"Haha, it's so funny, maybe we can take the time to watch it again."
"Brooke · Shields is still so hot."
"Peter did not watch this movie together, it was definitely a mistake."
"That rushing drama is really too much, and I do n’t know if shoots will really show up."
"Mike Mel is really a genius."
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Following the flow of people, they walked out of the auditorium and listened to the comments of people around. Michael Wilmington also seemed thoughtful.
It is still difficult for him to give a positive evaluation of this film. Compared with first part, this time it just fired a lot of old stems again. However, it can make the audience laugh, at least, better than the movie that is even embarrassing like "City of Angels".
Going home all the way, Michael Wilmington opened his laptop and was about to write a film review of "Austin Powers2". After thinking of something, he closed the document, opened the browser, and landed on the Yahoo movie section.
Find the page of "Austin Powers2", Michael Wilmington glanced at the film's approximate evaluation.
The evaluation system of Yahoo movies for movies is quite new to many people, and it is divided into professional movie review ratings and ordinary audience ratings.
Everyone knows that the Yahoo portal is actually an online media platform for the Firefly system. Therefore, the fairness of this web portal has always been questioned.
The film critic score of "Austin Powers2" is only 5.1. In the view of Michael Wilmington, this may still be a bit high. Many of the more famous film critic did not enter the Yahoo movie. Michael Wilmington also received an invitation from the Yahoo portal, and he also did not enter. The professional film critic of the Yahoo movie belongs to the media of the Firefly system, or it is not very famous. Whether these people can rate a movie without prejudice, in the view of Michael Wilmington, is unlikely.
Looking back, the average audience rating of "Austin Powers2", Oh, Yahoo portal calls it "popcorn index", but it is as high as 7.6.
Even though it was expected in the screening room, Michael Wilmington still felt that this number was a bit high. If he is allowed to score, he will only give 3 points for the professional rating of this film. As for the so-called popcorn index, he can only give a 6-point pass evaluation.
Look at the score of "City of Angels" again. The film critic score is 6.3 at this time, just passed, but the popcorn index is even lower than "Austin Powers2", 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 the vulgar spoof film "Austin Powers2.
Questioning the impartiality of the Yahoo portal, Michael Wilmington did not feel that his prejudice was wrong.
So he found several other movie review sites. Although the ratings of these sites are obviously different, the overall trend of movie review is basically the same. film critic doesn't like "Austin Powers2", and reluctantly recognizes "City of Angels", but the average audience obviously prefers "Austin Powers2", but he doesn't have a cold for "City of Angels".
Since the appearance of the movie, the situation in which film critic has led the reputation of a movie has not changed in North America. This is also the source of the superiority of Michael Wilmington in the face of "Austin Powers2".
But at this moment, after reading several movie sites, Michael Wilmington suddenly felt a faint threat.
How can ordinary people come to dominate the reputation of a movie? This is totally to smash the rice bowl of traditional film critic.
Due to this Basic Instinct ’s dislike and aversion, Michael Wilmington ’s sense of identification with "Austin Powers2" also disappeared.
Re-open the document, Michael · Wimington began to beat the movie review of "Austin Powers2": It seems that Mike Wells can never get rid of the impact of "Saturday Night Live" on him, I have to say, "Austin Powers2" , Is also a variety of **** and pee videos piled up with broken bridges ...
Neither "City of Angels" or "Austin Powers2" is a blockbuster movie. Although the two Film Studio have arranged a premiere for competition or promotion, the film does not have a midnight show.
Therefore, it was not until Saturday morning that the film reviews of the two films spread on a large scale.
Unlike the initial score of 7 points or more, after the large-scale release on Friday, the film critic evaluation of "City of Angels" obviously began to decline, and the overall score can only barely maintain a passing score of 6 points or more.
Compared to "Austin Powers2", it's much more "simple", and the media critics directly fell to the level of 5 points.
However, although North America media basically do not recognize the reputation of the two movies, the Box Office data on the first day of the two movies surprised everyone, especially the first day of Austin Powers2 Box Office.
Beverly Hills Manor, 20th Century Fox's Chairman Joe · Ross was awakened by the phone ringing early in the morning. When I heard the assistant reported the first day Box Office data of "Ace Spy 2", I even thought I was still dreaming. After repeatedly confirming it several times, Joe Ross proudly believed and spread the news quickly.
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PS: I made an Heroine mixed cut and put it on the B station, searched for "[European group portrait] those flowers", the video is. (To be continued.)