Chapter 376: "Fireflies" vs. "World Wars"!

A year ago, in the hustle and bustle of the summer, Stuart Spielberg's 11th summer holiday blockbuster "Happiness Terminal" was released, and he received the huge infamy of "This is the shame of Spielberg's directing history ..." Indicator 55% / 51% / 72%), and the second time in a personally directed career in the summer vacation file did not get the weekly box office champion, and for the second consecutive time, so that the young people "Spielberg teaches the ancestor Wang how to take light Comedy ... "The dream is broken.
"Is Spielberg old?" Although the other party is the first-ranked director of the film history box office, a lot of doubts are still faced with sarcasm. At the time, it was reported that Spielberg was very angry, and at the same time full of fighting vows to break the doubt, he will prove himself again with "World War"! One year has passed, and Tom-Hanks has become Tom-Crouse, with Dakota-Fanning, Tim-Robbins, Morgan-Freeman, starring, and attracted much attention and Under doubt, the 132 million production cost of the science fiction blockbuster was released globally on June 29 a few days ago on Wednesday. On the 29th, it was Wednesday. Since the film's opening, Spielberg has routinely been "closed" for two days. The day, the new weekend, Friday, July 1st, the box office and the response to the film evaluation last week have already had results.
Early in the morning, Spielberg took a stroll around the headquarters of DreamWorks and looked at these familiar scenes, but he frowned from time to time. The company's finances had some problems. In recent years, the debts have become higher and higher. I have to talk to Paramount, Universal and other big producers about the point of acquisition. No matter what the results of "World War", maybe I hate that DreamWorks is not an independent film company or even disappeared in the history of film history.
But what he is most concerned about and the most nervous right now is "World War", old friends and young children have stepped on the stage early, and now the whole world is "" Firefly "", it is a very lively and exciting summer, if you shoot Smashed ... how is it possible? Spielberg thought with a faint smile: "Oh!"
Before the opening of the summer vacation file, the various expectations list has been reshuffled. Taking Yahoo Entertainment's list as an example:
The first "Firefly", the box office is hot and highly rated, five stars ★ ★ ★ female daughter (original .2); the second "Pre-Star Wars Transmission 3" selling block & mixed reputation, Samsung half ★ ★ ★ female (Original .1); The third "Batman" is not popular, two stars ★★★ (original.6); The fourth "Iron Fist" is not popular, two and a half stars ★★★ (original .5) ; The fifth "Smith and Mrs." did not applaud, the two-star female (original .8); the sixth "Sky King" was all messed up, the half-star female (original .3); now the original .4 "World War" Debut.
"Good morning, good morning!" At work time, Spielberg came to the office of the department ... "World War" is the production method of Paramount's main investment and DreamWorks shares, and Paramount is responsible for the North American trip. Paramount and Universal Pictures united overseas, but DreamWorks will of course also pay attention to the latest situation: At this time, the employees are not heavy and they are not happy, is it because of "Firefly"? "After a few greetings, Spielberg asked casually:" Are our movies okay? " "
The employees looked at each other for a while and did n’t know what to say. The manager of the department, Jim I. Sapp, took the file data and went to the office with Spielberg, saying the situation: "The evaluation of the film critics industry is very good, but most of them are ordinary. The audience does n’t seem to like it much; and at the box office, we ’re a little late to the show ... "
"Is it?" Spielberg took the file and opened it, and saw a heart sinking suddenly. The box office was very general. The audience response was even worse. The ImdB network only scored 7.5 points. Rotten Tomato likes it. 45% ... He knows what this bad word of mouth means. Audiences scoff at the theme of this alien invasion of the earth and scoff at the movie. If there is no "Firefly", "World War" will receive unequal More box office, but there is such a behemoth in the market ...
The overall evaluation given by the film critics industry is only qualified. The freshness of the rotten tomato network is 74% / 67%. Fortunately, several mainstream daily newspaper media are not bad about it. After all, people still read newspapers and magazines and choose to watch movies. Not the mainstream, at least not the mainstream of middle-aged people. The box office of "World War" should not be too ugly, but what he used to promote billions of dollars was like a joke, and he seems to have lost his position among young people and teenagers. It doesn't seem to be his time anymore.
Or have you long gone? Spielberg took a long, silent breath, is it possible to win the championship for the third consecutive opening week? Next year's Saturn Awards, also have to lose to old friends and children?
"Spielberg's" World War "defeated major media critics." Yahoo Entertainment reported on this topic, although Paramount previously required all film critics who participated in the audition to maintain the mystery of "World War" People "shut up first", which caused dissatisfaction among film critics including "The New York Times" and even demanded a boycott of it, but the film was still fully concerned after the film was released and won the appreciation of the mainstream media.
Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times seems to be enchanted, and he gave the full score to the sky: "There is nothing to say, this is the best science fiction movie ever." Scott of the New York Times hit 3/5 points: "Is this a terrorist? When Grand Fanning screamed at Cruz, maybe every American felt emotion. Of course there are many places that resonate, such as Morgan A Freeman's narration is shocking in plain. "
Roger-Albert played a 2/4 rot evaluation, he naturally had no good words in the "Chicago Sun": "World War" is a big, bulky movie, which has some good visual effects, although it Compared with Imax, it is so accurate and lacks the energy of enthusiasm. We can guess Spielberg ’s trick: "
"Hollywood Report" rating: a-, "USA Today" rating: B, "San Francisco Chronicle" rating: a ... Those who expect Spielberg to completely follow up hope to fail, but not all, the good reviews are Rotten audience reputation.
Rotten Tomatoes fan critic Drake-T hit Samsung and said: "The audience must immediately admit that this is not an alien invasion movie, this is a drama, an abnormal family. Even so, you still have a hard time finding any The elements that can be liked, or there is any chemical reaction between the current actors, which makes me extremely disgusted. "Aidan-h, who played a half star, said:" Basically Tom Tom Cruise escaped, bored "" ...
Regarding the showdown of "Firefly" vs. "World War", the fans' comments on the surface of news reviews, blogs and other surfaces are much clearer. If you haven't enjoyed the feast of "Firefly" recently, it may be okay, but now ... … They could n’t even eat the big meal that was cooked at this table. The big fanning who kept screaming for his dad did n’t have the cute little fanning who played the top and asked questions.
In the week that just passed the night (June 24th), "Firefly" won the North American Weekly Championship without suspense. Its box office trend remained -36.1%, and it received a staggering 151.1 million in seven days. 65 theaters Average US dollars per dollar; overseas decline narrowed to 7.9% ... 245.1 million in seven days and countless weeks of championship titles, two days after the release ... "Firefly" North American total box office 387.6 million, overseas total box office 5.50 million, global total The box office reached US $ 1.8 billion, which is only one weekend away from entering the box office
It continued its journey of refreshing various records: the fastest at the box office was US $ 350 million (days), defeating 26 days of "Shrek 2" and 31 days of "Spider-Man" ...
World War Two, which was released for two days, ranked second at 160,000 box office. The average price of 8 theaters is $ 7717 each. It is not a shocking shock, but it is not a fiasco. It is at least better than Batman and the Smiths. , "Family Fairy Wife" and other unbearable movies are much better.
What will happen to the North American battlefield next? July 1-3 is the weekend, and July 4 is the National Holiday Independence Day. These four days are the beginning of the third week of "Firefly" and the first weekend of "World War"; one is already Proved how crazy he is to save the market, the other is a rescue project that was previously hoped for, who wins and loses? Can "Firefly" continue to win the third week? Will Spielberg fail to win the summer week championship for the third consecutive time?
Paul Degarabe, head of the box office department at the authoritative box office statistical analysis agency, expressed his expectations: "This will be a box office battle," Firefly "is still more powerful, it is far more popular than people think, Flame Company The propaganda for it is still going on; while World Wars cannot be underestimated, it is clear that Tom Cruise has done enough enough that he has even his own fiancee coming. "
The "jumping sand" that expressed love in the "Oprah talk show" interview last month is not as cool as Wang Yang's lying on the street. More importantly, the "divorced 42-year-old man" does not have young frenzy and fairy tales The color, even being ridiculed by the media, was uploaded to the uTuBe explosive network, and who was kissed and kissed at the film screening a few days ago, regardless of fiancee Katie Holmes or Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise did a lot.
The rotten tomato smashed by Roger Zhouer of The Orlando Sentinel said: "Tom-Cruz performed a terrible series of actions in the propaganda process for" World War ", but it is clear that" World War "is better than him. More terrifying. "
Not only that, Cruz also talked about his belief in Scientology on the talk show, and was sarcastically bombarded by the mainstream media, fearing that he would not become salted fish; he would say that he would get married on Independence Day on July 4, Also said to postpone, the public thinks this guy is using his feelings to hype for the new film. But Paul de Garabé believes that this is a successful trick. The decisive factor for a movie ’s box office is the strength of early publicity and the effect of later advertising. In his view, "World War" has done very well in this regard, and there are still The key point is that Spielberg's own weight.
"Almost everyone is interested in going to the cinema to watch Wang Yang ’s new film. They also have such an interest in Spielberg, especially when his previous work" Happy End "has a poor grade, everyone tends to believe that he will Bring surprises, UU reading www.uukanshu.com is also one of the reasons why Wang Yang's "Firefly" is popular. "Paul said.
So regardless of the word of mouth of the audience in "World War", there are Spielberg and Tom-Cruise, there are mainstream media, especially the three major daily newspapers "Huasheng Shengton Post", "New York Times", "Luo Fanfan" With the praise of the Times, the audience can find a reason to watch, "Maybe this is what I like to watch?" And the movie market has already been thrived by "Firefly", the public's enthusiasm for watching movies can be said to be at its peak .
Before the opponents of "Firefly" were different this time, this is a blockbuster film with good reviews, promotion and promotion!
The media, fans and fans are full of blood, and Vs Spielberg is amazing! The new and old legendary directors meet! North American total box office second Vs North American total box office first! Following "Ghost Record" Vs "Save the Soldier Ryan", "Hangover" Vs "Xiaoyawai", "T-21-Team" Vs "Xiaoyawai" (genre), "Prada Devil" Vs "Happy End" After "Station" (type), a head-to-head match of the same type arrives! The real box office battle is coming this summer!
When the box office was freshly released on Friday, July 1st, the fans shouted that "Firefly" in three theaters received an average of 70,000 US dollars of 5,661 per theater; "World War" in eight theaters took away the vomiting box office , The average single museum is $ 9, the first round, "Firefly" wins!