Chapter 1054: Successful start

　　 Speaking of the name James Wyn, the first thing that North American movie fans think of are horror films and "Father of Chainsaw", and even the nickname "Father of Chainsaw", which is widely spread on the Internet.
　　 said without a word, Wen Ziren already has a relatively large influence among North American horror movie fans.
　　 "Latent" has attracted the attention of horror film fans since the trailer was released.
　　 On the last weekend of August, "Latent" with a production cost of only $1.5 million was released in North America.
　　 Looking at the production cost alone, this horror film can be described as a small production among small productions, but with more than 3,500 opened cinemas and only 4,000 copies of the investment, the Embassy Pictures spent 4 million US dollars.
　　 Some theaters have replaced their digital projection equipment, denying that the investment in copying will be higher.
　　 In addition, the publicity investment of 8 million U.S. dollars is only average for a film of this scale.
　　 Before the official release of "Latent" in North America, there will be a small premiere.
Since the Warrens, a pair of real-world supernatural investigators, had been used for publicity early on, the small premiere of "Latent" was directly placed in Connecticut where the New England Supernatural Society and the Warren Supernatural Museum are located. Bridgeport, California.
　　In the propaganda campaign of Embassy Pictures, Ed Warren and Rowling Warren were portrayed as North America's most outstanding experts in the field of soul and demonology in the past fifty years.
　　 This is a country where theism is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The Warren couple's experience inevitably attracted the attention of a large number of spiritual lovers.
　　 Embassy Pictures’ propaganda is inevitably exaggerated, but even the church admits that the Warrens have been called repeatedly by the church to investigate some evil phenomena in North America.
　　 In addition to the formal publicity of the film, these have also become topics that people talk about.
On the day of the premiere of 　　, thousands of movie fans gathered near the Bridgeport Theatre, among which are supernatural lovers and Wen Ziren fans.
　　 Yes, as a director, Wen Ziren also has a relatively firm supporter group.
　　 Frankly speaking, at first glance, the film "Latent" does not seem to be very special. The family happily lives in a new house and encounters a sudden attack by a foreign spirit. The plot of such a haunted house seems to have nothing new to pay attention to.
　　 However, when the director was James Wynn, many horror film fans were full of expectations.
　　 Driven by the Embassy Pictures and Relativity Entertainment, Wen Ziren has not kept a low profile in recent years. The spread of the name "Father of Chainsaw" is enough to explain many problems.
　　 The "Chain Saw Fright" series has indeed won Wen Ziren a lot of fans.
Every year before the beginning of winter, when Halloween comes, countless horror fans look forward to the release of the new series of "Chain Saw", and even when it becomes a cultural phenomenon, a considerable number of fans and media in North America are talking about the name James Wynne. .
Wen Ziren has already pioneered a path of his own horror movies. When people think that closed horror movies are the case, he moved the movie market with the famous series of "Chain Saw", and did not continue to be attached to this series. It is to continue the exploration of the road of horror movies.
　　 In this "Latent", Wen Ziren has thoughts about the spirits in the supernatural space, and the environment like the old house has the taste of the confined space of "Chain Saw".
　　 usually rely on a well-known director to carry the burden on his back, but this problem does not exist for Wen Ziren, he became famous because of "Chain Saw", while still constantly trying new horror movie creation ideas.
Promoted by the Embassy Pictures, "Latent" participated in the Cannes Film Festival in the first half of the year. Like "Slumdog Millionaire", which was nothing at the film festival, it was widely praised by the media. The film's sound effects and photography Clever use is highly recognized at the technical level.
　　 Therefore, James Wynn also waited for the autumn horror film schedule with peace of mind and presented a classic haunted house horror movie to the audience.
The most brilliant passage of the film is undoubtedly the beginning and end of the "spiritual" ceremony. The Warrens and the spiritual device that has no religious and scientific roots will make the audience question their somewhat unrealistic "spiritualism" like the male protagonist. But the supernatural phenomena that do not require scientific explanation are enough to surprise people who are used to horror movies.
　　 If you like the horror effect of inadvertent ghosts and harsh sound effects, you will ignore the rationality of the spiritual mediums' spiritual methods and just fall into the spiritual world covered by the dense net.
James Wynn was born of Asian descent and is well versed in the essence of Asian horror culture. He covered the structure of European and American horror films on the appearance of the film, but the film itself did not discuss the personality, psychology, and religion that are customary in European and American horror styles. Instead, it enlarges the world of ghosts and monsters, and reproduces the frightening world with a fascinating image, especially Rowling Allen escapes from the real world and goes to the underworld to find the souls of lost children. In the passage, the is shrouded in a period of white mist, the ghosts encountered are also cold and numb, and the full gothic style is leaping on the screen.
　　 As the real beginning of the "horror movie universe", "Latent" also has a mission to lead to the follow-up series.
　　 So, at the end of the film, the Warrens received an invitation to speak from a university.
　　 Behind the main creative subtitles, there is an easter egg, a scene from a pseudo-documentary, which looks like a clip from an old video tape, a fragment of the Warrens’ speech in a university auditorium.
　　The Warrens highlighted a case of their so-called real experience in their speech-the haunted incident of the Perron family in Rhode Island!
　　 This is paving the way for next year's "Call of Souls"!
　　Before shooting "Latent", Wen Ziren once told Ronan that horror stories must first scare him!
　　 So, "Latent" was born, and it succeeded smoothly after its release, continuing the tradition of successful horror films for Relativity Entertainment.
　　 On the first weekend of its release in North America, this horror film was sold in 3560 theaters and sold for $31.22 million.
　　 On the same weekend, Lionsgate produced and released "Duel Yumatown" starring Christian Bell and Russell Crowe.
　　 This remake of the classic old brand did not shine with a brand-new brilliance because of the joining of the two first-line stars. Instead, it sank amidst the criticism. Only 13.03 million US dollars were earned during the opening weekend.
　　 "Latent" easily overwhelmed "Duel Yuma Town" and topped the North American box office charts.
　　In just three days, Relativity Entertainment recovered all its investment in "Latent" by relying on a North American market alone.
　　 The income that this film brings to Relativity Entertainment can basically be classified into the ranks of profits.
　　 As we all know, low-cost horror films often win the market, but lose media opinion.
　　 But "Latent" won James Wynn a good voice in the media.
　　Like the "New York Times", I think the film is "crazy, scary, and creepy."
　　 There are also many positive comments from other media such as "the description of evil spirits is enough to frighten the audience" and "there is no excessive blood show, and the atmosphere is to conquer the audience".
　　 "Entertainment Weekly" even praised: Although "Latent" is a typical ghost film, it contains amazing scenes that we have not seen in the past ten years.
　　 I have to say that James Wynn has an excellent talent in horror genre films.
Speaking of horror movies, I believe that everyone has a special experience related to them. As an important part of the movie genre, horror movies have functions that other types of movies cannot replace. They help the audience to entertain the audience through psychological and visual stimulation. The emotions in my heart.
People who often watch horror movies almost have a consensus that horror movies have obvious regional characteristics. For example, Asian horror movies represented by Korea, Japan and Thailand are often good at creating a horror atmosphere, and often a single sound effect can scare people from breathing. Belongs to the "wandering mind".
　　 The European and American horror movies represented by the United States often emphasize visual horror and stimulation. The and horrible images often scare people to pee, which belongs to the "kidney-walking school".
　　 As for oriental horror movies, those that can be shown in theaters must be reconciled with various scientific reasons such as "psychotic fantasy", which is a typical "approach to science".
　　 Probably bears a lot of childhood horror memories of my friends, "Approach to Science" is more scary than the oriental horror movies shown in the theater.
　　 When the horror film style has basically become a template, Wen Ziren avoided the traditional horror plot ~EbookFREE.me~ and instead used the actors to express the actions and expressions that the audience would see in the horror scenes in the story.
　　 In "Latent", Wen Ziren abandons the traditional method of stimulating the vision with blood plasma, and also adds a lot of new horror primary colors in it, constructing a new game rule in the supernatural world-the soul is used to summon the dead.
　　This approach is rare in horror movies. More importantly, James Wynn has achieved great success.
　　 The success of "Latent" has made a good start for the "horror movie universe" project.
　　 Relativity Entertainment also took advantage of the momentum of the success of "Latent" to promote a wave of "Calling the Soul", which made many fans remember the name of "Calling the Soul".
　　True horror movies are never full of inexplicable miraculous effects from beginning to end, and strange things pop out to scare people all the time.
　　 Is it good to watch a horror movie? The creation of a horror atmosphere is an important criterion.
　　 Wen Ziren will inevitably leave a strong mark in the history of Hollywood horror movies.
As the schedule was selected at the end of August, there were no particularly powerful films behind "Latent", and it has maintained a relatively stable North American box office trend. The box office in North America dropped less than 40% in the second weekend. Over the weekend, he won the second North American box office champion with $1,875.
　　 Just ten days after its release in North America, "Latent" has accumulated a total of 55.12 million US dollars at the box office, which is more than 30 times the production cost of 1.5 million US dollars.
　　 There is no doubt that this horror film will inevitably be listed as the most successful movie in history.