December 16th, Los Angeles, sunny.

Flying over from New York and resting for a day, Tangtang dragged Lu Xiaoran out of the hotel, she wanted to go shopping!

It's a rare trip, she wants to buy, buy, buy...

Beverly Rodeo Avenue Mall, the most high-end shopping center in the Los Angeles area, saw two Chinese coming, and the shopping guide was very warmly welcoming.

After trying several bags, I finally chose the red style, and after checking out, Tangtang looked at Lu Xiaoran, who was swiping her mobile phone, and suddenly asked, "Hey, do you want to buy a house here?"

“... Do you want to be American?"

"No, it's just that when I'm on vacation, I have a place to rest, and I always stay in a hotel, I don't think it's boring!"

Sugar Candy quickly denied it.

"Don't be, I don't like America!"

“... What are you looking at?"

"Look at yesterday's box office report!"

"How?"

“... $8.48 million on the first day, okay!"

"Is that okay?"

"Released on the same day as "Star Wars", what do you want to do if you can get more than 8 million box office?"

"Star Wars" is worthy of being a national IP in the United States, and "Star Wars 8" grossed $104 million on the first day - it is expected that the box office for the three days of the weekend will be around $208 million-$214 million!

Dominate the list!

"Knives Out" ranked second with $8.48 million...

"Star Wars 8", the ban on media ratings was lifted, and word of mouth exploded.

Rotten Tomatoes harvested 145 fresh, 10 rotten, 94% fresh, average score 8.3;

MetaCritic has an average score of 86, and several media outlets have given full marks;

And IGN has a score of 9.7 out of 10, which considers "Star Wars 8" to be the best since "The Empire Strikes Back".

Of course, this is the media rating, the audience's word-of-mouth polarization...

On Rotten Tomatoes, the audience popcorn index is only 56%...

Why do viewers give bad reviews?

Director Ryan Johnson didn't want to repeat the old model, tried to innovate, and then annoyed Star Wars fans...

But no matter how annoying you are, after all, people are "Star Wars", and some are die-hard fans!

"Is it possible for "Knives Out" to surpass "Star Wars"?"

Lu Xiaoran was speechless: "... What do you think?"

……

Eyes shifted to China, "Fanghua" was released!

"Fanghua" is a good movie, you can get a glimpse of the year...

It's realistic, it's a bit too realistic...

Yan Geling is similar to the diary writer, a writer, he always likes to look at the world from a critical perspective!

"Fanghua" is very good, unlike the youth of the big courtyard children in the Beijing circle - once those people make movies to remember their youth, they are basically the passionate tone of "In the Sunny Day", most of the protagonists are indispensable to coax, fight, make trouble, and shoot the plot of the mother-in-law, under the restlessness of youth, no matter how fiery the hatred is, it can become the fiery love of brothers all over the world.

Hong Kong's directors are nostalgic, and most of them carry on the literary tradition of Eileen Chang or Li Bihua: Wu Nong's soft whispers at the mahjong table in the old wooden attic, the slow tone of the saxophone fills the bar, the flame of a candle swaying seductively in the dilometer, and the woman's high heels in the alley under the neon lights.

The hero and heroine may be old lovers who have not met for a long time, or they may be opponents in different camps, or they may be the white party who has hooked up a rich young woman, their love and the friendship of the people around them are intertwined, and in the end they will always compose a debt or a love song for talented and beautiful women.

Boring...

Yes and only director Feng Xiaogang's youth is different from others, he is mixed up from the bottom!

Sometimes I feel that the tone of the self-media is a little unfair - 'Hutong string Feng Xiaogang is with the big courtyard disciples, it is inevitable that he is a little inferior, but inferiority is inferiority, and the circle still has to be mixed!'

'To put it bluntly, the ambitions are not in harmony with each other, and Wang Shuo's lofty arrogance is not conspired up...'

What's the matter, people from the bottom don't deserve to be called big directors?

Wang Shuo wrote scripts for so many people, why did Feng Xiaogang create Feng's comedy?

It's a pity that after "Fanghua", he filmed "Mobile Phone 2", and then became a target...

Then, "Only Yun Knows" completely lost its sound...

The times abandoned a person, and they didn't even say hello.

However, this did not affect the box office explosion of "Fanghua"...

won 78.21 million on the first day;

The next day's box office was 104 million;

On the next day, 110 million...

On the first working day, it finally surpassed "Operation Red Sea", with a single-day box office of 66 million, surpassing the 56 million of "Operation Red Sea"...

After all, "Red Sea" has been released for 18 days!

The cumulative box office is 3.2 billion, and it has passed the climax of watching the movie, and it is now in the closing stage...

……

In North America, the opening weekend ended, "Knives Out" ranked second with $32.54 million, and the first place was of course "Star Wars 8" - the latter made $220 million in the first weekend...

On the first working day, "Star Wars" fell by more than 60% at the box office, closing at $22 million, and "Knives Out" fell by 30%, with a single-day box office of $6.8 million, still ranking second.

Today is the 20th, "Knives Out" was released for 6 days, with a cumulative box office of $56 million, but today's single-day box office ranked third - "Jumanji: Battle in the Jungle" was also released, with a first-day box office of $7.2 million.

Dwayne Johnson's appeal is huge!

The distribution company is optimistic about "Knives Out", and the box office forecast has experienced three consecutive jumps, from $80 million at the beginning, then $155 million, and now directly to $180-200 million...

The audience's reputation is so good that it is flying, and it is blessed by big stars.

But the necessary publicity still has to be done, for example, right now, he is on the scene of "The Ellen Show", talking nonsense with Ellen DeGeneres...

The main thing is to talk about some interesting shooting facts, as well as the views of Chinese on American actors...

The one in the back was unpleasant - Lu Xiaoran went to "The Fat Lun Tonight Show" before, and inadvertently chatted with the host Jimmy ** about some of his favorite American movies and American stars, mentioning the outdated Stallone, Bruce Willis, Shange Winton and Nicolas Cage...

I don't know what's wrong, the ratings of that segment, including the network hits, are particularly high...

Then it became a fixed program, and as long as Lu Xiaoran promoted it, he would definitely be asked about this.

Lu Xiaoran came out of the recording site of "The Ellen Show", sighed, and then went back to the hotel.

Simply ate something, and then sat by the window in a daze - Tangtang went home the day before yesterday, and she still had to record "Anxiety Inn" after all...

In total, he has been to the United States several times, and half of this year he has been in the United States - helping Hollywood make movies...

But there is no sign of adaptation.

The people, the cars, the buildings, the food, including the brand of the striped balloons in the room, all felt particularly twisted.

Everything, it really feels like being alone in a foreign land as a stranger.

Maybe this is the feeling that the homeland of the Chinese is inseparable...

But he still has two days to travel - to run publicity.

Lao Mei is good at this, you don't need to run roadshows, just participate in more shows!

But when he participated in the show, he felt inkblotted again, because the hosts were always asking him what he thought about the founding of the country - what could he think?

He doesn't understand politics, especially American politics!

I pondered for a long time, and then I woke up, probably homesick...

I called Tangtang and called my parents again, and then I was ready to take a shower and sleep, and then I changed into my big pants and the doorbell rang...