In the screening room, Miller, who is in charge of the cinema screening business of Imperial Entertainment, and Brown, who is in charge of the same business of AMG Cinema Company, sat in the third row together.

While the screening hadn't started yet, the two chatted a few words.

"Recently, the two films of Embassy Pictures have been attached great importance to by Emperor Entertainment. Brown whispered to Miller: "Imperial Entertainment has come up with nearly a thousand theaters, this is the treatment that only the production of the six major companies have, right?"

Miller was unimpressed and said, "Aren't you all the same? ”

Brown said modestly: "The scale of AMG is not as big as God King Entertainment, and there is a gap between it and you. ”

Miller smiled and said, "I am responsible for the company, shareholders and performance, I don't care where the film comes from, a movie that can make theaters get more profit is a good movie." ”

"From the perspective of profitability, the two films that Embassy Pictures has released this year have really good box office results. Brown agreed: "Not to mention the success of "Resident Evil", even a dark niche film like "Tales of the Night" has a box office of nearly $80 million in North America, which is really amazing. ”

"Embassy Pictures doesn't release a lot of films, but the success rate is so high that it's almost a success, which makes the theaters take very little risk," Miller said. ”

Brown nodded: "Yes, anyone wants to release a film that will attract an audience." ”

Miller added: "As long as the first producer of the film released by Embassy Pictures is Ronan Anderson, Imperial Entertainment will give the best treatment." ”

Brown recalled, saying: "In the last three years, Ronan Anderson doesn't seem to have missed. ”

"Don't you think Ronan Anderson is on the path to a gold producer?" Miller said seriously: "The films produced by the distribution have their own characteristics, but they are all commercially successful, like Jerry Bruckheimer in his youth. ”

Brown retorted, "No, it's not like Jerry Bruckheimer." ”

Miller looked at Brown strangely: "Let's not talk about Ronan Anderson's company, just looking at the filmmaking, isn't Ronan Anderson successful enough?"

"That's not what I meant. Seeing that Miller had misunderstood him, Brown explained, "I always thought Ronan Anderson was better than Jerry Bruckheimer when he was younger. Jerry Bruckheimer had Don Simpson back up as a young man, but what about Ronan Anderson? ”

Miller agrees: "That's true, just from the perspective of production and project selection, Ronan Anderson's ability and vision are admirable. ”

Brown added: "Ronan Anderson has already started to try his hand at first-line productions, and if he can succeed in this, maybe in a few years, he will be able to reach the heights of Jerry Bruckheimer." ”

"Don't forget, it's a pirate movie. Miller reminded, "I still can't figure out why Ronan Anderson chose the pirate genre. ”

Brown chimed in: "Actually, I don't understand it either. ”

Maybe that's the difference between a genius filmmaker and an ordinary person, right?

He couldn't help but think so, Ronan Anderson didn't look like a fool no matter how he looked at it, and he didn't invest heavily in "Pirates of the Caribbean" on the spur of the moment or stupid.

Probably he saw something he hadn't noticed?

The movie began to show, and there was silence in the theater.

Hollywood horror thriller movies often highlight their advanced technology and brutal blood, which is different from the atmosphere of Asian horror movies.

In fact, "Death is Coming" also focuses on visual stimulation, while Asian horror films focus on psychological intimidation.

Although the director has changed, the tradition of being a glorious sequel to Hollywood commercial films is absolutely not lost, so the story of the second part inherits the routine of the first part, a group of people who are caught by the Grim Reaper, a protagonist who has a premonition that danger is about to happen, escapes from the danger, and the Grim Reaper kills the people on the list in another way, and there is no one left.

The game of the Grim Reaper may end with the birth of a new life, but it is only the end of that round of the killing game, and as long as there is money to be made in the statistics of Relativity Entertainment, the Grim Reaper will continue his bloody game.

Despite the introduction of Guillermo del Toro, a new director, the film is still very conventional, in fact, this sequel is no longer about fatalism or anything like that, but about "a million ways that humans die in accidents".

Of course, this film also has a certain social and educational significance.

For example, when the train is passing by, don't get too close to the train, pay attention when crossing the street, look left and right, and don't stand under the crane.

Compared to the first part, "Death is Coming 2" is more gorgeous, more exquisite, bloodier, and more brutal.

This is also the biggest breakthrough.

The film has drifted away from fatalism in a completely bloody and heavy smell of killing.

In fact, from the first part, there has been a critical voice, believing that the Grim Reaper does not exist at all.

A movie is born that you can choose not to watch.

And when the audience chooses to watch, then when watching, they must admit the premise of the existence of the movie, that is, the concept set in the movie, the background of the characters.

For example, when watching "The Grim Reaper", it is believed that there is no death in this world, then this film should not exist at all, because even the preconditions for the establishment of everything in it are denied.

For example, when I watched Jack Chen's "Police Story", I admitted the concept that Chen Jiaju is a policeman, so I can continue to watch the following plot.

If the audience asks at the beginning, "Why is he a police officer?" "People are admitted to the police academy, and then they are police officers." "Then why did he take the police exam?" "Then you TMD go and ask Chen Jiaju." ”

This is not an exaggeration, with the gradual prosperity of the Internet, there will be more and more rain in the future, and most of them are the kind that the king of heaven and Lao Tzu can't convince in person.

Even if he is one of the three future Mexican heroes as a director, "Death is Coming 2" is definitely not excellent, but this kind of small- and medium-cost sequel commercial film is first and foremost to make the target audience group able to watch it.

The rest are secondary.

As soon as the screening ended, on-site investigators from Cinema Score's partner company began to collect first-time comments from the premiere audience about the film.

"It's good to be able to play a B, overall. ”

A twenty-five or sixteen-year-old male viewer gave a small gift to the investigators, and said with a grin: "It's good that the film can scare me, and after watching it, I feel that the whole world is full of malice." ”

The investigator then approached another viewer who said the same: "B+ or A-, I decided to stay at home for a few days after I go back and not go out, so as not to get nervous." ”

Since the people who participated in the premiere were either fans who were influenced by the first part or audiences who loved this genre, the on-site survey received high ratings.

"After watching the movie, I was in a bit of a trance, and I was worried that I would fly into trouble when I went out. ”

When the investigators found two older boys who watched the movie together, one of them said dissatisfiedly: "It's average, it's not fresh, it's too routine, and you know that you want to keep dying at a glance." ”

Another person had a very different view: "I know they're all going to die, and it doesn't matter. The important thing is that the process of dying is wonderful. The plot is not important, the important thing is that the cruel and bloody clips are very enjoyable. It doesn't matter how many people die, the important thing is that you can watch it cool if someone dies from the beginning to the end. ”

This is also the opinion of many fans who like this type of horror movie.

Like Jason and Freddy, there are so many films and there is a market, which is enough to reflect the preferences of a certain group of audiences.

Just like some viewers know very well that the brain-dead youth films in the movie are very routine and lack sincerity, and they still watch them happily, bloody horror movies have never lacked audiences.

And compared with the system type of film, as long as the cost of bloody horror films is controlled and shot according to the usual pattern, the risk of losing money is relatively small.

After the premiere, Embassy Pictures continued to promote the publicity offensive, and "Death 2" also began to be released on a large scale in North America, and the actual number of theaters opened was close to 3,000.

As a sequel to the blockbuster movie, this film clearly has an advantage over "Resident Evil" and "Tales from the Night".

Contrary to Ronan's expectations, the word-of-mouth of "Death is Coming 2" has comprehensively surpassed the first part.

Under the promotion and guidance of the online propaganda department of the embassy film, the voice of applause on the Internet accounts for the majority.

"It's more emotional to watch than the first one, which should be attributed to the fact that the flesh-and-blood death scene is more sensory. ”

"I think this sequel is not bad. The first part was praised with its freshness, but the second part was expanded and extended to make up for the first part, so it was quite powerful. ”

"The film is full of blood under coincidences, an inescapable fate, and every small object in daily life may lead to a point of no return. The movie plays a role in safety education to a certain extent, and I believe that after watching it, everyone will pay attention to it, do not jaywalk, do not walk under billboards, do not try to rush into the elevator that is about to close, do not let water approach the electrical appliances, do not ignore the escape ladder, etc. ”

As for Rotten Tomatoes, this sequel has nearly 60% freshness, and critics may have been frightened by death, right?

Dare to make a bad review? If you make a bad review, you will be killed by a pen and a burst of keyboard......

The Grim Reaper is a killer beater!

The audience rating is very good, with a rating of 7.4 from more than 5,000 users on IMDB, an average score of B from the Cinema Score theater audience, and it is predicted that the North American box office performance should be on par with the first part.

The performance at the box office is indeed not bad, on the first day of the opening of North America, "Death is Coming 2" won $11.8 million at the box office from nearly 3,000 theaters, beating "Elf Mouse Brother 2" and "Eight-legged Monster" released at the same time, and won the box office champion on the day.