Chapter 168: The Night Stalker
In fact, the first-day schedule of "Nightcrawler" is a bit of a look down on Shen Ming's appeal, this year, which traffic-starred movie is not more than 30% on the first day...
Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration.
After all, "Doctor Strange" is still reaping the box office, and Li An's reputation is too great...
"Grandpa Fangling 38" remakes the Korean movie "Speed Scandal"...
It's already good to be able to give 13% of the film schedule to "Nightcrawler"!
The main propaganda is doing okay.
Qiancheng Film and Television has arranged a lot of variety shows, and also bought hot searches...
If it is like the beep of Zhuo Ran Film and Television, it will be scrapped - Zhuo Ran Film and Television is the promoter of "Flash Girl" and "The Origin of the White Snake", Shengsheng made a 400 million volume of "Flash Girl" into 60 million, and a billion volume of "The Origin of the White Snake" made a box office of 451 million, and there is no one, except for "selling miserable marketing", basically nothing else, just put the movie in the cinema, there is no such thing as it, and after the release, it all depends on word-of-mouth diffusion...
In fact, in the recent period, Shen Ming's black fans have increased, and the navy has also begun to bring the rhythm of Shen Ming.
Without him, he took over the TV series "Glory of the Tang Dynasty", and the actor was Da Tiantian...
A big-screen actor actually turned his head to pick up the Mary Sue TV series, and he was embarrassed to brag about his acting skills?
And the rival actor is still a big sweet...
Are you going to challenge the Nightmare level dungeon?
This is a superficial reason, the most important reason is that "Glory of the Tang Dynasty" has been scheduled to be broadcast on Mango Channel in July next year, which directly accounts for 50 episodes of costume dramas, and the ancient order stipulates that only 138 episodes of costume dramas can be broadcast in prime time on Star Satellite TV every year, "Glory of the Tang Dynasty" directly accounts for nearly half of the share, what should I do with a bunch of costume dramas?
Get in the way of others!
If it weren't for "Nightcrawler" being nominated for the British Academy Film Awards, Shen Ming was in the limelight, and Qiancheng Film and Television had a good relationship with many media, it is estimated that it would have been hacked into charcoal a long time ago...
Now the box office trend of "Nightcrawler" is clearly full of momentum...
is different from the general traffic faction, it usually explodes on the first day, and then it decreases sharply, Shen Ming's "Nightcrawler" is just the opposite, 23 million on the first day, 31 million on the second day, and 33 million on the third day...
The opening weekend box office was 87 million...
The eye-catching score quickly adjusted the box office expectations and changed the final box office figure to 280 million...
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In other words, after "Kill the Wolf 2", Dongcheng became a fan of Shen Ming.
Of course, it's not a girlfriend fan, but a career fan.
Shen Ming's girlfriend doesn't have a lot of fans, he has a public girlfriend...
Most of them are career fans.
Some time ago, many black fans on the Internet said that Shen Ming took "Glory of the Tang Dynasty" because of money, and he didn't care about his career at all, and they also spread rumors that his salary for taking "Glory of the Tang Dynasty" was 80 million...
In these days, rumors and words basically don't cost anything!
Even if Qiancheng Film and Television's public data shows that the total salary of the actors of "Glory of the Tang Dynasty" is only 74 million, and Shen Ming's salary is 25 million, it is useless...
A lot of people just want to believe what they see!
After watching Lu Yu's "A Day for a Big Coffee", Dongcheng felt that Shen Ming was quite good, and he had a very clear understanding of his profession.
Many young artists, for example, a top traffic person openly said, 'Artists are completely a profession, and they haven't thought about leaving anything behind, especially music works, it is difficult to leave them for everyone to remember!' or say in the show, 'As soon as the director shouts, I immediately click on my phone and watch football.'" As for how to go deep into the character, shape the character, and polish the acting skills, what is that?—— in his own words: 'Impossible... How can I have time!'
It's embarrassing, at least to his fans.
If an actor is serious about acting and really enters the state of creating a role, how can he have the mind to squeeze out to watch the live broadcast of the game even when the director shouts "click"?
He decided to support Nightcrawler...
Of course not him, but also his girlfriend.
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It's Monday, November 14th.
Weekday.
"Nightcrawler" has a lot of films, and the main "Billy Lynn's Halftime Fight" has a bad reputation and box office, and the North American theater has expanded its release, 1176 theaters, and the single-day box office is only 352,000 US dollars...
Although Douban's reputation is as high as 8.4 points, it is useless, the audience doesn't seem to buy it, there are a lot of bad reviews, and they directly burst into foul language: 'The annoying high-definition digital soap opera, the plot is shriveled, except for the male protagonist, the other supporting roles are acting seriously, but helpless, it is quite boring. If you call this a technological revolution, you are really ruining the word "revolution". The one with the first hot review, you fucking tell the next film where Li An's Eastern philosophy is!'
Well, it's for the first hot comment of the benevolent brother 'Li An' used his deep Eastern philosophy to make an American main theme movie. Uncle An, who has passed the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, is more peaceful but also sharp, watching Uncle An on stage and saying that movies are his dreams and his beliefs, and he challenges new technologies just to make his dreams clearer, and tears run in an instant. I have seen so many directors, only Li An said that movies are faith, and I believe it. ’
Uncle An is estimated to be planting a new head!
At eight o'clock in the evening, Dongcheng still had his girlfriend walk into the movie theater.
After watching it around, the attendance rate was okay, and the screening hall was seven, seven, eighty, eight.
clicked on the eye-catching data and took a look, and the single-day box office of "Nightcrawler" at this time was 8.3 million...
It's already very good, you must know that the number one "Doctor Strange" is only 9.8 million at this time...
“… Hey, "The Legend of Wukong"!"
The advertisement before the official launch of the movie is the promotion of "The Legend of Wukong"...
Peng Yuyan copied the Hong Kong and Taiwan dialect 'The sky is going to press me, I will split this day!'" "The earth will block me, I will crush this earth!" Then the subtitles lit up 'I want this day, I can't cover my eyes anymore, I want this earth, I can't bury my heart anymore, I want all living beings to understand my intentions, and I want all the Buddhas to disappear!'
"Wow!
"I heard that Shen Ming also participated!"
“… Didn't you see him promoting it on Weibo?"
"Who knows, it won't be released until next year!"
After chatting for a few words, "Nightcrawler" officially began...
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The story of "Nightcrawler" is equivalent to a blackened version of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door".
The protagonist Louis belongs to the Dick Silk counterattack...
At the beginning, Louis told all the audience that he was a thief, and he would rob the security guard by the way...
If you follow the traditional filming technique, the director will tell the audience why he became like this, such as "Breaking Bad", the old white man is middle-aged, in crisis, and takes risks for the sake of his family...
"Nightcrawler" completely avoided this routine, and the director didn't explain these at all, but just coldly showed you how he challenged the bottom line step by step.
Louis has no family, no friends, no expression, no bottom line, and is completely an outsider in modern society, wandering around the city all day long, looking coldly.
Soon, he found the most suitable profession for people like him, photographing car accident scenes, photographing crime scenes.
So with the stolen mountain bike in exchange for a handheld DV and a police walkie-talkie, he embarked on the road to working in the news media.
Louis quickly rose to prominence.
This not only comes from diligent study and hard work, but also from the despicable behavior that breaks through the moral bottom line again and again.
Of course, it is inseparable from Nina's teachings, and she tells Louis what kind of things are worth filming 'violent, bleeding, and think of the scene of a screaming woman running down the street with her neck slashed. ’
Then, he put Nina on it, because he firmly believed that the easiest passage to the depths of a woman's heart was below...
In order to get exclusive news, he broke into the scene of the crime again and again, and even made news, cold-blooded, cruel, and did everything.
Also, when dealing with competitors, he simply blackmailed the other party...
In the mansion murder case at the end of the movie, he deliberately let the suspect escape, sneaked into the mansion to film the tragic scene when the victim died, and even brutally killed his partner...
Of course, Louis has always been a bad guy, from the beginning when he grabbed a security guard's watch to the end when he went to the police station and still carried that watch, the director has always given him a negative image, and it must be a negative image, otherwise which audience can accept it?
In the end, maybe it's so cruel, when a person stands in the sun, you will only find that the light will be evenly smeared on everyone's face, and the sunshine will not care if you are a good person or a bad person.
That's the scariest and most disgusting thing about this movie.
At the end of the movie, accompanied by the cold moonlight, Louis is "brainwashing" his employees.
"Congratulations on your acceptance!"
"The fact that video news has hired you means that we recognize your profession and professionalism!"
"I hope you will follow my instructions exactly!"
"Don't worry, I won't do anything to you that I don't want to do on my own!"
With a burst of jazz music, two cars drive through Los Angeles at night, and the movie ends...