Chapter 1214
The domestic Spring Festival stalls came to an end, "Air Prison" took the lead, and Fan Wencheng became the king of this year's Spring Festival stalls, with a wild collection of 1.6 billion in 7 days during the Spring Festival, which can be called extremely terrifying.
Yang Hao's "Speed of Life and Death" followed closely behind, and also cut a box office of 1.2 billion.
Qin Gang's "The Hangover" was boycotted by many female audiences, and as a result, the box office follow-up was weak, although the Spring Festival file also received 1 billion in seven days, but compared with the first two, Qin Gang is undoubtedly a loser.
It can be said that Qin Gang was slapped in the face very badly, but this time although Qin Gang was a loser in China, but the flowers bloomed inside the wall and the fragrance outside the wall, no one expected that "The Hangover" would be able to win the weekly box office championship in North America.
drove high and walked high, and in a week, it was announced that the North American box office of "The Hangover" exceeded 100 million. And this "Prison in the Air" seems a little embarrassing, although the performance of "Prison in the Air" is also very good, the box office in the same week exceeded 100 million, but the box office trend is much worse than "The Hangover", and the box office decline is obvious, but the box office trend of "The Hangover" is very healthy, and the key is that the reputation of the two movies is good, but after all, "Prison in the Air" is a popcorn blockbuster of the Hollywood model, and "The Hangover" has brought more surprises to overseas audiences.
However, in any case, the two Chinese blockbusters both exceeded 100 million at the overseas box office, which still shocked many people.
Yang Hao is the most bitter, because "Speed of Life and Death" has not yet been officially released in North America, although in China "Speed of Life and Death" beat "Hangover" to get the second place in the Spring Festival file, but overseas, Yang Hao can only stare dryly.
The domestic "Speed of Life and Death" with Yang Hao's status can naturally affect its release time, schedule, and publicity, but abroad?
Yang Hao is really not famous, probably only a person of Lin Xiao's level can get some right to speak in North America, it is not by mouth, nor by Lin Xiao's identity in China, but that Lin Xiao has proved his worth with one movie after another.
Businessmen are profit-seeking, capitalists are equally profit-seeking, and the value of Lin Xiao's movies is there, no matter which company it is, it can't be ignored.
Although Yang Hao is definitely a leading director in China, even in Southeast Asia or the entire Asian region, Yang Hao's fame is in full swing.
But it's a pity that Yang Hao really has nothing to do in the Western world.
It's like those stars in China, they have reached the top in China, but if you want to step into a new class, you need to go abroad, but who knows who you are abroad?
For Chinese people, many foreigners may have face blindness, and in the same way, foreign audiences are actually confused about Chinese stars.
Unless you can make a special impression on the other person.
And Lao Mei has always been a world policeman, so that the people of Lao Mei are also hanging high, they usually only pay attention to their own domestic affairs, for foreign countries, especially non-English-speaking areas, to be honest, North American audiences really don't care too much.
In fact, in the same way, don't look at it, it seems that many people in China are very advocacious of Hollywood movies, but in fact, Huaguo is the country of the yellow race after all, and it is the country of the descendants of Yan and Huang, so xenophobia is actually inevitable, such as the word foreigner, such as foreign devils, etc., strictly speaking, it is a discriminatory word, but it is a normal word in China.
The idea that the so-called non-self-race people must have different hearts can be said to be deep-rooted.
After the huge success of "The Hangover" and "Prison in the Sky" in North America, the remaining "Speed of Life" Mina Group is taking it more seriously than before.
After all, although the themes of these three movies are different, the screenwriters are all Lin Xiao, and they are all movies invested by Ling Xiaoge, the key is that two of the three movies have been successful, so there is a great possibility of success again.
And on the Mina Group's side, people who have watched "Speed of Life and Death" are optimistic about this film, because the biggest feature of this movie is that the pace is quite fast, which can be said to be a very typical fast-paced movie.
This kind of film, even if it is from China, even if the film is an all-Chinese lineup, but there will definitely be a lot of audiences who like this kind of movie.
Of course, for the sake of safety, "Life and Death" uses the same small-scale screening as "The Hangover" first, and then watch the results of the screening to expand the screening.
After all, "Prison in the Air" is a medium-cost production, and Fan Wencheng has a "Dangerous Couple" that has achieved good results in North America before, so in the North American market, Fan Wencheng is no longer a new director, but Yang Hao is still a rookie director in North America, and the audience is not familiar with him, and the theater is not familiar with it, so it is impossible to expect a direct large-scale release.
Therefore, the way of screening has become the first choice for this movie.
The scale of the screening of "The Speed of Life and Death" is much larger than that of "The Hangover", and at the beginning, the Mina Group arranged for the "Speed of Life and Death" to be screened on a small scale on 200 screens, and also held a special screening for film critics for "The Speed of Life and Death".
Critics may not like comedies like "The Hangover" or Hollywood-style popcorn movies like "Prison in the Sky," but Mina believes that critics will love the sharp editing and dizzying pace of "Life and Death."
A few "Speed of Life and Death" really did not disappoint. After the film critics' special screening, it was widely praised.
"A movie from China, "Speed of Life and Death" is as its name, the director uses sharp editing techniques to make this originally ordinary plot of the movie rise a few notches at once, and you can't even leave between watching the movie. - Los Angeles Entertainment
""Speed of Life and Death" is not a racing movie, but the level of tension and excitement is no less than that of a racing movie, and the speed of 50KM/H is a choice between life and death. —Film critic Alain Dellors.
"When a film can make the audience forget everything and immerse themselves in it, then it is a success, "Speed of Life and Death" is undoubtedly such a film, but it does not rely on the plot, but the editing, one after another so that you are reluctant to walk away, or rather, this is a movie that uses speed so that you can't think too much. —Film critic Steven Berger.
"'Life and Death' is a movie that makes you forget all about it, just immersed in it and not thinking about anything else, and it deserves a thumbs up!" – Roger Custer.
"Speed of Life and Death" is a commercial film, there is no doubt about it, but the biggest feature of this film is that it does not leave too much respite for the audience, the whole process is high-energy, you just want to relax, there will be a huge twist in the plot, and the crisis will hit!
And movies of this style, to be honest, can't be said to be absent on the market at the moment, but there are really few, very few.