Time is like flowing water, fleeting.

Just when "Watchmen" was being filmed intensively, the 2014 movie summer vacation, accompanied by the scorching hot weather, came to North America.

On May 2, Sony Columbia invested $230 million to shoot "The Amazing Spider-Man 2", but this movie gave this summer file a bad start.

In the first three days of its release, the film earned $91.6 million at the box office.

Originally, everyone expected this movie to get an amazing total box office, but then the box office of this movie surprised everyone.

The total box office in North America in the second week was 41 million, which was more than a discount.

The total box office in North America in the third week was 23 million, and it was discounted again.

After being released for more than a month and a week, the movie was forced to be released by theaters.

The total box office in North America is just over $200 million.

If it weren't for the box office revenue in the international market, this movie would be able to accompany Sony Colombia as a pants with North American box office revenue alone.

On May 23, "X-Men: Days of Future Past", with a production cost of up to 250 million, also debuted.

Although the "X-Men" series of movies this time is not as tragic as when it collided with "Country Teacher" 2 years ago, the final box office results are also very unsatisfactory.

It earned $90.82 million in the first week of release, and when it was finally released, the total box office in North America was only $230 million.

On May 30, "Maleficent", which cost 110 million to produce, was painted, earning $69.43 million in North America in the first week, and finally grossed $230 million in North America.

On June 27, "Transformers 4", with a production cost of 300 million, arrived, with a North American box office of $100 million in the first week, and a total of $240 million in the final North American box office.

Judging from the disk data, this year's summer file is undoubtedly very disappointing.

This year's North American summer file, starting from the first Friday of May to Labor Day on September 1, lasted 122 days, and 216 new films, large and small, were released, down from 232 last year.

Among them, the number of large-scale films (referring to the screening in more than 600 theaters during the same period) was 53, up from 50 last year, and the box office during the period was 4,060.8 million US dollars, a sharp drop of 14.6% from last year's 4,754.4 million, not only "won" the lowest performance since 2007, but also the year-on-year decline was the highest in North American film history.

In terms of the number of moviegoers, the summer of 2014 is the lowest since 1992, and the market is like falling into a glacial period.

In this case, fans and theaters around the world are looking forward to the release of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" on August 20 with a production fee of 140 million.

The film is a sequel to Batman: The Dark Knight, which became a worldwide hit last year.

Produced and adapted by Peng Yichen, directed by the genius Nolan, and starring Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway and others, how will this superhero comic book movie perform in this deserted summer file?

This is a question that everyone is very much looking forward to.

Nolan has once again proven his ability to know superhero films.

"The Dark Knight Rises" received an astonishing box office result of 130 million in the first three days of its release.

The movie was released for 6 months before it was gradually released, with a total box office of 470 million in North America and 890 million worldwide.

Although there is a slight drop in the box office compared to "The Dark Knight", it still makes Warner a lot of money.

The summer file is over, and the filming of "Watchmen" was completely completed at the end of June, leaving only a large number of long-term post-production special effects.

And the preliminary preparations and copyright preparations for "Ready Player One", Spielberg finally completed it in late September.

The film, which is produced by Spielberg and written and directed by Peng Yicheng, is scheduled to officially start filming on October 1.

On September 15th, all the main actors of "Ready Player One" were assembled in Detroit, where they were going to prepare for action training and pop culture training in the 80s and 90s, and Yu Jing, as the heroine of the film, of course, also had to participate in this training.

Peng Yichen and Spielberg unanimously chose Detroit as the filming location.

It is because the city was declared bankrupt during the financial crisis a few years ago.

There are a large number of abandoned office buildings and abandoned neighborhoods.

It is very suitable for the description of the future human reality in "Ready Player One".

In one movie, the reason why future humans are obsessed with entering the virtual game world is because of the barrenness and dilapidation of the real world.

The atmosphere and environment of Detroit is perfect for the atmosphere that the movie needs.

Of course, during the training period, what made Yu Jing feel most reluctant was that she couldn't see Meng Meng every day.

Even though she can talk to Meng Meng through video conversations every day and go back to Los Angeles to meet her daughter on weekends, as a mother, it is still very difficult for her to accept the feeling of not being able to hold her daughter for a long time......

In order to let Yu Jing have the best state of learning and training, as the director and screenwriter of "Ready Player One", in the interval between the production of "Watchmen", Peng Yichen would often take Meng Meng to the set of "Ready Player One" to visit Yu Jing, who was really trained.

Before the release of "Watchmen", he was mainly involved in post-production work on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was also preparing for the filming of "Ready Player One".

Due to Spielberg's very high secrecy and low-key style, the media do not know any information about the film "Ready Player One" for the time being, but it is rumored that "Peng Yichen is going to cooperate with Spielberg to shoot a 3D sci-fi movie".

Therefore, the objects they are tracking now are focused on "Watchmen", which is also the effect that Peng Yichen and Spielberg want.

After the summer season has passed, on September 29, Chen Jing Film's 5th film of this year, "Spy Shadow 2", will debut!

The movies released by Chen Jing Film Company before are: "Dark War 2", "Eavesdropping 2", "The Legend of Wukong" (animation), and "Forever Gone" directed by his brother Leslie Cheung.

"Forever Gone", as the first film script written by Peng Yichen completely on his own, under the guidance and starring of his brother Leslie Cheung, interprets a period of troubled children in the Republic of China.

The film strikes a very good balance between art and business.

When it was released in China in March 2014, it received an astonishing box office result of 800 million Huaxia coins.

was released in North America in May, and it also received more than 85 million US dollars, which is already a perfect result in Chinese films.

As for the long-publicized spy war series "Spy Shadow 2", as soon as it was released in North America, it landed in 4,213 theaters and more than 14,000 big screens.

At the same time, the film was also released simultaneously in nearly 60 countries and regions!

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