Chapter 372: A Fair Starting Line

The time for the Oscars is approaching day by day.

The number of votes on Google, Facebook, and Twitter for "Life is Beautiful" continues to climb.

Until the end of voting on the day of the Oscars, when the final voting time for several major websites ended, "Life is Beautiful" received more than 65 million votes......

In major media and websites in North America, "Beautiful Life", which was originally not reported at all, suddenly became a big hit.

Everyone is talking about Peng Yichen and his two films.

One is, of course, "Double Treasure Fighting Demons", which is being released in North America.

During this time, "Double Treasure Fighting Demons" spent its fourth and fifth weeks of screening.

And the number of screens it screened has increased to a terrifying 7,000.

In almost all of North America's smallest cities, you'll find theaters where the film is being shown.

Of course, this low-budget black humor horror movie did not disappoint the theater companies and movie theater owners who gave him an increase in film scheduling.

When the movie was released in the fourth week, it happened to be the time when the voting of "Beautiful Life" on major websites began to explode, and then this hot public opinion point.

"Double Treasure Fighting Demons", also directed by Peng Yichen, has enjoyed the benefits of rubbing hot spots.

In just one week, it grabbed $59.48 million at the box office, which not only brought the film's total box office to a staggering $150 million.

And for the first time, this movie sat on the North American weekly box office champion!

You must know that even during the peak summer season when the box office exploded, it was very rare for those commercial blockbusters to exceed $70 million at the box office in a single week.

But "Double Treasure Fighting Demons" was able to reach a staggering nearly $80 million in a single week box office, which really makes all Hollywood filmmakers not know what to say about this movie.

In contrast, "Dangerous Spy War" starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, which has just been screened for the second week, only received 37.133 million box office on 8,000 screens, ranking second;

This makes people feel how unbelievable it is for "Double Treasure Fighting Demons" to get such a box office miracle.

"Double Treasure Fighting Demons" topped the weekly champion! Chinese miracle director Peng Yichen officially landed in North America!"

That's the headline of Hollywood's weekly box office review.

The article reads:

"This week's box office total has dropped by 32.4% compared with last week, and the single-week box office performance of last week's box office champion "Dangerous Spy War" has dropped by 55%;

Surprisingly, the box office of "Double Treasure Fighting Demons", which was released in the fourth week of release, rose by 17.4%.

Although the film has only been released for two weeks, such a box office trend still shows that the film is full of momentum!

As a result, it defeated the hugely invested commercial blockbuster "Danger Spy War" and became the champion of the weekly box office in North America for the first time.

We can't predict the final box office of these two films now, but considering the difference in investment costs between the two films.

"Double Treasure Fighting Demons" is almost certainly the winner who has the last laugh. ”

Sure enough, in the fourth week, although the box office of "Double Treasure Fighting Demons" also began to decline, it dropped directly to $31.3 million in a single week.

However, the box office of "Dangerous Spy War" has dropped to 17.3 million in a single week.

According to the current trend, the total North American box office of "Double Treasure Demon Fight" should be able to exceed $300 million.

And "Dangerous Spy War" is estimated to get a maximum of $250 million.

The return on investment of the two films is almost more than 100 times different.

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At the same time, Peng Yichen's other movie "Beautiful Life" has also become a hot topic in the United States.

Because most of the ordinary audience has not seen this movie that has not yet been released in North America, the scope of discussion is limited to why the film has a huge number of votes on the three major websites.

And the Oscar judges who can see this movie have analyzed the film in depth on all occasions where they can gather, focusing on the humanistic connotation and anti-war ideas of this movie.

"You know what? The one that was shortlisted for Best Foreign Language Film is "Life is Beautiful". It's incredible to hear that this movie recently beat the award-winning hit "Bomb Disposal Unit" in all online votes. ”

"Of course I've heard about it. For this reason, I also specially found a theater that showed the movie to the Oscar judges for free. The quality of this movie is beyond my imagination, and I don't know why I haven't heard of this movie at all before. ”

"There are so many films running for the Oscars every year, and it is impossible for our judges to see every single one. Especially for the unpopularity of the best foreign language film, most of the judges have only watched one or two films that they are interested in, so they vote. ”

"Yes, so do I. It seems that there are still loopholes in our Oscar award system, and all judges should be required to watch all the shortlisted films. ”

"What you say is unrealistic, the number of Oscar judges has exceeded 6,500 in the past two years. Moreover, these judges are also distributed in major cities in the Star Flag Country, and it is unrealistic to organize them together and force them to watch all the participating films. ”

"You're right, but no matter what, I'll vote for Life is Beautiful. The plot of the male protagonist in the movie protecting his son's innocence touched me so much. ”

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For the Oscar judges, their favorite is the film that is politically correct, but can show the truth, goodness and beauty of human nature.

"Life is Beautiful" perfectly meets these conditions, it has a deep anti-war ideology, uses comedy to show the cruelty of war, and at the same time shows the hero's importance and protection of his son's innocence.

This is an anti-war film that best suits the taste of the Oscars.

Many Oscar judges hadn't actually seen this movie before, but once they saw it, few people couldn't help but be moved by the brilliance of humanity in the movie.

At this point, Hua Na's Bix has to admit that the huge advantage of media resources in his hands has been completely erased by Peng Yichen and Robinov.

When information becomes free and circulating, the quality of the film becomes the only guarantee of an Oscar.

Obviously, in the hearts of the Oscar judges, the quality of "Life is Beautiful" is completely a few streets away from "Mysterious Eyes".

It's not that "Mysterious Eyes" is bad, but "Life is Beautiful" is too much in line with the taste of the Oscar judges.

So far, Peng Yichen and Sun Yizou's plan has really succeeded in making "Life Beautiful" famous among the Oscar judges a shocking reversal in the last 20 days before the Oscars.

A Chinese film that was originally unknown and ignored by many judges has successfully entered the eyes of countless Oscar judges.

And with its unparalleled charm, humanistic connotation and anti-war ideas, it has conquered countless professional filmmakers with Oscars.

Let them discover that the original Chinese people can also make such wonderful movies that reflect on war and human nature.

Peng Yichen's efforts were not in vain, and he finally made his film completely avoid Zhang Gengai's "Overlord" running for the Oscar, the kind of huge regret that he finally missed the Oscar because of poor public relations.

Now, "Life is Beautiful" is finally competing on a level playing field with all the other films.

And then, it is up to the quality and connotation of the film itself to win the final victory.

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