Chapter 352 Opportunity by Sean Penn

Peng Yichen's upcoming "Double Treasure Fighting Demon" in North America surprised countless Hollywood filmmakers with its crazy ticket sales speed before it was officially released.

Many critics can't even get tickets for the film's premiere day.

And in Los Angeles, a city with a large number of Chinese people, many Chinese fans even booked in advance all the tickets for the first three days of the film in the two art movie theaters in Los Angeles that only showed the film on the night of the Oscar nomination announcement.

forced the two movie theaters to reopen two theaters so that other fans could buy tickets for "Double Treasure Fighting Demons".

What's even more exaggerated is that even some young people in the Star Flag Country even stayed up late to buy tickets for this movie.

They may not be fans of Peng Yichen, but they are very curious about this "arrogant" Chinese young man, just to see what kind of movies this guy can make.

In the end, at the door of the screening cinema of "Double Treasure Fighting Demons", there were even many scalpers from the Star Flag Country.

Once they buy a movie ticket for around $10, they can usually sell it for more than $100 as soon as it changes hands.

Tickets for a good location even sold for a whopping $300.

The most bizarre thing is that the reason for the crazy rise in ticket prices is because there are many fans of Peng Yichen, in order to see this movie for the first time, they directly signed up for a tour group to travel to the Star Flag Country.

The first thing these people did when they arrived in the Star Flag Country was to buy tickets to watch this movie.

They spanned the entire Pacific Ocean, just to be able to watch Peng Yichen's new film for the first time, and they can be said to be real die-hard fans. Of course, they will not hesitate to buy the tickets in the hands of those scalpers, which also makes the scalping prices of these movie tickets go up.

This also led to the fact that almost no one in the entire Los Angeles film critics could buy tickets for "Double Treasure Fighting Demons" on the day of the premiere.

Even the tickets for the Los Angeles movie two days later have been sold out.

After all, there are only two theaters with 5 screens, and they can sell up to 10,000 tickets a day.

For the huge Los Angeles and Wuyang Wuyang Chinese tourists who come to the Star Flag Country to travel, such a small ticket is a drop in the bucket.

Comparatively, New York sold tickets a little slower than Los Angeles, but tickets sold out early on the day of the premiere.

Fortunately, for the premiere of "Double Treasure Fighting Demons" in New York, Peng Yichen gave out 100 tickets for free in the Actors Guild forum early.

Otherwise, New York traditionals like Sean Penn who went to see this movie in order to "pick thorns" didn't even have the opportunity to enter the movie theater to "pick thorns".

Of course, among the audience, there are many third-party film research and consulting companies hired by the seven major Hollywood studios to conduct surveys.

They will synthesize their judgment on this movie as soon as possible, as well as the word-of-mouth survey of the audience after watching the movie, and provide a box office trend forecast report of "Double Treasure Fighting Demons" for the seven major Hollywood studios.

Help Hollywood companies work out countermeasures in advance for their upcoming film promotion.

On the night of April 8 in New York, the city lights were so bright and gorgeous.

When night falls, fans and audiences set off to the cinema to see if Peng Yichen, the film directed by Huaxia, is a classic or rubbish.

At the same time, in front of more than a dozen theaters in other 4 major cities, there are also many fans waiting for the release of this Chinese-language movie.

In New York in April, the weather is still a little cold.

When it was just getting dark, small snowflakes began to fall in the sky.

In New York's largest arthouse theater, it was already crowded at this time.

In a normal day, this old cabaret theater would have been filled with many niche art films from Europe.

But today, it has become the venue for the premiere of the new Chinese film "Double Treasure Fighting Demons".

In order to welcome Peng Yichen's family in New York and many Chinese fans in Chinatown, countless red lanterns were hung in the theater hall, creating a festive atmosphere on the scene.

The premiere was only a small-scale in-house screening, so in addition to Peng's invited family and Chinese fans.

In the entire movie hall, only the North American Screen Actors Guild and the Directors Guild received free invitation tickets to enter.

So there was no ordinary fan watching at the scene.

Yu Jing wore a set of pale pink thin sweaters, smiled and greeted the guests who arrived one after another at the entrance of the theater with Peng Yichen.

She took advantage of the break to look carefully at the English poster that read: "Director Peng Yichen; produced by Chen Jing Film Company" for a long time, and the name of Emma Roberts written in the column of the female lead, and it took a long time to look away.

"Tatsuko, the heroine of the next movie, you won't use someone else anymore, right?" Yu Jing asked with a jealous look at the bite of her lip.

"Hahahaha, it turns out that you are jealous, so cute. Peng Yichen looked at Yu Jing's face full of vinegar and laughed.

Peng Yichen's laughter attracted the attention of many actors and directors of the Star Flag Country present.

was noticed by a group of foreigners, which made Yu Jing's face turn red.

"Don't laugh, I'll ...... if I laugh again" Yu Jing embarrassedly grabbed Peng Yichen's arm and gently pinched him under his armpit.

Peng Yichen hurriedly begged for mercy: "Okay, I won't laugh anymore." Rest assured, the heroine of the next movie must be you. ”

Just as the two were laughing, there was a sudden commotion outside the theater.

Everyone turned their eyes to the gate, and there walked a tall, thin old man, with pale skin and sharp eyes, whose fortitude and stubbornness could be seen in his slashing face alone.

These are some of the top actors and directors in New York's traditionaries.

"Hey, Sean!!You're really here. ”

"Hi Sean, are you here to see the movie?"

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Countless actors and directors from the Star Flag Country greeted this old man one after another.

You have to admit that this guy's influence among the filmmakers of the Star Flag Country is rarely compared.

And at this time, Yu Jing also saw the stubbornness of this old man of the Star Banner who had been targeting Peng Yichen and his movies, and walked into the hall of the movie theater.

She muttered, "If he dares to ruin today's premiere, I'm determined not to let him have a good time." ”

Listening to Yu Jing's somewhat childish words, Peng Yichen smiled slightly, took her hand, and walked generously in front of Xiao Enpan to greet him as a special guest.

At this time, Peng Yichen saw that just behind Sean Penn, there was a group of elderly white mermaids over 60 years old.

They all had serious faces, as if they were not coming to see a movie, but to perform a solemn ceremony.

These people are all actors and directors on Broadway in New York.

Some of them were celebrities and big names in Hollywood film when they were young.

Now, though, they've retired to Broadway to do their own stage plays. But they still have the status of the current judges of the Oscars.

Seeing the traditionalists in New York, this time they actually went out of their nests, and even Robinov and Denzel, who had never come forward, hurried out of the theater and greeted these old actors and directors one by one.

If these old people are in the Hollywood commercial film market, they are just a group of insignificant little people.

But among the film professionals of the Star Flag Nation, their influence in the selection of the Oscars is unparalleled.

Sean Penn took these old men with him, ignoring Peng Yichen and Yu Jing, who came to greet him, and passed by Peng Yichen with disdain.

And his peculiar deep voice said:

"Director Peng, thank you for the ticket. I hope that after we watch your so-called movie, we can both maintain the good mood we have to face each other now. ”

After saying that, Sean Pan walked straight into the theater, ignoring Peng Yichen's outstretched right hand.

This unreasonable attitude did not make Peng Yichen feel the atmosphere.

On the contrary, when Peng Yichen saw the dozen or so old actors and directors behind Sean Penn and followed him into the theater, there was even a hint of excitement in his eyes.

He smiled at Sean Penn's back:

"Thank you so much for this stubborn old man. It gave me the best opportunity to quickly improve the reputation of the movie for free!"

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