"A Week's Box Office Roundup: 'Shamo' Sets Off a Movie-Watching Boom, and Miraculous Yang Pushes a Bombshell" - Yahoo Entertainment;"Blockbusters Defeat Small Freshness, Lovelorn Healing System Sweeps the Global Christmas Film Market" - Sina Entertainment;"How Can I Quit You? '500 Days of Love' Interprets the True Meaning of Love" - Yahoo Chimo;"Critics' Consensus: '500 Days with Shamo' is a Real Love" - Rotten Tomatoes;"'Shamo' Conquers the Global Film Critics, Wang Yang Conquers the Love Genre" - MetaCritic;" The biggest surprise in the post-era of Firefly, the magic of Yang won the Christmas champion"...... 2005 is definitely one of the most important years in the history of human cinema, and it is also a glorious year in the history of science fiction films...... I can't count so many important and lively events, they will definitely be a heavy stroke in film history in the future.

The time came to December 30th, the year is coming to an end, and the annual box office rankings of various movies and film companies are almost settled, except for the New Year's Eve weekly box office champion from 12-30 to 2006-1-5, the last North American weekly champion was born.

$113 million! "500 Days with Sammo" was released in 3,351 North American theaters, with an average of $33,769 per theater, creating the best opening week and single week results this month, making "The Chronicles of Narnia" (81.33 million in the opening week) and "King Kong" (71.27 million) and other big productions lose face!

"This can't be said to be a breakthrough in small-budget independent films and romantic comedies, because only the phenomenal director Wang Yang has the ability to cause this phenomenon, and there is no one on the earth who can stop him. Yahoo's weekly box office review list is so funny, the end survey data shows that 65% of the audience of "500 Days" are 18 years old and above, and 59% are women, which means that most of the audience is a couple to watch, not a family with children, and at the same time, the magic baby has once again made women go out, although "500 Days" is a male movie.

"Wang Yang is completely unaffected by the dullness of the film market, he can attract audiences into the cinema, and he is the one who drives the market. Paul Degallabe, director of box office statistics agency ExhibitorRelations, gave his opinion, saying: "It's like a concert, no matter what genre of film, as long as it's magically hit, the audience has enough reason to watch it until they go home disappointed for the first time, but 10 movies in 7 years, not once." It's his time. ”

In the 2000 Christmas file, "Juno" and "Desert Island Afterlife" fought to the death, and finally won the Christmas week championship on the 22nd-28th of that year with a narrow victory of 969,100, with a box office of 70,619,800 in the opening week (2,712 theaters); in 2002, "The Hangover" won the championship in the week 13-19 of that year with 85,091,600 (2,875 theaters), and then lost to the first week of "The Lord of the Rings 2" on the 21-26th in the second week; in 2003, "The Devil Wears Prada" In the fierce battle with the film critics, he took away the champion of the week 12-18 with 74.6852 million (3056 theaters), and lost to "The Lord of the Rings 3" in the first week on the 19-25th of the next week.

Wang Yang has competed in the Christmas schedule four times, and all of them were able to win the first week championship, but there was only one real Christmas week champion before, and now after 5 years, Little Fresh Sunshine Miraculously returned to the set and regained the Christmas week championship with the absolute advantage of destroying the withering and decaying!

This week's North American box office totaled $365 million, catching up with the peak of 371 million from December 26 to January 1, 2003, sweeping away the decline in the months since "Firefly". Needless to say, how happy the theater owners were, why did they love death and miraculously Yang? Last week's box office from 16 to 22 was only a little over 200 million! Just imagine, if it weren't for this bombshell and this shot in the arm, maybe that number would only be more than 300 million without surprises.

In second place is "The Chronicles of Narnia", a fantasy blockbuster that received 58.54 million in its third week (3,853 theaters, an average of $15,196 per theater), with a total box office of nearly 200 million in North America, and in third place, "King Kong" with 55.41 million (2nd week, 3576 stores/$15,495), with a total North American box office of nearly 150 million.

This is like a dividing line, with "three blockbusters" on the top, and the sad wail of a number of new films below, the fourth "New Money Grabbing Couple" 27.18 million, the fifth "Children and Daughters 2" 24.54 million, the sixth expanded screening scale (1547, +1495) "Memoirs of a Geisha" 13.32 million, the seventh next week new film "The Stone Family" 12.16 million, Jennifer Aniston and others starring "Gossip" with three indicators on Rotten Tomatoes 20%/13%/51% 's word-of-mouth evaluation became a bad movie, with a box office of 9.07 million in five days of release this week, while Weinstein Pictures' horror film "Wolf Creek" became a bad movie with 53%/52%/50%, with a box office of 5.4 million in the first week...... The other two small-scale screenings of "The Muheni Tragedy" received 9.51 million (532 companies), and "Brokeback Mountain" received 6.61 million (270 companies), and the total box office rose to 12.58 million.

"500 Days with Shamo", which cost $15 million, not only tortured this week's opponents, but also filled other opponents in film history with a bad feeling of powerlessness. The first-week score of 113 million has made it jump to the 17th place in the North American film history list (1978-present) in the romantic comedy category, and there are only 6 films with a box office of more than 150 million, and only 1 film with a box office of more than 200 million;

No. 19 "X-Men 2", No. 20 "Jurassic Park 2", No. 21 "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" with a production cost of 100 million in 6 days and 261 million in North America, No. 23 with a production cost of 125 million "The Day After Tomorrow" with a production cost of 100 million in 7 days and 186 million in North America in the end, "Rush Hour 2" at No. 24, "Fake Gods" at No. 25, and "Finding Nemo" at No. 26...... Now a little fresh is actually on a par with these behemoths in production and publicity, and it is tough! Half a year before Magic Yang announced his new plan, the media and movie fans never thought about this situation! This is the first time that a wasteful comedy has collected tickets in such an amazing way, and will the box office champion in the history of romantic comedy change hands?

With its super high evaluation reputation and the "magic of raising stamina" that is never lacking, in the speculation of ExhibitorRelations, Boxoffojo and other institutions, "500 Days with Shamo" entering the 200 million North American box office club is a 99% event, and it is seen as high at about 250 million.

"Miracles are always created by people, and the person who always creates miracles is called Wang Yang. Yahoo Entertainment's report finally said that the opening results of "500 Days" also created Wang Yang's third personal film that broke 100 million in the first week, "Firefly" 236.5 million, "District 9" 131 million, and then "Shamo", and the fourth place in this year's opening week, "Firefly", 150 million "Star Wars Prequel 3", 146 million "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", and then "Shamo".

One can imagine how great the effect of "Firefly" is, how hot the magic Yang is, and how good "Shamo" itself is, and how wonderful it has never been!

However, it is not surprising that fans such as Blaise C and Lois G, who have already asserted it, left a message on the review board of the "Weekly Box Office Roundup" and said: "It's so sad! I mean "500 Days with Sammo", and this chart, these poor films really need comfort, why? What did they do wrong? Why did they show at the same time as Magic Young? Maybe that's the biggest mistake. Lois-G said: "It turned out that the second place was "The Chronicles of Narnia", and it was only -93% lost, which is already very good! I thought it was going to be more than -100%. Elizabeth V said: "I had a friend who said, 'Wang Yang doesn't know how to make romance films, and he has to be strong when he is seriously injured, he will be a fool this time', and I just called him and said, 'See, bitch!'" ...... "Fireflies is just a normal beautiful woman, and normal love elements." —Score: 60 points, T.Y. Bull, Boston Globe.

"The film casts a magic trick that captivates me, a sparkling fun, a genuine beauty, an amazing, exciting, and brilliant (onderfully-uplifting-and-brilliantly) performance. —Score: 95 points, T.Y. Bull, Boston Globe.

Half a year ago, TY-Bull gave "Firefly" one of the few medium reviews, and the biggest problem was to question the director's way of dealing with female characters. More than one critic complained about his lack of enthusiasm for chasing girls, even with the so-called love element label, and in early July he announced a new plan for "500 Days with Shamo", and Rotten Tomatoes said: "It seems that the war between Yang and film critics will continue." ”

Now that the "Battle of Shamo" has started and there is a result, who is the winner?

Seven days after its release, the IMDB-TOP250 score of "500 Days" was not as strong as that of "Firefly", falling to 8.5 points (113,572 votes) and temporarily stabilizing, while on the other hand, the audience liking on Rotten Tomatoes slipped to 92% (731,926 rated users), and the audience who smashed the low score reviews was mainly because they didn't like the overall style of the film, especially the disorderly and messy narrative structure, and at the same time "sad comedy" and "non-Hollywood ending" It was also smashed all over Rotten Tomatoes, because many people just wanted to "simply celebrate success with a white wedding cake".

However, with a 92% (171/185) freshness rating for popular critics and 95% (40/42) for well-known critics, who is the winner?

The Northwest Herald's Jeffrey Westerhoff refused to throw in the towel and vowed to go the black, scoring 2/4: "All of its ambitions feel like synthetics, and it's boring and incomprehensible to have to stick out your eyes to search." Obviously he found a good opposition camp and negated the stylistic tone, so what is the point of the film, how deep it is?

However, Westerhoff's blog naturally could not escape the bombardment and ridicule of fans, and Valeria left a message: "Of course, for your IQ, you also deserve to watch "Super Perfect Points" and "Super Perfect Man". Logan G commented, "Wow! I found a 40-year-old virgin and finally understood why there was negative population growth." "My situation may be special, I went to see it with my family, and my 10-year-old brother said, 'This is cool!'" DeLong-L wrote...... There is no doubt that the magic of Yang has won, "Shamo" has won, and now it is the carnival time for Yang fans! How much stuff was held before, how much can be expressed now! more!

So several other film critics who smashed out Rotten Tomatoes were treated in the same way, David Edelstein of the New York Magazine, Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal, Liam Lacey of The Globe and Mail, and Kimberly Jones of the Austin Chronicle...... Some of them are traditional veterans, and some are film critics who are not right about the film, but this time it is different from the war of words in "TDP", no more people stand by their side, but more and more people throw a piece of in their faces.

Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter, Ben Mankiewicz of On Film, Dana Stevens of The Slate, Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune, ...... "It's an enjoyable experience to watch this movie, almost every scene is full of fun, and if you're not careful, a night has already passed, it's the kind of movie that you never want to finish, and of course when you need to go to the bathroom halfway through, you still wish it would stop." ”

Film critic Roger Albert praised it in the Chicago Sun-Times, giving it a perfect A+, and his detailed review is still a North American film critic's writing model that begins with an overall evaluation, introduces the director and script, retells the plot, evaluates the actors and production, and finally introduces the relevant background.

He begins by writing: "One of the most memorable scenes for me was when Tom rolled the sheets with Samo for the first time, and he walked out of the apartment and sang and danced in the street. Close your eyes and think that you are running in a sunny field, with unannoying birds following you, with the scent of flowers, with a breeze, let your imagination run wild, everything is so beautiful, it's nice to see that young man who brings sunshine back. ”

"The plot of the film is not complicated and new, but it builds a fresh feeling through a lot of sincere details, and I won't say too much about those young people born in the 80s, and I don't think Thunderbolt is the best TV show. As a romantic comedy about the concept of love, it does enough and is good enough, in love, we only believe those things that we want to believe, which is why this movie is so engaging, authentic, respectful of the audience, natural. ”

Albert seemed to be in a very happy mood, and he went on to write: "Wang Yang has done another great performance, 'Firefly' makes him look like a knight, and '500 Days with Shamo' makes him feel like a poet." Who said he wouldn't shoot love? That guy really deserves to be sentenced. I expect those guys to say 'he's not going to make war movies' next time because I'm fed up with those ridiculous 'epics.'" The poet Wonder Young dissected love, have you ever seen the anatomy of the human body? He did just that, so when you watch this movie, you may feel disgusted and sad about love. ”

When the plot was introduced, the old man spoke vividly about several favorite classic scenes, and praised the performances of the leading actors, he said: "When Natalie Portman and Wang Yang teamed up, she was like a child who smoked too much marijuana, or got her favorite toy, and behaved very explosively, but this is not a good habit, and from another point of view, her performance in other movies is just a joke." In addition, he praised the fine production and unique style.

Finally, he commented: "If you know that before the filming of this film, Wang Yang almost died, and during the filming, he could only use one hand and had to endure the sequelae of severe concussion...... It took half a year from preparation to release, and you understand that it had 10,000 reasons to fail, but now it has 10,000 reasons to be praised. I checked it before going to press, and the British media praised it, and the American media also praised it, what sherbet, ice cream, smoothie, ice shop menu, and some people said it was "Anne Hall". ”

"I watched the premiere of 'Annie Hall' 28 years ago, watched it again three years ago, and I was amazed at the immediate familiarity of every scene, and I never forgot it, and I'm sure it would be the same when I watched '500 Days with Sammo' again 25 years later, if I were still alive. ”

Roger Albert's film review has received enthusiastic support from the majority of Yang fans, more than one fan agrees with Wang Yang's new nickname as "The Wonder Poet", and in fact can be traced back to the old Tang poem of the final ending scene of "Firefly"; "You don't shoot sports genres. "You don't make horror movies. ”…… The magical baby is like a living wishing tree, but if you want your wish to come true, you have to say it in a radical way.

Although this is not "I Am a Legend", "The Dark Knight", "Old Boy", "Iron Man" and other films decided after "breaking my brain", the first wave of post-autumn reckoning among Yang fans has arrived, and they are facing a slam dunk head-on! Not only have Yang Hei film critics and Internet Yang Black users been bombarded and destroyed, but the people who have taken over the war book in their lives have also become the latest joke objects in the circle of friends.

"Hahaha-" For example, Evelyn, Alice and others called Yang's black friends, laughing happily until the other party admits defeat and says, "Okay, he will make romance movies, I was wrong!"

True, False? The 2005 North American box office of the Flame Movie reached an astonishing level! Accomplished last year's unfinished feat: breaking $1 billion?

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(To be continued)