Under the warm summer sun, Wang Yang lay comfortably on the sun lounger by the swimming pool in the back garden, flipped through the messages on his mobile phone, and pressed the numeric keypad to make some replies. With the popularity of "District 9", he has almost kept receiving congratulations, text messages, emails, phone calls, etc. from good friends and ordinary friends in the past few days, and some of them make him particularly happy.

"Congratulations to the director! You've made me watch a good movie again! Should I say thank you? Haha, I have a ticket, $16! Whatever, "District 9" is unbeatable, keep it up!"

Before emptying the SMS box on his mobile phone, Wang Yang scanned the messages of several people again, and after reading Rachel's congratulations a few days ago, he deleted it with a smile. At this time, he suddenly received a new text message from Will Smith, and he clicked on it and said: "Man, congratulations on the box office of "District 9", which is amazing! ”

Jaden's kung fu is not even a showmanship, just some punches and kicks in the posture and sequence, but he is enthusiastic about learning, and he seems to feel that he is now "strong in kung fu". Wang Yang smiled, thought for a while, and immediately called back to Will, looking at the light blue swimming pool in front of him. With the sound of leisurely swimming, Jessica, with her long hair scattered, swam lightly in the water, and her posture was very beautiful.

One of the huge successes of "District 9" is that Wang Yang's popularity has once again soared to a record high, and he has become a dazzling star in front of the screen, and in the words of fans, "the return of the king". In the past few days, whether it is traditional print media, emerging websites, or places with film entertainment, there are almost all "District 9" and Magic Young, not only film critics' film reviews, box office reports, and exclusive interviews and promotions by the crew during the release stage.

It's more about personal lace gossip and behind-the-scenes production footage stories of the movie, in the "relationship between "District 9" and Magic Young's imprisonment", Yahoo Entertainment revealed: "Why is it the ninth district? instead of the seventh and eighth districts? It turns out that when Amazing Young and Robert Downey Jr. were roommates on Lake Island, their cell number was 149. In addition, it revealed: "Wonder Young also beat Donnie one night, and one of the inmates in the opposite cell saw with his own eyes, he knocked Downey down with a few punches, and then pressed Downey to the ground and beat him wildly." ”

And the source of the deep meaning behind the movie, whether District 9 refers to prisons, or alludes to the apartheid system in South Africa back then...... They all have their own sayings and look decent.

On the other hand, the public demand for private life street photography has also increased suddenly, and the paparazzi have surrounded and tracked, so that the two went to the beach in Santa Monica yesterday to play, and were harassed to the rest. So the two simply stayed at home today to cool off.

After a few beeps, the phone was connected, and Wang Yang greeted, "Hi, Will." Will Smith over there laughed and said, "Hey man, the box office broke 100 million in 3 days, it's really cool!" Wang Yang smiled and thanked him, and said: "If Jaden wants to learn a new move, come over tomorrow, I'll teach him a day, I have a lot of time now." "District 9" has just been released, and even if you try hard, you can't edit "The Hangover" right away.

He needs to rest for half a month, but he can't travel, not because he is afraid of a terrorist attack, but because he needs him for the follow-up promotion of the movie, and he may be invited by some magazine for an interview at any time.

"Well, that's great, Jaden now knows that your movie is out, and these days he's been saying 'I'm going to see my master's movie' and 'Daddy take me there'. Will Smith said a few words in a childish voice, and sighed with a headache: "You know your movie is too depressing, it's been two days since Terry and I watched it, and it's still hard to think about it, what do you want me to do? We won't, Jaden just cried and fussed, oh my God! Where did he learn it?"

"I don't know, the nature of children, right?" Wang Yang suddenly laughed, but "District Nine" must not be shown to children of a few years old, he smiled at the mobile phone: "Tomorrow Jaden comes to me, I will play "Youth of Singing and Dancing for him". ”

Will Smith didn't think it was a good idea, saying, "That kid is not easy to deceive, but he knows that there are aliens." Well, I told him, I wanted to finish the story, but who knew he was more interested. Wang Yang raised his eyebrows and thought for a moment, then smiled: "Okay, in that case, I'll show him some shooting footage, there is a green-faced alien in it." ”

"Man, you've got him done anyway. Will Smith laughed, looking very irresponsible, and laughed: "He can watch "Men in Black 2". But Terry hit me hard and said, 'Will, yours is like a toy compared to Young's District 9!' Oh, he's only 10 years old, shouldn't he like toys? haha!" and he laughed again, "But he's right, if I play Victrex, maybe I can get another Best Actor, and it's Downey's now." ”

The success of "District 9" not only made Wang Yang's popularity soar, but Robert Downey Jr. also returned to the ranks of popular stars overnight, even surpassing the height of his youth.

In the past five or six years, he has become a spurned street rat because of various bad deeds such as drug addiction and drunk driving, but since taking over the filming of "District 9", he seems to be a different person, in his words, "woke up". He successfully quit drug addiction and was not arrested again, and he sincerely admitted his mistakes in public many times, coupled with his genius performance in "District 9", fans and fans have re-accepted this middle-aged uncle who turned back to the prodigal son.

And the combination of Victrex's pathos and pain with his own life experience makes "District 9" a little more legendary. His understanding of the role and acting skills have become a must-have item for a group of media critics to praise when talking about "District 9".

The Los Angeles Times said, "It was because Robert Donniche Jr. experienced the pain and loneliness of being left alone that Viggs came to life on the screen." "Hollywood Vanguard" said, "Victrex is going to despair on the screen, and Robert Downey Jr. is moving towards hope in reality." But I'm afraid that for a long time, the audience will not forget the appearance of Robert when he rubbed the bamboo dragonfly. ”…… The "Oscar for Best Actor" in the mouth of the media is also very high, which is definitely a rare thing for a "commercial film" released in August. And film critic Philia Thomas's blog wrote: "If awards deliberately ignore District 9 because of stereotypes and damn traditions, it will be a disaster worse than metamorphosis." ”

The focus of the gossip media is naturally different, and a reporter asked Robert Downey Jr. during an interview: "When you played the part where Wiggs was abandoned by his wife, were you thinking about Sarah Jessica Parker, or his ex-wife Debra Fao Connor?" ”

In any case, Downey's popularity is rising every day, which is not what Will Smith envies, because there is no need at all, although "Men in Black 2" has a bad reputation, but the audience's love for Will, he is still one of the popular kings in Hollywood.

It's just that the strength of "District 9" makes Will feel a little emotional, the key words of the film review of "Men in Black 2" are "eating the old book, no new ideas, dull and cliché", and the old book of the first part is almost eaten, 170 million US dollars in North America and 370 million in the world; Although Sony will not lose money, "Men in Black 3" is definitely far away. This needs to wait until the audience forgets the bad impression of the second part, and then starts to miss the first part, which may take five or ten years.

And among the many sci-fi movies this summer, it goes without saying that "Fire Doomsday", which has a mess at the word-of-mouth box office, "Spider-Man" is a purely commercial movie, and "Star Wars Prequel 2" continues to be scolded as "George Lucas is destroying the Star Wars series"; The dreary and crappy" "Celestial Omen" is facing the fate of being strangled in theaters by "District 9", and the noir sci-fi "Minority Report" was praised as "the best" at the beginning of the summer, but after "District 9" came out, film critics have put the title of "best this summer" back on the shrimp bug man.

In terms of the freshness of well-known film critics on Rotten Tomatoes, "Fire Doomsday" is 40%, "Star Wars Episode 2" is 40%, "Men in Black 2" is 41%, "Omen" is 56%, "Spider-Man" is 83%, "Minority Report" is 89%, and "District 9" is 95%. In terms of audience popularity, "Fire Doomsday" is 55%, "Men in Black 2" is 57%, "Omen" is 60%, "Spider-Man" is 65%, "Star Wars Prequel 2" is 69%, "Minority Report" is 74%, and "District 9" is 93%.

These two rankings say something somewhat, if you ask the critics the collective opinion, "What's the best sci-fi movie this summer?", the answer is "District 9", and if you ask the audience's collective opinion, it is still the "new, unique, exciting, and terrifyingly profound" "District 9".

"Man, it's really amazing! I thought 'When Happiness Knocks' should be your limit before the age of 30. Will Smith sighed with emotion again and said with a smile: "But two years later, the incredible "District 9" was born. Wang Yang shook his head at the phone and smiled: "Thank you, Will, I will teach Jaden well, you don't need to be like this." Will burst out laughing and asked, "Okay, Young, when will we have a chance to work together again?"

It's not that he doesn't have a film contract to ask, "Jedi Men 2" is about to start, but the word-of-mouth failure of "Men in Black 2" made him disappointed to shoot a sequel to "Eat the Old Book";

Hearing Will say this, Wang Yang thought about it seriously, "Mit-21-Team" definitely has no chance, Jeff Ma can't be a black man, and his age is not right. He laughed, "Will, there will be, we're all so young! But my next movie, maybe you've heard of it, Natalie Portman will play the heroine, called "Mit-21-team", and the starring role will be young people, or like young people, so the old men go away. ”

Will Smith also laughed a few times without disappointment, and said, "Okay, then I'll wait for later, haha!" But man, you just said I was young?" Wang Yang then laughed: "Okay, that's comforting words, man, you're old." ”

The two laughed and chatted a few more words, and then ended the call. Wang Yang put down his phone, pillowed his head with his hands, and admired Jessica's charming swimming style not far away. She swam back and forth to the edge of the pool, leaned on the bricks and tiles on it with her hands, panted sharply, and said with a smile: "Yang, come down and swim together!" Wang Yang looked at the sun in the sky and said with a smile: "I'm a little too lazy to move now, I'll bask in the sun for a while." ”

"Hmm. Jessica wiped her wet hair with her hands on her forehead back, and when she was out of breath, she suddenly became interested and said with a smile: "I'm going to challenge the personal record of diving and holding my breath, you help me time, this time I'm going to dive for a long time!" Wang Yang smiled and nodded, diving is her hobby, she always likes to play this, picked up the phone and pressed it a few times, and said: "It's okay to start, 3, 2, 1, go!"

Before she could finish speaking, she took a deep breath, puffed out her cheeks, squatted down, and dived to the bottom of the pool.

Time passed second by second, the water surface of the swimming pool was so calm that there was no ripple, Wang Yang glanced at the timer of the mobile phone, 2:19 seconds, and said with a smile: "Hey, Jesse, it's almost three minutes! New record! Jesse? You won't faint in the water, right?" He suddenly sat up and looked at it, and the water surface by the pool suddenly made a noise, and a brown-haired beauty appeared, she breathed uncomfortably, coughed again and again, and asked with a pant: "How long?"

"It's been half an hour, a new Guinness World Record!" Wang Yang's tone was stiff, looking at her embarrassed appearance, and said loudly angrily: "Beauty, what are you doing so desperately, see that you are about to become a hobbit! This is very dangerous!" Jessica blinked her uncomfortable eyes from the water, and asked with a smile: "How long?"

Wang Yang rolled his eyes several times before he glanced at the phone screen and said, "3:13 seconds." Jessica over there suddenly exclaimed, and then with a bright smile on her face full of excitement, she said happily: "I knew that the record was broken, and it was 20 seconds ahead of schedule! Oh my God, I'm going to try again! No, show me my phone first, I'm going to take a picture of it!"

"No, I deleted it. Wang Yang pressed a few times, cleared the timer record, then stood up and took off his T-shirt, and said with a smile: "I have a way to let you dive for 20 minutes." Jessica looked incredulous and wondered, "What way?" Wang Yang smiled and said, "I'll come down and tell you!", and then ran two steps and jumped into the pool at once, and the water column exploded violently, and there was a good laugh.

Summer is coming to an end, and when the screening week of August 2-8 comes to an end, the box office for the last month of the 2002 summer vacation season is also settled. There is no suspense about the movie that ranks first at the weekly box office in North America, it is "District 9", which broke 100 million in 3 days in a weekend, and it continues to collect 28.13 million in the remaining 4 days. In the first week, 3,550 theaters grossed $131 million!

If calculated at 9.9 yuan per ticket, there are probably 13 million North American viewers who have watched "District 9".

"Tianzhao" continued to rank second this week, with its final box office of 34.67 million, followed by "Ace Spy" with 27.64 million, "Master of Disguise" with 10.37 million and "One Standout" with 6.87 million.

The 131 million "District 9" swept the box office this week with a hegemonic momentum, strangling several new films released together such as "Tianzhao", the figure of 131 million is shocking, the reason is still that one, it is R-rated!

The current highest-grossing R-rated film in North American film history is the 1984 comedy action film "Beverly Hills Detective", which grossed $234 million in 30 weeks, or more if inflation is included. But it seems that the title of "North American R-rated movie box office champion" will soon change hands, and with the strength and reputation of "District 9" in the first week, it may be said that the last sentence is certain, as long as the second week is normal.

ranked second in R-rated film history is "The Exorcist" with 232 million in 1973, followed by "Saving Private Ryan" with 216 million in 1998, "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" with 204 million in 1991, and "Gladiator" with 187 million in 2000...... The tenth place is "The Matrix" with 171 million in 1999. There are only two sci-fi movies in the top 10, "Terminator 2" and "The Matrix," and it won't be long before one name is changed.

Countless moviegoers across North America have experienced a sense of oppression and sadness this week, as have audiences in more than 40 countries and regions around the world. As they pointed the finger at Magic Yang, they cursed "**!", "verdammt!", "maldito!", "cazzo!", "Чертов!", "your lungs!" in various languages...... , the overseas box office of "District 9" also soared.

The total box office of 187 million US dollars has been collected in the first week overseas, 16.14 million in the United Kingdom, 14.63 million in Germany, 12.35 million in France, and 3.1 million ......in Hong Kong.

If you ask those uncomfortable fans who are crazy and scolding: "Is it good-looking?" from IMDB's main page rating stopped at 8.9, the number of users participating in the rating rose to 203,265, the top 250 participating users stopped at 150,187, the rating stopped at 8.8, and the audience liking rate on Rotten Tomatoes stayed at 90%, it seems that you can get the answer.

It's a captivating film, an anti-Hollywood classic that is impeccable in all respects. - David Stratton, The Australian, Amazing movie that will sweep through your emotions and brain like a storm, giving you a chance to think. - Devin Snyder, Rheinische Post, Flashes of Reflection Everywhere, a classic of classics. -- Shi Qi, Hong Kong's Ming Pao ...... Seeing that the whole world is admiring how good "District 9" is and how shocking, fans in Chinese mainland are very anxious, as we all know, "District 9" hopes to land in Chinese theaters at the same time, but it cannot be done due to review reasons; even if China Film will introduce it in the second half of this year, as one of the 20 imported films in 2002, it will take several months.

The most annoying thing is that in the absence of a classification system, in order to "protect teenagers and children", the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television is likely to cut out those supposedly "crazy" scenes.

In order to get a glimpse of this "masterpiece" on the big screen, many qualified fans have organized groups to go to Hong Kong to "travel and watch movies", even if it is very troublesome to apply for a bunch of customs clearance documents.

(To be continued)