"Welcome back to "Entertainment Storm", I am Shen Xing! Yesterday, the magical director Wang Yang, Yang Tsai's new work "Firefly" was released worldwide, which immediately caused a huge sensation. ”

Entertainment information programs and some news programs around the world are paying attention to this major event in the film industry and reporting the latest developments of "Firefly"! In Greater China, Phoenix Satellite TV's Chinese channel is playing "Entertainment Storm", on the TV screen watched by the audience, the program host Shen Xing looked excited, the screen behind her displayed the film image of "Firefly", the whirlwind and the predator group battled, Shen Xing smiled happily: "No matter the film critics, The audience has given a very high evaluation, yes, that magic Yang is here again!"

The TV screen left the studio and cut to the "Firefly" trailer, and the female narrator said: "Director Wang Yang's latest work "Firefly" tells the science fiction story that takes place at the edge of the galaxy after the future human beings immigrate to the new galaxy, the film invests 200 million US dollars, and it is the first time that the live-action film category uses IMAX shooting technology, as well as a large number of Chinese elements, kung fu, scenery, Chinese characters, Mandarin, etc. Yesterday, the film was released simultaneously around the world, and people went into the theater to watch it......"

TVB Channel's "Entertainment Search" also reported: "The heat wave of "Firefly" hit the whole of Hong Kong, and fans fought for the head of the movie!" Beijing Satellite TV, Hunan Satellite TV, Dragon TV, Southern Satellite TV...... Taiwan's Eastern Comprehensive Television: "Under the strong pressure of "Firefly", it is doubtful what the performance of "Initial D" starring Dong Chou will be, and Dongsen News comprehensively reported. ”

"Isn't Wang Yang's new movie released? Let's take a look. A young couple laughed and said, "Look at that, that...... "Firefly", yes! It was made by the director of "Kung Fu Panda." A round-faced father holding his young daughter smiled and said, "Yang Zai!! Azu!!, Yang Zai!!, Yang Zai!!!" Several young Hong Kong girls shouted frantically, "It's beautiful!" Several Korean viewers who had just finished watching "Firefly" praised it.

Not only in Asia, but also in Europe and other places TV, newspapers, networks and other media are also reporting, North American NBC channel, "Evening News" came to the end of the light-hearted and funny style: "Wang Yang, miraculous return! Maybe you all know, "Firefly" is creating a new movie miracle!"

It is quite suspected of selling advertisements, but who says that this is not a social phenomenon that is about to explode in full force? I saw a long queue for ticket buyers in a theater on the screen, and a long queue of young people lined up in the spacious and tidy ticket hall, among which most of them were young people, and some people were interviewed by reporters: "Which movie are you going to watch?" The faces of young people of different colors and ethnic groups flashed with smiles or excitement: "Of course "Firefly". I've been looking forward to "Firefly" for two years. "I was going to watch 'Batman,' and when I came here, I found myself more interested in 'Firefly,' but I couldn't buy a ticket, so I'm now waiting for the next one. "Magical Young's "Fireflies". "YOUNG!!"Firefly!!"...... IMDB-TOP250 ranking first with a score of 9.8 (91,634 rated users)!97 points (out of 100) on the official website of BFCA!98%/100% review freshness on Rotten Tomatoes (163/167), 98% audience liking (156,913 rating users)!

Former Miracle Yang die-hard movie fan, former singer "The Devil Wears Prada" film critic Roger Albert returned silently, although he gave the highest rating of full marks, but there was no crazy praise or the slightest smell of gunpowder for the time being, in his one-sentence film review, "Firefly" is: "Wang Yang's real blockbuster." "Word-of-mouth reached the top, rave reviews, and the audience lined up thoroughly...... It seems that it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a bombshell, and when the North American box office data for the opening day of June 17 yesterday was released, the whole world was shocked again!

60.35 million US dollars! The average of 3,845 theaters is as high as 15,695 yuan each! This is the amazing box office result of "Firefly" on the opening day, and it suddenly overturned "Star Wars Prequel 3", which set a new record not long ago, and beat it up!

While ......the media, fans and fans marveled and admired, "Firefly" has broken a number of North American box office records!

The undoubted new champion of film history on the opening day, facing the 50.01 million of "Star Wars Prequel 3", which has a large number of Star Wars fans, the first place in the expectation list of various summer movies, and the final chapter of the series, with an average of 13,661 yuan per house (Thursday, 3661 theaters), "Firefly" won 10.34 million yuan, 2,034 yuan per family, it won too much! It also won 19.91 million (Wednesday, 4152 theaters), 5954 yuan per "Spider-Man 2", which is now in third place! is taking advantage of Friday's opening, then...... The second place is 39.4 million for "Spider-Man" in May 02, and the third is 38.26 million for "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" in June 04, and "Firefly" won 20.95 million and 22.09 million respectively, which is still too much!

It's just one day, and there are three days in the whole weekend!The fastest is $100 million?The fastest is $150 million?200 million!?The new weekend box office champion in film history?...... Looking at such an interstellar sci-fi film that has been praised by media critics and unanimously praised by everyone, many elderly people seem to have returned to the summer of 1977 and once again seen the huge shock and storm brought by "Star Wars" at that time. And many geeks and young people are boiling, they really don't mind the birth of a new interstellar culture, this is a new era that belongs to them! How should the box office of "Firefly" be predicted? Analysts are feeling a little headache.

"Firefly is the kind of very, very special kind of movie, and it's definitely going to be a hit at the box office, but it's a little early to say that it can break through the global box office of 1 billion, you know, although its reviews and opening day box office have exceeded everyone's expectations, but there are still a lot of negative factors, especially the overall sluggishness of the theater market now; if it doesn't do anything, it's obviously even more unlikely, "Firefly" With all the qualifications to sell big, it is off to a good start at the moment, and we'll see how far it can go in the end. ”

Having said that, BOM analyst James Moore still made an assessment and predicted that the North American box office is expected to rush to 400 million, becoming the eighth film in film history, and Wang Yang has entered the 400 million club for the first time, and the global box office is expected to hit 900 million, which is also the eighth film in film history and Wang Yang's personal first time.

Now both Yahoo Entertainment, as well as The-Numbers, Boxoffojo and other box office statistics agencies are very optimistic about "Firefly", and remain calm, analysts are conservative about whether it can become the third film in film history to exceed $1 billion at the global box office after "Titanic" with 1.843 billion in 97 and "The Lord of the Rings 3" with 1.167 billion in 03, of course, these do not take into account the situation after adjusting for inflation.

"Firefly" collected 60.35 million on the opening day, and they are so conservative here, naturally because they have many concerns. This midsummer can be described as an endless stream of big directors, dazzling big productions, originally super exciting, but the situation did not develop as people expected, "Heavenly Dynasty" failed miserably, "Iron Fist Man" was not a blockbuster, and a number of commercial films that should be the runner-up and third runner-up were almost all messed up, and there were no eye-catching independent films, only "Star Wars Prequel 3" and "Kung Fu Panda" did not disappoint, which led to fierce competition in the box office rankings, but it was a lot more sluggish than last year.

A succession of blockbuster failures has hit the North American box office market, and with increasing competition from DVD and other viewing channels, the Association of American Theater Owners has even begun to blame troublesome ringtones in order to win back the hearts and minds of audiences.

It is no wonder that Steven Spielberg, who is as questioned as Wang Yang as "the aura is lost, old, and only mentally handicapped commercial films", the remake of the new version of the sci-fi masterpiece "War of the Worlds" continues to be questioned as "old-fashioned and rushed" on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is pinned on the high hopes of "saving the market", and Paramount is even more arrogant to create a box office miracle. But now, Magic Yang took the lead in clearing all doubts, and "Firefly" rose strongly! For a while, the audience was boiling, and the sluggish theater market was boiling!

The happiest "Firefly" right now may not be the Flame movie, but the theater owners, who don't have a contract with the Flame to show it, beat their chests and feet, even if they immediately pounce on the Flame Film Headquarters to scramble for the film reel, they will miss the first week! What a! But the theater company still picks up the phone.

This is a big gold mine! For theaters and movie theaters, and even more so for flame movies, Flame has achieved quite a lot of achievements in various types of products around animated films in the later stage, but it is much worse in terms of live-action films, and even projects such as putting "Youth Musical" on the Broadway stage and holding concert tours have not been carried out, and other films under its umbrella have little mining value, of course, excluding DVDs, original soundtracks and other products.

However, "Firefly" is really a treasure nowadays, and if it wants to form a new culture, it must not be limited to movies, comics, books, TV series, games, etc., and Sheldon's collection of peripheral toys is indispensable, such as character models, blue gloves, Captain Marr's pistol...... Having said that, the greater the success of the screening phase, the more post-production power was provided, and the opening day of "Firefly" was satisfying and frustrating for the Yanghei.

"FUCK!!Fuck!!!!! "What the hell is wrong with these people! It's all a bunch of stupid donkeys, they're all crazy!" The curse was unsuccessful, and today the Olsen sisters also felt a burst of chest tightness and congestion, is "Firefly" so good?!

"Damn!" Brad Pitt is also in a very bad mood, and the outside world has already begun to discuss how stupid his decision is! And damn marriage gossip! "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" is only in its second week, and the box office must be affected now!

"Hell yes!!" The critics who bewildered Wang Yang about "The Devil Wears Prada," such as Jeffrey Westerhoff of The Northwest Herald, are in a dilemma, unable to turn a blind eye to a phenomenal film in terms of their job responsibilities and newspaper requirements, and they don't know what to do with it when they have to publish a review this weekend at the latest.

"Fantastic Young knew he had opened up a whole new world of sci-fi and had made Firefly a perfect mix by cleverly adding humor, action, romance, horror and all the elements the audience had come to expect. —A+, Kevin Callows, Los Angeles Times; This film has an almost arrogant courage, the Star Wars franchise has always dominated our attention, and I have to say that from now on, "Star Wars" is over, "Firefly" is coming. —4/4, Gill-Stewart, Newsday;" Not only is this film one of the best of the year, it may well end up being the best of 2005. At the very least, it should consider the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director, which are honors that belong to it. —4/4, Peter Howell, Toronto Star;" Epic, it will leave you stunned in theaters because of its world look and complexity. —A+, Christy Lemire, AP...... A hymn resounded throughout North America and the world, it seems that the blacks will be depressed for a long, long time, the box office figure of 60.35 million is naturally the champion of this Friday, and the opponents have no chance of being the super champion!

Now it seems that it is really unfortunate to be released on the same schedule as "Firefly", this battlefield is so cruel that people can only despair!

It is obviously not only "Initial D" released in Chinese mainland on June 23 that has become cannon fodder; North America is not only the box office champion of June 10-16 last week, the unpopular "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (70.66 million, Rotten Tomatoes 58%/46%/63%), the new comedy "Super Perfect Man" released on the 17th is definitely self-defeating, only 1.05 million opening day box office ranked sixth, if it were not for the popularity of the film's starring Hillary Duff, I am afraid it would not even touch a million.

Now 1.05 million can get the sixth place, you can imagine how tragic the films below are, but the ones at the top are not much better, and the same long night has changed several fly swatters.

The 150 million production cost blockbuster "Batman: Time to Go to War", which was previously debuted on June 15, received 15.06 million at the opening day box office, and snatched 24.15 million in two days, ready to fight fiercely with "Firefly". In fact, the opening of this new "Batman" is definitely rave reviews, with a current IMDB score of -8.4, and Rotten Tomatoes has a freshness rating of up to 2%, but only 75% of the audience's liking.

Director Darren Aronofsky is a double-edged sword, he brought a dark and profound exploration to "Batman", and won a high reputation in the film critics, but this "darkest Batman in history" did not win the hearts of the vast majority of the audience, and went too far! Because the style of the film is too dark and depressing, and the overall rhythm and atmosphere are too dull and literary, although there are new starring actors such as Christian Bale and Katie Holmes carefully selected by Warner Bros. and "Batman" fans, many fans can't stand it.

So in this new weekend, after waiting for a long time to put on the handsome bat suit, finally ushered in "Firefly", and at first glance, the Joker, Catwoman, Two-Face, Riddler, Poison Teng Girl or something all pounced, "Batman" was beaten to the point that his mouth was swollen and his face was swollen, and he had no power to resist, let alone fight back.

"What's the most painful thing in life? If you want to watch Firefly, you can only buy tickets to Batman. A fan said this on his blog, and many people immediately agreed. On the first day of this official first weekend, "Batman" only received 9.53 million that sent chills to Warner Bros., and the average of 3,858 theaters was $2,470 each, losing more than nine blocks to "Firefly"...... Warner Bros. was very annoyed, 20th Century Fox secretly exhaled but couldn't get rid of his worries, and the third "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" was only 5.23 million on Friday! Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie didn't use it...... But what can be done? The theater owners over there are overjoyed, they don't care which screening hall is lively or which is deserted, as long as the theater is lively! The film companies know that no matter who gets involved, they will be blown to pieces by "Firefly", and the more and more fanatical fans are all excitedly shouting: "It's the time for "Firefly"! It's time for the magic of Yang! "It's our time!", "We are the mourners!", "We're just going against you movies!!", "I like the big one!!...... IMDB-TOP250 first place is not enough, the opening day of 60.35 million US dollars is not enough, the bigger this game is played, the better! Everyone is waiting for the North American box office of "Firefly" on the first weekend, the global box office, it is crazy to collect the box office all over the world, and the fan war on IMDB is also fierce, "The Godfather" 9.0 points, 8.9 points, 9.1 points, "Firefly" 9.6 points, 9.8 points, 9.7 points...... Time flies, when June 17-19 is a thing of the past, there is a kind of movie that can really make people lose their minds!

"I don't want to hear you anymore, I want to hear someone else talk about you. ”

This summer has just begun.

(To be continued)