"Fun, lively, noisy, entertaining, everything is perfectly unleashed on screen. —4/5, Roger Moore, The Orlando Sentinel; A very successful example of Americans being able to see Chou funny, those laughs they didn't hear before they didn't notice him, Carrey was as witty as ever, the two were born to be the kings of comedy, and "The Green Hornet" was sublime entertainment. —4/4, Richard Collis, Time; Lots of fun, nice quips, nice action sequences, this film is a big bang. —3.5/4, Mick Russell, San Francisco Chronicle;

"Listen, it's an exciting comedy. I should shut up and let you enjoy it for yourself, but I'll say a few more words! Its imagination lies not only in the combat choreography of the film, but also in its detachment from Hollywood's clichéd comedy methods, and its energy lies not only in the flashy special effects, but also in its dreamy performances. —4/4, Andrew O. Hull, Salon, "Action-packed, witty globalist entertainment." The Green Hornet is a clever attempt at one of the best action comedies of all time. —4/4, Scott, The New York Times;

"The audience will find that from the beginning to the end, we need films like this, silly, hilarious, inexplicable, but always funny. Stephen Chow and Jim Carrey are like an exploding CULT bomb that takes over your brain, and it's never clumsy here. —4/4, Roger Albert, Chicago Sun-Times......

The long-awaited "The Green Hornet" did not disappoint, with a 92%/87% Rotten Tomatoes review freshness rating (180/195) and 90% audience liking (115,840 participants)! For a commercial comedy, this is definitely a near-perfect word-of-mouth evaluation!

Look at the same period of "Death Induction" is only a pitiful 8%/16%/55%, "I Think I Love My Wife" is 19%/28%/45%, which highlights its preciousness!

Producer & screenwriter Wang Yang, producer & screenwriter Steve O'Deckcock, director&screenwriter&starring Stephen Chow, starring Jim Carrey and others have all been widely praised, and many fans can't wait to list it as a comedy masterpiece, Zhou and Carrey's new pinnacle.

Rotten Tomatoes user Idres? ticked five stars: "I can't stop laughing when I watch it, Zhou is like if Bruce Lee and Charlie Chaplin have a child, Jim Carrey gets his vitality back, it's a genius combination." Flixsterman also gave a perfect score: "Stephen Chow surpassed "Kung Fu" and "Shaolin Football", and Jim Carrey surpassed "Strange Jack in Disguise" and "Impostor", they are so hilarious that they are worth watching again and again." Johanna J ticked 4 and a half stars: "Stephen Chow and Jim Carrey have given new life to The Green Hornet, it doesn't have the flavor of a comic book, and this time it's amazing." ”

"This movie is the funniest I've seen so far in my life, I was out of breath and my eyes blurred my eyes, the whole movie. "Hahaha, I just laughed until my stomach hurt, it's the kind of hysterical antics action comedy that Hollywood has been trying and failing, and not anymore." Amazing Jan's fantastic work!" — 5 points, Gabby-L; "Are you kidding? Is it a superhero movie? Is it a comic book movie? but ...... What a wonderful comedy!" – 5 points, Marco B......

With such high ratings, it is not surprising that "The Green Hornet" won the box office title in the first week, especially since FF has been promoting it for a long time. Another successful movie supervised by Wang Yang! Flame's winning streak continues to expand!

In the first week, it received 98.51 million! 3560 theaters averaged $27,671 per theater, and the proportion of audiences under the age of 25 in the survey was more than 55%, which was very popular with young people! Among them, it broke the record for the highest opening weekend box office in March (70.88 million/96.28 million) just set by "Spartan 300 Warriors" with 71.54 million, and became the second superhero-comedy film, second only to the animated film "Incredibles" with 261 million.

In the second week of March 23-29, despite being besieged by six new films, "The Green Hornet" still won the weekly championship with 47.67 million (-51.6%), breaking 100 million in the opening 8 and 146 million in 14 days, plus 162 million overseas box office, the total global box office is 308 million, which can be described as a rainbow!

In this era when the production cost is hundreds of millions at every turn, the production cost of 120 million for "The Green Hornet" is not high, and it has easily recovered the cost. In the face of such good results, as well as the expectations of fans around the world, Flame Movies must consider the plan of "The Green Hornet 2", the biggest problem in filming the sequel is undoubtedly the return of personnel, The Green Hornet and Kaito cannot be replaced, they can't think of anyone with more charm than those two old guys.

Negotiations will take time, but the outlook looks bright.

Jim Carrey is in a really good mood, when he played the Riddler in "Batman Forever" (1995), although everyone was impressed, it also had a good box office, but it had a mixed reputation, a few years later, "Batman 4" ended directly, fortunately he did not participate, and now "The Green Hornet" is both a blockbuster and a hit, setting a new record for the box office of his personal film in the first week (previously 67.95 million for "The Impostor", it is simply a beautiful comedy turnaround, and he seems to find no reason to refuse the sequel.

So the problem is actually Stephen Chow, he is a bit of a loner dictatorship on the set, if it weren't for O'Decock's reconciliation and Magic Young's decision-making prestige, maybe he and Jim Carrey would have fallen out, but this doesn't mean that he is passionate about "The Green Hornet 2", especially if he doesn't want to direct. Still, things are moving on a pleasant track, thanks to the status of the Fire Movie, and Bruce Lee's significance to the Green Hornet franchise.

In FF's initial plan, Steve Odelcock will take over "The Green Hornet 2" after "Kung Fu Panda 2" is busy and then serve as the director of the sequel, and the director of "Kung Fu Panda 3" will use someone else.

There is a magic Yang box office, there is Stephen Chow has a box office, "The Green Hornet" landing in Chinese mainland theaters is naturally the most suitable, as long as you print "Wang Yang production, starring Stephen Chow" on the poster, the audience must be like a tide of batch after batch to the screening hall. In fact, China Film Group has coveted it for a long time, and has long determined the introduction of it, and various media have been promoting it vigorously, and fans and audiences are dispatching on a large scale at any time!

However, it was not released at the same time, if it weren't for the fact that the high-definition piracy would affect the box office after it came out for a long time, both China Film and Flame hoped to release it in May, and now it will be released two weeks later to Saturday, March 31, and the energy saved is just at the critical point of explosion or discouragement!

When March 30-April 5 passed, the sports comedy "Blade of Honor" took over the North American weekly championship with 45.38 million, but its Rotten Tomatoes index was only a decent 70%/68%/66%, and the third week of "The Green Hornet" received another 24.45 million (-48.7%), with a total North American box office of 170 million. It is even more successful and laughing in Chinese mainland, and its momentum is almost comparable to "Firefly" two years ago, and the Chinese mainland film market has grown a lot.

Seeing that "The Green Hornet" is so powerful and Wang Yang's first superhero work has won a big victory, Warner Bros. executives are really relieved, and their confidence in "The Dark Knight" has skyrocketed.

How would anyone dare to question Marvel Young's decision now? He wasn't good enough? He hadn't proven himself yet, his weaknesses ?...... Yang fans scoffed, Yang Hei felt a little nonsense, one wonderful movie after another told the world that this Pokémon is almost the existence of God in the film industry, and now is his time, as "Variety" said, in a few decades, he will inevitably be called "Hollywood's best director in the 10s of the 21st century", and he is only 27 years old, and he can almost be called a "movie kid".

Wang Yang's 11th film "The Dead" has just been filmed offline, and after 15 weeks of screening, it finally received 206 million North American box office, 264 million overseas box office, and a total of 470 million global box office, ranking fifth in the list of his personal directed works.

It ranks first in the "Cop-Dirty" category, a long way ahead of "Training Day" in second place (76.63 million), in the "Time to Crime" category, in second place "Vulgar" with 107 million, in the "Irish" category it remains first, and in the "Road to Doom" below it is 104 million, in the "Remake - Asian" category, followed by the Japanese remake of "Godzilla" with 136 million, and in the "Remake - Thrilling Abroad" category, with the remake of the French film "Totally Woman" 's "True Lies" ranked second with 146 million......

"The Dead" has the strength and performance to sweep its genre, while the PG-rated "Night at the Museum" has come from behind at the box office, and after collecting 247 million North America/559 million global box office, it is still showing in 414 North American theaters and 14 overseas markets.

15 weeks, just 15 weeks, "The Dead" is definitely the Oscar Best Picture with the shortest screening cycle and the shortest 200 million box office club members, but there is no way, the ticket revenue can no longer withstand the theater expenditure, and the audience who is ready to watch it on DVD will never enter the theater, and the unprofitable movie theater will naturally draw it. It can be seen that people are so eager for the magic Yang film, and they quickly used up all the box office potential, and even the little golden man is useless.

"Deadly Magic" was also drawn offline, and its final record was 93.71 million North American box office / 172 million global box office, compared to its production cost of 40 million, it could not be a successful film. However, compared with "The Magician", which was painted with 95.54 million/175 million, it is slightly inferior, especially the production cost of "The Magician" is only 16.5 million. This fact was undoubtedly a blow to the Nolan brothers, and it also made them puff up to make The Dark Knight.

"Little Sunshine Beauty" is still being screened, and its box office is set at 105 million/186 million, a veritable big dark horse! The next thing is to pick up the leaks in more than 100 North American theaters and small overseas markets that have not been released, and whether it can break through 200 million depends on luck. The same situation is also "The Amazing Director", Wang Yang has proved his huge commercial ability from another aspect, and it has currently received 116 million/254 million global box office achievements.

It can be said that all film companies hope to cooperate with Fantastic Young, which means digging a gold mine! For this reason, they try their best, but Fantastic Young is still only "The Dark Knight" and "Iron Man" are related to Warner Bros. and New Line respectively, of course, as a strategic partner, Lionsgate is much luckier, "Ghost Record 5" landed on the big screen on April 6!

There are also comedies "Imp on the Road 2", "Fire Dog", horror films "Torture Room", "Harvest", and the new film "Dead Silence", which has high hopes for 20 million production costs from the world.

When April 6-12 passed, the winner of this week, as expected, was "Ghost Record 5" (PD6 million), although it only had a 35%/29%/52% Rotten Tomatoes index, which was a little lower than last year's "Ghost 4", but the box office in the first week still received 38.62 million, and the Lionsgate soldiers were able to rejoice again.

Weinstein/Timmen's "The Torture Chamber" (PD67 million) is a mess, this new Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino co-production only grossed a measly 10.26 million in the first week, and it lost so much that it didn't even have a bad nail; Warner Bros.'s "Harvest" screwed up, and the new film starring Hilary Swank grossed 10.19 million in 8 days of screening! Universal's "Dead Silence" (PD25 million) messed up, it collected 15.67 million in 2,606 theaters in its first week, with an average of $6,013 per theater.

The two fathers of the SA trilogy's ambitious new title failed to sell tickets and was smashed all over Rotten Tomatoes.

"Cinema has always asked us to suspend our doubts, but Dead Silence asks us to be ignorant of its development. A horror film that has put the most effort into metaphors, has a simple plot point and is deliberately obscure. —1/5, Ed Gonzalez, Los Angeles Times; Frightened by the puppets, enjoying being scared, and then you'll be dead silent. A pantomime that is hardly satisfying. —C, Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly; There is no attempt at humor in "Dead Silence", but its greatest sin is the lack of panic. —1.5/4, Peter Hartlab, San Francisco Chronicle, ......

The Rotten Tomatoes index is 25%/36%/57%, which is too weak! Being poured down by this basin of cold water, Wen Ziren and Ray Werner suddenly sobered up, and only then did they remember that Wang Yang's original views and suggestions were reasonable, about this puppet theme, about its handling techniques, tone, and rhythm...... At that time, they didn't pay enough attention to it, and until the moment before the box office and reviews on the first day came out, they were still indulging in a state of mental frenzy, as if as long as they were satisfied, the audience would be satisfied......

Reality gave them a slap in the face, but unfortunately now they can't turn the situation around, and there is nothing they can do at all. In the new week of April 13-19, there will be "Rear Window Horror", "Seduce Strangers", "Trailblazer", "Wild Speed", "Drink Cup Adventure", and "Slow Burning" will be released on a large scale.

If Wen Ziren and Ray Warner were a stock, then it had gone from a top-performing stock to a penny stock in just a week or two. Maybe after late sales, "Dead Silence" won't necessarily lose too much, but who knows how much of its revenue will be earned from the "SA" trilogy? Anyway, if the treasure was obtained before, the global did not continue to invest in their interest, next time! Lionsgate has some meaning.

"Give me back the Flame Movie!" Wang Yang greeted the two of them with a cold greeting on the one hand, and on the other hand, he strongly invited them to come back, and the Flame Movie invested in any of their new work ideas! He said viciously to the two: "I tell you, James, Ray, if you don't come back, you will die! I personally made "Chainsaw 6" into a children's film! Imagine the scene of Jigsaw changing the baby's diaper in the baby's room!

It seems that it is not very good to run back to the flame as soon as it fails, but in the face of Magic Young's kind invitation, how can the two refuse?

There is not much to say, Wen Ziren and Ray Warner will return to the flame in their next film, although they really have to take a good rest for a while to think about adjustments, but they already have new theme ideas, baby room, crying baby girl, ghost, haunted house, ...... "Yin Room". In fact, the idea originated a long time ago, when they visited Wang Yang's house, when Keke was a newborn baby, and then they remembered "Ghost Shadows......

The flame movie was accepted, of course, now "Yin Er Fang" is just an intention, the script is not, the project has not been established, and the release is still too far away. But what is certain is that whether it will be released in FF or FM depends on the quality of the film.

For the poor results of "Dead Silence", and for the new contact with James Wing, Ray Werner and the flame movie that soon came to pass, the parties acknowledged, for this ending, fans are really emotional!

"Welcome back!" The SA fans and flame fans of the official website of the flame are very excited and welcoming, they believe that the failure experience will bring considerable growth value to the two, and returning to the flame and taking care of the magic Yang, the two fathers of chainsaws will definitely be able to prove themselves again!

It's worth mentioning that this week, Lionsgate arranged for the test screening of "Dead and Blind" in 11 theaters, and received a good $165,700 (an average of $15,070 per theater), and if it can maintain this performance for two or three weeks, it will be eligible to expand the screening scale to about 500 theaters nationwide. In any case, Joshua has a clear goal for the next step, to make a film that is favored by the flames and released under the FF brand!

On the set of "OK......" studio "SA5", looking at all the set props, looking at the ready Tobin Bell and other people, as well as Wang Yang and Jessica, who came to visit, he raised his thumbs, she clapped her hands silently, and both of them were smiling. Nancy took a deep breath, her heart surging uncontrollably, her dream was about to come true......! She lifted the microphone and shouted, "Action!"

With the order of the female director, the clapperboard was knocked down, the camera began to run at high speed, and the entire set was active, and "Saw 5" officially started filming!

(To be continued)