Chapter 657 Super Sequel
Mark should be grateful to have Giselle's wife, he tossed such a farce of the barren pond, and also played with him, but as a result, he carefully brewed a big play, and the owner ignored it at all, which made them very embarrassed and discouraged, fortunately, the media cheered him on, and hyped him into a national drama, ranking first in the list of divorce cases in the world, and in this country with a divorce rate of 25%, you will know how hot this topic is.
On the Internet, many websites have set up thematic web pages, reporting on this matter in all aspects, refreshing the web page every few minutes, and new news and materials are emerging.
Now even the hosts of Beimi's major talk shows and self-media are ridiculing, fortunately, there are no large-scale events and events during this time, otherwise they will definitely be stolen from the limelight by this.
At that time, tens of millions of people scolded Ma Rong, as long as they scolded Ma Rong, they would have likes, and now in the North Mi Internet media market, they will have likes if they scold Mark.
Mark was thinking, if he didn't have the support of MM and Time Warner, I don't know how badly he would be scolded, I was afraid that he would become the next Mel J. Puson, how popular this guy was back then, the steady Mr. 20 million, he is an absolute actor in any movie, and now, he can only play supporting roles in some B-grade films.
But the good thing about Mark is that the audience and fans scolded him, but there is no movement to boycott his works, and the audience recognizes his works.
Beimi's paparazzi is supernatural, Mark and Giselle met for the first time after the divorce also spread out, this is a court order, it cannot be kept secret, before the meeting, there are many versions of the meeting on the Internet, but there is no version that their family gets along, and Mark paid the national tax twice.
This is the well-known commercial center of Burbank, the headquarters of the MM Group, MM claims to have five billion cash reserves here, as the treasure of the town, it has become a heavily guarded place, with the highest level of security measures, the most advanced monitoring equipment, Mark is very safe here, the paparazzi can not disturb them.
They only stayed in MM's multimedia function room, waiting for news, while MM's press spokesperson pulled a dead face, shook his head when asked, asked nothing to say, no matter what he asked about Mark, he didn't comment, just blindly bragged about their new film "Transformers 2".
MM touted it as the No. 1 film of the year, and in his midnight show, it came in third with $18 million, behind "The Dark Knight" and "New Moon."
This is one of MM's three strong films of the year, "Iron Man 2" takes the lead, with 280 million US dollars in the first month, more than 300 million US dollars, more than enough to break through 300 million, temporarily ranking first in the year, and now it is "Transformers 2" to attack his record, MM has made overwhelming publicity and promotion of "Transformers 2", now don't inquire about the meeting between Mark and his wife, in less than three sentences, MM's spokesperson will be involved in the "Transformers 2" that is being released.
As a super blockbuster with MM investing 200 million, MM has high hopes for it, and will not allow any unfavorable factors to affect the box office of this super blockbuster.
Mark was originally scheduled to participate in the world premiere of "Transformers 2", but because of his current reputation, he was disqualified by the crew, and Mason, the actor of "Transformers 2", has been pretending to be a dead dog for more than half a year, when the promotional season of "Transformers 2" began, Mason also joined the promotion, when the global promotion tour of the film unfolded, Mason was in a wheelchair to participate, and on the night of the world premiere in Los Angeles, he could already participate on crutches, fans boiled, the media was sensational, they called it a miracle moment.
At $65.6 million, it is the third-highest opening day box office in North America and the third-largest single-day box office in North America in history, second only to the unprecedented records set by "The Dark Knight" and "New Moon" last year. Unlike "The Dark Knight", which was released on Friday, "Transformers 2" was released on Wednesday, so the latter naturally won the first place on Wednesday's premiere day and the first and second places in the history of Wednesday single-day appearance.
But at the same time, the freshness (rot) of Rotten Tomatoes website "Change 2" has fallen to 22% (37 people support, 130 people against), and the average critic score is 4 out of 10. The overall media evaluation has also been as low as 38 points, led by "Rolling Stone", "Austin Chronicle", "Baltimore Sun" and "Chicago Sun", and most authoritative media have sent low scores.
The box office is super hot, the reviews are extremely low, and the two seem to be going further and further on the road of polarization, "Transformers 2" has become a "phenomenon" in the history of North Mi movie box office.
So, will the box office trend of "Change 2" be as many people wish, completely immune to bad reviews or even indiscriminately ignored, and the box office will be hot all the way to the end? I'm afraid it's difficult, for three reasons.
First, "Ice Age 3: Dawn of Dinosaurs", which will be released next Wednesday, is eyeing up, many critics predicted that "Ice 3" would be able to kill "Change 2", and now it seems that the possibility of directly killing it ("Ice 3" is a big hit, "Change 2" is bleak) no longer exists, but I believe that the next week decline of "Change 2" will make MM and a lot of King Kong fans feel so painful that they are bleeding. Further back, July 10 will be the day of the release of "Bruno", which was in the limelight at the MTV Awards, and on July 15, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", which has been postponed for half a year and is gaining momentum for half a year, will make its debut.
Although the main moviegoers of the latter three do not overlap well with "Transformers 2", after all, the theater chain and screen resources are limited, and the money in the fans' purses is also limited. Excluding die-hard fans, the biggest influence on box office trends is neutral fans, and such a low review of "Transformers 2" will definitely affect the viewing choices of this group of people.
The second reason, a closer look at the North American movie box office rankings on Wednesday, we will find that "The Proposal", which ranked second, third and third place, and "Flying House" fell by only 14.2%, 11.7% and 7.6% respectively in a single day compared with the previous day. For this state of affairs, the media thought that it was more and more proof of the power of Transformers fans and the uncertainty of the box office prospects. It is believed that there are many die-hard Transformers who repeatedly entered the theater on the day of the premiere.
The third reason, I don't know if it's a reason, or can only be a performance. It's the fan rating on IMDB. "Change 2" is also only 7.0 (out of 10), which is not the point, the key is the number of voters - as of now, there are still no more than 10,000.
Think about the chaos on IMDB when "The Dark Knight" was released last year, and even trampled "The Godfather" and "The Shawshank Redemption" under his feet for a while. Of course, the score is not the main thing, the commercial popcorn blockbuster "Transformers 2" does have a strong immunity to bad reviews, but the number of voters is not as good as the original "The Dark Knight", but to a certain extent, it can show that the die-hard "Transformers 2" may not be as large as "The Dark Knight" in terms of the number of people. Everyone knows that the box office performance of such a blockbuster opening weekend will depend more on the contribution of die-hard fans. So......
To sum up, most of the media are not optimistic about the prospect of "Transformers 2" breaking the $200 million mark in five days after its premiere, and the relatively safe prediction should be 180 million.
After that, the box office trend of "Change 2" should be based on "Spider-Man 3" (151 million in the opening weekend, a total of 336 million) - the beginning of "Change 2" may be stronger than "Spider 3" (in fact, there is no comparison, the latter was released on Friday), and "Spider 3" was able to make a run of stars once in a row because of the strong rival who only appeared in the third week of its release ("Shrek 3").
In this way, the media's prediction for the cumulative box office of "Transformers 2" in North America is that 350 million US dollars is guaranteed, and 380 million is optimistic, but 400 million is unlikely, and the 2009 North Korean box office champion can basically be announced, and it is not a problem to refresh the record of "Iron Man 2".
However, the media's estimation is a little miscalculated, "Transformers 2" Beimi won a box office of 220 million US dollars in the first week (five days), surpassing "The Dark Knight" by a big score to become the first week box office champion in Beimi's film history, but his beer is incomparable with "The Dark Knight".
For "The Dark Knight", even the most discerning media did not hesitate to give high scores, and "Transformers 2", most of them gave low scores.
However, its director is Mai Bao, when will it eat on the beer of film critics? North 220 million, overseas 130 million, the world's first 350 million, set the best result in his personal career.
Even the Los Angeles Times said: "Michael Bay is back with blockbusters, becoming the second-highest-grossing film of the year in the first week, setting his most brilliant performance in the industry, and this may be the fifth film to surpass a billion dollars worldwide." ”
After James Cameron started the Billion Club, the Big Six have all made it their mission to break into the Billion Club, but so far, only four films have done this.
Twentieth Century Fox's "Titanic", Warner Bros.'s "The Dark Knight", Warner Bros.'s "Lord of the Rings 3", Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean 2", MM is strong enough, but no movie has yet broken this barrier, the highest is Mark's "Iron Man" 860 million worldwide.
Judging from the early momentum of "Transformers 2", it is likely to exceed one billion, but its terrible beer makes it all uncertain.