In the night, Todd McCarthy, who contributed to "The Hollywood Reporter", walked out of the Kodak theater and rubbed his forehead with his hands, the movie he had just seen was simply the worst film in this summer schedule so far. This movie is even worse than "Transformers", which was released on Independence Day last year.

Walking towards the Kodak Theater gate, Todd McCarthy's ears were full of the voices of the fans around him.

"Matthew is so handsome when he flies, he really deserves to play Superman!"

"It's still Matthew's bastard Superman who looks interesting, and the orthodox Superman is too rigid. ”

"It's funny, Matthew fought Charlize Theron in the dark, and this fight is worth the ticket price. ”

"The special effects are so good, there are stars, there are special effects, such a film looks so cool!"

Listening to these words, Todd McCarthy shook his head, the current audience is too easy to deceive, and they don't know what a good movie is, is it worth discussing such a broken film with stars and special effects as the selling point, and even the plot is difficult to justify?

Today's audiences, the taste has become too strange, excellent, calm, the plot unfolds slowly, and there is dramatic tension in the movies that no one cares, but films like "Iron Man", "Transformers" and "Superman Hancock" can be box office hits......

The abuse of stunts and commercial stars can deaf the price of the experience in the theater and the movie itself.

He quickened his pace, broke away from the fan group, and continued to stay surrounded by that group, he would definitely be infected by the vulgarity and stupidity of those people.

After picking up the car and driving home, Todd McCarthy couldn't wait to turn on the computer and prepare a sharp film review.

His film reviews will inevitably be included in Rotten Tomatoes, so regardless of the rest, let's throw a Rotten Tomatoes at this "Superman Hancock for All" first.

"'Hancock for All' is terrible: the story is old-fashioned, the styling is messy, the performance is rigid, and the stunts are abused!"

"There are so many superheroes active on the big screen, Superman in the sky, Batman in black, Spider-Man jumping and jumping, and X-Men ganging up...... Compared with these heroes, "Superman Hancock" released tonight performed badly: Superman has a sloppy appearance and a violent personality, and his superpowers are nothing more than the same old tunes of invulnerability, and the plot does not match the preamble...... It's so bad that one can't help but ask: does the audience really need such a boring Superman?"

"This film has a godlike beginning and a mortal end. Hancock's story is like watching two kinds of games: basketball players fighting it out on the football field. ”

"No one would be interested in watching this film a second time. The alternative image of Hancock saving the city that he tried his best to create at the beginning basically has nothing to do with the savior after 20 minutes, and the love triangle with Superwoman makes the movie fall into Superman's love and can't extricate himself, I almost thought it was a love story......"

At this point, Todd McCarthy was too lazy to continue, and directly gave a super low rating of two stars.

At the same time, Charles Rowan had just left the Kodak Theater, and his mind was basically not on the movie when he watched the movie, but was thinking about "Green Lantern".

The last time Matthew made a casual joke, he reminded him that after consulting with Kevin Tsohara, he convened a meeting with many people from Warner Bros. and DC Comics' film and creative departments, and conducted targeted research and market research, and found that in the current rapid development and change of the social situation, using a black man as the male protagonist does have some very unique advantages.

For example, if someone dares to criticize the film at will, a big hat of "racial discrimination" is buttoned up......

The film could have done something about racial conflict and freedom and equality, and the media and the public are now enjoying it.

As for the possible loss of audience caused by a black protagonist, a black movie star who is very popular among the vast majority of white audiences can be completely solved.

The only problem is that there are too few black movie stars who have both box office appeal and can please white audiences, and in fact, there is only one Will Smith in the whole of Hollywood.

Warner Bros. has already made initial contact with Will Smith, who is much worse than Matthew and less repulsive to superhero movies, and if he is willing to take on the role, then modify the script appropriately according to his characteristics......

A black Green Lantern may be restricted, but Will Smith's Green Lantern will be popular.

After the press conference after the screening, Matthew walked out of the press room, met Nina Dubrev who was waiting in the theater foyer, and drove back to Beverly Hills.

On the way back, his mind was not on Nina Dubov next to him, but on Charles Rowan's words - Warner Bros. was thinking about the black Green Lantern?

Go back and ask someone to see if Warner Bros. has reached out to Will Smith......

According to his reasoning, the average black male lead is not particularly popular among an audience with a predominantly white group, with the exception of Will Smith, who starred in many commercial films since the nineties and the new century, and has been extremely popular among white audiences.

In addition, due to his appearance, although Will Smith is very popular, he is far from reaching the level of a superstar, and he has also faced a lack of roles in the past two years, and a top big production with a production budget of 250 million US dollars should have a strong attraction to him.

The most critical part of this matter is whether Warner Bros. and DC Comics want to invite Will Smith as the leading actor.

Unfortunately, he is not fit to come forward again.

Seeing that Matthew had been distracted, Nina Dobrev couldn't help but ask curiously, "What do you think?"

Matthew came back to his senses and smiled, "I was wondering, did you have a new move in place?"

"Of course. "I've recently found time to brush up on floor exercise, so you can try it later." ”

"Oh...... I can't wait. Matthew deliberately made a somewhat exaggerated sound.

Then he and Nina Dubov laughed heartily.

The Mercedes sedan turned into the gates of Horner Manor, and a crazy night had just begun.

This Independence Day weekend also kicked off, and among the films released on the same weekend as "Superman Hancock for All", the only film that opened on a large scale was "Kate Kittridge: The Secret of an American Girl", which starred Will Smith's daughter Vero Smith and did not threaten "Superman Hancock for All" at all.

The only one that can really compete with "Superman Hancock" on Independence Day is actually Pixar Studios' "Robot Wall-E".

The animated feature film was released the previous week, and the Independence Day holiday coincided with its second North American screening weekend.

The competition between the two sides was divided on the first day of the large-scale release of "Superman Hancock for All", and with the advantage of the first week of release and Matthew's huge box office appeal, "Superman Hancock for All" easily overtook "Wall-E the Robot" on the same day.

"Hancock for All" began at 7 p.m. on Thursday at 3,600 theaters in North America for early screenings, and it earned $7.8 million that night, significantly exceeding the $6.5 million that "Iron Man" received in advance.

However, there is still a huge gap of $1 million between this film and the $8.8 million created by "Transformers" released on July 4 last year.

This gap is very normal, and no one in the industry finds it strange, because it is a gap that must exist between the original film and the adapted film.

Nowadays, there are more and more films that grossed more than 100 million dollars in the first week of the North American film market, but so far, no original film that is not a sequel or adaptation has exceeded the $100 million mark in North America in the first week.

Hollywood's neglect of original films can be said to be a choice made based on the market.

Like the script of "Superman Hancock for All", that is, "He Came Tonight", which has been unattended by many Hollywood film companies for more than ten years, it also reflects Hollywood's attitude towards originality.

Compared to "Superman Hancock", which has no work foundation, "Transformers" has achieved such high results through its long history of anime and toys, and after it has been firmly established in the preferences of several generations around the world.

Even before there was a movie, "Iron Man" was far more famous than "Hancock", so it is not easy for "Superman Hancock" to achieve such a good box office, maybe the audience really needs an unusual superhero.

According to Warner Bros. official news that night, thanks to the film's excellent advance box office, the total number of theaters showing "Superman Hancock" will increase to 4,365 from the next day.

And in this schedule, "Superman Hancock" will also be touched until Friday, that is, July 4 is the light of the holiday of Independence Day in the United States, and many market institutions have released predictions that "Superman Hancock" will hit the North American box office of $80 million within the three-day holiday of Independence Day, including the weekend.

"Robots," the film's biggest competitor this weekend, closed Thursday for $7.6 million, $200,000 short of "Hancock," the film's biggest competitor.

Although the film was screened until the second week, "Superman Hancock for All" was released from 7 p.m. that night.

Now that the North American film market is very mature, with a series of channels for media, film critics and general audiences to score, "Superman Hancock" has received a cold reception among critics, just like Matthew's films in the past, and the audience has been relatively good.

On Friday, the film's Rotten Tomatoes freshness fell like a cliff to the bottom — a pitiful 43 percent freshness.

"Although the plot is relatively cliché, the picture is still very strong, and the actors are all in place, so this movie gives me a good impression. ”

The reviews of the film on social networking sites are not bad.

This film also presents a high-opening situation.