Chapter 026: The so-called little flower
"Forrest Gump", a classic movie, as long as it involves inspirational or chicken soup, it will always be repeatedly mentioned in the sentence: "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what the next one will taste like." A group of second-hand goods frantically touted: "What inspirational! What a philosophical! You ask him why he has a philosophy, but he can't actually answer, that is, although we don't understand it, it seems to be very powerful, commonly known as pretending to X.
There are cultural differences between China and the United States, why don't we talk about chocolate and not finger cakes, pancakes, and stinky tofu? Because in the United States, chocolate usually has 12 or 24 pieces in a box, each with a different packaging, flavor, shape, and color, and there was no logo before. You can only open it in your mouth and taste it before you know the difference in the taste of the chocolate in a box!
Jason has a deep understanding, in fact, he himself is not very optimistic about the box office of "Double Treasure Fighting Demons", after all, he is also the first time that a big girl has been in a sedan chair, and the more important thing is that the investment is too small, the budget is 100,000, and in the end, it cost 60,000 yuan to finish filming. Lionsgate didn't take the R-rated movie too seriously, contacting 50 theaters to screen it at midnight, preparing to mix in theaters for a few weeks, and then enter the videotape market.
The most famous is Blumhouse's "Smart: Ghost Record", which cost $11,000 to produce and was released in the United States on September 25, 09, with a box office of $197 million and a return rate of 17,909 times. But you have to know that Universal spent $30 million on the promotion of this movie, is it quite expensive when you think about it?
How much is Lionsgate's announcement on "Double Treasure Fighting Demons"? 40,000! Yes, it is to use Jason's father, Ludy, to invest in the rest of the movie's budget. I also sent a few posters to the theater where it was screened, and released a trailer in the oil turtle, and the announcement ended hastily! Jason can't complain, don't be so perfunctory, you guys really took great pains to let me extinguish the director's soul.
It's just that everyone didn't expect the power of anti-genre films to be so fierce. In fact, if you understand what a genre film is, you will know what it means to be an anti-genre film. Genre films are a type of movies that have fixed routines and formulas in terms of plot, characters, and other content. Most of the movies shown in theaters are basically genre films. They are the main force of the film market and the basic composition of the film market. The anti-genre is much easier to understand, a movie that doesn't play cards according to routines and formulas!
If there is no foil of "Moonlight Panic 2007", maybe the box office of "Double Treasure Fighting Demons" will be the same as the original, and the box office of hundreds of thousands of dollars in North America is not bad. As I said before, the "Moonlight Panic" series spans more than 20 years, and many latecomers imitate it, which also causes the audience's aesthetic fatigue.
When the box office of "Double Treasure Fighting Demons" on the first weekend was placed in front of a group of Lionsgate executives, everyone was pleasantly surprised. The midnight performances of 50 theaters, a total of 210 screenings in seven days, and a total box office of 480,000 US dollars, actually squeezed into the top 30 of the North American box office list! The single theater performance reached 9,600 US dollars, which is comparable to the single theater performance of "Moonlight Panic 2007".
The unexpected results caught Lionsgate's attention, and distribution manager Jon Filtimmel mobilized his network and finally contacted 500 theaters, and the results will be known next week.
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At the end of August and the beginning of September, it was the beginning of the school season, and students from all over the country who were idle and sore finally returned to school in a reluctant or reluctant mood. Xiaoxiao lived up to expectations, won the first place in the professional class, and was successfully admitted to the Nortel 07 performance class. Li Xiang accompanied the small family of three to report to Nortel. I was restless along the way, Li Xiang always felt that he had neglected something, but he really couldn't remember it for a while, anyway, it was not a very good premonition.
This premonition was finally confirmed after meeting the little roommate. The little roommate Li Xiang knows each other, and they will all be stars in the future. The one who lives in the back of Xiaoxiao is called Kan Qingzi, the one who lives on Xiaoxiao's left is called Zheng Wei, and the one who lives in the back of Xiaoxiao's left is our Da Tiantian! Li Xiang was shocked, should it be such a coincidence? Li Xiang was not impressed by Kan Qingzi, but he had seen her when he watched "Sparrow" starring Zhou Dongyu, and that TV series also had "National Facial Paralysis Male God" Li Yifeng. Zheng Wei doesn't need to go into details, the future queen of topics, all kinds of self-indulgence.
The Five Uniques of the Central Plains - Dongyang Mi, West Tangyan, Nan Yihuan, North Sedum, and Zhongtian Immortal, Li Xiang is fortunate to have seen three of them. Da Tiantian, you say there is a slot, in fact, there is really no, the acting skills are also there, and the appearance is also beautiful. It's just that her team may have shi in their heads, and there is a major problem with her route planning. 10 years of "My Beauty Boss" is barely qualified, after all, He Rundong's acting skills are also limited, at the level of Da Tiantian at that time, the two of them can be regarded as equal opponents.
It's just that since 11 years, Da Tiantian has gone farther and farther on the road of death in cooperation with big names. In fact, if Da Tiantian's team had asked her to act in a few TV series at that time, consolidate her acting skills, and then slowly transfer to the big screen, the situation would have been much better. The best example is Yingbao, who doesn't fight back when she is hacked, and only speaks with her works, which is easy to circle passers-by. But people are very sweet, look at the big-name stars he has cooperated with - Sun Honglei, Wu Zhenyu, Universe Dan, Big Brother Cheng, Zhou Yanfa, his acting skills were instantly exploded into scum. (Quite rhyming)
Why is the audience very strict with the movie, because the movie costs money, I paid real money to come to the cinema, just to see your embarrassing performance? Bad reviews, five-star bad reviews! You are a little girl who doesn't know where you come from, and you cooperate with so many powerful factions, and your acting skills are so poor, you must have a background and a backstage, don't say anything, brothers, I'll be black first!
Da Tiantian's behind-the-scenes team didn't really wake up until 17 years and created a series of TV series "Glory of the Tang Dynasty" for her. It's uncomfortable not to be hacked. The little popularity that he had accumulated through TV series and variety shows was completely lost.
In the next 18 years, Xiaohuadan will no longer be young, 35-year-old Tangtang, 34-year-old Yaya, 32-year-old Mimi, 31-year-old Tianxian, 31-year-old Yingbao, 31-year-old Shishi, 30-year-old Tiantian, I sincerely wish you half a life to return, still a teenager here!