Chapter 1160: The Opponent Who Fights the Street (1)
The director of "Green Lantern" is Martin Campbell. This is also a fairly big-name director, having directed "The Mask of Zorro", which was nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Picture, and also directed the 007 series "Casino Royale".
Speaking of actors, Ryan Reynolds is also a more famous one. Well, although the surname is also Reynolds, it has nothing to do with Leila's father.
He is a very good actor, and "Buried Alive" can be said to be one of his representatives. This film is a thriller, about a man who is buried alive in a coffin six feet underground, with only 90 minutes of oxygen left, and only relies on a mobile phone that is about to run out of battery to save himself.
He didn't know where he was, only that he was underground, and that there was only a lighter left by him except for the phone. The fear, hesitation, claustrophobic space, the threat of death, even if there is not as much blood and monsters as in other horror films, still makes people feel the horror that the movie wants to express.
The only character who appears in the whole movie is him, and it can be said that the film is completely supported by his acting skills. The same is true of Colin Farrell's "Sniper Phone Booth", which is also a film that tests the acting skills of the actors, but "Buried Alive" will make the audience feel more immersed, feel the impending death, and the atmosphere that is about to suffocate.
In addition to Ryan and director Campbell, actors such as Blay Cleverly, the heroine of "Gossip Girl", who will become Ryan's wife next year, all attended the premiere of "Green Lantern" in full costume.
Looking at Ryan on the TV screen, Leila doesn't know if he was lucky or unlucky to star in this movie. Fortunately, he fell in love with Blake during this shoot, but unfortunately this film also caused him to be used as box office poison for a while, and he almost collapsed.
Fortunately, he once played the role of Deadpool in "Wolverine", and it was not until the release of the "Deadpool" movie a few years later that he finally got rid of the name of the box office poison on his body and became a high-profile popular student again.
Probably seeing Layla smiling badly, Roy couldn't help but say, "You seem to care a lot about this film?"
"You don't think it's going to do well at the box office?"
How else could Roy be the one who knew Laila best?
"How so?" It would be unrealistic to "predict" that the box office would hit right now, and Leila thought about it and found another excuse.
"I'm not too optimistic about their movie anyway. The world view of "Green Lantern" is too grand, how to integrate this grandeur into the plot and how to make the audience like it, I think it is a very difficult thing. And Green Lantern's ability is embodied, and he can conjure up what is in his head, which is also a very test of the script. If it is done well, the movie will be wonderful and will captivate countless people like "Avatar". If you don't do it well, you will be bored and may lose a lot. ”
Roy nodded thoughtfully. He hadn't read the Green Lantern comics, but he had heard the group of comic book fans talk about it in the coffee shop she had acquired, and he knew what kind of superhero he was. In the narrative of those comic book fans, Green Lantern is a very powerful superhero. Just by looking at how strong he is by looking at how strong he is by not playing with the earthlings anymore and bent on maintaining the peace of the universe.
This kind of film may really be as difficult to make as she said, right?
"Superhero movies have been in the Big Bang period since Iron Man. There shouldn't be too few people who like superheroes. How's your side doing with the Avengers promotion?"
was said by Leila, Roy also felt that "Green Lantern" might not be their competitor, but anyway, it belongs to the hot superhero movies now, and he thinks that even if he can't make a lot of money, he shouldn't lose money. Then, it will inevitably have an impact on the box office of "The Avengers", which will be released in two weeks.
"Everything that can be done has been done. Layla said this sentence absolutely without a false heart, she really used all the means she could, and even participated in a lot of media interviews and programs that she could hide from all the time. "What the result will be, let's see what the audience will say. ”
Roy grabbed her hand in the palm of his hand, put it to his lips and kissed it, "That's right, you've done a good job." "No matter what others think she won't break the record, and no matter how many people look up to her, it doesn't mean anything to him. Whether she succeeds or fails, she is the woman he loves the most and the mother of his children. Nothing else has anything to do with him.
He loved her, not the honors she bringed. As long as she is still by his side, he is so happy that he lives in heaven every day.
And as Leila has always said, whether the movie is good or not depends entirely on the audience's evaluation.
The next day, the media gave "Green Lantern" a box office on Friday's premiere day, which was released in 3,186 theaters and earned $21.6 million at the box office.
This is a reasonably acceptable number, at least in line with the producer's expectations. According to this number, it is certainly no problem to win 60 million in three days over the weekend.
At this time, the arranged water army began to exert its strength, distributing good reviews of the movie everywhere, hoping to make more people enter the cinema.
But the box office on the following Saturday made the producers panic, and no one knew whether their water army had played a role, but the box office plummeted by 22%. Three days after the weekend, the total box office was only $52.68 million!
Although with so much box office, "Green Lantern" still sat on the throne of the box office champion of the week. But anyone with a discerning eye can see that the future of movies is very bad.
The production cost of "Green Lantern" is 200 million, of which 50 million is the cost of converting to 3D, and then there is 125 million publicity expenses, which adds up to a terrible 325 million US dollars!
Even though the producers said in an interview that the more than 50 million in the three days of the opening weekend was still in their expectations, everyone could see how bitter their laughter was.
Not to mention similar movies in the same period, it is quite rare to say that previous superhero movies can achieve such a poor premiere result.
Let's take a look at the media commentary.
The Chicago Sun-Times thought the film was a "light and sound show"! Bombarding the audience with visuals and sounds.
And "Entertainment Weekly" set its sights on the leading actor Ryan Reynolds, believing that he played the Green Lantern very "realistic", and the real hero is not the same as the super hero.
In order to prove their point, they also took out the concerns raised by those comic book fans when the film was set to star Ryan. Back at that time, there were many people who thought that Ryan's temperament was more like a big brother next door than the powerful Green Lantern in their hearts.
The Washington Globe is the lowest-rated one of the mainstream media outlets, and they consider the film a classic, a classic of bad movies.