"It's the weekend soon, I can't wait to get off work now, and I don't want to go to work every Friday. ”

Zhou Tong stretched out on the chair, as if he was finally coming back to life.

Shi Yingchu, a colleague who worked next to him, complained and said: "After posting so many bills, the whole person is unhappy." What are you going to do with Sister Tong's weekend?"

"How else can you live, lying corpse. I can finally sleep and wake up naturally!"

"You're going too far to sleep on the weekend. Doesn't your boyfriend arrange a date or something?" Shi Yingchu held his cheeks and suggested, "Otherwise, you can go rafting with us! ”

However, Zhou Tong waved his hand, "Rafting is too dangerous, I can't swim." Chu Chu, you better go by yourself, but you have to pay attention to safety!"

Shi Yingchu nodded again and again, and replied: "I know, there are seven or eight of us together, walking together on two rafts, taking care of each other. ”

After the two got together to chat, the office director came over, he took a stack of UME cinema vouchers worth 30 yuan and said: "Everyone pay attention, this month's employee benefits are movie coupons, each person receives 6, you can't get more, that's all." ”

Zhou Tong and they are here at China Mobile, and the employee benefits are still quite good, they have to send a lot of things every New Year's holiday, and they also have benefits every month, not to mention the employee card!

There are often people around me who are shouting that the traffic at the end of the month is not enough, but Zhou Tong has never worried about this, there is no pressure to turn on 4G anytime and anywhere, and the boyfriends and parents around him are basically this package.

"It's a movie ticket this time, and it's pretty good. After Shi Yingchu went to get a stack of exchange coupons, he came back and muttered: "The coupon that was sent to the well last month is very affordable, and everyone can save a hundred yuan!"

Zhou Tong shook the stack of movie tickets in her hand in the air, and she said with a smile: "Now that I got the exchange ticket, let's go to see a movie on the weekend, and I don't know what movies are good recently." ”

"Watch The Matrix 2!

Shi Yingchu hurriedly recommended it on the side, she simply dragged the chair to Zhou Tong's side, "Sister Tong, let me tell you, "The Matrix 2" is so good to see the explosion, originally I didn't like science fiction movies very much, but I watched it with relish. There are a lot of handsome guys and beauties in it, and the plot is also very exciting. If you look at the box office and reviews, it's pretty good!"

"Okay, I'll ask my old Wu to see if he is willing to go. ”

After Zhou Tong finished speaking, she picked up her mobile phone and directly checked the box office and evaluation of "The Matrix 2", even if these exchange coupons are employee benefits and do not need to spend money, she doesn't want to watch bad movies.

"Yo, this is more than 2 billion box office, the score is actually 9 points, this can't be fake, right......"

No matter how popular "The Matrix 2" is, it can't let everyone in the world know about it.

After Zhou Tong looked at the seat selection map in the movie theater, he found that it was only Friday today, but there were almost no good locations, and only the corners of the UME movie theater near his home were left!

The movie that so many people want to watch should be a good movie, so Zhou Tong sent a WeChat message to his boyfriend Wu Ping: "My dear, let's go to the movies at night, the unit sent a few UME exchange coupons." ”

Wu Ping, a coder over there, quickly replied: "Okay! I just don't work overtime today, I'll drive to pick you up from work later, and how about going to the Three Gorges Square for dinner by the way?"

"My friend recommended watching "The Matrix 2", what do you want to watch. ”

"It's a good movie, and a lot of my colleagues have seen it, and they say it's very good. Originally, I was going to say I would go to see it on Saturday. ”

Zhou Tong replied: "Then we will go to UME first to redeem the movie ticket, and then go to dinner." Otherwise, I'm afraid that the place in the movie will be gone. ”

"No, no matter how popular a movie is, there should be a place!"

Who knows that Wu Ping's words are a prophecy.

By the time they arrived at the Three Gorges Square after work on Friday, there were already a dense number of people waiting in the waiting area of UME!

Nowadays, people generally buy movie theaters online, which is cheaper, and they can also choose seats in advance, saving themselves a trip to the theater.

Therefore, there are not many people who buy tickets at the theater, unless they use credit cards or other activities, otherwise the price of on-site tickets will be very high!

Zhou Tong took two movie vouchers and said to the waiter: "Hello, I want to exchange two tickets for "The Matrix 2" at half past eight." ”

"Hello beauty, because the ticket price of "The Matrix 2" is 35 yuan, so you still need to make up 5 yuan for each position. ”

The staff smiled as she pulled up the seat map for the eight-and-a-half show, "You can also look at the seat maps, and I'm on the big screen." The gray indication has been selected, and the green indication is optional. ”

It's not the first time Zhou Tong has encountered a situation where she has asked for additional money, she has also seen the price before, and knows that the online ticket purchase is 35 yuan, and the on-site ticket purchase is 60, but now it is exchanged according to the online ticket purchase price, which is actually quite cost-effective!

Wu Ping had already taken out 10 yuan here, and he lay on the counter and studied it carefully.

"Why are they all gray? Are there two more connected positions in the back rows?"

At this time, the seat map of the screening hall was all densely gray, and even the first and second rows had people choose seats.

"Hello sir, the back is basically scattered. There is only the left side of the second row, do you want to order it?"

Zhou Tong and Wu Ping glanced at each other, neither of them wanted to sit in front of them and hold on for two hours with their heads tilted.

"Then the 8:45 one, can you take a look?"

The staff also knew that if there was a choice, no one would choose such a high position.

Fortunately, at 8:45, although there were many people in this game, there were still a few vacant seats in the back row, so Zhou Tong didn't have to dream too much at night, she quickly pointed to two positions and said, "Just these two positions!"

"No problem, now lock your seat and issue a ticket, please wait. ”

Wu Ping looked at the long queue at the ticket gate next to him, and he said with emotion: "There are so many people in the cinema today. ”

……

As soon as the new movie was released, it had a strong lead on the first day of pre-sales.

In the early hours of Friday morning, the box office of "Minions" had 31 million pre-sales on the first day, and "Spy 6" also had 24 million!

In comparison, "The Matrix 2", which has been in theaters for seven days, is slightly inferior in pre-sales, with only 21 million at the box office on Friday ranking third.

The pre-sale box office of more than one million from the fourth to the sixth was all sucked up by the previous movies.

But when the sun rises over the horizon, Friday's box office list ushered in a big change!

The box office of "The Matrix 2" continued to rise, and it was quite terrifyingly stable, and it even surpassed two new films in the morning.

Before, everyone thought that these three movies would always fight, and the winners and losers would be determined at night, but they didn't expect to be overtaken so early!

A movie that has been in theaters for so long has an even higher attendance rate than a new film.

What is the reason of heaven!

The next "Matrix 2" did not give "Minions" and "Spy 6" any chance to overtake, not only maintaining the lead, but also getting bigger and bigger.

When Friday was coming to an end, today's market finally came to the point of 570 million yuan.

ranked first, needless to say, it must be "The Matrix 2", although its film schedule has plummeted, the attendance rate has increased significantly, and the single-day box office has reached 250 million, breaking 200 million at the box office for the 8th consecutive day!

"Minions", which came in second place, has a new force of teenagers joining, and as the only animated film among so many movies, parents will certainly choose it first.

The cute and cute Minions scraped 160 million yuan from the market on the first day, but "Spy Shadow" fell on the threshold of 90 million, and it almost broke 100 million!

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" stubbornly and unyieldingly won 12 million box office, which is simply miserable, and those who don't know think that it was released for ten days and half a month.

Just ended on Friday, the cumulative box office of "The Matrix 2" came to the level of 2.5 billion, and it is getting closer and closer to the box office record!

Compared with the easy crushing in the mainland market, it has encountered strong challenges in North America.

As an animated film, the midnight show of "Minions" actually won $6.2 million, successfully breaking the box office record of 4.7 million animated films created by himself in the same series "Despicable Me 2"!

The record setting of this group of Minion mini-regiments is not over yet, after its official release in 4,300 theaters on Friday, after a rough estimate, it actually got $40 million at the box office, which is still not counting the midnight box office!

This box office figure shattered the North American opening day box office record set by Pixar's "Toy Story 3" in one fell swoop, and directly attacked the opening weekend box office record of "Shrek 3".

While the $46.2 million first-day result didn't surpass last week's "The Matrix 2," it wasn't a difficult thing to surpass this week's "The Matrix 2"!

The film had its strongest challenge the following week, and the box office crown seemed to be getting farther and farther away from it the following weekend, as "The Matrix 2" earned only $29 million on Friday.

This result was already a very good decline, and the premieres of "Spy 6" and "Ghostbusters" were firmly suppressed, but who let it meet the pervert of "Minions"!

The "Spy" series has always been good at the North American box office, but now it is very unlucky, and the quality itself has been greatly reduced, and the box office on the first day has actually ranked third, earning only $21 million, and is expected to be less than $60 million in the opening weekend.

The reputation of "The Expendables" is also very bad, and many viewers who have seen it do not buy it very much, only 19 million on the first day, given that the production cost is as high as 144 million US dollars, there is no hope for North America to recover the cost, only to pin on the global box office!

In this way, the second championship of "The Matrix 2" seems hopeless, with a gap of $17.2 million on the first day, how can this gap be made up?

……

Los Angeles, USC Grand Center, a red carpet has long been rolled out, and the red carpet is flanked by reporters and fans.

Although it was the award ceremony of the Teen Choice Awards, many over-age fans were also on both sides, screaming desperately for their idols and applauding their favorite crews!

Xu Jiayan also rarely enjoyed the feeling of being sought after by American teenagers, he has enjoyed it at home for many years, but this is the first time overseas.

"God! It's Agent Smith!"

"He's so handsome, I like him so much. ”

"Agent-Smith!

Not to mention the fans on both sides of the red carpet, even many reporters may not be able to call Xu Jiayan's Chinese name, they can only remember Xu Jiayan's movie role, Agent Smith is very deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

After "The Martian" and the two "The Matrix", Xu Jiayan is also very popular with reporters here, even if he can't name it, he can't help but take pictures one by one.

"Xu, look here!"

"Xu, why don't you take your female companion on the red carpet?"

Xu Jiayan walked slowly on the red carpet, waving to fans from time to time, and then walked to the edge of the red carpet to sign a poster with his portrait, and then took selfies with fans.

It's just about letting go here, and it's not okay to be cold!

One star after another walked the red carpet, and the screams of these young people never seemed to stop.

When Chu Guang walked on the red carpet with Shen Yanling in a strong suit, the atmosphere of the audience reached the highest point!

There were even a few female fans who covered their mouths and had difficulty breathing.

"Neo!"

"Neo! Trinity, I love you!"

"He's so handsome, I'm going to faint!"

"God, forgive me for falling in love with someone. ”

"Look this way, look this way. ”

"Laugh one!"

How long does it take to go from newcomer to young idol?

Chu Guang used his own personal experience to get the answer, he only needed a movie.

The Teen Choice Award represents popularity, not only movie actors, but also TV series actors and singers have appeared, and even Chu Guang saw the figure of Stephen Curry in front, who was nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Best Male Athlete.

It's different from the Golden Globes and Emmy Awards, all of them are youth idols, not so formal and serious, and there are no traditional dramas such as legal dramas, historical dramas, and medical dramas in the nomination list.

Justin Bieber wore crotch pants, a few big boys in the one-way band talked and laughed, Ariana Grande, who is obviously white but likes to tan, and even the super-star Beyoncé was on the scene.

There are many favorite Internet celebrity supermodels of the younger generation, and Xu Jiayan feels like he is ten years younger in such an atmosphere.

As a thirty-seven or eighteen-year-old man, he is indeed not young, after all, it has been almost twenty years since he debuted and filmed his first movie!

"Brother Jiayan, do you think we can win the award?"

Chu Guang said with a relaxed face, the Golden Globe Awards in January and the Oscars in February were quite serious, for fear of making mistakes, so there would be no worries at this time.

Xu Jiayan sighed, and he replied: "I hope to win the prize, only by winning the prize, can we hope to surpass the opponent." If you don't win the award, it's destined to have no news effect!"

They all know that the seven-day single-day box office champion of "The Matrix 2" is gone, and everything can only depend on the results of the Teen Choice Awards.

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You must not have imagined that the author's bacteria actually caught a cold in Chongqing in the summer, and it was not blowing air conditioners.

The temperature suddenly changed, and I was unfortunately hit