"The Sixth Sense" is not scheduled to be released over the Christmas period because the film is not favored at the US box office. It's not that the film is not well made, but the film is set in Hong Kong, and the actors are all Chinese, and American audiences may have viewing difficulties.

It's like the very powerful "Infernal Affairs", this Hong Kong film is wonderful, but it is difficult for European and American audiences to appreciate the essence of Hong Kong-made police and gangster films, so "Infernal Affairs" is extremely bad at the box office in Europe and the United States. But American producers fell in love with the story structure of "Infernal Affairs", and after buying the rights, they made a Hollywood version of "The Departed", which not only made a lot of money at the box office but also won several Oscar trophies.

This is a matter of aesthetic differences between the East and the West, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the movie itself.

Kang Jianfei's previous movies were popular in Europe and the United States, in fact, they relied on mysterious oriental elements to attract European and American audiences, including Chinese kung fu, myths and legends, exotic customs, demons and monsters, and so on.

Movies without oriental elements, and "Truman's World" and "Jurassic Park" sold well in Europe and the United States, the former won with the new weirdness, and the latter is actually a Hollywood blockbuster dressed in the skin of a Hong Kong film.

But "The Sixth Sense" is different, there is no kung fu, no exotic style, this is a supernatural film that focuses on emotional cards. Even though Kang Jianfei is famous all over the world for "Jurassic Park", no one can package a ticket for "The Sixth Sense" to be well received in the West.

October 29 is the annual Halloween.

All kinds of supernatural, horror, and ghost films have been released, taking advantage of the opportunity of the festival to catch a handful, and Kang Jianfei's "The Sixth Sense of the Supernatural" is the one that has attracted the most attention.

"Jurassic Park" is too successful, with a global box office of 900 million US dollars, the highest-grossing film since the invention of the movie, which gives Kang Jianfei a supreme shining halo. Although the industry knows that assistant director James Cameron has made a great contribution to the film, the attention of the media and the public is mainly focused on Kang Jianfei, and "The Sixth Sense", as his first film after "Jurassic Park", has attracted the attention of all parties before it was released.

On Halloween, among all kinds of horror and supernatural films, the well-publicized films all received a good box office. However, in the following days, these films kicked off the box office because of their quality.

Among the many supernatural horror films, in addition to "The Sixth Sense", there is also a Disney cartoon called "The Nightmare of Christmas".

"Nightmare Before Christmas" was shot in traditional freeze-frame mode, and the post-production was made using digital 3D technology, which had just been developed by Disney, and the audience had to wear modified stereoscopic glasses.

3D movies actually existed as early as the 70s, along with ring screen movies, dome movies, and IMAX giant movies, but these film technologies were not well promoted.

The original 3D film technology was basically used to make horror films and colors. Romance films, 3D technology will make this kind of film look very real and exciting. For example, 3D color costs $100,000. The romance film "Flight Attendant" won a super box office of 27 million, and then adult producers in the United States flocked to making 3D colors. Romance films have greatly promoted the promotion and development of 3D technology.

Unlike previous 3D films, "Nightmare Before Christmas" is the first digital 3D film in film history, and the layering, distance and clarity of the impact are far beyond traditional 3D films, allowing the audience to unconsciously immerse themselves in a three-dimensional ghost world.

In terms of film technology, Hong Kong, the Oriental Hollywood, is still too far from the real Hollywood!

"The Sixth Sense" and "Nightmare Christmas" made efforts at the same time, and the two films became the most gold-attracting blockbusters on Halloween.

At first, the audience chose to watch "The Sixth Sense" because of Kang Jianfei's fame and the film's effective publicity. But after watching this movie, I found that it is really very exciting, although it is a Hong Kong film, but the spiritual core of "The Sixth Sense" is universal - family, affection, responsibility, love and trust.

In the United States, which advocates family and responsibility, "The Sixth Sense" can definitely be regarded as a main theme movie, and it seems so warm and fresh in a bunch of thriller horror films.

The Hollywood Reporter gave "The Sixth Sense" a very high rating: "It's an intriguing thriller, or rather, it's essentially a family movie." Kang always surprises us, and this surprise lasts until the end of the film, and I am sure that many people will be surprised and stunned at the end, and then go back to the cinema to study it again. ”

"Variety" also gave praise: "The eyes of the little girl in the film are sad and profound, she is standing in the middle of the church with a rag doll, with the crucifix behind her, facing the camera with her dead eyes, that picture makes me unable to let go of it all night." Learn to talk and listen, this is the truth that the film wants to tell us, this is the case between people, and the same is true for people and ghosts. ”

The Los Angeles Times' review was even more blunt: "This is one of the most noteworthy films of the year, and Kang's directing skills are still so good." ”

"The Sixth Sense" does not have amazing kung fu fights, nor does it scare people to tremble, it is completely emotionally moving. On the other hand, "Nightmare Before Christmas" is a thriller 3D cartoon, and the digital 3D picture is the exclusive magic weapon of this film to attract audiences.

In three days of release in North America, "The Sixth Sense" grossed $25.74 million in its first weekend; "Nightmare Before Christmas" bites tightly in the back, with a box office of 25.06 million.

Such box office results are nothing in the Christmas or summer season, but they are extremely good on Halloween, throwing the horror thrillers released at the same time a few streets.

In the second week of its release, the box office of "The Sixth Sense" was 23.88 million in a single week, and the box office fell by only 7. This is thanks to the surprising and disorienting ending, and many people do not hesitate to buy tickets to watch the second or third time in order to figure out the plot. Of course, there is another reason that the first week was only released for three days, and the second week counted 7 days.

This week, "Christmas Night" is a little less impressive, with a weekly box office of $21.45 million, and although this 3D digital animation is great, the audience rarely watches it a second time after watching it, and the thriller genre is not suitable for the whole family.

From October 29 until early December, "Christmas Night" preceded "The Sixth Sense" and grossed $71 million in North America.

"The Sixth Sense" has a strange box office curve, with box office declines of less than 10 for several weeks, and it is still extremely strong until Christmas.

The same is true of "The Sixth Sense" in another time and space, which only grossed $26 million in the first week, but it was screened for several months, and finally won nearly $300 million at the box office, ranking second in the annual box office list in North America that year.

Kang Jianfei's "The Sixth Sense", after more than a month of screenings, has been reduced to very few by Christmas. But when Christmas came and the people of the United States and Canada had a holiday party, the box office of "The Sixth Sense" exploded again, so that the theater chain had to increase the number of screenings for him.

From the end of October to mid-January, nearly 80 days of continuous screening, "The Sixth Sense" finally won $170 million at the box office. Although it is more than 100 million less than the box office of another time and space, Kang Jianfei is making a Chinese film after all, and it is already against the sky to have this box office result.

This is by far the highest-grossing Chinese-language film in North America. "Jurassic Park" is not counted, that film is often written in English, and the Chinese lines in the whole film are less than one-third.

"The Sixth Sense" won the fourth place in the 1993 North American annual box office list, which shocked its Hollywood counterparts. When "Jurassic Park" swept the box office market, Hollywood filmmakers put the credit on Cameron, believing that without Cameron's assistance, Kang Jianfei would not have been able to make a record-breaking blockbuster of $900 million worldwide.

But now "The Sixth Sense" has quietly earned $170 million at the box office, which has dumbfounded everyone. In particular, this movie uses a supernatural thriller theme to tell about family affection and trust, and it is still a Hong Kong film, no matter how you look at it, it should be a part of hitting the street, and it can get a super high box office so that many people in the industry say they can't understand it.

After the Hong Kong and Taiwan media got the news, it was a collective climax, and one after another touted articles were released. In their opinion, "The Sixth Sense" is a more pure Chinese film than "Jurassic Park", the whole movie uses Chinese dialogue, and the filming is all in Hong Kong, which can get the fourth best result in the annual box office list in North America, which is another victory for Chinese films in the world.

A commentary in the China Times wrote: "If Kang Jianfei is the greatest Chinese director, there may be many people who oppose it. But the box office numbers don't lie, and Kang Jianfei is undoubtedly the most successful Chinese-speaking commercial director. ”

"Tian Tian Daily" unabashedly touted its boss: ""The Sixth Sense of the Supernatural" slashed $170 million at the box office in North America, and Mr. Kang Jianfei once again defended his honor as an international director, he is the pride of Hong Kong, and the pride of all Chinese. ”

"Next Magazine", which is black in Fengkang, also took the opportunity to run out to join in the fun. This time, it didn't report Kang Jianfei's scandal anymore, but somewhere did it learn about the news of the National Day gift film "The Wind", and criticized wildly: "Director Kang Jianfei's talent is undoubted, but his character is worrying." It is reported that Kang Jianfei is on it. When Hai was filming "Kung Fu", he also participated in the screenwriting of the 45th anniversary of the mainland's National Day gift film. This is a typical behavior of flattering and inviting pets, he turned a blind eye to the Great Leap Forward, WG and 8 Square, and turned a blind eye to Gdang's bloody suppression of the people, but he only knew how to sing praises and virtues, which was simply shameless......"

Well, the Next Magazine report still caused some repercussions among Hong Kong rightists, but the vast majority of Hong Kong citizens were not interested in it, and at most they just watched the excitement.

The most concerned are insiders, as soon as the news of the hot sale of "The Sixth Sense" in the United States came back, it was tantamount to detonating a nuclear bomb in the Hong Kong film industry, injecting a stimulant into the sluggish Hong Kong films, and even stimulating the box office growth of the Christmas and New Year stalls. R1152