"North American weekend box office review from August 1st to August 3rd: "Batman: The Dark Knight" won strongly, and "The Mummy 3" lost and fell into second place."

Looking at the box office report on the entertainment page of "Xinglang Entertainment" on the computer screen, Lin Yuquan shook his head with a smile, he didn't expect that "The Mummy 3" that was originally planned to watch the film would be so bad.

If you look at it 1 month ago, it is actually clear who the box office champion of this weekend is, firstly, "The Dark Knight" has been released for the second week, and it is not surprising that the champion is handed over, and secondly, the box office of the "Mummy" series has always been outstanding, and the last "Mummy 2" finally broke $200 million at the North American box office.

But no one expected that "The Mummy 3" would be a big defeat, before that, the past few years have been unfavorable, Universal Pictures, which urgently needs the old series to support the scene, has high hopes for "The Mummy 3", and Universal Pictures, which has always saved money, spared no expense to build, "The Mummy 3" has an investment of up to $145 million, which is an amazing improvement compared to the $80 million and $98 million of the first two parts of the series.

It's a pity that the tragic ending of the sequel to the blockbuster series in the previous two years, released in 3,754 theaters, the largest in the series, and the final box office in the opening weekend was only 41.25 million, which is not only lower than the $43.37 million of "The Mummy", but also far less than the $68.14 million of "The Mummy 2", which is undoubtedly a huge gap with the $80 million that the outside world expects to get.

And the reason for this situation is naturally inseparable from the strong performance of "The Dark Knight". But in the end, the most important thing is the quality of the film itself, look at the reviews and word-of-mouth of the film that are almost finished, fans and audiences are not stupid.

Comparatively. "The Mummy 3" undoubtedly performed better at the overseas box office, only in 28 countries and regions that were released during the same period, it won $59.47 million at the overseas box office, making the total box office of the film exceed 100 million in the first week.

However, under the flood of bad reviews, everyone knows that the film's decline next week must be extremely alarming, unless there is a miracle that fans and audiences want to see how bad "The Mummy 3" is.

At the same time, in the face of such high production and promotion costs, the loss of "The Mummy 3" may already be a certainty. Perhaps the only thing Universal can pray for now is not to lose more than "Speed Racers".

As for "The Dark Knight", this movie was strong last week, but it was far worse than "Savage: Rise of the Apes". As many expected, the film's box office decline in the second week was not controlled within 47%, and finally collected another $73.29 million at the box office, a box office decline of 52%. Lost to 37% of "Spider-Man 1" in the same period, "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes" 41%, "Harry. Potter and the Goblet of Fire 47%, Iron Man 48%, Star Wars Prequel 3: Hiss' Revenge 49%.

Nevertheless. Warner Bros. and the film's creators had plenty of reason to be excited, and in just 10 days, "The Dark Knight" had grossed $302 million, far exceeding the final North American box office of $205 million for "Batman: The Mystery of the Shadows."

Lin Yuquan didn't care much about this, "Wild Wild: Rise of the Ape" had a cumulative box office of 342 million US dollars in the same period, which was by no means comparable to "The Dark Knight", and his eyes quickly fell on the box office of "Wild Wild: Rise of the Ape", and then naturally showed a satisfied smile on his face.

$21.21 million. This figure is not conspicuous in the box office charts of previous weeks, but if you add "Week 7", it undoubtedly becomes very terrifying. It is important to know that many off-season box office champions also did not have such a high box office.

What's even more amazing is that so far, the cumulative box office of "Wild Stories: Rise of the Apes" in North America has reached 664 million US dollars, and with a box office of less than 36 million US dollars, it can become the first film in North American film history to break 700 million US dollars at the box office, which is really amazing.

In addition, "Wild Wild: The Rise of the Apes" also continued to perform well at the box office in other countries and regions, like in China, "The Wild Wild: The Rise of the Apes" really won the box office championship again without any suspense, with a box office decline of 30.76% and another 35.73 million, with a cumulative total box office of 872 million, and the box office of 900 million is just around the corner.

Counting other countries and regions except North America, "Wild Wild: Rise of the Apes" finally collected another $50.21 million in 101 countries and regions, and the cumulative global box office reached $1.635 billion.

There is only $208 million left, Lin Yuquan exhaled, his expression was extremely complicated, there was excitement, anticipation, and apprehension, for "Wild Story: The Rise of the Apes", which began its eighth week of box office journey, it was too difficult to achieve a box office catch of $200 million.

Nowadays, major media and filmmakers are generally not optimistic about "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes", with the current momentum, "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes" $1.7 billion is a certainty, $1.75 billion is no problem, and $1.8 billion may be reached, but it still seems impossible to break the mythical record of "Titanic".

No one wants things to be out of their control, but it is clear that the box office of the movie is completely out of Lin Yuquan's control, although he has long chosen to wait quietly, but as a director, he naturally expects "Wild Story: Rise of the Ape" to surpass "Titanic". Seeing that the box office is increasing little by little, it is getting closer and closer to the goal, and the hope seems to be getting slimmer and slimmer, which is really tormenting.

After a while, Lin Yuquan calmed down and continued to browse the news.

With a banging knock on the door, Lin Mu walked into the room with a white porcelain bowl and said with a smile: "Chilled sour plum soup, rest early after drinking, you will go to the Olympic torch relay early tomorrow morning!" When the time comes, nothing can go wrong. ”

"Okay, Mom, I know, you and my dad should rest early." Lin Yuquan took a sip of the sour plum soup and immediately took a sip with a spoon, and immediately felt cold and satisfied.

"Heh, we know."

After Mother Lin left. Lin Yuquan also quickly lay down to rest, the Olympic torch relay, looking at the snow-white ceiling above his head. He smiled

Rongcheng, the provincial capital of Bashu, a modern mega central city in central and western China, one of the first batch of famous historical and cultural cities, enjoys the reputation of "the capital of Chinese cuisine", and in the 2008 Kyoto Olympic Games, which the people of the whole country are looking forward to, it plays the sacred role of the last stop of the Kyoto Olympic torch relay into Beijing. This afternoon. The Olympic flame team will fly to Kyoto for the final stage of the relay before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games from 6 to 8 August.

When the sun rises on August 5th. Under the sun, I can only see the streets and alleys of Rongcheng, and you can see such things as "one world, one dream" and "love my hometown" everywhere. Love my Rongcheng", "Come on China, come on the Olympics, come on Bashu" and other propaganda slogans.

And along the way of the torch relay. Colorful flags are unfurled, turning the streets into a festive sea. The national flag and the Olympic flag fluttered in the wind in the streets and alleys, showing the fiery Olympic atmosphere everywhere.

At the same time, tens of thousands of citizens spontaneously poured into the streets and gathered along the route of the torch relay, everyone's face filled with excitement and joy.

Lin Yuquan, who got up early and had breakfast, also drove Lin's father and mother to the Rongcheng export processing plant, which was the starting point of the Rongcheng torch relay. The end point is the Century City International Convention and Exhibition Center, with a total distance of 13.2 kilometers. A total of 315 torchbearers were present.

When Lin Yuquan drove to the Rongcheng export processing plant, a large number of people had gathered here, including leaders of the provincial party committee and municipal government, Olympic torchbearers, performers, security personnel, citizens, and media reporters.

The arrival of Lin Yuquan, who was dressed in a torchbearer's red and white sportswear, naturally caused a huge sensation at the scene, and in the excited screams and shouts, the media reporters and the masses raised their cameras or mobile phones to aim at Lin Yuquan and took pictures non-stop.

Lin Yuquan separated from Father Lin and Mother Lin, and walked calmly to the area where the rostrum was located.

"Hello, Director Lin, I have always wanted to meet you, the hero of earthquake relief, during the earthquake rescue before, but unfortunately I couldn't do it, I finally saw it today, thank you for your great contribution to the disaster area." Province. Liu Zhenshan, secretary of the party committee, shook hands with Lin Yuquan with a smile on his face, looking at Lin Yuquan's eyes full of curiosity, even for him, what this young man has done in the past few years is so incredible, and many people have mentioned this young man in an admiring tone when talking to him.

"Hello, Secretary Liu, I can't afford your praise, I'm just doing what I should do, not great, you and the provinces. The leaders of the party committee and the municipal party committee have done much more than me for the disaster area, and when it comes to greatness, Secretary Liu's contribution to the disaster area is the real greatness. Lin Yuquan said with a smile, his words were calm and unhurried, without any crampedness.

"Heh, I'm just doing what I'm supposed to do." Liu Zhenshan smiled, looking at Lin Yuquan's eyes full of appreciation, it is really rare for a young man to be not arrogant or impatient after achieving such extraordinary results, and the other party in front of him, calm, not humble and not arrogant, also made him secretly admire, and he really deserved to be the creator of countless miracles.

"I said you should not be humble to each other, you have all made an indelible contribution to the disaster area, which is obvious to all." An old man next to Liu Zhenshan, who was also wearing a straight suit and was full of energy, said with a smile.

Liu Zhenshan smiled, pointed at the old man and said to Lin Yuquan: "Director Lin, let me introduce you to you, this is the province. Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee. Long Jiang Mingfeng. ”

"Hello, Jiang Sheng. Long! Lin Yuquan then said politely, shaking hands with the other party.

"Hello, Director Lin, it's better to see than to hear, it's nice to meet you." Jiang Mingfeng smiled.

Later, Liu Zhenshan successively introduced the main leaders of the provincial and municipal party committees who attended the starting ceremony to Lin Yuquan.

Before the start ceremony, all the staff at the scene observed a minute of silence for the compatriots killed in the Wenchuan earthquake and the heroic martyrs who died in the earthquake relief.

Later, at 8:06 a.m., the Olympic Flame Guards drew the flame from the tinder lamp and lit the first auspicious cloud torch of the Chengdu City Relay.

After receiving the torch from the flame messenger, Liu Zhenshan immediately handed the torch to the first torchbearer, Olympic shooting champion Zhang Shan, and announced the start of the torch relay.

At this time, the time came to 8:12, in the sound of gongs and drums that shook the sky. Zhang Shan carried the torch and ran past the bold Yangko performance team, and the relay of the Kyoto Olympic torch relay at Rongcheng Station officially began.

As far as the eye can see, you can only see where the torch passes. The shouts and cheers of "Come on China", "Come on the Olympics", and "Bashu Xiongqi" came and went.

Witnessing all this, Lin Yuquan couldn't help but be infected by the strong atmosphere of the torch relay, and his heart was indescribably proud and excited.

"Alright, it's time for us to go to the convention center too." After the torchbearer disappeared from everyone's sight, Jiang Mingfeng said with a smile to the leading cadres beside him.

And Lin Yuquan naturally went with him, without it, because he was the last torchbearer of the Rongcheng Torch Relay. Originally, he was supposed to go directly to the convention and exhibition center, but because of his extraordinary status and influence, he was invited to attend the starting ceremony.

When everyone arrived at the convention center. Thousands of spectators have gathered at the scene, and Lin Yuquan's appearance has once again caused a sensation, and in the cheers and attention, he smiled calmly and held the torch. Wait for the torch relay to arrive.

The wait is undoubtedly a long one. But no one at the scene showed an impatient expression, and all that was on everyone's face was a thick expectation.

When the time came to 10:35, an earthquake relief hero holding a burning torch finally appeared in the field of vision, and in an instant, a warm shout broke out at the scene.

Lin Yuquan also looked upright, this was a very sacred moment, under the gaze of countless people, the torch he held in both hands and the burning torch of the earthquake relief hero collided together.

At the moment when the torch is lit. A strange feeling welled up in my heart, suppressing the excitement in my heart. Accompanied by four runners wearing blue and white sportswear, Lin Yuquan ran unhurriedly with the torch in his hand, his hands were extremely steady, and he only had a confident and calm smile on his face.

Lin Yuquan was running like an immovable mountain, just looking at him, the audience at the scene and watching the live broadcast in front of the TV felt extremely relieved for a moment, as if as long as Lin Yuquan was there, nothing could destroy the flame.

In the cheers and shouts of thousands of spectators, the torch in Lin Yuquan's hand and the holy cauldron touched together, and in an instant, a raging flame burned in the holy cauldron and deafening applause also sounded like a tide.

"Hello, Director Lin, as the last torchbearer of Rongcheng Station, how are you feeling now? I didn't have many expressions or movements when I saw you just now, was it because I was nervous? A reporter handed the microphone to Lin Yuquan.

"I am proud, excited and honoured to be part of the Olympic Torch Relay, and it is a sacred and wonderful moment that I will never forget. As for the expressions or movements I didn't have just now, it was not because I was nervous, but as a torchbearer, the torch relay was not only an honor, but also a sacred mission, and from the moment the torch was lit, there was only one thing we had to do, to protect the flame and complete the torch relay task. So in the process, we have to stay fully focused, because no one knows what will happen in the next second. ”

Speaking of this, Lin Yuquan's face suddenly showed a bright smile, and he said slightly teasingly: "Do you know? Actually, I was ready for a long time, if anyone ran out to grab the torch like the previous Paris torch relay, then I would definitely not be able to recognize him while protecting the flame. ”

The media reporters who surrounded Lin Yuquan immediately smiled.

After the torch relay ceremony, Lin Yuquan immediately returned home and flew to Kyoto with Lin's father and mother in the afternoon to watch the upcoming Olympic Opening Ceremony.

Although it was only a torch relay at Rongcheng Station, due to Lin Yuquan's strong personal influence, reports about his torch relay and a series of photos of him holding the torch in a red and white sportswear quickly appeared on major domestic websites, post bars, forums, and then spread to the world.

And although such a torch relay did not bring a substantial increase in the influence of the torchbearers, it did excite Lin Yuquan's fans and fans, and they added a series of images to treasure.

"Is it handsome? I also think that the torch relay does make people's mental state very different, and when the day after tomorrow comes to your torch relay, I will take pictures of you and record all the most beautiful moments of your torch relay. Lin Yuquan said to Liu Yifei on the phone with a smile on his face. Okay, Liu Yifei's happy voice rang on the phone. (To be continued......)