For the release of "The Expendables", Lin Yuquan is undoubtedly particularly concerned, after all, this is a movie made according to his ideas, a pure action movie that pays tribute to the action movies of the eighties and nineties of the last century, and an action movie that tries to declare that veterans are immortal and that traditional action movies will not die out.

Not only that, the success of "The Expendables" will also have a significant impact on the future filmmaking of Summit Entertainment, one is the shooting of the sequel, and the other is the realization of another idea in his heart, bringing together the most influential young action actors in the world today, with cool, fashion, technology and other elements as the core to create an action movie that is more in line with the taste of young people, the success of "The Expendables", especially the exact box office results, will determine the launch scale of this youth version of the star-studded action movie.

It is precisely because "The Expendables" is so important that Summit Entertainment and Dawning Films have put a lot of effort into the promotion of the film, and finally locked the core elements of the promotion of "The Expendables" as "the first gathering of tough guys after "Hurricane Rescue", "Memories of action movie classics", "The last gathering, if you miss it, there will be nothing", and strive to attract action fans to enter the theater and enter the theater of "The Expendables".

It's just such a selling point, can action movie fans buy it? The answer will be revealed right away.

"Boss, the first-day box office is out, $14.17 million, and our "The Expendables" is the single-day box office champion in the North American market." Chris. Anderson's uplifted voice came from the phone.

"Oh, well, what about the rest of the country?" Lin Yuquan showed a smile on his face.

"In the international market outside of North America, the highest box office is in Chinese mainland. $3.38 million, followed by the United Kingdom at $1.36 million, and Russia at $1.27 million. $870,000 in Italy, $710,000 in South Korea, $680,000 in France, $650,000 in Germany"

Hear from Chris. Anderson's report, the smile on Lin Yuquan's face became brighter and brighter, in the countries and regions that have been logged in, "The Expendables" has almost won the box office championship, in terms of single-day box office alone. The results are very impressive.

"How's the movie review?" Lin Yuquan continued to ask out loud, although the first-day box office is important, but what determines the final box office of a movie is multiple factors including the first-day box office, word-of-mouth evaluation, and competition pattern.

"The freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes so far is 72%. With a Metacritic media score of 67 and an IMDB score of 8.1, overall, it's enough for a popcorn movie. "Chris. Anderson said with a smile.

"That's right." Lin Yuquan smiled with satisfaction.

Summit Entertainment and Dawning Movies are thrilled. Meanwhile. Media reporters, industry insiders, movie fans and audiences, and too many people are in high spirits, but not all of them are for "The Expendables", and many are for "District 9".

Shot in the pseudo-documentary style that has become very popular in recent years, "District 9" lived up to Paramount's high expectations, earning $11.75 million at the box office in a single day, only slightly less than "The Expendables", and "District 9" is only one-third of the production cost of "The Expendables", so the box office has been determined to recoup $30 million in the North American market in the first week.

What's even more amazing is the word-of-mouth evaluation that "District 9" has received. 88% Rotten Tomatoes freshness, 82 Metacritic Media Score. With an IMDB score of 8.9, the Hollywood Reporter believes that all viewers who love sci-fi and even any movie will be shocked by the action, adventure and suspense in this highly original chase film; Time magazine believes that "District 9" proves that this kind of sci-fi genre can not only produce sensory stimulation, but also create worlds that the audience has never seen or even imagined; "Variety" commented that compared with cheap horror scenes such as creating explosive aliens, the director is more interested in alluding to our bloodthirsty and xenophobic raceOverall, "District 9", which reflects the racial contradictions in today's society with the contradictions between humans and aliens, is considered a thoughtful genre movie, and its flaws are not hidden.

It is obvious that with outstanding word-of-mouth evaluation, the box office prospects of "District 9" are generally optimistic, and it is believed that it has the potential to impact the 100 million yuan club.

Of course, there are many people who are disappointed with the single-day box office results on Friday, such as Warner Bros. and Brad. Pete, speaking of which, as a best-selling novel, "The Time Traveler's Wife" was brought to the big screen with a lot of twists and turns, and the copyright of the novel was still a couple at the time as early as 2003? Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston bought and have been in the preparation period, but with the breakdown of their marriage, the filming date of the film has been delayed again and again. Spielberg, David. Finch, Gas. Van Sant eventually turned into Robert of mediocre directorial strength. Svenk.

As it turned out, Robert. Svenk is indeed a mediocre director, and could have made a film like "Benjamin. The wife of "The Curious Affair of Barton" earned $7.17 million at the box office on its opening day, and the word-of-mouth reviews were a terrible mess.

With a freshness rating of 36% on Rotten Tomatoes, a Metacritic media score of 47, and an IMDB score of 6.1, as Empire magazine said, "The Time Traveler's Wife" is too deliberately crammed with length, so that the film loses the elegance of the novel, and there are frequent logical fallacies in the process.

Not to mention that it can reach the Oscar level, it is undoubtedly a pity that a movie that has every chance to be made is ruined.

There is also Paramount, that's right, Paramount, "District 9" is certainly exciting, but Paramount's disappointment is by no means less than excitement, if the original "Special Forces: Cobra Rise" box office failure last week was already a heavy blow, then this week's "Special Forces: Cobra Rise" heavy box office drop is another hard stab in the torn wound.

Not only that, but the "Ace Salesman" released by him failed to create the box office miracle like "Department Store Warriors" at the beginning of the year, with a 30% freshness on Rotten Tomatoes, a Metacritic media score of 41, an IMDB score of 5.2 points, plus a miserable box office failure.

And those who are disappointed are those who hope that Paramount will beat Summit Entertainment in this summer file, yes, "District 9" exploded at the box office as everyone expected, but "The Expendables" did not suffer a box office Waterloo, it was "Ace Salesman" that suffered a Waterloo, what a shocking reversal, no, Summit Entertainment has since officially crowned the box office overlord of this summer file, and personally killed the miracle of the earth-shattering reversal.

Two days passed in a flash, and on the newly released North American box office list of the past week, "The Expendables" defeated "District 9" with $41.77 million and topped the box office.

At the same time, the box office also set a new record for Stallone's best opening weekend as a director, far exceeding the $18.2 million of his previous failed film "First Blood 4".

Of course, the defeated "District 9" is by no means a loser, in fact, its box office of $37.65 million has far exceeded the expectations of the outside world, and even Paramount itself, basically recovering the production cost, according to the box office trend, it will bring a lot of revenue to Paramount.

The losers are "Special Forces: The Rise of the Cobra", "The Time Traveler's Wife", "Ace Salesman", and "The Goldfish on the Cliff", "Special Forces: The Rise of the Cobra" fell 60.15% at the box office, closing at $21.46 million, and the cumulative box office was $97.11 million in two weeks, which can be described as a complete failure; "The Time Traveler's Wife" finally ended its box office journey with a box office figure of $17.88 million, and suffered from poor word-of-mouth, and if it wanted to recover the production cost of $40 million, it could only rely on other channels other than the box office; The $5.02 million box office of "Ace Salesman" is obviously hopeless, and Paramount's subsidiary, Paramount Advantage, continues its sad fate of finding a profit; "Ponyo on the Cliff" received an astonishing reputation, but the box office results were quite mediocre, earning $3.47 million in its opening weekend, wasting all the hard work of 20th Century Fox.

For Lin Yuquan, the excellent box office performance of "The Expendables" in the North American market is naturally gratifying, but his joy is not limited to this. (To be continued.) )