On March 28th, the Friday of the last week of March, although there is still a period of time before the start of the summer season, on this day when new films are usually released, North American theaters do not seem to be deserted, and several movies with a large scale have injected several hot breaths into the schedule at the end of March.

There is the spoof film "Superheroes", which blatantly takes the superheroes of magical comics directly, this $35 million lowbrow comedy produced by Emperor Pictures and produced by Weinstein Company will be released in 2,763 theaters.

There are adaptations from the present. Mozridge's best-selling novel "21 Points", a film produced by Sony that is supposed to tell the story of the legendary experience of Chinese Kevin Ma, was written by screenwriter Peter Brown. Stanfield and Allen. The earth-shaking adaptation has taken place in the hands of Rib and will be released in 2,543 theaters.

There's Ryan. Philip vs Channing. Tatum's anti-war film "Refuse to Fight Again", produced by Paramount, is said to be based on the beautiful director Kimberly. An anti-war film based on the real experience of Pierce's own brother will be released in 1,181 theaters.

There is a "Friends" Ross . David of the corner of Geller. Schwimmer's directorial debut, "Fat Boy Run," was produced by Studio Studio, and Simon Brown, who rose to fame three years ago with a peculiar anti-zombie film "Shaun the Zombies." The comedy film, starring Paige, will be released in 1,336 theaters.

And, of course, there's the gathering of Ethan. Hawke, Woody. Harrison, Ben. Affleck's younger brother Cassie. Affleck's "Fatal Bend 2", a $15 million dismemberment of the road horror sequel produced by Summit Entertainment. It will be released in 2030 theaters.

And in addition to these five new films that have been released on a large scale. Also in theaters this week is "Horton and Anonymous", which has dominated the box office for two consecutive years. "Meet the Brown Family", "GI Bodyguard", "Shutter", "Moonlight Prodigal" and other films released last week.

So many films have naturally made the major theaters quite lively, and it has also attracted countless audiences to walk into the theater on this Friday night and watch the movie while tomorrow is the weekend.

As the first movie released by Summit Entertainment this year, Lin Yuquan naturally has no reason not to support "Fatal Bend 2", and this will not delay his film preparations.

In the theater of a large theater in Los Angeles, on the screen, in the dark night, a young man wearing a white T-shirt and white jeans ran with a frightened face. He let out a terrible cry from his mouth, and turned back from time to time, as if something terrible was chasing him in the dark forest behind him.

It wasn't until he was exhausted that the young man stopped, looked back to make sure that nothing was chasing him, the young man suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, sat down on the ground weakly, and gasped for breath while showing a smile on his face, suddenly. A slight movement came into the young man's ears, and the young man's smile suddenly froze. Looking back in fear, he saw a sharpened steel pipe unstoppably heading straight for his front door, the young man was frightened and could not dodge at all, and then the steel pipe penetrated his mouth, and suddenly blood flowed down the steel pipe like a spring, and the young man's eyes were wide open, and he fell silent after two movements.

"Whew." There was a sudden gasp in the theater, and some of the girls were even more discolored, obviously frightened by the bloody scene.

and Chris. Lin Yuquan, who was sitting next to several top entertainment executives in Anderson, smiled slightly, before the release, he had actually watched "Fatal Bend 2", in his opinion, although "Fatal Bend 2" is not a classic, it is by no means a bad movie, and it can be regarded as a work above the standard.

For the box office of "Fatal Bend 2", he was naturally quite confident before, maybe this will not be a box office explosion movie, but there is certainly no pressure to recover costs, and the DVD sales and leasing of this kind of movie have always been good, and it is conservatively estimated that it should be able to get a lot of money. Now watching the audience's reaction to watching the movie also makes him more confident in this.

When the film was over, everyone came to the restaurant to celebrate the successful premiere of "Fatal Bend 2".

"Lin, I hope to have the opportunity to cooperate in the future." An old man with glasses and gray hair said to Lin Yuquan with a smile on his face.

"Okay, David, I'd like to have the opportunity to continue working together." Lin Yuquan looked at the old man with a smile and said.

The full name of the person he calls David is David R. Iris, the director of "Fatal Bend 2", who has been in Hollywood for many years, and is an out-and-out veteran director, who has previously served as an assistant director in many films such as "The Matrix 2: Reloaded", "Battle of the Furious Seas", and "Turning the Tide", and also independently directed films such as "Death is Coming 2", "A Silver Lining of Life", "Snake Flight" and other films.

Although he said with a smile, Lin Yuquan shook his head secretly in his heart, to be honest, David R. Iris is a very qualified director, he has rich experience and control over large and small scenes, but he is not an excellent director, from Lin Yuquan's point of view, in fact, "Fatal Bend 2" is still a certain distance from his requirements, which is why "Fatal Bend 3" will choose to be played by James. The reason why Oka came to direct was because he wanted to see better work.

After the premiere of "Fatal Bend", Lin Yuquan flew to southern Michigan immediately the next morning to continue the preparation of "Heartbeat", which is getting closer and closer to the start of the movie, and he will be very busy in the next time.

When the time came to March 31, the latest North American weekend box office charts for March 28-March 30, 2008 were also released.

In the North American box office war last weekend, the final youth gambling film "Decisive 21 O'Clock" sat on the box office top with a good result of 23.2 million US dollars, which also set the best North American box office performance for Hollywood gambling films in recent years. Damon and Edward. Norton's 1998 starring "The King of Gambling" only grossed $23 million, and "21 Points" surpassed that number in just three days. In addition, by Al. Pacino and Matthew. McConaughey's 2005 starring role in "Two Hearts" ended up grossing $20.68 million, and last year it was starred by Eric Brown. Barna and Drew. Barrymore's "Lucky Player" ended up grossing just over $5 million.

In second place this week is the two-time animated film "Houghton & Anonymous," which has maintained its long-term box office momentum. Another $16.8 million in a single week. The cumulative box office exceeded the $100 million mark. reached $116.5 million, becoming the first film to grossing over 100 million in 2008.

And the third place in this week's weekend box office list is not "Superheroes", which was highly anticipated by Weinstein, not "Meet the Browns", which won a $20 million opening weekend last week, not David. Schwimmer's directorial debut* "Fat Boy Run" is "Fatal Bend 2".

That's right, it's "Fatal Bend 2", because of the lack of horror films in the same period, especially high-quality horror films. With Lin Yuquan's help, coupled with the film's heavy investment, strong publicity, and a good reputation among horror films, this blockbuster horror sequel finally won $15.2 million at the first-week box office in one fell swoop, although it is not comparable to the box office of the "Chainsaw" and "Resident Evil" series, but this box office figure is close to the full box office of last year's "Fog Horror", "Eyes Across the Mountain 2" and "Human Skin Inn 2", "Dead Silence" four horror movies, these four films earned $23.47 million and $20.8 million respectively, $17.6 million, $16.57 million at the North American box office.

In addition, there is a stark contrast, which was released in 2,756 theaters last week and is produced by 20th Century Fox. "Shutter," a remake of a Japanese horror film, earned $10.7 million last week. is much inferior to "Fatal Curve 2", which shows how good the results of "Fatal Curve 2" are.

With the exception of "21 Points" and "Fatal Bend 2", the other new films that premiered last weekend were not doing well at the box office, with an investment of $35 million and only $9.4 million in 2,763 theaters. Swank's first Oscar for Kimberly. Pierce's new book, "Refuse to Fight Again," fetched $4.5 million, and David Pierce's new book, "No More Fight," earned $4.5 million. Schwimmer's directorial debut, Fat Run, suffered a fiasco, grossing a meagre $2.4 million at the box office, and he didn't even enter the top 10 of the charts.

For Lin Yuquan, the gratifying opening weekend result of "Fatal Bend 2" is definitely good news, which fully proves that his idea can work not only in China, but also in Hollywood. At the same time, this also gave Summit Entertainment a good start to the movies released this year, which can be regarded as a good start.

"The results are good, that's great, Brother Yuquan, how much is the box office?" Liu Yifei's surprised voice came from the phone.

"$15.2 million, the third highest box office in North America this week." In the bright light, Lin Yuquan leaned on the sofa in his hotel room and said with a relaxed smile, the North American weekend box office was counted later on the 30th, and after learning about the box office situation in the early morning of the 31st, he immediately called Liu Yifei, because he had talked about this aspect with the second daughter in the chat before, and the second daughter was particularly interested in the box office of the first movie released after the beginning of the year by Summit Entertainment, and learned from the previous lessons, of course he called the second daughter as soon as possible to tell the two of them about the situation.

"Oh, that's great, it shouldn't be easy for a horror film to get such a result, Brother Yuquan, how much box office do you think "Fatal Bend 2" can get in the end?" Liu Yifei was overjoyed and then asked with concern.

"How did I guess?" Lin Yuquan smiled lightly.

"Guess." Liu Yifei said busily.

"Well, "Fatal Bend 2" has a good reputation, the decline next week should not be too high, and it should not be too much of a problem to win a total of $12 million in a single week, as long as there are no major accidents in the future, the North American box office should be above $38 million, and the next films will land in overseas markets one after another, before "Fatal Bend" was good at the overseas box office, Hollywood horror films also have a relatively stable market overseas, if "Fatal Bend 2" can get the same box office as North America, Then the global box office of this movie is expected to be 80 million US dollars, and even if it does not reach this figure, it will not be less than 70 million US dollars. ”

Lin Yuquan said with a smile, such results are enough to make him satisfied, in Hollywood, if a film can recover its cost at the box office, it is already a great victory, and Hollywood's complete industrial chain can basically ensure that a decent film can get good profits through channels such as dvD and TV on demand.

"$80 million, such a high box office, except for "Red Cliff". I've never starred in such a high-grossing movie. Liu Yifei sighed faintly.

"That's envy. Actually, it's not that big. Of course, the box office of Hollywood movies cannot be compared with Chinese films. Lin Yuquan smiled: "And I can assure you that you will soon star in a movie with a higher box office than this." ”

"Okay, I'll wait for that day." Liu Yifei grinned: "It's late, Brother Yuquan, you should rest early!" Tomorrow I will be busy with the meeting of "Heartbeat"! ”

"Well, Yifei, you should rest early, po!" Lin Yuquan snorted.

"Okay. Brother Rain Spring! By the way, Brother Yuquan, did you call me first, or did you call me later? Liu Yifei looked very happy, and then asked with great concern, holding her breath and waiting for his answer.

"Huh." Lin Yuquan had a smile on his face: "The first one." ”

"Oh!" The girl's tone was indescribably sweet: "Then Brother Yuquan, you rest early, and we'll talk tomorrow!" ”

After hanging up the phone, Lin Yuquan immediately dialed Liu Shishi's phone again, the same as Yifei. Shi Shi is also very happy about the excellent box office of "Fatal Bend 2".

"Yuquan, were you the first to call me?" Liu Shishi asked abruptly.

"Hmm. The first. Lin Yuquan said naturally without any hesitation.

"Okay, Rain Spring, good night!" Liu Shishi said with great joy.

"Good night." After hanging up the phone, a smile appeared on Lin Yuquan's face, and then he fell asleep with both satisfaction and anticipation.

His sixth film is finally about to begin

March 31, the last day of March, is also the beginning of a new week, and at the same time, the cast and crew report and actor meeting of "Heartbeat" were also chosen on this day.

Different from the filming locations of the previous two movies "Wild Story" and "Hurricane Rescue", the filming location of "Heartbeat" was chosen in a rural town on the northern peninsula of Michigan, which is affected by the lake effect of the Great Lakes region, and the climate in winter and summer is relatively mild, not only the natural scenery is extremely beautiful, but more importantly, the pace of life here is very slow and nostalgic, and the relics of the 60s are still preserved in the same way, which is very consistent with the small town environment in "Heartbeat".

Since the morning, there have been actors and crew members staying in the hotel chartered by the crew in the town, and almost all the actors will take the initiative to visit director Lin Yuquan as soon as they come to the hotel to drop off their luggage, and then visit the actors who arrived earlier than them.

"Hello, Dakota, I'm so happy to be working with you this time." For the first time, I took the initiative to greet the already well-known child star in front of me, Abigir. Bryslin was both apprehensive and excited.

"Hello, Abigir, congratulations on becoming the heroine of Heartbeat." Dakota. Fanning said with an extremely complicated expression, how much she longed for the young Julie. Baker's role, unfortunately, was finally defeated by the sweet and cute little sunshine beauty in front of her. After Baker's role, maybe he will soon really surpass her, she unconsciously bit her lip.

"Ha, I was lucky, I didn't expect it." Abigir. Bryslin smiled brightly.

"Really? It's not luck, it's because you fit the director's needs. "Dakota. Fanning bit her lip and said, although she knew the reason very well, she still felt so unwilling in her heart.

"Yes, then you also meet the needs of the director!" Abigir. Bryslin smiled brightly again.

Dakota. Fanning suddenly bit her lip even more, she was not so willing to play Shirley, she wanted to be in Julie. The role of Baker meets the needs of the director.

"Hello, Ms. Bullock, I'm Karan. McOllieffy, from Australia, is very happy to work with you this time, I really like your starring in "Life and Death" and "Pretty Undercover Pageant". "Karan. McOllie said shyly and nervously.

"Oh, Karan. McOlive, hello, Karan, our Bryce is really sunny and handsome, congratulations on your role as the leading actor in "Heartbeat" this time, I believe you will soon be noticed and liked by countless people around the world, come on! "Sandra. Brock smiled elegantly.

"Thanks, I'm just lucky." Karan. McOllie said humbly.

"Lucky? I have to say, you are indeed a very lucky little guy, this time Bryce's casting is global, it is not easy to get the role, now I don't know how many people envy your luck, work hard, don't live up to this lucky opportunity. ”

"Well, I will."

And when the time came to five o'clock in the afternoon, everyone was reminded by the crew to set off for the largest restaurant in town, which was chartered by the crew tonight and would hold a welcome banquet here.

Although most of the actors had met before, it was clear that the banquet environment was more conducive to in-person communication with each other, and for a while, this small Michigan town restaurant became extremely lively. (To be continued......)

PS: Thank you for the monthly pass of the firmament, the love of the two days of downturn, it seems that there is motivation again, thank you!