Time came to July 22nd, "Beautiful Creatures" and "Edgar's Story" officially landed in North America, and then will be released in many countries and regions around the world. Mel wrote, "Edgar's Story" The core of the propaganda is "the American version of "Hamlet", and the recommendation on the title page was written by Lin Yuquan, out of optimism about the quality of the two, the first printing of the two is 50 copies, and the two are completely treated as bestsellers.

Lin Yuquan doesn't care about the first-day sales of the two, just like "Twilight" at the beginning, because it has no readership, the sales of the two in the early stage will definitely not be too high, and the focus is on long-term word-of-mouth sales.

And so he made Paul. Haggis immediately collected and sorted out the reviews of book reviewers and sent them to his mailbox.

As it turns out, there is no need to boast about whether a book is good or not, and "Beautiful Creatures" and "Edgar's Tales" immediately won a good reputation from media reviewers and readers as soon as they hit the market.

"The story and atmosphere are cleverly crafted, leading people into a fascinating world that they can't put down." The New York Times.

"Borrowing from the characters of "Twilight", but the quality is better, don't believe you." Los Angeles Times.

"Before you even have time to think, this story has already conquered you like a blazing Carolina summer." "The Forest of Hands and Teeth" by Kelly Lane.

"When I turned the pages of Beautiful Creatures with the idea that this was a shrine maiden's version of The Twilight Saf, I didn't expect any big surprises. But I quickly found out that I was wrong, this is a super wonderful and wonderful noir fantasy novel with its own unique charm. I'm glad I didn't miss it. A reader praised it enthusiastically.

And "Edgar's Story" is even more exaggerated.

"I like the book 'Edgar's Tales' very much, and after reading it, my heart suddenly wells up with the regret that I often have after reading a good book: you think, after the story is told, I am afraid that I will not see such a wonderful book for a long time...... There is no doubt that this is an amazing and wonderful work, and many of the books I read will not be read a second time. After all, life is too short to waste time repeatedly, but I will definitely read this book again. "Stephen? Gold.

"One of the most fascinating books of the summer so far. Once you pick it up, you are reluctant to put it down. The New York Times.

"At 570 pages, it's more than I can read, but I have to admit that Edgar's Tale is an exception, and it's the best book I've read this year." The Washington Post.

"It's hard to put into words how much I love for such a masterpiece. Edgar may be forever silent. But his story will echo in the ears of readers for a long time. "Famous writer Mark? Dotie.

"This is a book I must recommend, and Edgar's Tales deserve it." Oprah. Winfrey.

Originally, Little Bear Publishing did not have much hope for the first-week sales of the two, but with the development of its own publicity campaign and the explosion of book reviews, "Edgar's Story" and "Beautiful Creatures" seem to have set off a violent whirlwind in North America.

For this phenomenon, Lin Yuquan is extremely satisfied, and he also has expectations for the first week of sales of the two, but the first week of sales will not come out until Monday, July 27, before that. His attention mainly fell on "The Hangover", which officially started its box office journey.

For the release of "The Hangover", Summit Entertainment undoubtedly attaches great importance to it. Due to the excellent creativity of the script itself, and Lin Yuquan's suggestions for improving the script, Summit Entertainment has produced "The Hangover" as the highlight from the beginning, except for the actors, all positions are first-class configurations for comedy films, such a comedy movie without big-name actors and big scenes, in exchange for Universal Pictures, which has always been strict about the cost control of comedy films, or independent film companies such as Focus Pictures and Fox Searchlight, the production cost is only two or three hundred million US dollars, but "The Hangover" The production cost was a full $43 million.

But you get what you pay for, and the expensive "The Hangover" lives up to expectations and presents excellent quality, in view of this, Summit Entertainment has added $20 million to the original $35 million in publicity expenses, which fully shows Summit Entertainment's confidence in "The Hangover" and its ambitions for the box office.

Summit Entertainment has also been looking forward to such a moment, and finally, "The Hangover" has been released worldwide.

Can "The Hangover" get good results as scheduled? What kind of good results can you achieve? Lin Yuquan is looking forward to Chris. Anderson is looking forward to Kevin. Garnett is looking forward to Jay. Roach is looking forward to it, and too many people are looking forward to it.

Around the world, countless media reporters are also eagerly following the box office situation this week, but the focus is mainly on "Harry. Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and "Guinea Pig Agents", the former is needless to say, and the latter is led by Jerry. Produced by Bruheimer, with a production cost of $150 million and a star-studded voice cast, "The Hangover" naturally looks inconspicuous in front of the two.

In the attention of countless people, on Friday, July 24, "Guinea Pig Agent" landed in North America on a large scale with 3,676 theaters, airborne in many countries and regions around the world, and then swept $14.22 million in North America on the day of its premiere. Bruheimer is about to suffer another miss, such a box office, and facing a 20% freshness on Rotten Tomatoes, a Metacritic media film score of 44 points, and an IMDB user score of 5.1 points, the box office prospects are naturally underestimated.

But this is not the biggest exclamation, but the more exclamation is "The Hangover", which collected $17.54 million in 3,321 theaters in one fell swoop, and suddenly became the single-day box office champion.

Not only is the box office overwhelming "Guinea Pig Squad", but in terms of film criticism, "The Hangover" has completely crushed "Guinea Pig Squad", with a freshness of 82% on Rotten Tomatoes, a Metacritic media film score of 78 points, and an IMDB user score of 8.7 points. Albert praised "The Hangover" as a movie that can make the audience laugh from beginning to end, and almost every line of dialogue is so funny; "Premiere" magazine commented that "The Hangover" is a movie that makes people want to watch the credits of the cast and crew; The Los Angeles Times considered "The Hangover" to be the best comedy film of the year so far, all of which is unattainable by ordinary comedy films.

At this point, the already small apprehension within Summit Entertainment has completely dissipated, and some are just looking forward to the box office of "The Hangover".

"The box office of "The Hangover" is expected to be very high, it is also a comedy movie, but it is difficult for our domestic comedy movies to go out." Liu Shishi, who was a guest on the "Twelve Treasures" program with Zhang Jiani, sighed.

"There will be a day, as long as our filmmakers can continue to improve, sooner or later there will be that day." Lin Yuquan smiled, in a pretty good mood, in addition to the box office reputation of "The Hangover", the ratings of the third episode of "The Voice of China" have jumped to 4.17, far ahead of all TV variety shows.

"Yuquan, how much do you think 'The Hangover' will be at the box office in its North American opening weekend?" Liu Shishi asked with a light smile.

"$45 million is for sure, $50 million is not necessarily." Lin Yuquan shook his head slightly.

"I think there must be." Liu Shishi said with a smile.

"Why?" Lin Yuquan chuckled.

"A woman's intuition." Liu Shishi smiled.

"Well, I'm looking forward to your instincts coming true." Lin Yuquan smiled.

Time flies, Monday's box office charts are released as scheduled, this time there are no surprises, the sudden rise of "The Hangover" with a $50.76 million opening weekend box office strong occupancy of the box office throne, beating "Jedi Men 2" $46.7 million and "American Pie 2" $45.12 million, becoming the second largest film in film history after "Desire. Hope City's R-rated comedy debut box office.

The president of the box office tracking agency Media Digital, Paul Brown. Degara Berdian said that "The Hangover" is a blockbuster male movie, and it belongs to all adult audiences.

After the box office of this premiere was released, various box office tracking agencies or film industry insiders have raised their box office predictions for "The Hangover", agreeing that "The Hangover" will definitely break the $150 million North American box office mark, and a considerable number of people believe that "The Hangover" has a chance to hit the $200 million mark.

"The Hangover" was radiant, and the originally much-anticipated "Guinea Pig Squad" could only collect $37.05 million at the North American box office, which was far from the expected $40 million to $60 million.

After the latest box office of "The Hangover" came out, people suddenly found that the box office of Summit Entertainment in this summer file was simply high horror. Degree and Passion 4", "Spartan 300 Warriors" has a North American box office of $276 million, "Immediate Rescue" is $351 million, and "The Hangover" is expected to be more than $150 million, and the box office of these three movies alone is high enough, not to mention that there is also a "Expendables" that should not be underestimated.

If it was originally in this summer file, Paramount, Disney, and 20th Century Fox were the three major studios that might overwhelm Summit Entertainment, then with the box office explosion of "The Hangover" and the fiasco of "Guinea Pig Agent", Disney and 20th Century Fox have obviously withdrawn from the competition, and the possibility of Paramount has become extremely small, in general, "Transformers 2" and "Star Trek" are just on par with "Immediate Rescue" and "Spartan 300 Warriors", "Special Forces: The Rise of the Cobra" It's definitely a tough thing to beat "The Hangover" and "The Expendables".

This is only the North American box office, if it is a global box office, Paramount is currently too far behind Summit Entertainment, conservatively estimated, "Special Forces: Cobra Rise" global box office will reach more than seven or eight billion US dollars.

Can Special Ops: Cobra Rise do it? For a while, many people's eyes fell on "Special Forces: The Rise of Cobra", which will be released soon. (To be continued.) )