"Truman's world" is in the middle of it. The National Theater held its premiere with a bang and excitement, where more than 1,500 people gathered, and half of Los Angeles was boiling; At the same time, another movie is in EL not far away. The Capital Theatre held a grand premiere.

In Hollywood, the eight major film companies are each other's interests and direct competitors, so their relationship is always contradictory. In many cases, major film companies will have a tacit understanding on the schedule of the summer schedule to avoid a head-on collision that will lead to a lose-lose situation. For example, "Heaven and Earth Collide" and "Godzilla" staggered schedules, and Paramount Pictures and Sony Columbia Pictures naturally made such a decision after spying on each other.

However, there will be exceptions: when the film company has no confidence in the work at all and is in a semi-giving attitude, placing it in the summer just hopes that the strong crowd can bring more audiences into the venue, maybe it can create a miracle, or at least reduce the loss; Or when the film company is full of confidence in the work, even in the face of any opponent, it has an absolute advantage, the posture of God blocking and killing God, and Buddha blocking and killing Buddha, then it is not surprising that there is a strong confrontation in the movies released at the same time.

This was the case when "Speed of Life and Death" was first released, and there were also two works in the same schedule, "Hillbilly Conquest of New York" and "Heavenly Soldiers", which were released together, and followed by the menacing "wolf". A large number of works are crowded in similar schedules, and fierce competitions are launched, either you die or I die in hand-to-hand combat, and finally witnessed the glory of "life and death speed".

This time is the same, although "Truman's World" is led by Hugo - in recent years, Hugo has almost no rivals in the North American market, but considering the special nature of comedy films, the box office appeal of this film is definitely not indestructible, so there is a challenger - a challenge from Warner Bros.!

This time Warner Bros. launched a work that cannot be considered heavyweight, but it should not be underestimated.

Andrew Davis, who directed the Oscar nomination for Best Picture, Andrew Davis. Davis), with a $60 million investment, invited Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortenson (Viggo). Mortensen), the cast lineup alone is enough to make people look sideways.

It's called "Super Perfect Murder (A.A."). Perfect。 Murder)" attracted a lot of attention in the preparation stage, and the script was a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic "Murder by Telephone" (Dial. M。 For。 Murder)", the style is known as "Ben." The combination of "Neng" and "Seven Deadly Sins" is not inferior to "Truman's World" from a topic perspective.

"Super Perfect Murder" is a thriller and suspense movie, and "Truman's World" is a comedy drama movie, and the box office pull capacity of these two film genres in the summer is half a pound and eight taels, and it is really difficult to predict who will win or lose - perhaps, comedy movies will barely have a slight advantage, but the advantage is also very limited.

After the finalization of "Super Perfect Murder", many people believe that there will be a battle between the two works, even if "Truman's World" can win the North American box office in the first week of June with a result of "30 million opening weekend box office", but the process is bound to be entangled.

Warner Bros.'s Barry Meyer knows better than anyone the effects of Hugo's destruction - "L.A. Confidential" had risen to the top half a year ago, so when arranging the premiere of "Super Perfect Murder", they also deliberated a lot and finally decided on a plan: either avoid Hugo's limelight or rise to the challenge and create a buzz.

They chose the latter.

Warner Bros. personally negotiated with Disney to get a better location, more audiences, and better media seats from Paramount Pictures. Capital Theatre; At the same time, Warner Bros. contacted more than 80 major media outlets to invite them to the premiere that night, and the entire publicity campaign began in April.

A remake similar to "Murder by Phone", combining "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Ben." can" and other topics, the hustle and bustle created an incomparably strong momentum for "Super Perfect Murder". Whether it is the popularity of the topic or the expectation value, it has been able to compete with "Truman's world".

However, on June 1, the premieres of "Super Perfect Murder" and "Truman's World" were held at the same time, but the atmosphere was completely different, which surprised everyone.

It was on this lively night, EL. Nearly 400 people gathered at the entrance of the Capital Theatre – less than 400 – and more importantly, more than a third of them were journalists, and fewer than 300 moviegoers actually arrived to support them. For an ordinary movie premiere, it can already be regarded as lively, but for the premiere of the summer file, the scale is too small - even if the whole scene of more than 400 people is still quite large-scale in the eyes of outsiders.

This really surprised everyone, even if "Truman's world" is led by Hugo, such a huge gap is a bit beyond imagination!

Compared to the surging tide of the medium. National Theatre, EL. The Capital Theater can almost be said to be "crowded", and even the major media reporters seem to be in a state of interest - compared to Hugo, who has a lot of topics, the "Super Perfect Murder" can be said to be completely lackluster, and even the fans around him who came to support him seem weak, making people have to wonder if these fans are extras that Warner Bros. paid for out of their own pockets.

Not to mention the reporters, even the Warner Bros. staff couldn't help but shake their heads, but in the face of the recent hot spots, they were helpless. Even Barry can only admit with a wry smile that in terms of promotional selling points, the entire Hollywood currently wants to compete with Hugo, and he can count them on one hand.

Faced with such a situation, the crew of "Super Perfect Murder" is also under great pressure - which is not a good sign for the next box office trend.

However, Michael Douglas does not mind this, he has been active in Hollywood for nearly three decades - including more than two decades on the screen, and has long been accustomed to similar situations, and does not mind those details at all; Andrew Davis has been in the industry as a cinematographer for more than 25 years, and more often than not, he has been active behind the scenes as a director, and even when he was at the peak of "The Outlaws", he received very limited personal attention, so he didn't feel too unusual.

But for Gwyneth Paltrow, it was hard to accept.

The huge success of "Seven Deadly Sins" made Gwyneth popular for the first time, relying on the strong connections of the family, Gwyneth's career development is even smoother, in the past two years, Gwyneth has shot nine movies non-stop, seven of which are absolute heroines, and the rise momentum can be called the most in the whole of Hollywood, and thanks to the enviable love story with Brad Pitt, Gwyneth has surpassed Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron, Cameron Diaz has become the most powerful new generation of actresses in recent years.

If it weren't for Charlize winning the Best Supporting Actress trophy at the 70th Oscars, Gwyneth's strength would have continued.

Within this year alone, Gwyneth will have six works released, and three works have been released in the first half of the year, but all three works can only be regarded as decent and without merit. This also makes the other three works released in the second half of the year very important - two of which are starring Gwyneth, one is "Shakespeare's Love History", which will be released at the end of the year, and the other is "Super Perfect Murder".

However, now Charlize is not only the first to reach the Oscars before a group of new generation of actresses, but also shows unlimited potential at the box office. In the past two months, it seems that the whole of Hollywood has been singing the praises of Charlize, allowing everyone to witness the inspirational story of this beautiful woman from South Africa who rose to the top. This is an ordeal, even a humiliation, for Gwyneth!

Not only because Charlize took away the light that should have belonged to her, but also because of the man named Hugo next to Charlize. Just thinking of the name "Hugo" made Gwyneth feel like she was about to lose control of her emotions. Therefore, "Super Perfect Murder" must not fail, it must succeed, this is her best chance to regain her own light! Not to mention the head-to-head confrontation between "Super Perfect Murder" and "Truman's World", which makes this summer battle a confrontation that absolutely does not allow any mistakes!

Gwyneth has reason to have confidence in "Super Perfect Murder", first of all, "Truman's World" itself is trapped in comedy themes, and its competitiveness itself is not strong, even Hugo cannot change the North American film market for 30 years of movie-watching tastes and create impossible miracles; And the "Super Perfect Murder" itself definitely has the ability to dominate in the summer file.

Michael Douglas is far more senior than Hugo, and his connections are all over the corner; Gwyneth's appeal is slightly better than that of Nicole Kidman, and her resources are much richer; Director Andrew is also a veteran director who has won an Oscar, and his ability to control is undoubted; Coupled with the film's adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic screenplay, the story is absolutely guaranteed.

All of this makes "Super Perfect Murder" have the conditions for success! Even if the news media and most of the audience put "Super Perfect Murder" in the position of challenger because of Hugo, Gwyneth will not accept any other outcome other than victory over "Truman's World".

But when Gwyneth arrived at EL in a stretch car. When the Capital Theater arrived at the scene, she was completely shocked by the sight in front of her, and her face was incredulous, almost making her lose her demeanor!