Chapter 16: Game of Thrones
"The Wedding is Coming" is a bad movie, rotten to the extreme, and the whole world thinks so.
In fact, it's not the whole world, it's the 182 ticket-buying viewers who saw the film at Beverly Center this weekend of November 7-9, 2oo3, and "suck" is their most sincere evaluation of the film, and if you want to say a few more words, "boring", "inferior", and "idiot" are not bad.
Received only $1,o92 at the opening weekend box office, an undoubted fiasco!
According to Bom, an authoritative box office statistics website, a total of 1o new films were released this weekend, and the box office champion was the sci-fi blockbuster "The Matrix 3", which collected a total of $48,475,154, and the bottom box office was "The Wedding is Coming", with a gap of more than 44,391 times.
Genius and stupidity, praise and boo, full and cold, heaven and hell.
But it's not just "The Wedding is Coming" that failed miserably, only 3 of the 1o new films were released on a large scale, and the number of other opening theaters was one 27, two 3, and four 1.
These four films, all of which are located in the darkest corners of the film projection industry, are hard to tell who is worse than whom.
"Martin and Dr. Orlov" grossed $6,988 and passed the test, and there was no problem with a second week of release, "Forbidden Love" grossed $4, O75, barely able to try a second week, and "Americans Love Stories" grossed $2,974 because it was a documentary, and it was screened in documentary theaters, so it would be fine to hold on for a few more weeks.
It seems that the worst thing is "The Wedding is Coming", a comedy that grosses 1,000 at the weekend at the expensive Beverly Center, and there is no way to have a second week unless it continues to lose money.
No one noticed, no one cared, and this was just one of the most enduring tragic stories of the film industry: a gang of laymen made a bad movie, lost a lot of money, and then honestly got out.
This is the saddest part of this matter, the quality of "The Wedding is Coming" is very bad, and the box office is also very bad, but it can't be rotten into a legend, just a dust and sand that goes away with the wind.
Look at "The Love of a Rich Girl", which has held the record of "the worst weekend box office (opening 6oo+ theaters or more)" for 12 years.
In 1991, the multi-million dollar romance opened in 1,58 theaters and set the record for the worst weekend box office to date, averaging $347 per theater and $4 at the 1991 average. 21 counting, on that weekend, it didn't sell an average of a hundred tickets per theater, and there were no 100 audiences!
A week later, "Love of a Rich Girl" was sold offline at the box office with $541,893, thus ending the screening of his ambition without a second week.
The producer "Far West" and the merchant "Third Studio" also went bankrupt and disappeared into history.
That's the legend.
Another tragic story of the film industry's enduring prosperity: a production company succeeded in one or two films, became ambitious, and made big productions, and the results were ...... Become yet another loser that Hollywood has never lacked.
Therefore, the shameful failure of "The Wedding is Coming" is not taken seriously by anyone from the outside world except its investors, and no news about it can be found in newspapers and magazines.
It's the age of the internet though, and it also has its own page on Imdb, which has just been rated by 7 viewers, with an average of 2. 1/1o points, with three short reviews:
Audrey: "A bunch of, the poster made me think it would be funny, only to be disappointed!" Junior: "It's strange how such a bad movie can be released? Who are making movies? I almost vomited and left!" Hamo: "Really, there has never been a movie that made me so depressed, I now understand what 'Bad-movie' means, thank you." ”
It's rotten, it's rotten.
But Ye Wei's mood was not bad, for him, there was really an extremely important good news: Dad was fine.
Unlike the nightmare exhibition, despite the fiasco, my father remained cheerful and jokingly said, "That's fine, the less people see this movie, the more we have it, haha!"
Therefore, Ye Wei is a lot more relieved, he has successfully saved the biggest tragedy, will he still be afraid of the hardships in the future?
But he also has new worries, his father began a desperate plan to make money, and he also went to work on weekends for the first time, but he knows best about his father's health, how can a person who can have a cerebral hemorrhage work crazy and overwork?
And on the other hand, no matter how he persuaded her, her mother was still busy looking for a job and finding a nursery for Duoduo......
For the sake of his parents, for the sake of Duoduo, and for the sake of the whole family, Ye Wei knew that he had to do something quickly, and time waited for no one.
Although reality and nightmares are very different, Ye Wei's world has changed dramatically, like a derailed train, heading for an unknown future.
Last Saturday he took a leave of absence to spend time with his family, and after Sunday, he went back to school on the new Monday.
But Ye Wei sat on the school bus, walked on the road, and attended the Monday assembly of the junior high school...... After only a weekend, there seemed to be a difference, the people who had seen him all the time before, all smiles and enthusiasm, were now transparent to him, as if they would catch an eye disease just by looking at him.
His friends and friends stopped talking, and finally said hello, shook their heads and sighed when they were far away.
What's wrong with him? Ye Wei was a little puzzled, but he didn't pay much attention to it just because he was thinking about it.
It was only at x o'clock in the middle of the day, when he was eating in the cafeteria, that he asked Lev and Bard, "Is there anything I don't know? ”
"Brother Wei...... Lev puffed out before he could say anything, glancing at the students at the tables around him, who occasionally gave them a strange look or two, as if they were all monsters made by Frankenstein.
Lev said angrily: "John Williams that has used a trick, in the past two days, he has been texting all over the school circle, about the ...... of "The Wedding is Coming"
"I also received a ......" Chen Nuo held his mobile phone helplessly to show it, Ye Wei took a look, and sure enough, he saw such a text message on the screen: "Ye Wei's movie "The Wedding is Coming" has been screened at Beverly Center, if you want to sleep quietly, just go to its screening room." p。 s。 : Wei's guts are really big, and so is his father, you must know that not everyone dares to make such a bad movie and be ashamed, LoL. ”
"Huh. Ye Wei suddenly sneered, in the past, in order to be in the limelight, he had already publicized the movie, and he looked like "Howard Hughes's son".
So Williams knew about it, and so did everyone, he looked around and said with a smile: "No wonder I've become a plague god, brothers, look, this is life!"
"Brother Hey......" Lev's face was full of distress, "I now understand a truth, when you have money, you have to spend it, otherwise when the money becomes waste paper, you will have nothing." ”
After two days of spreading over the weekend, the whole school already knew that the whole world was completely turned upside down, except for the son of a laughing stock, a wretched worm, and a "rotten dentist......
But naturally he is no longer a cool child, and he is labeled as a "loser", which is worse than a freak. His previous uncool aspects, such as his status as the captain of the football team, have also become a joke, and now he has a new nickname, called "Xi Bridesmaid......
The girls who wanted to date VIy before were gone, and before Saturday, Lev could still be in the spotlight with "I'm VIy's best friend", and now when he says the same thing, he immediately jumps up.
"One more thing...... "Lev became more and more angry, and took a hard bite of the waffle in his hand.
"Say yes. Ye Wei shrugged indifferently.
"Lily Collins, she put out the news that she wasn't dating you and that you had nothing to do with it. Lev said that he was about to cry suddenly, and said madly: "How can she be like this, so realistic, but brother, you just encountered a little trouble, and she abandoned you." ”
"yes, I'm!" Bard was even more furious, "She said the other day that her heart is with Brother Wei. ”
"I've told you a long time ago, how many times have I said it, Collins and I are Batman and Joker, and all we can do when we stay together is fighting. ”
Ye Wei rolled his eyes and said, but some scenes flooded in his heart, that hug, that kiss......
"She's definitely a clown! It's so insidious and vicious, even if you're not dating, you know that you need support now, but she's busy drawing a line with you, it's really mean!"
Lev was still full of anger, Bard also gritted his teeth, Chen Nuo pushed his glasses, and sighed: "It's unforgivable to betray your teammates." ”
Colwin, who had been silent before, suddenly said, "I think we need to figure out when she sent the message and John Williams put the message." ”
"Even if she had released the news first, she should have known about Brother Wei's trouble by now, right? Why didn't she send her a text message to comfort her? She has Brother Wei's number!" Lev disagreed, already believing that Lily Collins was the evil villain.
"Don't worry about yourselves, to be honest, I don't care at all. Ye Wei said as he took a few bites of rice and looked very calm.
There was some silence at the dinner table, and after the five of them had eaten, Lev asked again: "Dude, are you okay at home, is there anything you can help with?" and the others stopped when they heard this, and they were all concerned about these two questions.
"Okay, thank you. I have a plan, I want to do something big. Ye Wei's expression became serious, and he looked at them, "When the time comes, I may need your help." ”
"Of course, if you have any ideas, just call me. Lev slapped his chest and said solemnly: "Brother Wei, we will all support you, and that cheap girl will definitely regret it." ”
Bard, Chen Nuo, and Colwin all nodded, they all belonged to the same camp, the Dream Chasing Alliance!
After lunch, Ye Wei wanted to be alone and quiet, and he also wanted to continue to check through magazines such as "Hollywood Creative Industries Guide", so he came to the library alone with a bag of reading materials.
There were not many people in the library at noon, and when he arrived at the reading area, he walked to the nearest long wooden table, and there were three girls sitting reading books on the other side of the wooden table. "I don't want to be called a loser......"
They hurriedly stood up, took their books and walked briskly inside, and the lepers could not let them be so frightened.
"Hey!" Ye Wei couldn't help but be angry and funny, well, even the teacher's darlings don't want to be in the same dimension as him!
He suddenly laughed loudly and shouted: "Okay, girls! I'm free this weekend, I'll take you to watch "The Wedding is Coming" together, and we'll arrange the show after watching it, no problem!"
The three girls immediately looked back, all of them full of panic, he thought, what he wanted to do! My signature?yes, I'll give it to you, but my handwriting is a little ugly......"
"You bastard!!", "You...... Damn!" They were all so angry that they were about to cry, "We don't know you!"
They cursed and fled, but some sporadic glances were already visible in the distance.
Ye Wei made a grimace, he took out his mobile phone and dialed the number with the lip print before, "Hey, beauty, I'm Ye Wei." ”
"You made a mistake. Before he finished a sentence, he was hung up, leaving only a beep.
"Bitch. He grunted, immediately deleted the number, and began to sit down at the wooden table, intently reading the "Hollywood Creative Industry Guide", which had been busy with movie releases and optimistic about his father for the past few days.
There is a saying that does not say "frustrated in love, proud in the workplace", he flipped through it for a while, and was almost at the end of the book, but suddenly his eyes lit up, looking at the page of a film project that was in the process of beginning to prepare for production or was abandoned......
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