Chapter 977： First day box office

Since "The City of Angels" and "Austin Powers 2" were on the same day, Elizabeth hoped that Eric could accompany the film to see this movie two days ago, so Eric will make people in downtown Santa Monica. A theater has a screening room.

However, in the morning, Elizabeth called Eric and did not say any reason, so she flew to New York. Although Elizabeth did not say it, Eric probably guessed something. At the beginning of the year, Murdoch visited Asia. When he came back, he still brought back a woman. Then, it is estimated that it was an incident.

For this kind of family, Eric will not blend, Elizabeth returned to New York, and Eric did not return the scheduled auditorium.

Warner’s propaganda of "The City of Angels" faintly smacked another gimmick, "Emerging Ghosts", Eric had not seen this film before, and he also wanted to personally evaluate the quality of this film. So, take Natasha Hensquech together, by the way, as a relaxation after a week of work.

Leaving Firefly Studios, the two had dinner at nearby Venice Beach before they arrived at the cinema.

Under the guidance of a staff member in the theater, Natasha Hensquech held popcorn and drinks, followed Eric into a luxurious auditorium with more than a dozen seats, and saw Ai next to her. Rick stood in the sofa seat and seemed to be a little dazed, Natasha asked: "Eric, what's wrong?"

"Nothing," Eric shook his head, or walked over and sat down on the couch.

Natasha also sat down, and Eric nodded to the staff and said, "Get started."

The other party politely quit and left the auditorium.

The lights in the auditorium quickly darkened. When the Warner Bros. logo appeared on the screen, Natasha asked: "Eric, Warner's movie?"

"Yeah, you don't think I only watch my own movies?" Eric nodded with a smile and explained: "This is "City of Angels", played by Cage and Meg."

"Oh, I saw the poster," Natasha smiled embarrassedly. "I thought you would take me to see "Austin Powers 2"."

“Why would you say that?”

Natasha thought about it. She felt that she could often see "Austin Powers 2" and two other movies in the Firefly system on TV or various billboards. Then she said: "This movie seems to be Let's fire more."

On the big screen, after Warner’s title, Cage’s angel Seth took the soul of a little girl into heaven, followed by two angels’ conversations about touch. Angels can’t touch mortals. Similarly, mortals don’t feel To the touch of an angel, the two live in the same space, but they are like two worlds.

After a long time in Hollywood, Eric also found it difficult to appreciate a movie with a pure audience attitude. Sitting in front of the big screen, he almost subconsciously analyzed the pros and cons of a movie.

The beginning of "City of Angels" is really mediocre in Eric's view, and the subsequent soundtrack is a bit awkward.

In addition, although it is a good friend with Cage, but Eric is still secretly voicing, and now Cage plays an angel, how to look at it is too much. This guy has already passed the peak of Yan value, the hairline is like the sea of ​​low tide, and there is no such thing as a handsome girl who can see the girl in the moonlight in the Moonlight Deaf.

Subsequently, the film's plot and narrative rhythm also appeared a bit confusing and hasty, just for about twenty minutes, Eric completely let go of his heart, at least, "City of Angels" is certainly not the three parts of the firefly system What threats the movie poses.

When Eric took Natasha Huntsque to watch "City of Angels" together, Chicago, Central Chicago, the Chicago Tribune's resident film critic Michael Wilmington also bought a ticket to enter the "Ace of Cards" The auditorium of the Mission 2.

If it weren't for the "Chicago Tribune" to submit a "Austin Powers 2" review, Michael Wilmington would never buy a ticket to watch this spoof movie. He always likes art films.

Moreover, Michael Wilmington's mood today is not very good, because during the day, he watched the "City of Angels" with expectation, but only disappointed.

In the early stage of the publicity process, Warner Bros. wanted to create another "Ghosts" style of love, but after reading "City of Angels", Michael Wilmington was in the heart of this film. If the evaluation is described in one word, it is mediocrity.

Whether it is a script with no highlights or a tragic ending that is deliberately created, it makes people feel very uncomfortable. As for the creativity of angels and mortals, after the "Ghosts and Ghosts", this idea is definitely not an innovation in Hollywood.

I think that in the past, Meg Ryan in "The Ghosts Are Not Gathered", "When Harry Meets Sally", how amazing it is.

But now, Michael Wilmington feels that "City of Angels" does not show the charm of two Hollywood front-line superstars, which is definitely a great waste.

Did not buy snacks like popcorn, and did not bring a notebook, Michael Wilmington casually found a position in the auditorium, he had prejudice in his heart, it did not take too seriously "Austin Powers The meaning of 2", as for the film review to be submitted, wait until you just write and write.

Before the lights were pressed, Michael Wilmington looked around, even though it was in the bustling downtown of Chicago, but in this auditorium, which can accommodate 200 people, about 80% of the attendance, let Michael Wilmington was a little surprised.

However, thinking about the large-scale publicity of Firebug, Fox and MGM in the early days, Michael Wilmington was relieved.

As a film critic, he is naturally very familiar with the film industry. In recent years, advertising marketing has become more and more important in the film industry. Accordingly, the film's release cycle has become shorter and shorter. Most commercial films have recovered more than 70% of North America in the first four weeks of the film release. box office.

Because of this change, the past cases of relying on word of mouth to create a box office miracle have become less and less in recent years, and the threshold for Hollywood film production has become more and more. Many people know that many people think that this trend will eventually even Killing the Hollywood film industry that has just revived, but this industry trend is obviously not something that anyone can easily change.

I was thinking about these things in my heart. In the auditorium, the screening of "Ace of Heroes 2" has begun.

The first glamorous actress, Elizabeth Hurley, came to the forefront, and the avatar robot smacked Mike Myers out of the hotel room and ran around. The film still uses the fascinating occlusion technique in the first part, and the various savage and full-bodied positions make the audience in the theater laugh and laugh.

As a countless film critic, Michael Wilmington knows all kinds of spoofs in the movie, but the instinct of his heart makes it difficult for him to feel the film.

After watching the tens of minutes, Michael Wilmington is considering whether to leave early. At this time, a heroine in the film keeps coming out of the male lord for a variety of small things. Once again, a series of laughter broke out in the theater.

Michael Wilmington looked around and recalled the tens of minutes that he had just spent. It seems that an average of two or three minutes in the theater will burst into laughter.

Suddenly gave up the idea of ​​leaving early, Michael Wilmington sat in his seat with peace of mind, but his attention was not put too much on the screen, but focused on the audience around.

Uninterrupted laughter lasted for 90 minutes, even if the subsequent subtitles rose, the audience did not immediately get up and leave, because the accompanying tidbits on the end captions still make people laugh.

"Haha, it’s so funny, maybe we can take the time to look at it again."

"Budget Threads is still so hot."

"Peter did not come to see this movie together, it was definitely a mistake."

"That's a big fight, it's too much to do, and I don't know if it will really show up when I shoot."

"Mike Myers is a genius."

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Walking out of the auditorium along the crowd, listening to the comments of the people around him, Michael Wilmington also looked thoughtful.

It is still difficult for him to give a positive evaluation of this film. Compared with the first one, this time it is only a lot of old stalks. However, it can make the audience laugh, at least, better than the movie "The City of Angels" that is even awkward.

All the way back home, Michael Wilmington opened his laptop, was about to write the "Austin Powers 2" film review, think of something, and closed the document, open the browser, landed in the Yahoo movie section.

Finding the page of "Ace of Great Spy 2", Michael Wilmington swept the app's approximate rating.

Yahoo's film evaluation system is quite novel to many people, and it is divided into professional film rating and general audience rating.

Everyone knows that Yahoo Portal is actually the online media platform of the Firefly system. Therefore, the fairness of this portal has always been questioned.

The critics of "Austin Powers 2" scored only 5.1. In Michael Wilmington's view, this may still be a bit high. Many of the more famous film critics have not entered the Yahoo movie, and Michael Wilmington has also received an invitation from the Yahoo Portal. He also did not enter. The professional film critics of Yahoo! Movies are either the media of the Firefly system or they are not very famous. Whether these people can give a movie a score without bias, in Michael Wilmington's view, is simply not possible.

Look at the back, the average audience rating of "Austin Powers 2", oh, the Yahoo portal called it the 'popcorn index', but it is as high as 7.6.

Even though it has been expected in the auditorium, Michael Wilmington still feels that this number is somewhat high. If he is scored, he will only give 3 points for the professional rating of the film. As for the so-called popcorn index, he can only give a 6-point pass.

Also looked at the "City of Angels" rating, the film critic score is 6.3 at this time, just passed, the popcorn index is even lower than the "Austin Powers 2", only 7.3. Although he also doesn't like "City of Angels", Michael Wilmington feels that the so-called popcorn index of "City of Angels" should not be lower than the vulgar spoof of "Austin Powers 2". .

Questioning the fairness of the Yahoo portal, Michael Wilmington did not feel that there was anything wrong with his own bias.

So he found several other film review websites. Although the scores of these websites are obviously different, the overall film review trend is basically the same. The film critics don't like "Austin Powers 2" and reluctantly recognize "City of Angels". The average audience obviously prefers "Austin Powers 2", but they don't have a cold for "City of Angels".

Since the advent of the film, the film critic's lead in a movie has not changed in North America. This is also the source of the superiority of Michael Wilmington in the face of "Austin Powers 2".

But at this time, after watching a few movie sites, Michael Wilmington suddenly felt a faint threat.

How can ordinary people lead the word-of-mouth of a movie? This is entirely for the traditional film critics.

Because of this instinctive resentment and disgust, Michael Wilmington's sense of identity for the rise of "Austin Powers 2" has also disappeared.

Reopening the document, Michael Wilmington began to criticize the "Austin Powers 2" review: It seems that Mike Wells can never get rid of the impact of "Saturday Night Live". Not to mention, "Ace of the Great Spy 2" is another slap-up film that has been piled up with broken bridges...

Regardless of "City of Angels" or "Ace of Heroes 2", it is not a blockbuster movie. Although for the sake of competition or for publicity, the two film companies arranged a premiere, but the film did not line up at midnight. .

Therefore, until Saturday morning, the film reviews of the two films spread on a large scale.

Different from the initial score of 7 points or more, after the large-scale release on Friday, the evaluation of the film critics of "City of Angels" began to decline, and the overall score can only barely maintain a pass line of 6 points or more.

In comparison, "Austin Powers 2" is ‘very simple’, and the media film reviews directly fell to a bad level of 5 points.

However, although the North American media basically did not recognize the word-of-mouth of the two films, the first-day box office data of the two films made everyone very surprised, especially the first-day box office of "Austin Powers 2".

Beverly Hills, the president of Twentieth Century Fox, was awakened by phone ringing early in the morning. When he heard the assistant’s first-day box office data for "Ace Big Spy 2", he even thought he was still dreaming. After repeated confirmations several times, Joe Rose was proud to believe and quickly spread the news.

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Ps: I made a heroine and put it on the station. I searched for the ‘[European group image] those flowers,” the video is. (To be continued.)