Huayu Zhihao

Chapter 742
"2012" is already Chen Hao's seventh Chinese-language film released in North America, and the seven films from his debut "The Night the Comet Came" to "7" are all science fiction films!

And these 7 films have all received good reviews, making Chen Hao's science fiction films well-known in North America.

However, some film critics in North America also criticized Chen Hao, because from the amazing performances of "Comet", "Moon" and "District [-]", Chen Hao has gradually "reduced" to a purely commercial director.

This made some North American film critics sigh that Chen Hao wasted his film talent and became a servant of money!

However, Hollywood giants like this very much, after all, in their view, money and interests are everything.

This is why Sony Columbia is also so concerned about Chen Hao's Chinese-language films, from the $16 box office of "Comet" to the $8677 million figure of "Pacific Rim".

Sony Columbia, which arranged all of Chen Hao's Chinese-language films in the United States, can be said to have witnessed Chen Hao's growth all the way.

Because of this, they are also looking forward to Chen Hao's "2012".

After watching "2012", Sony Columbia has more and more confidence in Chen Hao.

Therefore, even if it is a Chinese-language movie, Sony Columbia still chooses to make "2012" face-to-face with 20th Century Fox's similar disaster movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still"!
Two sci-fi disaster films of the same type were released at the same time, which also attracted media attention and various analysis, and there were many people who supported both sides.

Although "2012" is a Chinese film, the investment and actors cannot be compared with "The Day the Earth Stood Still", but as long as there is Chen Hao's name, it must not be underestimated.

Soon, 3 days passed in a blink of an eye, a new week came, and the box office data was freshly released!
North American weekend box office list (2008.12.12-2008.12.14):
No. 1, "2012", released for 3 days, with a box office of 3250 million US dollars on weekends, Tianchi Films, with a cumulative box office of 3250 million US dollars, and 3218 theaters;
No. 2, "The Day the Earth Stood Still", was released for 3 days, with a weekend box office of 3100 million US dollars, 20th Century Fox, with a cumulative box office of 3100 million US dollars, and 3560 theaters;
The third place, "Four Christmases", was released for 3 days, with a weekend box office of 17 million US dollars, Warner Bros., with a cumulative box office of 1327 million US dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 8797% last week, and 20.8 theaters;
No. 4, "The Twilight Saga", released for 24 days, with a weekend box office of US$801 million, Tianchi Films, with a cumulative box office of US$15010 million, a year-on-year decrease of 38.6%, and 3425 theaters;
No. 5, "Lightning Dog", released for 24 days, with a weekend box office of 750 million US dollars, Disney, with a cumulative box office of 8889 million US dollars, a decrease of 23.4% from last week, and 3218 theaters;
……

""2012" disaster spreads all over the world!"--"Los Angeles Times"

""2012" narrowly beat "The Day the Earth Stood Still" to win the title!"--"Variety Show"

""2012" successfully predicted that President Trump would be elected President of the United States!" -- "The New Yorker"

……

In the head-to-head contest between "2012" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "2012" finally narrowly won with a slight advantage of 150 million!

Obviously, although "2012" is a Chinese film, because the director Chen Hao is famous enough, the special effects of the film itself can be called Hollywood level.

Therefore, in the duel with "The Day the Earth Stood Still", he was able to take the lead.

In addition, "2012" won the box office, and it was Chen Hao's first Chinese film to win the North American weekend box office!

It is also the second Chinese-language film in North American film history to achieve this achievement, the first being Guoshi's "Hero"!
However, unlike its impressive box office performance, North American film critics are somewhat dissatisfied with "2012"!

From the point of view of word of mouth, Yahoo viewers gave it a B, and the overall media score was C, while the IMDB score was 6.7, and the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes was only 39%!

It can be said that "2012" refreshed the lowest media and audience ratings of all Chen Hao's films!

Different from the mainland and Asia, it is definitely a shocking effect to see a "2012"-level doomsday disaster movie in the mainland and even Asia.

In the face of such realistic special effects, even NASA was alarmed. Fearing that the overly realistic plot of the movie would cause panic among the public, they issued a statement saying that the plot of the film was "purely fictional" and appealed to the audience not to worry about it.

It is no wonder that the film is rated PG-13. Although there is no pornography and no foul language, it is too inductive for minor audiences under the age of 13.

When many adult viewers walk out of the theater after watching the film, they can't distinguish between fantasy and reality for a moment. They are immersed in the plot of the film and cannot extricate themselves. This is the charm of the film.

Then, the film is an "induction" for children, a "confuse" for adult audiences, and a "temptation" for mainstream teenage audiences.

No matter what they have seen and commented on it, it is the same reason that attracts them to the theater.

But unlike Asian audiences, post-apocalyptic disaster movies are already commonplace for North American audiences.

"The Day After Tomorrow", "Clash of Heaven and Earth", "War of the Worlds", "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "Independence Day", "Poseidon" and so on, the North American audience is somewhat fatigued!
That's why "2012" has such a big difference in ratings between Asia and North America!

Chen Hao felt a little helpless about such evaluations from the media and film critics, and could only comfort himself by winning the box office championship.

However, Chen Hao should be grateful to "The Day the Earth Stood Still", because of its comparison, "2012" doesn't look so bad.

As the opponent of "2012", "The Day the Earth Stood Still" had a 22% freshness on Rotten Tomatoes, a total media score of 40, and a Yahoo! score of C-!

"Keanu's most fake work in recent years!"

"No soul, just a bunch of dying self-righteousness!"

"Serious talk, but the remake sucks!"

"Lacks the elegance and wit of the original, and replaces the once-smart dialogue with flimsy special effects and action sequences!"

……

"Entertainment Weekly", "Chicago Tribune", "Hollywood Reporter", "San Francisco Chronicle", etc. are all rated below C grade.

And such a comparison, "2012" does not seem so bad!
Chen Hao really has to sigh with emotion, all rely on his peers to set off!
However, because "2012" uses a black man to play the president of the United States in the film, this coincides with the president who just became the first black president of the United States this year.

*** was successfully elected in November, and "11" was released in Asia in August!

Obviously, Chen Hao's prophecy came true!
The American media always seems to be keen on politics, so it brings the two together.

At the same time, in "2012", although races of all skin colors ultimately jointly determine the fate of mankind, the decisive role of China in it is beyond doubt.

This point has also been reported and even attacked by some media!
In fact, this is quite normal for Chinese-language movies. Could it be that I made a Chinese-language movie to make your sister save the world?

Anyway, Chen Hao sneered at this, and then stopped paying attention.

In addition, "Twilight" ranked fourth on the list with a weekend box office of $801 million, which is somewhat surprising.

I thought that the box office of "Twilight" would plummet, but I didn't expect it to stabilize in the fourth week, and the box office has reached 4 million US dollars.

This box office data made "Twilight" just become the 2008th in the North American box office list in 10!
However, North American forecasting agencies have raised the final box office of "Twilight" to 1.8 million US dollars, which will obviously make the film's ranking further.

In addition to the box office, Chen Hao has recently paid attention to the new Golden Globe Awards. Unfortunately, all the films of Liang Tianchi Films this year did not even get a single nomination.

As the end of the year approaches, various awards ceremonies have also begun to be held, or the list of nominations has been announced.

When the Golden Globe Awards announced the list of nominations, the three major film festivals in the mainland only had the 29th Hundred Flowers Awards for Popular Films this year, and it had already ended.

In the end, Feng Dapao's "Assembly" and "Yun Shui Yao" became the biggest winners.

With "Assembly", Feng Dapao won the best feature film and best director, and the film also won the best actor and best supporting actor.

However, Feng Dapao didn't like Best Supporting Actor, because Deng Chao won this award, but the relationship between the two is a bit bad now, and Deng Chao even signed a contract with Huayi's arch-rival Haotian.

Feng Dapao watched Deng Chao come to the stage to accept the award, and couldn't help humming!

In addition, "Yun Shui Yao" won the Excellent Feature Film, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress!

Among them, the winner of the Best Actress is Mr. Xun, this is the second time Mr. Xun has been crowned!
In addition to Mr. Xun and Deng Chao winning awards, Chen Hao's "2012" also won the excellent feature film, the second prize of the best film!
At this time, Feng Dapao can be said to be proud of his spring breeze. While a "Assembly Number" made him promoted to the 2 million club, it also won him numerous awards.

More importantly, his new film "The One Who Sings" was released, directly ending the three consecutive championships of Chen Kaige's "Mei Lanfang" with a box office of 7940 million yuan.

Fung's comedy shines again!

And the box office of "If You Are the One" in the second week is even more amazing and enviable, 1.12 million RMB!

This box office result directly broke the second-week box office record in mainland film history just created by the National Day file "Painted Skin"!

At the same time, Wu Jing's directorial debut and the last film "Spike Fang" released by Liang Tianchi Films in 2008 landed in mainland theaters on December 12.

Only in addition to the double attack of "Mei Lanfang" and "Ip Man", the box office of "Spike Fang" in the first week was only 210 million RMB!

This box office can be said to have broken the record for the lowest first-week box office of a film invested and shot by Liang Tianchi Films!

At this time, there were a lot of discussions within the company, and they didn't understand why Chen Hao agreed to invest in "Spike Fang"!
Moreover, the box office of "Spike" in Xiangjiang was not very good. Compared with "Xiangjiang", which was released 10 days earlier in the mainland, the box office in the first week was only 124 million Hong Kong dollars.

Only 84 Hong Kong dollars in the second week, and after another 21 Hong Kong dollars in the third week, "Spike Fang" was drawn in major theaters in Hong Kong!
The final box office of "Spike Fang" in Hong Kong was only 230 million Hong Kong dollars!
Undoubtedly, for "Spike Fang" with a total investment of 2200 million yuan, the loss is a bit miserable!
Seeing the box office performance of "Spike Fang", Wu Jing felt disheartened for a while, and made a complete decision to return to the mainland.

He has been deserted in Xiangjiang for many years, there will be no place for him here, and he is not young anymore, he doesn't have so much time to be deserted.

Wu Jing even thought about returning to the martial arts team as a coach!

However, this idea was quickly replaced. Maybe returning to the mainland, I can meet a turning point, maybe I can find a way out by looking for Chen Hao!
Just thinking of Chen Hao, Wu Jing remembered that he cheated Chen Hao of 2200 million to shoot "Spike Fang", but now it can be said that he lost all his money.

Thinking of Chen Hao's trust and encouragement to her, Wu Jing felt that Chen Hao was the one she was most ashamed of!

I was sorry for Chen Hao, but Wu Jing couldn't save face if he went to ask him for help now, and at the same time, he didn't want to cheat Chen Hao anymore, so he should secretly look for opportunities by himself!

If he can make a comeback in the future, Wu Jing will definitely repay Chen Hao!
As for now, let's go back to the mainland first!
……

Time flies, and soon a new week will pass.

The North American film market once again had three new films released last week.

North American weekend box office list (2008.12.19-2008.12.21):
No. 1, "Mr. Good Man", released for 3 days, with a weekend box office of 1816 million US dollars, Warner Bros., with a cumulative box office of 1816 million US dollars and 3434 theaters;
The second place, "Seven Pounds", was released for 2 days, with a weekend box office of 3 million US dollars, Sony Columbia, with a cumulative box office of 1600 million US dollars, and 1600 theaters;
No. 3, "2012", released for 10 days, with a weekend box office of 1320 million US dollars, Tianchi Pictures, with a cumulative box office of 5409 million US dollars, a decrease of 59.38% from last week, and 3218 theaters;
No. 4, "The Stray Mouse Depero", released for 3 days, with a weekend box office of 1051 million US dollars, Universal Pictures, a cumulative box office of 1051 million US dollars, and 3104 theaters;
No. 5, "The Day the Earth Stood Still", was released for 10 days, with a weekend box office of US$1015 million, 20th Century Fox, with a cumulative box office of US$4863 million, a year-on-year decrease of 66.7%, and 3560 theaters;
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The three new films rushed to the top four respectively. If "2012" hadn't been a bit stronger, then the new film would have won the top three places!

Apparently, word-of-mouth of the film has affected the box office trend. "2012" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still" dropped 59.38% and 66.7% year-on-year respectively.

Maybe it's really aesthetic fatigue. I'm afraid that the last few disaster films in the past few years will not have a high box office performance!

Chen Hao can accept the box office of "2012", because it is a Chinese film after all.

Now what Chen Hao thinks is whether "2012" can break his own box office record for Chinese films in the US!

The previous record was $8677 million held by "Pacific Rim."

Now the two-week box office of "2012" has reached 5409 million US dollars, which is 3268 million US dollars left compared with "Pacific Rim". In Chen Hao's view, it is still very promising.

Apart from staring at the box office of "2012", Chen Hao has been dealing with the company's affairs at Liangtianchi Films recently, but after finishing the processing, Chen Hao is a bit bored.

So Smart suggested Chen Hao to watch a game, and knowing that basketball was very popular in the Mainland, Smart arranged a Christmas game for Chen Hao.

When Chen Hao came to the Staples Stadium, he was indeed a little shocked when he saw the fans all over the stadium.

The ticket Smart gave to Chen Hao was in the first row. Just as Chen Hao wanted to see our department, a surprise scream came from his ear, "Chen, is it you?"

(End of this chapter)