superstar director

Chapter 387
Although Ning Sheng has a lot of popularity in Europe and the United States, most of the people who know him are fans. For the movies he made, they really don't have much appeal to North American audiences.Including the two protagonists of the movie are also newcomers in North America.

Therefore, whether this film can achieve a result depends on whether the audience attracted by the superstars at the premiere like it after the premiere, and then it can spread the word and attract more audiences through word-of-mouth marketing. Admission, of course, those film critics' comments on their respective columns are also very important publicity channels.

After the premiere, the stars of the two countries got together at night, and then they left, and each went about their own affairs.Julia and Emma also left, and Emma came to stand on leave from the crew.

Given the popularity of Ning Sheng, Liang Jiahui and others in the North American film market, subsequent publicity is really unnecessary and impossible to carry out, so Liang Jiahui and Wu Zhengyu went back to Asia to continue the promotion, while Ning Sheng stayed and waited for the first week of North American box office results. .

Everyone else left one after another. Ding Xuan's new English album was about to be released, and he went back to work on his business. Instead, Brother Fa stayed. He wanted to talk to Ning Sheng about the new movie they talked about together.

After the premiere, North American audiences who watched "Face Changing" began to express their opinions to their friends on the Internet and in life.

Nisha was the first group of North American audiences to watch "Face Changing" at the premiere. After returning from the premiere, she has been recommending this movie to her friends and boyfriends around her, "Hey, you must go and see this movie. It’s a Chinese movie, it’s really different, it’s a bit like the classic Chinese movie "The True Colors of Heroes", but the story is more twists and turns, the action scenes are also very exciting, it has the color of Wu Yuseng’s gunfight, and the two leading actors in the movie have great acting skills , believe me, after you have seen it, you will definitely not regret it!"

There are also more direct ones who directly pull their boyfriends or girlfriends to buy tickets and enter the movie. At the same time, the ratings of "Face Changing" began to appear on IMDB, and the number of people increased. When it was released on the third day, comments The number of people has exceeded 8.3, and the score is stable at 10/[-] points.

On Rotten Tomatoes, another website in the United States, the audience’s like rate is 90%, which is a rare super-high like rate among Chinese films. The comments are also full of praise, and almost every item is “Cool, so Chinese police movies are so good! "Another shootout blockbuster similar to "True Tomorrow"!" "The face-changing design is awesome!"

Although it is still difficult for Chinese films in this world to win high box office in North America, special types of films such as "The True Colors of Heroes" still have better results than in the previous life. In this world, the "True Colors of Heroes" trilogy The combined box office in North America is about 9000 million U.S. dollars.

North American audiences are most familiar with Chinese movies, apart from "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Heroes", which are not authentic martial arts movies, they are most familiar with "True Colors of Heroes".

From August 8th to August 8th, the North American box office of "Face Changing" reached 8 million U.S. dollars in its first three days, ranking fifth in the North American box office list. The Big Secret, this hilarious cute pet animation film earned 11 million this week, with a cumulative total of 890 million. According to this speed, it is likely to reach a high of 1150 million, and its global box office is also gratifying, reaching 3.2 million. Not surprisingly, it is not a big problem to break 3.5 million in the end.

And the third place is the dirtiest superhero "Deadpool" in history. After three consecutive championships, this week's decline is only 47%. It still has 1640 million U.S. dollars in the fourth week of release, and the cumulative box office is 3.11 U.S. dollars. The global box office is expected to break through. $7 million.

Ranked second on the North American box office list is Matt Damon's "Bourne Shadow 5". This week's income is 2040 million, a drop of 57%. The cumulative 1.03 million in two weeks will reach the cost line of 1.2 million next week , and now the world has reached 1.94 million.I have to say the importance of the schedule. If "Bourne Shadow 5" can be postponed for a few weeks, the box office may be tens of millions higher than it is now.

Finally, this week's North American box office champion, "Suicide Squad" topped this week's list without any suspense.It not only broke the August premiere record of 9430 million held by "Guardians of the Galaxy", but also broke the first day of release in August with a score of 8 million (including 6520 million in advance).Overseas, "Suicide Squad" also made a lot of money, earning 8 million US dollars from 2050 regions, with a global total of 57 million US dollars, surpassing "Deadpool" released earlier this year (1.32 million in 2.669 regions), It ranks 63th in the world premiere of film history, but whether it can surpass the 2.647 million North American score of "Deadpool" depends on whether the team can hold it next week.

Ning Sheng couldn't say he was satisfied with the results of "Face Changing" in the first three days in North America, which was less than 900 million US dollars, but it was not bad.

After all, compared to the original version of "Face Changing", the first-week results are far worse, but as a Chinese film, the first-week results in North America are very successful.

After Liang Jiahui, Wu Zhengyu, and Ding Xuan saw the first week results of "Face Changing" in North America, they specially called to congratulate him, and looking at the attendance rate of "Face Changing", Ning Sheng believed that the box office results in the first week would be even better. Not only because there are four more days than the first three days, but also because the second week's screening theaters will increase to two thousand theaters.

This is what Julia negotiated with the distribution company. If the average attendance rate of "Face Changing" exceeds 60% in the first week, then it will be increased to [-] screening theaters in the second week.

Today, the attendance rate of "Face Changing" in the first week is as high as 85%. The original boss will naturally not have trouble with money, not to mention the relationship with Julia.

And just after the North American first-week box office of "Changing Face" was released, the second-week box office results of "Changing Face" in Asia were also announced.

On China's latest box office rankings, "Face Changing" still won the second weekly championship with a score of 9.6 million, with a total of 15.86 billion in two weeks. It is estimated that the total box office in China will be around 25 billion in the future.The two-week cumulative box office in other parts of Asia reached 6.7 million, plus the US$890 million (5340 million Huaxia currency) in North America, the total global box office of "Face Changing" in the two weeks reached 23 billion, and the Chinese media predicted the total global box office of "Face Changing" It is expected to exceed 40 billion.

Originally, "Face Changing" in the second week should have a chance to hit more than one billion box office results, but it was split by the new movie "Wukong Biography" released on Friday. This movie is adapted from the novel of the same name. With a better production team, all the actors and directors have changed, the box office has also changed naturally. In the first week, it scored 7.8 million in three days, and the Douban score was as high as 7.8 points. greatest threat!
The third and fourth movies are "Jinyiwei" and "Kyoto Love Story", which have not had much impact. The two films respectively won 1.5 million and 5000 million box office, especially "Kyoto "Love Story", even though his director and leading actors tried very hard to work harder for him, but the quality of the film itself is worrying, no one is willing to go in and seek abuse!

In addition to Huaxia, "Face Changing" has maintained its consecutive top spot in the film rankings of Japan, South Korea and other Asian countries. The crowds brought by good word of mouth will further attract more fans to watch.

There is no need for Ning Sheng to worry about the Asian region. Even though China’s 15 billion box office has made Ning Sheng’s "Face Changing" pay back and make money, for Ning Sheng, the biggest role of this "Face Changing" is to test The North American market, so his focus is on the North American film market.

On the North American network, in addition to the fans who began to spread the good reputation of "Face Changing" spontaneously, the comments of those professional film critics have also entered the eyes of many fans, but compared to the audience's liking for the movie, it seems that the American film critics are more interested in Ning Sheng. The film is more than willing to find fault with a critical eye.

"An over-exaggerated story, what is the young director Ning Sheng from Huaxia trying to say? This is more like a hideous dog blood ethics drama. Maybe he should go back to Huaxia to film an urban ethics TV series. More popular!" - Brian Pitt, Northwest Herald.

"The acting skills of the actors are impeccable, the screen editing and soundtrack are very beautiful, but what is disappointing is that the whole movie is still a movie bound in the framework of a police movie. It’s the way the police catch the bad guys. If the faces of the two of them hadn’t been changed in the end, the real policeman died and the bad guy pretended to be the real policeman survived, maybe it would be better! ——James Bias, Atlantic City daily".

"Watching them yelling and calling for more than an hour, there are some interesting details, but it is generally an ordinary police movie, nothing special surprise." - Mike Sto Well, "Chicago Reader"... Among the nearly 21 film reviews, more than half are negative reviews.

Ning Sheng didn't pay attention to these movie reviews, otherwise he would have been pissed off.But not all film critics are bad, there are still many film critics who are willing to give this movie a good review.

"As a policeman, as a father, he catches the murderer who killed his son, and the terrorist who endangered the citizens. A policeman goes forward bravely, serves the public, and abides by the morality and bottom line of his heart. A new and unique film." -- Jennifer Weitzman, Los Angeles Daily News.

"It made me sit willingly for over an hour, not wanting to miss a frame or a line, and all expectations were fulfilled. It was a blast!" - Betsy Aniston, The New York Times.

"With a very convincing storyline and a pleasing showdown of acting skills, Ning Sheng, a Chinese music genius, made a wonderful movie that makes people unable to take their eyes off it, cool!" - Kevin Reed, New Zealand Sentinel ".

...With 85% freshness, 90% likes, and Asian multi-country box office champions... etc. Good reviews and good results, these are enough to attract movie fans who have not yet watched the movie to enter the cinema and see this movie, which has been praised as "China The most exciting cop blockbuster" style. The box office of "Changing Face" in the second week is naturally increasing every day.

During the period, the American media invited Ning Sheng to do a talk show. Although Ning Sheng was surprised, he still went to promote the movie, but it was only this time. After all, the box office results of the first week were less than 1000 million, which was not enough to attract the attention of the North American media. Too much focus.

Even most of the newspapers that wrote film reviews for "Face Changing" were invited by Julia, rather than others taking the initiative.

The calendar on the wall was turned over and over again. Ning Sheng stayed in the hotel every day. Apart from talking about the new script with Fa Ge, he just followed the news of "Face Changing". The ratings and comments on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes were also added every day. Soon 8 This weekend from the 12th to the 19th has passed, and the box office of "Suicide Squad" in the second week of its North American release was 4377 million US dollars, a drop of 67% from the first week. At present, the accumulated box office in North America is 2.23 million, and the global box office is 4.65 million.

However, "The Bourne Shadow 5", which was originally ranked second, continued to plummet by 50% this week, and only received 1340 million US dollars, ranking third, with a total of 1.1640 million in three weeks, not far from 1.2 million.The global box office exceeded 2 million US dollars, reaching 2.32 million US dollars.

And the movie that ranked second this week is indeed something that no one expected. It is a non-Hollywood movie that was not in the top three last week. It is a police movie "Face Changing" from China. , a total of 5760 million US dollars (6650 million Huaxia currency) in two weeks.

The fourth-ranked "Deadpool" received another 1080 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office reached 3.28 million US dollars.It grossed $5.36 million worldwide.

And "The Secret Life of Pets" ranked fifth with a score of 862 million US dollars, with a total of 3.28 million US dollars.It grossed $5.46 million worldwide.

"Face Changing" bucked the trend and rushed to No. [-] in the rankings in the second week of its release. Not only the media in North America exclaimed, even the publishers were also surprised. However, as "Face Changing" rushed to No. [-] in the North American rankings More audiences will pay attention to this movie, which means more fans will enter to watch it.

For this unexpected Chinese film, many North American media began to take the initiative to make comments and publicity.

"This is the most successful movie in Hollywood after "True Colors of Heroes". It is definitely worth watching, and his director Ning Sheng, a young man well-known by most fans, used this movie to conquer fans in North America this time. !” Yahoo commented for a week.

"The identity swap of the two protagonists in "Face Changing" is amazing, and the impact of the most wonderful two people in each other's life on the people around them is something worth thinking about!" ---Los Angeles Times.

"This is an extraordinary movie with a genius performance, wonderful story, and intense scenes!" More and more fans who have watched the movie left messages on the Internet!

"Different from "Deadpool" which is funny and sleazy, "Face Changing" is a serious police blockbuster, with neurotic and arrogant villains, strong and hard-working decent policemen, and tragic supporting roles!"

"If you like "The True Colors of Heroes", you will like this "Face Changing". Although the themes of the two parts are different, the wonderful gun battle scenes will definitely make you reluctant to blink!"

"I want to know the other movies of the two leading actors in the movie, especially Wu Zhengyu who plays the terrorist, the arrogant performance is simply too wonderful!"

The popularity of "Face Changing" in North America not only gave Ning Sheng more confidence in his future films entering North American film and television, but also made Fa Ge more confident.Now he can't wait to start shooting!

(End of this chapter)