superstar director

Chapter 405
Although many film critics and netizens in North America told everyone in various ways, "Taken" is a popcorn movie that is fundamentally unreasonable and irrational, and maliciously slanders Paris, the romantic capital.

But how can movie fans and audiences care?Historical epic movies can be adapted, let alone a clearly positioned commercial film?As long as the technology is real and the story is brilliantly adapted, that's fine!So no matter what the mainstream media reports, the screening halls of "Taken" in North American movie theaters are still hot, and the number of people scoring on IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes and other websites is increasing, and its box office is also increasing every day.

When the week of August 8th to 10th passed, the North American media public once again saw the power of this "cool and refreshing" movie from China. The box office trend of "Taken" fell slightly by 17%. 33 theaters received a box office of 3780 million US dollars, successfully defending the North American box office champion in the second week of August!
It was released for three weeks, and the IMDB page score remained at 8.2 points, with 125 rating users; after Rotten Tomatoes newly included a lot of movie reviews, the public freshness of 846 articles was 215%, the well-known freshness was 83%, and the audience's favorite score was also 85% %.And the total North American box office of this commercial film has reached 82 million US dollars. The box office has not only surpassed the 1.76 million US dollars of Ning Sheng's previous film "Face Changing" in North America, but also surpassed the "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" directed by Ang Lee. ", officially became the highest box office performance of Huaxia Film in the North American film market.

Although "Taken" has gained a lot of attention in North America before it was released because of the success of "Face Changing", everyone still couldn't help being surprised after seeing such box office results.

"Ning Sheng from China has met a beautiful schedule." Yahoo Entertainment commented that this week's box office runner-up was the newly released "Department Men 4550" with 2 million yuan, and the third place was also the new film "Focus" with 3084 million yuan. ", the fourth place is "RoboCop 1521" with 4 million, and "Sausage Party" with 1460 million.

"Taken" was almost a complete victory in North America, especially in Asia. Before that, many media and movie fans compared "Taken" with "The Thieves" and wanted to see a fight between dragons and tigers. Especially the Korean film critics and film and television circles are waiting and waiting to see the rise of the country's great directors in China's film and television.

However, after the box office war in the third week ended, the box office of "Taken" dropped slightly by 22% compared with last week, and it received 3754 billion in 10.36 theaters, continuing to win the box office championship in the third week.

Although many Korean fans on the Internet are not reconciled to the crushing defeat of their idol "Alliance of Thieves". Under the counterattack of fans of Sheng and Fa Ge, and with the support of many fans who like this movie, "Taken" still maintains a high score of 8 on Douban.

And in this week, "Alliance of Thieves" received another 3.6 million under the hard publicity of the leading actors, and the cumulative total exceeded 8 million in three weeks, which is very close to the 9 million guarantee line set by the investor.

"Well, although the gap between the two is still very far in any respect, the expected battle between dragons and tigers has ended like this, and the winner is our talented director Ning Chen!"

Liu Wei, who surfs the Internet after get off work, said so in the comment board of the latest film and television section of the forum. He is not the only fan of netizens who expressed his opinions. Yang Dong commented: "Although my favorite idol is Professor Du, after watching the movie, I really still think Ning Sheng's movies are more interesting, maybe Professor Du can participate in Ning Sheng's movies in the future?"

"Those who say that "Taken" can be compared with "Taken" should shut up. Movies don't rely on the accumulation of stars. Otherwise, why do you need a director? Whether it is the box office or word-of-mouth of the two movies Now, the outcome is already clear, you can stop for a while, because no matter how much trouble you make, the result will not change."

Xiaoya's message has received a lot of support, because there are not a few movie fans who have the same idea. Zhu Neng, whose profile picture is "Second Senior Brother", wrote: "No matter how exciting the story is, or the filming skills of the movie, and the action scenes , I think "Taken" is better, as for "All Thieves", please, I think it's not as exciting as the old movie "Across the Seas"!"

"This question will not arise, can "Alliance of Thieves" be compared with "Across the World"?" Little Fatty Liu Yan wrote: "Is there any story, is there any team that is stronger and more harmonious than Brother Fa and Brother? What kind of love is there? Is it more real than the relationship between Hong Gu and the two eldest brothers? Is there any brotherhood stronger than the friendship between brother and brother Fa?"

Another user Bei Zhangdi followed up and wrote: "Koreans want to make a thief movie, but they are stingy and lifeless. Look at the confidence and smile of Brother Fa and Brother in "Across the World", it is simply the original and pirated version. Difference!"

Chinese Ramona, whose profile picture is a white girl, sighed and wrote: "What a pity! Many Korean oppas in "The Thieves" are my favorite stars, but their performance in the movie really makes people unable to get excited. Maybe they are used to the long-term foreshadowing in the TV series!"

Movie fans are not the only ones who think so. Man Gui, the film critic who gave "Taken" a first-class praise, also said in his film review: "Ning Sheng uses a movie with vigorous action and an exciting story. The alternative way embodies the greatness of fatherly love!"

"This is the love of a father, who always hides behind, and you almost ignore him in normal times, but when you encounter difficulties, child, father's love will always give you strength behind your back at the first time, so that you can move forward! "Mangui seems to have a special liking for Ning Cheng's movies. Since Ning Sheng's first movie "People on the Journey", Mangui has been a good friend who likes all the way, and now it has almost become Ning Cheng's works. die-hard fans.

"This is a very wonderful entertainment blockbuster. Watching Fa Ge, an old man, play around with the police and gangsters in Paris alone, and he will gain something if he takes action. Fa", that cool and handsome appearance really made my lips tremble a little with excitement! This is much more interesting than those boring dark little thieves in "Alliance of Thieves."

Zhou Ren, nicknamed "Old Man", continued his acrimonious film review style. While evaluating "Taken", he did not forget to ridicule "All Thieves", and used this as a comparison: "I feel really happy, Ning Sheng is like A safe haven without bad movies, so safe. This movie brings me back to the wonderful feeling of being young, so beautiful and indulgent, the film technology in it is very meticulous, but the most fascinating thing is the boldness of the film, the bad guys should go die!"

The 18th is the beginning of the fourth week of "Taken" at the box office. This week, there will be 4 large-scale releases of movies, the sports music movie "Friction" that combines skateboarding and hip-hop, and the cooperative comedy of domestic comedy representatives and small losses. "Unbelievable"; last year's "Jinyiwei" greatly increased the value of Yan Zaidan and comedian Wang Qiang's new kung fu movie "Frozen: The Gate of Rebirth".

However, among the four films, the new film that attracts the most attention from fans and is predicted by the media to take away the weekly box office champion of "Taken" is the new horror film "Zombies vs. Vampires" directed by director Yu Rentai of Xiangjiang. Zombies and vampires are two things Fang's similar species are about to meet together, and it is said that the special effects are great, and many fans on the Internet are looking forward to it. It vowed to kill a bloody way in 4 theaters. It seems that it is time for "Taken" to give way.

Ning Sheng didn't stay in North America for too long. After a week of publicity with Brother Fa who arrived later, he returned to China before the fourth week of the movie. Now the promotion that needs to be done is almost the same. The box office results of the country and the region can basically be predicted to the final approximate figure, and Ning Cheng, a lazy person, can finally go home and relax.

Soon the fourth weekend of August from 18th to 25th will be over. In the latest North American weekend box office list, the new film "The Secret Life of Pets" took away "Taken" with a super box office of 8 million US dollars. The three-week champion, as a non-sequel animated film, only made it Universal's highest-grossing film of the year at the box office in the first week, and it is also the first non-sequel original film in Hollywood history to exceed 1.21 million in its first weekend.

"Taken", which was kicked off the top spot, received another US$923 million this week, bringing its cumulative North American box office to US$1.85.With this result, both the issuing company, Ning Sheng and Brother Fa are very satisfied.

In China, with the competition of four new films, "Taken" remained strong and continued to score 9.23 million, maintaining its honor of four consecutive championships!

"Zombie Vs. Vampires" by Yu Rentai, the "Ghost King of Xiangjiang", ranked second with a score of 5.8 million. Although many movie fans and the media were a little disappointed with this score, his investors and the director themselves were already very satisfied. Satisfied, with a total investment of less than 6.7 million yuan, there is no problem for this movie to make a fortune.But the fly in the ointment is that the evaluation of "Zombies vs. Vampires" is not high. The Douban score is only [-] points, and the film reviews are also mediocre. This also greatly limits its success index and future box office potential.

For example, in the film review by Lin Tao of "China Film News", many film critics said that "Yu Rentai lost his power." Unforgettable classic images...Basically, professionals will not infer who the director is after watching the entire movie. This is an ordinary popcorn movie.

However, its opening box office of 9652 million has indeed broken the opening records of classic series such as "The Taoist One Eyebrow" and "The Zombie Taoist"; and won the runner-up position next weekend with 5.8 million.

Zhen Zaidan and Wang Qiang's new work "Frozen: The Gate of Rebirth" ranked third with a box office of 2.6 million. However, this work with a Douban score of 3.6 directly ruined their future. The saliva is flying around, no doubt that the cooperation between the two is an absolute failure, but fortunately, the investment of this film is only 1.5 million, and it is expected that during the next three weeks of release, there is still no problem with capital preservation.

Chinese-American hip-hop star Jerry and skateboarding star Zhang Yang starred in the biographical film "Friction", which ranked fourth with 1.3 million. The frequency score of 7.3 on Douban and most of the good comments and comments indicate that this is a good film. Movie: "A flawed but entertaining and satisfying film professionally educating people about hip-hop and skateboarding."

The box office of "Alliance of Thieves", which also entered the fourth week of release, fell by more than 60% this week, and once again won 8563 million box office, and then reluctantly waved goodbye to China Film Market. Look at the Japanese and Korean markets, and the subsequent DVD sales.

However, this week, the most disappointing work is actually "Unbelievable" co-starred by two comedy stars. As a work with over one billion works "Pancake Man", Dapeng is also a well-known comedy figure in the country , I have also filmed several comedy works. Originally, everyone had high expectations for them. They all hoped to see a good work that would make people laugh. Unfortunately, it got 6530 million in the first week and scored 3.8 points on Douban. The word-of-mouth is in a mess. The sound is full, and it also makes the audience choose to continue to contribute to the box office of "Taken" from the side.

This weekend, "Taken" not only sold tickets in theaters in China and North America, the two largest ticket warehouses in the world, but also continued to be screened on big screens around the world, harvesting banknotes with different patterns , and a lot of praise from movie fans.In Australia, it received 366 million weekend box office; the UK 686 million, Germany 422 million, Mexico 305 million... The overseas weekends in dozens of countries combined have a total box office of 4096 million US dollars, nearly 2.4 million Chinese currency.

This figure is lower than the weekend box office in China and North America. The media predicts that the overseas box office of "Taken" this week will be around 3.5 million Chinese dollars, and the final global box office can basically be predicted to be around 45 billion.

And starting from the new week on the 26th, this will be the last week of August, and this week, the last three movies of the summer holiday will be released together, the small-cost comedy "Donkey Gets Water" from China, and the tomb drama "Looking for the Dragon", as well as RB's classic animation "Doraemon Come With Me", this will be the last movie heat wave of the whole summer, the three movies have many fans who like to support, and in the end who can replace "Hurricane" "Rescue", won the box office champion in the last week of August, everything depends on the final box office data!

"Director Ning, do you have time? When we are free, let's come out and talk again?" Ning Cheng, who was resting at home, was tasting the dinner made by Emma himself, when he received a call from Brother Jie, he remembered, I promised others to help.

"Uh, I'm sorry, Brother Jie, I've been a little dizzy from being busy recently, um, tomorrow? If it's convenient for you? Let's meet and talk tomorrow."

"That's good, then tomorrow at ten o'clock in the morning, we will meet at the old place!"

"Okay, see you tomorrow!"

(End of this chapter)