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Chapter 514 50 million

Of course, for gossip newspapers, they will obviously pay more attention to those off-site elements. Exaggeration and seriousness have always been their style. "Daily Entertainment", which has made a lot of sales on Ning Sheng, reported with a headline: "The genius director Ning Sheng is strong. Coming back, kung fu superstar Cheng Long sadly gave up Zhou Champion!"

They wrote in the report: "Kung Fu comedy superstar Cheng Long has become a new victim. The talented director Ning Sheng in his early 30s brought his popular NLZ group, and mercilessly put away the international achievements in recent years. Nice Cheng Long beat. The new year is coming soon, what else will this talented director bring us? A classic movie? Or a song written for others? No matter what it is, we are looking forward to it!"

And "Asian Movies" interviewed Cheng Long. In this latest interview, which is half publicity and half entertainment, it is natural to talk about Ning Sheng. Cheng Long commented: "He is a very thoughtful and very good young man. It's a rare and excellent movie, and I don't mind being 'beaten' by it." He then said jokingly: "In fact, I communicated with Ning Sheng very early on, and I even thought about adjusting the release date to avoid him. 'Comeback fight', but you see it, and you can't escape it in the end, lol."

Fans who are familiar with the two know that they have often communicated at some charity dinners before, and they also have a relatively good public relationship in the circle, which is barely considered a year-end acquaintance.When the two are often asked by reporters, they always praise each other, and there is a director and an actor.So the reporter asked another question: "Have you discussed cooperation?" Cheng Long laughed and replied: "Haha, of course I have thought about this question, but it depends on whether there is a suitable script, but I I am also looking forward to working with Ning Sheng."

However, not everyone thinks that Ning Sheng is a "very good young man", or that Ning Sheng's movies have always caused parents to be more entangled, just like the previous "Taken" after the hit, many parents were told by their families My daughter wanted to imitate the strange ways that the girl in the movie was rescued by her father, and she had a headache, but fortunately, the little girls who think this way are generally girls under the age of 12, and they will not be like In the movie, I really bought a ticket to fly abroad, but that’s it. It happened several times that the little girl ran to a friend’s house, then called her father, told some clues, and then asked her father to “save” herself .

In addition to this, there are also the two previous "Swordsman" and "Dragon Inn", after the release of "Dragon Inn", a group of students worshiped the knights in the movie, and all kinds of dancing guns and clubs also caused many parents to be troubled by their children. I want to go to various places to learn from teachers.

But this time, on the "Latest Parents Recommended Movie Ranking", "Angels of the Thunderbolt" was almost at the bottom again. Many middle-aged parents commented bluntly: ""Angels of the Thunderbolt" is a very good movie, but I don't want to Let my daughter who is in junior high school watch it, I don’t know what she will understand from it, it’s best not to be interested in the behavior of the three protagonists jumping off the building and jumping off the plane.”, “My daughter regards the Thunderbolt Angel as an object of imitation. For a few days she always spoke in a strange way, which worried me very much."

Even Zhou Lu, a film critic who almost always praised Ning Sheng's films in the past, expressed her concerns. She wrote in the film review published in "China Sun Daily": "I watched this movie with my youngest daughter. For the movie, Ning Sheng is still the genius director. The movie is still full of sunshine and makes people feel very comfortable. However, the performance of Ning Tong and the three of them took all my daughter's attention. When I got home, my daughter Tell me she is going to learn extreme sports, she wants to be as cool as Ning Tong, but who will tell my precious daughter that Ning Tong's character in the movie is fictional, and for her a 13-year-old girl, how extreme sports are? Danger!"

But for the film itself, Zhou Lu still praised it, describing it as "a masterpiece that can make people forget all their troubles", and praised Ning Tong's acting skills as "worthy of the Golden Cup Award". Finally, she gave "Thunderbolt Angel" a Five-star review!
Of course, the opinions of these parents are the same as those of Ning Cheng’s other movies before, but it just makes parents less concerned about bringing their underage children to watch together. Many parents will take their children to watch other movies that are more family-friendly. movies, or simply go to watch Ning Sheng movies alone at home.

There is no way, in fact, the influence of Ning Sheng's movies on children is not all that dangerous. After all, compared with other movies, the content of Ning Sheng's movies is not too dangerous, but compared to other people's movies, Ningcheng's movies are always It can be imitated and liked by young people.

Of course, this has something to do with Ning Sheng's huge popularity and appeal, and once the movie itself becomes a hit, under the instigation of the media, it will easily become a current fashion trend, and young people will compete to imitate it. People, Ning Sheng's works always arouse the scale of imitation, and there are more people who like it.

Of course, this time because of NLZ, the favorite combination of young people, young people naturally like and imitate more, but fortunately, the content of the movie did not lead to negative emotions, and more people saw justice over evil, good people A happy ending that must win, as for the imitation of some behaviors and habits of Ning Tong's three characters in the movie, this trend will disappear after the movie ends.

The atmosphere of Christmas is getting closer and closer, and a new round of battles has officially launched in the box office week from December 12th to December 17rd. This is the last week before Christmas in China.What fans are more concerned about is, can "Angels of the Thunderbolt" continue to win the weekly championship and enter Christmas?Or will "The Glass Bottle" strike back ferociously?The honor of winning the second week of the championship?Welcome Christmas with the honor of champion?

In the next week, Ning Sheng took the crew's Ning Tong three-person exhibition to start the national publicity work, and after the promotion in China was over, after the family finished Christmas, Ning Sheng took Ning Tong and the three directly to fly Propaganda to the United States.

"Angels of the Thunderbolt" is released globally, so "Angels of the Thunderbolt" in the North American market has also been released for two weeks at this time, and in the first week, 2773 theaters achieved a box office of 6523 million US dollars, ranking second in the North American weekly box office list In the second week, with a score of 8976 million US dollars, it directly surpassed last week's North American champion "Hotel Transylvania 2" and won its first North American weekly championship!Accumulated US$1.54 for the North American box office of "Thunderbolt Angel", which is nearly one billion Huaxia coins!

And the North American media are also full of praise for the achievements of this Chinese film!
""Thunderbolt Angel" is a very ridiculous movie, but through unremitting efforts, it manages to compensate for the absurdity in it with high quality." --- "Orlando Weekly" review by Ian Gray.

"This entertainment mix has the main ingredients of Hollywood-style commercial films, the skills of Chinese action stars as side dishes, and has won the box office revenue of James Bond-style blockbusters." --- Todd McCarthy, "Variety Show" .

"Different from western female action films, "Thunderbolt Angel" extensively uses the "violent kick", an ancient Chinese martial arts footwork, which is probably because they replaced the small miniskirts with legs and the Chinese actress NLZ three The special training before filming is not unrelated. Because there are many kicking scenes, the whole "Angel of Thunder" looks like a big-screen video game, and the lines imply a lot of sharpness. Very good!" "Guardian of the Sun" Toddy Anthony commented.

"Hollywood has never lacked hot action movies. In the past 30 years, the characters in Hollywood action movies have experienced different stages of development, from the era of muscular men in the 80s to the white-faced niche in the 90s. In the 21st century, with the continuous development of special effects technology , soft women can also put their fists on the screen, so more and more actresses are playing the leading roles in action movies. Some Hollywood action movies have such a trend before, and this "Angel of Thunderbolt" from China can be described as female action representative of the film.

Perhaps this talented director from China decided to shoot an action movie featuring women because the audience was tired of seeing a group of big men fighting on the screen, so this movie is sexy and action-packed. The movie was born.As a popcorn movie, the three heroines in "Thunderbolt Angels" started the nearly two-hour performance in the spirit of entertainment first.

The action scene of jumping off the plane at the beginning is the biggest highlight of the film, it is tense and full of American humor, and in the following time, the humorous side of Chinese culture is shown in the film, which makes people feel in the three The charm of oriental culture can be felt in the conversation and actions of the leading actors.

After this well-received box office work, a large number of similar works will definitely emerge in Hollywood, and works of pure Hollywood blood may be more popular in North America than this oriental culture film! "--"Los Angeles Times."

As for the negative reviews, although there are also, but they are relatively few of the released films.

""Thunderbolt Angel" is like a trailer for a video game movie, except that there is neither the video game nor the movie." --- "Salon" review by Stephanie Zachalek.

"The natural charm of the three young Chinese stars makes the ridiculous characters come to life, finally covering up the bad jokes and worse storylines." --- "Hollywood Reporter" Kirk - Hong Nicar special comment.

Although there is no "Angel of the Thunderbolt" TV series in North America at this time and space, and Ning Sheng has adapted the original story and some promotion methods, but there has never been a movie in this world that can achieve zero negative reviews.

There are always some media that can make harsh judgments when everyone praises them, even if their criticisms seem to be a bit picky, but they still enjoy criticizing others.

However, compared with the comments of these media, the comments and comments of netizens from all over the world are much better.Because Ning Sheng corrected some of the criticized parts of the original version of the movie, and added some elements that are popular in the current era, especially the action scenes and secret agent operations are more exciting, so the praise on the Internet is absolutely dominant.

"The protagonists were thrown around, and I was still a little worried that they would break their bones!!! But the movie looks really cool, very relaxed, and not depressing at all.

A great commercial film. Although the story has no connotation, the theme is simple and the picture is eye-catching.He has all the configurations that an action movie should have, beauties, drag racing, fighting, high technology and so on.And the plot is also reversed, making it difficult for people to guess, very good!

The action scenes inside are also very hot, there is no hail of bullets, basically hand-to-hand combat, and Chinese Kung Fu, which is really cool.

The heroines are also very beautiful, showing off their bodies in various styles.Ning Tong smiled like a real angel descended into the world, and her sudden look back and smile not only fascinated the little bartender, but also fascinated me.Oh my God, every time I think about this shot, I can't help falling in love with this angel!Even if it's just for my angel, I'm going to see it again in the cinema! "

"A bit exaggerated, a bit funny, a bit cool, a typical popcorn movie, but it can keep you from being bored all the way!"

"Easy and effortless. The three beauties are young, with popcorn. It's easy and effortless. It's quite enjoyable to watch the beauties roll around."

"The angels show their power! Three angels who combine beauty, wisdom, and justice, they will work hard to complete the task, and the sometimes humorous and sometimes thrilling rhythm is really cool!"

"Sure enough, the more mysterious people are, the more popular they are. The three women are simply too handsome, and their kung fu can be so beautiful, and they can do things so neatly and neatly, that men can't help themselves! What a handsome word!"

With the end of Ning Sheng's publicity in North America, Ning Cheng and the others returned to China for their respective activities, and the global screening of "Angels of Thunderbolt" also ended in the second and third weeks, from December 12th to December 17rd. In the second week of No. 12, when it won its first weekly championship in North America, it received 23 million box office in China with 2915 theaters, while the third week from December 6.5 to December 12 received 24 million. The number of theaters received 12 million at the box office. This result was indeed good in the three weeks of its release, but it failed to retain the weekly box office champion in China. In the third week, "Glass Bottle" received 30 million at the box office with 2869 theaters. regained its top spot.

In North America, "Angels of Thunderbolt" also lost the championship in the third week. In the first half of this week in North America, "Angels of Thunderbolt" once led by a large margin, but suddenly became weak in the second half. The horror film "Return of the Clown" directly surpassed it.It only got a box office of 3685 million US dollars.

Then in the fourth week from December 12st to January 31th, this week, Huaxia Film Market ushered in the release of the war blockbuster "Champion Hou", and "Angel of the Thunderbolt" continued to slip to third place, receiving 1 million box office; last week Zhou Champion's "Glass Bottle" slipped to second place, with a box office of 6 million; while Zhou Champion is the newly released "Champion Hou", which received 3.6 million in 3.9 theaters in three days on weekends, becoming today's Lunar New Year file Another masterpiece of double harvest at the box office!
Four weeks after its release, "Angels of the Thunderbolt" has received a total of 23.45 billion box office in China, and according to the statistical analysis of Xingtong Studio, after the regular screening window of more than 2 weeks in the future, it will not be a problem for the total box office to exceed 25 billion.

Except for the China region, the total box office revenue of "Angels of the Thunderbolt" in North America reached 17 billion Chinese dollars in four weeks, and except for these two largest box offices, the total box office of the rest of the world reached 15 billion Chinese dollars. In this way, " The global box office of Thunderbolt Angel has exceeded 55 billion, becoming Ning Sheng's another movie with a box office of over 50 billion.

As for the final income of Xingtong Studio, after the film is screened in various cinemas around the world, the subsequent DVD distribution income is not counted, and the 8% share of the theater line is deducted, and the remaining [-] million production costs are deducted. For publicity and distribution costs, the studio will roughly earn about [-] million in revenue based on the proportion of [-] million invested.

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