From being selected last year to now, in more than a year, this debut work by Li Youhu has a feeling that it has been launched for the girls of the National Style Art Troupe.

Because of Li Youhu's luck, the seven girls including Wei Cancai in the screening hall were somewhat complicated.

I hope that this Chinese-language film from the motherland will be successful, but I will inevitably not hope that it will be too successful. With these thoughts, the girls' attitude towards watching the film is inevitably more contradictory than other audience members on the scene, and they look forward to it with some scrutiny.

However, when the first wonderful fighting scene of the film ended, the audience's spontaneous applause sounded in the screening hall, and a little pride suddenly became.

The mentality changed again.

In any case, it is ultimately something to be proud of for a Chinese-language movie to be recognized overseas. What's more, they have received a lot of similar applause during the tour over the past six months.

Then it was a relatively pure movie viewing.

Follow the story told by Weiwei, shuttle through the deep house, Gobi, grassland, bamboo sea, children in the world, love, hate, and love.

During this period, the audience burst into applause again, which made everyone related to the film at the scene feel confident. Ella Deutschman, the president of Gaomen Films, who came to attend the premiere in person, also specifically explained his assistant, remembering that tomorrow's promotional press must focus on the on-site feedback of the audience's spontaneous applause.

At eight o'clock in the evening.

The two-hour screening ended, and the last wave of applause from the audience standing up, the creator began to take the stage to receive an interview. Even Martin Scorsese, who came to support the show due to favor, took the initiative to pass the microphone and asked how the scenes of Ang Lee's two protagonists, Bamboo Sea duel were filmed and whether CG special effects were used.

After learning that the only "special effect" had just wiped the wire, Scorsese was quite surprised and expressed his hope to make an appointment with Ang Lee to discuss in depth. Ang Lee also agreed.

This conversation was naturally recorded by many media on the scene.

Because the interaction scene was so enthusiastic, the communication time that was scheduled for half an hour was delayed for more than 40 minutes before the premiere finally ended.

Next is the after-party officially arranged by Daenerys.

This time, Li Youhu was unable to ask for an invitation letter to seven friends. Of course, she had to attend and took the time to say goodbye. The girls were very sorry for this and had to leave.

Instead of going to Li Youhu's residence, he returned to the apartment building that Simon specially purchased for them in the Central City.

Because they are in the rest period, there are also some other girls in Manhattan.

Instead of disturbing the others, the seven girls gathered in Wei Cancai's apartment in a tacit way, turned on the TV, and found snacks.

The topic is still about the movie I just watched.

"To be honest, I think it's great. The scenery is so beautiful and the action scenes are wonderful. However, overall, there is not much feeling," Su Fengnian, holding a pack of potato chips, spoke first, and after saying that, he did not forget to add: "I don't mean sour, it's really like this."

"Your feeling is right, I feel that way too." Ouyang Shuli, who was holding a fruit plate next to him, said, and looked at Wei Zhancai again: "Jiancai, what do you think?"

Wei Huachao, who had not grabbed the sofa again and could only sit on the carpet, glanced at Ouyang Shuli, who was his favorite single sofa in his usual daily life, and said, "This shows that your aesthetic level is too low and you are only suitable for watching popcorn movies."

"Tsk, then tell us what's the good thing?"

Wei Hangei simply ignored him arrogantly.

Yu Xuanniao, who has a weak presence in this small circle for some reason, said weakly: "Actually, Fengnian just said that the scenery is beautiful and the action scenes are wonderful. Isn't this the advantage of this movie? People often only watch popcorn movies, and it's hard to leave any impression on people."

Another Yin Caiwei also said, "I think so too."

Gu Yaotiao, who happened to hold a box of popcorn, waited for everyone to finish talking, and suddenly changed the topic: "I wonder if Simon will appear at the Yuxing Party?"

Chen Xingwei, who was next to Gu Yaotiao, grabbed a handful of popcorn from Gu Yaotiao's box and joked: "Why, do you miss a man?"

Gu Yaotiao's face turned slightly red, but she didn't hide it: "I think about it, don't you?"

"Don't let you two go out of order."

Wei Zhanbiao interrupted and glanced at Yin Caiwei and Yu Xuanniao.

At this time, five of the seven girls in the room had been eaten by a man, but Yin Caiwei and Yu Xuanniao had not been occupied yet. These things are not secrets within the Guofeng Art Troupe, but they are not suitable for random discussions and jokes.

However, since the topic was exposed by Gu Yaotiao, the atmosphere was inevitably a bit subtle.

So after more than ten minutes of gathering, everyone dispersed, leaving only Wei Huachao and Gu Yaotiao.

They are a couple.

No words all night.

Early the next morning, Gu Yaotiao woke up and found that there was no sign of Wei Huacai by his side. After getting dressed and washed, he went to the living room and found Wei Huacai was lying on the sofa and reading a stack of newspapers.

He roughly knew what his partner was reading. Gu Yaotiao also drew a newspaper, looked through it, and gave up quickly. Her English ability has not reached the level of Wei Canchao's newspaper reading, so she could understand it even if she forced herself to read it. But why did she have to do that?

So he asked directly: "How is the evaluation?"

"Very good," Wei Chancai said, and read a paragraph to the film review in the New York Times: "Li Chenggong broke through the mode limitations of the unique martial arts films in Oriental China and created a gorgeous, poetic, romantic and in-depth film. The beautiful natural scenery in the film is like a scroll falling from reality. The creative action scenes are both incredible and natural and smooth."

Gu Yaotie listened beside her and tilted her head: "This evaluation is too high."

"It's a good movie," Wei Chancai continued to flip through the newspaper in his hand and said, "All the articles I just read are compliments, and he also predicts that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" will become the most popular Chinese-language movie in North America."

"How much box office can it be sold?"

"Who knows this, there must be tens of millions."

"It seems that the cost is $15 million, right?"

"It's not just North America, Europe, and China. In short, it must be very profitable."

While the two girls were discussing in their apartment, on a new day, media public opinion about "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was also spread rapidly. After all, more than 100 media from various platforms such as TV, newspapers, and the Internet were invited at the premiere last night. After all, as long as the public pays a little attention to the movie information, they cannot escape the news brainwashing of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

"The new work of the Oscar nominee "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" premiered in New York, and the audience applauded spontaneously many times and received a warm response."

"Martin Scorsese asked Ang Lee for advice at the premiere and asked how to shoot the wonderful stunts of the film."

"Jack Cheng and Jet Lee, two Chinese male stars, attended the event to support the film."

"Roger Albert praised "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" as an self-transcendence for Ang Lee."

"The background is deciphered, the heroine of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" comes from the Guofeng Art Troupe."

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In just one day, many people knew that an excellent oriental movie was about to be released. The film reached a super high film score of 9.7 after reviewing from various media, which also made more people have the idea of ​​buying tickets to enter the venue.

However, after the public opinion fermented on Thursday, when Friday arrived, some viewers discovered again that the film had only arranged 143 screens in several core cities such as New York and Los Angeles.

The popularity is so high that many people cannot buy tickets as soon as possible.

It's a scam.

This is naturally also a deliberate arrangement for Daenerys Entertainment.

In the final analysis, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is an art film after all. After so many years of exploration, Hollywood has already summarized a progressive long-term distribution model for the release of art films that first preview and then gradually expand the scale of paintings.

Although awards season is the best time for this distribution model, it is also effective in other periods.

Simon personally knows the box office potential of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". It is not a problem to interfere in person like some other films before and directly spread it on a large scale. However, the reason why he did not do this this time is mainly to maintain the fixed distribution model of art films.

One more important reason is the intention to gradually let go of Daenerys Entertainment, which has made the company more and more run itself.

To achieve this goal, rules must be established.

Otherwise, if you think that any video can be sold well, it will break the distribution rules and the upward performance will be the one that will lose sooner or later.

On the other hand, Daenerys Entertainment's current strong distribution strength can also accurately and flexibly adjust the subsequent release strategy of the film, just like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". Since the reputation has been confirmed, it only takes one week to preview the screen, and the screening of more than 1,000 yuan can be arranged in the next week, and even more will be added quickly in the subsequent release, ultimately allowing the film's box office potential to be maximized.

Simon did not attend the after-party at the New York premiere of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" like Gu Yaotiao speculated.

On July 23, Erin Lauder gave birth to a boy again, who happened to be Simon's 10th child. His name had long been raised, Noah Westeros.

Next, only Lin Su is left.

Because Erin was emotionally unstable before and after giving birth, Simon was with her for the next few days, and she had no time to pay attention to other women and even turned down a lot of work.

Hollywood is still paying close attention to the 1997 summer season entering the second half.

The key is naturally the box office.

With the release of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" on July 25, the box office just over the past week from July 18 to July 24 was also released.

Roland Emmerich, who started painting on July 4, still leads the heavyweight "One Power Day".

After the first week of 91.07 million box office hit a record for film opening in 1997, the box office of "One Power Day" in the second week was even better than "Tornado" due to its hot reputation and lack of competition, with a drop of only 23%, and the next week's earnings were still as high as $70.12 million. In the past third week, "One Power Day"'s decline slightly expanded to 33%, and closed at another $46.98 million.

In three weeks, the cumulative box office of the $90 million bombshell quickly exceeded 200 million, reaching $208.17 million.

Unstoppable.

The second place on the list is finally no longer the other films of Daenerys Entertainment, but a new Fox Film film "Rebirth" on July 18.

This is a comic-adapted movie.

It tells the story of the hero Al Simmons who signed a contract with the devil after being framed and died, and was reborn in the world and started revenge. It is obvious that the creativity is similar to the Ghost Knight under Marvel.

Fox has invested a $50 million production budget for "Reborn", which can be regarded as an important attempt in recent years in the comic-adapted movies that have tried to follow DC. In addition, the male protagonist of "Reborn" is a black man, and it also sets the gimmick of the first black protagonist's comic-adapted movie.

Relying on 2,762 yuan to open the screen, "The Rebirth" won a box office of US$25.31 million in the first week.

Obviously not meeting expectations.

The museums have not even achieved the best-selling level of over 10,000 yuan. In addition, they have a bad reputation, even if the start is pretty good, the local box office will probably stop at around 50 million US dollars.

The third place on the list is Disney's comedy "No More" and is also a new film that started last week.

Simply put, this is a male comedy style story of "The End of the Road", which tells the story of Nick, the male protagonist starring Tim Robbins, drove away from home in anger after his wife betrayed. After being robbed by Martin Lawrence, he accidentally partnered with the other party and started a crazy journey.

With a production cost of $25 million, "No More" won the box office of $17.55 million in the first week of painting.
To be continued...