Early Sunday morning, the waitresses in the mansion on the mountainside of Brentwood Heights were a little nervous.

I was frightened by the movie last night.

Just telling the story, "Soul Conjuring 3: Blood Moon" doesn't have much special features, it's a typical high-concept horror movie.

After being approached by the FBI, Ed Allen successfully carried out ghost hunting in a nearby resident family, which was recognized. Then the plot entered a small town surrounded by ghosts.

According to the only Reverend Bill Joester who escaped from the town, on a haunted night, many people in the town who did not believe in the existence of ghosts in their lives experienced the most horrifying night of their lives that night. The next day, everyone wanted to escape, but found that the town was covered by thick fog. Many people drove out and drove their cars until they were out of gas, and they just circled around the town.

What's more serious is that there are still people who die.

When the neighbor heard the gunshot, he went to check it out. First, he found the body of underground abortion doctor Mark Coles on the sofa in the living room. The doctor's wife and two children were hacked to death with a knife. Pastor Bill Joest, who knew some common sense of psychics, judged that Dr. Coles should have been possessed by evil spirits, and woke up after killing his wife and children, and swallowed the gun and committed suicide due to guilt.

It was found that they could not escape, and the residents of the town tried to save themselves, but the result was ineffective.

More and more people were killed by evil spirits in various ways in the following nights. Finally, at the suggestion of Pastor Joest, everyone hid in the church in the town and barely resisted the invasion of the evil spirits.

However, blindly hiding cannot solve the problem.

After three days of persistence, Pastor Joest took a holy cross in the church and tried again during the day, and finally escaped successfully this time.

The city government where the town was located did not believe this at first, and sent several waves of police and rescue teams into the town, but no one could get out of it anymore. Everyone finally realized the seriousness of the matter and found the famous Warren couple.

The Warren and his wife joined forces with the supporting characters who appeared in the Conjuring Movie Universe series to cooperate with the local government and the church to launch a war of humans and ghosts to rescue the town.

In the end, of course, it was victory that defeated evil.

At the same time, the truth was found out.

The cause of the incident was that underground abortion doctor Mark Coles buried too many abortions in the woods where the resentment of the abortions gathered. A large number of ghosts gathered, triggering the terrifying blood moon. Under the stimulation of the blood moon, many ghosts that should have naturally dissipated condensed into evil ghosts, and some sleeping evil spirits also woke up under the summoning of the blood moon, which eventually caused the terrifying incident of dozens of people in the town.

The war between Warren and his wife and everyone can be called a life-long death.

The turning point was that the abortion girl Camilla, who was at the beginning, bravely stood up, and influenced the most ferocious ghost baby that arose from her, causing the most difficult ghost baby army to lose its dominance like a bee swarm to collapse. The Warren and his wife then formed a circle of encirclements with tens of thousands of volunteer coins temporarily raised, blocking all kinds of evil ghosts in Dr. Coles' clinic, and then using the weapons made by the holy water and volunteer coins to "purify".

The 120-minute thrilling excitement, in one sentence, is that the Warren and his wife fought against the ghosts in the town and won the victory.

Standard high concept model.

However, the thrilling ups and downs shown in the plot of the film made all viewers' hearts beat faster.

The girls who watched the movie together last night, even though they finally squeezed into a big bed to comfort each other, some people still had nightmares. Even after resting for a night, after getting up early, all kinds of thrilling scenes in the film still inevitably emerged in their minds.

Inside the manor's villa.

Lily Farville absent-mindedly divided the stack of newspapers today and put them into the restaurant where Chen Qing was dining. She came to the kitchen herself to check the progress of breakfast production. She unexpectedly found that the two waitresses who watched the movie last night were leaning against the kitchen counter while the other people were busy talking. She looked forward and found that there were a small pile of coins poured out of a piggy bank next to them, and they were picking and choosing.

One of the girls also judged it in a similar way: "This is not OK, it's too new."

Lily Farville only felt a group of crows flying past his forehead.

We are all highly educated people!

However, after complaining, at the invitation of the two women, she couldn't help but lean over and pick and choose, and chose two coins that she thought were neither new nor old and put into her uniform's chest pocket.

Finding excuses secretly.

I am not superstitious. Anyway, I don’t have a heavy penis in my pocket, so I might be able to use it when it can be used.

It’s just a bit regretful. It would be great if there was a sword inlaid with the coins of the wish in the movie last night. Wearing glasses that wiped the tears of the newborn baby, holding the wish-power sword in his hand, no matter what the hell, it would go down with one sword and be wiped out.

Um.

Of course this is purely an entertainment idea, I am a person with higher education.

After roughly turning around and leaving the kitchen, Lily Farville came to an office dedicated to the waitresses in the villa and found Christy Russom sitting at the large desk by the window, looking at something carefully in front of the computer screen. He found Lily appeared, Christy's little hand holding the mouse was about to move, but Farville snatched it and then leaned over.

The computer desktop is the page of the eBay auction website.

This is also an e-commerce website invested in by the Westeros system, mainly focusing on second-hand retail.

Of course, this is not the key.

The key is the search entry displayed on the page, the Volunteer Coin.

It seems that everyone is thinking about this today.

Christie felt a little embarrassed, but since Lily saw it, she still explained: "I'm just a little curious," and pointed to the popular keywords next to her: "Look, in recent days, the number one ranked first is the coin of the Wanli, and the number one ranked second is the long sword of the Wanli, ha, it's so interesting."

Lily didn't make any jokes, pulled the chair and checked it out, and commented: "These are fake at first glance, either too new or too old... Well, this, the long sword of Volunteer, there are so many people who buy it. Are they all fools? It's so expensive... Hey, the tears of newborn babies are there?"

Christie nodded and said, "I just saw a report on the Igret portal that an obstetric nurse in Chicago secretly collected tears from a newborn baby and was fired after being found."

"Unlucky guy."

"And," Christie said, simply switching the page, coming to the Igrit portal, searching for it, and soon opening a news story: "Look, Miami, Florida, is also an underground abortion doctor. After watching the movie on Friday, he didn't dare to go home, so he ran to the church to confess. The pastor finally drove him away, and then changed a big box of coins to spread it at home like a nerve, and drove his wife and children away, saying that he was worried about being possessed."

Lily heard Christie say it and quickly browsed the article, and said with a smile: "Look at the article, the last sentence, the most terrifying anti-abortion movie in Hollywood, I think it's right. I used to... Anyway, if I have a baby in the future, I will have to give birth no matter what, and I don't dare to have an abortion."

Christie nodded in a very similar way.

The two continued to browse the information about "Soul Conjuring 3" on the Internet. They had been staying in China with Chen Qing before. After returning here and reading the news, they found that the topic of this movie has been so popular in recent days. And the title of "Hollywood's most terrifying anti-abortion movie" was not originally the original article, but it turned out to be a title of the Washington Post that day around, and it was quickly recognized and became popular.

Abortion has always been a very sensitive topic in the United States.

It can be imagined that for a long time in the future, anyone who has watched this movie will inevitably have a strong psychological shadow before thinking about the horrible and incomplete ghost baby in the movie. Therefore, a conservative bishop of Alabama even publicly called on believers to lead their families to watch "Summoning 3", saying that it can have a good "educational significance".

In addition, the various ghosts, coins, yin and yang glasses in the video have also become popular discussions on the Internet, and even searches on online retail websites.

The two women who just returned from China quickly thought of the point of the matter.

This movie is so popular that the box office should not be worse than "The Ghost Record"?

Query it.

Sure enough, first of all, the media has a comprehensive reputation. "Soul Conjuring 3" has created the highest series, reaching 9.3 points, an absolute classic level.

The comments of famous film critic Roger Albert are the most representative. The critic praised "Soul Conjuring 3" "Just like George Romero's definition of zombie movies, "Soul Conjuring 3" redefines Hollywood horror movies. Many of these elements will become the object of imitation for subsequent Hollywood horror movies'.

The two girls recalled it, it was indeed the case.

The previous Hollywood horror movies, even the most terrifying "Ghost Exorcist", did not have as many novel settings as in "Soul Conjuring 3".

Hollywood's "Variety Show" magazine compared "Soul Conjuring 3" to the "Super War" in the Soul Conjuring Cinema Universe. This is not to say that the plot is similar, but the film clearly plays a role in connecting the entire Soul Conjuring Cinema Universe, allowing the series to repeat itself in a mediocre way, but instead completes a transformation, and will be more mature and interesting in the future.

The box office of the film is even better.

The scale of screen opening in North America was 3,354 yuan, and the box office revenue on the first day reached 15.56 million US dollars. On Saturday and Halloween just now, the revenue increased to 18.12 million US dollars again. In just two days, the cumulative box office of the film has reached 33.68 million US dollars. It is expected that the box office of the first three days is expected to be between 46 million and 47 million US dollars, while the box office of the first seven days may exceed 60 million US dollars.

All relevant data hit series highs.

In comparison, the box office of "Soul Conjuring 2" was only $46.13 million in the first seven-day box office, which is only equivalent to the three-day earnings of "Soul Conjuring 3". The previous phenomenon-level "Ghost Record" had a box office of $59.63 million in the first week.

However, the industry also generally predicts that although the first week will exceed 60 million, it is very difficult for "Soul Conjuring 3" to hit a $200 million local box office like "Ghost Record", because the timing is not good. The Thanksgiving schedule is coming soon. Under fierce competition, "Soul Conjuring 3" will be difficult to go long-term, and the total local box office is most likely between 150 million and 200 million.

On the other hand, compared with the $25 million medium-to-low production cost of "Soul Conjuring 2", "Soul Conjuring 3" doubled its budget cost to $50 million due to the use of a large number of CG special effects. Coupled with the same rising publicity, the local box office will definitely exceed $129 million of "Soul Conjuring 2", but if the box office revenue is calculated, the gross profit return of "Soul Conjuring 3" will be worse than "Soul Conjuring 2".

However, globally, in terms of the quality of "Soul Conjuring 3", the overall return is still very promising to exceed "Soul Conjuring 2".

In any case, as commented by Variety Magazine, the key significance of "Soul Conjuring 3" for the entire Soul Conjuring Cinema Universe series is not the box office, but just like the "Super Editing War" of the DC Movie Universe series, it has completed a transformation and redefinition in all aspects, making many viewers who have become aesthetically fatigued in the series re-interest.

Calculated in this way, the investment of 50 million US dollars is definitely not a loss.

You know, since the release of "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice", it is well known that the box office of the entire DC movie universe has increased significantly. "Soul Conjuring 3" is likely to play the same role for the Soul Conjuring Cinema Universe.

The two women looked through the information and thought that "Soul Conjuring 3" was a project produced by their own company, and they inevitably felt a sense of empathy.

Just as they were gathered together and muttered, the female guard Catherine Elga, who had also been with Chen Qing and Lin Su for a long time, came in and reminded the two women that Chen Qing had finished her morning exercise and had already gone to take a shower and change clothes. They should go to the restaurant to wait for their service. Then the two women got up.

After leaving the office, Lily couldn't help it. She took out the two coins she had just selected and showed them to her companions, and generously gave them one to Christie.

Christie liked it very much, and put it in her chest pocket like an amulet.

When he arrived at the restaurant, Sung Tae-hee was already sitting here, looking through the newspapers Lily had prepared earlier, and greeted him. Lily Fawell glanced at him and found that Sung Tae-hee was also reading a report about "Soul Conjuring 3", titled "Soul Conjuring 3", "Ghost Record" fell out of favor, and may not be able to break the 200 million threshold this week'.

Lily Farville remembered similar reports he had just read, and was a little regretful.

As of the fifth box office week on October 30, "The Legend of the Ghost" earned $16.71 million, with a cumulative box office of $185.96 million, which is only 14 million away from the 200 million box office threshold. It just so happens that it is another Halloween week. Not only has the official increased its publicity efforts again, but the fans of "The Legend of the Ghost" have also launched support activities to hit the 200 million threshold.

Unfortunately, "Soul Conjuring 3" is really too strong, not to mention that two other new films were launched last Friday.

According to the box office estimates on Friday and Saturday, in the sixth week of release, "The Ghost Record" may have fallen by about 35%, which seems not very deep, but considering the market environment where the demand for horror movies increased during Halloween week, if it weren't for "The Conjuring 3", let alone a 35% decline, "The Ghost Record"'s box office decline was likely to fall backwards.

The expected decline is 35%. The box office of "Ghost Record" is expected to be between 10 million and 11 million US dollars this week. After a full week, the difference between the 200 million threshold will be about four or five million US dollars.

It is obvious that the film will definitely exceed 200 million next week, but as a phenomenal horror movie, it is a pity that it cannot break through an important threshold during Halloween, which is a great regret. Moreover, after being squeezed by "Soul Conjuring 2", the media also expects that after the threshold of "Ghost Records" will exceed the 200 million threshold, the total local box office of "Ghost Records" will probably shrink by at least 10 million US dollars.

However, it is not a pity whether it is the official or the movie fans.

Family!

Chen Qing, who had changed into home clothes, soon appeared in the restaurant.

Lily and the other two helped deliver breakfast, and they couldn't help but talk about the movies they watched last night. Christie also took the initiative to talk to Chen Qing about the film's super high reputation and excellent box office.

Chen Qing’s feelings were similar to theirs.

Although, I was scared to death last night. However, in addition, compared to others, Chen Qing's expression was a bit strange when she saw the newspaper saying "Soul Conjuring 3" redefining Hollywood horror films.

Actually, it's not new at all.

Although there is no trace of his own boss on the list of main creators in this movie, Chen Qing can be sure that Simon's intervention in the script must be very deep.

Because many elements in the film are completely common routines in oriental ghost movies.
To be continued...