Between the gratitude and Christmas time, "Piano Love" produced by Gaomen Pictures officially started previews in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and other places on December 6 at a scale of 21 screens.

This work, which won the Golden Lion Award in the Venice Film Festival in September, received almost one-sided praise after its release. The film's comprehensive score was as high as 9.2 points, becoming another high-scoring masterpiece second only to "Toy Story" at the end of the year.

The well-known American film critic Roger Albert commented without hesitation about the film as ‘the most unusual and unforgettable film I’ve ever seen’.

After the first week of preview, "Don't Love with Piano" finally earned $1.55 million in seven days, and the museums reached $73,000.

Another award-winning film "The Grand Canyon", released at the same time as "The Piano", was produced by Fox Films and directed by famous Hollywood screenwriter and director Lawrence Casdan. It tells the story of a black man's racial conflict caused by a white community. The film only has two fewer screen previews, and is entirely in order to obtain the nomination for the awards season. It won a box office of $190,000 for two screens that opened in the first week.

However, as a winning film, the reputation of this movie is only average, with a comprehensive score of only 7.6 points. Compared with the 9.2 points of "Piano Love", it is obviously difficult to make a difference in the awards ceremony season.

Friday, December 13.

Although this week is theoretically an interval between two major schedules, if we look at the scale of the released video, the Christmas schedule will be considered to be started in advance.

Because this week, Steven Spielberg's "Captain Hawk" was officially released, and the paintings of "Assassination of Kennedy" produced by Paramount Pictures were also available.

Columbia Pictures has given great expectations for "Captain Hawke", and the final production budget of the film also reached US$70 million, with a screen opening of 2,197 yuan.

However, with the opening of the film, Captain Hawk's reputation collapsed, and the media score fell to 2.8 points. Variety magazine criticized the film for being "chaotic and uncontrollable". Newsweek even harshly commented that watching Captain Hawk was like "watching an 80,000-pound dwarf dancing."

After three days of painting, Captain Hawke's first weekend's box office ended up being only $13.52 million, far below Columbia Pictures' expectations.

In the original time and space, the box office of "Captain Hawke" in North America finally exceeded 100 million US dollars. Relying on the global box office of more than 200 million US dollars and subsequent revenue, this film barely allowed Columbia Pictures to recover its costs.

However, this time, this blockbuster with a bad reputation will not have such good luck again.

Because in the following week, another new film "The Flash" in the highly anticipated DC Cinema Universe will be released soon.

In Simon's memory, Oliver Stone's new film should have been produced by Warner, but because Warner focused most of the focus on "The Flash" at the end of this year, he gave up this project.

Compared to "Captain Hawke", "Assassination of Kennedy" is much better. This slightly alternative historical drama film received an excellent media rating of 8.3 after the opening.

In terms of box office, the opening screen of "Assassination of Kennedy" was 1,164 yuan, and the box office in the first three days ended at $5.22 million, which is unsatisfactory.

You know, because of the success of Oliver Stone's previous films and the joining of Kevin Costner in this movie, the production budget of "Assassination of Kennedy" is as high as 40 million US dollars. Although it has not reached the level of "Captain Hawke", the budget of 40 million US dollars is definitely considered a big production.

The box office revenue of $5.22 million in three days on the first weekend. Compared with the production budget of $40 million and the publicity and expenditure of about $20 million, if the film cannot make an excellent long-term trend in the future, Paramount may be fired again.

On the original timeline, the box office of "Assassination of Kennedy" was very good.

He also became one of the biggest winners of the 1992 Oscars.

However, this time, no one is sure.

Also because, on December 20, "The Flash" will be released soon.

Such a highly anticipated heavyweight bombshell is ahead, and other films in the same period all have a tragic feeling.

The first two works of DC Cinema Universe are really too strong.

Moreover, according to internal news from Warner Bros., the effect of "The Flash" is also amazing.

After intensive publicity in the past two months, the Los Angeles premiere of "The Flash" was held on December 18.

Because of his confidence in the film, Warner mentioned the premiere to the same specification as the summer "Batman: The Dark Knight", and still chose to be in the Grand Auditorium of the Holy Citizens in Los Angeles, which is enough to accommodate 2,000 people.

Dumei Point Manor.

At around five o'clock in the afternoon, Janet finally took care of her makeup and walked downstairs with her skirt in her arms.

Simon, who was in the living room downstairs, turned his head on the sofa and looked over. The woman was wearing a burgundy silk dress that she had always liked very much. She had small black high heels, loose fluffy blonde hair, and the exposed skin on her shoulders looked fair and moist because of her pampering appearance during pregnancy, which made people unable to help but have the urge to bite.

Yingying floated to Simon's side, and Janet bent down beside the sofa and smiled, "Little boy, do you want to take a bite?"

This tone is the same as before.

Simon smiled on his face, looked up and kissed Janet who was approaching and said, "Let's go."

"Well, I'll say goodbye to Mel first."

Janet said as she walked to the crib near the floor-to-ceiling window of the living room. Deborah, a D-girl, was guarding a little guy lying on the crib.

Compared to the inevitable ugly appearance when she was just born, in two weeks, the little guy has returned to the delicate appearance that the baby should have, and the shadows of Simon and Janet can be seen between his eyebrows.

After looking at the baby next to the crib for a moment, and then explaining to the three ABD girls, Simon and Janet rushed to the city.

Los Angeles was somewhat congested in the evening. It was not until 5:40 that Simon and his men arrived outside the Holy Citizens Auditorium in the city center. The premiere began at 6:00. The previous hour was the red carpet time. Although it was not as large as the Oscars, the lively scene here was no less than the Oscars.

Simon and the others had just got off the car at the entrance of the red carpet, and cheers of surprise came to their ears.

Unexpectedly, he wanted to steal the limelight from the protagonist's scene. Simon smiled on his face and nodded slightly to the media and movie fans on both sides, and entered the auditorium without pausing.

After taking photos in front of the photo wall, Warner Bros. Pictures CEO Terry Semer had already come over.

Everyone greeted him into the backstage of the auditorium, which was also full of stars.

Clint Eastwood, Barbara Streisand, Cher, Don Johnson, Melanie Griffith and many other stars came to support the show.

Of course, the main creators such as Adam Baldwin, Valerie Gollino, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins in the "Batman" series will naturally not be absent. The main creators such as Famick Jansen, Linda Hamilton and Joanna Cassidy in the "Wonder Woman" are also here.

In comparison, the director of "The Flash" George Cosmatus, the male lead Jason Jederick and the female lead Robin White seem a little inconspicuous among the big names.

Of course, everyone understands that considering the popularity of Adam Baldwin and Valerie Gollino before the Batman series, the "unremarkable" of several main creators will be completely changed in the next few weeks.

After a brief greeting and socializing, everyone began to enter the auditorium lobby at six o'clock.

After everyone sat down and the host gave a speech, the screening officially began.

The first "The Flash" story mainly tells the origins of this superhero.

Simon doesn't like the old-fashioned narrative pattern that starts from childhood. Therefore, the original "Batman: The Moment of War" directly started the story from Bruce Wayne becoming a superhero, and the facts proved that this was very successful.

The late Wonder Woman is also not intended to involve Diana Prince's childhood.

However, the story of this "The Flash" must return to some kind of "meaning".

Similar to the murder of Bruce Wayne's parents in the alley, the shadow of the childhood of Barry Allen, the Flash witnessed his mother's murder as a child, is also a topic that the superhero could not bypass.

However, out of an instinctive resistance to childhood narratives, Simon still turned Barry Allen's childhood experience into a plot wedge that opens.

By the time the film begins, Barry Allen is already an adult.

The story continues most of the basic settings of the comics, and Barry Allen, an adult, is a physical evidence technician at the Central City Police Department.

Of course, it is essential to adapt to the changes in the movie version.

The general plot of this origin story tells the story of Barry Allen, a police department expert in physical evidence technology, unexpectedly encountered a laboratory accident in a collaboration with Professor Albert Swan. Barry Allen gained the superpowers of the speed in this accident.

However, Professor Swan was paralyzed due to the accident.

Barry Allen told Professor Swan that he had acquired superpowers, trying to find the reason, and at the same time he had to deal with the "climate wizard" who also obtained superpowers because of this accident.

As the plot progresses, Allen successfully defeated and captured the "Climate Wizard", but unexpectedly discovered that he had been trapped in another conspiracy without realizing it.

It turned out that Professor Swan, who was paralyzed on the surface, actually also gained the superpowers of the speed.

However, because of the accusations and difficulties made Professor Swan by all parties after the laboratory accident, the superpowered person felt antisocial.

To sum up, this origin story has three lines in total.

The first is Barry Allen's life experience and childhood, including the unsolved case of his mother's murder and his father who is still in prison.

The second is Barry Allen's superhero attribute decision as the Flash, which was obtained in the confrontation with the Climate Wizard.

The third is the showdown between Barry Allen and his hit rival, Professor Albert Swan, who was the first to win.

The first and third day story lines are actually closely related. Professor Swan is the "murderer" who killed Barry Allen's mother. This counter-lightning unexpectedly returned to the past in a duel with Allen, which created Allen's childhood tragedy.

For the audience in the Grand Hall of the Holy Citizens, the three intertwined story lines are not complicated at all, and are very clear and clear.

However, most people's attention is attracted by the special effects of "The Flash".

The "Superman" series started in 1978, Clark Kent's "special effects" that reversed time around the earth was simply terrible.

However, with the technical support of Daenerys Special Effects, this film not only perfectly shows Barry Allen's high-speed sports scene, but also creates a slow-motion shot similar to the fast silver in the original "X-Men" series in the original space-time.

Of course, the specific effect is not as high as twenty years later. However, in the eyes of viewers of this era, the degree of stunning is no less than the visual impact brought to the audience by the previous two "Batman" series.

When the final battle on the big screen ended and the subtitles rose, suddenly, thousands of viewers in the Sacred Citizens' Auditorium realized that the two-hour screening was over.

Simon has always felt that the most important criterion for evaluating the pros and cons of a movie is to see whether the audience experiences the passage of time during the movie.

If a movie makes the audience see it from the beginning and even forget the cola popcorn in their hands, then it will be difficult for the project to fail.

On the contrary, if a film always makes the audience out of the play, various other thoughts pop up in their minds, or even the idea of ​​giving up watching the movie, then the box office prospects of the movie can be seen.

This "Flash" may not reach the height of two "Batman", but in terms of plot, the smoothness of the work is absolutely even better. In addition, the popularity of the IP "Flash" and the outstanding high-speed special effects of the film, there is basically no possibility of failure.

The subtitles go to the end, and the regular plot eggs.

This time, the Easter Egg appears with the Catwoman played by Valerie Gollino.

This female superhero, who is both righteous and evil, looks tired on the big screen, seems to have experienced battles, and the Catwoman's uniform is damaged.

In Barry Allen's surprised and puzzled eyes, Catwoman didn't say much nonsense, and said bluntly: "Hey, work, I know you're special, so now some guys need your help."

The words ended and the big screen completely went dark.

For core movie fans, just this simple interaction is enough to be exciting.

Of course, the Flash and Catwoman in the comics have had an encounter, but it is so exciting to think about the subsequent story progress.

Even those who don’t know much about comics have watched the first two "Batman" and are full of expectations for the contract of DC superheroes.
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