Chapter 454 (1/2)

Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, ”farewell to the piano”, produced by gaomen pictures, opened on December 6 with 21 screens in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and other major North American cities.

The film, which won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival in September, has been highly praised by the media since it was released. The comprehensive score of the film is as high as 9.2, making it another excellent work with high scores next to toy story at the end of the year.

Roger Albert, a well-known American film critic, described the film as ”the most extraordinary and unforgettable film I've ever seen.”.

In the first week's screening, ”farewell to the piano” earned US $1.55 million in seven days, with an average of US $73000.

Another prize winning movie released at the same time as farewell to the piano, Grand Canyon, is produced by Fox pictures and directed by Lawrence Kasdan, a well-known Hollywood screenwriter and director. It tells the story of racial conflict caused by a black man's straying into a white community.

”Grand Canyon” has only two smaller screen spots, which is entirely for the nomination of the award season. In the first week, it won $190000 at the box office with its two screens.

However, as an award-winning film, ”Grand Canyon” has only an average film review reputation, with a comprehensive score of 7.6 points. Compared with 9.2 points of ”farewell to the piano”, it is obviously difficult to make a difference in the award season.

December 13, Friday.

Although in theory, this week is still the intermission of the two schedules, according to the scale of the films, the Christmas file is opened ahead of time.

Because this week, Steven Spielberg's ”Captain Hawk” was released, along with Paramount Pictures's ”assassinating Kennedy.”.

Columbia Pictures has great expectations for captain hawk, and the final production budget of the film has reached 70 million US dollars, with a screen size of 2197.

However, with the beginning of the film, ”Captain Hawk” reputation is directly destroyed, the media rating all the way down to 2.8 points.

”Variety” magazine criticized ”Captain Hawk” for being ”disorderly and unrestrained.” Newsweek also made a scathing comment that watching ”Captain Hawk” was like ”watching an 80000 pound dwarf dancing.”.

After three days, Captain hawk's first weekend box office was only $13.52 million, far less than Columbia Pictures expected.

In the original time and space, the North American box office of ”Captain Hawk” finally exceeded 100 million US dollars. Relying on the global total box office of more than 200 million US dollars and subsequent revenue, the film barely recovered the cost for Columbia Pictures.

However, this time, this bad reputation ”blockbuster” will not have such good luck.

Because the following week, another high-profile DC movie, the universe's new movie ”flash man”, will be released soon.

In the original time and space, the assassination of Kennedy, which was painted at the same time as captain hawk, should have been produced by Warner. However, Warner gave up the project at the beginning because most of Warner's attention at the end of this year was focused on the flash.

Compared with ”Captain Hawk”, the situation of ”assassinating Kennedy” is much better. This slightly different historical drama won an excellent media rating of 8.3 points after it was painted.

However, in terms of box office, the opening screen size of ”assassinating Kennedy” was 1164, and the box office in the three days of the first weekend finally reached $5.22 million, which was not satisfactory.

You know, because of the success of Oliver Stone's previous films and the joining of Kevin Costner in this film, the production budget of ”assassinating Kennedy” is as high as $40 million. Although it's not up to the standard of Captain hawk, with a budget of 40 million US dollars, this era is definitely a big production.

The box office revenue of $5.22 million in the three days of the first weekend, compared with the production budget of $40 million and the publicity expenditure of about $20 million, if the film can't go out of an excellent long-term, paramount may be fired again.

On the original time line, the box office of ”assassinating Kennedy” was very good, and it became one of the big winners of the 1992 Oscar.

But this time, no one is sure.

It's also because of the upcoming ”flash” on December 20.

Such an eye-catching blockbuster stands in front of us. Other films in the same period have a tragic feeling.

The first two works of DC movie universe are really too strong.

What's more, according to Warner Bros. sources, ”flash” has a stunning effect.

After the last two months of intensive carpet publicity, the Los Angeles Premiere of flash was held on December 18.

Because of his confidence in the film, Warner raised the premiere ceremony to the same standard as the summer film Batman: The Dark Knight, and still chose to hold it in the holy citizen Hall of Los Angeles, which can accommodate 2000 people.

Domay point manor.

Around five o'clock in the afternoon, Janet finally took care of her make-up and walked downstairs with AB and her skirt.Simon, who is waiting in the living room downstairs, looks around on the sofa. The woman is wearing a set of wine red silk dress that she has always liked, with black high heels, shaggy blonde hair, and the skin on her shoulders. Because of her superior care during pregnancy, her hair looks white and moist, which makes people feel an impulse to bite.

Yingying floats to Simon. Janet bends down beside the sofa and says with a smile, ”little boy, do you want a bite?”

This kind of tone, just like at the beginning.

Simon smiles, looks up, kisses Janet, and says, ”let's go.”

”Well, I'll say goodbye to Moore first.”

Janet goes to the living room, next to the crib with French windows. Deborah, the d-girl, is watching over some little guy who is sleeping on the crib.

Compared with the inevitable ugly appearance when he was just born, in two weeks, the little guy has recovered the delicate appearance that a baby should have, and the shadow of Simon and Janet can be seen between his eyebrows.

Together in the crib looked at the child for a moment, and told the abd three girls, Simon and Janet just drove to the city.

In the evening, Los Angeles was a bit congested. It was not until 5:40 that Simon and Simon arrived outside the sacred citizen hall in the center of the city.

The premiere starts at six o'clock, an hour before it is red carpet time. Although it is not as big as the Oscar, the lively battle here is no less than the Oscar ceremony.

Simon and his wife had just got off at the entrance of the red carpet when they heard cheers of surprise.

Simon, with a smile on his face, nodded a little to the media and fans on both sides, and walked into the auditorium with Janet's feet.

After taking a picture in front of the photo wall, Warner Bros. CEO Terry Semel has already met him.

Everyone greets to enter the backstage of the auditorium, where the stars are shining.

Clint Eastwood, Barbara Streisand, Cher, Don Johnson, Melanie Griffith and many other superstars are here today.

Of course, Adam Baldwin, Valerie Gallino, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and other leading creators of Batman Series will not be absent, and magic woman's famik Jason, Linda Hamilton and Joanna Cassidy are all here today.