Chapter 2125: 2125 Media Event
Generally speaking, May and June are the months with the most intense competition for summer vacation slots, and July is obviously also a battleground after the "Independence Day" excavated the Independence Day schedule. But relatively speaking, August is always relatively deserted. One is because after three months of bombardment, the film market has entered a period of fatigue; the other is that August is a holiday for most people—— The real vacation time, leave the city, come to the countryside or the island, away from the hustle and bustle, and enjoy the leisure time. Therefore, August is generally relatively calm.
Of course, August is always a summer holiday season, and compared to other months of the year, it is still very lively.
August this year is a little unusual. The "Sixth Sense of Spirituality" led by Hugo made its debut in the first week of August. There were as many as four films premiered in North America in the same week, and three of them were screened on a scale There are more than 2,200 rooms—in other words, they are more powerful than the "sixth sense"!
Considering the horror film attributes of "The Sixth Sense", even the title of "Hugo Lancaster" is difficult to drive more box office market. The reason is simple, unlike action movies, drama movies or comedy movies, some people just don't like horror movies, or even fear and resist, so they can't go to the cinema no matter what.
Don't forget that when Hugo decided to take the filming of "The Sixth Sense", he almost became the object of ridicule in the United States. Many professionals believed that Hugo was overwhelmed by his arrogance. Although the great success of "The Truman Show" later made people's doubts a lot less, even in the face of the "sixth sense of spirituality", people were cautious and did not dare to speak out. But it is undeniable that people are still not optimistic about the prospect of "sixth sense".
So, this makes the "sixth sense" seem like an easy target.
Paramount's "The. Thomas. Crown. Affair" invited the popular "James Bond" Pierce Brosnan to star in the first week of August, with 2,500 theaters ; The sci-fi comedy "Mystery. Men" created by Universal Pictures at a cost of 70 million hopes to replicate the success of "Men in Black" and chose to release it in 2,300 theaters in the first week of August; Warner Bros. The launch of the cartoon "The Iron Giant (The. Iron. Giant)" is undoubtedly the biggest highlight of this week, with an investment of 70 million, Jennifer Aniston's dubbing, the scale of 2,250 theaters, everything They all look confident.
Faced with so many challenges, the media believes that "The Iron Giant" is the strongest seed choice for this week's championship battle. Although "The Sixth Sense" has a worrying future, relying on Hugo's appeal, it should compete with "Stealing". It was a hard fight for the "Game of Heaven", after all, Pierce is definitely not an opponent to be underestimated. All this makes this week's North American movie box office rankings full of countless highlights.
According to the pre-estimates of the media, "The Iron Giant" is considered to be able to hand over 30 million to 35 million works at the premiere box office, and the premieres of "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" and "Game of Stealing the Sky" The box office results are considered to be around 2,000 to 23 million, and there is bound to be a battle between the two.
This prediction continues the style of the previous "Truman Show". Although the media is not very optimistic about the prospects of the work, considering Hugo's appeal, the prediction is quite pertinent.
The current record for a horror movie opening is two weeks ago with "The Haunting" - directed by "Speed" director Jean de Bont - with a $33 million debut that currently tops the genre Beyond that, only one other horror movie has ever crossed the $25 million threshold -- 1989's "Ghostbusters 2," which debuted at $29 million.
At present, the top three grossing movies in horror movie history are "Jaws" with 260 million US dollars, "Ghostbusters" with 242 million US dollars, and "The Exorcist" with 230 million US dollars. Two million U.S. dollars, this is also the only three horror movies to break the 200 million box office threshold. The three films came from 1975, 1984 and 1973 respectively. It can be seen that the peak period of horror movies has long passed.
From this point of view, the media’s prediction of the premiere box office of "The Sixth Sense" is not only pertinent, but also very tolerant. This forecast data can rank among the top five or even the top five in the list of horror film premiere box office records. three. After repeated lessons, people always add some caution when making predictions about Hugo's works, especially when "The Truman Show" has just created a glorious history.
However, even under such a background, even under the collective encirclement and suppression of three works with larger screening scales, no one dared to challenge Hugo's powerful momentum. "Game of Thrones", "Mysterious Man" and "The Iron Giant" all avoided August 2 and chose to hold their premieres on other days, because the lessons of history have clearly told them: Leaving aside the works, in In terms of the premiere of the movie, no one in Hollywood has the ability to go head-to-head with Hugo, not even Steven Spielberg would make such a choice.
Therefore, on August 2nd, only one work of "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" held its premiere ceremony in the United States!
Nearly 400 reporters from more than 180 media outlets were surrounded. The entrance of the National Theater, such a grand occasion almost makes people return to the Dorothy Chandler Hall on the night of the Oscars. Even when the world premiere of "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" was held, the scale of the scene was huge. That's it, it's amazing.
Many fans who participated in the premiere of the film for the first time were even more dumbfounded by this. They looked at the grand occasion in disbelief and were unable to make any effective response at all. This made the other three works that premiered this week can't help but dry their mouths. Although they have been trying to convince themselves that "the premiere relies on Hugo's appeal, which has no direct connection with the work", but still Difficulty suppressing inner tension and worry.
In fact, even the reporters who came to the scene couldn't help being amazed. This is the "Sixth Sense of the Spirit", not the "Star Wars Prequel", but the lively scene at the scene is not inferior. feel the attraction of Hugo.
Nicholas McKenna walked quickly to the end of the red carpet, looking for his assistant among the crowd, "Hey, Nick, do you have any news?" Nicholas saw someone on the right walking towards him and greeted him with a smile. Wiping the sweat from his forehead, he shook his head, "I don't have any news."
After finishing speaking, he continued to walk forward quickly, but within three steps, another two people walked over together, "Nick, you actually asked the assistant to come over first, and you were late. Could there be some inside story?" Nicholas could only smile wryly again and shook his head, "I hope there will be an exclusive, but won't he reveal the answer when he appears in a while?" Nicholas gestured to the two of them, and then moved on.
In the crowd, I finally saw my assistant. Standing next to me was James Lutter, a reporter from "U.S. Weekly". Nicholas hurried up to meet him, and quickly explained, "Quick, set up my camera. In ten minutes, they will arrive at the scene."
Without any pause, everyone started to get busy. After finishing his work, Nicholas began to focus on the camera and observe the light and environment of the scene. The assistant standing next to him looked at James, then at Nicholas, and finally couldn't help it, "Nick, is there any news?"
Nicholas glanced at his assistant speechlessly, "This is already the twenty-first person who asked me the same question after I arrived at the scene." This sentence made the assistant smile shyly, but the look full of expectation Still unmoved, Nicholas opened his mouth, only to find that James beside him was also leaning over, and he came up helplessly, "I don't have any news, Joe doesn't answer the phone, and Zamora doesn't answer the phone, so don't ask me again gone."
The little assistant was inexperienced, and his face was full of disappointment, while James smiled lightly, "I think with Hugo's personality, he shouldn't deliberately avoid it, because he knows that we will definitely not let him go."
"Then what if he's worried that we're blurring our focus, not paying attention to the movie, but caring about the gossip news, and deliberately playing against us?" Nicholas asked back, causing James to choke, with a helpless expression on his face.
The same question on everyone's mind: Will Hugo be on the red carpet with Charlize today? This is the first public event between the two after they confirmed their relationship. Originally, people were looking forward to the release of "A Beautiful Mind". At that time, the two will definitely appear together, but now "Sixth Sense" is the first to appear. Of course no one wants to miss it.
This is also one of the important reasons why the news media who arrived at the scene today are so exaggerated. As the time for the premiere red carpet gets closer, everyone becomes more and more anxious. Just like James and Nicholas guessed, almost everyone is trying to guess what Hugo is thinking. Even though everyone knows that Hugo will reveal the answer when he walks on the red carpet, they still can't control their excitement and excitement.
Suddenly, there was a commotion at the end of the red carpet, and Nicholas and James both looked towards the end of the red carpet. At this time, the premiere has not officially started, and their first reaction is that the producer Katherine Kennedy or M-Nate Shyamalan appeared on the red carpet, which is considered as a warm-up for the red carpet, but unexpectedly, a Turning his head, he saw a black stretch limousine parked at the beginning of the red carpet.
Before everyone could continue guessing, the air at the scene suddenly condensed, and then reached boiling point in an instant, bursting out astonishing energy like a stormy sea. The endless crimson sunset glow poured down, like a waterfall of the Milky Way, roaring.
It's Hugo! And... Charlize!