Chapter 2063 Good Start (First Update)

Recently, under the impact of "The Machinist" and "Edward Scissorhands" of United Artists Films, the US film market is still showing a trend of recovery.

But it was another movie that really made the film market in the United States start to move around.

A film coming out next month.

This is also a movie that thousands of Americans have been looking forward to for five or six years.

It is naturally the film adaptation of "Forrest Gump" written by Yin Jun.

It is scheduled to be released in mid-November, and the film's promotional activities were launched in October.

In addition to the actor Oscar winner Tom Hanks appearing frequently on television programs, he also traveled to ten major cities across the United States to do various promotions.

He was accompanied by other actors of the crew, as well as the associate producer and studio manager Shi Shaoming.

Everyone praised this third movie co-operated by Yin Jun and Tom Hanks on various occasions. During the period, they also told a lot of anecdotes on the set, etc. After watching it, fans looked forward to this movie even more. .

In fact, people's expectations for "Forrest Gump" are very high.

The script written by the original author, and then directed by himself, who can understand this book better than him, and can make this movie better?

Not to mention that Yin Jun is still a super director, and his directing of literary films is recognized all over the world.

He just won the Oscar for Best Director this year. With the pursuit of victory, how can you say that the filming is not good-looking?

It's just that Yin Jun didn't go to the scene to promote it, which made countless movie fans quite regretful.

The reason why the producer made it public was that Mr. Yin Jun was in Xiangjiang to deal with urgent company affairs, so he was too late to come over.

But fortunately, during the first three days of the film's release, Yin Jun will attend the premiere with the crew, and go to New York, Chicago and other big cities for fan meetings.

This finally gave fans some comfort.

But the slogan "Let Mr. Jun throw away everything, lock him in the house, let him write scripts, let him only make movies" rang out again.

The voice this time was even louder than the previous few times.

Because the crew has revealed that this may be the last film directed by Yin Jun within the next three years. After shooting five or six films in a row, he needs to rest for a few years.

Such a statement made movie fans shout dissatisfaction.

Although it has not been confirmed yet, and Yin Jun himself did not mention it, they believe that with Yin Jun's laziness, it is almost the same.

But what are you tired of?

Considering that you, Yin Jun, only make one movie a year on average, no matter how hard it is, you can still adjust.

It is those miscellaneous things like doing business, stock trading, and investment that involve Yin Jun's energy, so he has no time to film!

When they said this, they completely ignored the fact that Yin Jun's good friends—Spielberg and George Lucas, only made one movie every two or three years on average.

The reason why more movie fans are noisy and dissatisfied is that they are extremely looking forward to Yin Jun's "Jurassic Park" after filming "Forrest Gump", or even "The Da Vinci Code" !

You went to rest without saying a word, what should we movie fans who are waiting for?

Especially for "Jurassic Park", the filming and production process originally took one or two years, and it may take a total of three years until it is released.

You take a three-year break after such a break, and after three years and three years, we have to wait at least six years to see "Jurassic Park", does it make sense?

From the publication of "Jurassic Park" to its release, it has been at least 12 or 13 years. Isn't this too painful?

When Yin Jun arrived in Los Angeles from Xiangjiang to attend the premiere ceremony, the present host asked the second question after "Forrest Gump", which was about the above-mentioned matter.

Faced with these positive protests and requests, Yin Jun could only smile apologetically.

His answer was the same as the official one.

The first is because in the past few years, in order to win the Oscars, filming by myself is too exhausting, and I need to rest.

In addition, many things in the company were also delayed because of filming.

For the more than 100,000 employees of Kirin Group around the world, Yin Jun must also go to the company to work hard.

The last reason is that the current development of special effects technology has not met Yin Jun's expectations.

"As the original author of "Jurassic Park", I will definitely not make a movie that does not achieve the effect I expected. I want to present better movies to everyone, not because I want to make money. And hastily made a bad movie."

This answer was listed in the major newspapers published the next day.

Generally speaking, book fans and movie fans, no matter how much they complain, have nothing to say about this sentence.

They knew Yin Jun's habits.

A literary film can be prepared for several months, then shot for two or three months, and then produced for another two or three months, and it will take almost half a year before it will be released.

There are not many directors who pursue perfection like this in Hollywood.

You know, making fast movies is not exclusive to Xiangjiang, and the same is true for Hollywood.

The classics you see are, of course, carefully crafted.

But how much is that?

On average, Hollywood produces thousands of movies every year, but only a little over 200 movies can enter theaters.

Many of the rest of the movies were poorly edited, so they could only be released directly into the DVD market, or accepted buyouts from TV stations, and so on.

Even among the more than 200 films released here, many of them are of poor quality.

Most of the reasons lie in the desperate rush to work.

The rush work of Americans is not like that of Xiangjiang people, who work more than ten hours a day. They only work eight hours a day, and then they have to make the movie in a month or so at most.

You said that with such efficiency and time, what good movies can be made?

Yin Jun is different, he has been very serious about movies from the very beginning.

Even "Juno", which is recognized as the least difficult for Yin Jun to film, took about half a year from preparation to filming to release.

It took Yin Jun just over two months to shoot this kind of film that relies entirely on the plot, which shows how serious and careful he is.

In the end, everyone has seen the effect of "Juno". The 16-year-old Sophie Marceau was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress. This is the best compliment to Yin Jun!

So they can only sigh, and pray that as soon as Yin Jun comes back, he will start "Jurassic Park" immediately, which can comfort their hearts.

Leave this aside.

"Forrest Gump" is naturally a movie released simultaneously around the world.

As Yin Jun and Tom Hanks personally participated in the North American premiere, they did a very good job.

The premiere, which cost a full US$1 million, invited many superstars and famous directors.

As long as people in the film and television industry that Yin Jun knows, such as Spielberg, George Lucas, Schwarzenegger, Stallone, etc., basically come.

Such a star-studded scene naturally made the media and movie fans very happy.

The news that night and the next day basically revolved around "Forrest Gump", which also added a lot of discussion heat to it.

Once there is a hot topic of discussion in the United States, more people will go to the movie.

In fact, "Forrest Gump" itself does not really need such publicity, it has received the greatest attention since the project was established.

The combination of Yin Jun and Tom Hanks, even those who don't like watching literary movies very much, are willing to go to the cinema to watch them.

Not to mention "Forrest Gump" is the collective memory of people born in the 1930s and 1960s across the United States.

Its first-day box office reached 30 million US dollars, creating the first-day box office record in North America, second only to "Home Alone"'s 32 million US dollars single-day record.

On the second day, "Forrest Gump" went straight up again, and raised it a bit, reaching 32 million US dollars, just tying the single-day box office record of "Home Alone".

The box office of 30 million US dollars on the third day brought the total score of the first weekend to 92 million US dollars, the first in North American film history! !

In other parts of the world, the box office also reached 120 million US dollars.

In other words, its global first-weekend box office has exceeded 200 million U.S. dollars, second only to "Home Alone"'s 270 million U.S. dollars in box office.

This shows how strong the appeal of Yin Jun and Tom Hanks is.

At the same time, the film critics scored an average of 8.7 points.

The survey score of ordinary movie fans conducted by Nielsen Research Company even reached 9.2 points!

The word-of-mouth word is naturally used in "Forrest Gump".

Of course, the outside world is full of exclamations, saying that "Forrest Gump" is expected to become the fourth super movie with a box office of 1 billion US dollars in the world.

Movie fans and book fans are also rejoicing. They feel that this is the power of "Forrest Gump", and this is the super classic brought by Yin Jun and Tom Hanks.

If a literary film can reach a box office of 1 billion US dollars in the end, it is really a miracle that has never been seen before, and may even be unprecedented in the future! !

But many in the industry see it differently.

They feel that the most important reason why a literary film can reach a box office of 210 million US dollars in the first weekend is a long-awaited emotional release.

"Forrest Gump" was published in 1980, and it has been 5 years so far. Its global sales have exceeded 60 million copies, and it has accumulated a large number of book fans.

A good book can be made into a best-selling movie.

So for so many years, everyone has been expecting that their favorite books can be made into movies, preferably directed by Yin Jun himself.

Now after waiting for so long, the movie is finally released, and it is still in the way they expected. It also stars Tom Hanks, the two-time Oscar winner, which has pushed up the expectations of the audience even more.

This catharsis of feelings and expectations naturally pushed up the box office results of the first weekend.

But after this kind of catharsis, in the second week, except for some of them who watched it again and again, at most those audiences who were attracted by the super good word-of-mouth went to the cinema to watch it.

In the third week, there will be fewer such cases, and the box office will drop faster.

Not to mention overseas, although Forrest Gump's struggle will empathize with many people, but Forrest Gump's experience did not empathize with overseas audiences.

Because they have not experienced the kind of life in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, the sense of substitution will not be strong.

Therefore, overseas, the box office of "Forrest Gump" in the next few weeks is definitely not as good as the first weekend.

They predict that the box office of "Forrest Gump" will definitely not exceed 1 billion U.S. dollars, but it is absolute to reach more than 700 million U.S. dollars, and 800 million U.S. dollars is also very likely.

But if it is such an achievement of 7.8 billion U.S. dollars, it should be a peak that no one can compare to later.

With the excellent box office performance of "Forrest Gump", Yin Jun is no longer just an excellent Oscar director who has won many awards, but has truly succeeded in becoming a super director! !