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Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Gaomen Pictures' "A Farewell to the Piano" was officially opened on December 6 with a scale of 21 screens in Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago.

This film, which won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival in September, received almost one-sided praise after it was released. The overall score of the film was as high as 9.2 points, making it another high-scoring film second only to "Toy Story" at the end of the year.

Well-known American film critic Roger Ebert unabashedly described the film as "one of the most extraordinary and unforgettable films I have ever seen".

After the first week of screenings, "Piano Farewell" finally made $1.55 million in seven days, and the average hall reached $73,000.

Another award-winning film "Grand Canyon" released at the same time as "Piano Farewell" was produced by Fox Films and directed by well-known Hollywood screenwriter and director Lawrence Kasdan. It tells the issue of racial conflicts caused by a black man who strayed into a white community. , the film had a smaller two-screen release, all for awards-season nominations, and grossed $190,000 in its opening week on two screens.

However, as an award-winning film, the film's critics' reputation is only average, with a comprehensive score of only 7.6 points, compared with 9.2 points of "Piano Farewell", it is obviously difficult to make a difference in the awards season.

Friday, December 13.

Although theoretically this week is still an intermission between the two major schedules, if you look at the scale of the films released, the Christmas schedule will be opened early.

Because this week, Steven Spielberg's "Captain Hawk" was officially released, and the "Assassination of Kennedy" produced by Paramount Pictures also opened at the same time.

Columbia Pictures has great expectations for "Captain Hawk", and the final production budget of the film has reached 70 million US dollars, and the opening screen size is 2,197.

However, with the opening of the film, the word-of-mouth of "Captain Hawk" collapsed directly, and the media rating fell all the way to 2.8 points. "Variety" magazine criticized the film as "messy and unrestrained", "Newsweek" Even more caustic commented that watching "Captain Hawk" is like 'watching an 80,000-pound dwarf dancing'.

Three days after its opening, "Captain Hawk"'s first weekend box office was only $13.52 million, far below Columbia Pictures' expectations.

In the original time and space, the North American box office of "Captain Hawk" finally exceeded 100 million US dollars. Relying on the global box office of more than 200 million US dollars and subsequent income, this film barely allowed Columbia Pictures to recover the cost.

This time, however, the poorly-reviewed blockbuster won't have such good luck.

Because in the following week, another new film "The Flash" in the highly anticipated dc movie universe is about to be released.

"Assassination of Kennedy", which was drawn at the same time as "Captain Hawk", in Simon's memory, Oliver Stone's new film should be produced by Warner, however, because most of the attention of Warner's schedule at the end of this year is on " On The Flash, the project was abandoned at the outset.

Compared with "Captain Hawk", "Assassination of Kennedy" is much better. This slightly alternative historical drama received an excellent media score of 8.3 after its opening.

In terms of box office, the opening screen size of "Assassination of Kennedy" was 1,164 yuan, and the box office finally reached 5.22 million US dollars in the first weekend, which is far from satisfactory.

You know, because of the success of Oliver Stone's previous films and the addition of Kevin Costner in this film, the production budget of "Assassination of Kennedy" is as high as $40 million. Although it did not reach the level of "Captain Hawk", the budget of 40 million US dollars is definitely a big production.

The box office revenue of $5.22 million in the first weekend and three days, compared with the production budget of $40 million and the publicity expenditure of about $20 million, if this film cannot make a good long-term follow-up, Paramount may have to be fired again. .

On the original timeline, "Assassination of Kennedy" was very good at the box office and became one of the big winners of the 1992 Oscars.

However, this time, no one can be sure.

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

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

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

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

After two months of intense publicity, the Los Angeles premiere of "The Flash" took place on December 18.

Because of their confidence in the film, Warner mentioned the premiere to the same specifications as the summer "Batman: The Dark Knight", and still chose to star in the Holy Citizen Auditorium in Los Angeles, which can accommodate 2,000 people.

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At around 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Janet finally took care of her makeup and walked downstairs accompanied by the two women ab and her skirt.

Simon, who was waiting 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, small black high heels, loose blond hair, and the skin on her shoulders was pampered during pregnancy. It became more and more fair and moist, and people couldn't help but have the urge to take a bite.

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

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A tone of voice, the same as before.

With a smile on Simon's face, he looked up and kissed Janet, who came over, and said, "Let's go."

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

As Janet spoke, she walked to the crib in the living room near the floor-to-ceiling window, where Deborah, the d-girl, was guarding a little guy who was sleeping soundly in the crib.

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

After looking at the child for a while by the crib together, and explaining to the three girls abd, Simon and Janet rushed to the city by car.

In the evening, Los Angeles was somewhat congested. It was not until 5:40 that Simon and the two arrived outside the Holy Citizen Auditorium in the city center. The premiere started at 6:00, and an hour before was the red carpet time, although there was no red carpet like Oscar. The scale, but the lively battle here is no less than the Oscars ceremony.

Simon and the two just got off the car at the entrance of the red carpet, and they heard the cheers of surprise all the time.

Not thinking of stealing the limelight of the protagonist of the camera, Simon smiled slightly, nodded to the media and fans on both sides, and entered the auditorium without pausing.

After taking a photo in front of the photo wall, Terry Semel, CEO of Warner Bros. Pictures, greeted him.

Everyone greeted them and entered the backstage of the auditorium, which was also star-studded at this time.

Clint Eastwood, Barbra Streisand, Cher, Don Johnson, Melanie Griffith and many others came to join the show.

Of course, Adam Baldwin, Valerie Golino, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and other main creators of the "Batman" series will not be absent, and Famke of "Wonder Woman" will not be absent. Main creators such as Jensen, Linda Hamilton and Joanna Cassidy are also in attendance.

In comparison, the director of "The Flash" George Cosmatus, the actor Jason Jedrick and the heroine Robin Wright seem a little unremarkable among the big names.

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

After a brief chat and entertainment, as six o'clock approached, everyone began to enter the auditorium hall one after another.

After everyone was seated and the host made a speech, the screening officially started.

The story of the first "Flash" focuses on the origins of the superhero.

Simon doesn't like the old-fashioned narrative mode that starts from childhood. Therefore, the original "Batman: Hour of War" started the story directly from Bruce Wayne becoming a superhero, which has proved to be very important. success.

"Wonder Woman," which is in its late stage, is also not intended to involve Diana Prince's childhood.

However, this "Flash", the story has to return to some kind of "normal".

Similar to Bruce Wayne's parents being killed in an alley, the childhood shadow of the Flash's Barry Allen witnessing his mother's murder as a child is also a topic that the superhero simply cannot get around.

However, out of an instinctive resistance to childhood narratives, Simon turned Barry Allen's childhood experiences into an opening plot wedge.

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

The story continues most of the base setting of the comics, with an adult Barry Allen serving as a physical evidence technologist for the Canterlot Police Department.

Of course, in order to adapt to the changes in the film version is essential.

The general plot of this origin story tells that Barry Allen, a police department material evidence technologist, accidentally encountered a laboratory accident during a collaboration with Professor Albert Swan. Acquired the super speed super ability in the accident.

However, Professor Swan was paralyzed by the accident.

Barry Allen told Professor Swan about his superpowers, trying to find the reason, and at the same time dealing with the "Climate Wizard" who also acquired superpowers because of this accident.

As the plot progressed, Allen successfully defeated and captured the "Climate Wizard", but unexpectedly found that he had unknowingly fallen into another conspiracy.

It turned out that Professor Swan, who was paralyzed on the surface, actually acquired the super power of extreme speed.

However, because of the accusations and harassment of Professor Swan by all parties after the laboratory accident, this superpower has an anti-social heart.

To sum up, there are three lines in this origin story.

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

The second is Barry Allen's superhero determination as The Flash, which he gained in his confrontation with the Climate Wizard.

The third item is the duel between Barry Allen and his old enemy, Professor Albert Swan, who hit the enemy "Reverse Lightning".

The first and third day storylines are actually closely related. Professor Swan is the 'murderer' who killed Barry Allen's mother. The Reverse Lightning unexpectedly returned to the past in a duel with Allen. , thus creating Allen's childhood tragedy.

To the audience in the Great Hall of the Holy Citizen, the three intertwined storylines are uncomplicated and very clear.

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

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The "special effect" of flying around the earth and reversing time is simply too rough to be seen.

However, this "Flash", with the technical support of Daenerys special effects company, not only perfectly shows Barry Allen's high-speed motion scenes, but also makes a similar scene to the original time and space "X-Men" "The kind of slow-motion footage from the Quicksilver series.

Of course, the specific effect will not reach the level of twenty years later. However, in the eyes of the audience of this era, the stunning degree 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 was over, the subtitles rose, and suddenly, thousands of spectators in the Holy Citizen Auditorium realized that the two-hour screening had just ended.

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

It's hard to fail a project if a movie makes viewers unknowingly watch from beginning to end, even forgetting the Coke popcorn in their hands.

On the other hand, if a film always makes the audience play, and various other ideas pop up in their minds, or even give up the idea of ​​watching the film, then the box office prospects of this film are obvious.

This "Flash" may not reach the height of the two "Batman", but in terms of plot, the smoothness of the one-stop is definitely better. Coupled with the popularity of the IP itself of "The Flash" and the high-speed special effects of the film, there is basically no possibility of failure.

The subtitles go to the end, the usual plot eggs.

This time, the Easter egg was played by Catwoman, played by Valerie Golino.

This female superhero, both good and evil, looks tired on the big screen, and seems to have experienced battles, with damage to the Catwoman uniform.

In the surprised and puzzled eyes of Barry Allen, Catwoman didn't talk too much nonsense, and said bluntly: "Hey, work, I know you are very special, so now some guys need your help."

At the end of the speech, the big screen was completely darkened.

For hardcore fans, just this simple interaction is exciting enough.

The Flash and Catwoman in the comics have of course had encounters, but the encounter between Catwoman, who has become one of the goddesses of DC, and the Flash, and thinking about the follow-up story progress, is too exciting.

Even people who don't know much about comics have seen the first two "Batman" and are full of expectations for the DC superhero contract.

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