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"I can't quite get over that last shot of Virginia on the TV tower—"

"Rolling Stone" magazine film critic Peter Travers directly gave a "100" full score, and commented in his column: "It's unbelievable, "The Trap 2" has absolutely adrenaline However, I was wondering during the movie, how should the director deal with the tiredness of the audience after enjoying these things?"

"The answer is 'tranquility.'"

"The camera is almost still at this moment, and Virginia's face on the screen is magnified to every detail. Through her eyes, her breathing, and even every strand of her slightly fluttering hair, it gives people a sense of A baptism of peace of mind."

"As we all know, Josie Horton is an actress that I like very much, but I have to say that this shot is matched with her moving expression, the faded downtown square announcer, and the excellent integration into the environment. Jia Daguang is really a must.”

"It's hard to argue that the actress has played the immature, rebellious, wild and gritty Virginia Baker character almost perfectly. Her desire to destroy the system in her youth turns out to be its upholder. A subtle foreshadowing."

"And, I must say, the Thief series has ushered in a new chapter in the Thief movie!"

The film critic Jamie Bernard of "New York Daily News" highly praised the director Catherine Bigelow: "Catherine Bigelow's shots have a kind of free and uninhibited wonderful poetry. There is a degree of relaxation, delicate and rough, Uninhibited and restrained are also just right. Virginia Baker, a character who mixes the attributes of a rich girl and an adventurer, is very suitable for Holden. The sexy temperament is also filmed, independent, confident, and wanton publicity, which is the type of female characters that Hollywood lacks the most."

"New York Times" film critic Jenny Meslin directly described: "It's really an orgasm-like scene."

"New York Herald Tribune" film critic Judith. Crist's film review is also very positive, "After experiencing the wonderful "The Trap", it is difficult for us to imagine that the sequel can do so well, but Catherine The combination of Bigelow X Josie Horton makes the impossible possible. It is still the familiar reversal, and it is still the trapping plan closely related to the title of the film, but this time there are more hot action scenes , as well as a romantic scene where the hormones are completely overflowing the screen, it is obviously one of the most worthwhile movies to watch this summer...”

Overall, the film received more negative reviews than positive reviews from critics.

It is worth noting that, contrary to male film critics, "The Trap 2" received overwhelming praise among female film critics, and even because of this film, the two sides launched a small-scale verbal criticism.

However, this did not affect "The Trap 2" still won nearly 5000 million US dollars in the box office in the first week, and became the undisputed top box office champion of the week.

It was followed by the popular family carnival movie "Scooby-doo Dog", and "Wind Talker", which was originally considered to be evenly matched with "The Trap 2" and would surely have a fight with dragons and tigers, was worth $1000 million. The number called humiliation could barely squeeze into the top three of the week.

Obviously, "The Trap of Stealing the Sky 2" won an overall victory on the theater line.

Some people say that it has created a brand-new Thief movie model, and some people say that it officially sent Josie Horton to the throne of Hollywood queen, and some people say that it directly changed Hollywood's positioning of commercial actresses.

The Big Six launched new project plans one after another, and Thief movies or female action movies became popular overnight.

But what is interesting is that whether it is Warner, Disney, Universal, or Fox, Sony Columbia, and Paramount, no matter what their past or current relationship with Josie is, they all ignore Josie who is making history, and they don’t go into it at all. Go for her as the lead actress in your next project.

Very weird.

These so-called giants seem to have reached a consensus overnight, uncharacteristically not chasing the most popular box office star.

But the problem is-

Never work with a loser.

This has always been the golden rule in Hollywood, and it's the key to the popularity of certain superstars who win and win.

It's obvious that the runaway success of Trap 2 is a perfect example, but these people seem to be turning a blind eye.

The looks of Virginia and Clay in the movie have become the popular guide of the moment. People who haven't seen the movie can hardly be invited to any party on campus. These teenagers are keen to imitate Virginia's retro narrow-frame sunglasses , profile windbreaker, black turtleneck, clavicle hair and lipstick number;

In the online community, "Stealing the Trap 2" has become a key word in the massacre. Those fanatical movie fans not only post Amway on major forums, but also cheer for this movie on Ttime. A series of topics related to "Stealing the Sky Trap 2" such as 2#, #绝色神勒V婚女#, #楚维相我心# have become hot searches.

At the same time, Josie is not stingy with the star power of being a superstar, and almost tirelessly rushes to the recording sites of major shows. Her iconic face appears in every prime time in the United States, with "Josie Horton" "The magazine as the cover character is placed in the most conspicuous position of the newsstand for those fans to snap up the first time.

As the late Pauline Kael, the most influential film critic of the second half of the twentieth century, described it—

"Josie Horton is the superstar that this era needs. Although her career is far from the peak, I already have a hunch that her screen glory will shine for the next half century."

So, why?

Those movie companies didn't even chase her?

Hollywood has fallen into an extremely delicate calm, and there are already turbulent waves in the dark.

"The box office champion of the first week is "The Trap 2"?"

"I expected that "Windtalker" might not do well at the box office, but I didn't know that it would be so bad."

Located in a highly private members-only club near West Hollywood, the waiters were leading Frank Macasso forward, while he himself was frowning and thinking all the way.

Frank Macasso used to be an executive at Warner, one of the Big Six, and later joined Giancardo Paredi of the Italian consortium. He took over MGM in 1993 and became a member who had not been expelled from Hollywood at that time. The head of one of the seven giants.

It's a pity that MGM has lost overseas distribution channels.

Since this Italian consortium bought MGM, their business focus is not on Hollywood, but on hotels, casinos and other industries with visible cash flow. However, in a highly competitive market, standing still means falling behind, so MGM, which continues to lose money, is collectively looked down upon by industry insiders, and its revenue in recent years is indeed not as good as that of second-tier film companies like Tianji Films.

"Wind Talker" was supposed to be MGM's turnaround work that gambled all its fortunes.

Big directors, big stars, big scenes, these factors add up to the success code of Hollywood blockbusters, but it is extremely unfortunate that they caught up with the regrettable node of 911/[-], and finally caused the already crumbling MGM to collapse.

While Frank Macassos was thinking about it, his destination had arrived.

The waiter stepped forward to open the door for him, and saw a brown-haired and blue-eyed Jewish girl making tea casually in an oriental-style tea room, pouring blue water into two clear teacups one after another. He sat down on the remaining seat, and the teacup was handed to him.

Afterwards, Martha Miller, who was wearing a standard Armani dress, said, "Nice to meet you, Mr. Macasso."

"Ms. Miller, I'm also glad to meet you." The bewildered Frank Maccasso paused, decided to drink tea first and then wait and see what happened, so he didn't ask any questions.

A smile appeared on the corner of Martha Miller's mouth, and she took a sip of the tea cup, and then continued: "Mr. Macasso, I heard that MGM is about to face an unsettling Happy acquisition?"

"It's just a possibility." Frank Macasso swallowed the bitter tea and put down the cup.

In fact, this acquisition has reached the point where it must be done.

But as a manager, Frank Macasso does not think that frequent shareholder changes are a good thing, so he has been working hard to prevent this from happening. The "Windtalker", which is currently making MGM desperate A tentative gamble.

Winning may bring confidence to the Italian consortium behind him, and allow MGM to breathe a sigh of relief; as for losing...he had imagined the possibility of losing, but no one could have imagined, "Windtalker" He lost so badly.

These days, Frank Macasso, in addition to facing the heart-stopping box office trend, not only manages public relations up and down, but also tries his best to maintain the number of theaters for "Wind Talker" and stop those film critics from being vitriolic. A mean mouth, and most importantly, dealing with the benefactor has exhausted him.

MGM is definitely doomed.

Frank Macasso realized this very clearly.

"It's an imperative possibility."

Martha Miller in front of him said this sentence for him, in exchange for a wry smile from Frank Macasso.

He shook his head and asked: "So? What do you want to get? As far as I know, you should not have the admission tickets to join this acquisition. First, Tianshen-Global is still in the stage of resource integration after the merger. Second, I don't think Ms. Horton has enough money to take MGM on her own."

Martha Miller smiled slightly and said, "I'm here to talk about the joint production plan between Universal Pictures and MGM in the next five years."

"What?" Frank Macasso frowned, "I don't remember MGM having this plan, and you should know that your biggest card is about to encounter some small problems that you can't take care of."

There is no impenetrable wall in this world.

Especially since Josie Horton's enemies had already ended, and after "The Trap 2" suddenly received many negative reviews that did not match the quality of the finished film, the well-informed people in the city knew that the war had officially begun.

Although MGM is not a participant, it has to admit that "Windtalker" has indeed benefited from it, otherwise its current situation may be even worse.

"Mr. Macasso, is that important?" Martha Miller asked back, with a very firm tone, "As soon as the news that Josie's new film will cooperate with MGM is announced, MGM's stock price will usher in a sharp rise." Boom skyrocketing, you just need to retire on the pension you sold MGM. Do you really want to save it?"

There was no superfluous expression on Frank Macasso's face, his brows were still frowning.

But at the same time, he had to admit that he was really moved by the woman in front of him!