The Best Entertainment Era

In the screening hall, Miller, who is in charge of the theater screening business of Emperor Entertainment, and Brown, the head of the same business of AMG Cinemas, sat in the third row together.

Before the screening started, the two had a chat.

Emperor Entertainment attaches great importance to the two embassy films recently. Brown said softly to Miller, Emperor Entertainment has provided nearly a thousand theaters. This is the treatment only produced by the six major companies?

Miller didn't take it seriously, and said, Aren't you the same? You also invested a lot of resources in the films released by the Embassy Pictures.

Brown said modestly: AMG's scale is not comparable to King Entertainment, and there is a gap compared with you.

Miller smiled and said: I am responsible for the company, shareholders and performance. I don't care where the film comes from. A good film is a film that can make theaters more profitable.

From the perspective of profitability, the box office results of the two films released by Embassy Pictures this year are indeed good. Brown has the same opinion: Not to mention the great success of Resident Evil, even dark films like Underworld For a niche film, the North American box office has nearly 80 million U.S. dollars, which is really amazing.”

Embassy Pictures doesn't release many films, but the success rate is very high, almost one release is successful, which allows the theater to take very little risk, Miller said.

Brown nodded: Yeah, anyone wants to release a movie that can attract an audience.

Miller added: As long as the film released by Embassy Pictures has Ronan Anderson as the first producer, Emperor Entertainment will give the best treatment.

Brown recalled and said: In the past three years, Ronan Anderson seems to have never missed a shot.

Don't you think Ronan Anderson is walking on the road of a gold medal producer? Miller said seriously: The films released and produced have their own characteristics, but without exception, they have achieved commercial success. They are very young. Jerry Bruckheimer.

Brown retorted, No, not like Jerry Bruckheimer.

Miller looked at Brown strangely: Let's not talk about Ronan Anderson's company, just look at film production. Isn't Ronan Anderson successful enough?

That's not what I meant, Brown explained, seeing that Miller had misunderstood him. I always thought Ronan Anderson was better than a young Jerry Bruckheimer. A young Jerry Bruckheimer With Don Simpson behind him, but what about Ronan Anderson? He doesn't have a lot of power behind him.

Miller agreed with this statement: It is true. In terms of production and selection of projects, Ronan Anderson's ability and vision make people have to admire.

Brown added: Ronan Anderson has already begun to try first-line big productions. If he can succeed in this area, maybe in a few years, he will be able to reach the height of Jerry Bruckheimer.

Don't forget, it's a pirate movie. Miller reminded: I still can't figure out why Ronan Anderson chose the pirate theme.

Brown echoed: I actually can't figure it out either.

Perhaps this is the difference between a genius producer and an ordinary person?

He couldn't help thinking this way, no matter how you look at it, Ronan Anderson doesn't look like a fool, and investing huge sums of money to shoot Pirates of the Caribbean is not impulsive or dizzy.

Maybe he saw something he didn't notice?

The movie started showing, and the theater fell silent.

Hollywood horror and thriller movies often highlight their advanced technology and brutal blood, which is different from the atmosphere of Asian horror movies.

In fact, Death is Coming also focuses on visual stimulation, while Asian horror films focus on psychological intimidation.

Although the director has been changed, the glorious sequel tradition of Hollywood commercial films will never be lost, so the story of the second part inherits the routine of the first part. escaped from danger, the god of death killed the people on the list in another way, and there was no one left.

The Grim Reaper's game may end because of the birth of a new life, but it's only the end of that round of killing games. As long as there is money to be made in the statistics of Relativity Entertainment, Grim Reaper will continue his bloody game.

Although the new director Guillermo del Toro was introduced, the film is still very routine. In fact, this sequel is no longer about fatalism and the like, but shows a million ways for human beings to die in accidents. .

Of course, this film also has certain social and educational significance.

For example, when a train passes by, don't get too close to the train; when crossing the road, be careful and look left and right; people should not stand under a crane, etc.

Compared with the first one, Reaper 2 is more gorgeous, more exquisite, bloodier, and more brutal.

This is also the biggest breakthrough.

This movie has drifted away from fatalism in a completely bloody and heavy killing taste.

In fact, since the first part, there has been a critical voice that believes that the god of death does not exist at all.

A movie is born, you can choose not to watch it.

And when the audience chooses to watch, then when watching, they must admit the premise of the existence of the movie, that is, the concept set in the movie and the background of the characters.

For example, when watching The Grim Reaper Is Coming and believe that there is no Grim Reaper in this world, then this film should not exist at all, because even the preconditions for everything in it to be established are negated.

For example, when watching Jack Chen's Police Story, I recognized the concept that Chen Jiaju is a policeman, so I can continue to watch the following plot.

If the audience asked at the beginning: Why is he a policeman? He has been admitted to the police academy, and then he is a policeman. Then why did he want to be a policeman? Then you fucking ask Chen Jiaju.

This is not an exaggeration. With the gradual prosperity of the Internet, there will be more and more gangsters in the future, and most of them are the kind that the king of heaven and Lao Tzu can't persuade in person.

Even if one of the future Mexican three masters is the director, Reaper 2 is definitely not excellent, but this kind of small and medium-cost sequel commercial film is first and foremost to make the target audience enjoy watching.

The rest is secondary.

Immediately after the film screening ended, on-site investigators from the Cinema partner company began to collect the first-time evaluation of the film from the premiere audience.

I can get a B, and overall it's not bad.

A male viewer in his mid-twenties was greeted with a small gift from the investigators and said carelessly: “It’s good that the film can scare me, and after watching it, I feel that the whole world is full of malice.

The investigator then found another viewer, who had a similar evaluation: B+ or A-, I decided to stay at home for a few days after I go back and not go out, so as not to get nervous.

Since those who participated in the premiere were either fans who were affected by the first movie, or audiences who liked this type of film, the scores obtained from the on-site survey were all high.

I was in a trance after watching the movie, and I was worried that something bad would happen when I went out.

When the investigators found two older boys who were watching the movie together, one of them said dissatisfiedly: It's so-so, nothing new, it's too routine, and you can tell that there are going to be dead people all the time.

Another person has a completely different opinion: I know they will all die, it doesn't matter. The important thing is that the process of dying is wonderful. The plot is also not important, what matters is that the brutal and bloody scenes are enjoyable. It doesn’t matter how many people die, what’s important is that it’s fun to watch if someone dies from the beginning to the end.”

This is also the opinion of many fans who like this type of horror film.

Like Jason and Freddy and the like, so many films have been filmed and there is still a market, which is enough to reflect the preferences of a certain group of audiences.

Just as some viewers know very well that the brain-damaged youth films in the movie are very routine and insincere, and they still go to watch them happily, bloody horror movies have never lacked audiences.

Moreover, compared with systematic films, as long as the cost of bloody horror films is well controlled and shot according to the usual pattern, the risk of losing money is relatively small.

After the premiere, Embassy Pictures continued to promote the promotional campaign, and Reaper 2 also began to be released in North America on a large scale, and the actual number of theaters opened was close to 3,000.

As a sequel to a blockbuster movie, this movie has a clear edge over Resident Evil and Underworld.

Contrary to Ronan's expectations, the reputation of Reaper 2 surpassed the first one in an all-round way.

Under the promotion and guidance of the online propaganda department of the embassy film industry, the voices of applause on the Internet accounted for the majority.

It's more emotional than the first one, which should be attributed to the more sensory stimulation of the bloody death scene.

I think this sequel is not bad. The first one was well received for its freshness, but the second one has an expansion and extension of the first one, so it is still quite powerful.

The film is full of bloody coincidences and an inescapable fate. Every small object in daily life may lead to a road of no return. The film plays a role in safety education to a certain extent. I believe that after watching it, everyone will definitely Be careful, don't jaywalk, don't walk under billboards, don't try to rush into a closing elevator, don't let water get close to electrical appliances, don't ignore escape ladders, etc.

In terms of Rotten Tomatoes, this sequel has a freshness rate of nearly 60%. Perhaps the film critics are also frightened by the god of death?

Dare to give a bad review? If you write a bad review, you will be stabbed to death by a pen, and you will be smashed to death by a bursting keyboard...

The god of death will launch a deadly chicken fight!

The ratings from the audience are very good. More than 5,000 users on IMDB scored 7.4 points. The audience in Cinema theaters scored an average of B. It is predicted that the box office performance in North America should be the same as that of the first film.

The performance at the box office is not bad. On the first day of its opening in North America, Reaper 2 won a box office of 11.8 million US dollars from nearly 3,000 theaters. Strange, won the box office champion of the day.