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Yin Caiwei also said: "I think so too."

Gu Yaoyao, who happened to be holding a box of popcorn, waited for everyone to finish speaking, then suddenly changed the subject: "I wonder if Simon will appear at the after-party?"

Chen Xingwei, who was next to Gu Yaoyao, grabbed a handful of popcorn from Gu Yaoyao's box, and joked, "Why, do you want a man?"

Gu Yaoyao blushed slightly, but she didn't hide it: "Think about it, don't you think so?"

"You two, don't be wrong."

Wei Cancha interrupted, and glanced at Caiwei and Yu Xuanniao.

At this time, five of the seven girls in the room had been eaten by a man, but Yin Caiwei and Yu Xuanniao had not been taken. These things are not a secret in the Guofeng Art Troupe, but It's also not suitable for random discussions and jokes.

However, since the topic was poked open by Gu Yaoyao, the atmosphere was inevitably a little delicate.

So they got together for more than ten minutes, and everyone dispersed, leaving only Wei Cancha and Gu Yaoyao.

They are a couple.

Silent all night.

Early the next morning, Gu Yaoyao woke up and found that there was no sign of Wei Cancha around her. After dressing and washing, she went to the living room and found Wei Canche was lying on the sofa and flipping through a stack of newspapers.

Knowing roughly what her partner was reading, Gu Yaoyao also took out a newspaper, flipped through it, and quickly gave up. Her English ability has not yet reached the level that Wei Cancha can read a newspaper, but she can understand some by forcing it. .But why bother?

So he asked directly: "How is the evaluation?"

"Very good," Wei Canchai said, and read a passage from a film review in The New York Times: "Li successfully broke through the limitations of the oriental Chinese martial arts genre film and created a gorgeous, poetic, romantic and It is a movie full of depth, the beautiful natural scenery in the movie is like a picture scroll falling into reality, and the creative action scenes are both unbelievable and natural and smooth."

Gu Yaoyao listened next to her, and tilted her head: "This evaluation is too high."

"It's a very good movie," Wei Canchai continued flipping through the newspaper in his hand, and said, "All the articles I just read were full of praise, and it was predicted that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" would become the best-selling Chinese movie in North America. .”

"How much box office can that sell?"

"Who knows, there must be tens of millions."

"It seems that the cost is 1500 million US dollars?"

"It's not just North America, Europe, and China. In short, it must be very profitable."

When the two girls were discussing in their apartment, on a new day, the media and public opinion about "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" also spread rapidly. After all, more than 100 media from various platforms such as TV, newspapers, and the Internet were invited to the premiere last night. After all the news is released, as long as the public pays a little attention to movie information, they will not be able to escape the news brainwashing of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the Oscar-nominated director's new film, premiered in New York, and the audience spontaneously applauded many times, and the response was enthusiastic."

"Martin Scorsese asked Ang Lee for advice at the premiere, asking how to shoot the film's wonderful stunts."

"Jack Cheng and Jeter Lee, two Chinese male stars, joined hands to support the film."

"Roger Ebert praised "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" as Ang Lee's self-transcendence."

"Background decryption, the heroine of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is from the Guofeng Art Troupe."

"..."

"..."

In just one day, many people knew that an excellent oriental film was about to be released, and the film's super high film score of 9.7 points after comprehensive evaluation by various media also made more people want to buy tickets to enter the theater.

However, after the ferment of public opinion on Thursday, when Friday came, some viewers discovered again that the film had only arranged 143 screens in several core cities such as New York and Los Angeles in the first week.

The hype was so high, but many people were unable to buy tickets in the first place.

It's a scam.

This is naturally also a deliberate arrangement for Daenerys' entertainment.

In the final analysis, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is a literary film after all. After so many years of exploration, Hollywood has already summed up a progressive long-term distribution model for the distribution of literary films.

Although awards season is the best time for this release model, it is also valid at other times.

Simon is very aware of the box office potential of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". It is actually no problem to intervene and spread it directly on a large scale like some other films in the past. However, the reason why he did not do this again this time is mainly to maintain The fixed distribution mode of literary films.

More importantly, there is also the intention to gradually let go of Daenerys Entertainment, allowing the company to run more and more on its own.

To achieve this goal, rules must be established.

Otherwise, if you think that a film can be a big hit, you will break the distribution rules, and the effect will be imposed on you. Sooner or later, your own company will lose.

On the other hand, Daenerys Entertainment currently possesses strong distribution capabilities, and can also accurately and flexibly adjust the subsequent release strategy of the film, just like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". In just one week, more than 1000 yuan of screening screens can be arranged, and even more can be added quickly in the future, and finally the film's box office potential can be maximized.

Simon did not attend the after party for the New York premiere of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" as Gu Yaoyao guessed.

On July 7, Irene Lauder gave birth to a boy again, who happened to be Simon's 23th child. The name had already been chosen, Noah Westeros.

Only Lin Su was left.

Because Irene was emotionally unstable before and after giving birth, Simon stayed by her side for the next few days, and had no time to pay attention to other women, and even turned off a lot of work.

Hollywood is still paying close attention to the summer of 1997, which is entering the second half.

The key, of course, is the box office.

随着《卧虎藏龙》在7月25日的上映，刚刚过去7月18日到7月24日的一周票房也随之出炉。

The blockbuster "Independence Day" directed by Roland Emmerich, which started painting on July 7, still leads the way.

After the box office of 9107 million in the first week set a record for the opening of a film in 1997, the box office of "Independence Day" in the second week was even better than that of "Tornado" despite the hot word of mouth and lack of competition, with a drop of only 23%. The income is still as high as 7012 million US dollars.In the third week that just passed, the decline of "Independence Day" slightly expanded to 33%, and it received another US$4698 million.

In three weeks, the cumulative box office of this $9000 million blockbuster quickly exceeded 2 million, reaching $817 million.

Unstoppable.

No.2 on the list is finally no longer Daenerys Entertainment's other films, but a new Fox film "Spawn" on July 7.

This is a comic book movie.

It tells the story of the hero Al Simmons who signed a contract with the devil after being framed and died, and was reborn in the world to start revenge. Obviously, the idea is similar to Marvel's Ghost Rider.

Fox invested a production budget of 5000 million U.S. dollars for "Regenerated Man", which can be described as an important attempt in recent years to try to follow DC's comics. The gimmick of comic book movies with black protagonists.

Relying on 2762 opening screens, "Spawn" won a box office of 2531 million US dollars in the first week.

Obviously not up to expectations.

Even if the film has a good start, the domestic box office will probably stop at around 5000 million U.S. dollars.

No. 3 on the list is a comedy "Nothing to Lose" produced by Disney, which is also a new film that started drawing last week.