The Greatest Showman (Big Play Bone)
Chapter 623: Great Victory
After "Crazy Love" landed at the Toronto Film Festival, it launched a carnival mode with rave reviews. The official journal score surpassed "Penalty Kick" and "President Killing" in one fell swoop, and temporarily lags behind "Farewell". Affirmed by countless media and professional film critics; 12 consecutive extra shows, but still in short supply. There are long queues outside each show, and the popularity remains high.
Lanly Hall and Ryan Gosling went to watch the documentary "Twenty Years of Pearl Jam". After being accidentally recognized by the audience, the audience came to ask for photos and autographs one after another, in an endless stream, from the screening hall The distance from the entrance to the theater gate was less than two hundred meters. After walking for forty-five minutes, they still couldn’t get out, as if they had entered a magical forest. The last two people had to refuse the request for photography and signature. Step away, and then succeeded in getting out of trouble.
From film critics to audiences to reporters, "Love Crazy" has been sought after in all directions. In the latest audience survey conducted by the Toronto Film Festival, Lan Li once again defeated a group of competitors and became the most popular actor at this year's film festival. Among them, 85 percent of the women voted. It can be clearly felt that a love movie has successfully allowed Lan Li to occupy a place among female audiences. Compared with last year's "Blue Valentine's Day" by Ryan, the effect has doubled.
Amidst shouts of applause, cheers, and shouts, "Love Crazy" became a strong contender for the People’s Choice Award, but when the Toronto Film Festival ended, the award was announced, but there was a big upset. , Lebanese film "Where shall we go" after receiving countless affirmations at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the people's choice award was strongly won in Toronto, and the call to hit the Oscars suddenly rose.
The "Farewell", which won the prize at the Berlin Film Festival at the beginning of the year, ranked second in the vote, and the highly anticipated "Love Is Crazy" since the Sundance Film Festival ranked third. name!
Although it is said that both "Farewell" and "Crazy Love" failed and failed to win the People's Choice Award, it is certain that the performance of these two works is worth looking forward to in the next awards season.
After returning home from the Toronto Film Festival, "Love Is Crazy" immediately landed on the North American market. On October 7, screenings were held in four theaters.
The most watched work this week is undoubtedly "Steel Fist" starring Hugh Jackman. This work with an investment of 110 million U.S. dollars is a highly competitive work even if it is placed in the summer file. But in the end The shift to the deserted autumn season can be regarded as Disney's lack of confidence, but it can also be regarded as Disney's hope to seize more market in the off-season.
In addition, even the works of the awards season did not rush to make their debut. October seems to be a vacuum period. The excitement of Venice and Toronto has just ended, and the noise of Halloween and Thanksgiving has not yet begun. The works of the awards season think To win more attention and want to leave more impressions, November will be a better choice. Even if you choose October and avoid getting together, late October will be more suitable.
As a result, only two works of art, "Crazy Love" and "Road of Pilgrimage" will be screened this week, and the desertedness of the autumn stalls can be described as vivid and vivid.
It is worth mentioning that at last year's Sundance Film Festival, "Returning from Hell", who shined in the documentary unit, finally won the opportunity to be screened this week and started screening in a theater. Compared with the "buried" that also appeared in Sundance a year ago, the status quo of "Returning from Hell" is so realistic that people clearly feel the terrible situation of independent films.
Under this lonely and cold atmosphere, the blood of "Steel Armor Fist" could not help cooling down. After the premiere, the media review was only 56 points, and the freshness of rotten tomatoes was 59%. The popcorn index is only 73%, but the theater score got an "a", which is the only good news.
In the end, "Steel Armor" only collected 27 million U.S. dollars during the premiere weekend. With such a reputation, it is almost certain that the box office in North America cannot exceed 100 million. This also means that you want to recover the super High investment, overseas markets are the only hope. After retiring from the summer file to the autumn file, Disney still has not been able to turn the tide and save the box office of this commercial movie.
In such a contrast, the redness of "Love Is Crazy" becomes more and more dazzling.
Thirty-eight media outlets have scored as high as 81 points in their comprehensive media reviews. Among them, only one has negative scores, seven have neutral scores, and the remaining 30 have all positive scores! Such an excellent evaluation easily surpassed Lan Li’s two previous film works, "Buried Alive" and "Speed and Excitement/Love 5", becoming the most outstanding film in his actor career so far!
Just to make a horizontal comparison, the media review of "Lianlian Notebook" is 53 points, the media review of "Human and Ghosts Are Coming" is 52 points, and the media review of "Titanic" is 70. Four points, the media review of "Blue Valentine's Day" is eighty-one points. Among similar love story movies, the 81 points of "Love Is Crazy" has reached the highest expected value!
On the other hand, because it is only a screening, the score of the theater cannot be counted, so Rotten Tomatoes and imdb are the most direct manifestations of the audience's opinions.
The freshness index of rotten tomatoes is as high as 88%, and the score is temporarily set at 7.9%; the popcorn index is 81%, and the imdb score is temporarily 7.8%, with only scoring There are less than four thousand people, and the score will inevitably fluctuate afterwards.
With such a score, compared with "Lianlian Notebook", the overall lead, the only lagging behind is the popcorn index. When the latter was released in 2004, the popcorn index was as high as 85%, which also exceeded the 100 million box office in North America. Created a prerequisite for the audience to like this movie. Now it seems that the audience also likes "Love is crazy".
It can be understood that from an artistic point of view, "Love Is Crazy" has reached the level of "Blue Valentine's Day", and will undoubtedly become a dark horse in this year’s awards season; from a commercial point of view, "Love "Crazy" is also almost the same as the "Lianlian Notebook" with the best box office performance for love movies after the millennium, which makes people have more expectations for the movie's box office.
Compared with "Iron Armored Steel Fist", "Love Is Crazy", this point-of-art work is obviously more interesting.
The same is true of the facts. The films of "Crazy Love" in the four theaters have been enthusiastically sought after by fans. In a trance, the craze of the Toronto Film Festival seems to have continued throughout the entire North American continent, in the three cities of Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. Proudly blooming, the endless stream of movie-watchers and heated discussions make people seem to have once again returned to the grand occasion when the "buried alive" was held a year ago.
In this regard, the "Chicago Tribune" ridiculed that the autumn file seems to belong to the schedule of Lanly Hall.
The movie "Love Is Crazy" was held in only four theaters, and it successfully handed over the excellent data of 52,000 US dollars in a single library, which not only exceeded the box office of the single library at the time of "Buried Alive" last year, but also broke. The box office score of "Blue Valentine's Day" was 48,000 US dollars when it was screened last year. This data is almost the same as that of "Little Sunshine Beauty", "Glass of Wine Life", "Wrestler" and other well-recognized works. There was a burst of applause.
This is really incredible for an independent film whose promotional cost is approaching zero infinitely. Focus Films hasn't even had time to exert its efforts. The Academy PR for the awards season has not yet had time to start. It only relies on Renly's appeal, only on the topical effects of Renly and Jennifer, and only on the praise of Sundance and Toronto. The Voice, Focus Pictures only needs a single push, and the $52,000 single-library box office has created a new history.
The history of the box office of a single romance drama movie is the second, second only to the $109,000 miracle of "Brokeback Mountain" that year, and surpasses the "Room with a View", "Blue Valentine's Day", "British Patient" and "Long Love Years", ranked second in the history list!
Unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable! Has anyone expected such a scene? Maybe there is, maybe not, but no matter what, when "Love Is Crazy" achieved such excellent results, it still caused a cry of exclamation. At this moment, people really realized that following last year’s "Blue Valentine's Day" "After that, this year there will be a strong rise of a romance movie.
With a single box office of 52,000, "Crazy Love" earned US$28,000 on the weekend and ranked 23rd in this week's North American weekend box office rankings!
This is the only work with less than 100 screening venues among the top 30 on the list, and there are only four of them; it is worth mentioning that this is also the only one among the top 50 on the list. A work costing less than US$1 million to make ~lightnovelpub.net~ only cost US$250,000.
No wonder, compared with the disappointing performance of "Steel Fist", the media has spent more pen and ink on "Love Crazy"; no wonder, after the Toronto Film Festival, Focus Pictures can't wait to start the awards season. It’s no wonder that the topic of "Love Is Crazy" has spread overwhelmingly on the Internet; no wonder, while the movie is still on the screen, the enthusiasm of attraction can already catch up with commercial movies.
From Sundance to Toronto, to the box office of the single library, "Love Is Crazy" has risen steadily, writing an anthem of independent films, which is enough to make people look forward to the prospects of the awards season of this work. , But the question is, what about the box office? Is this work like "Blue Valentine's Day", continuing the line of high and low art movies, with a North American box office of only 9 million; or is it like "Lianlian Notebook", ushering in a box office victory?
In the second week of October, "Love Is Crazy" officially began its release! Focus Films waved a big hand and gave it a go. The "Crazy Love" screening theaters increased from four to 2,337, breaking the gradual and fixed routine of art films and proceeded directly by art films. Commercial film model.
Is this bold or aggressive?