Chapter 563： "Air Crisis"

After the release of "Crisis in the Air", as expected, it was also ridiculed by film critics——

"The film seems to break through the old routine of traditional aerial disaster films, but the plot is not as good as the old routine design of "Prison in the Sky", "Sky One" and other films."

"I don't know what I want to talk about in this film, and I don't know where there can be such a stupid villain. The solo solo scene at the end is even more inconspicuous. It forcibly reduces intelligence, rounds the scene, and highlights the heroine. It is too blunt and suspenseful. piece."

"Judy's role in 'Air Crisis' was the worst thing she ever did."

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As soon as the new film was released, it encountered a crisis of criticism.

And unlike "Dead Silence", which is sought after by some fans, even though many viewers are very popular with Jodie Foster, after all, she rarely appears in the spotlight except for filming, but she really accepts her incompetence.

Therefore, after the first day of release and the midnight show, "Air Crisis" won $15.03 million, which is not only inferior to the lesser-known horror themes "Dead Silence" and "Exorcism" in the same period, and the box office leader in the latter part of September last year. The $47.6 million for "Shark Tale" is a far cry.

Even so, with the freshness of the premiere of the new film, "Crisis in the Air" is still the champion of the daily box office, but the gold content of this top spot is really depreciated. This caused the film market to drop by 26 percent compared with the total box office in the first half of September.

After all, "Dead Silence", which was shown in the third week, has fallen out of the top three, and only won 6.87 million. "Exorcism" is directly down in North America.

In fact, this week, a total of three new works opened the front line in the North American film market, but they obviously cannot compete with the collapsed "Air Crisis".

Among them, there is the sci-fi movie "Firefly" adapted from a series of TV series, which became the second place on the daily list with a score of 10.14 million US dollars; there is a new favorite in Hollywood, and the beautiful vase Jessie is getting louder and louder with "Sin City". The thriller action film "Blue Sea Tracking" starring Ka-Elba earned more than 7 million and won the third place. The fifth is the sports inspirational film "The Ultimate Shot" about golf-themed released by Disney, which received a box office of 6.35 million. .

Time has entered the second week, that is, after October, "Air Crisis" continued to lead the North American box office market and won the championship among a group of new films that competed against each other with a little resilience and doomed publicity.

Ten days after its release, "Air Crisis" has accumulated a total North American box office of 46.2 million. Although the National Flight Attendant Alliance called on the media and fans to boycott the film on the grounds that the plot smeared the image of the flight attendant, it seems that the crew and the media were fighting each other, but instead made the film. "Crisis in the Air" received extra attention.

I have to say that there may be a shadow of PGI in this, propaganda, if you can't get a good reputation, you will get a bad reputation.

Anyway, no matter what you say, it must be better than no reputation.

People in the industry are aware of this, so it doesn't matter how the war of words starts, it's clear at a glance who wins.

Obviously, with such a hype, the final box office of "Air Crisis" can increase by 10 to 20 million yuan, so as not to do a loss-making business.

As for "Dead Silence", because horror themes are naturally not suitable for long-term screenings, in the nearly one-month period, the total accumulated in North America has exceeded 120 million, and now the box office is less than 2 million per day. It is estimated that the next painting will be around a few days.

On October 8, Lehmann saw a slightly haggard-looking spinning top at Firefly Pictures.

"what happened to you?"

As a studio partner who can provide film sources, Lehmann asked with concern.

Because he looked like he hadn't rested for several days, with thick bloodshot eyes in his eyes.

The top shook his head and smiled reluctantly, "I'm fine. I just wrote a script that I want to show you."

"Do you want to invest?"

The top did not deny it, and handed it over with the prepared shooting plan and script.

Lehman flipped through it and got a general idea of ​​the creative idea of ​​the film.

Well, this guy is still going to shoot a fantasy movie.

The background is the Spanish Civil War and Franco's dictatorship.

In fact, after finishing the work of the first four episodes of the first season of "The Walking Dead", Top returned to his hometown to rest for a few months, and the idea of ​​​​the film was born during this period.

In 2001, he made a "Ghost Boys' Home", which was about the weird type of works of the Spanish Civil War orphanage, and this "Pan's Labyrinth" was created on the basis of "Ghost Boys Home".

But after returning to Los Angeles, Top felt that he had to change his original intention, which was too strange-because the results of "Ghost Boys' Home" were not as good as those of works in recent years, so he wanted to write it in the style of fairy tales and fables.

During this period, he read many books such as "One Thousand and One Nights" and "Grimm's Fairy Tales", and was deeply influenced by the illustrations in them, which broadened his visual horizons.

So, in the end, this work has become unsuitable for children, but it is indeed an evil version of "Alice in Wonderland" created by fairy tales.

Lyman also saw the seriousness of the top, rather than the playful entertainment like "Hellboy". Many scenes are designed very seriously, with high emotional connotations and a critical nature.

In other words, in this work, the top is the deep meaning that I want to shoot, which can bring the audience to think about the high pressure and injury suffered by the people under war and dictatorship.

After reading the script, Lehman pondered for a while before saying, "I invested in this project. Whether it is funding or distribution, I am willing to support it. What do you mean?"

Top can feel his attention and concern from Lehmann's attitude. To be honest, he really spent a lot of effort on this work.

On preparation He revised three versions before finalizing the script.

In parallel time and space, the top took the project to find a lot of people but failed to attract investment. The most important reason is that this guy does not intend to talk in English, but respects the background, shoots in Spanish, and makes it into a foreign film.

In this way, there is no Hollywood studio willing to risk investment.

In the end, it was his good friend Alfonso Cuaron who strongly supported him. He not only acted as the producer of the project, but also helped attract funders with his personal connections. He also distributed three or five independent studios to jointly fund. The idea of ​​losing money is to get the product.

In fact, the top is worthy of being a monster fantasy professional. The investment in this film is not much, and in order to save money, the actors are completely unknown, but they won the Palme d'Or in one fell swoop, and then they also won quite a lot at the Oscars. Business has entered the field of award literature and art.

Everyone knows that this ghost has quirks. After all, his hobbies are very different from those of others since he was a child. It can be said that he is a very stubborn person.

And now, he stubbornly believes that the language setting of the film cannot be changed, English or something, just watch the subtitles - not aiming at respecting the audience in the English-speaking area at all.