Chapter 888： Dilemma

The Watcher is about to meet the audience.

Even if the play has been ups and downs since the beginning of preparation, it makes people feel unconfident.

Inside the Warner Building.

A group of executives were sitting, not very interested.

This play was not confirmed to be a failure after it was released. In fact, it can be seen from the announcement.

You know, the publicity scale of the film is not to mention that of the Harry Potter series. It can't even do the mystery of Xia Yingying. In the early publicity, Warner spent less than 23 million conservatively, and it can already be seen that their internal opposition The risk assessment level of the project is not low. If it is really optimistic, it will never be so arrogant.

In other words, Warner certainly hopes that Watchmen can make money, but it is difficult to be optimistic that it can make a lot of money and attract money, so the financial control is a little stricter.

"There are 3,611 theaters in the theater line, and they also avoided the summer season of competition. What we need to do now is to mobilize the fans and audiences' desire to watch movies."

The executive in charge of cinema liaison took the schedule details that had been set and handed it to everyone, "In the same schedule, there are no movies that need too much attention, hurricane rescue, slum millionaires are now only 6 or 700 yuan a week. Ten thousand dollars, the overall screening situation is going downhill.”

"If you perform well, the first title should be no problem, the difficulty is the follow-up."

"Comic fans are looking forward to it, but passers-by won't be able to."

"As long as the first week's results are released, the audience who will be watching word-of-mouth will be attracted to enter the arena."

"How to maintain word of mouth?" One person said disappointedly.

The person who just said this spread his hands a little hesitantly. "Most of the original pictures have been restored. Fans who have read the comics may like it. I will guide you through this point and save early word of mouth." Genius remembers in a second噺バ一Chinese mx/8/1/z/wc/o/m/

"How about the delivery of the comic book?"

"More than 20,000 copies have been sent out."

In fact, Warner Bros. has also made a lot of efforts to release the film, but its grasp of the market is still not so optimistic. It is too difficult to adapt Watchmen. The length and content are both big problems, but before the release, fans are still quite positive. , and initially formed the main force of ticket purchases, that is, audiences who have access to the original works of the project in the past or in the near future, and there are very few women.

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Tickets for the advance show went well.

Although the gold attraction of special effects films is waning day by day, masterpieces with these three points are still different.

The first is the basic plate. The Watcher was named "100 Great Novels in History" by Time Magazine and won the Hugo Award;

Secondly, there is mutual connection. After the novel author Alan Moore's V for Vendetta was brought to the screen by the Wachowski brothers, the box office and reputation were not bad, and it was highly sought after by film critics;

Finally, whether it is Warner's Dark Knight, another masterpiece of superhero human nature, the drainage of the dark poke, or the trailer released, the pictures and visual effects that Zach has injected into the work are also quite gorgeous and refreshing. .

On the evening of March 5th.

At the door of a mid-range community, 16- and 7-year-old Boris is anxiously waiting for something.

Until a familiar face came running from the aisle, he couldn't help complaining, "It's agreed that we will meet at 7 o'clock, why are you late?"

"It's not like you don't know, I have to clean up the kitchen after dinner and throw away the garbage." Torre panted and explained a few words.

"Forget it, let's go, don't miss the movie screening."

Torre nodded, but he was not as expected as his good partner Boris.

Unlike Boris who is a dc fan, UU reading www. uukanshu.com He doesn't like reading comics very much, but he still watches movies a lot.

Recently, the biggest and most eye-catching one on the market is undoubtedly the Watchmen, so the two also made an appointment to go to the cinema together.

Jogging all the way, the young man’s physical strength is very strong. After the two of them went to the theater they frequented the most, the long queue at the ticket window made Boris complain a few words. He was very worried about waiting for so many days. It turned out to be a day's delay.

Fortunately, they hurry up and hurry, and the two of them still entered the theater, but the location was not very good.

The chattering voice of discussion and the good atmosphere with almost no vacancies also made Boris feel excited.

Halfway through the movie, when he came back to his senses and was so excited that he wanted to find someone to share his joy with, at some point, Torre had fallen asleep.

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To be honest, Watchmen is very unfriendly to audiences who don't read the original comics beforehand, and they can't even figure out the relationship between the characters and what's going to happen.

why?

The amount of information is too large, and it has not been handled in detail at all, because the space is there.

Like Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, even if you don't know the background in advance, it is a visual enjoyment as a special effect film, so both of them have attracted a large number of non-Marvel fans to enter the stadium to support, and the same is true for Batman, Nolan The deconstruction of the movie makes it okay to make it a crime movie.

In this regard, the watchmen can't do well. The threshold is too high. Today, it is highly entertaining, and you have to know the background of the story before you can watch the movie?

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