China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 295 The best horror movies and romance movies

"Signal: Mirage" ended its first week of release, with a box office of 510 million, becoming the May 1st box office champion, and achieving doubled profits. After all, the total cost of this movie was only 70 million, because of the proportion of film remuneration

It's not high. The heroine Zhao Liying's salary is only 7 million, and the total salary is less than 12 million.

Of course, this is not that DreamWorks lowers the price of actors. Although Zhao Liying is a first-line actress in China, she mainly focuses on TV series. The film salary of 7 million is considered high, but after this movie, her net worth will inevitably increase.

It will rise sharply.

The cost of publicity and distribution is also very small. With the help of "Black Mirror" and the reputation accumulated by the IP of Signal, only one version of the trailer was released without screening. This was actually determined by DreamWorks

The publicity strategy is to retain as much mystery as possible in order to provide the audience with a better viewing experience.

Although the promotion was low-key and was completely overshadowed by "Gravity", which launched promotion at almost the same time, it still received the most film schedules among the three movies released on the same day.

Therefore, it is not surprising that "Mirage" can win the May Day box office championship. This year's May Day box office did not have the "Enter the Dragon" like last year. Last year's split blockbusters "Young Avengers" and "Source Code" set off consecutive box office hits in April and May.

It sparked a movie-going craze, broke records one after another, and led the Chinese film market into the 2 billion era.

Judging from the pre-screening momentum of several films in this year's May 1st season, there is not one awe-inspiring Tiger. The themes range from history, science fiction, suspense, horror to love. It seems to be a gathering of small and medium-cost genre films.

However, the crushing victory of "Mirage" still exceeded many people's expectations. During the May Day period from April 29th to May 5th, a total of 1.2 billion was reported at the box office, and "Mirage" exclusively accounted for 510 million.

Capacity, the second-ranked "Love in Seattle" only has 290 million, the blockbuster "The Jungle Book" known as the CG revolution, which has been released for half a month, has taken 170 million, and several other movies have directly hit the street.

Not even over 100 million.

The star-studded "Master Xuanzang" and "Phantom of the Devil" produced by two major studios performed big dives immediately after their premieres.

As a result, the May 1st Film Festival, which was originally considered to be a hundred flowers blooming with various types and multiple aspects of blooming, was once again captured by DreamWorks alone.

This is far from the previous predictions of both the media and the ticket purchase website. After analysis by the media, it was found that the reason was that "Mirage" successfully "scammed" the producers and media of the same period of the movie. DreamWorks was "pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger"

"Woolen cloth.

Audiences have diverse movie-watching tastes. We are not on the same track as you. You charge your box office and I charge mine. No matter how high your reputation is, there will be couples who go there for love and audiences who go there for horror themes.

Will come to watch my movie.

First of all, "The Mirage" is not a work by Chen Jingxing, and the investment is not high. In addition, the publicity is low-key, which makes people think that it is a small but beautiful science fiction sketch, not the kind of blockbuster that aims to devour the market.

"This is a story about saving someone and becoming her husband."

"Phantom of the Magic City" is not unfair. Although it is indeed well-made compared to previous domestic horror movies, the picture and texture have been improved to the naked eye. The background of the bungalows in the Magic City of the Republic of China is also very suitable for creating a spooky, weird and terrifying atmosphere.

Atmosphere.

"The male protagonist is simply Hachiko, a loyal dog in human form. I declare Bai Yu to be my new boss!"

"There is another shadow in life after Toshioong in the bed."

"Love in Seattle":???

"I declare 'The Mirage' to be the best horror thriller of the moment!"

Many viewers who watched "The Mirage" in theaters generally experienced this kind of psychological process while watching the movie.

The biggest victims are "Love in Seattle" and "Phantom of the Devil" which were released on the same day as "The Mirage".

The reason why DreamWorks has already created the successful IP "Signal" that the third film is scheduled to be released on May 1st, other companies dare to compete with "Mirage" in a star-studded drama. Even though the public opinion was still optimistic about DreamWorks beforehand,

"Mirage" can be the winner of the May 1st slot, but it is generally believed that there will not be a crushing take-all situation. Instead, like last year and this year's Spring Festival slot, competition will be fierce, with two strong players or even multiple strong ones standing side by side.

But after all, it is still a Chinese-style ghost film. No matter how strong the texture is and how good the atmosphere is created in the early stage, the ending will definitely give the audience an experience of "getting closer to science", and the audience will inevitably have expectations.

Frustration and disappointment.

"Master Xuanzang" is a history and biography, "Phantom of the Devil" is said to be the largest-invested domestic horror film in history, focusing on the horror style of the Republic of China, and "Love in Seattle" is about love in addition to love.

The previous low-key promotion of "Mirage" and the secretive content of "Mirage" also successfully gave the audience the ultimate feeling of being played with emotions by layers of surprises during the movie viewing process. Therefore, on the night of the premiere, "Mirage" was

Netizens were so moved by the routine that they were surprised and blew rainbow farts on the Internet and carried out crazy Amway activities.

"In the middle of watching the movie, I was still thinking that the heroine in "Mirage" is the most miserable heroine I have ever seen. At the end, I have to take back this comment. The heroine is simply a winner in life! Please God grant me such a

A husband!"

"It's so sweet! My boyfriend and I watched it twice. Every time I saw the subway scene and the kissing scene, there were two little people holding hands and spinning around in my heart!"

"[Life is like a box of various chocolates, you never know what the next piece will taste like] - I can't spoil it for you, but I think this sentence is very suitable to describe "Mirage"!"

But I didn’t expect that "Mirage" is about "if the mountain is not mine, I will be the mountain." You want to compete with me in a misplaced position? I don't.

But the main reason is that the producers of other films believe that they are not direct competitors of DreamWorks and can achieve mismatched competition with "Mirage".

"As a single person living alone, I deserve to watch this movie alone. Just after watching it, my neighbor knocked on the door and my neighbor knocked on the door. My heart almost jumped out of my chest! Help! Who can delete that eye from my mind?"

"Phantom of the Magic City":???

Even if the quality of "Phantom of the Devil" is actually not bad, you will inevitably have to feed the audience shit at the end. The higher the tone you set at the beginning, the higher the disappointment of the audience will be later, which will lead to a poor movie-watching experience.

Lower quality than the movie itself will also make the rating lower than it should be.

"I declare that "Mirage" is the best romance film this May Day!"

A large number of these confusing and curious comments and Amway have made many viewers want to see who "Mirage" is. It is both thrilling and terrifying, psychologically shadowy, and so sweet that it turns around in circles. What kind of angel and romance is this?

A strange combination of devil and devil?

"I want to block the peephole of my security door now. Do you know this feeling?"

"This movie reminds us to close the curtains at night to avoid seeing things we shouldn't see, little life GG"

And the film's layers of twists and surprises made the Amway audience feel that it was worth the price of admission, or even more than the price of admission, and they joined the "tap water" team.

At the beginning, I had the mentality of watching a science fiction movie, but after watching it, I realized that it was a horror thriller. In the middle of the movie, it experienced a series of twists and turns, and it also felt like a crime solving movie. At the last second, I changed my costume.

, it turned directly into a romance film, and it is the kind of romance film that gives people a particularly small and clear feeling. It is so sweet that it directly slaps dog food on your face, making your "girlish heart" explode.

This is completely opposite to the rhythm of "Mirage". "Mirage" is a high-energy sublimation at the end, which will give the audience a great sense of surprise. Therefore, the viewing experience "Mirage" brings to the audience is actually higher than the movie itself.

quality.

Objectively speaking, "Mirage" has one or two thrilling and terrifying scenes. Under Tian Xinye's superb camera language, the horror expression is also very strong, but of course it is not as complete as "Phantom of the Magic City".

It's unfair that "The Mirage" is scarier and more thrilling than "Phantom".

But ghost movies in domestic theaters must feed shit to the audience as always, and if you really don’t have ghosts, then you can only consider yourself unlucky.

In the contrast between the extremely negative reviews and the extremely positive reviews brought about by this one-sided movie viewing experience, "The Mirage" has become the mainstream evaluation recognized by everyone as a better horror thriller than the Republican horror film "Phantom of the Devil".

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