The Best Director

Chapter 168 The highest-grossing R-rated movie in history!

Under the warm summer sun, Wang Yang lay comfortably on the sun lounger by the swimming pool in the back garden, flipped through the messages on his phone, and pressed the number pad to make some replies. With the popularity of "District 9", he has received almost non-stop congratulations, short messages, emails, calls, etc. from good friends and ordinary friends these days, and some people make him very happy .

"Congratulations to you great director. You let me watch another good movie. Should I say thank you? Haha, I bought a ticket. The Ninth District is unparalleled, keep it up"

Before clearing the SMS box on his mobile phone, Wang Yang scanned the messages of several people again, and after reading Rachel's congratulations from a few days ago, he smiled and deleted them. At this time, he suddenly received a new text message from Will Smith, and he opened it: "Man, congratulations to "District 9" for breaking 100 million at the box office, it's amazing. Also, do you have time to teach Jaden Kung Fu these days? He pestered me to learn new moves."

The kung fu learned by Jaden is not even a show, just some postures and sequences of punching and kicking, but he is learning with great interest, and he seems to feel that he is now "high in kung fu". Wang Yang smiled, thought for a while, and immediately called Will back, looking at the light blue swimming pool in front of him. With the sound of swimming, Jessica, with her long drape, swims lightly in the water, and her figure is very beautiful.

One of the great successes of "The Ninth District" is that Wang Yang's popularity once again soared to a record high, and he became a dazzling front-screen star. In the words of fans, it is "the return of the king". In the past few days, no matter the traditional paper media or emerging websites, "The Ninth District" and Magic Yang are almost everywhere with movie entertainment, not just the film reviews of film critics, box office reports, and interviews and promotions during the release stage of the film crew.

It's more personal gossip and behind-the-scenes stories about the production of the movie. In the item "The Ninth District" and the relationship between Yang's imprisoned magic, Yahoo Entertainment revealed: "Why is it the Ninth District? Not the Seventh District , District 8? It turns out that when Fantastic Young and Robert Downey Jr. were roommates on Rikers Island, their cell number was 49." In addition, it revealed: "Amazing Young beat Downy up one night. A prisoner on the opposite side saw it with his own eyes, he knocked Down Downey down with a few punches, pinned Downy to the ground and beat him up violently."

And the source of reality behind the movie, whether District 9 refers to prisons, or alludes to the apartheid system in South Africa, etc... They all have their own opinions and look decent.

On the other hand, the public demand for private life street photos has also increased suddenly, and the paparazzi have surrounded and tracked them, so that the two went to the beach in Santa Monica yesterday, but they were harassed and disturbed. Although they have long been used to it, but like this Going to the market to buy things has a dozen or so "followers", but it is also quite annoying. So the two simply stayed at home today to cool off.

After a few beeps, the phone was connected, and Wang Yang said hello, "Hi, Will." Will Smith over there laughed and said, "Hey, the box office has exceeded 100 million in one day, so cool." Wang Yang said with a smile Thank you, then said: "Jaden will come over tomorrow if he wants to learn new moves.

I teach him for a day, I have plenty of time now. ""The Ninth District" has just been released, even if you try your best, you can't edit "The Hangover" right away.

He needs to rest for half a month, but he can't go on a trip. It's not because he's afraid of a terrorist attack, but because he's needed for the film's follow-up promotion. There might be some magazine that invites him to do an interview at any time.

"Well, that's great. Jaden now knows that your movie is released. These days, he has been saying 'I'm going to see Master's movie' and 'Dad, take me there'." Will Smith pretended with a sharp voice. The child said a few words, and sighed with a headache: "You know your movie is too depressing. Terry and I have watched it for two days, and I still feel uncomfortable when I think about it. What do you want me to do? Do? When we refused, Jaden was crying and fussing, oh my God, where did he learn that?"

"I don't know, it's a child's nature, right?" Wang Yang suddenly laughed, but "The Ninth District" must not be read by children of a few years old, he smiled on the phone: "Jaden will come to me tomorrow, I'll play High School Musical for him."

Will Smith didn't think it was a good idea, and said: "That kid is not easy to deceive, he knows that there are aliens. Uh, I told him, I wanted to tell the story and let it go, but who knew he would I'm more interested." Wang Yang raised his brows for a while, then smiled and said, "Okay, if that's the case, I'll show him some behind-the-scenes shots, and there's a green-faced alien in it."

"Man, you got him anyway." Will Smith laughed, very irresponsibly, and said with a smile: "He can watch Men in Black. But Terry hit me hard , he said, 'Will, compared to Young's "District 9", yours is like a toy" Oh, he is only 0 years old, shouldn't he like toys? Haha" He laughed again: "But he is right, if I'm going to play Wiggs, maybe I can win another best actor, and now it belongs to Downey."

The success of "The Ninth District" not only made Wang Yang soaring in popularity, but Robert Downey Jr. also did the same. He returned to the ranks of popular stars overnight, even surpassing the height of his youth.

In the past five or six years, he has become a despised street mouse because of his misdeeds such as drug abuse and drunk driving. However, since he took over the filming of "Ninth District", he seems to have changed. The words are "awakened". He successfully detoxified without being arrested again, and he sincerely admitted his mistakes in public many times. Coupled with his genius performance in "The Ninth District", movie fans and fans have re-accepted this uncle Nian who has turned his prodigal son back.

The combination of Wiggs' grief and pain and his own life experience made "The Ninth District" a bit more legendary. His understanding of the role and acting skills have become a must-have item for media film critics to praise when they talk about "The Ninth District".

"Los Angeles Times" said, "It is precisely because Robert Downey Jr. experienced the pain and loneliness of being alone, that Viggs came alive on the screen." The screen is moving toward despair, and Robert Downey Jr. is moving toward hope in reality. But I am afraid that for a long time, the audience will never forget the appearance of Robert rubbing bamboo dragonflies.”…

The word channel of "Oscar Best Actor" in the media is also very high, which is definitely a rare thing for a "commercial movie" released in August. And film critic Philia Thomas wrote on his blog: "It would be a disaster worse than Metamorphosis if the awards deliberately ignored "District 9" because of outdated ideas and damned traditions."

The focus of the gossip media is naturally different. Some reporters asked Robert Downey Jr. in an interview: "When you played the part where Wiggs was abandoned by his wife, were you thinking about Sarah Jessica Parker or ex-wife Day?" Bora Fa O'Connor?" Downey didn't respond positively to this, but skipped the answer with a joke: "I was thinking of you."

In any case, Downey's popularity is rising every day. This does not make Will Smith envious, because there is no need for it. Although "Men in Black" has a poor reputation, the audience loves Will, and he still loves him. Is one of the popular kings of Hollywood.

It's just that the strength of "District 9" made Will feel a little bit emotional. The key words of the film review of "Men in Black" are "following the old, nothing new, dull and clichéd", and the first one is almost eaten, North American. 700 million US dollars, 700 million in the world; although Sony will definitely not lose money, "Men in Black" is definitely far away. This needs to wait until the audience forgets the bad impression of the second part and starts to miss the first part. This time may take five or ten years.

Among the many sci-fi movies this summer, it goes without saying that "Flame Doom" has a bad reputation at the box office; the box office bomb "Spider-Man" is a purely commercial movie; Destroying the Star Wars series; the "dull and crappy" "Signs" is facing the fate of being strangled in theaters by "The Ninth District"; the black sci-fi "Minority Report" was praised as "the best" at the beginning of the summer, but "Ninth District" After the release of "Zone", film critics put the title of "the best of this summer" back on the shrimp and insects.

Rotten Tomatoes' freshness of well-known film critics, "Flame Doom"%; "Star Wars Prequel"%; "Men in Black" 4%; "Signs" 56%; "Spiderman" District Nine"95% . The audience likes one item: "Fire Doom" 55%; "Men in Black" 57%; "Signs"%; "Spiderman" 65%; "Star Wars Prequel" District Nine" 9%.

The ranking of these two data explains something. If you ask the collective opinion of the film critics, "Who is the best sci-fi movie this summer?", the answer is "District 9"; if you ask the collective opinion of the audience? It is still the "Ninth District", which is "novel, unique, exciting, and terrifyingly deep".

"Man, it's really amazing. I thought "When Happiness Knocks" should be your limit before the age of 0." Will Smith sighed with emotion again, and said with a smile: "But two years later, the incredible "" "The Ninth District" was born." Wang Yang shook his head and smiled at the phone: "Thank you, Will, I will teach Jaden well, you don't need to do this." Wil suddenly laughed, and asked again: "OK, Yang, when will we have a chance to work together again?"

It's not that he doesn't have a film contract when he asks this question. "Bad Boys" is about to start, but the word-of-mouth setback of "Men in Black" makes him disappointed in filming the sequel of "Bad Money". Besides, which actor doesn't want to cooperate with Fan Yang? Of course he also wants to have box office, word of mouth and awards.

Hearing what Will said, Wang Yang thought about it seriously, "T——Team" must have no chance, Jeff Ma cannot be a black man, and his age is not right. He laughed and said: "Will, there will be, we are all so young but my next movie, maybe you have heard of it, Natalie Portman will play the female lead, called "T-Team", The main actors are all young people, or like young people, so old men go away."

Will Smith laughed a few times without any disappointment, and said: "Okay, then I'll wait for the future, haha ​​but buddy, you just said that I am young?" Wang Yang immediately laughed and said: "Okay , that's comforting words, man, you're getting old."

The two laughed and chatted for a few more words before ending the call. Wang Yang put down his mobile phone, put his hands on his head, and admired Jessica's charming swimming not far away. She swam back and forth again and came to the edge of the swimming pool, put her hands on the tiles above, gasping for breath, and said with a smile, "Yang, come down and swim together." Wang Yang looked at the sun in the sky, and said with a smile: " I'm a little too lazy to move now, I'll hang out for a while."

"Yeah." Jessica wiped her wet sweat with both hands on her forehead, and when she was breathing smoothly, she suddenly became interested and said with a smile: "I want to challenge my personal record of holding my breath in diving, and you can help me time it." , I’m going to dive for a long time this time.” Wang Yang nodded with a smile, diving is her hobby, she always likes to play this, picked up the phone and pressed a few times, said: “It’s time to start,,,,”

Before she finished speaking, she took a deep breath, puffed her cheeks, squatted down, and dived to the bottom of the pool.

The time passed by seconds by seconds, and the water surface of the swimming pool was so calm that there was no ripple. Wang Yang glanced at the timer on his mobile phone, said: 9 seconds, and said with a smile: "Hey, Jesse, it's almost three minutes, a new record Jesse You won’t faint in the water, right?” He immediately sat up and looked around, and suddenly there was a splash on the water by the pool, and a brown beauty appeared. He asked, "How long?"

"It's been half an hour, a new Guinness World Record." Wang Yang said bluntly, looking at her distressed appearance, he said angrily, "Beauty, what are you doing so desperately? You're holding yourself back like Huo It's dangerous to be a Bitman." Jessica blinked her eyes, which were made uncomfortable by the water, and asked with a smile, "How long?"

Following her example, Wang Yang rolled his eyes several times, then glanced at the phone screen, and said: "Second." Jessica over there suddenly exclaimed, and then smiled brightly with excitement, happily Said in a low voice: "I knew the record was broken, and it was o seconds ahead of time Oh my god, I have to try again No, show me my phone first, I want to take a picture of it as a souvenir"

"No more, I deleted it." Wang Yang pressed a few times to clear the timer record, then stood up and took off his T-shirt, and said with a smile, "I have a way for you to dive for 0 minutes." Jesse Ka looked puzzled with disbelief, "What can I do?" Wang Yang said with a smile, "I'll come down and tell you", then ran two steps and jumped into the swimming pool. laughter.

Summer is gradually coming to an end day by day. When the screening week from August to 8th comes to an end, the weekly box office of the last month of the annual summer vacation schedule is also settled. There is no suspense that the film ranked first in the North American weekly box office, it is precisely in one weekend "The Ninth District", and it continued to receive 80,000 in 4 days, and the total box office of Zhoujia Theater reached .

If it is calculated at 9.9 yuan per ticket, there is probably a ninth district."

"Tian Zhao" continued to rank second this week, with a final box office of 4.67 million; the next rankings were "Ace Powers" with 7.64 million, "Master of Disguise" with 070,000, and "Master of Disguise" with 6.87 million. Stand Out".

The Ninth District swept the box office this week with dominance, strangling several new films that were released at the same time, such as "Tian Zhao", the figure of .

At present, the highest-grossing R-rated film in North American film history is the comedy action film "Beverly Hills Cop" in 1984. It received 400 million U.S. dollars in 0 weeks of screening, and it would be even more if inflation was included. But it seems that the title of "North American R-rated movie box office champion" will soon change hands. With the strength and word-of-mouth shown in "The Ninth District" week, maybe it can be said that it is affirmative, as long as the performance in the second week is normal.

Ranked second in R-rated film history is 97, third is 998, fourth is 99, fifth and tenth is "The Matrix" in 1999 with 700 million. There are only two sci-fi movies in the top ten, "Terminator" and "The Matrix"; and it won't be long before one name will be changed.

Countless movie fans throughout North America have tasted depressing and sad feelings this week The strongest abandoned young man of the Nine Heavens of Audacity, the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty, the martial arts general, the king of the gods, the seal of the gods, and the throne The same is true for the royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty and audiences in many countries and regions around the world. When they pointed their finger at Miracle Yang and cursed "k", "Verdmmt", "t", "czz", "Чepтob", "your lung" in various languages..., the "Ninth District" Overseas box office also soared.

Overseas Week has received a total box office of 870 million US dollars, 640,000 in the UK, 460,000 in Germany, and the 9th district of France" almost all won the local weekly box office champion, and 800 million US dollars is also the global one-week box office champion.

If you ask those fans who are so uncomfortable and madly cursing: "Is it good or not?" From ImdB's main page, the rating stopped at 8.9, but the number of users who participated in the rating rose to 0,65; the rating stopped at 8.8; In %, it seems to be able to get the answer.

It's a charming film, an anti-Hollywood classic, impeccable in every way. --David Stratton, The Australian; Stunning film that takes your mind and your mind like a storm and gives you a chance to think. ——De Snyder, "Rheinische Post" in Germany; thinking flashes everywhere, classic classics. ——Shi Qi, Ming Pao, Hong Kong...

Seeing that the whole world is admiring how beautiful and shocking "The Ninth District" is, fans in mainland China are very anxious. The reason for the review cannot be done; even if it will be introduced in the second half of this year, as one of the first imported films in 2019, it will take several months, and those allegedly "crazy" shots will likely be cut.

In order to see this "magic work" on the big screen first, many qualified movie fans have organized groups to "travel and watch movies" in Hong Kong, even if it is very troublesome to apply for a bunch of customs clearance documents.