Halloween is coming, and many big cities across the United States will hold Halloween parades, and demons and monsters with different outfits are also beginning to appear on the streets, such as Jason, Freddy, Skeleton Mask Killer, etc., which can be seen everywhere.

The masks launched by the "Human Purge Project" series before Halloween also became a popular product.

Many movie fans wearing masks can be seen at the entrances of the theater.

Adding to other horror characters, these people form the most crazi and hardcore horror movie audience during the Halloween schedule.

But these people entered the theater and found that there were much fewer horror movies available for Halloween this year than before.

For example, the "Halloween" series, which is released every one or two years, has broken the appointment this year.

In the theater, someone young man took off Jason's mask and asked, "Do you not have a screening of "Nicri, Son of Satan?"

"This movie has no scheduled films." The ticket seller explained with a smile: "This movie is a small-scale trial, and our theater has not scheduled films."

The man looked up at the screening schedule and frowned: "There is no "The King of Vampire"?"

The ticket seller was very patient: "The two movies you said are B-level films that were previewed in small areas, and there may be no scheduled films in the entire Los Angeles area." She recommended: "If you like to watch horror movies, you can try this "Human Clearance Plan 2", a very high-quality horror movie."

For many movie fans, just like watching the whole family on Thanksgiving and Christmas, they also need to watch horror movies on Halloween.

Over the years, it has gradually become a tradition of watching movies.

"Hey, do you buy a ticket?" The waiter behind was impatient and shouted at the ticket seller: "Give me three tickets for "Human Purge 2."

The ticket seller quickly collected the money and issued the ticket.

Jason's masked man looked at the screening list again. Except for the films released before, not many newly drawn movies have screenings in this theater. Basically, they are "Human Clearance Plan 2" and "Return to Glory", but the latter is obviously not a horror film.

Three hours later, there is a "The Legend of Beautiful Sicily", and it seems that this is the only one today.

He had watched the trailer for this movie before. The director and the heroine were very unfamiliar. It was an Italian movie and would not watch it even if it was boring.

There was no other choice, Jason masked man said, "Give me a ticket to "Human Purge 2."

The films released in the past few weeks have already passed the hottest stage. The films released last week are British films, and the response is relatively average. Among the films that have been released this week, "Human Purge 2" is the only horror film to be released on a large scale, and it is also the film with the highest screening rate among major theaters.

High screening rate means more screening screens, and with more screens, there will be room for more audiences.

This traditional horror film is the biggest competitor of "Human Purge 2" in fact "Return to Glory", and the audiences of both sides are still different.

If calculated by the standards a few years later, the cast lineup of "Return to Glory" is definitely full of superstars, with Will Smith, Matt Damon and Charlize Theron as the three main protagonists. However, this inspirational sports film about golf has been despised by theaters. Even if DreamWorks found 20th Century Fox as the publisher, there were only 2,000 painting theaters in North America.

"Human Purge 2" is not only the largest film released during Halloween, but also the most popular promotional scale.

"A violent night is naturally inevitable with all kinds of abuse, killing, slaughtering scenes and scenes. At least in terms of visual effects, it is an indispensable standard."

"In addition to fighting skills and comprehensive upgrades in shooting skills, "Human Clearance Plan 2" also showed the appearance of many powerful weapons, such as heavy machine guns mounted in trucks, various grenades, etc. In short, in terms of visual effects, "Human Clearance Plan 2" is much more enjoyable than the previous one."

Promotion soft promotion is a common method used by paper media publicity.

The daylight on Friday passed quickly, and after the sun set, the number of viewers in theaters across North America increased dramatically.

Even those who hide at home watching TV cannot escape the publicity bombing of "Human Purge 2".

As time approached twelve o'clock in the evening, Tom Cruise sat in the living room of the mansion, without any intention of going to sleep.

Penelope Cruz was right next to him and watched TV with him.

"Just $1.5 million investment." Penelope Cruz was a little dissatisfied: "Does it take this time to pay attention?"

Tom Cruise shook his head: "This is my first time working with Ronan."

Penelope Cruz said: "He is really as good as you said?"

Tom Cruise suddenly smiled: "Who is the most representative commercial producer in Hollywood today?"

"Well..." Penelope Cruz thought for a while and said, "Jerry Brookheimer?"

Tom Cruise said lightly: "I worked with Jerry Brookheimer on Top Gun. Not to mention when I just entered the production industry, even Jerry Brookheimer during the "Top Gun" period is not as good as Ronan now."

Although I knew that Tom Cruise highly praised Ronan Anderson, Penelope Cruz was still very surprised: "Is this too exaggerated?"

Tom Cruise briefly explained: "Don Simpson played a key role in Jerry Brookheimer's ability to get to where he is. In Jerry Brookheimer's early production career, Don Simpson gave him shelter from the wind and rain, blocking most of the troubles, including project selection, and it was Don Simpson who really played the decisive role."

He smiled and said, "Look at Ronan again, no one pointed out the direction for him, no one kept him from the wind and rain, and no one chose projects for him. He had to analyze and judge all major decisions by himself. The biggest pressure was his own strength. He could do what he could do today, not by others' help, but by himself."

"But he also has failed projects like "Ace Agents"!" Penelope Cruz retorted.

Tom Cruise's smile was even stronger: "Did "Ace Agent" fail? You don't understand..."

He did not continue to explain. For a woman who doesn't understand production, it is not necessary to explain.

The film failed at the box office, but anyone who knows the operation can guess that Ronan and his company are the winners of the project.

If the movie fails, the company that shoots the movie may not lose.

There is no need to tell these things that are too complicated to a woman in a vase.

She may not understand even if she says it.

Like Penelope Cruz, a woman who can only use her body to climb up, will not understand the meaning of a successful young producer.

Not everyone can win his Tom Cruise friendship.

The lion will never be friends with antelope.

For some reason, Penelope Cruz felt that in Tom Cruise's eyes, Ronan Anderson was much more important than her.

Penelope Cruz doubted whether these two people had any ulterior motives.

She suddenly felt that "Human Purge 2" would be the best failure!

Penelope Cruz has seen this film premiere, and the film has no artistic content at all. It is dull and vulgar, so failure is natural.

Shouldn’t bad movies fail in the box office?

While thinking about it, Penelope Cruz quietly looked at Tom Cruise and found that Tom Cruise's attention was not on her at all, but on the TV report about "Human Purge 2".

"As a thriller film, the first series of films has a slightly smaller pattern, mainly focusing on the theme of good and evil. It is not only limited to a single family, but also the extension is only a little psychological motivation for hating the rich and hate the rich caused by the gap between the rich and the poor."

The comments and reports on this TV show seem to be depreciating, but in fact they want to promote and suppress them first.

"In "Human Purge Plan 2", in addition to the visual effects of violent shots, the film's theme also has a great extension. The line of armed male protagonist mainly emphasizes whether violence should be used to fight violence when facing unintentional harm from others. The young couple's part is a sublimation of abandoning emotional entanglement before danger. The most important theme is naturally the main line of the black mother and daughter. It is seamlessly connected with the plot design, elevating the entire removal plan to the height of political conspiracy."

Penelope Cruz couldn't help but sneer in his heart. Just like this kind of film, I would be embarrassed to say that there is someone's theme?

"It can be imagined that the creators of the "Human Purge Plan" series do not seem to want to just occupy the horror thriller videos. It obviously has greater ambitions to continue the life of the series as much as possible..."

The TV was still playing, Tom Cruise's cell phone rang, Penelope Cruise immediately picked up the remote control and turned off the sound of the TV.

Just so happened that this made her uncomfortable flattering voice disappear.

Penelope Cruz went to see Tom Cruise who answered the call, and glanced at the wall clock on one side. Before he knew it, it was already past midnight.

"Well, I get it." Tom Cruise was in a clear mood, and his handsome face almost burst into laughter: "You keep your attention to the video, that's it."

Seeing Tom Cruise hung up the phone, Penelope Cruz asked with concern: "What's wrong, my dear?"

Tom Cruise put down his phone and said directly: "Today's North American box office statistics have been released. "Human Purge 2" won $13.6 million on the first day of its release!"

Penelope Cruz's face was about to collapse instantly, but she was a veteran actress who had been tested for a long time. Regardless of her actual thoughts, she immediately squeezed out a happy smile and stood up to hug Tom Cruz: "Tom, the video you invested in is a big hit, congratulations!"

Tom Cruise gently patted her back and was calm: "An expected success."

The production cost of this film is 6 million US dollars, and the painting day in North America alone received 13.6 million US dollars. What about the outside of Shanghai? Can you recover your investment on the first day?

Ronan is indeed amazing!

He picked up his cell phone and called Ronan. This guy has been busy with work recently and should not have a female companion to accompany him to do exercise.

Penelope Cruz suddenly felt hot as he heard Tom Cruz say on the phone that the production cost was $6 million.

Is it too exaggerated to have a film that cost $6 million to produce and get a box office of $13.6 million on the first day of its release?

What will the final box office be? Ten times or more of the production cost?

Penelope Cruz finally understood why Tom Cruz valued a mere $1.5 million investment.

On Saturday morning, Ronan had just arrived at the office, and assistant Connie placed first-hand information on "Human Purge 2" compiled by various aspects on his desk.

The box office of $13.6 million on the first day of its release, which overwhelmed all the films screened at the same time, and won the single-day box office championship.

Moreover, "Human Purge 2" has a very big advantage, with the second-ranked "Return to Glory" opening day only having a box office of $3.85 million.

Ronan knew very well that if nothing unexpected happened, the box office of "Return to Glory" in three days of weekends would not be able to reach $13.6 million. "Human Purge 2" has already locked in this week's box office championship ahead of schedule.

For typical commercial movies like this, if the box office performance of opening paintings is excellent, the corresponding cinema will increase or remain unchanged. However, if the box office is not good, some cinemas may reduce the screening volume, which will make the box office even less.

The most test of the box office in the first week was the popularity of the movie's early publicity, marketing and public opinion.

For example, a sequel movie, the influence of the previous movie can also be continued.

Ronan has first-tier market data obtained by the employed survey companies. On-site sample surveys in theaters showed that nearly 75% of the audience who went to watch "Human Purge 2" yesterday had watched the first video, of which the proportion of male audiences was as high as 67%, and the proportion of viewers under the age of 25 was 59%.

In other words, the promotion of "Human Purge 2" played a role, and young men under the age of 25 formed the subjective audience of the film.

The commercial strength of the sequel movie is also fully demonstrated.

In other statistics, there is also the reputation statistics after the first day of the film.

Rotten Tomatoes currently collects reviews from 37 professional film critics, nearly half of which are negative reviews. Even if they are positive, the critics are not highly rated. The freshness of "Human Purge 2" is inevitably marked as rotten, with only 58% of them, and the average score of the critics is 5.4 points.

Compared with professional film critics who have always treated commercial films with a harsh attitude, ordinary audiences judge movies based on their most intuitive preferences. On the imdb website, there are more than 1,500 users rated the average score of 7.2 points.
To be continued...