Early Sunday morning, the maids at the Brentwood Heights mountainside mansion were a little nervous.
I was scared by the movie last night.
Simply speaking, "The Conjuring 3: Blood Moon" doesn't have much special features. It is still a typical high-concept horror film.
After being approached by the FBI, Ed Allen successfully carried out a ghost hunt at a nearby resident's house and was recognized. Then, the plot entered a small town surrounded by ghosts.
According to Pastor Bill Jost, the only person who escaped from the town, many people in the town who had never believed in the existence of ghosts experienced the most terrifying night in their lives that night. The next day, everyone wanted to escape, but found that the town had been shrouded in thick fog. Many people drove out and drove their cars until they ran out of gas, just spinning around in the town.
Worse still, people died.
Neighbors heard the gunshots and went to check. First, they found the body of underground abortion doctor Mark Coles on the sofa in the living room. The doctor's wife and two children were hacked to death with a knife. Pastor Bill Jost, who knew some common sense about psychics, judged that Dr. Coles should have been possessed by an evil spirit. After killing his wife and children, he woke up and committed suicide by swallowing a gun out of guilt.
Finding it impossible to escape, the town residents tried to save themselves, but to no avail.
More and more people were killed by the evil spirits in various ways in the following nights. Finally, at the suggestion of Pastor Jost, everyone hid in the church in the town and barely resisted the attack of the evil spirits. .
However, simply avoiding the problem is unlikely to solve the problem.
After persisting for three days, Pastor Jost took a sacred cross from the church and tried again during the day. This time he finally succeeded in escaping.
The city government where the town is located did not believe this at first, and sent several waves of police and rescue teams into the town. In the end, no one could get out. Everyone finally realized the seriousness of the matter, and after much trouble found the famous man. Mr. and Mrs. Warren.
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The Warrens teamed up with supporting characters who had appeared in the Conjuring movie universe series, and cooperated with the local government and church to launch a war between humans and ghosts to save the town.
In the end, of course, victory triumphs over evil.
At the same time, the truth was also found out.
The cause of the incident was the gathering of grievances in the woods where underground abortion doctor Mark Coles buried too many aborted fetuses. The grievances of a large number of ghost babies gathered, triggering the terrifying blood moon. Under the stimulation of the blood moon, many ghosts that should have dissipated naturally Condensed into evil spirits, some sleeping evil spirits also awakened under the summons of the blood moon, ultimately causing this horrific incident that killed dozens of people in the town.
The war between humans and ghosts that the Warrens and everyone jointly fought was a life-and-death battle.
The turning point is that the abortion girl Camilla at the beginning of the chapter bravely stood up and influenced the most ferocious ghost baby born from her, causing the most difficult ghost baby army like a swarm to lose its dominance and collapse. The Warrens then used tens of thousands of Wish Power Coins that they had temporarily raised to form a siege, blocking all kinds of evil spirits in Dr. Coles' clinic, and then used holy water and weapons made from Wish Power Coins to intensively 'purify' them. .
The 120 minutes of thrills can be summed up in one sentence. In fact, the Warrens fought against the ghosts of the small town and won.
Standard high concept pattern.
However, the thrilling and ups and downs of the film's plot made the hearts of all viewers quicken.
The girls who watched the movie together last night, even if they ended up huddled on a big bed to comfort each other, some of them still had nightmares. Even after a night's rest, after getting up early, all kinds of scary scenes in the film will inevitably come to mind.
Inside the main villa of the manor.
Lily Fawell absentmindedly sorted out today's pile of newspapers and put them into the dining room where Chen Qing was dining. She went to the kitchen to check the progress of making breakfast, and unexpectedly found the two women who had watched the movie together last night. While the other people were busy, the waiter was leaning against the kitchen counter and communicating in a low voice. He stepped forward and took a look, only to find that there was a small pile on the kitchen counter next to them poured out of a piggy bank. of coins, picking and choosing.
One of the girls also seemed to judge: "This is not good, it is too new."
Lily Fawell felt a flock of crows flying across her forehead.
We are all highly educated people!
However, after complaining, and at the invitation of the two women, she couldn't help but go over, pick and choose, and choose two coins that she thought were neither new nor old and put them in the breast pocket of her uniform.
Secretly making excuses.
I'm not superstitious. Anyway, if you can put two coins in your pocket and they won't weigh too much, you might need it sometime.
It's just a bit regretful. It would be great if I could have a long sword like the one in last night's movie studded with wish coins. Wearing glasses wiped with the tears of a newborn baby, holding a long sword of will power, no matter what the hell, it will be wiped out with one sword, and it will be wiped out.
Um.
Of course, this is purely an entertainment idea, and I am a highly educated person.
After roughly making a circle and leaving the kitchen, Lily Fawell came to an office dedicated to maids in the villa and found Christy Latham sitting at the large desk by the window, facing the computer screen and watching something seriously. . Spotting Lily's appearance, Christie's little hand holding the mouse was about to move, but Favel snatched it away and then stuck his head over.
On the computer desktop is the page of the eBay auction website.
This is also an e-commerce website invested by the Westeros system, mainly focusing on second-hand retail.
Of course, this is not the point.
The key is the search term displayed on the page, Willing Coin.
It seems that this is what everyone is thinking about today.
Christie was a little embarrassed, but since Lily saw it, she still explained: "I'm just a little curious." Then he pointed to the popular keywords next to him: "Look, in the searches in recent days, the number one It’s the Wishing Power Coin, and the second-ranked one is the Wishing Power Sword, ha, it’s so interesting.”
Lily didn't tease her, she pulled up a chair to check it out together, and commented: "These are fake at first glance, they are either too new or too old... Well, this, the Willing Power Sword, so many people bought it, all of them Are you stupid? It’s so expensive... Hey, a newborn baby has tears all over it?"
Christie nodded and added: "I just saw a report on the Eaglet portal. There was an obstetrics nurse in Chicago who secretly collected the tears of newborn babies. She was fired after being discovered."
"Unlucky guy."
"There's more," Christie said, and simply switched the page, came to the Yigrit portal, searched for it, and quickly opened a news: "Look, there is also an underground abortion doctor in Miami, Florida. After watching this movie on Friday, I didn’t dare to go home. I went to the church to confess. The pastor finally drove him away. He went crazy and replaced a large box of coins and spread them at home. He also drove away his wife and children, saying It’s the fear of being possessed.”
After hearing what Christie said, Lily quickly browsed the article and said with a smile: "Look at the article here. The last sentence is the scariest anti-abortion movie in Hollywood. I think it is right. I used to... Anyway, if in the future, I have a baby and I have to give birth to it no matter what, but I don’t dare to have an abortion.”
Christie nodded sympathetically.
The two continued to browse information related to "The Conjuring 3" on the Internet. They had been staying in China with Chen Qing before. When they came back here and read the news, they realized that the topic of this movie was really hot in the past few days. Not enough. The title "Hollywood's scariest anti-abortion movie" turned out to be not the original article. It was actually a headline in the Washington Post that day, and it was quickly recognized and became popular.
Abortion has always been a very sensitive topic in the United States.
It is conceivable that for a long time in the future, anyone who has watched this movie will inevitably have a strong psychological shadow if they think about the terrifying and mutilated ghost baby in the movie before they want to have an abortion. Therefore, a bishop in the conservative Alabama region even publicly called on believers to take their families to watch "The Conjuring 3", saying that it can have a good 'educational significance'.
In addition, various ghosts, wish coins, Yin Yang glasses, etc. in the film have also become hot topics of discussion on the Internet and even hot searches on online retail websites.
The two women, who had just returned from China, quickly realized the point of the matter.
This movie is so popular, so the box office shouldn't be worse than "The Ghost Story", right
Make some inquiries.
Sure enough, first of all, the media's comprehensive reputation, "The Conjuring 3" created the highest score in the series, reaching 9.3 points, an absolute classic level.
The comment of the famous film critic Roger Ebert is the most representative. This critic praised "The Conjuring 3" "Just like George Romero defined zombie movies, "The Conjuring 3" redefined Hollywood horror movies." Many of these elements would be imitated in subsequent Hollywood horror films'.
The two women recalled it, and it was indeed the case.
Previous Hollywood horror films, even the scariest "The Exorcist", did not have as many novel settings as in "The Conjuring 3".
Hollywood's "Variety" magazine compared "The Conjuring 3" to "Batman Vs." in the Conjuring movie universe. This is not to say that the plots are similar, but that the film clearly plays a connecting role in the entire Conjuring movie universe. Instead of being mediocre and repeating itself, the series has completed a transformation and will be more mature and interesting in the future.
The film's box office performance was even better.
With 3,354 opening screens in North America, the box office revenue on the first day reached US$15.56 million. This past Saturday, Halloween, the revenue increased again to US$18.12 million. In just two days, the film's cumulative box office reached US$33.68 million. . The three-day box office is expected to be between 46 million and 47 million US dollars in the first weekend, and the first seven-day box office may exceed 60 million US dollars.
All relevant data hit new series highs.
In comparison, the box office of "The Conjuring 2" in the first seven days was only US$46.13 million, which was only equivalent to the revenue of "The Conjuring 3" in the three days of the first weekend. The previous phenomenon "The Ghost Story" had a box office of US$59.63 million in its first week.
However, the industry also generally predicts that although it will exceed 60 million in the first week, it will be very difficult for "The Conjuring 3" to hit the local box office of 200 million US dollars like "The Conjuring" because of the bad timing. The Thanksgiving holiday is about to be filled with blockbusters. Under fierce competition, it will be difficult for "The Conjuring 3" to have a long-term success. The total domestic box office is most likely to be between 150 million and 200 million US dollars.
On the other hand, compared to the low-to-medium production cost of "The Conjuring 2" of US$25 million, the budget cost of "The Conjuring 3" doubled to US$50 million due to the use of a large number of CG special effects. Coupled with the same rising publicity and distribution, the local box office Although it will definitely exceed the US$129 million of "The Conjuring 2", if the box office revenue is calculated, the gross profit return of "The Conjuring 3" will not be as good as that of "The Conjuring 2" only on the local side.
However, globally, in terms of the quality of "The Conjuring 3", the overall return is still very promising to exceed that of "The Conjuring 2".
In any case, as "Variety" magazine commented, the key significance of "The Conjuring 3" to the entire Conjuring movie universe series is not the box office, but like the "super-series war" of the DC movie universe series, it completes the entire movie universe. It has undergone a transformation and been redefined in all aspects, causing many viewers who have become tired of the series to regain interest.
Based on this calculation, the investment of 50 million US dollars will definitely not be a loss.
You know, since the release of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", as we all know, the box office of subsequent projects in the entire DC movie universe has increased a lot. "The Conjuring 3" will likely play the same role for the Conjuring cinematic universe.
The two women looked through the information and thought that "The Conjuring 3" was a project produced by the company under their boss's name, and they inevitably felt a sense of pride.
Just as they were muttering together, the female guard Catherine Elgar, who had also been with Chen Qing and Lin Su for a long time, came in and reminded the two girls that Chen Qing had finished her morning exercise and had gone to take a shower and change clothes. They should go to the restaurant to wait for service. Then he got up.
After leaving the office, Lily couldn't hold it back anymore. She took out the two coins she had just selected and showed them to her companions like a treasure. She also generously gave one to Christie.
Christie liked it too and put it in her breast pocket like an amulet.
When they arrived at the restaurant, Cheng Taixi was already sitting here, flipping through the newspapers that Lily had prepared earlier and saying hello. Lily Fawell took a look and found that Cheng Taixi was also reading a report about "The Conjuring 3". The title is 'Due to the impact of 'The Conjuring 3', 'The Conjuring 3' has fallen out of favor and may not be able to break the 200 million threshold this week'.
Lily Fawell thought of the similar report she had just read, and felt a little regretful.
In its fifth box office week ending on October 30, "The Ghost Story" earned US$16.71 million, bringing its cumulative box office to US$185.96 million, only 14 million short of the 200 million box office threshold. It happens to be the week of Halloween again. Not only has the official increased its promotional efforts again, but fans of "The Ghost Story" have also launched a support campaign to hit the 200 million threshold.
It's a pity that "The Conjuring 3" is too strong, not to mention that two other new movies opened last Friday.
According to the same-day box office estimates on Friday and Saturday, in the sixth week of its release, the decline of "The Ghost Story" is likely to be around 35%, which does not seem to be deep, but considering the demand for horror movies during Halloween week In such a booming market environment, if it hadn't been for "The Conjuring 3", let alone the 35% drop, it would have been possible for the box office of "The Conjuring" to have reversed the decline.
With an expected drop of 35%, the box office of "The Ghost Story" this week is expected to be between 10 million and 11 million U.S. dollars. After a full week, there will still be a gap of about 4 to 5 million U.S. dollars from the 200 million threshold.
Obviously, the film will definitely break through 200 million next week, but as a phenomenal horror movie, it has to be said that it is a pity that it cannot break through an important threshold during the originally promising Halloween period. Moreover, due to the squeeze from "The Conjuring 2", the media also predicts that after breaking the 200 million threshold, the total domestic box office of "The Conjuring 2" will probably shrink by at least 10 million US dollars.
However, neither the official nor the fans are actually too sorry.
What a family!
Chen Qing, who had changed into home clothes, soon appeared in the restaurant.
Lily and the two helped serve breakfast, and during this period they couldn't help but chat about the movie they watched last night. Christie also took the initiative to talk to Chen Qing about the movie's high reputation and excellent box office.
Chen Qing's feelings were similar to theirs.
Of course, I was quite scared last night. However, other than that, compared to others, Chen Qing's expression was a little weird when she saw the newspaper's statement about "The Conjuring 3" redefining Hollywood horror films.
In fact, it's not new at all.
Although there is no trace of his own boss on this movie's main creative list, Chen Qing can be sure that Simon's involvement in the script must be very deep.
Because many elements in the film are completely common in Eastern ghost movies.
Ghosts are not allowed in mainland horror films, but in Hong Kong, they are all overused.
For example, you can see the wishes and ghosts on the coins through the glasses with the tears of newborn babies. They are obviously derived from the cow's tears in Eastern ghost movies. Moreover, in China, there is no need to wipe glasses at all. You can wipe your eyes directly, and the yin and yang eyes are opened directly.
Another example is the concept of karma in the film.
There is also resentment, and ghosts beating the wall.
As for the wish-power coins and the wish-power sword, well, they are just copper coin swords.
What the hell kind of willpower
That’s yang energy!
Moreover, the long sword studded with coins in the film is really ugly, but the copper coin sword strung with red rope looks better at catching and exorcising demons.
In addition, there are all kinds of ghosts, such as ghost babies, hanged ghosts, drowned ghosts, ghosts in the mirror, etc. There are not many horror movies in Hollywood. In Hong Kong-style ghost movies, they are all over the streets. People see Taoist priests. Don't bother to catch it.
Chen Qing even complained a little.
His boss only used some superficial knowledge. If all the five elements formations, birth dates, ink talismans, glutinous rice cinnabar, etc. from China were brought over... Well, Chen Qing suddenly understood that this was too high-end for foreigners to see. don't know.
No wonder we can only give some superficial information and just talk about subversive innovation.
Tsk.
The foreign devils just don’t have any knowledge.
Um.
My boss, no matter what, my boss is a knowledgeable foreign devil... No, my boss is not a foreign devil... It doesn't seem right either... Never mind him, the boss can't hear it anyway.
Chen Qing then thought of the mainland again.
Everyone is discussing the development of domestic film genres, but our culture is about to be stolen by some foreign... boss, but there can't be ghosts in our own movies. It's too bad.