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- "The new version of 'Carrie' is nothing more than a Hollywood corporate graverobbing lazily into the copyright graveyard, digging a fertile grave, calmly stripping it of every bit of gold and silver, and then pawning it off." 2/4, Stephen Whitty, Newark Star Chronicle
"Kimberly Pierce's remake of 'Carrie' follows slavishly from Brian De Palma's 1976 version and fails to make any real impact." 2/5, Rob Carnevale, "The List"
"It's dull, dull, sandpapered and predictable, yet another unsurprising, behind-the-times product that attracted curious teenagers to dutifully spend its opening weekend Hand over your own cash." 1/5, Dave White, movies.
The disastrous review of "Carrie" spread to the global film critic community both online and offline. This situation was really beyond the expectations of fans and fans, and the industry was also in an uproar.
October 5th and 6th passed, although there were a few qualified or positive voices, like Kevin Johnson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, who gave it a favorable score of 3.5/4: "The new version will not overshadow the excellent original. But it has its own merits, and "Carrie" is a good time to enjoy the gore. "The Philadelphia Inquirer's Steven Rhea gave it a 3/4 rating: "If you want to take another stab at this saga. The pain of a teenager being bullied and forced to take violent revenge, well, that¡¯s what Kimberly Pierce wanted to film.¡±
However, in general, the representative reviews in film review centers such as Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago are all bad.
The Rotten Tomatoes rating is only 26%! Still falling further.
Pierce, failed; the screenwriting team, failed; the production team, failed; Ye Wei, one of the production members, failed.
Film genius viy failed! No matter what role Ye Wei plays, any movie with his name has never failed in the past. Ye Wei's own film has not failed, nor has the "Half Nelson" that he bought and distributed, nor has "Half Nelson", which has always been a big hit and starred his ex-girlfriend. Carrie" turned out to be so miserable.
This time, even the Weihei people were caught off guard, and the Weimi people were even more shocked and couldn't believe it. Their mood was no different from that of the film critics, and they were also looking forward to the new classic "Carrie", but how could it
The media has been questioning and criticizing Ye Wei with the attitude of film critics. Roger Ebert, who has always praised him to the heavens, even bombarded him! The media used the word "flak" when quoting. For example, "Variety" reported that "Roger Ebert criticized the new version of "Carrie" as meaningless and Ye Wei is disappointing", and overseas media also reproduced it in this way. go.
"Soul Surfer" will be released on October 13th and will have its premiere in Los Angeles on Sunday the 8th. At this juncture, Genius did not get off to a good start.
"It was the first time after "Dance of Angels", "Come Wedding", "The Exorcism Video", "Little Miss Sunshine" and "World of Dirty Words" that it failed miserably.
What¡¯s going on! ? The media and Weihei have naturally pointed the finger at Ye Wei's indulgent lifestyle this year. It is quite obvious that this kid has no intention of making movies after he became a legend. He is talented, but he spends all his time and thought on it. When it comes to picking up girls and having fun, I'm really dizzy.
"'Carrie' is not Viy's movie! He is just promoting it in name, and it basically has nothing to do with him." Wei secretaries rushed to defend Ye Wei's explanation. Without Lionsgate's promotion, Ye Wei's name was not even mentioned. Did you mention it? It's not his fault. If you want to scold her, just scold Kimberly Pierce.
People are expecting Ye Wei to say something, but two days have passed and he has not updated any of his social networking sites. He seems to be living in seclusion in the mountains and forests.
The first-day box office of the first week (October 6) has been released. For commercial films like "Carrie" that follow the regular distribution route, the overall trend and results can be predicted on the first day.
?According to statistics from Bom:
Ranking¡ªmovie day box office theater/average¡ªbudget (millions)
First place: "The Departed"¡ª8,689,5613,017/2,88090
Second place: "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Prequel"¡ª7,354,000¡ª2,820/2,608¡ª16
Third place: "Jungle Counterattack" - 6, 212, 8843, 833/1, 62185
Fourth place: "Carrie" 5,325,6352,579/2,06515
On the first day, there were only a miserable 5.32 million! Lost to "Texas Chainsaw Massacre Prequel", did not even win the second week of "Jungle Attack", failed to enter the top three
It seems better than the budget of 15 million? It's not summer vacation or any holiday. The weekend box office of new films in this period can account for 70%-80% or even higher of the first week's box office. In this case, the first week box office of "Carrie" will only be 15 million. With good luck When painting, I can have 30 million.
What do you earn from this? I can¡¯t even make back the publicity fees for the issuance, and I still have 1,500 yuan left.??Production fees
Count on the overseas market, but Lionsgate does not have a strong overseas distribution system. Everything has to cooperate with others, and the high risks make everything very difficult; count on the DVD sales, "Carrie" only has 5.3 points on imdb, and a Rotten Tomatoes favorite rating. It is 42% of an overturned popcorn bucket. It has a bad reputation, no suspense in the story, and competition from older versions. Whether the video can achieve sales of 5 million within a year is a question.
Ordinary audiences and film critics hold almost the same view: this is a bad movie.
Wei Dili-m gave a one-star review: "The technical effects of the new version of "Carrie" are mediocre, the story characters are outdated, I don't know why it was remade, and the final scene is really bad! The only thing that is interesting is Julianne Moore's What a waste of a show. I want to make my disappointment clear, but forget it, it¡¯s boring to say too much about something so unremarkable.¡±
Nikki-J only gave it one star: "I can appreciate the effort, the actors', the director's, and maybe Ye Wei's, but I can't say it works. The story is from the 1970s, but the rest is It's modern and has a very weird feeling. What school would let them blatantly bully a student? To be honest, it's better to watch the old version again at home. It's a pity that people usually don't like to watch old movies, thinking that they are all new. , that¡¯s their loss.¡±
Grace-d gave two stars: "Why is this? If Nina Dobrev is Carrie, it means that everyone in the movie is blind, and she is not suitable. Because of Ye Wei, she got the role, and they It really ruined the chance of a remake of "Carrie". Think about it, after this version, it may be another 30 years before there is a new version of "Carrie". This makes me feel sad and terrible. In fact, you really can't Too much to expect from a teenager.¡±
Ada-P gave her one star: "This movie is laughable as a horror film, but it would work well as a comedy. Nina Dobrev didn't convey any real emotion, and I couldn't stop watching the prom scene. It was like a Disney Channel version of Carrie, with nothing left but some pretty teenagers pretending, but you couldn't touch them or give them anything. A punch in the face. I wasted my whole night. I don¡¯t recommend it.¡±
Dennis-L gave two stars: "The old version was scary in the 70s, the new version is nothing in the 21st century. Times have changed, kids who have been bullied badly will bring a machine gun to their school to shoot and kill Everyone, the superheroes made Carrie's superpowers look like a child's play. People said it was a bad shoot, but the truth is that the story of "Carrie" was bland and it was a pointless remake."
Many people shared their experience of watching the movie on social networks. Although the box office was not high, it became a hot topic on Facebook. There were scattered praises and disappointments: "What's the point?", "Why do they think the audience will accept it?" This movie?¡±, ¡°This is the first time I want to curse someone because of Ye Wei¡¯s movie¡±¡
There are also some videos recorded by netizens on Yutube about their viewing experience. When you click on the popular "Talk about the new version of "Carrie" and viy", the blond girl in the video looks at the camera and smiles and says: "Hey everyone, today I want to Let me talk to you about the new version of "Carrie" and viy. What do you think of this movie?" Her eyes rolled slightly and she shook her head: "I feel like I was fooled. None of the expectations given by the publicity were realized. How could it be filmed? So stupid"
The poor audience reputation has completely confirmed the failure of "Carrie", and there is absolutely no chance of any counterattack and commercial miracle. What it has to consider now is not how much money it makes or how much influence it has, but how it can avoid losing money
This is an everyday story in the film industry. All the elements for success are present, but the result is failure.
Some people are happy and some are worried. The studios who escaped disaster by not taking over this project are naturally happy. Lionsgate suddenly became a difficult fool.
The "Carrie" train has already rushed off the track and rushed under the cliff. There is no way to save it, but a tragic death.
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On the early morning of Sunday, October 8, there were not many tourists in Scarborough Cliff Park in Toronto. The sky and Lake Ontario were all blue. The red maple leaves, golden birch leaves and other colors made the park colorful. A group of wild geese were playing leisurely in the inner lake. In the water, a girl with long black and brown hair walked by kicking a pebble.
In this harvest season, the box office of "Carrie" is not good, with just over 10 million in two days. This is of course a large amount of money, but in terms of results it is only a tiny number, a "miserable failure" and "viy failure" as the media said.
Nina vigorously kicked the pebbles at her feet toward Lake Ontario, but she couldn't kick away the depression in her heart.
In fact, she has changed a lot this year. Her temper has become better, she thinks more, and her thoughts have matured Whenever she encounters any troubles, she can comfort herself and come up with some reasons, but this time, she can't figure it out. EngageSure, this timeit feels like that again, life is completely over.
She doesn't want to talk to her parents and brother, which is just to comfort her; and she doesn't want to talk to her friends. Whenever this happens, she feels like a failure in life. She has a lot of friends, good friends, and friends of the opposite sex. In the end, , but she doesn¡¯t have many close friends, and even she thinks the other person¡¯s words are childish.
She really wants to talk to someone and get some encouragement that will make her feel comfortable. Maybe it's the words "everything will be fine" that are said differently by different people. Ye Wei? no. She gets no energy from him and only becomes more frustrated and worse than Damian.
¡°At least Damian would call her ¡°sweetheart¡± and she wouldn¡¯t resent it. But she couldn't stand it, Damian said with emotion: "I really envy you for pinching Viy's butt, not just once. Think about it, sweetheart, you are very lucky." That's what Damian said.
Nina knows whose encouragement she wants, Yunik. Funny thing is, he doesn't exist anymore.
But he seemed to exist in every air in the cliff park. She looked at the quiet and beautiful surroundings. It was here that Yunick piled up many snow sculptures overnight and begged her for forgiveness. It's really interesting to think back on it, in your kingdom, the photos taken that day are still there, in the photo album and on the computer, although she won't open them now, as if they were put in the utility room.
Walking, looking, and thinking, Nina bathed in the morning sunshine, drawing warm power from the passing happy time, and her mood gradually became peaceful.
"Nina, pain is our strength." No one spoke, Yunik's voice sounded from the bottom of his heart.
"I know." She looked up at the blue sky and white clouds, "It's okay, I don't have to get back the 250,000 yuan in salary, haha."
It¡¯s really okay! Hehehaha, I haven¡¯t lived to be almost 18 years old now.
Has outlived you.
Nina suddenly had an idea. When people die, they will be buried. There is a grave. Regardless of whether there is a heaven or not, when the living miss the dead, they can go to the grave to say anything they want to say. But Yunik has no grave! Even if Sissi passes away in the future, there will be a pet cemetery, but Unique doesn't have one.
Ye Wei is living well, but he is not Yunik, he is not.
"I have to build a tomb for Yunique." Nina couldn't bear the idea after having this idea. She felt that this was the best burial place. There was no need to erect a large tombstone. She just knew it.
She looked around and locked her eyes on the stones by the lake. She walked over to pick some and then chose a good location at the bottom of the cliff to pile them up, forming an artistic stone array. Then he took out the black signature pen used to sign autographs for fans from his crossbody bag, and wrote on a rectangular stone held in his left hand: "Gu You, unique-pants, 1988-2-19¡ª"
She paused and thought, when did Yunik die? The day she wrote her breakup letter? Did he agree to break up? Did he reply? Is he getting back together with Lily Collins? A few days ago?
After thinking for a while, she finally wrote "2005-12-25", the day she wrote her breakup letter.
"Okay." Nina placed the tombstone stone in the middle of the stone formation. It looked like something similar at first glance. She squatted and watched, her eyes suddenly became hot and filled with tears, and her mouth could barely hold back a cry.
She choked up and spoke what was in her heart: "Yunique, I have a lot to say to you, can you hear it in heaven I messed up again, I don't know what to do, I know just keep moving forward, you Know that I'm not a weak person, I didn't cry, I just I just missed you"
"Nina!"
Hearing a shout, Nina suddenly jumped up and fell to the ground. She followed the sound and turned her head to look, only to see a handsome black-haired fashionable guy wearing a black coat and jeans. Running over in stride, with a smile on his face, it was Yunique.
God, no way She was completely stunned for a moment, ghost? Is that a ghost? My heart skipped a beat, and many fantasy stories flashed through my mind, such as "Harry Potter", "Twilight", and "Little Fairies". That was Yunique! ! ! There are two souls in Ye Wei's body, one is Ye Wei and the other is Yunik. He has been following her since he left that body. Today she suddenly enlightened and built this tomb. He can finally show up, right there! Like "The Love Between Ghosts and Humans".
"I found you. I wanted to call you first, but I have plenty of time, so I just wanted to come over here and have a look first." Younik ran closer and said with a smile, "I just went to see Miss Gu, oh, it's cpp , it¡¯s so cute, you raised it so well, it still remembers me, I¡¯m so excited.¡±
Hearing his words, Nina suddenly woke up completely. It was not a ghost That was Ye Wei, he came to Toronto Isn't today the day when "Soul Surfer" held its premiere in Los Angeles? Why is he here???Toronto?
Before he could sort out his messy thoughts, Ye Wei had already run to the front. He looked her up and down, his eyes bright, and he praised her in amazement: "Wow, you look good."
Nina was not surprised by boys' appraising and lustful looks. Sometimes she was proud, sometimes disgusted, but his eyes made her He noticed something and looked at the pile of stones next to her, "Then What is it?¡±
What? Can't let him see it! She hurriedly grabbed the tombstone stone and hugged it tightly in her arms. He asked curiously: "What is written on it?"
"Don't move!" Nina screamed at him and rushed to the lake not far away. She threw the stone with all her strength with both hands. With a bang, the stone fell on the lake with a huge splash and disappeared into the lake. When he was gone, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Wish stone?" Ye Wei followed.
Nina was really speechless, clapped her hands and said, "It's just a broken stone with the words 'Carrie White go to hell!' Because she sucks. Okay?" She stared at Ye Wei, not knowing why she started Angry: "What are you doing here? Comforting me? Thank you, I don't need your pityshe knows?"
She looked around, thought of a possibility, and couldn't help asking anxiously: "Your girlfriend? She knows you are here? She is here too!?"
Seeing Nina's face flushed with panic and anger, Ye Weiwei said quickly in a daze: "Lily knew, but she didn't come. I told her, she understood, and she knew we were still friends."
Of course he had told Lily, and it was clear that Lily was both understanding and jealous. Fortunately, if there was no space and trust for normal communication, how could the relationship last long? Ordinary people can't, everyone has friends of the opposite sex, some of whom happen to be exes.
The key is that he didn¡¯t come to play with Nina. When he saw her teary eyes, he knew he was in the right place.
He knew it from the phone call that day. This is really his fault. I didn't expect that "Carrie" would do so poorly. She didn't attend its premiere. Regardless of whether Nina wanted him to attend at the time or not, Nina will definitely suspect now that he dislikes "Carrie" and "Carrie". She won't attend.
He was the one who recommended Nina to play "Carrie", the one who wanted to quit but scolded her for insisting that she should play "Carrie", the one who didn't follow "Carrie" well and caused her to fall into the quagmire. In terms of love and justice, when she needed support the most, he hoped that he could support her as a friend.
He added: "I just want to tell you through actions, Nina, that I am in your camp."
Nina's face turned cold, and she gritted her teeth and said, "You think I'm a crybaby? That's why?" She roared and took a few steps. It was like this every time. She couldn't do it in competitions, dates, or movies It had obviously changed. Even better, it was a mess as soon as I faced him.
"No, I mean." Ye Weizheng was about to explain.
"Look at these!" Nina pulled up the leg of her light blue sweatpants to expose her calf, raised her left leg and said angrily: "Did you see it? Those scars!"
Ye Wei looked at her slender calves, knowing that she was venting, and nodded without saying anything. Her feet were scarred and deformed.
"Look!" Nina shouted and raised her right leg again, "These are all caused by injuries! Because of gymnastics, dance Look at this, I sprained my ballet recently. Do you know how painful it is?" "You don't know!" She yelled. She had already shown and told him every scar on her body, and she didn't know what she was going crazy about.
"I have these scars! Dancers have these scars, tough chicks have these scars, they're not going anywhere, they're here! They're here for life and I'm having fun with them. Do you think I'm just a Little bird, do you need someone to comfort you when you are frustrated? I am not Carrie, so everyone laughs at me because I am not Carrie"
She almost cried. In the early summer of last year, they were also at the lake in the park. They talked a lot and agreed a lot, but from then on, everything gradually became different. Time has already changed everything except the scenery. How can yesterday happen again now?
Without saying anything else, Nina walked to the rocks by the lake and sat down, looking at the boundless Lake Ontario with tears in her eyes.
Ye Wei sat down across from her and looked at the lake level in the distance, "You are wrong, you are Carrie."
¡°I¡¯m not,¡± Nina said.
"You are." Ye Wei said.
"Whatever you say." Nina turned to look at him and asked, "Isn't today the premiere of "Soul Surfer"?"
"yes."
"Then why are you here? You should be in Los Angeles." She looked at him and grinned, and said angrily: "Okay, okay, I understand, we are still friends. You can go back to Los Angeles before it's too late." Home pageThe ceremony was held in the afternoon, and it was not yet 9 o'clock in the morning. There were still flights to LA.
Ye Wei smiled and said: "I won't be attending. I will spend today in Toronto and go back to Springfield in the evening." Seeing that she was about to get angry again, he said loudly and seriously: "Nina, I have always believed that although we failed Let's go together, but we are friends. I don't know how many times I have to say it. If necessary, I will say, I care about you, I cherish you, I even stayed with Lev and Noah when they were heartbroken. Not to mention you?"
"I'm not heartbroken" Nina muttered, "I don't need you to accompany me. I have a date today and I just came to the park for morning exercise."
"You make your own arrangements, I'm just here for a day trip to Boar City." Ye Wei said in a relaxed tone, "I haven't had such tranquility for a while, just in time to think about things."
Nina really wanted to kick him into the lake, "You can't miss it, it's your movie premiere! Everyone's like 'Where's viy? Where's viy?' Oh he's in Boar City because he Your ex-girlfriend is in a bad moodwhat! You have so many ex-girlfriends, and someone is in a bad mood every day, so you don¡¯t have to do anything.¡±
"Maybe I should develop it as a full-time job?" Ye Wei laughed and said seriously: "Nina, nothing can be determined by the premiere. The quality of the film, the intensity of publicity, and the effectiveness will not change just because of a premiere. It is more about the rewards given to the filmmakers, the treatment required by the stars, the opportunities for fans to participate, and the materials reported by the media. It gives the public a feeling that this is a high-quality movie, but the success or failure does not depend on this. , and it doesn¡¯t depend on who is present or absent. My presence is a topic, and my absence is an even greater topic.¡±
"No matter what you say." Nina shook her head, and after a while she continued: "If you want to attend, you must. Also, let me remind your friend, your girlfriend must be very angry because of this matter, she Now I keep thinking about whether you and I are having sex, and the more I think about it, the angrier I get. Just wait for death."
"She knows I can't do it." Ye Wei laughed when he heard it, and he was really worried, "I also know you can't do it."
"Great love saint, don't believe that girls believe what you say." Nina snorted and said in her heart: Have you forgotten how we broke up? I don't believe Lily Collins is so generous. Whatever, whatever! One day you will break up again, but I will not be with you anymore, making you more miserable than living on the street.
Ye Wei was thoughtful and looked at Nina again, "Man, you speak like a poet."
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? I just said it! Nina's heart skipped a beat, I'm getting better and better! She was happy but kept a straight face and said, "Are you leaving? If you don't leave, I'm leaving. I'm going to Los Angeles now." She got up and walked away.
"Wait a minute." Ye Wei chased after him.
"Are you going?" Nina looked back and Ye Wei nodded. She urged: "Hurry up, you will cry if you don't have a ticket." Seeing Ye Wei walking away towards the return road, she took a breath, her mind was quite blank, and she didn't even say goodbye, which was rude.
Nina sat back on the rocks again, looking at the lake without wanting to move or think about anything.
After a long time, she seemed to come back to her senses, wanted to leave, got up and left.
After walking along the lakeside road for a while, there were gradually more and more tourists, but she was suddenly surprised to see Ye Wei walking towards him, but he didn't leave! She couldn't help but rush over quickly and said in a whisper: "You want me to tie you up and throw you into the luggage compartment of the plane? Dare you lie to me!?"
"Did you misunderstand? That was a Bulgarian nod just now." Ye Wei said in surprise, nodding his head. Nina blushed and took a deep breath: "Why don't you die? This is a Bulgarian blessing." Ye Wei shrugged: "I know it's not the case, stop slandering your culture."
"It's true that a living person can be pissed to death by him." Nina got angry and didn't want to talk to him anymore, "I'm going to Los Angeles right now!"
"Nina, hey." Ye Wei stopped her and said with a smile: "Sometimes talking is better than not talking, especially when someone is angry." Nina interrupted: "I'm not angry, I just look I don¡¯t like you.¡± Ye Wei continued: ¡°Okay, so I wrote some of my words into a letter last night.¡±
He took out the half-exposed white envelope from his coat pocket, "Here it is, here it is."
"Another letter." Nina pouted and took the envelope. Isn't it weird to write a letter to someone in person?
"The mission has been accomplished! Then I'm leaving. Can you see it?" Ye Wei asked excitedly. Nina shook her head. Ye Wei asked: "Bulgarian style?" Nina shook her head and rolled her eyes: "I can Look, get out of here.¡±
Ye Wei looked at her almond-shaped eyes and said goodbye: "See you later, strong girl." Nina couldn't help but smile, "See you later. Come on! "Soul Surfer" will be fine, the bad luck has been used up. , good luck has come." He smiled when he saw her."I hope so too."
"Let's go." He waved his hand and turned around.
"Did you drive here?" Nina asked towards his back. He turned around and replied: "Yes, I borrowed your car. I went back to return the car, played with cpp for a while and then went to the airport." Nina shouted: "Sissi, cpp's name is Sissi now." ¡±
Ye Wei turned around and smiled, "Kool, I got it."
"There's no malice." Nina smiled brightly in an instant.
"I know!" Ye Wei shouted.
"Besides, I don't just bite people." As he walked away, Nina also shouted.
"Of course you do. You can also perform, dance, do gymnastics, do yoga, sing, do all kinds of sports, make accessories, make puppets, cook, telekinesis, and force chokeholds. ¡¡±
Ye Wei's figure became farther and farther away, and his words became softer and quieter. He suddenly staggered forward as he spoke, "Don't push me! I'm leaving."
How did he know? Nina secretly retracted her outstretched left palm and laughed happily: "Haha." Yes, I know so many things.
The sunshine in the early autumn seemed to shine into my heart, giving me warmth. He was not Yunique, but having such a good friend was not a bad thing. She looked at the envelope in her hand, opened it and took out a few pages of letter paper inside, and started reading while walking to a park chair not far away.
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