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01. "Barbie" surpassed "The Dark Knight" to become Warner's champion in North American film history
26 days after its release, "Barbie" accumulated $537.5 million at the North American box office, surpassing the $535 million of "The Dark Knight" in 2008, setting a new record in Warner's North American history. The film currently has a global total of 1.197 billion US dollars, and Warner is the runner-up at the global box office in history, and the champion is "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part II)" with 1.34 billion. According to the current trend, "Barbie" will surpass "Super Mario Bros. Movie" at the end of this month to become the 2023 North American and global box office champion, and Greta Gerwig will also be the first female director in film history to achieve this achievement. The film will land on digital platforms on September 5.
02. DC's Blue Beetle starts 82% on Rotten Tomatoes
"Blue Beetle", which will be released in North America tomorrow, has been exposed by word of mouth, with a start of 82% on Rotten Tomatoes (77 reviews) and an MTC overall score of 60 (33 reviews). Positive reviews believe that the film has a warm Latin perspective, an excellent supporting cast, and a very interesting tone; Bad reviews believe that the story is bland and the visual effects are cheap, and the director does not have his own personal characteristics, which will make the audience unconsciously coma. Foreign media predicted that the film's opening box office in the first weekend was about $30 million.
03. Ridley Scott's "Napoleon" reveals new stills and posters
"Napoleon", which will be released on November 22 this year, reveals new stills and posters, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby, the story unfolds from the perspective of Napoleon's wife Josephine, showing the famous battles that Napoleon experienced in his life, his inexhaustible ambition, and his shocking tactical mind as a military scientist.
04. The Bernstein family supports Cooper's "Master of Music"
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After Bradley Cooper's self-directed and self-starring new work "The Master of Music" was revealed, Cooper's role as pianist and conductor Leonard Bernstein was criticized by some classical music fans, to which Bernstein's family issued a statement: "Bradley chose to use makeup to enhance the similarity to the prototype, we completely agree with this, and we are sure that our father will also be happy with it." The film was shortlisted for this year's Venice Film Festival and launched on Netflix on December 20.
05. "Crooked Kid Scott" animated series first revealed trailer
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The animated series "Crooked Kid Scott" will be available on Netflix on November 17 this year. Developed by the Umbrella Academy, comic book author Bryan Lee O'Malley as writer, co-operator and executive producer, and animated by SARU Studios. Film version director Edgar Wright served as executive producer, and film version actors Michael Serra, Mary Elizabeth Venstide, Brie Larson and others returned to dub. The story focuses on the boy Scott, the bassist of the band Sex Bob-omb, who falls in love with the girl Ramona, and the two must beat her seven exes if they want to be together in peace.
06. "Star-Spangled Red and Royal Blue" became Amazon's most watched movie in its first weekend
Based on Kathy McQuiston's best-selling novel, "Stars and Stripes and Royal Blue" went live on Amazon streaming on August 11 and has become the number one Amazon original film in the world premiere weekend, telling the story of the son of the President of the United States and the British prince.
01. Li Hongqi's directorial debut "Love is a Gun" was first revealed trailer
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Li Hongqi's first directorial film "Love is a Gun" was exposed and trailer, and the film will soon appear in the parallel unit "International Film Critics Week" of this Venice Film Festival. The screenwriter of the film is also Li Hongqi, who also starred in the film with Lin Yingwei. tells the story of a young sweet potato in a small town who was contentedly doing small business on the beach after he was released from prison, and the past that he couldn't get rid of still found him.
02. "Assassination Storm" Beijing premiere The reasoning bridge was well received
The crime movie "Assassination Storm" held its Beijing premiere on August 16, director Qiu Litao, original author Zhou Haohui, actors Zhang Zhilin and Myolie Wu attended the post-screening scene and interacted with the audience. Many viewers said that this time is no longer the strong sensory stimulation of the previous Hong Kong-style police and bandit shootouts, but deeply immersed in layers of reversal and high-energy reasoning, and the film will be released in China on August 18.
01. Korean movies suspected of ghost field irrigation were investigated by the police
"Idle Mountain: The Appearance of the Dragon" is believed to have a ghost field
According to foreign media reports, South Korea's CGV, Megabox and Lotte Cinemas, as well as a number of distributors, have been investigated by local police for allegedly falsifying the film's box office and number of people data. They are suspected of colluding to falsely report the number of moviegoers and forge box office rankings. After a two-month investigation, South Korean police found that a large number of local films had boosted box office numbers through "ghost screenings" and other means in the past five years, resulting in an overestimation of 2.67 million moviegoers, and at least 323 films suspected of counterfeiting since March 2018. At present, the Korean film industry is in crisis, and only "Crime City 3", which was released at the end of May, reached 8 million viewers, and the rest of the works had less than 2 million viewers.
02. "Oppenheimer" set a record for Nolan's highest box office on the first day of South Korea
"Oppenheimer" began to be released in South Korea on August 15, with a first-day box office of $4.3 million, which is the highest first-day box office of director Christopher Nolan's work in local history, and the highest first-day box office of a Hollywood film in South Korea in 2023.