Time Morning Post： ＂Barbie＂ became Warner’s top-grossing film ＂Blue Beetle＂. The media word-of-mouth exposed the ghost scene of Korean movies and was investigated by the police.
In the past 12 hours, what are the global film and television news worthy of attention? Time network selects your major.
01. Barbie surpassed the Dark Knight to become the champion of Warner’s North American film history.
Twenty-six days after its release, Barbie’s box office in North America totaled $537.5 million, surpassing the $535 million of The Dark Knight in 2008, setting a new record in Warner’s North American history. At present, the film has accumulated 1.197 billion US dollars in the world, and it is the global box office runner-up in Warner’s history. The champion is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 2) with 1.34 billion US dollars. According to the current trend, Barbie will surpass Super Mario Bros. Movie at the end of this month and become the box office champion in North America and the world in 2023. greta gerwig will also be the first female director in film history to achieve this achievement. The film will land on the digital platform on September 5.
02. DC "Blue Beetle" rotten tomatoes started 82%
"Blue Beetle", which will be released in North America tomorrow, has been exposed by the media. Rotten tomatoes started 82%(77 evaluations) and MTC scored 60 points (33 evaluations). Praise that the film has a warm Latin perspective, excellent supporting cast and very interesting tone; The bad review thinks that the story is bland, the visual effect is cheap, and the director has no personal characteristics, which will make the audience unconscious. Foreign media predicted that the film’s opening weekend box office was around 30 million dollars.
03. Radley Scott’s Napoleon exposed new stills and posters.
Napoleon, which will be released on November 22nd this year, exposes new stills and posters. The film is directed by ridley scott and starred by joaquin phoenix and vanessa kirby. The story unfolds from the perspective of Napoleon’s wife Josephine, showing Napoleon’s famous battles in his life, his inexhaustible ambition and his shocking tactical mind as a military strategist.
04. Bernstein’s family supported Cooper’s The Master of Music.
After the exposure of bradley cooper’s self-directed and self-directed new work "The Musician Master", Cooper’s performance as pianist and conductor leonard bernstein was criticized by some classical fans, and Bernstein’s family issued a statement: "Bradley chose to use makeup to enhance the similarity with the prototype. We fully agree with this, and we are sure that our father will be satisfied with this." The film was shortlisted for this year’s Venice Film Festival and launched on Netflix on December 20th.
05. Preview of the first exposure of the animated series "Skeeter"
The animated series "crooked boy Scott" will be launched on Netflix on November 17 this year. The producer of Umbrella Academy developed it, the cartoonist Bryan Lee O’Malley acted as the screenwriter, co-operator and executive producer, and SARU Studio animated it. Edgar wright, the director of the film version, served as the executive producer, while michael cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and Brilarson, the actors of the film version, returned to voice. The story focuses on the boy Scott, the bass player of Sex Bob-omb. He falls in love with the girl Ramona. If they want to be together, Scott must defeat her seven predecessors.
06. "Stars and Stripes Red and Royal Blue" became the most watched movie in Amazon’s first weekend.
Adapted from Kathy Quiston’s best-selling novel "Stars and Stripes and Royal Blue" was launched on Amazon streaming media on August 11th, and now it has become the first original Amazon movie in the world’s opening weekend. The film tells the story of the son of the American president and the British prince.
01. The first preview of Hong Chi Lee’s debut film Love is a Gun.
Hong Chi Lee’s first director film "Love is a Gun" was exposed, and the film will appear in the parallel unit "International Film Critics Week" of this Venice Film Festival. The screenwriter of the film is also Hong Chi Lee, who also starred in the film with Lin Yingwei. It tells the story that the young sweet potato in the town is contentedly doing a small business that doesn’t make money at the seaside after he is released from prison, but the past that he can’t get rid of still finds him.
02. "Assassination Storm" premiered in Beijing was well received.
The crime film Assassination Storm held its Beijing premiere on August 16th. Director Qiu Litao, original author Zhou Haohui, actors Chilam and Hu Xinger attended the screening and had an interactive exchange with the audience. Many viewers said that this film is no longer a strong sensory stimulation of the Hong Kong-style gun battle blasting, but is deeply immersed in layer-by-layer inversion and high-energy reasoning. The film will be released in China on August 18.
01. A Korean film was investigated by the police on suspicion of flooding the ghost field.
Idle Mountain: The Appearance of the Dragon is considered to have a ghost field.
According to foreign media reports, South Korea’s CGV, Megabox and Lotte Cinema, as well as a number of publishers, were investigated by local police for allegedly falsifying movie box office and attendance data. They are suspected of colluding with illegal operations such as falsely reporting the number of people watching movies and forging box office rankings. After two months’ investigation, the South Korean police found that a large number of local films have increased the box office figures through "ghost screening" and other means in the past five years, resulting in an overestimate of 2.67 million people watching movies. Since March 2018, there have been at least 323 films suspected of being faked. At present, South Korea’s film industry is in crisis. Only "Crime City 3", which was released at the end of May, has reached 8 million people, and the rest of the works have less than 2 million people.
02. Oppenheimer hit Nolan’s highest box office on the first day.
Oppenheimer opened in South Korea on August 15th, with a first-day box office of US$ 4.3 million, which is the highest first-day box office of director Christopher Nolan’s works in the local history and the highest first-day box office of Hollywood movies in South Korea in 2023.