Chapter 923 Head-to-head confrontation
Since 1977, five of the first six Star Wars films have won the North American box office that year. Metaphor.
After a long wait, in mid-December when Christmas is coming, the long-awaited Star Wars: The Force Awakens is finally here!
Duke put the film's world premiere on the famous Hollywood Boulevard.
This premiere is way beyond the Oscars.
Standing in front of the Dolby Theater, Leonardo DiCaprio looked at the long red carpet and said to Duke next to him, Whether it is the number of fans present, or the number of guests and media reporters The Oscars are unmatched.
You're right. Scarlett, who was holding Duke's hand, took Leonardo's words, Even the ratings of the red carpet are higher than the Oscars.
Honey... Duke couldn't help reminding, It's unfair for you to compare Oscar with Star Wars.
Scarlett curled her lips and muttered, Perhaps in a few years, the ratings of the Oscars will not even be comparable to the MTV Awards Ceremony and the Saturn Awards Ceremony.
Duke and Leonardo looked at each other and couldn't help shaking their heads and smiling at the same time.
Although what Scarlett Johansson said is a bit exaggerated, it also reflects the dilemma of the Oscars today.
It is an indisputable fact that the ratings of the Oscars have dropped sharply year after year.
On the whole, there are many reasons for the decline in the ratings of the Oscars. An important factor affecting the ratings is the influence of the participating films. In 1998, when Titanic participated in the competition, it created an audience rating of 55 million. In the year when Duke won the statuette, it created nearly 70 million viewers, which has become an insurmountable peak.
Secondly. With so many forms of entertainment these days, who cares if a movie they don't like or hasn't seen won an award?
Regardless of the number of viewers, this premiere is destined to surpass the Oscars in every way.
Hollywood Boulevard between Highland Avenue and La Brea Avenue will be closed for four days starting at 11 p.m. on December 10 for the red carpet and venue set-up for the premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. road.
In fact. The annual Oscars ceremony is closed on Hollywood Boulevard from Highland Avenue to Orange Field.
For comparison, the red carpet for Star Wars: The Force Awakens is 2,000 feet long, 2.5 times the length of the Oscars red carpet.
What's more interesting is that the invitation letter for the premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens finalized by Duke himself did not inform the guests of the specific theater name where the premiere will be held, and the blocked road section included a total of 3 theaters. Theaters: Dolby Theatre, Haoa Laiwu Chinese Theater and El.Capitan Theatre.
All the guests didn't know until the scene. This time, the premiere package of Star Wars: The Force Awakens has the world premiere in the above three theaters at the same time. This is the largest film premiere in Hollywood history, and the number of guests attending the premiere alone is as high as 5,000. people!
The 2,000-foot-long red carpet in front of the Dolby Theater is covered in white tents, which is magnificent and looks like space. Above the head is a gorgeous starry sky made of lights. Dozens of lightsabers erected in the center of the red carpet are domineering and shocking. On both sides of the red carpet are statues of Stormtroopers, the protagonist and BB-8. People are dazzled and overwhelmed.
Before watching the new movie. Many guests already have a deep sense of substitution in the Star Wars universe.
Although Duke and Scarlett Johansson walked the red carpet early, the real red carpet ceremony has just begun.
The first to appear on the red carpet were the big stars of the Star Wars series: C3PO and R2D2. The newly joined member BB8 also rolled around on the red carpet, and the three robots took the lead, setting off a small climax on the scene.
The stars who appeared next also caused bursts of screams.
At the premiere, Han Solo, Harrison Ford, Leia Princess Carrie Fisher, Star Wars 7 hero and heroine Daisy Ridley, Daniel Wu and many other old and new Star Wars All members assembled.
There are also Steven Spielberg, Francis Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Charlize Theron, Jamie King, Sofia Vergara and many other stars. Even the mayor of Los Angeles came to help out, and the degree of starlight was unprecedented.
Around the red carpet, movie fans holding up signs begging for tickets have also become an alternative sight, because there are too many of them.
These people wanted to see the movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens as soon as possible, but they didn't get tickets in the pre-sale, so they had to try their luck with this oldest way of asking for tickets.
Undoubtedly, the pre-sale figure of Star Wars: The Force Awakens exceeded 120 million US dollars, which is unique even in Hollywood, where blockbuster films gather. .
On the opening day of ticket sales, crazy fans brought down the two major platforms in the UK that opened advance ticket sales - Odeon and CineWorld websites.
The CineWorld website has yet to recover from this, and the page still says We are experiencing an unusually high traffic load.
The website in North America also failed to escape the bad luck of being paralyzed. The Fandango movie pre-sale platform in the United States released movie tickets for Star Wars: The Force Awakens in advance. As a result, the midnight IMAX show was swept away within a few minutes after the tickets were released. Afterwards, fans who bought advance tickets for the film on the website were directly directed to the maintenance page of the website.
The pre-sale event in Australia took 90 minutes, and the IMAX midnight show in mainland Australia was sold out, and more than half of the tickets were sold at 3 o'clock in the morning...
The explosion of pre-sales is enough to see the appeal of Duke and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Almost all media believe that this film will create a series of brilliant records.
In addition to the red carpet ceremony, Duke also asked Lucasfilm to organize many fan activities on this stretch of Hollywood Boulevard for the sake of publicity. Of course, there is no need to send special personnel to visit and condolences to the fans who lined up in tents in front of the Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Said that the get-together with fans is an essential item.
Back in 1977, when the original movie Star Wars met the audience for the first time, it caused an unprecedented sensation in the world. Even the director George Lucas did not predict that the movie would be such a huge success.
Lucas even went to Hawaii for vacation on the day of its release. It was not until he watched the CBS Evening News that he knew that the film had won the box office and attracted a large number of people to line up outside major theaters across the country, just to see the elegance of this sci-fi film.
This scene happened again today.
Crowds of fans gathered at the world-famous Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard tonight, waiting patiently in long lines and elaborately dressed as movie characters for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
The Chinese Theater has a very important position in the history of Star Wars. The first Star Wars premiered here in 1977, and even the symbolic characters in the film, such as Darth Vader and R2-D2, are Left handprints on the concrete steps outside the theater.
Star Wars premiere day is also a good time for Star Wars fans to have a happy event. Caroline Little and Andre Porter, super Star Wars fans from Australia, specially flew to the United States to complete their life-long events in front of the red carpet of the Dolby Theater, becoming the first couple in history to make their wedding vows here newcomer.
Correspondingly, Duke also became a witness of the couple.
congratulations!
In front of countless cameras, Duke presented the crazy Star Wars couple with two Jedi lightsabers and said, I am honored to be at your wedding tonight, thank you for inviting me, and let me show everyone Come surprise.
There was a frenzy of shouting around, the voices were too noisy, so that it was impossible to hear what they were saying, but these fanatical fans were quite attractive, and the cosplay costumes were also various. In front of the Dolby Theater, they completely became movie fans. show.
In addition to the star-studded creative team and the dazzling scene layout with rich Star Wars elements, the Dolby Theater behind Duke was specially built by IMAX Company as a customized IMAX theater. It took only 24 hours to complete the construction, fixing, In the work of multiple important links such as curtain hanging and debugging, IMAX Corporation provided sufficient setting guarantees to ensure that the first show of Star Wars? The Force Awakens was stunning enough.
After the long red carpet ceremony, followed by the routine project of the Hollywood premiere, Duke and a group of main creators accepted the on-site media interviews, and then according to the plan made in advance, Duke asked people to bring George Lucas, Day West Ridley and Daniel Wu came over.
The most special part of the entire premiere is the event to be held below.
All the reporters were watching Duke, George Lucas, Daisy Ridley and Daniel Wu, and all the cameras and video cameras were staring at them.
The four of Duke walked around the circular console in front of the steps of the Dolby Theater, and the staff who had rehearsed earlier shouted together.
10, 9,...
The other movie fans didn't know what was going on, but they were very cooperative and shouted, 8, 7...
The sound spread immediately, and everyone gathered on Hollywood Boulevard shouted in the same rhythm, 6, 5...
The shouts shook the sky, and it seemed that the entire City of Angels had only this kind of voice, 4, 3, 2, 1!
With the end of the countdown for movie fans, Duke, George Lucas, Daisy Ridley and Daniel Wu started the lighting device, and the two laser devices placed in front of the Dolby Theater were activated instantly, and two dazzling lights The beam of light shot straight into the sky, and finally evolved into the symbol of Star Wars-two giant light sabers. Start the head-to-head confrontation!
The Force War broke out again, and the history of grievances and grievances of the Skywalker family began to be interpreted again. (to be continued ~^~)
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