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Incredibly, by the end of the third week of October, there were only four professional film critic reviews on Hard Candies, from The New Yorker, The Chicago Sun-Times, and The Wall Street Journal. and Movie Reviews.

The Wall Street Journal, out of 100, As a movie, the directing is brilliant, the script is profound, the photography is exceptional, and the acting is... terrific! Definitely the best show of 2005! Fruit Hard Candy' delivers a true cinematic feast, not of the sight but of the heart. It's torture.

Movie Review, 100 points, This is an almost indelibly impressive work of psychological thriller, criminal horror, and human critique, all while being so bitter it's almost unbearable that it's all about It's mental torture. But, it's worth every minute of your time!

This is the first batch of reviews for Hard Candy, but four media reviews have created an incredible four full marks. In other words, the average score is 100 points. This is the media's first round of feedback on the movie. information. Compared with the 100% screen praise, people are even more surprised that the attention is so low, only four media commented. Is there really no media attention to this experimental film?

In this regard, Javier Ulliel of the New York Times wrote an article on his personal blog, Passionate New Yorkers, when did the landmark theater become Broadway?

This joking article is full of Javier's ridicule. He said that hard fruit candy is hard to get a ticket. He waited in line for three hours, but he still couldn't buy a ticket; then he found Lance himself through the relationship. , but unfortunately, even Lance has no movie tickets. The most absurd thing is that Michael Fassbender and Ellen Page are not able to see the finished movie now. What's even more exaggerated is that someone offered three hundred dollars to buy a scalper ticket, but no one was willing to sell it!

In the end, Javier said that he also very much hopes to watch this work for the first time, and even be able to write his own movie viewing articles, but unfortunately, it seems that he has to wait and wait.

This blog post answered the doubts of netizens in a sense. It seems that it is not easy for film critics and reporters to watch Hard Candy in the first place. Looking at the hard-to-get tickets for Hard Fruit Candy, people are really dumbfounded. As an independent art film, such a grand event can definitely be called incredible, but when people look at the opening box office data of Fruit Candy, it is not surprising.

The single-house box office is a very special set of data, which is often used to measure the word-of-mouth of a work’s small-scale test screenings. On the top of the film history list, Disney’s cartoons are the kings of the single-house box office, because they always put their works in Disney Played in the park, it is only one or two theaters, but it can explode an amazing single-hall box office energy.

The title of the single-house box office champion in film history belongs to The Lion King. In 1994, this work created a single-house box office of 790,000 yuan in two theaters, and no one was able to break it until 2015. In addition, the single-house box office of the cartoons produced and distributed by Disney has repeatedly created excellent results of 200,000 yuan. As of 2005, the top ten in the film history list belong to Disney, and all of them are cartoons.

Excluding cartoons, the single-house box office champion of live-action movies is Mrs. Peron, which created 97,000 US dollars in 1996, ranking eleventh in the comprehensive list. It can be seen that the single-house box office of live-action movies can hardly compete with cartoons. At present, there is no single-house data of any live-action movie that has passed the 100,000 threshold, let alone the single-house box office of Disney cartoons. After all, the difference is very obvious.

Although it is said that the box office of a single hall does not mean that the film is excellent, nor does it represent the future trend of the box office, but it is no exaggeration to say that the box office of a single hall represents people's attention to this movie, as well as direct feedback. This is undoubtedly crucial for works of art.

Hard Candy created countless topics during the screening period. First, the news of Mad Max 4 leaked, and then the plagiarism of Good Night, Good Luck came, followed by Hard Candy The supply of the show is in short supply, and it seems that all signs are showing that this work is bound to bring surprises, but people did not expect that the historical moment has come quietly like this!

Hard Candy made $336,000 at the box office in three days of the weekend when it was screened in two theaters. It is only the 30th place, which is not worth mentioning at all, but it has aroused the exclamation of more than 80 mainstream media in North America, History, created!

The box office of a single hall is 168,000!

what does that mean? This means that all the projection halls of the two landmark theaters are showing continuously for 24 hours, but the supply is still in short supply-after all, the landmark theater is not a movie theater inside Disneyland, and the number of audiences varies greatly; Tickets are hard to find is not a joke, but it is really impossible to buy any tickets, and the audience's enthusiasm for watching movies has reached an unprecedented height; this means that Hard Candy is very popular among senior film lovers has reached an all-time high.

One hundred and sixty-eight thousand, a full single-house box office data of one hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars, stunning the entire North American market! This is not only the first live-action film in film history with a box office of over 100,000 in a single venue, but also the first live-action film in film history to break the monopoly of Disney cartoons on the box office rankings in a single venue. , and defeated Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and successfully occupied the sixth place in history. Before it, only The Lion King, Pocahontas, Toy Story 2 , A Bug's Life and Hercules five works.

The mighty Disney animation monopoly has been broken! This is definitely news that caused a sensation throughout North America, and this historical record was actually created by Hard Candy, such an experimental film, such a cult film, and more importantly, such a film. A movie with hardly any promotion! History was born out of nowhere!

Until now, netizens have a partial sense of reality. Javier’s ridicule on the blog is true, only four professional film reviews are true, and the noise at the entrance of the Landmark Cinema is also true. “Hard candies” detonated The fan enthusiasm for the fall show is also real.

Unexpected, but not unexpected.

Before Fruit Candy, Lance has created many historical records. City of God broke the monopoly of Lord of the Rings 3 and acquired three statuettes, and this is only Lance's virgin The North American box office of three consecutive works has exceeded 200 million, so far this is still a height that no one can match; the 100% success rate of the four works has led Chaos Films to become a second-tier film company by itself; Don't say that Tom Cruise broke the shackles of two decades and stood on the podium of the academy award ceremony...It can be said that whenever Lance releases a work, it not only means quality assurance, but also means Another step forward in the pace of history.

But even so, it is still incredible that Hard Fruit Candy has achieved a score of 168,000 for a single hall. This data can definitely be called a huge victory no matter when it is placed on any work at any time; and when it is put together with a work like Hard Fruit Candy, the created The horror was even more ferocious. It is no exaggeration to say that Hard Candy gave all doubters the loudest slap in the face by relying on the explosion of single-house box office and the strong posture of rewriting history.

Before Mad Max 4 aroused doubts, people reported a lot of doubts about the work Hard Candy. No one understood why Lance chose such a work, and no one reported this work. Hopefully, due to the film's ultra-low investment, even people are stingy with their own criticism, and even bad-mouthing voices are reluctant to comment too much. It can be clearly felt that fruit hard candy has been ignored.

But now, the film has given the most violent, powerful, and refreshing counterattack with the most direct, authentic, and profound single-house box office data.

Compared with the film’s investment of only 900,000 US dollars, the performance of the film in the two theaters in the first week has recovered one-third of the cost. Maybe this work cannot create a box office miracle, but there is no doubt that this work It is about to enter the ranks of achieving profitability, and once again continues the fine tradition of Chaos Films must produce high-quality products.

However, no one knows what the box office trend of Fruit Candy will be, because even Roger, Lawrence and others who have received rave reviews all think that watching this movie is a challenge, and it is a torture. Can it really win the audience's love after the expansion?

Many works were brilliant during the screening period, but the results were dismal after the expansion. This is the case for Atlantis: The Lost Empire, which has just been overtaken by Hard Candy in the single-house box office history list. That's all. What's more, Hard Candy is not a commercial film, but just a work of art, and it is also a cult work with a unique style and suffering from watching movies. The future is still unpredictable.

However, one thing is certain is that in the fourth week of October, Hard Candy was screened in seven theaters for the second week, which still triggered an unimaginable movie-watching frenzy. Four landmark theaters in New York Line, the three landmark theaters in Los Angeles are ushering in unprecedented noise and prosperity, from two to seven, it seems that the enthusiasm of the audience has not weakened, but has become more and more crazy.