The average ticket price of summer movies in 2022 was 39.07 yuan, up about 7% compared with 36.37 yuan in 2021, which was the highest average ticket price since 2014.

Up to now, the average movie ticket price in 2022 was 42.21 yuan, a significant increase from 40.29 yuan in 2021, and an increase of 14% compared with 2019 before the epidemic. In first-tier cities, the average ticket price of summer movies in 2022 is as high as 47.49 yuan.

The average ticket prices of summer movies in second, third and fourth tier cities are 38.68 yuan, 37.11 yuan and 37.33 yuan respectively.

Compared with the same period in 2020, the average ticket price of movies in third-and fourth-tier cities has increased by about 15%.

Box office data comes from the lighthouse platform.

# Movie News #

▷　[A Sword Draws Out of its Sheath 2] Exposes new stills, and Norton appears.

The film is directed by rian johnson and starring daniel craig’s return.

There are also kathryn hahn, Dave Batista, ethan hawke and Edward Harrison Norton;

Kate hudson, Madeleine Klein, Jessica Henwick, etc.

It will make its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in mid-September, and serve as the closing film of the 66th BFI London Film Festival, which will be launched on Netflix on December 23rd.

Quentin called Truffaut an amateur.

Quentin tarantino’s views on Franç ois Truffaut’s films.

"Claude Chabrol’s thriller is much better than Truffaut’s Hitchcock film.

Truffaut’s movies are terrible. I’m not a Truffaut fan anyway. Of course, there are some exceptions, such as the story of Adele Hugo.

But in most cases, I feel the same way about Truffaut as I do about Edward D. Wood Jr.

I think he is an amateur who is full of blood and loves to tinker. "

Emma thompson returns to the Oscar front.

Since last year, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has realized "full self-help" for college members to watch movies online.

That is, members can watch movies through the digital projection room of the college, without having to "wait" for the awards season DVD of major distributors as in previous years.

Of course, not every film can go online on the platform. Publishers need to pay $12,500 for each film before members can see the film on the platform. The first film on the platform of the Academy this year is [Good luck, Rio Grande].

That’s right, this searchlight film was directly launched in Hulu on June 17 because of the epidemic, and it was not released offline.

According to the new selection rules adjusted by the Academy for the 95th Academy Awards, films must be shown in North American cinemas for at least 7 days before they can be eligible to participate in the evaluation. [Good luck, Leo Grande] obviously does not conform to the rules. However, the searchlight appealed to the college that they made the distribution plan according to the selection rules that allowed streaming media to participate in the Oscar during the old epidemic period, which did not make cinema distribution. Now it is unfair to the film itself to change the rules.

The college finally agreed to give up the requirement of 7-day cinema release, and [Good luck, Rio Grande] was qualified to participate in the competition, and emma thompson returned to the front.

▷　Guillermo del toro tweeted praise [determination to break up]

"Park Chan-wook created a black story version of [Crazy Love] with great skill.

It’s like writing in James M. Cain’s way.

Irresistible conflict, unavoidable attraction. Romance, tragedy and creativity. Absolute movies and passion. "

▷ “Mildew won the VMA Music Video Award of the Year.

Taylor Swift’s music short film [Memories Too Clear] won the VMA "Music Video Award of the Year".

At the same time, she also officially announced that the new album "Midnights" will be released on October 21st. The album will tell the story of 13 sleepless nights in his life. In the next award season, Mumei will also bring this short film adapted from the song of the same name [the memory is too clear], which will impact the nomination of the 95th Oscar for Best Live Short Film Award.

Brendan fraser’s new film released.

According to the organizing committee of the 79th Venice Film Festival, the main competition unit new film [Whale], directed by darren aronofsky and starring brendan fraser, was shot in an apartment.

The film is adapted from Samuel D. Hunt’s stage play. Charlie, an English teacher, gives up his family for the same-sex man and becomes estranged from his daughter.

After the death of his lover, Charlie chose to vent his grief by overeating, weighing 600 pounds, and he also tried to re-establish contact with his 17-year-old daughter.

Liu Zhuen passed away

Actor Liu Zhuen wrote a suicide note and made an extreme choice. He died on August 29th at the age of 27.

She wrote:

"I really want to act, but it’s not easy. Acting is all I have and a part of me.

But life is too difficult. I am very grateful to all those who love me and those I love. "

Liu Zhuen has appeared in film and television works such as Korean Survival and Dalin.

R.I.P.

▷　Korean version [Invisible Guest] publishes posters.

The Korean version of the remake of the Spanish hit movie [Invisible Guest] released a finalized poster.

This film is starring Ji-seob So, Jin Yunzhen and Nana, and directed by Jong-seok Yoon ([Sea Boy]).

Telling the story of the man accused of being a murder suspect in the secret room and his lawyer approaching the truth of the incident will be released in South Korea on October 26th.

▷　Ryohei Suzuki, Gong Ze ice fish love movie preview announced.

Ryohei Suzuki, Gong Ze ice fish starring LGBTQ romance [egoism] released a preview.

The film is directed by Daishi Matsunaga and adapted from Takayama Shin’s autobiographical novel of the same name.

Hirosuke (Ryohei Suzuki) died when his mother was 14 years old. When he came to Tokyo to become a fashion editor, he used gorgeous clothes as a disguise until he met Longtai (Gong Ze Iced Fish) who didn’t know the beauty.

The film will be released in Japan in 2023.

Depp said he needed a job.

Johnny Depp dressed up as a "Moon Man" and made a digital appearance at this year’s MTV Music Video Awards Ceremony.

"I need this job. I can come to your birthdays, bar mitzvahs, weddings and any activities you need. "

This is also Depp’s first public appearance since winning the libel case in June.

▷　Hidden in the dust, the box office broke 30 million

[Hidden into the Dust] On the 53rd day of its release in mainland China, the box office finally exceeded 30 million.

Thanks to the phenomenal discussion on various platforms in recent days, the box office of this film, which was launched on the video platform on August 9, suddenly picked up sharply last weekend.

Douban score rose to 8.5, and the total box office forecast has exceeded 51.5 million yuan.　

As of 9: 30 on August 29th, the total box office (including pre-sales) of China’s summer file in 2022 exceeded 9 billion.

[Walking Alone on the Moon] 2.861 billion, [Life Events] 1.708 billion, [Jurassic World 3] 1.060 billion, ranking the top three in the summer box office.

Box office data are from Cat’s Eye Professional Edition.

Poster of naomi watts’s new film announced.

A remake of the English version of the Austrian psychological thriller of the same name [Good night Mommy] released its first poster.

The film is starred by naomi watts and the twin boys Cameron Roviti and Nicholas Roviti in Big and Small Lies.

Directed by Matt Suo Beier and written by Kyle Warren, it will be launched in Prime Video on September 16th.

The story tells that the twin brothers welcome their mother back after the operation, but the woman’s behavior with bandages all over her face becomes more and more unstable and abnormal, and the twins begin to think that she is an impostor.

Their doubts triggered emotional psychological games and misunderstandings between mothers and children, which finally triggered irreparable and heartbreaking consequences.

After many twists and turns, MGM [Ben Xu] casting

The initial casting of MGM’s Return to Blood [Ben Xu] was very tortuous. Actors including Marlon Brando, paul newman and burt lancaster refused to perform for various reasons.

For example, Newman refused to show his thighs, while Lancaster thought the script was boring and conflicted with his beliefs.

Only Kirk Douglas was eager to try, but MGM didn’t think he could play Ben Hur. So when Charlton Heston decided to play Ben Hur.

Director william wyler told MGM that he hoped Kirk Douglas could play Misala, Ben Xu’s good friend and old enemy and tribune.

This time, however, Douglas turned down MGM with great courage.

#TV message #

▷ Ryoko Fujino, Aoki pomelo new drama preview announced.

The announcement of Amazon LGBTQ Japanese drama Beyond Language (モァザンワーズ, temporary translation).

The play is starring Ryoko Fujino, Aoki Pomelo, Nakagawa Daisuke and Kaneshiro.

Moka Kamishiraishi and Takumi Saito made guest appearances.

The play consists of 10 episodes and revolves around four protagonists. As time goes by, the friendship between the four people finally turns into love.

The play will be launched on September 16th, Prime Video.

▷　Kim Go Eun and Wei Huajun’s New Drama Preview Announced

"Little Ladies" starring Kim Go Eun, Nam Ji Hyun, Park Chihou and Wei Huajun released a formal preview of traditional Chinese characters.

Directed by Jin Xiyuan (Vincenzo), the play revolves around three sisters who are poor but very friendly, and they will have to fight against a famous family with strong financial resources.

The show will be launched on Netflix on September 3rd.

▷　Portman’s new play was stopped because of violence and extortion.

For the first time, Natalie Portman got an electric shock on the small screen. The filming of Apple’s new drama "Woman in the Lake", starring and acting as a producer, has been stopped due to the threat of violence and intentional extortion by local people. At about 4 pm on Friday, several Baltimore locals repeatedly threatened the producers and tried to blackmail them, saying that if the crew kept filming, they would shoot people, and as long as they paid $50,000, there would be no trouble.

The producer refused to pay and decided to stop shooting and change the shooting location. At present, the new shooting time has not been decided. The play was directed by Alma Har’el, and the actors included Moses Ingram (Obi-Wan), Noah Jupe, Haller and Derry Ryan. The story is adapted from a novel of the same name written by Laura Lipman.

In Baltimore in the 1960s, an unsolved murder prompted the housewife’s mother Maddy (Portman) to return to her life as an investigative journalist.

Then she meets cleo (Gram). cleo is a hard-working woman. She has to take care of motherhood and many jobs, and she is full of enthusiasm for advancing the agenda of black progress in Baltimore.

On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Oscars, 1905 Film Network and China Film Report, together with 12 senior film critics (11 were present in this issue), launched the Oscar Film Handbook, which gave exclusive and authoritative ratings and comments on the nine films nominated for the best film this year, so that fans of all departments could know and participate in the annual Oscar feast for the first time.

This manual will be continuously updated from February 27th to March 3rd, and the fourth issue will bring you scores and comments. If you want to know all the ratings of 9 nominated films by 12 senior film critics in China, please continue to pay attention to China Film Report WeChat WeChat official account.

What fans are worth looking forward to is that at 7:00 on March 5, 2018, the 1905 movie network will broadcast the Oscars live all the time. This is the best gift for fans and also a feast for the giants of movies.

The 11 senior film critics invited by the Oscar Film Handbook (in no particular order) are:

Chen Shiya, Executive Editor of Global Screen

Zeng Nianqun, Executive Editor of Youth Film Handbook

Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Content Department, Laoyang Time Network

Editor-in-Chief of Xiaoqi Iqiyi Film Channel

　Editor-in-Chief of A Lang’s Watching Movies magazine.

Zhou Liming film critic

Sairen film critic

Cui ting film critic

Red fish film critic

Yabo’s Gun Draft

Qi Zheng’s China Film Report is an international senior editor.

Scoring rules: Each shortlisted film is divided into seven items: director technique, script, art direction, photography, editing/sound editing, soundtrack/sound effect and performance, with a score of 5 for each item and a total score of 35 points.

The Phantom Sewer

Director:　Paul Thomas Anderson

Screenwriter: paul thomas anderson

Starring:　Daniel day-Lewis / Vicky Krieps / Lesley Manville /Camilla Rutherford

Type: Plot/Love

Producer country/region: USA

Language: English

Zeng Nianqun (Executive Editor of Youth Film Handbook):

Similarly, The Phantom Sewing Man is not a sweet love in the traditional sense, but a niche and strange feeling with a slant sword. The love struggle between the hero and heroine in the film is like an emotional war, with extraordinary aggressiveness and explosiveness. When the two sides of love seek a new self through the attack of love, everything that is used to it is subverted by the war of love. The difference is that war is destructive, and the result of this love war is win-win. Despite the high degree of completion of the film, there are many touching scenes, but the sadomasochism in it still makes me unable to digest, and there is an uncomfortable feeling of foam crossing the wet glass.

Zhou Liming (film critic):

Although this film is dominated by Americans, it shows the elegance and texture of British films. The rhythm of not being slow and not getting sick, because of the excellent performance, is also quite interesting. The theme of the film is the uniqueness of artistic genius and how to get along with such people, but the excavation is not deep.

Sai Ren (film critic):

The film with the least ambition in this year’s Oscar is estimated to be just running with you in the end. It does not resonate with the grand sense of home and country, but in the love mode that should be tailored to suit one’s own circumstances, it has entered the wrestling of control and anti-control to fight poison with poison. Although the story is quite dangerous, it is Anderson’s most calm film in recent years. This is also a pan-political film, that is, the position of slaves and masters may change at any time. A large number of pure white color blocks are processed, which has a lazy dying breath. Lewis stayed in his daughter’s country for a long time. He thought he could lead an honest and clean life. Unexpectedly, he often walked by the river, and there were no wet shoes. What makes me dissatisfied with the film is that it lacks more interesting details. It is too solid and neat.

Yabo (Gun Draft):

As Daniel Day-Lewis’s farewell work (or perhaps another empty shot), The Phantom Sewer makes a tailor’s love story both classical and gloomy. PTA mirror and music complement each other, making the whole film like an oil painting with profound skills, which not only presents a full aesthetic feeling as a whole, but also makes the details very exquisite. But this movie is like an unbalanced Chinese costume. From the outside, it looks good in style, which can reveal face. It is just that there are some simple linings, morbid love can never find a way to penetrate people’s hearts, and elegant characters lack rich inner world.

Chen Shiya (executive editor of Global Screen):

As a farewell work of Daniel Day-Lewis, a great acting artist, The Phantom Sewer is an out-and-out topic movie among fans and media practitioners. Although the director paul thomas anderson’s performance is not as good as that of The Master, among the nine nominated films, The Phantom Sewing Man is probably the most mature one, so that the bizarre love-hate entanglement between a high-end garment tailor and a restaurant maid continues the eternal loneliness of human beings and the complex theme of "Others are hell" in Anderson’s films in a glamorous picture. Unfortunately, Lewis’s performance this time is not as brilliant as that in "Blood Will Come".

A Lang (editor-in-chief of Watching Movies):

The greatest charm of the film is the naivety of love, which is embodied in the form of beauty, just like the protagonist’s tailor’s career, his coldness and arrogance are beaten back to the original shape in the face of love. At the same time, the film also shows another essence of love, which is possessiveness and control. Love is an extreme way of human nature, which has too many collisions with human nature, and also the ultimate way to embody human nature in the form of beauty after colliding with things. Daniel Day-Lewis once again contributed his own performance height. On this planet, he is the king of performance.

Xiao tuo (editor-in-chief of iqiyi movie channel):

The victory of classicism and the perfect display of the retro trend in the 1950s on the big screen have recreated a beautiful fashion world. Taking the love story as the line, it tells the crazy game and control in their relationship, and the extreme collision between beauty and ugliness. Actors are of course the biggest highlight. This year’s Oscar is a big year, right? Daniel Day-Lewis continues to make people want to stop.

Lao Yang (Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Time Network Content Department):

If we simply analyze the story, paul thomas anderson’s new work is really nothing new. A young woman from a lower class comes to a noble family and falls in love with an artist with super control. You can imagine the contradictions and conflicts about class differences and gender differences, and you can see them more or less in the movies.

What makes this film outstanding can be summed up by a "cinematic sense" that is difficult to explain clearly in one sentence, including photography, soundtrack, lens language, costume design, and Daniel Day-Lewis’ divine performance. Paul thomas anderson "studied under" robert altman, who is an anti-tripod figure in the American independent film industry. His strength has been proved by several works such as Blood Will Come, Master, etc. This time, Anderson has returned from abstruse to simple, and his skill is still good.

Red fish (film critic):

The rare work of "Dojo in a snail’s shell" in this PTA film, although the pattern is small, the gas field is still Anderson-style deep depression, and I will never give up until I tell the horror of a story. However, compared with other PTA films, this film is still a little fresh after all, and it can’t satisfy the fans who are dumped by the forces that dare to question and even violate everything in "Blood is Coming" and "Master" — — Perhaps, I can’t satisfy Daniel Day Lewis. Such a role is obviously not suitable as the last farewell performance of his radiant pre-screen career. I guess he will come back again.

　

Cui Ting (film critic):

Paul thomas anderson’s film is a little short of material selection. It is a relatively literary film, which is a bit boring and lacks the feeling of surprise. By comparison, it is almost better than Hehe. It was this close that made it difficult for the film to win important awards. Not surprisingly, The Phantom Sewer was nominated for best actor, and Daniel Day-Lewis won the Oscar for best actor three times. But this year, Gary Oldman was so good that Daniel didn’t have a chance this time.

　

Qi Zheng (international senior editor of China Film Report):

PTA never lets fans down, and his control of stories has a fascinating temperament. It is a thorough examination of human nature, a divine question, and the courage to subvert everything. This film is the most understandable of all his works, and the smallest in pattern, but it still doesn’t disappoint the audience. Even when you see the end, you suddenly realize that this is paul thomas anderson’s directing art.

In the first 30 minutes of the film, paul thomas anderson made the film exude classicism and elegance by using film techniques similar to "showmanship". In the middle of the film, the audience may once think that the quality of the film will decline, but the director buried all his strength at the end. He discussed the completely different possessiveness of men and women for love with absolutely unique character settings. Lewis pursues the completeness that love gives him in pain and struggle, and Vicky Krieps interprets the possessiveness of the hostess and a little deformed love.