They are all too deep into the drama!

Chapter 654 An unexpected appearance!
[The character "Adrian" in "The Tuner" has been completed and the settlement is in progress! ]

[Role ratio: S+ (As a witness to the plot of the movie, the character "Adrian" connects the entire plot and plays an extremely crucial role in promoting the plot!)]

[Acting Rating: S+ (The protagonist of the movie, Adrian, originally chose to pretend to be blind in order to pursue musical achievements. However, he gained more sympathy and the feeling of peeking into other people's lives and privacy made him immersed in it. After witnessing the murder scene, he cowardly chose to conceal it, and even took away someone else's retina in order to heal his own eyes...

This is a complex, three-dimensional and multifaceted character, and your performance interprets it very well! )]

[Comprehensive rating: S+]

[Based on the comprehensive evaluation, you will be given three items from the character "Adrian"'s skills and items as rewards! ]

[Drawing in progress...Drawing in progress...Drawing in progress...]

[Skills acquired: Professional Music (Adrian, who aspires to become a famous musician, has a high level of attainment in music, and is excellent in vocal ability, music theory, and music composition!)]

[Skills acquired: Piano Master (The protagonist "Adrian" is particularly good at piano, very contagious, and can easily convince others!)]

[Skills acquired: Acute hearing (After adapting to life as a blind person, your hearing will become even more acute.)]

After all, the character is set as a musician, so it is normal to get such a role reward.

Compared with the skills acquired previously in traditional Chinese musical instruments, this time it is modern music, and even includes systematic music theory knowledge.

Moreover, Huo Mingjie can use the relevant skills now!

In this movie "The Tuner", we have not yet found suitable music to be composed for the protagonist.

In fact, he had downloaded a lot of songs on the phone he had in his previous life, so he could use it.

I originally planned to hum it myself and then find a professional to help me transcribe it. But now I don’t need to do that, Huo Mingjie can do it himself!
I won’t plagiarize those domestic songs. After all, this is not an entertainment company from another time and space. Although they haven’t been written yet, I always feel guilty about plagiarism.

But when it comes to foreign English songs, there is no psychological burden.

The old Buddha gave it to me back then!

After spending several months on the other side of the ocean, I finally finished filming the two movies, "Now You See Me" and "The Piano Tuner".

However, Huo Mingjie’s work here is not over yet, because the movie "Time Traveler" is about to be released!

After all, it's a low-budget movie, so there's no need to make a big fuss or hold a press conference.

But we still have to shoot some promotional materials and call on Huo Mingjie's female fans in Europe and the United States to go to the cinema to support him!
The methods of movie promotion here are slightly different from those in China.

It is mainly based on placing television advertisements, which is similar to the "bombardment" type of viral marketing.

This movie will not be released simultaneously around the world, but will be released in North America first.

In fact, it is possible to release the film simultaneously around the world, but this time, "Time Traveler" adopted a typical Hollywood marketing method. It spent a lot of publicity funds in North America to carry out marketing, thereby increasing box office performance.

As the movies from the United States are now popular all over the world, the movies with outstanding box office performance every week will be reported by the global media, thus gaining free publicity and saving marketing costs in other regions...

"Time Traveler" is a pure love movie that talks about love, family, and also discusses life and death. Its audience is actually not limited to young girls!

Moreover, whether it is Huo Mingjie's stunning appearance that can unify the different aesthetics of the East and the West, or the high looks of the heroine Miriam, they are both quite "eye-catching".

It is conceivable that the related trailers and promotional materials broadcast on TV will be able to bring a little shock to the Americans in terms of appearance!
On May 6th, "Time Traveler" was officially released in America.

After all, it was an imported film. Even with the help of the new MGM's channels, the film was initially released in only more than 800 theaters, which was not a high share.

On May 8th, the first weekend box office results were released.

The box office grossed US$6.93 million, ranking seventh in this week's box office rankings.

The overall box office results are not impressive, but the film's single-theater performance is better than "Fast & Furious 5", which ranked second at the box office this week, and is second only to this week's box office champion "Thor".

The media's overall rating here is 76 points. Although only more than a hundred people participated in the rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the freshness is as high as 83%, and the Yahoo audience rating is A-, a typical dark horse!
Under the relevant movie reviews, basically half of them are from literary and artistic young people from the other side of the ocean, who wrote long reviews to recommend this fresh and simple movie with a leisurely narrative.

The other half were obviously fans who were attracted by Huo Mingjie’s appearance. They were crazily praising Huo Mingjie’s handsomeness or posting stills in the comment section.

This behavior is actually no different from the underage fans of those popular young stars in China...

Based on past experience, the senior executives of the new MGM company responsible for North American distribution were not optimistic about the box office performance of this romance film.

It was only because the star of the film was Huo Mingjie, a major shareholder of the company, that they took over the distribution of the film, and they had not invested too much before.

However, after the movie was released and received initial positive reviews, the new MGM executives in charge of distribution immediately changed their attitude and began to increase their publicity and marketing efforts.

Starting from the second week, the number of theaters showing the film expanded to 1,500, and the corresponding publicity efforts also became stronger.

With increased investment in marketing and more theaters showing the film, the box office of the film has also risen!

By the end of the second week, the film's cumulative box office had reached more than 28 million.

In fact, the box office of 5 million US dollars in the second week is not too impressive among a number of movies such as "Thor", "Bridesmaids", "Fast & Furious ", and "Rio".

Compared with the shooting and marketing costs, the investment in the film itself was as high as 40 million US dollars, and this box office result failed to directly recover the cost.

But the fact that a movie starring a Chinese face like Huo Mingjie appeared on the box office rankings where only Hollywood blockbusters are eligible to compete is a very surprising existence in itself!
All the global film critics who pay attention to the latest North American movie box office rankings will inevitably notice this movie at this time...

(End of this chapter)