China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 154 Billion

Chen Jingxing used the visual effects production order of "Gravity" and the expensive admission fee to break through Hollywood's distribution barriers through Universal. Under the leadership of local snake Jeff Miller, Chen Jingxing has almost familiarized himself with several major theater chains and various theaters.

Shao film company executives.

Of course, he had met many people before. For example, the premiere of "The Signal" invited many company executives and well-known filmmakers to attend. But at that time, he was just a director of foreign films and a "tourist" in Hollywood.

Through Jeff Miller's introduction, he has officially become a player in the Hollywood poker game. His status has not improved, but his position has changed, and he has gained the label of "half one of his own."

This means that DreamWorks' subsequent film works can be directly distributed in North America through the Firefly Distribution Company it acquired. There is no need to sell out the copyright to a certain film company, and then it has nothing to do with the North American box office.

Of course, Firefly is just a shell company and naturally does not have any distribution capabilities, but a distribution network can be slowly built, and even if it cannot do it itself, it can still jointly distribute with other film companies.

In any case, the channel between DreamWorks and the North American market has been completely unblocked. In the long run, the $8 million admission fee is still worth it.

As for the special effects order for "Gravity", in Chen Jingxing's opinion, it is not a big price to pay. Legacy itself is a world-class special effects studio, and because it is not as well-known as iconic companies such as Industrial Light and Magic, Captain T, and Weta Digital

, the bidding price will be even cheaper.

Of course, an extremely ambitious and urgently needed filmmaker like Chen Jingxing would spend huge sums of money trying to bypass "toll booths" such as Columbia, Lions Gate, and New Line.

If you do not have the ability to continuously import works to the North American market, there is no need to establish such a channel. 8 million US dollars will be wasted. There will be no continuous film works that can be distributed on a large scale in North American theaters. The cultivation of distribution capabilities and

Naturally, there is no way to talk about growing stronger. Instead, it is the best choice to directly sell off the copyright and guarantee income without taking risks.

And while Chen Jingxing was on the "diplomatic shuttle", the box office of "The Signal" was also rising.

Although there is a slight suspicion of selling someone else's meat, "Signal" does squeeze into the atmosphere of the Halloween schedule without any sense of disobedience.

Jobs such as photography, art, acting, and screenwriting make it easier to become a director.

However, with the development of the Internet, it has given more opportunities to many directors who have struggled after graduating from majors.

Although the drop in the box office seems a bit alarming, there is nothing we can do about it. The North American film market is so crowded. After Columbia bought out "Fatal Identity" at the beginning of the year, it had to wait two months for a suitable schedule.

It was mainly to participate in the domestic celebration banquet. After 40 days of the domestic release of The Signal, the box office finally exceeded 1 billion-National Film Company applied for a key extension for "The Signal".

In any case, there is only the difference between a small profit and a big profit, but this has nothing to do with Chen Jingxing directly. After some exchanges of feelings with Hollywood locals, Chen Jingxing quickly flew back to China.

Moreover, directors often do not consider their majors. Compared with graduates trained by the directing departments of major art schools, those in the crew are more likely to switch to directing from other professions.

After attending the celebration banquet, Chen Jingxing met the director of the "Signal" TV series, or director candidate, Tian Xinye at the company.

In this way, although Columbia and Lionsgate are still unable to recover their costs through box office alone, the profit channels for Hollywood movies are already very complete. Coupled with TV rights and DVD distribution, Columbia and Lionsgate will definitely make money.

Fortunately, Columbia and Lionsgate's announcement of "The Signal" is also a Halloween movie that focuses on suspense and thriller labels. Theoretically, these two labels are not wrong, but the level of horror is far from the average level of Halloween movies.

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It can be seen that Columbia and Lionsgate are relatively well prepared for the release of this movie.

It can be said that Columbia and Lionsgate chose the lesser of two evils and decided to release it before Halloween. At least the movies in the Halloween schedule do not seem to be very effective.

The box office of 28 million in the first weekend laid an extremely solid foundation for the movie, and also made Columbia and Lionsgate breathe a sigh of relief.

It stands to reason that even if you graduate from a major and enter the film and television industry, you must first get started. Let alone mastering a film and television drama project, even filming commercials will not be your turn.

In addition to the domestic box office, the overseas box office outside the two major markets of China and the United States also exceeded 50 million US dollars. Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia contributed most of the box office. There are also markets in Europe that are scheduled to be released, because this time it is produced by DreamWorks and other producers

Fang personally led the distribution in Europe, so both the speed and intensity were far inferior to Colombia's release of Fatal Identity.

And if the box office of "The Signal" can reach 60 million US dollars, the copyright cost can also be directly recovered.

After the Halloween period, two solo hero movies will be released immediately, and there will be more blockbusters in December.

Unless you have more than ten or twenty years of experience, you will generally not be able to get ahead.

This means there will be much less pressure on the box office in the future - their bottom line target for the movie "The Signal" is US$50 million.

"The Signal", which had yet to take the top spot at the weekly box office, gave up the crown to the thriller crime movie "Nightcrawler" in its second week, with a revenue of 17 million, but it still beat the Halloween movie "The Signal", which had high hopes.

Death Divination".

Since then, "The Signal" has become the third domestic film in 2014 to have a box office of over 1 billion, temporarily ranking third on the domestic film box office list since records began.

However, even if it hit the Halloween schedule, "The Signal" still achieved a cumulative box office of 45 million in 10 days. There is no problem in reaching the bottom line goal of 50 million.

Tian Xinye was born in 1984 and is just over 30. He is an absolute new generation in the field of directors. Chen Jingxing is completely an exception.

Because the second week has entered the Halloween season, five or six thrillers and horror films have been released together.

Tian Xinye is such a lucky person. He became popular on the Internet by filming a horror online short film. He was spotted by Penguin Video Network and directed two low-cost online dramas. Although the market response was mediocre, the industry recognized him.

Because it's not his director that's holding him back, it's purely the script and the actors that are holding him back. In these two low-cost works, the only thing worthy of praise is the director's lens language, and the composition is also quite good.

The most important reason why Tian Xinye was selected by Chen Jingxing, who was still in the United States, among the five or six candidates provided by Xu Wenshen was that according to Xu Wenshen's information, Tian Xinye often drew storyboards when filming.

This made Chen Jingxing very interested. Not everyone draws storyboards for movie directors, let alone TV drama directors. With dozens of episodes and two or three months of shooting time, there is no time for you to think about the shots.

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