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Chapter 171 "Source Code" Finalized

In the large conference room of DreamWorks.

Chen Jingxing is having his last meeting with DreamWorks executives before the start of the year.

The most important thing is the finalization of "Source Code".

Although the integration into the Tianhe Animation team and the preliminary preparations for "Gravity" took a lot of energy, especially the production of the CG preview of "Gravity" took up most of the manpower, the post-production work of "Source Code" was still in 2

Completed at the beginning of the month.

Of course, it must be late for the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival in 2015 is February 19th. The post-production film must first be sent to the film bureau for second review. After receiving the dragon mark, it must be promoted, let alone February 19th.

Even though it will be released in March, the time is very tight.

Although many people at DreamWorks, as well as the other two producers of "Source Code", were somewhat dissatisfied with Chen Jingxing's decision to divert manpower from the special effects studio to work on "Gravity" at a critical time in the film's post-production, after all, it missed the Spring Festival release.

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The explosion of "Signal" in the National Day release has benefited both DreamWorks Fantasy Network and United Cinemas. The co-producers of "Source Code", Penguin Video and Tianrun Pictures, are also eager to watch. Judging from the scale of the market,

The Spring Festival stall is definitely larger than the National Day stall.

Chen Jingxing actually doesn't have much regret about this. He believes that the movie "Source Code" is good enough and can definitely drive the market no matter what schedule it is released in. In fact, many imported Hollywood blockbusters are released in the so-called domestic schedules.

The off-season does not prevent them from earning more box office than most domestic films.

His biggest feeling about "Source Code" missing the Spring Festival release is that the payback cycle of this project has been postponed again.

Of course, the main reason why Chen Jingxing decided to schedule "Source Code" to the end of April was because of the North American market.

However, there are still some disputes about the subsequent release date of "Source Code". Most people's opinions are that it should be released in the summer. After all, this is the largest release date in China.

"More than 20 days is enough for the long term." Chen Jingxing shook his head: "Even if we can still maintain a good box office after more than 20 days, we definitely have no ability to hold on to the daily box office championship. If there are no heavyweight blockbusters, we can still do it.

Harvest, and "Source Code" is definitely capable enough to chop off his tail."

"After the trailer of "Young Avengers" came out, it immediately became the number one most searched item." Zheng Hong still believed that there was a certain degree of danger: "The animated series of this movie previously set a new record for animation on Penguin Video Network.

If the quality of the movie can match that of the animation, there is no possibility of long-term success."

"Source Code" will be the first DreamWorks film to be licensed to Firefly for direct distribution in the North American market.

Coupled with his personal friendship, or superficial friendship, with Universal Pictures Vice President Jeff Miller, who is also one of several individual shareholders of Firefly after all.

Coupled with other possible large expenditures, DreamWorks' funds will be insufficient, so he wants "Source Code" to be released as soon as possible.

After all, "Gravity" is burning money with every step forward. In addition, the acquisition of Tianhe Animation, the rapid expansion of Mo's animation department, the establishment of several animation works, the filming of the "Signal" TV series and the follow-up film and television drama projects

Planning, DreamWorks currently does not have sufficient funds.

""Young Avengers"? I'm afraid this movie will be difficult to deal with. It has been scheduled to be released in North America on March 25th. If the National Film Festival schedules it to early April, there will be basically no gap in between. In addition, the film is scheduled to be released on March 25th.

I think it is not a wise decision to confront him head-on." Xu Wenshen slowly expressed his opinion.

The story of "Young Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow" tells the story of a generation of Avengers who almost all died in the battle with Ultron. Stark, the only survivor, took care of the children of other Avengers and raised them as teenagers.

Avengers to take over from their parents.

He doesn't believe that some movies can become "Wolf Warrior 2" in its own right. "Wolf Warrior 2" mobilized a large number of non-movie audiences to enter the theater. In other words, it penetrated most classes and age groups.

This is only possible with domestic films. Super-English films cannot penetrate all age groups. It is difficult for them to mobilize middle-aged and elderly people to join the factory, and their penetration into the sinking market is also extremely limited.

"April?" Zheng Hong, the head of the publicity and online marketing department, frowned and muttered: "According to the news from the National Film Festival, "Young Avengers" is likely to be released in early April."

Chen Jingxing's partner was Universal Pictures. On the project "Gravity", Chen Jingxing had a good time cooperating with Universal's special effects studio.

"We don't want to confront him head-on." Chen Jingxing knocked on the table: "Actually, I asked Director Qin before that this movie will indeed be released in early April, to be precise on Friday, April 3.

Log in at zero o'clock. What I thought was that "Source Code" is scheduled to be released on the 24th, and there is a gap of 20 days between it and him. I don't think this is a head-on collision, and it can catch up with the May 1st release immediately."

However, Chen Jingxing believes that the summer schedule is a bit late, because the official filming of "Gravity" will begin after the new year. According to the scheduled plan, the filming time will not exceed two months. After the filming is completed, there will be a long post-production visual effects production process. Chen Jingxing

All he has to do is follow up at all times, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have time to do other projects.

He hopes that the movie "Source Code" can collect funds as soon as possible and bring huge profits.

Although Chen Jingxing is not afraid of Hollywood blockbusters, he will not really confront them head-on.

An animated series was previously released as a foreshadowing, which caused a huge response at home and abroad, so this movie is considered a relatively heavyweight project among the superhero movies planned to be released this year.

Of course, Firefly currently does not have independent distribution capabilities at all, and must jointly distribute with major Hollywood distributors.

The script of "The Matrix" is already being perfected. After the filming of "Gravity" is completed, he will start the preparations for "The Matrix" as soon as possible. Of course, in fact, the production cost of the first "The Matrix" was not much, and the special effects

The lenses are far inferior to those of "Gravity". According to Chen Jingxing's estimation, 200 to 300 million would be enough to complete the filming. The special effects ink of "The Matrix" is capable of being produced.

DreamWorks' US$8 million only acquired 80% of Firefly's shares - which is already an absolute controlling stake. The remaining 20% ​​is still held by several individuals, and Jeff Miller is one of them.

Universal's opinion is that it hopes that "Source Code" can be released in North America in early May. This is a very rare schedule chosen by Universal, and it maintains a sufficient distance from the blockbusters before and after it.

As for DreamWorks' idea of ​​releasing it in the North American summer season, Universal simply rejected it.

The summer season is the most important ticket market of the year in the North American market. Without it, it is naturally impossible for a foreign film to make money in this season. This is of course not decided by an administrative order. You have to force the summer season

That's okay, but the number of theaters open cannot exceed a thousand.

(End of chapter)