China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 296 Negative News

If "Phantom" deserved its defeat, then "Seattle" lost unjustly. It can be said that it was born at the wrong time.

This movie can be called the best domestic love movie in recent years, and it is a very outstanding adult romantic light comedy.

If "Mirage" hadn't been released, it would have become the first choice for couples to watch movies on May Day, reaping most of the love box office.

As a result, both the box office and topic popularity were crushed by "Mirage", and it was not crushed by misplaced competition, but by homogeneous competition.

All I can say is that the love element in "Mirage" is too clever and amazing. The only scenes involving love in the whole movie are actually only the last ten minutes.

But this ten-minute scene is revealed with multiple twists and turns, and paired with the sci-fi setting that spans time and space, it looks extremely stunning.

Some film critics even complained that "the ten minutes of "The Mirage" crushed the two hours of "Seattle."

This exaggerated statement is very popular with netizens. Even viewers who have watched both movies agree with this evaluation. This also makes "Seattle" quickly lose the battle with "Mirage" for the couple audience.

Come on, this naturally means a complete failure for "Seattle", which focuses on love elements.

Of course, there are also more objective film critics who are divorced from the emotions brought about by the movie-watching experience. They fairly evaluate the two movies and think that the gap is not that big.

The love scene in "Mirage" only lasts 10 minutes, which does not mean that the movie only spends this amount of energy on shaping the love between the male and female protagonists. In fact, the entire movie, including its science fiction setting, serves the meeting and love between the male and female protagonists.

The previous steps are actually laying the groundwork.

Of course, these are all boring topics that some boring keyboard warriors and marketing accounts are passionate about. Activities such as ranking well-known figures, whether historical figures or real-life figures, and evaluating "President Hill" and "Top Ten" are long-lasting activities among netizens.

pleasure.

Because "Mirage" is almost exclusively produced by DreamWorks, only the director Tian Xinye spent the income earned from the TV series "Signal", plus the salary, a total of more than 4 million "shares" - Chen Jingxing has been a "shareholder" since "Signal"

It has been decided that DreamWorks' film and television dramas allow directors and other creative staff to participate in investment, or participate in investment with their own remuneration, which is also a way to win over directors.

But then again, this technique of using narrative tricks and playing with the story structure to accumulate potential energy that bursts out or reverses in an instant to shock the audience is really not something everyone can do.

In Chen Jingxing's forum, movie fans posted a boring poll on "Who is the second director of DreamWorks?" Tian Xinye "caught up" and was able to "match" Guo Fan.

For some big companies, in today's market environment, a box office of 1 billion is not enviable, but the most enviable thing about DreamWorks is that it does not have to cover loss-making projects. So far, all projects have not failed commercially.

Pass.

In addition to the main creative personnel, the direct impact on DreamWorks is that the progress of the construction of the headquarters building has been advanced.

The explosion and influence of "Mekong" during the Spring Festival movie put Guo Fan directly into the ranks of first-line commercial directors. The soul of action movies is definitely the director. Even the "script creativity" signed by Chen Jingxing cannot steal Guo Fan's limelight.

After the May Day holiday, Maoyan Movies' prediction of the final box office performance of "The Mirage" has been raised to 1.06 billion.

Director Tian Xinye used this movie to once again "catch up" with Guo Fan.

To the outside world and even within the company, Guo Fan has evolved from a "connected person of Chen Jingxing" to a commercial film director with a promising future, the second director of DreamWorks. After all, there are currently very few directors in China who can control this level of industrial films.

, not to mention that this is an action movie that is relatively difficult to shoot among industrial movies. "Mekong" is a very valuable medal.

It's just that Tian Xinye was really brave. He spent almost all his working capital on this movie. Of course, he won the bet. Based on the final box office of 1 billion, he could get at least four times the profit.

The reveal of the male protagonist's identity and the stunning appearance of love in the final stage are cleverly arranged in the story structure and are the screenwriter's narrative trick.

Some film companies may be able to earn several billions in total box office in a year, but the movies with these billions in box office must have both losses and profits. Only when the profits cover the loss-making projects will the net income be derived.

Bai Yu, who plays the male protagonist, does not have more scenes than the other two male characters in the film in terms of roles alone, but his role is the highlight moment at the end of the film. The character is extremely lovable and has even been praised online.

He has gained a large number of fans, and has won the title of "May Boyfriend". His acting skills are also very good, especially the eye scene scene has left a deep impression on the audience. The popularity of this movie can be said to have made him achieve a rise in celebrity status.

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And this kind of movie will also attract many viewers to watch it again and again, looking for clues in the previous plot when they know the truth.

Coupled with other income from online copyrights and overseas box office, as well as the funds gradually recovered from "Mekong", DreamWorks has become the number one cash cow of domestic film and television companies. Not only banks regard DreamWorks as their best customer

, the media and colleagues are even more envious and their eyes are red.

But this kind of narrative trick also makes the moment when the truth is revealed seem so explosive. All the previous plots and foreshadowing are just springs accumulating elastic potential energy. Therefore, the instantaneous burst of energy is enough to give the audience a strong shock and extremely enjoyable viewing.

The movie experience made the audience's subjective feeling feel that it crushed the relatively dull "Seattle".

And Tian Xinye fell behind in the competition with "Guo Fan" because the screenwriter of the TV series "Signal" is the most important in people's minds. Some people even think that Tian Xinye is a little over-praised. In fact, "Signal" can be regarded as Chen Jingxing's.

work.

The two major commercial banks, Communications and Beijing, happily approved the loan faster than originally planned.

However, "Mirage" made his evaluation among "viewers" rise, and there is renewed suspense about who is the second-ranked director of DreamWorks.

Therefore, when "Mirage" finally revealed the truth and shocked the audience, it also made many viewers watch the movie repeatedly with the mentality of "looking for candy", and then they were satisfied with finding countless details in the movie.

The biggest beneficiary of the success of "Mirage" is the lead actor and director. Zhao Liying, who plays the heroine, took a big step forward and left behind other little flowers.

You must know that "Love in Seattle", which grossed 290 million in its first week of release, is only expected to have a box office of 400 million.

Tian Xinye has gained a lot. As the only production company and main distribution company, DreamWorks has naturally made a lot of money. A conservative estimate is that DreamWorks' share of the domestic box office alone will exceed 400 million, which is close to that at least.

300 million net profit.

This also boosted the market in disguised form, and at the same time increased its own box office.

The May Day schedule is a very short period of explosive power. After the holidays, it is the off-season again. The fact that "Mirage" is expected to have a final box office of over 1 billion shows that professional platforms also believe that the film's reputation is enough to form a good long-tail effect, and the box office can continue to do so.

Twice as much.

DreamWorks has no failed projects that need to cover losses, which makes its profit margin the highest in China. Even the whole world may not be able to find a film and television company with a higher profit margin than DreamWorks. Especially Chen Jingxing is good at using small things to make big things.

It's just that DreamWorks is not a listed company and does not need to publish financial statements. Otherwise, uninformed people might think that it is an Internet company with a monopoly in a certain field.

Although there is no financial report, peers can actually roughly estimate the profits. The final result is to make themselves unhappy. Even the big bosses of Tianrun and United Cinemas, who have equity in DreamWorks, are sore and angina pectoris. If it is still

It feels even more sour for a company that is involved in the production and distribution of other movies of the same period.

However, DreamWorks was still "privileged" and at the time when it was "favored", its relationship with National Film Group was getting closer and closer. Even if it wanted to use any means against DreamWorks, it would be difficult to implement it.

Perhaps even God could no longer bear to see the infinite glory of DreamWorks. Just when "Mirage" was still silently harvesting box office and sprinting towards 1 billion, negative news about DreamWorks suddenly broke out on the Internet.

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