China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 405: External network scolding war

"On October 16, the domestic box office exceeded 2.7 billion. "The Martian" is not far from the 3 billion mark, but how much box office potential does it still have? The happy twist comedy film "The World of Sumoti" is released, and the preview has received rave reviews.

, is expected to dethrone "The Martian" from the Japanese crown!"

"DreamWorks's years of hard work have yielded fruitful results. The animation gluttonous feast continues to be staged. The science fiction animation "Special Forces" will be launched simultaneously on the three network platforms. Can it continue to stir up brainstorms?"

"'The Martian' was released in North America the day before yesterday. Chen Jingxing and the leading actors appeared in costumes. The scene was grand and the golden space partner was very popular."

"The Martian" opened in 4,000 theaters in North America at the same time, breaking the opening record for Chinese-language films in the North American market. The box office reached 22 million on the first day. Whether it can surpass the US$210 million box office of "Gravity" will have to wait for a week.

Can the release of the suspense thriller film "Strangers in a Lifeboat" based on the best-selling book pose a threat to it."

""Operation Red Sea" has been announced to be scheduled for the Spring Festival next year. Director Guo Fan will compete in the Spring Festival again. Will military action films become another blue ocean for domestic films?"

"The Martian" did not rocket to the moon at the box office as some fans expected.

Of course, 3 billion is considered an incredible achievement in domestic movies.

At present, the only movies with a domestic box office of more than 3 billion are "Spike II", "Gravity", "The Matrix" and "The Martian" which is definitely going to break the 3 billion mark. "Tang Detective II" also stopped at 2.9 billion and did not reach the top.

To the level of 3 billion.

What these films have in common is that they are all films produced by DreamWorks.

Therefore, even if "The Martian" does not create another miracle, DreamWorks' stock is still rising, getting closer and closer to a market value of 100 billion.

In short, it is the G-spot that none of the ten "Matrix" movies could hit. "Earth's Center" and "Mars" can hit it exactly.

In fact, if this was not a Chinese movie, and the Chinese nation united as one to rescue the Chinese astronauts, which could arouse the audience's patriotic enthusiasm or national pride, it would have been impossible to get a box office of 3 billion.

Because several leading actors encountered reporters asking such questions when they were promoting in countries such as Japan and South Korea.

The intensity is even higher than when "Gravity" was released, mainly because there are more domestic netizens going overseas.

Anyway, as Universal Pictures, which is jointly responsible for distribution in North America and Europe with Firefly, still attaches great importance to "The Martian". DreamWorks and Universal had a slight disagreement last year, but now they are back in the honeymoon period.

It would be okay if it were a science fiction film like "Star Wars", just fantasy, but "The Center of the Earth" and "Mars" are so hardcore.

Even though there are voices of boycott in several countries and even attacks on "The Martian" on the Internet, "Mars" has done well at the box office in these countries, and it has won the weekly box office championship in Japan and South Korea.

But even so, according to the predictions of the ticket purchasing platform, the box office of "The Martian" is expected to reach between 3.2 billion and 3.6 billion, and there is hope of surpassing "Gravity". This depends on the impact of the new film on "Mars"

How big is it.

"The Center of the Earth" and "Mars" definitely promoted the image of China beyond what many people imagined, otherwise they would not have allowed the officials to treat DreamWorks as their own son.

Perhaps in the eyes of many people, the scientific methods and hard-core plot in "Mars" are not difficult to understand, but the threshold is the threshold. There are indeed many people who watch the movie less, or who are too knowledgeable about space.

An overly ignorant audience simply cannot understand the protagonist's actions and cannot gain interest from it.

At this time, although China has the Tiangong-2 experimental space station, its performance is not outstanding in the eyes of many people, and it is far from the level of sitting two and watching one.

"I've made it clear to Jeff from Universal. Don't have any worries. Just tell Lao Tian to shoot according to the original script of "District 9". Ignore Tull. If he has any opinions, let him tell Universal.

The film industry headquarters said, what's there to worry about? I decided on the script of "District 9", and he wasn't qualified enough to change my script!

It’s okay for the United States to make such a movie, why should you, China?

Netizens can reply, but Chen Jingxing and DreamWorks cannot reply. Otherwise, the local media will make a big fuss about it, and it will really arouse the resentment of people who don't care about it at first.

Even if you don’t regard the things in the movie as reality, you will definitely be affected. For example, when you think of China’s aerospace industry, most of the scenes that come to your mind are scenes from “Gravity” and “The Martian.”

After experiencing "Gravity", Chen Jingxing was no longer surprised by this.

The responses were all consistent and consistent, which DreamWorks had already prepared.

However, regarding these quarrels, Chen Jingxing ordered everyone at DreamWorks, including the crew members of "Mars", to maintain a unified tone and not to fall into the wrong tone.

Because I still want to make money from them.

"Wolf Fang II" does just that.

Obviously the movie is much better than CNN or BBC.

Chen Jingxing was wearing a front-back baby carrier and was walking back and forth in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in the living room. With one hand he was teasing his daughter who was babbling in the carrier, and with the other hand he was holding a mobile phone and making overseas calls.

"The Martian" does not have this concern, and judging from the reviews on the ticket purchasing platform, this movie is more interesting than "The Center of the Earth".

According to the estimation of the current Chinese film market by the DreamWorks marketing department, if the box office wants to exceed 4 billion or higher, it must cover people of all ages as much as possible, and let audiences who do not often go to the cinema also enter the cinema, and it must

Come with your family and friends, come with your friends.

Chen Jingxing's principle is that the domestic netizens can just deal with these quarrels, and DreamWorks and the main creators cannot just end it.

Precisely because such a movie does have a huge publicity effect, the global release of "The Martian" will inevitably once again make netizens with strong national self-esteem in some countries angry and full of sourness.

For most ordinary people who cannot point out the location of their country on the globe, the meaning of the word "China" can only be derived from TV and movies.

Even when China launched Tiangong-2 last year, the pictures reported by many foreign media used the picture of the astronauts standing on the robotic arm repairing the survey telescope in "Gravity".

In fact, we can't say that they are too sensitive. Movie promotion is really powerful.

The reason why the score of "Gravity" dropped a lot is mainly because the audio-visual spectacle occupies a relatively heavy weight. Once it is separated from the theater environment, the shock to the audience will be reduced a lot.

In particular, Japan, South Korea and Tianzhu all claim to be cosmological and aerospace powers, or they think they will become aerospace powers.

...Threaten him with investment? Let him understand that "District 9" is our piece of cake shared with Universal. In the final analysis, it is a DreamWorks project. Does he dare to divest? What rights does he have as a producer?"

So far, the cooperation between the two co-produced "District 9" has been going smoothly.

Anyway, "This is a science fiction movie, of course it has elements of fantasy." "South Korea's aerospace technology is also great. I believe you will be able to achieve great space achievements in the near future...landing on Mars? I believe this will be very important to South Korea."

"It's not a difficult thing, it just takes some time," and "There are many opportunities for cooperation in the film industry between the two countries. I really look forward to the two countries co-producing a science fiction film," and other nice and free words.

Fortunately, many people in China may have been violently attacked by netizens last year, but this year no one dared to say anything about "surprised allies," "a movie that stimulates foreign friends and affects the relationship between the two countries," or "throwing pressure on national sentiments."

Blood, using illusory space achievements to promote self-confidence."

In fact, some media have already conducted street surveys in the United States: Which country do you think has the strongest aerospace technology in the world?

The results are surprising. 42% of people chose the United States, 33% actually chose China, and less than 20% chose Russia, France, Japan, India and other countries combined. This is similar to "The Center of the Earth"

It's impossible not to have anything to do with "Mars".

Of course, this result is not outrageous compared to the survey in which 47% of people chose to believe that the Apollo program was a scam.

However, two and a half hours is indeed not as good as the 90 minutes of "The Center of the Earth", and the hardcore plot that many fans praised has limited its ability to penetrate the audience.

Maybe it’s some kind of deep-rooted spiritual imprint left over from the Cold War, or maybe aerospace is really a sensitive thing.

Make money, don't be shabby.

There are so many people in this world who regard things in TV series and movies as real.

Judging from the Douban score, "The Martian" opened at 9.1 and is currently stable at 9.0, which is 0.3 points higher than "Gravity" which currently has a score of 8.6.

"Mars" is not inferior to "Spike II" in terms of quality, but the subject matter and content determine that it is difficult to reach that upper limit, and the capacity of the National Day file is indeed not as large as the Spring Festival and summer files.

After attending the premiere of "The Martian" in the United States, Chen Jingxing did not stay long, declined some interviews, and quickly returned to China.

Some neighboring countries even called for a boycott of watching "The Martian."

This makes it impossible for people to put aside their national pride, and it makes it impossible for people to put aside reality and treat it only as film art or pure cultural entertainment.

However, the overseas box office is still worth looking forward to. "The Martian" has been released in most markets and has become the global movie box office champion for two consecutive weeks. Of course, it has also set off an online scolding war.

After hanging up the phone, Chen Jingxing clicked his tongue and teased his daughter's little hand that was constantly grabbing forward with his fingers. The annoyance in his heart quickly disappeared.

"District 9" is currently being filmed in South Africa. Unexpectedly, the producers and production team sent by Universal had some objections to the final ending. They thought it was too depressing and wanted to change it to a more family-friendly ending.

After all, it is a co-production between two companies. Hollywood producers have always been strong. Zhang Yimou suffered a lot in "The Great Wall".

However, DreamWorks is different from National Film in that it does not rely on the Hollywood industrial system. Therefore, although it is not Chen Jingxing's own movie, he will not allow Universal to interfere with "District 9" at will, even if it seems to be more in line with the film.

Modify in the direction of the mainstream market.

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