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Chapter 435 The last episode of "Black Mirror II"

"You can do well in pictures, the heroine of "District 9" Wan Qian showed off her good figure in a waist-revealing dress at the Cannes dinner party"

"Hand in hand with his wife, Chief Jia is going to Cannes for the fifth time!"

"Having shot zombies and directed romance, Tian Xin entered the peak of his career in his thirties and won the Cannes Palme d'Or."

"Chen Jingxing's family of three appeared at Cannes Airport, and foreign fans took photos together."

"Late-blooming actor Zhang Yi: Director Tian Xinye was full of praise for the leading actor he played. Is it possible to become the third Chinese Cannes Best Actor?"

""The Matrix II" has been scheduled for release in North America and will be released one week earlier than in China. Can it continue to dominate the summer schedule?"

"Chen Jingxing showed off his daughter generously and answered all the questions asked by French journalists. He bluntly said that the "District 9" project was inspired by playing games."

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"Tsk tsk, the inspiration generated by playing games, Director Chen is so cool, the inspiration generated by playing games can be shortlisted for the main competition section of Cannes, what else can other directors do?"

Nowadays, many fans in China choose to watch dramas offline or have offline meetings with celebrities in theaters, which is indeed very atmospheric.

However, for some marketing accounts and some netizens, it may be the trolls hired by other film producers to smear Chen Jingxing and accuse Chen Jingxing of "leading the wolf into the house" and "turning his elbows outward" or even rising to the level of "comprador" criticism. Die-hard fans like Lu Xiao and Li Weiming naturally

It's extremely disdainful.

Moreover, in almost every popular period in the past, audiences could see good-quality domestic films, most of them from DreamWorks, and a few from other companies.

But the postponement of "Dr. Jekyll" to the May Day release is absolutely inseparable from DreamWorks.

Originally, movie fans were very interested in "The Controller", and the "Search" in the first episode of "Black Mirror II" also made suspense movies more popular, and Xu Zheng is also an actor who is very popular with the audience.

"Who knows, Director Chen said it was inspiration, not an adaptation of the game."

But this is great news for other domestic companies.

Because "Black Mirror II" is updated at 18:00 on Friday working days, there are not many fans present now, only six people.

The Cannes Film Festival awards show is on May 19th. DreamWorks' move is obviously to capitalize on the popularity of Cannes, which is okay. After all, it gave up the original release date, so the announcement will naturally attract some attention.

Because it is one and a half hours later than the online launch time, it is difficult to surf the Internet when it is close to 6 o'clock, for fear of being spoiled by accident.

As a result, the script of "The Controller" itself was too poor, and the plot was anticlimactic, especially compared with the popular "Black Mirror II" on the Internet, which inevitably disappointed the audience.

"Did you see the trailer for "District 9"? The alien looks like a shrimp, and that face gave me goosebumps. It's not a horror movie."

After turning off their mobile phones, several people chatted about this year's May Day movies, and some people mocked the May Day domestic movies with disdain.

Several of them are fans of DreamWorks, and Li Weiming was once the host of Chen Jingxing’s forum. Although he has resigned now, he still often holds offline movie and TV viewing events in the capital.

Of course, this crotch stretching is about domestic movies.

The overall quality of this year’s May Day program also poured cold water on the audience.

Winning the Palme d'Or for an art film stimulates the box office, but winning the Palme d'Or for a commercial film can't help but question its box office potential. Usually, pleasing the film festival and pleasing the audience seem to be contradictory.

"It does feel a bit ugly, but didn't Director Chen say earlier that this is an alternative science fiction film? If it's not alternative, it won't be admitted to Cannes. We won't know when it's released. But the trailer for "The Matrix II" is also called a trailer.

You didn’t say anything? You didn’t reveal any of the scenes or the plot! The two hot searches for Little Blue Bird are both the trailer of “The Matrix II”, and I see foreign netizens are also complaining about it.”

Although it is already May, the May Day holiday is considered a popular period, and the movie market is also booming, there are still some idle small cinemas that can be reserved.

"Oh, none of these lousy movies on May 1st can beat them. "Dr. Jekyll" beat them up, and even "Super II" can suppress them. They are really addicted to food. Just before this, they were clamoring

What's the impact of 2 billion, there is no B number?"

This is a bit rare. In the past two years, DreamWorks movies have appeared in almost every popular period, so blockbusters have not achieved very impressive box office results, with the highest being only 2 billion.

DreamWorks and Universal Pictures have always cooperated closely. DreamWorks' movies are distributed on a large scale in North America with the help of Universal. The two companies are even co-producing movies. Who doesn't know these things?

DreamWorks' behavior of pushing its allies' films to take the spots when their own films have been delayed is simply an elbow-turning move, and it really deserves serious criticism.

Starting from "Source Code", DreamWorks has achieved three consecutive May 1st releases, which can be said to be extremely dominant. The science fiction movie "District 9", which was originally scheduled to be released on May 1st, was inevitably canceled due to the Cannes Film Festival.

The postponement is equivalent to withdrawing from this year’s May Day schedule.

The Chinese film market staged a long-awaited scene of split blockbusters scorning domestic films.

"Say it's a halo."

But this shortcoming does not mean that it cannot be enjoyed. "Black Mirror II" itself is a so-called online movie series. Each episode is more than ninety minutes. Wouldn't it be viewed as a movie in a theater?

Li Weiming has organized offline theater viewing parties before, so he is very familiar with this routine. This time, he chose to do so in a small auditorium of a cinema.

In particular, several of the theaters in this theater have been replaced with LED panoramic sound screens, which are no longer the projection mode of the past. It is more convenient to hold these events than before.

"I think it would be better to let DreamWorks put "Black Mirror II" in theaters. No matter how low the cost is, I think it is at least worth the ticket price." Lu Xiao agreed.

The start time of this offline movie viewing event is 19:30, which is also to allow some office workers to have time for transportation. Of course, those movie fans who cannot get off work or get off school on time at 18:00 will naturally not be able to participate in this event.

This is great.

"What game?"

After the Cannes Organizing Committee announced the shortlist, "District 9" was postponed to May 19 for its domestic premiere.

It's a pity that they can't watch DreamWorks movies on May Day. After all, in the past two or three years, there have been movies produced or co-produced by DreamWorks in every popular schedule, especially movies like Lu Xiao and his girlfriend Yu Xiaoling.

It can be said that the habit of going to theaters to watch movies was cultivated by DreamWorks.

Several people have complained a lot about the crotch stretching in this year’s May Day festival.

Universal Pictures' Dark Universe's second film "Dr. Jekyll" is released on May 1st in China. The first "Werewolf" of Dark Universe was blown away by "The Matrix". The second film seems to have learned some experience and has a much better reputation.

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In the brightly lit small theater, Li Weiming, Lu Xiao and his girlfriend Yu Xiaoling were eating popcorn in the middle of the fourth row and chatting on their mobile phones.

Ten days have passed since the May 1st holiday. The domestic film with the highest box office is the romance film "Gu Nian Xin An", which combines bloody amnesia and other clichés, with a box office of only 660 million, followed by the crime suspense film "The Controller" starring Xu Zheng

, opened high and went low, and only got 320 million.

"...It's all hindsight! Before the release of "Dr. Jekyll", did anyone think that he would become the May Day box office champion? Wasn't the director of "Gu Nian Xin An" still clamoring for 2 billion? Some people also said that Xu Zheng's "The Controller"

" is expected to exceed 1 billion, breaking the domestic box office record for suspense movies.

Compared with the Spring Festival, summer vacation and National Day, the May Day slot has a smaller capacity, so a popular movie can include all the meat and soup. This was the case with last year's "Edge of Tomorrow", which had a cumulative domestic box office of 1.89 billion.

Although "District 9" may not be a box office bomb like "Edge of Tomorrow" - especially after "District 9" was shortlisted for Cannes, it made people let down their guard. After all, the movies shortlisted for the main competition in Cannes may not be able to make a box office hit.

People are optimistic.

"There's nothing you can do about it. "The Matrix II" doesn't have to worry about publicity. DreamWorks will definitely let you go without any discussion and just prey on your appetite..."

Of course, for this IP, which domestic audiences have little affection for, the success of "Dr. Jekyll" is inseparable from the reputation of domestic films.

The ones who poured cold water on this were Hollywood blockbusters.

This has also disappointed other domestic companies and also criticized DreamWorks a lot. Although since last year, the cultural authorities, feeling that domestic movies have fully risen, have decided to open up the May Day and summer schedules to Hollywood. Last year

It was "Mutants: Hellfire" that ended the killing spree of "Fang II".

But no matter whether "District 9" is a science fiction commercial blockbuster or not, the word "DreamWorks" will never make people let down their guard. Who can be unhappy if such a big enemy is missing?

While other film studios were celebrating their success, some even made bold claims of a box office of 2 billion. In fact, this figure is not too much. Three years ago, "Source Code" created a movie-watching frenzy as the first science fiction blockbuster and won the

2 billion box office.

"Halo is not a shooting game? There is indeed an alien race in it, but can it be shortlisted in Cannes? Aren't all Cannes shortlisted art films?"

"It's almost six o'clock, don't look at your phone anymore." Yu Xiaoling put her phone away, picked up the Coke, moved closer to the straw and tasted it slowly.

Even Warner's DC's "Legion of Super Heroes II", which has been released for more than half a month, was already losing momentum, but it actually faltered when it came to the May 1st release, competing with the other three domestic films in the May 1st release.

Come and go.

As a result, several domestic films that were eager to try out were given cold water.

In contrast, the sci-fi thriller "Dr. Jekyll" has a box office of 1.22 billion, which makes Universal Pictures very happy. The box office in China is not much different from that in North America.

What we are going to watch today is the fifth and final episode of "Black Mirror II", so many fans responded to Li Weiming's call for offline viewing this time, and they also booked two theaters for this purpose.

If you don't live up to your expectations, you still have the nerve to blame others. Do you really think that if the tiger is not at home, the monkey can become the overlord?"

"Yes, but it's not a pity. "Black Mirror II" is played once a week, which is equivalent to watching a movie...Eh? The lights are out, is it about to start?"

DreamWorks' iconic opening animation silenced the whispers in the theater amid the rising and falling waves.

"Hey, this is no different from watching a movie." Li Weiming looked at the silvery moon on the screen and thought involuntarily.

(End of chapter)