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Chapter 483 Chen Jingxing’s concession

The China Eastern Airlines Boeing 747 landed smoothly at the Capital International Airport. Chen Jingxing and a group of creative actors walked out of the VIP aisle talking and laughing all the way.

The global roadshow of "Inception" did not stop in North America. Like "The Matrix II", it also traveled around Europe under the arrangement of Universal Pictures.

It was the first time for most of the actors to experience it. They were mainly excited at first, but later on they became unbearable.

The intensity of overseas road shows is no less than that of domestic ones. One day is just like flying and driving around like a puppet. There are so many arranged visits of various sizes. Especially with the added hurdle of translation, it takes even longer.

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This overseas road show took more than half a month to finally come to an end.

After asking Luo Chen and Zhou Dongyu to stop dealing with reporters and fans, Chen Jingxing rushed to the National Film Digital Base in the suburbs of Beijing without even returning home.

"If you come back to "The Matrix III" later, it will be finished!"

Yan Xiaoyue chuckled and teased Director Chen.

Chen Jingxing apologized repeatedly. He was indeed a hands-off shopkeeper this time.

Before "Inception" was released, "The Matrix III" had already been officially launched.

Chen Jingxing first went to Shanghai to attend the groundbreaking ceremony of the DreamWorks Digital Film and Television and Animation Production Base and Film and Television Industry 4.0 Demonstration Zone.

Team A is preparing for the filming of the battle between Huaxu Kingdom and the robot army.

Although DreamWorks gave up its May 1st schedule this year, its Spring Festival schedule has been greatly improved with "Red Sea" and "Panda", and its summer and National Day schedules have also been divided with "The Matrix II" and "Inception"

Big piece of cake.

And in terms of box office, the total box office of the domestic film market this year must exceed 65 billion, and other companies also have a lot of box office. Why does it sound like DreamWorks has a monopoly on the domestic box office.

In addition to investing in theaters and repurchasing some shares - CEO Xu Da originally wanted to wait for the stock to fall one day before repurchasing it, but he did not expect that with the successive releases of "Red Sea", "Kung Fu Panda" and "The Matrix II",

In particular, the unexpected overseas success of "Panda" was like a hen laying golden eggs, with peripheral profits flowing back continuously.

DreamWorks' monopoly on big time slots has triggered a backlash. At the same time, there will be many gift films starting next year. Seeing that the competition has become more fierce, several major companies are thinking of putting some pressure on DreamWorks and at least giving some space.

However, after comforting and inspecting the crew of Group B, Chen Jingxing did not return to filming immediately. Fortunately, Group B's scenes were taken over directly, and the most difficult part could be filmed after Group A was ready.

Although in fact "Inception" was given the green light by the competent authorities to be pushed to the National Day release in order to 100% ensure that this year's film market will surpass North America.

In the end, after some wrangling, Chen Jingxing made concessions on the surface. For example, DreamWorks will only have one animated film "WALL-E" for the Spring Festival next year, and promised to arrange "The Matrix III" outside the summer schedule before reluctantly reaching an agreement.

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Even if it is really handed over to another director to direct, he must bear the name of the director.

"The Matrix III" is the final chapter of the entire series. I don't know how many movie fans have been eagerly looking forward to it. Suddenly it was announced that the director has been changed for the third part, which may have an impact on the commercial value of hundreds of millions.

It's incomparable to DreamWorks, which made three or four movies and took away billions and nearly tens of billions.

However, this does not hinder the normal filming of "Matrix III".

This plot is based on a CG preview. The shots are all fixed. It is basically a technical matter. Both actors have also experienced similar virtual shooting in the ocean battle of "The Matrix II", and they are also familiar with the filming.

The process also closely follows the process of special effects production.

In addition, there are many CG shots in "The Matrix III", especially the final battle between the male protagonist and the man in black, which were basically shot with a green screen, post-production synthesis, or even directly animated CG.

During the National Day holiday, the box office of "Inception" has exceeded 2.5 billion. In addition, the comedy movie "The Count of Wulong Mountain" co-produced by United Cinemas and Happy Twist took away 1.6 billion. Other movies can't even drink soup.

, and was directly squeezed into cannon fodder by the two giants.

Who can watch it and not be frightened? Who can not be outraged?

DreamWorks has a cash flow that is the envy of other domestic film and television companies. It would be a crime to leave this money untouched.

Chen Jingxing is not a Hollywood tool-type director without editing rights. As a world-renowned commercial director, the three words Chen Jingxing can even be said to be part of the "Matrix" IP brand and cannot be divided casually.

But the grievances of other major companies against DreamWorks have not disappeared.

How should I put it, a mature movie series should learn to move on its own.

The assistant director of Team B followed the entire filming process of the first two parts. He has rich experience and the filming went very smoothly.

In order to arrange the schedule for next year.

However, Chen Jingxing was a little unjust. The summer release of "The God of Medicine" also received 3 billion, which sounds like the meat was eaten by DreamWorks.

But Xu Wenshen, who was startled, immediately rejected it.

Therefore, the absence of a real director like Chen Jingxing really does not affect the normal shooting.

Secondly, although some of the revenue of several giants is not inferior to that of DreamWorks, they rely on quantity to make up for quality.

The producer of "The God of Medicine" is Bad Monkey Pictures, and most of the profits have been taken away by this medium-sized domestic film company, which has little to do with the major giants.

Therefore, in "The Matrix III", Group B was first separated to shoot the final battle in the Matrix. The location was in the No. 1 studio of DreamWorks' National Film Digital Base.

In addition, the unspent money from the Hong Kong stock market is used to cooperate with the Shanghai Municipal Government to build its own digital film and television production base.

After making up for this shortcoming, DreamWorks can radiate its film industry throughout Asia and compete with Hollywood studios for food. In the future, even the upstream industries that rely solely on digital special effects and animation can become Asia's top film and television industry giant.

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This kind of excuse would probably make people even more angry, so Chen Jingxing did not continue to stir up hatred.

DreamWorks' stock, which has risen to a market value of more than 110 billion, seems to have no sign of falling in the foreseeable short term. Unless there is another stock market crash, CEO Xu can only regretfully allocate funds for stock repurchases.

In fact, he had previously proposed that "The Matrix III" should be filmed by another director. After all, it has a mature crew, script, and complete shot design. The actors have basically figured out the characters through the filming experience of the first two films.

, the director actually doesn’t need to tell the actors much about the scene.

However, Chen Jingxing's participation was not that high. There was the Golden Rooster Award presentation, the ribbon-cutting and relocation of the new headquarters, leadership inspections, and the announcement and global roadshow of "Inception".

DreamWorks' previous special effects shooting was done in the greenhouse of the National Film Digital Industrial Park. Although DreamWorks has a strong special effects production team and technology, not having its own digital production base is equivalent to missing a leg.

This will allow DreamWorks to reinvent itself and have the opportunity to seize the commanding heights of the upstream industry chain.

However, Chen Jingxing did not say these two reasons.

A dinner party hosted by Sun Liheng, President of United Cinemas.

Not being able to eat alone and leaving some meat for others is the common expectation of the bosses of several major companies for DreamWorks.

So this part is still in the preparation process, and it also requires Chen Jingxing to be in charge before filming can begin.

After attending the groundbreaking ceremony, Chen Jingxing immediately returned to Beijing for an important dinner.

This is much more complicated and difficult than virtual shooting, which involves the design and production of many models, the construction of scenes, and the scheduling of a large number of extras. It is the most difficult type of heavy industry movie.

His participation in "The Matrix III" is indeed not enough.

The crew of the "Matrix" series have developed a very good rapport during the filming of the first two films. The crew members are basically fixed. Except for a few new characters, most of the actors are also old people.

Which of the four giants such as United Cinemas, Beijing Film, Tianrun, and Jangho participates in the production and distribution of movies and TV series without twenty or thirty films in a year?

Although "Tang Detective III", which has been scheduled to be released during the Spring Festival next year, also has DreamWorks' share, it is less than 20%, and other giants are also involved in the production, so it cannot be regarded as just a DreamWorks movie.

However, he does not feel that he is at a disadvantage. In fact, as DreamWorks' overseas distribution network becomes more and more mature, DreamWorks now pays more attention to global synchronization, especially in North America, Europe or Japan.

Han’s schedule.

The incremental effect of domestic schedules on DreamWorks is actually getting smaller and smaller.

Several bosses were relieved to hear that DreamWorks will only have one animated film for next year's Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is now the largest in the country. DreamWorks' concession will obviously allow everyone to eat more meat.

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