China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 97 Advance with great success

"It was the science fiction novels of Clark and Asimov that made me aspire to become a film director in the future."

Hearing Chen Jingxing's answer, host James Brown looked nervously at the audience: "Joe? Quickly check our real-time ratings and see how much they have dropped?"

Perhaps it was Chen Jingxing's response that made the host quite satisfied. James Brown had fully believed in Chen Jingxing's ability to pick up stories and let go completely.

Chen Jingxing was stunned for a moment and quickly understood what the host was going to say.

He apologized to the camera: "The part I just deleted was because ever since I started getting into Spider-Man and Batman comics, I had the urge to make science fiction movies."

James Brown suppressed a smile and said: "It's too late for you to change your mind now... I was just joking. Believe me, we Americans actually love reading very, very much, especially books without pictures."

After speaking, he turned to the laughing audience with a serious face: "If you know who Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov are, don't raise your hands."

The host turned to look at Chen Jingxing and said, "Look, no one raised their hands, which means we Americans know who these two people are."

After finishing joking, James Brown continued to ask: "The world view of Asimov and Clark's science fiction novels is usually very grand, and the two movies you have made so far are both low-budget science fiction films. Will you one day make that?"

A grand sci-fi masterpiece?"

Chen Jingxing gave an affirmative answer: "Of course, grand science fiction masterpieces usually explore some of the ultimate propositions of mankind. I am very interested in this... and it can also make more money, right?"

He continued to ask while laughing: "So you also dropped a love potion in this movie?"

I think "Fatal Identity" has taught "Pompeii" a good lesson. What the audience needs is not a movie version of "Sparta", nor a vulgar story filled with CGI, which does not require spending hundreds of millions of dollars, nor

It can make the audience readily give praise and admiration.]

A low-budget sci-fi suspense film from Asia defeated an epic disaster blockbuster. For this kind of underdog counterattack, it is easy for the Hollywood media to go crazy.

"WOW!" James Brown was really surprised: "You mean you will make science fiction blockbusters in the future, but not made in Hollywood?"

"Just kidding, Hollywood will probably be very disappointed..."

After laughing, James said to the camera: "What are you waiting for in front of the TV? Johnson Chan, the director of Comet, has prepared a mysterious and surprising gift for each of you. Go to the cinema to open the gift box. You will

Love it!"

In the end, "Fatal Identity" ended its second week of release with a box office of 16 million US dollars, and won the box office runner-up in the North American market that week. The weekly box office champion was "The Lego Movie" with 37 million US dollars.

The huge advantage cannot be shaken.

James turned to face the camera, with an exaggerated expression, and said with gestures: "Did you hear that Hollywood? Tie him up quickly, Don't let him go!"

Cool story!”

James concluded: "A sci-fi suspense movie that can't contain any spoilers, sounds like a Christmas gift? Of course I'm talking about a real gift from Santa Claus, and parents usually don't need to guess when they give it."

"Yeah"

…

"That's right."

"Or a puzzle?"

"Is it a suspense movie?"

Chen Jingxing shook his head: "No, I have no plans to make a movie here at the moment. China's film market and film industry are also growing and progressing rapidly. I think that given time, we will be able to shoot science fiction blockbusters."

Chen Jingxing made a serious expression: "Of course, haven't you read the reviews of my movie on the Internet? They absolutely love this movie, and this is what I got by casting a spell on every box of copies.

"

Chen Jingxing smiled and said: "No, the story is not very complicated, so I'm sorry that you won't be able to enjoy the fun of solving problems this time."

"Coming to Hollywood to film?"

The epic blockbuster "Pompeii", with hundreds of millions of dollars invested, ended its first week of release with less than 13 million at the box office, becoming the third runner-up at the weekly box office.

"Yeah, I don't want to spoil it. Once spoiled, your enjoyment of watching this movie will be greatly reduced."

James shrugged: "OK, so this movie is still about science fiction?"

From the beginning of the movie, every scene in the movie will give the audience a sense of déjà vu. The storyline almost follows the traditional script routine, stepping on the audience's psychological expectations, treading carefully, walking on thin ice, and fearing more surprises.

to shock the audience.

The Los Angeles Times commented: "This was supposed to be a tense special effects disaster film set in a legendary ancient city, but it turned into a CGI feast, with a cliched plot and cliched characters that make people sleepy, and lacks suspense, danger and excitement.

After Chen Jingxing's guest appearance on The James Tonight Show aired, "Fatal Identity" once again expanded its theaters to 2,700 theaters. Of course, the attendance rate has also decreased.

Chen Jingxing looked like he was going to make a long speech: "This movie mainly tells the story of...

In a mature film industry like Hollywood, this kind of thing doesn't happen often.

"Is that all? Gone?" James Brown looked surprised.

"Getting back to the topic, your second feature film is currently playing in theaters, "Identity". The name is a bit strange. Please introduce your film."

…

Such box office results have in fact declared that the producer and distributor Samsung Pictures has suffered an epic defeat, and there is no possibility of recovering costs.

"Yeah"

The restless audience can only wait anxiously to see when Vesuvius, which is about to erupt, will erupt.

Not only did the media cover this week's box office battle, but film critics from all walks of life also published articles analyzing why "Pompeii" failed so miserably in its confrontation with "Fatal Identity."

Although "Fatal Identity" did not win the weekly box office championship, it is already a phenomenon-level dark horse in the eyes of the media.

The box office performance of "Fatal Identity" in North America soon spread to China. In fact, many domestic media including netizens have been paying attention to the box office trend of "Fatal Identity".

The total box office gross of more than 22 million US dollars in the two weeks since its release has settled all previous controversies. This result has surpassed the 17 million of "Kung Fu" and is enough to rank sixth in the North American box office list of Chinese-language films.

And according to the current trends and box office forecasts, the North American box office of Fatal Identity is likely to exceed 50 million US dollars, and is expected to challenge the North American box office of "Heroes" of 53.7 million US dollars. Of course, the box office record of the first place "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is 128 million US dollars.

It's hard to shake.

(End of chapter)