Senior Superstar

In the film industry, May 1st is definitely a critical screening period.

As one of the three long holidays of the Spring Festival, May 1st, and National Day, the May 1st film market has been extremely active in recent years.

On the one hand, it is because the legal holiday of May Day is seven days in this time and space. On the other hand, it is related to the season.

When is May?

The ice and snow have completely melted, it's the turn of spring and summer!

After the tense and painful work and study period after the Spring Festival, no matter the weather or the season, the seven days of Labor Day is a good time for people to let themselves go.

The May 17 holiday is undoubtedly a stimulant for movies, or for the commercial economy.

So how awesome is May 1st gear?

In this time and space, judging from the box office performance in the past few years, the overall data of the May 1st file has been on a steady upward trend.

The box office of the seven-day schedule has grown from 635 million in 2015. After seven years of development, it has now formed a huge market with a box office of 5.527 billion during the holiday and a monthly box office of 6.2 billion!

More importantly, due to historical factors, imported Hollywood blockbusters are more fond of the May 1st file.

What historical factors?

The first officially imported Hollywood blockbuster "True Lies" in China was released in late April and early May. At that time, the introduction of this film was because the higher authorities wanted to use the "foreign monk" to stimulate the weak Chinese film market. As a result, during the May Day holiday in 1995, this sci-fi action movie starring the governor won a box office of 100 million. The 18 yuan movie ticket was once copied by scalpers to a high price of 80 yuan!

You know, the monthly salary of an ordinary employee at that time was only about 400 yuan.

Since then, the term "Hollywood blockbuster" has come into being.

However, at a time when filmmakers at home and abroad were all energized and ready to conquer the city, Li Shixin was still obsessed with the big dream and couldn't extricate himself.

During this period of time, filming and production of the upper part of "The Wandering Earth" took too much energy. Unexpectedly, there was a wave of age reduction. Zhang Ying and Zhang Shuo didn't bother me at home. Li Shixin slept for more than 40 hours. .

Lying on his little bed, looking at the pitch-black ceiling, and looking at the date and time on his watch, Li Shixin was speechless.

It's not the right time to sleep, and it's not the right time to wake up!

I slept for two days, but when I woke up, it happened to be three o'clock in the morning on May 1st.

Nima, what do you want me to do when you wake up at this hour?

Going to the park?

Old ladies. No, the little girls for morning exercises haven't taken their seats in the square park yet. What a fart it is to go at this time!

Rubbing his sleepy cheeks, Li Shixin turned on his phone.

Seeing the ticket snatching information that popped up on his Tuan Tuan website, the old man frowned. After silently booking a movie ticket for "The Wandering Earth" for himself, he quickly got up from the bed.

That's right.

A powerful old man must learn to support himself!

Even if there is no old lady, even if there is no little girl, you must take brave steps to strengthen yourself!

Pop, he turned on the chandelier in the living room, Li Shixin washed his face indiscriminately, changed into his sports clothes, and picked up a mop pole by the door.

Facing the sun at four o'clock in the morning in Rongdian Town, I strode towards the square.

Eight twenty in the morning.

After practicing two sets of battle marksmanship and running a few laps around the park, Li Shixin walked out of a breakfast restaurant in the commercial street to fully exercise his muscles.

Putting on the mask and peaked cap, I entered the Brilliant Cinema in the center of the commercial street.

Although it was May 1st, the first day of the long holiday, there were already quite a number of spectators at the entrance of the cinema early in the morning.

Among the promotional posters of Hollywood blockbusters such as "King Kong", "Iron Man", "Twilight City" and "Gotham City" in the lobby, Li Shixin saw his own little broken ball at a glance.

The location, to be honest, is not very conspicuous.

During a period like May Day, when Hollywood giants gather, the announcement and release of domestic films must be delayed. Especially on the first day of the schedule, various theaters are actually reluctant to put risky films in the C position.

In order to stabilize the income, generally, the sequels like "King Kong" or "Iron Man" that already have a foundation of popularity and have a basic box office performance, or domestic films with relatively high popularity.

Judging from this detail, it is obvious that "The Wandering Earth", which was affected by the Huaqi turmoil, did not participate in the film, and has not yet reached the point where commercial theaters pay special attention.

Noticing this, Li Shixin smiled lightly.

After getting the tickets from the automatic ticket machine, the first group of viewers received the 3D glasses and walked into the first and only screening hall of "The Wandering Earth" in the morning.

Probably because of the first show in the morning, not many people came to watch the film in the screening hall.

Moreover, unlike the general moviegoers in May 1st, most of the moviegoers in the screening hall are men. Only a few little girls came in with their boyfriends.

Listening to the nagging of her boyfriend, who was bragging about popularizing interesting things such as "Three-Body Problem" and crowdfunding of sci-fi props before the show started, the girls were obviously not very interested.

Seeing this scene, Li Shixin, who was wearing a mask, smiled secretly, and took out his mobile phone.

On his Weibo, the comment area has already started to boil.

Many sand sculpture netizens showed live photos of the theater in the comments, or the best movie tickets they grabbed.

Seeing that the status of the fans was okay, Li Shixin felt confident.

Just as he was thinking about the box office on the first day, the light in the projection hall dimmed.

The spectators who had filled most of the venue immediately shut down and sat down in their seats.

As the iconic dragon logo lit up on the big screen, Li Shixin silently opened his own popcorn.

No matter what, today will be a day with a result!

Just then, his phone vibrated.

Looking at the picture sent to him by Zhao Jinzhi, who hadn't shown up for a long time, and seeing the conspicuous dragon logo and the movie ticket barely recognizable in the dark, Li Shixin laughed.

"I wish the box office Changhong."

After reading the text sent along with the picture, Li Shixin smiled and replied.

"I wish you the best of luck."

After posting, regardless of the N messages sent by Li Juan and the company's operations in the WeChat group, as well as the flood of private messages and @reminders on Weibo, Li Shixin put away his phone, silently picked up a handful of popcorn and stuffed it into it. mouth.

On the big screen, the letter version of the story of "The Wandering Earth" has begun;

The story of "The Wandering Earth" began with the end of a meeting held by the International Union for Astronomical Research and the International Union of Astronomical Scientists.

"Today, the third conference on celestial bodies in the solar system, co-organized by the International Union for Astronomical Research and the International Union of Astronomical Scientists, came to a successful conclusion. Scientists from more than 30 countries and regions gathered at the United Nations Conference Center to discuss celestial bodies. In-depth discussions and exchanges on the environmental impact issues coming

On the TV, the blond and blue-eyed hostess read the press release according to the script.

Looking at the hostess on the TV and the interspersed photos of the meeting scene, the two men in the office looked a little embarrassed.

"Old Fang, what did the meeting say?"

In front of the huge floor-to-ceiling windows of the office, a man about thirty-five or sixteen picked up a beer bottle in his hand and looked at his old friend opposite.

There are no outsiders in the office.

The noise of the high-power air conditioner even covered the sound of the TV. But even so, the orange-red tones in the room gave people a stuffy and uncomfortable feeling.

Maybe he would have noticed if there was a third person in the office; the disheveled man in the folding chair who had just been shown on the news on the TV.

That is Fang Zhou, a famous Chinese astronomer who works at the Graduate School of Princeton University and an authority in the field of stellar research.

Hearing the question from his old friend Li Genji, Fang Zhou was distracted and then took his eyes away from the beer bottle in his hand, and raised his slightly dull eyes.

Seeing that he hesitated to speak, Li Genji spread his hands.

"If it's not convenient to say, just pretend I didn't ask."

"No inconvenience."

Fang Zhou smiled lightly and shook his head.

He was as calm as a lake without a breath of wind, but what he said next made Li Genji's hand holding the cup severely beaten.

"Six astronomical institutions in Europe, the United States, China, Russia, Israel and Japan have all given reports today. The helium content in the sun has reached the helium flash critical point, and we have spent four months reassessing the changes in the sun .Compared with the last observation results, the sun has further accelerated its decay towards the red giant star, and the probability of helium flash has increased from 32% to 85%.

Speaking calmly, Fang Zhou raised his head, showing a bitter and hopeless smile.

"Genji, you know. The sun is going to eat us up."

Seeing his old friend's expression, Li Genji opened his mouth wide, and his hands trembled a little.

Following his gaze, the picture gently turned to the floor-to-ceiling windows.

What kind of scene was that?

The orange sky is like an upside-down orange peel.

At the highest point in the sky, a round of blood-red sun is exuding a sickly and vicious light.

Countless skyscrapers twisted in the scorching air, and the whole world seemed like a wax figure that was about to melt at any time!

"Didn't the International Atomic Energy Agency say... it was a false test?"

"How could it be a false detection? If it was a false detection, why did the government transfer you from the Academy of Sciences to participate in an international joint space research project? There is no detection bias, the fact is that the sun is extremely aging."

Under the shocked gaze of his old friend, Fang Zhou drank all the beer in the bottle in one go, and stood up.

He tore off the collar of his shirt and looked at the scorching sun in the sky, with unspeakable fear in his eyes.

"Lao Li may be tired of it. It bestowed the light and heat necessary for the existence of life. It bestowed life on us. Now, it wants to take it back."

He raised his palm and tremblingly grasped the projection of the sun.

"Once a helium flash occurs, it will begin to expand at an unimaginable speed, and it will engulf the earth in no more than three hundred years. After two thousand years, the entire solar system will be reduced to a twilight in the universe. Old schoolmate. Do you still remember when we were in college? The professor who taught history always liked to say that the splendid civilization of human beings is comparable to the sun. At that time, I listened to every class with enthusiasm, and I admire his profound knowledge and professionalism. Thinking about him now How ignorant and ridiculous."

Amid Fang Zhou's distorted smile, Li Genji's phone rang.

When the phone was picked up, a simple eight-character command came from the other side;

"Leave everything behind and go home immediately!"

In the theater.

The plot of the movie had just begun. Looking at the sickly sun on the big screen, Li Shixin heard a murmur coming from the projection hall that was also dyed orange by the screen.

That was the sound of all the audience swallowing their saliva at the same time!

PS: I have been polishing this script for nearly a week. Among all Xin Ye's works, this script is the one that took me the most time and energy! I almost shot a prequel of "The Wandering Earth" in my mind. When I caught a cold two days ago, even when I fell asleep, my mind was full of pictures and plots. I am sure that I am very confident that I can write this story wonderfully. ——But it’s really long, so beg for a wave of monthly tickets and rewards shamelessly, and increase your hand speed and brain speed!