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Chapter 394 A big success, runner-up at the box office for a week

The viewing experience in North American cinemas is really poor.

Noisy.

However, it can also mobilize the atmosphere.

In the dungeon, discussions about lion dance, Chinese New Year, and the American version of Contra kept people dancing.

The panoramic view of the United Space Station was shown on the screen, and the audience exclaimed that the powerful visual effects were not weaker than those of Hollywood movies.

The protagonist group went from the dungeon to the ground, seeing the transport vehicles running rampant in the icy and snowy city, with a spherical steering wheel, many people also shouted that it was interesting.

"The Wandering Earth" was screened for 22 minutes, and the audience's response was very enthusiastic.

No one jumped out to accuse the visual effects of rubbish, and the father-son relationship was rampant and disgusting.

Fang Nan heaved a sigh of relief. The first 30 minutes of the movie are especially important. A good beginning will make people subconsciously think that the movie is good.

"This hall has received a good response. It seems that "The Wandering Earth" can be popular in North America." Shi Nansheng approached Fang Nan, his face glowing.

She is the director of the film investment and production department of Tang Tang Film and Television. Whether the big-budget movie "The Wandering Earth" can succeed in North America is closely related to her, otherwise she would not come to North America to watch "The Wandering Earth" promotion, release and other various affairs.

But she did so personally, except for the high salary of Tang Tang Film and Television.

The biggest reason is that Fang Nan's ambition is worth her effort.

As the former international promotion ambassador of Xiangjiang Films, Fang Nan's ambition to develop and promote domestic films and culture coincides with her.

Throughout Tangtang Film and Television, she is the top executive who most supports Fang Nan in sacrificing part of his profits to promote the overseas development of domestic films.

"Keep reading down, there's still an hour and a half left."

At the United Space Station, a report of "Earth deviates from orbit, approaching Jupiter" pushed the ordinary plot into an unknown direction. At the same time, an earthquake occurred on the earth, and Liu Ziang's carrier was temporarily requisitioned by the Huoshi team.

Seeing the completely frozen Oriental Pearl Tower, the audience at the Olympic Building did not have the climax they had imagined. Instead, they felt that the armor of the Firestone team was very technological. Fang Nan couldn't help but smacked his lips when he saw this.

But he was soon relieved.

North American audiences should be ignorant of such meaningful two buildings. If everyone in North America knows about it, why should he care so much about the success or failure of "The Wandering Earth".

Why bother to push domestic films overseas.

The reason why the White House is known to so many audiences all over the world is not only the center of old beauty, but also because too many movies want to blow up this nasty house.

I have to admit that this is also a kind of cultural export.

The ground troops, following Liu Ziang's death, Liu Qi and the Huoshi team quarreled and then reconciled. This meaningless dispute before the catastrophe calmed down the theater.

"Another wrong plot." Fang Nan smiled wryly at Lao Mouzi.

"There is an emotional difference between the East and the West. Suffering is indispensable for the depth of a movie, but not everyone has the courage to face suffering, especially the audience who buy tickets with real money."

Fang Nan affirmed what Lao Mouzi said, but fortunately, the screen turned to the space station.

The huge space station with extremely beautiful lines, and the scene of Liu Peiqiang and the Russian astronaut walking outside the space station won another round of favor from the audience.

Fang Nan heaved a sigh of relief, and was also glad that he had changed the bitter scene at the end of the movie, otherwise it would inevitably affect the box office.

Multilingual narration of the movie:

The "Wandering Earth" project failed, and the Navigator project was renamed the Fire Project, and now it is making its final broadcast to the world. Humanity has experienced the greatest survival crisis in history. The gravity of Jupiter has exceeded the total output power of all engines. The earth missed the last chance to escape. The continuation of human civilization. You are all heroes of the earth. We will remember and be proud of you
Accompanied by the narration, there is chaos in dungeons all over the world, and people with ulterior motives are doing their last evil.

People running around collided with each other.

Young children sit in the cluttered and empty streets.

Those with weak hearts sat slumped on the ground with dim eyes.

This shot directed by Fang Nan is more chaotic than the original time-space shot, and it is much grander.

People of different skin colors staged their final madness and despair in dungeons with different styles.

In order to maintain the underground city life on the ground in various countries, the workers and law enforcement officers who are running the engine give up on themselves and take the initiative to open their helmets.

In the cold space station, Liu Peiqiang, who was forced to wake up from the hibernation cabin, looked lonely at the endless darkness of space

Fang Nan created the doomsday scene regardless of the cost, and the effect of human beings' joys and sorrows was achieved. Many audience members in the midnight theater covered their mouths in fear and sobbed in fear.

Lao Mouzi glanced at Fang Nan from the corner of his eye.

At this moment, he was dissatisfied with other things, but he completely convinced Fang Nan's ability to mobilize the atmosphere.

As an old director, he can fully imagine the joy and excitement of the audience after seeing the rescue of the earth at the end of the film, and then spontaneously call "The Wandering Earth" desperately.

As Lao Mouzi thought, when the audience couldn't hide their sadness, a data man from the Flint team found a way to push the earth away from Jupiter's gravity.

The solution is difficult, and it requires the Firestone teams all over the world to rekindle hope to help Liu Qi's team.

The plot of the original time and space made Dodo cry and moved the rescue team with a touching speech.

But Fang Nan had his own ideas, he didn't think Duo Duo's speech was so moving, but felt a kind of indescribable embarrassment.

In addition, there are enough sensational parts in the movie, too much is too much.

So he replaced Duo Duo's sensational speech with a sudden small earthquake that turned on the communicators of Liu Qi and others, so that the rescue team on the road knew what Liu Qi and others were doing and what they were going to do.

They were not in a hurry to go back to the dungeon to give their loved ones a last hug, and greet the disaster with their families.

The cries and cries of Liu Qi and others made a carrier vehicle that originally wanted to go back to the dungeon take the initiative to turn.

Then came the second, and then the third, until countless vehicles turned around.

As Liu Peiqiang drove the space station towards Jupiter, a blue light appeared on the surface of the earth, and the second, [-], the engine restarted successfully, and the earth successfully left Jupiter's orbit.

"oh oh."

Seeing the sky-blue planet slowly pass by Jupiter, the yelling in the theater where Fang Nan and others were located completely covered up the narration at the end of the movie.

Lao Mouzi reached out his hand with emotion on his face: "A very well-completed sci-fi blockbuster, Director Fang, congratulations in advance for your box office success."

He didn't realize how deep the meaning of "The Wandering Earth" was, but he had to admit that it was a qualified commercial film.

Fang Nan smiled slightly: "Borrow Daoji Zhang."

"Hey, Fang, too much sensationalism, you should get rid of this bad habit."

Bull in the front row said old-fashionedly.

"Next time definitely."

Fang Nan chuckled, but the next moment he couldn't laugh anymore. The audience in the whole movie hall became excited and asked him, the audience, all kinds of weird questions.

"Where is Hangzhou?"

"Where is Pujiang?"

"Has the novel "The Wandering Earth" been published in North America?"

"Who is Big Liu?"

Fang Nan looked helpless, it was almost three o'clock at night, should he go back to the hotel to sleep?

Shi Nansheng had a different opinion. She forced Fang Nan to answer questions, and it was best to mingle with movie fans, but she, her assistant and secretary took out their mobile phones early.

Salivating all over the place, Fang Nan answered many difficult and miscellaneous diseases, and with the help of the theater staff, Fang Nan walked out of the theater.

Outside the theater, Fang Nan looked at the Transformers, Iron Man, dinosaurs and other dolls and models in the window of the counter. Fang Nan asked the staff curiously: "Have you prepared some merchandise for "The Wandering Earth"?"

"The boss didn't mention that this movie should have no peripherals."

"If there is a model of the space station, do you think movie fans will pay for it?"

"Sorry, I'm just a waiter, so I don't know much about it."

Fang Nan nodded his thanks and walked out of the cinema.

He never forgets the peripherals of movies. Hollywood dares to make blockbuster movies and spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make cartoons not only because of the global box office. Compared with the box office, peripherals are the most profitable part.

Warner's "Harry Potter" has a global box office of less than [-] billion US dollars.

But this series of movies made Warner hundreds of billions of dollars, and most of the profits came from peripherals.

Disney favors animated films, but those who really know how to do it understand that Disney makes animated films to sell peripherals around the world.

"Transformers" surrounding super high box office.

Laomei has been complaining that behind the rampant piracy in China are the major Hollywood film industries, so it can be seen how big the profits of the peripherals are, and how anxious the major Hollywood studios are because the peripherals cannot be sold in China.

"You asked Yan Hong to buy a toy factory to produce peripheral toys in the movie one day. Unfortunately, there are too few elements in "The Wandering Earth" that can be made into peripherals."

"Looking at what it looks like tonight, the movie should be a hit in North America. You can find a clothing factory in China to produce a batch of clothing first."

In the hotel parking lot, Fang Nan said to Shi Nansheng.

"The Wandering Earth" is a small hit in North America?

No one knows what the definition of Fang Nan Xiaohuo is, but "The Wandering Earth" has signs of "burning" anyway.

The New York Times: The ambition of The Wandering Earth.

The appearance of "The Wandering Earth" let Hollywood and the whole world know that the Chinese film industry has finally joined the space race.

Huaxia is a latecomer in space exploration, and it has not been one step ahead in the field of science fiction movies.

But that's about to change.

This Christmas in 2012, wholly owned by Huaxia, directed by Fang Nan, a Huaxia director who has risen suddenly in recent years, and "The Wandering Earth", created by Huaxia's domestic special effects team 13 swordsmen, surpassed most of them both technically and financially. The ability and imagination of a filmmaker.

It represents the arrival of a new era of Chinese film production.

The Financial Times commented:

With "The Wandering Earth", Huaxia jumped into the field of science fiction films in one fell swoop, showing that the country's filmmakers have increasingly strong production budgets and confidence, and they have the ability to challenge this subject that is monopolized by Hollywood.

Fox News:
The best movie of 2011 - "The Wandering Earth".

Hollywood has ushered in powerful outsiders and powerful directors.

Hollywood Reporter Movie Magazine:
The perfect special effects make people a little disappointed and the plot is not rigorous enough, but "The Wandering Earth" is still worth watching.

Amazon's movie review website imdb3500 people scored "The Wandering Earth" with 8.1 points.

There are audience comments, there are no superhero super blockbusters, Fang Nan is as different as ever.

Compared with imdb's score, the rotten tomato index of "The Wandering Earth" is slightly higher, reaching 83% fresh.

A comment with the most likes on Facebook generally reflects the views of ordinary viewers on "The Wandering Earth":

I am a Canadian Jew.

American sci-fi tends to be mediocre.

But The Wandering Earth from China looks great.

I know that Huaxia has made many excellent literary films, and of course there are great martial arts movies, but I have never associated Huaxia with science fiction films.Maybe I should change my mind.

In addition, more netizens actively recommended "The Wandering Earth".

on the tubing.

On the first day after "The Wandering Earth" was released, many netizens uploaded an extremely magnificent promotional video for "The Wandering Earth".

The spontaneous Amway of netizens was reported to the box office the next day.

According to the box office statistics of mojo, a North American box office tracking website, "The Wandering Earth" landed on 12 screens in North America on Christmas Eve, December 24.

As of press time on December 12, the accumulated box office in one weekend exceeded 26 million US dollars, and the average weekend box office reached 2400 US dollars.

$2 per venue is a horrific figure, and it is also the highest-grossing movie in a single venue on Christmas.

Defeated a number of sequel films in the same period, such as "Mission: Impossible 4" produced by Paramount, "Sherlock Holmes 2" by Warner, and "Alvin and the Chipmunks 20" by 3th Century Fox.

As for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", movies such as "The Adventures of Tintin" that the audience has high hopes for can't keep up.

The single-house box office far exceeded other movies, and "The Wandering Earth" became the runner-up of the North American weekly box office list.

"Mission Impossible 4": 2653 million.

"The Wandering Earth": 2404 million.

"Sherlock Holmes 2": 1780 million.

"Alvin and the Chipmunks 3": 1332 million.

"Daughter with the Dragon Tattoo": 1300 million.

Compared with the other four films in the top five box office in North America in a week, "The Wandering Earth" has the least screens and the worst location, but "The Wandering Earth" just sat on the runner-up of the weekly box office list.

With a Christmas box office total of 1 million US dollars, an authentic Chinese film cut nearly 1% of the box office, comparable to Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

Excluding "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", the box office of "The Wandering Earth" is unprecedented.

Several North American box office websites confirmed that "The Wandering Earth" won the second place in the first week of box office in North America. Fang Nan laughed for the first time. He was happier than when he won the Oscar for Best Director with "Parasite".

Of course, it's too early to celebrate, "The Wandering Earth" has just begun.

The sun rises in the east.

China.

In the 6D Laser Cinema No. 3 of Pujiang Bund Artist Cinema, Xiao Jiang and his girlfriend opened their mouths in astonishment as all the audience.

The picture on the screen is too shocking.

They counted all the movies they had watched, and they never remembered the scene of the Oriental Pearl Tower or the Olympic Building being completely frozen.

Not to mention freezing, even a little bit of damage has never existed in the movie. "The Wandering Earth" dares to do this, it is really awesome.

"The Beijing Municipal Transportation Commission reminds you that if you drive irregularly, your loved ones will cry."

Unlike North American audiences, Chinese audiences were all very excited when they saw places such as the Oriental Pearl Tower, World Trade Center, Pujiang, Hangzhou, and even Huai'an.

Some even feel that it is an honor for their hometown to appear in "The Wandering Earth".

Seeing the decline of the plane and the start-up of the planetary engine, I feel emotional. The movie is too good. When have I seen a domestic movie with such a big scene.

For a while, some employees in the factory asked each colleague if they had watched "The Wandering Earth". Once the other party said that they hadn't, these people went crazy about how awesome the Amway movie was.

But the specifics can't describe the big scene, which makes people itchy.

(End of this chapter)