I'm a movie star on earth

Chapter 498 Interview
"Don't try to understand it, feel it."

For audiences who don't understand "Creed", this sentence may be the best explanation.Although many viewers didn't know what the story was after watching the film, but relying on the strong box office appeal of Li He and Nolan, the film achieved a box office of 7.15 million in the first three days, creating the highest first week since 2020 The box office was previously 6.95 million for "Eight Hundred".

Overseas markets are also getting good news. North America won a box office of 6323 million U.S. dollars in three days, Europe won a box office of 3539 million U.S. dollars, and other regions together also won a box office of more than 2000 million, making "Creed" 2.2 million U.S. dollars in the first week. global box office.

This result is considered a good result even before the epidemic, not to mention that it is already very good in this special period.

The global sales of "Creed" have given the movie market a shot in the arm, and many waiting-and-see movies have also announced their final releases and scheduled releases.

Everyone believes that if it weren't for the impact of the epidemic, "Creed" could have created better results. Among other things, the box office in North America alone in the first week would definitely not exceed 6000 million US dollars, and it would definitely exceed [-] million.

In this era of commercial blockbusters, the box office of a movie in its first week will account for one-third or even two-thirds of the total box office, so the higher the box office in the first week, the higher the possibility of making a big box office.

In order to cooperate with the promotion of "Creed", Li He was interviewed by Penguin Video on the set of "Da Qin Fu" and talked about this movie.

Due to the epidemic, this time it was a video interview. The host greeted Li He: "Hi Li He, long time no see, let's say hello to everyone!"

"Hi Yu Shuang, hello to the viewers of Penguin Video." Li He waved his hand in front of the camera to greet him.

This Yu Shuang is not the Yu Shuang from LPL, this Yu Shuang is an entertainment news reporter and host who interviewed Li He before. Yu Shuang from the LPL also interviewed Li He, because Li He also participated in the LPL's Anniversary All-Stars and owns a club called RNG.

Although he basically doesn't care about the club's affairs, RNG still brought Li He a lot of surprises. He won several league championships and MSI championships. He made a comeback and won the club's first S championship, achieving a grand slam.

As a generous boss, Li He is not stingy with his investment in the club. The salaries of RNG's star players are always at the top of the league. At the same time, the business operation is also very standardized. While demanding results, it also brings huge benefits to the players. commercial value.
In a situation where a certain club broke out in arrears of salary, and the yin and yang contracts caused a lot of uproar, RNG can still pay high salaries and maintain high expenses.The most important thing is that through the realization of commercial value, RNG can actually be responsible for its own profits and losses without any extra money from Li He, which can be regarded as a model of club operation.

If this were replaced by Black Star, the former boss of RNG, the club might not be able to maintain it...

And the positive feedback this club brought to Lee Hyuk is also excellent, which is of great help to him in promoting his brands and movie brands.Gossip less, enter the interview session.

"The newly released movie "Creed", many audiences complained that they couldn't understand it. When you read the script for the first time, do you think you understand it?" Yu Shuang asked.

"When I read the script for the first time, I thought I understood it, but when I read it the second time, I felt that I might have read it a little sloppily. Whenever I read it over and over again, I was so deep in this maze that I couldn't extricate myself from it until the last scene with Robert Pattinson, and I asked him some basic questions.

One of the questions I remember asking him was: Are you dead or alive? "

"Hahahaha, it seems that our protagonist is also very confused. It is indeed difficult to talk about this topic without spoiling it, but when I watched the movie, I thought: I think I understand it. After seeing the end I also felt: No, I actually didn’t understand.” Yu Shuang spat out a little.

"Haha, I am also in this state. I have a habit of reading scripts, which is to read ten pages and turn five pages back. Nolan is a very traditional director. He likes to use paper scripts, so the script looks very thick. , when I finished reading the script, my first feeling was whether I was in this movie or what was my name? Then a series of philosophical questions arose." When Li Hyuk spoke, he still cooperated with gestures and expressions, Very funny.

"Hahahaha, so the understanding of the plot still needs to consume a certain amount of brain cells, then let's pay attention to the action stunts, this movie rarely uses special effects, almost all the scenes are real shots, a lot of action scenes Did you personally go into battle?" Yu Shuang asked.

Li Hyuk nodded and replied: "Yes, in fact, we have undergone a lot of training before shooting, and many actions that seem to be reversed are actually not reversed, but are filmed through the actual movements of the actors. The difficulty is not small of."

"It can be seen that the crew is very attentive. In the trailer, we can also see that there is a scene where the plane bombs the building. How did you shoot this scene?"

Li He scratched his head and said, "I also asked Director Nolan this question at the beginning, and his answer was: We bought a real plane to blow it up. I remember my expression at that time, thinking it was crazy, but the crew did. That's what it did, buy a real plane and blow up the building."

"My God," Yu Shuang asked in surprise, "Will it be expensive?"

"Actually not. The plane has actually been scrapped. The engine was dismantled and sold before filming. After the final calculation, it was found that it was cheaper than doing special effects." Li Hyuk replied with a smile.

The interview lasted more than 40 minutes, not only the "Creed" interview, but also some interviews about Li Hyuk's personal and future work plans.

The interview video was broadcast on Penguin Video that night, attracting many fans and fans to watch.When Li Hyuk said that he actually didn't know what he was photographing, everyone smiled knowingly.

The female fans breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that Li Hyuk himself didn't understand, so he didn't have to blame himself for not knowing what the film was about.

During the interview, it was revealed that the actual filming of the film, together with the production special behind the scenes of "Creed", enabled the audience to better understand some of the production conditions of the film, and thus feel the dedication of the film.

In this way, when the film was released for ten days until No. 13 in September, China’s box office had accumulated 14.36 billion, equivalent to about 2.05 million U.S. dollars. The box office is expected to reach more than 20 billion RMB in the end, which is already a very good result.

The global box office has reached US$5.86 million, and it will not be a problem to recover the cost or even make a fortune later. Warner Pictures and Nolan are relieved that the film is making money, and everyone is relieved.

The contract between Nolan and Warner Pictures ended, and because of the huge sales of Creed, other Hollywood film companies became more aggressive in wooing Nolan.Nolan is amazing. An original sci-fi action movie can sell well all over the world, especially at this special time. Such directors are the targets of various film companies.

Those who couldn't grab Nolan also paid attention to Li He, who can say that with the help of "Creed", Li He once again consolidated his position as a world-class movie star.

The invitations for several Hollywood films that have been sent out have already reached 2000 million US dollars in salary, which can be regarded as entering the Hollywood 2000 million salary club, and they are all A-level movie stars, just like Tom Cruise, Xiao Lizi and other first-line stars.

However, Li Hyuk's development strategy is definitely to focus on Chinese-language films. If Hollywood films do not have a particularly good script, they will not accept them.The increase in his status in Hollywood is also conducive to the Chinese-language films he starred in entering the global market, rather than being limited to the domestic market.

Although this reasoning is a bit nonsensical, to break into Hollywood is to break into the world. Chinese-language films are still far behind in this regard, and there is still a lot of work to be done.Hollywood's globalization strategy has been developed for decades, and Chinese-language films cannot catch up overnight.

In this special period, when the two sides are chasing the gap, Chinese-language films should seize this rare opportunity to steadily produce excellent works, and then promote them to the world. One day, Chinese-language films will be the best and most valuable in the world. one of the cultural works.

(End of this chapter)