The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 100 Returning to China
Chen Jingxing was completely unaware of the butterfly wings he was instigating, which made a top class plan to terminate the contract early and return to China.

However, more and more relatives, friends and people in the film and television circles he did not know congratulated him through expensive overseas phone calls.

In addition to congratulating "Fatal Identity" on its box office success in the North American film market, he is also testing his plans for his next film.

However, except for the congratulations, he pushed all questions about other movies to DreamWorks, or specifically Xu Wenshen.

It is said that the front desk of DreamWorks has complained that in addition to receiving more and more visitors, it also has to answer various calls. The company phone number of DreamWorks is announced to the public.

Of course, this is what he overheard when answering Xu Wenshen's complaint call.

None of this affects his happy mood, after all, the box office of "Fatal Identity" is still rising.

It grossed 1400 million in its third week of release in North American theaters.

Although the number of theaters has further increased, the box office has dropped by 200 million compared to the second week. In fact, this drop is already considered very low. After all, the box office of "Pompeii", which was regarded as the enemy of "Fatal Identity" last week, this week. Only 600 million left.

And also consider that there are two more blockbusters dropping this week.

"Air Rescue" starring Liam Neeson became the weekly box office champion with a box office of 3600 million.

"Son of God" followed with 3100 million.

"The Lego Movie", which won the championship for two consecutive weeks, fell to the third place in the weekly box office.

"Fatal Identity", which received 1400 million, ranked fourth.

Three weeks after the filming started, the cumulative box office of "Fatal Identity" has reached 3550 million.

In this way, there is no suspense that the North American box office will eventually reach more than 5000 million.

In addition to the good news at the North American box office, under the arrangement of Columbia, "Fatal Identity" has also begun to be released in Europe, Australia and Mexico.

Because of the outstanding box office performance in North America, and the epic blockbuster "Pompeii" in the second week, it attracted intensive reports from the Hollywood media. All of them were released according to the treatment of mainstream commercial films of major Hollywood studios.

Judging from the good news coming in one after another, the box office potential is not bad. Columbia Pictures predicts that it may reach more than 5000 million box office.

Coupled with the sure 5000 million box office in North America, this means that the total box office outside the Asia-Pacific region may reach 1 million US dollars.

The Columbia business has already made a lot of money, and there will be DVD revenue and TV rights in the future. Although the development of streaming media has greatly reduced the cake of the DVD business, it still cannot be underestimated, and the film style of "Fatal Identity" It is very suitable for DVD distribution, and many movie fans in North America are very happy to collect movie discs.

Now even Columbia began to care about Chen Jingxing's next movie. It can be said that as long as Chen Jingxing's next project is not particularly disappointing, Columbia will bite the bullet and buy the copyright.

Of course, other companies in Hollywood are not vegetarians either. Lionsgate, Mira, Universal and many other companies are all concerned about Chen Jingxing's next movie.

Lionsgate may have a hobby of collecting Asian directors. It is not enough to win over a Lee Jung-jae. They are also planning to pay Chen Jingxing to shoot "Comet 2" and "Fatal Identity 2". Understood, what kind of sequels are there for Comet and Fatal Identity?

In addition, the streaming media giant Netflix found him again.

Since participating in the Orlando Fantastic Film Festival at the beginning of the year, Netflix has contacted him more than once. This time, Chen Jingxing thought that he could not delay any longer, because the final box office location had basically been estimated, so Chen Jingxing simply replied and started negotiations immediately after returning home.

After all, bargaining still has to be left to professionals, and Huanshi.com is also the producer of the film. Of course, this kind of thing cannot be decided by oneself, and overseas network copyright is also a considerable sum.

Finally, Chen Jingxing and other six directors, who had been studying in Hollywood for more than half a month, returned to the capital with a lot of achievements, including shopping results in large and small bags.

Some gifts were sent home by him to his relatives, and some maple syrup was distributed to the employees of DreamWorks. As for his girlfriend Tang Xin and his cousin Cheng Jieyao, he brought some handicrafts of native Californians. He originally wanted to buy Tang Xin resolutely rejected some luxuries, so he had to give up.

Chen Jingxing, who originally wanted to spend a few days with his long-lost girlfriend, was called to the company by Xu Wenshen and Zhang Jingyan in a row.

DreamWorks' next movie projects can't be any more domineering. The four shareholders of Fantasy World, Penguin Video, Tianrun Pictures and United Cinemas can't wait to spend money to start new projects.

Chen Jingxing has never seen a company that is so impatient to spend money. Perhaps it is the success of the North American box office and the 1050 million US dollars sold out to Netflix's network copyright. They need to be more eager, after all, the benefits of "Fatal Identity" have nothing to do with them, but just looking at it makes them greedy.

That's right, it took less than half a day for Huanshi.com, DreamWorks and Netflix to reach a sale agreement.

In fact, 1000 million US dollars is not a small amount. After all, the movie has been released in most markets around the world. If it is not shown in North American theaters, it can negotiate a higher price with Netflix. Tripling it is not enough. .

From the perspective of pure income, if DreamWorks sells overseas copyrights to Netflix and broadcasts directly on the Internet, it will definitely gain greater benefits.

But it can't be calculated like this. The upper limit of the North American theater market and the long-term benefits it can bring to Chen Jingxing are far from comparable to Netflix.

And if "Fatal Identity" hadn't proved itself in North American theaters, Netflix might not be willing to bleed, so this is a paradox.

However, after the agreement was reached, Netflix also hinted that Netflix is ​​willing to buy out Chen Jingxing's next movie at a price of 5000 million US dollars, on the condition that it will not be released offline in countries and regions other than China.

Of course, this was rejected by DreamWorks. It is not worthwhile to offend the North American theaters for 5000 million US dollars. Chen Jingxing is not a young director of nobody cares. He has already registered in the North American theaters. Many Hollywood film companies are watching The rights to his next film.

If you dare to premiere on Netflix, you will definitely be regarded as a traitor by the North American theaters that have a tense relationship with streaming media. You may have some scruples about big local directors or manufacturers. For foreign directors such as Chen Jingxing, you will definitely be punished. As an example, block them directly. North American theaters are not as scattered as Huaguo Cinemas. It is a highly monopolized industry. If the three giants of theaters say boycott, you will never be able to escape.

How could DreamWorks be willing to give up such a big piece of cake in the North American market.

(End of this chapter)