The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 127 "Signal" First Edition Trailer

Two days after the announcement of the Mekong project, Chen Sicheng's Chengya Films also announced the approval of "Detective Chinatown".

And even though Chen Sicheng's reputation was much greater than Guo Fan's, it did not stir up any splashes in the outside world, even though the box office of Chen Sicheng's and Guo Fan's films was not weaker than that of Ning Hao and Chen Jingxing.

Obviously, the audience's expectations for the new works of different directors are completely different.

This is related to the themes that different directors are good at, and also related to the quality of their works.

For example, in the previous world, the box office of "Detective Chinatown 1" was only 8 million, but the box office of the second part was not as good as the previous one, but the box office expanded rapidly.

This principle is also applicable to specific filmmakers. The accumulation of word-of-mouth and expectations is an invisible and huge wealth, which can be realized at the right time. altar day.

The two high-scoring sci-fi films "Comet" and "Fatal Identity" have given Chen Jingxing the blessing of the audience's reputation and expectations.

Chen Jingxing's situation at this time is a bit like Ning Hao who directed two crazy series of movies at that time. Everyone who mentions him will praise him as a genius director, a ghost director, and fans and audiences also have great expectations for his next work. expectations.

Chen Jingxing was luckier than Ning Hao in that his rise caught up with the rapid development of the mobile Internet and the explosive growth of Huaguo's movie market.

So his fans are much higher than Ning Hao's in the past, both in terms of number and volume.

For the establishment of the two films Mekong River and Chinatown, ordinary netizens watched it lively, and didn't even care much about it.

Many companies in the industry were astounded by it, both surprised and admired by DreamWorks and Chen Jingxing.

Surprisingly, DreamWorks has participated in four film projects for more than half a year after financing, and none of them are small projects. DreamWorks is not a soy sauce participant, and is the main producer of each project.

Even the major productions that the five major traditional studios participated in over the course of a year are nothing more than that. The investment model of the major studios for film projects is to cast a wide net, and they prefer works with small and medium costs. It is very cautious, and there may be only one or two movies a year.

Unexpectedly, the new force of DreamWorks is really a newborn calf not afraid of tigers, and has already extended its tentacles into the domain of predators. "Source Code" can still be said to have only invested nearly [-] million yuan. One-on-one big production.

What I admire is Chen Jingxing's courage. The payback period of a film is long and uncertain. The bigger the production, the longer the payback period and the higher the risk.

Putting hundreds of millions of dollars into film projects is equivalent to saving the money for a period of one to two years or even several years, and you can't get out a penny in the middle, and you even have to continue to invest more. Even if the time limit is up, you will follow the blind Like a box, it is not uncommon for the whole project to fail.

Such slow-cycle, low-efficiency and high-risk investments are not favored by normal capital. From this perspective, investing in industrial blockbusters is the same as investing in industries, which is quite discouraging.

With this money, it is better to invite two big stars to shoot a short-cycle production, with fast returns and low risks.

Therefore, the little guy from DreamWorks accompanied Guoying to play the Mekong film project. In the eyes of the peers, it was the same as an Internet company seeing an Internet company invest in manufacturing. Only feelings and courage can explain it.

……

Li Zihao is a third-year student at Shanghai Metropolitan University of Technology. As a typical contemporary college student, apart from studying in class, he basically devotes his time to game dramas and various film and television dramas.

After playing a game with other roommates just now, it happened to be meal time. After a few people guessed the person who brought the meal, the rest of them were bored surfing the Internet.

The weekend life of single college students is so boring, playing games can play "I don't know what day and night are", and the only biological clock that still works is meal time.

During this rare intermission, other roommates read pornographic books, downloaded pornographic movies, and watched game commentaries, and so on.

Only Li Zihao clicked on the homepage of Huanshi.com. He is still a fan of fan dramas, film and television dramas.

It's just that the time of a college student is worthless, and he has only entered the university campus for more than two years. He has basically finished watching old Hong Kong movies and classic dramas.

But this time he discovered something new.

"Ghost director Chen Jingxing's latest masterpiece, Luo Chen staged a brainstorm again!"

On the homepage of Huanshi.com, there is a trailer of a movie hanging impressively.

Li Zihao noticed the name of the movie: Signal.

He remembered that "Signal" was a new movie made by Chen Jingxing, because he was barely a fan of Chen Jingxing's movie.

The reason why I say it is reluctant is because Li Zihao really likes the two films made by this director, but he has not seen them in the cinema.

After returning to school after the winter vacation, he was recommended the movie "Fatal Identity" by his classmates. After watching it, he was amazed. My motto is never pay to watch movies and TV series.

What I usually watch on Huanshi.com are free old Hong Kong movies and old dramas. Of course, fan dramas also have pirated resources.

However, "Fatal Identity" accurately hit his movie-watching orientation. He likes to watch this kind of brain-burning but not completely burnt-out movie, which he can fully understand.

To put it bluntly, you have to respect my IQ and challenge my IQ. In the end, I still stood on the high ground of IQ.

But you can't crush my IQ.

This is the difference between a brain-burning film and a brain-burning film.

Li Zihao was amazed by "Fatal Identity" and then found the director's previous work "Comet".

Of course it's a pirated resource.

Because since "Fatal Identity" achieved box office success, Huanshi.com has silently turned "Comet", which was originally free to play, into paid play.

As a result, after watching "Comet", he found that this movie was more to his liking.

Although many people criticized the movie for being mysterious, Li Zihao likes movies that are full of mystery.

After watching these two movies, Li Zihao has become a fan of Chen Jingxing. Although he has not yet reached the level of liking for Master Xing, he has reached the point of "I will definitely watch his next work".

Li Zihao clicked on the trailer without any hesitation.

[Signal September 9, we will cross time and space together]
Under the tense and fast-paced music, the subtitles appeared:

["The Night the Comet Came"

He took us to the *walking universe]
A fast-paced cut video of Comet followed.

["Fatal Identity"

He takes us to explore the personality world]

This is followed by video footage from the Fatal Identity film.

[Ghost director

Shocking new work]

[Luo Chen

lead actor]

Then came the official trailer of "Signal".

In this version of the trailer, Chen Jingxing put a lot of exciting scenes, or most of the hot action scenes are included in it.

At the same time, the audience can also hear from the fragmented lines of the characters in the trailer that this is a story related to time. It seems that a pair of father and son talk directly through a machine like a walkie-talkie, spanning 17 years, and together. The story of the murderer?

(End of this chapter)