The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 171 "Source Code" Finalized

In the big conference room of DreamWorks.

Chen Jingxing was having the last meeting before the beginning of the year with a group of executives from DreamWorks.

The most important thing is the finalization of "Source Code".

Although the integration into the Tianhe animation team and the preparatory work of "Gravity" took a lot of energy, especially the cg preview of "Gravity" took up most of the manpower, the post-work of "Source Code" was still in 2 Finished at the beginning of the month.

Of course, it will definitely not be able to catch up with the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival in 2015 is February 2th. After the post-production, the finished film has to be sent to the Film Bureau for a second review. Even the release time in March is very tight.

Although many people in DreamWorks, as well as the other two producers of "Source Code", were somewhat dissatisfied with Chen Jingxing's deployment of manpower from the special effects studio to work on "Gravity" at a critical time in the film's post-production, after all, he missed the Spring Festival file .

The outbreak of "Signal" in the National Day file made DreamWorks Fantasy World and United Cinemas taste the sweetness. Penguin Video and Tianrun Pictures, the co-producers of "Source Code", were also envious. From the perspective of the market size, The volume of the Spring Festival stalls is definitely larger than that of the National Day stalls.

Chen Jingxing actually doesn't have much regret about this. He thinks that the movie "Source Code" is good enough, no matter which schedule it is in, it will definitely drive the market. In fact, many imported Hollywood blockbusters are released in domestic schedules. This off-season does not prevent them from getting more box office than most domestic films.

His biggest feeling about "Source Code" missing the Spring Festival file is that the payback cycle of this project will be postponed again.

After all, every step forward of "Gravity" is burning money, coupled with the acquisition of Tianhe Animation, the rapid expansion of Mo's animation department, the approval of several animation works, the shooting of the "Signal" TV series and the follow-up film and television drama projects. Planning, DreamWorks current funds are not sufficient.

He hoped that the movie "Source Code" could return funds as soon as possible and bring huge profits.

However, there were still some disputes about the follow-up schedule of "Source Code", and most people's opinions were that it should be scheduled for the summer vacation, after all, this is the biggest schedule in Huaguo.

However, Chen Jingxing thinks that the summer file is a bit late, because "Gravity" will start the official shooting after the year. According to the scheduled plan, the shooting time will not exceed two months. After the shooting is completed, there will be a long process of post-production visual effects, Chen Jingxing All he has to do is keep following up, but that doesn't mean he won't have time to work on other projects.

The script of "The Matrix" is already being perfected, and he will start the preparations for "The Matrix" as soon as possible after the filming of "Gravity" is completed. Of course, in fact, the production cost of the first part of "The Matrix" is not much, and the special effects The lens is also far less than "Gravity", according to Chen Jingxing's estimate, 2-3 million is enough to complete the filming, and the special effects ink of "The Matrix" is capable enough to be produced.

Coupled with the potential for other big expenses, DreamWorks was short on cash, so he wanted to get Source Code out as soon as possible.

"April?" Zheng Hong, the person in charge of the publicity and network marketing department, frowned and muttered: "According to the news from National Film, "Young Avengers" is likely to be released in early April."

""Young Avengers"? I'm afraid this movie is not easy to deal with. The North American side has already set it to be released on March 3. If China Movies sets it to early April, there will be basically no gap in between. I don’t think it’s a wise decision to confront him head-on.” Xu Wenshen expressed his opinion slowly.

"We're not going to confront him head-on." Chen Jingxing knocked on the table: "Actually, I asked Qin Dong before that this movie will indeed be released in early April, to be exact, Friday, April 4rd. Logging in at the zero point, I think that "Source Code" is scheduled to be on the 4th, and there is a 3-day gap between him and him, I don't think this is a head-on collision, and I can catch up with the 24st file immediately."

Although Chen Jingxing is not afraid of Hollywood blockbusters, he will not really confront them head-on.

"After the trailer of "Young Avengers" came out, it immediately became the number one most searched." Zheng Hong still thinks there is a certain degree of danger: "The animated series of this movie set a record for Penguin video network animation before. If the quality of the movie can be compared to animation, it is not impossible to go a long way."

The story of "Young Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow" tells that a generation of Avengers almost died in the battle with Ultron. The only surviving Stark took care of the children of other Avengers and raised them into teenagers. Avengers, to take over from their parents.

There was also an animated series as a foreshadowing before, which aroused huge repercussions at home and abroad, so this movie is considered a relatively heavyweight project among the superhero movies planned to be released this year.

"Twenty days is enough." Chen Jingxing shook his head: "Even if it can maintain a good box office after more than 20 days, it will definitely not have the ability to keep the daily box office champion. Harvest, and "Source Code" is definitely capable enough to chop off his tail."

He doesn't believe that some movies can become the "Wolf Warrior 2" of the plane. "Wolf Warrior 2" mobilized a large-scale non-movie audience to enter the theater. In other words, he penetrated most classes and age groups, This is only possible with domestic films. Super British films cannot penetrate all age groups. It is difficult for him to mobilize middle-aged and elderly people to enter the factory, and the penetration of sinking markets is also extremely limited.

Of course, the reason why Chen Jingxing decided to file "Source Code" until the end of April was mainly because of the North American market.

"Source Code" will be DreamWorks' first film licensed to Firefly for direct distribution in the North American market.

Of course, Firefly currently does not have the ability to distribute independently at all, and must co-publish with a major Hollywood distributor.

The partner Chen Jingxing chose was Universal Pictures. On the project of "Gravity", Chen Jingxing cooperated with Universal's special effects studio quite happily.

Coupled with his personal friendship, or superficial friendship, with Jeff Miller, the vice president of Universal Pictures, after all, he is also one of several individual shareholders of Firefly.

DreamWorks’ US$800 million only got 80% of Firefly’s shares—this is already an absolute holding, and the remaining 20% ​​of the shares are still held by several individuals, and Jeff Miller is one of them.

Universal's opinion is that "Source Code" can be released in North America in early May. This is a very rare schedule that Universal has chosen, and it has maintained a sufficient distance from the blockbusters before and after.

As for DreamWorks' idea of ​​releasing it in the North American summer season, Universal flatly rejected it.

The summer film is the most important ticket warehouse in the North American market in a year. Without one of them, it is naturally impossible for a foreign film to make money in this time period. Of course, this is not decided by an administrative order. You have to insist on the summer film. It doesn't matter, but the number of theaters opened cannot exceed a thousand.

(End of this chapter)