The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 181 Film History Box Office Record
On this plane until 2015 in the Huaguo film market, the top five box office hits were all Hollywood blockbusters.

The number one is "Young Avengers", which has not yet been released. Even if "Source Code" can completely squeeze it to the corner, it is certain to get a box office of 19 billion. Too many feelings were planted when it was not rising. "Young Avengers" is equivalent to giving the feelings of the first generation of Avengers a chance to "repay movie tickets", which is a big reason for its box office explosion.

Ranked second is "Star Swallowing Messenger: Rising Star", which dominated the summer vacation in 2014, with a box office of 14.9 billion.

Ranked third is "Captain America 2012" (Falcon Captain America) released in 4, with a box office of 14.6 billion.

Ranked fourth is "Spider-Man: Challenge of the Red Skull", released in 2013, with a box office of 13.4 billion.

Ranked fifth is the blockbuster "Titanic" at the end of the last century. The 97D remake in 12 and 3 years has a total box office of 13.1 billion.

The blockbuster comics have basically been crowned every year since 12. Even if the list is stretched to the top 10, domestic films only occupy three places, while DreamWorks' last film "Signal" just ranked tenth.

The past 2014 can be said to be a year in which the box office performance of domestic films was outstanding. The Spring Festival, summer and National Day programs each produced a domestic film with a level of 10 billion plus.

However, in 2015, the Spring Festival stalls with 7 movies gathered were all pecking at each other, and there was no domestic movie with a level of 10 billion.

Seeing the rise of Hollywood blockbusters, which has almost raised the record to 20 billion, many media are worried whether domestic films can continue to catch up at the box office.

So many people were expecting "Source Code" to create another box office miracle like "Signal". Even the director of the Film Bureau and Qin Zhonghe called Chen Jingxing to ask him his opinion on the movie's box office.

For example, Qin Zhonghe is in a state of pain and happiness. "Young Avengers" has set a box office record. Naturally, Guoying has followed suit to make money, but he can't help but worry about the proportion of domestic films in the box office this year.

In 2013, domestic films accounted for 59% of the box office, but in 2014 it dropped to 54%. For the management department, the rapid expansion of the film market cannot hide the ugliness of the continuous decline in the domestic film box office share.

Because the record of "Young Avengers" is too eye-catching, and it is still in the off-season of the market in April, under the influence of this inexplicable emotion, "Source Code" seems to be the key to keep the share of domestic films and resist the attack of Hollywood blockbusters. Some kind of hope and symbol.

In this way, many media, while constantly exclaiming and admiring the box office record of "Young Avengers", set off a round of science popularization and attention to the box office record of the Chinese film market, and at the same time devoted this upsurge of attention to the box office to On "Source Code," which is about to premiere.

However, most of the media are cautiously pessimistic about this. First of all, it is the issue of schedule. Most of the domestic movies that have achieved high box office are in popular schedules. Obviously, even the upcoming May [-]st and National Day - even last year There is no way to compare the National Day files.

Just judging from common sense, it seems difficult for domestic films to achieve a box office of 10 billion in non-popular schedules.

Correspondingly, the box office forecast of Maoyan Movies for "Source Code" is between 6 million and 8.5 million, which has taken into account the impact of the strength of the film's reputation on the box office trend.

The main basis is the pre-sale. The total pre-sale box office of Young Avengers on the day before the release exceeded 2.4 million, while the source code was only 7000 million. Considering this gap, the prediction of Maoyan Movie is still merciless. Woolen cloth.

However, Chen Jingxing didn't pay too much attention to this. Young Avengers obviously has a strong fan movie nature. In fact, this is the common feature of many big IP movies. The fans' interest in watching the movie on the first day is very high. "Source Code" As an original movie, there is definitely no way to compare it in pre-sale.

However, Chen Jingxing found it strange that even at the premiere, reporters kept asking him about his thoughts on the box office of "Young Avengers" which would exceed 19 billion, and his expectations for the box office of "Source Code".

The main reason is that he can't empathize with the vague anxiety of many people at this time. At the moment before he traveled, there were no Hollywood blockbusters on the Huaguo movie box office list.

Only one of the top 20 grossing Hollywood films and 4 of the top [-] grossed Hollywood films.

Coupled with the sky-high box office, I really don't have much feeling for the "mere" 19 billion figure. Although he can't guarantee that the box office of "Source Code" will exceed this figure, he just thinks it's just so so. , I didn't feel that this was an unclimbable peak.

"19 billion? Not bad."

"The box office record in film history? It's a pity that it didn't break through 20 billion."

"How long can it last? Well, it's not easy to predict. If you make a conservative estimate... one year."

"When will domestic films be able to break through? Well... one year."

Perhaps the reporters saw through Chen Jingxing's expression the disapproval deep in his heart, or perhaps Chen Jingxing's answer was a bit beyond their expectations, and the originally happy scene was a little colder by Chen Jingxing's answer.

Not only are the media reporters dumbfounded, but even the leading actors such as Hu Ge, Wan Qian, Wu Yue, etc. standing beside Chen Jingxing also have unnatural expressions. It is obvious that Chen Jingxing is "frivolous" about the 19 billion box office record Even several actors felt that the attitude was a bit outrageous.

Different from the moment before Chen Jingxing's time travel, in the original plane until 2015, since the marketization reform of the film industry, domestic films have never been ranked first in film history.

First, "Titanic" monopolized the box office record of film history for ten years, and then when the box office began to expand rapidly, the blockbuster comics that had already accumulated deep feelings for young audiences in Huaguo through piracy continued to refresh the film history record.

What domestic filmmakers see is that Hollywood blockbusters first created an unsurpassable box office record, and when domestic films slowly caught up with the hope of approaching the record, another Hollywood blockbuster once again raised this record to an admirable level. degree.

Chen Jingxing had never experienced the anxiety, disappointment, and admiration for the strong of a chaser.

Because in his opinion, even without his existence, the future Huaguo film market will soon produce 40 billion or 50 billion movies. The 19 billion in "Young Avengers" is the same as looking up to Mount Everest.

However, he also realized that what he told the truth would probably be a lot of nonsense in the ears of many people, but he didn't care, and time would naturally prove the correctness of his prediction.

Of course he hoped that this "prophecy" would be fulfilled by himself.

(End of this chapter)