The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 189 Reflection of Hollywood

While dealing with the flashing lights with a decent smile, Hu Ge sighed to Wan Qian who was holding his arm next to him: "The premiere was more lively than I thought, and the number of media and reporters who came was a bit beyond my imagination."

Wan Qian waved her hand and replied with a smile: "Don't talk about you, I never imagined that one day I would be able to hold the premiere of my work at the Huaguo Theater on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It's the illusion of Hollywood stars, although most of these media reporters don't know me."

The Huaguo Theater is a landmark building in the heart of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It has even hosted many Oscars, and the premieres of many blockbuster films will be held here.

Even being in it made her feel like a dream. She and Hu Ge even experienced the fun of signing autographs for fans on the red carpet-of course, most of them were Chinese faces, either Chinese or Chinese. International student—even in China, she has no such experience, after all, she was just an ordinary third- and fourth-tier actor a year ago.

Although Hu Ge can be regarded as a first-line actor, he rarely experienced such battles, especially in Los Angeles, which is separated from Huaguo by an ocean.

"Hugo! Hugo!"

"Wan Qian! This way!"

Before they knew it, the two of them had basically finished walking the red carpet, and several journalists with faces from Huaguo greeted them to come over for interviews, and they should all be from domestic media.

Although the two are the leading actors of "Source Code", they are indeed not well-known in Hollywood. Whether it is the fans of foreign faces gathered around the red carpet-these people are basically fans of Chen Jingxing, or the Hollywood media, they are all concerned about the two of them. There is no interest, and it is limited to taking pictures.

That is to say, only Chinese-faced staff members, overseas students, or Chinese who go to the United States will ask them to sign and call their names, and Chinese media reporters will also ask them to do interviews.

If it was Luo Chen who came, maybe the Hollywood media would be interested and come forward to ask two questions.

And Chen Jingxing was already surrounded by the Hollywood media and some Huaguo media. After all, he was already considered a big celebrity in Hollywood.

The types of movies he made are indeed relatively scarce in the North American market. After he achieved unprecedented success in the North American market in 2014, the Hollywood media and even many serious media are analyzing why Chen Jingxing can achieve such an amazing box office in the United States, and It has won the love of many young people. You must know that Hollywood's big investment is very unpopular with original scripts.

And Chen Jingxing's previous three films were all original scripts, which even caused a wave of reflection in some American media. Chen Jingxing is a foreigner through and through, not only from Asia, but also a Chinese director who many people are biased against.

A director from a relatively backward country in their opinion has won so much box office in the North American market by making sci-fi films. Even the dullest people will wonder if there is something wrong with Hollywood. They have the world's strongest China's film industry exports films all over the world, but now they are exported by directors from other countries, and young people are buying it. How can we not be shocked?
In fact, when "Signal" hit theaters last year, some media were already discussing the reasons for this. Many film critics also took advantage of the success of "Signal". The phenomenon of monopolizing A-level productions has once again been brought up to start a debate, especially the phenomenon that comic films account for an excessively large proportion of A-level productions, which has set off another round of verbal criticism from film critics.

In fact, before this, many industry practitioners and film critics have complained about this phenomenon, but super-British blockbusters have helped Hollywood conquer the world, and the output of popular culture across races, languages, and skin colors has made such discussions " Moss mustard disease", even the big commander regards the superheroes produced by Hollywood as a pearl of America's cultural soft power.

But it’s different now, that yellow-skinned young director on the other side of the ocean has produced original scripted sci-fi movies that big labels like you disdain and dare not invest in, and exported them to your home. You tell me that there is no problem with Hollywood’s heyday?

However, such a huge film industry system, even if it is aware of the problem, there is no way to quickly turn around, especially the two giants living on the top of the Hollywood Hills-Disney and Warner themselves are the biggest beneficiaries of the super-British film trend, and they The heroic universe of the movie was planned 10 years later, how could it be easily changed?
On the contrary, a stable studio like Universal has some pioneering ideas-it won't do if it doesn't develop, and it will be left farther and farther away by the giants who control the copyright resources of Super Britain.

Universal even proposed the idea of ​​asking Chen Jingxing to write the script and jointly produce the two parties, wanting to test the waters with Huamei co-productions first.

This is one of the reasons why Universal is willing to make such a big effort for the release of "Source Code". The opening of "Source Code" has won more than 3300 theaters this time. Record.

"According to Kelly Torrence, a well-known film critic for the Washington Examiner, "Source Code" is still a high-concept sci-fi movie, with time and space, and he thinks your movie is better than your previous work. There are many, I noticed that the movie rating website in China has also received extremely high reviews. Many young people in the United States are very curious about your work. Do you have any expectations for the North American box office? What do you think of " Can Source Code's box office in China challenge the record set by the Young Avengers?"

This question not only surprised Chen Jingxing, even the reporter from the Overseas Edition of People's Daily turned his head to look at the American reporter who asked the question.

Unexpectedly, a Hollywood media would know the evaluation and box office of "Source Code" in Huaguo very well. This made this overseas Huaguo reporter both surprised and a little proud. It seems that this movie by Chen Jingxing It has already entered the attention of mainstream Hollywood media.

"For the North American box office, I don't have particularly high expectations. After all, it is not a big IP movie, nor is it a sequel to "Signal". I can only say that this movie will not disappoint fans who liked my previous movies. I think 5000 million It is a more suitable target.

As for whether Huaguo's box office can surpass "Young Avengers", I have no way to draw a conclusion, because you know that Huaguo's film market is a rapidly growing market, and it is difficult to predict the limit of its potential. What kind of results, I think it is normal. "

(End of this chapter)