The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 254 Box Office Forecast for Spring Festival

Chen Jingxing opened the door with a tired expression, and smelled the smell of oily smoke as soon as he entered the door, his heart skipped a beat: "What day is today, you can give gifts, but you can't make messy meals...Mom?"

Teacher Yang is wearing glasses and making a video call, holding up the phone and turning it around: "Large space?... Let's do it, the living room is really okay... Trendy? I don't think it's very pretentious, I don't like this kind, what is it called? Simple style... but young people, as long as they like it, we don't live long... Xiaojing is back, I'll hang up first, and I'll call you tomorrow."

Chen Jingxing looked at Teacher Yang, surprised and delighted: "Mom, why didn't you tell me in advance when you came here? If you said you would come back today, I would have called it a day."

"I told Xinxin earlier, didn't I want to surprise you? Your dad is cooking in the kitchen, so hurry up and wash your face and hands. It's time to eat, and work is still early. You can't be so capricious even if you are a director. Work or We must take it seriously, and we must not let private matters affect public affairs..."

Tang Xin snickered and watched Chen Jingxing being scolded.

It turned out that the two teachers had winter vacation at school, because Mr. Chen started teaching the first grade of junior high school this year, and the pressure was much less. They didn't have to write lesson plans and prepare lessons during the winter and summer vacations, so they decided to come to the capital together and take a look at the new house that Chen Jingxing bought.

After all, Chen Jingxing is also a well-known director at home and abroad, and the boss of a rising film giant. Due to work and various reasons, he bought a duplex mansion before the end of last year. The space is larger than before. The house was almost twice as big.

After a while, Teacher Chen's dishes were ready, they were all home-cooked dishes, and Chen Jingxing missed them very much. In the past two years, apart from the Spring Festival, Chen Jingxing seldom had time to go back to his hometown.

"How about it, your kung fu movie hasn't finished shooting yet? If I remember correctly, your movie has been shooting for nearly four months."

Teacher Chen chatted about work as soon as he came up. Although they were separated by thousands of miles, the two teachers still cared about their son's work all the time. They also made up a lot of lessons about the work of the director and information about DreamWorks. Half of the film and television industry.

Chen Jingxing replied while serving food: "The filming volume of "Matrix" is actually not large, but there are indeed a lot of action scenes. It is not easy to shoot, and some difficulties have been encountered, but it will be almost the same in a few days."

Teacher Yang was a little worried: "Before I came, your cousin pushed me a video. You invested in the "Mekong River" that will be released during the Spring Festival, right? I read online that this Spring Festival is the strongest in history. I don’t even like your movie very much, so you can’t change the release date once it’s set?”

Chen Jingxing couldn't help laughing. Unexpectedly, his mother was very concerned about the film market of DreamWorks: "It can be changed, but it would be embarrassing to skip the film when the Spring Festival is approaching. It's okay. DreamWorks invested [-] million yuan. It's not a lot of money. If you lose, you lose..."

"puff!"

While glaring at Chen Jingxing, Tang Xin comforted the two teachers who were about to spit out rice, and said, "Dad, Mom, don't listen to him, he's just joking."

Chen Jingxing, while bearing the scolding and complaints from the two teachers, said with a smile: "You don't know who your son is, have I ever invested in a movie that lost money? Don't worry, the movies produced by DreamWorks are only afraid of us. For the sake of it, just worry about it."

"Really?" Hearing Chen Jingxing's rhetoric, Tang Xin objected, and laughed to tear down the stage: "I don't think people are afraid of you, even the box office prediction of "Mekong River" made by the well-known 'Meng Chuan' star Can rank third."

Chen Jingxing was taken aback for a moment: "The Lycra star? The movie commentary at Station C?"

He has heard of Lycra Starman, and even watched most of his videos. This is a well-known up master who has recently emerged at Station C. After the D round of financing invested by DreamWorks at the beginning of last year (2015), C The transformation of the website was unexpectedly smooth, and the policy of encouraging users to contribute to the production of secondary creative content and cultivating up masters soon bore fruit.

Lycra Starman is one of these up-and-coming hosts. The first episode of the program was to explain DreamWorks' animation "Cosmic Super Battleship". His name at station C comes from the octopus-like alien in "Battleship"——Likaren .

The videos of Laika Starman are not only humorous, but also detailed. They are good at digging out the details and hidden information of the works. Anyway, Chen Jingxing is famous for watching a few episodes of the show, but he doesn’t know what is going on. Understand the feeling of the answer to the question.

This up master is famous for explaining the works of DreamWorks. Whether it is movies, TV series or animations, he has basically explained them all. After explaining the works of DreamWorks, he began to explain other film and television works at home and abroad. The film made serious complaints, and the number of fans exceeded 200 million within a few months.

Tang Xin had already turned on the phone, found the relevant video and leaned the phone against the cup. Not only was Chen Jingxing curious to see how the video predicted the Spring Festival movie, but the two teachers also came together.

"Lycra is here to wish everyone an early year... Now let us enter the special program of the Spring Festival in 2016...

The first - "Mermaid"!After three years, Master Xing returned again. The 13-year "Journey to the West" ignited the Spring Festival stalls, and it can even be said that it really opened up the Spring Festival stalls. Needless to say, Master Xing's appeal is just the preview at station C The movie has reached 210 million views, and the movie tickets owed to Master Xing may be astronomical.

In addition, the male lead is still played by Deng Chao, who contributed "Signal" and "Scorching Sun" last year. With the blessing of a phenomenal TV series and a high-scoring movie, Deng Chao's current momentum is almost unmatched in the Mesozoic era...

The estimated box office is 25 billion!Create a new box office record in Huaguo's film history again!
The second part - "Journey to the West: Lion and Camel Country"! The original production team of "The Monkey King", from the perspective of the cast lineup, is almost a group building of the stars of the Beijing Film Studio. Although the previous film exploded at the box office, it left a bad reputation. This is a disadvantage, but The concept images and trailers of "Lion and Camel Country" in the early stage have aroused heated discussions among everyone.

Netizens are looking forward to Jingying's ability to present the horror and strong style of Lion Camel Country. The director also said in the interview that it will bring surprises to the audience. The first difficulty is a plot that many people who like Journey to the West are looking forward to...

The estimated box office is 15 billion to 18 billion!The Spring Festival stalls ranked second!
Part Three - "Operation Mekong"!DreamWorks and China National Film Co-produced a blockbuster war action movie. The prototype of the movie is the Mekong River case, and an adapted TV series was filmed before. This movie is also authorized by the Ministry of Public Security, and it can be regarded as the main theme task movie.

War action movies are a rare type of movie in China, and they are invested by DreamWorks, and the director is also signed by DreamWorks director Guo Fan. I personally look forward to it.

But I still ranked this movie in third place. Although Laika is known as the number one dream blower at station C, the adaptation is not random... No, you can't blow it up randomly.

I think many fans of DreamWorks are still wondering why "The Mekong River" was put on the Spring Festival file. It is said that it is the opinion of the national film boss Qin who insisted on setting the file. Well, it is difficult for me to comment on this...

However, whether it is from the data of the ticketing website or the media reports, the theme of "Mekong River" is considered to be a bit incompatible with the temperament of the Spring Festival. Lycra also has the same opinion. "Mekong River" is actually very suitable for summer vacation or National Day. It seems that there are no gift films this year. I don’t understand why it’s not scheduled for National Day?Isn't this a very suitable gift film?

Although I am a fan of Chen Jingxing, Master Xing is also my youth. In terms of appeal, "The Mekong River" is really inferior to "The Mermaid" and "Lion and Camel Kingdom". The power of IP between Master Xing and Journey to the West It's not something that can be rivaled by a single brand of DreamWorks...

The estimated box office is 10 billion to 13 billion!
The fourth film - "Casino III", a movie that has been complained about all the time, but the box office is higher than the first movie..."

Chen Jingxing clicked on the comment section and read the opinions of the netizens on Station C, and found that they basically had the same opinions as the barrage.

The mainstream is still ["The Mermaid" rushes the duck], [Return the movie ticket to Master Xing] and other comments.

There are also voices who have high expectations for "The Kingdom of Lions and Camels".

Of course, there are also replies such as [gamble on the counterattack of the Mekong River], [believe in the movies produced by DreamWorks], and [do not value the box office, just a good reputation].

In addition, quarrels and arguments were inevitable, and even ginseng attacks mainly occurred between fans of Master Xing and Chen Jingxing.

It can be seen from the debate that, as a rising star, the number of fans of Chen Jingxing is really far behind that of his predecessors.

Master Xing not only has loyal fans, but also Chen Jingxing's nationality and sentimental appeal, which is currently difficult to match. The popularity of "The Mermaid" is really supported by Master Xing alone.

However, during the debate, some calm netizens stood up and poured cold water on both sides who were fighting fiercely.

【Everyone stop fighting!I don’t understand why the fans of Master Xing would quarrel with the fans of Director Chen. As a double movie fan, I feel very puzzled. Master Xing is the director of "Mermaid", but Chen Jingxing is not the director of "Mekong River", DreamWorks is just an investor. , what's so noisy about it?
Moreover, "The Mekong River" is indeed inherently insufficient in subject matter, and it does not match the Spring Festival.

Fans of Chen Jingxing, don't fall for some black haters' tricks to sow discord, anyway, I will watch both "The Mermaid" and "The Mekong River"...]

For this year's Spring Festival, which has been hailed by the media as "the strongest in history", box office predictions have already been flying all over the sky. From major media to people who eat melons, everyone has devoted more attention and discussion to this year's Spring Festival movies than ever before.

The main reason is that several films in the Spring Festival file are indeed very topical. Unlike the films in the Spring Festival file in previous years, this year, whether it is "The Mermaid", "Lion and Camel Kingdom" or "The Mekong River" have successfully carried out word-of-mouth marketing.

(End of this chapter)