The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 265
"I watched "The Mekong River", and it is really good. To convey our value and spread our ideas, we also need a good story as a carrier and a good form as a support...

Movies like this that promote the main theme and convey positive energy should become a mainstream.

Not only is it the mainstream in the sense of values, but it should also be the mainstream at the market level.Not only can we better integrate our moral requirements and value expectations at the ideological level, but more importantly, we can package the content of the story in a way that ordinary people are willing to accept at the narrative level, and we can use new technologies and new methods at the formal level to create a story that audiences love to hear and see. The audio-visual effects of..."

"The leader praised it. In fact, Chairman Qin Zhonghe has been following up "The Mekong" personally. Our DreamWorks actually made some investment..."

"Director Xiao Chen, you are too modest. The contributions DreamWorks has made to Huaguo's cultural cause in the past two years are obvious to all, and it has also created a good influence abroad. You are so humble in "Mekong River". "Source Code" is always your movie, right? And "Signal", in my opinion, these are movies that promote the main theme and convey positive energy..."

Regarding the appreciation from the leaders, Chen Jingxing was actually being modest in his mouth, but flattered in his heart, and he completely accepted the affirmations from the officials.

Although "Source Code" is not a proposition composition arranged by the official department, it is not a problem to say that he is the main theme of the movie. It is a positive description, and it is not against harmony to be included in the main theme movie by the leader.

Since the end of February, DreamWorks has successively received inspections from leaders at all levels. First, the leaders of the radio and television system and the film bureau, and then the top leaders of the capital city government. As the chairman of DreamWorks, Chen Jingxing naturally has to accompany him. It kept him busy for a while.

"The box office of "The Mekong" should be expected to become my country's new box office champion?"

Chen Jingxing had a calm expression: "According to the forecast, the box office should reach 25 billion. In fact, we are also very surprised by the audience's love for "The Mekong", and we did not expect it before."

Since "The Mekong" surpassed "The Mermaid" to become the daily box office champion for the first time on the seventh day of the lunar new year, it has basically never fallen from the championship in the second half of February, and "The Mermaid" has also maintained its runner-up position.

Of course, due to the high box office capacity in the few days before the Spring Festival, the total box office of "The Mermaid" still surpassed "The Mekong" for a long time.

Whether the total box office of "The Mekong" can surpass that of "The Mermaid" is also the focus of media and audience attention.

"The Mekong" is not only the only non-comedy movie in the Spring Festival file, but also has a large scale, with many violent and bloody scenes, and it only ranked third in the initial film schedule.

An "atypical" Spring Festival movie that was only ranked third or even fourth in box office performance according to the predictions of various media and platforms. And the cumulative box office is likely to surpass Master Xing's work "The Mermaid", which has been honed for three years.

The shock and freshness that "The Mekong" brought to the audience in terms of viewing experience, together with his counterattack performance at the box office, won the attention and support of online public opinion.

In Chen Jingxing's view, the box office battle between "The Mermaid" and "The Mekong River" is actually a bit like "Tang Detective II" and "Operation Red Sea" in the previous life.

They are all military action movies, the only non-comedy theme, it does not seem to fit the tonality of the Spring Festival, and the film schedule is not dominant, and the biggest opponent is not only famous and the audience's expectations are very high, but the quality is also passable, not real bad movie.

And there have been counterattacks at the box office that made melon-eaters feel very enjoyable and inspirational.

Of course, Chen Jingxing still believed that the opponent of "Mermaid" was stronger than "Tang Detective II" in his previous life.

Therefore, the counterattack of "The Mekong River" is more difficult, but it also takes advantage of the "head soup".

There is no shortage of action movies in Huaguo, not to mention mainland movies, Hong Kong Island movies were one of the mainstream commercial genres when they were at their peak.

Before marketization, the mainland also made military-themed movies, and after marketization reforms, there are also some high-quality military movies.

But military action films are very rare, they are considered industrial films, especially the military action films exported by Hollywood with very strong commercial characteristics, which were basically blank in China before.

"The Mekong" is actually an attempt to localize a Hollywood-style military action movie, and the standard is not low.

In fact, not many Hollywood military action movies can score more than 8 points on Douban.

In this way, under the hype of the media and the attention of the people who eat melons like the spiritual shareholders of DreamWorks, the cumulative box office of "Mekong" surpassed that of "The Mermaid" in early March, reaching 3 billion, while "The Mermaid" was more than "Mekong" 23 million less.

After the cumulative box office crossing point, "The Mermaid" has no hope of overtaking "The Mekong". Also under the fierce competition of the two heavyweight movies, the box office market for the entire month of February reached 2 billion, setting a record for a single month. The highest box office record.

To be honest, this achievement really exceeded the expectations of producers like DreamWorks China Films and many media.

Even when "The Mekong" became the single-day box office champion for the first time and walked out of the astonishing curve, even the most optimistic people in DreamWorks thought that 20 billion was expected, or a little over 20 billion.

But this is the same as track and field competitions, high-level opponents can also stimulate their own potential.

Put it in the film market, that is to stimulate the potential of the market.

The public attention and discussion caused by the counterattack of "The Mekong River" has exceeded the quality of the film itself. Under this kind of competition, unprecedented heat has been created.

And in this atmosphere, many people who don’t watch movies very much have been inspired to go to the cinema to see what’s going on, including many DreamWorks fans of Chen Jingxing, supporters of "The Mekong River", fans of Star Master, and supporters of "The Mermaid". In this kind of competitive atmosphere, we constantly brush twice, three times and more.

Human nature is like this, as long as this competitive atmosphere can be stimulated, there will be no shortage of spiritual shareholders.

Therefore, "Mekong River" won the Spring Festival file without waiting for the unit to book the show, and at the same time regained the record of the box office champion in Huaguo film history for DreamWorks.

Of course, it stands to reason that "The Mermaid" should also be a beneficiary, but the number of screens limits the entire market. Just because there is one more movie, the market will not have an extra movie capacity. Originally, the Spring Festival stalls are already almost saturated. , the potential to be developed is limited.

This caused "The Mermaid" to lose nearly 10 billion in box office compared to Chen Jingxing's previous life, and it can definitely be called the biggest victim of "The Mekong" appearing in the Spring Festival.

(End of this chapter)