The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 296 Negative News
If "Phantom of the Devil" deserved it, then "Seattle" lost a bit unjustly, and it can be said that it was born at an untimely time.

This movie can be regarded as the best domestic love movie in recent years, and it is a very good romantic comedy for adults.

If there is no "Mirage", it can become the first choice for Wuyi couples to watch movies, harvesting most of the love box office.

As a result, both the box office and the popularity of the topic were crushed by "Mirage", and it was not crushed by misplaced competition, but by homogeneous competition.

It can only be said that the love element in "Mirage" is too flattering and amazing. In fact, only the last 10 minutes of the whole movie involve love.

But this 10-minute scene is revealed with multiple reversals, and it is extremely amazing when paired with a sci-fi setting that spans time and space.

Some film critics even complained that "The 10 minutes of "Mirage" crushed the two hours of "Seattle"".

This kind of exaggerated statement is very in line with the appetite of netizens. Even the audience who have watched both movies agree with this evaluation, which also makes "Seattle" lose quickly in the competition with "Mirage" for couple audiences. Come on, this naturally means a complete failure for "Seattle", which focuses on love elements.

Of course, there are also more objective film critics who have separated from the emotional experience brought about by the movie viewing experience and have fairly evaluated the two movies, thinking that the gap is not that big.

The love scene of "Mirage" is only 10 minutes, which does not mean that the film only spent this amount of energy to shape the love between the hero and heroine. In fact, the whole movie, including its sci-fi setting, serves for the encounter and love between the hero and heroine. The front is actually laying the groundwork.

The reveal of the hero's identity and the amazing appearance of love in the final stage are cleverly arranged by the story structure, which is the narrative trick of the screenwriter.

But this kind of narrative trick also makes the moment when the truth comes out so explosive. All the previous plots and foreshadowings are just springs accumulating elastic potential energy, so the instantaneous burst of energy is enough to shock the audience strongly and obtain an extremely pleasant viewing experience. The movie experience makes the audience feel that the relatively dull "Seattle" is crushed in the subjective feeling of the audience.

But then again, this technique of using narrative tricks and playing with the structure of the story to accumulate potential energy and burst or reverse in an instant to shock the audience is really not something everyone can play.

And this kind of movie will also attract many viewers to watch it twice and watch it again and again. After knowing the truth, they will look for clues in the previous plot.

Therefore, when "Mirage" finally revealed the truth and shocked the audience, many audiences watched the movie repeatedly with the mentality of "looking for sugar", and then found countless details in the movie with satisfaction.

This also boosted the market in a disguised form, and at the same time increased its own box office.

After the May Day holiday, Maoyan Films has raised its final box office forecast for "Mirage" to 10.6 billion.

You must know that the final estimated box office of "Love in Seattle", which received 2.9 million in the first week of release, is only 4 million.

May 10st is a very short period of explosive power. Once the holidays are over, it will be the off-season. "Mirage" can be expected to eventually exceed [-] billion at the box office, which shows that professional platforms also believe that the film's word-of-mouth is enough to form a good long-tail effect, and the box office can continue. twice as much.

And the biggest beneficiary of "Mirage" is the lead actor and director. Zhao Liying, who plays the heroine, has taken a big step forward and left other florets behind.

Bai Yu, the actor who plays the leading role, does not have more scenes than the other two male characters in the film, but his role is the highlight moment at the end of the film. Gained a lot of fans, won the title of "May Boyfriend", and his acting skills are also very good, especially the eye scenes left a deep impression on the audience. The popularity of this movie can be said to have made him achieve a soaring status .

And director Tian Xinye used this movie to once again "catch up" with Guo Fan.

The explosion and influence of "The Mekong" in the Spring Festival file made Guo Fan directly enter the ranks of first-line commercial directors. The soul of action movies is definitely the director. Even the "creative script" signed by Chen Jingxing cannot steal Guo Fan's limelight.

In the outside world and even within the company, Guo Fan has evolved from "Chen Jingxing's relationship household" to a leading director of commercial films in the future, the number two director of DreamWorks. After all, there are very few domestic directors who can control industrial films of this level Yes, not to mention that this is an action movie that is relatively difficult to shoot in industrial movies. "The Mekong River" is quite a gold medal.

However, Tian Xinye fell behind in the competition with "Guo Fan" because the screenwriter of the "Signal" TV series is the most important in people's minds. Some people even think that Tian Xinye is a bit overrated, and "Signal" can actually be regarded as Chen Jingxing's work.

However, "Mirage" made the "spectators" evaluate him more, and there is a new suspense about who is the second director of DreamWorks.

In Chen Jingxing's post bar, fans voted on "Who is the second director of DreamWorks?" Tian Xinye "catch up" and can already "rival" with Guo Fan.

Of course, these are all boring topics that some boring keyboard warriors and marketing accounts are passionate about. Ranking well-known figures, whether they are historical figures or real figures, and evaluating "President Hill" and "Top Ten" activities are enduring activities of netizens pleasure.

Apart from the main creators, the direct impact on DreamWorks is that the planned progress of the construction of the headquarters building can be advanced.

The two major commercial banks of Communications and Beijing happily approved the loan faster than originally scheduled.

Because "Mirage" is almost exclusively produced by DreamWorks, only the director Tian Xinye took out the proceeds from the TV series "Signal", plus the film salary, a total of more than 400 million "shares" - Chen Jingxing decided from "Signal" Next, DreamWorks' film and television dramas allow directors and other creative personnel to participate in investment, or to participate in investment with their own remuneration, which is also a way to win over directors.

It's just that Tian Xinye is very courageous, and almost spent all his working capital on this movie. Of course, he won the bet. According to the final box office of 10 billion, he can at least get four times the income.

Tian Xinye has reaped a lot of money, and DreamWorks, as the only production company and major distribution company, has naturally made a lot of money. Conservative estimates, DreamWorks can exceed 4 million in the domestic box office alone, which is close to 3 million net profit.

Coupled with other income such as online copyright and overseas box office, and the funds gradually recovered from "Mekong River", DreamWorks has become the number one cash cow of domestic film and television companies. Not only the bank regards DreamWorks as the best customer , the eyes of the media and colleagues are even more envious.

For some big companies, in today's market environment, a box office of 10 billion is not enviable, but the most enviable thing about DreamWorks is that it does not need to cover loss-making projects. So far, all projects have not lost commercially. pass.

Maybe some film companies can earn billions in total box office a year, but these billions of box office movies must have losses and profits, and the net income is only after the income covers the loss items.

DreamWorks has no failed projects that need to cover losses, which makes his profit rate the highest in China. Even the world may not be able to find a film and television company with a higher profit rate than DreamWorks. That is, DreamWorks is not a listed company and does not need to publish financial statements. Otherwise, people who don't know may think that it is an Internet company with a monopoly on a certain track.

Although there is no financial report, the colleagues in the industry can actually roughly estimate the profit. The final result is that they are not happy for themselves. Even Tianrun, which has shares in DreamWorks, and the bosses of the United Cinemas are sore. If it is still The company that participated in the production and distribution of other movies in the same period feels even more sour.

However, DreamWorks was still "simple in the public mind", and it was the time when it was "favored", and its relationship with Guoying was getting closer and closer. Even if it wanted to use any means against DreamWorks, it would be difficult to implement it.

Maybe it's because even the sky can't bear to see the infinite scenery of DreamWorks. Just when "Mirage" was still silently harvesting the box office and sprinting towards 10 billion, negative news about DreamWorks suddenly broke out on the Internet.

(End of this chapter)