The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 325 A Booster for the Animation Industry
Liu Hang watched the trailer of "Person of Interest" several times, and then turned to the anime forum where he hangs out most often, wanting to see how the fans discussed the trailer of this drama.

Although "Anime House" is indeed the largest animation exchange community in China, in fact, the topics are all-encompassing, but the users are mainly anime fans. In addition to animation, it is not forbidden to discuss other movies or songs, such as Dongying The TV dramas, songs, or American comic-adapted movies are all hotly discussed.

Even because Chen Jingxing's works are very suitable for young people's appetite, here, DreamWorks' film and television dramas are considered to be relatively high in domestic film and television.

However, as soon as I entered the homepage, I saw a high-hanging post-"The cumulative box office of the hit movie has reached 5.2 million, setting a new box office record for animation movies in the Huaguo market!"

Liu Hang smiled knowingly, "Fighting Street Movie" is the synonym for "Your Name", which originated from "Anime House", but it has also spread more and more widely on other online platforms.

The reason is that after the box office premiere of "Your Name" came out, many people who are not used to DreamWorks ridiculed that DreamWorks' aura is no longer there, and the new film hit the street.

When "Your Name" suddenly hit the second place in the box office in Japan after two days, and surpassed "Gravity" to win the box office the next day, the supporters of DreamWorks in the forum "countered counterattacks" and put "Your Name" is directly called a blockbuster movie, and it often slaps opponents in the face with remarks such as "The blockbuster movie hit the box office again today, and won the box office champion of the day again".

Although the main users of "Anime House" are anime fans, they may not all like DreamWorks. On the contrary, because non-sub-supplied animation has been basically monopolized by the United States and Japan for a long time, the animation circle is comparable to movie fans/movies like Douban. The circle of lovers should also worship foreigners.

Of course, there are many people who are looking forward to the rise of Chinese comics, but there are also many people who enshrine Japanese animation and American comics on the altar, either because of the chain of contempt formed by the long-term failure of domestic animation, or because they love foreign animation so much that they are spiritual. They are also assimilated, or they are bored or rebellious about the "Rise of Guoman" and "Light of Guoman" that are shouting every day.

In short, many people have no filter for DreamWorks. Before the release of "Your Name", it did not cause much repercussions in "Anime House", and even the supporters of DreamWorks were not very interested.

Many people even posted posts mocking DreamWorks for only launching a few animated series, and they began to use animated movies to make money. Even if they want to make money, they have to be more sincere. And "Evolution" does not make a theatrical version, and the whole original youth love cartoon also wants to take money from the pockets of anime fans?Patriotic brands supporting domestic brands will not work here in animation.

At that time, Liu Hang was actually complaining about DreamWorks. The good "Battleship" and "Evolution" didn't make a second season, so Mo had to devote resources and manpower to the two original animation films. Why bother?Maybe it's true that animated dramas don't make money?

DreamWorks supporters like Liu Hang are actually more appropriate to say that they are fans of Mo. What they really support is Mo, and Mo's animation studio. In their eyes, DreamWorks is the sponsor who pays for the animation studio.

So they still have some resentment about not being able to see the second season of "Star God III" and the other two animated dramas this year. Many people even feel that "Your Name" and another so-called 3D animation movie It's better to rush to the street, which can allow DreamWorks to stop thinking about unrealistic animated films and focus on the three animated series headed by "Star God".

When Liu Hang went to the theater to watch "Your Name" with such an idea, he was surprised and pleasantly surprised, and then the whole forum was shocked by the box office miracle of "Your Name".

Not only the media turned their faces quickly, but the netizens also turned their faces quickly. Soon, the forums were full of praises for "Your Name" and DreamWorks. It is difficult for this animation to be black in terms of box office and quality.

And what shocked the Two-dimensional people on the forum the most was that "Your Name" really didn't rely on anime fans or anime lovers to support the box office, but attracted a large number of non-anime audiences to contribute to the box office, resulting in The influence is also breaking the circle, and it directly reaches the mainstream media and attention, and even being torn off the animation label and directly treated as a sci-fi romance movie.

And this is something that Dongying's theatrical versions of many popular animations could not do in the Huaguo film market before. No matter how famous it is, the dimensional wall cannot be broken or it cannot be broken.

When an animated film that has always been regarded as a niche or even a subculture can dominate the daily box office for many consecutive days, it can be reported by the mainstream media, and even the official media is cheering for it, which makes many animation fans feel complicated.

This kind of impact completely surpassed last year's praise that "Battleship" was defined by some mainstream voices as "discussing serious propositions in the form of animation".

Even animation fans who still have a prejudice against domestic animation have to admit the strength and status of DreamWorks. Even some "Dream Blowers" juxtapose DreamWorks with several well-known foreign animation companies, and there is not much ridicule and opposition. the voice.

Liu Hang browsed the posts of box office battle reports of "Street Movie" and "Your Name" with great interest, and exited contentedly after watching Rainbow Fart. He was about to search for "suspect tracking" in the search bar to see if anyone had posted. I saw a red sticky post suddenly appear.

"Huanshi.com interviewed Chen Jingxing face-to-face. The amount of information is huge. It involves Mo's other animated film "The Return of the Great Sage"!"

Liu Hang immediately clicked in and watched the interview video.

"...Of course, "The Martian" is still a hard science fiction...How hard is it? Haha, it's not softer than "Gravity"...The story of "The Martian" is just as the name suggests, the plot is in the name, It's not complicated..."Gravity" is not complicated, and this does not prevent it from being a good movie."

"...Maybe I'm at the end of my game? Haha, no, it's just the subject matter is different, and "Gravity" and "The Martian" I'm shooting are not without creativity, but the creativity is not directly reflected in the narrative structure First, it’s not reflected in the brain-burning. As for whether there will be brain-burning films in the future, yes, the next movie, no, the story of the next movie may be more complicated... The next movie is "Matrix II". "

""Matrix" will definitely be a trilogy, because the script has been written long ago, and the complete script is a trilogy..."

"...I am not very shocked by the box office of "Your Name". If you regard it as a sci-fi romance movie, like the previous "Mirage"? It is not surprising that it has achieved such a box office..."

"The name of the next animated film is "The Return of the Great Sage", but it is a 3D animated film, telling the story of Monkey King making a big disturbance in the Heavenly Palace more than 400 years after he was crushed under Wuzhi Mountain..."

After the camera was turned off, Chen Jingxing let out a sigh of relief and took off the headset. This interview was quite long and involved a lot of content.

"Director Chen, you have revealed a lot of information in this interview!" The host of the interview came up to compliment with a smile on his face. Basically, the two leading actors are interviewed, and this time it really made a lot of money.

In fact, the reason for this interview is "Your Name". Although the box office is not high-compared to other DreamWorks films-it can be regarded as a miraculous achievement in the animation theme.

It can even be called a milestone. The most direct reaction is that all concept stocks related to animation in the financial market have risen across the board. Obviously, the success of "Your Name" has directly opened up everyone's understanding of the animation theme. The traditional impression of movie box office space can be regarded as a shot in the arm for Huaguo's animation industry, and its influence far surpasses the three well-received animation series released by DreamWorks last year.

Many media wanted to contact him for an interview, but in the end he chose Huanshiwang, his close partner.

This interview is actually a win-win. DreamWorks' upcoming "Matrix", the ongoing filming of "The Martian", and the next animated film "The Return of the Great Sage" have all received some publicity.

Especially "The Return of the Great Sage", which is also an animated film, was established together with "Your Name". "Your Name" has achieved such a huge success unexpectedly, and "The Return of the Great Sage" has naturally increased, attracting many people. people's attention.

After Chen Jingxing sent the interview team of Huanshi.com away by car, he returned to the "tent"—it was still the shooting location near Devil City in Xijiang. This interview was sent by Huanshi.com all the way.

Wang Peng, the vice president and production director of DreamWorks, followed behind him, his face was full of red. Wang Peng was an assistant director, and later became a producer. He has cooperated with Chen Jingxing in several films, and he is regarded as the veteran of DreamWorks. , this time with the interview team.

DreamWorks has been beaming from top to bottom recently, not only because "Your Name" staged a super counterattack.

The failure of "Your Name" at the premiere box office really made DreamWorks somewhat disappointed. It is difficult to change from extravagance to frugality. Under the leadership of Chen Jingxing, the people of DreamWorks who are used to going from victory to victory even though they know that such box office results are purely limited by the subject matter. , There are various objective reasons, but such a fact is not easy to accept.

Especially with the public opinion and the media's hype and reports like a joke, everyone is suffocating. In this way, the excitement after the counterattack is naturally doubled.

But what makes Wang Peng so happy now is another thing.

"Director Chen, the trailer of "Suspect Tracker" can be said to be an unprecedented success! The number of views of the trailer on the three network platforms has exploded, major media and marketing accounts are reporting, and netizens are also discussing it enthusiastically. The marketing methods prepared are useless!"

(End of this chapter)