The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 405
"On October 10, the domestic box office broke 16 billion, and "The Martian" is not far from the 27 billion mark, but how much box office potential is there? The happy twist comedy movie "Sumati World" was launched, and the preview meeting received rave reviews , it is hoped that "The Martian" will be pulled down from the sun crown!"

"DreamWorks' years of hard work have yielded fruitful results, and the feast of animation continues to be staged. The sci-fi animation "Special Mobile Team" is about to be launched on the three platforms at the same time. Will it continue to set off brainstorming?"

""The Martian" was screened in North America the day before yesterday. Chen Jingxing and the leading actors appeared in costumes. The scene was huge, and the space golden partner was very popular."

"The Martian opened simultaneously in 2200 theaters in North America, setting a new record for Chinese-language films in the North American market. The first-day box office hit 2.1 million. Whether it can surpass the $[-] million box office of "Gravity" will depend on a week later. Whether the upcoming suspense thriller "Stranger on the Lifeboat" based on the best-selling book can threaten it."

""Operation Red Sea" has announced that it will be scheduled for the Spring Festival next year. Director Guo Fan will fight again for the Spring Festival. Will military action films become another blue ocean for domestic films?"

"The Martian" did not rocket to the moon at the box office as some fans expected.

Of course, 30 billion is considered a remarkable achievement in domestic films.

At present, only "Spike II", "Gravity", "Matrix" and "The Martian" that can break through the 30 billion mark are the only movies with domestic box office of more than 30 billion. "Tang Detective II" also stopped at 29 billion. to the 30 billion step.

What these films have in common is that they are all produced by DreamWorks.

Therefore, even if "The Martian" did not create miracles again, DreamWorks' stock continued to rise, getting closer and closer to a market value of [-] billion.

Judging from Douban scores, "The Martian" opened at 9.1, and is currently stable at 9.0, which is 8.6 points higher than the current 0.3 points of "Gravity".

The reason why the score of "Gravity" has dropped more is mainly because the weight of audio-visual spectacle is relatively heavy. Once it leaves the theater environment, the shock to the audience will be reduced a lot.

"The Martian" does not have this concern, and judging from the evaluation of the ticketing platform, this movie is more interesting than "The Center of the Earth".

But two and a half hours is really not as good as the 10 minutes of "The Center of the Earth", and the hardcore plot that many fans have praised has actually limited its ability to penetrate the audience.

Perhaps in the eyes of many people, the scientific method and hard-core plot in "Mars" are not difficult to understand, but the threshold is the threshold. The ignorant audience just can't understand the protagonist's operation and can't get fun from it.

According to the estimation of the current Huaguo film market by the marketing department of DreamWorks, if the box office is to break through 40 billion or higher, it must cover people of all ages as much as possible. Bring your family with you, and call your friends.

"Spike II" did just that.

"Mars" is not inferior to "Spike II" in terms of quality, but the subject matter and content determine that it is difficult to reach such an upper limit, and the capacity of the National Day file is indeed not as large as the Spring Festival and summer files.

In fact, if it weren't for a movie made by Chinese people, Hua Guo's united efforts to rescue Hua Guo's astronauts could arouse the audience's patriotic enthusiasm or national pride, and it would be impossible to get a box office of 30 billion.

But even so, according to the forecast of the ticketing platform, the box office of "The Martian" is expected to reach between 32 billion and 36 billion, and there is hope of surpassing "Gravity". It depends on the impact of the new film on "Mars" How big is it.

However, the overseas box office is still worth looking forward to. "The Martian" has been released in most markets, and it has become the world's box office champion for two consecutive weeks.

The intensity is even higher than when "Gravity" was released, mainly because the number of domestic netizens who went to the Internet to go abroad is more.

After experiencing "Gravity", Chen Jingxing was no longer surprised by this.

Maybe it's some kind of deep-rooted spiritual imprint left over from the Cold War, or maybe it's because aerospace is really more sensitive.

In short, it is the G-spot that the ten "Matrix" can't poke, and "The Center of the Earth" and "Mars" are accurate with one poke.

If it's a sci-fi film like "Star Wars", it's okay, it's just a fantasy, but "The Center of the Earth" and "Mars" are so hardcore.

This makes it impossible not to let people put aside national pride, and let people put aside reality and only regard it as film art, or pure cultural entertainment.

In particular, Japan, South Korea, and Tianzhu are all known as the great powers of the universe and space, or they think they will become space powers.

It’s fine for the U.S. to make such a movie, but why do you, Huaguo, have it?

At this time, although Huaguo has the Tiangong-[-] experimental space station, in the eyes of many people, it has not performed too well, and it is far from the level of sitting on the ground.

In fact, it can't be said that they are too sensitive. Movie promotion is really powerful.

For most ordinary people who can't point out their country's position on the globe, the meaning of the word "Hua Guo" can only be learned from TV and movies.

Obviously, movies are much better than CNN and BBC.

"The Center of the Earth" and "Mars" definitely surpassed many people's imaginations in promoting Huaguo's image, otherwise, the officials would not treat DreamWorks as their own son.

In fact, some media have conducted street surveys in the United States: Which country do you think has the strongest aerospace technology in the world?
The results are surprising. 42% of the people chose the United States, 33% actually chose China, and less than 20% chose Russia, France, Japan, India and other countries. It's impossible to have nothing to do with Mars.

Of course, this result is not outrageous compared with the survey where 47% of people chose to think that the Apollo program was a hoax.

The number of people in this world who regard the things in TV dramas and movies as real is beyond imagination.

Even if you don’t regard the things in the movie as reality, you will definitely be affected. For example, when you think of Huaguo Aerospace, scenes from “Gravity” and “The Martian” mostly pop up in your mind.

Even when Huaguo launched Tiangong-[-] last year, the pictures reported by many foreign media used the picture of astronauts standing on the robotic arm repairing the sky survey telescope in "Gravity".

It is precisely because such a movie does have a huge publicity effect, so the global release of "The Martian" will inevitably once again make netizens with strong national self-esteem in some countries angry and sour.

Some neighboring countries even boycotted watching "The Martian".

Fortunately, many people in China may have been attacked by netizens last year, but this year, no one dared to say "surprised by friends", "a movie that stimulates foreign friends to affect the relationship between the two countries" or "a chicken for the national sentiment". Blood, using illusory aerospace achievements to promote self-confidence" strange words.

However, regarding these quarrels, Chen Jingxing ordered DreamWorks, including the "Mars" crew members, to maintain a unified voice and not to lose their tongues.

Because several leading actors encountered reporters asking such questions when they were promoting in Japan, South Korea and other countries.

The responses were all of a unified caliber that DreamWorks had prepared long ago.

Anyway, "This is a sci-fi movie, of course it has elements of fantasy", "Korea's aerospace technology is also very good, I believe you will be able to achieve great space achievements in the near future... Landing on Mars? I believe this is very important for Korea. It’s not very difficult to say, it just takes some time”, “There are many opportunities for cooperation in the film industry between the two countries, and I am looking forward to the co-production of a sci-fi film between the two countries” and other nice words that don’t cost money.

Chen Jingxing's principle is that these quarrels can only be dealt with by domestic netizens, and DreamWorks and the main creators can't end it directly.

Because they still have to earn their money.

Regardless of the voices of boycotts in several countries, and attacks on "The Martian" on the Internet, "The Martian" did well at the box office in these countries, and won the weekly box office championship in Japan and South Korea.

Netizens can retaliate, but Chen Jingxing and DreamWorks cannot retaliate, otherwise the local media will make a big fuss and really arouse the resentment of people who don't care about it.

It's not shabby to earn money.

After attending the premiere of "The Martian" in the United States, Chen Jingxing did not stay long, declined some interviews, and returned to China soon.

Anyway, Universal Pictures, which jointly undertakes North American and European distribution with Firefly, still attaches great importance to "The Martian". The two companies, DreamWorks and Universal, had a slight quarrel last year, but now they are back to the honeymoon period.

So far, the cooperation between the two co-produced "District [-]" has been smooth.

Chen Jingxing was wearing a front-back baby sling, walking back and forth in front of the French windows in the living room, teasing the babbling girl in the sling with one hand, and making overseas calls with his mobile phone in the other.

"I've already made it clear to Jeff from Universal. Don't have any worries. Tell Lao Tian to shoot according to the original script of "District [-]". Don't bother with that Tull. If he has any opinions, ask him to talk to Universal. The film industry headquarters said, what is there to worry about? The script of "The Ninth District" was decided by me, and he is not qualified to change my script!

...Threatened with investment?Let him understand that "District [-]" is a cake we gave to Universal. In the final analysis, it is a project of DreamWorks. How dare he withdraw the investment?What rights does he have as a producer? "

After hanging up the phone, Chen Jingxing clicked his tongue and teased his daughter's little hand that was constantly grasping forward with his fingers, and the annoyance in his heart quickly dissipated.

"The Ninth District" is currently filming in South Africa. Unexpectedly, the producer and production team sent by Universal have some objections to the final ending. They feel that it is too depressing and want to modify it to a more family-friendly ending.

After all, it is a co-production between the two, and the Hollywood producers have always been strong. Zhang Yimou suffered a lot in "The Great Wall".

However, DreamWorks is different from China Films, and does not rely on Hollywood's industrial system, so although it is not Chen Jingxing's own film, he will not allow Universal to interfere with "District [-]" casually, even if it seems to be more in line with To modify the direction of the mainstream market.

(End of this chapter)