The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 433 Going to Cannes?

[...In each device and account switch, the true character of the person is revealed little by little, the speed and rhythm of the text appearing on the screen changes, the occasional pause, the information that is entered and then deleted, the habit of writing, Browser search records and so on, behind all these are subtle human emotions, which is where the true drama of this film lies.

I don't think it's worth worrying about whether "Black Mirror" has changed its taste or whether its irony has been reduced. As an online movie, "Black Mirror II" naturally has to consider the box office and the love of the public, and it can't just meet the needs of a few movie fans. Its first "desktop movie" Pioneering boldness and originality are enough to make up for any shortcomings.

What's more, this suspenseful case of reasoning and suspense has strict logic and solid details. It is not an exaggeration to say that the collection "Search" is a masterpiece. 】

Chen Jingxing looked at several highly praised movie reviews on Douban, and was somewhat surprised. The reputation of "Black Mirror II" was actually somewhat beyond his expectation.

9.2
This score created the highest score for a DreamWorks film, including his own.

So far, the highest score of any film produced by DreamWorks is "Matrix" with 9.1 points, followed by "Fatal Identity" with 8.9 points.

Of course, this is closely related to the fact that the five episodes of "Black Mirror II" are broadcast in the form of online movies.

The vast majority of audiences have different expectations for online movies and theater movies.

This is determined by cost.

A ticket to the cinema costs tens of dollars, plus transportation costs and other fixed time costs.

This determines that the audience's evaluation criteria for theater movies are relatively harsh.

Watching "Black Mirror II" only needs a computer, or even a smart phone. If you are a member of Huanshi.com, you can watch it directly.

The cost of watching movies is much lower than that of theater movies.

So audiences tend to be more forgiving too.

In addition, the form of "desktop movie" is indeed too novel, and it is a movie form that has never appeared before.

Although there are computer desktops or mobile phone desktops in domestic and foreign film and television dramas in this plane, but the whole 90 minutes, every minute and every second is a desktop, and there are really no film and television works in which web pages, software, mouse and keyboard play the leading roles.

The more experienced movie fans are, the more they know how difficult it is to use this extremely innovative method of narrative. Most of the time in the film, the protagonist's face cannot be seen. How can the audience be substituted?Not to mention a suspenseful story with twists and turns and several reversals very smoothly.

So as time went by, more and more film critics and discussions began to pay attention to the production techniques of the film, and even discussed whether "tabletop film" could become a new film genre.

Chen Jingxing underestimated the impact of "being the first to eat crabs" on the audience and movie fans.

There are even many movie fans who feel sorry for the first episode of "Black Mirror II", "Search", thinking that this is a good movie that is good enough to go to theaters, and if it goes to theaters, it will definitely become a blockbuster.

But Chen Jingxing didn't think so. Watching a movie like "Search" on a computer or mobile phone screen was completely different from watching it on a big screen in a theater.

Just like what Chen Jingxing once said, if "The Night the Comet Came" was broadcast on the big screen instead of being broadcast on the Internet, the word-of-mouth would definitely drop and the box office would not be very high.

Not to mention that "Search" is still a "desktop movie", allowing the audience to watch the computer desktop in front of the big screen, the results will not be very high.

It is completely different for audiences to praise "this movie is worth watching" after watching a movie on their mobile phones, and to spend tens of dollars to go to a movie theater to watch a movie in front of the big screen and praise "this movie is worth watching". the same.

Moreover, the results of the premiere of the first episode of "Black Mirror II" still satisfied him, and Huanshiwang also felt quite satisfied.

On the night of the broadcast, there were nearly 190 million views.

Don't think this number is small.

The broadcast volume of Wangda refers to the effective broadcast volume, which is linked to the box office of the split account. The platform can only conceal it, and it is impossible to overreport it.

The broadcast volume of online dramas is for advertisers, so it can only be inflated and cannot be shrunk.

If a non-member account pays for a separate on-demand broadcast, and if a paid member user watches for more than 6 minutes, the sum of the two is counted as an effective playback, or the number of movie viewers.

It's just watching movies on the video platform.

DreamWorks and Fantasy World signed the highest S+ level account sharing agreement, and each effective broadcast has a 4.5 yuan account sharing box office.

Members' effective playback is 4.5 yuan, and non-members' paid on-demand, 6 yuan, DreamWorks can also get 4.5 yuan.

The close to 190 million moviegoers corresponded to a box office of 873 million.

It shows the appeal of DreamWorks.

After all, the main components of the 873 million box office that day were basically aimed at the IP of "Black Mirror", or at DreamWorks.

It has been two years since the first season of "Black Mirror" was broadcast. In the past two years, more and more viewers have watched "Black Mirror" and have accumulated a lot of fans for "Black Mirror II".

The fermentation of word-of-mouth will not work on a large scale until the next day.

And with the spread of word of mouth, the box office of the next few days was also quite strong. By the day before the second episode of "Black Mirror II" was launched in the fantasy world online cloud theater, a total of six and a half days, the first episode "Search" accounted for The box office has reached 4550 million, and the number of movie viewers has exceeded the 1000 million mark.

You must know that the total number of paid users of Huanshi.com at this time is only 8740 million, which means that almost one out of every nine paid members has watched the first episode of "Black Mirror II".

Of course, this calculation is not accurate. After all, among the tens of millions of moviegoers, there are non-members who pay for video-on-demand, but the proportion is not much, only about [-]%.

The 4550 million split account box office also created a new net big split box office record, and this is not the end.

Although after a week, basically the main moviegoers who are interested in "Black Mirror II" have watched it. Of course, not all of them watched it through genuine channels. According to optimistic estimates within the World Network, after half a year or more of accumulation, the effective broadcast volume of "Search" will exceed 2000 million, and it is not impossible to share the box office with hundreds of millions.

Because "Black Mirror II" has four follow-up episodes, it can continue to increase exposure and increase resonance with each other.

As long as the next four episodes don't stretch the hips, according to the standards of the first episode, the average box office share of over [-] million for the five episodes of "Black Mirror II" is not just an illusion.

Even if these good expectations are discarded, just judging from the first episode of "Search", the rate of return can almost make other major online production companies jealous.

The cost of "Search" is less than 200 million, and the income of dozens of times is simply something that most film and television companies dare not even think about.

The last movie with such a rate of return dates back to a pseudo-documentary "Spiritual Shadows" in Hollywood, which earned hundreds of millions of dollars in theaters.

Coincidentally, that film is also a landmark work in pseudo-documentary.

Just like "Black Mirror II: The Search" created "tabletop movies".

But the creator of "Spiritual Shadows" packaged and sold the movie to a small distribution company before distributing it in theaters. The creator himself didn't actually make that much money.

Moreover, the exclusive broadcast of "Black Mirror II" on Huanshi.com is only the domestic network broadcast copyright, and the overseas network broadcast is still in cooperation with Netflix.

Netflix, which is already the second largest shareholder of DreamWorks, has cooperated with DreamWorks quite smoothly this time. It still adopts the "subscription + account sharing" model specially designed for DreamWorks and has been used in "The Walking Dead", and it is expected to have at least tens of millions of dollars. above income.

Of course, there is no way to compare it with the global hit dramas such as "The Walking Dead", which DreamWorks has already won more than 5000 million US dollars.

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"You turned down the invitation from the Cannes judges?"

Tian Xinye looked at Chen Jingxing dumbfounded.

"Why are you shouting so loudly?" Chen Jingxing plucked his ears, with an expression worthy of such a fuss, but still added: "It's the chairman of the jury of the main competition unit."

Tian Xinye rolled his eyes, trying to suppress his sourness: "Why didn't you answer?"

""Inception" hasn't finished filming yet."

"As far as I know, there are only a few studio scenes left in "Inception". Since the Cannes Film Festival is not held now, will it delay your filming?"

"Isn't this still for you?"

"...Don't come here, it has nothing to do with me."

Chen Jingxing looked at Tian Xinye in his spare time, appreciating the change in his face: "I have decided to let "The Ninth District" participate in this year's Cannes Film Festival."

After Tian Xinye was shocked and joyful, he still hesitated: ""The Ninth District" is a science fiction movie..."

"Who said science fiction is inferior?" Chen Jingxing retorted.

"Wouldn't it be impossible to keep up with the fifth gear?"

As a traditional schedule that DreamWorks has ruled since "Mirage", Tian Xinye knows that the company's arrangement is to put "The Ninth District" on May [-] this year, and the Cannes Film Festival's requirement for entries is that the premiere must be in Cannes Film Festival, so if "The Ninth District" is going to participate in Cannes, then the May [-]st film will definitely not be released as scheduled.

Chen Jingxing didn't care too much: "If you can't make it, you won't make it. This is a rare opportunity. If you miss this opportunity, who knows when it will be next time?"

Although Chen Jingxing never thought of making any outstanding achievements in the field of film art since the establishment of DreamWorks, but by accident, DreamWorks has received a lot of awards and honors over the years.

The new headquarters building of DreamWorks is about to be completed. According to Chen Jingxing's request, a movie corridor and an award display window are set up in the entrance hall. This is what many film companies, especially large studios, have.

Now DreamWorks has won awards such as the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers, as well as the Golden Globe Award, and there are even 11 Oscar statuettes.

Of course, most of these displayed awards are replicas, and the real ones are hidden by the winners in their homes.

But such an honor is already second to none in the country.

This naturally also stimulated Chen Jingxing's desire to collect. If there is no hope for the three major art awards in Europe, Chen Jingxing will not make useless efforts. It is impossible for him to go to make art movies just to collect awards.

But isn't there a decent "District [-]" out there?Among all DreamWorks' films, this is already the most sure to hit the top three European films. Although the Palme d'Or is unlikely, winning one or two other awards can be regarded as adding to DreamWorks' heritage and accumulation.

(End of this chapter)