The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 435 The Last Episode of "Black Mirror II"

"I can play raw pictures, and the heroine Wan Qian of "The Ninth District" at the Cannes Dinner Showed off her figure in a waistless dress"

"Hand in hand with his wife, Jia Ke will go to Cannes five times!"

"Shooting zombies and directing love, Tian Xinye has entered the peak of his career in his [-]s and won the Palme d'Or in Cannes."

"Chen Jingxing's family of three showed up at Cannes Airport, and foreign movie fans took photos together."

"Late blooming actor Zhang Yi: Director Tian Xinye is full of praise for his leading actor, is it possible to become the third Chinese Cannes best actor?"

""Matrix II" has been scheduled for release in North America, and it will be released a week earlier than in China. Can it continue to dominate the summer schedule?"

"Chen Jingxing generously showed his daughter and answered questions from French reporters. He bluntly said that the "Ninth District" project was inspired by playing games."

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"Tsk tsk, the inspiration from playing games, Director Chen is so pretentious, the inspiration from Nima playing games can be shortlisted for the main competition in Cannes, what are other directors doing?"

"What game?"

"Say it's Halo."

"Halo is not a shooting game? There are indeed alien races in it, but can this be shortlisted for Cannes? Aren't all the shortlisted for Cannes are art films?"

"Who knows, Director Chen said it was an inspiration, not an adaptation from the game."

In the brightly lit small theater, Li Weiming, Lu Xiao, and his girlfriend Yu Xiaoling were in the middle of the fourth row, chatting on their phones while eating popcorn.

"It's six o'clock soon, don't look at your phone anymore." Yu Xiaoling turned off the screen of her phone, picked up the Coke, and slowly tasted it through the straw.

Several of them are fans of DreamWorks, and Li Weiming used to be the owner of Chen Jingxing's post bar. Although he has resigned now, he still often holds some offline movie watching activities in Beijing.

Although it's already May, May [-]st is considered a popular time, and the movie market is also booming, but there are still some unused small movie theaters that can be reserved.

It’s a pity that they can’t watch DreamWorks’ movies on May [-]st. After all, in the past two or three years, there have been movies produced or participated in by DreamWorks in every popular schedule, especially those like Lu Xiao and his girlfriend Yu Xiaoling. The habit of going to the theater to watch movies can basically be said to be cultivated by DreamWorks.

But this kind of shortcoming does not mean that you can't have a good time. "Black Mirror II" itself is a so-called online movie series.
Li Weiming had also organized an offline drama viewing meeting before, so he was familiar with it, and this time he chose it in a small theater in a theater.

Now many fans in Huaguo will choose to watch dramas offline or meet celebrities offline in the theater, which is indeed very atmospheric.

In particular, several movie halls in this theater have been replaced with LED panoramic sound screens, which are no longer the projection mode of the past. It is more convenient to hold these events than before.

What I want to watch today is the fifth and last episode of "Black Mirror II", so this time Li Weiming's call for offline viewing still has many fans responding, so they also booked two theaters.

Because "Black Mirror II" is updated at 18:[-] on Friday and weekdays, there are not many fans present, only six people.

The start time of this offline movie viewing event is at 19:30, which is also to allow some office workers to have time for transportation. Of course, those fans who cannot get off work or school on time at 18:[-] will naturally have no way to participate in this event.

Because it is an hour and a half later than the online time, it is not easy to surf the Internet when it is close to six o'clock, for fear of being spoiled if you don't pay attention.

"Have you seen the trailer from "District [-]"? Nima aliens look like shrimps. That face gives me goosebumps. Don't be a horror movie."

"It does feel a bit ugly, but didn't Director Chen say that this is an alternative sci-fi film? If it is not alternative, it will not enter Cannes. Don't you know when it is released? The trailer of "Matrix II" is also called a trailer. You didn’t say anything? Didn’t tell you anything about the scene or the plot! The two trending searches for Little Blue Bird are the trailers of “Matrix II”, and I think foreign netizens are also making complaints about it.”

"That can't be helped. "Matrix II" doesn't have to worry about publicity. DreamWorks must have sneaked out of you without discussing it, just catching your appetite..."

"Hey, none of these broken movies in May 20st can beat them. Let "Dr. What impact is [-] billion, there is no b number."

After turning off the phone, a few people chatted about this year's May [-]st film, and some people mocked the May [-]st domestic film with disdain.

"I think it's better to let DreamWorks put "Black Mirror II" in theaters. No matter how low the cost is, I think it's worth the money." Lu Xiao echoed.

Several people complained a lot about the stretching of the hips in May [-]st this year.

Of course, this hip-pull is talking about domestic movies.

After the Cannes Organizing Committee announced the shortlist, "The Ninth District" announced that it will be postponed to its domestic premiere on May 5.

The Cannes Film Festival Awards Gala will be held on May 5th. DreamWorks’ move is obviously to take advantage of the popularity of Cannes.

But this is great news for other domestic companies.

Starting from "Source Code", DreamWorks has achieved three consecutive championships in May [-]st, which can be said to be superior. The sci-fi movie "The Ninth District", which was originally scheduled to be released in May [-]st, was bound to be released due to the Cannes Film Festival. The postponement is also equivalent to withdrawing from this year's May [-]st file.

This is great.

Compared with the Spring Festival, summer vacation and National Day, the May 18.9st file has a smaller capacity, so a big hit movie can include meat and soup. This was the case with "Edge of Tomorrow" last year, and the cumulative domestic box office reached [-] billion.

Although "District [-]" may not be a box office bomb like "Edge of Tomorrow"-especially after "District [-]" was shortlisted in Cannes, people are even more wary. People are optimistic.

The Palme d'Or for an art film is to stimulate the box office, and the Palme d'Or for a commercial film will make people question its box office potential. Usually, it seems contradictory to please the film festival and please the audience.

But regardless of whether "The Ninth District" is a sci-fi commercial blockbuster or not, the words "DreamWorks" will never let people down their vigilance. Who would be unhappy if such a big enemy is missing?

While other film studios were celebrating their successes, some even released a boast of 20 billion box office. This figure is actually not too much. Three years ago, "Source Code" created a movie-watching frenzy as the first sci-fi blockbuster. 20 billion box office.

As a result, several domestic films that were eager to try were thrown cold water.

It was Hollywood blockbusters that poured cold water.

The second work of Universal Pictures Dark Universe "Doctor Avatar" landed in the domestic May [-]st file. The first "Werewolf" of Dark Universe was blown away by "Matrix". The second film seems to have learned some experience and has a much better reputation .

Of course, for this IP that domestic audiences have no feelings for, the success of "Dr. Incarnation" is inseparable from the reputation of domestic movies.

Even Warner Bros. DC's "Legion of Super Heroes II", which has been in theaters for more than half a month, has already lost momentum, but when it reached the May [-]st stage, it even froze, competing with the other three May [-]st domestic films. There are back and forth.

The Huaguo film market staged a scene of a long-lost blockbuster slapping domestic films.

This is a bit rare. In the past two years, almost every popular schedule has a DreamWorks movie, so the blockbuster movie has not achieved a very bright box office, with a maximum of 20 billion.

Moreover, in almost every popular schedule in the past, audiences could see good-quality domestic movies, most of them were DreamWorks, and a few also had works from other companies.

The overall quality of this year's May [-]st stage also poured cold water on the audience.

Ten days have passed since May 6.6st. The highest-grossing domestic movie is the romance-themed film "Gu Nian Xin'an", which combines dog-blood amnesia and other routines. The box office is only 3.2 million, followed by the crime suspense film "The Manipulator" starring Xu Zheng , Drive high and go low, only get [-] million.

Originally, movie fans were very interested in "The Manipulator", and "Search" in the first episode of "Black Mirror II" also made suspense movies more popular, and Xu Zheng is also an actor who is very popular with audiences.

As a result, the script of "The Manipulator" itself is too poor, and the plot is anticlimactic, especially compared with "Black Mirror II", which is very popular on the Internet, it will inevitably disappoint the audience.

In contrast, the blockbuster blockbuster, the sci-fi thriller "Dr. Jekyll" earned 12.2 billion at the box office, which made Universal Pictures very happy. Huaguo's box office was not much different from that of North America.

This also disappoints other domestic companies and has a lot of complaints against DreamWorks. Although since last year, the cultural authorities, feeling that domestic films have fully risen, have decided to let go of the May [-]st and summer films for Hollywood. Last year It was "Mutants: Hellfire" that ended the killing spree of "Spike II".

However, the postponement of "Dr. Jekyll" to the May [-]st release is absolutely inseparable from DreamWorks.

DreamWorks and Universal Pictures have always cooperated closely. DreamWorks' films have been released on a large scale in North America with the help of Universal. The two companies are even co-producing films. Who doesn't know these things?
Dreamworks' own film has been postponed, and the act of pushing allies' films to take up the position is simply an elbow, and it should be criticized greatly.

However, for some marketing accounts and some netizens, it may also be the trolls invited by other filmmakers to smear Chen Jingxing for "leading wolves into the house", "turning his elbows out" and even rising to the level of "comprador" criticism. Die-hard fans like Lu Xiao and Li Weiming are natural It is extremely disdainful.

"...It's all an afterthought! Before "Dr. Incarnation" was released, did anyone think he would become the No. 20 box office champion? Didn't the director of "Gu Nian Xin'an" still clamor for 10 billion? Some people said that Xu Zheng's "The Manipulator" "It is expected to exceed [-] billion, breaking the box office record of domestic suspense movies.

I don't live up to it, and I still have the face to blame others. I really think that the monkey can be the overlord when the tiger is not at home? "

"Yes, but it's not a pity, "Black Mirror II" is once a week, which is equivalent to watching a movie...Eh? The lights are off, is it about to start?"

DreamWorks' iconic opening animation silenced the whispers in the theater amidst the undulating sound of the waves.

"Hey, it's no different from watching a movie." Li Weiming thought involuntarily as he looked at the silver moon on the screen.

(End of this chapter)