The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 483 Chen Jingxing's Concession
The Boeing 747 passenger plane of China Eastern Airlines landed smoothly at the Capital International Airport. Chen Jingxing and the main creative actors walked out of the VIP passage talking and laughing all the way.

The global roadshow of "Inception" didn't stop in North America. Like "Matrix II", it also traveled around Europe under the arrangement of Universal Pictures.

Most of the actors are experiencing it for the first time. At the beginning, they are mainly excited, but they can't bear it later.

The intensity of overseas roadshows is no less than that of domestic ones. They fly around like puppets in a day, and there are so many visits, large and small, that are arranged. Especially with the addition of translation, the time-consuming is even longer. .

It took more than half a month for this wave of overseas roadshows to finally end.

After letting Luo Chen and Zhou Dongyu deal with the reporters and fans, Chen Jingxing went to the National Film Digital Base in the suburbs of Beijing without even returning home.

"If you return to "Matrix III" later, the filming will be over!"

Yan Xiaoyue laughed lightly and teased Director Chen Da.

Chen Jingxing apologized again and again, he was indeed a shopkeeper this time.

Before "Inception" was released, "Matrix III" had already officially launched.

However, Chen Jingxing's participation was not so high. There were Golden Rooster Award presentations, ribbon-cutting and relocation of the new headquarters, leadership inspections, and the announcement and global roadshow of "Inception".

His participation in "Matrix III" is indeed not enough.

However, this does not prevent the normal shooting of "Matrix III".

How should I put it, it's time for a mature film series to learn to move by itself.

The crew of the "Matrix" series has been working together very well during the filming of the first two films. The crew members are basically fixed. Except for a few new roles, most of the actors are old people.

In addition, there are many CG shots in "Matrix III", especially the ultimate battle between the male protagonist and the man in black, which is basically shot with green screen, post-processing, and even direct animation CG.

Therefore, "Matrix III" first separated Group B to shoot the ultimate battle in the matrix, and the location was in the No. [-] booth of DreamWorks in the National Film Digital Base.

This episode is based on the CG preview, and the sub-cameras are fixed, which is basically a technical matter. Both actors have also experienced similar virtual shooting in the ocean battle of "Matrix II", and they are also familiar with it. The process also follows the process of special effects production.

Therefore, the absence of an authentic director, Chen Jingxing, really did not affect the normal shooting.

The assistant director of Group B followed the filming of the first two films throughout the whole process. He has rich experience and the filming went smoothly.

Group A is preparing for the filming of Huaxu Kingdom fighting against the robot army.

This is much more complicated and difficult than virtual shooting. It involves the design and production of many models, the construction of scenes, and the scheduling of a large number of group performances. It is the most difficult type of heavy industrial film.

So this part is still in the process of preparation, and it also needs Chen Jingxing's presence to start filming.

In fact, he proposed that "Matrix III" be handed over to other directors to shoot. After all, it is a mature crew, script, and complete sub-camera design. The actors have basically figured out the roles during the shooting experience of the first two films. , The director actually doesn't need to tell the actors much about the play.

It was just that Xu Wenshen, who was taken aback, immediately rejected it.

"Matrix III" is the final chapter of the entire series. I don't know how many movie fans are looking forward to it. Suddenly it is said that the director of the third part has changed, which may affect the commercial value of hundreds of millions.

Chen Jingxing is not a tool director like Hollywood who does not have the right to edit. As a world-renowned commercial director, the three words Chen Jingxing can even be said to be part of the "Matrix" IP brand and cannot be separated casually.

Even if it is really handed over to another director to direct, he must be named as the director.

However, after consolingly inspecting the crew of Group B, Chen Jingxing did not return to filming immediately. Fortunately, the scenes of Group B were directly in the hands of the shopkeeper, and it was good to shoot the most difficult part of the scene after Group A was ready.

Chen Jingxing first went to Shanghai to participate in the groundbreaking ceremony of DreamWorks Digital Film and Animation Production Base and Film and Television Industry 4.0 Demonstration Zone.

DreamWorks has a cash flow that other domestic film and television companies are envious of. It is a crime to keep this money.

In addition to investing in theaters and repurchasing some of the shares—CEO Xu Da originally wanted to wait for the stock to fall one day before repurchasing, but he did not expect that with the successive releases of "Red Sea", "Kung Fu Panda" and "Matrix II", In particular, the unexpected overseas success of "Panda" is like a hen that lays golden eggs, and the surrounding profits continue to flow back.

Dreamworks stock, which has risen all the way to more than 1100 billion in market value, seems to have no signs of falling in the foreseeable short period of time. Unless there is another stock market crash, President Xu can only regretfully allocate funds for stock repurchase.

In addition, it is to use the unspent money from the Hong Kong stock market to cooperate with the government of Shanghai to prepare to build its own digital film and television production base.

This will allow DreamWorks to be reborn and have the opportunity to grasp the commanding heights of the upstream industry chain.

DreamWorks’ previous special effects shootings were all in the greenhouses of China Film Digital Industrial Park. Although DreamWorks has a strong special effects production team and technology, without its own digital production base, it is equivalent to losing a leg to walk.

After making up for this shortcoming, DreamWorks will be able to radiate its film industry throughout Asia and compete with Hollywood studios for food. In the future, even the upstream industry that relies solely on digital special effects and animation can become the top film and television industry giant in Asia. .

After attending the groundbreaking ceremony, Chen Jingxing immediately returned to Beijing for an important dinner.

The dinner hosted by President Sun Liheng of United Cinemas.

For next year's schedule.

Although in fact "Inception" was pushed to the National Day file by the competent authorities all the way, in order to 100% ensure that this year's film market surpasses North America.

But the grievances of several other major companies against DreamWorks have not disappeared.

In the National Day war, the box office of "Inception" has exceeded 25 billion, plus the comedy movie "The Earl of Wulong Mountain" jointly produced by United Cinemas and Happy Twist took 16 billion, and other movies can't even drink soup It was directly squeezed into cannon fodder by the two giants.

DreamWorks' monopoly on big schedules has caused a backlash. At the same time, there will be a lot of gift films starting next year. Seeing that the competition is getting fiercer, several major companies want to put some pressure on DreamWorks, at least to give up some space.

Although DreamWorks gave up the May [-]st file this year, the Spring Festival file has directly come to the ground with "Red Sea" and "Panda". The summer file and the National Day file also rely on "Matrix II" and "Inception". Huge piece of cake.

Who can see it without fear?Can you not be angry?

Not eating alone, leaving some meat for others is the common expectation of the bosses of several major companies for DreamWorks.

However, Chen Jingxing was a little wronged. The summer film "The God of Medicine" also took 30 billion, as if the meat was eaten by DreamWorks.

In terms of box office, the total box office of the domestic film market this year must exceed 650 billion, and other companies also have a lot of box office. It sounds like DreamWorks is monopolizing the domestic box office.

However, Chen Jingxing didn't say these two reasons.

The producer of "The God of Medicine" is Bad Monkey Films, and most of the profits have been taken away by this medium-sized domestic film company, which has little to do with the few big giants.

Secondly, although the revenue of several giants is not inferior to that of DreamWorks, it is achieved by making up for quality by quantity.

Which of the four giants such as United Cinemas, Beijing Film, Tianrun, and Jianghe does not participate in the production and distribution of [-] or [-] films and TV series in a year?

It is incomparable with the three or four films like DreamWorks that took billions and nearly tens of billions.

This kind of excuse might make people even more angry, so Chen Jingxing didn't continue to sow hatred.

In the end, after a lot of wrangling, Chen Jingxing made superficial concessions. For example, DreamWorks will only have one animated film "Wall-E" in the Spring Festival next year, and he promised to arrange "Matrix III" outside the summer file. .

Although "Tang Detective III", which has been scheduled for next year's Spring Festival, has a share of DreamWorks, but less than [-]%, and other giants have also participated in the production, so it can't just be counted as a DreamWorks film.

However, he doesn't feel that he is at a disadvantage. In fact, as DreamWorks' overseas distribution network becomes more and more mature, DreamWorks now pays more attention to global synchronization, especially more and more consideration should be given to North America, Europe or Japan. Han's schedule.

In fact, the domestic schedule has less and less added effect on DreamWorks.

Hearing that DreamWorks will only have one animation film for the Spring Festival next year, the executives are still relieved. The Spring Festival is now the largest schedule in China, and the concession of DreamWorks will obviously allow everyone to eat more meat. .

(End of this chapter)