The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 498 "The Ninth District" comes to brush achievements again
Chen Jingxing's global roadshow lasted until February 2th. It can be said that he escorted "Wall-E" all the way to the "Spirit Mountain", and also participated in the 24st Oscar Awards Dinner.

Of course, his escort along the way has indeed achieved fruitful results. After a series of previous market foreshadowings, "Wall-E" has burst into a strong force on mainstream social media, and it has also allowed Universal Pictures to finally get 3500 in North America. The opening scale of a theater.

This is more than 500 theaters more than the original premiere of "Kung Fu Panda".

Of course, this also depends on North America being in the weakest off-season of the year.

February in Huaguo is usually the best box office in the whole year due to the relationship between the Spring Festival stalls. For example, there are still four days before the end of February this year, but the box office for the whole month has exceeded 2 billion, refreshing the mainland market in advance. Monthly box office record.

The February film market in North America has the so-called "Super Bowl" effect, and the box office is bleak, which can be called the weakest month of the year.

At the same time, there are not many blockbusters.

This will create a vicious circle, the more off-season, the more blockbuster movies to avoid, and the fewer blockbuster movies, the weaker the movie market.

The North American market in February this year was even lower than the same period last year. Until the release of "Wall-E", a total of 2 million U.S. dollars in box office was generated in 21 days of the month, which is equivalent to more than 4.8 billion yuan. You must know that this is the entire North American market. total box office for the day.

Therefore, "Wall-E" was very popular in theaters, and it was able to win 3500 theaters to open.

In fact, last year's "Kung Fu Panda" also got this kind of glory, but this year's bleakness is much better than last year's.

Under the dual effects of online marketing + other boring films, "Wall-E" earned $22 million on its premiere day on the 1780nd.

Obviously, in the off-season of February, there are no movies worth looking forward to in theaters, which makes the movie-loving audience in North America a little bit suffocated.

This animated film, which has been praised on the Internet as miraculous, has made the North American film market feel a little bit like rain after a long drought.

On the next day, Saturday, it reported another US$2316 million, and the cumulative box office in the two days exceeded 4000 million, which was even better than "Kung Fu Panda".

The goal of "Wall-E" is already approaching the 2 million US dollar mark, and it has become a veritable rescue work.

Although "Wall-E" does not have the panda business card advantage of "Kung Fu Panda", it also has its own advantages, that is, less dialogue and lines, rich body language and action scenes.

This not only makes the dubbing work of "WALL-E" a lot easier, but also makes it easier to overcome language barriers, making it easier for the audience to feel immersed.

After staying in the United States for two days, Chen Jingxing ushered in the Oscar event.

The so-called first life and second familiarity, since being shortlisted for the Oscars in 16, DreamWorks has basically been a participant in the Hollywood awards season every year.

However, "Matrix II", which had the highest box office in North America last year, was not nominated for an Oscar. American awards, or most awards in the world, "discriminate" against sequel films. After the first film is awarded an award, the sequel generally does not Will give it a chance.

And it's impossible for DreamWorks to get too many nominations.

The nominees are "The Ninth District", "Inception" and "Kung Fu Panda".

This time, Universal focused on "The Ninth District" as its main target for the award. After all, this is a co-production between DreamWorks and Universal, and it is also the winner of the Cannes Palme d'Or, so it is obviously the most likely awards.

Therefore, "Inception" was sacrificed, Universal did not push hard, and only got nominations for two technical awards, namely Best Sound Editing and Best Original Screenplay.

"Kung Fu Panda" was the only foreign language animation nominated for Best Animated Feature Film.

This is also the first time DreamWorks has competed for the best animated feature Oscar.

But hope is not great, because this year's Oscar for best animated feature film has basically been locked: "Batman: New Age".

Unlike comic blockbusters, which have begun to decline, Hollywood's comic-adapted animated films are frequently producing excellent works.

Batman, a "realistic" hero, is very suitable for extending in-depth issues. The Rotten Tomatoes of the animated film "Batman: New Era" reached 97%, while "Wall-E" was only 95%.

In the face of this super-English movie that many media have called the best in the past decade, "Kung Fu Panda" is undoubtedly impossible to win any awards.

Both "Inception" and "Panda" were squeezed out of the battlefield early, but "District [-]" got six nominations.

Best original screenplay, best visual effects, best art direction, and heavyweight best actor, best director and best film.

Although the three films of DreamWorks combined cannot compare with the grand occasion of "Gravity" and "Matrix" two years ago, they still rekindled domestic interest in Oscars.

People love the new and dislike the old. In the past, because of repeated failures in the Olympic Games, the Oscar complex has been lingering.

But when Chen Jingxing conquered Oscars with "Gravity" and "Matrix", and even won the best director, domestic pursuit of Oscars faded a lot.

Originally, with the passage of time, the Oscars would be gradually disenchanted in China, but Chen Jingxing's award only accelerated the process.

But after all, "Gravity" and "Matrix" actually won technical awards. There is only one award for best director, which is considered a heavyweight award, and the actor award that attracts the most attention is still nothing.

Therefore, the most domestic concern is whether Zhang Yi can become the first Chinese Oscar winner in history. In contrast, Tian Xinye's best director and "Ninth District" best film are not so popular.

After all, "The Ninth District" was a movie in May last year, and topics and popularity are time-sensitive.

Moreover, Tian Xinye is considered the least famous director in DreamWorks, not to mention Chen Jingxing and Wu Jing, Guo Fan is far more famous than him.

Of course, it’s mainly a question of appearance. Directors work behind the scenes, and it’s usually difficult to be as famous as Chen Jingxing, Wu Jing, Chen Sicheng, Ning Hao or the famous directors of the fifth generation.

Either you are a genius, a ghost, young and promising, or you are an actor yourself, or at least you have to be good-looking.

Tian Xinye belongs to the fact that his appearance is holding him back. This is the normal state of directors. For example, Wen Muye, who made "I'm Not the God of Medicine" in his debut film last year, most ordinary audiences don't know or care.

Many people even think that "The God of Medicine" is a movie made by Xu Zheng or Ning Hao.

Similar to Wen Muye, Tian Xinye was basically shrouded in Chen Jingxing's halo, and "The Ninth District" made him more famous.

Zhang Yi has been pushed to the cusp again. The actors are the people who are familiar to the audience, regardless of whether they are fans of Zhang Yi. Of course, Zhang Yi does not actually have any fans. Anyway, the people who eat melons are very concerned.

As the nominees, both Zhang Yi and Tian Xinye arrived in Los Angeles the day before the awards ceremony.

Of course, the other main actors of "The Ninth District" also came.

Including Wan Qian, who plays the heroine.

Wan Qian is filming the web drama "Once Upon a Time on Earth: Prelude". The director Wen Zhian is a newcomer, and the filming cycle has been delayed. However, it is rare for an actor to participate in an awards ceremony like the Oscars. Wen Zhian still gave Wan Qian two days off.

Tian Xinye is currently filming "Skyhawk Warrior", but fortunately most of the shooting scenes are in the greenhouse, and there are many special effects shots. On the basis of the non-stop work of the crew, as the director, he can also spare time to participate in the award presentation.

Many domestic media reporters have also been sent to interview. It is conceivable that this red carpet will definitely win a lot of pages.

At the awards ceremony, Chen Jingxing naturally sat with the main creators of "The Ninth District".

"How is it? When will the filming of "Under the Taihang Mountains" be finished?" Chen Jingxing asked Zhang Yi.

Zhang Yi also participated in "Under the Taihang Mountains" as a supporting role for Lei Jiayin, but I heard that the role is quite heavy, and he can be regarded as the second male lead.

It stands to reason that Zhang Yigui is the third Cannes actor in the history of Huaguo, and the actor who won almost all the major domestic awards last year should have been promoted to the top line, but it is a pity that the market is not measured by awards.

There are also quite a few movie stars in Berlin and Venice in China, but none of them are first-line actors.

Zhang Yi's image and play style have determined that it is difficult for him to become a first-line superstar.

First-line male actors usually have to have distinctive personal characteristics, and personal characteristics are pleasing and popular with the audience, so that they can have box office appeal.

Acting is enough.

If the acting skills are too high, it means thousands of faces, thousands of faces are suitable for supporting roles, real superstars, or first-line actors who can carry the box office must have their own irreplaceable personal characteristics, and even be able to put their own brand on the role .

"Playing everyone is her/he" is actually the highest praise for a first-line actor.

The so-called essence of audience popularity is a certain distinctive personal characteristic of an actor that the audience likes.

Audiences like to watch Sun Li and Jin Dong, and they like to go to the cinema to contribute to the box office for actors such as Xingye, Xu Zheng, Wang Baoqiang, etc. Obviously it is not because of seeing their thousands of faces.

The synonym of Thousands of People and Thousands of Faces is drama, that is, it has no commercial value, and it is a golden supporting role.

Although Zhang Yi's acting skills can't be said to be the same as thousands of faces, it is obviously not up to the standard of a first-line actor who can resist the box office.

So it's not uncommon for Lei Jiayin to do the supporting role.

However, "The Ninth District" has given him a lot of blessings, at least there are a lot more film appointments, especially commercial blockbusters, and the acting path is wider than most first-line actors.

Zhang Yi touched the wig subconsciously. He was filming the gift film "Under the Taihang Mountains" with a cropped cut, which was obviously not suitable for the awards ceremony, so he bought a wig.

"It's coming soon. It is estimated that the filming will be finished by the end of next month."

Chen Jingxing was a little relieved. The reason why he was concerned about the filming cycle of "Under the Taihang Mountains" was mainly because the film encountered some difficulties during filming, and the construction period was a little behind.

And this will affect the filming of the platter movie "My [-]", which will affect the subsequent filming of "Beacon Fire and Cloud Mountain".

Lei Jiayin is the leading actor in these three dramas, and he joined the group almost seamlessly.

Naturally, it would also affect Lei Jiayin's decision to come to Chen Jingxing's side to shoot "Interstellar".

"Director Chen, Lao Lei said that even if "Beacon Fire and Cloud Mountain" is rejected, he will not give up "Interstellar"."

Tian Xinye was full of praise: "Old Lei is loyal."

"However, he also said that you will still be asked for liquidated damages at that time, and he has offended Guoying. He is afraid that he will be a resident in DreamWorks in the future."

Chen Jingxing rolled his eyes: "Why is it still dependent on me? Then forget it, I will replace his role this time when I go back."

Several people were joking while waiting for the awards to begin.

(End of this chapter)