The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 523 Full stamina and terrifying revenue
Since "The Wandering Earth" was screened as the opening film at the Metropolis Film Festival, with the hunger marketing in the following week and the off-season after May, the theaters were eagerly waiting, and they directly got 5 screenings on the premiere day. than more than 20%.

On the first day, it got a box office of 2.38 million.

A total of 9.4 million yuan was reported in the first three days of the weekend, and the summer season opened ahead of schedule.

The Shanghai International Film Festival ended on the fourth day after the premiere of "The Wandering Earth".

Chen Jingxing's favorite Persian film "Castle of Dreams" became the biggest winner, winning three awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, which surprised the media a little.

After all, this kind of film festival usually has a lot of pork, and the best film, director and best actor three-in-one film has never appeared in the Shanghai Film Festival.

This is actually Chen Jingxing's "willing to go his own way".

As the chairman of the jury, he has a lot of power to speak, and coupled with his status as an international leader, not to mention the two Huaguo judges Hao Lei and Shi Nansheng, even the other four foreign judges Chen Jingxing can definitely hold on.

He actually experienced the thrill of being the chairman of the film festival jury.

It's no wonder that many famous international directors enjoy being the chairman of the jury, and there are often dark horses in the three major European film festivals.

This kind of jury composed of several people is indeed easy to follow the preferences of the judges, especially the chairman.

However, as usual, the award presentation of the main competition unit of the film festival does not attract much attention. After all, most of the audience is unlikely to watch these domestic and foreign literary films that have won awards in their lifetime.

On the contrary, "The Wandering Earth" and the unreleased "Eight Hundred Apocalypse" occupy more space.

The closing awards ceremony, like the opening ceremony, has a red carpet.

The main creator of "The Wandering Earth" and the stars of "Eight Hundred Revelations" are the real protagonists.

In terms of star quality, "The Wandering Earth" has Wu Jing, Zhao Jinmai and Bai Yu, each of which is full of weight.

In terms of the number of stars, "Apocalypse Eight Hundred" can be called an annual meeting in the Beijing circle.

Even if "The Wandering Earth" is currently in theaters, it can't stop the limelight of "Eight Hundred Apocalypse".

The scene of the two heroes fighting for hegemony also made the Shanghai Film Festival organizing committee both sad and happy, after all, it can also increase attention.

After the closing of the film festival, "The Wandering Earth" continued to make great strides, with a cumulative hit of 15.3 billion in seven days of release. On July 7, before the release of "Eight Hundred Revelation", it was released for 4 days and won a box office of 14 billion.

Such a result is really rare for a movie released in June. If "The Wandering Earth" can be released in the summer, the box office will definitely be higher.

However, it has been released for two weeks, and "The Wandering Earth", which entered the summer file, still maintains a strong box office curve. Even after "Eight Hundred Revelation" was released, it did not lose stamina under the strong pressure of the other party.

"Apocalypse of the Eight Hundreds" is actually very uncomfortable. There is such a nail household that is still strong after two weeks of release, and it also hinders me from rushing to schedule films, but there is no way. The competition for the summer slot is fierce. There will be another part of "Eight Hundreds" after 8 days of release. The blockbuster movie was released, and after that, there were several domestic blockbuster movies waiting to be released.

Because the National Day file will be released as a gift film, many domestic films have been piled up in the summer file, and the competition is even fiercer than last year.

Whether it is Dreamworks or Jingying, it is a dream come true to want to have a comfortable and exclusive schedule during the summer period without wolves and tigers.

Fortunately, there are still overseas box office.

"The Wandering Earth" was released almost simultaneously in the Asia-Pacific region and the North American market.

The North American box office exceeded 2400 million US dollars in the first week, and the expected box office may be close to 6000 million. The acceptance of "The Wandering Earth" in the Asia-Pacific region is higher, and the box office is expected to exceed 5000 million US dollars.

Although the overseas box office is far inferior to Chen Jingxing's space two-part series and the "Matrix" series, and even the animation films of DreamWorks in the past two years, it has also surpassed Guo Fan's "Edge of Tomorrow". There is no small progress.

Guo Fan's reputation overseas has also been further improved.

Chen Jingxing is also quite satisfied with this result. "The Wandering Earth" will definitely make a sequel. The film series is difficult at the beginning, and the box office is not high now. With the development of IP in the future, as long as the quality of the sequel is not bad, the box office will definitely rise steadily High.

Now it's just a signboard first.

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Just as the disputes over the summer vacation became more and more intense, "Skyhawk Warrior" finally ended after more than four months of filming, and Chen Jingxing also took time out to attend the wrap-up banquet.

This project has been approved since the fourth quarter of last year. After more than four months of preparations, it was not officially launched until the end of March.

Completing the shooting in four months is considered very fast, but there is still a long way to go before the completion of the production.

Even filmmaking isn't halfway there yet.

"Skyhawk Warrior" can be regarded as a movie with an unprecedented number of special effects shots, second only to "Gravity" among all DreamWorks projects.

Because all mechas, all monsters, and almost all battle scenes have to be modeled and produced in CG.

"Skyhawk Warrior" is not a special shot, and there is no way to build a model that exceeds 80 meters.

It is precisely because a large number of shots have to be produced in CG that the actual shooting is so fast.

And according to the requirements of the script, many battle scenes in "Skyhawk Warrior" are during the day.

This also greatly increases the amount and difficulty of special effects production. After all, the large-scale special effects shots at night are looser in details, and can also be used for occlusion and blurring at night, which not only saves budget but also reduces workload.

Even the well-proven Mo's ace special effects team felt the pressure. In addition, Mo was busy with other special effects work. Facing the huge workload, he had to recruit two other domestic special effects companies to undertake it together.

According to the construction period given by Mo, the special effects production of "Skyhawk Warrior" will take at least half a year.

"Congratulations, your worth has risen again."

"It's not that I'm the only one who has risen. Compared with you, I'm not a big deal?"

At the wrap-up banquet, not only the actors and other crew members were beaming, but director Tian Xinye was also in a good mood.

It's not all because the filming work is finally over, after all, Tian Xinye will also follow up and participate in the subsequent special effects production.

The main reason is that as the market value of DreamWorks has soared, Tian Xinye's worth has also risen a lot.

July is usually the time for Hong Kong-listed companies to release semi-annual reports and mid-term reports. DreamWorks is no exception, and the release is quite active. It is considered to be the first batch of Hong Kong stocks to release semi-annual reports.

This semi-annual report also caused the market value of DreamWorks to rise again by 7.16%, and the market value ran past the 1300 billion mark.

DreamWorks' revenue directly reached 10.28 billion US dollars, which is close to 70 billion yuan.

You must know that DreamWorks' revenue last year was only 91 billion.

Just the box office share of "Robot Wall-E" and peripheral copyright income brought DreamWorks more than 4.5 million US dollars in revenue, and "The Walking Dead II" even made DreamWorks get 1.7 million US dollars from Netflix. This is far less than the benefits of Netflix itself.

"Tang Detective III" also brought DreamWorks a share of 2 million yuan, of course, without subtracting the cost.

Coupled with the first share of the account obtained by "The Wandering Earth", DreamWorks' other film and television copyright income, and other investment income, the total has reached the level of 10 billion US dollars.

The profit is also considerable. Although the cost of film production is also rising due to the large investment in the digital film and television production base in Shanghai, it is still 19 billion, which has reached the level of Internet companies.

Although such a market value is still very frothy for film and television companies, the development prospects and profit margins of DreamWorks are indeed enough to make investors look differently.

We must know that even if most film and television companies invest in a blockbuster, the income will be shared by the investment and publicity costs of other unsuccessful works.

It is the normal state of most film and television companies to make money for one film and lose money for nine films.

In the past six months, DreamWorks has only had two movies and one drama series, but they have achieved great success.

It can be said that all of them are high-quality goods, and they hit every target, so it is a miracle that the profit margin is comparable to that of Internet companies.

Of course, this is also related to the word-of-mouth and box office of "The Wandering Earth", seeing that a big IP that has the potential to become a series of movies is about to take shape.

DreamWorks is about to end the "Matrix" IP, but soon established another film series, which is the confidence that can support capital trust.

Tian Xinye, as a contracted director that DreamWorks relies heavily on, naturally has a shareholding, and is also a beneficiary of this round of market value surge. Of course, it is really nothing compared to Chen Jingxing.

After exchanging the joy of the soaring net worth with each other, Tian Xinye also cared about another movie that is currently competing in theaters: "It shouldn't be a problem for "The Wandering Earth" to surpass "Eight Hundred" in the final box office, right?"

Chen Jingxing looked relaxed: "No problem, we have already negotiated with the theaters. Starting tomorrow, the ticket price of "The Wandering Earth" will generally be reduced by 5 yuan. According to the forecast, it is expected to reach 35 billion. Anyway, it is no problem to exceed "Eight Hundred Revelations". "

The release of "The Wandering Earth" and "Eight Hundred Apocalypse" two weeks apart had an impact on both films.

It's just that it obviously has a greater impact on "Apocalypse Eight Hundred." Relying on word of mouth, "The Wandering Earth" has been going quite steadily in the long run, and there is no problem entering the 30 billion club.

The box office prediction of "Eight Hundred" by the ticketing platform is to stop at 28 billion.

"Eight Hundred Revelation" was not reconciled to being blocked before the 30 billion threshold, and took the lead in the operation of reducing the fare. The service fee was reduced in name, but in fact it was a ticket supplement in disguise.

Chen Jingxing could only accompany him. Anyway, no domestic film and television company is as rich as DreamWorks.

It's not bad to really be able to push the box office of "The Wandering Earth" to 35 billion. Although it is still not as good as the previous life, it can also be ranked third in the box office rankings of domestic movies.

After all, "The Wandering Earth" is no longer the opener of domestic sci-fi movies in its own plane, and the audience has already experienced many domestic sci-fi masterpieces. In addition, the first two weeks of the film's release are not in the popular schedule, so he is very satisfied with the box office results. satisfied.

(End of this chapter)