The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 529 Premiere
"Chen Dong, there is no unusual information or report."

After the person in charge of the public opinion monitoring team under the marketing department finished reporting on the phone, Chen Jingxing nodded and hung up the phone.

Xu Wenshen on the side was a little puzzled: "Boss, what are you looking for? Some kind of infectious disease?"

Chen Jingxing looked relaxed: "It's nothing, it's just a nightmare from before."

Sure enough, it was a different time and space, perhaps a parallel universe, and what Chen Jingxing feared most did not happen.

In the plane of the previous life, by this time, relevant reports had already appeared. Chen Jingxing also had discussions with other netizens on some forums and websites at that time, but in this life, everything has been as usual since December, without any unusual reports or information .

This also made Chen Jingxing's faintly hanging heart drop.

"This nightmare is a bit scary. If it reappears in 03, my dear, it's not a joke. It will definitely be a disaster for the film industry."

Xu Wenshen couldn't help shivering just thinking about it.

In 03, the domestic film market was not large, and it was not the same as it is now. Even a well-funded company like DreamWorks would have to suffer.

Chen Jingxing couldn't help rolling his eyes: "Old Xu, you are more like a capitalist than me. If there is an epidemic, your first reaction is to care about it?"

Xu Wenshen felt a little wronged: ""Matrix III" will premiere today, and "Interstellar" will be released in the Spring Festival next year. This will involve billions of dollars in revenue. Can I not care?"

"Matrix III", which failed to be inserted into the summer and National Day files, was selected for Christmas release. It premiered in China on December 12, and in North America on December 19. Several major markets in the Asia-Pacific region will also be released after the domestic premiere. Released within a week.

In fact, this schedule is not bad, especially suitable for overseas markets.

The subject matter of "Matrix" is relatively new, even in science fiction works, it can be regarded as avant-garde, and there is no family relationship as the main line. There is a ceiling for moviegoers in China.

For example, older audience groups are difficult to penetrate, so "Matrix III" has little room for improvement in the domestic box office compared to "Matrix II".

However, overseas box office still has more potential for development.

The physical Blu-ray, DVD sales and online broadcast volume of the first two "Matrix" in Europe and America are still considerable.

For example, in North America, even though physical sales of Blu-ray DVDs have been declining year by year, there is still a market size of US$19 billion from the beginning of 50 to now.

The Blu-ray DVD physical sales of "Matrix I" and "Matrix II" can also be ranked in the top ten of this year's Blu-ray sales list, with sales exceeding one million copies and sales exceeding US$2000 million.

This proves that there are still many viewers who have not watched the first two films in theaters before. Watched "The Matrix" through offline and online channels, and even became fans.

As the final chapter of the film series, DreamWorks has also paid unprecedented attention from top to bottom, and Xu Wenshen and other executives also attended in person.

Media reporters and movie fans surrounded the premiere in a crowd.

Of course, Chen Jingxing also took this opportunity to bring the main creator of "[-]" to fight for the layout.

Even though he, as the director of the premiere movie, is supposed to face the reporters with the main creator of "Matrix", but the three partners of "Matrix III" plus Yu Haoming who plays the man in black are enough to attract attention. The little boy is completely capable of holding up the scene, and he doesn't need Chen Jingxing to add icing on the cake.

The filming cycle of "[-]" has not yet reached halfway, but Chen Jingxing had to interrupt the filming and return to Beijing to attend the premiere, otherwise Xu Wenshen might come and kidnap him himself.

Of course, there is still the effect of bargaining. After the premiere, Chen Jingxing and the four leading actors will have a global road show that lasts for a week. After one week, the actors will continue to operate around the world, and Chen Jingxing will be free to return to China to film.

Although the main questions of the reporters still revolve around "Matrix III", "[-]" can also attract a lot of attention, after all, the cast is really good.

The appearance of actors such as Bai Yu, Zhang Ruoyun and Duan Yihong also caused a commotion.

In the end, National Film Group decided to cast Duan Yihong as the actor of Li Changlin, the head of the 91 regiment.

Duan Yihong is also an actor who has cooperated with DreamWorks twice. The two seasons of "Suspect Tracker" have given Duan Yihong many fans. The third and final season of "Suspect Tracker" will also be in "[-] "One" started production after shooting.

Chen Jingxing didn't intend to procrastinate like American TV dramas. A drama should end decisively and neatly when it's time to end.

"Suspect Tracker" has ushered in the plot of artificial intelligence vs artificial intelligence at the end of the second season. The energy level of science fiction concepts has risen several steps. It is really a bit difficult to continue to let the protagonists engage in investigations and rescue non-related lists. nonsense.

This is already on the eve of Skynet, and the artificial intelligence incarnating the Internet of Everything has become the god of human society, and it is putting the cart before the horse and wasting time on saving individual victims of crimes that are not related to the list.

Therefore, the third season of "Suspect Tracker" will completely abandon the mode of unit drama and enter the mode of high-cost science fiction drama, creating a plot in which the kind and lawful artificial intelligence of the protagonist camp fights against the chaotic and evil artificial intelligence created by the KB organization.

This is also the reason why the script of the third season is relatively slow.

""[-]" has been filming in Northeast China for more than a month. Ruoyun is shooting a war movie for the first time. Was the filming hard?"

Facing the reporter's interview, Zhang Ruoyun expressed bitterness: "You can see how hard I am now by looking at how thin I am now. I dare say that Director Chen's film is definitely the most difficult to shoot among war films in recent years.

...why is it so difficult?Well, this involves a secret of the movie, I can't say it, Director Chen will withhold my salary, and when the time comes, everyone will go to the cinema and see for themselves, and I will definitely not let everyone down. "

"[-]" was mainly filmed in the Northeast. Although Chen Jingxing really hoped to film in the field, and Guoying also contacted North Korea through the government, it was obviously not realistic.

The film had been in preparation until November before it was launched. Of course, the reason for the long preparation was mainly because it took a long time to scout the scene.

Because the film basically uses handheld photography, it is always in a state of motion, and no scenes are repeated. It is necessary to shuttle back and forth in the wild. For this reason, Chen Jingxing also prepared a "map" for all the staff with markings on the location of the audience, photography and movement methods. "The script, in order to successfully complete the camera shooting.

Chen Jingxing who was next to him was not spared by the reporters, but obviously not many reporters were interested in "[-]".

"Director Chen, is it convenient to disclose the general content of the animation series to be produced by "Matrix"? Will it be the sequel content of "Matrix III"?"

"Is "Matrix III" really the last film in the series? If the box office blows up, isn't DreamWorks considering making a fourth sequel?"

Chen Jingxing approached the microphone and seriously replied: "I have said more than once that the trilogy scripts of "Matrix" are one and complete, and I believe in the principle of Occam's razor: if it is not necessary, do not multiply entities.

I like a perfect ending, I don't like procrastination, even if the box office explodes again, there will be no "Matrix IV" movie, the story of Jian Bo and Jiang Xian will get the final ending in "Matrix III", and there are many things I like The movies I want to make are waiting for me, and even if I want to make money, I don't have to rely on "Matrix".

Finally, the animated series of "Matrix" is a supplement to the entire worldview. I don't want to reveal in advance that this is a gift from DreamWorks to fans of "Matrix". "

In order to create more momentum for the premiere of "Matrix III", DreamWorks announced on the day of the premiere that it will produce an animated series of "Matrix". A gift for fans.

In the previous world, "The Matrix" also produced animations, and it was in the form of movies. Animation directors from the United States, Japan, and South Korea were invited to produce nine unit animation short films, each with different styles and quite distinctive features. Artsy.

However, Chen Jingxing did not want to make such an animated film, but decided to simply make an animated series.

According to the plan, the content of the animated series of "Matrix" will be a prequel with the outbreak of the Omnic Crisis as the main clue.

Then spend three or four episodes describing what the first-generation matrix system looks like, and the experience of the awakening of the first-generation savior.

It is the complement of the whole worldview.

(End of this chapter)