The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 548 The Fear of "The Mind" and the Release of "Interstellar"
"You can be regarded as the next city first!"

"What kind of success is this? Word of mouth and box office are not positively correlated."

Chen Jingxing still maintained a cautious and conservative attitude.

Mr. Jiang shook his head: "This word of mouth is a bit scary. Director Yang still called me after watching your "Inside Out" yesterday, half because he was shocked by your animation movie, and half because he was stressed. Did not fall asleep at night.

If this is the second "Wall-E", tsk tsk, it will be pretty good. "

"Mr. Jiang, you are worrying too much. How can you be so exaggerated? "Wall-E" is at the right time, place and people, and it cannot be copied casually. Besides, I still have "Interstellar". "Mind" is really second "Wall-E", I have to worry about it."

Jiang Ruoping was not comforted by Chen Jingxing at all: "It's not like being bitten once, but being afraid of ropes for ten years. The times are indeed changing too fast, and you and DreamWorks are indeed quite capable. Who would have thought that animation films can now play the leading role in the Spring Festival file?" Woolen cloth."

During the Spring Festival this year, Guoying released the gift film "Beacon Fire Cloud Mountain", which was preceded by "Interstellar" and "Inside Out", which exploded in word-of-mouth. No wonder Jiang Ruoping also felt a lot of pressure.

Of course, "Interstellar" also has the investment of Guoying. It can be regarded as a joint production of Guoying and DreamWorks. However, "Beacon Cloud Mountain" is a major gift project after all. If the box office figures are not good, the pressure will fall on Guoying. .

Although Jiang Ruoping is ready to be overwhelmed by "Interstellar", after all, he has seen the finished film of "Interstellar". From his point of view, this sci-fi movie even surpasses "Interstellar" in terms of emotion and characterization. "Heart" and "Mars" may be more popular than Chen Jingxing's first two space science fiction films.

It is not shameful for "Beacon Fire Cloud Mountain" to be overwhelmed, and the capacity of the Spring Festival file is still very large. Although "Tang Detective III" was overtaken and suppressed by "Wall-E" during the Spring Festival last year, the box office also exceeded 30 billion.

He will be satisfied if "Beacon Fire Cloud Mountain" can get more than 20 billion. If there is an explanation, the production cost can be recovered, and he can make a lot of money.

But the word-of-mouth explosion of "Mind" in the screenings made him vigilant. It wasn't that he made a fuss, but it was the miracle of "WALL-E" that impressed everyone last year.

Moreover, although "Mind" is still screened domestically, it has already been screened in advance in some overseas countries, including North America, the United Kingdom, South Korea and other large film markets.

Although the initial box office performance was not as good as "Kung Fu Panda", it was not as good as "Wall-E". After all, "Panda" aside, this is a national treasure that is popular all over the world. The marketing effect of "Force" in the form of cute short films every week was quite good a few months before its release.

But the word-of-mouth is top-notch. Public rating sites like imdb haven't released a score yet, but it has already won enviable reviews on film review sites like Rotten Tomatoes and MTC.

It's 98% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes!It even surpassed last year's "Robot Wall-E".

There was also a very high degree of topic discussion on the Internet, and it was also spread to China by the way.

The extremely high word-of-mouth and popularity on the Internet at home and abroad also made the pre-sale of the Spring Festival file of "Mind" significantly ahead of another animated film "Rebirth of the Pearl", and the film schedule has also been greatly improved.

The proportion of film schedule is second only to "Interstellar" and "Beacon Fire Cloud Mountain", and it is already comparable to the comedy movie "Household Husband" produced by Happy Twist.

Jiang Ruoping's worry that "Mind" might be the second "Wall-E" is really not unfounded.

Of course, Chen Jingxing's conservatism and prudence were not pretending to be modest.

The performance of "Mind" in the previous life shows that although in the eyes of many people, this is an animation work that is not inferior to "Wall-E", the box office is also closely related to the genre of the movie.

An animation like "The Mind" that incorporates psychological knowledge in such a large space, and the elf characters are indeed not cute, may not have a particularly broad audience.

Although Chen Jingxing has tried his best to make localized changes.

For example, the background is set in a mountain city, and the little girl’s parents moved because of the school district, and they also moved from one urban area to another.

In addition, because the little girl entered the first grade of junior high school, not only because of social setbacks, but also because of a temporary incompatibility, she lost her previous top grades in elementary school, and her academic performance plummeted, so she felt a strong sense of loss in her heart, etc. Localized new adaptations .

Let the child enter puberty due to sudden environmental changes, and the surreal plot of brain emotions will be more closely integrated, more Chinese, and more immersive for the audience.

Although the effect looks good, it is difficult for him to replicate the success of "Wall-E".

After all, an important logic of word-of-mouth bringing box office is "stomping on word-of-mouth", which is the so-called foil of peers.

Last year's Spring Festival file was mainly due to the failure of "Tang Detective III" and its disastrous reputation, which brought out the freshness and refinement of "Wall-E".

And this year's other animated film "Rebirth of the Pearl" actually has a good reputation. Although the production cycle of "Beacon Fire and Cloud Mountain" is tight, the reputation obtained through the media preview is actually not bad. It is mediocre at best, and the special effects are quite good.

If word-of-mouth cannot widen the huge gap, this kind of bonus to the box office will generally not be exaggerated.

"Let's stop talking about this, isn't the cast of "Once Upon a Time on Earth" a bit lacking?"

Jiang Ruoping's visit to Chen Jingxing in his busy schedule was not for the fight in the upcoming Spring Festival, but for the establishment of the "Once Upon a Time on Earth" project.

Although the filming of "[-]" has not yet been completed, the preparations for the film "Once Upon a Time on Earth" have already begun.

This time it is similar to the space trilogy, and it is still a cooperation with China Film.

Outreach to the world and inland China Film, this is the development strategy set by Chen Jingxing for DreamWorks.

The TV series "Once Upon a Time on Earth: Prelude" has been filmed, but it hasn't been broadcast online yet. Although Jiang Ruoping hasn't seen the script of the movie, he has long known his name.

The film bureau even reviewed the script in advance, which is basically the same treatment as the gift mission movie, and it took a long time to review. It is said that there are some sensitive super-scale plots.

But since the Film Bureau had approved it, and it was still Chen Jingxing's project, Jiang Ruoping naturally couldn't have any objections to this cooperation, and he readily agreed without even reading the script.

Of course, the specific filming of National Film will not intervene, but Jiang Ruoping made some comments on the cast.

The leading actor is Zhu Yilong, which can be regarded as traffic, and the female lead is Hao Lei. Most of the remaining actors are the original cast of the "Prelude" TV series, and the stars are a little weaker.

After all, Chen Jingxing's previous movies, "The Martian", "Inception" and "Interstellar" are all star-studded.

Chen Jingxing shook his head resolutely: "The plot of the movie itself and the TV series are continuous, there is no way to change it, and there is no need to add it."

"Okay, you can figure it out, if you need help, just say it."

Jiang Ruoping didn't care too much about it. In terms of box office appeal, Chen Jingxing is definitely the No.1 director in China. The number of fans accumulated after ten films without a miss is quite terrifying.

It is to the extent that a large number of movie fans and ordinary audiences can buy tickets without thinking just by Chen Jingxing's three words.

It is better to have more stars, and not enough stars is not a big problem.

……

"Movie tickets can't be played casually, and people will have to check the tickets when they enter the theater later."

In the crowded queue in the theater hall, while comforting his daughter who wanted to get a movie ticket, Chen Bo looked at the huge poster of a strange spaceship sailing in the bright starry sky that almost occupied the entire wall.

The wife took off her daughter's coat at the side: "There are quite a lot of people, more than when we watched "Dinosaur" last year, and there didn't seem to be so many people when we watched "Wall-E"... I will be in the movie later. You can't shout loudly in the hall, and it can't be the same as when you watched "Inside Out" before, do you hear me?"

After Chen Bo listened to his wife's instructions to his daughter, he smiled and replied: "After all, it's Chen Jingxing's movie, can it be the same? Besides, we were already in the sixth grade when we watched "Wall-E", and today is the second grade. Fabi."

After watching "Inside Out", although my daughter also liked it, she didn't respond much. Chen Bo and his wife were very moved. This animated film really lived up to the praise on the Internet and Chen Bo's expectations.

On the way home, because of his emotions, Chen Bo also made an impulsive purchase, breaking the two-year rule of only accompanying his children to the theater to watch animated movies, and bought the ticket for "Interstellar" as a dream Thanks to the factory for making such a good movie.

Of course, Chen Bo is also looking forward to "Interstellar". Although he has started to live frugally under the pressure of mortgage and car loans in the past two years, he and his wife still watched "Gravity" in the cinema in 16.

Although I didn't go to theaters for "The Martian" after that, I also watched it on video sites.

He also has some preferences for space science fiction movies.

"The ticket check has begun..."

Accompanied by a commotion, the crowded line began to squirm, and Chen Bo, his wife and daughter also followed the march of the crowd towards the ticket gate with anticipation.

(End of this chapter)