The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 80 Hot Box Office

A total of seven films were screened during the Spring Festival in 2014, but the most recognized ones were Guoying's "Spring and Autumn Forging a Sword", Tianrun's "Casino", Beijing Film and United Cinemas' "True and False Monkey King" and "Happy World" by Huanshiwang.com.

Chen Jingxing finished watching several movies at the cinema in the past few days. I have to say that this year's Spring Festival is really a party of bad movies. Except for Spring and Autumn Swords, which can barely get a passing score, the rest of the movies are too many for two stars.

"Spring and Autumn Forging Swords" is quite well-produced. It tells the story of Duke Huan of Qi. The visual effects are significantly higher than the fifty-cent level of other movies, but the storytelling is very awkward, the lines are extremely modern, and the epic sense is not reflected at all. come out.

The director is Liu Weiqiang, a well-known filmmaker in Hong Kong Island. Chen Jingxing couldn't figure out why he wanted a filmmaker from Hong Kong Island to shoot a historical epic film. It seems that the shortage of film talents in the mainland is quite serious, especially the lack of excellent commercial filmmakers. That's why Guoying had to hand over this kind of historical blockbuster to a Hong Kong Island film director.

Apparently, the Internet public opinion was similar to Chen Jingxing's. They criticized several blockbuster films released during the Spring Festival, and even film critics who had previously praised Huanshi.com for bringing some changes to the Huaguo film market where bad films were rampant.

[Perhaps "Fatal Identity" is really just a lottery in Huanshiwang. It is hard to imagine that Qi Wenshe, which is famous all over the country for its comic performances like cross talk, actually acted in such a funny comedy movie. This fact is more joyful than the movie Luo Wenshun, who is known as a master of cross talk, created a disaster in the Spring Festival Gala and then dedicated an even bigger disaster in the cinema. Huanshi.com filmed "Fatal Identity" on the front foot, and "Music World" on the back foot. Don't you feel fine? ]
Of course, "Martian World" didn't attract much firepower because it wasn't the highest-grossing movie.

"The Monkey King" and "Casino" ranked first and second respectively at the box office. Relying on the prestige established by the movie "Fatal Identity" just released by Huanshiwang. Casino Wind and Cloud is even higher, but with the collapse of word of mouth, or a greater collapse than other movies, the subsequent film schedule has dropped more sharply.

Although all Spring Festival movies have received bad reviews without exception, the box office is not bad. Watching movies is becoming an important consumption and social activity for Chinese people during the Spring Festival. It can be regarded as a rigid demand. , choose between bad and bad movies.

Seven days before the Spring Festival, the box office market reached an astonishing 15 billion. "The Monkey King" ranked first with 5.8 million, followed by "Swords of Spring and Autumn" with 4.3 million, and "Casino" ranked third with 1.9 million. "Music World" ranked fourth with 1.3 million.

According to predictions, the box office of "The Monkey King" is likely to exceed 10 billion!It is enough to rank 6th in the box office history of Huaguo movies, and 3rd in the box office history of domestic movies.

But this 10 billion blockbuster got less than 5 points on both Douban and Mtime.

Seeing such a lively market during the Spring Festival stalls, it is impossible to say that Chen Jingxing is not jealous, and he knows that the box office market during the Spring Festival stalls will still skyrocket in the next few years.

Next year... next year, we must go to the Spring Festival stalls to get a share!

Of course, apart from talking on the phone with his girlfriend and paying attention to the box office trends of several movies during the Spring Festival, Chen Jingxing's biggest gain is reconnecting with his fourth uncle who is a lawyer in Shanghai.

On the one hand, the other party made him realize during the conversation that he has been upgraded to a half-capitalist, so naturally he must start to pay attention to the issue of wealth preservation and appreciation of investment.Of course, what art to buy, a wine estate or other real estate is not in his consideration.

The future development of DreamWorks and its film plans require a lot of funds, but there is no spare money to invest in these areas, but for some specific investments, such as projects such as visual effects companies in the film and television industry chain, it is definitely necessary of.

There are also the stocks of several companies that Chen Jingxing remembers in the previous life, etc. This is not not doing business properly, but hedging risks, even if Chen Jingxing basically wants to shoot movies that have been proven in the previous life or have passed the market test. , but risks still exist. Once a certain movie hits the market or DreamWorks runs into difficulties, these high-quality investments can also play a role in recovering blood.

Chen Jingxing has seen a lot of companies that are not well managed but rely on selling high-quality stocks to keep themselves standing.

On the other hand, this involves getting along with relatives.The so-called "one person achieves the Tao, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven" is a traditional concept in Huaguo. It is somewhat unreasonable for a person not to help his relatives after he has achieved great success.

If it only earned a few million, it's okay to say that DreamWorks will have follow-up financing in the future, and even go public, regardless of whether it is wealth on paper or not, the billionaire will become a label that Chen Jingxing can't get rid of.

Chen Jingxing wasn't afraid if he didn't bring relatives along, but he was afraid that the two teachers would be stabbed in the back. No matter whether they bumped into each other or not, family affection was an indispensable thing in the lives of the two teachers.

Since this is the case, it's better to create a benchmark. The professional ability of the fourth uncle can meet the needs of Chen Jingxing. He is naturally willing to help and support, so as not to be talked about every day.

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The fourth uncle Yang Dairong hung up the phone and said with emotion: "I really didn't expect our family to produce such talents."

"His surname is Chen, not Yang." The fourth aunt complained, seeing the happy smile on her husband's face.

"You don't know that, nephews are closer than uncles."

The fourth aunt was actually very happy that such a character appeared in her husband's family, and she stopped teasing her husband, and asked instead: "Have you really made up your mind?"

Yang Dairong took a deep breath: "In a few days, I will go to the capital to discuss in detail. Is it not a part-time job to work for someone?"

"It's true, you have to seize the opportunity when your family's ancestral grave is smoking. Your sister has suffered so much, and now she is lucky. You don't know it yet, the second child's family is in trouble."

"For Xiaohui's girlfriend?"

"Xiaohui's object's family asked the two families to pool money first, and then they bought the house in Shenzhen before discussing the next thing. As a result, your second brother and second sister-in-law didn't move for a long time, and Xiaohui got a little anxious, so he brought the object back. I was about to force the palace, but I didn't expect that your second brother took five 10,000+ to speculate in stocks."

Yang Dairong blurted out a national curse.

"It's getting worse and worse!"

"Isn't that right? I heard from my sister-in-law that she asked for your sister's house, but they didn't agree. If the second brother and the second sister-in-law ask you to borrow money, you must not agree."

Yang Dairong was still angry: "Don't worry, it's not that I don't know how to measure. It seems that he lost 20 a few years ago, and he still doesn't have a long memory. I won't take care of their family's business."

(End of this chapter)