The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 94
"Will he come to Hollywood? I hope he can invite a few American actors to play in his next movie. Of course not all of them will be played by Americans. You can invite Jackie Chen or Jet Li. I haven't seen Jackie Chen's movie for a long time. "The young white man also seemed to feel offended by his quick talk, and tried his best to make up for it.

Wang Zhen was already deep in thought, will Chen Jingxing come to Hollywood?It seems that the possibility is not small. After all, the olive branch extended to Hollywood by excellent commercial film directors from Australia, America, Europe and even Asia is usually very difficult to resist.

If the movie "Fatal Identity" can achieve good results at the box office, he can be sure that several major Hollywood studios will definitely invite Chen Jingxing.

As a fan of Chen Jingxing, Wang Zhen seems to support Chen Jingxing to come to Hollywood.

After all, he also watched some domestic interviews, and knew that Chen Jingxing liked to make sci-fi films, even blockbuster sci-fi films. If he came to Hollywood, wouldn't this dream come true sooner?

But there was a faint resistance in his heart. After all, he was only a director, and Chen Jingxing would not appear in front of the screen. Are there no Chinese directors in Hollywood?Of course there are, and the most famous one has won two Oscars for Best Director.

But even Lee's filming in Hollywood is still a white man's story.

Compared with fellow directors from the motherland who go to Hollywood to make money, he seems to be more eager to see more faces from China or faces similar to him appear on the screens of movie theaters here, not as supporting roles, not as buffoons, but main character.

Not telling "their" stories, but telling "us" stories, or pretending to tell "us" stories.

Because the political correctness of this plane has not yet reached the level of Chen Jingxing's previous plane, and the current commander of this land is still white, and "Black Panther" and even "Crazy Rich Asians" in Chen Jingxing's previous plane have not yet been born.

So Wang Zhen is still a little confused about the vague desire in his heart, he just feels that he seems to be a little too concerned about the movie "Fatal Identity".

Sudden laughter and applause interrupted Wang Zhen's thoughts. It seemed that Chen Jingxing on the stage had told a joke.

Ning Hao and the other five people sitting in the back row also clapped their hands and watched Chen Jingxing talking and laughing happily with the audience.

Chen Sicheng turned his head in the direction of Xiao Yang beside him: "Do you know what I was thinking when Xiao Chen took the stage just now?"

Lu Yang interjected, "He can replace him?"

Chen Sicheng clicked his tongue: "Why are you so uneducated? This is what Xiang Yu said. Of course, you can't learn from losers. Besides, Xiao Chen doesn't have the throne. What can replace him? Isn't there a saying that those who resemble me live like me?" Is he dead? I can't make his sci-fi movie."

Ning Hao said in a voice: "My husband, a man should be like this."

Guo Fan added: "A great director should be like this."

Several people smiled knowingly.

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Chen Jingxing got the box office results of the first day of "Fatal Identity" on the second day. There were 725 theaters participating in the first week's screening, and each theater contributed an average of 1400 US dollars to the box office. The overall attendance rate unexpectedly reached 61%. Received a box office of 102 million.

This result was enough to make it ninth in the North American box office list that day.

And the number of movie screening halls that ranked ahead of "Fatal Identity" at the box office that day was more than 1000.

Columbia and Chen Jingxing felt a little relieved after seeing the box office figures.

Columbia bought the copyright for US$1320 million. If it wants to recover the cost at the box office, it is estimated to reach at least 3300 million or more.

Although in the North American film market, producers and distributors generally have a much higher share of accounts than Huaguo, in fact, different films are treated differently.

The box office distribution of Hollywood movies is based on a step-by-step rule, which depends on the specific agreement reached between the producer and distributor and the theaters. For example, A-level blockbusters can stand up straighter in front of the theaters.

What's more, like a blockbuster comic book adaptation, the producer and distributor can negotiate a box office share agreement of more than 60%.

The highest can even reach 65%.

That is to say, the producer and distributor can take two-thirds of the box office.

"Fatal Identity" obviously does not have this preferential treatment, and even belongs to the bottom level of the ladder.

In order to achieve a higher number of openings, Columbia has made many compromises to the theaters.

Colombia can get 50% of the box office in the first week. In the second and third weeks, this ratio will continue to decrease. After the fourth week, Columbia’s share will even drop below 40% (statistics from North American cinemas) week starts on Friday).

Getting this agreement to Huaguo is very generous to the producer and distributor, but it seems a bit low in Hollywood.

Of course, the box office of the account is still subject to tax.

There is still a big difference between 100 million and 3000 million, but the box office of 100 million on the first day was only received in 725 theaters. Judging from the attendance and response of the premiere, it is certain to continue to expand the theater.

The box office reached 108 million on the second day of release, and the cumulative box office of 210 million US dollars in two days. Faced with the attendance rate that has not dropped but increased, many theaters have already contacted Columbia, but Columbia decided not to expand the theater in the first week. It is necessary to cultivate the "hunger" of the market.

Chen Jingxing naturally has no objection to Columbia's decision, and the box office of Deadly Identity's release in North America is no longer directly related to him.

Although he doesn't quite understand this "hunger feeling", he naturally has to race against time to arrange the film and collect box office after he wants to come to the theater, but this is the North American film market after all, and Columbia is an expert, and he believes that Columbia certainly does not want to lose money.

In the past two days, Chen Jingxing's daily routine has become to visit and exchange and study around during the day, and go back to the hotel at night to watch the rainbow farts of North American netizens on "Fatal Identity".

[This movie is really great!I really can't describe it, I can't give you spoilers, because spoilers would be meaningless, I can only say that the idea of ​​this movie is very cool! ]

[I've gone through it twice, and even the second time it's excellent and interesting, and I've discovered more details]

[The movie is smarter than the audience, I love it so much, but you need to be completely immersed in the movie to feel its full charm]
[It's a good movie full of suspense, thrills, intrigue and lots of killing]
[WOW, all I can say is that you can't guess where the plot is going, I'm sure the filmmakers will be happy to appreciate the audience's reaction]

[This movie reminds me of Agatha Christie's novels, friends who like this kind of works, really don't miss it]

[This movie presents a really cool thriller, it's unfortunate that this kind of thing will never happen in a Hollywood hole again, but it's true]
Of course, there are also many bad reviews, or reviews that think this movie is mediocre, but Chen Jingxing has learned to ignore and ignore, after all, most of the reviews are still positive.

Chen Jingxing received a slap on the back, which interrupted his intoxication.

Chen Sicheng said with a smile: "Young people shouldn't be too vain. Be careful not to be praised. Look at me, I don't watch movie review sites like Douban at all."

Xiao Yang snapped: "Is that because there are all bad reviews? Did your movie pass on Douban?"

Chen Jingxing looked at Xiao Yang with accusing eyes: "How can you, comrade, tell the truth?"

(End of this chapter)