The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 97
"It was Clark and Asimov's science fiction that made me set my ambition to become a film director in the future."

Hearing Chen Jingxing's answer, the host James Brown looked nervously at the audience: "Joe? Quickly check our real-time ratings and see how much it has dropped?"

Perhaps it was Chen Jingxing's response that made the host more satisfied. James Brown had fully believed in Chen Jingxing's ability to catch up and let go.

Chen Jingxing was stunned for a moment, and quickly understood the stalk the host was about to throw.

He apologized to the camera: "The paragraph just deleted, I mean, since I started to come into contact with Spiderman and Batman comics, I have the urge to make science fiction movies."

James Brown said with a smothered smile, "It's too late for you to change your mind now... I was joking just now. Believe me, we Americans actually love reading very, very much, especially books without pictures."

After speaking, he turned to the laughing audience with a serious face: "If you know who Arthur Clark and Isaac Asimov are, don't raise your hands."

The host turned to look at Chen Jingxing spreading his hands: "Look, no one raised their hands, which means that we Americans know who these two people are."

After joking, James Brown continued to ask: "The world view of Asimov and Clark's science fiction is usually very grand, and the two films you have made so far are both low-cost science fiction films. One day you will make that. A grand sci-fi juggernaut?"

Chen Jingxing gave an affirmative answer: "Of course, grand sci-fi giants usually discuss some ultimate propositions of human beings. I am very interested in this...and it can make more money, right?"

"Come to Hollywood to shoot?"

Chen Jingxing shook his head: "No, I currently have no plans to come here to make movies. The film market and film industry in Huaguo are also growing and progressing rapidly. I think that in time we will be able to realize the shooting of blockbuster sci-fi movies."

"WOW!" James Brown was really a little surprised: "You mean you will make science fiction blockbusters in the future, but not made in Hollywood?"

"Yes."

James turned his head to face the camera, with an exaggerated expression, and gestured: "Have you heard Hollywood? Tie him up, Don't let him go!"

"Just kidding, I'm afraid Hollywood will be very disappointed..."

……

"Let's get down to business, your second feature film is currently showing in theaters, "Identity", the name is a bit strange, let me introduce your movie."

Chen Jingxing pretended to make a long speech: "This movie mainly tells about a...

cool story! "

"Is that all? No more?" James Brown looked surprised.

"Yeah, I don't want spoilers, and once they do, you'll have less fun watching this movie."

James shrugged: "OK, so this movie is still sci-fi?"

"Yeah"

"Is it a suspense movie?"

"Yeah"

"Still a puzzle?"

Chen Jingxing said with a smile: "No, the story is not very complicated, so I'm sorry, you won't be able to enjoy the fun of solving the problem this time."

James concluded: "A sci-fi suspense movie that can't have the slightest spoiler. It sounds like a Christmas gift? Of course I'm talking about a gift from the real Santa Claus. Parents usually don't have to guess."

He continued to ask with a laugh: "So you also took the love potion in this movie?"

Chen Jingxing made a serious expression: "Of course, haven't you read the reviews of my movie on the Internet? They love this movie to death. This is the result of casting a spell on every copy of the box. "

After laughing, James said to the camera: "What are you waiting for in front of the TV? Johnson chan, the director of Comet, has prepared a mysterious and surprising gift for each of you. Hurry up and open the gift box at the cinema. You will Love it!"

……

After Chen Jingxing was a guest on The James Tonight Show, "Fatal Identity" expanded again, reaching 2700 theaters, and of course the attendance rate has also decreased.

In the end, "Fatal Identity" ended its second week of release with a box office score of 1600 million U.S. dollars, and won the box office runner-up in the North American market that week, while the weekly box office champion was "The Lego Movie" with 3700 million U.S. dollars. The huge advantage cannot be shaken.

The epic blockbuster "Pompeii", which invested hundreds of millions of dollars, ended its first week of release with a box office of less than 1300 million, becoming the third place in the weekly box office.

Such box office results have in fact declared that the producer and distributor Samsung Pictures has suffered an epic fiasco, and there is no possibility of recovering the cost.

The Los Angeles Times commented: [It was supposed to be a tense special effects disaster film with a legendary ancient city as the background, but it turned into a cgi feast. The cliché plot and cliché characters make people sleepy, lacking suspense, danger and excitement.

From the beginning of the film, every part of the film will give the audience a sense of deja vu. The storyline almost follows the traditional script routine, stepping on the audience's psychological expectations, walking carefully, walking on thin ice, and fearing that there will be more accidents. to scare the audience.

The fidgeting audience can only anxiously look forward to when the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is just around the corner.

I think "Fatal Identity" has taught "Pompeii" a good lesson. What the audience needs is not a movie version of "Sparta", nor a vulgar story filled with cgi. It can make the audience give praise and pursuit readily. ]
A small-budget sci-fi suspense film from Asia defeated an epic disaster blockbuster. The Hollywood media can easily go crazy about this kind of underdog's counterattack, which is a popular plot.

In a film industry as mature as Hollywood, this kind of thing doesn't happen very often.

Not only did the media report on this week's box office battle, but film critics from all walks of life also published articles analyzing why "Pompeii" lost so badly in the confrontation with "Fatal Identity".

Although "Fatal Identity" did not win the weekly box office champion, it is already a phenomenon-level dark horse in the eyes of the media.

The box office results of "Fatal Identity" in North America quickly spread to China. In fact, many domestic media, including netizens, have been paying attention to the box office trend of Fatal Identity.

The cumulative box office of more than 2000 million US dollars in the two weeks of its release has quelled all the previous debates. This result has surpassed the 1700 million of "Kung Fu", and it is enough to rank sixth in the North American box office list of Chinese-language movies.

Moreover, according to current trends and box office forecasts, the North American box office of Fatal Identity may exceed $5000 million, and it is expected to challenge the North American box office of "Hero" with $5370 million. Of course, the box office record of No.1 "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is still Hard to shake.

(End of this chapter)