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Chapter 35 [Independence Day] Box Office Explosion

After 'pacifying' Will Smith's nervousness.

Zhang Nan chatted with Will Smith for a while, and then walked towards the screening hall alone.

As the leading actor in "Independence Day", Will Smith still has a lot of things to do, and Zhang Nan can't take up too much of his time.

When Zhang Nan arrived at the screening hall, there were already quite a few people inside.

All of them have status in the Vanity Fair of Hollywood, and those who are sitting next to each other are chatting with each other in low voices.

There are those who are more cheerful and can talk, and can lead a group of people to chat, and the scene is quite lively.

After staying in the noisy environment for a while, Zhang Nan had a whim, thinking that this Hollywood movie premiere is actually similar to a domestic rural business dinner.

They all came for one thing, and the main purpose after coming was not for this thing.

It's about making connections, or showing up in front of the media to maintain personal fame.

Zhang Nan, who has only debuted for less than a year now, is like a young distant relative who is doing business and eating dinner.

I didn't know a few people, so I just stayed quietly in my seat.

Fortunately, after a short stay, the seats were almost full, which also meant that the red carpet outside was coming to an end, and the banquet was about to start... Bah, the movie started.

Sure enough, not long after Zhang Nan was seated, he saw [Independence Day] director Roland Emmerich and lead actor Will Smith standing in front of the big screen with a group of [Independence Day] crew members, and started the movie. The last roadshow before the show.

The applause was naturally warm, after all, everyone in the audience was invited.

Then, after the group went down, the big screen lit up, and the audio in the projection hall gradually became louder as the canvas brightened. Everyone turned their attention to the content displayed on the big screen.

The movie plot of [Independence Day] is actually not complicated.

The background is that a group of aliens came to the earth in a spaceship to wipe out human beings and plunder resources (it’s always this way of saying, it can only be said that North America has put aliens on themselves, and it seems that everyone knows that their actions are evil ), and sent out inexplicable radio signals that interfered with communications satellite signals on Earth.

A computer engineer who likes to research found that these signals were actually the countdown signals of the alien attack, and then let the head of the beautiful country evacuate before the alien attack arrived.

Then there is the story of human beings flying planes and aliens fighting hard, and finally succeeding.

To be honest, in Zhang Nan's opinion, this story is quite old-fashioned and nothing new.

In Zhang Nan's opinion, the special effects shots of Will Smith flying a plane and fighting an alien spaceship were too rough, and he didn't even watch them.

Therefore, during the whole viewing process, Zhang Nan was calm.

But most of the other people were different from Zhang Nan, they all looked red-faced and thick-necked, excited and excited.

When the whole movie ended, the whole screening hall burst into warm applause, and many people's hands became popular.

"Zhang, what do you think of the movie?"

After the movie ended, Zhang Nan wanted to just slip away and go back to have a good rest.

In the end, he didn't get what he wanted, and was intercepted by Will Smith, and asked Zhang Nan about his experience watching the movie.

"I think it's just... pretty good." Zhang Nan replied somewhat against his will.

In Zhang Nan's eyes, the plot and special effects of this movie can only be described as old-fashioned and rough.

But Zhang Nan knew that it was because he was reborn and had a vision from later generations. After more than ten years of bombardment with special effects blockbusters, Zhang Nan is already tired of special effects movies.

At first glance, [Independence Day], a blockbuster with special effects in the early stage of Hollywood, is really unwatchable, and I can't get into it at all.

But let's be honest.

It's 1996 now, and computer special effects haven't been around for long.

Hollywood can make a movie of the level of "Independence Day" at this time, which is already very powerful.

[Independence Day]'s movie picture is definitely at the leading level in the world at this time, and it is still quite explosive.

Otherwise, it would not have slashed more than 3 million U.S. dollars in box office in North America, and slashed more than 5 million U.S. dollars in box office in other places, and won a total of more than 8 million U.S. dollars in box office worldwide.

It also topped No.1 in the annual box office rankings, and left behind No.2 [Tornado] with a gap of nearly [-] million US dollars.

It can be said that the special effects in "Independence Day" brought shock to audiences of this era, no less than that of Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" four years ago.

This can be seen from the box office results of the two films, one with a global box office of more than 9 million US dollars and the other with a global box office of more than 8 million US dollars.

Movie fans around the world at this time are not fools, the movie is not good, they can't buy it like this.

Of course.

[Independence Day] was able to hit such an outrageous box office.

There are also fans of this era who have never seen the market, and any special effect can make them exclaim.

Let alone special effects blockbusters.

Just shoot some tanks, airplanes, submarines, or just shoot some explosion scenes, even if you use more extras to create some big scenes, you can make many audiences excited.

Michael Bay, for example, started out with explosions.

In addition, Wu Baige also rose rapidly in this era, relying on his violent aesthetics.

But the audience will always get tired of watching explosions that only have visual impact.

So later, the audience gradually stopped buying the movies of the two.

But overall, Wu Baige is worse than Michael Bay.

Wu Baige also had a brilliant [Mission: Impossible 2] once.

After that, relying on the reverse box office explosion of "Windtalker", MGM's pit was gone, and he directly said goodbye to Hollywood.

Although Michael Bay also had a [Pearl Harbor] like [Windtalker], [Pearl Harbor] was not as miserable as [Windtalker].

Moreover, Disney, the investor of [Pearl Harbor], still has a relatively strong foundation, and it has not been ruined like MGM.

So Michael Bay still had the opportunity to direct in Hollywood, and later returned to the land fairy with "Transformers"..., no, it was to return to the status of a major Hollywood director.

Now Will Smith stopped Zhang Nan, just for peace of mind.

So when I heard that Zhang Nan gave a good conclusion, I was relieved a lot, so I let Zhang Nan go.
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The next day.

Five in the morning.

"Jingle bell~"

Zhang Nan was woken up by the phone on the bedside. He forced his eyelids open before holding the microphone to his ear.

"Hello?" Zhang Nan's tone was very unfriendly.

It's not that Zhang Nan is angry about getting up, but being woken up so early in the morning would make anyone upset.

"Zhang, [Independence Day] box office has exploded, and it's a big explosion, with a North American premiere of 5023 million US dollars." Will Smith's excited voice came from the phone.

Zhang Nan let out an oh.

Expected.

Not to mention that he came back from rebirth, I knew that the box office of "Independence Day" would be a big hit.

Even if there is no rebirth, a sci-fi blockbuster like "Independence Day" will not have a bad premiere score.

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