Chapter 133
In a movie theater in Shanghai, two young couples majoring in liberal arts were confused and moved.
They were shocked. Although they didn't quite understand, they were moved by the father-daughter relationship and the indomitable spirit of mankind in the face of the vast universe.
After a round of applause, everyone slowly stood up.
The girl walked out of the theater with her boyfriend. Seeing other movie posters in the corridor, she tugged at her boyfriend's sleeve and sighed,"I don't know why, but I feel that other movies are particularly meaningless.""
"Me too"
"Let's not talk about the plot, just the picture and sound effects, the ticket money is not wasted"
"The huge waves are really shocking"
"Alas, I am still very sad. Cooper entered the black hole just to see his child again, but in the end they just talked about the past for a few minutes and then let go of each other's hands. Time is like a wall. Even if we meet again, we are separated by several generations."
"I don't understand, why did Murphy ask her dad to find Amy?"
"Because only Amy and him have no time gap. Cooper's grandson is older than him, and he seems to no longer belong to this world. So when Cooper left, he took No. 1, who was in the same world as him, with him."
"Why……"
"It's sad. Not many people died, but it was very sad. The son spent his whole life protecting the cornfield, but he never saw his father again."
"It's too cruel. Let's go drink milk tea and see what netizens say online."
"I want to scold Director Chen, you made me cry so hard that my heart aches, you are so cruel"
"Don't call him Director Chen, call him Chen Dao. Tiantian Dao Ren!"
The staff of major film review studios also found milk tea shops, Internet cafes, and even hotels nearby to quickly analyze the plot of"Interstellar".
Speed is popularity, and popularity is wealth!
The audience and film critics are happy to watch. But the mentality of their colleagues collapsed.
In the luxurious screening room in Hollywood, USA.
When the lights were turned on, everyone looked at each other with ugly faces.
The director of the production department of City Entertainment spoke first:"His performance is too stable, and he will set up a company soon. Maybe he will grab some global market share."
He paused and continued:"We tried to invite him to join, but the price was very high and failed. It seems that he is determined to stay in China."
The director of the production department told the truth.
He wanted to hide this matter before, but after being rejected, he and everyone present had a community of interests, so he simply revealed everything.
An old man had a gloomy face,"With my 50 years of experience in the film and television industry, I have a hunch that he may even pose a threat to Hollywood."
A young man next to him frowned and said,"Not that bad, right? After establishing the company, he had to deal with administrative matters, and his quality would decline. And what big waves could he create alone? At most, two movies a year."
"Isn't it enough to make two top-notch movies a year?" The old man glanced at the crowd.
"I hope you guys can go back and think of a solution. Whether you poach people or send people to steal our skills, you must spare some energy to think of a solution. Otherwise... you may end up raising a tiger that will cause harm."
"Oh——"
Chen Xiao covered his mouth and yawned quietly.
He had watched it hundreds of times, and even a masterpiece could hypnotize him.
In the screening room, the staff had already left, and just now a little girl ran over to ask him for an autograph.
Now only a few leaders and crew members were left.
Secretary He looked happy:"The box office is going to explode, right? Can it exceed the first day of"Titanic"?"
Chen Xiao was also a little curious.
Before the advent of"Titanic", the highest domestic single-day box office record in this world was more than 900 million, which was about the same as the 1 billion in his previous world.
For this world with backward literature and art, a good movie can be said to be a dimensionality reduction attack.
What's more, Titan, the second largest box office in the world? Once it came out, it directly doubled the first-day record to just over 2 billion.
However,"Interstellar" is a science fiction film with a smaller audience.
He previously conservatively estimated that the total domestic box office was 4 billion, foreign box office was 6 billion, and the global cumulative total box office was 10 billion. That is twice the original world's movie.
However, this money looks a lot. After deducting the share of domestic and foreign distributors, theater chains, and taxes... the net amount is only 2 billion. This is the cold reality. To solve the problem of profit sharing, they may have to build a film and television base and do distribution and publicity by themselves.
Having said that, this is a conservative estimate. He is not sure about the specific market situation. He has to ask the production team about this.
Chen Xiao called the person in charge of the production team softly.
The person in charge turned around and explained:"Judging from the pre-sale situation, the first day should be able to break Titan's record. First, Director Chen is so famous that his fans and passers-by are flocking to him. Second, the theaters have scheduled more screenings. Third,……"
Secretary He asked,"What's the third one?"
The person in charge scratched his head and smiled awkwardly,"Interstellar tickets are expensive. After all, the theaters use high-quality equipment. The average price is much higher than Titanic."
Li Zhiming asked,"When will the first day data be released?"
"At 9 o'clock every night, we will collect data from 18:00 the previous day to 18:00 the current day. That means tomorrow night, we will know our first day box office."
Li Zhiming nodded and patted Chen Xiao on the shoulder,"Okay, I'll wait and see!"
Seeing that Minister Li was a little excited, the person in charge added carefully:
"It should exceed the box office on the first day, but it is unlikely to exceed it after that. After all, the audience for this subject matter is smaller."
Li Zhiming said indifferently:"For a science fiction film, it is far beyond expectations to break a record! And even if the audience is small, it is much better than other movies."
Secretary He echoed:"Indeed, other movies are afraid that they will be completely"
……
"It's over! It's completely over. Can you boycott Chen Xiao?"
Minister Wu covered his face and wailed.
My defense is broken!
I've been obsessed with Chen Xiao for the whole year. Is he going to live?
Minister Zheng had a bad temper to begin with, and after hearing what this stupid teammate said, he couldn't hold it back and complained directly.
"Old Wu, zombies will starve to death if they meet you!"
Minister Wu was stunned for a moment.
Zombies starve to death? What does that mean...
He immediately reacted and realized that the old man was scolding him for being brainless.
He immediately sat up straight, his nostrils trembling with anger,"You you you!"
"What do you mean by"I"? I told you long ago not to make movies. Who can you blame if you don't listen? But I don't think you need to worry too much. He only makes two movies a year. There must not be enough audiences. Just don't release your movies in the same schedule as him and don't make the same type of movies. Isn't that enough?"
"But he is going to set up a company soon and start mass production."
"With antitrust, we won't starve to death. All we have to do is do better than other companies, right?"
"Better than other companies, you want me to become Chen Xiao’s apprentice?"
"Where did I say that? You clearly thought so but you blamed me!"
Vice President Wang stood up and turned around, pointing at the two of them and yelling:
"Okay! You two shut up!"
"Isn't it better to make the subject matter more distant? Xiao Zheng is right, don't make a movie"
"Comedy, forget it. Don't make it."
"Go... go make cartoons! I don't believe Chen Xiao can switch from making tragedies to making cartoons for kids!"
Minister Wu's heart trembled.
He still remembered that last time, it was Vice President Wang who proposed social reality and family drama and asked him to choose between the two.
This time... For some reason, he still had a bad feeling.
Minister Wu smiled bitterly and said,"I think I should donate money to do some charity first. Don't decide anything before that."
Vice President Wang glanced at him and walked out of the screening room.
……
At the same time, the lights in the screening room of the Ministry of Culture had been turned off.
At the entrance of the screening room.
Li Zhiming glanced at Secretary He, then looked at Chen Xiao with a complicated expression,"You should take a few days off. There's no need to rush. If you can't catch up with the Spring Festival, there's still the May Day schedule."
"It's okay, I've been resting for a long time, and it's not easy for us to meet each other, let's chat first."Chen Xiao looked at Secretary He
"OK, I'll go first, you guys chat slowly."
After saying goodbye to Li Zhiming, Chen Xiao and Secretary He came to the meeting room next door, planning to spend 10 minutes talking about what Secretary He needed to do for the next movie.
Chen Xiao sent Secretary He a document
"Please find a few martial arts instructors according to the martial arts types I marked."
Secretary He nodded and said,"Okay, I will definitely find top masters!"
Chen Xiao continued,"For the core team, choose from the previous ones. Familiar people will work more tacitly. The best director of photography is Director Fang." Fang Rong has good skills, but the most important thing is that he is very gossipy. He is tight-lipped, but his pocket is full of news and gossip. For Chen Xiao, who has just entered the film and television industry for a year, news is very important.
"OK, I understand."
The two chatted for a while and then left the meeting room.
"Secretary He, these things are not urgent. You can find someone when you get to work. Have a good rest during the National Day."
"Director Chen, you are too polite. I will try to contact you before the 10th. I think many people in your team will be willing to come. It must be very simple."
The two chatted and walked towards the parking lot.
"Director Chen, I guess the entire internet is filled with discussions about Interstellar, right?"
"I guess so."
Chen Xiao answered casually, and then he pressed the key to unlock the car.
Online... Speaking of this, reporter Xia's interview video should have been released on the official account of the movie channel, right?
Public opinion is expected to ferment quickly.
Forget it, it has nothing to do with him.
The publicity is under the management of the production team, and he wants to go home and sleep.
What he didn't expect was that this time it really had a lot to do with him, and even directly changed the way young people called him.
"Director Chen", was about to be labeled as"Chen Dao", which turned into"Chen Dao Dao""……