Huayu: As a child star, I just want to be famous

Chapter 472: Great Progress, Rising Acclaim

It was a normal Friday night, but some people couldn't sleep.

The first day's box office data will not be available until tomorrow, and Bruckheimer is now waiting for the audience's ratings.

The audience's opinion is crucial to the success or failure of a movie.

In the early hours of the morning, he finally received an email from the investigation company.

"A-grade rating..."

Bruckheimer breathed a sigh of relief, as this meant that the film was widely welcomed by the audience and the reviews were relatively high.

We can't relax, everything still depends on the box office.

He lay on the bed, closed his eyes and went to sleep, but he was still thinking about the movie box office.

As a veteran producer, this shouldn't have been the case.

But judging by the current trend of Infinite World, it feels like a movie that is going to be a big hit.

Naturally, he took it to heart.

After tossing and turning all night, Bruckheimer couldn't fall asleep again at daybreak.

Get up, turn on the computer, and check entertainment news on various news websites.

The film was released yesterday and the reviews in most newspapers have already come out.

In the Los Angeles Times, the first article was a report by film critic Daniel Feinberg:
"This is a crazy magical blockbuster. All the settings seem so novel. It is fresh and can capture people's hearts.

Chen's script is novel and exciting, and the Russo brothers' superb directing skills are organically combined in the film.

During the 3-hour experience, the creators’ skills can be seen everywhere.

This is a work full of sincerity.”

What a good talker! Bruckheimer nodded approvingly.

“The greatest achievement of Infinite Worlds is that, as a movie adapted from a novel, its creative team slowly tells the story of various new settings through the plot.

Audiences can easily understand the plot and the settings without having to read the original novel in advance."

—Olly Richards, film critic for Empire magazine

“In an era where computer special effects continue to improve, technology has given filmmakers endless possibilities, but few people can make good use of them.

On the contrary, it is obvious to the naked eye that as Hollywood's production becomes more and more like an assembly line, the most core creative part of the film is becoming increasingly scarce.

From this point of view, although Chen has difficulty breaking free from the shackles of the Hollywood assembly line, he is able to repackage various clichéd stories with novel settings, which really saves the increasingly boring Hollywood movies.

Lucas said it well, Infinite Worlds is just a rehash of old stuff, but it's a very good one.

At least, I like it.”

-- Mike Russell, film critic for Time magazine

In the villa in Beverly Hills, Sister Mei sat at the dining table, reading the report that she had specially searched for.

Chen Linfeng and Liu Qianqian were enjoying breakfast.

"Sister Mei, stop reading. Would you like a fried dough stick?"

"I've eaten," Mei said, waving her hand to refuse. She looked at the other person strangely, "It's a relief that you can find someone to make you a Chinese breakfast."

"It's nothing, it's not difficult, if I'm not busy, I can do it myself."

"Just seeing you talk means not seeing you take action. I can see that you are getting lazier and lazier."

Liu Qianqian took a sip of milk, put the cup down and complained.

Fried dough sticks with milk is a combination of Chinese and Western cuisine.

"We agreed to take turns. I just did it once in China. Isn't it your turn now?"

"Heh," Liu Qianqian couldn't hold back when talking about this, "I made some instant noodles on the set, which can be considered cooking."

"Of course not." Chen Linfeng didn't feel embarrassed at all.

"I want to continue reading. Are you still listening?" Sister Mei interrupted. She couldn't bear to see others showing affection in front of her.

"If you want to listen, please continue, Mei."

"Of course, if there are bad film reviews, you can read them to me."

"Um...this."

Mei searched for a while, then read, "When Chen was writing Infinite World, he obviously had a neodymium mindset.

All the female characters in the film have obvious shining points..."

"Stop, why are we talking about this?"

Chen Linfeng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and quickly interrupted, "Sister Mei, are you sure this is a negative review?"

"I think in your eyes, it should be."

Sister Mei gave a mischievous smile. The power-conscious thinking in Hollywood has begun to go crazy.

In her opinion, having watched "Her", this is a sign of version evolution.

Sister Mei is a typical heroine. She looks down on those who talk about politics but are business-minded.

After the laughter, Sister Mei actually picked out a few negative film reviews to read.

Most of the comments are focused on rehashing old stuff, while some are saying that the plot progresses too fast.

According to the normal progress, the entire "Infinity 3" should not be filmed in 1 hours.

After listening to this film review, Chen Linfeng felt that it was quite pertinent.

"It's indeed a bit fast, but if the plot is interrupted in the middle, the emotional connection will not be appropriate."

He has discussed this many times with Bruckheimer, the Russell brothers and others.

In the end, he thought of "End Game" in the Avengers series. The overall plot was also tragic but ended with hope.

With the original novel as the basis, the audience should not have too many objections.

Now it seems that this approach was not wrong, as both the film reviews and the audience evaluations were good.

Of course, there are still some dissatisfied voices from fans of the original novel, saying that it is not authentic enough.

Even some white readers were not happy with the fact that many characters were changed to Western actors, and some characters even had their names changed. But this was to be expected.

It is impossible for an adapted film to be recognized by all fans of the original novel.

It’s actually much better with Chen Linfeng as the original author.

Often, the phrase "this is the original author's decision" is enough to convince many people.

Of course, if one’s belief is strong enough, one can say “Chen knows nothing about the infinite world” and then still fight until the end of time.

As they were chatting and laughing, Sister Mei was stunned.

"Xiao Feng, the box office data is out."

"Ok?"

Chen Linfeng and Liu Qianqian looked at each other, and without waiting to reply, they stood up and walked behind Sister Mei and looked at the computer.

Bruckheimer finally received an email from his staff. He clicked his mouse and a string of numbers appeared in front of him:

"$6126 million!"

Bruckheimer's eyes widened in disbelief that his dream had come true.

Such a scene seemed to have appeared in my hazy dream last night.

This made him wonder if he was still dreaming.

Fortunately, the phone rang at this time. It was director Anthony Russo who called, which confirmed the facts.

On the other side, Liu Qianqian was about to jump up.

"Wow, 6 million on the first day, this is going to break the record, right?"

"Not really. Just for Twilight, several movies had first-day revenues around $7000 million."

Moreover, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", which will be released next month, will directly bring in around $7 million on the first day.

There's no comparison at all.

Despite this, Chen Linfeng couldn't suppress the smile.

Haha, the "Infinite World" series is done.

Although the movie "Infinite World" has the attributes of a fan movie, its male and female audiences are still different.

If a movie is not good, even fans won’t want to watch it due to word of mouth.

And if word of mouth spreads, even some people who had no intention of watching the movie may be tempted to watch it.

Now that the first-day box office data has exploded, and the reviews among fans and the public are good, the box office data will be difficult to stop.

What made him happiest was that this movie had never existed in his previous life and it only appeared because of him.

It’s different from previous movies and TV series.

This made him feel even more accomplished.

Just when I was excited, Bruckheimer called to inform me and congratulate me.

"Chen, have you seen the box office data? We succeeded!"

"Yes, we succeeded."

Chen Linfeng has calmed down a little now.

"Jerry, the first day data is so good, we need to increase our publicity efforts, and the same goes for overseas. We need to achieve as high a box office as possible for the first film in the series."

"Yes, I have just communicated with Disney."

The first film in a series will affect the performance of subsequent ones.

As long as the quality is guaranteed, subsequent works will often have higher box office figures than the first one.

"Pirates of the Caribbean", the first one grossed $6.5 million, the second one grossed $10.66 billion, and the third one grossed $9.6 million.

The first film will lay the groundwork and build fame, and subsequent films will have much higher box office sales.

Not only "Pirates of the Caribbean" is an example, "Twilight" and "Lord of the Rings"...

This is true.

If Marvel is considered as a series, the opening work "Iron Man" also conforms to the rules.

As the creator of "Pirates of the Caribbean", Bruckheimer understands this truth very well.

This is also the reason why he cares so much about the box office of this movie.

"And there's good news."

Sister Mei pushed the laptop screen towards Chen Linfeng.

Chen Linfeng took a quick look and found that it was the current North American box office rankings for this week.

Although it has only been released for one day, "Infinite World" has already ranked first.

The second place is "X-Men First Class", with a box office of 2200 million this week.

The third is "Super 8", which was co-produced by Spielberg. It also earned 1800 million on the first day of its release.

"By this calculation, X-Men is no longer a threat to us."

Bruckheimer also received this data.

They are all family, so he didn't hide anything when he spoke.

Chen Linfeng nodded and said, "Yes, in fact, the reputation of this "X-Men" is quite good."

Bruckheimer mused, "Many summer movies can only maintain their glory for a week. Whether we can go further depends on next week's Green Lantern."

Speaking of this, Chen Linfeng is no longer sleepy.

Considering the box office of "Green Lantern" has become a meme in later generations, it will definitely not have any impact on "Infinite World".

But he couldn't share his judgment with Bruckheimer.

I'm just having fun on the phone.

Sister Mei and Liu Qianqian looked at Chen Linfeng strangely.

Why are you suddenly happy again?
(End of this chapter)