Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 411 "We decided to choose hope!"

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"Congratulations to our The Wandering Earth, the movie has reached a cumulative box office of 5 billion!"

As the host finished speaking, Guo Fan, Wu Jing, Zhao Jinmai, Qu Chuxiao and other main creative staff on the stage waved their hammers and smashed the ice sculpture in front of them with the number "5000000000" carved on it.

This was the celebration meeting for the 5 billion box office of "The Wandering Earth". As the ice sculpture representing the box office results was broken, there was a sudden burst of intense and noisy cheers from the audience.

These are all the most enthusiastic fans of this movie, and their excitement is even three points higher than that of those on stage.

It's quite a coincidence that "The Wandering Earth" was prepared for five years, filmed for almost five months, released for fifty days, and achieved a box office of 5 billion. These numbers seem to be a bit of fate.

Although many people had speculated that the final box office of "The Wandering Earth" would exceed 5 billion when the box office exceeded 4.5 billion half a month ago, everyone was still shocked when this result was actually achieved.

A domestic science fiction film with no star cast and no well-known director actually surpassed a number of big productions and took the second place on the domestic film box office list.

Most of the audience who came to the meeting today are die-hard fans of The Wandering Earth, and some of them have watched the movie several times. Seeing their favorite work achieve such good results, they all feel proud.

They then turned their attention to Guo Fan, who was already sitting on the stage. This new director, who had only made one youth film before, was the creator of this achievement.

Therefore, when the audience representative was speaking, he was particularly grateful to "Director Guo" for bringing such a wonderful movie belonging to his own country to these science fiction fans.

"I am very grateful to all the audience fans and friends for their recognition of the film. I think as a filmmaker, this is the highest evaluation of me."

Guo Fan took the microphone from the host and said, "But the success of The Wandering Earth is not something I can achieve alone. There are many people behind this movie who we need to thank."

"First of all, I would like to express my special thanks to Mr. La Peikang of China Film Group for recognizing our young team and entrusting us with such an important project a few years ago. And Mr. Song Ge of Beijing North Culture. I remember that when we went to discuss investment and distribution, the decision was made in less than half an hour."

"Then there are our leading actors, crew members, and the post-production special effects team. It is everyone's joint efforts that have brought this work to its fullest potential. In addition, there are two people I have always wanted to thank individually."

Guo Fan patted Wu Jing's shoulder and said, "One is Brother Jing, our 'Liu Peiqiang', who was willing to help us when the crew was in trouble. He went from being a guest star to a regular, and later became the leading actor. He said he didn't have any salary at first, but later he paid tens of millions..."

The audience burst into laughter. The story of "Guo Fan pulling off a trick to win Wolf Warrior out of nothing" had already been revealed by many people during the previous promotional period, and today it was finally officially acknowledged.

After waiting for a while, seeing that the laughter had almost stopped, Guo Fan took a deep breath and continued, "Without Brother Jing's help, our 'Little Broken Ball' wouldn't have achieved such a great result today. But there is another one of our main creators. Without him, the entire project might not be completed."

"It was he who paid for us to build the background world view when we had nothing but a bunch of design drawings and time books at the beginning. It was also he who invested more than 100 million yuan and helped us raise tens of millions of funds when the crew was short of funds. It was also he who took out a year from his busy schedule of many projects to help the crew complete the script of the movie..."

Guo Fan spoke with a very sincere tone, and the audience in the audience who heard his introduction could not hold back and shouted out the same name at the same time.

"…Thanks to the owner of Arclight Films, the investor of The Wandering Earth and also our chief screenwriter, Meng Bai."

Guo Fan glanced at Meng Bai, who was sitting in the front row and looked a little confused because he suddenly called him. He smiled and said to the audience, "Everyone, do you want to invite our President Meng to come up and meet us?"

"want!"

There was a burst of uniform cheers from the audience.

"..."

Meng Bai raised his eyebrows speechlessly and finally stood up.

In fact, he had been sitting in the audience since the beginning of the celebration party. He had planned to watch the whole show quietly as he did in the past, but he didn't expect to be pushed out by someone.

Listening to the cheers of the audience, he couldn't refuse at this time. But then again, there was no need to refuse. He didn't go on stage simply because he was used to being behind the scenes. If he was really needed, it would be fine. He walked up from the side of the stage, looking at the people on the stage who were all smiling, he pointed at a few people, and then looked at the audience below:
"Hello everyone, I am Meng Bai, the screenwriter of The Wandering Earth."

"Wow—"

As Meng Bai finished speaking, the audience instantly burst into noises that were several times louder than before.

Many people are just as interested in this legendary "young boss" as they are in ordinary stars. In fact, his low-key and mysterious style has only increased the public's curiosity.

Therefore, when everyone saw him come on stage, their enthusiasm was instantly ignited.

"Boss Meng, awesome!"

"Thank you, Mr. Meng!"

"Mr. Meng, I love you!"

"Boss Meng, I want to give birth to a baby for you!"

"..."

Listening to all kinds of messy noises coming from the audience, Meng Bai couldn't help but say, "The guy who just shouted about giving birth to a monkey, let's not talk about species isolation for now. I'm curious, how are you going to give birth?"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

The audience burst into laughter again after hearing Meng Bai's joke. This young "billionaire" seemed to be more down-to-earth than they had imagined.

After a casual joke to calm the atmosphere, Meng Bai continued, "Just now Director Guo mentioned thanking others. Actually, we, the main creators and the leading actors, are all doing our jobs. The ones who really need to be thanked are the audience friends who have created this achievement. You are the creators of this miracle."

"I first heard about The Wandering Earth in 15. The film market at that time didn't change much from now. Youth films and comedies were our specialty, and action films and other genres performed well. But science fiction was considered by almost everyone to be the exclusive domain of Hollywood blockbusters. I remember there was a saying at that time, 'No one would watch Chinese science fiction.'"

"Of course, this has nothing to do with the audience. It's mainly because our film industry started late and hasn't developed to their level. Whether it's the technical level or the production level, it doesn't meet the requirements, and the results are poor. The audience supports it once or twice, but after a long time, naturally no one is willing to believe it anymore."

"There are many types of science fiction films. Some focus on creativity and can be shot by a few people in a room. Others focus on plot and science fiction is only used as an embellishment. But more still need a combination of various special effects scenes, which is what we call heavy industry films. This requires not only a few excellent filmmakers or creative ideas, but also the support of the entire industry foundation."

"As part of culture, movies are often directly related to social development. The success of The Wandering Earth at this time is inevitable. The reason is simple. Only when people have spare time in reality will they have the opportunity and energy to look up and see the stars."

"This morning, I read a review about a movie. The content was about whether the success of The Wandering Earth has opened the door to domestic science fiction. But in fact, no matter what kind of movie subject, there is no such thing as a gate. Some thresholds are higher and some are lower. The threshold is equivalent to a standard. It will not be lowered just because more people pass it."

“So rather than ‘opening the door’, I hope that The Wandering Earth can become a spark that ignites everyone’s passion for domestic science fiction. Whether it’s good or bad, even if there’s a lot of mud and sand, the good works will eventually remain in the great waves of time.”

"Just like what was said in the movie, no matter where the final outcome will lead history, we decided to choose hope. Thank you everyone!"
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The celebratory meeting for "The Wandering Earth" ended in a chorus of joy, and the audience also took the opportunity to ask a lot of questions about the plans for the second part.

It’s just that even the core creators like Meng Bai and Guo Fan haven’t started to think about the second part yet, so we can only wait and tell everyone when the crew has news later.

"it is finally over."

Backstage, Guo Fan couldn't help but sigh: "Finally, it has exceeded 5 billion."

"That's right. There's still a month left before the release. Who knows, the price might go up a bit more." Meng Bai said, "Also, the release has just started in several overseas markets. So far, the response is pretty good. It's worth looking forward to the overseas box office."

Theoretically, it is risky for a big-budget film like The Wandering Earth to rely on a single market. The reason why Hollywood blockbusters have such high box office is mainly because they can sell movies all over the world.

In fact, The Wandering Earth was initially considered to be released simultaneously around the world, but this IP is not well known in China, let alone abroad. Without sufficient persuasiveness, overseas theaters were reluctant to release this movie.

After discussion among the last few producers and distributors, they decided to wait for the domestic box office feedback to come out. It should be much easier to contact the overseas market after getting actual results.

(End of this chapter)