Entertainment: I am the peak

Could Chapter 770 be adapted into a TV series called "The Three-Body Problem"?

The Wandering Earth is aiming to break an incredible record.

Its colleagues, on the other hand, were all covered in dust and dirt.

Apart from "The Wandering Earth", all other films released during the Spring Festival season received a Douban rating of less than 7!
Among them, Jackie Chan's "The Knight of Shadows: Between Yin and Yang" received the lowest score, less than 4 points, while "The New King of Comedy" scored below 6 points.

However, "The New King of Comedy" received the most criticism during the entire Spring Festival film season, and the positive image of Stephen Chow was completely shattered by this movie.

Some netizens even quoted a line from the movie "Hello Mr. Billionaire" to Stephen Chow, saying, "I don't owe you anything anymore!"

In terms of box office performance, only "Crazy Alien" has surpassed 10 billion yuan so far, but the daily increase has dropped to 2000 million.

Professional organizations predict that the total box office of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" will not exceed 15 billion yuan, but "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" has already signed a huge guarantee contract of 28 billion yuan before its release!

The guarantor is Lekaihua Pictures, whose owner is Baoqiang.

Lose all your money!
Some busybodies say that even if Baoqiang doesn't go bankrupt this time, it will definitely suffer serious damage.

"Pegasus" grossed 8 million yuan, with total box office predictions ranging from 10 billion to 12 billion yuan. Racing movies are expensive to produce; this film reportedly cost 5 million yuan, and even with 12 billion yuan, it still won't break even. This marks Han Han's first major setback as a director. However, losing to Li Qiutang doesn't seem so shameful.

The competitors of "The Wandering Earth" have completely lost the ambition to compete with it, but they do not refuse to comment on "The Wandering Earth".

You beat me up so badly, and you expect me to praise you?

Only Ning Hao, because "Crazy Alien" did indeed borrow scenery from "The Wandering Earth," and the two crews worked together for a period of time, and since he is not a petty person, was willing to say a few words when he saw the great success of "The Wandering Earth."

Ning Hao bluntly called "The Wandering Earth" "his best work".

The 46.2 billion yuan box office hit "The Wandering Earth" is still creating its own legend, but some rational, neutral, and objective viewers, in order to show off their composure, are using the overseas performance of "The Wandering Earth" to say that it is not enough to represent the industrialization of Chinese films, let alone Chinese films.

"Wolf Warrior" and "The Wandering Earth" are just a self-deceiving carnival for domestic audiences.

"It's just for fun, and it can't even outsell a low-budget horror film like 'A Quiet Place' in overseas markets."

No, "A Quiet Place" grossed $3.5 million worldwide, even Jackie Chan couldn't sell that many films.

In the internet age, data is very transparent; the overseas performance of "The Wandering Earth" can be found on Maoyan.

The film opened in 310 theaters in North America and grossed $110 million in its opening weekend. It has since surpassed $200 million and is projected to gross around $500 million in North America.

But this result is not really bad, because it is the best result that Chinese-language films have achieved in North America in the past five years.

The North American audience is still predominantly Chinese, and Li Qiutang will lead a team to the United States next week to meet with the Chinese audience there.

Li Qiutang discussed her overseas achievements during a dialogue event.

“We never intended to make money from overseas audiences.” Li Qiutang wouldn’t follow those opinions. “Let’s focus on the 14 billion people watching first.”

“Actually, we have received a lot of positive reviews from overseas audiences. Our marketing manager wanted to release these comments, but I said it was unnecessary. Our main audience is the 14 billion people here, and those three or five positive reviews from overseas are not representative. Using this for marketing makes it seem like foreigners praising us means we are truly good.”

Li Qiutang then discussed the characteristics of North American audiences: "They generally don't watch foreign language films because Hollywood's industry is indeed highly developed, and watching Hollywood films is enough. Not to mention ordinary viewers, many Hollywood actors and directors don't watch films outside the Hollywood system. Many of them may not have as much film experience or knowledge of film history as some of our media friends here."

"So we never had any illusions about our overseas performance in the first place." However, Li Qiutang's words were interpreted as a stubborn excuse because of poor overseas results.

"If it sells for one or two hundred million US dollars overseas, let's see what he says."

"It's so sour, if it doesn't sell well, it's because the audience doesn't know how to appreciate it."

Whatever you say, The Wandering Earth is still on its journey to break new records.

On the 18th, a weekday, it still earned 9000 million yuan. The daily box office of "The Wandering Earth" only dropped to 1 million yuan after 14 days of release, but it has held the daily crown for 14 days.

The capital market is still celebrating, and everyone is waiting for "The Wandering Earth" to break the record set by "Wolf Warrior 2".

Currently, it seems highly likely, although there is still a gap of over 9 million to 10 billion.

However, savvy investors are already considering cashing out.

They've already made enough money from Autumn Pictures these past few days. Even if "The Wandering Earth" breaks "Wolf Warrior 2's" record and pushes Autumn Pictures' stock price to its peak, it will be too late to sell then.

Anyone who invests understands a simple principle: you can't cash out at the highest point and make the last penny.

But the film industry was so hot in the fall that no matter how much stock the big players dumped, there were always buyers.

Amidst this frenzied capital frenzy, someone asked the board secretary of Autumn Pictures whether the company's senior executives, especially the core management team at the vice president level and above, had any plans to reduce their holdings recently.

The secretary of the board of directors of Autumn Pictures simply responded to investors' questions according to the formula, stating that everything should be based on the company's announcements, without disclosing any valid information for reference.

Even if executives want to reduce their holdings and cash out, their operations are legal and compliant, and the company can't interfere. It can only be said that they cashed out too much at once.

Based on the information available so far, the vice president and above of Autumn Pictures have not yet communicated with the board secretary about the reduction of their holdings.

Someone asked Li Qiutang for her opinion on the upcoming film *Alita: Battle Angel*, asking, "Do you think it will have an impact on *The Wandering Earth*?"

Li Qiutang said honestly, "We definitely will, but I think it's normal. They've already set the schedule, so we can't stop them from doing it."

He was also very generous: "If you've seen 'The Wandering Earth,' you can check out 'Alita: Battle Angel' to change things up."

Then, changing the subject, he said, "If you haven't seen 'The Wandering Earth,' you can watch it first, and then watch 'Alita: Battle Angel' to change things up."

The official production team of "The Wandering Earth" never said they were going to break records, and Li Qiutang would never admit it in public.

"Breaking records is great, of course, but if you're only focused on breaking records, then you're missing the point. First and foremost, you need to make a good film. If you make a good film, even if you don't break records, the box office won't be bad. Our current results are already very good."

"Recently, many people have been asking if there will be a second part." Why is this question coming up again?

Li Qiutang said helplessly, "We did put a lot of effort into the first part. Our team needs to rest. We also made some mistakes and detours while filming the first part. We need to learn from those mistakes. There's no rush for the second part. If there is one, we will let everyone know as soon as possible."

The huge success of "The Wandering Earth" has further solidified Li Qiutang's position as the undisputed leader in the domestic film industry when it comes to producing big-budget, special-effect movies—if you want to make a blockbuster, you can't go wrong by giving your money to Li Qiutang.

So, another question followed: "Director, can you make a movie version of 'The Three-Body Problem'?"

(End of this chapter)