Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 661 Late March (13)

In March, Xiaoshan Airport…

After getting off the plane, Shen Yan suddenly remembered something and asked Chen Xu, "How many districts are left in Shaoxing now?"

"...Huh? I don't know..."

"Xiaoshan used to belong to Shaoxing, but now it belongs to Hangzhou. Yuyao has also become part of Ningbo... Shaoxing has gone from eight counties to only six. There are two trees in front of my house, one in Hangzhou and one in Ningbo. From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Study, you have to take the Hangzhou-Ningbo Expressway... In a while, Zhou Shuren will become a resident of Hangzhou!"

"It's not that exaggerated!"

"It's just a joke, a joke..."

Shen Yan noticed a group of people holding banners at the airport entrance: "Who are these fans?"

"Wu Fan's fans..."

"Wu Fan?"

"He's doing the same thing as us, recording 'I See You Have Talent'!"

"Oh…"

Shen Yan glanced at the banners they were holding: "I love the leader, I will always be your Meigeni!" and "Every one of you is here, we'll support you to the end, Wu Fan!"

"very nice!"

"...Didn't you say you didn't want fan support?"

During his live stream a few days ago, Shen Yan repeatedly emphasized that "airport pickups are unnecessary" and that "airport pickups seriously disrupt airport operations and safety."

"I may not need it, but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy the show!"

Chen Xu said, "Wu Fan's first movie, called 'Somewhere Only We Know,' grossed over 200 million... That movie earned over 100 million!"

"...They made money from product placement?"

"Hmm... I heard the cost was 40 million, with product placement alone approaching 80 million!"

Shen Yan nodded: "Young and popular male celebrities do make a lot of money!"

"The car is here, let's get in!"

The two got into the car. Shen Yan was extremely sleepy, but he still asked, "Will 'The Martian' reach 35 billion today?"

"No problem... Yesterday it was 34.8 billion, today is Saturday, I'm guaranteed to get over 2000 million!"

"Okay, I'm going to take a nap... Remember to wake me up when we get there!"

After saying that, Shen Yan put on the blindfold…

……

The date was March 28th. Shen Yan finished filming "Operation Mekong" and then received an invitation from Li Lianhua to serve as a judge for Li Lianhua's team in the semi-finals of "I See You Have Talent"...

The filming of "Operation Mekong" took sixty days...

Shen Yan initially focused on being an actor, but after only three days on set, she couldn't stand Wu Jing's fastidiousness and immediately called in four assistant directors...

They were all directors from the August First Film Studio.

Let them help Wu Jing determine the shooting scale and handle the explosion scenes!

Military-themed works are notoriously high-risk and challenging—the use of troops, weapons, ammunition, and explosions, along with the complex personnel and scenarios involved, is precisely where the August First Film Studio's creative team excels…

This is what they've been doing since the factory was first built.

Anyway, Shen Yan's scenes were filmed in 60 days... He only took two days off in between—to pick up the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Screenplay...

That's right, he won two Oscars!

He promoted "The Martian" primarily through live broadcasts—for fifteen consecutive days…

Offline promotions were mainly handled by Shen Teng, Lei Jiayin, Guo Jingfei, and Qin Hailu…

Okay, to give a brief overview, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the total box office was 4.7 million yuan. "The Martian" took in 2.5 million yuan, and the other films took in the remaining 2.3 million yuan. On the second day, "The Martian" earned 2.7 million yuan, bringing the total box office to 4.2 million yuan. On the third day, "The Martian" earned 3.1 million yuan, but the total box office remained at 4.2 million yuan.
The total box office for the entire 7-day Spring Festival holiday exceeded 30 billion yuan, with "The Martian" accounting for more than 70%, or 21 billion yuan!
The remaining films are vying for the remaining 9 million…

Yes, almost all of it resulted in losses…

The second-ranked film, "Dragon Blade," only grossed 2.6 million yuan.
From Vegas to Macau II: 220 million;
Li Lianhua and Chen Kun's "Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal" only grossed 1.6 million yuan;
Wolf Totem grossed 1.4 million…

As for "Where Are We Going, Dad? 2" and "Dad's Holiday" combined, they didn't even reach 1 million!

At present, the winner-takes-all phenomenon is very strong!

Shen Yan also successfully topped the box office charts with "The Martian"—surpassing "Transformers 4"...

After the Spring Festival season, "The Martian" remained very strong, topping the daily box office for 19 consecutive days, before being ended for one day by "Cinderella," but it quickly regained the top spot the following day...

This continued until "Kingsman: The Secret Service"...

At this point, "The Martian" had been in theaters for 38 days, with a cumulative box office exceeding 34.8 billion yuan...

According to predictions, the final box office should be between 36 billion and 38 billion!
It's probably about the same, because on April 12th, "Furious 7" was released, a movie that grossed over 2 billion...

Shen Yan remained calm about the box office figures. He said in his live stream, "Based on the current trend of the box office market, we'll soon see movies exceeding 4 billion, 5 billion, or even 10 billion. When that happens, when you watch 'The Martian,' you'll feel that 3 billion yuan is just so-so..."

……

Shen Yan remained calm, but "The Martian" directly ushered in the first year of Chinese science fiction!
Furthermore, Spark Studio's official Weibo account released the release dates and cast lists for the next three sci-fi films:

Moon: Released on December 3, 2015, starring Andy Lau and Liu Shishi;

Ex Machina: Released on July 8, 2016, starring Dilraba Dilmurat, Li Naiwen, and Hu Ge;
The Wandering Earth: Released January 28, 2017; Starring: Shen Yan, Wu Jing, Zhao Jinmai, Wu Mengda;

Look, they've even revealed the release date!
There are even projects under development such as "Earthfire," "Full-Spectrum Jamming," "Earth Cannon," and "Take Her Eyes"...

Sci-fi fans are ecstatic!
A group of people were digging into the story behind "The Martian," and then they discovered that Shen Yan had filmed "My Love from the Star" first in order to attract investment for "The Martian"!

Furthermore, in an effort to gain the support of the space agency, they visited three times in a row…

In short, after "The Martian", Shen Yan's status and popularity have increased significantly, and there is a large group of science fiction fans!

And they're extremely loyal!
Of course, the most important reason is that "The Martian" is of a good standard.

"The Martian" is a tough film. Based on existing science and technology, it gives you a realistic answer to the question of space: how should an Earthling save himself when he is stranded on Mars!

The core plot of the movie can be summed up in one sentence: everything is science, and can only be science.

According to the most upvoted review on Douban: "The Martian. It's straightforward and objective from beginning to end, just like a person with intelligence should do."

There were so many opportunities to be sentimental. You should have been able to shed tears freely, amplifying the values ​​of family, love between men and women, and the instinct for survival until you felt embarrassed to leave the theater without crying.

Finally, there are elements of family, community, and society, but they are handled very simply, extremely simply, glossed over, with even the protagonist's profound loneliness barely described...

There are no bad guys in this movie, no battle between good guys and bad guys, and it doesn't try to evoke your sense of justice or any other cheap sentimentality.

This is true science fiction, this is the art that humanity truly lacks!

Oh, and there were also a bunch of comments praising Shen Yan: "Hollywood is producing less and less of this kind of hard science fiction. I didn't expect a Chinese director to dare to make it, and the result is quite good. The key is that its director, Shen Yan, is only 28 years old this year. We can imagine his future!"

(End of this chapter)