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"Future World" is here!

In fact, Hollywood films, even if they are special effects blockbusters with a huge investment of billions of dollars, are not the best. Every year, Hollywood produces about ten special effects blockbusters with an investment of more than 100 million US dollars.

But in fact, what should special effects films do? How should we grasp the proportion between special effects and stories, how to grasp the allocation of investment between special effects and stars, etc.?

Not everyone is James Cameron, and not everyone can spend money as recklessly as he does, and use the boosted investment quota to achieve perfection in all aspects, so in fact, there are a lot of sweeteners. , The North American box office can get 400 million to 500 million, and there are many people. The global box office has exceeded one billion US dollars. There have been three or four films in the past two years, but the loss is even more.

Of course, after two or three years, who is making money, who is losing, why and why is it lost? Gradually, Hollywood filmmakers and production companies seem to be gradually finding a certain pattern.

Then, "Future World" came!

As soon as it was released in North America, it was an instant hit.

The box office was a big hit, and the weekly box office ranked fourth in North American box office film history. The word of mouth also exploded at the same time, and it was even known as "the most successful special effects movie after the Titanic"!

Liao Liao and the others saw the film for the first time in the United States. Liao Liao also called and spoke highly of the film.

Then, just when the "Chinese-style special effects" craze set off by "Sword Immortal" in China was hot, even so hot that people's criticism of the film's weak story was almost covered up, "Future World" in July On the 22nd, it was officially released in China.

And because of the film's high box office and excellent reputation in North America, Li Qian got the news that the film's opening canvas is as high as 27oo. Affected by this, "Sword Immortal" was forced to vacate some canvases. Come out, so, from the number of canvases to the film layout rate, "Future World" is in no way inferior to "Sword Fairy" of the same period.

Chinese Xianxia blockbuster vs Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster!

China's highest level of special effects, oriental fairy and fantasy style vs the world's top special effects, typical future sci-fi style!

This is a big pk!

It's not that no one has seen the weakness of "Sword Fairy", and even many people have criticized it publicly or privately, but in the face of such a big pk, in the face of the country allowing Hollywood movies to be imported into the country for production. After the screening, when the first domestic blockbuster was eligible for a positive PK with a Hollywood blockbuster, everyone subconsciously hoped that the box office of "Jianxian" would continue to explode and kill "Future World"!

And Hu Fei, who has always been good at hype and operation, will of course not let such a good opportunity to operate. Therefore, as early as a few days before the release of "Future World", a large-scale discussion about "supporting domestic blockbusters", "China People still prefer the Chinese style” and other propaganda, which have already flooded the sky.

Li Qian also took a few hours to go to a large theater in Xiamen to watch "Future World", and then returned to the crew. Whenever everyone discussed this matter, he chose to keep his mouth shut. Don't say anything.

The filming here continues. It's amazing that the actors who don't have a role will take time to go out and watch "Future World", and the staff will also take time to watch it. In addition, it's filming, filming, filming!

Then, the week goes by in no time!

Li Qian was very satisfied with the filming progress and quality of "Once Upon a Time". Then, the box office chart came out - almost every domestic filmmaker, after seeing this list, subconsciously sees Bright!

In the second week of its release, no matter whether it was a good publicity, or the special effects were really good, "Sword Immortal" scored a box office of 85.63 million in one fell swoop this week - it really passed the first week!

Moreover, adding up in two weeks, its total box office reached 156.94 million yuan in one fell swoop!

In just two weeks and 12 days of release, its total box office has surpassed that of "My Sassy Girl", which was a hit at the beginning of the year. Second place - it seems to be only a week away from the first place, the Hollywood blockbuster "Dark Night", which was a big hit in June, and now has a total box office of more than 230 million.

And the Hollywood blockbuster "Future World" released on Thursday, although the box office is really strong enough, it was only released for four days this week, and it won a box office of 58.49 million! However, under the premise that the number of canvases between the two is almost the same, and the filming rate is almost the same, "Sword Immortal" still has a gap of more than 2700,000, which is more than the third-place box office this week! The difference is still obvious!

There is no doubt that even without the help of Hu Fei, the domestic media would be applauded!

A great victory for domestic films!

For the first time in the history of a domestic film, in the case of face-to-face hard anal, it defeated a Hollywood blockbuster with both box office and word of mouth - this is a head-to-head victory!

As a result, the media, writers, film critics, and even filmmakers in the industry, when interviewing and writing comments, all have a spirited and enthusiastic tone, and they all believe that the rise of domestic films The big time has come!

And with the success of "Swordsman and Monk" and "Sword Immortal", Liu Chengzhang almost became the pride of the entire nation for a time, and was praised by countless media as "the leader of domestic films"!

But in this case, it's hard to say whether it's the behavior of netizens and movie fans, or the struggle between filmmakers. On the Internet, especially in major forums and QQ groups, the criticism of "Sword Immortal" is not Before you know it, it's getting stronger!

Even Hu Fei cannot be completely suppressed. Even in the context of such a big victory, many filmmakers and film critics have come forward one after another, or wrote articles or gave interviews to "Sword Immortal". The emptiness and emptiness of the film, mercilessly attacked!

The story is messy and the characters are shriveled. In addition to the beautiful pictures and amazing special effects, the whole movie is almost empty, with messy threads everywhere, and abrupt characters, which have become the main points of everyone's criticism.

Moreover, with the advancement of time, in just a few days, the intensity of this attack has become more and more intense. At this time, it is no longer a problem for one person, but many viewers who have watched the movie begin to Choose a place you are familiar with to complain!

This kind of Tucao gradually converges into a powerful force!

However, at the same time, almost all the audiences who have watched "Future World" have very high evaluations of the film, and they all think that this is a good film that is definitely worth the price!

Typical top Hollywood special effects, plus a certain brain hole, plus a classic story stalk that Americans love to watch Europeans love to watch Chinese people also love strong personal heroism!

Although its box office temporarily lost to "Sword Immortal", the word of mouth has exploded on the Internet!

Of course, it is said that neither Hu Fei nor Liu Chengzhang cared about it.

In fact, although the extent of the Internet has been astonishing repeatedly so far, the power of the Internet, everyone can freely exchange opinions, and the opinions of a single ordinary person can easily affect another person thousands of miles away The power of opinion has never been truly and thoroughly revealed.

Even if some people have realized the influence of online public opinion before, what they see is only the influence of those good word of mouth - such as fans' self-formed support for Li Qian's rap style in his solo album on the Internet , Another example is the word-of-mouth of "My Sassy Girl", which has formed a great boost to the box office explosion after the Internet explosion, and so on.

However, there has not been a specific case of negative influence, and there has been a sign of a certain scale and certain influence.

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When the time entered August, in fact, before the release of the box office rankings, the tickets for "Jianxian" all over the country began to sell poorly, and many theaters began to choose to transfer the screening halls originally belonging to "Jianxian" to "Future". The gossip of "The World" has already spread.

And when the box office charts were released, this kind of gossip was completely confirmed!

In the third week of its release, the box office was a big hit in the first two weeks. Many people felt that even if it just continued the previous trend, its box office this week would definitely not be low. "Sword Fairy" came to its third release. Zhou, but suddenly there was a violent dive at the box office!

The box office in a single week was 41.25 million, a drop of 52% compared to last week!

Cut straight to the waist!

Compared with it, the box office of "Future World" has directly exploded. In the second week of its release, it surprisingly surpassed the box office results of the week - as high as 73.24 million this week!

An increase of up to 25%!

When the box office chart came out, the whole country was shocked.

Those who were still advocating "Sword Immortal" in the last week and a few days ago lost their voices in an instant!

And even those who were originally critical of it and worried about its box-office prospects never expected that the film, which had directly killed "Future World" last week in high spirits, would usher in such a situation. a week! Will usher in such a slash!

You know, the movie market is different from the record market. The record market still needs a process of accumulation and fermentation, but the box office market tends to be more direct.

Especially for blockbusters such as "Jianxian" and "Future World" with sufficient publicity, more than 90% of the situation will be the highest in the week, but gradually decrease - otherwise, the industry term will not only be the box office. The term "decline" is hardly used to get the so-called "increase".

However, because of the special circumstances, "Sword Immortal" and "Future World" have successively experienced special cases where the box office exceeds the box office in the next week!

Of course, from the current point of view, it seems that the box office of "Future World" in the next week is more stable than that of "Sword Immortal" - even if it is a big explosion in the next week, even if the total box office of the two weeks has been successfully reached 1300000000000000000 The high of more than 10,000 yuan, but it still seems to be full of stamina!

However, "Sword Immortal" seems to have run out of confidence at once after the box office explosion in the two weeks before and after, and its box office has been directly cut in half in the third week!

Even after the box office came out in the second week, many people were optimistic that it would continue its advantages this week and would pass "Legend of the Dark Night" with a relatively healthy decline, but the result was that "Legend of the Dark Night" was about to be offline. Although Legend of the Dark Night only drank a little soup and collected the remaining box office of the last part this week, it still successfully passed the 240 million box office mark, and its total box office in China also reached 241o7 smoothly. Wan's position, but "Sword Immortal" suddenly dived because of the box office, the total box office in the first three weeks was only 198.19 million - overnight, it seems that it is a little far away from "Dark Night Legend"!

At its peak, even if the difference in box office was as high as 80 million, everyone would think that "Sword Immortal" was only a week or a week and a half away from "Dark Night Legend", and it would not be a problem to catch up!

But now, with the box office diving of "Sword Immortal", no one knows how much its box office will plunge next week-although the actual gap between the two sides has been caught up a lot, from 80 million to 80 million. There are only 40 million left, but even with this 40 million box office, who knows how long it will take for "Sword Immortal" to catch up?

Even... The total box office of "Future World", which has been stable for two consecutive weeks and also exploded, has reached a high of 131.73 million. According to its explosive momentum this week, it seems that its box office is far from "Sword Immortal". , doesn't look that far.

And the most important thing is... All the people who have watched the two films successively, the more professional movie-watchers, the less confident they will feel about "Sword Immortal", but subconsciously feel that the first part of "Future World" Three weeks, it should not repeat the mistakes of "Sword Immortal" in the third week!

Not to mention, neither the new movies released last week nor the movies that will be released next week seem to be enough to be positive for the high box office and strong box office trend of "Future World". challenge? Therefore, it will not be able to affect the trend of the entire box office market?

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Under all kinds of speculation and anticipation, a week goes by in the blink of an eye.

When the new box office rankings are released, even the filmmakers and audiences who originally had some expectations for "Jianxian", or had some bad expectations for "Future World", they could only He sighed helplessly.

In the new week, the box office of "Sword Immortal" plunged again, with a market drop of nearly 44%, and once again almost cut in half, only getting a total box office of 23.27 million.

Only ranked fourth in the box office chart for the week!

Four weeks after its release, its total box office finally barely survived the 220 million mark!

The total box office in China of "Legend of the Dark Night", which was completely offline last week, was finally fixed at 245.37 million - "Sword Immortal" has been catching up all the way, and now it is still a gap of more than 20 million!

Compared with the big diving of "Jianxian" in the third and fourth weeks, the trend of "Future World" is as people guessed, and it continues to explode steadily and confidently!

In the third week of its release, the film successfully won a box office of 54.22 million with a healthy decline of 26%, bringing its total box office in China to 185.95 million!

Not only did it continue to dominate the single-week box office charts, it also overwhelmed several newly released films, and its total box office will catch up with "Sword Immortal" next week, which is already predictable, and in the long run, It has passed "Sword Immortal" and "Legend of the Dark Night" and topped the Chinese film box office charts this year, and there is almost no resistance - the newly released domestic films are almost wiped out, and they are all without the strength of a war. Several Hollywood films Although the box office of the blockbuster is good, it is far from its mighty!

Zhang Zifang's "Reunion" is indeed a good movie. Although it was disappointed at the Cannes Film Festival, and although the box office was the same as before, it was not enough to support the situation, but it was really a good movie.

It's a pity that it chose to be released in the summer season. Under the double-team of many blockbusters, it can't make a little splash at all!

At present, this year's domestic films can still make people look forward to it, and there is only "Assassination Qin", which will be released on August 10th~www.wuxiaspot.com~ After all, it is the great director Du Weiyun. 's blockbuster!

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August 12, night, nearly eleven o'clock.

Li Qian was about to go to sleep after taking a bath, but suddenly received a call from Fang Baijin.

After thinking about it, he answered the phone.

Fang Baijin said: "Have you finished work? I heard that you are filming a night scene recently."

Li Qian sat down on the chair and said, "Fortunately, the filming is almost done. We will end work before ten o'clock today." After a pause, he asked, "Why did you call at this time? Is there anything?"

On the other end of the phone, Fang Baijin took a deep breath and asked, "Have you seen "Assassination Qin"?"

Li Qian shook his head and said, "I haven't had time to see it yet. Have you seen it? How is it?"

Fang Baijin said: "The standard is very high, but the pace is slow, and the box office should not be too bad, but I expect it to be a big hit... I don't have much hope! He can't do "Future World"!"

Li Qian sighed and said nothing.

The two sides were silent for a moment, before Fang Baijin said again: "The night before yesterday, Lao Liu was drunk, talking nonsense, and vomited in a mess! I listened to what he meant, and I more or less regretted going the wrong way."

Li Qian heard the words and said "um" again.

Fang Baijin asked, "How long do you have the film left?"

Li Qian thought for a while, and said, "There's probably more than a week left? It'll be almost finished in about ten days."

Fang Baijin gave an "um" and said, "When you come back, I will be in charge of organizing a game!"

Li Qian was silent for a moment after hearing this, sighed, and said, "Forget it, it's useless. You should know Lao Liu better than me! If "Sword Immortal" successfully meets his expectations, it will prove that I was wrong. It was just a laugh, but now... ugh!"

On the other end of the phone, Fang Baijin couldn't help but fell silent.