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Chapter 292 Oriental Dream Factory

Audiences and film critics have begun to write about their feelings about watching the movie on major websites after returning home.

"Beyond all my fantasies about space travel, showing an unprecedented sense of technology and future",
Some media people spoke highly of it: ""Passengers" is a perfect combination of advanced technology and film craftsmanship. It will leave an important mark in the history of domestic science fiction films."

In addition, the themes of loneliness and love in the film also caused the audience to think deeply.

"In the boundless space, emotions such as loneliness, fear, survival, and anger are all competing to burst out. It is unbearable for anyone, and this makes the protagonist's choice even more difficult."

"'Passengers' uses science fiction as a carrier to show the audience the most real look of love, where hurt and happiness coexist, selfishness and sacrifice coexist."

"True love is not just as sweet as a fairy tale. In the film, the male and female protagonists have experienced human struggles and life and death tests. The love gained in this way has more texture and is more lasting."

There was a lot of applause.

Huang Xiaoming was very excited, after all, he was the male protagonist in this movie.

"Can you be of some use?" Zhou Xun looked at his worthless look and said a little speechlessly.

"Hey, I can be like you. I only have those few movies. When people mention me, they say, hey, that's Huang Xiaoming in "Bubble Summer"."

Huang Xiaoming is very helpless. Although idol dramas are indeed very popular, they can't bear it and everyone only remembers this.

Guo Fan waved: "Okay, get ready to attend."

He took the two leading actors to prepare for road shows in major places such as Imperial Capital, Magic Capital, and Yangcheng, and is now attending events in major movie theaters.

"Director Guo, when will the next movie be released?"

Huang Xiaoming came to Guo Fan smoothly, rubbing his hands in anticipation.

Guo Fan smiled: "You still want to know the secret? Let's promote the movie first."

"okay."

Huang Xiaoming took the lead and took the lead.
The hot Thursday, December 12st, is just the right time to transition to the weekend after a day or two of fermentation.

The producers of the two Lunar New Year blockbusters are all eyeing the results of "Passengers". Although it will not have a big impact on them, it is still great to warm up the scene.

"Yu Dong, this damn fat guy, knows that the schedule of "Thirteen Hairpins" will not be changed, so I will let him watch it this time."

Zhang Weiping saw that December was here, but Bona was still motionless, and "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" and "Thirteen Hairpins" were still only one day apart.

You must know that the schedule of "Thirteen Hairpins" has been set before filming begins, and Bona came here for his new picture this time.

While everyone was anxiously waiting for the box office results of this science fiction film, Yang Mi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"It seems that Chen Hong has stopped delivering the message."

Zeng Jia has also been on tenterhooks lately. If Yang Mi gets cold, it will be a big blow to her as an agent, and she might be kicked out.

"She helped."

Yang Mi felt a little sad. This time, she was afraid that all her love had been used up, and she still owed a favor.

"If you owe me a favor, let it be a favor. For us, it's a matter of life and death. For Liu Yifei, it's just a phone call."

Zeng Jia couldn't help feeling that they were scared to death, but in the end they couldn't stand up to someone else's words.

"As long as there is nothing wrong with Chen Hong and the situation in the circle is calm for a while, this matter will fade away."

"Well, let's keep filming. I've accepted all the notifications I can."

Yang Mi regrouped.

""Passengers" grossed 2500 million at the box office on the first day. After director Li Mu, Guo Fan, the second domestic science fiction film director, set sail. China's science fiction films are about to usher in their heyday."

The media are already vying to praise it. For a new director, his first film was a difficult science fiction film, and the box office on the first day was extremely impressive, which deserves a special mention.

Compared with the small number of audience comments at the beginning, it has become enthusiastic now.

"The starry sky scenes are picturesque, the story is top-notch, it's a good science fiction film, and it's enough to impress everyone except Li Mu."

"If a new director can export it, what do other directors do for a living?"

"Sci-fi romance, not many characters appear, but the design is quite clever."

"What do you mean by this heyday? The heyday is nothing. Except for the Mengying family, can anyone else be filmed?"

On Friday, more than 2800 million.

The box office on Saturday and Sunday exceeded the 3000 million mark, directly reaching 3200 million.

On Sunday, more than 3300 million.

A total of 4 million has been collected in 1.18 days, and the New Year atmosphere has already risen.

Li Mu looked at the box office data and called Lu Yu.

"Prepare a celebration banquet for Director Guo."

"Okay." Other producers are a little envious. Mengying Media has another director who can make science fiction films. Moreover, domestic science fiction films are still in their infancy. If they can be made, they will still be recognized by the audience.

Unfortunately, the problem is that the investment in science fiction movies is not small, and they are not produced at this level. Once the audience does not recognize it, it will be a loss. It is far from changing the story that everyone is familiar with. At least it can trick the audience into entering the cinema.

It’s not easy to imitate, and it’s impossible to imitate.

Many companies thought about it for a while, but still felt that this road was too dangerous and not worth taking the risk. They could lose tens of millions or hundreds of millions in minutes.

Just as "Passengers" is doing well at the box office, news has come from Shanghai that DreamWorks will establish a joint venture company in Shanghai - Oriental DreamWorks. In addition to DreamWorks, investors also include the Chinese Cultural Industry Investment Fund ( CMC), there may also be Oriental Media (SMG) and some other strategic investors.

Katzenberg has sent word that he needs to go there.

In Shanghai, Li Ruigang, Katzenberg, Ren Zhonglun, CMC members and some strategic investors were already negotiating in the conference room.

"Director Li, welcome." Li Ruigang stood up and greeted.

This was not the first time I had met this Li Mu. He was the former director of Magic City Radio and Television Station and now the president of SMG, the matchmaker, promoter and trader of the entire transaction.

"If progress goes well, Oriental DreamWorks will be officially established in the first quarter of next year. It will be a joint venture for technology research and development and application. After its establishment, it will cooperate with domestic film and television companies to shoot and produce Chinese-themed cartoons, based in China, and Gradually enter related industries such as musicals, performing arts, and Internet games.”

Li Ruigang stood up and started talking.

""Kung Fu Panda 3" is jointly produced by Oriental DreamWorks and Mengying. I have no objection. Crystal Pictures' share will be transferred to Mengying Media."

Li Mu didn't have much objection to this. He knew that Li Ruigang now needed a performance to lay the foundation for the Oriental Dream Factory that was about to set sail.

And in this case, "Kung Fu Panda 3" is already completely domestically produced, but Oriental DreamWorks has the share of Hollywood DreamWorks.

"DreamWorks has no doubt that in the next five years, Oriental DreamWorks' investment scale will reach 5 billion US dollars. We are also willing to cultivate talents for China's animation industry and introduce DreamWorks' most proud animation technology to China."

Katzenberg naturally has no objection. He is here just for the Chinese market. At this time, "Kung Fu Panda 3" is tantamount to an introduction and facilitates transactions between the two parties.

We hit it off immediately and the deal was officially concluded.

"Director Li, China's animated film industry is grateful to you," Li Ruigang said solemnly to Li Mu after the meeting.

"Mr. Li, don't put your hat on me. It's only a matter of time before the domestic animation industry takes off. I hope Oriental DreamWorks can provide a large number of talents to the domestic animation industry."

Although the domestic animation industry is developing rapidly, it cannot compete with DreamWorks in terms of technology, creativity and box office performance. DreamWorks' entry can indeed drive the development of China's animation upstream and downstream industry chains and cultivate animation industry talents.

"We try our best."

Li Ruigang nodded.

"DreamWorks is about to settle in Shanghai, which will have a positive impact on Shanghai and China's animation industry."

There are more and more contacts in China with Hollywood.

At this time, there was news in the circle that Huayi Brothers and Bona Pictures jointly held a press conference in Los Angeles, USA, announcing that they would jointly participate in the North American Chinese Lion Film Distribution Company to jointly promote the simultaneous release of Chinese films in the international market.

This makes Wang Changtian very anxious, because several major film companies are based at home and abroad, but he still stays in China and is not involved in Hollywood.

"Director Li, are there any good channels in Hollywood?"

Wang Changtian was involved in these film companies. After much deliberation, Li Mu was the most suitable and understood him best.

"Why does Mr. Wang want to get involved?"

"This year, only one company has gone overseas after a while."

"Mr. Wang, with a population of more than one billion in the country, the box office potential has not yet been fully developed, so don't worry."

Li Mu still tried to persuade him, but it was Wang Changtian's business to listen or not.

"Makes sense."

Wang Changtian thought to himself, it was still the same thing. The main reason was that he didn't have a big director, and he didn't even have a movie with a box office of over [-] million. It would be useless to think too much.

In the past few days, theaters have encountered a basin of cold water.

After the General Administration issued the document, some theaters felt that they could try harder, so they also reported to the Film Bureau and complained about the difficulty of the cinemas. Regardless of the proportion of the bill sharing, 15% of it was actually given to developers. 1% is for water and electricity, 1% is for property, and film funds...

After such a commotion, the Film Bureau may also feel that the operating costs of cinemas are high, so it issued another guidance to regulate annual rents within 15%.

".What idiots."

Ye Zhu cursed loudly in several theater groups.

Complaints cannot reveal the truth, so now it’s better. This directing opinion directly plays a "braking" role in the construction of new theaters that are currently expanding rapidly.

Li Mu is also in the theater chain himself, but he feels that the General Administration's solution is a bit whimsical.

Each cinema has a different way of cooperating with real estate developers. Some provide rent directly. However, the annual rent provided by theaters in many first-tier cities has long exceeded 15% of the box office ratio, and has almost reached 18%.

However, due to the rapid expansion of movie theaters, the growth in moviegoer attendance has not kept pace with the construction speed of screens. The entire development has become a bit overheated and needs to be braked in time.

The number of screens increased in the first half of this year. From January to late October, there were 1 new cinemas and 10 movie screens. Currently, there are more than 630 cinemas nationwide and the number of screens has exceeded 2563.
It's developing rapidly.
(End of this chapter)