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Chapter 158 Word of Mouth and Box Office

With the heroine confirmed, the preparations for filming of "Inception" are basically complete.

"The Matrix 3", which is currently in theaters, has received a lot of negative reviews.

The reason is simple. It’s just not fun enough.

For some viewers, what they subconsciously want to see is the rebels in Zion destroying the rule of robots, restoring human rule over the earth, and returning to the good old days when machines would not awaken.

It turns out that Neo, the seemingly omnipotent savior in the first two movies, sacrificed himself to destroy Virus Smith in order to save the "Matrix" and Zion.

Then, the Matrix continued to control all of humanity except the Zion rebels, which felt a bit anticlimactic.

Of course, the film’s action scenes and audio-visual effects are still super shocking, but the plot failed to meet and exceed the audience’s expectations.

If Neo can lead humans to engage in a thrilling man-machine war against the machine city like Caesar in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", perhaps this series can continue.

But the style is very different from the previous two parts, and Jiang Heng doesn't dare to say that it will be successful.

When filming the movie, he struggled for a long time before deciding to stick to the original version.

After all, although "The Matrix 3" had a somewhat bad ending, the entire series is very complete, and it originally had a global box office of 4.27 million US dollars.

With the bonus of the mainland market in this life, I think the hope of making 5 million US dollars is still great. It's good enough as long as I can make some profit.

另外原本历史中的《黑客帝国3》于2003年11月5日上映，7号时新线公司出品的年度排名第7的《圣诞精灵》开画，极大的压缩了《黑客3》的票房空间。

The situation this time is not much better. The film will be released simultaneously around the world on July 7.

Earlier, "Pirates of the Caribbean" was released on July 7. As it was the opening film of the entire series, its box office performance was very average, with only 9 million US dollars in the first weekend, which was completely incomparable to the first weekend box office results of the second film's 4600 million US dollars and the third film's 1.35 million US dollars.

July 7th was the day for Columbia Pictures’ Bad Boys 25, which was originally ranked 2th in the year’s history.

Fortunately, there is a one-week gap, so the impact is not as great as that of "Elf".

"The Matrix 3" is struggling to compete in the North American market amidst the swirl of blockbusters.

Fortunately, in mainland China, the film was completely swept away, with more than 70% of the screenings going to "The Matrix 3", and a large number of units booked theaters to watch it, causing the box office of this film to grow explosively.

One hundred million, two hundred million, three hundred million, five hundred million, these barriers seemed to be made of paper and were easily broken through.

As for the media, praise is still the main focus, especially some television media, which report repeatedly.

After much deliberation, Jiang Heng finally announced that he would donate all of his share of the box office revenue from "The Matrix 3" in mainland China to medical and educational causes in poor areas.

The money will be divided into two parts, half will be used to purchase ambulances for poor areas, and the other half will be used to build primary schools.

Once this news was released, it instantly caused a sensation in public opinion.

The box office performance of "The Matrix 3" is somewhat weak at the moment. According to media estimates, the final box office results will be just over million, barely around million.

Once the news of Jiang Heng's decision to donate the mainland's share of the revenue from "The Matrix 3" was reported, it once again triggered a wave of movie-watching. Many viewers went to the cinema to watch the film a second or third time, causing the box office to soar again, successively crossing the million and million mark and sprinting straight towards million.

A number of media outlets began to calculate in the newspapers that the amount of Jiang Heng's donation this time was definitely more than 250 million.

In the mainland in 03, it was really a huge sum of money.

On the Internet, it has sparked widespread discussion, with most netizens admiring Jiang Heng's behavior. However, some people have posted that Jiang Heng is being fake and generous.

If you really want to donate, you should donate all the global revenue of "The Matrix 3" to help more people in need. The box office revenue in the mainland market is nothing, it's less than million US dollars.

Jiang Heng's fans naturally could not tolerate such remarks and posted a lot of arguments, which became more and more lively.

In addition, many netizens posted messages asking for help, some claiming that their parents were seriously ill, and some claiming that they or their children were sick, hoping that Jiang Heng could give them some money to help them through the difficult times.

Some extreme people even found the address of iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Video and put up banners there for help.

What he waited for was not Jiang Heng's feedback, but the urban management personnel.

In the office, Han Sanping leaned on the sofa and laughed, "You are kind-hearted, but you don't know that there are too many greedy people in this world. They just like people like you who are rich and kind-hearted!"

Jiang Heng smiled helplessly and said, "I just did what I could. I didn't think too much about it!"

This time it was Han Sanping's turn to smile bitterly. "You call more than 200 million or nearly 300 million what we can afford? Do you know how jealous everyone is?"

Jiang Hengxin said, "I just want to expand my fame and influence because I know that some people are jealous of me!"

Since he decided to list iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Video, many "capable people" have come to him. Some want to buy Jiang Heng's shares, and some guarantee that the company will be listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange within a year.

Jiang Hengxin said, the overall market index has been falling all the time, one must be stupid to go public now, if they want to go public, they have to wait for the big bull market in 06 or 07!
Jiang Heng took a lot of effort to fool this group of people.

After finishing filming "Inception" in Hollywood, I will also have to observe the situation and then consider when to return to China to film.

"The mainland film market is so good right now. In a few years, people will no longer care about 200 or 300 million yuan. With this little money, it's not even enough to make a slimming movie!"

Han Sanping wondered, "Why is the weight loss pill so expensive? Is it a superhero weight loss pill?"

After chatting more with Jiang Heng, Han Sanping had a lot of advanced concepts in his mind.

Jiang Heng said vaguely: "Well, I had that thought, but after thinking about it, I decided to give it up!"

Han Sanping thought it was unreliable and didn't bring it up again. Instead, he asked what they were going to shoot after Inception.

Recently, China Film Group has indeed received many scripts for blockbuster films, and Chen Kaige has even completed the revision of the script for "The Monkey King".

But Han Sanping is still a little unsure as he has to wait and see how “The Promise” performs at the box office.

Secondly, I am still willing to cooperate with Jiang Heng.

In terms of making money, it's really stable.

"Well, I haven't really thought much about it. This time I went to Hollywood, firstly to make a movie, and secondly I wanted to take a break. I've been too busy with work in the past few years, and I'm a little tired!"

Han Sanping couldn't help feeling a little disappointed when he heard this.

I immediately thought of a possibility, "You won't stay in Hollywood forever, will you?"

Jiang Heng smiled and said, "Of course not. The mainland is the place I value most. How can I be left out of the rise of Chinese-language films?"

Han Sanping thought about it and agreed. He raised the teacup in his hand and said, "Then I wish you all the best this time!"

(End of this chapter)