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Chapter 314 Box Office
"If the box office is good enough to prove that you have a certain box office appeal in modern action movies, you should be popular in Hollywood for a while." Huang Ze applauded and taught, "Don't be arrogant, and try not to act in movies with ambiguous meanings."

"When you go out, you represent more than just yourself."

"As for the villain, no one will ask you to play the villain now. They can't afford it. And if you are asked to play the protagonist, you should also be careful to choose."

“Try to only choose action movies.”

"Don't choose an action movie that's too deep or philosophical."

There are also some philosophical and well-made action films, which also do well at the box office, but these films are rare and most of them leave the audience confused.

People watch action movies for the fun of it. Why do you make so much of a mess? Why don’t I just go watch an art film?

Just like Michael Bay's "The Island", everyone just wants to watch you blow things up, even if it's oil workers blowing up meteorites, as long as the explosions are cool enough, everyone will like it. But if you do all these unnecessary things, you won't be able to integrate them well and it will become a hodgepodge.

Besides, are these the things you should take pictures of?

"Also, your image must be positive enough. Don't take roles that may upset domestic audiences."

In his previous life, Li Lianjie starred in a movie called "Danny the Wolfdog", in which a dog had a chain around its neck. It can be said that if you watch the entire movie, you can feel that he wants to incorporate something into the action movie.

But who cares?

Just because you wear a dog leash, people will naturally feel disgusted.

It will give people a bad association.

"Domestic audience?" Li Lianjie's eyes showed some doubt. "Domestic audience doesn't seem to provide much box office, right? We need to care about their opinions, but we don't need to care too much, right?"

"..." Huang Ze was speechless.

He turned around and saw that no one was looking at him, so he lowered his voice.

“Do you think that as the domestic economy grows, the box office will always be that low?”

"Also, you have to pay attention to your base."

"You have no roots in the United States, but I just think you can make money. In addition, you can use your presence to enter the Asian market, especially the reserved territory of the Hong Kong film market, as well as the large market that may emerge in the future with a population of more than one billion in China."

"When your film starts to lose money, no, you don't have to wait until it loses money, it may just be that it's not making that much money, and they may kick you out."

"Castles in the air and duckweed in the water are not stable enough after all."

"And if you can keep the entire mainland Southeast Asian Chinese audience base, everything will be much better."

"Of course, it's just my suggestion. If you can accept it, then accept it. If not, forget it."

Huang Ze always respects the fate of others.

I told you, if you keep listening, that's your business. As an adult, you have to take responsibility for every choice you make.

"Brother Huang, this is not the first time you have warned me. I will remember it." Li Lianjie nodded heavily.

……

While Huang Ze and Li Lianjie were chatting, the audience who attended the premiere began to leave. Those who came alone were fine, but those who came with friends and family couldn't help but discuss the matter excitedly as they walked out.

"This movie is so cool, you can't stop watching it. From the beginning to now, I have been nervous for every minute."

"I really didn't expect that Huang could shoot such a good big-budget commercial film, especially the explosions that he had never used before. After blowing up the elevator, he blew up the bus, and after blowing up the bus, he blew up the plane. Blast, blast, blast, blast. But I have to admit, the explosions were so cool."

"Hello, I'm a questionnaire investigator. Can you give a rating for "Speed"? " One by one, the investigators began to take action and asked the audience who had watched "Speed" for their comments with their questionnaires.

"A+." A middle-aged man gave a high score without a doubt, "This time, Huang finally made an orthodox Hollywood commercial film. Facts have proved that he can make such a film and make it well!"

"A, in terms of scenes and plot design, I think this is a commercial film that is not inferior to "Terminator 2", especially since Huang made such a film with less than one-third of the cost of "Terminator 2", which is even more rare."

"But compared to "Terminator 2", there is still some gap. The liquid robot T1000, and the thumbs up given by Schwarzenegger when he fell into the molten steel at the end. Compared with such classic film and television scenes, "Speed" seems to lack such scenes. Oh, I think the scene of hanging upside down and descending to the elevator may be easier to remember, but it lacks the humanistic care compared to this." The audience gave a thumbs up and held it high.

"C, I can only give him a C. This world is simply crazy. A yellow man saved Los Angeles and even seduce a white beauty. What kind of interstellar joke is this? This is simply a cultural invasion of our great America by China! We must always be vigilant against Jerry Huang, a man with bad intentions!"

"Fuck you dear mom, why do white people always save the world? I'm tired of watching movies like that." A gay man couldn't stand it and started to criticize. Then he asked the investigator for a form and filled in A+ carelessly, "I like pornographic movies. Of course, if he can make a movie with gay people as the main character, I will definitely praise him to death!"

After summarizing the questionnaires one after another, Warner found that the film received particularly high ratings from the audience!
Maybe it's more in line with the public's taste, and it even received better reviews than "Pulp Fiction" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

More than 60% of people gave a score of A or above.

Less than 5% are C or below!
This is a movie that most audiences would like to watch during the summer vacation.

After seeing such comments, the senior management of Warner Bros. Pictures realized that Huang Ze had succeeded again!
And it is very likely that this will be another movie with a box office of over 100 million yuan.

All the revenue from the film in the North American market belongs to Warner Bros., so it immediately began to intensify its publicity!
The box office also proved that such investment was worthwhile.

It was released in 2,300 theaters and grossed $9 million on Friday alone!
Twelve million dollars on Saturday!

Eight and a half million dollars on Sunday!
The total box office for the first three days of the weekend was 29.5 million!

Only 500,000 were needed to reach 30 million. This number completely ignited Warner's anger.

Their estimated box office was $25 million, but Speed ​​was a real surprise to them.

You have to know that the box office of "Terminator 2" released last year was only million in its first week, and the final North American box office took million, ranking first.

Now, "Speed" is just a little bit away from success. If the box office can be maintained in the future, the North American box office of 150 million US dollars that Huang Ze mentioned, which is regarded as a beautiful wish by everyone, may really be achieved!

(End of this chapter)