Coquettish Rebirth

"Do you want blockbusters that opened like ours? I can name you a bunch. 1997's Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts' Chain Conspiracy, $1900 million in its opening week, 25% of the audience chose to watch the film, and the result? The box office was only 7500 million U.S. dollars. In 1992, the first week of "Alternative Sex 3" was 1949 million U.S. dollars, and the box office was only 5547 million U.S. dollars. In 1990, the classic American science fiction masterpiece "Back to the Future 3" , the first week was 1909 million US dollars, but the box office was only 8772 million US dollars. In 1997, Pierce Brosnan, who is now 007, starred in a disaster film "The Peak of Dante Mountain", which made 1847 million US dollars in the first week, and the final box office was only 6700 million. In 1991, "Star Trek 6 City of the Future", such a masterpiece of American national science fiction film like "Star Wars", made 1816 million US dollars in the first week, and the final box office was 7400 million US dollars. Last year, our company's Pixar film did An animated movie "Little Ants", which is also a summer release, made $1700 million in the first week, and the final box office was $9075 million... Last year's "Blade Warrior", the first week was $1703 million, and the final box office was $7008 million..."

After listing out the movie box office in such a row, Spielberg took a breath, "If you want to listen, I can report to you for a whole day! It's like "Prison in the Air" by Nicolas Cage. Have you all seen it? It is said that Nicolas Cage went to prison for manslaughter to protect his family, but when he was about to leave prison, he boarded the plane that escorted them with a group of felons. As a result, the felons actually hijacked the plane. In order to go home, Nicolas Cage simply became a policeman among the criminals and began to organize the destruction of criminals. Just such a movie is so famous in your China. Do you know how much their first week box office and final box office were? Weekly $2413 million, final $1 million, about the same as us! So you know what? We are already one of the most successful films! Like "Face Changing" Paramount made after John Woo came to Hollywood The movies released are so classic and good-looking, Nicolas Cage and John Travolta, such a film has a box office of 110 million US dollars in the first week. The final box office is 2300 million 1000 million US dollars! It is not far from us. It is very likely that when we go offline can achieve..."

Who came here, Spielberg took a deep breath, "I said so much, just to let you understand. In fact, we can exceed [-] million US dollars. It has been quite successful. It can be said that we have achieved world-renowned It’s so bad, maybe an ordinary person in Russia will remember that he watched your film in the future, understand? We have been very successful! Besides, you and Cheng Long are still newcomers to Hollywood. The localized adaptation is completely aimed at the world market, it is very, very miraculous that such a film can do this!"

"Hmm... okay..." Seeing Spielberg's angry look, Jia Hongjian retreated a bit.But in fact, in his heart, even after hearing so much from Spielberg, he still felt that the results seemed a bit average-why made him still have the mentality of an audience?That's right, by this time Jia Hongjian himself had figured it out a bit. In fact, he himself has always been in the audience's mentality, which is why he feels that such a result is not good enough.

What is the mentality of the audience?That is the mentality of watching the excitement, that is the mentality of a layman.This kind of mentality is to look at a lot of data from a high-level perspective. For example, Jia Hongjian watched the movie "Prison in the Sky". Saw it once.He always thought this movie was good, and even subconsciously thought that it would be no problem for such a movie to earn two to three hundred million at the box office, right?As a result, who knows that after hearing what Spielberg said now, it is just like their "Who Am I Remake"!

There is even Wu Yusen's "Face Changing", which Jia Hongjian always thought was quite beautiful in his previous life.Then why should such a film have a box office of [-] to [-] million, right?It turned out not to be, they got two big stars, and they were only in the early [-] million, and such a movie in the early [-] million is already quite good... In fact, to put it bluntly, when watching movies and box office with the eyes of the audience, in fact Many times, things like box office numbers are used as an additional evidence of "how good the movie is".Then, when ordinary audiences, especially domestic audiences, watch Hollywood movies, they must watch selected ones—it’s impossible for pirates to give pirated movies that few people want to watch, right?People don't want to make money?

So in other words, because the movies that Jia Hongjian saw that he thought were good, they were all over [-] million at the box office, and there were [-] to [-] million or even higher at every turn, so this would give him a feeling, as if A box office of more than [-] million is the average level, and something like [-] billion to [-] billion is the standard of excellence.But in fact, this over [-] million is already an excellent standard!This is a bit like saying that the audience has been watching nb, and always thinks nb superstars are considered good players, and those kind of bench players are considered useless.But in fact, putting these bench players in the industry is really awesome-they can earn millions of dollars a year even if they are on the bench, okay?No matter how useless people are, they will step on millions of people and then stand on the top of the pyramid and enter nb, okay?

However, being able to know that there are differences in his thoughts and opinions does not mean that Jia Hongjian will be relieved immediately-he still thinks that the film should at least be better than "Rush Hour", at least the box office should be better than "Rush Hour" "Can be higher.Otherwise, Fangxin Cinema Company, the producer of "Rush Hour", approached Li Lianjie or whoever came over - well, Li Lianjie's aura is a bit inappropriate, and Li Lianjie's overall playing is a handsome and fierce type, which is a bit inappropriate Hilarious image of "Rush Hour"...but can modify the script or something!At that time, add some funny jokes in the United States, and Li Lianjie is also developing in the United States now. If his box office is really higher than that of "Who Am I Remake", how can this make Jia Hongjian feel embarrassed?Yes or no?

Jia Hongjian had previously assured Cheng Long that the film he made would definitely be higher than his participation in "Rush Hour". If the result was really not higher than others, how could Jia Hongjian feel so bad, wouldn't he? [

Just when Jia Hongjian was thinking this way, Ye Jing asked Spielberg with her eyes wide open, "Is it really good for us to do this?" "Of course it's very good! If you don't believe me, go Take a look in the Sherlock Holmes forum! There are people discussing whether this movie is good or not! Although this movie has been robbed of some box office by "Star Wars Episode", it is also the most popular movie to discuss now. Besides, we also They stole a lot of the box office of "The Matrix", and their sub-time special effects crashed with us, which caused their movie's box office to be unsatisfactory. It seems that their current box office is only 5000 million U.S. dollars. Without us For this film, I believe they will have no problem reaching [-] million. After all, their visual effects are amazing... Now all in all, as the first film in the series, our first film is already very good Well, when it comes to the second film in the future, as long as the quality is guaranteed, it can hit [-] million or even [-] million box office! All in all, our first film is estimated to be the lowest box office, and even if the other two films are worse at the box office, they will not be worse than ours. The first one was bad!"

Hearing what Spielberg said, Jia Hongjian thought about it, and it seems that this is indeed the case.Generally speaking, it seems that the highest box office in the trilogy seems to be the second or third part, but generally speaking, the box office of the second and third parts is higher than that of the first part.Even "Bourne Shadow" is the same. If "Bourne Shadow" played by Matt Damon in history, if Jia Hongjian remembers correctly, it was the first film to gross US$12 billion in North America. 17 billion?The third part exceeded 2 million.If you calculate it in this way, it seems that Jia Hongjian did a good job. He changed the plot of the family beyond recognition, and after making a gimmick to assassinate the president, he still used an Asian face as the protagonist, and still A remake—after all, it is a replay of the concept of "Who Am I", so to speak, the first one can achieve the same results as the first one, which is already very good?After all, this is Cheng Long's first film to enter Hollywood. Although Cheng Long himself is the director, he is not used to the relatively cold and documentary style of filming. After all, Cheng Long used to focus on comedy and martial arts.From this point of view, perhaps it would be more appropriate to shoot Li Lianjie who stretches out his hands and is unrestrained?

Anyway, by this time, Spielberg had barely instilled a concept in Jia Hongjian, that is, as a newcomer, Jia Hongjian had already done very well.And Jia Hongjian still thinks it is average, this is only because Jia Hongjian is used to being successful, and has always demanded himself with the highest standards, but now such a result is already very good for newcomers, it can be said that the hard work is for dreams. The factory company has come up with a popular trilogy brand!If you put this in another company, everyone else will be a master!

Moreover, after the results of such a film were released, Jia Hongjian could call himself a successful filmmaker.Moreover, the outside world will see Jia Hongjian differently—from the outside world, Jia Hongjian is obviously an all-knowing and omnipotent super genius. On the one hand, he also led his company in China to enter the world's top [-], and then even invested in a movie that he had nothing to do. After he personally invested in it, the movie became a blockbuster with a box office of over [-] million dollars. It can be said that Jia Hongjian is the kind of person who can do everything well! (to be continued...)