Coquettish Rebirth

"Hung-chien, there are too many journalists coming to interview these days, you really haven't seen any of them?" Ye Jing was talking, carefully questioning Jia Hongjian's tone. "What's the matter? You really want me to meet the reporter?" Jia Hongjian asked the girl with a smile. "Hey, we have made history after all! How awesome, if you don't go out to show off, it's just like Jinyi-Night Walk!" Ye Jing said with a smile. "Creating history? Oh yes, I almost forgot about movies. How is the box office of our movies now?" Jia Hongjian asked with a smile.After paying attention to the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, he was really focused on it, and he really forgot to pay attention to the rising box office of his movies!

"The box office is very good now. Yesterday was the No. 15 day. After our film has been released for 600 days, the total box office has reached 3.36 million US dollars..." Ye Jing introduced happily.Flowers? $3.36 million?This speed is fast enough!Jia Hongjian was surprised at this moment!Because 15 million, 4 days, what does this mean?It means that the North American box office of 5 million US dollars is no problem at all!I don't know if the last 4 million US dollars will be available. It is estimated that there will be drama, but more than 15 million US dollars is absolutely no problem!Although it sounds like 3.36 million US dollars in 4 days, isn't more than 2 million US dollars a bit too easy to reach?But in fact, the box office thing is that the growth rate keeps falling! 5 million US dollars in 2 days, 10 million US dollars in 3 days, 15 million US dollars in 3.36 days, 20 million US dollars in 4 days, and 4 days later, it is estimated that it will not reach 3000 million US dollars!This growth rate is obviously getting slower and slower.After waiting for 1000 million US dollars, it is hard to say whether the box office can rise to 5 million US dollars in a month at that time!In the next month, it is estimated that the entire monthly box office will only be more than [-] million. If this increase will eventually reach [-] million US dollars, he really dare not promise it!

But even with such a box office forecast of more than 4 million US dollars, that's pretty awesome, okay?After all, there have been movies that have earned more than $4 million in the North American market in history.That is one of the few!What are the films with a box office of more than 4 million in North America in history?First of all, it is "Avatar" that has not yet come out. Such a movie took up the gimmick of the first 3D movie, and suddenly its global box office was ridiculously high. Whether you are interested in this story or not, Even if it is aimed at 3D, I will buy a ticket to see it.As a result, "Avatar" has reached a box office of 7.6 million US dollars in North America!That equates to more than 3 million people in North America.Everyone contributed two dollars to the rhythm!What is this concept?

After such a title, the next No.2 is "Titanic", which was quite a gimmick back then.As the work of James Cameron, this film has a direct box office of 6.58 million US dollars in North America!This is a movie from ten years ago!Was it scary to have such a high box office back then?As for No.3, it should also be occupied by "The Avengers", which has not yet come out. Jia Hongjian remembers that such a film earned a box office of 6.13 million US dollars in North America.This No.4 is the second part of "Batman" that Nolan made before. The box office of this film is... 5.3 million U.S. dollars...

Eh?Jia Hongjian suddenly froze for a moment.Nolan's last movie box office was so high?Although he knew that this film had a high box office before, after all, he didn't study it much, and didn't record such a data deeply.Because in his opinion at the time, such a film must have a high box office, and he mainly let go and made it for Nolan, didn't he?Although the box office of Nolan’s third film is indeed not as good as the second one in history, but we are filming now, and we have made so many gimmicks. In the end, the box office is not as good as that of Nolan’s film after we let him go. Such a second high?Why does it feel like Jia Hongjian is not as good as Nolan?Speak the truth.If Jia Hongjian were to say that he was better than Nolan, he would not say so.After all, Nolan is the great director.That itself is awesome, and the word of mouth is also very good, the filming is indeed really good!Logically speaking, it's normal that we lost to Nolan. After all, we didn't like movies like Nolan since we were young, and we also like making movies. We haven't learned anything about directing before, have we?

But here lies the problem.Although he knew that it was normal for him to be inferior to Nolan, why was he so competitive?Why does he feel uncomfortable when he feels that he is inferior to others, whether it is Nolan or not?Why does Jia Hongjian think that he should be better than anyone else?Just when he was thinking this way, he heard Ye Jing talking again. "Now the top box office in North American history is Titanic, the second is Nolan's Batman II, the third is Star Wars prequel Phantom Menace, and the fourth is the first Star Wars in 77... How can our film be better than the first Star Wars film in 77? I even think that the box office of our film should be better than Nolan's..."

As soon as Jia Hongjian heard what the girl said, he knew that the girl was talking about the box office ranking in such a time and space.In such an era, after all, it is impossible to include the box office of movies that have not yet been produced, so those movies such as Avatar and Avengers must not be on the list.In such a situation, doesn't it mean that Nolan's second Batman is the second one?Hiss, the more he listened to this, the more Jia Hongjian felt that the girl was right. If he could surpass the box office of Nolan's film, that would be great!However, at such a time now, after all, the movie has already been released. After all, the movie has been released for 15 days. If you want to say what kind of publicity and gimmicks you can do now, so that the box office can make another leap forward, that's really true. Not likely anymore.But, although it is unlikely, we can still try it!For example, shouldn't many media now be frantically reporting on the growth of our film's box office?At least according to the current rising trend, our film still has some chances to become the second highest box office in North America history!And our film has created so many historical firsts, how much does this attract media coverage?

The media reported it, isn't this just propaganda for us?We have been not accepting interviews in various ways before, if we accept interviews now, will the media publicity be more attractive to those who have not yet seen it?Is it possible to fool some people to take a look?Isn't that also beneficial to the rise in the box office at this time?Thinking of this, Jia Hongjian really made up his mind to be interviewed.So since I am willing to accept an interview, who should I accept?Jia Hongjian looked at the various interview applications brought by Ye Jing, and immediately saw the Fox News application.Huh, this should be pretty good?After all, relatively speaking, Fox TV itself has cooperated with Jia Hongjian for many years, so there is a tacit understanding and relationship between them.On the other hand, not to mention that there is an old guy like Murdoch behind Fox TV!Murdoch should be more polite to Jia Hongjian, and would not allow the people below to ask Jia Hongjian some difficult questions.In this way, wouldn't Jia Hongjian be able to control the interview as much as possible and go in the direction he wanted to chat?

So after thinking of this, he probably decided to accept an interview with Fox News.Speaking of Fox News or the Fox Television Network, it was not established early!Even now, it has only been more than ten years—after 1985, Australian Rupert Murdoch, who holds News Corp., successfully acquired Fox Films, and in the early 90s he established a partnership with CBS, the three major American TV giants. The broadcasting company NBC and the American Broadcasting Company ABC stand shoulder to shoulder in the television media kingdom, which is the Fox Television Network.Although Fox TV was established relatively late, it has also released ace dramas that are not inferior to the Big Three. They have entered China since a long time ago. The timeless science fiction drama classic "X-Files"; was once introduced and became popular "24 Hours Against Terrorism"; To the enlightenment of the vast majority of American drama fans, "Prison Break", which is popular all over the country!This Fox has a good brand in various types of American dramas, such as the animation category, "The Simpsons", which has been popular in the United States for a long time!

Although it was established late, with Murdoch as the background, Fox has achieved great success in news and has become the largest news channel in the United States.In terms of TV dramas, in recent years, Fox TV has also tried every means to increase the ratings, starting with "Prison Break", coupled with the copyrights of various reality shows that they bought from China Satellite TV, it was really in the United States It caused a frenzy of ratings!Even now, in terms of overall ratings, Fox TV has become the second highest TV station in the United States, and the first is CBS CBS!From these perspectives, what Murdoch and the others have done is really awesome!

Of course, this Fox TV station was complained by Jia Hongjian in various ways in the past.For example, Fox TV is talking about all kinds of xenophobia and rightists, but if you want to put it in a good way, it is also a market choice.Just like I said before that the development of American movies from left to right is closely related to the right-leaning American society, the reason why Fox TV can develop so fast in the United States is because American society is already right-leaning. In conservatism and exclusion.That's why such a conservative consumer is more willing to accept the conservative Fox TV station!From such a perspective, it is not ironic that Jia Hongjian went to such a conservative and xenophobic TV station for an interview!After all, such a station represents the current social and cultural development direction of the United States, doesn't it?And besides, didn't our films before were said by various film critics in the United States to have religious reflections or something?As a non-believing Chinese, we may be disgusted by the Fox audience, but what if we are a seemingly religious Chinese?And as a Chinese who has made so many religious reflections in the movie?Then it should be able to arouse the favor of the American right? (To be continued..)