screen age

Chapter 296

"The box office exceeded one billion!"

"The box office surpassed "Source Code"!"

All of a sudden, these two concepts really stunned many people. This Chen Xi must be too ambitious!Although everyone knows that his current movies should not hit the market, and the box office is almost guaranteed to be 2 million yuan, but his concept of box office exceeding 10 billion yuan still makes many people feel ashamed.

As expected of Da Pao Chen!

Sure enough.

Of course, so far, many filmmakers and even many movie fans have placed their hope that the box office of a Chinese film will break through 10 billion yuan for the first time on Chen Xi. After all, his film is the closest to this figure. , It is also because of Chen Xi's movie that it is really the most promising.

But even so, everyone never thought that Chen Xi would use a comedy to create a box office of 10 billion yuan... Isn't this a bit too childish?

Although comedies have always been the type that everyone prefers, the existence of comedy is also an indispensable type of film for many people.

But... In everyone's opinion, if you really want to make a difference at the box office, and even directly compete with the more than one billion box office of "Avatar", which is now in full swing, you can only use blockbuster movies... just It seems that the best way to deal with cavalry is cavalry, and the best way to deal with tanks can only be tanks.

However, this is Chen Xi...

How many seemingly impossible things had he done before?
How much of his movie box office is now incomprehensible? !

So for a while, some people felt full of expectations because of Chen Xi's words.

But of course there are also some reporters who want to get to the bottom of it, and now they directly ask: "Director Chen, what are your plans to make a comedy movie earn a box office of one billion yuan?"

Of course it is impossible for Chen Xi to say that I want to rely on publicity.

Although it is said that the promotion of a movie is essential, especially in this day and age, if a movie is not promoted, it will basically be a loss if it enters the cinema, but... if this kind of thing is said directly, it will Some people think that your movie is not good, and can only be improved by publicity, and movies with too much publicity are now becoming more and more alert, and will leave a bad impression in their hearts.

So Chen Xi couldn't confide all her thoughts.

So he smiled and said: "It mainly depends on the quality of the movie, as well as the right time, place and people in other places. "Avatar" has proved to us that the mainland movie box office market can accommodate movies with a box office of one billion yuan. Now It is the foreign film "Avatar", and I believe that the one billion RMB box office of Chinese-language films is not far away and will come soon."

As soon as Chen Xi's words were transferred to the reporters, they felt a little regretful. Many of them naturally heard that Chen Xi ignored some things.

He just deliberately skipped over and didn't say anything.

In fact it is.

Soon someone began to ask a question that many people were interested in: "Director Chen, what do you think of 3D movies? After "Avatar", many people know the concept of 3D movies. Will you shoot 3D movies?"

The success of "Avatar" has indeed stimulated too many people, especially for many Chinese filmmakers who are already good at opportunism.

As a result, the trend of 3D movies has been on the rise, especially in China, an impetuous land. The 3D movie "2012", which was basically unsalable in foreign countries, was almost won. 2 million yuan...Many foreign movies have 2D versions abroad and even no 3D versions. When they come to China, only 3D versions are left... Then when they go to the cinema, everyone will find that they have been cheated. The so-called 3D, except for the subtitles, nothing else is really 3D...

As a result, in later generations, even movies like "Bride Wars" have to use 3D... One can imagine how the so-called 3D has spread in China.

The consequence of this development is that audiences who have been deceived too much begin to lose confidence in 3D movies.

At the moment, Chen Xi said: "I will also shoot 3D movies, but compared with the so-called 3D movies now, I still feel that when shooting this kind of movie, I need to be more careful and consider more issues."

The reporters all looked at Chen Xi.

Chen Xi went on to say: "At the current stage, if I want to shoot 3D movies, the first thing I have to consider is technical issues."

Chen Xi didn't shy away, but said directly: "Actually, what I want to say is that after "Avatar", many people, including Chinese and foreign filmmakers, have an exaggerated attitude towards 3D movies, especially Some investors may see the price gap between 3D movie tickets and 2D movie tickets, and now people have seen the amazing effects of "Avatar", and they will look forward to seeing more 3D movies, so Many films have to be post-converted into 3D. However, I think that rushing into the 3D film market without solving some technical problems, or without sufficient conditions to solve them, will only bring dissatisfaction to movie audiences. To be responsible, to put it bluntly, is to use 3D technology to collect money, I think it is very bad.”

"..." Many reporters couldn't help but marvel in their hearts now, and then they were emotional. They came to interview Mr. Chen Xi and Mr. Chen Dapao, and it really was very interesting!This guy always has a lot of words that are not surprising and endless. Listening to what he is saying now, it is really very topical: Chen Xi's words are actually scolding many filmmakers.

In fact, after the launch conference, many filmmakers were saying that Chen Xi slandered the new technology and hindered the progress of the film...

Even some movie fans were incited, feeling that Chen Xi was pretending to be B.

However, they soon saw so-called 3D movies that were used to collect money one after another, and saw one bad fake 3D movie after another, and some of them didn't even have 3D subtitles, which made people watch Heartbroken, it was only at this time that they suddenly discovered Chen Xi's strategic position.

Chen Xi continued: "Of course, if the technical problems of 3D can be solved, I think 3D is also one of the best ways to show the film world in the hearts of filmmakers. "Avatar" is a wonderful example, so if If I make a 3D movie, it’s fine if I don’t make it, and if I do, I will try my best to do my best.”

After saying this, the reporters really had more to talk about.

In Chen Xi's mind, there are actually too few movies with good 3D lenses, even if you count Hollywood.

Leaving aside "Avatar" for the time being, there are very few 3D movies that reach the level of "Pacific Rim".

In China, audiences are easy to be fooled. For most people, as long as something in the movie occasionally has an off-screen effect, making them dodge left and right under the shock, then this is a movie with a burst of 3D effects. It seems that the other parts of "Frozen Man" in later generations have no effect at all, but when fighting, weapons will fly out of the screen, and some people are stunned and think this is too 3D...

China has really done a good job in 3D. In fact, only Xu Ke is alone. "Flying Armor of the Dragon Gate", "Di Renjie, the Dragon King", and "Taking Tiger Mountain Out of Wisdom" all have "Pacific Rim" at least in terms of 3D effects. The standard of "Shendu Dragon King" is even better, especially "Dragon King of Shendu".

And Chen Xi's next blockbuster will also be in 3D format, but he will definitely do his best as he said when he faced so many reporters today.

...After asking a lot of questions, some reporters finally turned their attention to Huang Bo, Xu Zheng, and Wang Baoqiang. Huang Bo and Chen Xi didn't bother to get them here. This person is relatively good at picking scripts, so he can naturally see that the script provided by Chen Xi is still good, and this is Chen Xi, there are many things that he doesn't have to worry about, so Huang Bo came here.

Everyone is full of expectations for the combination of these three comedians.

After the opening conference of "Tai囧" ended, there was almost an uproar among the fans, and too many people expressed their feelings about the opening conference.

When many movie fans saw that Chen Xi said that he would use "Tai囧" to get a box office of 10 billion, they were shocked. This Chen Xi is really not ordinary confidence!But there are also some movie fans who still insist on believing in Chen Xi. After all, Chen Xi has brought them too many miracles and shocks, and they feel that this time must be the same.

After that, Chen Xi's attitude towards 3D movies, although it had a warning effect for the world market where 3D movies have just appeared, but more people felt that Chen Xi seemed to be making a fuss out of a molehill.

It took some time for these people to realize that Chen Xi was right.

But in any case, these fans now have higher and higher expectations for "Lost in Thailand", and they really want to see this movie as soon as possible.

"Lost in Thailand" also officially started filming within this period. In fact, this is a movie with a series of jokes, but the plot is relatively complete.

This kind of movie is not too difficult for Chen Xi and the others who are used to making movies like "Front and Cloud". Chen Xi also plans to call it a day after shooting for about 40 days.

After filming a few scenes in the capital, "Lost in Thailand" officially moved to Thailand for filming. This is Chen Xi's first time filming in a foreign country, although Thailand is not far from China.

Everything for the crew in Thailand has basically been arranged. After the crew came here, they also devoted themselves to filming as quickly as possible.

(End of this chapter)