Chapter 793 Mars changes gears, Pacific Rim fills in, and the 3D era is about to begin

Time flew by and soon came to January 16, 2006.

Today is 12 days away from New Year’s Eve.

This day is the annual meeting of the stars and the sea, and it is also the day when "The Promise" is painted.

One month after "The Promise" was released, the mainland box office finally reached 200 million.

The figure of 200 million is much better than the 175 million of the original time and space, but if compared with the box office and the number of big screens in the same period in 2005, this increase is obviously not qualified.

However, the outside world does not know the data of the original time and space. They only know that judging from the current situation of the mainland film market, 200 million is already quite good.

In 2005, it could be marketed as "the "New Police Story" group that beats Jiang Yan and Long Ge, ranking second in the box office list."

If the great poet really wants to use this kind of marketing method, the momentum will be absolutely huge, and it may even add to the popularity of "The Promise" when it is released in Hong Kong, Taiwan, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and North America.

But the great poet is obviously not stupid.

If he really wanted to do this, he would have to offend Jiang Yan and Brother Long at the same time, and then nothing would work.

Moreover, the great poet obviously has a greater pursuit. What he values ​​​​is not money. Anyway, many investments are not his money, so talking about money is too vulgar.

What he values ​​​​is artistry!

Therefore, starting from the week before "The Promise" was released, the media's achievements in "The Promise" were almost all focused on "being nominated for the 63rd Golden Globe Award in the United States".

This has also succeeded in making many people begin to ignore the huge loss of "The Promise" and "Murder Case Caused by a Steamed Bun", and instead further recognize that the great poet really has something.

He is indeed the man who made "Farewell My Concubine"!

It's just that the Golden Globe Award is not that easy to win, and the Internet has memory after all.

Even if he wins the Golden Globe Award, those lovely netizens on the Internet will not really look at him differently just because of the Golden Globe Award.

After all, who made your "The Promise" really have so many flaws?

Therefore, it is an indisputable fact that "The Promise" will become a major memory point in 2005 in the future.

But no matter how much netizens complain about it, it is true that "The Promise"'s box office of 200 million has brought considerable stimulation to the Chinese film market.

Especially for those companies that need a lot of external funds, the "Double Harvest" of the domestic film "The Promise" in terms of box office and awards has allowed many projects to have sufficient funds at once.

Among them, Huayi Brothers has gained the most.

In recent years, Huayi Brothers has established a sufficient reputation in the industry by virtue of its cooperation with Xingchenhai. At the same time, it has also accumulated a lot of strength.

With such conditions, it has naturally become a priority investment option for coal bosses.

So soon, Huayi announced that it would release two blockbusters in 2006.

One is an Eastern ancient historical blockbuster with an estimated cost of 20 million US dollars, based on the Western "Hamlet": "The Night Banquet".

Another blockbuster is also based on an ancient Chinese story and cost no less than 15 million US dollars: "Ink Attack".

According to the current media reports, the public knows that both films are involving big names. "The Night Banquet" will be starred by Uncle Ge and International Zhang, while "Ink Attack" will be starred by Andy Lau. This has made countless domestic

Movie fans paid great attention to it.

In addition to these two confirmed blockbusters, Huayi Brothers also has two blockbusters in the pipeline, namely "Baby Project" and "Unrest".

The former will cooperate with Long Ge, and the latter will adjust according to the situation. Anyway, it will still be a blockbuster.

As a result, Huayi Brothers' fame suddenly increased, and some media even commented that Huayi Brothers already had the momentum to catch up with the stars and the sea.

It’s just that not many people believe this argument.

In the past few years, everyone in China has become aware of what kind of film company Stars and Sea is.

It is an aircraft carrier. The global box office of one "Kung Fu Panda" movie can match the domestic box office for several years. How can Huayi compare with it?

The media also thinks so, so as the end of the year approaches, everyone’s attention is focused on the official website of Stars and Seas.

According to Xingchenhai's practice, at the annual meeting at the end of each year, Xingchenhai will release some important project information for the next year on its official website.

And today is the Xingchenhai Annual Meeting, so if nothing unexpected happens, you can see the news this afternoon or tomorrow.

Sure enough, in the afternoon, Xingchenhai released the first message.

But the news is not very good.

"The Martian, which was originally scheduled to be released in the second half of 2006, will be postponed. The specific time has not been determined."

This surprised domestic filmmakers and media people.

"Postponed again?"

"Yes, it was supposed to be released in 2004 at the earliest, but now it won't be released in 2006."

“Is it so difficult to make a science fiction film?”

"I don't know. Anyway, if Stars and Sea can't be photographed, no one in the country can."

"Is there anything going on in the sea of ​​stars?"

"I don't know, just wait a little longer. There will be other news later, so don't rush..."

Since "Moon", science fiction films have gained ground in China, so when Jiang Yan said he wanted to make "The Martian", it attracted great attention in China.

It's been just over two years, and everyone only knows the name of "The Martian" and its cost of about $50 million, but no other information.

This keeps the film's mystery high.

In theory, this situation will greatly help the release of "The Martian".

The higher the attention, the higher the box office will be.

But Jiang Yan knew that this was all false.

So he decided to postpone the release.

Because after he experimented several times in other worlds, he all came up with the same result.

That is, "The Martian" will be released before the 2008 Olympics!

The domestic box office of the movie will not exceed 150 million, let alone the foreign box office.

And the reason is very simple: national confidence.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Before the 2008 Olympics and after the Olympics, the confidence of the Chinese people was completely different.

So much so that my attitude towards many things has become completely different.

Among them is the domestic science fiction movie "The Martian".

In another world, "The Martian", which was released before 2008, received a lot of criticism in China, and most of these criticisms were aimed at the movie's concept of "the movie is unrealistic."

"When Chinese people land on Mars and don't do anything else, they actually grow vegetables? Not only is it ridiculous, it's also embarrassing!"

This is the most unified film review that has been tested in several worlds.

But if it were released after the 2008 Olympics, the review trend would be completely different.

"Our journey is the sea of ​​stars!"

As a result, the domestic box office soared to more than 800 million!

Seeing such a huge difference, Jiang Yan himself found it incredible.

150 million and 800 million, after excluding factors such as theater growth in the intervening years, the difference is too big!

In his impression, the 2008 Olympics did not seem to have such great magic power that could make such a big change in the attitude of the people across the country towards one thing. If it did, it would have to be after the economic war or the epidemic.

So after the first test, he was still very skeptical.

But after several experiments and various methods, the result was almost the same, so Jiang Yan had to believe it even if he didn't believe it.

So after returning to reality, Jiang Yan made a decision directly: change the schedule!

And when the schedule changes, many things have to change accordingly. For example, the original work of "The Martian" has to be written, otherwise it is very likely to run into trouble with the original author.

Fortunately, these are small things, just take your time.

And after "The Martian" is postponed, it's not like there are no other movies that can take over.

In another world, Jiang Yan experimented with this situation.

In the end, he discovered that the difference between the huge deviation in the performance of "The Martian" before and after the 2008 Olympics was that the performance of "Pacific Rim" was the other way around.

In 2006 and 2007, Jiang Yan's version of "Pacific Rim" was released around the world. After several trials, it earned an average box office of about 450 million US dollars.

However, when it was released from 2008 to 2011, the global box office did not increase, but dropped by 0.5 to 100 million US dollars.

The reason is very simple. After 2008, Hollywood entered the era of the Marvel Universe and the 3D era, and the advantage of differentiated marketing was gone. Coupled with many force majeure factors, films with Chinese protagonists were rejected one after another.

Before that, the 3D version of "Pacific Rim" with new technology had great advantages. After all, no one had ever seen a 3D blockbuster. This would naturally greatly stimulate the box office.

Moreover, "Pacific Rim" and "The Martian" are different from hard-core science fiction. The former is about fighting monsters, a theme loved by the world, while the latter has an ideological output that everyone can understand.

The above situation seems a lot unreasonable at first glance, but there is nothing you can do about it, it is the fact.

Of course, after 2011, the global box office will be even higher. Starting from 2015, the domestic box office alone will be able to earn at least 3 billion yuan.

However, the data after 2011 cannot be used as a reference. It is too far away and has already collided with the original version.
To be continued...