Chapter 898(1/2)
: Domestic release, next city first
Yu Qian continued: "For the movie "Avengers 3", in Mr. Guo's words, the money is burning. Can you imagine all the superheroes joining together to fight Thanos for an hour and a half?"
? This is simply a waste of money!"
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"Director Xu, you are one of the Chinese directors who likes to use advanced special effects technology to shoot movies. What do you think of the special effects level in "Avengers 3"?"
Xu Kedao: "The best in the world. If I have the opportunity, I will cooperate with those companies that did the post-production special effects of "Avengers 3" to try to create an eye-opening movie."
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"Brother Hua, if the full score is ten, what score would you give "Avengers 3"?"
Liu Huade smiled and said: "9.99 points, the remaining 0.1 points are for hoping that Zhang Xiaodong's "Avengers 4" will be more exciting than "Avengers 3"."
"Brother Hua, why didn't you go to "Star Wars 7: The Force Awakens" instead of attending the premiere of "Avengers 3"? Aren't you worried that Soli Film Company will cause trouble for you?
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Liu Huade seemed to have expected that reporters would ask this kind of question, and replied with a smile: "Zhang Xiao and I are very good friends. We also worked together on "Infernal Affairs", and the director of "Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens"
I don’t know the director or the actors, so I will definitely choose the premiere of Avengers 3.”
"As for Soli Film Company coming to trouble me because of this matter, then I can only say that I am very sorry, but I believe they will not do such a thing. After all, the artists who came to participate in "Avengers 3"
I’m not the only one.”
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On the other side, Zhang Xiao was also asked the same question as Liu Huade.
"Xiao Shen, some celebrities checked in to attend the premiere of "Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens." What do you think of this?"
Zhang Xiao was stunned for a moment and said: "They just participate, what does it have to do with me?"
"Don't you think they don't give you face?"
Zhang Xiao spread his hands and said with a smile: "I don't think so. For me, I am very grateful to my friends who came to attend the premiere of "Avengers 3", but I will never choose "Avengers 3" because of other artists.
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is not happy, I'm not that stingy."
"By the way, the premiere of that movie should be over too. What did everyone think of it?"
One reporter responded: "The majority of people gave Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens positive reviews."
Zhang Xiao asked again: "Are most of the people you are talking about celebrities going to attend the premiere, or are you talking about movie fans?"
The reporter replied: "We asked many fans, and most of them gave it eight or more points. Stars generally believe that "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens" is a rare masterpiece in the Star Wars series, and it can even be called a masterpiece.
The best work, Xiao Shen, do you feel any pressure?"
"Hahaha!" Zhang Xiao laughed loudly and said: "Only when you have pressure can you be motivated. If there is no pressure at all, I will be very disappointed."
The reporter said: "The crew of "Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens" has been claiming that you are using ploys to promote your movie. What do you think of this?"
Zhang Xiao laughed and said: "When I was abroad, almost everywhere I went, the foreign reporters would ask me this question, and my answer was always the same, that is, they were right."
"I did take advantage of the popularity of "Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens" to bundle promotions for "Avengers 3." Originally our promotional expenses were 80 million US dollars. After using this method, we only used
We spent US$40 million and met our expectations.”
"So I am very grateful to the crew of "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens."
"Hahaha!" Upon hearing his words, the reporters at the scene all laughed.
"Xiao Shen, aren't you afraid of being criticized by others when you say this?"
Zhang Xiao asked back: "Why do they criticize me just because I carry out bundled propaganda? Don't be kidding me. I don't think there is anything wrong with doing this, whether it is legal or moral. If I really did something wrong,
I'm afraid Suoli has already sued me."
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After answering a series of questions from reporters, Zhang Xiao returned home.
It was already five o'clock in the morning. Zhang Xiao did not disturb anyone. He simply washed up and walked into a room with broken hands and feet.
He didn't know how long he had slept. In the confusion, Zhang Xiao suddenly felt his nose was itchy. He couldn't help but squirt. When he opened his eyes, he saw that it was his daughter who was deliberately 'shushing' him with her hair.
"You little girl, you are so bad, let's see how I deal with you." Zhang Xiao roared, hugging his daughter on the bed and tickling her.
"Ah, hahahaha!"
"Oh, Dad, I don't dare anymore."
Xiao Xin laughed so hard that she rolled on the bed. Her silver bell-like laughter made Zhang Xiao, who had not been home for a long time, feel a warmth.
The father and daughter were having a fight, and Yang Mi walked in with her child in her arms and said, "Have you father and daughter had enough trouble? Hurry up and have dinner."
Zhang Xiao smiled and said: "I understand, leader."
After going downstairs, Zhang Xiao glanced around and asked, "Hey, Reba is not here today."
Yang Mi said: "She went to film a movie."
Zhang Xiao was stunned for a moment and asked: "It's almost the Chinese New Year, is she going to shoot something, a movie?"
Yang Mi said: "It's a TV series called "Glory". After Reba read the script, he liked the heroine in it, so he went."
Regarding the TV series "Glory", although Zhang Xiao had never watched it in his previous life, he had admired its name for a long time.
The female protagonist in it is a star, and the male protagonist is a researcher. The two got to know each other because of the game, and then started a series of love stories. Therefore, the ratings were very good at the beginning and the reputation was also good.
Zhang Xiao nodded and said, "It's really not a problem to stay at home all day. It's also good to go out and shoot a movie, just to change your mood."
Yang Mi smiled and said: "Changing my mood, Reba is almost bored to death."
Zhang Xiao asked curiously: "What's going on? Does anyone dare to cause trouble for her?"
"Of course not." Yang Mi said: "After she joined the crew, everyone worshiped her like a Buddha. The director even asked her if a scene was approved, which made her speechless for a while."
Zhang Xiao laughed loudly when he heard this and said: "This is really a problem."
Yang Mi glanced at him and said: "Husband, don't you care about the situation of "Avengers 3"?"
Zhang Xiao said confidently: "It must have achieved both word-of-mouth and box office success. Needless to say?"
Yang Mi curled her lips and said: "You are really confident, but I still want to congratulate you. The box office of "Avengers 3" should be very popular."
"I had someone send me an attendance statistics table. "Avengers 3" has now finished. Except for the second show, which had a low attendance rate due to time constraints, the attendance rates for the first and third shows
Both reached more than 85%.”
"As for the reputation, it is even better. More than 110,000 movie fans gave it a reputation score of 9.84 on the film review website, breaking many records."
Zhang Xiao nodded and said: "It is normal for a movie that has spent so much money to produce a better reputation. By the way, how about "Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens"?"
Yang Mi said: "Compared to ordinary movies, the box office and reputation of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" should be very good, but compared to "Avengers 3", it is still far behind."
"Judging from the data reported by our theaters, the attendance rate of "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens" is around 50%, and the score on the film review website is also 8.35."
Zhang Xiao said: "It's really good for "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens" to have this score. No wonder it dares to compete with my "Avengers 3"."
"But they still lost." Yang Mi said: "It hasn't been released in Europe and the United States yet, so it's hard to say, but in China and even Asia, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" will definitely not be the opponent of "Avengers 3".
It can even be said that the two are not on the same level at all.”
Zhang Xiao understood what Yang Mi meant.
The weekly "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens" itself is a bit acclimated, and only those fans who have watched the previous "Star Wars" can understand the plot.
Although they will have callbacks to the previous movies in the title sequence, for those who are new to this movie, it is still not enough to watch.
The second is popularity. Although there are many actors in "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens" who are so awesome that they have reached Hollywood superstars, in China and even in Asia, even if they are tied together, they are not Zhang Xiao's.
opponent.
What's more, the superstars in "Avengers 3" are no worse than those in "Star Wars 7: The Force Awakens".
If movie fans had to choose one of the two movies, "Avengers 3" would definitely be their best choice.
The last thing is word of mouth. "Avengers 3" scored 9.84 points, which is already a classic among classics, while "Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens" only scored 8.5 points, which can be considered excellent at best.
Comparing it this way, the gap between the two is indeed not even a little bit.
That's why Yang Mi said that the two are not on the same level.
After breakfast, Zhang Xiao picked up his phone and read the reviews of movie fans on the Internet.
If I could describe it in four words, it would be full of praise.
"After watching "Avengers 3" I realized that all the movies I had watched before were garbage."
"The visual effects of Xiao Shen's movie are so good that people can't bear to blink."
"The two-hour and forty-eight-minute movie was really too long. I held it in for more than an hour without going to the bathroom, for fear of missing any of the exciting fighting scenes."
"Marvel Comics is absolutely right to find Xiao Shen to film "Avengers 3". Compared with the previous two films, this one can be regarded as the pinnacle of science fiction movies."
"It's so crazy. As for the fight scenes in "Avengers 3", it's not just about making a movie, it's about burning money, one by one."
"Three billion were used to shoot nearly ten peak battles. Xiao Shen's approach was really too grand."
To be continued...