Sometimes Xiao Qi feels that people who work in movies and television are very comfortable.
Take the current Beckham as an example, who should you choose to play Fandral? Wouldn't it mean that if you find someone else, you won't be paid? If you choose Beckham, will you have to increase your pay?
It’s the same!
But if you choose Beckham, you will get his gratitude, which will make him willing to go to China to play football. This is something that money cannot buy!
Being able to give out favors and add luster to movie characters, being an investor in movies and TV shows really brings great power and convenience.
It's no wonder that so many producers and investors, including directors, can do whatever they want with female stars.
However, this is also the rule in the entertainment industry. Xiao Qi will not do that kind of coercion, but he cannot make this circle completely clean. He can only make his related affairs as simple and direct as possible.
Xiao Qi is currently staying in the United States. The most important thing is the privatization process of Disney. He must watch it. If he encounters any problem, he must communicate it as soon as possible.
Fortunately, with the full efforts of Blackstone Group, Disney's privatization did not have many difficulties.
Again, the Japanese have bought Columbia and MGM, how can you still stop the world's richest man from buying Disney?
In the United States, all commercial activities within the scope of the law are normal and must be protected, at least on the surface.
Even if someone wants to be dissatisfied with this, the Blackstone Group, which took so much money from Xiao Qi, is not a vegetarian. Their power in the government is very powerful!
Therefore, Xiao Qi himself had nothing to do. After Du Feixing returned to China, he shuttled back and forth between his two wives' adjacent manors, playing with his two daughters, and enjoying the blessings of others.
Before you know it, the time has arrived, Monday, December 15th, and tomorrow at 0:00 a.m. on the 16th is the day when "Avatar" will be released.
After being the first to open in the UK a few days ago, "Avatar" has aroused unanimous praise from British movie fans.
The performance of the Kiwi European Cinema Line on 55 screens in the UK and online can be described as extremely exciting.
"Fk! I swear on my grandfather's name, you will regret it if you don't watch "Avatar"!"
"It's great! When the birds and animals were flying and running on the 3D and IMAX screens, I thought they were right in front of me! It felt like I was on the scene, which made me watch it three times in a row.
But I never get tired of it!”
"My girlfriend was so scared that she cried, haha! Such a realistic movie scared me! For more than two hours, I forgot to drink water and forget to go to the toilet, even after the movie ended.
We have to send a long line to use the toilet!"
"Some people still say that Cameron is dying? Please watch "Avatar" carefully. This is the movie we want to watch!"
"The box office of the movie "Avatar" will definitely be high! I estimate it should be number one in the world!"
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In the Internet age, any news can be delivered to the whole world immediately.
If only the British were shouting, it might not be a big deal. But after yesterday's release in the United Arab Emirates, those stereotypical Middle Easterners actually praised it online, which made people look forward to it even more.
Theaters in the United States have also been very cooperative.
The Kiwi North American theater chain, which had originally assigned 7% of the film schedule, after Qiao Guoer listened to the opinions of the Kiwi European theater chain, directly assigned 9% of the film schedule tonight, and asked Cameron to call again in person.
Thanks a lot.
With the good reviews from the UK and the United Arab Emirates, coupled with Kiwi's confident film schedule, other major theater chains in the United States have also followed suit. At least 7% of the film schedule tonight was given to "Avatar".
It can be said to have set a record.
On this day in the United States, almost all attention is on "Avatar."
TV shows scenes of crowds of people in front of various movie theaters at any time. Many movie fans have already put on the purchased "Avatar" peripheral products before even watching the movie, and the whole scene is a sea of joy.
Take the words of a senior NBC commentator, "If you see this scene, it is hard to imagine that the United States is experiencing an economic recession that has not been seen in three years!"
Little Taylor always likes to be lively, but she can't let go of Sophie. Like her, there is Tang Mingxiang, so the two young mothers directly discussed and asked Kiwi North American Cinema to bring them a special copy. In Little Taylor
Screened in the manor's cinema hall.
There are the most modern 3D and IMAX screens here, and there is no flaw in the viewing effect.
Commissioners from 2nd Century Fox and staff from Kiwi North America Cinemas were stationed in the screening room. Although they could bring a copy over individually, no one would be responsible for anything going wrong, so there was nothing wrong with being careful.
After all, the premiere in North America has to wait until 0:00. If it were leaked out like this, it would be too late to cry.
Originally, only Xiao Qi's family of three came to watch, but little Taylor called his friends again. At 1 o'clock in the evening, Kasha and Anna also came, and Scott and his wife also ran over, and they made up.
There were almost a table full of people, and with drinks, snacks, drinks, etc., the atmosphere was quite lively.
But after the screening of "Avatar" started, everyone's mood no longer focused on chatting, eating and drinking.
Xiao Qi watched "Avatar" in the cinema in front of the school in his previous life, but at that time the cinema in front of the school did not have a giant IMAX screen, only 3D effects, which was naturally inferior.
Now in Little Taylor's cinema, both 3D and IMAX screens are available, which looks and feels completely different.
During the entire more than two hours of watching the movie, everyone held their breath. Their moods fluctuated with the development of the movie. Until the movie ended, they could not recover for a long time.
"It's so... so shocking!" Little Taylor murmured, "How can a movie be made like this? It's like we are fighting and fighting with them on the scene!"
"The future movie trend will be like this." Xiao Qi said with a smile, "With 3D animation technology, Marvel's hero movies can finally shine!"
Little Taylor didn't think anything when he heard it, but Scott's eyes lit up.
As Taylor's most trusted uncle, he has gradually begun to take care of the entire Taylor's industry, and Marvel is one of them.
If the 3D animation technology of "Avatar" can be applied to hero movies, how many movies can Marvel's hundreds of heroes create?
Americans are all Marvel fans!
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The show is released at the same time in the United States and China. Zero o'clock on the 16th in the United States is 13 o'clock in the capital.
People in the film industry originally expected that not many people would come to watch movies during this time period, but after 12 noon, the long queues at various cinemas were shocking.
The most exaggerated thing is at a Kiwi Cinema on Huaihai Road. The total length of the queue exceeds meters. And from 12 noon to 12 o'clock in the evening, the number of people in this long queue has not decreased, but has increased a lot.
The box office data for such a half-day was quickly compiled in the early morning of the 17th.
The box office on that day was 160 million, setting a record for the highest single-day box office in history!
The box office in one day was 100 million, which accounted for 40% of the box office on that day, and it was not even a weekend! This simply frightened many people in the film industry!
Not only in China, but also in the United States, the performance was equally impressive. The 32 cinemas at the premiere grossed 10,000 US dollars, and the box office on the first day directly reached 710,000 US dollars, breaking last year's "Batman: The Dark Knight"'s 6.75 million US dollars.
US dollar records.
At the same time, Canada, Brazil, China's Hong Kong, China's Treasure Island, Germany, France and other countries also had consecutive box office successes, and they all broke their country's first-run box office records.
On the first day of global screening, the global box office of "Avatar" reached a staggering US$170 million, once again setting a new record in world box office history!
Xiao Qi was a little surprised by this, but then he took it for granted.
"Avatar" in the previous life was not as good as this one in terms of promotion and filming. With the full support of the Kiwi Cinema Line, coupled with good word-of-mouth promotion, such an excellent movie as "Avatar" is about to explode.
As expected!
If it weren't for the fact that there are not enough 3D and IMAX screens now, it would not be impossible to double this achievement!! (To be continued.)