The gyroscope keeps spinning, and the open-ended ending leaves enough suspense and gives the audience plenty of room for discussion.

Christopher Nolan is a director with a very strong commercial attribute, and unlike his favorite Michael Bay, he knows how to tug at the audience's heartstrings while maintaining a high level of compulsion.

In terms of commercial and textual contributions, "Inception" is definitely a rare good film in recent years.

The premiere ended, and the audience walked out of the Nokia Theater one after another.

"What the hell is Inception?"

A significant number of viewers walked out of the North American premiere of "Inception" with an incredible look on their faces.

Some people are puzzled with words written on their faces, some people are thinking thoughtfully about the plot of the movie, some people are exchanging opinions with each other, some people seem to have just had a big explosion in their heads, and the aftermath is not over, and the excitement and surprise have not faded.

Some people see that this kind of refreshment is not a sensory stimulation that can be created by cold electronic words such as CGI, IMAX, and 3D.

It won't be long before there will be countless people, countless posts, and countless sleepless nights, just to analyze and discuss this film frame by frame.

With a well-developed publicity plan, an excellent distribution strategy, the appeal of the director and the actors themselves, and the quality of the film itself, "Inception" undoubtedly has the vast majority of the potential of a blockbuster movie.

On the first day of its release in North America, this sci-fi movie was in 4,221 theaters and earned $26.78 million, easily surpassing Twentieth Century Fox's "Max Payne" and becoming the box office champion of the day.

"Inception" has received critical acclaim, with the vast majority agreeing that it will be one of the best films of the year.

In the word-of-mouth marketing of Embassy Pictures, "Inception" took the lead in completing its transformation through the Internet and became a masterpiece in the mouths of some audiences.

Even if it's really a god's work, you have to blow it hard, if you don't blow it, who knows who you are?

The film industry has developed to this day, and there have been many masterpieces, but there are also more masterpieces, and there are many people who blow them, and they have become gods even if they are not gods.

The open-ended ending of "Inception" leaves the audience with infinite reverie and unlimited room for interpretation.

At the end of the film, the "foundation" was successful, the six members of the Dream Inception team woke up on the plane, Saito also fulfilled his promise to call and lift the protagonist's lawsuit in the United States, so that the protagonist could enter the customs smoothly, and the protagonist was finally able to go home to see his two children, when the protagonist turned the spinning top that could distinguish between dreams and reality, the film stopped, and the director did not explain whether the spinning top on the table was turned or stopped.

As the most discussable part, does the protagonist Cobb return to reality, or is he living in a dream?

In order to prove their point, audiences with different interpretations walked into theaters and re-watched "Inception" to find more evidence to support their views.

What a movie is afraid of is never controversy, but no controversy, the more controversial the topic, the more popular it is in the market, and only controversy can bring enough attention.

Just three days after its release, the craze for interpretation triggered by "Inception" has become one of the most concerned public opinion topics in North American media and the public.

Therefore, in the opening weekend of North America, although this film did not break the phenomenon that it was difficult to break 100 million in the first week of the original non-sequel film, the box office of $78.99 million was still guaranteed to top the North American box office list.

This number does not seem very high, and it is already very rare for a commercial film of the original genre.

In recent years, except for "Avatar", there has not been any original non-sequel live-action movie that has reached such a high box office.

The controversy and the excellent audience reputation made "Inception" the hottest film in North America in October, and the trend was unusually stable, with the box office falling less than 40 percent the following weekend to $49.22 million.

Combined with the previous four working days, Inception grossed more than $150 million in North America in just two weekends.

The fiery performance of North America has also spread to the international market through the increasing speed of information circulation, and it has been released in many overseas countries and regions.

At the invitation of China Film Group and the efforts of Relativity Entertainment Oriental Branch, in late October, Christopher Nolan led the main creative team of "Inception", including Tom Cruise, to cross the endless Pacific Ocean and go to the East to hold a premiere.

Although "The Dark Knight" did not pass the review of Big Scissors for various reasons, including anarchism, and finally failed to be released in the Eastern market, the developed Internet and the pirated copies everywhere still made Christopher Nolan famous here, especially on the bean-based movie rating website, which has gained countless brain-dead fans.

Tom Cruise's appeal here is just as impressive, a bowl of soup that has been cooked in the Oriental market for twenty years.

Relativity Entertainment has already had a lot of crews come here for premieres, and the Shimao contract between the two parties is about to expire, and the proportion of Hollywood films in the re-signed terms on movies has almost doubled.

Twenty-five percent may not seem like a lot, but it is the net income that excludes the publicity and distribution expenses, taxes and fees and various fund fees that must be paid by China Film or other imported companies.

In other overseas markets, after removing various costs, Hollywood companies will not get more than these, and even fewer in some markets.

What can attract Hollywood companies such as Relativity Entertainment is naturally the increasingly prosperous film market in the East.

Since the release of "Transformers", the film market in the East has begun to grow sharply like the height of a teenager in the development period.

With "Avatar" setting an unprecedented box office record in the Oriental Film Market, the speed of theater construction here has skyrocketed, and the number of screens added in the last two months has exceeded the sum of last year.

The release of "Avatar", like "Titanic" that year, is a landmark event in the Oriental film market, which means that the film and theater industry here has officially entered the fast lane of development.

Correspondingly, Hollywood blockbusters can make more and more money in the Oriental film market.

Under this stimulus, Hollywood is working harder and harder in the Oriental market, and there is more and more demand for marketing.

As a result, one Hollywood crew after another began to come to the East for premieres.

Unlike Hollywood's other single overseas markets, the Oriental Film Market is too large in the future.

No one knows this better than Ronan, so Relativity Entertainment's first-line blockbusters, unless there is an irresistible factor such as big scissors, will strive to enter the Oriental film market.

In the face of excellent marketing and explosive word-of-mouth, the overseas box office statistics of "Inception" have been released.

On the Oriental Film Market, "Inception" earned nearly $12 million in three days over the weekend, which is also the best three-day box office result in the Oriental Film Market after "Avatar" and "Transformers".

In other regions, Inception also opened high in the first week, with the United Kingdom receiving $14.52 million, France receiving more than $12 million, Germany reporting nearly $15 million, and Australia cutting more than $9 million......

In its first week of overseas screenings, "Inception" fetched nearly $155 million!

The situation has become extremely obvious, and after being canonized through "The Dark Knight", Christopher Nolan has created another "super masterpiece" in the eyes of fans.

Not only at the box office, but also around "Inception", such as the spinning top, a prop used by Tom Cruise to distinguish between reality and dreams, is also selling well.

Relativity Entertainment's commemorative version of the gyroscope, which was sold for $12 each, was sold out on the film's release day.

Commemorative spinning tops in stores and online range in price from $80 to $130, and hundreds of thousands of pieces were sold in just two weeks.

In terms of developing the film derivatives market, Relativity Entertainment has rich experience, and the hot sales of "Dream Gyro" also benefit from its huge ability to operate the whole industry chain.

Christopher Nolan is at the peak of his directorial career, and his work has reached a certain height, both commercially and otherwise.

Such a director, of course, the film company will like it.

After returning from attending the premiere in the East, Christopher Nolan submitted the script and plan for a new future work to Shahai Entertainment, which attached great importance to the British director and transferred it to Ronan as soon as possible.

This is a space science fiction film, also biased towards the hard science fiction genre, the project future is directed by Christopher Nolan, the script is written by his younger brother Jonathan Nolan, and mainly tells the story of a team of explorers who use their new discoveries of wormholes to surpass the limits of human space travel, so as to start an interstellar voyage in the vast universe.

The name of the script is familiar to Ronan - "Interstellar".

The Nolan brothers' earliest idea came from the California Institute of Technology physicist Kip Thorne, in the words of Christopher Nolan: "Kip Thorne has done a lot of amazing research and work on the potential possibilities of theoretical wormholes and time travel. ”

As early as last year, Christopher Nolan mentioned this project to Ronan, because the script has always been the first draft, and Ronan is not in a hurry.

During this period, Spielberg once lobbied the Nolan brothers, but the Nolan brothers had already signed a long-term contract with Relativity Entertainment and rejected the olive branch thrown by DreamWorks.

"Inception" will be a space blockbuster, with a production budget of no less than $160 million.

Tom Cruise has gotten relevant news from Christopher Nolan and is willing to play the lead actor in it.

Outside of the "Mission Impossible" series, Tom Cruise is also exploring other territories.

However, it will take some time for this project to start preparation, after all, Christopher Nolan is still filming "The Dark Knight Rises".