Just when "The Martian" has been in China for most of the day, this movie has just been released in the United States.

In the United States, this film is ranked second in the audience's expectations, and for science fiction themes, American audiences will give a certain amount of enthusiasm to it.

But this enthusiasm was accompanied by great controversy.

Because Nie Wei is a super-rich man at a young age, he enjoys a high reputation all over the world.

Coupled with the hot box office of "League of Assassins" before, Nie Wei already has a large fan base in the United States, especially among young people, many young Americans have regarded Nie Wei as their idol.

This group of fans even began to create fan clubs for Nie Wei on social networking sites in the United States, where they would discuss Nie Wei's movies together at first, then move on to music, and even manage websites that went to China to move a lot of Nie Wei's works to the fan club, and then share them with people who like Nie Wei together.

They admired Nie Wei's business acumen and the talent he showed, and of course, there were many girls who admired Nie Wei's appearance and figure.

But where there is a liking, there must be a dislike.

Especially Nie Wei is still a yellow person, so when he is gradually becoming popular in the United States, there are also a group of people who hate Nie Wei very much.

And what they love to do the most is naturally to follow Nie Wei's fans and go against the tune.

When Nie Wei's fans spontaneously promoted "The Martian" online, these guys danced happily.

"If a Chinese person goes to make a science fiction movie, I suggest that he might as well invest the money, and the real science fiction movie can only be made by us Americans. ”

"Totally agree, some people even said that the previous "League of Assassins" was also a science fiction movie, it really laughed off my big teeth, in my opinion, it was just an action movie, and this time I heard that Nie Wei's new movie no longer has those fights, so the person who walked into the cinema might have to sleep for two hours. ”

"Judging from the trailer, this movie is terrible, it even made me sit in the cinema for more than two hours just to see how a Chinese person survives on Mars, is there anything more than this?

As soon as the fans finished the promotion, this group of people would follow behind and leave a message of sarcasm, and occasionally passers-by would be ridiculed by their group if they expressed some objective and neutral opinions.

Nie Wei's fans are naturally not to be outdone, and they are also constantly fighting back.

"If you haven't seen the movie yet, please shut your mouth, does the quality of a movie still need to be determined by skin color?"

"Put away your mocking faces, put on your myopic glasses, and wait until the day the movie is released, you will watch it, in short, Nie Wei has never let me down!"

"After watching the trailer, this movie is very worthy of my expectations, and I am also curious about what role the United States plays in this movie, in short, this should be the most worthy movie for us to go into the cinema and buy tickets to watch in the summer. ”

The struggle between the two sides attracted countless passers-by and netizens, and also made the popularity of the movie gradually heat up, coupled with the promotion of Paramount, "The Martian", which was originally ranked sixth on the summer movie expectation list, rose to second place in just one month.

This ascent has also allowed it to surpass many well-known movies, such as "Alice in Wonderland", "Iron Man 2", and "Twilight 3" and so on.

And the only one that can overpower "The Martian" is "Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows", which will be released at the end of the year.

This is a very incredible thing for Nie Wei and Paramount.

After all, in terms of popularity, movies such as "Alice in Wonderland" and "Iron Man 2" are definitely much higher.

For example, "Alice in Wonderland" is a movie adapted from a well-known fairy tale, and the protagonist is Anne Hathaway, the current hot actress in Hollywood, so why should it be more anticipated?

Not to mention "Iron Man 2", one of Marvel's leading heroes, the first part was a hit both word-of-mouth and box office, and it also lost to "The Martian".

There are these two bases, and the rest such as "Twilight 3" and so on are not to be mentioned.

In short, "The Martian" will appear in second place on the annual movie expectation list, which is a surprise for everyone.

And this unexpected joy also made American theater operators adjust the scheduling rate of "The Martian" again, although it was only slightly increased, but it was also nearly 100 more than the original number of screens.

It doesn't seem to be much compared with the original 4,000 screens, but for "The Martian", which is determined to win the first-day box office, even one more screen is an extra chance of winning.

June 1 in the United States was more than half a day later than in China, but it did not delay the expectations of American audiences, and when the theater opened its doors, there were already many queues of audiences standing outside.

"The Martian", a film that has sprung up on the annual film expectation list, has obviously aroused the curiosity of many people.

In addition to the audience, many reporters also gathered at the door of many theaters, and the controversy caused by the online "The Martian" is obviously the attention of the media, and their favorite is these controversial topics, especially the director of this movie is still a Chinese person, and he is also a super-rich man, Nie Wei is simply a golden treasure in the eyes of these reporters, and there are too many things worth digging up and reporting.

Two and a half hours later, the first audience walked out of the screening hall, and the reporters who had been waiting outside for a long time hurriedly seized the opportunity to interview thousands of viewers who had seen the movie.

"Have you seen The Martian, what do you think of this movie?"

"NO!" The audience's first NO made the reporters almost have an instant climax, and what they are most looking forward to is naturally the conflict, and the occurrence of the conflict is naturally to have the audience stand up and sing against the movie.

The reporter who interviewed obviously didn't expect to be so 'lucky', the first audience interviewed was dissatisfied with the movie, and even he had begun to think, is it that Nie Wei's directing level has plummeted this time, and the movie is too bad, thinking of this, the reporter can't help but snicker, that's really good.

But in the next second, the smile on his face that had not yet floated instantly turned into consternation.

"This movie far exceeded my expectations, it was the best space movie I've seen in recent years, and it even changed my impression of those astronauts, they were great!"

After the audience said excitedly, the stunned reporter walked away in style.

"Hey, brother, now is not the time to be stunned, continue your work. The reporter with the camera on the side saw that his colleague was still there in a daze, and reminded him with some dissatisfaction.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. The reporter who came back to his senses quickly apologized, and then continued the interview with a hint of surprise.

More than ten minutes later, after completing a brief interview with nearly ten passers-by, the reporter finally recognized the fact that Nie Wei's film obviously did not fall as badly as he imagined, but seemed to have improved again.

Although last year's "League of Assassins" had a good reputation, some women and some older men were not really interested in this movie, it only attracted some young people who were looking for excitement.

But this "The Martian" is different, the reporter interviewed more than a dozen viewers, covering almost all age groups, and gender is also differentiated, and even the reporter is very careful to pick some people who seem to have different identities to do interviews.

Whether it represents the middle class, ordinary people, and even some people who don't seem to be very wealthy, they all expressed their love for the film.

And from the sixteen-year-old teenager to the forty-five-year-old uncle and aunt, they all also find this movie very interesting.

Although their likes are not the same, it is undeniable that they all gave this movie a good rating, at least an excellent one, and the score is A.

In fact, this reporter's interview seems redundant, in just half a day, on the film review website, nearly 10,000 viewers who have watched the movie have voted and commented.

And its initial score is directly as high as 9.6, although a day has passed, the score has slipped to 9.4, but this score is still the best movie among all the movies released this year.

"What this movie brings to me is more of a mental boost, like Mark said at the end, when you solve one problem after another, as long as you solve enough of it, success will come, and in order to succeed, I decided to pull myself together. ”

"There's no conspiracy in this movie from beginning to end, and there's nothing about flies and dogs, it just uses that story, and then tells us a lot of truths. ”

"The protagonist Mark is optimistic, brave and confident, although he is a Chinese, but in him, I see the noble qualities that belong to us Americans, just like in the movie, our space center intended to fund the Chinese space center to aid Mark for free, this is the greatness of our United States!"

"What else can I say, I had seen the trailer, I thought Mark would be in pain on Mars, but the actual director filmed the whole story very easily, when Mark appeared on camera with smoke, I couldn't help but squirt out the Coke that I was just about to swallow in my mouth, and finally mention, thank you for that bridge, because of a blessing in disguise, I now seem to finally have a girlfriend. ”

"This movie lets us know the insignificance of human beings in the face of nature, and at the same time tells us how great the energy of human beings can burst forward in the face of difficulties.

"After watching the movie, I not only feel a lot of emotion, but I like it very much, from the bottom of my heart. ”

"I never thought I'd be clapping my hands and screaming in the theater for a potato sprout, and at that moment I was almost cleared of the theater by the security guards. ”

"After watching this movie, I found that I fell in love with those Chinese music, who said that the captain's music taste is bad? At least it suits my appetite. ”

"The easter eggs at the end of the credits were touching, and I even shed tears when the picture of our nation's aviation hero Armstrong appeared. ”

The rave reviews brought more audiences into the theater, and those who originally satirized Nie Wei and "The Martian" on the Internet also quietly died down, and even many of them went to the theater with curiosity or pickiness, contributing their box office power to the movie.

A day passed, and the single-day box office results of "The Martian" were also released quickly.

The first-day box office data of $33 million has left countless people speechless, and this result is even more than the total single-day box office of the following two, three, four and five movies.

Paramount is already jubilant, with a box office of 33 million on the first day, so if this movie goes well, it may only take three to four days to break 100 million, and the weekly box office champion is already a sure thing, and the monthly box office champion is not a problem at all.

Of course, there is also a group of people with bitter faces, that is, the group of film and television experts who have evaluated the box office, originally thought that they had overestimated the box office of this movie, but with the release of the first-day box office data, they knew that they were wrong.

Now what this group of people have to do is to re-evaluate the box office of the film, and 200 million US dollars is obviously still an underestimate, and this forecast must be adjusted upwards.

Compared with Paramount's delight, the atmosphere on Disney's side is much more awkward.

Although the revenue from the release of "The Martian" is nothing in the eyes of Disney, the better the results of "The Martian", the more it gives those who were not optimistic about the film at the conference and raised their hands to vote against it a feeling of being slapped in the face.

It really hurts.

The point is that someone even jumped out at this time to mercilessly mock this group of people who were slapped in the face, and this person is naturally Thomas who is no longer ready to work at Disney.

It can be said that the good results of "The Martian" really made Thomas feel a sense of pride.

"Jace, this is your wise decision, this is the unsightly movie in your mouth? Do you know its current rating on IMDB, listen, 86,000 people have made comments, and its current score is 8.9 points, ranking in the TOP500 of Hollywood's excellent movies, and it is among the best!"

"Don't you have anything to say about this result?" Thomas sneered mercilessly, looking at Jace, who was sitting across from him in a cold sweat.

"Humph!" Jace snorted, pretending not to argue, but everyone present could hear how unconfident the hum was.

"Thomas!" Mr. Iger frowned, stopping Thomas from continuing.

"Can't stand it? Mr. Iger, your original decision made us lose a very important partner, maybe Disney can't look at the tens of millions of profits, but this is not a one-shot deal, but a long-term benefit, as long as Nie Wei continues to maintain such creative and directing ability, he will even become a super director like Spielberg in the future, and you, turn away such a director, just because of the face of your so-called big company?"

At this point, Thomas pulled up the corners of his mouth, revealing a mocking smile, and shouted loudly, "A bunch of fools!"

"That's enough!!" Iger slapped the table hard, and rarely moved the real fire.

"Remember, Thomas, you're from Disney, please understand where you stand. Iger looked at Thomas coldly, and the people who had been stared at by him in the past had long since shifted their gaze with weakness or fear.

But to Egg's surprise, Thomas did not avoid Egg's gaze this time, but met Egger's gaze, and even his eyes were full of provocation.

"I don't think I'm going to be there right away. Thomas stared at Egger and took out the letter of resignation from the inner pocket of his suit and handed it to Egger.