Richard Taylor, a mid-level staff member at Sony Pictures Entertainment China, was invited to attend the premiere of "Three-Body Problem 2", which has been in a dizzy state from the beginning to the end of the film.

If there is one word to describe it, it is confused!

But in my head, I thought about a lot of things. I remembered watching Star Wars for the first time, watching Terminator and Avatar.

Except for shock, he really couldn't find too suitable words to describe his mood at the moment.

I am thinking about why it is a Chinese-language film, taking the lead in the forefront of the global film market, and achieving this is an unprecedented feat!

In fact, in the past two years, Hollywood has also made a lot of attempts at VR movies, but in terms of duration and special effects, it cannot be compared with "Three-Body Problem 2".

Not to mention the storyline, and the artistic connotation.

The film and technology complement each other so well that he can't think of any kind of story theme that is more suitable for a VR movie than "Three-Body Problem 2".

Especially at the end of the story, when the solar system is two-dimensional into a moving picture similar to Van Gogh's famous painting "Starry Night", he can fully imagine the madness that this film can cause after its release in Europe and the United States, not to mention that the original book has a large audience.

"Avatar" is the global box office champion, including I'm afraid it's coming to an end.

The emergence of such an epoch-making work in Chinese-language films is really not good news for Hollywood.

Hopefully, we'll be able to make a similar work soon!

After the worried Taylor returned to the company, he first reported his viewing experience to the supervisor.

However, the owner of the branch is always a Chinese, and he can't understand the pride and loss of the Americans.

After returning to the apartment, he was not even in the mood for dinner, so he opened the email and wrote to his former superiors in the United States.

"Three-Body Problem 2" is a great epoch-making work, and its appearance has given the art of film a rebirth-like vitality......

But it's not invulnerable, and the immersive viewing comes at the cost of abandoning montage editing. In previous films, the director carefully presented a shot to the audience, but in VR movies, it may not be able to appreciate it because of the problem of the audience's perspective being switched, and such success is at the expense of its artistic attributes......"

Richard Taylor is an old man who has worked in the film industry for many years, and he can see so many problems, and he writes like a writer.

And the domestic public opinion circles basically applauded one-sidedly. Without him, the industry has been sluggish in the past two years, and no one is having a good time from top to bottom.

finally came up with a rescue work "Three-Body Problem 2", if it was to cheer at this time, it would really be the enemy of the whole industry.

So much so that the media report the next day, a voice of praise, attracted more and more expectations from the audience.

In the next few days, the crew of "Three-Body Problem 2" went to Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States to promote the final release of the film. It wasn't until the first day of the Lunar New Year in China that it began to be released worldwide.

This film has three formats: VR, 3D and 2D, but unfortunately the VR effect has long been blown up on the Internet, so that the VR version of the movie ticket, 200 tickets are still hard to find.

On the Internet, the transaction price is basically four or five hundred, and for a while, there are long queues at the entrance of the movie theater, and scalpers are everywhere.

Everyone knows that this movie exploded at the box office, but they don't know how far it can go!

Longlin Pictures, in the chairman's office, Lu Lin sat on a chair and played a Three Kingdoms strategy mobile game with his mobile phone.

In fact, in the VR era, there are too many fun mobile games, but Lu Lin likes everything for a long time, and he doesn't get tired of playing it with one hand for three or four years.

The door to the room was opened, and assistant Gao Wen walked in.

"Congratulations to Director Lu, the mainland box office of "Three-Body Problem 2" has exceeded 500 million!"

Lu Lin looked at the time on the computer, it was more than three o'clock in the afternoon. According to this box office trend, it stabilized more than 1 billion throughout the day.

This is in the fiercely competitive Spring Festival, although major companies are trying their best to avoid competition with "Three-Body Problem 2", there are still some movies that want to fish in troubled waters, such as "Detective Chinatown 4", Cheng Long's new film, and animated films aimed at the children's market.

Several movies are close to 30% of the film schedule, so that "Three-Body Problem 2" only gets 71%, but it is still an overwhelming advantage.

"How's it going to be for the celebration in the evening?"

"Everything is in order, according to Mr. Song's prediction, at about nine o'clock in the evening, the box office billion celebration party will be held!"

After Chinese films entered the box office of five or six billion yuan per film, the number of one billion is no longer dazzling.

But if you want to add the words "first day", it is enough to shock the domestic and even global film market.

For publicity reasons, after predicting that the box office might exceed one billion on the first day, Lu Lin, who had nothing to do on the first day of the Lunar New Year, asked Gao Wen to arrange a celebration party, and after he arrived at the company, he was bored and started playing mobile games.

"Okay, then let's notify it, count the number of people, after all, it's the first day of the Lunar New Year, and it's voluntary. Lu Lin said casually.

Gao Wen smiled: "Those who stay in the capital will generally come." After the morning, the year is basically over, and it is not interesting to be at home. ”

Lu Lin nodded, in fact, he felt like this. The relatives over there can't get close, and the same is true for their own families, and after getting up in the morning to eat, they suddenly feel that they don't know what to do.

"Okay, let's get busy!"

Gao Wen answered and walked out of the office.

By six o'clock in the evening, the personnel of Longlin Pictures Company in Beijing arrived at the Park Hyatt Hotel one after another.

In the banquet hall, the host Gao Wen was busy, Lu Lin, Song Ge, Gao Hongze, Zhang Miao, Zhang Huan and other executives, as well as Wen Muyu, Guo Fan, Wu Jing and other Longlin directors took their families to eat, drink, talk and laugh.

At this moment, the real-time box office of "Three-Body Problem 2" in the mainland has exceeded 900 million, and the 1 billion mark is within reach.

And everyone present came to witness the historic moment of more than one billion in a single day.

At more than 8:20 p.m., the box office data refreshed by the electronic screen on the stage in real time finally exceeded one billion.

Staring at the crowd waiting for this moment early, he immediately applauded warmly.

"Lu Dong, you go up and tell everyone a few words!" Song Ge proposed.

Lu Lin smiled, "Didn't we say okay, I'm in charge of the content, you are in charge of the operation, and you are still here on this occasion!"

Song Ge was no longer humble, got up and tidied up his suit, came to the stage and said with a smile: "Director Lu is embarrassed to come up, too, it is more appropriate to let others announce this thing of honor!"

Everyone in the audience laughed, and then listened to Song Ge solemnly said: "Then I announce that "Three-Body Problem 2", produced by our Longlin Pictures and directed by Lu Lin, has exceeded one billion at the box office in Chinese mainland on the first day of release!"