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After hearing Tang An repeat again that the expectation of "Operation Red Sea" was four billion, the reporters gathered next to him recovered from their confusion, and could only secretly say "" in their hearts to express their feelings.

One by one, they looked extremely excited, squeezed forward desperately, stretched out their arms and handed the microphone to Tang An.

"Director Tang, are you saying that the box office of "Operation Red Sea" can reach 4 billion?"

""Mysterious Superstar" took 2.4 billion a year ago, just in the past year, why is Director Tang confident that he can increase by as much as 1.5 billion?"

"Director Tang, you boasted about 4 billion Haikou because "Fast and Furious 7" broke your own record, in order to win attention?"

"The total box office in the mainland market in the three months from June to August last summer was only 11.7 billion, with an average of nearly 4 billion a month, Director Tang, why do you think "Operation Red Sea" can get 4 billion box office?"

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The reporters directly began to question, which is also a rare time in recent years that someone has questioned Tang An's box office estimate of his film.

After all, four billion is too terrifying.

This means that this year's global single-region box office record can almost be bagged, and it is also the first time in more than a decade that North America has conceded this record.

In the past few years, every time Tang An faced the problem of mentioning the box office of new films, although the figures given were far higher than those of these domestic films, they were all within the scope of acceptance, which was not too exaggerated.

Even if Tang An personally said the box office expectation of 3 billion yuan at the launch press conference last year, the media was amazed, and then used it as a selling point to hype, and there were not many doubts during the on-site interview.

This time, Tang An's opening became four billion, and it has risen by one billion in less than a year, and the reporters at the scene all thought that Tang An was just throwing out a gimmick for hype.

This is exactly what they want to hear, and they are willing to help with the hype, and even wish Tang An would say something shocking.

The reporters stared at Tang An tightly, waiting for his answer.

Facing the reporters' questions, Tang An was not too surprised, and smiled slightly.

"I have enough confidence in the movie, this is a work completed by thousands of people in our crew working together under harsh conditions, and I also have confidence in the audience and our current market, more and more audiences are used to walking into the cinema, and the number of moviegoers is getting higher and higher, as long as it is a good movie, it can make the audience like it, it can burst out with huge box office potential, four billion is not empty talk!"

"Just now this reporter friend mentioned the total amount of last year's summer market, I have just said that the market is getting bigger and bigger year by year, and this year will only be more than last year, not only "Operation Red Sea" hit the 4 billion mark, I believe there will be one or two billion-level movies"

Can there be two billion-level movies?

The reporters looked at each other, just one "Red Sea Operation" will break 4 billion, and then two billion-level films, it will really explode.

In the past two years, there has been no second movie that broke one billion in the summer file, and even if the market becomes bigger this year, there is "Operation Red Sea" squeezing the market, and even if you can get a billion, you won't be able to get it.

Once again, the minds of journalists were filled with suspicion.

"So Director Tang, what do you mean that domestic films will also usher in an explosion, and the domestic film market will not be occupied by Hollywood movies?"

A reporter asked a deep-level question, due to the domestic film protection month, there are no Hollywood blockbusters released in July and August, so the two films that Tang An said that broke one billion must be domestic movies.

The North American summer file starts at the end of April, while the domestic summer file July is the mainstream, August is considered the later stage, and it is not as good as May and June when it is released in August.

In the past two months, a number of Hollywood blockbusters have been released.

The term Domestic Film Protection Month was coined by the media, and Optoelectronics only discouraged the introduction of imported films from early June to early July, and did not issue any regulations, not even written documents.

Not encouraged, does not mean forbidden.

However, the distribution rights of imported films are in the hands of China Film and Huaying, and they have the final say on when they will be released.

Last year, "Transformers 4" was not released at the end of June, and it was also in the period when optoelectronics verbally discouraged it.

Protection or not depends on the person, and the first time there was a protection month was in 2004.

At that time, Zhang Yimou's second costume blockbuster "Ambush on All Sides" was released in the summer and received this treatment, and there were no Hollywood movies released during the same period, and "Spider-Man" was released after more than 20 years.

However, at that time, there were not many movies released in a year, and it didn't make much sense to protect it or not.

"Harry Potter" met "Police Story" in the National Day file in 04, and it was still suppressed.

In 05, the protection was small, "Batman: The Mystery of the Shadow" was released at the end of June, and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" was released in early July.

Xu Ke and Tang An at that time could not get the same treatment as Zhang Yimou, they both looked at people, and they couldn't be compared together.

In 07, "Transformers" was released in early July without protection, and it was slightly better in 08, when China Film invested in "Red Cliff" to be released in early July, as well as Tang An's new film.

The most protected are "Ambush on All Sides", "Tangshan Earthquake", "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Party", originally "Tangshan Earthquake" in addition to "Painted Skin 2", but also to face "Inception", but it was still transferred to September.

"The Great Cause of the Founding of the Party" directly delayed "Transformers 3" until the end of July.

Whether to protect China Film or not has the final say, Tang An was not protected last year, and he faced "Transformers 4".

This year, it is estimated that Kang Pei thought that it would be no good to collide with Tang An, but he couldn't do it anyway, so he simply released it in advance, and no one expected that it would explode three in a row.

This year can be regarded as "domestic film protection", there are no Hollywood blockbusters released, and Tang An said that there will be two billion-dollar box office movies, which must be domestic movies.

The reporters thought about it for a while, among these movies released in the summer, there are almost no hopes of breaking one billion, and "Monster Hunt" can barely be counted, after all, the cost is too high, and the previous fame has also spread.

As soon as he finished asking, the reporter asked again, "Director Tang, can you tell me which two movies you think will win a billion box office?"

"I'll know which movie it is when it's released, and if I can really guess which movie, then I can buy a lottery ticket. Tang An shook his head and made a joke.

"The market has become bigger, and there will inevitably be high-grossing movies, and there will be big dark horses, although I don't know which one it is, but please wait and see with me. ”

"Any film in every country more or less contains some of its own country's cultural characteristics, the mainstream of the domestic film market can only be, and must be domestic films, this year's summer file is not only "Operation Red Sea", but also several other domestic films will prove that domestic films are no worse than Hollywood blockbusters!"