"Last week, there was a scuffle of five new films in North America, the comedy "Fake Family" starring Jennifer Aniston, the sequel "Percy Jackson and the Sea of Warcraft", Matt Damon's new sci-fi work "Elysium" starring the ninth district director, and the Disney animated film "Planes", and the sci-fi blockbuster "Interstellar" directed by Chinese director Tang An all chose to be released at the same time. In the end, Elysium led the crowded weekend with $10.2 million at the box office. ”

"Elysium" topped the North American box office on Friday, and the Chinese film "Interstellar" ranked second, with 8.3 million in a single day to create director Tang An's personal best opening result!"

"In the absence of heavyweight films, this week may be arguably the busiest week of the summer season in North American film markets this year, with sci-fi film Elysium topping the list with a first-day result of just $10.2 million. ”

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Director Neil Blomkamp, who directed "District 9", had a global box office of only $200 million, but compared to the cost of $30 million, it was already a big hit, and it had a great impact on fans.

The director, who is only one year younger than Tang An, has also become a new star in the directorial industry, the new film is also a science fiction theme, and two superstars have joined, and there is no surprise that he won the box office championship on the first day.

However, it is still somewhat unexpected for "Interstellar" to stand out among the four new films and win the runner-up.

In the previous summer file, science fiction films such as "Return to Earth" and "Pacific Rim" basically hit the street, but I didn't expect that near the end of the summer file, there were two science fiction movies leading the way.

However, compared with the domestic reviews that are full of praise, this film does not have much high evaluation in North America, and it is even worse than "The Martian".

"Rice Today": The film is ambitious, very engaging and thought-provoking, but it is also boring, and the film's advanced special effects technology seems a bit out of the name.

The Hollywood Reporter: This is a love letter from director Ang Don to space travel and star exploration, and it takes a certain amount of patience for the audience to watch this film, but the film itself also provides an incredible emotional reward and a beautiful visual landscape for the patient audience.

The Guardian commented: Not all films are like the one in "The Peerless Tribulation", which requires the stupid zeal of volunteers when humanity is facing extinction, but at least the former is a space adventure movie, and "Interstellar" is just a scientific report, although not very rigorous.

The well-known Hollywood movie review website "Playlist" even said that "Interstellar" takes the audience on a journey to the farthest corners of the universe, but in the end, the audience gets a cheap, ubiquitous experience, which even the Herman greeting card chain can provide.

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Tang An looked at these negative reviews with a calm face, everything was expected, and it was impossible for the film to receive high reviews in North America.

I read seven or eight newspapers in a row, and except for one that was all positive, the others were all mixed.

Putting down the newspaper and not caring about these things, this is what Fox should do.

Fox Radio and Television gave the film a good review: "Interstellar" should have a place in the temple of science fiction classics such as "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Contact of the Third Kind" and others. And praised as a surreal and dreamlike space adventure.

I flipped Rotten Tomatoes again, and the freshness was 71%, while the IMBD score was 8.3.

"Most of Interstellar is super boring, super annoying, super silly, and it's positioned in a movie with multiple big themes, but it doesn't tell any of them. ”

"The plot is a bit contradictory, and the ending is a bit ridiculous, but the IMAX film projection is very shocking. ”

"The idea of the movie 'Interstellar' is respectable, but the storytelling and execution are somewhat lacking. ”

There are a lot of negative reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and IMBD, but the 71% freshness on Rotten Tomatoes and a high score of 8.3 prove that most of the North American audience is still relatively accepting.

Similar to the original version, there are differences in the aesthetics of audiences in North America and China, and North America is more respected for movies like "Gravity", which later exploded "Interstellar" in North America in terms of box office and word-of-mouth, as well as the Oscars.

There is even a claim that "Interstellar" is twice as long as "Gravity", but only half as good.

There's no way, "Interstellar" shows the insignificance of human beings through the big idea of saving human beings, and further highlights the male protagonist's desire for home, ostensibly to save human beings, but in fact it's not, it's about family affection, love, and the big background is just the big background.

"Gravity" is very pure, I want to live, I don't have superfluous distractions, just one life is enough, and I am nervous with the plot.

Two different cores, for domestic audiences, family affection and love are more important than self.

But in the eyes of North American audiences, although many movies contain family and love, the core is still self-centered individualism and heroism.

Compared with the male protagonist of "Interstellar", the self-rescue of the heroine of "Gravity" in a near-desperate situation is more in line with the aesthetics of North American audiences.

The situation in each country is different, and "Forrest Gump", which swept the United States that year, created a hero, a legend of a "superhero" with an intelligence of only 75.

Personal hero! is the most important thing for Hollywood commercial films!

In the following two weekends, "Interstellar" still maintained a high box office, with a total of $18.4 million in two days, and a total box office of 26.7 million in the first three days of the first weekend.

The box office champion is still "Elysium", which won $29.4 million in three days.

"Fake Family" got 24.3 million in three days, ranking third.

However, on Monday of the new week, the box office of "Elysium" plummeted, and this dystopian thriller sci-fi blockbuster was not popular with audiences, only getting 2.8 million box office, a drop of more than 70%.

As a comedy, "Fake Family" has a good reputation and a strong trend, winning 5.6 million at the box office on the same day, more than double that of "Elysium".

Although the trend of "Elysium" is average, it is similar to most Hollywood blockbusters, and sometimes it can account for one-third or even half of the total box office in the first week.

The trend of "Fake Family" is relatively rebellious, although "Interstellar" is not as good, but it also received $5.2 million in a single day, still occupying the second place in the single-day box office.

Four days after its release, it grossed $31.9 million.

At the same time, last weekend's overseas box office has also been accurately counted.

"Interstellar" was first released in three places across the Taiwan Strait, more than 70 overseas countries and regions and North America were released together, and more than a dozen or twenty regions were released later.

In China, "Interstellar", which has been in theaters for nearly 30 days, still got a high box office of 110 million in the fifth week of last week, with a total box office of 1.895 billion!

110 million yuan in China, and the results of other markets in the world are also quite good.

In Southeast Asia, South Korea contributed $12 million to the opening weekend box office, and it suddenly exploded unexpectedly.

Singapore's first weekend was $3.8 million, and Japan's big box was average, with only $1.6 million in the first weekend.

The rest of Southeast Asia also contributed $6.1 million to the box office, bringing the opening weekend for the entire Southeast Asia to $23.5 million.

In Europe, the opening weekend box office was slightly lower than in Southeast Asia, but it also had $20.8 million.

The Xiangjiang and Baodao regions have been in theaters for five weeks and have little box office potential, with both regions contributing $13.6 million in the past month.

It's the box office of South Korea for three days, and that's the potential of those two places.

The total of Xiangjiang Treasure Island is 13.6 million US dollars, and it is not even ranked among the top three in a single city in China.

"Interstellar" has a box office of more than 10 million US dollars in five cities across the country, and the third city of Shenzhen contributed 90 million yuan to the box office, a little higher than 13.6 million US dollars.

One province and one city, combined is not as much as the box office of a city in Shenzhen, and the film markets of these two provinces and cities are no longer insignificant to China.

Added up to more than 70 regions around the world, "Interstellar" earned a total of $87.9 million last Monday, once again topping the global weekly box office top.

Since the release of "Interstellar", this is the second time that it has won the global single-week box office championship, and the last time was the second week of domestic release, with a total of $110 million across the Taiwan Strait.

The average viewer in North America doesn't pay attention to the global box office, but for the executives of these major companies, the global box office every week is to keep an eye on the global box office, and still keep abreast of the global market movements anytime and anywhere.

Elizabeth, vice president of global theatrical distribution at Columbia Pictures, walked into CEO Sandeford's office early in the morning.

"Mr. Sanderson, I'm sorry I couldn't get the distribution rights to Interstellar. ”

As soon as she entered, Elizabeth confessed her mistake.

Sanderson didn't pursue it either, and the conditions for Wendy Dun to open on behalf of Fox were too high for Colombia to match.

North America only needs the distribution rights of ten points, guaranteed to open the film and subsequent film scheduling, and the publicity and distribution cost of 18 million US dollars, even if Elizabeth agrees, Sanderson will not agree.

If it falls below $40 million at the box office, Colombia will not even be able to recover the cost of publicity.

Sanderson has only one request, "I must win the global DVD and peripheral rights of "Interstellar"!"

Elizabeth nodded, "I'll do my best, but Fawkes won't give up." ”

"Interstellar" got $26.7 million in the first week, and judging from Monday's decline, there is basically no problem breaking 100 million.

A movie that has exceeded 100 million in North America has a good reputation, and the peripheral income that can be generated is also a huge amount.

Not only the current profits, but also in the next five, ten or even fifty years, these buy-out peripheral rights can still bring a lot of profits.

Colombia doesn't make much money from the films it invests in and distributes every year, and basically depends on the film library to feed on.

"It's not about trying, you must win, Tang An is a person who puts interests first, he cooperated with us twice and then cooperated with the Lions, "Edge of Tomorrow" we offered a high price and then cooperated again, "The Martian" Wendy Deng opened a high price, and immediately cooperated with Fox, only interests can move him!" Sanderson said with a serious face.

"I understand!"

"He's supposedly going to invest in Hollywood films?" Sanderson asked again.

"It's true, that his head of North American distribution is talking to Fox about Deadpool. Elizabeth replied.

"The development of the Chinese market is getting faster and faster, "Interstellar" has received more than 300 million US dollars in China alone, and even films like "Pacific Rim" are estimated to get 100 million US dollars, and we must find a Chinese film company to cooperate!"

Sanderson talked about another serious matter, at present, the share of imported films from China has been mentioned to 25%, and 100 million US dollars can get 25 million US dollars, which is also a big amount.

However, the number of imported films is small, and most of the films still enter the domestic market as batch films.

At that time, the copyright fee of a "Expendables" was only 500,000 US dollars, but Huaguo sold it for 33 million US dollars, and China Film made tens of millions of US dollars excluding the cost of publicity and distribution.

Later, "The Expendables 2" was hyped up to a high price of $8 million by the Chinese producer.

The "Expendables" series is so popular in China that investors are not willing to only take the buyout fee, and plan to enter the Chinese market as a co-production.

"The Expendables 3", which is being prepared, has LeTV's investment, and Li Lianjie participates, just to make a difference in China.

As a result, he still did not get the qualification for co-production, and he didn't even have an import quota, so he could only be bought out by China Film as a batch of films, with $14 million.

Thinking of this kind of thing, Sanderson has a headache, the standards for co-production films are too strict, and the buyout film is basically controlled by China Film and Huaying, other companies can't compete at all, or second-tier companies like LeTV don't dare to compete with China Film, and they don't have the financial resources.

What a domineering country, a domineering government, such a red fruit monopoly!

Sanderson also knows the status of Tang An's company in China, the boss of a private company, and the only company that can compete with China Film.

If Tang An dares to compete with China Film, Columbia and other companies will give him a large number of films.

With the first one, there will be a second and a third one, as long as they are not monopolized by China Film, even if they are bought out, they can be sold at a good price in China!

And the more people who compete, the higher the price will be!

Sanderson also asked Elizabeth to talk to Tang An, as long as the indicators are met, there will be things in next year's film.

"Okay, Mr. Sanderson, I'll go talk to Tang An immediately, I think as long as you give a high price, the copyright of "Interstellar" is not difficult. ”

Elizabeth nodded in agreement and left the office.

PS: There's one more chapter later.