Chapter 1118 - The box office is like a bamboo
The popularity of "Full-Band Blocking Interference" has triggered extensive reports from domestic and foreign media, and CCTV's "News Network" has also appeared related reports about the movie. The news title is "The movie "Full-Band Blocking Interference" Triggers a Worldwide Movie-Watching Boom", and the report time is as high as 1 minute and 35 seconds.
A week later, CCTV's ace program "Focus Interview" reported "Full-Band Blocking Interference" again with a 10-minute special program. A shocking statistic was announced in the program, the domestic box office of "Full-Band Blocking Interference" has exceeded the 4 billion mark, easily breaking the record of "Future Apocalypse", and the global total box office has reached a shocking $1.4 billion, winning the global weekly box office championship for two consecutive weeks.
"Focus Interview" showed footage of "Full Band Blocking Interference" being screened in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris and other cities. In these shots, at the ticket office of the movie theater, there is a dense long queue, and the LCD display board on the wall of the ticket hall densely displays the release time of "Full Band Blocking Interference". "Focus Interview" interviewed some foreign viewers who watched "Full Band Blocking Interference", and these viewers were full of praise for the film.
Subsequently, the reporter of "Focus Interview" interviewed the new director of the General Administration, and he said with a smile: ""Full-band Blocking Interference" represents the highest level of current Chinese film production technology and is a benchmark for China's heavy industry films. The success of "Full Band Blocking Interference" is not only due to its excellent top-of-the-line technology, but more importantly, it has a touching story and a moving spirit. The success of "Full-Band Blocking Interference" has pointed out the direction for domestic electric sailing to sea. ”
Overseas media have almost praised "Full-Band Blocking Interference" as well as domestic media. Many overseas media could not accept a film in which Chinese saved the world, and labeled "Full Band Blocking Interference" a nationalist and political propaganda film.
The well-known American right-wing media "Banner Weekly" published an article criticizing: ""Full Band Blocking Interference" is a political propaganda film, fully supported by the Chinese military, with strong nationalist overtones, filled with fierce gunfights, explosions, tanks, and bluff Chinese patriotism. In recent years, with the rise of China's economy, China's military power has expanded rapidly and it has begun to expand overseas. "Full Band Blocking Interference" has a strong propaganda flaunting China's military might, and the Chinese flag flying in the film is a complete provocation to the United States. ”
Thomson, a film critic on the right-wing website Hollywood, posted: ""Full Band Blocking Interference" has excellent special effects, war scenes are very spectacular, and it is a movie in a Hollywood coat with a nationalist core inside. "Apocalypse of the Future" is full of anti-American tendencies and belittles the US military to the point of uselessness, while in "Full-Band Blocking and Interference," it exaggerates the Chinese government and military to the sky, and Zhang Ran's attitude is worthy of our attention. ”
Forbes said on its website: "'Full Band Blocking Interference' is a wake-up call to Hollywood, the global film oligarch, which is in part counting on China to bring in huge box office revenues for its franchise blockbusters." If Chinese films can rely on their own talent and stars to bring a thrill similar to that of Hollywood blockbusters, American sci-fi blockbusters will become less essential. ”
The British BBC also posted on its website: "The film looks clumsy and uninteresting, especially because of its political nature. Stallone reconciled those main themes with an easy-going comedy in "The Expendables," while Jackie Chan always avoided politics. But Zhang Ran has no such consciousness, "Full Band Blocking Interference" is completely a political propaganda film, with the continuous appearance of Chinese flags and military flags, portraying the Chinese army as a savior, and the temperament of the whole film is reminiscent of Revenstahl's "Triumph of the Will". ”
The unfair attitude of these overseas media towards "full-band blocking interference" has aroused the anger of domestic netizens, and many people have questioned on the Internet: "Americans can have "Independence Day", why can't China have "full-band blocking interference"?", "Westerners can brag about saving the earth, but in fact, they can't even solve a crime, what's wrong with Chinese preaching patriotism? Westerners can't get used to it? How far is that, how far and how far!", "" Why is it not nationalism for Americans to save the world in Hollywood blockbusters, and it is not nationalism for Dongying people to save the world in Dongying anime, but it is nationalism for Chinese to save the world in Chinese movies?"......
Overseas audiences and movie fans are not interested in the views of these right-wing media, thinking that movies are movies, why bother politics, and even many netizens are happy that a non-Hollywood movie has appeared to save the world: "Hollywood has been saving the world all these years, and now there is a big reversal, it's really great", "Great! Someone finally broke the hegemony of Hollywood", "White people can save the world, and other races can also save the world"......
Bad reviews from right-wing media have caused some disruption to "Full-Band Blocking Interference," with the movie's Rotten Tomatoes freshness dropping to 78 percent, the average score dropping to 7.2, and the MTC's rating dropping to 79. However, it did not affect the film's reputation among audiences, with more than 300,000 fans on IMDB giving "Full Band Blocking Interference" a high score of 8.6.
It is precisely because of the excellent reputation of "Full Band Blocking Interference" among the audience that the film still topped the global weekly box office list in its third week of release. "Full Band Blocking Interference" achieved a box office of 1.54 billion in the mainland, $340 million overseas, and $580 million in the week, and the total box office exceeded the $2 billion mark, becoming the fifth film to break the $2 billion mark at the box office, close to "Future Apocalypse" and "Titanic".
By this time, almost everyone knew that "Full-Band Blocking Interference" would definitely surpass "Future Apocalypse" and "Titanic" next week, and finally hit the global box office champion "Avatar" with $2.86 billion. Some people even optimistically predict that "Full-Band Blocking Interference" may eventually break the $3 billion mark at the box office, becoming the first film in the world to break $3 billion at the box office.
After hearing this number, many people have an unreal feeling, no one thought that "Full Band Blocking Interference" would have the potential to surpass "Avatar" and become the global box office champion.
When "Avatar" swept the Chinese market seven years ago, the Chinese film industry and the media were wailing, beating their chests and criing as if Chinese films were really dead. Director Forrest Gump announced that "our technology is 100 years behind"; Cui Yongyuan said with mixed feelings that "our film technology is optimistically estimated to be 100 years behind this film"; Lu Chuan said, "We should be ashamed, this is a complete defeat for our Chinese filmmakers to be collectively convinced"; and some people even shouted that "Chinese films are 500 years behind in technology, and 5,000 years behind in human nature."
No one would have thought that in just the past seven years, a Chinese film, and a pure Chinese film, could hit the box office of "Avatar", which made many people feel like a dream, very unreal.
Many netizens remembered Zhang Ran's speech about "Avatar" on the "Dialogue" program when many Chinese filmmakers were frightened by "Avatar". At that time, many people regarded Zhang Ran's words as a joke, but now it seems that Zhang Ran is right.
At the beginning, in the face of the wails in the circle and the media, Zhang Ran said that "Avatar" is not terrible, what is really terrible is the inferiority and self-inferiority attitude of filmmakers, I don't believe that a director with no bones can make a movie with bones, and I don't believe that a director with low self-esteem can make a movie with spirit. Take a look at Zhang Ran's works, look at the works of Zhang Ran's students, and then look at the works of Forrest Gump, Lu Chuan and others. Zhang Ran is so right, a director without bones can't make a movie with bones!"
At that time, many well-known elites laughed at Zhang Ran, saying that he was a Boxer mentality, thinking that he could make up for the technical gap by relying on spirit. Seven years have passed, and the people who laughed at Zhang Ran have become jokes. I'm glad that when Chinese filmmakers are kneeling down in front of "Avatar", there are still men like Zhang Ran standing, they are the backbone of Chinese films!"
Zhang Ran said that the most important thing for us is to work hard to make our own movies, gradually narrow this gap, and we will have our own "Avatar" in the future! I have always believed that we will have our own "Avatar", but I didn't expect this day to come so quickly, it's like a dream. ”
In the fourth week of the movie's release, due to the release of new films such as "Cold War 2", the schedule of "Full-Band Blocking Interference" fell by 54.6%, and the box office also began to decline sharply, achieving a box office of 760 million yuan in China, with a cumulative box office of 6.27 billion yuan. The same is true overseas, this week, the film achieved 240 million US dollars in overseas markets, with a weekly box office of 350 million, topping the global weekly box office for four consecutive weeks, with a total box office of 2.41 billion US dollars, surpassing "Future Apocalypse" and "Titanic", ranking second in the global box office list.
In the fifth week of the movie's release, the box office of "Full Band Blocking Interference" continued to decline, achieving a box office of 390 million yuan in China, $140 million overseas, and a weekly box office of $200 million, with a total box office of $2.61 billion, a gap of 250 million from the $2.86 billion of "Avatar".
By this time, it was obviously impossible for "Full-Band Blocking Interference" to exceed $3 billion at the box office, but it was impossible to break "Avatar" 28. There is hope for a box office record of $600 million.
On this day, the Film Association of Lincoln Center announced the first list of films selected for this year's New York Film Festival, with 25 films, including the Palme d'Or from Cannes this year, Ken Loach's "I Am Black", best director Assayas's "The Personal Shopper", Mongi's "Graduation Exam", and the critics' Award-winning comedy "Tony Erdman", as well as new films by Jarmusch and Christy Puyou.
However, the most eye-catching in the entire list are the new works of two Chinese directors, Zhang Ran's "Angel of Justice" and Ang Lee's "Billy Lynn's Halftime Fight". In addition, Jia Zhangke's short film "Living" was selected for the short film unit of this year's film festival. This means that this year's New York Film Festival will feature three films directed by Chinese directors.
Kent Jones, director of the New York Film Festival, spoke highly of Angel of Justice: "I was deeply blown away after watching the movie Angel of Justice, which is a masterpiece from that point of view. ”
Zhang Ran responded immediately: "I am very grateful to the New York Film Festival for choosing this film, the New York Film Festival has always been a very important film event for me, and I am deeply honored to be able to bring "Angel of Justice" to the festival. ”
After hearing the news, many American media said that "Angel of Justice" is expected to hit the major awards of the 89th Oscars, and Zhang Ran is expected to win the Oscar for Best Director for the third time after "One Man Shines the Light" and "Future Apocalypse", and will attack the best picture.
The Hollywood Reporter headline was the most exaggerated: "This year's Oscar top seed will appear at the New York Film Festival!"
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