Chapter 726 Technology Monopoly
Compared with the box office of the big hit, the reputation of "Terminator" is really not as high as "Forrest Gump". The most direct embodiment is the rating on the camera network, and the rating of "Terminator" has never exceeded 9 points.
The ratings of more than 80,000 fans on the camera network in the first week made "Terminator" temporarily score 8.8 points.
But even so, a high score of 8.8 is enough for "The Terminator" to squeeze into the top 100 of the highest-rated movies in history. And it ranks first among all science fiction movies.
Of course, the quality of word-of-mouth will have a certain impact on the box office.
On the second week's week, the box office of "Terminator" really began to fall sharply.
On Monday, "The Terminator" only received 98 million yuan at the box office in Dahua, a drop of 52%, although it is still within a normal decline, but it is much worse than the box office decline of only 40% in "Forrest Gump".
In the next few working days, "The Terminator" barely climbed to the threshold of 100 million Chinese dollars, and counting the box office of 377 million Chinese yuan on the weekend and three days of the second week, "The Terminator" received 780 million Chinese yuan at the box office in the second week.
In two weeks, "The Terminator" won 1.581 billion yuan at the box office in Dahua, although it is not as good as "Forrest Gump", but this number still blinds countless people.
In the foreign film market, "The Terminator" is also soaring, and after two weeks, it has received a total of 1.496 billion yuan at the overseas box office, which even exceeds the total box office of "Forrest Gump" in the first two weeks overseas.
Compared with the domestic market, the overseas market, especially the European market, has responded more enthusiastically to the film.
Many European movie fans were intimidated by what was shown in the movie.
"Oh buy ga! When I saw our capital easily by a hydrogen. The bomb was razed to the ground, the symbol of our motherland, the Eiffel Tower, disappeared in a nuclear explosion, and at that moment, I was really terrified. It's unbelievable to be able to see such an apocalyptic disaster in a movie! Obviously, this film review published on the camera network was written by a veteran fan from France.
"I feel the same way! Sympathy! I'm an Italian and my heart breaks when I see the magnificent St. Peter's Basilica also disappear in a nuclear explosion! God, where were you then? ”
"Although the film is very shocking, should we think about something else behind the shock? For example, what if the situation envisioned in the movie actually happened in the real world? Oh Maiga, I really can't imagine that if the computer really controls the weapons of the world, then for us humans, it will really be a catastrophe of destruction! Therefore, we should destroy all existing nuclear weapons, so as to at least prevent mankind from being wiped out by the ultimate weapon that we have researched......" is another large comment, of course, behind this comment on the boycott of nuclear weapons, there are countless followers applauding and agreeing.
There is also a post that has also sparked the pursuit of many fans.
"I suggest that this year's Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded to the master. The master used such a film to sound a wake-up call for us. Although it's just a movie, who can guarantee that things in the movie won't happen in reality? Existence is reasonable! The catastrophe that happens in the movie may one day be played out in the real world without us even noticing. The master used the film to give us a warning, so that we can thoroughly understand that we still hold such a dangerous thing in our hands. At the same time, I suggest that the heads of state take a good look at this movie, hoping that the warning given to us by the master can give the heads of these countries some inspiration......"
The Grandmaster was amused when he saw this post while browsing the web. Of course, after having fun, the Grandmaster typed the following line on the computer keyboard.
"Thank you very much for the proposal of this fan friend, but forget the Nobel Peace Prize, I am just a filmmaker, I just want to present what I want to the fans of the former world through the camera in my hand. But I have to say that this fan friend said it very well, we should have such vigilance to avoid the disaster in the movie from really happening......"
The name of the grandmaster on the camera network is naturally officially verified by his real name, so when the grandmaster's reply appeared, almost in just a few minutes, a building of more than 3,000 floors was built below.
"Haha, grab one of the wild life masters! Come and watch! ”
"Master! It's really a master......"
"Oh Maiga, I didn't see God coming today, but I saw the appearance of the master......"
"Mom, come and see the fairy......"
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Interacting with fans is really a very comfortable thing, and this feeling of being sought after and loved by others is really good!
In the past few days, the Grandmaster has not left Dahua.
The filming of "Independence Day" in the United States has been completed, and only a few more scenes that happened in Dahua need to be re-filmed in Dahua, so the filming of the whole movie can be completed smoothly.
In the past few days, because he has been paying attention to the box office of "Terminator", the grandmaster did not shoot immediately, until two weeks after the release of "The Terminator" and the total global box office successfully exceeded 3 billion Chinese yuan, the grandmaster restarted work with great interest, and it took less than three days to shoot all those shots in Dahua.
Then, "Independence Day" completely entered the post-production period.
The post-production of Independence Day was made easy by the support of Rainstorm's electronic VFX department.
"Independence Day" itself is a commercial blockbuster that wins with visual effects, as long as the computer special effects shots are done, then the entire post-production is eighty percent completed.
Computer special effects may still be a very unfamiliar industry for others, but for Rainstorm Electronics, the influence of the two movies is enough to make some of them become masters of computer special effects.
The Grandmaster introduced computer special effects into this world, and the starting point was countless times higher than the computer special effects in the previous life.
In the previous life, when computer special effects were just starting, computer hardware was still in a very primitive state, and at that time, the hardware level of 386 and 486 was still used to make a frame, and a special workstation was required to work continuously for several hours.
And with the level of software at that time, it pushed computer special effects to an extremely expensive level.
Everyone knows that computer special effects are good, but this thing is really not something that ordinary people can afford. The production cost of tens of millions of dollars is enough to scare off more than 99% of investors.
Hardware and software limitations, which is also the fundamental reason why computer special effects in previous lives were so expensive when they first came out.
But in this life it's different.
First of all, the hardware level in this life is extremely high, even higher than the hardware level before the Grandmaster crossed, so the computer special effects are nothing in this life in terms of hardware.
In this life, if you take out a home computer, it will be more powerful than a top-of-the-line server in the previous life, when computer special effects first came out.
And the software level that took more than ten years to accumulate little by little in the previous life, in this life, because of the existence of the Grandmaster's humanoid cheat and porter, there is no problem.
In my previous life, whether it was Fusion, Softimage, Maya, Side Houdini, or Flame and Smoke, it was all edited after the hard work of many software engineers day and night. In this life, even if the hardware level is extremely high, the level of software engineers is also extremely high, but if they can conjure up such a complete set of computer special effects software at once, it is impossible.
And because of the existence of the grandmaster, Rainstorm Electronics now has five or six efficient software specially used to make computer special effects shots, which have not been developed for a long time, but have been directly carried by the grandmaster from the previous life, so the visual effects production department of Rainstorm Electronics has been leading the world from the beginning.
Because of the birth of "Forrest Gump", Hollywood and some domestic film companies in Dahua have also begun to try to produce computer special effects, but because of software limitations, they have not made any breakthroughs.
For this kind of money sent to the door, Zongyi naturally smiled without hesitation. Because he doesn't have to spend a lot of money to develop software, the price of Rainstorm Electronics' actual production of computer special effects is very low, but externally, he still earns production expenses according to the extremely high price set by the grandmaster.
That's the advantage of a technology monopoly!
You don't need computer special effects, but as long as you want to use it, you must be inseparable from our rainstorm electronics!
As the pioneer of Storm Electronics and the elder brother of the boss of Storm Electronics, the grandmaster will naturally enjoy the cost price of making computer special effects lenses in Storm Electronics.
Sophisticated software and a very high level of hardware are enough to reduce the cost of creating computer special effects to a very low level.
In the previous life, it took hours to produce a frame, but in this world, it only takes a few minutes to make a complete special effects shot.
That's the gap between technology and hardware.
The computer special effects lens of "Independence Day" has been started from the beginning of filming, and Li Tao and Guo Lei, two major computer special effects production masters, have personally followed the film, so the computer special effects production process of "Independence Day" is still very fast.
It took the Grandmaster almost two months to complete the filming of the film, and in these two months, the staff of Rainstorm Electronics have completed more than eighty percent of the special effects shots in "Independence Day".
In a month at most, all these computer special effects shots will be produced, and there will be no delay in the release of "Independence Day" on New Year's Day in December this year......