Chapter 571: In the Next City (Medium)

Chapter 571: In the Next City (Medium)

No matter what is like inside the Star Group, it will have no impact on the release two days later, and the results of the premiere do not have to wait for the release, and the result will be known if the movie tickets are sold out in advance. For this reason, some newspapers such as the Los Angeles Post have commented on this matter, but there is only one comment in these newspapers, that is, regardless of the outcome, the trailer of the movie StarCraft is probably the most successful one of all time, and there is no one.

Because there has never been such a situation in the history of Hollywood, the rhythm of the early movie tickets is booked, I have to say that the special effects of the Star Group are too good, I am afraid that because of the influence of Star War, the box office of Superman's return will also be greatly improved by the news.

Star Group also paid attention to this matter, because it was related to the entry of Nebula Software in the future. And if Starcraft can really succeed, maybe this will create a new trend of filmmaking, because the entire scene from beginning to end is all made of computer special grade and software special effects, and the only thing used is the portrait rights of major stars, but how many can it be turned into?

Whether it even meets the criteria of the Hollywood Awards is unknown. Because the box office was known in advance, but the audience's evaluation did not know whether it was a positive or bad review, Zhang Yang and others were very curious to wait for the report of major media newspapers in the United States the next night.

However, to the consternation of Zhang Yang and others, the comments that filled the entire newspaper page were almost the same, except for some admiration, there was only one statement left. That is, everyone said that everyone said that it was completely impossible to pay attention to the meaning of this movie once you watched it, because when you watched it for the first time, you would be shocked by the overall special effects, and you would not have time to taste the plot at all, and when you were numb to the special effects, the whole film had already fallen into the end.

So nine out of 10 viewers interviewed by newspapers in major cities in the United States said they had to re-watch the whole movie, because they found that there were many things in the whole film that they had overlooked. Although the overall rhythm of the whole film is a big battle between humans and the Zerg, at the end of the film, the human fleet was driven back to the galaxy where the humans were located by the vast air force of the Zerg, and when the whole army was about to be wiped out, the Protoss appeared.

The appearance of the Protoss can be said to be the most gorgeous and climactic place in the whole film, and the Protoss is also the only race that has one more class of troops that does not exist in the game than the game when the Nebula software was in production, in fact, this class is not untargeted, it is made by Zhang Yang based on the prototype of the Star Craft II in the memory of the Protoss in his previous life.

The Protoss appear in the footage of a huge space-time vortex suddenly appearing on the edge of the battlefield between humans and zergs, followed by a huge ship, almost the size of an asteroid, filled with blue and white light, like a flying saucer.

When I saw this scene, everyone in the Star Group was shocked at that time, it was an indescribable gorgeousness, different from the hideous and unpretentious nature of the human warship, different from the terrifying and evil of the Zerg, with a disgusting appearance and a vast sea of insects, the Protoss represented the nobility and magnificence. Beneath that gorgeous exterior is the same terrifying attack power.

At the end of the film, a blocked sea of insects rushed directly towards the huge mothership, although a light blue particle beam was shot from the mothership, but the lethality of the particle beam was too small, especially in the face of the terrifying sea of insects, just when everyone thought that this mothership would also be submerged in the boundless sea of insects, suddenly a small mothership of the same size as a human warship suddenly drilled out from under the huge mothership.

Then a vast number of small fighters flew out from the small mothership, and wiped out the sea of insects in an instant, and it was not until this time that all the audience understood that there was an invisible force field around the mothership, and other arms would be invisible. And the film comes to an abrupt end here, leaving a huge suspense

Undoubtedly, this can greatly arouse the curiosity of the audience, and even Zhang Yang can't wait to see the following results. To be honest, this is probably the first time since the birth of the movie that the battle between humans and the appearance race is perfectly presented, and the overall picture special effects have no place to dodge, and all kinds of alien troops are presented one by one.

It's not like other sci-fi movies, so it may not be the same in terms of huge scenes, but there aren't many shots in individual alien creatures, but Starcraft is not like that. Not to mention those alien creatures, even the fully armed mobile suits of the human beings inside are all excited, although the overall mobile suit is a tragic existence in the face of the vast sea of insects.

And the whole movie is not like other big productions that are just science fiction themes with big scenes as the selling point, and it also has a lot of thought-provoking things in the middle, which is not without connotation, which is why many viewers say that they want to watch it a second time, and this evaluation is undoubtedly quite high.

In any case, Universal has made a lot of money this time, and Vivendi Group has no problem applying for a loan with BNP Paribas, even if Li Keqing's $50 billion investment will not be realized, but the most difficult period for Vivendi Group has passed, especially since Universal was not sold to GM as Zhang Yang remembers, and for Vivendi and Hollywood, another international media giant has appeared.

Next, there is no doubt about the box office of StarCraft, for three days on the weekend, all the screenings of StarCraft are almost full, many of them are audiences who have watched it for the first time, or even the second time, and StarCraft is also undisputedly directly ranked on this week's North American box office list, and its box office is unprecedentedly reached more than $87 million, which is still a miracle created in just four days

“…… Unlike other sci-fi films that sell big scenes, Starcraft is full of not only the perfect special effects, not only the grand and majestic war scenes, but also the bloody horror, which has many thought-provoking questions, such as at the beginning of the film, why did not introduce the reason, and the humans directly launched an attack on the Zerg.

And throughout the war, although the Zerg showed a kind of collective intelligence, but the wisdom is not particularly high, but many places are still shocking, such as in 1 hour and 46 minutes, the mother worm in order to protect her own worm with her life to block the attacks of many mobile suits, although the Zerg is the opposite of humans, but the Star Group has not shaped them into a savage, evil, inhuman race...... Finally, after watching StarCraft, I went back and downloaded Blizzard's StarCraft game to play a few games, although the graphics can't be compared to the movie, but it piqued my interest. This is a review of Starcraft by the Washington Film Journal.

Although Zhang Yang didn't see the physical newspaper, he saw the electronic version of the commentary. "Hehe, it looks like we've created another way for our company to make money, do you want us to set up a media company too?" Chen Xiaowei asked with a smug smile. With the success of Starcraft 1, the success of the next sequel is already a natural thing, and there will be no Vivendi to take advantage of the fisherman in the future.

"Forget it, you can't chew too much, and do you still have the energy to manage a media company?" Zhang Yang shook his head helplessly, now almost everyone in the Star Group is eager to have a doppelganger technique, if another subsidiary is established, not to mention the ordinary employees below, even these high-level executives are probably about to strike.

"But with Nebula software, are we afraid that we won't be able to make money? The StarCraft series still has to be done, but next time we won't be so offset as the first time, and I believe that I'm afraid that there will be a lot of movies in Hollywood to find our company to do computer special effects, this time give me a hard knock, our quality is there, don't worry about the price, Hollywood companies are never afraid of throwing money, what I'm afraid of is that I can't throw good things at it. Zhang Yang said quickly to Chen Xiaowei.

According to the current situation, in this way, Nebula Software will probably bring two or three billion dollars of revenue to the Star Group every year. With Apple and other companies, I am afraid that it will not be too difficult for Star Group to hit the world's top 500 next year. And it is very likely to squeeze Wal-Mart down, although Wal-Mart is still strong, but now the Star Group's ability to collect money is too terrifying.

Most of the media in the film industry are full of praise for the Star Group, and other media are sighing again about the Star Group, the reason is too simple, although the Star Group is spending money very quickly, but the wealth is too fast, look at it, this has almost brought a bloody storm in the media industry, I am afraid that many film companies will have to look at the face of the Star Group in the future, and many newspapers and media are simply speculating whether the Star Group is going to set up its own media company next, After all, the Star Group is too rich now, and it is not surprising to others what to do.

Moreover, the Star Group is obviously developing towards diversification, so the group's ability to resist risks is naturally quite high. After reading these media reports, Zhang Yang couldn't help but shake his head, sure enough, that's right, the consequence of being too famous is this, everyone will put you under the magnifying glass, as long as you make a little move, someone will jump out to conduct all kinds of analysis on you, low-key? Since the day the Star Group became famous, this word has been lost to the Star Group.

But this is just an episode, now the company's other things have basically entered the formal, although the integration of the star computer company still needs time, but in fact it is not too difficult, in addition to the board of directors needs to be sufficient, the management of the entire computer company is easier to deal with, after all, many companies before the combination have very good management, and now the star group lacks management personnel, Some of the managers who were replaced were directly placed by Chen Xiaowei in some important positions in other branches.

These people don't have much opinion, the treatment is better, and the group is more prospective, going to a new company is undoubtedly easier to achieve, these people do not have shares in the company, which is naturally easier to enter the core of the group. And even after changing jobs in the future, there will be more capital, not to mention China now, even if it goes abroad, if it is said that it is from the Star Group, I am afraid no one will underestimate it.

If you don't believe it, if Chen Xiaowei resigns now, the world knows how many large groups with more than 100 billion US dollars will not hesitate to hire Chen Xiaowei as the CEO of their company. There's no way, where are the achievements made by others? After retracting his gaze, Zhang Yang was busy with the military system above, while Luo Gai and the others were busy writing the battle platform and then perfecting the competitive version of World of Warcraft.

Regarding whether this version is open to the public, Zhang Yang has not yet made up his mind, but Luo Gai still helped AMD solve the CPU problem in the process of writing, but it is not his new architecture method, but it has been optimized for the original AMD architecture, so that AMD's latest CPU performance has almost caught up with the performance of the intel core dual-core in Zhang Yang's memory.

This performance is already much higher than Intel's new generation of CPUs, and its cost is not much higher. Time flies quickly, with the rapid approach of January 1, 06, less than a month and a half before New Year's Day, all the procedures of the Star Cup have finally been completely completed, and the battle platform and system of the Star Cup have been officially launched and open to the public

Those who register clubs must hand over a registered capital of not less than 100,000 RMB to Star Group, and the registered capital of the club shall not be less than 500,000 RMB. Originally, Zhang Yang didn't want to do restrictions, but now he can't do it, because there are too many clubs of all kinds, and those small clubs have no competitiveness at all, they just want to win a prize in the first Star Cup.

With the withdrawal of the new policy of Star Group, more than 4,000 clubs in 66 countries that are currently interested in opening the Star Cup have been successfully registered, in other words, there are almost more than 60 clubs in each country. But that's only a few days ago, and there aren't any big groups at these clubs.

Zhang Yang didn't know if these big companies were ready to join in, or if they hadn't started to make efforts. However, Zhang Yang understands that it is unlikely that he is not ready to join, the reason is very simple, for these large companies, hundreds of thousands of dollars are not enough for their advertising expenses for a week, and if their club can win the prize, it will be millions of dollars, and this investment is quite worthwhile

Chapter 571: In the Next City (Medium)