Chapter Ninety-Nine: Slap the Face with Facts

After the box office figures for the first weekend came out, the three production companies immediately contacted various overseas markets and began to work on overseas releases. News has long spread from North America to overseas, and distribution companies in many countries and regions have even come to negotiate on their own, which is the convenience of Hollywood.

Such good news, of course, should also be used in order to further promote the release in the future.

"It's young, big may not be good" is an ancient Chinese way to describe young geniuses who are obscure when they become adults.

After "The Sixth Sense", Hollywood has this saying, that is, Chen Tiandu's first movie "The Sixth Sense" is just a miracle born by chance and coincidence, and such a meteor director who is in the crowd in a flash of inspiration Hollywood is not unprecedented. His second film may be "no longer bright", and it is difficult to make a masterpiece that the audience likes and the market is popular.

Such people also have their own evidence, pointing out that the cost of Chen Tiandu's first film was only $30 million, but the cost of the second film has skyrocketed more than threefold. On this point alone, it will be difficult for him to recoup his costs if he is not good. Or some experts think he should continue to make horror films instead of choosing the sci-fi films that Asians are not good at.

However, "The Matrix" quickly slapped its face with facts, proving that it can not only recover its costs, but also continue the good results of the previous one and sell well.

When the movie is on fire, the media will naturally dig deep into the insider. Then I was surprised to find that this blockbuster with an investment of more than 100 million yuan actually cost only 60 million US dollars, and the boiling publicity only cost less than 15 million US dollars, and the total cost was only 75 million US dollars.

This amount of investment makes people a little embarrassed, marveling at the effect of the online viral marketing model, and at the same time, they are also surprised that Chen Tiancan has repeatedly created miracles.

"This is a genius with real talents!"

As for whether "The Matrix" can make money, no one doubts it after looking at the box office on the first day. It's only been the first week of release, and it's conservatively estimated that the three producers can earn at least twice as much.

This achievement made Matrix Films, Warner, DreamWorks, and the entire crew of "The Matrix" very excited.

This crew is Chen Tiandu's old deployment, and it seems that not long has passed since the celebration of the last movie, and now they have ushered in a new round of glory. And both the topic and the influence are increasing day by day. The sense of glory brought is even greater than that of "The Sixth Sense".

When asked about the various positions of the film, the staff will proudly claim that they are part of the crew.

This point is even more obvious from Niu Yingying's restaurant.

These days, when people come to his restaurant to eat, Lao Niu seizes the opportunity to boast to regular customers that his daughter is the costume designer of "The Matrix...... One. I said it many times, but every customer who heard it was very surprised, and he never got tired of it. There were also those who didn't believe it, and then Lao Niu naturally led the guests to see the family photos of the crew brought back by Niu Yingying.

There are not a few people who are jealous of Chen Tiandu's good luck, even in China, there are countless people who watch the excitement with the mentality of "big may not be good". Most people think that it is impossible for Chinese to make such gorgeous and good movies, even if Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige are still in the era of "Red Sorghum" and "Overlord Farewell Ji" in the minds of the audience.

What kind of place is Chinese opera, insiders know very well that it is enough for a fresh graduate of Chinese opera to be lucky enough to make a movie, and still think about how good the second movie can be?

This mentality is universal, even if Zhang Yimou said something against his will on the CCTV TV program such as "the future of Chinese films lies in young people", it was just a compliment. He himself is still young, how can he believe in the spearhead?

However, when the news of the film's good box office performance in the first weekend and the rising reputation of the film came back to China again, many people were stunned.

"Really?" Huayi Brothers Wan Zhongjun couldn't help but rub his eyes when he saw the news in the newspaper.

Zhang Weiping of the new picture company couldn't help but shake his head when he saw the newspaper, "This is a real bull stock." ”

The movie "My Father and Mother" made by him and Zhang Yimou has been filming since last year, and it is scheduled to be released in China in October this year. But at this time, "My Father and Mother" has not yet been completed, and Chen Tiandu's sci-fi blockbuster has been screened all over the world.

"This speed, this speed of making money...... If I were DreamWorks, I would have praised him. ”

"The Matrix" arrived in China en masse because of the filming in China earlier, and even Spielberg came to China for the first time. made a lot of noise, which has made "The Matrix" famous in China. Now that the movie is being released in North America, it grossed $60 million in the first three days of the weekend, which really surprised many people.

Today, we have entered the information age, although domestic netizens have not yet been cultivated. But when the weekend box office rankings on the other side of the world were released, domestic audiences still knew. The media knew earlier, and the entertainment section of the news newspaper of the day reported it with great fanfare, and the Internet** and NetEase did not skimp on the homepage headlines.

"The genius director Chen Tiandu, who directed and acted in his second film, was released in North America, once again creating a good result. The box office in the first three days of the weekend was 60.88 million US dollars, winning the weekly box office championship. The success of this movie shattered all the previous doubts, and it was proved with ironclad facts that he was a star rather than a meteor. ”

“…… In the movie, the Great Wall in the snow, the verdant Wudang Mountain, and the plum garden in the snow are all praised by the North American media. The sense of kung fu and special effects makes the movie as fresh as 91% on Rotten Tomatoes......"

The Chinese trailer for the movie was also released, and many people saw the breathtaking bullet time special effects footage.

"Wow, it looks like a good cow, it will be introduced in China, right?"

"Why haven't there been pirated versions on the Internet, it's all trailers, it's hairy......"

Whether or not to introduce this issue is not a matter of fame and having enough right to speak. It will only be considered if it is in line with the policy and has the money.

Fortunately, Chen Tiandu's movie "The Sixth Sense" released at the beginning of this year was a buyout film, and it also successfully won more than 70 million yuan at the box office in the off-season of domestic films, which was almost comparable to "Saving Private Ryan", and also made the unit responsible for the introduction make a lot of money.

Today's "The Matrix" is not bad, and it has been filmed in China, plus Chen Tiandu intends to make the movie successfully released in the mainland, and even the Chinese trailer that was not prepared has been released in advance, which can already express his intention...... Or simply look at the money, and so on, radio and television also began to negotiate.

So, in line with public opinion, Radio and Television made an announcement in advance, ""The Matrix" has many possibilities as an imported blockbuster and introduced into the domestic ......"

There is a super big name in the mainland, and the Hong Kong media is a little jealous. In their eyes, mainland movies are incomparable with Hong Kong movies at all, but when "The Matrix" was released in Hong Kong at the same time, there was still a large number of students going out in the summer and young salarymen taking leave, all to see this movie that is known as the last most anticipated movie of the summer.

After reading it, it really didn't disappoint, Chen Tiandu has not been to Hong Kong once, and it has become popular all over the city.

But although this movie has Chinese starring, although the action director is Yuan Heping, it is still a Hollywood movie in the final analysis. The fact that such a boom has triggered is even more proof that Hong Kong, the Hollywood of the East, has also been captured by Hollywood, and some Hong Kong filmmakers do not know whether to laugh or cry when they witness this situation.

Taiwanese people also like to watch "The Matrix", but they are not inferior, because they have the Li case. Although they all know that the box office of the Li case is not as good as that of Chen Tiandu in the mainland, they are still proud because they also have an Oscar director.

The whole of Southeast Asia, Japan, and South Korea is gradually igniting the trend of the Matrix.

The box office results of the second week of the film confirmed the popularity of the market and its popularity.

Despite the following week, Hollywood didn't have any blockbuster releases that could take "The Matrix" down during the same period, and its box office didn't suffer much.

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