At this moment, the executives of Disney and Fox are extremely nostalgic for the release of "Life of Pi" last year, when Black Pearl only maintained 1,000 screens...... And now, when the Black Pearl Company is under the same rules as the other old giants, it dawns on everyone that the company with the symbol of a pirate ship is extremely destructive......

These pirates are simply robbing market share!!

Before the release of "Slam Dunk", countless people were sneering, everyone was ridiculing Li Xiaole for how he could be stupid enough to shoot a Japanese anime theme, all saying "Li Jesus is about to usher in the first fiasco of his film career" and "Li Xiaole's myth is over". But now open the newspapers and magazines.

"Wow! Cultural leader Li Xiaole! "This guy is a genius! ", "Animated movies can't be difficult for him~", "Before the age of 30, how many Oscars will Li Xiaole get?! How many records are still lost before his eyes"...... The previous Hollywood mean-spirited directors and fierce film critics have become loyal fans of Lee Jesus.

At the same time, Li Xiaole himself has once again become the hottest topic in the United States, believing that he has perfectly achieved the job of "Pokéball commentator" in the NBA Finals series that ended on June 19, and in the Lakers' 4-1 victory over the Magic, he almost collapsed the confidence of the Magic players with his mouth.

When Kobe Bryant, the MVP of the Finals, held the O'Brien Gold Cup with the players, Li Xiaole was also pushed to the center of them, and the Chinese director held the footage of the O'Brien Cup on sports TV stations around the world, making basketball fans all over the world crazy for him!

"Slam Dunk" brought a box office boom not only in the movie world, but also the NBA league that cooperated with Li Xiaole this time also got an amazing reward, because Li Xiaole's joining of this series reached a rating of 22.5, which is the highest peak in ten years since the 1998 Bulls VS Jazz Finals reached a 100-2 rating, which made NBA league president David Stern smile every day, and he was saying to everyone around him: "Cooperate with director Li Xiaole, It was the best decision I've ever made. ”

People were surprised to learn that basketball seemed to suddenly replace football, baseball, and ice hockey as the number one sport in the United States during the summer vacation.

And behind the prosperity of this series, I have to mention the credit of the 3D screen, although the Hollywood animation theme has been 3D very early, but from "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" to "Slam Dunk", it seems that people are slowly beginning to understand that in these action-oriented movies, the 3D effect will bring people into another viewing experience.

When you sit in front of the screen, it's like you've entered a movie dream, and the feeling is incomparable.

After a month of box office explosion, "Slam Dunk" has now begun to decline on ordinary 2D screens, but in 3D theaters, the film is still hard to find.

Cinemas with 525 3D screens in Japan are lined up every day, 127 3D screens in South Korea are 100% attended during prime time slots, and in the UK, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, all of these places where the enthusiasm for 3D screens has far exceeded critics' expectations.

Li Xiaole's first 3D movie seems to have brought a huge impact to the entire industry, and people have found for the first time that the audience's expectations for 3D movies far exceed ordinary movies.

On the 20th day of the release of "Slam Dunk", Han Sanpin called Li Xiaole, who was far away in Los Angeles, back to China Film to discuss the next step.

"Xiaole~~You're here~Come and sit down~" Han Sanpin watched Li Xiaole come in, hurriedly opened the bench for him to sit, and then looked at his huge and brand-new sand table map marked with the theater, and said in a brisk tone: "Look at it, the box office in these 20 days is really good, you are really going to break the record of your "Let the Bullets Fly" this time, and it is better than any of your previous movies in Japan, I think the influence of "Slam Dunk" in the global market is probably greater than your "Youth Pi". ”

Saying that, Han Sanpin pulled out the smiling red flags from the sand table, the south side of the map of China, and waved in front of Li Xiaole:

"This is Yongle Cinema in Shanghai, their family has a box office of 60,000 per day, this is Guangzhou Tianhe Cinema, they sold a box office of 40,007, and Huaxing Cinema in Chu and Zhejiang also sold 40,000 tickets, as well as Wanda in Sichuan, Yinxin in Wuhan, and Xingmei in Suzhou...... These theaters are still full... It's been 20 days in a row. ”

Han Xiaoli, who was on the phone just now, also put down the phone at this time, and also pulled a laughing red flag from the sand table and said with a smile: "Inoue from Japan called just now, and the 3D theaters in Shinjuku, Tokyo are still full...... There are still people queuing every day. ”

"Hmm." Li Xiaole smiled, this situation was similar to what he expected, and he smiled secretly in his heart, it turned out that Han Sanpin changed his theater sand table from a map of China to a map of the world...... It seems that this Han Sanye is not very ambitious.

"Mr. Han, Director Xiao Li, these theaters all have 3D screens, and it seems that the acceptance of 3D is much higher than we imagined." Han Xiaoli said very emotionally: "It's a pity, we only have less than 2,000 screens in China, otherwise it should be higher this time." ”

"Hmm." Han Sanpin also nodded and said: "Disney and Fox also put a lot of pressure on me, wanting us to allocate them more 3D, but we really don't have any extra screens, so we can only barely guarantee "Slam Dunk's" ...... I'm afraid I'm going to offend them this time."

"Hmph~ What if you offend them? Didn't they give little shoes to wear when our movies entered the United States? I think they should be in a hurry this time. Han Xiaoli said with disdain, the Hollywood Six are not good birds, pretending to be pitiful.

"According to this momentum, I think the domestic box office of "Slam Dunk" is really likely to exceed one billion~~ The General Administration should be able to approve the plan to greatly transform our theaters into 3D screens." Han Sanpin suppressed his excitement and said in a low voice: "In the second half of the year, we should be able to turn 5,000 of the country's 12,000 screens into 3D screens." ”

Li Xiaole's "Slam Dunk" this time was full on the 3D screen, and the situation that many people can't buy tickets until now proves that the 3D screen is the big trend of theaters in the future.

"No, Mr. Han, I think this step is still too small." Li Xiaole turned his head and looked at Han Sanpin with ambitious eyes.

"Is this a small step?" Han Xiaoli on the side was stunned when he heard this, rebuilding 3,000 screens in half a year, this scale is not huge.

"What is the size of these 5,000 3D screens in your current plan?" Li Xiaole looked at Han Sanpin and asked.

"I think 5,000 3D screens should fit ...... Well...... About two movies with a box office of more than a billion were screened at the same time. Han Sanpin stared at Li Xiaole with wide eyes, which meant "Isn't this enough?" ”。

You must know that since Li Xiaole brought the domestic box office boom a few years ago, the scale of domestic theaters has developed amazingly, and now the number of screens has reached 12,000, more than tripled a few years ago, which is what the Film Bureau did not expect, what is the concept of 5,000 3D screens, which is equivalent to the number of screens in the country a few years ago.

"So you've been planning how to accommodate the box office when "The Legend of the Great Sage" and "Avatar" are released at the same time at the end of the year, right?" Li Xiaole asked with a smile.

"yes? Is there something wrong with that? Han Sanpin was seen through by Li Xiaole, but he felt even more strange, isn't this right? Now there is no movie in China with a box office of more than one billion, isn't the box office plan of two billion movies enough......?

"You're underestimating not only me, but James Cameron." Li Xiaole smiled: "You can think about it, now "Slam Dunk" is just an animated film, and the box office is already expected to exceed one billion, and you should be able to expect that "The Legend of the Great Sage" and "Avatar" will definitely break through this achievement, and at the end of the year, there will be Christopher Nolan's "Inception", although it is not 3D, but there is also an imax version, and the box office potential is also huge, no matter how you look at it, 5000 3D screens are far from enough. ”

"What...... Do you think the box office will be higher at the end of the year? "The Legend of the Great Sage" and "Avatar" will add up to more than 2 billion box office? Han Xiaoli shouted lightly on the side.

"100 percent sure." Li Xiaole nodded, in his memory, when "Avatar" was released in 2010, it triggered a hard-to-find movie-watching boom in China, Shanghai Peace Film was the only Imax3D screen theater in the Yangtze River Delta region at that time, and the ticket office was queuing all night and sleepless, and it is still a Shanghai myth passed down by word of mouth, and that period when the total number of screens in the country was only 5,000, "Avatar" finally won 13 with the advantage of scheduling films for half a year. 7.8 billion box office.

But in 2014, when there were 15,000 3D screens in the country, "Transformers 4", whose quality was several grades worse than "Avatar", only took 12 days to break the record of "Avatar".

It can be said that although "Avatar" swept the global box office when it appeared, the potential of the film was rigidly limited by the scarce number of 3D screens of the year.

And at the end of this year, when "Avatar" and "The Legend of the Great Sage" face off at the peak, plus a "Inception", a collision between Mars and the Earth, how can the number of 3D screens be only 5,000......

"Then Xiaole, tell me, how many 3D screens do you think we should prepare by the end of the year?" Han Sanpin took a deep breath and said.

"At least 10,000 yuan."

Li Xiaole replied without hesitation, making Han Sanpin and Han Xiaoli gasp when they heard it......