Chapter 431: Reporter's Interview (Updated in 10,000 Words Tomorrow)
The global popularity of "Avatar" has become a phenomenon, and its popularity is difficult to express in an accurate language.
In many parts of the world, even if you brave heavy rains and snowstorms, even if you have been queuing for a long time, you will still be in a fart, and you will not have any negative emotions at all, but run into the cinema to watch "Avatar" with excitement. Even if you shout in the crowd that you have seen IMAX many times, and then die happily in the eyes of everyone's murderous eyes, you are willing.
"Avatar" is like a delicious Pandora fruit, which has made countless fans obsessed.
After the fifth day of global release, the sold-out situation finally eased, and the attendance rate began to drop to 90%...... 80%……
However, at this time, the box office of "Avatar" has surpassed the highest box office record of $2.185 billion set by "Titanic". And all filmmakers and fans are curious to pay attention to how high the box office it can get.
If it really soars to more than $3 billion, it is really a record that makes all filmmakers desperate!!
However, what they don't know is that the real income of "Avatar" is not in that terrifying box office, but in peripheral products.
Avatar toys jointly designed and produced by Huaxia Mickey Toys and Mattel of the United States have been sold all over the world. In addition to toys, various scraps of goods such as dolls and T-shirts have been a great success.
After the release of these products, they immediately attracted countless enthusiastic Avatar fans to pay for them, and the major sales outlets were basically surrounded by Avatar fans, and the goods were suddenly snatched up by hungry fans as soon as they were put on the shelves!!
The sufficient supply of goods originally prepared by various countries has been out of stock, and the contract manufacturers of peripheral products are also sweating overtime to continuously produce goods, and then quickly ship them to the world for sale through international flights!!
The sales market of "Avatar" peripheral products has been extremely hot!!
After rough calculations, in the first five days of release alone, 3 billion products of various sizes were bought around the world, and among them, the Na'vi image/Death Beast/Toruk Knight model and related T-shirts were the most sold and favored. And its sales figures directly exceeded $3 billion.
And in the game market, Tianwang Film and Television is not idle. The stand-alone and online games of "Avatar" have been commissioned to be co-produced by well-known game companies in China and North America, and are expected to be released in May. At this time, the game has attracted the keen attention of a wide range of game lovers before it has even been released, and it has always been in the top three on the North American 'Game Expectation Chart'.
The "Avatar" animation has been undertaken by the Tianwang Animation Branch. It is being carefully crafted and is expected to meet all fans in the second half of the year.
Until now, the economic benefits directly and indirectly created by "Avatar" have exceeded 5 billion US dollars, and it was successfully made into a big cake by Wang Shang, and then the entire alliance of interests was united to make the cake bigger.
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Huaxia, the magic capital.
Since the box office of "Avatar" exceeded 2 billion US dollars, Wang Shang has become the focus of most media in China, not only entertainment media, but also economic, social, and technological media.
"Avatar broke the record of $2.185 billion for the highest box office of "Titanic" on the sixth day of release!! At the same time, it has refreshed a record in film history around the world. The highest box office on the first day, the highest box office in the first week, and the highest box office in a single day ......" - "Huaxia Film News".
"The No. 1 box office movie in history, made in China! Once upon a time, Chinese movies were able to be released in North America because they burned high incense, but now, ten years have passed. Huaxia Films has been able to conquer countless fans and movies in the global film market. This is a great step forward!! - Citizen's Daily.
"The indirect economic benefits brought by a movie drive a whole industry chain!! From 3D to IMAX, from special effects to projectors and cameras, from the box office of movies to toys and clothing industries, from comics to games, the revitalization of "Avatar" has driven a whole industry chain. -- The Economic Observer.
"The most perfect cinema technology. The special effects of Tianwang have been at the forefront of world movies!! Ten years ago, all the special effects of Huaxia films had to rely on foreign countries, and ten years later, Huaxia has the world's top special effects company, as well as 3D, IMAX high-tech film technology patents. And all of this is brought by Tianwang Film and Television Group. Give a big thumbs up!! - Nature and Technology.
"Wang Shang is the greatest filmmaker in China, there is no one! It is he who continues to impact Hollywood with his films, making foreign fans gradually accept movies from China; It was he who invested tens of billions of yuan to build a special effects company, making Huaxia's special effects technology leading the world; It was he who excavated IMAX technology and conquered the foreign film industry! - Cinémathèque.
This time, Wang Shang made too much noise. No. 1 at the box office in global film history, with countless incidental economic benefits, and a global sensation, it has definitely given Huaxia a lot of face, and many Chinese people can't help but be proud when they see groups of foreigners constantly exclaiming and praising them. Therefore, all kinds of domestic media are not stingy with their praise at all, and they are like a tide of sycophants, and they almost molded Wang Shang into a national hero.
Wang Shang felt a little blushing and ashamed when he saw these newspapers every day.
However, this situation made the employees of Tianwang Film and Television very excited, and the newspaper report became the focus of chats between colleagues, who excitedly discussed how awesome their boss was, and they were honored to be the boss's employees. The sense of collective honor and the company's recognition are all quietly improving.
However, the excited employees also have a lot of troubles - there are so many reporters around the Tianwang Building these days!!
Every day, there will be a large number of reporters besieging the Tianwang Building, including reporters from all provinces and cities across the country, as well as from all over the world. These pervasive reporters not only seriously interfered with the daily office of Tianwang Film and Television Group, but also broke through the security guards to enter the community and surrounded Wang Shang's house, which brought great trouble to Wang Shang.
In the end, Wang Shang was so annoyed that he simply gathered all the reporters outside and held a press conference on the spot to solve the problem at one time, so that these paparazzi could leave early.
On December 28, no public press conference began. Although it was not announced to the public, more than 40 media outlets still participated. These reporters sat in the conference room in unison, they did not expect to receive an interview invitation today, and they almost died of excitement. They didn't stupidly call friends. Instead, they all eat alone in a low-key manner.
The first one drawn was a long-haired young male reporter, who stood up excitedly and asked: "Now that "Avatar" has reached $2 billion at the box office in only five days, may I ask Director Wang if you have anything to say?" Also What is your expected box office for this movie? ”
Wang Shang glanced at him, and said in his heart that the level of this question was too scummy, but he replied: "2 billion, this is not my expectation." Judging from the feedback from the film scheduling rate around the world, I expect that the box office of "Avatar" should reach more than 3 billion. Next question. ”
The next reporter: "Hello Director Wang, I see that the ending of "Avatar 1" is obviously unfinished, so does Director Wang have any ideas for making a sequel "Avatar 2"? ? Is the director of the second part still yourself? Or find another director as before?? ”
Wang Shang didn't want to answer directly: "Filming "Avatar" has consumed too much of my energy, so there are no plans to make a sequel yet." As for the director of Avatar 2. I'm sure I'm not going to shoot again, I'm going to find someone else to shoot it. This question ends, the next one. ”
Hearing Wang Shang say that he will not make a sequel for the time being, this makes many reporters who are fans of Avatar feel a pity, but they keep it in their hands. Write down every sentence of Wang Shang by brush, these are big revelations, and you can do it as a news cover hot spot if you throw it out.
The third reporter is a woman with a round face and a nice voice: "May I ask Director Wang, you just said that you will not make a sequel to "Avatar", may I ask what your next work is?" When will it be turned on? Do you think this work will be better than Avatar? ”
Wang Shang pondered for a moment: "I haven't thought about the next work yet." I may not be making movies for a while, but as I just said, after filming "Avatar", I feel a little overwhelmed, so I want to take a break for a while. End of this question, next journalist. ”
Wang Shang really didn't dare to follow the high * tide of "Avatar" to make the next movie. The first is that I am a little exhausted now, and I don't have the high-spirited passion I had at the beginning; The second is that it is difficult to reach the level of "Avatar" again, and there is a 99% chance that the next work will be scolded as scum by countless fans. So after a year or two, after the high-rise tide of "Avatar" has passed, the rest is over. It's never too late to reshoot.
The fourth reporter who won the lottery was a relatively old reporter, he stood up and asked from another angle: "Looking at Director Wang's many films, they are all purely commercial films, has Director Wang ever considered making a literary film?" ”
All reporters are excited again, this question is what many people want to ask, but Wang Shang has been avoiding it, and now with the rise of the commercial blockbuster "Avatar", it is estimated that more people will care.
Wang Shang said eloquently: "I don't really care about the difference between business and literature, I just want to shoot what I want to shoot, but I used to want to try literary films, or I prefer literary films......"
This brief press conference ended quickly, and soon, the media to which the reporters belonged put the content of the interview as quickly as possible, which immediately attracted widespread attention.
"The king didn't even shoot "Avatar 2"? I'm still looking forward to it!! I've watched "Avatar 1" 5 times, and I still can't extricate myself!! ”
"I look forward to the king being able to make a literary film for us to see, we have already eaten too much delicacies from the mountains and seas, and I look forward to being able to eat a meal of coarse tea and light rice."
"Let's talk about the director of "Avatar 2", it's a pity that the king doesn't shoot, but Huaxia estimates that there is no director who can control it, and it is a little unwilling to find a foreign director to shoot......"
"I think the foreign director James Cameron is a good candidate to direct "Avatar 2", and the New Zealand film director Peter Jackson is also a good ......"
ps:
I played for a day today, and I feel cute~~~