Chapter 288 North America, box office blowout
The current box office table of "Source Code" in Chinese mainland is not only able to fully meet Chen Xi's own domestic box office expectations for this film, but also basically fully meet some of Chen Xi's extraordinary imagination.
At the beginning, including what Chen Xi said outside, as well as the goal in his heart, in fact, his requirements for "Source Code" are not only equivalent to the previous level of "Beijing Meets Seattle", but also Chen Xi's higher requirements, you know, although this year has passed, the movie box office in the entire mainland is not large, and this is nothing compared to the horror box office five or six years later......
However, in this era, it is actually possible for a movie to have a box office of more than 500 million, and it is already possible, at least Chen Xi knows that in the near future, a "Tangshan Earthquake" will rewrite China's film and television box office record, which can directly increase this record to more than 600 million......
Then when it came to "Let the Bullets Fly", this box office number jù increased a lot, reaching more than 700 million Cheng dù, and many people imagine that there are a lot of differences, in fact, many people feel that the movie box office in Chinese mainland may really be difficult to accommodate how big the box office is, which everyone knows better.
But many subsequent films continue to refresh their concepts.
When everyone thought that movies such as "Let the Bullets Fly" and "Painted Skin 2" were basically the limit of the box office of Chinese films, the terrifying "Avatar" soon appeared, and the box office of this movie directly exceeded one billion, and it was as hard to find a ticket as the Spring Festival......
So many people used to think that the idea of the Chinese film box office market was a little too much at the time, but now it seems a little conservative in this situation, and the thing is not just such a "Avatar".
After the emergence of a flood beast like "Avatar", many Chinese filmmakers are now basically shocked and surprised to the extreme, and they also feel that it should be impossible for the box office of Chinese films to be close to this number, and if they want to get one billion, they can only be foreign Hollywood blockbusters. Don't want to get involved in Chinese movies......
However, they didn't wait too long, "People Are Embarrassed in Thailand" and "Journey to the West" were born, although they did not break the box office of "Avatar", but they also got more than one billion box office, and they were all quite amazing and terrifying 1.2 billion.
…… When everyone thought that the box office of "Avatar" should be capped, the box office of "Transformers 4" was close to 2 billion......
If it weren't for some people who felt that this might have too bad an impact, so they forced "Transformers 4" to be drawn when there was still 10 million at the box office in one day, the box office of this movie would have been able to directly exceed 2 billion......
So at this time, 2 billion was already a completely unattainable number that everyone thought was completely unattainable, and then because of the death of Paul Walker. "Fast and Furious 7" with a rather strong collision ability, soon set off a shocking wave throughout China, and the box office directly exceeded 2.4 billion......
At this time, many domestic filmmakers were desperate, who knew that in the same year, the box office of "Monster Hunt" surpassed "Fast and Furious 7", of course, the box office of "Monster Hunt" in the final period was a bit unclean, but the real box office of this movie definitely exceeded 2.2 billion.
…… This is the situation where the box office of Chinese mainland movies is growing, and the box office capacity of the market and individual films is also constantly rushing forward.
Chen Xi also felt it. From the current point of view, there should be no problem for him to get 500 million at the mainland box office, and his current goal is to break through the figure of 500 million and directly reach 600 million. Take the Chinese film market up a bit!
The box office figure of 600 million is not to mention the current two thousand and nine years, even if it is put six years later, this is still a big box office figure, after all, not every movie can reach this terrifying number at the box office.
...... "Source Code" also carries the hope of Chen Xi and many people. At the box office, there are constantly great tables coming out and being seen by everyone.
At the same time, the film's overseas journey has also begun to take its own solid steps.
In the beginning. This movie is actually highly anticipated!
When "Source Code" was just released and the box office performance in China was good, there were many spontaneous analyses from fans, including some media's guiding and drainage analyses, and many of their analyses did come from the analysis of "Source Code's overseas box office prospects".
"Source Code" has achieved quite good box office in China so far, and judging from the current box office figures of this film, it is even possible to directly complete a task of breaking the box office record of historical films, but what will happen to the overseas table of this movie? You know, although this movie is a surprise for the Chinese, it is a new and greater imagination brought to them by a science fiction film produced in China, but for foreigners, especially fans in Europe and the United States, the attraction of this movie is difficult to reach the point of "Raid" and "Embroidered Spring Knife", the simplest reason is that the Chinese are really almost a sci-fi desert, especially in movies, here is almost an inch, so if you want to make "Source Code" have a good table in overseas markets, This is obviously quite a difficult thing to do. ”
"So far, Cameron's "Avatar" is preparing for release in the North American market, and the film should just be sweeping the world, so it is clear that "Source Code" can only fight for the two weeks before the release of "Avatar"." However, this analysis is not too insightful.
In fact, the phenomenal level brought about by "Avatar" has affected the entire earth, and it has also made James. Cameron got an even more terrifying box office after "Titanic", and he also became one of the most amazing directors on the planet.
Chen Xi used to let many of his movie theaters have a certain layout and set up a lot of 3D movie halls in the movie theaters created by Deep Space Film and Television, in fact, he is waiting for the trend of "Avatar", and when this trend arrives, the era of 3D movies will officially arrive......
Of course, the concept of the 3D movie era is still debatable, after all, there are really only a few real 3D movies, and there are too many other movies because 3D movies are more expensive, so their movies choose to be released in 3D format, in fact, these movies have no need to use 3D at all.
This trend is more popular around the world than "Avatar". So in China, even some urban romance films use the 3D format that shocks many people, and in the United States, a "God of War" with only subtitles in 3D is even more indignant and notorious......
But in any case, 3D will become the mainstream of many movie theaters in the future.
But it is precisely because of this that Avatar and 2D's "Source Code" do not actually have a particularly strong conflict, and the two movies are able to complete a kind of compatibility in many places.
But it's true that Source Code is now burdened with a lot of things.
There are also some media and some film critics, and some film industry researchers who are now writing evaluations that can also be said to hit the nail on the head.
"I've watched Source Code and it's a pretty good movie. The conceptual innovations in some of them do make people feel almost like Chinese movies! Now when this movie appears in the European and American markets, it still has to face a lot of challenges, especially when this genre has a lot of ideas with the same science fiction concept in these places in North America, this movie wants to break through in North America, and its advantages may be some other American movies, but its disadvantages may not be ...... other American movies."
Indeed, "Source Code" faced many problems when it was released in Europe and the United States.
However, the film is not without its advantages.
In Chen Xi's plan, the release of "Source Code" in North America will be the most important part of the world's release.
As for some American media now, they have also begun to pay attention to such a movie. Started to have more ideas for the film.
At present, the reputation of the Chinese film "Source Code" is still good, and so far the theater chain is more confident in them, and the number of premieres of more than 3,000 has exceeded that of the Chinese film "Hero" that year. It's just that I don't know if this movie can complete the grand occasion of "Hero"? Mainstream audiences, can they accept such a movie that starts to play with the plot and starts to work science fiction ideas? ”
…… Anyway. After all, these statements are just a kind of previous predictions, and how the table of "Source Code" will depend on the film's performance in the next North American market.
…… Soon, here in North America. "Source Code" has begun to be officially released, and many fans are also paying attention to this movie.
"Source Code" was a long working day when it first came out, and this release in North America began on Wednesday.
The box office differentiation in North America is quite strict, and basically the weekend box office of many movies is the weekly box office.
So these days are almost negligible, and the box office will start to be calculated until Friday.
Now many people are paying attention to the North American release of "Source Code", including Chen Xi, after all, the current "Source Code" in China should not be too worried, and the rest depends more on whether the film can achieve Chen Xi's goal overseas.
On Wednesday and Thursday, the box office of "Source Code" in North America can be said to be tepid, and the box office is 4.54 million US dollars in two days.
At this moment, many people are also starting to look down on "Source Code" a little, and they feel that the North American box office of this movie may indeed be the same as many people say, because there are too many types of movies in North America, so it is difficult to get up.
But what exactly will the result look like?
On Friday, this can also be said to be the day that determines the success or failure of "Source Code", if the box office table of "Source Code" on this day is still not very good, then the number of films in the future will be sharply reduced, and the final North American box office of "Source Code" will almost stop at 10 million US dollars......
$10 million is already quite a good box office for a foreign language film, but for a film like "Source Code" that premiered in more than 3,000 theaters, and for Chen Xi, the director of "The Raid", which had a box office of more than 10 million before, it can almost be said to be a small Waterloo, and it will not be so easy to enter the North American market in the future.
As a result, many people's eyes are already on the box office of "Source Code" on Friday.
When Chen Xi knew that the box office schedule of "Source Code" on Wednesday and Thursday was not very good, he was also more anxious, but now everything that should be done has been done, and it is useless to be anxious, the box office of this movie is really hopeless overseas, so he will return to China, with the movie in his head, it is not difficult to mix well in the mainland circle.
It's just that that's always unwilling.
It was under such circumstances that the Friday release of "Source Code" began!
Early in the morning, a lot of people went to the movie theater, and even more during the day and night, in fact, Chen Xi had experience with two movies before, so they had a special skill in promoting "Source Code" in North America, and now on Friday, these effects are finally starting to appear.
Moreover, the previous North American evaluation of "Source Code" was actually quite good, and after allowing the rating, the rating of this movie on IMDB has reached a pretty good score of 8.2, although it is not as good as the rating of the mainland, but this number is actually good, especially for foreign language films.
And the movie's Rotten Tomatoes index is about 94%......
So, by now, word-of-mouth and previous publicity have really begun to work!
On Friday, in the eyes of many people, in Chen Xi's somewhat tight heart, "Source Code" won a box office of 9.27 million US dollars in one day, breaking Chen Xi's previous first-day box office record in North America, and at the same time, it also completed a counterattack and counterattack at once!
And, not only that, next, on Saturday, the North American box office of "Source Code" grew inversely, breaking through $10 million in a single day to $11.03 million, and $9.24 million on Sunday, and in three days, the weekend box office reached $29.54 million, and the cumulative box office reached $35 million! Broke Chen Xi's North American movie box office record!
Happiness rolls in instantly! (To be continued......)