Chen Xi and Liu Yifei's meal, no matter what they ate, at least they were still quite happy.

Liu Yifei is because Chen Xi has almost become a joker, and many things make her feel very happy, but Chen Xi is because various things were squeezed on his shoulders before, which made it difficult for him to relax for a while, and now there is such an object for him to release the joke, and it is unceremonious.

So, the guests and hosts rejoiced.

Chen Xi watched Liu Yifei walk to her own car, and Chen Xi also tightened the collar of her coat, intending to walk into the car.

Now in this kind of ghost weather in the capital, the cold wind blows people ecstatically, and it is also spurring people to erect the collar of their coat high.

At this time, Chen Xi's spare eyes saw Liu Yifei poking his head out of the car and waving at him.

In fact, this is also a very simple farewell action, but I don't know why, Chen Xi's heart warmed slightly, and he also smiled and waved at her.

...... the premiere of "Source Code" is in particularly good condition, which also makes Chen Xi basically relieved now, fortunately, the current things are still similar to what he imagined.

Next, Chen Xi and the others will also go to the United States to start publicity, and some of the ground propaganda on the Chinese side will be handed over to actors like Yu Nan and others......

Although Yu Nan's appeal is indeed not as good as Chen Xi, Chen Xi, a very important big city, has passed by herself, and now what is missing is only some second- and third-tier cities, so it's almost time for her to go, as for Liu Yifei, she also needs to go to Los Angeles and New York with Chen Xi to publicize.

Chen regrets that he still needs to participate in an American variety show......

This made Chen Xi even more difficult to make up for English, otherwise, if he had too many problems with English pronunciation and professional terminology at that time, the consequences would be very bad.

After the United States went through "Raid" and "Embroidered Spring Knife", the awareness of Chen Xi has indeed improved a lot, so now there are so many places that take the initiative to ask Chen Xi to come to an interview, but Chen Xi just chose a relatively suitable one. Then there will be two premieres in the United States, and then it will be time for "Source Code" to be released in China and the United States at about the same time......

As for other countries and regions, Chen Xi is really lacking in skills, but fortunately, many filmmakers in these countries and regions are using the North American market as the vane, as long as the North American market is excellent, there will basically be no problems on their side.

In this way, Chen Xi and they are now focusing on the North American market, and other countries and regions will have to wait to see this weather vane.

The North American market is also about the success or failure of Source Code.

This movie is actually quite important for Chen Xi and for deep space film and television, of course, this film so far. Counting all kinds of overseas propaganda expenses, it is almost only more than 100 million yuan, less than 200 million, so Chen Xi can still directly recover the cost in some places in China.

Although it is said that the domestic box office performance of Chinese films basically determines whether the film can recover its cost and make a profit, in fact, there are still some other places where the film can get benefits. In fact, many Chinese-language movies can still be sold for overseas copyrights, even if they are some cats and dogs, but there are still some, and there are also some places where you can get some profits. For example, put it on a TV station, for example, put it on a video website......

The current deep space video website is also an industry under deep space film and television, but the deep space video website is actually not subordinate to other departments of deep space film and television, so if it is a film and television work of deep space film and television that is broadcast on the deep space video network. It is inevitable that there is still a purchase fund that needs to be made.

After all, "Source Code" has the popularity that Chen Xi has accumulated from "Raid" and "Embroidered Spring Knife", so even if this film is unsatisfactory in the North American market, it can still sell two or three million US dollars of copyright in overseas markets such as Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Europe. When the time comes, coupled with the domestic box office recovery, plus the sale of rights elsewhere, it should be able to barely recover the cost. even made a fortune, but Chen Xi's strategic goal is obviously not to make a fortune with this film......

What Chen Xi wants is to use "Source Code" to make a lot of money, but this is still not the main goal, Chen Xi's main goal is to make foreign filmmakers really pay attention to "Source Code" and pay more attention to Chen Xi, Chen Xi's name is in the North American market and other places, and commercially it may only be second only to Ang Lee among Chinese directors, so as to lay the foundation for more of his high-investment films in the future, and for many of his future films to have quite good overseas box office. He himself became a non-negligible part of the world film industry and laid the foundation.

The North American market is quite forgetful to overseas filmmakers, and even the European market is ...... For example, Zhang Guoshi, after the performance of "The City Full of Golden Armor" was not satisfactory, he basically withdrew from the competition for the European and American markets, and then his big bad film "Three Guns Shooting Surprise" further bankrupted his credit, so even if he used the theme of a certain era such as "Return" in the future, it still did not attract too much attention from Europe and the United States, and many of his commercial films were difficult to return to the European and American markets.

Therefore, if Chen Xi's "Source Code" fails miserably in North America this time, it will basically begin to announce that he has come to a big rout in the competition for overseas markets, and it will not be so simple to enter the North American and European markets next time.

Thinking of this, Chen Xi's heart was not a taste......

In fact, this idea is also centered on the United States, after all, it is the economic and political center of the world, and the film industry is also the most developed here, so the North American market is also extremely important.

If you want to see one day, China's film industry also has such a centripetal force...... Obviously, we can only wait until China replaces the United States as the central country, but unfortunately Chen Xi's generation was also born at the wrong time, although it is much better than the older generation, but the time is still in the era of China's forbearance.

There is no doubt that it is only a matter of time before China takes over the United States, but at least for now, all Chen has to do is do everything in his power to gain the approval of those in the world-centric market.

A lot of people ...... Source Code started flying to the United States.

In fact, "Source Code" still had a certain amount of screenings before, and Chen Xi's previous films basically used screenings to compete for the market in the North American market, and they wanted to achieve the ultimate word-of-mouth effect, and this time was no exception.

So far, there has been a lot of praise in the North American market.

"I really didn't expect the Chinese to be able to make such a movie! If you want to watch fancy action movies for the Chinese, you can watch this movie. If you want to watch novel sci-fi, you can also watch this movie, and if you want to watch suspense films, you can still watch this, Chen Xi, this director is really amazing, he let us know that in addition to the long hair and fluttering costume films, as well as those heavy historical films, they are also very proficient in playing other movies......"

"Director Chen is not only a good director, but has made such a good movie in terms of commerciality, literature and science fiction, and he directed and acted quite well! In fact, Director Chen is also a handsome guy from our point of view. ”

…… Among some of the good reviews like this. Although the IMDB rating has not been opened for the time being, many things about "Source Code" have also begun to spread slowly on Facebook and Twitter, and Chen Xi has experience in running American Internet hype before, and now they will naturally not let go of this opportunity, the North American evaluation of "Source Code" is also growing, and the number of people who spontaneously promote this movie is also increasing.

And after the trailer in the middle appeared, there were more such people......

Now, in fact, Source Code has gradually reached the time to reap the fruits.

Now the release scale of "Source Code" has almost begun to lock in about 3,000 theaters, which is the largest release scale of Chinese films so far, and has successfully surpassed the 2,000 theaters released at the time of "Hero".

Actually, the world now. Whether it is China, the United States, or the whole world, especially in the literary and artistic circles. It's still the feeling of the Three Kingdoms era in China, once a person has a reputation, many things will become much easier.

Chen Xi's "Raid" emerged in the North American market, and the subsequent "Embroidered Spring Knife" also came to consolidate its achievements while holding its position. Let Chen Xi's reputation be greater, and now it's time for "Source Code" to start harvesting the things that have been accumulated before, which can be seen from the 3,000 theaters that "Source Code" has released now. It's just that this is also a big gamble, if you lose this time, the next time Chen Xi's movie may only be able to organize a maximum of two or three hundred theaters, and it will be too difficult to start all over again!

Chen Xi and Liu Yifei went to the theaters in Los Angeles and New York to promote the release, and during the entire release period, this movie was basically recognized by the audience in those theaters, many people think that this film is really good, the creativity in the middle is really refreshing, and many people like this film very much.

Of course, there are also some critics in the middle who mentioned that "Source Code" has a bit of a "butterfly effect" feel in some places, but this statement has been refuted by many people, and most people think that these are two completely different movies.

The publicity for the release in these places is quite good, and Chen Xi was pleasantly surprised to find that he already has a lot of blonde and blue-eyed foreign movie fans, these guys may not be die-hard about themselves, but they are indeed their fans......

Many of these guys came up directly to find Chen Xi for autographs, and many people wanted to take photos with Chen Xi, anyway, at the screening sites in New York and Los Angeles, Chen Xi didn't expect that there would be so many fans before, so he was dragged in these two theaters for several hours.

This also made Chen Xi's heart reassured, and sure enough, he already had enough influence.

Next, Chen Xi and Liu Yifei began to participate in a variety show in Los Angeles, this variety show has also been on Brother Cheng Long a few times before, anyway, a lot of movie promotion will be carried out here, of course, they are also very picky, if a movie is not praised, not too many people like it, and it has not been promoted by itself, then even if they are given money, they still can't get on this kind of show.

But it's also because of some reasons like this, anyway, promoting a movie on this show can still be said to get twice the result with half the effort.

This is a talk show on KLA TV, and you need to have confidence in yourself to go up...... After all, if your English is not good, you will not be able to speak in some problems, or your English will not be awkward, and the effect will not be too good, and it may damage morale and affect your self-confidence.

Chen Xi is okay......

After the fusion of the two souls, Chen Xi always feels that many of his things are advancing by leaps and bounds, especially his learning ability, in the learning of English, the original Chen Xi has a bit of a headache, and basically he can't learn well, but after the fusion of the two souls, Chen Xi's English learning speed is very fast, and the English pronunciation is very standard, these abilities give him enough confidence to be on this Rausch sub program.

This kind of foreign interview show, in fact, the most attractive thing is that there are many fierce words and the host, the exchange of wisdom and words between the interviewers, so Chen Xi needs to guard against many of their small pitfalls, and also needs to have some decent responses.

Moreover, in recent years, Sino-US relations have also had quite twists and turns, although it is said that you have me, I have you, and it is difficult to cut off, but in many places, the United States and other Western countries have propagated the theory of the China threat in various ways, so that this world in which they have mastered public opinion has basically been affected and has huge opinions on Chinese......

When the socialist camp was extremely powerful, and the millions of Soviet Red Army troops reached the end of the world, they arrived at the throat of Europe, and the huge NATO trembled and couldn't sleep at night, because some of the stupid things brought by the Soviet Union that were not good at the struggle of public opinion still made the people of the world look at Chinese with bad eyes...... It can't change much now, so Chen Xi also has to worry about being involved in some very heated rhetoric.

He's here to promote the movie, not to quarrel......

The interview officially began.

Sure enough, these guys soon began to ask very sharp questions: "Director Chen, with all due respect, Chinese films, what really has achieved commercial success are all kung fu movies, costume kung fu films, used to satisfy everyone's curiosity mentality, but as you know, curiosity hunting can't be hunted for too long, you want to use the concept of science fiction to make North American fans like this movie, do you think it's possible?" ”

Chen Xi frowned slightly, this kind of remark would easily cause a lot of controversy, but he had to answer now. (To be continued......)