Chapter 290: Foreign Box Office! A terrifying $200 million!

When the achievements of "Source Code" are now in front of everyone's eyes, everyone feels a shock that really rushes to their hearts, because it has been too long and too long before that there has been no Chinese film that has a good performance in the North American market, but the current "Source Code" really makes everyone see such hope.

This is a pretty good movie in terms of word-of-mouth and box office, and from the perspective of Chinese films in the North American market, "Source Code" has so far let everyone know that Chinese films can be liked by blonde Westerners in addition to some action movies by Jackie Chan and Li Lianjie and those endless costume action movies, as well as modern films like now.

Of course, these foreign fans are not stupid hats, of course they also know that only talented filmmakers can make good movies, after all, if a movie like "Source Code" is shot for people like Guo Jingming, it will definitely be a bad movie, and many times the filming of movies still requires a good director and a good team.

Now movie fans in the world, especially those on the North American side, have basically begun to know Chen Xi as a person, and have begun to really look forward to his next film festival and movie after movie.

Chen Xi's previous "Raid" can be said to be like a star that suddenly rises in the sky over the whole world, of course, Chen Xi at that time also had certain problems in popularity and real thickness after all, so when I think of this movie, I may think of Chen Xi, but it is not so easy to really draw an equal sign between Chen Xi and the three words of a good director, but after the "Embroidered Spring Knife" came out, although this movie is not particularly strong from the perspective of expanding the territory, But this film still has a lot of impact, and it also allows everyone to really see the revival of a Chinese costume martial arts film.

At that time, Chen Xi's popularity gradually began to take root in the hearts of the people, and more and more people began to like Chen Xi. It's just that Chen Xi's significance at this time is not particularly great, at least among Chinese directors, in terms of popularity in North America, he may be able to break into the top 30, but there is still a long way to go from the top ten: after all, although the box office of Chinese films has been relatively weak in North America in recent years, many directors of Chinese films still have a good reputation in North America.

After all, many directors do not use the box office as their strength, for example, directors like Wang Xiaoshuai and them are, although their own movies do not have much box office in the North American market, they know that they have many fans......

Now, however, after the appearance of a Source Code. This significance is really too great, first of all, everyone is beginning to really understand Chen Xi, and now Chen Xi appears in front of everyone as a director and an actor, and many American people will also remember his two identities at the same time.

Secondly, the box office table of this movie will also become one of the best Chinese films in this market, which will make many Americans begin to understand that Chinese films are not really in complete decline, and there are still so many people who insist on Chinese films and insist on making Chinese films with good quality!

And these people's expectations are clearly achievable.

This will also keep Chinese films from sinking in the hearts of these fans in North America. Nor will it be forgotten.

Again, the emergence of "Source Code" has also really laid the foundation for many of Chen Xi's next films, and now Americans have begun to really pay attention to Chen Xi's next films, and it is obvious that they will also begin to look forward to Chen Xi's next film. So when it comes to the next movie, even if Chen Xi doesn't have the same publicity scale as "Source Code", he can get higher popularity.

So, in these cases. In the coming time, Chen Xi will face a better world.

…… And now many people are looking forward to seeing the final North American box office of "Source Code", and the film's performance in the North American market in the first two weeks can no longer be described as excellent. It's about being stunning.

Because these achievements of this movie are unimaginable to many people.

This is also the best expression of Chinese films after "Hero" and has now surpassed "Hero", showing another type of Chinese film in front of the whole world, and also showing everyone that Chinese films have the potential to develop more good things in many places.

It's just that starting in the next third week, although "Source Code" should not have a problem maintaining the current IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes as well as some other movie websites and many American fans, but it is obviously impossible for this movie to maintain the previous box office, first of all, it has been released for two weeks, and "Source Code" will definitely have a great impact on the film schedule now, and secondly, because it is also the year-end schedule in the North American market. Many of the movies on this schedule are likely to get quite good box office.

Especially if there is a Christmas schedule in the middle, this is even more so, so many blockbusters will choose to be released at this time and then let the market survival space of "Source Code" be robbed, in addition, "Avatar" is about to be released, and now only Chen Xi is the only one in the world who knows how surprising "Avatar" will be in the future, and he alone knows how crazy the final box office of this movie will be, but many people have actually thought of "Avatar" before There should be quite a good table in the global market.

So the release of "Avatar" will definitely get a piece of the pie from Chen Xi's "Source Code"!

Soon, "Avatar" really began to be released, and this movie just released to let everyone experience a different movie-watching experience, they never thought that the movie could be filmed and broadcast like this...... They never imagined that they would be able to see such a shocking movie.

Although there have been 3D film forms in the history of human cinema, many of the so-called 3D movies before were just empty shells, and in fact, there were no very good visual tables, and many of the movies that really had super 3D effects were regarded as something that could only be stored in museums, and could only be played back in some specific places. But when it really came to "Avatar", everyone really saw the horror of 3D movies, and only then did they really see the shocking of this form.

Although the first week of the North American box office of "Avatar" did not shock people to the extreme, the film began to reverse its decline even in places like the North American market. Even in the second week, the box office still maintained a very high level, and it is estimated that such a movie may eventually be released for nearly two months if it is released for a long time, and it may have exceeded the terrifying $500 million at the box office......

But in the face of a flood beast like "Avatar", what many people imagine as a lightweight player like "Source Code" did not really break out, instead the box office of "Source Code" in the third week was actually quite strong, still getting 12.04 million US dollars in a week, and the cumulative box office has reached 67.92 million US dollars!

In this way, "Source Code" is only second only to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in the first place so far, and has become the second place in the box office list of foreign language films in the North American market. There are already two Chinese-language movies!

People in the world really feel an inevitable surprise in front of such a movie!

At this moment, the box office of "Source Code" is still further impacting the North American market, and although the total box office weakened slightly in the third and fourth weeks of the next week, when it was released a month later, "Source Code" finally won $75.09 million at the box office, becoming the second highest grossing film in the world under "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

…… In the North American market, Chen Xi's name has really begun to be spread, and even Liu Yifei is basically really hitching a ride now, anyway, for a period of time, Liu Yifei's fame in North America has even begun to challenge international actresses like Zhang Ziyi and them.

Liu Yifei had enough popularity in North America when the North American box office of "The King of Kung Fu" reached more than $50 million. And now Source Code is a big step forward in that popularity.

The next Liu Yifei can be regarded as an internationally famous actress!

Of course, Chen Xi is even more so, what is surprising is that Chen Xi's popularity in North America is really not only a director, many people are willing to see him as a super talented Chinese filmmaker who directs and acts. This is still quite important to Chen Xi.

It is quite obvious that the North American market is a bellwether for overseas markets, and in fact, among the top 10 countries and regions in the world, China and Japan may be relatively different from the North American market. The Japanese market is bad, and movies are also not sold in Japan, this two-dimensional country has a relatively high level of appreciation for movies, as for China......

In China. Hollywood's good movies and bad movies sell just as well, and many big bad movies need to come to China, where people are stupid and have a lot of money, to really recover their costs......

Of course, the aesthetic of Chinese cinema is also improving.

But now, Source Code's North American box office is so amazing that it's having a huge impact around the world.

As a result, among the countries and regions that have been released continuously after "Source Code", this movie has broken the viewing records in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and other places in Southeast Asia alone, and it has really broken some records of many Chinese films in these places in terms of the number of moviegoers and some box office.

"Source Code" has received a total of 23.57 million US dollars at the box office in the major Chinese film dumping markets in Southeast Asia, such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines, with an average release of about 40 days, such a box office figure is indeed quite good, and just here plus the table in the North American market, the box office of "Source Code" has almost broken 100 million US dollars!

In addition, "Source Code" on the Japanese side, quickly broke some records, and after 46 days of release, it got a box office of 3.247 billion yen, ranking second only to "Shaolin Temple", surpassing the previous "Plan A", ranking fifth among Chinese films in the Japanese film market! That's $27 million. In the annual Japanese box office rankings, it also entered the top 20.

In South Korea, "Source Code" also got a pretty good table in places such as moviegoers, ranking second only to "Red Cliff", surpassing "Ambush on All Sides", winning 1.5 million moviegoers and getting a box office of $10 million.

As a result, Source Code has easily surpassed $100 million at the box office in these places, and many of the films are still growing.

"Source Code" also performed quite well in Europe, and finally won $38.14 million at the box office in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and other countries and regions in Europe.

"The worldwide revival of Chinese films!"

Soon, after seeing such some super box office figures, such titles have appeared in many places now, and this is not only in the Chinese media, but also many foreign film media have such ideas, they all feel that "Source Code" has achieved so many achievements in the world box office rankings, and feel as if "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Hero" swept the world back then, and many people feel that some things in Chinese films seem to be back!

Of course, there are indeed some people in such media who have a bit of a taste of killing, but it is precisely because of such titles that the current "Source Code" has attracted much attention, and of course, Chen Xi has become more and more well-known around the world, and it is also more and more concerned.

Although the main film markets for this film are in Europe, Asia and North America, there are still places in other countries and regions where "Source Code" is being released, and the box office of this film is still strong in the world.

The final international box office of the film was counted in December 2010, when basically the film was really released worldwide, and finally the film got 234 million US dollars at the box office in the entire world, except for Chinese mainland, which also made "Source Code" one of the most successful commercial films in the 2009-2010 time period, and the most successful commercial film in the world except for Hollywood blockbusters.

It has been too long since there has been a Chinese film with an overseas box office of hundreds of millions of dollars, and for a while, the Chinese media are almost all jubilant, and Chen Xi's fame is getting higher and higher, and he has basically stood at the top of the pyramid of Chinese directors. (To be continued......)