The new week officially set sail, which also means that "Zodiac" has officially landed in North American theaters.

Although Chen Long's popularity in North America has declined sharply, the box office appeal is still there, and with Chen Fei's support, he still managed to win 40 million US dollars in the first three days of the weekend!

Natasha walked into his office with a form and began to analyze this week's North American box office data.

""Zodiac" is still good, it can be ranked fourth, and the top three are "Avatar", "Detective Sherlock Holmes", and "Rat Treasure 2", all of which are quite good......

"How about the three fools? Still tepid? ”

"Yes, compared to "Slumdog Millionaires", the box office performance of "Three Fools in Bollywood" in North America is not very good, and it is even below the passing line."

"What about the domestic box office in India?"

"Firmly occupy the No. 1! At present, it has exceeded 40 million US dollars, and it is full of stamina, and it is already a reserve for major awards. ”

"Okay, that's fine, after all, it's a foreign language film, don't expect too much......"

Chen Fei waved his hand, not caring much about this.

"Three Fools in Bollywood" is what he used to open up the Indian film market, as long as he guarantees that he will not lose money.

Moreover, China Film has already confirmed that it will be introduced, and when the time comes, it will go to the mainland cinema to brush its face, and it will be possible to make another profit.

The current education system and social atmosphere of Huaxia and Sange are relatively similar, and the academic and employment pressures are generally very great, which is bound to be a high-quality work that can resonate with mainland audiences.

"Are you following SBS? How was the filming of "Train to Busan"? How long is it until it is finished? ”

Chen Fei is still very concerned about the filming progress of this movie, after all, he really likes the story of "Train to Busan" and is looking forward to seeing the finished film.

Natasha, "I'm afraid it's the end of March, after all, SBS is the first time to contact theatrical films, and I don't have a lot of experience in this area." ”

"Okay, remember to notify me as soon as possible after the finalization, and I will review it myself."

“Ok！”

……

The morning time was quite fulfilling, and the two made a summary of the various film plans that will be launched in the future, and before they knew it, it was already twelve o'clock.

Chen Fei was originally going to go to "The Hunger Games" and "Super Body" in the afternoon to take a look at the post-production progress, but he didn't expect that Old Man Woody Allen intercepted him.

"Fei, did you get your Oscar nomination ballot? Which movie is the company going to promote this year? I'm still eligible for recommendation. ”

"Inception", "Bomb Disposal Unit" ......"

Chen Fei gave him options and suggestions, and then took the lead in retreating.

His ballot has already been submitted, and he is waiting for the Oscar side to announce the list of nominees, and I believe that it will be a wonderful Shura field by then!

……

From time to time, there will be some new news in the mainland, such as the official announcement of the start of "Embroidered Spring Knife" in Hengdian, Ning Hao came to the platform to support, and announced that "Painted Skin 2" will officially start filming after the Spring Festival......

"Three Guns" is a topic that every commercial film director can't avoid, but Ning Hao is quite cautious in this regard, and directly avoids answering.

The media didn't want to let him go, and pressed it very hard.

Ning Hao simply went the opposite way and announced that "Painted Skin 2" would continue to use the original cast, and officially announced the 3D shooting plan, which directly snatched the popularity back.

In the afternoon of the same day, the news spread on the Internet.

""Embroidered Spring Knife" was launched, Zhou Yi's production team joined, and the mainland's new martial arts and new chapter ......"

""Painted Skin 2" announced that it will continue to use the original cast, and Ning Hao will fight fantasy again and continue the 3D boom!"

"Facts have proved that Dianjing Digital, a subsidiary of Feiyue Film and Television, will shine, "Di Renjie", "The Great Earthquake", "Painted Skin 2", "Embroidered Spring Knife", will be involved in part of the special effects design......"

And with the official launch of "Embroidered Spring Knife", it also means that Zhou Yi's last TV series "Peacock Feather" has officially finished.

Su Guohai called and asked how to make arrangements.

"If you should do the post-production, you will do the post-production, and the finished film will be shown to CCTV first, and if you want it, you will sell it, and if you don't have it, you will throw it to the video website, and the copyright must be taken well, this can't be packaged and sold......"

"What about Zhou Yi's actors?"

"Arrange it for the Feiying Huang brokerage company, if you want to enter, you can enter, if you don't want to enter, let them go, just arrange the division of interests......"

Chen Fei has never been interested in the brokerage business, and he doesn't care much about the brokerage company, unless he goes to the filming when there is a shortage of people, otherwise he won't pay too much attention to it on weekdays.

"Okay, I got it."

Su Guohai nodded, already knowing.

Buying Zhou Yi is really for their behind-the-scenes production team, and the other Chen Fei doesn't care at all!

"By the way, you talk to Huang Bo, let him arrange the preparations for "Heart Flower Road" first, I'm busy here, I don't have much time, let him be an assistant director for me."

"Haha, okay." Su Guohai immediately smiled and said: "Huang Bo has been running several times in the company during this time, that's called a monkey rush!" ”

"People look like monkeys, and their personalities are similar, hahahaha!"

……

New Year's Day is approaching, which means that the 09 year is coming to an end.

Hollywood's Lunar New Year stalls are still firmly controlled by "Avatar", while the Lunar New Year stalls in the mainland are fiercely controlled by "Zodiac".

After listening to "Dragon Yin", domestic audiences have begun to look forward to the "Avatar", which is known as the "3D epic masterpiece".

Everyone wants to see, in the mainland film box office market, is "Inception" strong? Or is Avatar stronger?

It's just that in the interval of waiting, some strange hot searches appeared on the Weibo website like stitches.

[Han Geng returned to China and sued the original brokerage company......]

This "melon" is fresh enough, Chen Fei also logged on to Weibo and took a big bite when he participated in the "New Year's Day Party" held by Walton Pictures!

In the past two years, South Korea's women's and men's groups have been quite popular, and even affected the entire Asian region, and China is naturally within the scope of radiation!

It's just that domestic fans were just fanatically chasing stars at first, and no one went out of their way to know what the "idol insider" was.

It wasn't until after the incident of "Han Geng suing the brokerage company" broke out that everyone suddenly realized that this trainee training mechanism was so cruel that it could even be described as "perverted"!

Chen Fei was inexplicably a little emotional, he had a deep understanding of the cruelty in this.

"That is, good luck and running fast, otherwise...... He may not be able to come back. ”

"Is it that scary? I've never had anything like that before! ”

Liu Yifei came over with a curious face, she had also been in the circle of singing and dancing, although she didn't make too many waves, but she could also be regarded as half an insider.

It's just that she didn't encounter these messy things when she was singing and dancing circles.

"You are different from him, and there is also a difference in the style of the idol market between South Korea and Neon, and there is no basis for comparison between the two of you at all."

Chen Fei still vaguely remembers that he met Han Geng when he went to South Korea to promote "Inception".

It's just that at that time, he didn't even have the opportunity to perform, and even if he did, he could only wear a mask, which was really miserable.

It's just that when I returned to China, everything changed a lot!

The fanatical fan base has brought him a large amount of advertising endorsement fees, and the signing fee has risen again and again, approaching Huang Xiaoming, Deng Chao and other first-line actors.

"So, is the era of big traffic going to officially start sailing?"

Chen Fei muttered, his eyes revealing a bit of deep thought.

……

After New Year's Day, the competition in the film market has not stopped, but has become a little more vicious!

Walton Pictures put pressure on "Bomb Disposal Unit" directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackay and Brian Gragerty to North American theaters.

This is a story about William James, a bomb disposal expert in the US army, who is on a mission during his service in Ila Shell.

Although the investment in the film is only 15 million US dollars, Catherine Bigelow has used this money to make an excellent "anti-war film".

In most people's impressions, war films often reflect on the harm caused by war by showing the alienation of human nature by war.

But this movie puts humanity above war!

To this end, Catherine Bigelow reduced war to a practical activity of man, that is, an act that evolved from human nature.

The film has little moral judgment on the male protagonist and the war he is in, and instead focuses on showing the male protagonist's love of war.

Moreover, his love of war was motivated by a purely self-destructive instinct, and had nothing to do with the sociological significance of war and its associated utilitarian purpose!

Catherine shows her nerve-wracking bomb disposal operation again and again, expressing her attitude towards war and revealing its impact on people and human nature......

Based on this, although the box office performance of the film is not particularly good among the several films released in the same period, it has been greatly praised by many film critics!

Kevin Mahe, a critic for The Times, said of the film: "In short, 'Bomb Disposal Unit' has a bold and rustic beauty, it's not just a war movie, it's a war poem. ”

Paul Burns, a critic for the Sydney Morning Herald, said of the film: "It's a film about why certain soldiers love war, a theme that is extremely rare in a war film made by men!" ”

Time Out critic Keith Ulrich commented on the film: "You can see that director Kathryn Bigelow has done her best to dig out the traditional suspense, which is commendable! ”

Three-day box office in the first weekend: 28 million US dollars

IMDb rating: 8.5

Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 97%

Popcorn Index: 84%

This is an answer sheet delivered by Catherine Bigelow to Chen Fei.

In the face of such achievements, Chen Fei naturally did not hesitate to engrave the label of "qualified" at the end.

"Very good, let's look forward to its stunning appearance at the Oscars."

"Fei, do you really think this movie has any hope of competing for the Oscars?" Catherine was a little unsure, it was like a dream to her!

"Try it, maybe there's hope?"

Chen Fei didn't give her any package tickets, but his face was full of confidence, and this confidence happened to infect everyone present.

"Bang!"

The office door was suddenly pushed open, and Bruce swaggered in with his increasingly heavy belly.

“Fei！ The stock price is going to rise again, and your value is about to usher in a new round of soaring, are you ready? ”

"What do you mean by that?"

Chen Fei looked at him with a puzzled expression, it doesn't seem that Walton Pictures has made any big moves recently, right?

Since "Inception" has gradually been released from theaters around the world, the soaring stock price has flattened.

If you want to usher in another surge, I'm afraid you will have to wait until the next blockbuster commercial blockbuster appears.

"Hehe, of course, it's because the total box office rankings of commercial films of major Hollywood companies in 09 have just been released, and compared to last year, this year's we are even more eye-catching! More brilliant! Even more unstoppable! ”

"Oh? Is it so exaggerated? ”

Chen Fei took the magazine from his hand and looked down curiously.

In eighth place is the independent production company "Lionsgate", and all kinds of small-budget commercial films are played by them, and the yield is still quite good.

In seventh place is Sony Columbia, which focuses on "Angels and Devils", and the box office revenue is not very impressive, and the overall results are not very good.

Thanks to it, it is a member of the old six and has a deep heritage, otherwise it would have to prepare to file for bankruptcy liquidation.

In sixth place is "Universal Pictures", with a cumulative total box office of 830 million US dollars, mainly relying on "Fast and Furious 4".

This series of movies has made a lot of profits for Universal Pictures, and it has now issued a notice that it will officially start the filming of "Fast and Furious 5" in 2010, and it will still use the original cast.

In fifth place is "Twentieth Century Fox", which mainly relies on "Avatar".

In fact, in addition to "Avatar", "Ice Age 3", "Wolverine", and "Wonderful Night at the Museum 2" also showed a posture of adding bricks and tiles in it, which can be regarded as improving the company's overall profitability.

In fourth place is "Disney Studios", which mainly relies on "Flying House" and the animated feature films produced by Pixar Studios.

In third place is "Paramount Pictures", although it parted ways with DreamWorks, its self-developed "Star Trek" and "Rise of the Cobra" have created good results, which can suppress Disney's sudden rise.

As for the second place is "Warner Bros. Pictures", the "Harry Potter" series is like an evergreen, helping them to stand tall for many years!

In addition, Warner Bros. also has series of films such as "The Terminator", "Watchmen", and "Here Comes the Grim Reaper", all of which have achieved quite impressive results.

It's just that, compared to the fault-leading Walton Pictures, several other companies look a little too shabby!

"Inception", "Twilight 3: Lunar Eclipse", "Transformers 2", "Slumdog Millionaire" ......

In this time period of 09, Walton Pictures alone created a total distribution box office result of 3.744 billion US dollars!

If you look at the data performance alone, Universal Pictures + Sony Columbia + Lionsgate + half of the twentieth century Fox can be on par with the box office results created by Walton Pictures!

After reading this data report, Chen Fei let out a sigh of relief, stood up, and nodded approvingly:

"Bruce, you're right, it's time for the stock price to keep rising."

"Hahaha, we have to celebrate, go to my newly bought villa tonight, I'll have a party."

"Ok, I'll be on time."

……

The media response in North America was no worse than in the mainland, and the data report immediately spread throughout Hollywood.

The chain reaction is that Chen Fei's worth has soared by hundreds of millions in just one afternoon!

Note that the unit behind is - USD!

Seeing this situation, several production companies led by Disney had red eyes, eager to tear "Inception" off Chen Fei!

At the same time, the news was transmitted back to China by Sina in the evening of the same day, causing a violent sensation again!

You must know that with the announcement of the total box office results of North America for the whole year, the mainland side also announced the total box office results of Chinese films in 09.

8.7 billion RMB!

If this data is converted to US dollars, according to the current exchange rate, it is almost nearly 1.3 billion US dollars!

If compared with previous years, this achievement is enough to make the leaders of the Film Bureau happy, after all, the total box office in 08 is only 4 billion yuan.

But if you compare it with Hollywood, the gap is simply not ordinary!

Walton Pictures alone has created a box office result of 3.744 billion US dollars, which is three times the total box office of Chinese films!

It's just that although Chinese movies are still being pressed and beaten by Hollywood, the smile on Han Sanping's face has not dissipated for a whole day.

What about $3.744 billion?

That stepping on the horse is an achievement created by our Chinese directors, no matter how awesome your Hollywood company was in the past, isn't it still being pressed by our Chinese directors with a hammer?

Secretly convert the concept, this is equivalent to Hollywood being pressed and beaten by Chinese filmmakers!

"Haha, that's kind of interesting."

Thinking secretly in her heart, Han Sanping herself was amused by this thought.

But soon, a bold idea suddenly burst into his mind!

According to the current film market pattern, the foundation of Chinese films is constantly improving, and the box office performance of commercial films is constantly rising.

So is it possible that one day, the mainland film market will surpass Hollywood?

If it was placed in the past, he would never have such an idea, but now with Chen Fei, a genius director who continues to create "miracles", the future seems to have begun to become confusing!

"This kid...... Could it be true that he will become the rising star of Chinese films? ”

Standing in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window, Han Sanping raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and vaguely, he seemed to see the reflection of the floor of the 'Feiyue Film and Television Building' rising upwards against the background of the rising sun!

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