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Chapter 969

"Taken" has grown by leaps and bounds, especially the box office hit in China, which has given many North American film and television giants some ideas.

There are a lot of Hollywood movies that have exploded at the box office in China, but in fact most of them are sequels accumulated through the accumulation of multiple movies. The box office explosions of original movies like "Taken" are really not many.

In fact, "Taken" is still far behind many Hollywood action blockbusters, but why can "Taken" achieve as good results in China as in North America?
This has given many Hollywood giants an idea.

In fact, the reason why "Taken" was able to achieve such good results in China has a lot to do with the composition of this film.

On the one hand, the film is indeed good enough, on the other hand, the promotion of "Taken" in China was done by Ling Xiaoge itself.

The influence of Ling Xiao Pavilion in China is naturally beyond doubt, and the distribution strength is also top-notch. In addition, this film is Lin Xiao's first blockbuster film entering Hollywood.

Yes, although previous films such as "Kung Fu Panda" have also achieved very dazzling results in North America, even surpassing "Taken", but the two are still different.

"Taken" is a Hollywood movie through and through, but it happens to be dominated by Chinese people.

This in itself is a big gimmick, and Ling Xiaoge spared no effort in promoting it, so "Taken" was able to achieve such results.

As for other Hollywood films, when they arrive in Huaguo, most of the time, it is impossible to spare no effort in publicizing them like Ling Xiaoge, especially when it comes to competition with domestic films.

So in many cases, many Hollywood films often achieve very good results in North America or even in the world, but in China, they are not well received.

The success of "Taken" has made Legendary Pictures more and more popular.

As for Legendary Pictures' other movie "Death is Coming", this movie is only a small-budget movie, but Legendary Pictures has huge expectations.

Different from "Taken", low-budget films like "Reaper" are the main development direction of Legendary Pictures.

For a film produced at a low cost, naturally there is no premiere ceremony. Even if Legendary Pictures is not short of money, it can't do unnecessary waste.

Because "Death is Coming" itself is not only a small cost, but also a horror film.

Although horror films have a good market in North America, they obviously cannot compare with action films and the like.

Of course, there are not many points that can be promoted in "Death is Coming", and the biggest one is undoubtedly that the script is also written by Lin Xiao.

The release of "Reaper is Coming" was handed over to Mina's New Star Films, probably because "Taken" was the first, or because New Star was indeed more optimistic about "Reaper", so, In the end, "Death Comes" opened in North America with a 2480 fast screen.

As a result, this low-cost film with a total investment of less than 2000 million including publicity and distribution expenses was released in North America.

The box office on the first weekend of the three days still attracted a lot of attention.

In three days, "Death is Coming", a ready-made thriller with no big-name stars, actually got 1900 million box office in the first weekend.

Although it can't be compared with "Taken", but for a horror film, this achievement is considered very dazzling.

"Death is Coming" is just a thriller after all, and the audience is completely incomparable with action movies like "Taken".

But the word-of-mouth of this low-cost thriller is considered to be very good.

Many people praised this as a very creative and innovative horror film, and it is the horror film with the best idea in recent years.

"The screenwriter integrated fatalism into the movie, completely using the atmosphere to create a sense of horror. Although there are blood splashes, it is much better than those horror movies that specifically use this as a point of view. The so-called Death God The film did not appear, but it pinches the hearts of the audience every minute and every second, making people worry about the surviving characters who are constantly dying, and those well-prepared ways of death also add a lot of color to this film."

"The most worrying thing, or the most frightening thing, is that every way of death is an accident, which may be encountered in life, and there are no obvious logical errors. There is a lot of pressure, and it also makes people more invested. Overall, it is a very innovative horror film."

"Death is not the scariest thing. The scariest thing is the process of waiting for death to come. The biggest highlight of "Death is Coming" is this. When one after another survivors who should have died but did not die unexpectedly die one by one, the survivors People began to wait for the arrival of death, so in the process, some people collapsed, some faced it calmly, and some tried their best to avoid it, but in the end they couldn't escape the sanction of death. This is the biggest creativity of the whole film. "

"Death is Coming" has been sought after by many horror film fans. Of course, this is a low-budget horror film after all, and it is also a commercial film, so naturally it will not have much praise from professional film critics.

Most of them are nothing more than saying that this is a relatively innovative film, with good ideas and so on.

As for art?Stop talking nonsense!
As for Huaguo, it is naturally impossible for a film like "Death Comes" to pass the review in Huaguo.

"Taken" successfully surpassed the 2 million box office in North America, and is heading towards the [-] million mark. Although "Reaper" may be a bit short of breaking the [-] million box office in North America, it is still enough for Legendary Pictures to make a fortune .

Especially horror films like "Death Comes" have great potential in the DVD market.

The sequels of "Reaper" and "Taken" have naturally begun to be put on the agenda. After all, these are profitable projects, and they are both very suitable for series movies.

Although these two series are far from being able to compare with top series such as "Kung Fu Panda", they are enough to make countless people greedy.

However, Lin Xiao obviously didn't think it was enough. Maybe a small independent film company with two big-selling series like this would be enough to be satisfied, but although Lin Xiao didn't think about making Legendary Pictures into a Hollywood giant company, but at least it must reach the level of the leader of the second-tier film company.

Therefore, these two series alone are obviously not enough.

Not enough, Lin Xiao is a man with a system, so naturally he will not be short of script and creativity.

So, another classic horror film series script was taken out by him.

(End of this chapter)