my time as a director

Originally, Hollywood movies held a meet and greet at most in China, and rarely held a large-scale premiere ceremony like domestic movies.

Li Qian didn't want to do it at first, but if Song Ge wanted to do it, then Wanda should pay for the premiere ceremony.

In the past few days, Li Qian also helped promote the film. After all, most of the box office in the mainland belongs to him, so he promoted it on Weibo.

Fortunately, the movie fans are very respectful. As a Hollywood movie, it is not a big IP like Transformers or a superhero movie, so the popularity is not bad.

However, the protagonist of the premiere was obviously Jing Tian, ​​and the ceremony was also held on Wanda's territory. Wanda spent money to organize it. Li Qian didn't care anyway, just a heroine who didn't have much sense of presence.

Li Qian did not appear on stage. Wanda invited both the director and the leading actor to give the leading actress a platform. Now that Wanda has acquired the second largest theater chain in North America, that is a very good card. Warner has made such a request without saying a word. accepted.

Ever since, on the stage, Jing Tian seemed to be the protagonist.

The actress of a Hollywood blockbuster with an investment of [-] million US dollars, the treatment at the premiere made all the female stars in the audience jealous to death.

But I can only be envious.

The ceremony went smoothly, Wanda put in a lot of effort, and the reporters who got the red envelopes were pretty sensible.

The movie started to be screened. This kind of sci-fi movie with special effects and mechas usually has a very simple plot, let alone a big production with an investment of [-] million yuan. Usually, the more expensive the movie in Hollywood, the easier to understand the plot. any possible failure factors.

The plot of the movie is also very simple. A parallel universe "breakthrough point" appeared in the depths of the seabed in the Pacific Rim, and then a huge monster creature rose from the "ocean".

The first behemoth first destroyed San Francisco and all the surrounding coastal cities, and most of the human military operations to stop the behemoth ended in failure, but the behemoth finally died in the nuclear bomb under the desperate resistance of human beings, but San Francisco A hundred li radius turned into a barren land.

Monsters began to appear one after another. In order to fight against the monsters, human beings had no choice but to invent their own "monsters": Mechaman, which was operated synchronously by two manipulators whose brain neural networks interacted with each other.

Although it has been baptized by the Transformers series, when the huge mecha appeared on the big screen, it still aroused the audience's amazement.

"Fuck!"

"So big!"

"This mech is so domineering, it can kill Transformers in seconds!"

Not long after the opening, Li Qian heard the reaction of the audience in the front row, which was completely irresistible.

With a production of [-] million US dollars, the special effects can be said to be top-notch among similar films, and even overcome the defects of light and shadow in CG special effects.

The light of CG special effects is not produced, but drawn by the compositor, so careful viewers will find that for all CG shots, 10 out of 9 blockbuster films have similar lights.

However, Pacific Rim has achieved the transformation of cg lighting from textures to light and shadow.

All I can say is awesome, this change in lighting directly enhances the special effects of the movie to a higher level.

Technically speaking, it is not necessarily stronger than Transformers, but just in terms of visual effects, it can be said to be a level stronger than Transformers.

Technology does not mean the effect presented, technology is one thing, visual effect is another.

Under the impression of iax3d, the reaction of the audience in the front row was particularly obvious. Against the background of the huge mech, it was completely immersive.

As far as the front row is concerned, it can be said that it is second only to Avatar in terms of effect.

Top-notch audio-visual effects and a smooth and simple story are almost perfect for a popcorn movie.

The premiere was quite smooth, and the exclamation in the movie never stopped from the very beginning. This is completely the instinctive feedback brought to the brain by vision and hearing, just like watching a comedy, and I can’t help but want to laugh when it’s funny.

As a result, the audience didn't care about Jingtian's expressionless Sima face the whole time.

It was officially released the next day. As a popcorn movie, Pacific Rim has a surprisingly high reputation. It is similar to the ow setting that a tall mech needs to be transported by helicopter, which did not deter the audience.

6300 million on the first day, slapping the rooftop love released one day earlier, and the sci-fi movie Return to Earth starring Smith and his son.

231 billion in the first three days of the weekend, with a single-day peak of more than 9000 million.

28 billion next week, 10 billion in 511 days.

swept the mainland film market.

Throughout July, there was no opponent at all.

Although the follow-up trend of the popcorn movie will not be too strong, but after another two weeks, the box office has reached 74 billion.

Breaking through 4 million is basically stable, and it is second only to Avatar and Transformers [-] in Hollywood movies.

However, the box office in North America was not very good. After four weeks, the box office was only worth 9000 million U.S. dollars, not even [-] million U.S. dollars.

In a complete bloodbath, Legendary Pictures will lose money, but Li Qian can make a small profit.

For a big production with an investment of [-] million US dollars, the North American box office is not as good as the mainland box office, which also shocked the major Hollywood studios.

Li Qian was so busy that Warner's Thomas ran over with a lot of projects and wanted to continue working together.

Li Qian looked through these projects very seriously, and said to him very seriously, "Sorry Thomas, I am preparing a new movie now. This is a very important movie, and I have no time to take care of other things for the time being. Always talk to you."

"Director Li, we are friends. The previous cooperation was very pleasant." Upon hearing Li Qian's words, Thomas became anxious. For this movie, the publicity fee paid by North America alone is a huge sum, and the cycle is so long, countless manpower and material resources have been invested, it is completely a loss-making business.

The box office in the mainland has also been taken by Li Qian, which is fine. If he is an approval film, it is estimated that he will get this much.

However, the big sale of [-] million, more than [-] million US dollars, also let Warner see the box office potential of Hollywood blockbusters in the mainland, and he must reach a follow-up cooperation.

However, Li Qian really didn't have time, so he asked Du Yang to talk to him directly, so Thomas had no choice but to go to Du Yang instead.

After Du Yang finished dealing with Thomas, he came to Li Qian's office and asked in confusion, "Director Li, why did we reject Warner's follow-up cooperation?"

Li Qian shook his head, "Pacific Rim is just an exception. If it wasn't for the Japanese-style mechs that domestic audiences are familiar with, it would definitely not have the box office. It's better to be cautious. Besides, our main focus is on our own movies. We occasionally cooperate with Hollywood movies." That's it."

If it wasn't for Bad Pacific's sequel, and the sequel had a domestic heroine, it would have a high probability of being a hit in China, otherwise Li Qian wouldn't have cooperated at all, and the risk was too great.

"That's right. If there is more cooperation, it is inevitable that there will be a movie that fails at the box office. This is not good. If we keep hanging on each other, we will take the initiative." Du Yang thought for a while, and expressed his understanding, and said, "And , In order to make a co-production film before, after all, we played side-by-side, and the investment ratio has not been reached. If we do this again and again, it will be difficult for Optoelectronics to turn a blind eye."

"That's the reason. After all, I did some tricks. I can't meet the investment ratio requirements. I can't do this all the time. It's almost the same once in a while." Li Qian nodded.

After that, not only Warner, Fox, Disney, and Columbia also sent people over to cooperate, but they all found an excuse to refuse after a few days of delay.

The risk is high, and Li Qian will only cooperate with the film unless it is a very sure film, and he does not lack this little money. The main thing is to make domestic films.

However, the feeling of being chased by Hollywood giants is quite good.

Hollywood is shocked by the contrast between Pacific Rim's overseas box office and the mainland's box office. As far as the domestic film industry is concerned, some people are even rumoring that Pacific Rim's success is mainly due to Li Qian.

Although this statement is a bit absurd, the quality of the film is there for all to see. It cannot be said that Li Qian is one of the producers, and it is attributed to Li Qian after he promoted it.

However, it is such a coincidence that the box office is higher than that in North America, which inevitably makes people think too much.

Li Qian didn't have the idea of ​​being in the accidental world, since the premiere, he hadn't cared about the film, and was concentrating on preparing for rejuvenation.

In two months, the script was polished, and then a group of people were transferred from the digital field to prepare for the special effects.