King of Special Effects

5:00 a.m. local time on December 3rd.

The two films "Three-Body Problem" and "Avatar 2" landed in movie theaters in major cities in North America at the same time, officially meeting the audience.

Domestic media reporters conducted random interviews and market research in several movie theaters. On the first day of the premiere, the audience was mostly Chinese, and most of them were Chinese or students studying in the United States.

"Hi, may I ask if you have just watched the movie "Three-Body Problem"?"

The three boys with oriental faces nodded: "Yes, I have already booked the movie tickets a month ago. I am afraid that it will not be easy to buy when it is released, and I have to go to other cities by car to see it."

The reporter continued the interview and asked: "After watching this four and a half hour movie, do you have any feelings, or do you have anything to say?"

The three of them gave thumbs up at the same time: "It's great. I already knew Director Yi Yang from "Progress" last year. I didn't expect that in this short year, he would make "Three-Body Problem" that many people dare not shoot. It was filmed!"

Another boy continued: "I went to school here, and I have been here for more than two years. Before I came here, I really liked watching Yidao's movies. I watched all his movies four or five times in China. I thought I won’t be able to see his movies when I go to school here, I didn’t expect Director Yi’s movies to be shown here with me, it’s amazing!"

"I just heard some of our American buddies discussing the special effects of this movie. It can be seen that they are also shocked by the progress of our Chinese-language movies over the years. Those of us abroad also hope to be able to Seeing more and better Chinese-made products, including movies and other aspects, come on!"

Reporter: "Then, do you plan to make a second and third re-brush of this movie?"

A boy nodded: "I have this plan, but it may have to wait for a while, after all, it is too difficult to buy tickets for the first few days after the release. Originally, the film schedule was not high, and there were too many people watching it. Now it is basically a crowd." Tickets are hard to come by.”

After the interview here, the reporter's camera turned to the other side.

This is a couple who just came out of the movie. The man is Chinese, and the woman is blond and blue-eyed.

"Hi, may I ask whether you watched "Three-Body Problem" or "Avatar 2" just now!"

The boy replied: "I watched "The Three-Body Problem"!"

"Then you also booked the tickets more than a month ago like those boys just now?"

The boy shook his head: "No, I was going to buy the tickets, but it turned out that they were all sold out. A friend of mine happened to have two tickets, so I begged my grandpa to tell my grandma to buy them from him at a high price and watch them with my girlfriend." Premiere."

"It's really hard to get a ticket for this movie right now? Then, do you have any thoughts after watching it?"

"Thinking... I really can't say what I have in mind, that is, the image of Trisolaran's water drop weapon instantly killing the human fleet is still lingering in my mind. I have read this plot in novels before, but Through this movie, this intuitive feeling is super shocking!"

The blond beauty also replied in English: "This is the first Chinese movie I've watched. It's very, very good. Last year, there was a movie "Progress" that didn't get tickets during the hot show. The important exam failed, and later, in order to see this movie, we even flew to China, this is my first time to China!"

The reporter was stunned: "Then do you plan to stay here to work or live in China?"

The boy smiled and said: "It should be going back to China, but I don't know if she can go back with me!"

The reporter continued to conduct some interviews and questionnaires on other people.

In one day, there were 500 viewers, the full score was five stars, 498 viewers gave five stars, and the other two were four stars.

It can also be seen from this on-site questionnaire survey that the response of "Three-Body" in the North American market is still very good, almost reaching a 99% favorable rate, which is far higher than that of "Progressive" released last year. ".

On the first day of its premiere in North America, the single-day box office of "Three-Body Problem" was 56 million US dollars, which is about 380 million yuan when converted into RMB. Including the pre-sale box office, the current cumulative box office is about 510 million yuan.

Judging from the box office data alone, this movie can be regarded as a good start.

The "Three-Body Problem" screening halls in almost all movie theaters in major cities are full.

In the same period, "A Fa Fa 2" earned as much as 63 million US dollars at the box office on the first day of its premiere due to film scheduling and other factors, much higher than "Three-Body Problem".

No way, in North America, the theater schedule of "Avatar 2" is almost twice that of "Three-Body Problem". Body" is much better.

If under such circumstances, the box office of "Three-Body Problem" in North America exceeds that of "Avatar 2", then director Fox or Cameron should lose face.

At night, Gong Ying and her friends were still running between several theaters in New York.

She needs to get real-time information, and then send it back to the country as soon as possible.

According to her understanding of Yi Yang, at this moment Yi Yang must be waiting for her first-hand news, unable to eat or sleep.

After working for half a day, at ten o'clock in the evening local time, Gong Ying dialed Yi Yang's video call.

As soon as Yi Yang arrived at the company, he immediately answered the call when he saw that it was Gong Ying.

"The premiere is 56 million US dollars, how about it, should you feel at ease this time?"

Yi Yang was not happy, but hurriedly asked: "What about "Avatar 2", how are they doing?"

"The 63 million for the premiere is only tens of millions more than ours, and their movie reputation is far inferior to ours. It is not impossible to surpass us in the next few days!"

Beyond?

Although the box office of "Three-Body Problem" in the mainland market has already surpassed that of "Avatar 2", but in the North American market, it is their territory. As the saying goes: a strong dragon can't beat a local snake!

So Yi Yang doesn't have much hope of surpassing the box office of "Avatar 2".

"As long as the difference is not too big, the domestic market will make up for the tens of millions of box office difference. The situation in the island country is not yet known, but in terms of global box office, "Three-Body Problem" is still far ahead of "A Fafa 2." "of."

Gong Ying said with a smile: "Well, the box office of "Three-Body Problem" is in short supply. In the next few days, I will take this result and continue to negotiate with several large-scale theaters. If I can increase the film schedule by about 5%, We really have the potential to go beyond Avatar 2."

Yi Yang was overjoyed: "Of course it's the best. If we can surpass them in their territory, we can brag about it for several years!"