Chapter 411 "We decided to choose hope!"
"Three!"
"Two!"
"One!"
"Congratulations to our "The Wandering Earth", the cumulative box office of the movie has reached 5 billion!"
As the host's voice fell, Guo Fan, Wu Jing, Zhao Jinmai, Qu Chuxiao and other main creative staff on the stage swung their hammers and smashed the ice sculpture with the number "5000000000" carved in front of them.
This is the celebration meeting of the 5 billion box office of "The Wandering Earth". As the ice sculpture representing the box office results was broken, a fierce and noisy cheer suddenly broke out from the audience.
These are all the most enthusiastic fans of this movie, and their excitement is even three points higher than that of the stage.
It's quite a coincidence that "The Wandering Earth" was prepared for five years, filmed for almost five months, and released for fifty days. It won a box office of 5 billion. This number seems to have a little fate.
Although many people had speculated that the final box office of "The Wandering Earth" would exceed 5 billion when the box office exceeded 4.5 billion half a month ago, everyone was still shocked when this result was really achieved.
A domestic science fiction film without a star cast or a well-known director actually surpassed a number of big productions and took the second place in the domestic film box office list.
Most of the audience who came to the meeting today are "die-hard fans" of "The Wandering Earth", and many of them have watched the movie several times. Seeing that their favorite work can get such a good result, they all feel proud.
They also cast their eyes on Guo Fan, who was already sitting on the stage. This new director who had only shot a youth film before was the creator of this achievement.
Therefore, when the audience representative spoke, he was particularly grateful to "Director Guo" for bringing them, the science fiction fans, a wonderful movie belonging to their own country.
"I am very grateful to all the audience fans for their recognition of the film. I think as a filmmaker, this is the highest evaluation of me."
Guo Fan took the microphone from the host and said, "However, the success of "The Wandering Earth" is not achieved by me alone. Behind this movie, we still have a lot of people to thank."
"First of all, I would like to thank Mr. La Peikang of China Film Group for recognizing our young team a few years ago and handing us such an important project. And Mr. Song Ge of Beijing North Culture. I remember that when we went to discuss investment and distribution, the decision was made in less than half an hour."
“Then there are our leading actors, crew members, post-production special effects team, etc. It is everyone’s joint efforts that have brought this work to its fullest potential. In addition, there are two people I have always wanted to thank individually.”
Guo Fan patted Wu Jing on the shoulder beside him: “One is Brother Jing, our 'Liu Peiqiang', who was willing to help us when the crew was still in trouble. He went from being a guest star to a permanent member, and later to a leading actor. At first, they said there was no salary, but later they paid tens of millions…”
The audience laughed. The story of "Guo Fan got Wolf Warrior out of nothing" had been revealed by many people during the previous promotional period, and today it was finally officially recognized.
After waiting for a while and seeing that the laughter had almost stopped, Guo Fan took a deep breath and continued, "Without Brother Jing's help, our 'Little Broken Ball' would not have achieved such results today. But there is another main creator of ours. Without him, the entire project might not be completed."
"It was him who paid for us to complete the construction of the background world view when we had no finished products at the beginning, only a bunch of design drawings and time books. It was also him who invested more than 100 million yuan and helped us raise tens of millions of funds when the crew was short of funds. It was also him who took out a year from the busy schedule of many projects to help the crew complete the script of the movie..."
Guo Fan's tone was very sincere, and the audience in the audience who heard his introduction couldn't help but shout out the same name at the same time.
"...Thanks to the boss of Arclight Pictures, the investor of The Wandering Earth, and also our chief screenwriter, Meng Bai."
Guo Fan glanced at Meng Bai, who was sitting in the front row and looked a little confused because he was suddenly called out, and smiled and said to the audience: "Everyone, do you want to invite our President Meng to come up and meet us?"
"Yes!"
A uniform shout broke out from the audience.
"..."
Meng Bai raised his eyebrows speechlessly, and finally stood up.
He actually sat in the audience from the beginning of the celebration party. He had planned to watch the whole show quietly as usual, but he was still pushed out by someone.
Listening to the cheers of the audience, he couldn't refuse at this time. But then again, there was no need to refuse. He didn't go on stage simply because he was used to being behind the scenes. It was completely fine if he was really needed.
He walked up from the side of the stage, looking at the smiling people on the stage, he pointed at a few people, and then looked at the audience below:
"Hello everyone, I am Meng Bai, the screenwriter of "The Wandering Earth."
"Wow——"
As Meng Bai's voice fell, the audience instantly burst into a voice several times more enthusiastic than before.
For this "young boss" full of legends, many people are no less interested in him than those ordinary stars. In fact, because of his always low-key and mysterious style, it has increased the curiosity of the public.
Therefore, when they saw him on the stage, everyone's enthusiasm was instantly ignited.
"Mr. Meng, awesome!"
"Thank you, Mr. Meng!" "
Mr. Meng, I love you!"
"Mr. Meng, I want to give birth to a baby for you!"
"..."
Listening to all kinds of messy voices coming from the audience, Meng Bai couldn't help but say: "The guy who just shouted to give birth to a baby, let's not talk about species isolation. I'm curious, how are you going to give birth to it?"
"Hahahaha..."
Hearing Meng Bai's joke, the audience laughed again. This young "billionaire" seems to be more down-to-earth than they imagined.
After a casual joke to calm the atmosphere, Meng Bai continued, "Director Guo mentioned thank you just now. In fact, we, the main creators and the leading actors, are all doing our jobs. The ones who really need to be thanked are the audience friends who have created this achievement. You are the creators of this miracle." "
I first heard about the project of "The Wandering Earth" in 2015. The film market at that time was not much different from now. Youth films and comedies are the forte of us practitioners, and genre films such as action films are not bad either. But for science fiction, almost everyone thinks it is "exclusive" to Hollywood blockbusters. I remember there was a saying at that time, "No dog would watch Chinese science fiction." "
"Of course, this has nothing to do with the audience. The main reason is that our film industry started late and has not yet developed to their level. Both the technical level and the production level are not up to the requirements, and the results are also poor. The audience supported it once or twice, but after a long time, naturally no one is willing to believe it anymore."
"There are many types of science fiction films. Some focus on creativity and can be shot by a few people in a room. Others focus on plot, with science fiction only as an embellishment. But more of them still require the combination of various special effects scenes, which is what we call heavy industry films. This requires not only a few outstanding filmmakers or creative ideas, but also the support of the entire industry base." "
As a part of culture, movies are often directly corresponding to social development. The success of "The Wandering Earth" at this time is actually inevitable in a sense. The reason is very simple. Only when everyone has spare energy in reality will they have the opportunity and energy to look up and look at the stars."
"This morning, I read a review of the movie. The content was about whether the success of "The Wandering Earth" opened the door to domestic science fiction. But in fact, no matter what kind of movie theme, there is no such thing as a gate. It's just that some have higher thresholds and some have lower thresholds. The threshold is equivalent to a standard, and it will not be lowered because more people pass it."
"So rather than 'opening the door', I hope that The Wandering Earth can become a spark that ignites everyone's passion for domestic science fiction. Whether it's good or bad, even if it's mixed with mud and sand, the good works will eventually remain in the great waves of time."
"Just like what the movie says, no matter where the final result will lead history, we decided to choose hope. Thank you everyone!"
——
The celebration meeting of The Wandering Earth ended in a happy voice, and the audience took the opportunity to ask a lot about the planning of the second part.
However, even the core creators such as Meng Bai and Guo Fan have not started to consider the second part, so they can only wait for the crew to have news later and tell everyone.
"It's finally over."
Backstage, Guo Fan couldn't help but sigh: "It finally broke through 5 billion."
"That's right, isn't there still a month before it's released? Maybe it can go up a bit." Meng Bai said: "And the release in several foreign markets has just started. So far, the response is not bad. It's worth looking forward to the overseas box office."
In theory, it is risky to rely on a single market for a big-budget film like The Wandering Earth. Why Hollywood blockbusters have such high box office is mainly because they can sell movies all over the world.
In fact, "The Wandering Earth" was also considered to be released simultaneously around the world at the beginning, but this IP is not known to many people in China, let alone abroad. Without sufficient persuasiveness, overseas theaters are also reluctant to release this movie.
After several producers and distributors discussed, they decided to wait for the domestic box office feedback to come out. It should be much easier to contact the overseas market after having actual results.
(End of this chapter)
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