Superstar Couple

Chapter 416 Alien Boom

The schedules of the two films were settled because of Zhang Le, and the filming of Armor and Steel Fist continued. Compared with the previous National Day, this film undoubtedly has a lot more shooting.

Of course, post-production is naturally much less. As far as the visual effect is concerned, it is naturally not as good. The film doesn't succeed visually, though. What's more, Zhang Le is not willing to be a director who only relies on vision to support the film. No matter how good the movie is at the box office.

Zhang Le is no longer the director who blindly pursues the box office.

In fact, just as the previous National Day opened the Chinese sci-fi alien movie, this Iron Armor and Steel Fist undoubtedly opened the Chinese sci-fi robot movie.

Men in Black is another alien film after National Day, and Transformers, which Zhang Le has not filmed, is undoubtedly another robot film.

National Day set off a craze for aliens, which made it possible for Men in Black to sell well. And Steel Armor is paving the way for Transformers.

Of course, Transformers has done enough foreshadowing.

Although Iron Armor and Steel Fist has more roles in filming, there are no big scenes after all, so the filming time does not take much. What's more, Zhang Le's films have always been well-prepared, and if there are no accidents in the shooting, they will not be affected.

However, such a movie is naturally not shoddy, and it cannot be shot in a month or two.

Men in Black was released and held a grand premiere ceremony, but Zhang Le, the screenwriter and producer, did not attend because he was shooting a new film. This made the fans present somewhat regretful. Fortunately, Zhou Run, who is the leading actor in Zhang Le's new film, was present.

After all, Zhou Run is still one of the leading actors in Men in Black. Although he is the leading actor of Iron Armor and Steel Fist, leaving for a day or two will not have much impact on the crew. And Zhang Le, as the director, if he left the crew, the whole crew would naturally be unable to operate. This is naturally not a small loss for the crew.

Of course, Zhang Le didn't care about the loss. The reason why he didn't attend was because he didn't think about it at all. After all, I am not a director, nor a starring role, so that is not the premiere of my movie. Going, in Feng Lei's words, it was purely stealing the limelight.

Men in Black is Tang Xiao's first work after his return. The premiere of the movie should belong to him, as well as all the actors and staff members of the Men in Black crew. If Zhang Leruo goes, I'm afraid all eyes will be on him.

That gaze should not belong to Zhang Le.

They are all about aliens, but Men in Black and National Day have completely different styles. National Day is about an alien invasion, with the style of a disaster movie. But Men in Black tells the story of aliens taking refuge in China, with a comedy color.

Although Men in Black cannot be compared with National Day visually, it is very pleasing in terms of style. Movie fans have just enjoyed a visual experience brought by aliens in the theater, and have become interested in the topic of aliens, but if there is another movie that relies on visuals to win, it will undoubtedly fail. In addition to visually no one can do Zhang Le, movie fans also have aesthetic fatigue.

Men in Black has a different approach, which naturally pleases movie fans. After all, in the movie, human beings are no longer like in National Day, they have almost no power to fight back, and even the way of winning in the end is criticized by people.

Men in Black is different. Humans are on the strong side, hunting down lawless aliens. Thinking about it makes me a little excited. The movie received great acclaim immediately after it was released, and the ratings on its official movie website directly beat Zhang Le's National Day by a few blocks, and the box office also showed an unstoppable momentum.

Those movies that were released at the same time are naturally extremely sad.

Many film and television companies have always believed that Xinle Film and Television will focus on the Spring Festival. After all, in China, that schedule is undoubtedly the best. In recent years, whether it is Zhang Le's movie or not, Xinle Film and Television has shown extremely strong combat power, almost invincible. Therefore, many film and television companies put relatively good schedules. During Christmas and New Year's Day, it is undoubtedly a good choice.

But no one thought that this time it fell, and it fell very badly.

Although I didn't expect that this Men in Black would be so vigorous, even almost comparable to National Day more than a month ago.

It is unimaginable in China to be comparable to Zhang Le's movie at the box office. Of course, after all, Tang Xiao didn't have Zhang Le's box office appeal, so this movie, under the banner of Zhang Le's screenwriter and producer, was still a little weaker at the box office. However, this was enough to shock Ning Ren.

The first-day box office of Men in Black is not as good as National Day, but it is also the highest in recent years, except for Zhang Le's films. Even directly throwing off the simultaneous release, other film companies claim to have several blocks of movies with large investments. And the box office on the first day exceeded 600 million, and the box office exceeded 1 billion in two weeks. This is very likely to be another movie with a box office of 2 billion, which directly stunned countless people.

This is just the beginning, because when the film's overseas box office data was sent back to China, other film and television companies were speechless after hearing the news.

Men in Black has a box office of nearly 100 million in its first week in North America, and it directly topped the North American box office weekly champion list. In the second week, it won 80 million box office and won the weekly box office championship. The box office champion Chinese movie.

More than a month after the movie was released, Men in Black broke 2 billion at the box office in China, making it the only movie other than Zhang Le's to break 2 billion. The box office in North America exceeded US$300 million, equivalent to more than two billion Chinese dollars. In Europe, Southeast Asia and other places, the box office is about 300 million U.S. dollars, which means that the Chinese currency is more than 2 billion. The global box office broke seven billion.

As soon as this data came out, everyone was stunned, and even many foreign media once again set off the talk of the rise of Chinese movies.

Naturally, there were such remarks in the past, because Zhang Le has repeatedly achieved amazing box office results in the international arena. However, with the passage of time, it seems that Huaxia, except for Zhang Le's films, is difficult to gain the love of Western movie fans, and this kind of remarks gradually disappeared.

Many Western movie fans' understanding of Huaxia movies is limited to Zhang Le's movies.

Now that a film that is not Zhang Le's work has achieved such an astonishing box office result, such remarks are naturally inevitable.

As soon as this remark came out, Huaxia movie fans were naturally very proud. My Huaxia movies sometimes make you nervous in the Western media!

Naturally, the rise of Chinese films cannot be achieved by just one or two films.

The success of National Day and Men in Black has undoubtedly made alien movies popular again, and follow-up works have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. It seems that everyone wants to take advantage of the alien craze set off by Xinle Film and Television. China, in particular, is the hardest hit area to follow suit.

This may be the national condition. Piracy, plagiarism, and following trends are commonplace in China, but not many people care about the harm of doing so. And know, but also powerless.

Perhaps this is a habit that is difficult to change in a short period of time.

Many film and television companies follow the trend to shoot alien movies, and some film and television companies even invest only a few hundred thousand, which is a small-cost movie among small-cost ones. The larger investment is only tens of millions, not to mention compared with the investment of National Day, even Men in Black is only the leader.

Many sane filmmakers are heartbroken by this situation, saying that they are trying to ruin a subject matter and break the situation that Xinle Film and Television has finally opened.

Zhang Le knew this, but sneered and ignored it.