Chapter 378 China and the United States are blooming
""The Mystery of the Talisman" tells the audience a story about the twelve ancient Chinese zodiac signs with excellent action scenes and outstanding visual spectacles.
In this story, Jack becomes a treasure hunting expert and takes his father and his niece Xiaoyu on an adventure journey.
To be honest, since "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in 1989, I haven't seen such a hearty treasure hunting adventure movie for a long time.
I recommend everyone to go watch the movie. This is a good movie that you shouldn’t miss this summer. ”—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times.
“Although Christopher Nolan is a new director who has only directed two feature-length films, he has already shown his mature temperament.
In "The Spell", director Nolan showed extraordinary lens language. In addition, the film's special effects and action scenes have reached the top level of Hollywood.
The oriental-flavored score composed by Hans Zimmer also complements the film and is worth listening to as a movie soundtrack. ”—New York Post
“What surprised me the most in the film was Chang Shu, a young actor from China. Although she is not yet fifteen years old, the mature acting skills she showed in the film made her a rising star.
In addition, the performances of Meng Dawu and Bingbing Li are also remarkable. Bingbing Li fully demonstrated the posture of a beautiful woman called the East.
I think she will become the dream girl of many North American teenagers over a period of time..." - "Los Angeles Business Journal"
Bingbing Li blushed when she saw the news that she would become the dream lover of North American teenagers. The domestic media is still too conservative. The North American media has always said what they say and their style is very bold.
Little Gilbert felt that Sarah was actually quite honorable, and he felt a little embarrassed when he looked at her bragging.
The North American dream lover can be anyone, including Bingbingli. But if she wants to get into the position of the lover of her dreams, it won't be so smooth.
Because, in front of her, there are countless candidates for the dream lover waiting.
To be honest, the actors in the San Fernando Valley are more promising than Bing Bing Li.
After taking in a box office of US$59.209 million in its first week, "Spell" entered the next week of work, and the crew officially embarked on a North American promotional tour.
Cheng Long himself has a certain degree of popularity in North America, and the publicity campaign is within the normal range of popularity for commercial films.
The crew did road shows in several cities and appeared on several programs to be interviewed and promote the film, which also aroused a good response.
The film took in a box office of US$22.527 million in four working days, a pretty good result, and another US$20.326 million in the three days of the following weekend.
At this point, ten days after the film was released, the North American box office reached 102.062 million US dollars.
This result is not as exaggerated as "Return of the King" and "Spider-Man" that broke 100 million US dollars in three days, but it is still a pretty good performance for commercial films.
Professional box office forecasting agencies predict that the final North American box office of "The Mystery of Spell" will be between 180 million and 220 million US dollars.
However, "Spellbound" failed to retain the weekly box office championship the following weekend, because "Austin Powers: The Golden Goblin" released by New Line Cinema this week took the box office with US$73.5 million in its first week of release, successfully winning the championship.
Although North America unfortunately failed to win the championship, "Mystery of the Spell" was launched in many countries and markets this week and achieved good results.
"Mystery of the Spell" has landed in the Chinese market, and Chinese movie fans have finally seen this movie starring a Chinese movie star. It also set off a movie-watching craze that was no less than that of "The Return of the King", with a first-week box office of 34.8 million RMB.
With this film, Shu Chang and Bing Bingli truly became popular in the Chinese film industry.
It's a pity that although the quality of movie actors in this era is high, the breadth of communication and audience cannot be compared with later movies, so Bingbing Li and Shu Chang are not as famous as some popular TV drama actors.
But the two of them are the envy of mainland actors, because they are participating in Hollywood movies, and I heard that the North American box office has exceeded 100 million US dollars. In this day and age, who can star in a movie with a box office of over $100 million in North America? Probably the ones from "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
Another unexpected effect brought by "The Mystery of the Talisman" is that it has accelerated the entry of various capitals into the film and television industry, especially coal bosses and real estate tycoons.
Many film and television companies have sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain, and many film projects have been approved, especially costume blockbusters, because foreigners are interested in this.
It can be said that the lack of money in mainland China's film industry since the 1990s has been greatly alleviated now.
And those famous directors have no shortage of investment at all, and a lot of investors give them money to make movies.
The main reason is that the Chinese film market has been booming in the past two years, which has given everyone hope, so a large amount of hot money has poured into the film and television industry.
This is a pretty good opportunity for Chinese filmmakers.
In addition to the Chinese market, Cheng Long has strong appeal in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia.
The film generated a box office of US$5.27 million in South Korea, a box office of US$10.356 million in the island country, and a total of US$8.224 million in box office in Southeast Asia.
In addition to East and Southeast Asia, the highest overseas box office region was Mexico, with a box office of US$4.268 million.
Other regions where it will be released include Australia, Brazil, Chile, Argentina and more than a dozen countries and markets.
Europe will have to wait one to two weeks before it will be released one after another.
But even so, the film also received a box office of US$44.362 million in its first week of large-scale overseas release. Together with the North American box office, it successfully won the global box office championship.
For a Hollywood movie in which the biggest star is Cheng Long, the most famous person is the producer Gilbert Jr., and the rest are basically new faces, and the subject matter is very special, this result is good enough.
When communicating with the crew, little Gilbert emphasized: "This first part has made us famous. After that, we will make the second and third parts better and better, and the audience will look forward to it more and more."
Little Gilbert's professionalism in judging movies is very convincing, so no one will worry about any accidents in "The Mystery of the Spell".
In fact, Gilbert Jr. believes that "The Mystery" will have a global box office of more than $500 million, which is enough for him to convince the film company executives to continue making sequels.
However, according to the plan, the sequel movie will not be launched until next year at the earliest.
Cheng Long will be busy filming "Rush Hour 3" first, and Nolan does not plan to continue directing subsequent series of works.
However, Gilbert Jr. already has a candidate for the subsequent director of the series. He chose Alfonso Cuaron from Mexico and Tsui Hark from Hong Kong Island to collaborate.
In the first film, little Gilbert was a little dissatisfied with the performance of Tang Jili recommended by Cheng Long, so he decided to replace Tang Jili with a more suitable director.
When Tsui Hark saw that it was actually an invitation from a Hollywood blockbuster, and it was also the sequel to "The Mystery of the Spell" that caused a wave of movie viewing in Hong Kong Island, he readily agreed.
Although the sequel plan has not yet started, he has made a special trip from Hong Kong Island to meet with Gilbert Jr. and also contacted Alfonso Cuaron to start planning the sequel movie.
In fact, to a certain extent, "The Mystery of the Spell" can be regarded as the earliest Sino-US co-production film.
The film was released quite smoothly and encountered little slander from all aspects. It was a good start for such Sino-US co-productions in the future.
I wonder if there will be more and more movies co-produced by China and the United States in the future.
(End of chapter)