Chapter 468 God-level special effects are coming
Time flies, and the National Day of 02 is coming soon.

Wang Chengguang walked out of a big hotel in Seoul and looked at the super LED screen on the outdoor wall of the hotel. It was as bright as the big screen in the cinema. The advertisements played on it would attract the attention of passers-by from time to time.

He smiled and lit a cigarette. The super screen distribution campaign has been going on for over a month. At this stage, not to mention the widespread deployment in the mainland, almost every prefecture-level city has distributed at least one super screen.

It has also opened in South Korea.

This is just like a free game, it is free at the beginning, and you can charge a maintenance fee in the future, but making money from maintenance fees is not the purpose, it is the platform! Every prefecture-level city starts with at least one, and they are all large things like movie theater screens outside landmark buildings.

Once the Xinghuo platform decides what to broadcast jointly, how huge will the eye-catching force be?
This kind of LED display is black technology after all... At this stage, Samsung and others cannot catch up with the technology accumulation in LCD screens.

Intelligence agents have already appeared in Nancy's shell company in Seoul.

But it doesn't matter. After all, it was manufactured by Xiaohuo 7.0 on the anti-Earth and shipped to the warehouse of the shell company. Who wouldn't be a cunning rabbit with three burrows and transfer it from one hand to the other? And Nancy's family was a declining chaebol before the millennium after all.

The backbone of the family and its wealth were the backdrop for the destruction caused by the European and American financial crisis in 97.

Even if they had intercepted and transferred some of the LCD screen manufacturing technology in the beginning and were waiting for Nancy to make a comeback, it would have been reasonable.

Send it a little bit at a time.

At this moment, Zhou Wenwen drove a Porsche sports car from the front and parked it in a roadside parking space with a beautiful drift. She ran to report excitedly in high heels and black stockings, "Boss, Train to Busan has been postponed in China and South Korea until now. With the new good news, there will be another box office boom during the National Day holiday, right?"

Today is September 9th, and tomorrow is National Day. Wang Chengguang is now going to the airport to return home. He flew to South Korea in early September. In addition to promoting the development of ultra-large LCD screens, it is also equivalent to making it clear to the outside world that the special effects of The Wandering Earth are still in the production process.

The screenings of Train to Busan have been postponed to today in various places, and the number of screens showing the film has been greatly reduced, but as long as you go to a large cinema you can basically see that the film is still showing and you can buy tickets.

内地已经累积了2.3亿人民币票房，港岛7000万港币，弯那边2900多万港币，南韩1370万观影人次比原轨迹2016多了200万人次，以2002年的票价就是6.4亿港币！！

This total result is already approaching 10 billion box office!

It was a box office miracle and surprise bomb in 2002, but it was normal for the cumulative promotion of multiple factors to lead to such results.

The more than 200 million extra moviegoers in South Korea compared to the original trajectory are due to Nancy's own chaebol background, her family's poverty after the 97 financial crisis, and her creation of a new miracle in a giant Internet company.

Coupled with her beauty and the terrifying reputation of Train to Busan, she became a huge hit. If she hadn't been confirmed by countless people that she was the sponsor of a wealthy man, she would have truly been the uncrowned king of South Korea in the early 00s.

With this record, if one wants to run for election, any city leader or small commander will be swayed by countless public opinions.

Wang Chengguang laughed and walked towards the Porsche with his luggage, saying, "Has the contract been signed? Then let's announce it online and stimulate the vote bank in China and South Korea to officially exceed HK$1 billion."

The good news Zhou Wenwen mentioned was that the screening rights and distribution rights to European and American theaters were sold for 5000 million US dollars at one time. This is a height that neither Infernal Affairs nor Taken could catch up with, and the theaters alone sold for 5000 million US dollars.

Is it reasonable? This is only 2002, not 2016, which has been baptized by the Resident Evil series, World War Z, various Zombieland, Shaun of the Dead, Warm Bodies, Living Dead, I Am Legend and other blockbuster series for many years.

The original Train to Busan grossed less than 10 million US dollars in Europe and the United States. This was not only because audiences had seen it too many times to count, but also because the distribution and promotion were not good.

Now that Wang Chengguang is selling the film directly, he just wants a fixed number, and then you can do the publicity and promotion on your own. The higher the box office, the more money you will get.

Judging from the performance of the Chinese and South Korean box office, no matter who gets the distribution rights, if the box office in the European and American markets does not reach 2 million US dollars, it will be tantamount to a stupid promotion.

Even the island country market may not be able to sell for 90 million US dollars. As I said, since the s, the highest box office for a single Hollywood film in the island country has basically started at or million US dollars every year, which is more than million.

Train to Busan now has a high score of 8.8 on Spark Movies. Nancy led the team to apply for the Tokyo International Film Festival and received a lot of nominations.

European and American distributors have already made a lot of money from Infernal Affairs Part I and II and Taken, so the only issue left for Train to Busan is the price. Wang Chengguang doesn't mind making less money, but for the sake of face he can't make too much less, so he has always set the base price at $5000 million for European and American theaters.

From the negotiation to the final signing and payment, at least 30% of the deposit will be paid today.

This is another big bomb to stimulate the market. The situation in the global entertainment industry is that Hollywood is sweeping the world and all seven continents.

It happened so suddenly, and the big movie starring Huang Jianzhi and Huang Zhenhua has been making such a fierce impact... It will definitely be a boost to the self-confidence of Chinese movie fans.

Zhou Wenwen also nodded as she walked along, "With this money, our box office and sales have accumulated to more than 1.5 million US dollars. It's really interesting."

Wang Chengguang was speechless. He got in the car and rushed to the airport.

As the Porsche drove towards the airport, Zhou Wenwen said happily, "I heard from Meigui that some companies that recently wanted her brother to star in new movies offered him 1500 million RMB per movie. His status has been greatly improved."

Wang Chengguang nodded, "If the box office in Europe and the United States really reaches 1500 to million US dollars, it will be more than million. There will be no shortage of people who will offer him million."

They earned 5000 million dollars from selling overseas, so if the distributor takes less than 2 million dollars at the North American box office it would be... well, million is not a loss, but this will indeed elevate the status of Huang Zhenhua and Huang Jianzhi, father and son, in the Asian film and television industry to a super-powerful level.

What's more, whether it's Taken or Train to Busan, they can both have sequels!! You say the sequel to the original Train to Busan is a terrible movie? Then just take a cue from World War Z, which is also pretty good, the most it has is too many deaths in one movie.

The sequel may require a different cast!
World War Z is far inferior to Train to Busan in terms of both ratings and award-winning ability, but this version is positioned to make popcorn money at the box office. The zombie styles are more or less similar, both mutating rapidly, with an exponential fission speed of one to ten, ten to a hundred, a hundred to a thousand, and ten thousand.

It was the time period when Wang Chengguang arrived at the airport and was waiting for the flight.

Zhou Wenwen followed the instructions and updated her own Spark blog. "Thanks to the support of Chinese and South Korean fans, our Train to Busan project has reached a new peak."

"I have good news to share with all the movie fans. Train to Busan sold the rights to theaters in Europe and the United States for 5000 million US dollars. The Spark platform that my sister Nancy and I founded was also valued at 4 million US dollars by venture capital. Our net worth has improved a little bit."

“Thank you to the times and all netizens. You are the strongest supporters and participants of the Spark platform and Train to Busan.”

After she posted the update, she showed a series of beautiful scenery photos of Seoul, South Korea.

The entire Internet exploded again.

Is it okay for the box office miracle of Train to Busan and the valuation of Spark Platform to take off together? We are really witnessing the wealth of these two rich women running towards higher and bigger numbers.

I really don’t know how many people are envious and jealous.

Netizens in Hong Kong or South Korea are still sighing that it's like they witnessed a community... No, it's the early days of the consortium. A certain island country capital took the lead in logging into his official certified account registered on the Spark platform, "@Ms. Zhou Wenwen and Ms. Nancy, I also think that Spark has great potential in the future, and the prospects for Internet companies are bright and glorious."

"If you two ladies are willing, I would like to invest 5000 million US dollars to purchase 10% of Spark's shares. If you two are still not satisfied with this price, as long as you are interested, I can fly to Beijing in the mainland to discuss in detail."

This is the end of the Internet bubble. Internet companies that had suffered a huge loss in the previous two years are recovering and returning to glory.

In another one or two years, there will be huge room for a tenfold appreciation.

As soon as this news came out, the entire Internet exploded again.

Zhou Wenwen just said that the outside world believed that Xinghuo's market value was 4 million US dollars, but the Japanese guy raised the price directly to million US dollars.

The problem is that the number of permanent active users on the Xinghuo platform has exceeded 1.2 million. In addition to China and South Korea, there are also many user groups from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, island countries including the UK, France, North America and South America. Regardless of whether international students and overseas Chinese were the first to rush in, since they have come, many users have fallen in love with this platform after using it for a while.

Now, posting blog updates in English is also one of the mainstream modes in overseas departments.

The Spark platform was rooted in Hong Kong Island from the beginning, and two departments were established in Beijing to deal with domestic and overseas versions, so it became a global platform.

With hundreds of millions of active global users, visionary capital tycoons have the insight to know that this is a huge gold mine and a unicorn company.

So the estimate in early August was still 8 million US dollars, but just one night before October, it soared to 3 million US dollars.

Neither Zhou Wenwen nor Nancy responded to the devil capital, but the internet was really boiling, as if a round of deification movement had started. If you think about it carefully, three... well, they were three graduates from the directing department of Beijing Film Academy. They originally wanted to make movies and set up a platform for promoting and distributing movies.

At the beginning, it was still the main promoter of Spark Movies to rate the Infernal Affairs project and build word of mouth. In just over a year, it has developed into a super platform with a market value of 5 million US dollars? ? The first batch of netizens who reviewed Infernal Affairs on Spark Movies really followed and witnessed the whole process.

In just over a year, a multinational Internet giant arrived!
There are only three: Wang Chengguang, Zhou Wenwen and Nancy.

These three directors are so talented that they can not only make money from film and television production like robbing a bank, but they can also run businesses in an outrageous way? ?
National Day on October 10st is finally here.

Originally, the daily growth rate of Train to Busan in mainland China had fallen to one or two million yuan, but it exploded to 1000 million yuan on the National Day, and only returned to more than 700 million the next day. The same was true for Hong Kong and South Korea.

Everyone seemed to have a sense of confusion, as if they were witnessing the birth of a miracle, and that everyone who spent money to buy a ticket was like the parent who provided food and clothing for this miracle.

China now has a population of 12.85 billion. Theoretically, everyone knows that if everyone gives one yuan to the same goal, it will be easy to create a billionaire with a fortune of 12.85 billion. One yuan is basically not a burden for people born in the early 00s.

But, is there anyone who can make the whole nation willingly give you money? Train to Busan, including the Spark platform, is now exuding the unique charm of a unicorn enterprise.

Train to Busan was the last big hit during the National Day holiday. The box office in China and South Korea was less than HKD 10 billion, but it ended up being HKD 11.07 billion. It also broke a series of box office records in both places.

As for the award season starting in October? Whether it's the Hundred Flowers Awards, Huabiao Awards in China, or the Blue Dragon Film Festival in South Korea, the Tokyo International Film Festival, etc., there are basically a lot of nominations, and there is a trend of competing for their own nominations.

At least the first and second parts of Infernal Affairs will be overshadowed by several awards that could have been won by Train to Busan.

And when October 10th came, the first weekend of the release of Train to Busan in North America, it directly cut out 7 million US dollars at the box office? The whole of Asia was once again in an incredible sensation, and it was definitely a sensation in various groups such as the entertainment industry and the fan circle.

A movie starring a group of Asians can achieve such a box office success? The last one was several years ago or more than ten years ago? Only one or two action superstars appear occasionally in one or two generations?

If Train to Busan had not been completely cancelled, this exciting news would probably have made the excited and proud fans go to the cinema for the third or fifth time to contribute to the box office. South Korea was particularly excited, with countless people logging into the overseas version of Xinghuo Video, and all kinds of comments were saying that Nancy Wu is the greatest director in the history of the peninsula.

The titles of Peninsula Goddess, Peninsula Queen, Peninsula Entertainment Industry Savior, etc. were given to her like crazy. South Korea's weird self-esteem and self-confidence as a cosmic country will be outrageous once it has a little channel to vent!

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October 10, a prefecture-level city in the mainland.

Wang Chengguang watched as a group of installers installed a cinema-level large screen for a landmark building. While adjusting the screen to play advertisements, he smiled and said to Zhou Wenwen, "Before the Lunar New Year holiday, the whole country and South Korea will show a ten-minute special effects short film of Yugong moving mountains."

"The Wandering Earth will definitely attract enough moviegoers. Train to Busan grossed 2.5 million yuan, and The Wandering Earth is expected to gross at least 4 million yuan."

According to statistics from relevant departments, there are only 1581 large screens in cinemas across mainland China, while the original number was 2015 in 31627, a 20-fold difference. That’s why the box office growth in the mid-10s was so horrific.

Now, Xinghuo has donated and installed hundreds of large screens for advertising in landmark buildings across the country, approaching four digits. Before the Lunar New Year holiday, the number of large screens in cinemas will surely exceed that of large screens in cinemas.

This level of linkage, whether it is playing a special effects short film or a trailer, such as cutting out the space elevator scene and putting it on an outdoor advertising platform, is bound to be sensational.

This is of a completely different nature from the sensation caused by Train to Busan.

Zhou Wenwen smiled brightly, "Boss, you are someone of your stature who is willing to spend this much time to improve the world's entertainment taste. It's really a feast for the eyes."

At this moment, her phone rang. She answered it and said in surprise, "Teacher Guo said that many big shots wanted to see the special effects of Yugong moving the mountains in advance. How powerful are they? When did the news of the film get out?"

"Now, people from Beijing Film Academy, Central Academy of Drama, including Shanghai Theatre Academy, various directors, and China Film Academy have come to Mr. Guo to ask for his support. This has been going on for more than a month. He couldn't stand it anymore, so he came to me for help."

Wang Chengguang was speechless, "Then let's go back to Beijing."

When was the news leaked? In fact, this is just a timeline speculation by outside filmmakers. He finished filming Yugong Yishan in October last year and said he was going to South Korea to do special effects, and he didn't reveal any follow-up news to the outside world.

It’s been a year now, and the Wandering Earth movie has been released for half a year.

So it is normal for some people to speculate that Yugong moved the mountains. As long as you are not stupid, you will see that Wang Chengguang and Nancy have joined forces and directed their employees to run to every prefecture-level city to give away at least one LCD screen, which is at the black technology level in Europe and the United States, as an outdoor advertising platform.

This would be unreasonable if it wasn't for the promotion of their special effects science fiction movie.

On the afternoon of the 8th, when he entered the China Film Building with Zhou Wenwen, carrying a copy of a tape, he was immediately surrounded by President Han and a group of old men.

The excited crowd rushed into the screening room, without much greeting, and just waited to watch.

The short film also begins very quickly. It's about a fool who moves mountains. All the actors are randomly picked by Wang Chengguang from the mainland film and television circles. They are just extras or unfamiliar faces to the audience, and they are also marginal figures in the director circle.

The story begins with an old grandfather in ancient costume, who is outside an ancient courtyard at the foot of the mountain, calling a family to a meeting... It's a lively and ordinary daily scene, very lifelike, until the family gathers together, and the old grandfather announces that he wants to move two mountains.

The camera instantly began to climb from the foot of the mountain, and the long lens zoomed out from a fast and stable shot of the family to an overhead shot of the Taihang and Wangwu Mountains. The black-tech lens showed the majestic pillar of heaven, like standing in outer space and overlooking Mount Everest.

These two mountains, like pillars of heaven on earth, are so huge that the people sitting in the theater watching the movie seem to be frightened by the might of the mountains and look like ants.

The screams and shouts almost made people sick.

How to say it, with a flat lens you can only see a lot. This is a black-tech level flat lens that was used to shoot and play out some of the 3DIMAX viewing effects.

True 3D IMAX is also a groundbreaking film and television technology. Otherwise, a movie like Avatar would not and could not create such a terrifying miracle. To show the full power of that kind of film and television, theaters and equipment must be upgraded to experience the best.

However, thanks to Marvel's epoch-making black technology, ordinary 2D screens can also provide some movie-watching effects when playing short films.

This is a truly immersive horror. The long lens at this moment is like throwing people outside a sacred mountain that is more than 20,000 meters high. The lens is flying and the people are floating...

Amidst all the exclamations, Zhou Wenwen couldn't help but say happily, "Boss, did you bring some quick-acting heart pills? Don't scare the old grandfathers into falling sick. By the way, do we also play this kind of film on the outdoor LCD screen?"

Wang Chengguang was in control of the whole place. He used a little bit of the power of the Avenue of Life. Not to mention a heart attack, even if you were out of breath for a few minutes, you could be easily revived. He smiled and replied, "No, there are two versions. One is the ordinary 2D viewing. Otherwise, it will be shown on large outdoor screens in China and South Korea..."

"Not to mention the traffic paralysis, countless people will crash into their cars and many will have heart attacks, and the hospitals will be full."

"This kind of blockbuster with some 3D IMAX viewing effects will only be shown in movie theaters. After all, movie theaters are special occasions."

This has not yet fully utilized the 3DIMAX effect. Movies such as Avatar and various pseudo-3D blockbusters can all make huge box office revenue, so he only set a small goal of 1 million box office revenue for The Wandering Earth 4.

Will there really come a day when audiences go to the theater and after watching a movie they will doubt their lives, as two-dimensional screens explode with epoch-making technology? From then on, there will be only two kinds of movies on the earth.

One is a film from Wang Chengguang Film Studio, and the other is another. After all, even Europe and the United States will take another seven or eight years to fully upgrade and enter the true 3D IMAX era.

It was from this long shot that groups of seniors in the film and television industry were standing or slumped in their seats watching the movie, waiting for the mountain gods, heaven, the Jade Emperor, Hercules and so on to appear, to feel the ethereal charm of the fairyland.

There was a hint of pressure that was not human in nature, spreading gently.

For Wang Chengguang, who possessed two Taiyi Golden Immortals, making the film was as natural as breathing. But for normal humans, it was just like seeing the Jade Emperor, the Great Celestial Being. There was no need for narration or subtitles. It was like seeing the ultimate... the Grand Administrator of the Three Realms!

The spokesperson for the rules and order of heaven and earth.

He is a kind of lingering aura and power of heaven emanating from a high-level, high-dimensional life form. It is estimated that from today on, all professional emperors will worship him and imitate him in various ways when they see him.

This was also performed by the actor. The actor himself could not have imagined that he would perform so brilliantly and with such legendary appeal.

The two sons of Hercules evolved from ordinary gods over two meters tall into towering giants nearly 30,000 meters tall. The special effects of this shot are much more advanced and terrifying than the Dharmakaya of Tathagata in Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, where a huge hand covers the sky and the sun.

Coupled with the coverage of the 3DIMAX viewing effect, all kinds of screams and cheers simply couldn't be stopped.

This was because everyone knew that they were watching a movie, otherwise several of them would have fainted from fright.

At the end of the ten-minute video, except for Wang Chengguang and Zhou Wenwen, even a big shot like President Han was sweating from fear and his voice was a little hoarse.

After the big screen went completely dark and the lights in the screening room came on, President Han grabbed a bottle of mineral water and drank it in a gulp, and said in shock, "Director Wang, is this a special effects movie? Something is wrong. I feel like something is wrong."

An elderly director also wiped his sweat with a handkerchief and said with emotion, "Why do I feel like watching those 3D movies of Western experimental and research nature? The question is which ones do not require a special screen to be immersive, and do they require wearing 3D glasses?"

"Even if you want to shoot, you'll need special lenses and cameras, right?"

Although the massive explosion of 3DIMAX began at the end of 2009, similar to a full-line upgrade of film and television, it is true that full-sky IMAX movies have been shown to the public since the s.

For experienced directors and people with a more comprehensive vision, this is not a miracle. If we really want to talk about a god, it is the leakage of the attributes of the Jade Emperor, the Grand Administrator of the Three Realms, which brings another unique impact to people.

Wang Chengguang smiled and said, "This is another skylight technology that is not available in the mainland yet. However, South Korea is a lackey of North America and a semi-colony that can benefit the most from industrial transfer. Therefore, developing industrial special effects movies there will be twice the result with half the effort."

"How about watching it again?"

Whatever the others wanted to say or express, they all suddenly merged into one sentence, "Yes, watch it again. Xiao Han, please arrange a replay."

President Han: "..."

The second time I watched the special effects short film of Yugong Moves Mountains, there were not so many loud screams, but there were occasional low gasps, sighs, coughs, clapping, and stomping of feet, starting from the first long shot at the beginning of the film until the end, and it couldn't stop.

Not to mention the story, artistic interpretation, and various meanings, the story of Yugong moving the mountains is familiar to almost every Chinese. This short film is about special effects and the magical experience of some 3D IMAX viewing effects.

After everyone had watched it five times, the applause finally broke out.

All the leaders and filmmakers were blushing, as excited as if they had seen a new world. Their hands began to hurt from clapping. President Han exclaimed, "Director Wang, can our The Wandering Earth have such a good viewing experience? This is too... the technological gap between us and North America is too big."

The Wandering Earth absorbed 20% of the investment from China Film Group, which can of course also share the box office revenue. Once this kind of viewing effect is achieved, he dare not imagine how much the box office revenue can be.

Wang Chengguang smiled. This was also a small-range blow to North America.

They have worked hard for several years, starting with special equipment for cameras and upgrading theaters with special glasses, which can surpass the current viewing effects and feelings.

But it only uses 2D, and even 30 years of upgrades in North America will not be able to catch up with this effect.

"Don't worry, Mr. Han. You can experience this feeling when watching The Wandering Earth in theaters. Since you are here, I have brought you a short clip that I have prepared. I plan to make it into a trailer in the future. Let's take a look together?"

"Just a reminder not to get too excited, or you might get a heart attack."

This is a clip of the space elevator in Li 2 of The Wandering Earth. It includes various exciting shots of the passengers rising into the sky infinitely, as well as the terrifying flying rhythm outside the space elevator.

Sharp camera switching and a part of the 3D viewing experience are enough to make everyone experience the effect of sitting in an elevator with the actors and flying from the ground to space.

This trailer is mainly about Liu Peiqiang, Han Duoduo and others who are taking the elevator for the first time.

The real god-level special effects are coming. Even if everyone has not experienced the excitement of flying from the ground to outer space in the flesh, the spiritual journey has been pursued a little bit. People are almost bursting with excitement. President Han shouted wildly again, and he couldn't believe that China Film Group participated in such a great film production.

(End of this chapter)