Can "The Wandering Earth" create another box office legend?

"The Wandering Earth" will not be able to create another box office myth, but it will definitely be able to create a box office myth.

Now answer this question and the result is clear at a glance. "The Wandering Earth" ranked fourth at the box office when it was released, and on February 8, it counterattacked and became the single-day box office number one. As of this post, the box office of "The Wandering Earth" on the evening of February 8 has reached 1.130 billion.

"The Wandering Earth" completely staged the drama of last year's "Operation Red Sea", but with the rapid change in quality and word-of-mouth effect, it counterattacked and became the number one box office in a single day. Last year, "Operation Red Sea" was launched on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, while "The Wandering Earth" completed a one-day counterattack on the third day of the Lunar New Year.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the box office of "The Wandering Earth" has completely counterattacked the second-ranked "Crazy Alien", reaching the top box office of the Spring Festival movie. "Operation Red Sea" was obviously a week late. about.

Now with the wave of people returning to cities after the Spring Festival, and due to the relatively weak reputation for film quality during the same period, "The Wandering Earth" has gone from being the best at the box office to becoming the dominant one.

There is no suspense that it will eventually become the number one box office hit during the Spring Festival in 2019. According to this trend, Maoyan Professional Edition estimates that the film’s final box office may reach 5.334 billion. In the end, it is just a matter of whether the box office can catch up with "Wolf Warriors" 2》Extent.

Now there is no need to analyze much about the box office of "The Wandering Earth". In fact, the birth of this movie was indeed very difficult.

The real take-off of the Chinese film market was in 2009 with Cameron's "Avatar", which had a box office of an astonishing 1.3 billion, and domestic films only after Xu Zheng's "囧" in 2012 exceeded 1.2 billion.

Since then, Chinese movie box office sales have exceeded 1 billion, 2 billion, and 3 billion, until "Wolf Warrior 2" reached 5.7 billion in 2017, and Chinese movies have entered an era of rapid growth.

Although there is a lot of chaos in domestic films, there is no doubt that in recent years, the Chinese film market has been developing at a rapid pace, relying on the east wind of the Chinese economy, like a rocket stuck in the butt. Many film companies and filmmakers believe that the Chinese film market can already support large-investment sci-fi special effects blockbusters.

So, the first year of Chinese science fiction movies was actually proposed before 2015, and many film companies and filmmakers were involved at that time. There are plans to develop Chinese science fiction films and a large number of IPs for Chinese science fiction novels, which naturally includes Liu Cixin, who is known as the first person in Chinese science fiction.

The China Film Group bought the copyright of Liu Cixin's "The Wandering Earth". News of the movie was first announced at the end of 2014. China Film Group bought the copyright of Liu Cixin's three novels at once. The other two books are "Micro Era" and "Supernova Era" by Liu Cixin.

Therefore, it is speculated that China Film purchased the film rights around 2013. But at that time it was just a movie announcement project, and there was a lot of preparatory work. Later, it was confirmed that the director was Guo Fan, and all preparations were completed. In mid-2016, it was announced that the film would start filming soon.

This is the official approval of the "Wandering Earth" movie project, which has been reported to the State Film Administration.

According to news reports at the time, in addition to China Film and Television, Beijing Culture and Television, the film investors also included Wanda Film and Television. The main filming location for the movie is Qingdao Oriental Movie Capital, the world's largest film production base that Wanda has ambitiously built.

In May 2017, the movie "The Wandering Earth" officially started shooting in Qingdao.

When China Film Group was preparing for this film in 2014, it announced that the estimated production cost was US$50 million. After introducing the investor Beijing Culture in 2016, Beijing Culture injected another 107.5 million yuan, of which Beijing Culture Investment The production cost of the film is 72.5 million yuan, and the advance publicity and distribution costs are no less than 25 million yuan and no more than 35 million yuan.

But it doesn’t stop there. In May 2018, "Guo Fan Culture Media (Beijing) Co., Ltd.", with director Guo Fan as the main shareholder, also invested 30 million yuan in "The Wandering Earth".

This movie was completed in 2017 and has been undergoing post-production special effects. It was originally expected to be released in the summer of 2018. But something happened to Wanda, the original producer of "The Wandering Earth".

In 2017, due to some incidents, Wanda’s operations were very bleak, and it could only shrink its film and television business. The project "The Wandering Earth" was affected.

The largest investor in this film is China Film Group, Wanda was originally the third investor, and the second investor is Beijing Culture, which has risen rapidly in recent years. Now the third-party investor Wanda has withdrawn its investment midway.

The special effects and soundtrack of "The Wandering Earth" were too expensive, and the money was burned away.

Obviously I have done more than half of the work, but I was trembling when I saw the last step. At this moment, Wu Jing acted as a white knight and chose to bring capital into the group in May 2018.

In the end, because of Wu Jing’s participation, “The Wandering Earth” completed the final shooting, as said on the Internet. Wu Jing joined "The Wandering Earth" without any salary or money. In the end, he invested in the film himself and helped promote it on a large scale.

It is not without reason that Wu Jing is specially thanked at the end of "The Wandering Earth". Without Wu Jing, the fate of "The Wandering Earth" would be hard to predict, and it would not be the box office legend it is now.

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