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"I can't wait to become a heroine and participate in "Gravity". Liu Yang, the first space heroine, is so emotional!"

"The shocking drama of tearing into the space disaster, even the astronauts were moved!"

Report after link, full of praise and praise, the world premiere can be described as a great success.But this time the premiere ceremony is special after all, it belongs to the ride of China's aerospace industry, and it's just a first prize.The real premiere will be in the next few months.It unfolded one after another.

At the same time, several trailers have been quickly released in various countries and regions, and the schedule has also been confirmed. They will be first released in mainland China on the National Day on October 10 this year, and then will be released globally.

The grand publicity starts simultaneously.

North American Animation Festival, European Film Festival.Various entertainment shows, starring Sandra Bullock and Leonardo DiCaprio.Very busy.As a director, Wan Xiaohu, if he has free time, will occasionally appear on one or two programs to do some publicity.

However, he really can't spare much time. The post-production of "Frozen" is only half completed, and it is expected to take another year to complete.

So he went on a well-known American talk show "The Ellen Show".This talk show is currently the best semi-formal talk show for female audiences in the United States after the "Oprah Show" was discontinued.In addition, he was invited to give a speech entitled "Change the World" at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Then there was a lecture tour in colleges and universities across the United States. I went to five universities in total. I gave a speech on "The Similarities and Differences Between the National Dream and the American Dream" at Harvard University, and gave a speech on "Technology and Art of Film" at Southern California University.Speech "Science Fiction is an Extension of Science" at MIT, "Hand in Hand of Film and Streaming Media" at New York University, and "My 12 Years of Film Road" at Yale University.

These few speeches were the speech scripts provided by the main team for Wan Xiaohu, and then added some of his own insights.Wan Xiaohu is very talented, coupled with more than ten years of self-confidence, standing on the podium, although there are no witty words, but the charm is indeed infinite.

In particular, he came from a grassroots background, but he has become one of the greatest directors in the world, owns a huge entertainment empire, and there is even news that Wan Xiaohu owns a large number of shares in Internet companies, making him the world's top richest man.All these auras gathered on the body of a post-80s generation immediately became the idol of young people all over the world.

People worship the strong. Bill Gates has been touted for many years and has become the representative of the American dream.But compared with Wan Xiaohu, Bill Gates immediately fell behind. After all, Bill also has a mother who is awesome.

Wan Xiaohu doesn't know how many fans he has.

But these few speeches gave him a deep understanding. Every speech, including the one at Cambridge University, was overcrowded.For example, when he gave a speech at the Central Library of Harvard University, the entire library was immediately surrounded, attracting tens of thousands of students from more than a dozen nearby universities, and even the aisles and corridors were fully occupied.

More than a hundred media outlets came to cover the whole process.

After each speech, Wan Xiaohu will also screen a "Gravity" at the university where he is located, and exchange his viewing experience with the students.

The time soon came to August 2012, 8. The 29th Venice Film Festival was held in Lido Island, Venice, Italy. "Gravity" became the opening film of the festival.Since there was no film in the main competition unit released that day, "Gravity" became the hottest topic.

The film was shown on the m-3d big screen, which immediately shocked all the reporters present, and then the flattery poured in.

""Gravity" is not a science fiction film in the traditional sense. It is full of tension and surprises. Wan Xiaohu has created the most realistic and beautiful space movie. There are no aliens, interstellar Space wars, no dystopian setting, just a man and woman dealing with the problems they face under the most adverse circumstances. But it makes for a very tight 90 minutes.” – The Hollywood Reporter.

"This movie must be watched on the big screen, especially the M giant screen, in order to experience the majesty and grandeur. "Gravity" explores the special value of life, and the two leading actors profoundly interpret the difficult adventures of the sky." The UK's cnevue website gave a five-star super high evaluation.

Indewre, who has always been known for his harsh ratings, gave a rare rating and commented: ""Gravity" is a great special effects blockbuster that can touch your internal organs; it is a movie with an inner soul. commercial blockbuster — of course. It’s also the best festival opening film you’ll see.”

With the help of the Venice Film Festival, "Gravity" once again ignited a raging fire, arousing the expectations of countless audiences.

After the film festival, Wan Xiaohu brought the film to the Directors Guild of America and the National Film Directors Guild for several internal exchanges.All of a sudden, the directors began to praise the media again.

"I was stunned and defeated. I think this is the best space-themed movie ever. I haven't seen such a movie for a long time." James Cameron told reporters excitedly.

Guillermo del Toro, director of "Hellboy" and "Pan's Labyrinth," said: "It's unbelievable, and I think it's one of the most engineered, elegant, powerful sci-fi movies. It raises the level of human's struggle with nature to a higher level."

The praise from the directors was not over yet, and Wan Xiaohu returned to his alma mater, Nortel, with "Gravity" to exchange the film face-to-face with the students.Then I accepted an exclusive interview with mme time.com, talked freely about the technology involved in "Gravity", and secretly revealed that more than 90% of the shots in this movie were completed by special effects.

On the eve of the screening, several premieres came down.Rotten Tomatoes has already included more than a dozen movie reviews.Only one failed, 98% super fresh. After the opening of the mdb website for scoring, it was rated 10 and 10 by fans before it was released. mec day c has included 31 media reviews, all of which are positive. The lowest score is 80 points from the "Guardian", and the overall score is 98 points.

Mtime.com's old time score is also off the charts.Before the screening, 132 media released film reviews, 127 of which were qualified, with a brightness of 96%. Ordinary users received more than a thousand ratings, and the overall score was as high as 9.9.Hang it on the most conspicuous position of op100.

All in all, the hype of "Gravity" has reached its peak.

Now, just wait for the movie to be released to be tested by the fans.

"Now you have set a new record." On the eve of the National Day, Wan Xiaohu deliberately put aside all trivial matters and stayed at home with Su Ya and his son Wan Chengyang.

A trance is that 12 years have passed, Wan Xiaohu, who was in high spirits back then, is already 32 years old on the outside, but in his 40s on the inside.And his wife, Su Ya, is also 30 years old, although the years have not left any traces on her face.The child, Wan Chengyang, is also four years old and is currently studying in the top class of the kindergarten.

"What record?" Wan Xiaohu asked without raising his head as he was playing flying chess with Wan Chengyang.

Su Ya sat on the sofa in the living room, holding a notebook, and said excitedly: "Just now the company sent the pre-sale ticket data, and the pre-sale ticket of Mtime.com was 105 million, which broke the record of all previous movie pre-sale tickets. 16 tickets have been pre-sold on the time scarf platform, breaking the record of pre-sale tickets on all social platforms. At present, the total number of movie tickets for "Gravity" has been pre-sold 382 million, and the advance payment is 9170 million yuan, almost breaking [-] million. .”

"As expected." Wan Xiaohu said proudly, "This movie has a lot of investment, special effects throughout the whole process, so much publicity, and a good reputation. It's normal to break records in China. The statistics of pre-sale tickets in North America Have you come out yet?"

"Not yet, isn't it that the show hasn't started yet? It won't be released until Friday, and there are still five days left for pre-sale."

"That's right, it's still early. By the way, tomorrow is National Day, where are we going?"

Before Su Ya could speak, Wan Chengyang yelled: "Mom and Dad, shall we go to the cinema to watch a movie tomorrow? Kindergarten children are going to watch movies with Mom and Dad, and I want to go too."

Wan Xiaohu and Su Ya looked at each other and nodded at the same time: "Okay, go to the cinema tomorrow and watch... "Sami's Big Adventure"!"

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Wan Xiaohu took his wife and children to watch the cartoon "Sami's Big Adventure" on National Day.

And "Gravity", directed by himself, will also enter the mainland on October 10st, National Day, to participate in the competition for National Day files.Although "Gravity" has a good reputation in the early stage, although the space under the 1D lens is beautiful, and although the plot of the movie is simple but "gaochao", as a science fiction film with only two actors, it is still Sasha Entertainment's choice. Conservative.

Quit this year's smoky summer vacation.

After all, the competition for this year's summer vacation is too fierce, and many blockbuster films are vying for the time in these few months.

The highlight of the Marvel Cinematic Universe project, "The Avengers" released by Sasha Entertainment; Warner Bros.' superhero movie, the third part of the Batman trilogy, "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises"; Sony Columbia's reboot of the first Spider-Man series, The Amazing Spider-Man.

There are also several strong cartoon spoilers such as "Brave", "Madagascar 3" and "Ice Age 4", as well as blockbusters such as "Men in Black 3" and "Snow White and the Huntsman" that have attracted much attention from the beginning.

Unlike sci-fi films, these films are aimed at summer audiences, and so are the production tastes.

In such an environment, it is absolutely difficult for "Gravity" to grab the box office, so it is a very good idea to change the schedule and release it in the off-season of the film market.In recent years, the films directed by Wan Xiaohu, especially science fiction films, are basically released in the off-season, relying on word of mouth to create miracles, rather than clinging to the summer schedule.

As long as the movie is of high quality.Even in the off-season, it can explode.

Ever since, "Gravity" has participated in this year's National Day file in the mainland.With the expansion of the domestic film market.This year, it already has more than 3000 screens, and the market is enough to accommodate several movies.So even if Wan Xiaohu's fame is used to suppress, there are still a large number of domestic films and co-productions to seize the National Day file.

"It's just a Hollywood sci-fi film. Even if the director is Wan Xiaohu, it's nothing special in the Chinese market." This is what many distributors say.

In 2011, there were no films of Wan Xiaohu released, and these distributors have gradually forgotten the prestige of Wan Xiaohu back then.

So this National Day file, blockbuster one after another.All began to fight hand to hand.

"Tongque Terrace" starring Zhou Runfa, Liu Yifei, and Su Youpeng will be released on the 26th, "Tai Chi 27: From Zero" starring Liang Jiahui, Anglebby, Peng Yuyan, Feng Shaofeng, Shu Qi, and Daniel Wu will be released on the 1th, and "Tai Chi 28: From Zero" starring Zhang Yi, Zhang Dongjian, and Cecilia Cheung will be released on the same day. "Dangerous Liaisons", the Hollywood low-budget sci-fi film "Looper" starring Chinese actress Xu Qing will be released on the 29th, and "Two Exposures" starring Fan Bingbing and Feng Shaofeng will be released on the 2th.

In addition to "Gravity", which will be released on October 10st, within a day's time, two blockbuster films will compete on the same stage.It can be called the most watched battle since the four famous directors Zhang Yimou, Liu Weiqiang, Tsui Hark and Wu Yusen fought in the National Day file in 1.

Many media have already started to hype this war, and I don't know if they have received money. Many media have started to tout domestic films and co-produced Chinese films, claiming that they want to fight against Hollywood.This tiger and this Hollywood.Naturally, it refers to Wan Xiaohu.

Some media, such as "Southern Metropolis Daily", directly announced the arrival of Wan Xiaohu's Battle of Waterloo.And cited several reasons.

There is no luxurious cast, although the actor Leonardo has a large number of fans.The heroine Sandra won the Oscar the year before last, but there were only two of them.Most of the second half was done by Sandra alone.

There are no big scenes of serial explosions, the special effects shots in space are really cool, and the broken space station is also very interesting, but all the scenes are in space, there is no explosion effect on the earth, and there is no unpredictable background.

Without the support of Chinese stars, there is no good schedule to enjoy alone, and even the publicity can only rely on other people's evaluation, and it is impossible for actors to frequently appear on the show and interact with fans...