One day at the end of December.

There was a sparse sound of water in the bathroom, and the lame man finally got off the ground, wandering around the house, occasionally jumping on a stool, lying on the guest table, and as if he didn't feel very comfortable, he jumped down and looked for a suitable nap spot other than the bar.

In the past few months since Lu Ze came back, his weight has lost a lot, and his diet control and compulsory exercise have gradually restored his weight to a good level, and his steps have become much brisker.

Jumping on the guest table where Lu Ze often sits again, he still feels inappropriate, but this time, its inflexible right hind leg happened to touch the coffee cup that Lu Ze had just finished drinking and hadn't come to remember to clean up.

"Smack......

The sound of water in the bathroom suddenly stopped, and after a few seconds, it came out again, but after about two minutes, Lu Ze took a towel, gently wiped the water stains on his head, and came out of the back room.

The coffee cup has become fragments, spread on the ground, perhaps because there is something special in the material, the size of the fragments is very uniform, and there is a lot of powder.

This cup was brought back from Italy, the handmade master cup, the firing process is very different from different coffee cups, the weight in the hand is much lighter, and the cupmaker is now deceased, as one of the last three cups made by the master, this cup is expensive.

It seemed to know that it was in trouble, and after a moment of staring at each other, it looked away, looked down at the debris on the ground, got up, and prepared to escape.

"Come on, come on, see what good you've done. ”

In the end, it was caught, picked up by Lu Ze, and brought to the side of the fragment, it didn't want to see it, but it was kept being held by Lu Ze's head, it began to struggle, and Lu Ze would not worry about the cripple for a cup.

Just reprimanded, then let it go, picked up the broom, swept the pieces, but was not ready to throw away, thousands of euros bought, and so memorable, how could he be willing to throw it, he was ready to save the pieces, to see if there was a chance to find a master to glue the cup, even if it was no longer used, put it up as a decoration.

As soon as the fragments were packed in a sealed bag, the mobile phone rang, he walked to the bar, glanced at the caller ID, it was Mickey calling, estimated the time, Lu Ze probably knew the intention of the call.

"Hello?"

"Lu Ze, the finished film of "Exile" has come out, and the special effects have been handed over in advance, and we cut out the film overnight, first in the mailbox that has been sent to you, and the rest of the work will be handed over to you. ”

The work that Mickey said is naturally to submit for review, as an overseas film, it must be more troublesome to review, not to mention the information, and it also needs the approval of the provincial radio and television department, so that it can get the number, but for Lu Ze, the steps will naturally be simplified, and it will not be as cumbersome as an ordinary production company.

This is not quite the same as the nature of imported films, after all, Lu Ze is not only the starring script, but also an investor and shareholder, to be precise, "Exile" is equivalent to a Sino-foreign co-production.

"Okay, I'll take care of the rest. ”

"By the way, when is the release date set? We have three plans on our side, either to release them globally at the same time in January and miss the peak of the Chinese New Year films, or to premiere in China, which is still in January, and other countries will start to officially publicize it, and it will be released from February to March, or it will be released from February to March in the world. ”

For genre films like "Exile", participating in the movie war for the Chinese New Year is definitely a bloody loss, and a fool will let genre films and comedy films compete on the most important festivals of the country, even if the quality of the Chinese New Year film is not as good as "Exile", "Exile" will be suppressed to death during this time period.

The box office of the movie must have the most to do with word-of-mouth, but it doesn't mean that you don't have to care about anything if you have quality, you have to take into account the holiday situation in various countries, how competitive the film is in the same period, and all kinds of factors must be taken into account, otherwise you will release "Chainsaw Shark Mania" at Christmas.

The release at different times was first passed by Lu Ze, which will affect the emotions of fans in other countries, they are all audiences, and no one can be offended, why do you go first, we can wait until the release after reading the spoilers?

This will be resisted by local fans to a certain extent (big IP when Lu Ze didn't say it), which is unfair to fans, as a Chinese person, Lu Ze will definitely give some preferential treatment to Chinese fans at some levels, but for the fundamental regulations, it must not be broken.

Of course, there are some exceptions, for example, many imported films in the Chinese film market are released a little later than abroad, but the state has always been strict in reviewing imported films, after all, if you don't pay attention to it, it is easy to be invaded by other cultures, so in some in-depth movies, you should really consider carefully.

Now that it has been determined that it will be released globally, the rest is the choice of the month, which needs to be considered, what are the opponents.

"What are the movies in January, February, and March?"

"Wait, I'll check. ”

Mickey was flipping through the information over there, and Lu Ze was not idle here, turning on the computer in sleep mode, and flipping through the movie trailer information on Maoyan, the movie in March had not yet been pre-sold, and Lu Ze opened Douban by the way and read it carefully.

There are relatively few domestic movies in January, after all, everyone is preparing for the New Year's films, ready to get a big ticket for his mother, and few highly competitive movies in January in previous years will be released in the off-season one month before the Spring Festival, and this year is the same, the window period for masterpieces.

Lu Ze, the main creative team of the movie that was released, has never heard of it, and the name doesn't look like a big-budget movie, there should be no opponent who can compete with Lu Ze and them, and this year is the Lunar New Year on February 15, a little bit of the February theater release list, the lineup is too fierce, Lu Ze hurriedly flipped up.

"Uh...... The news I got here is that there are fewer films released in January, only Glenn Peter Pan's movie "This is Sparta", Keir Wiggins's "Soul Broken Amazon", damn, this name is really earthy, it might as well be called "Bastard Amazon", I always want to squeeze out Lao Tzu's money, and recommend to me those things that are very attractive and buy and find useless......"

"Can you get to the point? Huh?"

"Uh...... and Disney's Maleficent 4. ”

"Well, what about February?"

Glenn Peter Pan and Keir Wiggins have both heard of the two directors Lu Ze, who belong to the middle-level directors in Europe, and they are relatively famous in the industry, but they have no popularity and influence in the fan group, for their works, Lu Ze is relieved, after all, Lu Ze has a certain understanding of the strength of these two directors, and it is not enough to worry, but when he heard the words "Sleeping Curse", Lu Ze's forehead suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

"There is Marvel's "Spider-Man 4", participating in this year's Chinese New Year, Fox has "Alien 10", and there is also Ang Lee's new movie, do you want to listen to March? March is even more fierce, "Star Wars", "King Kong", DC and "Aquaman 3" ......"

"January. ”

Should you coax it, do it against these big IPs, and wait to be crippled by a set? Hollywood is already competitive, and no one else has done well in addition, so if it is released at the same time, it will be a loss.

Especially for giants like Marvel and DC, Lu Ze's private emotions are not disgusted with these two giant pictures, but if you consider commercial competition, then Lu Ze is really annoyed by these two superheroes.

Originally, the IP is big, and there are a lot of movies that come out, and there are many personal movies, and big movies, which dominate the film market for several months all year round, and work against these guys, basically no drama, original movies like Lu Ze and them can only run as far as they can, praying that they don't run into these films, otherwise the box office can directly lose a quarter, or even half.

"You're as I think ......"

"Nonsense, why don't you wait to die?

"Hmm. ”

"Chinese version?"

"There must be. ”

"Send it all over, I'll talk to Lantai, start warming up, book a compromise time to release it, in mid-January, the few days when it collided with the Chinese New Year film, the box office is gone, anyway, it's the last few days of the schedule, and there is not much money, and it's about the same around the fifteenth. ”

"Okay, you have to talk about the premiere venue, we will buy a ticket and wait to fly to Huaxia. ”

"Okay. ”

hung up the phone, Lu Ze immediately called Lantai, when the contract was signed, it was decided that the domestic propaganda would be done by them, in fact, since more than a month ago, the preliminary publicity has already begun, but because it has not been finalized, there is no official explosion of publicity, this time it can start.

glanced at the mailbox, downloaded the original quality movie, a movie has more than 20 G, it takes about half an hour, taking advantage of this time, Lu Ze sorted out the information sheet he got from the General Administration of the Imperial Capital a few days ago, and first engraved it into the script with a CD, and the feature film will also be engraved in it for a while.

"Review Approval Report", "Main Creator Registration Form", "Translation Report", and the qualifications of Universal Brothers have long been done, which is why it was released in time for January, as for the unqualified to be returned for revision?

When the disc was recorded, Lu Ze didn't dare to watch it first, for fear that the source of the film would be leaked, and it would be very dangerous to transfer it to a private computer, and when the recording was completed, all the files in the computer would be deleted by Lu Ze immediately.

And he has already bought a ticket to the imperial capital, packed his luggage, and prepared to drive to the station, even if he sends it to the local radio and television department, he can review the film, but the premiere venue doesn't have to be discussed by Lu Ze, and it doesn't hurt to go to the imperial capital for trial.

In this way, "Exile" was officially put on the agenda.

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