After finalizing Zhang Guorong's appearance and changing the trajectory of his life in the next two years, Wu Yuan's mission to Hong Kong Island this time will be completed.

As long as Zhang Guorong is not allowed to be busy in the next year to the point of recurrence of stomach problems, so that it affects the brain endocrine disorder, induces depression, and suffers the mental blow of the failure of the preparation of the first directing film, then there is a high probability that his depression will not appear.

Wu Yuan can only do this, he is not a god, and there is no way to use any magic to make Zhang Guorong never be depressed.

Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if Zhang Guorong really can't escape the fate of depression after that, at least this "Undertaker" will also make Zhang Guorong's acting career have a happy ending!

Wu Yuan's "The Undertaker" is really aimed at the three major in Europe, as long as Zhang Guorong shoots hard, he has a good chance of winning an actor!

And his dream of directing can be regarded as a reality, and he has no regrets in this life.

did not accept Zhang Guorong's invitation to the mahjong game, and Wu Yuan took the flight back to Los Angeles.

Well, Zhang Guorong loves to play mahjong super much, and he also has a mahjong circle, Lin Qingxia, Wang Jingwen, Liu Jialing and others are his card friends.

He even organized the Leslie Cup Mahjong Tournament himself, and for this competition, he also spent money to make medals and trophies, and invited many of his good friends to participate in this competition.

Wu Yuan didn't know if he was destined for mahjong, a group of his friends in the capital loved mahjong, and Zhang Guorong, who he met on Hong Kong Island, was also a senior mahjong fan.

I heard that when Zhang Guorong went to the capital to film "Farewell My Concubine", he loved to play mahjong with Zhang Fengyi and Gonghuang after the play.

This time, he is going to come to the capital to shoot "The Undertaker" again, and I am afraid that he will have to play with Wu Yuan's group of friends at that time.

That's fine.

Zhang Guorong is far away from the group of paparazzi who write viciously and blindly on Hong Kong Island every day, and it is not a good thing to enjoy life in the mainland.

On the plane, holding the Sony Walkman he bought on Hong Kong Island and playing Leslie Cheung's album tape, Wu Yuan gradually fell asleep while enjoying the last glory of the HK Phil.

When he woke up again, he had arrived in Los Angeles on the other side of the ocean.

Outside the airport, it was still John who came to pick up Wu Yuan, and when he came up, he gave a warm hug.

"Daniel, I thought you would go back for a long time, but I didn't expect to come back so soon."

"Well, everything went well, and I came back early."

Sitting in John's Ford car, Wu Yuan rubbed his temples, which were still a little heavy, and asked casually, "How is our movie, and how is the release arrangement?" ”

"Of course everything went well." John is also enthusiastic, "The final cut version has been completed, the company is very satisfied, and a small North American screening is scheduled to begin on July 2nd. ”

"You know, our film is a low-budget film, and we don't have much money for publicity."

In North America, the release of low-budget films usually does not have a grand premiere, nor does it have a press release, and it is impossible to promote it online and offline.

In most cases, there is only one way to release small-budget films in North America, and that is to release them on a small scale first, and then gradually expand the scale of release based on word-of-mouth feedback.

There is no set release period for North American films, and they can be shown for a long time.

Different from high-cost blockbusters, Hollywood blockbusters often invest tens of millions of dollars in publicity and distribution costs, and the opening of the film is to screen one or two thousand movie theaters at the same time, making everyone in North America know about this movie.

But small-budget films can't do this, small-budget films don't have any publicity funds, and they don't have much capital in terms of distribution.

If a small-budget movie wants to be popular and wants to become a dark horse, it all has to rely on extending the release time, relying on the audience's reputation accumulated in the early stage of small-scale releases, and relying on the audience's spontaneous recommendation and publicity, which gradually exploded.

This method of operation later evolved into a "screening" system, in which small-scale screenings were held in several or more than a dozen movie theaters in the early stage, and well-known film critics were invited to watch them.

Then borrow the influence of film critics, as well as a small number of first-wave audiences who have seen the movie to spontaneously recommend and promote it on the Internet or offline, to attract more audiences to watch the movie in the cinema, and then gradually expand the scale of screening little by little.

The release of "Juno" is also arranged in this way.

On July 2, it will be screened on a very small scale in 16 theaters in North America, and if word of mouth is okay, the scale of the screening will be gradually expanded, and it will be expanded to one or two thousand theaters in about a month.

If this step can be achieved, the North American box office of "Juno" will be at least 40 or 50 million US dollars.

If it can't be done, it will obviously be released in dozens or hundreds of theaters, and no one will care, and then it will be released.

Hollywood's capital is very realistic, if you don't spend tens of millions of dollars to get through the publicity, make it known to everyone, and attract the public to watch your movie, then the theater chain will not come up and give you one or two thousand movie theater schedules.

Only when you slowly rely on small-scale screenings to prove the value of the film itself, and prove that some people are willing to watch this movie in the cinema, which can bring huge benefits to the cinema, the cinema will gradually increase the scale of screening!

I can't say whether this system is good or bad, but for most small-budget films that don't have money for publicity, it's fair.

If you are strong and you can attract the audience, then you will naturally get more film scheduling rates.

Wu Yuan had no opinion on this.

He has great confidence in the quality of Juno.

Although after the adaptation, this version of "Juno" has added Asian thinking and added a line of growth for the male protagonist, the core selling point of this movie is still the eccentric Juno!

Wu Yuan's version of Juno is almost no different from the original in terms of personality, and she is still the one with a personality that will be loved and sought after by countless girls in North America!

In this way, Wu Yuan waited in Los Angeles for another month with nothing to do.

Until July 2nd, an ordinary day.

Wu Yuan led all the main creative members of the "Juno" crew to a movie theater in Los Angeles.

At half past seven in the evening, dozens of invited film critics, as well as a few audiences who saw the poster of "Juno" in the cinema that day and were curious to buy movie tickets, walked into the No. 2 screening hall of the theater with Wu Yuan and others.

There were no opening speeches, and there were no heartfelt testimonials.

When everyone was seated, the lights in the screening room dimmed, and with the classic opening animation of 20th Century Fox, "Juno" was officially released in North America.

Starting from a high school campus sports meeting, two teenagers and girls, a campus love, an unexpected arrival of a child, and a story of youth growth slowly unfolded in front of all the audience.

The 102-minute film brought a special viewing experience to all the film critics and audiences present.

Before you know it, the movie is showing to the end.

Whether it was the main creative staff of the film who had personally experienced the whole process of filming, or other audiences at the scene, they gave warm applause at the moment when the lights in the screening hall were turned on.

The professional film critics sitting in the back row picked up the notebook they carried with them and left a final evaluation for the movie.

"The content is substantial, the plot is smooth, the narrative is also more exciting, the place of romance is sweet and beautiful, and the place of humor is full of fun, which not only makes the audience laugh happily, but also brings out the thinking of growth and maturity."

"In a seemingly atypical way, I succeeded in creating a typical small-budget masterpiece."

"Cool and gentle youth."

"The topics discussed in the funny story are not easy, but the opening and soundtrack still send a breath of fresh air."

That night, these film reviews appeared in major film review forums in Los Angeles and appeared in many film review magazines.

Within a very small circle of film critics, a wind called "Juno" is blowing.