Chapter 342: "Gravity" and "Red Cliff" will be screened in Japan
Although the world has been united as a whole, Wu Yuan's departure will not affect the development of Huaxia and even the entire Asian film industry.
As Wu Yuan was busy preparing and discussing "Interstellar" in the United States, and holding various online and offline meetings, all the discussions and reports about him in China gradually cooled down.
There is so much news in the entertainment industry that is worth reporting.
Wang Jingwen and Li Yapeng are suspected of being divorced?
Zhang Ziyi's slightly convex belly is suspected of being pregnant?
Liu Dehua's hidden marriage was exposed?
But in the end, all the news was a false alarm.
One after another entertainment hyped up "revelations" continued to seize the public's attention, and the atmosphere of "entertainment to death" gradually began to amplify in China.
Television stations, led by Mango Channel, have also stepped up their efforts to introduce Hallyu.
Han Geng, the son of the first Hallyu, began to lead the trend of idolatry in the mainland.
Wu Yuan's appearance seemed to change something, and it seemed that nothing had changed.
The entertainment trend in China is still developing towards his familiar appearance.
The emergence of an outlier cannot change the tide of the entire era.
And he himself is actually a part of the dividends in this era of entertainment.
When the time entered November, although Wu Yuan was still not in China, his name began to appear frequently again on major domestic entertainment news.
"Gravity" is going to be released in Japan.
As Wu Yuan's second largest box office, his films have always been very good at the box office in Japan.
Starting with "Your Name", which broke countless Japanese box office records, to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, and even "Those Years" produced by Light and Shadow Times, it has achieved very good box office results in Japan.
Light and Shadow Times, a Chinese film production company, is also well-known in Japan, at least in the area of campus youth movies, which is very well-known.
Like Li Yang's "The Little Thing of First Love", before the movie was finished, Japan's Toho was already discussing the introduction of the release with the Light and Shadow Era.
They trust and are optimistic about the campus youth movies produced in the era of light and shadow!
And Wu Yuan's "Gravity" is also one of the most anticipated foreign films by Japanese fans this year.
Of course, since it is one of them, there are other opponents.
One of the most threatening is "Red Cliff Up", which was released in Japan on the same day.
"Red Cliff I" is also highly anticipated by Japanese fans.
The competition between these two films in China ended with the defeat of "Red Cliff".
However, in the Japanese market, mainland journalists are generally more optimistic about the results of "Red Cliff Shang".
After all, this is a movie about the Three Kingdoms, and Japanese fans are not as fastidious as mainland fans when they treat the story of the Three Kingdoms.
After all, the Japanese themselves have no less spoofs of the Three Kingdoms theme, and there are not too many cartoons of various Three Kingdoms characters on the Japanese Internet.
"Red Cliff I" is just an epic battle of Red Cliff made into a love drama and Zhou Yu's personal charm show, and this adaptation just meets the appetite of Japanese fans.
You can't expect a country where the Warring States period was nothing more than a fight between villages to experience and feel any epic war blockbuster, but this kind of small-family story is very in line with the aesthetics of Japanese fans.
Wu Yuan sometimes secretly speculates that "Red Cliff" may have been Wu Baige's tailor-made movie for Japanese fans, and what he wants is this kind of Japanese-style childish taste.
Wu Baige, who has not been active much since the poor performance of the mainland box office, has also begun to jump after the time entered November.
In an interview with the media, he said that "Red Cliff Up" is aiming for the box office champion of Japanese overseas films this year.
After a while, he said in convincing words on the TV program that "Red Cliff I" is a Chinese film that can be easily accepted and understood by overseas audiences, and it is an attempt to make it easier for Chinese culture to go out.
In short, in a word, although "Red Cliff Up" lost to "Gravity" in China, this is a non-war crime!
The battlefield of this movie is overseas, not at home!
As for Gravity?
This is just a box office result that was pushed out by the official administrative forces of Huaxia, and it is not as popular overseas as "Red Cliff I".
Although he gritted his teeth at Wu Yuan's insistence on releasing "Gravity" and "Red Cliff Up" on the same day, Wu Baige didn't have the slightest idea of changing the gears, just did it!
He is a senior senior, if he chooses to change the schedule because the later "Gravity" is at the same time as himself, doesn't it mean that he is afraid of Wu Yuan?
This is even more humiliating than losing to Wu Yuan at the box office!
It is impossible to change the schedule.
Then you can only fight the bayonet hard.
In order to defend his glory, Wu Baige mobilized all the leading actors and supporting roles of "Red Cliff I" this time, and the group flew to Tokyo on November 3 to start its week-long publicity activities.
He led the team to participate in the variety shows of major Japanese TV stations frequently, and also mobilized his connections and found actors such as Takuya Kimura to promote his platform.
This movie from Huaxia, with publicity efforts regardless of the cost, quickly opened up its popularity in Japan, and even ordinary passers-by knew the news that this movie was about to be released.
In comparison, the crew of "Gravity" is very bland.
Wu Yuanren is in the United States, and Gong Li is on vacation in Singapore, whether it is the director or the starring, he has no intention of going to Japan to promote it.
Although Toho also received publicity funds, not only broadcasting the Japanese trailer of "Gravity" on TV stations and the Internet, but also putting up a large number of posters offline, the momentum still could not compare with "Red Cliff Up", which was promoted by all the members of the group.
Not to mention, Jin Chengwu, a handsome guy, is still very famous in Japan, and he is the new good-looking male god after Takuya Kimura, and he gets twice the result with half the effort when he promotes "Red Cliff I".
Dongbao is anxious here, and made a transatlantic call to China, hoping that the crew of "Gravity" can also go to Japan to do publicity.
Gong Li is a top actress who is well-known in Europe and has also served as the president of the jury of the Tokyo International Film Festival.
Not to mention the director Wu Yuan, in the eyes of Japanese fans, he is the most powerful commercial film director in Asia.
If the two of them can go to Japan to promote it in person, they can compete with "Red Cliff I".
However, after Wu Yuan received this invitation, he decisively refused.
He is having brainstorming meetings with Jonathan and others every day, perfecting the script of "Interstellar", studying filming methods, how can he have time to go to Japan.
"Red Cliff Shang", which could have won a box office of 310 million in the mainland, was swept by "Gravity", and finally only got a box office of 180 million.
After pressing "Red Cliff Shang" on the ground and hammering it in the mainland market, Wu Yuan's anger in his heart was almost out.
Setting "Gravity" and "Red Cliff Up" to be released on the same day in Japan is enough to disgust Wu Baige, and at least it can make "Red Cliff Up" lose one-third of the Japanese box office less than the original time and space, and hit him again.
It's enough to be able to do this.
It is really unrealistic to expect "Gravity" to be played in Japan and like in the mainland, pressing "Red Cliff".
After all, Japanese fans do not have the blessing of the Chinese national sense of honor, and will only regard "Gravity" as an ordinary space disaster movie.
can disgust Wu Baige in the Japanese market, Wu Yuan has already won too much.
Anyway, next year, Wu Baige will have a supervised "Sword Rain" to be released, and he will also prepare a surprise for Wu Baige at that time!
A surprise that will make Wu Baige so angry that he jumps to his feet. (End of chapter)