This entertainment industry is a bit strange

Chapter 381 North American Premiere
From the day when the United States established cultural hegemony, Hollywood has become a temple in the minds of all film and television practitioners.

The box office performance in the North American market has always been the goal pursued tirelessly by Huaxia directors.

Even now that China's market size has exploded to a multiple of that of the North American market, this trend has not been completely reversed.

From producers and directors down to ordinary audience fans, they still regard the box office data of white men as an important indicator of the value of a film...

And since history, there are only two Chinese film stars who can really sell box office in Hollywood and make a name for themselves--Bruce Lee and Cheng Long, the two cross-rival dragons.

Li Lianjie is known as the Emperor of Kung Fu, but in fact his position in Hollywood is very embarrassing. He couldn't get the lead actor and couldn't sell at the box office, and he was even forced to take on the villain... In terms of influence, he was actually several levels behind the big-nosed dragon.

In this time and space, Li Lianjie retired early and was unknown, and after Cheng Long, there will be no one to take over.

So even though "Jing Wu Heroes" once caused an upsurge on YouTube Bluebird, the willingness to watch movies offline is not strong, and the survey data from the previous and subsequent rounds are not ideal.

The major publishers, who were reluctant to spend a lot of money to buy copyrights, naturally became less interested. The quotations were lower and lower each time, but the additional conditions were more and more each time.

Ding Lan is not used to these grandchildren, and finally chose a relatively small distribution channel - WELL GO USA.

Compared with those few industry giants, this small company's channel capabilities are indeed much worse, but anyway, there are not many films to be arranged, and there is not much difference in choosing this small workshop.

The real reason why Ding Lan prefers this company is because this WELL GO USA has quite good strength in streaming media channels, and has cooperation agreements with several leading platforms!
So in fact, Ding Lan gave up the offline box office revenue to a certain extent, and instead focused on the streaming media platform!

It may be too expensive to watch a Chinese movie without superstars offline, but with the popularity of streaming members in North America, allowing them to watch this imported movie at a very low cost that is almost free, the acceptance may be much higher .

Don't think that Lishu in North America is really not short of money, they also have to live on a budget!
With the acquiescence of both parties, the promotional campaign of the film did not cost much in the early stage, and there was no plan to hold a premiere ceremony.

On the day of the premiere, WELL GO USA just asked Baye Yuan to record a section of VCR, and played it in various theaters to attract box office, which can be regarded as reducing the cost of publicity to the extreme.

Although Chinese movie stars are out of stock in North America, Yuan Baye, who is a martial artist, is still well-known in Hollywood, so even if it is just a VCR, it has attracted a lot of interest from passers-by.

It seems that this is the first time that Baye Yuan has collaborated with a Chinese movie star other than Cheng Long in recent years?
The ticket price seems not expensive, try it?
As soon as the premiere was over, self-media bloggers who were staying on site immediately ran up to interview the first audience.

Most of the people were exclaiming "amazing", "crazy"... Some dudes even danced and started gesticulating. It seemed that they were imitating Chen Zhen's boxing routines.

Of course, there are also people who are drowsy and express boredom, completely unable to understand what is being played, and the play is also chaotic, making people sleep uncomfortable.

There are even more outrageous things... A few foreign students in their early days protested the film righteously, saying that they distorted history and slandered Neon, and strongly demanded that the film be removed from the shelves for rectification...

Of course, as soon as these interview clips landed on the Internet, there were countless enthusiastic Third World netizens teaching Xiaotian how to be a human being.

Have a good temper and let them go back and re-read the history and respect the real historical facts.

If you have a bad temper, just throw out the warm pictures of the nuclear bombing days, and ask you if you are satisfied with the love at [-] degrees?
Distort history?

There are no wronged souls under the nuclear explosion, go to you!

Amidst the mixed voices, the box office on the first day in North America was released - 11.7 US dollars.

When the news was sent back to the country, it immediately attracted a lot of ridicule.

"Hahahaha, did I just say I'm going to pounce?"

"Only $11.7? If I remember correctly, last year's "Big Bear: The Happy Family" seemed to sell for $12 on the first day in North America?"

"Tsk tsk, without the patriotic tax, it immediately reveals its true colors. Who in foreign countries will accept your tricks?"

"It's ashamed, it's better not to go out!"

"I have enjoyed some patriotic themes in China, and I don't even know how much I am worth. How dare you show this kind of bad movie?"

"Oh, this is a typical case of not being able to count."

"This idiot can expand to this point, all the ticket sellers who have contributed to him are responsible!"

"........."

When Yang Rui got the news, he was already in Yanjing.

After making arrangements to stay in the hotel, he went to Jiang Wen's small courtyard as usual, reminiscing about the old days and chatting about the mountains.

"You're not good either." Jiang Wen peeled the boiled peanuts and said cheerfully: "It's only 11.7, it's a bit embarrassing to be true, do you want me to ask you to shout for you?"

"Forget it, let it be." Yang Rui knew who he was talking about, but the problem was that he didn't want to owe Quentin a favor, "I didn't expect it to go out and make a lot of money, so let's go out and show off."

"I can think about it." Jiang Wen nodded, "However, Mr. Ding of your company is quite venomous. It is definitely a wise move to put the end of this film on the line. I guess you will be popular in the future."

"Accept your good words, I hope." Yang Rui didn't want to talk about this topic, but instead asked, "How about you, how are you doing with your preparations?"

"Still investing." Jiang Wen looked distressed.

"No way, you will also be short of investment?" Yang Rui was surprised.

"Where is it?" Jiang Wen shook his head and said, "There are too many people who want to invest, and the investment amount overflows too much, so I don't know how to divide the cake."

"Grass!" Yang Rui raised his middle finger directly.

Madeleine, Versailles must die!

"But don't worry, I keep my word." Throwing a peanut into his mouth, "I saved that piece of cake for you."

Yang Rui nodded, with some anticipation in his heart.

Yuanshikong's "Let the Bullets Fly" was released in 2010. At that time, China's theater chain and consumption scale had just reached the starting point of explosive development, so it only won a box office of more than 6 million in the end.

So in this inflated market environment, how much box office can this film finally sell?
How much return on investment can there be?
Yang Rui is looking forward to this answer!
But this answer is not destined to come soon, because this guy's filming is really ink...

"By the way, how is the little girl?" Jiang Wen asked smoothly.

Yang Rui knew that he was asking about Zhang Wei, "It's basically fine, just do rehabilitation after the bone grows well, it shouldn't be a big problem to catch up with your film."

"That's fine." Jiang Wen nodded, and then quietly lowered her voice, "The night before yesterday, a film company in Xiangjiang was burned down, and the underground halls behind it were also taken over by someone. Lying down for more than 30, this...do you know?"

Yang Rui gasped, his hands and feet were cold.

This is so...

Next time you talk to Miss Jing, the volume must not exceed 30 decibels!

(End of this chapter)