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Chapter 429 North American rivals! (Please subscribe for the first update! Ask for a monthly ticket!!!!)
On the afternoon of December 12, Los Angeles time, Yu Dong arrived at Los Angeles International Airport with his company team.

Yu Dong boarded the plane at 3 am on the 10rd, Beijing time, and arrived in Los Angeles at 22 pm.

But due to the time difference, it was still 7 am in Los Angeles at this time.

Zhou You, vice president of Hantang Media, and Liu Yu, general manager of Tangyan Studio, who were sent to the United States before, brought people to pick them up.

"Hello Yu Dong, you have worked hard all the way."

"Mr. Zhou, Mr. Liu."

Yu Dong shook hands with them, "I would like to trouble you to pick me up early in the morning."

"Yu Dong, you're being polite. You're tired from the journey, why don't you go to the hotel to take a rest first, to beat the jet lag?" Zhou You suggested.

"Let's get down to business first, I've already slept on the plane." Yu Dong shook his head, how could he be in the mood to sleep now.

Zhou You nodded, "Then let's get in the car and talk."

Several people boarded a commercial vehicle and headed for the city of Los Angeles.

"Yu Dong, "Edge of Tomorrow" was officially released in North America early this morning. However, due to time differences in various regions, it may be early or late, and the box office statistics may be troublesome, at least until tomorrow morning."

Zhou You introduced the screening of this film, "Colombia has won 1600 opening theaters. This data ranks No. 11 among all new and old films in the same period. The main opponents should be "Tangled", "Harry Potter" 7", "Speed", "Dancing Girls Club", "Love and Elixir"

"But "Harry Potter 7" has been released for half a month.

"Dangerous Speed" only had a box office of 20 million in 6000 days after its release.

"Dancing Girls Club" only got 10 million in 2000 days after its release.

"Love and Elixir" earned 10 million in 1600 days after its release.

The biggest opponent is "Tangled", which has won 10 million box office in the past 7500 days and was also the champion last weekend.

The only new film released at the same time is Relativity Films' "Warrior of the Yellow Sand". The director Li Shengmao and the actor Zhang Dongjian are both South Koreans, and their opening results are [-] more cinemas than ours. "

Although Yu Dong was not his leader, even when he was the vice president of Poly Culture, Poly Berner was only a subsidiary of Poly Huayi.

But today is different, not to mention Tang An's explanation, Bernard is also one of the producers of "Edge of Tomorrow".

""Warrior of the Yellow Sand"? What's the origin of this movie?"

Yu Dong frowned. A film whose director and leading actor are both South Koreans was not released by a few major giants, and the opening scale was even bigger than "Edge of Tomorrow".

"This Li Shengmao has a master's degree in drama and film from Dongguk University in South Korea and a master's degree from New York University. This is the first film he directed."

Zhou You's tone was a little self-deprecating. A South Korean director without any directing experience, plus a South Korean actor who starred in a Hollywood movie for the first time, has more movie theaters than "Edge of Tomorrow".

Anyway, four of Tang An's films had been screened in Hollywood before, which also made the distributor a little bit of money.

Yu Dong also frowned, and he asked, "What's the specification of this movie?"

"The cost of 4200 million US dollars can be regarded as a medium investment, but the producer of this film is Hollywood gold medal producer Barry M. Osborn, who has participated in the production of "The Matrix", "Lord of the Rings" and "Face Changing" make."

This is almost the same, and Yu Dong is relieved.

Although it is a South Korean director and a South Korean actor, it is considered a Hollywood movie, which has almost reached the middle cost, and it is still participated by Hollywood gold medal producers. It is normal to have more than 200 movie theaters.

"It seems that Columbia still attaches great importance to our movie." Yu Dong smiled and said.

"Columbia's film performance in the past few years has been good. It releases more than ten films a year, but it has failed in the past two years. This year there are only "Kung Fu Dream" and "Second-Rate Detective", and next year there will be "Green Hornet" starring Jay Chou. ", that's why they gave us good resources, and the locations of these 1600 movie theaters are also good, at least they are all mainstream theaters."

Then Yu Dong learned about the publicity. Since the male and female protagonists didn't have any fame in Hollywood, Tang An was a little better and focused on publicity.

But the main thing is to bring the movies "Shark Beach", "Terror Cruise" and "Now You See Me". After all, the first two horror films are still sold on the TV-on-demand and video tape market, plus the accumulation over the past few years, Still a little popular.

But I don't know how useful it will be. After all, the audience of horror movies is completely different from that of science fiction movies.

In addition, 3D is also the focus of publicity. There are actually no 3D movies in Hollywood at this time, and they are all 2D movies at the same time.

Huaguo's first hardcore sci-fi film can also arouse the curiosity of American audiences. Although they may not take it seriously, there will always be people who want to see what a sci-fi film made by Huaguo people looks like.

In Delaware, USA, at 3:4 p.m. local time on the [-]rd, Yu Dong arrived at the US headquarters of News Corporation, one of the largest media groups in the world.

Today, Yu Dong visited two fund companies and even flew to New York.

But basically no one is optimistic about Bernard's prospect of listing on Nasdaq.

Even before December, shareholders such as Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners, and Haina Fund had the idea of ​​selling some of their shares.

But fortunately, "Edge of Tomorrow" surpassed [-] million in mainland China in two days, and the Southeast Asian market was also a big hit, which made them regain their confidence.

At this time, Yu Dong realized that it is not that simple to enter the US stock market.

In the meeting room of News Corporation, Gao Qunyao, Global Vice President of News Corporation and CEO of Huaguo Strategy and Strategic Development, received Yu Dong.

"Old Yu, your trip is in vain. I mentioned this to Murdoch, but he basically has no willingness to invest. He said that if Bernard is listed in China or even Xiangjiang, he will be very willing to invest." Gao Qunyao said somewhat said regretfully.

Although he is the vice president of news and media, the entire group is under the influence of Murdoch. If there is no interest, Murdoch will not invest.

Although he had expected this situation a long time ago, Yu Dong was still a little disappointed.

He shook his head with a wry smile, "Can I back down now? If I really cancel the listing and return to China, I'm afraid there won't be any good results."

"Now we can only look forward to the box office of "Edge of Tomorrow" in North America, otherwise you have to be prepared." Gao Qunyao comforted.

That's right!

still have a chance!

Yu Dong also put away the expression on his face, as long as "Edge of Tomorrow" is successfully released in North America, there will naturally be countless Wall Street funds taking the initiative to find him!

Today you don't answer me, tomorrow I want you to be too high!

Yu Dong, who is less than 40 this year, still retains a trace of youthful drive and impulsiveness, otherwise he would not directly enter the US stock market.

Returning to Los Angeles at night, Yu Dong meets Zhou You again,
Sit in the 3D hall of one of the larger Cinemark Cinemas in Los Angeles to watch "Edge of Tomorrow" and see the audience's reaction.

If you can see the whole thing at a glance, the reaction of the audience in a movie theater can probably tell the degree of acceptance of the movie by North American audiences.

(End of this chapter)