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Chapter 751 North American Release Schedule
In the blink of an eye four days have passed, and all the scenes in China Film Studio and the Imperial Capital have been filmed. Next, they will go to Shanghai, Xiangjiang, and foreign countries to shoot related scenes.

Before the entire crew made a big transition, Zhou Xia took the time to go back to the company to deal with some matters.

In the bright and spacious office with simple and technological style, Zhou Xia sat behind the desk and talked about work with Zhang Zhao.

"Boss, "The New Detective" has been screened in Asia one after another yesterday, except for the box office records in island countries and India. Here is the detailed report."

"Really, let me take a look." Zhou Xia reached out to open the document on the table.

"New Detective" was released 5 days earlier in the mainland, but in other regions and countries, it was released before Christmas one after another, and the box office performance was almost always a hit, not inferior to the mainland.

But Zhou Xia only knew the general situation, not the specific data.

Fifty days after its release, it accumulated 1.62 million soft sister coins at the Hong Kong box office, breaking the record of 1.57 million "Avatar"; it also broke the record set by "Avatar" in Wanwan, with an accumulated box office of 11.3 billion Taiwan dollars, about 2.5 million soft sisters currency.

Also in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam...

Only in the island nation and India did it not surpass Avatar's record, nor did it set the highest box office record.

Zhou Xia is already very satisfied that this movie can hit the box office in these countries affected by the radiation of Chinese culture, and can rank in the forefront of the local box office records, with a total box office of 11.4 billion.

As for those two countries, the situation is quite special, so let’s ignore it for now.

The more Zhou Xia looked at these detailed data, the happier he felt.

This shows that the results of the company's previous investigation and analysis in other places are very accurate. The action movies he and Li Lianjie collaborated with have a strong box office appeal in Asia.

In the past few years, Zhou Xia has been involved in several popular TV dramas such as "You at the Same Table", "Gongsuo Xinyu", "You in the Star", as well as his commercial blockbusters, "Painted Skin 2", "The Expendables 2", "Detective Chinatown", etc., obviously gained a large number of loyal fans in these regions and countries.

Even the heroines of the movie, Yufei, Sisi, and Mina are well-known in various regions and countries in Asia. These are the reasons why this movie is so popular in Asia.

"It's great, it's worth celebrating, and the next step is to arrange for it to be released in Europe and North America. How are you preparing?"

Zhou Xia put down the file happily, looking forward to looking at Zhang Zhao.

"Today, it has started to be screened successively in various European countries. First, Russia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom will be screened in several important markets. By the end of the month, it will basically be screened in other countries. There are a total of 34 countries."

Zhang Zhao saw that Zhou Xia was listening carefully and didn't interrupt, so he continued: "As for North America, we are still negotiating and making arrangements. Now the major distributors in North America are very optimistic about our movie, and they all sincerely want to buy out the distribution." , so I want to ask the boss what you think about this matter."

"Buyout distribution, how much can they pay? This is not considered, I have emphasized this point before. Cooperative distribution, this is the bottom line, we have our own company and theaters in North America, although the theaters that really belong to us are only 22.

But didn’t we also invest in amc, the second largest theater chain in North America owned by Wanda, at the end of last year? We must negotiate with them and ask them to guarantee a certain film schedule for us, so that we can boldly test the waters in the North American market! "

Zhou Xia raised her voice and said that she was looking forward to "The New Detective" testing the waters in North America.

Action movies are popular all over the world, and they are even more popular in Hollywood. He believes that the action movie with Jet Li will perform better this time.

As for the AMC theater chain, Wanda acquired AMC in 2012, which had a loss of US$46 billion, but it was not successfully listed in North America until the end of last year. At that time, Xiahua Film and Television took the opportunity to purchase about 5% of the shares.

As for selling out the rights to North American distributors, it is not as good as the mainland's accounting mechanism for imported Hollywood films, which can share 25% of the box office, which has almost nothing to do with me, and there is no box office accounting.

When people are optimistic about it, they will seriously issue it to you. After a while, if they don’t like it, or if it conflicts with their own interests, they may not issue it temporarily.

That year, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" broke through $1 million at the North American box office and became the highest-grossing foreign-language film in American history. Therefore, the eight major production companies are very optimistic about Lao Mouzi's "Hero".

After "Hero" was completed, Warner and Sony Classics had expressed their intention to release it, and Zhang Weiping finally sold it to the more sincere Miramax.

But later, Miramax wanted to protect the two blockbuster films he invested in, "Gangs of New York" and "Chicago". The investment in these two films exceeded [-] million US dollars. Promptly announced.

As a result, it took a year. In 2004, "Hero" was released in the United States. Although it became a dark horse, it won the box office champion in the first week of March and won a high box office of 1780 million US dollars.

However, the box office fell in a straight line in the second week, and only received a box office of more than 780 million US dollars. The main reason was that the delay was too long, and there were already many pirated CDs on the market.

Zhou Xia didn't want his blockbuster action movie to end up like this.

The foreign version of "New Detective" is different from the version released in Taiwan, Taiwan, Taiwan, and Taiwan. It focuses more on action scenes, mainly because of the differences in cultural understanding. After cutting out the comedy plots that foreigners don't understand, action scenes are added.

This was something that Zhou Xia had considered before the movie was filmed. This movie was not only aimed at audiences from the two sides of the strait.

The action style of the whole movie, the most prominent selling point is the wonderful Chinese Kung Fu actual combat, but there are also some wonderful stunt shots, borrowing from the classic shots of "Fast and Furious" and "Mission: Impossible" that were not released.

Now the version released overseas, after reducing some comedy plots, is indeed more exciting and exciting in terms of plot and action scenes, which is the biggest selling point for overseas markets.

"We talked to AMC. If we insist on releasing it in the North American summer season, they can arrange a maximum of 1000 theaters to show it at the same time. If we are willing to arrange it to be released in March or April, they can guarantee at least 3 theaters."

Zhang Zhao thought for a while and replied seriously to Zhou Xia.

"1600 theaters are still a bit small. Hollywood blockbusters start at 3000, and why is there such a big gap? What blockbuster movies will be released in Hollywood this summer in North America?" Zhou Xia asked with a frown.

"If we are willing to provide a higher deposit and give up a certain share ratio, we should be able to increase to 2000 screenings. If there are more, there is no way. This is the case with AMC alone, and other major North American companies have their own releases. Movies, will not add more films to us."

Zhang Zhao is also Alexander. After finishing speaking, he looked at the document in his hand and continued: "The blockbuster movie will be released starting from March 3, and "Captain America 31" will be released in May. Every other week there will be The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Godzilla, X-Men: Episode 2, Maleficent, Into the Spider-Verse, Transformers 2, Planet of the Apes 4 ", "Super Body", "Guardians of the Galaxy" and other Hollywood blockbusters will be released."

In China, when Zhou Xia's movie is released, other movies, except for the top-notch ones, even Hollywood blockbusters will be avoided.

But going to North America and Hollywood, Xia Hua Film and Television and Zhou Xia must avoid every blockbuster.

"So many big movies." Zhou Xia shook her head and smiled wryly, thinking seriously.

(End of this chapter)