Depressive Screenwriter

The box office performance of Weathering with You can only be described as completely within market expectations.

After all, Su Yan has basically dominated the Spring Festival and summer movie seasons for the past three years.

He releases two movies every year during the two best periods of the year, and the entire industry and market have become accustomed to it.

The word-of-mouth and plot of Weathering with You are indeed slightly inferior to Your Name by Makoto Shinkai, but this does not mean that the movie's box office will necessarily be bad.

When Your Name was released, Su Yan's reputation was definitely not as great as it is now, and the audience's tolerance for Su Yan was not as high. The movie did cause some controversy regarding the plot in the first few days of its release, but these disputes did not escalate.

The main reason is that even if Weathering with You is slightly worse than Your Name, its quality is still far superior to other movies produced by other companies during the same summer season, or even in recent years.

Leaving aside the plot, the quality of the movie that Su Yan spent several hundred million yuan to produce is evident.

It is vastly different from some movies that claim to have invested several hundred million yuan, but actually embezzled most of the money.

Soon, time entered August.

The fifth episode of the first season of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion premiered.

By now, the plot of Code Geass has basically entered its proper trajectory.

Lelouch's main storyline of being a student at a Britannian noble academy during the day, and sneaking out of the settlement at night, under the alias Zero, to lead the people of Sakura Island in resisting the imperial colonization, has basically unfolded.

Not to mention that there are no such works in the Xia country's television drama market, there are no dramas of this type produced by any country in the entire Xia country world in recent years.

In Xia country, the Weathering with You movie and the Code Geass television series occupied the center of public opinion in the film and television industry this week.

Abroad, the Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion television series topped the charts in terms of viewership data in the six countries and online broadcasting platforms where it premiered.

Although the face of Lelouch, played by Su Yan, is still an Eastern face, his name and the mixed Eastern and Western background settings that Su Yan changed in the Xia country world still make it easy for overseas audiences to accept this.

Anyway, Su Yan played Gilgamesh, the king of a clearly Western country in the Fate series, so it's not surprising that he plays a mixed-blood prince of a Western empire in Code Geass. Who told the scriptwriter, investor, and lead actor of this show, Su Yan, to be from Xia country?

Moreover, Code Geass fans are more enthusiastic abroad than in Xia country. The revolutionary theme of the show naturally strikes a chord with them, which directly led to a large number of overseas fans leaving messages under Su Yan's creator account in Xia country after bypassing the Great Firewall.

The show's performance overseas basically achieved Su Yan's initial expectations for it. Although the several hundred million yuan in publicity funds that Su Yan allocated for overseas regions also contributed, Code Geass did complete the task of breaking into the overseas market, making Su Yan and Dimensional Film and Television Company a hit among overseas television drama fans.

Tokyo, Su Yan, who had just finished filming Howl's Moving Castle in the afternoon and returned to his villa after dinner, paid attention to the box office of Weathering with You.

Although the box office exceeded 700 million yuan in the first two days, the box office for the first seven days was only 1.4 billion yuan. It is a certainty that the total box office will exceed 2 billion yuan, but it will probably be quite difficult to exceed 3 billion yuan.

The staying power of a movie's box office is closely related to word-of-mouth, and the word-of-mouth for Weathering with You is indeed somewhat worse than Your Name.

Su Yan thought for a moment and didn't dwell on it too much. This result was basically expected before the movie was released.

Moreover, Su Yan didn't think that the works he produced would necessarily be better than the previous ones. In the past, he was in a period of rapid fan growth, so the results of his works were of course better than the previous ones.

But now his fan base in Xia country is basically saturated.

Anyone who pays attention to movies and TV series knows him. After the fan growth reaches its limit, the upper limit of the results of Su Yan's works will definitely depend on the quality of the works.

Su Yan's fingers were tapping something on his laptop.

After Weathering with You is released, the only unreleased projects of the company are Code Geass Season 2 and Howl's Moving Castle.

Of course, there are still two to three Rurouni Kenshin movies that need to be produced to complete the entire series! And after completing the Kenshin film series in four years, some new actors can be trained to film the Kenshin TV series. Although Su Yan will still be less than thirty years old at that time, he will most likely not have time to film a long TV series with seven or eight seasons. It's better to give young people some opportunities. At most, he can occasionally make a cameo appearance as a martial arts instructor on the set, or play the role of Kenshin's master Hiko Seijuro in the TV series. The Hiko Seijuro in the movie version is really not good at martial arts and does not achieve the domineering effect that Su Yan imagined.

In the Fate series, Su Yan is also preparing to put the UBW and HF routes on the agenda. After all, with so many fans around the world, Su Yan cannot give up this IP.

And then there's...

Su Yan looked at the word "mecha" that he had typed.

Code Geass is just a test. Evangelion and the Gundam series are Su Yan's ultimate goals for bringing such works to Xia country.

In his previous life, Hollywood in the US turned Marvel's nearly bankrupt Marvel Comics universe into a TV series, bringing the IP back to life.

And Su Yan actually has similar ideas.

Works like Evangelion and Gundam can first be made into TV series to accumulate popularity and open up the overseas market.

Then invest a lot of money to make special effects blockbusters for theatrical release.

The universe, the starry sky, mecha...

These elements are inherently suitable for making blockbusters, but the investment is relatively large. There is no film production base in the Xia country world like the one in Hollywood in his previous life that is popular in both the East and the West, so these blockbuster movies are basically not popular in the various countries of the Xia country world.

Even if the movie is a big hit in the country, it may still lose money in the end.

Hollywood movies often cannot recover their costs in their home country and have to rely on the global market to recoup their losses and make a profit.

How big the market is determines how much investment can be made.

But for Su Yan...

He is actually slowly opening up the Western market now.

Finally, Su Yan paid attention to the cash in his company's account.

After the continued profitability of multiple works and Su Yan's purchase of many assets and online broadcasting platform stocks, the company's account still has more than 5 billion yuan in cash.

Su Yan suddenly felt confident.

Evangelion's emotional value is not enough for the time being. This anime series, with only twenty-plus episodes in the main story and several theatrical movies, created a value of more than 10 billion US dollars in Su Yan's previous life.

Its value is almost half that of One Piece, which has been serialized for nearly thirty years, and is equivalent to the value of the entire Naruto IP series.

Even Su Yan now finds it difficult to exchange for Evangelion.

But the Gundam series is different.

Although the entire series also had an IP value of over 10 billion in his previous life, with dozens of works over the decades, Su Yan would have no problem exchanging for only the more classic ones.

Soon, Su Yan, who was immersed in the system space, spent all his emotional value again.