Millennium director

"Colin Firth's A Single Man!"

"Congratulations!"

Accompanied by Wu Yuan's energetic voice, in the area where the "Single Man" crew was located, a gentlemanly and elegant old handsome guy stood up in surprise, with wrinkles on his face.

After hugging his fellow cast members one by one, he quickly walked up to the podium with three steps and two steps at a time.

Wu Yuan took the Silver Lion trophy from the concierge with a smile on his face, handed it to Colin Firth, and said to him: "Congratulations, you deserve it."

"Thank you." Colin Firth thanked Wu Yuan in a very gentlemanly manner before accepting the trophy.

Then the stage belongs to him.

Wu Yuan and Sandrina Burnell left the podium from the side in a low-key manner.

Looking at the back of Colin Firth delivering his acceptance speech with high spirits on the stage, Wu Yuan sighed and said to Sandrina Burnell: "This is a good actor, and Venice has a really good taste."

Wu Yuan felt quite sorry for losing the "Kingsman" series to Colin Firth.

His performance in this movie is great, he can be said to be the soul of the movie, and the other protagonist is just a foil to him.

It can be said that for the success of this IP, his credit accounts for more than 60%, and the remaining 40% is the combined credit of the rest of the crew.

This is similar to Wu Yuan recruiting Cheng Long to do the "Ace Agent" series.

In Cheng Long's version of "Kings Agent", he also plays the leading role alone, even more important than the "Rush Hour" series.

It’s just that Colin Firth relied on his elegant British gentleman flavor to inject soul into this series.

Cheng Long definitely doesn't have this taste. He relies on Cheng-style martial arts to bring another kind of soul to this movie.

To be honest, Wu Yuan doesn't know whether Cheng Long's version of "Kings Agent" will eventually achieve good results.

After all, the biggest selling point of this series is the contrast between the images of the British gentleman and the secret agent. After this selling point is no longer available, it is replaced by Cheng Long's adult comedy effect. I wonder whether the global audience can buy it.

Speaking of which, the post-production of "Kingsman" has also been completed, and John is already negotiating with the six major companies for a release date.

As early as the establishment of this project, New Line has negotiated with Universal for global distribution. The film will be produced by New Line and Light Times and distributed by Universal Pictures.

However, the specific release date still needs to be studied.

Currently, New Line and John hope that the film can be scheduled for this year's Christmas schedule.

Christmas is a good time to watch some family-friendly movies. This time in the UK and the US is similar to the Lunar New Year movie in China.

In previous years, the Christmas period has been dominated by fantasy and magical movies, thanks to the "Harry Potter" series.

However, after "Harry Potter" was moved to the summer holiday last year, the Christmas season in North America once again entered a bloody fight.

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This year’s Christmas season is scarier than the Harry Potter series.

After Wu Yuan listened to John's report and found out that New Line and he were considering putting "Kingsman" on the Christmas schedule, he immediately called it a halt and desperately demanded that they move it up.

What a joke!

This year’s Christmas season is Cameron’s world!

"Avatar", which he has been working on for ten years, will be released in North America on December 16 this year!

Before "Avatar" was released, it was generally speculated in the industry that the movie had a high chance of being a hit. After all, this is Cameron's work, which he has been honing for ten years.

However, even the most optimistic forecasters believe that this movie can break through 500 million U.S. dollars at most in North America and over 1 billion U.S. dollars globally, which is already extraordinary.

This is already the data for the current top version of Haolaiwu.

Even though the global market has become larger and larger in recent years, you can still count the number of movies that can exceed US$500 million at the North American box office and US$1 billion at the global box office on one hand.

There are only five or six movies that have exceeded US$1 billion at the box office.

People in the Hollywood industry have given Cameron enough respect.

Even so, considering that the capacity of the Christmas slot in previous years was very high, and even one slot could bring in US$1 billion in box office in North America, so even with the entry of "Avatar", everyone still believes that the Christmas slot can still accommodate one or two blockbuster movies of.

This mentality is just like the current domestic competition for the Lunar New Year stalls and the subsequent war for the Spring Festival stalls.

Everyone agrees that there will never be a situation where one movie sucks up the entire plate. Even if a phenomenal movie is produced, the remaining plate can still accommodate one or two blockbusters.

However, what the entire Hollywood did not expect was that "Avatar" would create a box office miracle.

The North American box office was more than 750 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office exceeded 2.7 billion U.S. dollars. This is only the result of the first release, and does not include the cumulative box office of more than 200 million U.S. dollars in subsequent re-releases.

This achievement is something that even Hollywood would not dare to imagine, but Cameron did it.

Wu Yuan is so smart that he let "Kingsman" and "Avatar" be released at the same time!

The North American film market will usher in the busiest and most profitable Christmas season in the entire history of Hollywood movies this year!

"Avatar" will repeat the miracle of "Titanic"'s massive blowout in the second week of the Christmas season in 1997, with a box office of 75 million US dollars in a single week and 210 million US dollars in two weeks.

Among the movies that compete head-on with "Avatar", "Sherlock Holmes" took in $65 million in its first week!

These two movies can directly suck up the Christmas movies in North America!

New Line unexpectedly did not overestimate its capabilities and wanted "Kingsman" to participate in this year's Christmas season.

Wu Yuan immediately gave John an order to negotiate with New Line. He must move "Kingsman" to the October-November schedule to avoid the terrible "Avatar".

At the closing ceremony in Venice, after seeing Colin Firth win the Best Actor, Wu Yuan suddenly remembered this movie again.

It was painful to wait until the closing ceremony was over and see all the awards being handed out. After the war film "Lebanon" won this year's Golden Lion Award, Wu Yuan left the scene, not caring about the jet lag, and immediately gave it to Yuan Yuan. John in North America made a phone call.

"John, how are you talking about the release date of "Kingsman"?"

"What did New Line say?"

It was still early in the morning in North America, and John, who was sleeping soundly, was called out by Wu Yuan, who said helplessly: "Daniel, aren't you supposed to be attending the Venice Film Festival?"

"The closing ceremony has just ended. My mission is completed." Wu Yuan replied.

"Okay." John sighed, suppressing his sleepiness and told him, "New Line agrees in principle."

"As you know, Cheng Long's "Rush Hour" has always been released in the summer. It would actually be most suitable for "Kingsman" to be released in the summer."

"However, due to delays in post-production and schedule conflicts, this summer schedule cannot accommodate us."

"Now that you are trying to dissuade us from releasing it on Christmas, we won't have much time to make a choice."

"October to November is the off-season for the North American box office. New Line intends to make "Kingsman" the most important series of movies in the next five years, and is not willing to release it during the off-season."

"So what New Line is saying is that if you strongly refuse to release it in the Christmas season, then they would rather choose to wait for more than half a year and release "Kingsman" in the summer season next year, rather than hastily release it in the off-season this year. .”

"What do you think, should we postpone it until July or August next year?"