Millennium director

“In this case, we are a bit pressed for time.

"One is a summer film and the other is a National Day film."

"I hope movie fans can afford to watch both."

Li Xiaoping said with some worry.

It’s not that she is unfounded, but for most mainland moviegoers, they only go to the cinema 2-3 times a year on average.

In fact, many people only go to the cinema once a year.

"Soul Ferry: Huangquan" and "The Legend of Shushan Immortal" are stories based on the same world view. They are considered to be films in the same series. If the two films were released together, it would be easy for the audience to choose only one to watch.

Even Marvel on the other side of the ocean will not let their MCU movie universe movies be released together within three months. They will be at least six months apart, just to give movie fans a "respite."

This is still the case in North America where watching movies is as common as eating and drinking, let alone China where watching movies has only bid farewell to "luxury enjoyment" for a few years.

"Let's do this. "Soul Ferry: Huangquan" will be scheduled in July as much as possible, so that there can be two months in between."

"Two months is enough time for the movie to mature online and offline. When "The Legend of Shushan" is released again, many audiences may come to watch the movie." Wu Yuan added.

His words were rather vague, but Li Xiaoping still understood him.

After "Soul Ferry: Huangquan" is released, it is estimated that pirated resources will appear on the Internet at most half a month, and a Blu-ray version will appear a month later. It is not a copy of the original Blu-ray disc produced by the Light and Shadow Era, but from a certain Transcriptions of first-hand film sources directly leaked from some movie theaters.

The domestic piracy industry chain is really very professional.

After these free pirated resources are spread everywhere on the Internet, some netizens who are reluctant or suspicious and unwilling to go to the cinema to watch "Soul Ferry: Huangquan" will take a look at these free resources.

If this movie is good enough and attracts them, they will naturally take the initiative to go to the cinema to watch "The Legend of Shushan" when it is released.

Because the two movies can be considered to be interconnected, the beginning of "The Legend of Shushan Immortal" is fifty years after the end of the story of "Soul Ferry: Huangquan".

This effect is just like when "Iron Man 1" was released. Many viewers actually did not go to the cinema to watch the movie. Most of them watched it through free resources online.

But because this movie was so good, when "Captain America", "Thor" and "Iron Man 2" were released later, the audience who had watched "Iron Man 1" on the Internet went to the cinema to watch this movie. So much so that each subsequent Marvel movie had a higher box office than the last, and finally became a complete hit with "Avengers".

Wu Yuan is now crossing the river by feeling the stones.

He also doesn’t expect the Xianxia movie universe in the light and shadow era to be a hit with the first film. “Soul Ferry: Huangquan” can only rely on the IP reputation of “Soul Ferry” to protect its business.

He has put all his money on "The Legend of Shushan Immortal". As long as "Soul Ferry: Huangquan" can expand its influence, it doesn't matter even if it is not a box office but pirated resources are spread everywhere on the Internet. By then, "The Legend of Shushan Immortal" will "When it is released, it will have excellent box office results.

To achieve this, it does take time to spread and brew.

""Soul Ferry: Huangquan" should be released in the first week of July. You should go and discuss the distribution arrangements with China Film."

"As for the National Day release, I believe that our "The Legend of Shushan Immortal" will definitely dominate the box office, and none of our other competitors can beat it."

Wu Yuan smiled confidently and consciously put his treasure on the National Day holiday, which was a clever trick.

This year’s National Day event is really miserable, and is known as “the most tragic National Day event in history.”

A total of five films have been confirmed to be scheduled for National Day, namely "Tai Chi 1: From Scratch", "Tongque Terrace", "Dangerous Liaisons", "Second Exposure" and "Loop Messenger".

Just looking at the surface, these five movies are quite competitive.

"Tai Chi 1: From Scratch" is a legendary kung fu film starring Tony Leung Jiahui, Yuan Xiaochao, Yang Ying, Peng Yuyan, Feng Shaofeng, Wu Yanzu and others.

"Tongque Terrace" is a costume war film starring Zhou Runmao, Huang Shengyi, Su Youpeng and others.

"Dangerous Liaisons" is a romance film starring Zhang Ziyi and Cecilia Cheung.

"Double Exposure" is a drama film starring Fan Binbin, Feng Shaofeng, and Huo Siyan.

Plus "Looper", a Sino-US co-production.

This year’s National Day holiday seems to be a bright one, with each one having its own highlights.

However, as someone who has experienced it, Wu Yuan knows very well that "Tai Chi 1: From Scratch" is a complete bad movie, and "Dangerous Liaisons" and "Second Exposure" are both bad chick flicks.

A Sino-US co-production like "Looper" is an embarrassingly mixed-race product.

As for "Tongque Terrace" without Liu Yifei, although Huang Shengyi is also quite beautiful, the box office performance of this movie was not good.

With these five movies released together, from September 30 to October 7, 2012, the country's movie box office totaled 370 million yuan, which can be called the worst National Day box office performance in recent years.

This does not mean that the National Day box office is not big.

"Detective Dee: The Dragon King", which was released on National Day in 2013, had a box office of over 600 million.

In 2014, the single film "Blissful" grossed 1.2 billion at the box office.

Not to mention 2015's "Charlotte".

The box office performance of this year's National Day holiday was not a fault of the audience, but the films released during the National Day holiday were really bad. A bunch of bad movies were mixed together, leaving the audience with no room to choose, so they simply gave up on this year's National Day holiday.

In such a situation where it is difficult to find a tall one among the short ones, it is just right for "The Legend of Shushan Fairy" to be added to the National Day schedule!

"This year's National Day stall, there is no one who can play, it is simply prepared for us." Wu Yuan said with a smile: "Instead of fighting in the Lunar New Year stall and the Spring Festival stall, it is better to occupy the National Day stall."

"And in recent years, domestic audiences have gradually become accustomed to watching fantasy movies on National Day, just like Europe and the United States are used to watching magic and fantasy movies on Christmas."

"The early "Painted Skin", 2010's "Detective Dee: The Empire of Heaven", and last year's "Painted Wall" and "White Snake" are all fantasy movies. In recent years, National Day movies have been occupied by fantasy movies."

"Mainland movie fans are used to going to the cinema to watch a fantasy blockbuster with special effects during the National Day."

"Our "The Legend of Shushan Xiaxia" is released at this time. It can be said that the right time, place and people have taken advantage of it."

"This is much easier than competing with comedy films for the Lunar New Year market."

After Wu Yuan's analysis, Li Xiaoping had to admit that it was indeed quite reasonable.

"I understand, Director Wu."

"I will arrange the distribution work as soon as possible and announce the release date."

"By the way, one more thing. Guangying Kuaibo has completed the acquisition of Baozou Comics and Wanhetianyi. Mr. Chen from Guangying Kuaibo would like to schedule a meeting with you about the next stage of the company's development. "(End of chapter)