Millennium director

Beijing, Wu Yuan's house.

"So, starting in June, you will be working with the team to promote "Get Out! Cancer King", right?" Wu Yuan said calmly while reading the newspaper and drinking tea.

"I asked you, why are you acting like an old man now?" Liu Yifei brought the breakfast to Wu Yuan with a black look on her face, and said speechlessly: "Drinking tea, reading the newspaper, and wearing a pair of reading glasses, it's just as good as Just like those old men in their 70s and 80s.”

"Obviously you are only 31 years old this year!"

"Does a man really "grow up" once he turns 30?"

"Oh!" Wu Yuan suddenly exclaimed, interrupting Liu Yifei's words: "I will be 31 years old this year!"

"Qianxi, should we get the certificate?" Wu Yuan suddenly turned his head and stared at Liu Yifei's face.

Liu Yifei, who rarely blushed when the two of them were together, blushed for the first time and slapped him angrily: "Is this your attitude towards proposing?!"

"Ah?!" Wu Yuan was stunned. Didn't he propose successfully a long time ago?

"While in Korea."

"snort."

Liu Yifei raised her chin and snorted arrogantly, and said hummingly: "Anyway, don't even think about tricking me into getting the certificate so easily!"

After saying that, she ignored Wu Yuan, turned around and went upstairs.

Without even using his brain, Wu Yuan could guess that she must be chatting with her best friends to complain about herself.

Shaking his head and laughing, and finishing his breakfast in a few bites, Wu Yuan shouted upstairs: "I'm going to the company to edit a film. You don't have to wait for me to eat at noon!"

"knew!"

The post-production work on "Dear" was not complicated, but it was indeed very laborious.

This movie is different from "Love Letter". "Love Letter" is not too complicated in terms of storyboarding or color composition. It is just a very simple love movie.

But "Dear" is different. In this movie, Wu Yuan incorporated more "artistic colors" and used many meaningful metaphorical shots, as well as some meaningful close-ups.

For example, the male and female protagonists face the camera with dilated pupils many times...

How to handle these shots and how to cut them into the feature film more smoothly still requires Wu Yuan to think carefully, even if he has thought about it in advance.

But post-production is no less difficult for a movie than a super major surgery.

In one and a half months, Wu Yuan basically cut out a rough outline, leaving only a little bit of unfinished material.

But just this little bit requires more time and effort than the previous 99%.

It took a long time to trim and trim. Wu Yuan revised and revised and cut again and again. From the first version of 128 minutes, it was streamlined to 116 minutes, which was barely satisfactory.

What’s even more interesting is that although the 116-minute film is 12 minutes shorter than the 128-minute film, it has many more scenes than the 128-minute version that were not originally edited.

When the final version was completed, Wu Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.

At this point, the preliminary work for the movie "Dear" is completed, and then all we have to do is wait for the film to be finalized, promoted, and released.

As for when the film will be scheduled, it has already been decided, and it will definitely be scheduled for the National Day.

Although it seems that a day like National Day does not match the theme of "Dear", for Wu Yuan, the theme is no longer the focus. He just needs a popular time to release his movie.

After completing the preliminary work of "Dear", it also announced that Wu Yuan had no other important matters to deal with before going to the United States.

Yes, Wu Yuan, who has not been to the United States for a long time, is going to the United States again.

In a blink of an eye, it was already late May or early June when the post-production of "Dear" was completed.

"The Martian" has been confirmed to be released in North America on August 9, which is the second weekend of August.

In fact, Disney was originally inclined to squeeze "The Martian" into the July schedule, but Wu Yuan rejected it.

This year’s July release in North America is not an easy one to deal with!

"Despicable Me 2" (Minions) will be released on July 3rd. This is a super animated movie that has taken the world by storm!

"Grown Ups 2" will be released on July 12th. This movie is not very popular, but "The Conjuring" will be released the next week.

Although James Wan's latest film "The Conjuring" is a low-cost R-rated horror film, it is just as outrageous as James Wan's famous film "Saw"!

It grossed US$41.53 million in the first three days of its release and topped the box office list, directly breaking the world's best opening for an original horror film and eventually earning a global box office of 318 million.

No one could have imagined that such a low-cost R-rated horror film could actually take in a global box office of US$318 million.

If it had to be released the week before "The Conjuring", it would be obvious that the box office market for "The Martian" would be severely squeezed by "The Conjuring" in its second week of release.

This is not at all in line with Wu Yuan's long-term profit plans.

In his opinion, "The Martian" is about stretching the front line and fighting a long-term war this time.

The box office longevity of original science fiction movies is longer than that of most other movies.

For most movies, the box office in the first week of release generally accounts for more than 30% of the final box office. Some are so exaggerated that they can only collect money for one week, and the box office in the first week of release accounts for more than 70% of the total box office.

Original science fiction movies are different. This kind of science fiction movie generally does not have the highest box office in the first week of its opening, because it takes time for the movie's reputation to ferment.

For an original science fiction movie, its box office growth period will mostly reach its peak in the second and third weeks, and then begin to decline, and it will last at least a month and a half.

Of course, the premise is that the quality of the film itself is indeed excellent.

After all, most people who love to watch science fiction movies are not "fanatics". They will arrange their time reasonably and do not insist on going to the cinema in the first week of release. The box office revenue period will naturally be extended. .

But if "The Conjuring" is released next week, with "The Conjuring"'s explosive box office momentum upon opening, the film company will definitely reduce the film schedule of "The Martian" and increase the film schedule for "The Conjuring."

Even if the director is Wu Yuan, it doesn't matter. Those who hinder the movie theater's ability to make money will step aside.

Even though the peak box office period of "The Conjuring" may only be around the first two weeks of release, with the impact of these two weeks of film schedule, the box office results of "The Martian" will not be as good as expected.

That's why Wu Yuan strongly requested Disney to schedule the release of "The Martian" to August 9th.

August is a good month.

In the first week, the movie "300: Rise of an Empire" was released. Looking at the title, you can tell that this is a movie about the three hundred Spartan warriors, and the audience is very limited.

In addition, there is another movie "Red Flame Battlefield 2" released. This is a movie from Summit Entertainment and a sequel movie. However, Wu Yuan knew that the sequel's performance was mediocre and it withered at the end of the first week.

In the second week of August, that is, August 9, only a few low-budget movies were released, and the only one worthy of watching was "Elysium" which was rejected by Matt Damon.

Because Matt had to shoot "The Martian", he turned down the film "Elysium" that he was originally going to take. The leading actor of this film was replaced by the equally famous Brad Pitt.

But honestly, a different male lead wouldn't have saved this movie.

"Elysium" is a film directed by "District 9" director Neill Blomkamp. It continues the style of "District 9" but did not achieve the success of "District 9".

The box office of this movie was only 20 million in its first week, but it shrank rapidly in the second week and had no impact on "The Martian" at all. (End of chapter)