Millennium director

With Wu Yuan returning to China, the release of "The Martian" in China and even Asia has also arrived.

Throughout August, starting from Japan and South Korea, then to Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and most importantly, mainland China, East Asian countries have given "The Martian" the most important release schedule.

As a Hollywood movie, and the distributor is Disney, countries in Asia have opened the door to this movie.

I have to admit that even in the film industry, national hegemony still matters.

It's also a Wu Yuan movie, but his Chinese-language movies can't get high-ranking movies like "The Martian" in other Asian countries except Japan.

How high?

South Korea's premiere screening rate exceeds 28%, Thailand's premiere screening rate is 36%, and Malaysia and Singapore's premiere screening rate exceeds 50%, directly occupying the few cinemas in the two countries.

Even in Taiwan, the premiere screening rate of "The Martian" has increased to 26%.

As a Hollywood movie, "The Martian" does not need to comply with Taiwan's mainland film import plan, and can directly log into the Taiwan film market by slowly taking the chance of 10 films per year.

Such a refreshing release arrangement also brought "The Martian" explosive box office results upon opening.

In Asian countries except China, "The Martian" achieved box office results of US$28.46 million in the first three days of its premiere.

Although this result is less than the box office of "The Martian" on its first day in North America, it is already great for the Asian market.

After all, this is just the East Asian market.

At home, Wu Yuan's Chinese fans, who had been waiting for a long time, also burst out with great enthusiasm.

Although "The Martian" is an all-English Hollywood movie with all European and American faces, the director of this movie is Wu Yuan!

This is one of our own!

On the day it was released in the mainland, "The Martian" grossed 42.68 million yuan at the box office. Although it was not as good as "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" which grossed 76.85 million yuan on the day of its release on New Year's Day, for a hard science fiction foreign language film Generally speaking, the opening result of more than 40 million is already very good.

In the three days of its first weekend, the box office of "The Martian" exceeded 120 million yuan, indicating that the number of moviegoers in the three days was almost the same, and the film has a strong opening stamina.

"The global cumulative box office of "The Martian" has now exceeded US$700 million, including North and South America, Oceania and parts of Europe."

"Now, coupled with the large-scale release in East Asia and the West Asia region where it is still to be released, it is estimated that the final total box office will be 800 to 900 million US dollars."

“It’s probably unlikely that it will break 1 billion U.S. dollars at the box office, but 800 million U.S. dollars is not bad.”

"After that, we can also package and sell the DVD of "The Martian" and other peripheral licenses to Disney, which is estimated to be worth US$200 million."

"A conservative estimate is that this movie should bring you about US$500 million in profit, which is not bad."

John was on the phone, seriously reporting this last job to Wu Yuan.

"Hey, you may not know that Disney has some regrets. They regret that they should have added an extra $500 million and directly bought the movie "The Martian"."

Listening to John's teasing, Wu Yuan smiled happily.

During the acquisition negotiations at that time, Wu Yuan proposed that if Disney added another US$500 million, he could sell Light Times directly at that time and no longer have to worry about the later release of "The Martian."

However, Disney did not believe that "The Martian" could bring in a net profit of US$500 million, so it rejected this unrealistic proposal.

In their view, this movie cost 200 million US dollars. If it relies solely on box office sales, even if the box office exceeds 1 billion US dollars, Light Times will not earn 500 million US dollars.

Of course, the DVD value of this kind of science fiction film is very high, because a large number of fans will buy the DVD and watch it repeatedly after watching it once.

In the DVD market, horror films and science fiction films have always been the two highest-selling genres.

But the premise is that your film must be called a classic science fiction film.

Just like Wu Yuan's "Interstellar", after the film was released, a genuine Blu-ray disc was produced. The sales in North America were very good, and it has brought him more than 100 million US dollars in additional income so far.

And sales in Japan are also very good. After all, Japan is the world's largest DVD sales market. Let alone now, even ten years later, Japan still loves to watch DVD discs.

However, before "The Martian" was released, no one dared to bet that this movie would become another science fiction classic.

Disney was even more unwilling to give Wu Yuan the benefit of the doubt and directly buy out the proceeds of the movie with US$500 million. The risk was too high, and they would rather let Wu Yuan take the gamble himself.

And now it turns out that Wu Yuan won the bet.

This movie will bring him $500 million in revenue, of which $200 million will be given by Disney.

Because John is helping Wu Yuan negotiate with Disney about buying out the DVD and peripheral licenses for "The Martian", and even plans to buy out the movie IP.

To this end, Disney will spend 200 million U.S. dollars, but they will not lose money. If we refer to "Interstellar", even if this movie only sells DVDs, the benefits it will bring to Disney in the next ten years will be at least 200 million U.S. dollars. .

It’s just that it takes time to accumulate, and the main focus is a steady flow.

"If Disney is willing to give me money, of course I can sell it easily."

Wu Yuan said with a smile on the phone: "200 million US dollars, this is not a small amount of money."

"With this 200 million US dollars, I can still take 500 million US dollars from Light Times, and my goal will be accomplished."

"What goal?" John asked curiously.

"Of course the goal is to make $3 billion from Hollywood!"

The company was sold for US$1 billion, and the liquidity in the company's account is almost US$700-800 million. It will earn another US$500 million. The cost of "The Martian" is US$200 million, plus the money transferred back to the country.

Wu Yuan's Light Age worked hard in Hollywood for ten years, but still made a net profit of about US$3 billion.

This does not include Wu Yuan’s real estate properties in the United States and the dividends withdrawn from his personal account over the years.

With an average profit of US$300 million a year, this is already a very high-profit company.

After all, Wu Yuan does not live in some wealthy world. For most ordinary people, even middle- and high-income families, they will not earn 100 million US dollars in their lifetime.

"Next, the focus of my work will return to China."

"John, I wish you all the best in your new job at Disney."

"Of course, we may have opportunities to cooperate in the future. After all, I will still go to Hollywood to make movies."

"Then, see you next time in Hollywood!" (End of Chapter)