Millennium director

“The box office results in Japan are very gratifying!”

"After the miracle of "Your Name", "Ready Player One" is the Chinese-language film that has received the most enthusiastic response in the Japanese film market."

"The current box office in Japan has exceeded 2 billion yen, and the final box office performance is expected to be around 10 billion yen."

"And South Korea and Japan are released on the same day. Currently, "Ready Player One" has attracted nearly one million viewers in South Korea. Its box office performance is also at the top level among Chinese-language films released in South Korea."

"It's a pity that the Korean film market is not big. Last year, the total box office of the Korean film market was less than 10 billion yuan, which is one-third smaller than the Japanese market."

"However, considering the population of South Korea, to have such a box office has already reached the limit of market development."

Wu Yuan half-squinted his eyes as he listened to the Japanese and Korean release results of "Ready Player One" compiled by Li Xiaoping, and nodded secretly in his heart.

Such box office results have met Wu Yuan's expectations, and even exceeded them by a lot.

If this box office trend is followed, "Ready Player One" should eventually achieve a box office of more than 500 million yuan in Japan, and the share of Light and Shadow Era's revenue here is also around 150 million yuan.

In the Korean market, the box office will be about 300 million yuan, and the final share will be 70 to 80 million yuan.

These two overseas markets alone can bring a net income of 220 million to Light and Shadow Times, which is not a small sum of money.

Originally, according to Wu Yuan's idea, the domestic box office of "Ready Player One" would be enough to maintain capital, and these gains from overseas markets would be the net profit.

And his profit target for "Ready Player One" is around 300-500 million. In his opinion, if this movie can earn 300 million, it will not be a loss, and if it earns 500 million, it will be considered a big profit.

Sounds pathetic, right?

Judging from the current domestic film market, a popular phenomenon-level movie or a dark horse movie can easily achieve a profit of more than 300%, which means that an investment of 100 million can earn back 300 million.

For example, the production cost of "Charlotte Troubles" was 21 million, and the publicity and distribution cost was less than 10 million. The total cost was 30 million, but it brought back 1.4 billion in box office, of which the producers were able to get 5- 600 million net profit.

31 million cost, 500 million profit, is this more than 300% profit?

This is why everyone loves to make comedy movies. In fact, comedy movies are really profitable once they are successful.

In comparison, science fiction blockbusters like "Ready Player One" are just thankless.

The cost of "Ready Player One" is US$150 million (approximately 1.1 billion RMB), and even if the movie's mainland box office revenue is 3 billion, then Light and Film Era, as a producer, will only make a small profit of 200-300 million. Most of it was made by theater chains.

Even if overseas markets are included, under the most optimistic scenario, this movie will only earn 500-600 million yuan. This profit is about the same as "Charlotte Trouble", but the investment is "Charlotte Trouble" Nearly 36 times!

It cost 36 times more, but the profit earned is about the same. This is when the mainland box office of "Ready Player One" can reach 3 billion. If the mainland box office is only 1.4 billion, it will even still lose money!

Although he was very clear about this, when Wu Yuan actually got the box office report, he still couldn't help but sigh in his heart. This science fiction blockbuster is really difficult to make. No wonder no one in the mainland dares to make a science fiction blockbuster. No wonder Guo Fan made "The Wandering Earth" After a lot of hard work and begging grandpa to sue grandma, I almost didn’t get the shot.

He is really able to understand his peers in domestic film companies. If he, Wu Yuan, were not born again, and if he did not have examples of successful science fiction movies in his mind to learn from, even if he was really successful and famous, he would not dare to do so. To make a Chinese science fiction film!

This also made him have more admiration for Guo Fan. He can make all-out efforts to realize his dream of a science fiction movie. Guo Fan is really powerful!

Wu Yuan's emotion did not affect the release of "Ready Player One".

When the time entered August, the movie finally began to be released on a large scale in Asia.

There are more than just a few countries in East and Southeast Asia.

Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, and even East Timor have all begun to release the movie "Ready Player One" in this hot summer of August.

These countries, which belong to the East Asian cultural circle, are very capable of understanding and understanding the various film and television and animation jokes in the "Ready Player One" movie.

This is something that makes Wu Yuan sad and happy.

It’s sad because most of the memes in this movie are more or less related to Japanese pop culture. Only one-third of the memes are Chinese pop culture and historical memes. As the birthplace of East Asian culture, China’s modern pop culture The influence and radiation are far less than those of Japan, which makes Wu Yuan, who works in the cultural field, feel very subtle.

It is impossible for him alone to create a world where Chinese pop culture is popular throughout Asia, just as it is impossible for Japanese comics to become a global comics center if there is only one "One Piece".

Although Wu Yuan has successfully made many Chinese-language films in the past ten years and has good influence and box office results in Southeast Asia, his films alone are not enough to create more than a hundred memes in "Ready Player One". This is true even if other Chinese classic movies, TV dramas, and game elements are added.

But the good news is that after the large-scale release of "Ready Player One" in Asia, the box office results are really gratifying. It is Wu Yuan's film that has swept the whole of Asia again after "Your Name".

From the northernmost Hokkaido to the southernmost East Timor, the whole of East Asia and Southeast Asia are discussing the movie "Ready Player One" this August.

Even though the Easter eggs in the movie have been discovered by Chinese and Japanese movie fans, other regions and countries that are showing the movie at night are still happy to go to the cinema to find Easter eggs by themselves, as if they regard this as a very interesting game.

A movie about a virtual world game has set off a large-scale game in the real world. This is undoubtedly a very performance art thing.

This trend of forming a team to go to the cinema to watch "Ready Player One" and find Easter eggs has swept across Asia, and has also brought a lot of box office to Wu Yuan and the era of light and shadow.

Throughout August, 11 Southeast Asian countries contributed a total of $100 million to the box office of "Ready Player One", which is undoubtedly a very crazy thing. Even in Hollywood, such a box office result only appears once every few years. The last time a movie performed so strongly in Southeast Asia was Marvel's "Avengers 2"!

And now, a Chinese-language film has achieved the same influence as Hollywood's top special effects blockbusters!

At least in Asia, it is enough to compete with it! (End of this chapter)