Millennium director

September 2, 2016, the start of the school year.

Early this morning, Wu Yuan, who had just woken up, received a long-distance call.

"Hey, Daniel, congratulations."

"I heard that your new movie has already made $500 million in China, and $700 million worldwide. That's crazy."

"I didn't expect the Asian market to be so huge. It seems that our previous views on the Asian market, especially the Chinese market, were too conservative."

"I hope that Doctor Strange can also achieve such great results."

The caller was Charles Nivos, the producer of Doctor Strange. He calculated the time difference and called Wu Yuan in the morning of Beijing time to congratulate him.

There was nothing else, it was really that the box office performance of the movie "Ready Player One" in Asia was too great.

Just relying on Asia, mainly a dozen countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia, "Ready Player One" actually achieved a box office of $700 million, which is simply a legend.

The main reason is that the box office performance of this movie in China is too terrifying.

You know, before this, only one Hollywood movie could achieve a single box office of over 300 million US dollars in China.

That is "Fast and Furious 7". When this movie was released in China, it finally earned 2 billion RMB in the Chinese film market, which was a result that made Hollywood dumbfounded.

And this time, the box office of "Ready Player One" in the mainland is even more terrifying. With the key extending the release period for one month, the current total box office in the mainland is fixed at 2.946 billion. If Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are added, the total box office will definitely exceed 3 billion RMB.

The total box office in China alone has exceeded 500 million US dollars, which is 200 million US dollars more than "Fast and Furious 7".

This is a result that Hollywood dare not even think about. After all, before this, if "Fast and Furious 7" is not counted, the box office of Hollywood movies in China is generally around 100-200 million US dollars.

Even "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", which was released at the end of last year and had a global box office of 2.068 billion US dollars, had a total box office of 825 million RMB in China, just over 100 million US dollars.

Considering that the performance of "Fast and Furious 7" is so good, the "marketing method" of the lead actor Paul's death accounts for the majority of the credit, which is not normal. Therefore, Hollywood currently estimates that China's box office potential is 100-200 million US dollars. Although it is not a small amount, it is still far behind North America.

Then, Wu Yuan slapped his face with facts. The Chinese market can also produce a movie with a local box office of over 500 million US dollars!

In other words, China's film market, at least at its peak, is no longer inferior to Hollywood. This is crazy.

Especially at the beginning of the year, "The Mermaid" also proved it once, indicating that the local box office of 500 million US dollars does not seem to be an exception and can be replicated.

And "Ready Player One" is even more terrifying.

This movie is also being screened on a large scale in South America!

You know, South America has not only always been a private land of North America in politics, but also in the field of film market, the film market in South America has always been monopolized by Hollywood. Few films from other countries can open up the market in South America.

However, "Ready Player One" has achieved good performance in South America with the huge fan base of Japanese comics in South America. It has already earned a total of 10 million US dollars in box office in many South American countries.

Although 10 million US dollars is not much, it is an unprecedented good result for Chinese-language films in South America, which undoubtedly shows that Chinese-language films are going global.

Well, at least some Hollywood people with a strong sense of crisis think so.

(In fact, this year's "The Mermaid" and "Ready Player One" have achieved good results, which does look scary.)

So Charles Nieves called Wu Yuan as soon as possible, on the one hand to congratulate him on the success of his movie again, and on the other hand to keep in touch with him.

No matter what other people in Hollywood think about the rising Chinese film market and the "rising Chinese-language films", Marvel, which is currently cooperating with Wu Yuan, has a positive attitude.

After all, they have another cooperative movie that will be released in China soon. At this juncture, the higher Wu Yuan's influence and box office appeal in Asia, the better it is for Marvel!

As for the future, we'll talk about it later!

Wu Yuan was really happy when he received the call and heard Charles Niworth's congratulations.

At present, "Ready Player One" has achieved a box office of 500 million US dollars in China, with Japan and South Korea contributing 120 million US dollars (Japan accounts for the majority), and 11 Southeast Asian countries contributing 100 million US dollars. In addition to South America, which has just been released for less than a week, the total global box office of this movie has reached 720 million US dollars.

There is no doubt that although it failed to become the box office champion in the mainland, "Ready Player One" is already the highest-grossing Chinese-language film in the world, and this record is expected to remain for a very long time.

Although the box office of 700 million US dollars is only a medium-level achievement in the global market, after all, movies with a box office of more than 1 billion US dollars in recent years have been everywhere, and the global box office of more than 2 billion US dollars can be ranked in the top five in the world.

But for Chinese movies, this achievement is a mountain to look up to.

Without considering exchange rate fluctuations, at least a movie with a box office of 5 billion RMB will appear to break this record!

Oh, the year after next, "Wolf Warrior 2" will have a box office of 5.69 billion, right?

That's fine.

At least this result can be maintained for two years!

The most important thing is that the success of this movie has given a lot of confidence to the peers in the Chinese film and television industry. As long as they can make a good science fiction blockbuster that can adapt to the overseas market, it will be very profitable and can greatly increase international influence and popularity!

Now half of the world is discussing the movie "Ready Player One". Such a Chinese film has a lot of momentum, and many mainland film companies are jealous, and even dare to try it.

Just like after the success of "The Wandering Earth 1", many film companies dared to try science fiction films. Now domestic science fiction films are finally beginning to move and want to explode.

Standing at the top of the industry, from a global perspective, Wu Yuan is very happy. After all, a bigger cake is also good for the era of light and shadow.

"Daniel, don't forget Doctor Strange on the other side of the ocean. The company has already set the release date. Doctor Strange will be released on November 4."

"And it has been confirmed that it will be released simultaneously in China and North America on the other side of the ocean!"

"The company attaches great importance to the Chinese market, and even more to you as an excellent director. When the time comes, a premiere will be held in China. You must go all out!"

Charles Nivos on the other end of the phone was full of expectation, and even said with some longing:

"Doctor Strange is also a work directed by you. I hope that the success of Ready Player One can also be replicated in Doctor Strange!"

Oh my God, if Doctor Strange can get a box office of 500 million US dollars in China, then a global box office of 1.5 billion US dollars is not a problem. This is too tempting!

Just thinking about it, Charles Nivos is already excited! (End of this chapter)