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The success of the movie "Ready Player One" in Asia has not only attracted the attention of Marvel.

The total box office of $700 million in Asia, if put in the global annual movie box office rankings, it will be able to enter the top ten if nothing unexpected happens!

It is not surprising that such a movie appears in Hollywood. After all, Hollywood can now produce two or three movies with a box office of over $1 billion a year, and the top ten movies in the world box office are contracted by Hollywood every year.

But such a result appears in China, and it is a Chinese-language film, which is really enough to shock a large number of international eyes.

Let's put it this way, this should be the first time that a non-Hollywood movie has entered the top ten in the global box office!

Yes, since the global box office statistics have been available, the top ten in the global box office every year have been contracted by Hollywood movies.

Including the "Harry Potter" series, although it uses an all-British cast, it is also a Hollywood movie (produced by Warner Bros.)!

In the field of film, Hollywood has dominated the global market for decades!

And "Ready Player One" is the first movie to break this curse!

It is the first non-Hollywood movie that can rank in the top ten in the global box office!

In a sense, the record created by Wu Yuan and Ready Player One is far more important than the first place in the mainland box office!

The Mermaid, which currently ranks first in the mainland box office, is not even in the top ten in this year's global box office rankings, and is hovering around 12-15.

Just like most competitions, everyone only pays attention to the champion and the winner, and does not pay attention to the runner-up, third place, and loser.

Movies that do not enter the top ten of the annual box office will not be paid attention to by the mainstream Hollywood, let alone be learned and imitated.

Ready Player One did it, becoming the first Chinese commercial film that was specially found, understood, and analyzed by a group of Hollywood operators, practitioners, and upper-middle-class people!

Hollywood commercial film directors and film companies have all used their magic to find the film resources of Ready Player One, watched and studied it repeatedly, and even watched the IMAX 3D version.

Don't ask how they found the source of the film. At a time when "Ready Player One" has been released in nearly 30 countries, Hollywood has plenty of ways, and South America has always been Hollywood's backyard.

Apart from anything else, Spielberg was also very concerned about the box office performance of "Ready Player One". He even called Wu Yuan and talked with him for a full hour.

On the phone, Spielberg praised the structure of the film, the direction of the adaptation, and the final film, and even regarded Wu Yuan as a confidant!

Because Spielberg is also making an adaptation of "Ready Player One"!

In order to watch this movie, Spielberg flew to Brazil. He watched the movie seven or eight times in Brazil and took notes for half a notebook. Only then was he satisfied.

He was really surprised that Wu Yuan's ideas were so similar to his!

The two people's adaptation direction of the original novel and the elements they wanted to add were surprisingly consistent!

The only difference is that Wu Yuan is Chinese, so he added more Asian pop culture, animation, and game elements to the virtual game world in the movie, while Spielberg wanted to make a "Ready Player One" that restored the American pop culture elements of the 1980s and 1990s.

In this regard, the two people's ideas coincided, which made Spielberg applaud and sigh in his heart. Sure enough, as top commercial film directors, it is easy for them to think alike.

Well, Spielberg was so emotional on the phone, which made Wu Yuan embarrassed. He couldn't say that he was "borrowing" Spielberg's original "Ready Player One", but just reversed it.

Wu Yuan, who couldn't tell the truth, was so hard to hold back, but it was precisely because he fully understood Spielberg's creative concepts and ideas that the two communicated very smoothly on the phone, which also made Spielberg feel like "I am another person in the world".

Spielberg, who originally only maintained a nodding acquaintance with Wu Yuan and exchanged contact information with ordinary friends, wanted to make Wu Yuan a confidant, although the age gap between the two was a bit too big.

"Daniel, when my "Ready Player One" is finished and released, you must come to see it. I promise you will like it!"

At the end of the call, Spielberg repeatedly invited Wu Yuan to attend the premiere of his "Ready Player One" in the future, and Wu Yuan was too embarrassed to refuse.

After hanging up the phone, Wu Yuan couldn't help but have an idea.

Is his and Spielberg's "Ready Player One" a two-part adaptation?

To be honest, this should be the most standard two-part adaptation. Under the same script, the cultural differences between Asia and North America are fully considered and then localized. Two movies with the same source are adapted.

Fundamentally speaking, there is no difference from "20 Again"!

And both of them did buy the film and television adaptation rights of the novel "Ready Player One".

Of course, it is very regrettable that Wu Yuan's version of "Ready Player One" cannot be released in Europe and the United States, because when negotiating the purchase of the adaptation rights, it only obtained the adaptation and release rights in Asia.

Even the release in South America was a supplementary clause negotiated with the copyright holder later, and South America was counted as a "public market."

Moreover, Spielberg's version of Ready Player One can be released worldwide, which is also a part of Hollywood's cultural hegemony. After all, it was Warner Bros. that competed with Wu Yuan for the film adaptation rights, and it was impossible for the original author Ernest Cline to not favor his own family.

Wu Yuan was able to share the copyright with Warner Bros., which was considered to be a big face for him. Otherwise, Warner would normally take away the adaptation rights and Wu Yuan would get nothing.

Therefore, the global box office performance of Ready Player One has basically reached the top, and the final box office can only be fixed at around 750 million US dollars.

This is a very good result. It is an unprecedented epic achievement for a Chinese-language film, and it is also extremely excellent for a Hollywood movie.

After all, the global box office of Inception was only 830 million US dollars. It is impeccable that Ready Player One can get 750 million US dollars just by relying on the Asian market.

Just as the large-scale release of Ready Player One came to an end, the Light and Shadow Times Company held a grand celebration banquet. The film's good overseas performance was even featured in a special report by CCTV, with the title: [Chinese-language films have achieved great success overseas, and Ready Player One has grossed over $750 million worldwide! ]

Although it is not as shocking as the transition from a 2D world to a 3D world brought by the release of Gravity, the achievement is definitely much higher! (End of this chapter)