Millennium director

The release of the film "Bruce Lee", whether overseas or domestic, has nothing to do with Wu Yuan and Light and Shadow Times.

After all, the producer and producer of this film are both Disney, and Wu Yuan just wrote a script and directed it himself.

It can be regarded as spending Disney's money to win awards for himself.

So since it is spending Disney's money, the release of "Bruce Lee" is not something Wu Yuan can decide.

The North American release must cater to the award route, so Disney will explain the entire release process to Wu Yuan in advance, but the overseas release outside North America is basically arranged by Disney itself.

When "Bruce Lee" was released on a large scale before, it happened to be in the domestic control period. All major cinemas were either closed or empty, so there was no domestic release plan at all.

It can be regarded as Wu Yuan's calculation. At least the overseas release of "Bruce Lee" caught the last train. Before the epidemic swept the world, it had basically been released worldwide, and the final box office was more than 200 million US dollars.

It was also at this time that Disney began to look back and think about the release of "Bruce Lee" in China.

If the director of this movie is not Wu Yuan.

If the movie is not about Bruce Lee.

Then Disney may not consider arranging a separate release for China after the global large-scale release.

There is no way, anyone with eyes can see that the movie "Bruce Lee" must have a huge market in China.

Not only because director Wu Yuan has a great influence on movies in China, but also because the legendary figure "Bruce Lee" is too well-known in China.

What's more interesting is that although Bruce Lee is very well-known in China, everyone knows his image of wearing a yellow tights and swinging nunchakus, as well as the classic scratch of his nose and a cry of "Ah Da!"

There are a lot of tributes to Bruce Lee in various movies and TV series.

But to be honest, most Chinese people don't know Bruce Lee, and few people have really watched his movies or learned about his life. They only know that he is a legendary kung fu superstar.

There is no way. Bruce Lee was popular in North America and Hong Kong in the 1970s, and he died too early. At that time, domestic entertainment was not so open. Twenty or thirty years later, Bruce Lee was more like a symbol, not a mark of the times like Cheng Long and Jay Chou.

If a movie about Bruce Lee's life appeared, it would definitely arouse the curiosity of many Chinese people, and curiosity would drive them to go to the cinema to watch the biographical movie of this legendary figure.

After a little research, Disney was sure that "Bruce Lee" had a box office potential of more than 1 billion yuan in China, which is at least more than 100 million US dollars!

Although the producers of foreign-language films get very little money when they are released and released in China, less than 20%, but that is also less than 20 million US dollars, which is not a small amount of money.

So Disney has been keeping a close eye on the domestic film market. Seeing that the isolation and risk control in various places have basically ended, and major cinemas are also recovering, Disney plans to release "Bruce Lee" in China.

For this purpose, they also contacted China Film Group, which is responsible for introducing overseas films. After all, the number of Hollywood films introduced each year is limited, and it depends on the "appetite" of China Film and Huaxia Film. Even the release date depends on the faces of these two distribution companies. Disney only has the right to suggest, not the right to decide.

Of course, generally speaking, Hollywood movies have to premiere in the mainland at the same time as the world, and both distribution companies will accept it. It is rare that they have to postpone the release.

Well, generally speaking, this kind of situation is because the company behind it has offended someone, and it has nothing to do with the movie itself.

Just like Marvel once failed to introduce many consecutive movies into the country because of a certain incident, and was left out several times.

Wu Yuan's movie certainly won't be treated like this. Although "Bruce Lee" is a Hollywood movie, China Film Group still gives face and readily agrees to Disney's introduction request, and plans to arrange it to be released during the Spring Festival!

You know, it has been many years since Hollywood movies were released during the Spring Festival. This period has always been exclusive to Chinese movies. After all, everything is international now. Hollywood blockbusters are rarely scheduled for global release at the end of January to the beginning of February. Non-blockbusters rarely go the import route, and are generally wholesale films, which are impossible to enter the cruel Spring Festival period.

So when Wu Yuan received the call and learned that his "Bruce Lee" would be released during the Spring Festival, he was quite surprised.

"This is also a lucky result." After hanging up the phone, Wu Yuan raised his eyebrows and chatted with his wife: "On the one hand, flowers bloom outside the wall, and the fragrance is inside the wall. After all, I am the director of "Bruce Lee", and this movie won the Oscar for Best Director, which is my personal honor."

"Even if it is delayed for a year before being released in China, with my fame and the honor won by the movie, some fans who have seen pirated sources on the Internet may buy a movie ticket to go to the cinema to support it."

"On the other hand, the domestic film industry has been really bleak in the past two years. This year's Spring Festival is expected to be the most deserted Spring Festival since 2010. China Film Group is also under pressure and hopes to have a happy Spring Festival to sweep away this year's Spring Festival. It’s gloomy, so I hope that one more “blockbuster” can be released during the Spring Festival, so I took the initiative to arrange such a schedule.”

"Blockbuster?" Liu Yifei was a little confused: ""Bruce Lee" is not considered a blockbuster, it is a biopic."

"If I didn't shoot it, of course it doesn't count." Wu Yuan explained: "But this is a movie I made, so it counts as a blockbuster."

“In the past, the definition of a blockbuster was big investment, big actors, and a big director, but now the definition of a blockbuster is broader. Happy Twist’s movies have never had big investment, big actors, and big directors, but they are also recognized as comedy blockbusters. "

“The current definition of blockbusters refers more to movies that can sell well.”

"And my movie, according to China Film Group Corporation, will be a big hit."

"Even if there are already high-definition film sources on the Internet?" Liu Yifei answered.

Wu Yuan thought for a while, nodded and shook his head: "It's hard to say. I personally don't think too many people will go to the cinema to watch it. After all, as you said, many netizens have already watched this movie through the Internet. movie."

"But both Disney and China Film believe that even if the source of the film is available online, many people will go to the cinema to watch this movie because of me and Bruce Lee's name."

Liu Yifei scratched her head: "Even if they have seen it."

Wu Yuan nodded affirmatively: "Even if they have seen it." (End of Chapter)