The Director of Music Department

Under normal circumstances, the promotion of a movie is continuous.

Publicity before the release, publicity after the release, the more popular the movie is, the more the publicity needs to keep up.

However, as Wang Yifan said.

Why should he be a villain in vain?

Even if his intentions are good, others don't appreciate it.

Therefore, Wang Yifan did not object.

On the contrary, it made people feel that Wang Yifan had also compromised, admitting in a disguised way that his vision had gone wrong.

Of course, this is what an insider would think.

Others will only think that Wang Yifan is also optimistic about the release of "Infernal Affairs" in North America!

To create momentum for the release.

Ahri Media really put their efforts together this time.

A grand premiere at the most famous Huaguo Theater in North America.

After all, Empire Cinemas is the second largest cinema in the world, and it is also deeply entrenched in North America. Although Ali is not well-known in the film and television industry, he is an Internet giant in China after all.

So there is still face.

Originally Ahri hoped that Wang Yifan would come forward to help promote "Infernal Affairs" in North America, but Wang Yifan directly refused.

Be it Ahri Media or Times Light and Shadow, even Cao Meng and others complained a little bit to Wang Yifan.

No one else, because no matter what Wang Yifan is, he is also one of the beneficiaries of this movie, and he is also the screenwriter of this movie.

Therefore, normally, he should cooperate with the propaganda.

But Wang Yifan refused.

Don't say that Cao Meng is very grateful to Wang Yifan for giving him the opportunity. In fact, Cao Meng was really grateful to Wang Yifan before.

After all, without Wang Yifan, there would be no "Dark War" and "Infernal Affairs", two films hailed as the revival of Hong Kong films.

But people always change.

Especially with the back-to-back successes of "Dark Wars" and "Infernal Affairs."

The outside world praised Cao Meng even more.

On the contrary, Wang Yifan's role has been weakened a lot.

Because whether it is "Dark War" or "Infernal Affairs", they all belong to the style of Hong Kong movies. Other mainland directors may not be able to make movies of this style.

Coupled with the intentional or unintentional contributions of Ari and Times Light and Shadow, Cao Meng naturally had the idea that I could do the same without Wang Yifan.

Of course, even so, Cao Meng is not so inflated.

After all, in China, Wang Yifan is definitely an insurmountable mountain, at least in the field of commercial films.

However, "Infernal Affairs" has gained a high reputation in North America, and the media and film critics are unanimously optimistic. There are still so many Hollywood companies wanting to compete for the right to adapt it.

All of a sudden, Cao Meng felt that when the sky cleared and the rain stopped, I could do it again!

It's all his fault, isn't it?

The role of the screenwriter may play a big role in the films that the screenwriter is in charge of, but Wang Yifan is actually not the only screenwriter of "Infernal Affairs".

What he gives is more of a story.

And as we all know, stories are stories and movies are movies.

The director's script and the story script are two completely different things.

Therefore, Cao Meng drifted away.

He is going to become an internationally famous director, Wang Yifan is great, he has supported me, but he can't be so arrogant, right?

It was just asking him to cooperate with the propaganda, but in the end he refused.

Of course, it was impossible for him to say these complaints at this time.

In fact, this is also the helplessness of Ari and Cao Meng.

No way, "Infernal Affairs" is an all-Chinese lineup.

The key point is that only Wang Yifan, the main creator of "Infernal Affairs", enjoys a certain reputation in North America.

After all, "Mad Max: Fury Road" has indeed brought many fans to Wang Yifan in North America.

People who don't like this movie have nothing to do with it, but those who like it regard it as a classic!

Therefore, if Wang Yifan is willing to help promote it, it will definitely have a very good boost to the release of "Infernal Affairs" in North America.

But Wang Yifan refused.

However, this does not prevent them from using the name of Wang Yifan as the screenwriter of this movie as a publicity stunt. The effect is lackluster.

Because Wang Yifan himself was not present, it is actually very easy to make people think, is it true that Wang Yifan is not optimistic about this movie?

But even if he is temporarily dissatisfied, neither Ari nor Cao Meng can express it at this time.

Wang Yifan didn't care at all.

Is "Infernal Affairs" a good movie? of course.

But in the previous life, this movie wasn't even officially released in North America.

That alone is enough to explain a lot of things.

It's not because the movies are not good enough, but some movies are only suitable for local people.

"Infernal Affairs" seems to be such a movie.

Therefore, as to whether "Infernal Affairs" is likely to be a big hit when it is released in North America, Wang Yifan dare say that the possibility is almost negligible.

In fact, "Infernal Affairs" may seem to be doing well, but in fact, the scale of its release is really average.

So, it's actually kind of embarrassing.

Wang Yifan is aware of the distribution scale of "Infernal Affairs" in North America.

The premiere opening scale is only 500 theaters.

Yes, it seems that it does not match the reputation created before, right?

But in fact, this is really a good opening scale for "foreign films" like "Infernal Affairs".

Is Ahri Media really as confident as they appear?

Actually not necessarily.

Can Ari Film and Television Distribution Company really only be able to obtain such a small-scale development treatment for "Infernal Affairs"?

Obviously not.

Anyway, Ari is also the owner of the Empire Cinemas, and only opening the film on such a small scale means that people in the theaters are actually not that optimistic about this movie.

Of course, this is the normal Hollywood treatment of all "outside films".

It's hard to say whether it's good or not.

If it's a European movie, it's actually better, after all, the same race and the same skin color.

But "Infernal Affairs" is an all-Chinese film lineup.

So it's no wonder.

But no matter what, Ahri Media really showed off its muscles this time regardless of the cost.

The momentum is indeed relatively large.

You know, the Huaguo Theater in Los Angeles alone needs to pay a lot of money to hold a premiere here.

And the cost of the premiere itself is not low.

Especially Ahri, an outsider, must pay a high price to make the premiere a success.

The North American premiere of "Infernal Affairs" can be said to be followed by countless people in China.

Many domestic media have sent reporters to North America, wanting to get first-hand information.

A big curtain seems to be about to open.

Although Ari Media failed in the previous big data film strategy, it was disheartened.

But I have to say that Ahri Media is indeed rich and powerful.

The big data movie strategy at least caused Ahri to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, but he didn't even bat an eye, and just came up with an even more exaggerated one.

Acquisitions with a scale of more than 10 billion Chinese dollars are coming as soon as they are said.

Then came up with such a movie globalization strategy.

So, it must be the best!