director of the millennium

Chapter 42 Released in North America!

After confirming Zhang Guorong's starring role and changing his life trajectory for the next two years, Wu Yuan's mission to come to Hong Kong Island this time has been completed.

As long as Zhang Guorong is not kept busy in the next year to the point where he suffers from repeated stomach problems, which affects the brain's endocrine disorders and induces depression, and he also suffers a mental blow from the failure of preparations for his first directed film, then there is a high probability that his depression will not occur. will appear.

Wu Yuan can only do this. He is not a god, so he cannot use any magic to make Zhang Guorong never suffer from depression.

Taking a step back, even if Zhang Guorong really cannot escape the fate of depression, at least this "The Undertaker" will bring Zhang Guorong's acting career to a successful conclusion!
Wu Yuan's "The Undertaker" is really aimed at the top three in Europe, as long as Zhang Guorong works hard, he has a good chance of winning a best actor!

Moreover, his director's dream has come true, and he will have no regrets in this life.

Wu Yuan didn't accept Zhang Guorong's invitation to the mahjong game, so Wu Yuan boarded the flight back to Los Angeles.

Well, Zhang Guorong loves to play mahjong very much, and he also has a mahjong ring. Lin Qingxia, Wang Jingwen, Liu Jialing and others are all his poker friends.

He even organized the Leslie Cup Mahjong Competition himself. For this competition, he spent money to make medals and trophies, and invited many of his good friends to participate in this competition.

Wu Yuan didn't know if he was destined to play mahjong. A group of his friends in Beijing loved playing mahjong. Zhang Guorong, whom he met in Hong Kong, was also a long-time mahjong fan.

I heard that when Zhang Guorong went to Beijing to film "Farewell My Concubine", he loved to play mahjong with Zhang Fengyi and Gong Huang after the movie.

This time he is going to come to the capital to film "The Undertaker", and he is afraid that he will have to play with Wu Yuan's friends at that time.

fair enough.

It's not a bad thing for Zhang Guorong to stay away from the group of paparazzi who write viciously and nonsense every day in Hong Kong Island, and enjoy life in the mainland.

On the plane, holding the Sony Walkman he bought on Hong Kong Island and playing Leslie Cheung's album tape, Wu Yuan gradually fell asleep while enjoying the last glory of the Hong Kong Philharmonic.

When he woke up again, he had arrived in Los Angeles on the other side of the ocean.

Outside the airport, it was still John who came to pick up Wu Yuan, and when he got up, he gave him a warm hug.

"Daniel, I thought you would go back for a long time, but I didn't expect you to come back so soon."

"Well, everything is going well, so I came back early."

Sitting in John's Ford car, Wu Yuan rubbed his temples which were still heavy, and asked casually: "How is our movie going, what's the release schedule?"

"Of course everything went well." John was equally enthusiastic, "The final cut version has been completed, and everyone in the company is very satisfied. It is scheduled to start a small-scale screening in North America on July 7."

"You know, our movie is a low-budget movie, and we don't have much money for publicity."

In North America, when small-budget movies are released, there is usually no grand premiere, no press release, and it is impossible to promote them both online and offline.

In most cases, there is only one way to release low-budget films in North America, which is to release them on a small scale first, and then gradually expand the scale of the release based on word-of-mouth feedback.

There is no set release deadline for North American movies, and they can be shown for a long time.

Unlike high-cost blockbusters, Hollywood blockbusters often invest tens of millions of dollars in publicity and distribution costs, and are screened in one or two thousand cinemas at the same time, making everyone in North America aware of the film.

But small-budget movies can’t do this. Small-budget movies don’t have any publicity funds, and they don’t have much capital for distribution.

If a small-budget movie wants to be popular and become a dark horse, it must rely on extending its release time, relying on the audience reputation accumulated in the early small-scale release, and relying on the audience's spontaneous recommendations and publicity to gradually become popular.

This method of operation later evolved into the "screening" system. In the early stage, small-scale screenings were held in several or more than a dozen cinemas, and well-known film critics were invited to watch.

Then use the influence of film critics and a small number of audiences who have watched the movie for the first time to recommend and promote it spontaneously on the Internet or offline to attract more audiences to watch the movie in cinemas, and then gradually expand the scale of screenings little by little.

The release of "Juno" is also such a process arrangement.

On July 7, it will be screened on a very small scale in 2 theaters in North America. If word of mouth is good, the scale of the screening will be gradually expanded, and it will be expanded to one or two thousand theaters for joint screening in about a month.

If this can be achieved, "Juno" will earn at least 5000 to [-] million US dollars at the North American box office.

If it can’t be done, then it’s obviously that the stamina is insufficient when it’s released in dozens or hundreds of movie theaters, no one cares about it, and then it’s released.

Hollywood's capital is very realistic. If you don't spend tens of millions of dollars to get publicity and distribution, and make it known to everyone, and attract the public to watch your movie, then the theater chain will not come up and give you a schedule of one or two thousand movie theaters. .

Only if you slowly rely on small-scale screenings to prove the value of the movie itself, prove that people are willing to go to the cinema to watch this movie, and can bring huge benefits to the cinema, will the cinema gradually increase the scale of screenings!

I can’t say whether this system is good or bad, but for most small-budget movies that don’t have money for promotion, it’s fairly fair.

If you are strong and you can attract audiences to watch, then you will naturally get more film scheduling rates.

Wu Yuan has no opinion on this.

He has great confidence in the quality of "Juno".

Although after the adaptation, this version of "Juno" has added Asian thinking and a growth line for the male protagonist, the core selling point of this movie is still the quirky Juno!

Wu Yuan's version of Juno has almost no difference in personality from the original version. She is still the girl with a personality that will be loved and sought after by countless girls in North America!
In this way, Wu Yuan waited for another month with nothing to do in Los Angeles.

Until July 7, an uneventful day.

Wu Yuan led all the main creative members of the "Juno" crew to a movie theater in Los Angeles.

At 07:30 in the evening, dozens of invited film critics, as well as a few viewers who saw the poster of "Juno" in the cinema that day and bought movie tickets curiously, entered the theater's No. 2 screening hall together with Wu Yuan and others .

There was no opening speech, and no heartfelt testimonials.

When everyone was seated, the lights in the auditorium dimmed, and with the classic opening animation of 20th Century Fox, "Juno" was officially released in North America.

Starting from a high school campus sports meeting, two teenagers and girls, a campus love, a child who came unexpectedly, and a story of youth growth, slowly unfolded in front of all audiences.

The 102-minute film brought a special viewing experience to all the film critics and audiences present.

Before I knew it, the movie came to an end.

Whether it is the main film creators who have personally experienced the whole process of shooting, or other audiences at the scene, they gave warm applause at the same time when the lights in the projection hall were turned on.

The professional film critics sitting in the back row picked up the notebooks they carried with them in unison, and left their final evaluation for the film.

"The content is substantial, the plot is smooth, and the narration is quite exciting. The part that should be romantic is sweet and beautiful, and the part that should be humorous is full of wit. While winning the audience a happy smile, it also brings out thoughts about growth and maturity."

"Using a method that seems atypical, it has successfully created a typical small-budget masterpiece."

"Cool and gentle youth."

"The topic discussed in the funny story is not easy, but the title and soundtrack still send a breath of fresh air."

That night, these film reviews appeared one after another in major film review forums in Los Angeles and in many film review magazines.

Within a very small circle of film critics, a wind called "Juno" is blowing.

　The specific movie content, I will write it tomorrow, it is a fairly interesting story~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)