China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 722 Who is the original and who is the pirated copy
Da Tiantian asked a question: "Li Yu, how many billions do you think the box office of the movie "Wushuang" will be?"

Li Yu thought for a moment and gave an answer: "It's hard to predict, probably around 2 billion."

In the previous life, this movie had very weak publicity, which might have something to do with the fact that the crew was poor.

It took Zhuang Wenqiang ten years to get the investment to make this movie. It was already amazing that he could get the funds to make the movie. How could he dare to ask for more publicity budget?
Don't ever think that advertising a movie is a cost-effective thing.

In fact, in many cases, the cost of publicity and marketing is higher than the cost of production.

Take Li Yu's "Barbie" as an example. The production cost was only a few hundred million yuan, but the initial release cost was as high as 150 million yuan.

However, this time with Li Yu's strong support, the promotion of "Wushuang" will not be neglected.

In the previous life, there was another incident that caused a lot of negative impact on "Wushuang", and that was the plagiarism scandal of "Wushuang".

In the previous life, after the release of the movie "Wushuang", people have been saying that it plagiarized "The Usual Suspects".

It's normal to say this because the core of these two movies are very similar.

Real criminals are caught in the image of weak people, and during the interrogation process, they use impromptu observations to create a superb person to divert the target.

There are also many differences. The protagonist Li Wen in "Wushuang" has an additional emotional line, and the emotional line runs through the whole story.

Also, the protagonist of "The Usual Suspects" robs and kills people, while Li Wen in "Wushuang" forges and forges things, and the process and details of the forgery are portrayed very well, and even the manufacturing process is introduced in great detail, which makes laymen excited.

No matter how many different points Zhuang Wenqiang sets, it is useless because the core of the story is similar.

Anyone who has watched The Usual Suspects will have a sense of déjà vu when watching The Man with the Dragon.

This is also the reason why Li Yu insisted on buying the relevant copyrights of the two movies "The Usual Suspects" and "Fight Club".

It is clearly stated in the promotional poster that "The Usual Suspects" and "Fight Club" were borrowed to a certain extent, and since the copyright has been purchased, there will naturally be no plagiarism controversy.

The publicity is in place and plagiarism scandals will not occur again. The actual performance of "Wushuang" will definitely be better than the previous life.

As for how much better it would be, Li Yu couldn't say for sure. He could only make a rough guess, maybe around 2 billion.

"It would be nice to have 2 billion, but I don't know why. This number is obviously good, but I still feel it's a little bit less." Da Tiantian complained.

“You are getting too proud. You even got to act in a bug-ridden movie like Wolf Warrior 2. Of course you think the box office of a normal movie is low. In fact, everyone is normal, and Wolf Warrior 2 is the outlier.” Li Yu shook his head.

Da Tiantian is really a little bit arrogant now. She thinks 2 billion is too little and even Hua Mulan doesn't look down on her.

She seems to be about to fly to the sky.

"By the way, I won't play Mulan anymore. Who are you and Director Cao going to ask to play the role?" Da Tiantian was a little curious.

"Liu Yifei, she originally went to audition for Deshini's Mulan, but after some lobbying by me, she agreed to play the role of Mulan in our version." Li Yu adjusted the order of the story.

Da Tiantian thought that Liu Yifei was chosen after she gave up the role.

In fact, Liu Yifei had already set his sights on this role before she gave up.

"Does she trust you so much? I think the probability of her getting the Deshini Mulan is quite high. In the eyes of outsiders, Deshini's Mulan is much better than our Mulan. Many people ridicule our Mulan as a pirated copy." Da Tiantian said.

This is also one of the reasons why Da Tiantian gave up Mulan.

She felt that this movie was called a pirated product by everyone. And she starred in this pirated product, which was so uncool.

Even though she knew that this movie was reviewed by Li Yu, it was still uncertain which was the pirated version and which was the genuine version.

But before the movie is released, the voices of piracy will not disappear.

Da Tiantian personally feels uncomfortable having to endure it for such a long time.

People with money can be so willful. If they feel uncomfortable, they won’t act.

She entered the industry just to fulfill her dream of becoming an actress. No one can force her to do anything she doesn't want to do, and no one dares to force her to do anything.

Li Yu found Da Tiantian's words quite funny.

Mulan is a classic story passed down by our ancestors, which first existed during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Now when foreigners make a movie from this story, it is called an authentic version, but when Chinese people make a movie from this story, it is called a pirated version. Isn't this just hilarious?

Li Yu was too lazy to explain to those people.

After both Mulan movies are released, facts will speak louder than words and it will be clear who is the protagonist and who is the clown.

This time, Li Yu wants to slap Deshini in the face, and also slap those foreign filmmakers in the face.

If you want to make money in China, you should adapt to the local customs, study the Chinese market, and find out what Chinese audiences like to watch.

They are always so arrogant, and they are imagining some things that are offensive to people, and they want Chinese audiences to pay for it with real money? What kind of dream are they?

The first-day box office of "Wushuang" was not very high, only less than 60 million.

Inviting Chow Yun-fat and Aaron Kwok is a double-edged sword, with both good and bad sides.

The good thing is that as superstars of the golden age of Hong Kong films, their influence is very great. Many people know their names and have seen their movies.

The bad side is that they have made too many bad movies in recent years.

Especially Chow Yun-fat, who collaborated with Wang Jing in the "Australia Storm" series, was clearly making money, and his way of doing it was ugly.

This is also a very embarrassing thing for these Hong Kong superstars. Now when people see the movies they star in, no matter how great the movies are, they always have to wait and see first, because the probability of them being bad movies is really high.

Fortunately, the quality of "Wushuang" is high enough to live up to Li Yu's evaluation that day, and it is the highest quality commercial film in Hong Kong in the past five years.

The box office on the premiere day was mediocre, not even 100 million yuan, which is not worth bragging about in the current mainland film market.

However, the reputation of this movie is something to brag about, with an opening score of over 8.0, making it a high-quality commercial film.

Li Yu and Bona’s promotional point for this film mainly focused on the quality of the film, saying that it is a high-quality film.

In order to attract more audiences to the cinema, Li Yu and Yu Dong also used emotional marketing.

The superstars in Hong Kong are getting older one by one. How many more years can the old-line superstars like Chow Yun-fat and Aaron Kwok last? The current Hong Kong entertainment industry is in a period of transition. There is no one left to take over.

When these superstars get old, will there be any good Hong Kong movies to watch in the future? So buy movie tickets now to support them.

(End of this chapter)