Huayu’s ex-husband.

Chapter 330 329. There is no one who can compete in this summer season

"Husband, welcome home!"

The nanny had just helped Wei Wu open the door when Liu Tianxian, who had heard the noise, immediately trotted over and began to welcome him with a sweet smile.

"Thank you," Wei Wu casually handed the suitcase to the nanny, opened his arms to welcome her, and kissed her passionately.

It took a long while for the two to finally separate, and their saliva was sticky when they separated.

Liu Tianxian brought slippers, and while Wei Wu was changing his shoes, she brought him a cup of hot tea and placed it on the tea table in front of him, and asked gently:
"Have you finished filming "The Blade of the Assassin"? "

"Yeah," Wei Wu changed into slippers and put his sneakers back into the shoe cabinet.

"Thank you for your hard work," Liu Tianxian continued,
“So this movie is still going to be released in the summer?”

Wei Wu picked up the teacup, blew away the tea foam, and took a sip:
"Yes, it should be released in early July, but the exact date will depend on the progress of post-production."

"Oh, so what strong rivals are there in the summer season?"

Wei Wu had already done his homework, so he just shook his head and said:
“To be honest, there is not a single viable movie this summer, and the competition is not as intense as last year.

"There are only three Hollywood movies that can pose a certain threat to us. One is Kung Fu Panda, one is Hancock, the Superman, and the other is The Chronicles of Narnia 2.

"As for Chinese-language films, they can be ignored."

Among the above three movies, the one with the highest box office is "Kung Fu Panda", which was released on June 6th in its previous life and had a box office of 20 million, ranking sixth of the year, one place lower than "The Forbidden Kingdom".

You should know that the best-selling Hollywood movie in last summer's box office was "Transformers", with a final box office of 2.81 million yuan, almost 1 million yuan more.

Then there is "Hancock", which was released on July 7nd in its previous life and had a box office of 2 million, ranking 1.05th in the year.

As for the final film, "The Chronicles of Narnia 2", it was released on June 6th and took in 6 million at the box office, ranking 8293th of the year.

You should know that last summer, three Hollywood movies made it into the top 10 of the year.

They are "Transformers", "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" and "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", ranking second, sixth and eighth respectively.

This year, there is only one movie, "Kung Fu Panda", and it's not even ranked very high, which shows that this year's summer movie season is indeed a draw.

Of course, this is not a bad thing for Wei Wu. The less competitive pressure means that "The Blade of the Assassin" has a chance to achieve higher box office.

It has to be said that Wei Wu is not that confident about the commercial performance of "Knife of the Assassin", at least it is definitely far less than that of "Lost in Thailand".

After all, the previous film "Lost in Thailand" was the annual box office champion in 2012, while "Knife of the Assassin" failed to break 2014 million even in 9317, and the final box office was only million.

Of course, there are many objective reasons for the low box office performance of "The Blade of the Assassin".

The first point that cannot be ignored is that by 2014, martial arts movies were no longer popular.

Another thing is that no matter whether it is director Lu Yang or the male and female actors Zhang Zhen and Liu Shishi, they have no box office appeal.

This point is vividly reflected in "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch: Kingdom of the Moon", which was released at the same time as "Knife of the Assassin", only one week later.

As a martial arts film, "The White-Haired Witch" has a Douban score of only 3.8, not even half of "Knife of the Assassin" (7.7).

But just because the starring actors of "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch" are Fan Bingbing + Huang Xiaoming + Zhao Wenzhuo + Wang Xuebin, this movie with a terrible reputation easily earned 3.89 million yuan at the box office in its previous life.

Isn't it ironic enough that the box office of two movies with completely different reputations is four times different?
However, the main actors of Wei Wu's version of "Blade of the Assassin" are Nie Yuan + Jing Tian + Chen Kun + Chen Xiao + Wei Wu. Except for Jing Tian who is a little less famous, the others are all real stars, and the overall cast is much stronger than the original movie!
The box office appeal of this cast is naturally incomparable. Wei Wu even dared to say that 2.5 million is a guaranteed minimum, and even million is basically no problem.

In fact, even without these stars, relying solely on Wei Wu's box office appeal, as long as the movie's score is no less than 7 points, it would be basically a piece of cake to make over million at the box office.

The last reason why the original "The Blade of the Assassin" had low box office was that the film was not well promoted.

The first reason is the lack of funding, which resulted in the film not having any popular topics.

In addition, due to limited funds, the crew only went to four cities, namely Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, during the roadshow promotion, and most of the remaining places were not promoted at all.

But this cannot be blamed on the crew. The main reason is that director Lu Yang has not proven himself yet, so the investors are naturally more cautious. Therefore, the funding is very tight, and Lu Yang can only be forced to "live frugally."

Every failure makes one wiser, and Wei Wu certainly will not make the same mistake again.

Moreover, for Wei Wu, publicity expenses were not a problem at all. Even if he wanted to spend 100 million on publicity, there were publicity and distribution companies willing to cover the cost for him first.

Then again, it is impossible for Wei Wu to really spend so much money to promote this movie. Saturated publicity has low cost-effectiveness!
In short, as long as Wei Wu learns from the experience and lessons of the original movie, even if his version of "Knife of the Assassin" cannot surpass "Lost in Thailand" at the box office, it should not be too far behind.

What’s more, this year’s summer season is relatively friendly to them, which makes it even more certain!

"Ah? There isn't even a single Chinese-language movie worth watching this summer?"

Liu Tianxian was obviously a little surprised. Logically speaking, this was impossible!

After all, the summer vacation season is the second largest period after the Lunar New Year season, and it is also a battleground. Why is there suddenly no one here this year?
Wei Wu smiled and said, "Originally there was one, but it has been announced to be postponed!"

Liu Tianxian saw that Wei Wu was smiling mischievously, and her expression changed immediately:
"Who is it? It can't be Red Cliff, right?"

"Bin dog," Wei Wu snapped his fingers proudly:

"Congratulations on guessing it right, but it's a pity that there is no reward."

The previous life of "Red Cliff", or to be more precise, "Red Cliff (Part 1)", was released during this summer's movie season.

The film was released on July 7 and ultimately grossed 10 million yuan, beating If You Are the One to rank first in the year.

What can we say about Red Cliff? Its box office performance is outstanding among the Chinese films in this summer season.

The second-ranked Chinese-language film at the box office during this period was "The Perfect Match" directed by Wang Yuelun, which grossed 5146 million yuan and ranked 20th of the year.

It almost dropped out of the top 20, which shows how bad the Chinese-language films in this period are.

"Red Cliff", which was withdrawn from the schedule a long time ago, is currently busy raising money to reshoot the scenes of the heroine Zhang Baizhi!

The candidate for the third Xiao Qiao has been announced. This person is none other than Big S, who became famous last year because of the idol drama "Turning Point Love".

I don’t know how Wu Yusen convinced her, but to some extent she had no choice. She must have wanted to become a movie star for a long time, but had never had the opportunity.

Before this, she had only appeared in one movie, "Suspicion", and it was a low-budget horror film.

Big S must know that "Red Cliff" is not a good opportunity, but how could she get the chance to play a good role?
Anyway, the tabloids said that during this period Wu Yusen was begging for investment everywhere, and he was almost kneeling down to people.

This also caused his old friends and bosses to avoid him like the plague. As soon as they heard it was him, they would hang up the phone immediately. It was so embarrassing!

(End of this chapter)