Huayu’s ex-husband.

Chapter 333 332. The May Day file has been in name only since then

"Boss, Sister Fei, you are here, welcome!"

Chen Xi also said: "You two's arrival really makes this place glorious!"

Wei Wu walked to the entrance of the theater with Liu Tianxian, and happened to run into Chen Xi and Tang Yan who were serving as concierges at the door. They were the male and female protagonists of this movie.

Wei Wu waved his hand casually and said, "That's enough. Congratulations on the release of your new film."

Liu Tianxian also handed over the flowers and gifts:

"Congratulations, and I wish the new film "My Deskmate" will be a big hit!"

Tang Yan took the flowers and Chen Xi took the gift box. They both hurriedly thanked him:

"Thank you, Sister Fei, and thank you, Boss."

Wei Wu smiled and teased Tang Yan: "How are you? The movie you starred in is about to be released, and the ugly daughter-in-law is about to meet her parents-in-law. How do you feel now?"

Tang Yan smiled until his eyes disappeared: "Happy, excited, nervous... To be honest, I really want to give tickets to all my relatives and friends so that they can go to see it right away!"

Everyone present could see that her smile was genuine. It seemed that being the leading actress really made her so excited that she could hardly contain herself.

Then she bowed to Wei Wu and said, "But I have to thank the boss for his cultivation. Otherwise, how could I have the opportunity to be the heroine in a movie so soon!"

Wei Wu laughed with satisfaction: "Haha, it's good that you know!"

Liu Tianxian gently pushed him and said angrily:

"Hey, you gasp when I tell you you're fat!"

Wei Wu smiled and continued, "But you have a strong opponent this time! You probably won't get the chance to win the May Day championship this year."

Chen Xi stopped smiling and asked, "Boss, are you talking about...Iron Man?"

"Well," Wei Wu said leisurely:

"You guys actually ran into this movie head-on. Your luck is really bad!"

"Iron Man" is the pioneering masterpiece of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). It was the box office success of this movie that ushered in a glorious era of superhero movies.

Marvel may not be the most successful film company in the 21st century, but it should be the most profitable film company in this century.

In the top 10 global box office rankings of all time, Marvel occupies 2nd, 6th, 7th and 10th place respectively. It can be said that they occupy half of the market. Which other company can do that?
Tang Yan's expression also became a little serious: "Boss, are you optimistic about this movie?"

The reason why Tang Yan asked this question was because the movie "Iron Man" was released in China and the United States at the same time, and its release date in North America was also April 4th.

As we all know, people in the United States do not celebrate May Day, so naturally there is no May Day schedule. Their Labor Day is the first Monday in September.

Therefore, the release date of "Iron Man" is most likely determined based on the domestic schedule.

Although Marvel was very arrogant later on, it still valued the Chinese vote bank during this period. The main reason was that it was just starting out and couldn't really shake it up!
If this movie was released in North America first like other Hollywood movies, then Tang Yan would naturally know how great this movie is.

Wei Wu nodded and said, "Well, I'm very optimistic about comic book-adapted superhero movies. This movie will definitely be a big hit. Even if the box office in mainland China doesn't break 100 million, it shouldn't be much different."

Wei Wu has already looked up his memory. In his previous life, the film’s box office in mainland China was 9200 million yuan, ranking 13th in the year.

The film grossed $3.19 million in North America and $5.83 million worldwide, making it the eighth-highest-grossing film in the world that year.

It was the success of "Iron Man" that laid the foundation for the rise of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

By the way, in the previous life in 08, the third place in the global box office was "Kung Fu Panda", the fourth place was "Hancock, the Superman", and the tenth place was "The Chronicles of Narnia 2".

No wonder these three movies have achieved remarkable results in the domestic summer season, because they are already popular movies that are among the top 10 in the global box office of the year.

Tang Yan immediately grumbled with a sad face, "If that's the case, why doesn't it make a big splash during the summer vacation?
"This year's May Day Golden Week has been shortened to three days, yet it still wants to snatch food from us!"

Wei Wu laughed secretly in his heart. If the other party knew how awesome he was, they would definitely not choose this period. They would most likely choose to fight during the summer vacation.

The reason why "Iron Man" didn't choose the summer time slot is probably because it was cowardly, lacked confidence in itself, and completely underestimated its box office potential. Although there is no May Day time slot in the United States, it is still released during the summer vacation.

Their summer vacation is not much different from ours, both last until early September, but they usually start their vacation in early June.

Just imagine, if "Iron Man" had chosen to be released in the summer, the box office would definitely be more successful than its previous life!

It probably won't be ranked eighth in the year anymore, and it may even have a good chance of making it into the top five.

After all, "Hancock," which ranked fourth in the global box office that year, only had a global box office of 2600 million U.S. dollars more than "Iron Man."

2600 million may seem like a lot, but it's released in so many countries. If you change to a better schedule, with an extra 100 million here and 50 there, it will surpass the previous one in a matter of minutes!

Let’s not talk about far away places, let’s just talk about domestic areas!

If "Iron Man" had chosen to be released in the summer, it should have no problem making over 10 million yuan at the box office and ranking among the top of the year.

Tang Yan suddenly had an idea: "Could it be that the Americans don't know that our May Day holiday has been changed? They are still treating this period as a treasure as always!"

Wei Wu laughed in silence: "This matter was announced a long time ago. It was widely publicized at the end of last year. It was not announced at the last minute. How could people not know about it?"

It turns out that this year, the "May Day Golden Week" that had been implemented since 1999 was cancelled, and the May Day holiday was changed from seven days to three days.

In the same year, three short holidays were added: Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, and the total holiday time was increased from 10 days to 11 days.

To be honest, the adjustment of this holiday has had a huge impact on the film industry.

This means that one of the four major schedules has been directly cancelled. The May Day schedule, which was originally on par with the National Day schedule, can be said to be dead in name only.

Since then, when people mention the four major schedules, the May Day schedule has been omitted. The "new four major" have become:

The Spring Festival, summer vacation, National Day and New Year's Day.

As for the May Day period, from now on it will have to be mixed with the "Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival" and the like.

However, although the May Day schedule is not very good, at least there are three days off, which is basically the best schedule after the "New Four Majors", so Wei Wu still decided to release "You Are the One" during this schedule.

The competition during the Lunar New Year and summer vacation periods is too fierce, and the National Day period is too far away, so we can only make do with it!

The key point is that Wei Wu has already decided to schedule "SPL 2" to be released during this year's National Day holiday. He can't let "My Deskmate" go there and kill each other, right?
In addition, Weiguo Pictures has already scheduled three movies for this summer, and they really can’t accommodate any more.

In addition to "Knife of the Assassin", the company's new films to be released this summer include Ning Hao's "The Witness" and Chen Sicheng's "So Young".

Of course, these three movies will be released at different times to avoid affecting each other.

Besides, there are only so many schedules in a year, so someone has to make sacrifices.

Wei Wu certainly couldn't sacrifice himself, nor could he sacrifice Ning Hao. As for the relatively high-investment "Greedy Wolf", he couldn't sacrifice it either.

So I can only choose one from the remaining two youth films, but "You Are the One" was filmed earlier, so this movie will be scheduled to be released first.

Thinking of this, Wei Wu waved his hand and said comfortingly:

"Well, there's no need to be so stressed! Our movie has a small investment, so basically as long as the box office exceeds 2000 million, we'll make money."

Tang Yan said in a low voice with some guilt: "Can it be broken?"

Wei Wu nodded slightly and said, "Don't worry, it's not a big problem."

Tang Yan heaved a sigh of relief: "That's good."

At this time, Wei Wu glanced at Liu Tianxian, and she immediately looked around and said:

"Then you guys go ahead and do your work, we'll go in first!"

Chen Xi immediately smiled and replied, "Okay, see you later."

(End of this chapter)