Millennium director

Wu Yuan also wants to release it in July?

Director Han felt a little headache.

In fact, Wu Yuan had already tried it several times before, but he always turned him away by doing Tai Chi and did not reply directly.

But the situation is different now, and the specific release of Gravity is imminent.

Super blockbusters like this usually have to start pre-promotion half a year in advance, but we can’t delay it any longer.

Director Wu, Red Cliff has been confirmed to be released on July 10th, and all promotional preparations have been made.

It's not suitable for two blockbusters to compete in the same month. It's not like they are fighting against each other.

China Film Group also participated in the investment and production of Red Cliff and Gravity.

From Director Han's point of view, it must be his own people beating his own people.

Moreover, even if China Film did not participate in the investment of these two movies, as a company that controls the development of China's film industry, China Film will not let two domestic blockbusters collide.

Even in order to allow domestic blockbusters to have enough space to be released, in recent years, China Film Group, under the leadership of Director Han, has not given good time slots to blockbusters and reduced the number of literary and artistic films.

This did indeed cause him to receive a lot of scolding and a lot of pressure.

After all, the current domestic directors are still dominated by fourth- and fifth-generation directors who make literary films.

It is not an easy thing to lower their film schedule and allocate good time slots to commercial films that these people have always looked down upon.

It is also because I know that Director Han has indeed put in a lot of effort and endured a lot of pressure to expand the mainland's commercial film market.

So Wu Yuan didn't really want to force him to choose between himself and Wu Baige.

After a final test, Wu Yuan spread his hands and said, Okay.

But July is a really good time to start.

The Olympics will be held in August next year. If a sci-fi movie about my country's aerospace industry is released in July, it will let the world see our own near-future sci-fi movie.

I believe this will increase the attention of this Olympic Games, especially overseas, by countless amounts.

“Boosting national self-confidence and promoting modern China to the world cannot only be achieved through the Olympic Games.”

The emergence of Gravity is also to break the stereotype of China's backwardness among world audiences.

Tell the global audience that China is no longer what it was like in Zhang Yimou's early movies.

This will also have a positive impact on the upcoming Beijing Olympics.

In comparison, it doesn't seem to have any impact on which month Red Cliff is released next year, right?

Both Chinese and foreign audiences have seen too many costume movies, and they still fail to reflect modern China.

'Gravity' is different. This is China's first science fiction blockbuster. Nowadays, apart from Hollywood, few countries can produce science fiction blockbusters.

The July schedule for Red Cliff is completely wasted!

It would be more appropriate to give us Gravity!

This time, Wu Yuan was indeed thinking from a higher perspective, rather than just seeking personal revenge.

Without the movie Gravity, there would have been no problem for Red Cliff to dominate the July period before the Olympics.

After all, this is a blockbuster film with an investment of over 300 million, and it was made by a great director who has also had success in Hollywood.

Moreover, it is a movie that will be released simultaneously in many overseas countries. It has great influence and can finally add some world attention to China and focus on the Olympics.

But now Gravity has appeared halfway. In terms of boosting national self-confidence and changing the world's view of China, this movie is much higher than Red Cliff.

Movies have always been the biggest channel for a country to export its influence and culture and let foreign countries know about itself.

Of the 6 billion people in the world, can one tenth of them have actually been to the United States?

Most ordinary people around the world understand the United States through movies exported by Hollywood. Most people's impression of the United States is actually the United States in the movies, not the real United States.

Hollywood has packaged the United States in a very high-spirited way. The United States in Hollywood movies is developed and happy, and everyone can realize the American dream and enjoy a happy life.

Not too many foreigners become yearning for the United States every year because of various Hollywood movies.

In comparison, China's movie promotion is really poor.

On the one hand, the country's development level has indeed been unsatisfactory in the past few decades, and it is just an ordinary developing country.

On the other hand, the fourth and fifth generation directors from Mainland China love to focus on rural areas and suffering in their films, or capture the background culture of the early 20th century.

From Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum, Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern, Qiu Ju's Lawsuit, Alive, My Father and Mother, a series of movies are set in rural areas.

Then to Chen Kaige's Yellow Earth, King of Children and Walking and Singing, they are all stories about poor Chinese rural areas.

The same goes for fifth-generation directors.

From the 1980s to the new millennium, almost all mainland films that were exhibited, premiered, or shortlisted for the main competition at various European film festivals were focused on the relatively backward side of China.

That is to say, after entering the new millennium, starting from Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin, some of China's top directors began to turn their film perspectives in a historical direction, producing some ancient costume martial arts blockbusters or war blockbusters.

But there are no great-directed films with modern themes that can show the style of modern China.

To be honest, big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou are already developing well, especially Beijing and Shanghai. They cannot be said to be comparable to cities such as New York, Tokyo, and Los Angeles, but they are definitely among the second-tier metropolises in the world.

But it just so happens that no director shoots movies in these modern cities.

Not to mention filming a science fiction movie with a near-future background.

Wu Yuan's Gravity is truly a unique film that can show the achievements of China's modernization and development, and also demonstrates the strength of China's manned space technology.

Although, the space station in the movie is still a product of the PPT stage.

But the American warships and spaceships in Hollywood's science fiction blockbusters don't even have PPTs yet, so aren't they regarded as symbols of America's technological advancement?

As the third country in the world to have completed a manned moon landing, it is time for China to use some movies to showcase its national technological strength.

This I have to admit that Wu Yuan's reason really moved Director Han.

There seems to be no reason why Red Cliff must be released in July.

Gravity, on the other hand, has a legitimate reason to be released in July.

One month before the start of the Olympic Games, a Chinese science fiction movie was released across the country and even around the world, which had an immediate effect on improving China's international image.

After thinking about it again, Director Han nodded and said, Let's do this. I'll coordinate again and see if I can reserve the July schedule for Gravity.

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After Director Han and Wu Yuan roughly decided on the schedule, he hurriedly left the set of A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die and went to Wu Baige to negotiate the schedule.

On Wu Baige's side, when he heard that Wu Yuan also wanted a July schedule, and also convinced China Film Group that Director Han was willing to come and negotiate the schedule with him, several water glasses broke!

Wu Baige had been interested in the July 2008 schedule two years ago and wanted to win this schedule from the beginning of the Red Cliff project.

At present, apart from the Lunar New Year season, the summer season has the best box office performance in the Mainland. After all, young people have the habit and desire to go to cinemas to watch movies.

August is the Olympic month, and everyone has no time to go to the movies, so the only option left for the 2008 summer season is July.

Now China Film Group hopes that Red Cliff will make way for Gravity and give way to the summer release?

Are you kidding me?

Wu Baige will never compromise!

Faced with Wu Baige, who had a tough attitude and refused to give up his schedule, Director Han could not forcefully make a decision for him.

Even though Director Han is the helmsman of China Film Group Corporation, in front of 99% of directors, he is the eldest brother among the eldest brothers. He can say one thing and others dare not say another.

Wu Yuan and Wu Baige are just the 1% who can be tough in front of Director Han. They are both internationally influential directors. It is the Chinese market that needs them, not that they need the Chinese market.

Han Dong, who was caught in the middle, was also one head and two big.

After running from both ends and negotiating for more than half a month, he had to compromise. Since both of them wanted July, they could only divide July into two halves, one half for each person.

Anyway, the box office of movies released in the mainland now accounts for almost 60%-70% of the total box office in the first week, and the box office in the first two weeks accounts for 90% of the total box office.

As long as the premiere dates of Red Cliff and Gravity are two weeks apart, the two movies will have almost no influence on each other.

In the end, under the coordination of Director Han, Wu Yuan and Wu Baige, who were already unhappy with each other, could only take a step back.

Gravity is scheduled to be released nationwide on July 2, 2008.

Red Cliff is scheduled to be released nationwide on July 15, 2008.

When the scheduled news was announced, all the entertainment media in the mainland exploded!