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Red Cliff is scheduled to be released in Japan on November 10th. There is no way to hide this news. After all, we need to promote the release in advance.

Light and Shadow Era’s connections in Japan are no less than the capital behind Wu Baige, and are even deeper.

Red Cliff is just one of the producers, Orange Sky Entertainment, which acquired part of its shares from a Japanese company, thus gaining access to Japanese connections.

Light and Shadow Times is different. Although Light and Shadow Times is not Japanese-owned, Light and Shadow Times has cooperated with Japanese capital for many years.

From The Undertaker to Your Name to later movies such as Good Guys, Bad Guys, Weird Guys and Those Years, they were all released in Japan under the operation of Toho.

It is worth mentioning that Those Years also performed well at the box office when it was released in Japan.

On its original track, Those Years was quite influential in Japan, and a Japanese film company even remade a Japanese version of Those Years.

But now that Wu Yuan has released the film in advance, the effect is no different, or even better.

After all, Liu Yifei is really well-known in Japan. Several of her films have conquered the Japanese market, and she is known as the Angel from Mainland China in Japan!

With her starring, the effect of the light and shadow era version of Those Years will certainly be better when it is released in Japan.

In just half a year since its release, it has grossed more than 4 billion yen at the box office, which is more than The Embalmer.

Toho also bought the copyright of Those Years and plans to make a Japanese version of Those Years.

By the way, the copyright of Your Name was also bought by Toho, which made a Japanese version of Your Name more than two years ago. The heroine is an actress named Haruka Ayase, paired with Yamashita Ji Jiu acted together.

However, the box office performance was not very good. After all, the original Your Name was so popular in Japan, with a box office of nearly 15 billion yen, that most young Japanese people are familiar with this movie.

In this case, the impact of the remake is limited. After all, there is a preconceived impression of the original version.

But Toho refused to give up and bought the rights to Those Years this time, intending to let the budding newcomer Yui Aragaki continue to star in the film with Tomohisa Yamashita.

With such a good and long-term cooperation, it cannot be said that Guangying Times and Toho are as close as one family, but they are indeed close enough to wear a pair of trousers.

Red Cliff was scheduled to be released in Japan, and Toho informed the Times of Light and Shadow of the news.

Toho understands why Light and Shadow Times is so concerned about the release date of Red Cliff. After all, the two movies are rivals.

However, when they learned that after Light and Shadow Times heard the news about the release of Red Cliff, they also planned to release Gravity on November 10th, they couldn't understand it.

Toho is still the Japanese publisher of Gravity, and they are still cooperating with each other.

In Toho's view, although Gravity is very popular in China, this is due to the influence of the film's special theme.

It is normal for Chinese people to watch Chinese space rescue movies.

But if you put it abroad, you can't get enough of this.

Just like The Wandering Earth was hailed as a masterpiece in China, but when it was released overseas, the response was average.

Foreigners don’t have any special filters for China. They only watch movies from the perspective of purely appreciating movies.

After watching Gravity, Toho's distribution department felt that it was indeed a good movie and one that Japanese audiences could also understand and appreciate, but they did not feel that its influence would be greater than Gravity. Red Cliff is bigger.

Come on, the history of the Three Kingdoms is also a well-known story in Japan. They have a huge mass base. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a local battle.

But Gravity is a pure space movie. Except for a small group of science fiction fans, it has no mass base at all.

As we all know, Hollywood has conquered cities around the world, but failed in Japan. Whether it is the Star Wars or Space Trek series, they have not achieved any good box office in Japan.

Compared with these movies, Japanese movie fans prefer to watch some local fresh movies or animation movies.

Now if we switch to Chinese science fiction films, wouldn’t we encounter acclimatization in Japan?

impossible!

Toho's box office estimate for Gravity is three to four billion yen, while its box office estimate for Red Cliff is at least five billion yen.

With a body as small as Gravity, it's too late to avoid Red Cliff, so why does it have to hit it and be released at the same time?

Doesn’t this mean that both parties will suffer losses?

Toho felt that the Age of Light and Shadow was crazy, and unabashedly conveyed his thoughts to the Age of Light and Shadow.

On the other side, Wu Yuan in China, after learning about Dongbao's opposition, could also understand their thoughts.

Wu Yuan certainly knew that Gravity would not do well at the box office in Japan.

The original version of Gravity was well received all over the world, but it only made more than 3 billion yen at the box office in Japan.

Even if Wu Yuan's version has the blessing of his personal fame in Japan, it will have a box office of more than 1 billion. It is impossible to achieve a box office of more than 10 billion like Your Name.

If you give up, you will gain. Just by changing a nationality, many things will change beyond recognition.

Since his Gravity is a special version for China, don't expect to achieve any brilliant results in non-Chinese countries, let alone win $700 million in global box office like the original version.

At present, the overseas copyrights of Gravity have been sold out.

All put together in Europe, the buyout price was more than 30 million US dollars.

In Asia, in addition to the five countries of Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand that conduct separate issuances with local issuers, other small countries in Southeast Asia and South and Central Asia have also sold buyouts worth more than 10 million US dollars in total.

Plus another $20 million from North America, South America, Oceania, North Africa and other regions.

The overseas distribution rights of Gravity were sold for a total of 60 million US dollars, which was almost enough to recover a net profit of 200 million yuan.

From the beginning, Wu Yuan had no plans to distribute Gravity globally.

It's 2008, and Gravity isn't a movie with white faces.

This is because Wu Yuan himself is well-known in the world. Overseas publishers look at Wu Yuan's reputation as an international director. These dozens of countries combined can only sell this price at this price.

Otherwise, it is simply unrealistic for a Chinese-language film to be popular internationally.

The Wandering Earth can't do it!

This is not the influence that a major international director can have. Unless China becomes the world's leader one day, Chinese-language films will be able to sweep most countries around the world like Hollywood.

Wu Yuan only retained the three major markets of Japan, South Korea, and the United States, and planned to conduct separate issuance.

The United States wants to try to increase the influence of Chinese-language films in North America. After all, that is the home base of Hollywood. Not to mention launching a counterattack, Chinese-language films must also make their own voices heard.

As for the Japanese and Korean markets, it is really just adding to the congestion of Red Cliff.

Wu Yuan doesn't expect to make any money in the Japanese and Korean markets with Gravity at all. He just wants to use this movie to snipe the release of Red Cliff in Japan and South Korea.

It just wants to be released at the same time and the same day as Red Cliff, and it just wants to steal the cake from you.

If Gravity gains one point at the box office, Red Cliff will lose one point.

Even if doing so would hurt both sides, Wu Yuan would also be defeated!

He has already made back the cost of Gravity just by selling global distribution and the domestic market, and he can still earn 200 to 300 million yuan. No matter how you calculate it, he has not lost money.

What about Red Cliff?

The domestic market is not enough to repay the investment, and now we are all counting on the Japanese and Korean markets to make money!

The Japanese and Korean markets, which were life-saving straws for Red Cliff, are dispensable for Gravity.

Under such circumstances, it would be impossible for Wu Yuan not to use Wu Baige!

Just tell Toho that Gravity will be released on the same day as Red Cliff.

As long as Dongbao is willing to cooperate like this, my production company in Hollywood can use 1-2 Dongbao actors.

And at least he can play an important supporting role!

Wu Yuan said plausibly: I have a super-A-level blockbuster to be made in Hollywood next year with an investment of at least US$200 million. I will cooperate with Universal or Warner. It is a blockbuster targeting the global market!

As long as Dongbao agrees to cooperate with us in the sniper Red Cliff, then I will give Dongbao's actors a chance to star.

I don't believe that Japanese entertainment companies don't want to break into Hollywood.

Wu Yuan, who holds the only ticket to Hollywood in Asia, is so heroic.

As for what he said about a super-A-level blockbuster with an investment of at least US$200 million, he is indeed not deceiving Toho.

The era of superheroes in Hollywood is coming, and Wu Yuan indeed plans to make a truly super blockbuster of his own in Hollywood within the next two years.

You can't come to Hollywood for so many years and just work for others, right?

Wu Yuan already has plans for this Hollywood blockbuster of his own, and there are indeed several roles in it that can be divided among Asian actors.

Of course, the most important role must be given to your own people, but you can also assign 1-2 supporting roles to Japan.

Giving such a big benefit? Li Xiaoping said in surprise.

It's not okay if we don't give them benefits. If we do this, we are indeed losing Dongbao's interests. Wu Yuan shrugged: It is also appropriate to give them some sweetness.

Okay, this matter has been decided.

How is the situation in the United States?

What does Disney say, is it willing to undertake the North American distribution of Gravity?

Li Xiaoping sighed. She could not stop Wu Yuan from making a firm decision, so she could only talk about another topic in a good-natured manner.

Disney doesn't seem to be very willing to promote the North American release of Gravity.

They believe that this movie is too Chinese and does not conform to American popular values.

Bullshit! Wu Yuan curled his lips disdainfully. The plot of Gravity he filmed is actually not much different from the original version, except that the country was changed.

Why, if this kind of movie is made by Americans, it is the light of democracy, but if it is made by Chinese people, it is not in line with American values?

This is a double standard, well played!

I have something to do today. Please take half a day off.

There are two more chapters, one at 2 o'clock and one at 4 o'clock.