Chapter 142: Estimated Box Office Released, Crowned the King of Commercial Films

Chapter 142 The estimated box office is released, crowning the king of commercial films!

“The wine produced by the girl’s feet must taste very sweet.

"The relationship between Sanye and Jun Lin is so pure and beautiful."

"This movie was really made by a Chinese director. If Shunji Iwai's movie hadn't been released, I would have thought it was Shunji Iwai's work!"

"Ah, the scene where Sanye and Lin Jun finally met made me cry to death."

"The songs in this movie are also very nice. Does anyone know the names of these Chinese songs? Can they be found on the Internet?"

In the Mitsui Garden Hotel in Tokyo, Liu Yifei and Hu Ge were sitting under the transparent floor-to-ceiling windows, concentrating on the comments from netizens that Toho helped translate.

It has been a week since "Your Name" was released in Japan, and the daily box office is still high.

So far, it has grossed a total of 2 billion yen at the box office!

The appeal of commercial films to the public is really not comparable to that of literary and artistic films.

Wu Yuan's "The Embalmer" also has a very high reputation in Japan and is known as the best Chinese film in the past five years.

However, the box office of this movie in Japan was only 2.6 billion yen. Even in Wu Yuanmeng's case, the box office result of the original "The Embalmer" was only 3.8 billion yen.

"The Embalmer" reached such a box office and was released in Japan for three months.

In comparison, the viewing craze attracted by "Your Name" is simply overwhelming.

"Director Wu, major theaters across the country will continue to increase the schedule of "Your Name". It is expected that the box office of this movie will reach 4 billion yen within a month!"

"The final total box office result may be more than 18 billion yen!"

The representative of Toho Co., Ltd. was even more excited than Wu Yuan. He clenched his hands and looked at Wu Yuan with admiration.

Great directors who are able to work in Hollywood are different. They can make Hollywood blockbusters and sell them well, but they can actually achieve better results when they make a Chinese movie!

Looking at the historical box office charts of Japanese movies, the release momentum of "Your Name" is also extremely amazing.

Judging from the current box office trend, the film is likely to eventually hit a box office figure of more than 18 billion yen, making it into the top ten in Japan's historical box office list.

For the Japanese film market, every movie that exceeds 10 billion yen in box office is enough to be remembered for a long time.

It’s almost as influential as China’s box office exceeding 100 million.

Last year, there were only three movies with a box office of over 10 billion yen in the Japanese film market!

They are the sequels of "Jumping Line", "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and "The Matrix 2"!

These three movies achieved box office results of 17.35 billion yen, 17.3 billion yen and 11 billion yen respectively.

In comparison, "Pirates of the Caribbean" only ranked sixth on the list with a box office of 6.8 billion.

"Hero" ranked tenth with 4 billion.

This movie also relied on the Japanese market to finally make money back.

The box office of 4 billion yen is about more than 300 million yuan, and the Chinese production company can share more than 60 million yuan, which is a big gain.

As for Wu Yuan's "Your Name", Toho Co., Ltd. currently predicts that it is very likely that the final box office will exceed 18 billion yen!

According to the current exchange rate, 18 billion yen is more than 1.38 billion yuan!

This is nearly ten times the box office performance in the Mainland! It is an extremely exaggerated number!

Why doesn't Wu Yuan pay attention to this? Why doesn't he like Japanese movie fans?

"Okay!" He smiled and patted the representative of Toho Co., Ltd. on the shoulder. "It is very pleasant to cooperate with your company. We will definitely have opportunities to cooperate in the future."

The better days are yet to come!

"Painted Skin" is also a fantasy film under Asian culture specially prepared for the Japanese market!

"Hi! Director Wu chose our Toho Co., Ltd. This is the most win-win choice!" the representative of Toho Co., Ltd. said with pride.

He does have the qualifications to be proud of. Toho Co., Ltd. occupies almost 80% of the Japanese film distribution market. Even Sony, which was born in Japan, cannot compete with Toho locally.

Toho also made a fortune on the movie "Your Name".

In Japan, there are two concepts of movie box office revenue - "ration revenue" and "box office revenue."

To put it simply and crudely, the ticket price of Japanese cinemas is uniform across the country, which is 1,800 yen (a few individual theaters may fluctuate), and the total box office is the total amount of all movie tickets sold.

But the rationing income is different. The rationing income is actually the money that the mainland’s “producers + publishers” can get.

In other words, Hikari Times and Toho Co., Ltd. can only divide money among this "rationed income".

This "rationed income" requires the distributor to negotiate with the theaters. Different movies can negotiate different figures, which can range from 40% to 70%.

Factors such as the distributor's policies, the type of film, and the film's expected commercial performance can all affect the size of the ratio.

As the largest distributor in Japan, Toho Co., Ltd. naturally has enough confidence to negotiate a good bill-sharing ratio with theaters compared to small distributors.

Originally, overseas films have gone through an additional screening process before entering the local market, and overall the probability of being a hit is indeed higher.

Therefore, the share ratio negotiated by Toho Co., Ltd. for "Your Name" is not bad, and it can get 60% of the total box office!

That is, out of 18 billion yen, the production and distribution parties can take 10.8 billion yen, about 780 million yuan.

Then Guangyingshidai and Dongbao will share the 10.8 billion yen.

According to the contract agreed upon by the two companies, after deducting the copy fee (film copy fee) and publicity fees, Guangyingshidai will take 60% of the remaining money and Dongbao will take 40%.

This is the best condition that Wu Yuan can negotiate, that is, he is a big director in Hollywood, with the popularity of "Departures" and "Pirates of the Caribbean", and Dongbao is optimistic about the box office performance of "Your Name", so he can negotiate a 60% share.

Otherwise, some ordinary Chinese and Hollywood movies can only take 40%-50%, which is basically divided equally with the distributor.

In other words, out of the 780 million yuan, after deducting the publicity and distribution costs of about 30 million, Guangyingshidai can finally get a net profit of 450 million yuan.

Dongbao can also share 300 million yuan. You should know that Dongbao only paid 30 million yuan for publicity and promotion costs, and this money was "advance payment". After the movie is released, it must first break even on this cost, and then share the profit.

It is equivalent to Dongbao using extremely low risk of loss to easily exchange for a net profit of 300 million yuan.

How can they not be satisfied with this?

They wish Wu Yuan could continue to bring such a box office-selling Chinese movie to Japan to cooperate with them in the future!

Just like the Hollywood blockbusters that entered the country in the form of split-account, all of them were monopolized and distributed by China Film, and they ate a lot.

And Wu Yuan, who was able to get a profit of 450 million, was also very satisfied.

Although compared with the estimated total box office of 1.35 billion, this money is only one-third, and the bulk of it was taken away by Japanese theaters and distribution companies.

But making movies, which country is not like this?

"Your Name" had a domestic box office of 140 million, and Guangshidai could only get a 38% share of the revenue in the end, only 53 million, which is not enough to cover the cost!

In comparison, the Japanese market is so powerful that Wu Yuan is already extremely satisfied.

"Mr. Yamashita, your Toho is worthy of being the largest film production and distribution company in Japan." Wu Yuan raised his thumb and said to the representative of Toho: "It's really amazing and strong!"

"We are about to return to China. The promotion and subsequent release of "Your Name" in Japan will be handed over to your company."

"I hope we can work together to set a new record!"

At present, the highest-grossing Chinese-language film in Japanese film history is Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon", which has a box office of 5 billion yen. If inflation is taken into account, it is at least more than 10 billion yen now.

Now it seems that the movie "Your Name" is expected to break the record held by Mr. Bruce Lee for 30 years.

It's a pity that even if "Your Name" is expected to enter the top ten Japanese movie box office, it may not be able to win the Japanese box office champion this year.

At the end of this year, Mr. Gong's "Howl's Moving Castle" will be released.

This movie has a box office of 19.6 billion yen in Japan, and it has become the box office champion of this year's movies.

Wu Yuan's version of "Your Name" will never achieve the 25 billion yen box office he dreamed of. At most, it will hover between 17 billion and 18 billion, barely taking the second place this year.

Although it's barely, Wu Yuan couldn't close his mouth with a smile.

"Xixi, Hugo." Wu Yuan shouted to the two people who were still staring at the computer and reading the comments: "Pack up, our promotion in Japan is almost over."

"I'll be back in two days!"

For Wu Yuan, the promotion of "Your Name" is now over.

Although this movie will also be released in South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and other places, it is not worth Wu Yuan's personal promotion to these countries.

Even South Korea, the sixth largest film market in the world, is not worth his personal visit.

South Korea is now vigorously promoting and supporting its own cultural and entertainment industry. Although it is not to the point of closing the country, it is indeed not very welcome to foreign movies to grab food in their country.

Except for the United States, which can make Hollywood movies unimpeded in South Korea with its hegemonic influence and "suzerain" status, it is difficult for other foreign movies to get good screenings.

If "Your Name" wants to have good box office results in South Korea, it can only make up for it with low screenings and high attendance.

Wu Yuan doesn't have to put his face on the cold butt.

On April 16, Wu Yuan took Hu Ge and Liu Yifei back to Beijing from Tokyo.

After half a month, they returned to Beijing again, and the treatment they faced was completely different.

Outside the Beijing International Airport, there were hundreds of reporters and fans who came to pick them up, and the pick-up gate was crowded.

Although they were in Tokyo, domestic media reporters were all paying attention to every move of "Your Name" released in Japan!

The current Chinese people need some successful things about China's overseas expansion to inspire people.

Whether it is private enterprises that have successfully gained a foothold abroad, or entertainment works that have gone overseas, or outstanding talents who have won awards abroad.

Anything that can enhance the national honor and self-confidence of the people will be written about and publicized.

"Your Name" swept the whole audience in Japan, and the box office exceeded 2 billion yen in one week, and won 6 billion yen in half a month, becoming the most popular movie in April, and frequently dominated the headlines of major mainstream TV stations and newspapers in Japan.

All these exciting news were reported back to China as soon as possible, and they rushed to report in China, which caused a sensation among the domestic public.

Even CCTV specifically mentioned the news that "Your Name" caused a viewing craze overseas in the morning news.

Although this overseas only refers to Japan.

It was still enough to shock the public, and then they quickly became proud of Wu Yuan.

Last year, "Hero" was released in North America and earned a box office of 53.71 million US dollars, and the global box office accumulated 177 million US dollars (1.4 billion yuan), which excited Chinese movie fans and felt the taste of the rise of Chinese movies.

This year is even more sharp!

Wu Yuan's "Your Name" is about to break the record of "Hero"!

Although this movie has not been released in North America, it has already earned 800 million yuan in box office in Asia, not far from the 1.4 billion yuan of "Hero"!

The screening period of "Your Name" has only reached the middle of the show!

Wu Yuan is now completely remembered by the domestic public.

"Your Name" has completely consolidated Wu Yuan's fame accumulated by "Departures" and "Pirates of the Caribbean".

The public and fans in China and Japan have a clear understanding of this young Chinese director, and are no longer in the embarrassing state of only hearing his name but not knowing his works!

Wu Yuan has truly become a top-tier director in China and Japan.

In China, his fame is on par with Zhang Yimou. Maybe he can't compare in awards, but in terms of popularity and status, they are already on par.

If you randomly grab someone on the street and ask him who is the most famous director in China, he will either answer Zhang Yimou or Wu Yuan.

Zhang Yimou's domestic box office performance, a blockbuster "Hero", made countless directors in the circle look up to him, and they couldn't catch up.

Wu Yuan's overseas box office performance, a "Pirates of the Caribbean" plus "Your Name", also made domestic directors, including Zhang Yimou, daunted and didn't even have the courage to challenge.

In the past, Wu Yuan's high-grossing movies were all Hollywood movies. With the blessing of the global market, domestic directors were jealous, but they didn't think Wu Yuan was awesome.

There was a bit of "I can do it too", and they had fantasized that if they were Wu Yuan, they could also achieve such box office results if they had Hollywood commercial blockbusters to shoot.

But now, reality has slapped them in the face.

Brother Yuan is still Brother Yuan.

"Your Name", a purely mainland team, not only won 140 million box office in China, becoming the first mainland movie with a box office of over 100 million after "Hero", but also won the weekly box office champion in many places in Asia.

Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand all won the box office champion in the week of release.

Although South Korea did not win the box office championship, it also entered the top five box office, with 260,000 moviegoers in a single week.

Not to mention Japan, "Your Name" is about to become the annual box office champion in Japan.

Wu Yuan used his hard power to prove to the entire Chinese film industry.

He is the director who is best at making commercial films in China!

Even Zhang Yimou may not be better than him in the field of commercial films!

After this battle, Feng's title as the king of domestic commercial films is no longer mentioned.

Wu Yuan is officially crowned the new king!

An era of Chinese commercial films that belongs to him is about to begin!

The Japanese yen exchange rate conversion in the previous article was wrong, and the data has been modified. The data in this picture shall prevail.

"Spirited Away", released in 2001, broke the box office of 10 billion yen in 25 days.

In 2003, there were two movies in Japan with a box office of more than 17 billion yen.

Compared with the box office performance of 25 billion yen of the original "Your Name", I think this performance is reasonable.