Chapter 311 Success or Failure? Release Date in Japan!

"Success or failure? The negative reviews behind the box office success of "Red Cliff"!"——"Yangcheng Evening News"

"The story is not clear, the characters are completely off-track, there is almost no core, and the movie is equivalent to nonsense. Is it a bit biased to comment on "Red Cliff" in this way?"——"Daily Entertainment News"

"Even though there are many flaws in Red Cliff, it still cannot cover up the brilliance of this movie."——"Southern Metropolis Daily"

"Instead of using the history of the Three Kingdoms as a promotional point, it uses the bed scene between Lin Zhilin and Liang Chaowei. Is this what a historical blockbuster should do?"——"Huaxia Daily"

Looking at the newspaper bought by his assistant, Wu Baige angrily threw it on the table.

"What kind of reporters are these? They don't understand movies and talk nonsense!"

Other articles are fine, but the article in "Huaxia Daily" can be said to have really touched him and made him a little upset.

The movie "Red Cliff" has been promoted since February, but who is it mainly promoted for?

It's not Liang Chaowei, nor Jin Chengwu, or even Chow Yun-fat who plays Cao Cao (if he didn't play in Pirates of the Caribbean 3, he wouldn't refuse to play in Red Cliff), but Lin Chi-lin who plays Xiao Qiao.

To sum it up, she wanted to let the whole world know that Sister Chi-lin played Xiao Qiao.

You ask why?

Wu Baige went to Taiwan in 1984 to develop his film career. The network of people in Taiwan behind him is not much less than that in Hong Kong.

And Lin Chi-lin is a star that Taiwan wants to promote in recent years, even though she is a model.

Before participating in Red Cliff, Lin Chi-lin was just a host with a little fame in Taiwan.

She can become the heroine of Red Cliff, of course there are big promoters behind her.

Wu Baige has always been a supporter and even a pioneer of the argument of "using mainland resources to promote Hong Kong and Taiwan artists".

It's really normal for these two parties to combine.

However, if it were in the past, some people in the mainland would not say much on this topic if they knew that Lin Chi-lin was a new star that the Hong Kong and Taiwan circles wanted to promote.

Just like when Jin Chengwu was promoted, the mainland's first-line male actors played supporting roles, and everyone tolerated it.

But now it is different. Wu Yuan's "Your Name" proved that a purely mainland team can also get high box office, and the Hong Kong and Taiwan team is not the only one.

In the middle, Feng Xiaogang's "Assembly" once again proved that even without big-name actors, it can still get hundreds of millions of box office!

Now there is "Gravity", a Chinese-language movie starring mainland actors that has once again broken the box office record.

When mainland filmmakers have worked hard and supported themselves, the editors-in-chief of mainland entertainment newspapers dared to fire their guns.

Why should mainland movie fans support the stinky feet of Hong Kong and Taiwan stars?

Good is good, bad is bad.

Such a blockbuster with an investment of 300 million yuan, the focus of publicity is an unknown female host from Taiwan. Such an outrageous thing, how could mainland newspapers not complain harshly?

Wu Baige had no reason to refute this kind of criticism, which only made him angry.

I just want to promote a newcomer!

As a director of my age, is it wrong to promote newcomers?

As for the reason for being criticized?

He Wu Yuan doesn't promote newcomers?

That shit "Your Name", aren't all the actors newcomers?

He also stuffed Liu Yifei into the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3".

At that time, why didn't you media reporters talk about him?

Wu Baige was angry in his heart. He didn't understand the points of dissatisfaction of the mainland media at all. He just thought that this group of people were making trouble for no reason.

"Have you summarized the box office data of South Korea, Thailand, and Singapore?" Wu Baige asked his assistant with a lingering anger after throwing those annoying newspapers aside.

"It's been compiled." His assistant said quickly: "It received 200,000 viewers in the first week of its release in South Korea, ranking third in weekly viewing."

"Thailand's first week box office was 800,000 US dollars, also breaking into the top three of the weekly box office."

"Singapore even topped the weekly box office, earning 1.3 million US dollars."

The box office was not much, but the ranking was not bad.

Wu Baige's face also improved a bit.

Just as some film critics said, "Red Cliff" is not a movie made only for Chinese people to watch, and it was even aimed at the foreign market.

After all, Wu Baige is a director who has worked in Hollywood, and his ambition is still very high. He not only wants to sweep Asia, but also wants to counterattack North America.

"We need to increase the publicity in Korea. Let Kim Sung-woo and Chow Yun-fat go to Korea to appear on some programs and do some publicity."

"Has the release schedule in Japan been arranged?"

"It has been arranged." The assistant reported to the director: "It has been confirmed that "Red Cliff" will be released in Japan on November 10th. At that time, all the crew members will go to attend the Japanese premiere."

The most important overseas market for "Red Cliff" is Japan. The Three Kingdoms era is also well-known to the Japanese.

For some reason, the Japanese have a mysterious interest in the Three Kingdoms era of China. In addition, they are influenced by various Three Kingdoms-themed games, and they are also familiar with the heroes of the Three Kingdoms.

Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Cao Cao, Liu Bei and others may be more well-known in Japan than historical figures in unpopular historical periods in Japan.

The Battle of Red Cliff is even more well-known.

It can be said that the Japanese market is the natural ticket warehouse for "Red Cliff".

It is also because of the Japanese market that Wu Baige dared to shoot such a high-investment blockbuster.

He is indeed a bit self-righteous, but he is not a fool. He knows that a movie with an investment of 300 million yuan cannot be supported by the domestic market alone.

"Your Name", an original modern campus romance film, can get 15 billion yen at the box office in Japan. It is not too much for his "Red Cliff" to get 20 billion at the box office together, right?

The Japanese yen is still quite valuable now. 100 yen is equivalent to 6.74 yuan, and 10 billion yen is 670 million yuan. If it sells for 20 billion yen, even if there is no domestic market, "Red Cliff" can break even.

(Foreign films only get about 30% of the revenue share in Japan.)

It can be said that the Japanese market is more important to "Red Cliff" than the Chinese market!

There is no way that the Chinese market can make "Red Cliff" break even.

"November is a bit late, but it's okay." Wu Baige nodded.

Let it be criticized in China.

In order for "Red Cliff" to be recognized by the world, all the threshold things in the work should be eliminated.

Things with national characteristics cannot be preserved, because foreigners cannot understand them.

Personal characteristics cannot be preserved even more.

In the deep-rooted concept of Chinese audiences, Romance of the Three Kingdoms is an eternal classic and is not allowed to be adapted. Therefore, the audience can only accept the old version of the Three Kingdoms and will never understand other people's Three Kingdoms.

Overseas audiences have no idea about Romance of the Three Kingdoms. A blank sheet of paper is easy to paint. Wu Baige believes that his "heroic" movie, which is more in line with the aesthetics of overseas audiences, will receive good reviews overseas.

In this way, flowers bloom outside the wall and will be fragrant inside the wall.

Now these mainland reporters are firing all kinds of shots and criticizing endlessly. When Red Cliff achieves outstanding results overseas, these people will naturally reflect and even take the initiative to admit their mistakes, and turn to sing praises for Red Cliff.

He knows too well what the current situation of mainland movies is.

Inferiority, but extremely wanting to be recognized and accepted by the world, a little bit of success overseas will be praised as a god in China.

Isn't that young man Wu Yuan regarded as a super director in China just because he has achieved some success in Hollywood?

Wu Baige curled his lips with some disdain.

In his opinion, Wu Yuan was just lucky to take over the commercial series "Pirates of the Caribbean" which was destined to be successful.

It was just a common commercial blockbuster in Hollywood. If he were to do it, he could also make it well. There was nothing strange about it.

Directors like him who have made movies for decades, from Hong Kong Island to Taiwan Island and then to Hollywood, step by step, are truly capable and excellent directors who have experienced the test of time.

Wu Yuan? Just got lucky!

Light and Shadow Era, General Manager's Office.

Wu Yuan was also reading today's newly published newspaper at this time.

However, the headline of the newspaper in his hand was different.

"Comment on Gravity: Behind the "realism" of science fiction is national strength!" - People's Daily

"Focus of public opinion: Gravity demonstrates cultural confidence and national strength!" - Xinhua Daily

"Facts have proved that Chinese science fiction has the ability to tell its own stories well!" - Guangming Daily

"Gravity is a breakthrough in the field of science fiction films. Chinese filmmakers have begun to have the confidence to challenge the science fiction films that have been monopolized by Hollywood for many years with their own narrative methods." - China Youth Daily

"Focus on the future, not the traditional Chinese historical epic - Gravity!" - Workers' Daily

The newspapers in Wu Yuan's hands are all official media.

These official media seem to have a tacit understanding. Today, they all wrote an editorial article about Gravity.

Although it is not the front-page headline, it is very rare for official media to occupy half a page in the past Chinese films.

Especially the last editorial of the Workers' Daily, which directly points to a historical epic masterpiece that was recently released, and believes that its adaptation deviates from the real history and makes the epic drama very petty.

Although it did not directly name it, anyone who has read the article knows that it is talking about "Red Cliff".

Although Mr. Han and China Film seem to have great power and are the helmsmen of the Chinese film industry, they really cannot be ranked in the entire Chinese system.

When "Gravity" has been linked to China's aerospace, and to promoting China's strength and boosting national self-confidence, and even has the intention of becoming a Chinese business card, the public opinion of this movie is no longer within the control of China Film.

Even though Mr. Han does not want to see this kind of behavior of stepping on one and praising the other, some official media still praise "Gravity" and take the opportunity to criticize "Red Cliff".

It's normal. Whether the box office of "Red Cliff" is good or not does not affect them.

On the contrary, the random adaptation of "Red Cliff" has made many old writers of official media particularly dissatisfied.

Compared to Gravity, which satisfied the higher-ups, Red Cliff is really unpleasant.

Just like how Mr. Liu could not accept some of the movies that were adapted from Journey to the West, most of the writers in the official media who had been influenced by the Old Three Kingdoms could not accept Wu Baige's version of Red Cliff.

Looking at these articles praising Gravity and criticizing Red Cliff, Wu Yuan was in a very good mood.

Everything is afraid of comparison!

In the dream, when Red Cliff was released, there was no rival that could fight it. Although it was criticized a lot, it was not to the extent that the official media was dismissed.

Now that there is a "good work" to set off, some official media can't help but come out.

"Haha, the daily box office performance of "Red Cliff" this week has been cut in half, right?"

"Yesterday's single-day box office was only 20 million? It's about the same as "Gravity"?"

Wu Yuan laughed so happily.

"Red Cliff" has only been released for the second week, but the box office is almost the same as "Gravity", which has been released for the fourth week. This result can be said to be embarrassing.

Although the total box office still reached 180 million, it is completely incomparable to the exaggerated box office of more than 300 million in his memory!

"Is it confirmed?" Wu Yuan suddenly turned to Li Xiaoping and asked.

Li Xiaoping, who knew what he was asking, said hesitantly: "It's confirmed, November 10th."

"Then let's arrange it on November 10th!"

"After waiting for so long, it's finally set!"