Chapter 345: Gravity and Red Cliff to Be Screened in Japan

Although the world has become a whole, Wu Yuan's departure will not affect the development of China or even the entire Asian film industry.

As Wu Yuan was busy preparing and discussing "Interstellar" in the United States, and holding various online and offline meetings, all discussions and reports about him in China gradually cooled down.

There are too many news worth reporting in the entertainment industry.

Wang Jingwen and Li Yapeng are suspected of divorce?

Zhang Ziyi's slightly protruding belly is suspected of being pregnant?

Liu Dehua's secret marriage was exposed?

But in the end, all the news was a false alarm.

One after another, the "explosions" hyped by entertainment reporters continued to grab the public's attention, and the trend of "entertainment to death" gradually began to expand in China.

Television stations, led by Mango TV, also stepped up their efforts to introduce Korean Wave.

Han Geng, the son of the first generation of Korean Wave, began to lead the idol worship trend in the mainland.

The appearance of Wu Yuan seemed to have changed something, but it seemed that nothing had changed.

The entertainment trend in China is still developing in the way he is familiar with.

The appearance of an outlier cannot change the tide of the entire era.

And he himself is actually a part of the dividends of this entertainment era.

When the time entered November, although Wu Yuan was still not in China, his name began to appear frequently again in major domestic entertainment news.

"Gravity" is going to be released in Japan.

As Wu Yuan's second largest ticket base, his movies have always had very good box office in Japan.

Starting from "Your Name", which broke countless Japanese box office records, to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, and even "Those Years" produced by Light and Shadow Times, they have achieved very good box office results in Japan.

Light and Shadow Times, a Chinese film production company, is also well-known in Japan, at least in the field of campus youth movies.

For example, Li Yang is currently filming "A Little Thing Called First Love". The movie has not been finished yet, and Toho in Japan has already discussed with Light and Shadow Times about the introduction and release of the movie.

They trust and are optimistic about the campus youth movies produced by Light and Shadow Times!

And "Gravity" shot by Wu Yuan is also one of the most anticipated foreign movies by Japanese movie fans this year.

Of course, since it is one of them, there are other opponents.

The most threatening one is "Red Cliff 1" which was released in Japan on the same day.

"Red Cliff 1" is also highly anticipated by Japanese movie fans.

The competition between these two movies in China ended with "Red Cliff" losing.

But in the Japanese market, mainland reporters are generally more optimistic about the performance of "Red Cliff 1".

After all, this is a movie about the Three Kingdoms, and Japanese movie fans are not as picky as mainland movie fans when it comes to the Three Kingdoms story.

After all, the Japanese themselves have made many spoofs of the Three Kingdoms theme, and there are too many comics with gender-changing characters in the Three Kingdoms on Japanese websites.

"Red Cliff 1" just turned the epic Battle of Red Cliff into a love play and Zhou Yu's personal charm show. This adaptation just fits the appetite of Japanese movie fans.

You can't expect a country where the Warring States period was just a fight between villages to experience and feel an epic war blockbuster. On the contrary, this kind of petty story is very in line with the aesthetics of Japanese movie fans.

Wu Yuan sometimes secretly speculated that Red Cliff was a movie that Wu Baige had tailored for Japanese movie fans, and that it was the Japanese style of small-mindedness that he wanted.

Wu Baige, who had not been active since the poor box office performance in the mainland, began to jump around after November.

He accepted a media interview and said that Red Cliff 1 was aiming for the box office champion of Japanese overseas movies this year.

He then said on a TV show that Red Cliff 1 was a Chinese movie that could be easily accepted and understood by overseas audiences, and that it was an attempt to make Chinese culture easier to go abroad.

In short, although Red Cliff 1 lost to Gravity in China, it was not a crime of war!

The battlefield of this movie is overseas, not in China!

As for Gravity?

This is just a box office result that was pushed out by the official administrative power of China. It is not as popular as Red Cliff 1 overseas.

Although he gnashed his teeth at Wu Yuan's insistence on scheduling Gravity and Red Cliff 1 to be released on the same day, Wu Baige had no intention of changing the release date, and just did it!

As a senior, if he chose to change the release date just because Gravity, which was scheduled later, was released on the same day as his own, wouldn't it mean that he was afraid of Wu Yuan?

This is more shameful than losing to Wu Yuan at the box office!

It is impossible to change the release date.

Then we can only fight head-on.

In order to defend his honor, Wu Baige mobilized all the leading and supporting actors of Red Cliff 1 this time. The group flew to Tokyo on November 3rd and started a week-long promotional campaign for it.

He led the team to frequently participate in variety shows on major Japanese TV stations, and also mobilized his connections to find actors such as Kimura Takuya to promote it.

This Chinese movie quickly gained popularity in Japan with its unconditional publicity efforts. Even ordinary passers-by knew that the movie was about to be released.

In comparison, the crew of "Gravity" seems very dull.

Wu Yuan is in the United States, Gong Li is on vacation in Singapore, and neither the director nor the leading actor intends to go to Japan for promotion.

Although Dongbao has also received promotion funds, it not only broadcasts the Japanese trailer of "Gravity" everywhere on TV and the Internet, but also posts a large number of posters offline, but the momentum is still not comparable to "Red Cliff 1" where all the crew came to Japan for promotion.

Not to mention, Kim Sung-woo, a handsome guy, is still very famous in Japan. He is a new handsome man after Kimura Takuya, and it will be twice as effective to promote "Red Cliff 1".

Dongbao was so anxious that they called China overseas, hoping that the crew of "Gravity" could also go to Japan for promotion.

Gong Li is a top actress with a great reputation in Europe, and she has also served as the chairman of the jury of the Tokyo International Film Festival.

Not to mention the director Wu Yuan, in the eyes of Japanese movie fans, he is the most powerful commercial film director in Asia and a Hollywood director.

If the two of them can go to Japan for promotion, they can compete with "Red Cliff 1".

However, after receiving this invitation, Wu Yuan decisively refused.

He was holding brainstorming meetings with Jonathan and others every day to improve the script of "Interstellar" and study the shooting methods. How could he have time to go to Japan?

"Red Cliff 1", which could have earned 310 million yuan in the mainland, only earned 180 million yuan in the end due to the sweep of "Gravity".

After beating "Red Cliff 1" to the ground in the mainland market, Wu Yuan was almost out of his temper.

Setting the release date of "Gravity" and "Red Cliff 1" on the same day in Japan was enough to disgust Wu Baige, and at least it could make "Red Cliff 1" lose one-third of its Japanese box office compared to the original time and space, hitting him again.

It was enough to achieve this step.

It was really unrealistic to expect "Gravity" to suppress "Red Cliff" in Japan as it did in the mainland.

After all, Japanese movie fans don't have the Chinese national pride, so they will only see "Gravity" as an ordinary space disaster movie. In terms of influence, it is really not as high as the Three Kingdoms theme.

Wu Yuan has already won a lot by being able to disgust Wu Baige in the Japanese market.

Anyway, Wu Baige will have another "Sword Rain" produced by him to be released next year, and he has prepared a surprise for Wu Baige by then!

A surprise that will make Wu Baige so angry that he will jump up and down. (End of this chapter)