Chapter 406 Avoid the Christmas Season This Year!

"Colin Firth, A Single Man!"

"Congratulations!"

Accompanied by Wu Yuan's full-throated voice, an elegant and gentlemanly old handsome man stood up in surprise in the area where the crew of A Single Man was located, with wrinkles on his face.

After hugging his crewmates one by one, he took two steps at a time and quickly walked up to the podium.

Wu Yuan took the Silver Lion trophy from the concierge with a smile on his face, handed it to Colin Firth, and said to him: "Congratulations, you deserve it."

"Thank you." Colin Firth thanked Wu Yuan very gentlemanly before taking the trophy.

The stage will belong to him next.

Wu Yuan and Sandrine Bernell left the podium from the side in a low-key manner.

Looking at Colin Firth's back as he gave his acceptance speech on the stage, Wu Yuan sighed and said to Sandrine Burnell: "This is a good actor. Venice has a good eye."

Wu Yuan still felt sorry for Colin Firth's loss of the "Kingsman" series.

His performance in this movie was great. He can be said to be the soul of the movie. The other protagonist was just a foil for him.

It can be said that he contributed more than 60% to the success of this IP, and the remaining 40% was the combined credit of the other crew members.

This is similar to Wu Yuan's finding Cheng Long to do the "Kingsman" series.

Cheng Long's version of "Kingsman" is also carried by him alone, even more than the "Rush Hour" series.

It's just that Colin Firth relied on his elegant British gentleman flavor to inject soul into this series.

Cheng Long definitely doesn't have this flavor. He relies on Cheng-style martial arts to bring another soul to this movie.

To be honest, Wu Yuan doesn't know whether Cheng Long's version of "Kingsman" will eventually achieve good results.

After all, the biggest selling point of this series is the contrast between the British gentleman and the image of the agent. After losing this selling point, it is replaced by Cheng Long's Cheng-style comedy effect. I don't know whether the global audience can buy it.

Speaking of which, the post-production of "Kingsman" has been completed, and John is already negotiating the release schedule with the six major studios.

As early as the beginning of this project, New Line and Universal have negotiated the global distribution. The film will be produced by New Line and Light Age and distributed by Universal Pictures.

However, the specific release schedule still needs to be studied.

At present, New Line and John hope that this film can be arranged to this year's Christmas schedule.

Christmas is suitable for watching some family-friendly movies. This schedule is similar to the Lunar New Year schedule in the UK and the United States and China.

In previous years, the Christmas schedule has been occupied by fantasy and magic movies, thanks to the "Harry Potter" series.

However, after the release date of Harry Potter was changed to the summer last year, the Christmas season in North America has once again entered a bloody battle.

But

This year's Christmas season is even more terrifying than the Harry Potter series.

After listening to John's report and knowing that New Line and he were considering releasing Kingsman during the Christmas season, Wu Yuan immediately called a halt and desperately asked them to move up the release date.

What a joke!

This year's Christmas season is Cameron's world!

Avatar, which he shot after ten years of hard work, will be released in North America on December 16 this year!

Before Avatar was released, although the industry generally speculated that the movie had a high chance of being a big hit, after all, it was Cameron's work, and it was his work that he had spent ten years on.

However, even the most optimistic forecasters believed that the movie would only break $500 million in North America at most, and it would be a billion dollars worldwide, which would be incredible.

This is already the top data of Hollywood at present.

Even though the global market has become increasingly large in recent years, the number of movies that can break $500 million at the North American box office and $1 billion at the global box office can still be counted on one hand.

There are only five or six movies that have broken $1 billion at the box office.

Hollywood industry insiders have given Cameron enough respect.

Even so, considering that the capacity of the Christmas season in previous years was very high, and even a single period could cut $1 billion at the North American box office, so even with the entry of "Avatar", everyone still believes that the Christmas season can still accommodate one or two blockbuster movies.

This mentality is just like the current competition for the Lunar New Year season in China, and the subsequent Spring Festival season war.

Everyone believes that there will not be a situation where one movie absorbs the entire plate. Even if a phenomenal movie is released, the remaining plate can still accommodate one or two blockbuster movies.

However, what the entire Hollywood did not expect was that "Avatar" would create a box office miracle.

The North American box office was more than 750 million US dollars, and the global box office broke 2.7 billion US dollars. This is only the result of the first release, and the subsequent re-screenings have not yet counted the accumulated box office of more than 200 million US dollars.

This achievement is something that even Hollywood dare not even think about, but Cameron did it.

Wu Yuan must be smart to release "Kingsman" and "Avatar" at the same time!

The North American film market will usher in the most lively and profitable Christmas season in the history of Hollywood this year!

"Avatar" will repeat the miracle of "Titanic" in 1997, which had a huge blowout in the second week of the Christmas season, with a single week of 75 million US dollars and a box office of 210 million US dollars in two weeks.

Among the movies that compete head-on with "Avatar", "Sherlock Holmes" took in $65 million in its first week!

These two movies can directly suck up the Christmas movies in North America!

New Line unexpectedly did not overestimate its capabilities and wanted "Kingsman" to participate in this year's Christmas season.

Wu Yuan immediately gave John an order to negotiate with New Line. He must move "Kingsman" to the October-November schedule to avoid the terrible "Avatar".

At the closing ceremony in Venice, after seeing Colin Firth win the Best Actor, Wu Yuan suddenly remembered this movie again.

It was painful to wait until the closing ceremony was over and see all the awards being handed out. After the war film "Lebanon" won this year's Golden Lion Award, Wu Yuan left the scene, not caring about the jet lag, and immediately gave it to Yuan Yuan. John in North America made a phone call.

"John, how are you talking about the release date of "Kingsman"?"

"What did New Line say?"

It was still early in the morning in North America, and John, who was sleeping soundly, was called out by Wu Yuan, who said helplessly: "Daniel, aren't you supposed to be attending the Venice Film Festival?"

"The closing ceremony has just ended. My mission is completed." Wu Yuan replied.

"Okay." After sighing, John suppressed his sleepiness and told him, "New Line agrees in principle."

"As you know, Cheng Long's "Rush Hour" has always been released in the summer. It would actually be most suitable for "Kingsman" to be released in the summer."

"However, due to delays in post-production and schedule conflicts, this summer schedule cannot accommodate us."

"Now that you are trying to dissuade us from releasing it on Christmas, we don't have much time left to make a choice."

"October to November is the off-season for the North American box office. New Line intends to make "Kingsman" the most important series of movies in the next five years, and is not willing to release it during the off-season."

"So what New Line is saying is that if you strongly refuse to release it in the Christmas season, then they would rather choose to wait for more than half a year and release "Kingsman" in the summer season next year, rather than hastily release it in the off-season this year. ”

"What do you think, should we postpone it until July or August next year?"