Chapter 451 The Big One Is Coming!

“I hope so.

Faced with Wu Yuan’s impassioned speech, John, the old hand, was not aroused by any psychological fluctuations.

However, his point of view is consistent with Wu Yuan, and Interstellar will definitely succeed!

Light Age has borne half of the investment cost of this movie, and invested $100 million in it!

To be honest, this money is not much to earn.

The investment of each film in the Twilight series is only at the level of tens of millions of dollars, but it can be exchanged for 600 to 700 million US dollars in global box office.

The cost of Interstellar is 200 million US dollars, and can the box office of this movie exceed 3 billion US dollars?

This is obviously unrealistic.

In addition, Universal spent 200 million US dollars on publicity and promotion, and they will take more distribution share.

In fact, even if the box office of Interstellar is as strong as Avatar, if we only consider the profit ratio, it is not necessarily that the profit brought to Light Age is more than that of Twilight. City》High.

But for a film company, making high-investment blockbusters is the only way. Blindly making small and medium-cost movies can make money, but it cannot form the company's influence.

Many high-investment movies made by the Big Six in Hollywood cannot make back their investment just by selling box office, or the profit is very low, but they still persist in making blockbusters.

On the one hand, blockbusters can make money by selling DVDs, peripherals, co-branded products, copyrights and other aspects.

On the other hand, it also increases the company's influence.

Guangshidai now has a net profit of 200 to 300 million US dollars each year, and sometimes it can be 400 to 500 million. It can already withstand such commercial blockbuster projects with an investment of 100 to 200 million, and even if it loses money, it will not hurt the bones.

So John fully supports Wu Yuan in making blockbusters.

"Daniel, after the release of "Interstellar", will you start preparing for your next movie, the one you agreed with Matt Damon. "Look, John asked again expectantly.

The shooting schedule of Light Era for next year is still very loose. In addition to the preparation of "Twilight 4", there is only one movie that has been delayed for a long time and is finally going to be filmed, "World War Z".

Now the time is ripe to make "World War Z" into a movie, and it will be filmed in IMAX 3D next year.

With the current scale of Light Era, it can already start three movie projects at the same time.

"That movie." Wu Yuan pondered for a moment and thought: "Don't worry, let's match the schedule with Matt first, and start preparations next year, and strive to release it in 2012. "

"Speaking of which, I have been away from Chinese fans for a long time. The last commercial film "Gravity" released in China was in 2008. "

"Next, I should make a movie in China first. ”

Although China’s commercial film market has not yet grown to the golden age of a single film box office of several billion, after experiencing the baptism of “Avatar”, the number of domestic fans willing to go to the cinema to watch movies has indeed more than doubled.

The next few years will be a few years of domestic movie box office explosion. His “Gravity” holds the domestic film box office record in the mainland, which may be broken soon.

Wu Yuan still intends to defend the dignity of the first domestic commercial film director.

However, this time he does not plan to shoot a special effects blockbuster that requires a lot of special effects.

Special effects blockbusters have high investment and long production cycles. It's really too tiring to make one.

It took him one and a half years, almost two years, to prepare for the release of Interstellar. It's not an easy job.

In Hollywood, he has to make The Martian, which has relatively few special effects and focuses more on the plot. He doesn't want to make special effects blockbusters in China.

And to put it bluntly, except for The Wandering Earth, there are no special effects blockbusters in Chinese movies that are very well made.

Of course, Wu Yuan will not make that kind of low-cost comedy.

Although Lost in Thailand is really profitable, he really can't bring himself to do it, so he just told the company to Contact Xu Zheng's team.

"Lost on Journey", directed by Hong Kong film director Ye Weimin, was released in mainland China in early June. The box office performance was very good, and Xu Zheng became very popular.

It's not surprising that Guangying Times took the initiative to contact him.

Wu Yuan didn't intend to let Guangying Times pick up the leak of "Lost in Thailand".

Let Guangying Times work hard to pocket the money.

As for himself, Wu Yuan has been thinking about shooting a whole feature film recently.

Over the years, none of the Chinese commercial films he has shot can be regarded as a serious feature film.

Your Name should be considered a youth fantasy film, Painted Skin is a magic film, and Gravity is a space science fiction film...

He has never made a commercial film that relies entirely on the plot story as the core selling point, and the plot story is completely based on the collision between several characters.

For example, he has never made commercial dramas such as Let the Bullets Fly, Dying to Survive, Nobody, and Donkey.

Of course, it is a pity that movies like Dying to Survive and Nobody were made in 2010, because the box office market cannot accommodate these good films.

But there is one movie that Wu Yuan still has some ideas about.

"After the release promotion of Interstellar is over, I will return to China to prepare for my new Chinese movie." Wu Yuan spread his hands and said to John: "This movie will not use any special effects technology, so it will be shot quickly, and it will be ready before the middle of next year at most."

"Then I will come to the United States to prepare for The Martian, and everything will be in time."

Wu Yuan, who was born to be a hard worker, still couldn't escape the working state of being busy for two and a half years and resting for half a year.

"OK, your movie, you decide." John shrugged, he couldn't control Wu Yuan's shooting plan.

"Then it's settled first, I have to meet with Universal and prepare to start the promotion of Interstellar." Wu Yuan stood up and smiled.

At the same time, not long after Wu Yuan arrived in Los Angeles, paparazzi released the news of Wu Yuan's return to the United States on the Internet in North America.

Wu Yuan's new movie Interstellar is no longer a secret in the United States.

Unlike Nolan, he does not have such a strict idea of ​​keeping secrets. He held a press conference for this film from the beginning of filming, and did not miss any publicity.

Now most North American fans who follow movies and Hollywood have already known that "Interstellar", directed by Wu Yuan, is about to be released.

North American fans are still looking forward to Wu Yuan, a director of the $1 billion box office club.

In particular, when "Interstellar" is also a movie shot with native IMAX 3D shooting techniques like "Avatar", North American fans are even more interested.

[Daniel Wu ended his vacation and arrived in Los Angeles! "Interstellar" is scheduled to be released in August this year, and it is coming with great momentum! ]

[Direct shot of Daniel landing at Los Angeles International Airport! Are you ready to be bombarded by the new film of this top Chinese commercial director? ]

Two news from the Los Angeles Times and Hollywood Entertainment News were immediately topped on Twitter's hot searches.

The big one is coming! (End of this chapter)