Chapter 637 The Last Busy Time Before Going to the United States

Beijing, Wu Yuan's home.

"So, starting from June, you will go with the group to promote "Go Away Tumor", right?" Wu Yuan said calmly while reading the newspaper and drinking tea.

"I say, why are you like an old man now?" Liu Yifei brought the breakfast to Wu Yuan with a black face and said speechlessly: "Drinking tea, reading newspapers, and wearing a pair of reading glasses, you are just like those grandfathers in their seventies and eighties."

"You are only 31 years old this year!"

"Do men really "grow up" after they turn 30?"

"Oh!" Wu Yuan suddenly exclaimed, interrupting Liu Yifei's words: "I'm going to be 31 this year!"

"Xixi, should we get the marriage certificate?" Wu Yuan suddenly turned around and stared at Liu Yifei's face.

Liu Yifei, who rarely blushed when they were together, blushed for the first time and slapped him in annoyance: "Is this your attitude when proposing?!"

"Ah?!" Wu Yuan was stunned. Didn't he propose to her successfully a long time ago?

"When I was in Korea."

"Hmph."

Liu Yifei raised her chin and snorted proudly, and said in a humming voice: "Anyway, don't think of tricking me into getting the marriage certificate so easily!"

After that, she ignored Wu Yuan and turned around and went upstairs.

Without using his brain, Wu Yuan guessed that she must have gone to chat with her girlfriends and complain about herself.

Shaking his head and laughing, Wu Yuan ate his breakfast in a few mouthfuls and shouted upstairs: "I'm going to the company to edit the film, don't wait for me to eat at noon!"

"Got it!"

The post-production work of "Dear" is not complicated, but it is indeed very troublesome.

This movie is different from "Love Letter". "Love Letter" is not very complicated in terms of storyboards or color composition. It is just a very simple love movie.

But "Dear" is different. In this movie, Wu Yuan incorporates more "artistic colors", uses many meaningful metaphors, and some meaningful close-up pictures.

For example, the male and female protagonists face the camera's enlarged pupils many times...

How to deal with these shots and how to cut them into the feature film more smoothly still requires Wu Yuan to think carefully, even if he has thought about it in advance.

But post-production is no less difficult for a movie than a super major surgery.

In one and a half months, Wu Yuan basically cut out a rough outline, with only a little bit of material left to be processed.

But it is precisely this little bit that requires more time and effort than the previous 99%.

It took a long time to trim and trim. Wu Yuan revised and trimmed again, from the first version of 128 minutes, to 116 minutes, which was barely satisfactory.

What's more interesting is that this 116-minute film, although 12 minutes shorter than the 128-minute version, has many more shots that were not originally cut into the film.

When this final version was completed, Wu Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.

So far, the pre-production work of the movie "Dear" has been completed, and it only needs to wait for the release date, publicity, and release.

As for when the release date will be, it has already been determined, and it must be set during the National Day.

Although it seems that the National Day is not in line with the theme of "Dear", for Wu Yuan, the theme is no longer the focus, he just needs a popular schedule to release his movie.

After completing the pre-production work of "Dear", it also announced that Wu Yuan had no other important things to deal with before going to the United States.

Yes, Wu Yuan, who had not been to the United States for a long time, is going to the United States again.

In a blink of an eye, it was already the end of May and the beginning of June when the post-production of "Dear" was completed.

"The Martian" has been confirmed to be released in North America on August 9, which is the second weekend of August.

In fact, Disney was originally inclined to put "The Martian" into the July schedule, but Wu Yuan refused.

This year's July schedule in North America is not easy to deal with!

On July 3, "Despicable Me 2" (Minions) was released, which is a super animated film that swept the world!

On July 12, "Grown Ups 2" was released. This movie is not very good, but it can't stand the release of "The Conjuring" the next week.

Although James Wan's latest work "The Conjuring" is a low-cost R-rated horror film, this thing is as outrageous as James Wan's famous work "Saw"!

In the first three days of its release, it took in 41.53 million US dollars in the box office and topped the box office list, directly breaking the best opening box office of original horror films in the world, and finally won 318 million global box office.

No one thought that such a low-cost restricted horror film could actually take a global box office of 318 million US dollars.

If it had to be released the week before The Conjuring, it is obvious that The Martian would have been severely squeezed by The Conjuring in its second week.

This does not fit Wu Yuan's long-term profit plan at all.

In his opinion, The Martian is going to drag out the battle line and fight a long war this time.

The box office duration of original science fiction movies is longer than that of most other movies.

For most movies, the box office of the first week of release generally accounts for more than 30% of the final box office. Some are so exaggerated that they can only make money for one week, and the box office of the first week of release accounts for more than 70% of the total box office.

Original science fiction movies are different. Generally, the box office of such science fiction movies in the first week of release will not be the highest, because it takes time for the word of mouth of the movie to ferment.

For an original science fiction movie, its box office growth period will mostly reach its peak in the second and third weeks, and then begin to weaken, and it can be released for at least one and a half months.

Of course, the premise is that the quality of the movie itself is indeed a masterpiece.

After all, most people who love to watch science fiction movies are not the kind of "fanatics". They will arrange their time reasonably and do not pursue going to the cinema to watch it in the first week of release, so the box office revenue period will naturally be extended.

But if it is released next week with "The Conjuring", with the explosive box office momentum of "The Conjuring" at the beginning of the release, the film company will definitely reduce the screening of "The Martian" and increase the screening of "The Conjuring".

Even if the director is Wu Yuan, it is useless. Those who delay the cinema's profit will stand aside.

Even if the box office peak period of "The Conjuring" may be only about the first two weeks of release, but with the influence of the screening in these two weeks, the box office performance of "The Martian" will not be as good as expected.

That’s why Wu Yuan strongly requested Disney to set the release date of “The Martian” to August 9.

August is a good month.

In the first week, the movie “300: Rise of an Empire” was released. Just looking at the title, you can tell that it is a movie about 300 Spartans, and the audience is very limited.

In addition, there is also “Red 2” released, which is a movie by Summit Entertainment and a sequel, but Wu Yuan knows that the performance of this sequel is average and it withered after the first week.

In the second week of August, which is August 9, only a few low-budget movies were released. The only one worth watching was “Elysium” which was turned down by Matt Damon.

Because Matt was going to shoot “The Martian”, he turned down “Elysium” which he was originally going to take on. The male lead of this movie was replaced by Brad Pitt, who is also a big name.

But to be honest, changing the male lead can’t save this movie.

“Elysium” is a movie directed by Neill Blomkamp, ​​the director of “District 9”. It continues the style of “District 9”, but it did not achieve the success of “District 9”.

The film only made 20 million in its first week, but the box office quickly shrank in the second week, and had no impact on The Martian at all. (End of this chapter)