Chapter 643: Expansion Is Not Desirable

Liu Yifei didn't know that Han Yan's idea for a movie would become the movie "Send You a Little Red Flower".

And Han Yan just had this idea suddenly, and it would take a long time for it to be made into a script.

She didn't know that Han Yan's next movie "Animal World" was lost due to the success of "Go Away! Tumor King".

Or it might be postponed to the future, and "Send You a Little Red Flower" will appear in advance.

However, she knew another important point.

That is, Han Yan was inflated.

Looking at Han Yan's smug look, Liu Yifei opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say it and closed her mouth again.

It's understandable, completely understandable.

As a director, it's normal to be proud and even inflated after shooting and releasing such a successful movie.

Directors like Wu Yuan, who don't have much emotional fluctuations no matter how high the box office results are, are ultimately a minority.

Most directors will get carried away after a success and say or do something proud.

This is normal.

Even Zhang Yimou was a little arrogant after the success of "Hero" and plunged into the "costume blockbuster" theme that brought him honor. He didn't wake up until the box office of each of his three films was less than the previous one.

Now it is normal for Han Yan to think that the "cancer patient group" is his "lucky star".

It is also normal to want to make more movies involving this group.

And Liu Yifei thought about it and felt that there was nothing wrong with making more movies on this theme.

At least her emotional mind felt that this kind of movie with cancer patients as the protagonists is much more meaningful than those ordinary commercial films.

At least it can make the audience feel the difficulties of cancer patients, and it can also bring encouragement and support to other cancer patients, and make the society pay more attention to this vulnerable group.

By the way, are cancer patients considered a vulnerable group?

It should be!

Liu Yifei thought about it for a long time in her mind, and only came back to her senses when she was about to go on stage to meet the audience at the movie meeting and accept interviews.

"Thank you for supporting our "Go Away Tumor!"

"I will bring you more and better movies!"

On the other hand, Wu Yuan, who is far away in the United States, will not know that Han Yan has become arrogant.

Even if he knew, it would not be strange.

If "Send You a Little Red Flower" was born earlier, and "Animal World", which was supposed to be born after "Go Away Tumor", disappeared, Wu Yuan would be very sorry.

Although "Animal World" was not a very influential work later, the reputation and box office of this movie are still quite good.

Although the final box office of this movie was only 510 million, compared with the investment cost of more than 200 million, it can be said that it was far from expectations, and even with various peripheral income, it could only barely reach the point of "not losing money".

But this is the original world that has not changed.

One of the main reasons for the poor box office performance of "Animal World" is that it was unlucky and ran into the phenomenal movie "Dying to Survive".

Compared to "Dying to Survive", "Animal World", which is based on a niche Japanese manga, forcibly splices Japanese anime-style movie characters with American movie styles, and focuses on gorgeous special effects and a commercial popcorn movie with a battle royale mode, is indeed not good enough.

If this movie did not collide with "Dying to Survive", the box office performance would definitely not be only 500 million, at least 700 to 800 million.

However, if "Send You a Little Red Flower" was released in 2016-2017, it seems to be a good choice, and it may be able to achieve more than 1.4 billion box office!

After all, compared to 2021, when the film industry suffered a comprehensive blow and setback, in 2017, the golden age of domestic films, movies with a box office of more than 2 billion were not rare!

But it is obvious that Liu Yifei was not interested in reporting to Wu Yuan the content of Han Yan's chat with her on a whim.

So Wu Yuan was destined not to know about this "surprise".

He is only busy with one thing now.

Run publicity!

It's not just Chinese movies that love to promote.

In fact, this set of things was learned from Hollywood.

Going on shows, recording variety shows, radio, morning news, are all part of promoting movies.

And there are roadshows.

Because "The Martian" is Wu Yuan's last Hollywood blockbuster that he invested in, he is also very concerned about this movie. He put 100% effort and fully cooperated with the promotion work, hoping to make the box office of this movie reach a new peak.

There is no way, the money earned from this movie is still his own. If he makes Hollywood movies again in the future, the big money will definitely have nothing to do with him.

This last chance to get the wool of North America cannot be missed!

In this way, Wu Yuan cooperated with various promotional activities arranged by Disney, appeared on the North American network and TV with unprecedented intensity, and accepted various interviews.

Director Daniel, who was originally very "low-key" and "strange" in the eyes of the general public in North America, appeared in front of the public so frequently for the first time.

This East Asian face, which was originally very difficult to "remember", was also quickly remembered by the North American public.

This is not an easy task. After all, in the eyes of most Europeans and Americans, they are somewhat face-blind when looking at Asians.

Just like many Asians can't tell the difference between white people and black people.

But this time it won't happen. The carpet bombing propaganda has made most North American people remember Wu Yuan's face and his achievements in the film industry.

The most important thing is to remember the upcoming movie "The Martian".

You know, although it is not easy for everyone to remember Wu Yuan's face, "Director Daniel" and his film works are still very well-known in North America.

Especially "Interstellar", this movie has been hailed as a masterpiece and is hailed as the best science fiction movie in the 21st century.

Although this century has only just begun a decade

"The Martian" is a new movie directed by Daniel, and it is also a science fiction theme. Judging from the disclosed news and trailers, it also tells a purely American story.

It is about NASA's exploration of the distant Mars and an interstellar space rescue spanning more than 200 million kilometers.

This is so good!

Especially in the movie trailer, there is a glimpse of the Chinese Space Agency, which seems to imply that the aerospace departments of the two major countries will have some intersections, or even confrontations in the movie.

Cool!

The United States has not had a rival in the aerospace field for a long time.

And the country across the ocean seems to have caught up in recent years.

If there is a science fiction blockbuster that boosts American aerospace, it will definitely be a good thing.

It seems a bit strange that the director of this movie is a Chinese (end of this chapter)