Chapter 649: The Martian Sweeps Across Asia

With Wu Yuan's return to China, The Martian was released in China and even in Asia.

Throughout August, starting with Japan and South Korea, and then to Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and most importantly, the Chinese mainland, East Asian countries gave The Martian the most important screening schedule.

As a Hollywood movie, and with Disney as the distributor, Asian countries have opened the door to this movie.

It has to be admitted that even in the film industry, it depends on national hegemony.

It is also Wu Yuan's movie, but his Chinese-language films cannot get high screenings like The Martian in other Asian countries except Japan.

How high?

The premiere screening rate in South Korea exceeded 28%, the premiere screening rate in Thailand was 36%, and the premiere screening rate in Malaysia and Singapore exceeded 50%, directly occupying the few cinemas in the two countries.

Even in Taiwan, the premiere screening rate of The Martian was raised to 26%.

As a Hollywood movie, "The Martian" does not need to follow Taiwan's mainland film import plan and slowly draw the chance of 10 films per year, and can directly enter the Taiwan film market.

Such a refreshing release arrangement also brought "The Martian" an explosive box office performance at the beginning of the release.

In Asian countries except China, "The Martian" achieved a box office of 28.46 million US dollars in the first three days of the premiere weekend.

Although this result is less than the box office of "The Martian" on the first day in North America, it is already very good for the Asian market.

After all, this is only the East Asian market.

In China, Wu Yuan's Chinese fans who have been waiting for a long time have also burst into extremely high enthusiasm.

Although "The Martian" is a Hollywood movie in English and with European and American faces, the director of this movie is Wu Yuan!

This is one of us!

On the first day of its release in mainland China, The Martian grossed 42.68 million RMB at the box office. Although it is not as good as The Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, which grossed 76.85 million RMB on its first day of release on the first day of the Lunar New Year, for a hard science fiction foreign language film, a box office of over 40 million RMB is already very good.

In the first three days of the weekend, The Martian grossed over 120 million RMB at the box office, indicating that the number of viewers on the three days was similar, and the opening was very strong.

"The total global box office of The Martian has now exceeded $700 million, including North and South America, Oceania and parts of Europe."

"Now with the large-scale release in East Asia and the West Asia region to be released, the final total box office is estimated to be $800 million to $900 million."

"It is unlikely to break $1 billion, but a box office of $800 million is not bad."

"After that, we can also sell the DVD and other peripheral authorizations of The Martian to Disney, and it is estimated to sell for $200 million."

"Conservatively estimated, this movie should bring you a profit of about $500 million, which is not bad."

John reported this last job to Wu Yuan seriously on the phone.

"Hey, you may not know that Disney regrets a little. They regret that they should have added $500 million at the time and bought everything including The Martian directly."

Listening to John's ridicule, Wu Yuan laughed, and laughed happily.

When negotiating the acquisition, Wu Yuan proposed that if Disney added another $500 million, he could sell Light Era directly at that time and no longer care about the later release of The Martian.

But Disney didn't think that "The Martian" could bring in a net profit of $500 million, so it rejected this unrealistic proposal.

In their opinion, the film cost $200 million, and if it relied solely on box office sales, even if the box office broke $1 billion, the light era would not make $500 million.

Of course, the DVD value of this kind of science fiction film is very high, because there will be a large number of fans who will buy DVDs and watch them repeatedly after watching them once.

In the DVD market, horror films and science fiction films have always been the two types with the highest sales.

But the premise is that your film must be a classic science fiction film.

Just like Wu Yuan's "Interstellar", after the film was released, a genuine Blu-ray disc was produced, and the sales in North America were very good, which has brought him more than $100 million in additional income so far.

And the sales in Japan are also very good. After all, Japan is the world's largest DVD sales market. Let alone now, even ten years later, Japan still loves to watch DVD discs.

However, before the release of "The Martian", no one dared to bet that this film could become another science fiction classic film.

Disney was even more reluctant to cover Wu Yuan's bottom line and directly buy out the film's revenue for $500 million. The risk was too high, so they would rather let Wu Yuan take the gamble himself.

And now it has been proven that Wu Yuan won the gamble.

This film will bring him $500 million in revenue, of which $200 million will be from Disney.

Because John is helping Wu Yuan negotiate with Disney about the DVD and peripheral licensing of "The Martian", and even plans to buy out the IP of this film.

For this, Disney will spend $200 million, but they are not at a loss. Referring to "Interstellar", even if this film only sells DVDs, the profits it will bring to Disney in the next ten years will be at least more than $200 million.

It just takes time to accumulate, and the main goal is to make a steady stream of money.

"If Disney is willing to pay, I can certainly sell it quickly."

Wu Yuan said with a smile on the phone: "200 million US dollars, this is not a small amount of money."

"With this 200 million US dollars, I can also take 500 million US dollars from Light Era, and my goal will be achieved."

"What goal?" John asked curiously.

"Of course, the goal is to make 3 billion US dollars from Hollywood!"

The company sold 1 billion US dollars, and the company's current funds in the account are about 700-800 million US dollars. Another 500 million US dollars will be earned, and the cost of "The Martian" will be recovered by 200 million US dollars, plus the money transferred back to China before.

Wu Yuan's Light Era worked hard in Hollywood for ten years, and finally made a net profit of about 3 billion US dollars.

This does not include Wu Yuan's real estate in the United States, and the dividends he has taken from his personal account over the years.

An average profit of 300 million US dollars a year, this is already a very high-yield company.

After all, Wu Yuan does not live in a world of super rich people. For most ordinary people, even middle- and high-income families, they can't make 100 million US dollars in their lifetime.

"Next, my work focus will be put back to China."

"John, I wish you all the best in your new job at Disney."

"Of course, we may have opportunities to cooperate in the future, after all, I will go to Hollywood to make movies."

"Then, see you next time in Hollywood!" (End of this chapter)