Chapter 456: Kingdom: The First Step Out of the Country
Operation Mekong swept across Chinese cinemas in August, becoming the month's biggest star. Not only in China, but also abroad, Operation Mekong has seen strong success, particularly in Southeast Asian countries, where it has seen a surge in viewership.
In addition to the high quality of the film, the biggest reason is that Su Yang has many fans in these places. The film was even introduced to Korean theaters and received a lot of support from Korean audiences.
While Operation Mekong was in full swing, the post-production of Kingdom was also in full swing. Qingyao Digital followed Su Yang's requirements and worked diligently to complete the work.
Filming for The Wandering Earth has officially begun. The entire filming process for The Wandering Earth involved no exterior locations; all filming took place in a studio. The script had already been obtained, so when filming officially began, everyone could begin filming without even having to look at the script.
Everyone takes Su Yang's movies very seriously. Some of the actors in this movie have appeared in Su Yang's movies before and know his personality. No one dares to act big in front of Su Yang, as he has a dog-like temper, sometimes good and sometimes bad.
This time, the main cast is also full of veteran actors, each of whom is a talented actor. Of course, there are also young actors, such as Qin Shumo, who is the main actor of this drama. However, Qin Shumo's youth does not mean that his acting skills are poor. In the past two years, Qin Shumo has also worked hard to learn acting under Su Yang's training. Now, in terms of acting skills, Qin Shumo, who debuted as a self-taught actor, is definitely the most outstanding among young actors.
The filming progress is relatively fast if the preparatory work is done well. According to the plan, the blockbuster "The Wandering Earth" will be released during the summer vacation of next year, and a year is enough time for the crew to work hard.
Time flies. At the end of August, Operation Mekong officially closed in China, and its box office performance was also very good. In China alone, it achieved a score of 3.234 billion RMB.
While this isn't as impressive as "Nezha," it's still impressive. Military-themed films, after all, have a relatively small audience. The majority of viewers of "Operation Mekong" were male, while female viewers were relatively rare, let alone children.
However, the surprises of Operation Mekong are not limited to these. Operation Mekong has also achieved good results in the overseas box office. At present, the entire overseas box office has achieved more than 300 million yuan, which is also quite good.
"Operation Mekong" has officially been withdrawn from theaters, marking another victory for Qingyao Media.
At this moment, in the screening room of Qingyao Media, Su Yang, Tang Qing and others were watching the finished film "Kingdom".
"Kingdom" has a total of ten episodes, and the story is quite compact and not dragged out at all. It is completely in the style of American dramas, and Tang Qing is very obsessed with it at the moment.
Palace fighting plus zombies, it feels a bit like a suspense drama. The fighting scenes are also very exciting. In short, one word: awesome!
Su Yang looked at the quality and nodded in satisfaction. The original version was already a high-quality drama, and now the remake is even more exciting. The script is richer and has been systematically optimized, taking it up a notch overall.
"This time, I should be able to harvest leeks."
Su Yang couldn't help but think that this time this drama will definitely be able to cut the Korean leeks. Now Su Yang has quite a few fans in Korea. After releasing an album, Su Yang has gained a lot of fans in this period of time.
Now Su Yang’s number of die-hard fans in South Korea has exceeded 2.2 million, and the number of high-quality fans has reached 3.8 million. These two items alone add up to a total of 6 million fans.
However, the number of ordinary fans is very small, only a few million, which is quite scary in the Korean market, after all, there are only 52 million people in the whole of Korea.
Su Yang's fan base is mainly young people. The population between the ages of 16 and 35 accounts for about 35% of the total population, or about 18 million people.
Now, among this population of 18 million, the number of Su Yang's die-hard fans and high-quality fans has reached 6 million. This is terrifying, which means that one-third of young people are Su Yang's fans.
This impressive number of fans is partly due to the high quality of Su Yang's songs, but the main reason is the fan-attracting function of the Gold Medal. If it weren't for this, many of his fans would likely be just casual fans, simply liking Su Yang's songs but not becoming die-hard fans.
But the fan-attracting function of the Gold Medal is a cheat. When you listen to a song, sometimes you suddenly become a die-hard fan. It's like watching a very ordinary movie, and suddenly a super touching scene appears and you like the movie because of this scene.
The same is true for the fan circle function. After turning on this function, Su Yang's works will suddenly bring you deep feelings and make you fall into the pit directly.
The leeks have grown and are now finally ready to be harvested.
“It’s so beautiful, I can’t get enough!”
Tang Qing couldn't help but say this after watching the entire TV series, her face full of joy.
"This drama is our first real step out. 'Bad Genius' was just a shortcut. If this drama can do well, we can increase our cooperation with Netflix in the future. Earning dollars and euros is really cool..."
Su Yang's words made Tang Qing laugh and she was full of expectations for the future.
There are very few Chinese films that can truly go global. Bad Genius was just a test, and this Thai film mostly just made money in RMB.
The TV series "Kingdom" is different. It will be released on Netflix. However, Netflix is not in China, so if Chinese audiences want to watch "Kingdom", they will have to wait and see whether Qingyao Media will bring the series to China. After all, the series is technically a Thai TV series.
A Korean drama produced by a Chinese director and funded by a Thai company is intriguing. "Kingdom" has been a hot topic since its premiere. Now that the series is finally finished, the real action is yet to be seen. How it will perform on Netflix is anyone's guess.
Even Su Yang himself wasn't sure. He was confident the show would be a hit in Korea, given his huge fan base. But he couldn't predict how it would fare in Europe and the United States, where he had so few fans. Whether the show would actually appeal to Western audiences was anyone's guess.
Everything is ready, just waiting for "Kingdom" to release overseas. Once "Kingdom" performs well, Su Yang has already planned a series of themes for the future. Who knows, maybe he'll even make it to Hollywood next year? Directors who can make money in Hollywood are considered truly great directors.
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