Chapter 1082: The World's Best
Many fans regretted that the veterinarian who delivered Nikko’s baby was not Yu Zhan.
In everyone's opinion, Dr. Yu seemed to have disappeared from the public eye for a long time. It was said that he rushed to the United States as soon as Liu Yu got into trouble in the United States, but no one saw any relevant information about him in the foreign news. Instead, He Lushen repeatedly grabbed the headlines and became the most prominent Chinese in the United States during that period together with Liu Yu.
The only news about Yu Zhan's whereabouts that can be found online recently is related to the release of "Late Ming Dynasty Dream" in the U.S. As early as June 21, the day after "War of the North Wind" was released in China, "Late Ming Dynasty Dream" was on the big screen in major theaters in North America.
Unlike the previous film "Autumn Moon Over the Han Palace", the American cinema chain arranged a longer screening time and more screenings for "Late Ming Dynasty Dreams". For example, on the 21st, which was a Saturday, several of the largest theaters in New York gave prime time to "Late Ming Dynasty Dreams". Before that, "Late Ming Dynasty Dreams" had not been widely promoted in the United States, and there was not even a premiere, so not many Americans knew about this movie.
Many moviegoers who went to the cinema on Saturday were confused when they saw this foreign film. The cinema just used old-fashioned publicity, introducing it as a Chinese film introduced by Mi Gao Company, and posted its poster in a prominent place.
Michael Films did push a message on its official social media platform. It was a simple and clear message saying that they were introducing Chinese films for the first time and hoped that movie fans would support it.
How can such a Buddhist propaganda convince the picky American audience to spend money to buy tickets to watch this movie? Therefore, the box office of "Late Ming Dynasty Dream" was not good when it was first released in the United States. The attendance rate was less than half, and most of them were Chinese. After all, the male lead of the movie is Tang Tu, who is also very popular among overseas Chinese. If it weren't for him, I'm afraid the box office of "Late Ming Dynasty Dream" would be even worse.
Yu Zhan and Micro Brothers signed a copyright buyout agreement, in which Micro Brothers paid a one-time copyright fee of $100 million. The box office performance of the movie in North America had nothing to do with Yu Zhan. Even if it sold for $1 billion, he would not get a penny more.
Is it because there is no extra income that Yu Zhan is too lazy to promote it? He is obviously not that kind of person. It's just that the matter of Cats' Garden is too thorny and he is too busy to take care of "Late Ming Dynasty Dream".
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As for the Micro brothers, they bought the copyright only to do a favor (mainly Harvey) and to get closer to Liu Xi so as to convince her to take on the role in "Gaixia Ge". Anyway, to them, $100 million is a "small amount of money".
They didn't think that "The Last Dream of the Late Ming Dynasty" would be popular with Americans from the beginning. As managers of the largest film and television production company in Hollywood, they still have some appreciation and foresight. However, Michael's company has a superior position in Hollywood, and the owners of various theater companies want to win over Harvey, the president who has been in office for a year, and take the initiative to give "The Last Dream of the Late Ming Dynasty" more screenings and good time.
The above multiple reasons make "Late Ming Dynasty Dream" a "random" movie. Audiences can watch it or not, but there are still so many screenings! It's very strange.
After all, it was the second film to be released in North America this year, and it was also the highest-grossing film in mainland China so far this year. The news that "Late Ming Dynasty Dreams" was not well received in the United States naturally became a prominent position on the domestic Internet. Xinghe Films' competitors quickly responded to this matter, mocking and belittling "Late Ming Dynasty Dreams", saying that it was a rubbish film that was sold in China and was not popular with foreigners and could not be accepted by the mainstream.
The official website of Galaxy Films posted a Weibo, saying that Ye Zian will take "Late Ming Dynasty Dream" to participate in the Venice Film Festival in August, and attached an invitation letter for the nomination. However, this did not stop the haters from saying that the current film festivals are not good, and that rubbish movies can be sold for money.
The public relations department of Xinghe Film and Television wanted to confront them, but was stopped by Tao Zhiyao, "The harsher they curse, the more it shows that they are jealous of the success of "Dreams of Late Ming Dynasty". Let them curse, we will ignore it." It is very embarrassing when no one pays attention to the verbal battle, and then the haters will naturally disappear after they have bored themselves.
Later, however, American paparazzi took photos of Yu Zhan and Harvey Micro having dinner together. Even though Harvey had the glittering identity of the president of Micro Corporation, he was too low-key and there was nothing gossipy about him. In addition, Yu Zhan was a Chinese - the American media really didn't want a third Chinese to make the headlines and steal the limelight from their own people, so this report did not cause much splash. At most, it showed that "Dreams of the Late Ming Dynasty" could be released in the United States because the two bosses had a personal relationship.
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