Chapter 42 Released in North America!

After confirming Zhang Guorong's performance and changing his life trajectory for the next two years, Wu Yuan's mission in Hong Kong Island this time was completed.

As long as Zhang Guorong is not so busy in the next year that his stomach problems recur, which affects the endocrine system of the brain and induces depression, and he is also mentally traumatized by the failure of preparing for his first film as a director, there is a high probability that his depression will not occur.

Wu Yuan can only do this much. He is not a god, and there is no way to use any magic to prevent Zhang Guorong from depression forever.

Even if Zhang Guorong really cannot escape the fate of depression in the future, at least this "Departures" has brought Zhang Guorong's acting career to a perfect end!

Wu Yuan's "Departures" is really aimed at the top three in Europe. As long as Zhang Guorong shoots it with his heart, he has a good chance of winning an actor award!

And his dream of being a director has been realized, and he has no regrets in this life.

Without accepting Zhang Guorong's invitation to the mahjong game, Wu Yuan boarded the flight back to Los Angeles.

Well, Zhang Guorong loves playing mahjong, and he has a mahjong circle. Lin Qingxia, Wang Jingwen, Liu Jialing and others are his mahjong friends.

He even organized the Leslie Cup Mahjong Competition. For this competition, he spent money to make medals and trophies, and invited many of his good friends to participate in this competition.

Wu Yuan didn't know if he was destined to play mahjong. A group of his friends in Beijing loved playing mahjong, and Zhang Guorong, who he met in Hong Kong Island, was also a senior mahjong fan.

It is said that when Zhang Guorong went to Beijing to film "Farewell My Concubine", he loved playing mahjong with Zhang Fengyi and Gong Huang after the filming.

This time he is going to Beijing to film "Departures", I am afraid that he will play with Wu Yuan's group of friends.

This is good.

Zhang Guorong is away from the group of paparazzi in Hong Kong Island who write maliciously every day. It is not a bad thing to enjoy life in the mainland.

On the plane, Wu Yuan fell asleep while enjoying the last glory of Hong Kong music with a Sony Walkman bought in Hong Kong Island and playing Leslie Cheung's album tape.

When he woke up again, he had arrived in Los Angeles on the other side of the ocean.

Outside the airport, John came to pick Wu Yuan up again, and gave him a warm hug.

"Daniel, I thought you would be back for a long time, but I didn't expect you to come back so soon."

"Well, everything went well, so I came back early."

Sitting in John's Ford car, Wu Yuan rubbed his still heavy temples and asked casually: "How is our movie going, how is the release arrangement?"

"Of course everything went well." John was also enthusiastic, "The final cut version has been completed, and the company is very satisfied. It will be screened on a small scale in North America starting on July 2."

"You know, our movie is a low-budget movie, and there is not much money for publicity."

In North America, the release of low-budget movies usually does not have a grand premiere, no press releases, and it is even more impossible to promote them online and offline.

In most cases, there is only one way to release low-budget movies in North America, that is, to release them on a small scale first, and then gradually expand the scale of release based on word-of-mouth feedback.

There is no set release period for North American movies, and they can be released for a long time.

Unlike high-budget blockbusters, Hollywood blockbusters often invest tens of millions of dollars in publicity and promotion costs, and one or two thousand cinemas will simultaneously show them at the beginning, making everyone in North America know about this movie.

But low-budget movies can't do this. Low-budget movies don't have any publicity funds, and they don't have much capital for distribution.

If a low-budget movie wants to be popular and become a dark horse, it all depends on extending the release time, relying on the audience reputation accumulated by the early small-scale release, and relying on the audience's spontaneous recommendation and publicity, and gradually becoming popular.

This set of operating methods later evolved into the "preview" system, which was first screened on a small scale in several or more than a dozen cinemas, and invited well-known film critics to watch.

Then, by borrowing the influence of film critics and the spontaneous recommendation and publicity of a few first-wave audiences who have seen the movie on the Internet or offline, more audiences are attracted to the cinema to watch the movie, and then the scale of screening is gradually expanded bit by bit.

The release of "Juno" is also arranged in this way.

It will be released on a very small scale in 16 theaters in North America on July 2. If the word of mouth is good, the scale of screening will be gradually expanded. In about a month, it will be expanded to one or two thousand theaters for joint screening.

If this step can be achieved, the North American box office of "Juno" can get at least 40 to 50 million US dollars.

If it cannot be achieved, it will obviously lack stamina when it is released in dozens or hundreds of theaters, and no one will care about it, and then it will be taken off the screen.

Hollywood's capital is very realistic. If you don't spend tens of millions of dollars to promote and make it known to everyone and attract the public to watch your movie, then the theater chain will not give you a schedule in one or two thousand theaters right away.

Only when you slowly rely on small-scale screenings to prove the value of the movie itself, prove that this movie is willing to go to the theater to watch, and can bring huge benefits to the theater, the theater will gradually increase the scale of screening!

It is hard to say whether this system is good or bad, but it is fair for most small-budget movies that have no money for promotion.

If you are strong and can attract audiences, you will naturally get more screenings.

Wu Yuan had no objection to this.

He is very confident about the quality of "Juno".

Although after the adaptation, this version of "Juno" has added Asian thinking and a growth line for the male protagonist, the core selling point of this movie is still the quirky Juno!

Wu Yuan's version of Juno is almost the same as the original version in terms of personality. She is still the personality girl that countless girls in North America love and pursue!

In this way, Wu Yuan waited idly in Los Angeles for another month.

Until July 2, an ordinary day.

Wu Yuan led all the main creative members of the "Juno" crew to a movie theater in Los Angeles.

At 7:30 in the evening, dozens of invited film critics, as well as a few audiences who saw the "Juno" poster in the cinema that day and bought movie tickets out of curiosity, walked into the No. 2 screening room of the cinema with Wu Yuan and others.

There was no opening speech, nor any touching speech.

When everyone was seated, the lights in the screening room dimmed, and with the classic opening animation of 20th Century Fox, "Juno" was officially released in North America.

Starting from a high school campus sports meeting, two boys and girls, a campus romance, an unexpected child, and a story of youth growth slowly unfolded in front of all the audience.

The 102-minute movie brought a special viewing experience to all the film critics and audiences present.

Unknowingly, the movie was shown to the end.

Whether it was the film creators who personally experienced the entire filming process or other audiences on the scene, they all gave warm applause at the same time when the lights in the screening room came on.

The professional film critics sitting in the back row all picked up the notebooks they carried with them and left their final comments for the movie.

"The content is substantial, the plot is smooth, and the narration is quite exciting. The romance is sweet and beautiful, and the humor is witty. While making the audience laugh, it also brings out thoughts about growth and maturity."

"Using a seemingly atypical approach, it successfully created a typical low-cost masterpiece."

"Cool and gentle youth."

"The topics discussed in the funny story are not easy, but the opening and soundtrack still bring a breath of fresh air."

That night, these film reviews appeared in major film review forums in Los Angeles and in many film review magazines.

In a very small circle of film critics, a wind called "Juno" is blowing.

The specific content of the movie will be written tomorrow. It is a fairly interesting story~