"Butterfly Lovers" US movie box office: 180 million yuan.

European box office: 230 million euros.

Compared to the American film market, "Butterfly Lovers" seems to be more popular in Europe.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that "Butterfly Lovers" is promoted in Europe as China's Romeo and Juliet. On the other hand, European movie audiences are relatively more receptive to Chinese love values.

The U.S. side is still a little too impetuous.

After Yang Ming hung up the phone from Liu Xinsheng, he went to his study to search online about the situation of "Butterfly Lovers" after it was released in the United States and Europe.

After watching it for a while, he felt confident.

Compared with the overseas box office performance of several of his previous films that he directed and starred in, the box office performance of "Butterfly Lovers" can be said to have been a disaster, with disastrous results.

However, many people in the domestic film circle still give the film "Butterfly Lovers" high praise for its box office performance in foreign film markets.

After all, this is not a purely commercial blockbuster.

It is a pure Chinese-language film with Chinese culture as its core and love legend as its foundation.

To be able to achieve such box office results abroad now is considered a breakthrough record in the history of Chinese-language films.

Some well-known film professionals claim that if it had been made by another domestic film director, let alone Yang Ming, the box office would have reached 10 million yuan, which would have broken history.

This sentence made some jealous film directors very angry.

But they were speechless when faced with this sentence and had no way to refute it.

Because that's the truth.

Compared with the performance of Chinese-language films in the past in the American and European film markets, today's Chinese-language films are slightly better than before, but the gap is only visible and can be completely ignored.

In both worlds, there are indeed Chinese-language films that can achieve relatively good box office results in the United States.

But most of these Chinese-language movies are kung fu or martial arts movies.

Even when distributors from some film companies go to the United States and Europe to sell domestic films, foreign distributors have long been accustomed to ask: "Is it still a kung fu movie this time?"

From this we can see that the impression of Chinese-language films in the minds of foreign movie audiences seems to have been deeply ingrained.

This time, the box office success of "Butterfly Lovers" abroad really surprised the local film industry.

Let’s count down the several movies Yang Ming has shot, whether they are commercial blockbusters with special effects that cost a lot of money like "2012", or they are novel Chinese Kung Fu movies like "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng", even "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff", in addition to Chinese history and culture

, and also blends special effects war scenes with kung fu fighting scenes.

A film like "Butterfly Lovers" that does not use special effects as its selling point and does not use Chinese Kung Fu as a gimmick can achieve such box office results abroad, which is simply an anomaly.

Yang Ming made a cup of tea and sat alone in his study, frowning and thinking about the impact of "Butterfly Lovers" achieving such box office results abroad.

Originally, he thought that "Butterfly Lovers" would be like countless domestic films in its previous life. It was a hit at home and broke box office records repeatedly, but its box office results were shy when it was released abroad.

Now it seems that compared with the previous life, the influence of Chinese-language films in this world is still greater.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with China's strong national power, which is the world's largest today.

After all, as the most powerful country, China's influence has penetrated into every corner of the world in the past hundred years.

This is the change brought about by national influence.

Now that the box office performance of "Butterfly Lovers" is used as a reference, can other Chinese-language movies that do not use special effects and kung fu as their selling points also achieve certain success abroad?

But last year, Yang Ming also tried to introduce several Chinese-language movies on a small scale through the AMC theater chain, but the box office results were unsatisfactory.

Obviously, the success of "Butterfly Lovers" is not universal.

Especially those Chinese-language films that do not have big scenes and big productions, it is almost impossible for their box office results to exceed 10 million yuan in the United States, but there are many Chinese-language films worth millions of dollars.

It is precisely because of this that Yang Ming did not insist that Lopez vigorously introduce Chinese movies.

If we really do this, it will definitely arouse the resentment of other Hollywood film distribution companies, thus causing unnecessary trouble.

He took a pencil and wrote and drew on the paper. Is there any reference to the success of "Butterfly Lovers"?

A Chinese star with global popularity!!

Yang Ming thought for a while and took the lead in writing such a sentence on the paper.

Although he is modest, he unabashedly said that the box office success of "Butterfly Lovers" abroad is related to Yang Ming's high global star power.

He can guarantee that if this movie were to be played by someone else, no matter who it was, the box office performance of this movie would probably shrink a lot.

This is a very real problem.

Domestic actors and stars, no matter how big-name, big-name or famous they are, can only be found in East Asia at most. There are only a handful of Chinese stars who can spread their influence to the United States and Europe.

That's the truth.

No matter how famous your domestic celebrities are, it won't work in the United States and Europe.

For the local audience, it has no visibility at all, and the fan effect is basically zero!

In this way, the appeal of the movie to local audiences can be imagined.

So, the next step is to fight for the quality of the movie.

However, if the stars are excluded, the quality of Chinese-language films is probably not as good as that of local Hollywood commercial films. Coupled with the language barrier, it will naturally not be able to attract local audiences in the United States and Europe.

Thinking of this, Yang Ming sighed, he still wants to make stars!

Not only to create stars within China and East Asia, but also to expand the battlefield to a global scale.

Otherwise, when Chinese-language films face Hollywood in the future,

If Hollywood makes a movie at random, the stars in it will be more famous than domestic stars, and may even be more attractive to local audiences than domestic stars.

That would be embarrassing!

Yang Ming had experienced this kind of thing a lot in his previous life.

And not just once or twice.

In previous lives.

A situation like this occurred when Hong Kong films were at their most glorious. As long as they bear the mark of Hong Kong films, they are better than mainland films!

Next, after joining the WTO, Hollywood blockbusters poured in. After more than ten years of market cultivation, most Hollywood stars have greater box office appeal in China than local stars.

Sometimes it's sad to think about it.

Forget about Hong Kong films, they are our own family; if Hollywood breaks in, there is nothing we can do about it. Compared with the strength of the two, they are completely crushing; in the end, even Bangzi came to the domestic entertainment industry to show off his power.

Domestic fans can't even afford food for Korean stars, but they still have to support their idols.

It's so ridiculous.

It’s such a big country, but the next generation is obsessed with a small island country. How can it not make people feel heartbroken?

I don’t blame domestic fans, after all, they have their freedom in whoever they like; I don’t blame the government, after all, for the government, the most important thing is always people’s livelihood.

Yang Ming just hates those big guys who always like to fight in their dens, but are always defeated when facing foreign enemies.

He doesn't want the history of his past life to happen again in this life.

Fortunately, as several of his films became hits around the world, he also became popular with several people.

People like Yang Chaowei, Niu Hua and others have also gained some box office appeal in foreign film markets.

Now even if there is no script written by Yang Ming, they can still receive scripts from abroad.

Obviously.

His long-standing star-making plan has still paid off.

Even though not all of these people are artists under DreamWorks, Yang Ming still thinks it is very worthwhile.

An industry cannot be sustained by one person.

In addition to the issue of star box office appeal, there are also cultural differences.

Yang Ming didn't have a good solution for this.

Fortunately, compared with previous lives, because of China's strong national power, this difference is not insurmountable.

In the final analysis, the so-called cultural differences are still competitions between civilizations, and the dominant side will obviously not accept the rules of a weaker civilization.

As long as a country is strong enough, it can dominate the world.

No matter how big the cultural differences are, we should still follow what the stronger side says.

Isn’t this the case in the United States in the past life?

What democracy, peace, freedom!

In fact, that is the value that belongs to the winner and has nothing to do with being right!

Fortunately, China today represents democracy, peace and freedom.

Yang Ming wrote a lot of things on the paper, then he sorted it out, made it into an email, and sent it to Liu Xinsheng.

In the future, if the films produced by DreamWorks want to achieve good results abroad, in addition to the quality of the film itself, a large number of stars will also be needed to support the film's box office performance.

Then you need to make stars.
To be continued...