Compared with "I'm Not a Medicine God", the filming of "A Dog's Purpose" was much smoother.
Because the acting skills of Little Heidou and Big Heidou are quite superb!
Therefore, not long after Li Yi returned to the crew, he announced that "A Dog's Purpose" was officially finished!
There are quite a lot of people paying attention to this movie in China, but in North America, except for Dean Pictures, not many people are paying attention to it.
In North America, "A Dog's Purpose" will follow the normal movie release process, that is, it will be screened on a small scale first, and then the attendance, box office, reputation, etc. of the screening will be looked at. These will affect "A Dog's Purpose". The final opening screen count of "A Dog's Purpose".
At this point, Hollywood has a very mature process.
Li Yi naturally had no objection to this.
Dean Pictures has not arranged the schedule for "A Dog's Purpose" during popular schedules, such as Thanksgiving to Christmas and New Year.
Li Yi can understand, after all, according to Hollywood's five schedules a year.
The summer season is the hottest season, followed by the Thanksgiving-Christmas season, followed by the spring season, and then the autumn season, which is the period from September to before Thanksgiving, which is the transition period.
James Dean's suggestion is that "A Dog's Purpose" should be released in the transitional period of autumn. The reason is very simple. During the Thanksgiving and Christmas periods, blockbusters are crowded together and the competition is too fierce.
For "A Dog's Purpose", a co-production without a large cast, it is undoubtedly a more suitable schedule.
Because most movie companies usually do not release their flagship films during this period, the competition is relatively weak.
If it were other movies, it might require a relatively long period of publicity and warm-up, but "A Dog's Purpose" is not necessary.
Nothing else, because this movie has natural advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage is that this is a pet movie, this is the advantage.
The disadvantage is obvious. "A Dog's Purpose" is a co-production film. The key is that the main actors in this film do not have any top celebrities. It can be said that in North America, this is just a low-cost film.
After final discussions, "A Dog's Purpose" is scheduled to have a small-scale screening for half a month starting in mid-September, and the official release date is set for October 1.
In fact, it is mainly because Li Yi hopes to achieve "global synchronization", even if it is only released simultaneously in North America and China.
In North America, October is not a popular period, but in China, it is different. The National Day holiday is definitely a relatively popular period.
In fact, whether in North America or China, the movie "A Dog's Purpose" is quite strange.
Why do you say that?
Because generally speaking, co-production films, for the most part, are at least medium-investment films in North America, and they are definitely not low-budget films.
In China, most of the co-productions, especially the co-productions between China and North America, can be regarded as large-scale productions.
To put it bluntly, "A Dog's Purpose" like Li Yi has nothing to do with big productions.
So this is indeed an alternative movie among co-productions!
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"I'm Not the God of Medicine" was released in China and hit a new box office record, breaking the box office record set by "Wreath Under the Mountain". However, it is a pity that it still failed to break the 4 billion mark in the end!
Of course, the final box office of 3.8 billion is amazing enough.
Ping Xiaosi breathed a sigh of relief at this, and he was extremely grateful for his decision.
If you really dare to talk, the consequences can be imagined.
"I'm Not the God of Medicine" not only defeated "Flower of War" but also indirectly led to the breakup between Li Zhanshan and Zhang Changnian!
Yes, the domestic box office of "Flowers of War" is actually pretty good. With a box office of 1.1 billion, it can be considered a big hit.
But compared with the reported investment cost of this movie of US$150 million, it is a bit insufficient.
However, the North American market, which had high hopes for this movie, was a failure. It only made less than 20 million U.S. dollars at the box office. It can be said that it was a huge flop.
While the film failed, its reputation was also mixed, especially in North America. The media's fueling of the situation also became the trigger for the breakup between Zhang Changnian and Li Zhanshan.
After the release of "I'm Not the God of Medicine", Ping Xiaosi and Jiuzhou Film and Television set the schedule for the new movie to be renamed "The Lost World".
National Day stalls!
This year’s National Day event, coincidentally, all of them are old acquaintances!
Luo Ten's main theme blockbuster "Flying Firestar".
Zhao Zheng's main theme film "Eagle".
Hong Kong director Huang Zhenyi's "Hong Kong Alert".
Tang Lu's "Hidden Murder"!
And Ping Xiaosi's "The Lost Realm of Spirit Tracks"!
And when it was officially announced that "A Dog's Purpose" would be released on National Day, the companies and directors of these movies released during this period were immediately confused.
No way, "I'm Not the God of Medicine" dominated the entire July, eclipsing other summer movies.
And now, just two months apart, director Li Yi is actually going to make a dog movie again.
However, "A Dog's Purpose" has only been announced to be released, and its popularity is higher than those of their movies that have been warmed up for a long time in advance.
The name of a person can be seen in the shadow of the tree, Li Yi, the Great Demon King!
Then, the reactions of these people are also different.
The first is Luo Teng. The earlier failure of "The Last Battle" underlined the excellence of Li Yi's commercial short film "The Last Transfer in Tang Mobei", but after all, Luo Teng did not have a real head-on collision with Li Yi.
In addition, "Flying Firestar" is a main theme film and has a natural advantage in the National Day release. Therefore, after discussions between Luo Teng and the producer of "Flying Firestar", Universal Pictures, there is nothing other than increasing publicity. measures.
Although Zhao Zheng lost to Li Yi before, he made a comeback this time, and this "Eagle" is a movie jointly released by China Film Group and Times Lighting. In addition, it is also a main theme movie, and the National Day movie is undoubtedly the best one. The schedule has already expired, so the schedule has not been changed, but the action is similar to "Bolide".
The rest, Huang Zhenyi's "Hong Kong Alert", was directly released in two weeks.
And Ping Xiaosi was even more ruthless and directly postponed the movie to December!
Tang Lu, on the other hand, called Li Yi!
Tang Lu only asked Li Yi one question: "Are you satisfied with the movie?"
Li Yi replied: "It's okay!"
After that, "Hidden Murder" was directly postponed to November.
The media immediately became happy.
The report is also interesting: "A dog chased away three movies, and the dog director was so scary!"
Isn't it true that a dog chased away three movies?
One film has been postponed, two have been postponed, leaving only two blockbusters with the main theme to stick to.
ps: Obviously there were two larger chapters and ten thousand words before, but some people actually said that I didn’t update enough, so let’s divide it into chapters!
When I write the plot of the movie, I’ll come up with the big chapter!
