Chapter 1044 Big Boss of the Summer Vacation!

The most direct benefit of holding the Wanbao Open Day event is to narrow the distance between fans and let more people deepen their understanding of Wanbao Animation.

Speaking human language is down-to-earth!

In the past, everyone's understanding of Wanbao Animation was mostly based on a few short lines of text in a certain encyclopedia.

Now it's different.

Through the on-site visit, everyone also understood the normal operating logic of an animation company and the corresponding process of making animations.

Fans had a lot of fun!

As for those media bloggers who were invited to visit, they gained even more, after all, they had a lot of inside information in advance for this open day event.

For example, the information of the movie "Boonie Bears: Treasure Bear Soldiers" which will be released in the summer, as well as the production progress of works such as "Wandering in the Animation World" and "Three Years of Being a Son-in-law, I'm the Immortal King and I Don't Pretend".

The outside world is very interested in the progress of these projects. It can be foreseen that as long as they send out this video, the number of views and attention they receive will definitely explode.

Of course!

This is also the result of Gu Miao's tacit consent.

With so many media bloggers helping to build momentum and publicity, it can save a lot of publicity and promotion funds, so why not do it?

And to be honest.

The projects disclosed in the open day event are not highly confidential, so they are exposed.

The real confidential content of Wanbao, such as the Superman Reboot Plan and the Inuyasha Project of the Neon Branch, is absolutely impossible to let these media bloggers know, and Gu Miao will not take the initiative to reveal it.

The open day event lasted until the afternoon.

After eating a standard employee meal in the Wanbao cafeteria, Gu Miao took a group of executives to take photos with fans.

The event was originally over here, and the rest was to go home and find their mothers. Gu Miao, who was tired all day, didn't need to act as a tour guide and lead this group of people around.

Who knew that many anime video bloggers headed by Liu Zida didn't want to let him go at all. Even after the event was over, they still pestered him for the so-called group interview.

Interview is interview!

After inviting these video bloggers and media reporters to a special reception room and arranging microphones and lighting and radio equipment in advance, the group interview began.

"Mr. Gu, I noticed that Wanbao's works have been broadcast exclusively on the Internet platform recently, and have not been broadcast on TV platforms. Does this mean that your company has given up traditional TV animation?"

The first question is the dispute between Internet animation and TV animation that many people are concerned about. I am curious about what choice Wanbao will make?

"We have not given up TV animation. On the contrary, we are preparing to launch a pure TV animation in the second half of this year..."

Gu Miao denied this speculation.

Wanbao's overall business is indeed shifting to Internet animation, and 90% of its new works are broadcast exclusively on the Internet.

But this does not mean that Wanbao Animation will not deal with TV stations in the future.

"SpongeBob SquarePants" has recently been a great success overseas and has been nominated for five Annie Awards. What do you think about this, Mr. Gu?"

"Nothing."

Gu Miao shook his head.

The nomination of SpongeBob SquarePants for the Annie Awards has been discussed within the company for a long time, and his attitude is still the same: I have no interest in winning awards, and I have never touched the trophy!

Five nominations are indeed amazing.

But that's SpongeBob! Other animations may cause controversy if they get so many nominations, but SpongeBob will not have so many problems.

What's more...

Although it has been nominated for five major awards, it is still uncertain how many it will win in the end.

Even if it wins all, it is only five nominations and five wins, which is still a little worse than the Annie Award's nine nominations and nine wins.

From this perspective, Gu Miao is actually a little dissatisfied that the Annie Award only gave SpongeBob five nominations this time.

...

"Only five nominations?!"

Dave also learned that SpongeBob received five nominations. As the producer and chief director of the SpongeBob animation, he was even more indignant than Gu Miao.

In his words, SpongeBob has swept the entire European and American animation circle and won the love of hundreds of millions of viewers.

This kind of animation only has five nominations?

Why?

Looking at the first half of this year, including the whole of last year, is there any European and American animation that can compare with SpongeBob?

No! None!

An animation of this level only received five nominations. Even though Dave recognized the value of the Annie Awards, he couldn't help but wonder now, did SpongeBob offend the judges?

"Okay, there's no need to worry about it."

Gu Miao said casually: "If they give us the award, then we'll take it. Five nominations or nine nominations, there's no difference in essence."

Do the judges dislike SpongeBob? Or do they dislike Wanbao?

Gu Miao didn't care about this at all. Anyway, whether they like it or not, it doesn't affect the fact that SpongeBob is the most popular animation work in Europe and the United States today.

It's a good thing to win an award, but you don't have to mind if you don't get it.

Besides, the Annie Awards are not a white lotus award. In the past, many animation companies and animation producers have publicly stated that they boycotted and refused to accept the award.

The Oscar of the animation industry?

Maybe, but when you say this, don't forget that the Oscars themselves are not particularly clean, and the operations and shady dealings behind them are common.

"If you ask me, in the future, Wanbao will hold an award of our own, and the name will be the Gu Miao Award, or the Wanbao Award..."

Du Hao winked and said, "Who will join the foreigners' fun at that time? Trophies and the like, take as many as you want!"

"That's just for fun."

Gu Miao shook his head and didn't take Du Hao's joke seriously, because he knew very well that such a thing was unrealistic.

"Let's not talk about this, let's talk about your plan. I heard that the dragon mark and the animation review have been issued?"

"Yes, that's right!"

Du Hao nodded.

For other animation companies, it may be more troublesome to apply for the dragon mark and the animation review, and the approval speed is not so fast.

But Wanbao is different. Wanbao is a key enterprise registered with the superior competent department, and it has great appeal and influence in the overseas market.

For such enterprises, the superior competent department will definitely give the green light all the way, try not to drag their feet, and help more high-quality enterprises like Wanbao go abroad and go to the world.

So not long after submitting for review, the movie "Treasure Bear Soldiers" has already received accurate approval documents and can negotiate the release date.

It is certain that it will pass the review.

As a big movie in the Boonie Bears series, Treasure Bears is not sensitive in itself, and the review is nothing more than a formality.

If even a movie like Boonie Bears cannot pass the review and has to be cut and deleted, how can other animated films survive?

"Summer vacation is probably at the end of June."

Gu Miao has been away from campus for too long and has forgotten the specific time of summer vacation for primary and secondary school students.

But he estimated that it would be at the beginning of July at the latest, and it would not be delayed for too long anyway. After all, the college entrance examination will be in two days, and after the college entrance examination, high school students will have a vacation.

As we all know.

From elementary school to university, the vacation time is reversed, that is, the higher the academic qualifications, the earlier the vacation, and there are occasional exceptions.

The opposite is true for the enrollment time, the higher the academic qualifications, the earlier the enrollment.

Calculating the days, mid-June or the end of June should be the beginning of the summer vacation in the general sense, which is just right for the release of the movie Treasure Bears.

"I think so too."

Du Hao nodded.

Each province has different arrangements for the summer vacation dates. Except for the fixed time period of the college entrance examination, it is really hard to say whether there will be a vacation.

But no matter how you calculate it, the end of June is the most suitable time.

As for the release after the college entrance examination?

Stop it!

The high school students who have finished the college entrance examination are like birds out of a cage. How can they have the leisure and interest to watch the movie "Boonie Bears"?

Primary and secondary school students, including kindergarten children, are the audiences that the movie "Treasure Bears" should strive for.

For high school and college students, it can only be said that it depends on fate. They can watch it or not. Anyway, it doesn't matter if the box office is a little bit...

The end of June!

This is the release schedule of the movie decided by Gu Miao and Du Hao after discussion.

After the schedule is determined, it is to make corresponding publicity and promotion arrangements around this schedule, communicate with the theater chain, and select competitors that threaten the film in the same schedule, etc.

There is no need to say more about the former.

This is not the first time that Wanbao has made an animated film. The corresponding work arrangements have been prepared long ago. Du Hao doesn't have to worry about it at all. Just wait for the movie to be released smoothly.

It is the latter that needs more attention.

Summer vacation has always been a key period in the film market. In previous years, there will be one or two popular films that have hit the box office, including the annual box office champion.

Because of this, Gu Miao and Du Hao pay special attention to films that may compete with "The Raiders of the Bears" during the summer vacation.

There are many new films expected to be released during this year's summer vacation, but Du Hao took a quick look and found that except for two Hollywood imported science fiction blockbusters that are worth paying attention to, other domestic films are not a problem.

"That's not necessarily true!"

After listening to Du Hao's analysis, Gu Miao said with a smile: "Under normal circumstances, your analysis is correct. Hollywood science fiction blockbusters are indeed invincible."

"But this year's summer vacation, I think there will be accidents..."

Accident?

When Du Hao heard this, he immediately frowned and asked: "Are you referring to those domestic films? No way? Can these domestic films still beat Hollywood science fiction blockbusters?"

This is unrealistic.

The dominance of Hollywood science fiction blockbusters can only be understood by personal experience. It is not something that domestic films can compete with.

In the past, there were also Hollywood science fiction blockbusters that were not well received by domestic audiences after being introduced.

But so what?

Even if they were not well received and not many audiences were interested, these Hollywood science fiction blockbusters could still sweep up the jaw-dropping box office in the Chinese film market.

Not to mention, the two Hollywood science fiction blockbusters that will be introduced this summer are all orthodox sequels to popular works. The previous works were very popular in China, so there is no reason why the sequels cannot be popular.

Du Hao felt that Mr. Gu was a little too naive.

The gap between the domestic film industry and Hollywood is not a little bit. Even if there are one or two dark horse films in the summer vacation, it is impossible to overturn Hollywood science fiction blockbusters.

"Look at this..."

Gu Miao did not explain anything to Du Hao's doubts, but took out his mobile phone and pointed to a news report.

Du Hao looked down.

[A well-known martial arts actor directed and starred in the action military film "Wolf Warrior" which has a sequel, which is expected to be released in July...]

"I know this!"

Du Hao nodded and said, "As for Wolf Warrior, I went to watch the first one when it was released. It was well made, but the upper limit of military films is there."

"So what do you think of the sequel to this film, which is now called Wolf Warrior 2?"

"Sequel..."

Du Hao thought for a while and carefully analyzed based on the results of the previous film: "Look at the quality of the finished film. The quality is excellent, and with the support of the previous film's reputation, the box office of 400 to 500 million yuan should be stable."

Four to five billion box office?

After hearing this box office analysis from Du Hao, Gu Miao couldn't help but grin.

Good guy!

Wolf Warrior 2, which shocked countless people, in Du Hao's eyes, could only earn 400 to 500 million at the box office?

Is this the premise that the second part is of excellent quality and has the reputation of the previous one?

"Is it weird?"

Seeing that Mr. Gu looked dumbfounded, Du Hao thought he had overestimated, and quickly explained: "The previous film was really good, and the response from word of mouth was quite good. Besides, the box office of domestic movies is generally taking off, and four to five billion is really not much. "

"Ok, I know."

"Because movie theaters are blooming all over the country and the movie box office is exploding, I think this film may detonate the entire summer vacation."

Gu Miao said solemnly: "Four to five billion is still too conservative. In my opinion, this movie has to create a record, not just for military movies, but for all types of movies."

"No, not really."

Du Hao waved his hands repeatedly and said: "I believe you say it is a dark horse. After all, the previous game has a good reputation. It is not surprising that the sequel will be a hit."

"But setting records is still too difficult for this kind of military war-themed film."

"Then just wait and see!"

Gu Miao also knew that before the results came out, no one could have imagined how much of a sensation and movie-watching craze Wolf Warrior 2 would cause.

It's normal for Du Hao not to think about it.

To be honest, if he were Du Hao, he would never have imagined that the domestic box office of a film could be as high as this.

But normalcy is normal. Out of the protection of "Treasure Bear Soldier", Gu Miao still hopes to avoid Wolf Warrior 2. It is best to stagger the release date.

"Isn't it necessary?"

Du Hao didn't understand that no matter how much he valued Wolf Warrior 2, there was no need to be afraid of it, right?

"You do not understand!"

Gu Miao shook her head and said: "Do as I say. First find out the release date of Wolf Warrior 2. Treasure Hunt must be released in advance, preferably one month in advance."

In this way, even if Wolf Warrior 2 goes against the grain, it will not have a big impact on the upcoming Treasure Hunt.

"A month in advance?"

Du Hao thought for a while. Although he couldn't understand why Mr. Gu was so afraid of an action movie with a military war theme, he still decided to do what Mr. Gu said.

no way.

Mr. Gu is the producer and the boss of the company, and no one dares to object to his decision.

On the other hand, Mr. Gu is so sure that he may have received some inside information in advance. He is not afraid of ten thousand, just in case.

There are two updates in the past two days, all of which are two chapters in one. The main reason is that I am too lazy to think of chapter names, so the updates have not decreased...