Chapter 400: Chapter 379: Influence in Three Continents_1
Of course, there is still some time before December, and even the small-scale team battle in November hasn’t started yet, so Lin Yuan can complete the arrangement and accompaniment production at a leisurely pace—
When Battle of Gods presented ‘How Long Will the Full Moon Last’, Lin Yuan had no intention of relying solely on the composition to win!
In a world dominated by Maestro, who can be much worse in terms of composition?
The lyrics are the trump card.
Unless there are contemporary poets like Xin Qiji and Su Shi in Blue Star.
Of course, the premise that the lyrics can serve as a winning trump card is that your composition cannot be too poor. If it is, then it would be akin to fighting left-handed.
The composition of ‘How Long Will the Full Moon Last’ is quite competitive.
Many people in the Celestial Dynasty generally reflect that the song sounds better the more you hear it. It’s a work passed down by Teresa Teng, covered by countless music bigwigs. How could its quality be poor?
All of these are the sources of Lin Yuan’s confidence.
Besides producing the music score and accompaniment, Lin Yuan also urged the post-production of ‘Hachiko’.
Starting from last year, Blue Star adjusted the time of the Spring Festival to January.
With such adjustment, naturally, the movie release dates during the Spring Festival have also been adjusted.
In other words.
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January has now become the Spring Festival block, which is the most competitive time in the entertainment industry!
Even the winter vacation has been brought forward!
It’s October now, and the middle of the month has not yet arrived. At Qin Continent Art Academy where Lin Yuan is located, the fifth year has already started their winter vacation.
For Lin Yuan, this means that the first semester of the fifth year is completely over.
By the end of the next semester, Lin Yuan will officially graduate from university.
If this was in the Celestial Dynasty, a standard four-year university, Lin Yuan would already be considered a graduate. But in Blue Star, we still follow Blue Star’s rules. Anyway, there isn’t much time left in the fifth year, and there aren’t many classes next semester.
Whether there are classes or not doesn’t really matter, because Lin Yuan hasn’t been to school a few times during his fifth year.
Now, Lin Yuan’s focus is not on the winter vacation, but on choosing the schedule for the movie release.
What he has in front of him is the attractive Spring Festival slot.
Lin Yuan really wants to participate in a box office battle during the Spring Festival.
Because the audience during the Spring Festival has the highest number throughout the year, students and white-collar workers are all on holiday.
These people are the main force supplying the box office for movies.
However, considering that there are so many people and movies in the Spring Festival, after all, everyone wants to grab the box office, Lin Yuan doesn’t want to step into it instead.
The movie slots aren’t enough to go around.
Rather than rushing to ride the subway during peak time, why not start earlier?
With this in mind, Lin Yuan set his sights on next month, which is November!
Because of the special shooting method of Lin Yuan’s film, the film is edited in sequence, there are almost no extra shots, and with the strong support of Blue Star’s powerful film industry technology, the post-production is very fast. If they want to release it in November, this is completely achievable.
Besides, the movies in the Spring Festival slots tend to be commercial ones with feel-good atmosphere. If it’s a family-friendly movie, so much the better.
If Lin Yuan pushes ‘Hachiko’ into the Spring Festival slot, he’d make people sob during the big festival?
That would be rather heartless.
The Spring Festival should be filled with joy, not so depressing. As for making people cry before the New Year, Lin Yuan could do it without guilt.
…
Lin Yuan discussed his thoughts with Ol’ Zhou.
Ol’ Zhou totally agreed with him.
Now is not the time when Lin Yuan’s movies are ignored by the company after completion.
The higher-ups at Starlight are not fools. How could they still have the same casual attitude towards Lin Yuan, after the success of his last two movies?
So, on the issue of selecting ‘Hachiko’ release date, Ol’ Zhou was very serious.
He immediately contacted the theater chains to confirm some details, and entered Lin Yuan’s office the next day.
“How about November 11th?”
“Double 11?”
“What Double 11?”
“I’m talking about Singles’ Day.”
“Indeed, the 11th of November is known as Singles’ Day, but some say that this day signifies ‘forever and always’. However, that’s not the main reason why we chose the 1st of November as our release date…”
“What is the main reason then?”
“The schedule for this day is relatively empty, with no other major films in competition. This means less competition for ‘Hachiko’.”
“Then, let’s release it on that day.”
Lin Yuan had no objections as the timing was just right.
Ol’ Zhou nodded: “While we’re at it, I might as well fill you in on the current state of the film market.”
“Oh?”
“You might not be aware, but the merging of three continents has greatly changed the market. It has even drastically affected the release patterns of films…”
Ol’ Zhou then gave Lin Yuan a detailed run-down.
Apparently, due to the radical population increase resultant from the continents’ merging – roughly equivalent to that of dozens of Earth’s nations combined – the market has grown phenomenally large. Enough cinema chains exist to simultaneously accommodate the release of dozens of films.
Hence, both the number of film companies and cinema chains is astoundingly high.
However, for many cinema chains, the issue was how to allocate daily screening times to the dozens or even hundreds of films. A total of twenty-four hours a day seemed insufficient for such a task.
Not to mention that after each movie screening, there needs to be a scheduled cleaning period.
Could they screen movies over the course of several days then?
That’s not feasible either. It’s undoubtedly unwise to put all your eggs into one basket but that doesn’t mean each egg should get its own basket. Who has that many baskets?
Therefore, this brings us to the issue of screening choices made by cinema chains.
Every day, many films vie for screen time. The chains simply cannot accommodate them all, hence they would need to assess the quality of the films.
Cinema chains would schedule the commercial release of films they deem to be good;
and if a film doesn’t look promising to them, they would simply pass on carrying it at all. With so many films to choose from, missing out on a few good ones wouldn’t be a big loss; there could be other good films to substitute for them.
Thus,
Films that are seen to have bright prospects can earn the favor of ninety percent of theater chains and finalize contracts on the spot.
As for those films that theater chains aren’t particularly optimistic about…
Well, with so many chains, there would still be some that would carry the film, unless the film is so bad that no one wants it.
Although Xian Yu’s films wouldn’t reach a point where no chains want them, they also wouldn’t be able to court more than ninety percent of the chains.
For this reason, Ol’ Zhou arranged a preview screening that will be attended by representatives from numerous chains.
Those who approve of the film will draw up a contract over the next few days.
Those who do not simply won’t make an offer.
This mode of operation varies greatly from that on Earth – a vast difference indeed.
On Earth, each country has its own film market.
Each respective nation mainly watches its own films. Their audiences are already content, and they would only bring in a few competitive foreign films.
However, in Blue Star, the entire world shares a common language and there isn’t much of a cultural barrier. The terrifyingly massive population and correspondingly huge market mean that the audiences’ choices are very diverse —
Such intense competition brings with it both benefits and drawbacks.
Therefore, the attitudes of cinemas toward the films at the preview screening become absolutely crucial!
Lin Yuan felt a touch of sentiment.
Once again, he was witnessing the changes brought about by the merging of three continents. And next year, with Yan Continent joining, it would be four continents.
The population and the market would become even more exaggerated.
What kind of changes would occur then, no one knows. Even those who made the decision to merge the continents could probably only grope their way forward. The galaxy is vast and anything could happen within it.
“Then, let Director Zhou be responsible for the preview screening.”
With matters that Lin Yuan was not adept at, it was better to let Ol’ Zhou do it. This was one of the advantages of having company backing. Lin Yuan certainly didn’t have the power to bring together representatives from major theater chains. It required an extensive network of contacts that Starlight possessed, and not something an individual could manage.
“Alright, I’ll try to get as many theater chains as possible.”
Ol’ Zhou showed a hint of a smile, eagerly anticipating the quality of ‘Hachiko’. This would determine how many cinemas the film could capture!