Going to China to attend the premiere of "Madoka Magica" was a complete surprise for Nanaya.
Because in the promotional plan that Nanaya had planned for himself at the beginning, he did not need to attend the premiere.
After all, China has very strict requirements for local promotion of European and American films.
In order to maximize the promotional effect of the movie, Nanaya gave up his qualification to attend the premiere and gave the spot to Yumi instead.
After all, for ordinary audiences, they pay more attention to actors than directors.
Nanaya himself will go to China during the New Year's Day to participate in several promotional activities and interviews.
Because Nanaya believed that his fame in the Celestial Empire was definitely not as great as that in the Vulture Hell.
At least Washimine was popular for a while in the 1980s and 1990s because of the "Plumber" series and the "Pet Master" series.
The Fate series has won the movie box office championship for four consecutive years.
But in China, where the era of universal movie-watching has not yet arrived, Nanaya believes that he is not as famous as Michael Bay.
The latter has gained a large number of fans in China thanks to China's unique "Transformers sentiment".
The biggest reason why Cameron came to China to attend the premiere in his previous life was that he was the only one among the entire "Avatar" crew that the Chinese audience knew.
But "Madoka Magica" is different. Which of the five beauties is not more eye-catching than Nanaya?
However, this situation changed last week.
Because "Madoka Magica" surpassed "Titanic" in global box office and officially became the number one in film history.
The Chinese side specially invited Nanaya to attend the premiere.
As the director who surpassed Cameron to become the new world's number one, they felt that Nanaya's participation in the premiere would be a very big publicity point.
Nanaya naturally agreed to this.
The Chinese market has huge potential, and Nanaya will try as long as there is an opportunity to expand the influence of his works there.
In fact, Nanaya himself didn't care too much about the box office revenue of "Madoka Magica" in China.
Even though "Madoka Magica" is sure to do very well at the box office, the money that will be shared won't be much.
At that time, China and the United States had not yet revised the relevant agreement on imported films. Not only were there only 20 quotas for imported films, but the profit-sharing standard was only 13 percent.
Based on the 1.42 billion yuan box office of "Avatar" in China in the previous life, the box office revenue that "Madoka Magica" can get is only less than 200 million yuan.
And the unit of calculation is not US dollars.
The revenue from the sales of any peripheral products of "Madoka Magica" in North America is higher than this share of the profits.
This also explains why, except Nanaya, no one in Washimine is optimistic about the Chinese market.
The share of the profits is small and the genuine peripheral products cannot be sold.
Only Nanaya himself knew that he expanded China not for the present, but for the future.
With this idea in mind, Nanaya took an international flight from the United States to the Beijing on the other side of the Pacific Ocean before Christmas.
"Nanaya, you must be careful in a strange country. It's dangerous to be in an unfamiliar place."
On the plane, Shion said to Nanaya.
"Puff~"
Nanaya laughed out loud: "Shion, you don't know much about this place."
In the face of Shion's confused gaze, Nanaya smiled and pointed at himself, saying, "For celebrities and public figures like us, the last thing we need to worry about here is safety."
"Nanaya, are you telling the truth?"
Rin and Yumi in the front row leaned on the backs of their chairs almost at the same time and asked curiously.
"Yes, this country is one of the safest in the world. It is also famous for its warm hospitality. For foreign guests like us, safety is never a problem."
What's more, this time we are going to the Beijing.
Nanaya felt that it should be one of the safest places in the world.
Unless the Third World War breaks out, Nanaya feels that he won't even see any fighting during this trip to China.
"It sounds like it's pretty amazing."
Yumi had stars in her eyes.
I don't know whether she was saying that the security in the China is strong, or that Nanaya, who knew about these things, is strong.
Rin still has some questions to ask.
But at this time, the plane broadcast informed them that they were about to land.
So she could only pull Yumi back to her seat.
"You are very familiar with this place."
Shion chatted with Nanaya while fastening her seat belt.
"So, Shion, you are too prejudiced against this side."
Nanaya spread his hands and said helplessly.
"I really don't understand." Shion said calmly, "After all, the last time Washimine entered the market here, it was a complete failure."
Nanaya knew that Shion was talking about Washimine's original intention to open up the gaming market here.
Unfortunately, China's per capita purchasing power was too low at the time, so people could only buy pirated games.
Plus the subsequent policy changes.
This ultimately led to Washimine's complete defeat on the Celestial Empire's side.
Nanaya even knew that if he was not there, Washimine would have a serious gap in the market here.
Because that was the situation in my previous life.
The console user group, which is mainly composed of core gamers, generally held a contemptuous attitude towards the NS, a console with mediocre performance, at the beginning.
Their concept of the old Nintendo console has always been "Endless fun with the Little Overlord".
The handheld is a bit better.
Because of this special series of PM.
In the field of handheld game consoles, China is at least not completely disconnected.
But I still don't think NDS and its successor 3DS are that great.
Many Chinese gamers have never understood why Sony has failed miserably in the handheld game console market.
The machine's performance is so amazing.
I can only say that in the previous life, Nintendo chose "Breath of the Wild" and "Odyssey" as the start of NS, which was really the right decision for the Chinese market.
Anyway, many of Nanaya's friends at that time bought NS because of these two games, and started to get in touch with Nintendo's games again.
[This life should be different, right? At least Washimine here is already a comprehensive entertainment company. ]
Looking at the ground getting closer and closer, Nanaya thought so in his heart.
After arriving at the destination safely, Nanaya, the crew members of "Madoka Magica" and Shion got off the plane together.
Under the protection of several security guards, Nanaya pushed the luggage cart and followed the staff who came to pick him up towards the exit.
His face looked very calm, and he just looked around with a little curiosity.
In his previous life, Nanaya had been to the Beijing several times for work.
However, he was relatively poor and the crew he joined were not wealthy.
Therefore, he never came here empty-handed.
However, after looking around twice, Nanaya withdrew his gaze.
[It feels similar to the one in the Hong Kong...]
In fact, compared to the Beijing, Nanaya, who was a southerner in his previous life, is more familiar with the Hong Kong.
At first, Nanaya planned to hold the premiere of "Madoka Magica" in Shanghai.
However, considering the influence, Nanaya finally decided to hold the premiere in the Beijing.
At that time, because "Madoka Magica" had not yet won the global box office championship, its influence was limited.
For this purpose, the publicity and promotion department of Washimine Entertainment has done a lot of preparatory work.
These were all told to Nanaya by the airport pick-up staff from Washimine Entertainment in China.
Nanaya didn't say anything, but just followed the airport reception staff and listened to his introduction to the current situation.
Because she had to prepare for the premiere, Barry did not come to pick her up at the airport.
But tonight, Nanaya will meet his assistant at the hotel where he is staying.
By then, through Bali's report, Nanaya believed that he could get more accurate information.
When Nanaya and others walked all the way to the airport exit, he suddenly had an idea.
Will there be fans coming to pick him up at the airport like they did in North America?
[But even if he came to pick me up at the airport, I guess it would be to pick up Rin and the others. ]
Nanaya glanced at the Five Colors Team behind him.
It's hard to say about other people, but Gakki was the "wife" of countless people here in her previous life.
Judging from what I have learned before, movie fans here have almost zero resistance to beautiful actresses.
Moreover, due to the poor flow of information, many actresses who have become out of fashion in Europe and the United States are still very popular here.
Not to mention the popular girls under his command.
[I wonder if there will be a situation where they will cheer for Rin or Yumi. ]
This thought was extinguished by Nanaya as soon as it came to mind.
Even in Japan, female idols have just started to revive, but in China, there is not even the soil to cultivate female idol fans.
Perhaps as world-famous actresses, Yumi and Rin must have a large number of fans here.
But idol fans probably only make up a small portion of them.
Nanaya walked out of the airport exit while speculating on the popularity of the actors.
The bright sunlight was a bit dazzling. Nanaya subconsciously covered his eyes, and then saw the crowd gathered near the exit.
It was far beyond his expectations that there was a team of nearly a hundred people gathered here.
Many of them were holding up posters of Madoka Magica and banners supporting the actors, as if they were waiting for their arrival.
Seeing this situation, Nanaya felt a little relieved.
It seems that the influence of "Madoka Magica" has been passed on, which is a good start.
The only thing that made Nanaya feel regretful was that there was no support for him among these slogans.
[It's okay, it's better than seeing something like [Seven Nights Old Thief Loses His Conscience]. ]
Nanaya comforted himself in this way.
"Yumi, we love you!"
"Rin! Rin! Rin!..."
"Gakki! you're the best!"
When they saw the "Madoka Magica" crew appear, the crowd suddenly burst into all kinds of shouts.
"Waaaaaah!"
Yumi subconsciously moved closer to Nanaya.
The others weren't much better, they were all shocked.
Because these fans all spoke Chinese, the crew members had no idea what they were saying.
Rin and Aragaki Yui did hear their own names, but the sounds were so jumbled that they were confused.
"Are they not making trouble?"
Kujo Fuu guessed maliciously.
Then she was hit on the head by Nanaya.
"How is that possible? Everyone is welcoming you, show me your smile!"
Nanaya quickly signaled to his team and waved over there with a smile.
This time I came here to lay the foundation.
Therefore, leaving a good impression on the fans here is something that the "Madoka Magica" team must do.