Millennium director

Chapter 147 The Hong Kong Circle collapsed before it could go north.

Wu Yuan did not have much involvement in the specific preparations for "Destined to Love You".

After he determined the candidate for the starring role and director, he handed over the follow-up contact and negotiation work to Li Jichang and a financial officer of the company.

The two of them will form a partnership and negotiate specific remuneration packages with these actors and directors.

Although the salaries of actors in TV dramas these days have skyrocketed, they are still very low compared to the tens of millions a drama would cost in later generations.

Even Lu Yi, a top-notch youngster in the Mainland, only gets 300,000 to 500,000 yuan to shoot a TV series, and a newcomer like Jin Sha can spend tens of thousands of yuan.

Don't talk about them, Liu Yifei recently negotiated "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and the salary is only 10,000 yuan per episode. This is only because she has become a hit because of "Your Name".

Originally, her salary was supposed to be the same as Huang Xiaoming's, which was only 8,000 yuan per episode.

Yes, under the influence of the butterfly Wu Yuan, when Big Beard was preparing to film "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" this time, he stopped trying to trick fans and announced the candidates for the male and female protagonists early.

The main reason is that the bearded man really doesn't dare to neglect Liu Yifei now.

What's Liu Yifei's status now?

The second highest-grossing actress in the country!

In terms of box office performance alone, her box office performance is second only to International Chapter!

Even Gong Huang did not do as well as her at the box office.

There's nothing I can do about it, "Your Name" has become a huge hit in Asia.

In addition to the international status of "Rush Hour 2", Liu Yifei's box office performance can be said to be the highest among mainland actresses.

That is to say, she has no such achievements now, and there are no movies that match her identity to make.

Otherwise she wouldn't have been able to play "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

She is now facing the same embarrassing situation as the international chapter. A movie directly reached the peak of box office performance, and then she found that her popularity was directly cut off.

It is simply impossible for other directors' films to achieve such box office results, so I feel like I am losing money if I participate in this film.

If you don't act, you won't get any roles.

The international chapter's choice is to find a way to break into Hollywood and accept Hollywood movies. Unless it is a movie from China's top directors from Taiwan, Taiwan, Taiwan, and Taiwan, they will not accept it.

Because Liu Yifei is younger, the dilemma she faces is even more embarrassing.

The drama "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was already being talked about before "Your Name" was released. Big Beard has always said that Liu Yifei is the most suitable actor for Xiao Longnu in his mind. After seeing her photos, Mr. Jin Yong Also very recognized.

Considering that this kind of Jin Yong drama is very popular among the people, Liu Xiaoli took over this drama for her daughter.

However, she also made up her mind. After "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Liu Yifei will never make a TV series again, and will focus on the film market from now on.

But what kind of movie script can 17-year-old Liu Yifei receive?

There are only a few blockbusters produced by major domestic directors in a year.

The man behind Liu Xiaoli was not able to win any movies from top directors for Liu Yifei.

New films by directors such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Wong Kar-Wai all have their own set of actors.

Zhang Yimou's "House of Flying Daggers" will be released this summer, and the heroine is an international one.

Wong Kar-Wai's "2046" was also released this summer. The heroines are Gong Huang and Wang Jingwen, and even the supporting actresses are International Zhang and Liu Jialin!

There is news that Chen Kaige is preparing a new movie, and I heard that it will be a blockbuster with an investment of over 100 million.

Liu Xiaoli also wanted to compete for her daughter's new movie directed by Ke Ge, but the actress needed to be cast by Hong Kong, Japanese and Korean actors.

Because this new film directed by Kego is jointly funded by South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and China Film and Television, the selection of actors is a mixed blessing.

There can only be one mainland actress, and this spot is obviously reserved for Chen Hong. There is no room for Liu Yifei in this movie.

Director Feng's New Year's Eve movie "A World Without Thieves" has already finished casting its cast.

Looking around, Liu Xiaoli discovered that although her daughter had become the second highest-grossing actress in the mainland, she had no good movies to make.

"The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is already the most suitable choice.

So after going round and round, Liu Yifei finally became the Little Dragon Girl.

This made the bearded man extremely happy. He didn't have the energy to attract fans and create hype. He quickly announced the news of the casting, which caused a heated discussion on the Internet.

The main reason is that everyone is praising the heroine for the good choice and scolding the hero for the bad choice.

The first Yuan girl who was popularized by Wu Yuan plays the role of Xiao Longnu, and the broad masses of the people have no objection.

Not to mention how popular she is, just say that her appearance is extremely suitable.

But when Huang Xiaoming, a great Han emperor, came to play Yang Guo, everyone couldn't accept it.

What kind of celebrity are you, Huang Xiaoming, and what kind of celebrity is Liu Yifei? How can these two people work together in a TV series?

However, after arguing for a long time, netizens discovered that there is really no TV drama actor worthy of Liu Yifei at this stage.

This Yang Guo, no matter who plays it, seems to be scolded.

It’s really Liu Yifei’s identity as “Girl Yuan” that’s so scary.

The first movie he acted in had a box office of RMB 1.8 billion across Asia, and this figure continues to grow.

Wu Yuan used two new mainland actors to prove that movies not only starring Hong Kong and Taiwan stars can be successful.

Although "Hero" was also a hit, the starring actors in this movie were all Hong Kong superstars, and only the international chapter was a mainland actor.

Although the film's huge sales stimulated the mainland film market, it also made many mainland film practitioners believe that if they want to make a blockbuster or a big-selling movie, they must star Hong Kong superstars.

So there was "A World Without Thieves" starring Andy Lau.

Even Zhang Yimou himself is seeking stability. The main actors in "House of Flying Daggers" are still mainly Hong Kong actors, and the mainland actors still only have international chapters.

But Wu Yuan proved with "Your Name" that mainland actors can also carry the box office.

This is critical!

You should know that the saying "Only movies starring Hong Kong actors can be successful" actually only took shape in 2005-2006.

"Hero" made a start, but because this work was an isolated case, in 2003-2004, the Chinese film industry did not believe in this matter.

By the end of 2004, the top ten mainland box office movies were released. Everyone found that the top ten Chinese-language movies, whether it was "A World Without Thieves" or "House of Flying Daggers" or "Kung Fu" and "New Police Story", were all from Hong Kong Island. Starring actors!

Only then did the mainland investors begin to truly believe that only by using Hong Kong actors as leading actors could the movie be a big hit.

There was no way around it. In 2004, many movies starring mainland actors were released. For example, Zhou Xun and Chen Kun made several movies, but they all did poorly at the box office.

The market has proven that only movies starring Hong Kong actors are successful, so capital will naturally be more inclined to use Hong Kong actors.

Since then, the era of mainland-funded Hong Kong groups has begun, and a large number of Hong Kong directors and actors have gone north to make money.

In particular, Chen Kaige's "The Promise" added another wave of fire to this wave.

"The Promise" was so criticized when it was released. Nine out of ten people scolded it, saying they couldn't understand it.

However, the box office of this movie was 170 million yuan, and countless movie fans went to the cinema to watch this movie because of the few Hong Kong stars.

What does this mean?

It shows that even if it is a bad movie made with Hong Kong actors, it will not lose money!

The market has given such feedback, so do investors still need to hesitate?

I have to step aside all mainland actors. From the director to the crew to the actors, it must be a team of all Hong Kong people!

Until "Painted Skin", mainland actors had to be grandsons to Taiwanese actors in TV dramas, and Hong Kong actors in movies.

On various occasions, countless so-called industry bosses from Hong Kong and Taiwan have publicly ridiculed mainland actors and crews for not being able to take the stage and can only play minor roles.

In their mouths, International Zhang can only play the role of a maid picking up grape skins.

In the face of these ridicules, mainland actors have no other choice but to break their teeth and swallow them in their mouths.

Wu Yuan actually does not think that Hong Kong actors perform poorly in Beijing. It is true that many Hong Kong actors perform better than mainland actors and are more dedicated.

But there are really only a few actors in Hong Kong, including Andy Lau, Cheng Long, and Goo Jai.

Most of the Hong Kong actors who go north to make money are eating the mainland's food and throwing the blame at the mainland's expense. They ridicule the mainland actors for being incompetent and unable to get on the stage. Hong Kong actors must have a superior attitude.

I don’t know how many Hong Kong actors, after starring in movies on the mainland, returned to Hong Kong to belittle the mainland, saying that the mainland was not good and that was not good, despising the mainland’s backwardness, and the disparity in the aesthetic standards of mainland movie fans, which fully demonstrated the double-dealing.

If you dislike mainland movie fans and mainland life, then don’t come!

While you are feeding Mainland movie fans, you still look down on the Mainland film industry, Mainland actors, and even Mainland audiences. You feel that Mainland audiences even watch bad movies with gusto, and their aesthetic standards are 20 years behind those of Hong Kong.

He is complacent in thinking that although the movies he made in the Mainland are considered bad movies in Hong Kong, they are more than enough for Mainland movie fans, and they have even improved the aesthetics of Mainland movie fans.

Fooling people to the extreme.

Then this is really shameless.

It's different now.

The emergence of Wu Yuan changed the ecology of the mainland film industry.

He has been using mainland actors since "The Night the Comet Came".

And each of the movies he made performed better than the last and had a higher box office.

"Your Name" proves that an all-Mainland cast, even brand-new actors, can still make movies that are popular in Asia.

Wu Yuan told mainland filmmakers the facts.

As long as your script is well done and the director shoots well, actors are definitely not the key to determining whether a movie can be profitable!

Although it cannot be said that it will change the mainland capital's yearning for Hong Kong superstars, Wu Yuan's appearance can at least make the backbone of mainland actors harder, and he can also bring out a group of mainland actors to compete with Hong Kong and Taiwan actors!

Everything he is doing now is to accelerate the growth of the mainland's film and television industry.

The company plans to target Taiwanese capital and actors in the field of TV dramas, and prepares for the production of "Your Name" and "Painted Skin" to further activate the mainland film market and stimulate the self-confidence of mainland actors.

In the few months since the release of "Your Name" alone, the General Administration has received as many as a dozen mainland film project applications.

These films are all produced by new mainland capital. The directors are mainland directors, and the actors are split equally between mainland China and Hong Kong and Taiwan. One of the male and female protagonists must be a mainland actor, and the other must be a Hong Kong actor.

Having Wu Yuan, the king of Chinese commercial films, in front of him gave many mainland filmmakers the confidence to boldly use mainland actors.

The development of the mainland film industry in this world is at least three years faster than Wu Yuan's dream!

The market also has greater confidence in the mainland film industry, and the capital for new entrants is twice as much as he dreamed of!

It can be said that Wu Yuan is the beacon of mainland commercial films now.

In this situation, Liu Yifei, the first-generation Yuan girl, really drew her sword and looked around in confusion.

There is simply no actor, especially a TV actor, who can match her.

After making a fuss on the Internet, netizens had to hold their noses and admit that Huang Xiaoming's Yang Guo was already very suitable, and began to look forward to this version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

Similarly, not only Liu Yifei is now facing the problem of a serious discrepancy between her celebrity status and her own strength, but also the actor Hu Ge of "Your Name".

Tang Dynasty received a lot of invitations to invite Hu Ge to star in movies, but most of them were movies with an investment of 1,200 to 350 million yuan.

In the past, Cai Yinong was crazy about Dele, and it was already very good for his own actors to act in movies.

But now Hu Ge is Mr. 1.8 billion box office.

The next movie he stars in must be a big production with an investment of at least 50 million, right?

But this kind of large-scale production is always a carrot and a pit.

Just like Zhou Dongyu was neither good nor bad after his performance in "The Hawthorn Tree", Hu Ge was also put on the shelf. Small films felt downgraded, and big productions did not look for him.

This resulted in him not having any suitable movies to shoot, so he could only wait.

Fortunately, he still has a movie called "Sword and Fairy" to be broadcast, so he doesn't have to worry about work in a short period of time. He also has many promotional activities and advertising endorsements in Japan.

I can only say that the performance of "Your Name" was too good, and it was also a happy trouble for the actors. It was really confusing to be suddenly mentioned in a position that did not belong to them.

Well, only for actors.

For director Wu Yuan, there is only happiness and no worries.

He has no shortage of movies to make.

After finishing "Destined to Love You", Wu Yuan went back to school and took classes seriously for a month. He learned a lot of shooting techniques for artistic films from Professor Xie, and even tried it hands-on. In 2004, The semester is coming to an end.

In June, summer vacation is approaching.

Wu Yuan's doctoral studies can also come to an end for the time being.

But he couldn't rest, and immediately started preparations for the movie "Love".

For "Painted Skin", China Film and Television Times have been following up, and the contracts for the leading actors have been signed. Wu Yuan is also contacting the special effects company in Hollywood to schedule the film.

Judging from the speed of preparation, "Painted Skin" is initially scheduled to start production in September-October, and strives to be completed before March next year.

There was no other way. Wu Yuan received news from Disney that Jerry and Depp had already reached an agreement, and the preliminary preparations for "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" had begun, including various props, scenery, and early special effects work.

It is expected that "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" will start filming in Los Angeles in March 2005, and Wu Yuan must rush to the United States before then.

Wu Yuan has ushered in the busiest period since his career.

From July to September this summer, he must complete the filming of the literary film "Love", and then join the cast of "Painted Skin 1". "Painted Skin 1" will be completed before March next year, and then go to the United States to shoot "Pirates of the Caribbean 2".

It is expected that from July this year to September next year, Wu Yuan will not have a relaxing day and will work all year round!

This is a huge challenge. Although Wu Yuan complained on the lips, he was also somewhat motivated in his heart and wanted to test his limits!

On June 28, 2004, Wu Yuan personally came to the home of Teacher You Benchang with the script of "Love" and invited him to play the leading role in the film.

Teacher You Benchang was easier to talk to than Wu Yuan expected. After meeting him, he not only entertained him warmly, but also accepted the play without any hesitation after reading the script.

"I've heard about Director Wu for a long time. I bought the disc of your film "The Embalmer" and watched it several times. It's a very good movie."

Teacher You Benchang, who was wearing glasses, took Wu Yuan's hand and said very sincerely: "This "Love" is very well written. I like it very much."

"Even if I don't get paid, I'm still willing to act!"

Wu Yuan smiled happily.

If Mr. You Benchang can agree to star, then there will be no more preparation problems for "Love".

Teacher Wu Yanshu and Wu Yuan were old acquaintances. After a phone call from him, Teacher Wu Yanshu agreed to star in the film without even reading the script.

As for the last important role in this movie, the middle-aged daughter of the old couple, Wu Yuan also found an excellent actress with superb acting skills.

The actress' surname is Gong, and her given name has the character "利", so she is nicknamed Gonghuang.