Millennium director

Chapter 192 Completed the guest appearance and returned to China to start the young director support program!

"Catch them all!"

Wu Yuan stood on a chariot drawn by six horses, holding the weak and naive Liu Yifei with his left hand, and raised the bronze sword high with his right hand, pointing it at the panic-looking western cowboys and Roman generals.

"Damn it! Why did you alert him?" The Roman general hammered his chest in annoyance. He didn't care about continuing the melee with the Western cowboys, and planned to run away with his soldiers.

"Who is he?" The western cowboy looked stunned. He didn't understand why the Roman general was so afraid and why he had such a huge army.

"Idiot, he is Qin Shihuang from the Huaxia Pavilion next door!"

"The first emperor of China!"

"It was he who built a huge imperial mausoleum after his death and had tens of thousands of terracotta warriors and horses buried with him!"

"In the entire museum, we Roman legions are not afraid of anyone, but we are afraid of him!"

"Why?" The Western Cowboy took out his revolver with a look of disdain, "Isn't he just the Eastern Emperor from two thousand years ago?"

The Roman general gave the Western cowboy a deep look and said, "You'll find out later."

After saying that, he quickly led the soldiers and ran away in the other direction, leaving the Western Cowboys behind.

Just as the western cowboy was puzzled, a dark shadow gradually rose up, covering his figure.

"What?"

The main tone was black, and an army with Chang Ge in their hands appeared from behind Wu Yuan.

They walked in unison, tilted their long swords, and pointed them at the western cowboys. A cold light shone on the tips of the swords.

"Damn it!" the Western Cowboy cursed. He knew why the Roman Legion was afraid of the Qin Legion.

"What's so great about so many people?" The Western Cowboy cursed angrily with his fist in his waist, then gave up decisively, mounted his big horse, and disappeared in a flash.

"Okay! Cut!" Sean Levy poked his head out from behind the monitor: "Daniel, you did a great job!"

“Crystal’s performance is also good!”

Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei, who were still standing on the chariot, looked at each other and smiled, but neither of them answered.

Fortunately for Wu Yuan, he at least had one line in this scene. Liu Yifei didn't even have a line. She just showed her face and talked about her acting skills.

Carefully helping Liu Yifei get out of the chariot, Wu Yuan patted the extra performer in front of him on the shoulder, "Awesome, there are very few people who can drive this kind of carriage these days.

The troupe driving the carriage is also Chinese. He smiled naively, "Actually, it's not difficult to learn this. The main thing is to see if the horse has been trained."

"That's pretty awesome too." Wu Yuan shook his head.

The film industry in Hollywood is still developed. Actors like this who can drive a six-horse chariot can be easily found, and they are also Chinese.

If he wanted to find a foreigner in China who could drive such a carriage, Wu Yuan might not be able to find him despite all his efforts.

Next, the shooting continues.

In order to make the best use of time, Sean Levy put Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei's scenes together for filming.

It took two days for the two to complete this guest trip.

There are not many scenes, the two of them only have a dozen lines together, but their character is very high, which is the ceiling of combat power in the museum (among the figurines of the villain), and they finally helped Ben Stiller drive away the thieves.

After completing his cameo appearance in the movie, Wu Yuan's affairs in the United States were basically settled.

Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli's family visit is also coming to an end.

But none of them had any intention of returning to China or Tokyo.

Because there was something else waiting for them.

At the 2006 Academy Awards, "Love" was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Award!

Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei will attend the awards ceremony on March 6, 2006!

Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei will leave the United States only after attending the award ceremony.

The release date of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" has been set. It will be released in July or August this summer, and he will not come to the United States until then.

But before leaving the United States, Wu Yuan still needs to spend money to recruit people and set up the Light and Shadow Era Special Effects Company first!

In fact, he is actually doing this.

After returning to Los Angeles from Vancouver, Wu Yuan turned around and immediately started waving money in Hollywood, throwing money around like crazy.

He needs to recruit a group of Hollywood's top special effects engineers, CG modelers and other professionals, and then ask them to make a list of equipment and purchase a batch of high-end special effects production equipment, that is, computers.

Although, in the eyes of the Hollywood special effects team, China is really backward now, and their impression of China remains as backward as it was in the 1980s and 1990s.

This is normal.

Before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, most foreigners thought that China was very backward and poor, a place not much different from Africa.

It was not until the Beijing Olympics showed a modern new China to the global audience that foreigners had a different impression of China. And then after the influence of the four great inventions of the new China, foreigners finally regarded China as the next superpower.

But this does not affect Wu Yuan's recruitment of people to work for him in China.

Just give me enough money.

As long as the salary he offers is high enough, there will always be people interested.

Aren't there a lot of domestic people going to work in Africa in 2020? It's because the wages and benefits offered by foreign aid companies are good enough.

Under Wu Yuan's poaching efforts, which generally increased salary by 50%, he soon poached a team from three major film and television special effects companies: Industrial Light \u0026 Magic, Weta Digital, and Digital Domain.

The three teams add up to only 15 people, but they require Wu Yuan to spend nearly 2 million U.S. dollars in salary every year to support them. The average annual salary for each person is more than 120,000 U.S. dollars.

This is considered a high salary in the United States. At least one person's income is enough to support a middle-class family, and it is also the most respectable among the middle class.

He spent money to poach these three teams. Of course, he not only wanted them to work for him, but also needed them to bring in new Chinese people and cultivate a group of truly local special effects artists for Chinese films.

Learn from the barbarians and use their skills to control them!

The money spent is still worth it, a thousand gold buys horse bones.

And compared to this salary, what really cost Wu Yuan a lot of money was the equipment prepared for these special effects artists.

According to the equipment lists presented by the heads of the three teams, Wu Yuan ordered a total of nearly 20 million US dollars in equipment for them. This is only the first phase. In the future, if the production capacity is to be expanded and more new people are trained, it will probably be even more. Then buy the second and third batch of equipment.

Again, it costs Industrial Light and Magic more than $100 million to upgrade its equipment.

Even if he didn't compete with Industrial Light and Magic, Wu Yuan would have spent at least tens of millions of dollars on the special effects company.

The good news is that this money does not need to be spent all at once. It can be invested over three to five years, which means that he will not be under great financial pressure.

Light Times is still his biggest cash flow. The two parts of "The Hangover" alone earned him more than 300 million U.S. dollars, and the following "Fake Marriage" and "Weakness" can also earn 100 to 200 million U.S. dollars. .

The first film of "Night at the Museum" grossed more than 500 million at the box office. Even if it was divided in half, Light Times could still earn 100 million US dollars.

Moreover, the copyright of this series is still in the hands of Light Times, so there is no need to worry about Fox being able to abandon themselves and go it alone in the future cooperation.

Coupled with the "Ace Agent" series that will be cooperated with New Line in the future, Wu Yuan should not be short of money in the next three to five years.

After calculating his disposable income in the next few years, Wu Yuan is even still thinking about starting a theater business.

In late February, three special effects teams poached by Wu Yuan took the lead on their flight back to China.

Li Xiaoping, who had received the news a long time ago, has already rented another 1,000 square meters of office space upstairs in the Light and Shadow Era, and rented apartments for these "foreign aids".

It was the first time for these Hollywood special effects artists to come to China, or even the first time to go abroad. When they walked out of the Beijing International Airport, they were all surprised and grinning from ear to ear.

The China in reality and the China in their imagination are not the same thing at all!

Although the current capital is not as developed and prosperous as Los Angeles and New York, there are still many high-rise buildings and the atmosphere of a modern urban area is already very strong, but it is not lagging behind at all.

"Is China already so developed?" Phyllis, who comes from Industrial Light and Magic and has collaborated with Wu Yuan in "Pirates of the Caribbean", exclaimed in surprise: "This is completely different from the China in Western newspapers and on the Internet!"

"Mr. Felice, the surprise is yet to come." Li Xiaoping, who came to the airport to pick up the plane in person with several employees, chatted with them enthusiastically: "When you live here for a long time, you will know that the real China is What’s it like?”

"Although it may not be as developed as the United States, it is definitely not a backward country, and our culture, food, and humanities are much better than those of the United States."

"I believe that in ten or eight years, Beijing will not lose to international metropolises such as New York and Los Angeles."

"After all, the capital has become a big construction site now."

Not to mention them, even Wu Yuan, a native of the capital, was a little surprised by the changes in the capital in the past few years.

It has only been five or six years since 2000, but the capital city has been renovated almost from top to bottom. Not to mention countless new buildings, all of which are very modern high-rise buildings, often with twenty or thirty floors. Glass facade.

Even in the two old urban areas, many old houses and old alleys have been demolished or renovated.

Many of the places Wu Yuan used to play when he was a child are unrecognizable to him now.

It was also because of this that Wu Yuan even visited a house last year despite his busy schedule.

He had his eye on many good properties, but they were all under construction, including villas and flats. He bought one of each and planned to live in them in the future.

The courtyard house he lives in now is really not that comfortable. Especially after getting used to living in a mansion in Beverly, Wu Yuan doesn't like the courtyard house even more.

It's just that the delivery of these houses will have to wait until next year.

After picking up the people at the airport, Li Xiaoping took several translators and successfully brought the external special effects team back to the company.

"Take them to visit their office area, and then take them back to the company-provided apartment to rest."

"After a while, when the equipment arrives one after another, let them recruit a group of domestic special effects artists to lead the new ones."

"It's best to recruit people from Xantao Digital on Hong Kong Island. Director Wu has ordered this. Xantao Digital's technology is still good."

Just after giving a few words to her assistant, Li Xiaoping immediately received a cross-country call from Wu Yuan.

"Mr. Li, have you received everyone? To properly arrange for them, these fifteen people will cost more than two million U.S. dollars a year, which is not cheap."

"I understand, Director Wu." Li Xiaoping quickly assured: "I will definitely not neglect these technical talents!"

"Okay, that's good." Wu Yuan on the other end of the phone smiled and asked again:

"Mr. Li, how is the young director support program I mentioned last time going?"

Li Xiaoping, who was used to Wu Yuan's character of thinking out of the blue, was not surprised and reported it neatly.

“The preliminary preparations have been done and the promotional copy has been written.”

"The initial plan is to spend 30 million yuan to support 5-6 mainland directors to shoot movies."

"As for which directors will be supported specifically, it depends on the review status of the scripts they submit. Do you want to personally review this Director Wu?"

"I will review it myself." Wu Yuan nodded and agreed. He is a person with a vision for the future. Scripts that pass his review are more likely to maintain capital.

Although I have been mentally prepared to lose all the 30 million, the loss should be more meaningful.

Liu Dehua's Asian Rising Star Director Program also brought out Ning Hao. His Wu Yuan's Young Director Support Program also had to bring out two pretty good directors, right?

"Okay, let's arrange it like this."

“Spread the word about our young director support program as soon as possible.”

"After I return to China, I can review a batch of scripts and select a few suitable directors."

There is one more chapter to be posted before three o'clock.