Millennium director

Beijing International Airport, VIP lounge.

The "Pirates of the Caribbean" promotional team, which has landed in Beijing, is waiting in the lounge for arrangements by the airport staff.

There was no way, the news of Wu Yuan's return to China could not be hidden from mainland fans. When they boarded the plane from Tokyo, they were already surrounded by reporters and fans at the domestic Beijing International Airport.

If they leave the airport now, being surrounded by reporters and fans is a small matter, but affecting the normal operation of the entire airport is a big deal.

So the airport simply opened a VIP channel for them. After getting off the plane, they were taken directly to the VIP room. After a while, they took a shuttle bus directly to the parking lot for employees inside the airport and left directly by car.

No one had any objections.

Orlando even leisurely took out his laptop, connected to the airport network, and started playing on the computer.

He is a heavy computer user.

"Hey Crystal, congratulations!"

"The latest Billboard singles chart has been released, and your new song "Good Time" has topped the list!"

"Wow, now your song is in first place, your song is in third place, and Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" has been pushed to second place!"

"Haha, Katy Perry's "I Kissed A Girl" was even pushed to fourth place. This is a song that has won the number one spot for four weeks."

Looking at the computer page he just opened, Orlando exclaimed with envy.

Almost two weeks after its release, "Good Time" directly topped the Billboard singles chart!

It should be the benefit of "Call Me Maybe". After all, this song is now very popular around the world. Coupled with Timberlake's popularity, the new song "Good Time" quickly became popular after its release.

"Crystal, you are so powerful. Well done as an actor and a great singer as well."

Orlando shook his head and lamented that in Hollywood, there are really too few stars who can do both film, television and singing.

However, Cheng Long was not surprised by this. There are many contestants in the Hong Kong entertainment industry who are good at singing, dancing and singing. The four kings are also good at singing, dancing and acting.

Even he himself has released an album

The only thing that surprised him was that Liu Yifei became popular in North America, not China.

"Director Wu, you really have no need to speak of your talent." Cheng Long put his hand on Wu Yuan's shoulder: "You wrote both of Yifei's books, right?"

"How come you have such a big head? You can write good movie scripts and be a great director. You can also be so good at cross-border songwriting."

"You are really gifted!"

Regarding this, Wu Yuan could only laugh: "Making movies and making music also have something in common. They are both artistic creations!"

This is not wrong. Many directors actually write songs for movies themselves, but most of them only write lyrics and then find specialized musicians to compose the music.

Wu Yuan is the only one who can compose his own music, which is not a very outrageous thing.

"Hey, it's not me who's great, it's my boyfriend~" Liu Yifei raised her chin proudly and looked at Wu Yuan with admiration.

Since she officially announced her relationship some time ago, she has stopped being secretive in front of everyone. She wants the whole world to know that she has an amazing boyfriend.

"Okay." Orlando curled his lips: "If I were a woman, I would also fall in love with Daniel."

"After all, it is really difficult to find another director as talented and handsome as him."

"Crystal, you have to be careful." Orlando teased with a wink.

"Hmph." Liu Yifei's chin raised even higher. She didn't believe that the coquettish bitch outside could seduce her senior brother away.

She couldn't eat this piece of Tang Monk's meat!

"Dong dong dong."

"Dear guests, the shuttle bus is ready, we can go to the parking lot."

An airport employee knocked on the door and interrupted their conversation.

Wu Yuan and others quickly ended their chat, stood up and followed the staff member in an orderly manner, preparing to leave the airport by car.

At the Shangri-La Hotel in Beijing, the team led by Wu Yuan successfully merged with the team led by Depp.

The creators of the "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" crew have begun their final leg of global promotion.

But rather than promoting, they are more like tourists, and they are traveling at public expense.

When "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" was released in China, it really wasn't just a few big Hollywood stars that could reverse the box office performance.

After the box office in the mainland exceeded 100 million, the daily box office performance of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" in the mainland can only barely reach the level of several million a day.

Even Depp and other leading actors, under the arrangement of China Film (China Film is the mainland distributor), held several fan meetings, accepted many interviews with reporters and TV stations, and even appeared on the Six Princesses' "Chinese Film Report" The column only stimulated the box office.

The box office that day jumped from a few million to more than 10 million, and that was it.

The reason why Wu Yuan tried his best to facilitate this trip to China was not really to promote the movie.

What he wants more is to let Hollywood stars such as Depp, Orlando, and Keira come to see China in person and change their impressions of China.

By the way, it was also a show of friendship. After all, they might no longer be able to collaborate on the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series. Wu Yuan also wanted to invite them to come to China to play before "parting ways."

"Wow, Daniel, has China become so modern?"

"This is completely different from the various news reports I have seen in the United States!"

When Wu Yuan took them around Sijiu City, visited the already built Bird's Nest, and visited Xidan and Wangfujing, which are full of high-rise buildings, Wu Yuan heard this comment from Depp.

"Depp, I have told you many times before that China today is completely different from what Americans remember."

Wu Yuan sighed: "We have an old saying in China, which is that seeing is believing and hearing is believing."

"Now that you have seen the rapid development of China with your own eyes, are you finally sure that what I said is not a lie?"

In the eyes of most Americans, the current China still has the same image as it did in the 1970s and 1980s, including the mainstream media in the United States.

When Wu Yuan was in the United States, he saw many articles with photos from the 1980s and accompanying articles introducing China.

There was nothing he could do about it.

The only way Wu Yuan can think of to change China's international image is to let these influential Hollywood superstars see China's current situation with their own eyes, and let them use their influence to subtly influence fans to change their perception of China. impression.

"It is indeed completely different from the China I imagined." Orlando, who also visited Xidan together, agreed.

However, there are some things he doesn't understand: "Daniel, although the Chinese capital is not as good as international metropolises such as New York and Los Angeles, it is still a very modern city."

"This shows that China is already very developed, at least not as backward as we think."

"Then, why is China's film market developing so weakly?"

"With more than one billion Chinese people, there is only a box office market of less than US$500 million per year?"

"This is not as high as the box office of a blockbuster Hollywood movie!"

Orlando's words immediately choked Wu Yuan and made him speechless.

But no, the total box office in mainland China last year was only 3.3 billion yuan, which translates into less than 500 million US dollars.

Even if movie tickets are much cheaper in mainland China than in the United States, the gap is still too huge.

"It's coming soon. In a few years, the Chinese film market will develop rapidly." Wu Yuan could only reply.

Orlando looked like "I believe you are a ghost" and didn't pay attention to Wu Yuan's words at all. He just regarded him as saying something for the occasion.

Wu Yuan, on the other hand, became thoughtful.

When did the Chinese film market surpass that of North America?

2018, or 2019?

It will be ten years from now, very soon!

And it seems that the number of screens in the Chinese film market in 2016 will exceed that in North America.

The number of IMAX screens dwarfs that of North America.

This is the latecomer advantage!

"Okay, let's not talk about this topic anymore." Wu Yuan came to his senses and said with a smile: "Let's go, I will take you to try the most famous delicacy in the capital, Quanjude Roast Duck!"

As soon as he mentioned Chinese food, Depp immediately became excited: "Let's go, let's go!"

The main creators of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" stayed in Beijing for three days in total, participated in an offline movie viewing, accepted many media reporters, and after the recording of the Six Princess program, most of the main creators said goodbye again Wu Yuan flew back to the United States.

They still have some final finishing touches to do in North America.

Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei, however, stayed in China and did not return to the United States with them.

The promotional work for "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" has basically been completed, and the global box office has reached the figure of 800 million US dollars. It depends on God's will whether it can rely on the afterglow of the global release to reach 1 billion US dollars in total box office.

For Wu Yuan, this movie is no longer the focus of his work.

There was another, more important thing waiting for him.

"Gravity," China's first hard science fiction blockbuster that took three years to prepare and film, is about to be released nationwide!

Years ago, "Gravity" was already scheduled to be released on July 4th.

Now there is less than half a month left before the movie is released.

Wu Yuan had to stay in China and began to promote the movie.

In fact, this movie has long been known to all Chinese movie fans, and everyone has always been full of expectations and doubts about this movie.

Can Chinese people really make good science fiction movies?

Does China have the soil for science fiction movies?

From the beginning of the project, "Gravity" has been controversial, with many supporters, ridicules and doubters. The public opinion evaluation on the Internet has always been 50-50 positive and negative.

In the past three years, whenever someone mentions this movie, it will trigger a lot of discussion. It is common for supporters and doubters to argue in hundreds of posts.

As far as publicity is concerned, Wu Yuan doesn't need to put any more thought into it. This movie is already well known to everyone.

However, Wu Yuan never expected that his superiors would prepare a big move in order to cooperate with the movie "Gravity" and boost China's image as a space power.

The day after sending off the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", Wu Yuan received a phone call from the space agency.

"Director Wu, Shenzhou 7 is ready for launch. It is expected to be launched on July 10th and will conduct extravehicular activities on July 12th!"

"It's up to you now!"

Yes, because of the appearance of the movie "Gravity", the butterfly flapped its wings, and the launch of the Shenzhou VII project was advanced by two months!

Wu Yuan inadvertently changed history. (End of chapter)