Millennium director

On the plane to Paris.

Wu Yuan is still thinking about "Kings Agent".

After discussing with John, he agreed to postpone the release of the film.

After all, this movie is not solely produced by Light Times, and New Line's opinions must also be considered.

Since New Line attaches great importance to this movie, and Wu Yuan is unwilling to put this movie in the Christmas slot, New Line is only willing to consider next year's summer slot.

In North America, there is no concept of National Day and Spring Festival stalls. The summer stall is considered the most popular.

The last two installments of the "Rush Hour" trilogy were both set during the summer season.

Wu Yuan was perfectly fine with this.

The success of "Twilight" in North America has enriched the account of Light Times. This movie is a typical low-cost and high-yield movie. The global box office of hundreds of millions of dollars has made Light Times full.

Even with the investment pressure of "Interstellar", coupled with the production of the second part of "The Twilight Saga" and the preparation of "Never End", the funds in the Light Times account are still abundant, and there is not much pressure to repay the money. .

Even Wu Yuan is still considering whether to let Light Times start preparations for "The Martian" again.

The original work of "The Martian" has now appeared on the North American Internet. Of course, Wu Yuan immediately asked John to buy the film adaptation rights.

After the popularity of "Avatar", the global market will usher in a boom in science fiction movies in three to five years.

Not to mention that Wu Yuan's own "Interstellar" and Nolan's "Inception" will be released next year, which will ignite the global science fiction film market.

We cannot let others take advantage of the market we have finally developed by ourselves.

Last time in Iceland, Wu Yuan had a pretty good chat with Matt Damon. Faced with his recruitment, Matt Damon was also happy to join.

With Matt Damon, the casting of "The Martian" is settled. This movie is completely a one-man show.

But Wu Yuan still has to make Chinese-language films.

"Gravity" was a movie released in 2008. There are no new movies this year. If we don't make a Chinese-language movie next year, there won't be any new Chinese-language movies the year after that.

There have been no new films released in China for three consecutive years, and the next few years will be the fastest growing years for the Chinese film market. If Wu Yuan is absent from the mainland market, I am afraid the losses will be huge.

This loss is not a monetary loss at the box office. In terms of box office, Wu Yuan's films have a higher box office.

This loss is a loss of influence and reputation.

The next few years will be the most "vibrant" years for the Chinese-language film market. The box office market will double every year, and the box office results will be refreshed every year. It will be the most turbulent years.

Even the box office record of "Gravity" held by Wu Yuan will be easily broken and doubled.

How could Wu Yuan miss such an exciting period?

Of course, he has no intention of filming "囧".

With his current talent, if he shoots a vulgar comedy like "囧", even if it is a box office hit, the reputation will probably be bad.

This is just like Zhang Yimou's filming of "Man Jiang Hong". No matter how high the box office is, he will still be scolded.

"Better Days" is good. This movie not only won awards, but also sold well at the box office.

The topic of school violence should also be paid attention to by the public.

Wu Yuan, who originally had just an idea, now increasingly feels that filming "Young You" is a very good decision.

Once this movie is finished, it will be possible for Liu Yifei to win a domestic three-time Best Actress Award.

The premise is that she can perform at a high level and with great style!

"Sissi, let's make the movie "Young You" together next year." After thinking about it, Wu Yuan said softly to Liu Yifei who was sitting next to him.

This year he doesn't want to be so tired. He has to make another movie. It's enough to finish the post-production of "Interstellar".

But there is still no rest next year.

We will try to finish filming "Young You" in the first half of next year and release it in the second half of the year.

The film only needs to be edited in the later stage without any special effects. If you move quickly, it can be shot in three months and post-production can be completed in one month.

"Okay!" Liu Yifei said happily.

She has long wanted to challenge this kind of literary and artistic film.

If Wu Yuan hadn't been tied up, she would have gone to shoot some miscellaneous literary films.

There are quite a few directors in China looking for her to star in literary films, and most of them come here because of her fame, hoping to invite her with a low salary, and then use her fame to sell box office for their movies.

Some even offer only a few hundred thousand, hoping that Liu Yifei will break her bones and star for the sake of the excellent script.

Wu Yuan has never had a good look on people who want to take advantage of others.

If the script was really good and had the potential to win awards, Wu Yuan would certainly not mind if Liu Yifei took it on at a low price. After all, their family would not be short of Liu Yifei's salary.

But the fact is that in Wu Yuan's eyes, these so-called "excellent scripts" that came to him were basically nothing more than bullshit.

It's just that Liu Yifei foolishly believed that the script was really good, or that she had a literary youth disease, so she liked this kind of literary youth movie.

Every time Liu Yifei enthusiastically showed the script to Wu Yuan, he would basically push her back mercilessly.

Wu Yuan also really felt Liu Yifei's film selection skills.

In later generations, many people believed that Liu Yifei's film career was not smooth, and most of them had to blame Liu Xiaoli for accepting a bunch of bad movies for her.

But in fact, when Liu Xiaoli was still Liu Yifei's agent, the movies she accepted for Liu Yifei were actually pretty good.

From "The King of Kung Fu" to "A Chinese Ghost Story", "Four Famous Catchers" and then to "Tongque Terrace", although they are not considered to be high-quality films, they are at least successful in the field of commercial films.

At least the box office results were very good, and the overseas copyrights were even sold, which expanded Liu Yifei's influence and fame.

But since Liu Xiaoli got older and completely let go and retreated behind the scenes, and Liu Yifei chose and accepted the films by herself, the films she accepted were hard to describe.

Although there are reasons why good productions and good scripts cannot be delivered to her, her own aesthetic in film selection is definitely problematic.

The commercial ones are not commercial enough, and the literary ones are too literary.

She would at least have to shoulder most of the blame for the film selection issue.

The way artistic young women choose films is really bad.

In this life, because Wu Yuan has given her control, Liu Yifei has avoided making mistakes in film selection. Although she has not starred in many movies, and only makes one movie a year, all of them are well-made, and all of them are box office hits. This established her status as an Asian superstar!

Liu Yifei also obeyed his advice. At least in terms of movies, Wu Yuan's authority is unquestionable.

Whatever he said he wanted to shoot, Liu Yifei would shoot it.

He said the script was not good and it was a bad movie. Even if Liu Yifei liked it, she would think Wu Yuan was right and wonder why it was a bad movie.

Over time, her aesthetics in film selection were somewhat corrected by Wu Yuan.

At least this year, Liu Yifei handed Wu Yuan significantly fewer scripts to read, and the quality has improved a lot, which shows that the effect of her own screening is already very good.

However, because her life trajectory has completely changed in this life, she has not been suppressed by Huayi, and does not need to go south to Hong Kong, so movies such as "Love Announcement" and "A Chinese Ghost Story" will probably not find Liu Yifei here.

If "Young You" goes well, Liu Yifei's status in the industry will be even higher, and it will be impossible for her to make these movies!

Her future lies in Chinese blockbusters and Hollywood blockbusters! (End of chapter)