Millennium director

“That’s what happened.

"Go and contact Sina. Whether it's a simple capital injection or a share exchange, I can accept it."

"Well, the company still has hundreds of millions of working capital on its books. Sina will definitely be interested."

"Internet companies are notorious for burning money. Sina Weibo has only been established for two years. Although it has not branched out independently, it has also received strategic investments."

“Didn’t Ali just take 10% of Sina’s shares?”

"Besides, Sina is engaged in Internet entertainment. We are the largest entertainment company in the mainland. It is impossible for Sina to be unwilling to join forces."

"Well, that's it, you go and try to make contact."

After hanging up the phone, Wu Yuan let out a long breath.

He knows very well that Sina is now very short of money in order to develop Weibo as a portal.

Because Sina Weibo is almost considered a very important company in the entertainment industry in later generations, he also knows a little about this company.

At the earliest, Sina introduced investment from Alibaba. Later, in 2013, Sina announced that it would split its business into portals and Sina Weibo, and cooperated with Alibaba. The latter increased its holdings in the split Weibo. The shareholding increased to 30%, becoming the second largest shareholder of independently operated Weibo products.

In this way, with the introduction of Alibaba's investment, Weibo finally succeeded in becoming a dominant player and burned a lot of money.

When Weibo went public in 2014, it planned to raise US$500 million, including US$250 million to repay loans owed to Sina.

Although this is a left-handed behavior, it also shows that Sina spent at least US$300 million in order to start Weibo.

This is a small 2 billion yuan!

Although Wu Yuan doesn’t know how much Alibaba spent to acquire 30% of Weibo’s shares, and how many Internet promotion channels it provided for Weibo.

But Wu Yuan's ambitions are not that big. Wu Yuan is not a business tycoon, and he cannot play in the Internet industry.

All he wants is a single-digit Weibo share.

What he cares about is to become "one of his own" with Weibo, so that in the future era of light and shadow and the era of Internet entertainment, he can rely on Weibo's ability to guide public opinion and remain invincible.

As for making money through Weibo, that’s really not the case.

Making movies and TV series, running theaters, investing in film and television, and being an artist manager are enough to make money, and these are the areas he is best at.

After mentioning the cooperation with Weibo to Li Xiaoping, he handed over the specific work to Li Xiaoping.

As the largest entertainment company in the country, its current development strategy is based on celebrities in the entertainment industry, rather than Sina Weibo, which focuses on the cultural and sports circles like Penguin Weibo. It should still be very interested in cooperating with Light and Shadow Times.

More than half a month later.

Magic City, the set of "Love Letter".

Today the crew came to a cemetery park on the outskirts of Shanghai.

This cemetery park is very old and was first established in the 1950s.

Here, many ancestors who have passed away are buried.

Wu Yuan was holding a bouquet of flowers in his hand and standing next to a tombstone with a photo of an elderly woman.

Of course, this cemetery is not a real cemetery. It is an empty cemetery that the staff specially borrowed from the cemetery park manager.

And this tombstone that looks very old and full of quaint and rustic feeling is actually also a new tombstone made from old materials.

"Lin Ya'er"

"1901-1972"

Looking at the black and white photo of the elderly version of Liu Yifei with old makeup and special effects attached to the tombstone, Wu Yuan felt something strange in his heart.

I didn’t think so when I was a director before, but now that I am an actor, I see that my fiancée is alive and well, her photo is posted on the tombstone, and I have to play a man who missed her, I really feel that It feels weird.

"Sissi, did you get the red envelope?"

"Are the firecrackers ready?"

Wu Yuan turned to the on-site staff and asked.

The theater manager in charge nodded quickly: "We've bought all the firecrackers!"

There is an unwritten rule among domestic film crews, that is, if actors have to perform death scenes, coffin scenes, or death scenes, after the filming is completed, the crew will give them red envelopes, or set off firecrackers after the performance, for good luck. Also remove evil spirits.

Although Liu Yifei didn't really need to play a dead person this time, just having her photo on the tombstone made Wu Yuan feel a little sad.

He had never believed in such metaphysics, so he had rarely prepared a complete set of "auspicious" measures.

After making sure everything was ready, he took a sharp breath and said, "Let's start shooting."

The assistant director in charge of scene management quickly picked up the walkie-talkie.

"Every unit prepares!"

"Three, two, one!"

"Power on!"

As the sound of clapping was heard, Wu Yuan raised the flowers in his hand, squatted down, and touched the tombstone with a trembling hand.

His eyes were firm, but his eyes were already red.

After staring at the photo on the tombstone for a long time, his hand moved down and touched the epitaph on the tombstone.

"I will never forget you, even if I never meet you."

These words were the last words left to the male protagonist by Lin Yaer, who was sleeping in the cemetery.

Wu Yuan, who could still hold back tears, slowly shed a tear from the corner of his eye, leaving a tear stain on his cheek.

The close-up camera that had been prepared immediately captured this close-up shot.

"Director Wu's acting skills are great, he sheds tears at the drop of a hat!" Many of the on-site staff who were far away were talking in low voices, a little amazed.

This time in "Love Letter", Wu Yuan's acting skills were obviously much better than in "Ghost", which surprised many crew members who thought that he was only suitable for a director and not an actor.

In the studio, Wu Yuan's drama continued.

Just as he was crying while looking at the tombstone, a golden retriever holding a leash suddenly rushed into the close-up view and was carried into Wu Yuan's arms, as if he regarded him as its master.

Wu Yuan, who suddenly encountered this situation, also had a look of astonishment on his face.

Before he could react, Liu Yifei, wearing a white windbreaker and a beautiful gauze skirt, followed behind and trotted over.

"Sorry, I didn't notice that my hand was loosened for a moment."

Liu Yifei pulled on the leash of the golden retriever and pulled it into her arms, while still apologizing: "Didn't I scare you?"

However, when Wu Yuan raised his head and saw Liu Yifei's familiar face, his pupils suddenly dilated and his expression was completely dull.

"Sir?" Liu Yifei thought he was frightened, so she shouted again cautiously.

Only then did Wu Yuan come back to his senses, with a bright smile on his face.

The two close-up machines at the scene kept capturing scenes on the faces of Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei.

The breeze kept rustling the leaves, and the pleasant and warm sunshine hit their faces, as if they were covered with a layer of golden light.

"Can I buy you a drink?" They both said in unison with genuine smiles on their faces.

Liu Yifei seemed a little shy. She didn't know why she impulsively invited the strange man in front of her. She lowered her head in embarrassment and stretched out her hand to push back the wind-blown hair on her face.

The smile on Wu Yuan's face became even brighter, his eyes fixed on the shy girl.

The picture was fixed on the two people standing facing each other, and slowly zoomed out.

"Click!"

The assistant director on the scene slapped it down personally and said with the same bright smile: "Director Wu, your acting is great!"

"I think I can do it all over again!"

"We can wrap it up!"