Millennium director

Beijing International Airport parking lot.

"Welcome back home!"

Li Xiaoping personally brought people to pick up the plane. Several cars were lined up in a row. Those who didn't know it thought some big shot was coming.

Wu Yuan was really embarrassed, so he pulled Liu Yifei and quickly walked into the car.

"Why did you come to pick me up in person?"

"The company is so busy, there is no need to engage in these formalities."

Wu Yuan said slightly dissatisfied.

The current era of light and shadow is no longer the small company it used to be. Even if it is not listed, the overall valuation can reach billions of yuan. The industry is spread across the entire entertainment industry, opening up the upstream and downstream of the entertainment industry, from production to sales to artists. Training is all handled by one person.

Li Xiaoping, the nominal general manager and the actual CEO of the company, has a heavy burden on her shoulders.

Coming here specifically to pick up Wu Yuan at the airport was really a bit of a joke.

"Director Wu, I just happened to be here today to send some of the company's senior executives to South Korea, so I wanted to pick you up by the way." Li Xiaoping explained with a chuckle.

"Sending company executives to South Korea?" Wu Yuan frowned and asked in confusion, "Did something happen over there?"

"That's not true." Li Xiaoping shook her head, and the smile on her face became three points thicker.

"The company's expansion in South Korea is going very smoothly, and we plan to develop new business."

In recent years, the era of light and shadow is not limited to domestic market development.

With Wu Yuan and Zhang Guorong here, Light and Shadow Era has always been ambitious for the entire Asian market.

The two most important parts of the Asian market are the Japanese and Korean markets.

In Japan, mainly relying on the influence Wu Yuan has accumulated in Japan from his many film works and the good cooperative relationship he has developed with Japanese entertainment companies, he is slowly developing a layout for TV series production.

Now the Japanese branch of Light and Shadow Times has cooperated with local production companies in Japan to produce two TV series.

It's just that Japan is more complacent than South Korea. Most of the TV dramas are produced by the TV stations themselves. In the light and shadow era, they can only cooperate with TBS, Fuji, NHK and other TV stations, so the career development is not smooth.

If you really want to open up the market in Japan, you have to rely on Internet movies and TV shows. You have to wait for Light and Shadow Express to enter the Japanese market before you can make truly homemade movies and TV series.

In comparison, the development of Guangying Kuaibo in South Korea has been relatively smooth.

Thanks to Wu Yuan's starring role in "Ghost", which became a hit in Korea, Light and Shadow Qvod, a weak collaboration with Tvn, successfully landed in the Korean film and television industry.

After "Goblin", Guangying Kuaibo collaborated with Tvn to film "Queen Inhyun's Man" and "A Gentleman's Dignity". They are currently filming "The Heirs" and plan to film "The Master's Sun".

These dramas are all co-operated by Light and Shadow Times and Tvn, and they are broadcast simultaneously on the network and the channel.

And in the field of variety shows, PD Na Young-seok, who works for South Korea's KBS TV station, was also hired by Light and Shadow Express at a huge sum of money. He is currently creating a trilogy of "Grandpas Over Flowers". The first episode of "Grandpas Over Flowers" has already started broadcasting in South Korea. It got a lot of attention.

At the same time, Tvn's own "Weekly Idol" program is also broadcast exclusively online on Guangying Kuaibo.

This is an idol variety show that interviews a group of fans' favorite idol groups in each episode. The host and idol members answer quick questions and answers. It is an idol variety show that is full of laughter and immediacy. It is very attractive to young audiences.

Under the dual offensive of TV series and variety shows, Light and Shadow Kuaibo has gained a group of loyal viewers in South Korea and currently ranks second among South Korean online video websites.

However, this is the development path of Guangying Kuaibo. Although Guangying Kuaibo and Guangying Times belong to the same boss, the two companies are very clearly separated in their work. The good development of Guangying Kuaibo does not mean that Guangying Times can Did you successfully enter Korea?

After all, South Korea is very exclusive. As a pure film and television production company, Guangying Kuaibo is unlikely to break into the Korean film production industry, right?

"It's like this. During the time when you, Director Wu, were filming abroad, the company, with the help of the Korean branch of Light and Shadow Kuaibo, reached cooperation with several Korean film production companies and planned to make several Sino-Korean co-productions. Test the waters.”

"South Korea's film industry is still developing very well. There have been several phenomenal films in the past few years, which are influential throughout Asia."

"For example, the movie "Uncle" starring Won Bin and Kim Sae-ron, and the science fiction film "Han River Monster"."

"Isn't it good cooperation with Tvn? Lighting Kuaibo helped us contact CJ ENM, the parent company behind TVN, and negotiated a film cooperation project."

At this point, Wu Yuan understood.

It turned out that the two "subsidiaries" were matchmaking for their respective parent companies and came up with a film cooperation project. No wonder Light and Shadow Times sent executives there to discuss it.

"CJ Film Production Company, a subsidiary of South Korea's CJ Entertainment Group, has a very good script. It is an action crime film about thieves. It will be shot in many places on Hong Kong Island and Macau."

"Originally, CJ planned to cooperate with a Hong Kong film production company, and the talks were almost complete."

"But because of our appearance, CJ plans to upgrade this movie to a co-production."

"After all, the current mainland film market is also very broad. If we can join the film era, then this film can win the Chinese mainland market."

As the number one film production company in mainland China, Light and Film Times has been frequently invited by foreign film and television companies to collaborate on co-productions in the past few years.

After all, under the general environment, the main direction of development of China's film industry in recent years has been co-productions, and various companies are making them, including Sino-Korean, Sino-Japanese, Sino-American, Sino-French, Sino-Danish, and Sino-British co-productions.

However, Light and Shadow Times has never been interested in so-called co-productions. Wu Yuan also gave an order to the company to try not to get involved in co-productions and just make his own movies.

But this time, after Li Xiaoping read the script submitted by South Korea, she really felt that it was a good script and had the potential to be used throughout Asia, so she took the initiative to send people to South Korea for negotiations.

After listening to Li Xiaoping's introduction, Wu Yuan also knew which movie it was.

When it was released, "A League of Thieves" broke 17 box office records in Korean film history and successfully ranked first in the box office of Korean film history that year!

Originally, this movie was supposed to start shooting in July this year, but it should be finished now.

However, after the emergence of Wu Yuan and the big butterfly of the Light and Shadow Era, many things have changed.

Although he doesn't like to make co-productions and has never been optimistic about co-productions, if it is "A League of Thieves", then Wu Yuan doesn't think it is impossible.

"I know, you can continue to follow up on this matter." He nodded, recognizing Li Xiaoping's vision.

"Except for general direction decisions, you can decide the rest of the company's affairs yourself."

"I am only concerned about the release plan of "Love Letter"."

"This movie is my first starring role in a movie after ten years, and it is also my first time making a pure love movie."

"I hope fans can accept it and bring surprises to fans!"

Wu Yuan leaned on the back seat of the car, his tone slightly uneasy.

This surprised both Li Xiaoping and Liu Yifei.

It's just a low-budget romance film. Director Wu (senior brother), who is used to seeing big scenes, actually feels nervous and uneasy?

Isn't this an illusion? (End of chapter)