Millennium director

Chapter 628 Spring Festival and "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons"

"Hey, that's what happened."

"After all, it's still the Spring Festival, so we must have a holiday."

"We can't really continue filming during the Spring Festival just to keep up with the schedule."

"You don't want to go home to celebrate the New Year, but I still want to go home to celebrate the New Year."

Wu Yuan sighed helplessly. Faced with the crew and creators who actively stated that he did not need to take the Spring Festival holiday or even triple their salary, he was relieved and sighing.

Next to him, Huang Bo lowered his head with a guilty look on his face, not knowing what to say.

The filming of "Dear" was delayed beyond schedule.

Originally, according to the shooting plan, the film could be successfully completed before the Spring Festival, which is the New Year's Eve.

However, due to the popularity of "囧囧" and Huang Bo taking leave and skipping work, the progress of this movie was inevitably delayed.

It is already the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, but "Dear" is expected to have about fifteen days of filming left.

Obviously, this movie could not have been completed before the year.

Wu Yuan was mentally prepared for it. The crew announced that they would take annual leave as normal and would resume work after the seventh day of the Lunar New Year.

However, the leading actors of the crew, as well as the creators and staff behind the scenes, all said that this Spring Festival is not mandatory. It is more important to finish filming Director Wu's film first, so that everyone can overcome the difficulties of the Spring Festival holiday.

Of course Wu Yuan is not an evil capitalist. There is no need to deny these people who have been busy all year even an annual leave.

Various crew equipment in the current light and shadow era, ranging from ordinary props to large IMAX 3D cameras, are not rented, but are all purchased by the company itself.

Therefore, for him, the impact of the crew taking a break of more than ten days before restarting work is not as great as it was when they rented high-end equipment.

After all, when renting equipment in the past, you had to rent it for an exact date, such as 45 days, 55 days, etc. You can't rent it for 30 days first, then return it for ten days in the middle, and then rent it for another ten days.

The crew's cameras and other high-end equipment are much busier than directors like them. In many cases, the "schedule" for the coming year is decided a year in advance, and it is not so easy to borrow it and return it as soon as you ask.

Therefore, if the crew was overdue for filming and the borrowed equipment expired, and they shot for one more day, they would have to pay several times more to renew the lease. It was impossible for the crew to take a few days off before continuing filming.

During the holidays, you still have to pay for rent renewal!

This is no longer the case. The crew equipment used by Wu Yuan are all from Light and Shadow Era.

Moreover, as the boss of the company, he wanted to film a movie. As early as the film preparation period, these equipments were prepared for him, and he was considerately given a trial period of half a year.

In the next six months, no matter whether Wu Yuan uses these equipment or not, it is impossible for other film projects of the company to use these equipment, and they will make other arrangements.

This is to ensure that if Wu Yuan needs to reshoot or change the scene during the post-editing process after finishing filming, he will not have the embarrassing situation of equipment and crew.

This is not unfounded.

The King of Sunglasses loves to do this kind of thing.

The King of Sunglasses makes a movie, and sometimes he can shoot it intermittently for several years and finish it seven or eight times.

Every time after the filming, I felt dissatisfied or felt that something was missing, and then I called the actors to retake the shot.

His most egregious one required seven or eight retakes. An actress was still in her twenties when she first joined the cast, but it wasn't until she was in her thirties that the filming was completed.

I even wondered for a while whether this film would never be completed in this lifetime.

Considering that Wu Yuan is also a director who has made outstanding achievements in the art field like the King of Sunglasses, the middle-level leaders at Light and Shadow Times who are responsible for scheduling the crew preparations will naturally have concerns in this regard and help him prepare in advance.

So Wu Yuan really didn't lack for more than ten days of vacation, so he had the conversation at the beginning.

"Okay, it's decided. Our crew will disband and go back to our homes. We will meet again on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year!"

Now the crew of "Dear" is no longer in the capital, but has been filming all the way to the Yunnan-Guizhou area, where they also have to film some scenes of abducted children.

In fact, most of the abducted children are sold to remote mountainous areas and poor areas. This is an unspeakable thing.

Wu Yuan doesn't plan to celebrate the New Year in Yunnan and Guizhou, he still has to go home to be with his wife.

Liu Yifei has been acting since "Get Out!" After the filming of "Tumor King" was completed, he became a big salty fish. He just picked his feet at home every day and didn't even read the new book he handed over to him.

He has to go home and educate this lazy wife.

Moreover, during the Spring Festival this year, he also has a movie that he really wants to watch, and he plans to take his wife to watch it.

The next day, the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Wu Yuan and his assistant set foot on the flight back to the capital in a light and simple manner, walking with the main crew members on the way.

Most of the contracted crew and employees of Light and Shadow Times are from Beijing.

Even if he is not from the capital, he has already settled in the capital over the years.

After all, the company's headquarters is here.

On the other hand, none of the leading actors in "Dear" are from the capital. Although they all have properties in the capital and a place to stay, they must go home during the Chinese New Year. There is no point in going back to the capital.

In this way, with the crew, Wu Yuan landed at Beijing International Airport in the evening.

Fortunately, Miss Liu, who was picking her feet at home, still knew how to come and pick her husband up.

In front of the reporters, the two did not hide their intimacy at all. As soon as they put on their sunglasses and held their hands, they left the airport amidst the sound of countless reporters taking photos.

"The relationship between Director Wu and Yifei is really stable."

"It must have been seven or eight years since they made it public, right?"

"It seems that this one didn't run away."

"I thought Director Wu would be that kind of playboy. He is young, rich and handsome, and he is still in the showbiz world like the entertainment industry. I didn't expect that he would be in such a long-term relationship."

"Indeed, Director Wu and Yifei's love is so stable that it's hard to believe."

These entertainment reporters, who were still squatting at the airport in the dead of winter, couldn't help but discuss behind Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei's backs.

There is no way, as the entertainment industry has grown bigger and bigger in the past two years, it has also become more and more turbulent, with all kinds of cheating and pc scandals emerging one after another.

Under such circumstances, the stable relationship between Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei is very telling. Now they have almost become a national couple.

Many people regard their pair and Deng Chao's pair as model couples and model couples in the entertainment industry. They believe that as long as there are no problems between these two pairs, there will still be true love in this world.

Wu Yuan really didn't pay much attention to these topics on weekdays. After hearing these reporters chirping and talking about this in a discreet manner, he squeezed Liu Yifei's little hand and couldn't suppress his smile at all.

It wasn't until he got in the car and left the airport that he started to have fun.

"Hahaha, model couple, I really didn't expect us to have such a reputation."

"What, isn't this bad?" The death stare appeared.

Wu Yuan immediately looked serious and nodded fiercely: "Okay, of course, I'm just happy for this evaluation."

"By the way, Xingye's "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" was released on Hong Kong Island yesterday, right?"

"I heard that the reputation is very good. It will be released in the mainland in two days. Let's go watch it together then."

"I also owe Mr. Xing a movie ticket!"

Wu Yuan, who was burning pirated movie discs back then, not only owed Mr. Xing a movie ticket!

Among his best-selling pirated discs that year was "Collection of Stephen Chow Movies"!

This is a super version that has recorded all the movies released by Star Master before the turn of the millennium. One disc is worth more than ten discs!

Back then in Beijing, the sales were so good that they were best-selling in both the east and west cities!