Millennium director

Wu Yuan actually went to the cinema to watch "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" in his last life.

On the one hand, this movie is released during the Spring Festival after all, so he definitely still has time.

On the other hand, the promotion of this movie at that time was really too harsh.

In fact, the promotional concept of "owing Mr. Xing a movie ticket" will really become popular on the Internet until Mr. Xing's next movie, which is "Mermaid".

But in "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", there were already eyebrows.

In other words, it was the producer of Mr. Xing, or Mr. Xing himself, who reaped the benefits from netizens’ spontaneous publicity that they “owed Mr. Xing movie tickets” during the release of “Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons.” When "Mermaid" was released, there was a lot of publicity in this regard.

However, even if "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" did not do any publicity in this area, the intensity of other publicity was not small at all.

After all, this is the first movie where Xingye has completely transformed since "Yangtze River No. 7".

In this movie, he is just a pure director and no longer acts himself.

In addition, the three leading actors in this movie, Wen Zhang, Shu Qi, and Huang Bo, are all top actors.

Wen Wen is currently considered a leading figure among young actors in Mainland China. He is the number one actor in the field of TV series. In the field of movies, he has the box office success of "33 Days After Love" and double certification for his acting skills in "Ocean Paradise".

Not to mention Shu Qi, one of the screen goddesses of two generations of Hong Kong and Taiwanese mainlanders.

Huang Bo, his "囧" just broke the box office record, raking in 1.2 billion at the box office.

These three leading actors plus director Xing Ye, it can be said that this lineup gives the producers 120% confidence!

The overwhelming, carpet-bombing propaganda started half a month ago.

Even if Wu Yuan and the crew of "Dear" were filming in the mountains of the Yunnan-Guizhou region, it would be difficult not to receive relevant promotional news.

Now that he has returned to the capital, he naturally plans to take his wife and mother-in-law to the cinema to watch this masterpiece.

I have to say that "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" is quite good. At least in terms of nonsense and absurdity, it is still above the passing line. It is a work in the style of Xingye.

When the subsequent "Mermaid", "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" and "The New King of Comedy" are released, they will really be very different from Xing Ye's early and mid-stage works, and it will not even feel like Xing Ye's work.

Wu Yuan actually likes Master Xing's works, but he only likes Master Xing's early and middle-stage works, and he only likes the works, but he doesn't have many filters for Master Xing as a person.

Because he has been an insider in both lives, he actually knows that there is a huge gap between the Xing Ye in his heart and the Xing Ye in reality.

As fans, few people may understand or deliberately ignore Xingye's habitual cheating behavior.

From Zhu Yin to Karen Mok to Yu Wenfeng, Star always fell in love with the next girl before breaking up with the last girl, and the cheating was very straightforward.

But this is just a matter of personal ethics and does not affect his ability to create interesting films.

As fans, everyone will not know that Master Xing is actually a man who loves money very much.

Loving money is actually not a problem, no one doesn’t love money.

But for money, he did things that hurt the feelings of relatives and friends, stabbed his brothers in the back, and was even greedy in business cooperation. He set up contract traps to trap his partners, so that neither the actors who had worked with him nor the company had a good opinion of him. , or even die without contact, that is not a good behavior.

The more he got to know him, the more Wu Yuan felt that the contrast between the Mr. Xing he admired in his heart and the Mr. Xing in reality was really huge.

Also, how can a person not make changes throughout his life?

The young man who made everyone laugh with his nonsensical comedies has gone through decades of ups and downs, and he is no longer the same person back then.

It's just that everyone doesn't want to admit it. What everyone likes is never the Star Master in reality, but the Zhou Xingxing in the movie.

Wu Yuan only has one opinion about this star master in reality, that is, he is a businessman who knows very well about business operations and uses unscrupulous means, nothing more.

What he admires is director Zhou Xingxing and actor Zhou Xingxing, not businessman Xingye.

On New Year's Eve, mother and daughter Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei spent time together in a villa on the outskirts of Beijing.

Neither mother nor daughter have any plans to return to Jiangcheng for the New Year this year, mainly because they already went back last year and will stay in the capital with Wu Yuan this year.

As for going home to see their relatives, they go back two or three times a year. It is not only during the Spring Festival that they have time to return to Jiangcheng.

On the eve of the New Year's Eve, Liu Xiaoli personally took charge of the cooking and cooked a feast. She gathered around the dining table with her daughter and son-in-law, and finished the New Year's Eve dinner while watching the Spring Festival Gala and laughing.

The Spring Festival Gala is not as good as every year, but if you don’t watch it, you always feel that something is missing.

The Spring Festival Gala program team is actually seeking changes, and has even contacted Wu Yuan, wanting to invite Wu Yuan to be the general director of the Spring Festival Gala.

Not only him, but Feng Xiaogang, Chen Kaige, and Zhang Yimou have also received invitations to be the general director of the Spring Festival Gala, but Jiang Wen has not.

But Wu Yuan, Chen Kaige, and Zhang Yimou all refused unanimously.

Only Feng Xiaogang, perhaps because he had too few honors, was still very excited about the position of general director of the Spring Festival Gala. Even though he knew it was a trap, he wanted to give it a try and challenge himself. He took over the position of general director of the Spring Festival Gala in 2014. director position.

Very brave!

Wu Yuan was ready to watch the fun.

That night, after this year's Spring Festival Gala ended, Wu Yuancai fell asleep holding the fragrant Liu Yifei in his arms until about three o'clock in the morning.

The next day, early in the morning, he ordered the Light and Film Times Cinemas to arrange for 20 movies for "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons". This was considered as compensation for the copyright infringement fees he had paid for selling pirated Star Master discs. .

At the same time, he also took Liu Yifei, mother and daughter, as well as employees of several companies in Beijing, and invited them to watch the movie "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" in the cinema for free.

The news that Wu Yuan booked the venue to support Xing Ye was also posted on the Internet by company employees, and it directly topped the Weibo hot search list.

Master Xing, who learned the news immediately, expressed his gratitude to Wu Yuan through China Film's channels.

His active support will at least bring an additional 10 to 20 million box office for "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" in terms of public opinion. Master Xing is still willing to give a few words of verbal thanks. After all, Wu Yuan's behavior is for him. Giving away money!

At this point, Wu Yuan's debt to Master Xing for pirated discs back then has been truly paid off. (End of chapter)