Millennium director

The Dali International Film Festival will be held in March next year. The reason for choosing this date is mainly to stagger with other mainstream film festivals.

In Asia, most film festivals and film awards are held from October to December, and only the Shanghai Film Festival is held in June.

The three major European festivals are held in February, May, and late August to early September.

In this way, if you don’t want to collide with the schedule, there are not many months left for Guangying Times to choose from, and only March and April are the most suitable. This is the only solution.

Who said that the Dali International Film Festival is the latest to be established, so this is the only choice.

However, it is not bad to hold it in March. Dali is a place where it is spring all year round. Even in March, the weather is good, not very cold, and the scenery is still beautiful.

At present, the Dali International Film Festival has begun to select films and actively invite filmmakers from Asia, Africa and Latin America to participate in the exhibition, and all invitations are sent by Wu Yuan as the founder and chairman of the film festival.

As for the members of the jury, Wu Yuan has basically finalized them. A famous Japanese director, a Thai national treasure actor, a well-known Korean director/screenwriter, and the specially invited director Chen Kaige, plus Wu Yuan as the chairman, form a five-member jury.

Although the number of people is not large, the level is still very high. The Japanese director invited is the famous director Hirokazu Koreeda, who is the winner of the Cannes Palme d'Or in 2018!

The Thai national treasure actor invited is Sorapong. In the 54 years since he entered the industry, Sorapong has starred in nearly 600 movies and more than 50 TV series. He is a professional male lead in Thailand in the 1970s and 1980s, and is also the most awarded male actor in the Thai film industry.

In 2008, Sorapong was awarded the title of National Artist in the field of performing arts.

Anyone who has watched a little Thai film and television drama will feel familiar when seeing his face, because he will appear in most of the famous Thai film and television works. He is a leading actor in Thailand.

The Korean director invited by Wu Yuan is the famous Bong Joon-ho. Memories of Murder, The Host, Snowpiercer, and Parasite, which later won the Oscar for Best Picture and the Palme d'Or at Cannes, are all his directorial works.

This is also a famous Asian director who is already famous in Asia, but has not yet won the highest honor.

It can be said that with the three directors Wu Yuan, Hirokazu Koreeda, and Bong Joon-ho, plus the leading actors of Thailand, this is already the top jury in Asia, and even at the international level, it is also strong enough.

The first Dali International Film Festival can put together such a jury lineup. At least in the eyes of those who know the industry, this is definitely not a wild award, and even the gold content can become the first in Asia at once.

Of course, it is only this session.

If the second, third, and fourth sessions can maintain such a high standard and can really discover some excellent film works at the same time, then the Dali International Film Festival can be regarded as truly famous in the film industry.

Otherwise, a good cook cannot cook without rice.

After all, no matter how awesome the jury is, if there are no good works for them to select and evaluate, the film exhibition will not be famous.

Since it is a film exhibition, it is still the participating films that speak for themselves, not the status of the judges.

Wu Yuan has done the best he can, finding a group of top judges for the film exhibition, and using his fame and influence to invite overseas filmmakers to participate in the exhibition.

As for how the final film exhibition will be run, whether it can attract enough excellent works, and whether it can be a complete success, he can't predict it, and can only wait until March next year to have a result.

After completing these things, especially after widely sending invitations to filmmakers in Asia, Africa and Latin America, Wu Yuan temporarily put aside the film exhibition and went to North America.

The large-scale release of "Ready Player One" in Asia has all ended, and the release in South America is also coming to an end. Wu Yuan only has one movie to be released.

That is the 14th superhero-themed movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe - "Doctor Strange"!

The film will be released simultaneously in China and North America on November 4, 2016, and will hold premieres in Shanghai, Los Angeles, and London, with all crew members attending the event.

Perhaps it is because they really value the Chinese market. Among the three premieres, China is the first to be held, and the premiere in Shanghai has been scheduled for October 16.

The premiere in Los Angeles is scheduled for October 20, and the latest in London, which will be held on October 24. There are four days between the three premieres, leaving enough time for the crew to transfer.

Wu Yuan went to the United States first this time, mainly to see the finished film edited by Marvel, shoot some materials for promotion, and then go back to Shanghai with the crew to attend the premiere in Shanghai, and then go to Los Angeles and New York.

There is no way, who told him that the director is a Chinese, and this movie is a Hollywood movie, so Wu Yuan can only go around in circles like this.

But he has no complaints, mainly because Marvel really pays a lot.

Wu Yuan received 7% of the box office dividends of "Doctor Strange" plus a basic salary of 25 million US dollars.

If this movie can get a global box office of 678 million US dollars like the original time and space, Wu Yuan can get a share of nearly 48 million US dollars, plus 25 million yuan in salary, he can get a total of 73 million US dollars in net income from this movie

Instantly, Wu Yuan understood why Marvel couldn't afford to hire a star like Robert Downey Jr. when filming "Avengers 4". It was really because these top stars took too much profit, so that the global box office of the Avengers series was getting higher and higher, but Marvel didn't necessarily make more and more money.

If Wu Yuan was not the only "big name" in "Doctor Strange", he would never get such a good remuneration.

How could Wu Yuan complain if he could get 400 to 500 million yuan in remuneration for making a movie?

Let alone asking him to run between China and the United States, even if he was asked to fly around the world, he would be happy!

After nearly three years of hard work on "Ready Player One", the net profit was only about 500 million or 600 million. The effort spent on filming "Doctor Strange" was less than one-third of the former!

What else is Wu Yuan dissatisfied with?

Wu Yuan had already finished his work and had no other work for the time being. After being summoned by Marvel, he happily boarded a plane to Los Angeles and arrived in the world's movie capital in mid-October.

Although the North American film industry company was sold in a package, Wu Yuan's house and car in Beverly Hills were not sold, and he had been hiring servants to maintain it. He moved in that night. (End of this chapter)