Millennium director

Beijing, Wu Yuan's home.

"According to the current trend, Doctor Strange is likely to get a global box office of about $800 million!"

Wu Yuan counted on his fingers, his eyes full of satisfaction.

Compared with the original global box office of $670 million, the Doctor Strange he shot this time is likely to get a global box office of $800 million.

In this way, he can get about $81 million in revenue from the box office share, which is not a small amount of money!

Of course, Wu Yuan did not take on the directorship of Doctor Strange entirely because of this money. Another reason was that he considered maintaining his influence in Hollywood and keeping at least one Hollywood movie released every 2-3 years to maintain his own fame and popularity.

Although Wu Yuan's film company has separated from Hollywood and he has also put the focus of his work back to China, putting the focus back to China does not mean completely abandoning Hollywood.

Apart from anything else, in markets other than China, the title of a "Hollywood director" is still very useful.

If Wu Yuan was not a Hollywood director, especially a commercial science fiction director, his "Ready Player One" would not be so popular in South America and East Asia.

It is because he has made many excellent commercial science fiction and magic blockbusters in Hollywood that foreign audiences have confidence in him. Even if he made a Chinese science fiction movie, foreign audiences can go to the cinema to watch it with a try-it attitude, and foreign theaters can give Wu Yuan face and give him some normal screenings.

Otherwise, if you change to a director who is only influential in China, even if it is Guo Fan, after his "The Wandering Earth 1" was successful, when "The Wandering Earth 2" was released in other countries overseas, the screenings were only consolation, and there might be only dozens of screenings in one country.

Is "The Wandering Earth 2" not good?

Even if it is placed in Hollywood, a science fiction movie with such production level is definitely a boutique level.

Then why is it that even if his movies are released in various countries overseas, only a few or a dozen theaters will show some, and they are mainly theaters near neighborhoods such as Chinatown, which clearly targets the Chinese market only.

It's because he has no influence in overseas regions, and even Hollywood doesn't want a Chinese director with influence in the global market.

So no matter how good the "Wandering Earth" series is, it can only be popular in China. It is impossible to go overseas. From public opinion propaganda to specific scheduling, no preferential treatment will be given, and even deliberate suppression will be given.

Wu Yuan is lucky. He entered Hollywood in the first few years of the 21st century. At that time, Hollywood still looked down on the Chinese film market and did not think that Chinese films could compete with Hollywood. It still opened the door to Chinese filmmakers and hoped to absorb excellent Chinese directors and actors into Hollywood.

This is also the consistent practice of Hollywood, absorbing all excellent foreign filmmakers into Hollywood and making them their own people. Uncle Ba is a Danish actor, but it does not prevent him from becoming famous in Hollywood.

The same is true. From the 1990s to the first decade of the 21st century, a large number of Chinese movie stars were recruited by Hollywood. In terms of actors, there were Cheng Long, Li Lianjie, Michelle Yeoh, and later Zou Zhaolong, Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and others.

In terms of directors, there were also a group of directors from Hong Kong Island who went to Hollywood, but they did not stay.

But when the time came to the second decade of the 21st century, Hollywood was no longer the tolerant Hollywood for Chinese filmmakers. It was almost a complete ban and even suppressed the international living space of Chinese actors and directors.

Because the Chinese film industry has developed, and even developed vigorously, it has become the second largest film market in the world and is about to become the first.

In this case, Hollywood is of course impossible to help the enemy and help Chinese films and actors become famous all over the world. It is normal to deliberately suppress them behind the scenes.

Wu Yuan and Cheng Long are the Chinese filmmakers who broke out of Hollywood during the "honeymoon period". They have already formed a bond of interest with Hollywood, not a simple relationship of supporting and being supported, so they will not be suppressed, but can continue to cooperate with Hollywood.

This can only be achieved by grasping the pulse of the times. In the future, there will never be Chinese filmmakers like Wu Yuan and Cheng Long who can develop in Hollywood. Even supporting actors like Wang Xueqi still have a chance now. In a few years, when Marvel makes "Shang-Chi", they will not choose actors from China, but will find their own Asian actors in Hollywood!

It can be seen that Hollywood will only be more and more cautious against Chinese filmmakers in the future.

In this case, if Wu Yuan chooses to retreat bravely, then he may really retreat for life.

So in order to maintain international influence, Wu Yuan still has to have a new work in Hollywood for at least 2-3 years. It is not for the purpose of entering Hollywood or conquering the American market. It is just to maintain his international influence and better conquer the Asian market.

After all, after him, it may be difficult for Chinese directors to use Hollywood's global distribution channels to gain global influence for themselves.

And Chinese films have their own international distribution channels.

Before World War III, it should be impossible to achieve the level of Hollywood.

"Given the current situation, let alone making $80 million from a movie, even if it doesn't make money, we have to continue to be a nail in Hollywood and fight for the reputation of Chinese films overseas."

Wu Yuan sighed and thought with a headache: "The Kingsman series has not been doing well in the past two years, and Brother Cheng Long's popularity has also declined. He is also old and can't fight anymore."

"When he retires, Chinese actors will really have no reputation worldwide."

"Xixi's Mulan is so bad that it can hardly be used as a new generation of Chinese actors in the international arena."

"If it doesn't work, I will shoot Mulan myself and write the script according to my own ideas?"

Rubbing his chin, Wu Yuan was surprised by the idea that suddenly came to his mind. This is absolutely impossible. He still has several shooting plans that are still in the PPT stage in his mind. If he wants to shoot Mulan again, he will be even busier.

"If it doesn't work, we still have to find a few more suitable Hollywood movies for her, and try to take over Cheng Long's influence internationally!" After thinking about it, Wu Yuan felt that this idea was still reliable.

Liu Yifei's Flash received a very good response in the international market. With the help of the big IP "X-Men", she has also become a well-known role in the international market, but this is not enough!

We have to think of a way to push her up again! (End of this chapter)