Millennium director

In the capital city, the Wu family courtyard has been empty for a long time.

After putting down the large and small luggage, Wu Yuan lay on the bed in a large shape, stretched lazily, and sighed.

"Phew, I finally feel relaxed."

Throughout the first half of this year, Wu Yuan was almost crazy busy.

He edited the final film of "The Embalmer", participated in the Berlin International Film Festival, went to the United States to prepare for "Pirates of the Caribbean", participated in the Academy Awards, and after returning to China, he supervised the production of Zhang Guorong's "Stealing Hearts"!

From January to the end of May, Wu Yuan finally had some free time and could finally rest for a while without worrying about anything.

The domestic release of "The Undertaker" has basically ended, and it finally earned 56 million yuan at the mainland box office, second only to "Harry Potter 1" released in January!

Currently ranked first in the box office of domestic movies this year!

The release of "The Embalmer" in other foreign regions is also in full swing. Not to mention the regions where the copyright has been sold, the release situation in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and other countries specially reserved by China Film is also very gratifying!

Both Japan and South Korea have set off a craze for watching "The Embalmer".

RB is because the core selling point of this movie is simply too in line with the appetite of RB audiences.

Korean audiences mainly go to Zhang Guorong, who is a real superstar in Korea!

"The Embalmer" was released in these two countries and achieved good results of 600 million yen and 800,000 views in the first week respectively!

The final Asian box office total of "The Embalmer" should be no problem exceeding 100 million yuan!

But Wu Yuan knew that by the end of the year, a movie called "Hero" would have grossed 250 million US dollars at the domestic box office, 53.7 million US dollars at the North American box office, and the global total box office reached 177 million US dollars!

The release of this film ended the nearly ten-year sluggish period of the mainland film market and is considered a milestone in the "blockbuster era" of Chinese films.

In front of "Hero", the box office of "The Embalmer" will definitely not be enough to beat it, and it will not be able to beat it.

However, China Film and Wu Yuan are already very satisfied with the results of "The Embalmer". The investment cost of this film was only 20 million yuan.

With a box office of over 100 million in Asia, and a distribution deal of US$6.82 million, the return on investment of this movie is already very high.

This is a literary film!

Now Director Han is very satisfied with Wu Yuan, and he is hinting to him every day, openly and secretly, that whenever he makes a new movie, whether it is a literary film or a commercial film, China Film will definitely help him!

Director Han knew that Wu Yuan was going to the United States to film "Pirates of the Caribbean" in October. This news was basically no secret in Hollywood.

But there are still five months left. If we catch up, Wu Yuan can make another movie in China!

It's just that Wu Yuan is really tired from the intensive and busy work in the past two years. He really doesn't want to start a new film anymore. He just wants to take a vacation and rest for himself.

One month later.

"Teacher, can you allocate me a room in the school's doctoral student dormitory?"

"My house needs to be renovated, and I have no place to live in recently!"

"Okay, thank you teacher!"

After hanging up the phone, Wu Yuan picked up a suitcase filled with a change of clothes and some valuables, and said to the decoration masters surrounding him with a smile: "Then I will leave my yard to you.

"As long as the renovation can be completed before the end of the year, I'm not in a hurry."

Wu Yuan, who had returned to the capital to rest for more than a month and already had a lot of spare money, was a little dissatisfied with the old house he had lived in for twenty years.

The Wu family's courtyard house has not been renovated in nearly 60 years since it was renovated once in the 1950s.

There are not even air conditioners in several wing rooms, and they basically maintain the original appearance of the courtyard house in the late Qing Dynasty.

Seeing that summer is here now, it’s okay if we didn’t have the conditions before, but now that we have this condition, Wu Yuan can still endure the summer without even an air-conditioned room!

So he spent a huge sum of money to hire a decoration team, planning to give this courtyard a thorough modern renovation. Not only would it be equipped with all kinds of modern electrical appliances, but the floors and walls would also be completely renovated.

But before the house was renovated, he only temporarily lived in the school.

Carrying two suitcases, Wu Yuan took a taxi and headed to the Beijing Film Academy.

On the way, he was still wondering whether he should take time to get a driver's license. Now that he has money and a house, he just lacks a mobility scooter!

The film school is on vacation in July, but the school is still very lively.

Many freshmen who came to adapt to life early were led by their parents to get familiar with the school where they would live for the next four years.

Wu Yuan, who was also carrying two suitcases of luggage, blended in the crowd and was inconspicuous.

Although his photos hit the newspapers at the beginning of the year, as the popularity gradually passed, Wu Yuan's appearance was quickly forgotten by most ordinary people.

After all, he is a director, a behind-the-scenes worker, and does not appear in front of the screen frequently.

In addition, Wu Yuan's current outfit of short-sleeved jeans is completely different from the suit-and-leather self in the newspaper.

Most students and parents who passed by him may have felt that Wu Yuan looked familiar for a few moments, but they could not recognize who he was.

There is no shortage of celebrities in the film school. It is quite normal to see a few people who look familiar.

Similarly, when Wu Yuan walked to the school's master's and doctoral dormitories, he also met many "familiar" people.

Many students in the Acting Department of the Film Academy did not choose to go home this summer, but stayed in the capital to look for filming opportunities.

Crews filming in the capital often come to the film academy to audition actors during the summer, just like a college job fair.

Passing by the teaching building in the north area of ​​the school, Wu Yuan saw "familiar" actors such as Dong Xuan, Che Xiao, Zhang Songwen, Zhou Yiwei, Jia Nailiang, Ma Su, etc., shuttling under several makeshift audition booths, handing out resumes everywhere. .

These students include undergraduates and vocational high school students. They are all sweating profusely from the heat, clutching resumes in their hands and trying to find opportunities.

The crews that can enter the film school to recruit actors are all regular large crews. Being able to enter the film school to play a role is definitely an important resume for the students at the film school.

Wu Yuan also stopped and took a look. They were all big investments, or major dramas involving CCTV to select actors, but the highest person in charge at the scene was just the deputy casting director.

It is estimated that they will only recruit a few character actors who can have a few lines or only play in 1-2 episodes.

After roughly scanning around, Wu Yuan suddenly saw the title of a familiar drama.

""Golden Pink Family" is looking for character actors! At least 3 lines or more!"

"Golden Pink Family"!

Wu Yuan slapped his forehead. This TV series was filmed at the film and television base in Huairou, Beijing, and the leading actor was his good friend Chen Kun!

Anyway, I am idle now, school has not started, and I have no other work at hand, so why not take advantage of this free time and go take a class with Chen Kun!

Wu Yuan, who always did it as soon as he thought of it, took out his mobile phone and called Chen Kun.

"Hey, Brother Kun, are you still filming in Huairou?"

It's just that the person who answered the phone wasn't him, but his assistant.

"Director Wu, I'm sorry. I'm Brother Kun's assistant, Xiao Liu. Brother Kun is currently performing. I'll ask Brother Kun to come back to you later?"

"No need." Wu Yuan smiled heartily: "Let me ask, Brother Kun is still filming "Golden Fan Home" in Huairou, right?"

"um, yes."

"That's it, tell him and I'll go visit him in a few days!"

"When the time comes, I will bring a cart full of big watermelons to your crew. It will be sweet!"

Candies will be distributed tomorrow