Millennium director

"This year's Spring Festival is really lively." Lying on the newly bought sofa at home, Wu Yuan leisurely held Liu Yifei's slender waist.

Liu Yifei patted Wu Yuan's shoulder in annoyance, pretending to be helpless and said: "Then you, the big boss, don't care about your own company. Sister Xiaoping has called me several times to complain."

"What do you care about? What's there to care about!" Wu Yuan rolled his eyes: "If you say vacation, it's vacation. Don't expect me to touch any work. I've worked so hard for so long, can't I enjoy it?"

"How can a company boss take a vacation? Look at the bosses of those big companies. Which one is not busy 365 days a year? I just watched the documentary of Wanda's President Wang a few days ago. He got up at six in the morning to prepare for work and didn't finish work until eight or nine in the evening, and it's like this every day."

"Tsk." Wu Yuan was very bad, and said indifferently: "I have General Li Xiaoping and Chen Dewei, so I don't need to do it myself."

"Besides, after so many years, they have long been accustomed to my style."

"Sister Xiaoping just complained a few words habitually. The company's performance in the Spring Festival is not very good!"

This year, Guangying Times has a total of two movies that it participated in the investment and released during the Spring Festival.

One is naturally "The Great Wall" with Zhang Yimou, and the other is "Riding the Wind and Breaking the Waves" with Han Han.

Both films performed very well during the Spring Festival.

"The Great Wall" is needless to say. Although it lost to "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" on the first day, its final total box office exceeded "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back", and finally won 2.1 billion in the mainland box office. It is currently being released in many countries overseas.

Over the years, Guangying Times has been very experienced in overseas distribution with the influence of Wu Yuan. It can be regarded as the most capable film company in China to do overseas market, even China Film.

Although Zhang Yimou's fame and influence overseas cannot be compared with Wu Yuan, he is also one of the few Chinese directors in China who is also very influential internationally, at least in East Asia and Europe.

In addition, the "Great Wall" IP is also a cultural business card of China. This time, the movie "The Great Wall" is still quite attractive to foreign distributors.

For example, "The Great Wall" has already been released in Japan, and the number of screenings is not bad. Although it cannot be compared with Wu Yuan, it has also received a box office of 200 million yen.

Not to mention Southeast Asia, there are still relatively few commercial special effects blockbusters in the world, and it can even be said that there is only one in Hollywood, but this market is far from saturated. An excellent Chinese commercial special effects blockbuster, without involving ideology, also has a market in foreign countries.

Not to mention that "The Great Wall" is the most popular among foreigners - Chinese "historical" movies.

Chinese historical background + magical special effects, this was verified by Wu Yuan through "Painted Skin" ten years ago, and it can indeed be accepted by East Asian audiences.

Currently, Southeast Asian countries are arranging the release of "The Great Wall" one after another, and the overseas box office of this movie is estimated to be tens of millions of dollars!

Another movie invested by Light and Shadow Era, "Riding the Wind and Breaking the Waves", is only one of the investors in this movie, not even the main controller, but the final box office performance of this movie is also good.

Although affected by The Great Wall, the final box office was only 980 million, which was more than 60 million less than the original time and space, but it was also a very good result.

Such a high box office has made investors very happy. According to the distribution ratio, the film company can get 316 million yuan, and after deducting the cost of 160 million, it also earned 100 million yuan, of which Light and Shadow Era can get 20 million.

Don't think it's too little.

It is obvious to all how fierce the competition is for the release of the Spring Festival this year. It is really not easy to snatch food from the mouths of blockbusters such as Kung Fu Yoga, Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back, and The Great Wall.

Moreover, Riding the Wind and Breaking the Waves is a literary film. The film can sell well in the end. It must be said that the actors have strong appeal.

Even Li Xiaoping, who didn't pay much attention to this movie (if she paid attention, she would not let the main investor put this movie into the Spring Festival to fight), but had a good cooperation with Han Han before, so she gave him face and participated in the investment again, also paid attention to several leading actors in this movie and Han Han, the talent.

Even before the release of "Riding the Wind and Breaking the Waves" ended, Li Xiaoping took the initiative to find Han Han and asked about his new film. She wanted to continue to participate in the investment of his new film and increase investment to become the main investor.

However, Director Han Han, who has proven himself twice, is indeed not short of investors now, and it is not easy to impress him.

Li Xiaoping did not put all the eggs in one cage. At present, Light and Shadow Times is still promoting its own film project, which is the previously agreed "Accidental Manslaughter". The adapted script has been prepared, the director has been found, and it has entered the preparation and shooting stage.

These things have nothing to do with Wu Yuan. If he says he wants to take a vacation, he will take a complete vacation. Even if Li Xiaoping still calls him to report on his work, he just lets it go.

Liu Yifei, on the other hand, feels a little uncomfortable watching Wu Yuan stay at home for almost three or four months.

Wu Yuan took a vacation, but Liu Yifei did not. She still maintained the rhythm of shooting a movie a year, and rarely participated in variety shows. She had a lot of free time.

At present, she has already booked two films to shoot. One of them is "Time Raiders", which will be filmed in the second half of this year. It is a new work by the company's director Su Lun.

Su Lun was very bold. He took the script to ask the boss lady for help. He actually moved the boss lady and asked Liu Yifei to choose to take the leading role of the movie.

However, this is the movie of Light and Shadow Times after all, and it is only a small-to-medium-cost movie. So after discussing with Li Xiaoping, Liu Yifei chose not to take the salary, but to convert the salary into investment, which can be regarded as reducing the financial pressure for "Time Travel Cohabitation".

Of course, this also shows that Liu Yifei is very optimistic about this movie and believes that the chances of this movie being a big hit are very high, so she has the confidence to do so.

As for Wu Yuan, he did not interfere with Liu Yifei's decision. Anyway, "Time Travel Cohabitation" is indeed a movie with good box office results. If you want to act, just act.

In addition, Liu Yifei will join the crew to shoot "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" next year, that is, in 2018. This is the final chapter of Fox's "X-Men" series of movies. Liu Yifei's "Flash" also has a role in the film, and a lot of roles.

This is different from the original time and space. It is obviously a new script by the screenwriter. Wu Yuan himself does not know whether this version of "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" will be good, but it is produced by Fox, so the lower limit can be guaranteed.

It is also because Liu Yifei has already finalized the work for the next two years, which makes Wu Yuan not so concerned about the "Mulan" movie that he originally planned to try, so he started it very thoroughly.

However, his opening made Liu Yifei very uncomfortable.

"Are you really going to take a break for a year or two?" Liu Yifei smiled and lay on Wu Yuan's chest, and asked with a coquettish tone: "If you don't have any new movie plans, why don't you make a movie to win awards?"

After being in love for so many years, Wu Yuan has already figured out Liu Yifei. When she sticks out her butt, Wu Yuan knows what she wants to say, and slaps her butt unhappily: "I think you want to win awards, right?"

After speaking, Wu Yuan pondered again. (End of this chapter)