Millennium director

For the time being, there is still no result for the "Mulan" matter. Disney has only sent an invitation to Liu Yifei. There will be several interviews and negotiations before the cooperation is finalized.

However, Wu Yuan also learned that the main creative lineup of this movie is basically the same as what he remembered, so as long as Disney agrees to add an additional historical consultant, and do the background and scene settings according to the requirements of the historical consultant, and don't make too inconsistent era loopholes and makeup, then Liu Yifei can take this play.

It will take at least 2 years for this movie to be released. If it can avoid the impact of the epidemic by then, Liu Yifei can at least maintain her international influence and fame for five years, and everything will be worth it.

Let Liu Yifei handle the follow-up matters herself. She is no longer the teenage girl she used to be, and has long become a mature actor.

And Wu Yuan himself continued to focus on the post-production of "The Monkey King" after the next day.

There are still many special effects shots required in this movie, which are almost the same level as the Marvel series of movies. In order to meet the post-production of this movie, not only Wu Yuan's own special effects company, but also Light and Shadow Times found several special effects companies in Hollywood to produce together, all of which are old partners.

Speaking of which, after so many years of development, Light and Shadow Times Special Effects Company has become one of the top special effects companies in China. At present, almost all domestic movies involving special effects production will cooperate with Light and Shadow Times Special Effects Company. This company has long become one of Wu Yuan's big moneymakers.

Of course, these domestic special effects movies are not all only cooperated with Light and Shadow Times Special Effects. In fact, just like the movies made by Wu Yuan, most movies that require special effects, unless there are very few special effects shots, usually cooperate with 3-4 special effects companies at the same time, each responsible for a part of the special effects production work, which can shorten the post-production time of the movie to about half a year.

Therefore, Light and Shadow Times Special Effects Company has participated in almost all domestic movies that require special effects, but the depth of participation varies.

However, even so, with the support of the entire Chinese film market, the current Light and Shadow Times Special Effects Company also has more than 200 special effects artists, otherwise it would not be able to meet the current market.

In addition to the Light and Shadow Times Special Effects Company, Light and Shadow Times also has its own independent special effects department.

Because Light and Shadow Times Special Effects Company is an independent enterprise, although the boss is also Wu Yuan, there is no communication with Light and Shadow Times Film and Television Company in terms of shares.

So Li Xiaoping also prepared a special effects department in the company, and several leaders were directly poached from Light and Shadow Special Effects Company. This special effects department used to be mainly responsible for the company's TV series special effects needs.

For example, "Soul Ferry", the first part was made by the special effects company, and the special effects of the subsequent sequels were all produced by the special effects department of Light and Shadow Times. There are also several fairy dramas made by the company in the early years, which are also self-sufficient.

However, now Light and Shadow Times has basically given up the TV series market and specializes in the film industry. The company's special effects department is also only responsible for the special effects production of other films of the company.

For example, some of the special effects shots in "Time Travel Together" were made by the company's own special effects department, and there was no need to find the Light and Shadow Times special effects company to do it.

Unless it is a large-scale film project such as the Xianxia Movie Universe, it will need to outsource special effects companies. For small and medium-sized films within the company, the special effects production can be completed by itself.

So even though Light and Shadow Times Special Effects has been busy with post-production for Wu Yuan's "The Monkey King" recently, the post-production of "Time Travel Together" has not been delayed at all. Now all the post-production work has been completed and it can be scheduled for release.

After confirming the film schedule in the second half of the year, Li Xiaoping scheduled "Time Travel Together" on December 3, 2018, which can barely be regarded as the Lunar New Year's Day, but the competition is not fierce.

It was also after "Time Travel Together" was scheduled that Li Xiaoping came to the company's post-production center and found Wu Yuan, who was still busy with the post-production of "The Monkey King".

"Director Wu, the post-production of "The Monkey King" is almost finished, right?"

"Can we set the release date first? After all, this is your movie, and the whole company has to make plans early."

Faced with Li Xiaoping's earnestness, Wu Yuan had no choice but to say without thinking: "What other choice is there? Of course, it should be set during the Spring Festival."

"Come to think of it, my movies have never been released during the Spring Festival, right?"

Li Xiaoping smiled and nodded: "Yes!"

Wu Yuan has been in the industry for so many years, and there are eight or nine Chinese-language films released in China, but none of them were released during the Spring Festival. Most of them were released during the summer vacation and the National Day.

The outside world now basically acquiesces that Wu Yuan will not participate in the competition during the Spring Festival, and the National Day is acquiesced to be Wu Yuan's world and his basic base of rule.

As for Cheng Long, who pioneered the National Day?

Although Wu Yuan helped him gain a firm foothold in Hollywood and become a first-line movie star, and the global box office of the Kingsman series exceeded 1.5 billion US dollars, Jackie Chan has indeed been in poor condition in recent years.

Age is the biggest problem!

Even the most powerful martial arts actors can no longer shoot desperate martial arts scenes after the age of 60, so Jackie Chan has to face the problem of transformation.

And his transformation is obviously still a failure. After all, Cheng Long's literary dramas have never been good. This is something that cannot be changed. After Uncle Long could not fight, his later movies, whether they were co-produced with mainland capital or Hong Kong and Taiwan capital, all had poor box office.

The international superstar of the year, now the box office of his movies can only maintain around 300 million, which is really not enough in this era of 1 billion box office.

The era is indeed over.

"The Monkey King will be released during the Spring Festival, on the first day of the Lunar New Year." Wu Yuan said with some anticipation: "In the past few years, all the movies that broke the mainland box office record were released during the Spring Festival."

"I want to give it a try!"

"Eh, that's not right!" Wu Yuan frowned suddenly while fantasizing, "Will The Wandering Earth also be released on the first day of the Lunar New Year next year?"

"Yes!" Li Xiaoping said nonchalantly: "Domestic science fiction films still depend on you, Director Wu. Even if The Wandering Earth is released during the Spring Festival, the theaters will not have much confidence in it. It is estimated that the opening screening rate will only be in the single digits, at most 9%."

"It won't pose any threat."

"Heh." Wu Yuan sneered and shook his head: "Forget it, the schedule has to be changed." (End of this chapter)