Millennium director

The 1 billion box office in 3 days severely burned many people in the industry.

But it was Wu Yuan who achieved this result, and everyone quickly accepted it after being shocked.

After all, this is Wu Yuan's Chinese blockbuster!

In addition, the box office of mainland movies has indeed been breaking new records every year in the past few years. Not to mention the distant past, "Operation Red Sea" in the 2018 Spring Festival alone, didn't it take more than 4 billion at the box office?

Not to mention that there was also a "Wolf Warrior 2" in 2017 that took a box office of 5.6 billion!

Now at the end of the year, there is a movie that may take more than 5 billion at the box office, and the director of this movie is Wu Yuan, the only Chinese commercial film director who can be regarded as top internationally. Isn't it normal to get such a result?

Some people even commented and ridiculed on the Internet, thinking that it was abnormal for Wu Yuan's movie not to get such a result.

Even Wu Yuan himself couldn't bear to see such "shameless" comments. He himself didn't dare to say such big words. He can only say that he is worthy of being a fan.

It is a common situation that fans are more inflated than artists, but this is the first time Wu Yuan has encountered such a situation. He never thought that a behind-the-scenes director like himself would have fans with the flavor of fan circle.

However, this small-scale comment did not affect anything, nor did it have a negative impact on Wu Yuan. The screening of "The Monkey King" is still in full swing.

After setting a box office of 1 billion in the first three days of the first weekend, the box office performance in the second week was still strong. In seven days, it once again earned 1.8 billion. Although the average box office is definitely not as high as the first weekend, it is already very good to get nearly 70% of the box office of the first Sunday in the second week.

Even the Light and Shadow Times, after seeing the real-time box office data of the second week, couldn't help but want to open champagne at halftime. The main creators of the "The Monkey King" crew took the time to hold several celebration cocktail parties in the hotel while they were busy with publicity and roadshows.

They couldn't help but celebrate, because "The Monkey King" brought unprecedented popularity to several leading actors.

Zhang Yishan, who debuted as a child star, was almost forgotten by the entertainment industry before he starred in "The Monkey King". The popularity of "Yu Zui" did not bring him much positive effect, but was just an illusory popularity.

With the hot release of "The Monkey King", he really made a big splash in front of the public, and his status and influence are completely different from before.

After all, the current capital has also seen clearly that those so-called top-tier young actors in TV dramas and artist circles can't play movies at all, and the actors who can really succeed in the film field are still rare movie stars.

Now Zhang Yishan has half a foot in the door of the film industry, and he will be a hot commodity in the film industry for at least the next six months to a year, because he has proved himself in the box office, and there are more than a dozen scripts sent to him.

At least before he fails two or three times, the film industry will not close the door to him.

As for the other leading actors, such as the leading actress Tang Yan, she was originally a contracted artist of Guangying Times, but her development in recent years has not been very smooth. After all, to be honest, her acting skills are really not very good. She can only play the role of "silly and sweet" in her true colors. Her acting range is limited. With the increase of age and her relationship with Luo Jin from the same company, her popularity has completely failed to keep up with those hot 85 flowers.

But also because of the excellent box office of "The Monkey King", she can be regarded as a second comeback, and the effect of the comeback is even better than "Flowers". After all, the style of movies is always higher than that of TV series, even if it is a TV series shot by Wong Kar-wai.

Among the leading actors, the third leading actor Qiao Shan has the least profit. After all, his character setting in "The Monkey King" is not much different from his previous screen image. He is still the funny fat man in the protagonist group, which fully demonstrates his appearance and acting characteristics.

But the audience has already known him in "Sewing Machine Band". His image in "The Monkey King" has not changed much, so naturally it has not brought a bright effect to the audience.

Even Zhang Hanyu, who plays the villain Dapeng demon king, has gained more popularity than Qiao Shan because of his exaggerated look.

After all, we have seen Zhang Hanyu play tough guys and soldiers, but we have never seen him play such a demon-filled villain demon king.

However, Qiao Shan is very open-minded. Anyway, his acting path in the film and television industry is comedy supporting roles, and he has never thought about becoming a main star. The success of "The Monkey King" has satisfied him. At least the number of people who want him to act in movies has increased several times more than before!

In this atmosphere where the producers are satisfied, the audiences are satisfied, and the main creators are satisfied, in mid-January of the new year, "The Monkey King" was released for three weeks, and the domestic box office successfully broke 4 billion!

It was also at this time that "The Monkey King" began to be released in other Asian countries.

After all, this is Wu Yuan's movie.

It is very difficult for other domestic directors' movies to go overseas now. Japan and South Korea listen to their American father and do not introduce Chinese-language movies. The markets of other Asian countries combined are not as large as those of Japan and South Korea. Domestic movies are too lazy to go overseas, so they just close the door and play their own games.

But Wu Yuan's movies are different. He already has a large fan base in Japan and South Korea, and his popularity is no less than that of the big local directors in Japan and South Korea. In addition, he has a Hollywood background. With both benefits and influence, Japanese and Korean distributors are still very willing to cooperate with Wu Yuan.

Distributors in Southeast Asia even treated Wu Yuan's films as the same level as Hollywood blockbusters.

Throughout January, "The Monkey King" was released in more than a dozen countries in Asia, and the screening rate was not less than 20%. The charm of the Monkey King is not only among the overseas Chinese community, but also the entire Greater China cultural circle is familiar with "Sun Wukong". "The Monkey King" is also successfully conquering the Asian market.

However, when Wu Yuan learned the good news, he no longer cared about the Asian box office performance of "The Monkey King".

Because there was better news at home!

"Is this true?!" Wu Yuan, holding a report issued by the hospital, stared at Liu Yifei, who was sitting on the sofa with an aunt's smile, with an unbelievable look on his face.

"Really pregnant?!"

"I'm going to be a father?"

Wu Yuan's hands trembled, and he jumped up and down like a child. This was the first time he had a child in his two lives!

The unprecedented joy hit his chest, so much so that he was a little incoherent.

"I have to prepare well. I have to clean up the baby room at home, and prepare the baby's clothes and maternal and child products..."

"Oh, and there is also a confinement nanny. I have to find a professional confinement nanny."

Seeing Wu Yuan talking incoherently about something that has not happened yet, Liu Yifei, who was sitting on the sofa, did not interrupt her, but just smiled and stroked her belly, "I'm going to be a mother."

"Time flies." (End of this chapter)