director of the millennium

Chapter 331 The mainland movie blowout period is coming!

Time went back half a day.

Venice Lido Island.

After the closing ceremony, Wu Yuan returned to the hotel with his excited crew and creators with their heads held high.

"Brother, are those things you said on the awards stage true or false?"

"Is this still fake?"

As soon as she returned to the hotel room, Liu Yifei couldn't wait to ask what she had been holding in her heart.

In fact, she wanted to ask when Wu Yuan came off the stage just now, but she still held back in front of the public.

Hehehe, senior brother made a passionate confession to her on the podium in Venice.

Liu Yifei never expected that Wu Yuan, a relatively dull person in terms of love, would actually do such a thing.

Happiness, excitement, and a little bit of unreality filled her heart.

"It turns out that I am so important in your heart. I am actually the perfect lover and your mentor on the road to love."

"Hahaha, you have always taught me this and taught me that. I didn't expect that I would also teach you."

Looking at the fussy Liu Yifei, Wu Yuan shook his head and laughed, and rubbed her head in confusion.

What I said at the award ceremony was indeed [-]% sincere.

Before he had a relationship with Liu Yifei, he did have a very pessimistic view of love.

No way, you can't expect an assistant director or executive director who has been in the middle and lower classes of the entertainment industry for more than ten years to have any yearning for love.

He has seen too many dirty things in the circle.

Although, the big first-line directors who really make it through usually don't do things like unspoken rules that cause big losses to themselves, such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige.

But in a circle, the truly huge numbers are often from the middle and lower classes.

In the online drama circle, major online movies, ordinary TV series, and small and medium-cost theater movies, too many producers, assistant directors, and executive directors engage in pornographic transactions.

When the body is just a tool for superiors, and after seeing many actors who can sleep with anyone as long as they can get a role to play, Wu Yuan really doesn't believe in the so-called love.

So after the big dream, Wu Yuan focused solely on his career and did not touch love at all.

Until Liu Yifei appeared, she subtly changed Wu Yuan's view of love, making him want to try the pain of love.

However, he did not experience the bitterness, but he did experience a lot of sweetness, which made him less pessimistic about love. Although he still did not believe in eternal life, he would at least take the initiative to embrace love and embrace the world.

In the past, he was more floating in the world, always feeling that there was some distance between himself and reality, but now he has integrated into reality and enjoys it.

From this point of view, Liu Yifei is indeed his soul guide in this life.

After she knew this, my little girlfriend really became arrogant, and she made a fuss about having it inserted into her waist.

"Okay, okay, didn't all the saints say that if three people are walking together, I will definitely be my teacher."

"I have indeed learned a lot from you and changed a lot."

"Couples are meant to support each other and grow. This is healthy love."

Wu Yuan lovingly took her into his arms and leaned against him. A touched look appeared on Liu Yifei's face.

All along, she thought that it was her "shamelessness" that made Wu Yuan fall in love with her. She seemed to be unable to give Wu Yuan any help in career or life, just like a dispensable accessory.

But now, she knew that she was also very important to Wu Yuan and someone she couldn't lose.

This is the other half!

In Venice, Wu Yuan stayed for a few more days. He has been holding off on selling the overseas rights to "A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die", waiting for the film festival to end before he can take action at the highest level.

Film producers from all walks of life also knew his thoughts. After winning the award, they immediately proactively started talking about business.

There is actually nothing to say about the various details. As the seller, Wu Yuan can just wait for the price.

In the end, he sold the distribution rights in Europe, the Middle East, South America, North America, Australia, New Zealand and most of Asia. The release and DVD rights were packaged and sold for a total of 5600 million yuan, which was more than Jia Zhangke's "The Good Man from Three Gorges" 1600 million.

It's not that Wu Yuan, who is more famous than Jia Zhangke, is only worth 1600 million, but that these film producers can only afford this much money.

After all, literary films are increasingly declining in the global market, and the film market in Europe, their home base, has also been gradually shrinking in recent years.

A country's film producers can only afford tens of thousands to 10,000+ US dollars at most. Otherwise, if the price is higher, they will lose money.

This is why after five or eight years, mainland art film directors will no longer value European awards so much and call on mainland audiences to go to cinemas to support art films every day.

In 2000, movie revenue of tens of millions was a very high figure. Mainland commercial films could not even earn a fraction of this figure. No one cared about the mainland market.

But after 2010, the box office of mainland movies exceeding [-] million is as easy as drinking water, and the copyright fees of tens of millions are not worth mentioning.

For Wu Yuan, "A Man Called Li Wen Decided to Die", which cost less than 1000 million yuan, can sell for 5600 million yuan in copyright fees, which is already very profitable.

But a few years later, "囧囧", which cost only 3000 million to produce, grossed 12 billion at the box office in the Mainland. The profit exceeded the cost by 17 times, and the company shared 4.3 million. This profit ratio is comparable to that of a literary and art film that won the Golden Lion Award. The film is still high.

With the final copyright sales data in hand, Wu Yuan sighed deeply on the plane back home: "Hey, the glorious era of literary and artistic films is almost over."

"What's wrong?" Liu Yifei, who was sitting next to him, asked in confusion: "The score of 5600 million is very good!"

"It's good, but compared with the mainland box office market, it's becoming less and less popular." Wu Yuan shook his head: "Next, the company will support more mainland movies."

"The long-delayed "Painted Skin 2" should also be prepared."

Next year, he won't have time to work on mainland film projects for a whole year. He will go to Hollywood to work on "Interstellar".

Starting from 2010, the mainland film market will completely explode. The emergence of "Avatar" will tell all mainland filmmakers that the Chinese market can already accommodate the emergence of a giant with a box office of 10 billion per film.

Countless quick and hot money will flow into the mainland film market with greater intensity, and cinema chains everywhere are expanding like crazy.

This stock style must be involved in the era of light and shadow.

Before, Wu Yuan originally wanted to find Wu Ershan and train him to be the company's tool for commercial films.

But Wu Ershan helped Wu Yuan make a domestic version of "The Butterfly Effect", which took 2000 million at the box office in the Mainland, making no loss or profit, and then went on his own.

Wu You has good connections and is not short of money, so he is not willing to be a laborer under Wu Yuan.

He then started a project to support new directors. In the first phase, two commercial film directors, Liu Meichuan and Li Yang, and three artistic film directors, Li Ruijun, Cheng Er and Han Yan, were discovered.

Coupled with Zhang Guorong, the company's number one general, there is no shortage of directors who can make good movies in the light and shadow era. They just lack suitable scripts.

Wu Yuan thought that he would have to work hard and copy a few suitable scripts for the company's directors to shoot. At least he would have to catch up with the first wave of mainland film boom in 2010.

"By the way, it's almost time for Xue Xiaolu's "Ocean Paradise" to be released, right?" he murmured to himself.

Xue Xiaolu was also one of the first batch of directors to be supported by the Light and Film Era Director Support Program. However, because her film had been waiting for Li Lianjie's schedule, it was not until "The Movie" was released that she finally had time to join the team to shoot this film.

Now the filming of this movie has been completed, and the post-production is almost done, and it can be released on schedule.

A literary film like "Ocean Paradise" is definitely not going to make money, but after Xue Xiaolu has practiced her skills, she can try to make some movies that are more suitable for female directors.

For example, a chick flick like "33 Days After Love"!
Thinking of this, Wu Yuan turned around and said to Liu Yifei: "Qianxi, after returning to China, you go to the United States first. Our company has to deal with some things, and we will come back later."

　I wrote a little less today, so I will make up for a thousand words tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)