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Chapter 1016 Postscript: 8
After entering the year 2000, the first movie with a box office of over one billion appeared in China, which was fully ten years earlier than in another time and space!

And the first director to break one billion box office was Zhang Yimou, and then Feng Pants, Jiang Yun, Zhou Xingchi and others joined the one billion club!

One of the biggest reasons for this is that Chinese people's recognition of movies far exceeds that of another time and space. At the same time, there is an increase in domestic theaters. This is a complementary result.

The rise of the film market has also allowed more investors to see the potential of the film industry. Various capitals have entered the film market one after another.
Although Feng Pants and others complained about the lack of professionalism of some actors, it is undeniable that the domestic film market has become the second largest film market in the world!
This has also caused many filmmakers who have gone abroad to return to China to make films. Among them is the director of Xiangjiang Wu Baige.

When Wu Baige first entered Hollywood, he made several blockbuster movies and became a hot director in Hollywood. Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. A "Wind Talker" almost bankrupted MGM!

From heaven to hell, Wu Baige only took one movie.

Since then, Wu Baige has never had a chance to stand up in Hollywood. Later, he had no choice but to return to China to develop. At this time, although Xiangjiang's films will not decline like later generations, it is undeniable that the focus of the film has returned to domestic!

Wu Baige, like most Xiangjiang directors, chose to go north to make films. Xiangjiang's experience with Hollywood allowed Wu Baige to easily find investors.

After returning to China, Wu Baige first tested the waters and supervised the production of a Republic of China film. The box office was not good, but it was not bad.

Then Wu Baige began to prepare for his ambitious work "Red Cliff"!
If Wu Jianye hadn't appeared, this movie would have been released this year, but because of Wu Jianye's intervention, the filming of this movie still hasn't started yet.

Many people don't understand the reason. After all, Wu Baige was able to re-emerge in Xiangjiang, and it was Wu Jianye's help that Wu Baige was able to get the script of "The True Colors of a Hero".

No one thought that when Wu Baige returned to China for filming, Wu Jianye was the first to stand up and stop him!

This kind of thing is unknown to the outside world, everyone is just curious that Wu Baige has been calling for the filming of "Red Cliff" for several years, but the filming has not started yet, but some bigwigs in the circle know that there is no such thing as Wu Jianye. Open your mouth, there is really no way to start shooting this movie!
On the second day, several directors stayed at the Dynasty Hotel again, including Wu Baige, but to the surprise of many directors, Han Heping from China Film Group also came to Qiongdao this time!

Han Heping is now the helm of China Film Group, a veritable domestic film industry leader, and he is still the top one.

His arrival naturally attracted many directors to visit, but Han Heping did not meet them immediately, but took Wu Baige to find Wu Jianye.

Wu Baige's "Red Cliff" China Film is planning to be the first investor!

"Ms. Wu, we haven't seen each other for two years!" Han Heping sat on the sofa in the guest room with a bright smile on his face.

Han Heping, who has been in charge of the domestic film industry for many years, is quite majestic at this time, but when facing Wu Jianye, he still maintains his humble attitude.

"I remember the last time we met was when you were promoted to the chairman of China Film Group!" Wu Jianye recalled.

In 99, Han Heping served as the vice chairman and deputy general manager of China Film Group, and officially became the helm of China Film Group in 07!
Han Heping nodded and said, "That's right, I haven't thanked you well that day."

Wu Jianye waved his hands and said, "It's polite to say that."

"Mr. Wu, the domestic film industry has been a bit monotonous without your participation in these years!" Han Heping said.

"Haha, there are talented people from generation to generation, and the young people nowadays are also good." Wu Jianye said with a smile: "Let's get down to business, I know what you think when you come here this time, I still say the same thing, do you want to shoot me?" Opinion, but what will happen later, I can't guarantee!"

Han Heping showed a wry smile. Although he is the helm of China Film Group, and in the eyes of outsiders, he is the leader of China's film industry, but people at his level know very well that if they want to make a difference in China's film industry, there is no Wu Jianye. Nodding, it's impossible!

In the past, no matter whether I was the director of Yanjing Film Studio or entered China Film Studio, I have received great support from Wu Jianye. The cooperation between the two parties is very pleasant, but I did not expect that China Film's biggest plan in the past two years, " On "Red Cliff", there are differences!
Although Wu Jianye said that he has no objection to the filming of this movie, everyone knows that Wu Jianye is very disgusted with this plan. If Wu Jianye does not get the support of Wu Jianye, domestic theaters and overseas theaters will have no There is no way to release it, not to mention that some investors are likely to withdraw their capital.

Wu Baige on the side also had a somewhat embarrassed expression at this time. He had been hoping to meet Wu Jianye for several years, just to talk about this matter, but Wu Jianye had never given him a chance. It's easy to see, but Wu Jianye didn't even give Han Heping face!
"Director Wu, we are really optimistic about this movie. We have found several screenwriters and revised the script more than a dozen times. At the same time, we have also found actors from China, Xiangjiang, and Wanwan to star together. It must be It will become a benchmark for domestic films!"

Although it was embarrassing, what should be done still had to be done, so Wu Baige still fought for it.

Wu Jianye glanced at Wu Baige, and said, "I said, you want to make this movie, I have no objection, since you put so much effort into it, then make it!"

At this time, Wu Jianye was very disappointed in telling the truth to Wu Baige!
How could Wu Baige fail to realize that Wu Jianye was talking ironically, so he smiled wryly and said, "Director Wu, I know that I was not good enough when I was in Hollywood, but I hope you can give me a chance! "

After Wu Baige entered Hollywood, he didn't actually do anything to offend Wu Jianye, but with his own success, it was inevitable that his eyes were higher than the top, and his speech became arrogant.

Still using his reason for owning his own editing rights, once Wu Baige was interviewed, he once again stated that he was one of the few directors in Hollywood who had his own editing rights, even when Wu Jianye was shooting movies in Hollywood , nor have this right.

Later, after the media spread, various versions emerged one after another, but the core gossip was that Wu Baige looked down on Wu Jianye.

This is the only place Wu Baige can think of to offend Wu Jianye!
Wu Jianye chuckled, and said, "You think too much, I never took those words to heart, whether you can have your own editing rights, this is actually not a reason to evaluate the director's success!"

Wu Baige's face became more and more ugly.

Seeing the awkward atmosphere, Han Heping quickly said, "Mr. Wu, didn't you once say that if you want Chinese-language movies to really flourish, you should let a hundred flowers bloom. It is also good that the story of the Three Kingdoms is brought to the big screen!"

Wu Jianye still smiled and said, "I didn't say it was bad!"

Han Heping: "."

Wu Baige: "."

In the end, Han Heping had no choice but to let Wu Baige leave Wu Jianye's room first.

"Ms. Wu, there are only two of us left now, can you tell me why you hate this movie so much?"

When there were only Wu Jianye and Han Heping left in the room, Han Heping could speak more and more freely!

Wu Jianye asked back: "Have you noticed that when I was still making movies, I never used actors from Wanwan, nor did I participate in the Golden Horse Awards in Wanwan. Have you ever thought about this reason?"

Han Heping shook his head and said: "To be honest, everyone is very curious. I remember that when "Inception" was released, the Golden Horse Award had sent you an invitation, but you rejected it directly. Even these years In the movies produced by Tangting Culture, there are very few actors from Wanwan on TV."

Wu Jianye gave Han Heping a meaningful look, and said with a smile, "Then you should know why I disagree with the movie "Red Cliff"!"

Although China Film is the largest investor in "Red Cliff", there are many other investors in this film, among which investors from Wanwan account for a large proportion.

Not only that, because Wu Baige will be the director of this film and also the producer of this film.

In other words, Wu Baige has absolute rights in this movie. As a result, many outstanding roles in the movie are given to Wanwan artists.

I have already said about this movie before, and the ultimate goal is actually to use China's market, China's funds, and China's actors to support artists in Bay Bay.

This made Wu Jianye a little unhappy. The market he had worked so hard to create finally had to let them pick peaches. Wu Jianye was not so generous!
But Han Heping didn't know this.

"Mr. Wu, it's just Wanwan's capital coming in, and there is no loss for us?"

"Do you have the right to cast a role? I think when they talked with you, they have already taken away the right to cast a role?" Wu Jianye asked.

Han Heping nodded. He didn't take it seriously. In Han Heping's mind, the movie was more important. As for the casting, he didn't care much.

Wu Jianye chuckled, and continued: "If it wasn't for me, at the beginning of the film's preparation, the means of publicity would have been to take advantage of Zhou Runfa, right?"

Han Heping smiled awkwardly.

When the film was just beginning to be prepared, as the largest production at that time, it naturally attracted the attention of many media, and the choice of actors was the most attractive to the media.

At the beginning, the Wanwan investors of "Red Cliff" hoped that Wu Baige would come forward, invite Zhou Runfa, and borrow the appeal of Wu Baige and Zhou Runfa, the golden partner, to make this movie popular first.

But in fact, their goal is not Zhou Runfa at all. According to their plan, after making use of Zhou Runfa's fame to stir up the popularity of this movie, they immediately announce that there is no way to cooperate with Zhou Runfa, and they have even thought about the reason. Then It's just that Zhou Runfa's asking price for the film is too high.

It can be said that they calculated Zhou Runfa to the bottom of their hearts, and then recruited Liang Chaowei, who looked similar to Lin's model in grade, to save the scene.

The topic of this movie is already there!

In fact, they never planned to use Zhou Runfa from the beginning to the end.

When they contacted Zhou Runfa at that time, Wu Jianye called Zhou Runfa directly and asked him to refuse the invitation. At the same time, he also let go at this time, making it impossible to continue the production of the movie "Red Cliff"!

"Mr. Wu, what do you mean?"

Wu Jianye thought for a while, and said, "The actors must use our own, the Wanwan ones are fine!"

"What about Wanwan's capital?" Han Heping asked quickly, fearing that there would be no chance of easing up. Now that he has this opportunity, everything else is easy to talk about!

Wu Jianye said: "They want to invest, we won't stop them, but don't have those messy ideas!"

Han Heping said: "That's no problem, I will handle this matter!"

After Wu Jianye told Han Heping again, Han Heping also left Wu Jianye's room.

Han Heping still likes the story of the Three Kingdoms very much. Now that someone wants to shoot it, he is naturally very happy. Now they are the largest investor in China Film, so he doesn't think there is any difficulty in this matter.

It's a pity that when he talked about it with Wu Baige, Wu Baige directly denied the suggestion.

"How is this possible, Mr. Han, we have already negotiated with the investor over there. Now that we have changed the main cast without authorization, there is no way to explain it to the other party!"

At this time, Han Heping lost the tone he had when discussing with Wu Jianye before, and said directly: "If they don't want to, you can let them withdraw directly. The most indispensable thing in Huaxia is film investors!"

Wu Baige objected: "No, I have already promised the other party about this matter. I must use actors from Wanwan. This is something that cannot be changed. Otherwise, I will quit the crew of "Red Cliff" and will not authorize my script. For your use!"

Han Heping glanced at Wu Baige and said, "Yes!"

Wu Baige was taken aback for a moment. He didn't expect Han Heping to be so straightforward. To be honest, he never thought about quitting this story. After all, this was his chance to turn around. The reason why he said that just now was just to put pressure on Han Heping!

"Boss Han."

"Director Wu, it seems that we have no fate for cooperation!" Han Heping said directly.

Wu Baige sat there, not knowing what to say, he never thought that he would have such a result.

The reason why he insisted on using actors from Wanwan was that after Wu Baige lost to Xiangjiang, it was the Wanwan market that gave him a chance to survive. At the same time, Wu Baige's several films were also very successful in Wanwan. For Baige, Wanwan is more like his birthplace, so he also hopes to use his influence to drive artists in Wanwan.

But I didn't expect that not only did I not succeed now, but I also got myself into it!
"Mr. Han, you have to think about it. Without me, this story might not be filmed by others!" Wu Baige made the last insistence.

Han Heping said earnestly: "With your persistence, this movie will be even more impossible to make!"

If Wu Jianye doesn't let go, there is absolutely no chance for this movie to start shooting in China
(End of this chapter)