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In private, Yang Mi once chatted with Zhang Xiao about Zhang Yimou.

His evaluation of Zhang Yimou is that Zhang Yimou is definitely the best director in the world in terms of the scheduling of big scenes and the processing of the screen, almost none of them.

This is why Yang Mi decided to find Zhang Yimou to direct the film.

After listening to Yang Mi's words, Director Li said with a wry smile: "President Yang, even if you want to make this movie, what does it have to do with the release of "Battle of the Red Cliff"? I can't use this reason to prevaricate Sakura Films Bar?"

Yang Mi said: "According to the film scheduling standards we signed, if the theater chain is not optimistic about a certain movie, it can cancel its screening."

"So, we at Sunny Cinemas are very pessimistic about the box office of "Battle of the Red Cliff" at the domestic box office, so we don't want to screen it."

"What about overseas?" Director Li asked again.

Yang Mi smiled and said, "Director Li, our Culture Department should not be able to manage overseas cinemas, right? Besides, we can make decisions on Sunny Cinemas, but Disney Cinemas, Universal Cinemas, Warner Cinemas, my husband It’s just a shareholder.”

"Okay!" Director Li nodded and said, "I will inform Sakura Film Company of your answer."

Yang Mi personally sent Director Li downstairs, which was considered to be enough face for him.

Before getting into the car, Director Li said: "Mr. Yang, to tell you the truth, Chen Gang's character is indeed not very good. Personally, I support your approach very much."

Yang Mi smiled and said, "Thank you for understanding."

Not long after Director Li left, Zhang Yimou came to the headquarters of Sunny Films.

As soon as he saw Yang Mi, he said with burning eyes: "Mr. Yang, who wrote this script, it's really great."

Yang Mi smiled and said, "It's a team of screenwriters who created the script, not just someone. Director Zhang, are you excited?"

Zhang Yimou nodded heavily, and said, "I give this script a score of 9.5. The best war film is an anti-war film. This script does it perfectly."

Speaking of this, Zhang Yimou was a little agitated, and continued: "You know what, the most impressive person in the whole story is not Fucha, Goujian, Wenzhong, Xishi and other big figures, but that Wu Guo who is called Gouwaer?" Soldier."

"Although there are not many descriptions of him, he is definitely the most tragic and important person, adding a lot of thickness to this film."

Yang Mi smiled and said, "Director Zhang, drink a cup of tea first, don't get too excited, this script won't work."

Zhang Yimou was taken aback, and said a little embarrassedly: "Sorry, I get a little excited whenever I talk about movies."

Yang Mi nodded and said, "Director Zhang, you are planning to accept this movie, right?"

"Of course!" Zhang Yimou said hastily, "I'm willing even if you don't give me a penny."

Yang Mi smiled and asked, "Is your schedule suitable?"

"Appropriate!" Zhang Yimou said: "I don't have any work arrangements this year, so I can devote myself wholeheartedly to this film."

"Okay!" Yang Mi nodded and said, "Director Zhang, if you have any requirements or conditions, you can talk now."

Zhang Yimou asked: "Mr. Yang, I really want to know why this drama is looking for me instead of Mr. Zhang. With his directing ability, there is absolutely no problem."

Yang Mi smiled and explained: "First of all, he has been busy filming "Rise of the Planet of the Apes". If the film is to be finished, it will probably take two or three months. Including post-production, it will not take half a year." Time, can't figure it out at all, so he doesn't have time."

"Secondly, he doesn't really like directing costume war films..."

If a costume war movie wants to shoot a big scene, it will take at least three or four months for the preparation work, and the scheduling of the war scene is far more troublesome than other types of movies.

Zhang Xiao really didn't want to spend all this effort, so he gave up directing the battle of Wuyue.

Zhang Yimou smiled and said, "Why don't you like it? I think he's just lazy!"

"Well, I think so too!" Yang Mi said with a smile.

Zhang Yimou asked again: "Then how much is the production cost of this movie, and who are the actors?"

Yang Mi replied: "There is no need to consider the issue of cost. We will not set an upper limit for you. As long as the best effect can be achieved, it doesn't matter how much you spend."

"As for the actors, you can decide at your own discretion, except for the actors from Jiaxing. If there is an actor from the Sakura Film Company selected, it is up to our company to decide whether to use him or not."

"The other thing is that under the same conditions, we give priority to the actors of our sunny day."

After listening to Yang Mi's words, Zhang Yimou couldn't believe his ears, and asked, "No more?"

"No more!" Yang Mi shook her head.

Zhang Yimou shook his head and smiled wryly: "President Yang, you have given me such great power, it really puts me under a lot of pressure!"

Yang Mi said with a smile: "The films we invest in sunny days have always given the director the greatest freedom. In my husband's words, if you set limits on the director, it is equivalent to setting limits on the box office and word-of-mouth of the film. Very stupid behavior."

"If you want to make a really good movie, you don't care about the amount of investment, and you have to give the director enough freedom."

"Mr. Zhang is really generous." Zhang Yimou sighed: "In comparison, the operas of our directors are too small. By the way, can I ask Mr. Zhang to play the role?"

Yang Mi asked: "Then what do you plan to let him play?"

Zhang Yimou thought for a while, and said: "With his acting skills, no matter whether he is an emperor, general or other roles, there is no problem at all. What I hope most is that he can play that son of a bitch."

"This bastard is too important. You have to find an actor with strong explosive and appealing ability to be competent. Except for him, I really can't think of anyone who can achieve the desired effect."

Yang Mi said: "Gouwa'er doesn't have many roles, and he has never played a similar role, so there should be no problem."

Zhang Yimou said: "There is also Xi Shi. I think Reba is the most suitable. With her appearance and dancing skills, she is a perfect match for this role."

Yang Mi smiled and said, "Okay, I'll discuss it with her in a while."

Half an hour later, Sunshine Entertainment and Zhang Yimou signed a director contract, officially launching their cooperation.

Back home, Yang Mi told Reba about this matter.

Reba had actually read this script before, and thought it was very good, so he agreed without hesitation. As for Zhang Xiao, Yang Mi didn't tell him at all.

Anyway, the preparation period for this movie will take at least four months, and Yang Mi doesn't want to disturb him at this time.

That night, the Department of Culture notified Qingtian's reply to Sakura Film Company. Although Sakura Film Company was very dissatisfied, there was nothing they could do about it, because Qingtian did not violate the relevant regulations on film scheduling.

Half a month later, "Battle of Chibi 2" was released globally.

Although Sakura Film Company has carried out a large-scale publicity in China, and the film schedule has been given, so the theaters gave the highest price. Unfortunately, like the first part of "Battle of the Red Cliff", the word-of-mouth and box office were not very good. The box office is less than 5000 million, which is a mess.

Compared with domestic, the overseas box office of the second part of "Battle of the Red Cliff" is quite good.

Because of the addition of the two major Oscar awards, the box office won 1.28 million yuan on the first day, ranking second in the overseas single-day movie rankings.

The freshness of Rotten Tomatoes also reached 80.00%, even better than the first one.