director of the millennium

Wu Yuan did not dwell on the past for too long.

Although the thought that Chen Xingxu was only four years old when he debuted did make him feel the passage of time, he is only 32 years old now and is not considered old. He is still in his prime!
Without a moment to mourn the lost youth, the next person to appear is the mature director Wu Yuan!

As the last piece of the puzzle of "Riding the Wind" was completed, Wu Yuan had to embark on the preparation journey of "Riding the Wind" again.

That is to say, scouting the sceneries!

Most of those anti-Japanese TV dramas were filmed in Hengdian. Millions of Japanese soldiers died in Hengdian every year, but most of the anti-Japanese war movies were never filmed in Hengdian.

Popular filming locations for movies on the theme of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression are mainly Shanghai, Wuhan, Changsha, etc., all of which are cities that hosted major battles or were very important during the Anti-Japanese War.

As a film about the Jinzhong Cavalry Regiment, the filming location of "Ride the Wind" must be found in Shanxi.

After getting on the plane, Wu Yuan rushed to Shanxi as soon as possible and spent half a month touring the base where the Jinzhong Cavalry Regiment had once been stationed in real history.

He didn't know where the "Ride the Wind" unit in the movie "My Fathers and Me" was originally filmed, and he didn't pay attention to it.

But his many years of directing career have also trained him.

In the end, he chose to shoot in Jinzhong, Hebei, which is an old revolutionary base area that had a base during the Anti-Japanese War and is also the main activity area of ​​the Jinzhong Cavalry Regiment.

Of course, not all scenes of this movie will be filmed here. Wu Yuan still selected several mountainous areas and forests as the places where the guerrilla warfare in the movie takes place.

In Beijing, some of the plots inside the studio and the senior management's scenes will also be filmed.

However, compared to "Ready Player One", the filming location for "Riding the Wind" is relatively easy to find. Once you've chosen it, you can start filming after a little bit of setup. There's no need to do too much pre-production, and there's no need to build a studio from scratch.

Wu Yuan also had to sigh again that making science fiction films is really complicated and tedious.

At the same time, when Wu Yuan was busy with the early preparations for "Riding the Wind", Light and Shadow Times's blockbuster production this year, "Battle of the Demon Tide", also successfully completed post-production and started early publicity and promotion work.

This movie has been scheduled to be released during the 2015 Spring Festival!

In the past, Guangying Times rarely squeezed into the Spring Festival period. It was not because they had no confidence in their own movies, but because Guangying Times had its own fixed period, namely the summer vacation and National Day period.

The former mainly caters to young moviegoers, while the latter is because Wu Yuan always likes to release new movies at this time.

But that won’t happen next year.

Next year will be the 70th anniversary of the special victory in the anti-fascist struggle. The National Day period must give way to main-theme films, and Wu Yuan’s own tribute film must also be released at this time.

The summer season alone would be too crowded, as the Korean films "20 Again" and "Kunlun" would both be released at this time. If "The Last Witch" were to be added, it would be a fight between the insiders and the outsiders.

Moreover, the box office market is not big enough to accommodate three movies with a potential box office of 10 billion at the same time.

Yes, according to the estimates of Guangying Times, the box office of these three movies is heading for more than 10 billion RMB. It goes without saying that "War of the Demon Tide" and "Kunlun" are successful, and "10 Again" is mainly the success of the Korean version, which has brought Guangying Times confidence and dared to shout out the slogan of billion box office.

But in fact, the company believes that 5 million is already a great success for this movie.

But even so, a summer season cannot accommodate a box office of 25 billion, unless there are no other movies released during the entire summer season and only these three movies from Light and Shadow Era are released, but this is not realistic.

So the company had no choice but to adjust the release date and move the most powerful of the three films forward to the Spring Festival!

Next year's Spring Festival period will be the most crowded in history.

According to the news released so far, there are already 5 movies scheduled for the Spring Festival, and it is possible that several more movies will be scheduled for the Spring Festival in the next few months.

Therefore, only the most powerful movies can make it into the Spring Festival period to grab a share of the pie.

There is no doubt that among these three movies, the most powerful one is "On Tides of Destruction", which is comparable to the Avengers.

Taiwu Zhenren from the previous work, Zhao Li in "Soul Ferry", Chunyang Zhenren Lu Dongbin played by Hu Ge, and the big villain demon god played by Liu Dehua, all kinds of heroes gathered together, and the story takes place 1400 years after "The Legend of Zu", which is the modern time.

It can be said that all kinds of elements are fully utilized.

Even if the Spring Festival box office is more intense next year, I will still dare to give it a try!

Of course, in order to achieve good box office results during the Spring Festival next year, the crew of "War of the Demon Tide" also started the publicity and promotion work early.

An advanced trailer was released in September, and several leading actors also began to mention the film during public appearances to promote it in advance.

In the next few months, Guangying Times will launch various offline and online promotions to ensure that 14 billion Chinese people know that this movie is going to be released before the Spring Festival.

Regardless of whether such behavior would annoy others, this "information" must be forced into everyone's mind.

Even Wu Yuan, who was busy scouting locations in Shanxi, could see buses with posters of "War of the Demonic Tide" passing by in the city.
For this reason, Wu Yuan even called Li Xiaoping and asked her if it was too early to promote it now.

Li Xiaoping said that this was only the first wave. The company had prepared three waves of publicity, with each wave separated by two months, in an effort to brainwash the entire nation.

All I can say is it's horrible.
Wu Yuan, who has never paid much attention to film promotion and has been too lazy to study it, thinks that this behavior is a bit excessive, but it is understandable.

Light and Shadow Times has poured countless efforts into "War of the Demon Tide". This movie can be regarded as the company's masterpiece, and it is directly aiming at the 15 billion box office record!
It would not be easy to achieve this result without investing heavily in publicity and promotion.

The main reason is that Guangying Times was stimulated by the good performance of the domestic film market last year.

Movies with box office revenue exceeding 10 billion yuan have emerged one after another, breaking all the box office records that the Light and Shadow Era had originally held.

How could Light and Shadow Era, which has been the leader in the country for so many years and has always maintained the record of the highest-grossing movies in the mainland, tolerate this?
We must take back this honor!
The highest-grossing movie in mainland China must come from the Light and Shadow Era!
As Wu Yuan's new commercial blockbuster cannot be released for a while and there is still a long period of post-production to be completed, the company's treasure can only be placed on "Battle of the Demon Tide"!
Wu Yuan is quite confident about this. This is the Chinese version of "Avengers"! (End of this chapter)