director of the millennium

Although it was just oral narration, the program flow of "Longing for Life" proposed by Wu Yuan was already very mature.

After all, this is the best slow variety show in the country and the one with the most seasons produced.

Li Xiaoping, who had studied slow variety shows because of "Three Meals a Day", could easily understand Wu Yuan's ideas and was amazed by his ideas.

The country really needs such a variety show.

Perhaps ten years ago, such a program would be considered boring, tasteless and uninteresting, because the level of modernization of domestic cities was not high enough at that time. Except for a few big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, other cities did not have too much life and work pressure.

But things are different now. As China's national strength grows and its GDP even becomes the world's number one, the pressure of modern society is also increasing day by day. Urban modernization has made most young people living in cities not know what "countryside" is.

At this time, there will definitely be a market for a variety show that allows people to experience life in the countryside and slow down.

"I understand." Li Xiaoping kept Wu Yuan's statement firmly in mind and planned to instruct the variety show department to start preparing for "Longing for Life" according to Wu Yuan's ideas.

And Peng Peng must also be squeezed into this show as a permanent guest.

Well, in Li Xiaoping's understanding, Wu Yuan specifically pointed him out because he wanted to promote him, so Li Xiaoping naturally had no objection.

As the male lead of "Ready Player One", Peng Peng should indeed receive more resources and support from the company, and he should naturally become the mainstay of the company's male artists in the next stage.

"Okay, there should be nothing else to do now, right?" Wu Yuan asked helplessly. Only after Li Xiaoping nodded did he stand up for the third time and finally left Li Xiaoping's office.

One month later, September 2015, 9.

As time came to summer vacation, many movies invested by Guangying Times were released in this summer season. Among them, there are many works that Wu Yuan is familiar with, and there are also many movies that he didn’t know about, because they were produced because of his appearance.

With Wu Yuan founding the film company Guangying Times and its development into the leader of China's film and television industry, China's film industry has ushered in very big changes.

With the addition of such a large film and television company, the current mainland film industry cannot be the same as Wu Yuan dreamed of.

Some movies that might have been forgotten in their original time and space due to lack of investment were made because of the emergence of the wealthy era of light and shadow.

These are projects led by Li Xiaoping and the company's investment department. Wu Yuan has never intervened at all, although he himself doesn't know whether these films will achieve good results.

But a large film and television company with tens of billions of RMB in liquid capital cannot rely solely on him to provide scripts or point out investment directions.

No matter how talented he is, how many scripts can he write and how many movies can he direct in a year?
In fact, in today's era of light and shadow, the films invested and produced by Li Xiaoping and the investment department are the mainstream. Wu Yuan personally arranges investment or takes out scripts to shoot films, and there are only one or two films a year.

In fact, when a film and television company becomes big enough, as long as it operates healthily, it doesn’t really matter whether it has the benefit of foresight or not.

Just like the Big Six in Hollywood, they don’t have Wu Yuan’s “vision”, but they can still thrive for decades and swallow up countless other film and television companies, big and small, relying on a good system and huge capital power. In the current era of light and shadow, after Wu Yuan used his foresight to develop into a large film and television company, he has fully aligned himself with the Big Six in Hollywood, learned their investment review system, and has his own set of traffic light systems. Only films that have passed the review of the investment department can be approved for production.

For example, this summer, there are as many as five films that Guangying Times participated in investing in and was the main investor in.

Among them are the new film "Everything Grows" by mainland female film director Li Yu, the Sino-Korean co-production "Back to 20", Derek Yee's film "Nobody", the youth film "Those Flowers" shot by a new director discovered by the company, and the film "City of Love" by director Wen Muye from the second phase of the company's youth support plan.

The performance of these five films varied. There was "Everything Grows", which Wu Yuan was very familiar with, and there was also "Those Flowers", which Wu Yuan had never heard of.

These are all films invested and produced by Li Xiaoping and the company's investment department. They are films that have passed the red light system review and have made money at the overall box office.

"Love in the City", the worst performing film among the five, only grossed 50 million yuan, but it cost 20 million yuan, which is a small loss. The other four films were all above the loss line.

The best box office performances were "Everything Grows" and "20 Again", which together brought the company hundreds of millions in net profit.

Wu Yuan was very pleased that without his involvement, the company was able to invest in good film works and have professional investment vision. This meant that even if he lost his foresight in the future, the company would not fall into a loss-making situation.

This made Wu Yuan, who had been more or less anxious recently as the time was getting closer to waking up from his dream, relax a lot.

He came to the company less and less often, and interfered less and less in the film investment plans of Li Xiaoping and the company's investment department. Unless they came to Wu Yuan with a script, he would give some suggestions based on his memory, like "The Accidental Murderer" and "A Longing for Life".

At other times, he almost stopped providing scripts or advising Li Xiaoping to invest in a movie.

This is also to prepare for the company's future "independence".

Of course, it’s a bit far-fetched to talk about these things now. The most important thing for Light and Shadow Times at the moment is to do a good job in promoting the release of "Riding the Wind".

As time enters September, "Riding the Wind" has also entered the countdown to its release.

In less than a month, this New Year's film celebrating the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-French War will be released nationwide on a large scale.

"Ride the Wind" is a 2D feature film, not even an IMAX one, but a movie that can be shown on an ordinary big screen, in order to be able to be shown in more sinking markets, including the vast fourth- and fifth-tier cities and the county-level administrative regions below them.

The General Administration has made up its mind to prepare the best screening schedule for "Riding the Wind" and make sure that every cinema in the country will have screenings of this movie on the day of the premiere!

Although this has not been considered as the mobilization of administrative power for promotion, it is foreseeable that during this year's National Day, even if there is no special notice from above, staff and administrative personnel from all major state-owned and administrative departments, from provinces and cities to counties and towns, will spontaneously go to the cinema to watch this movie.

The release of "Riding the Wind" is bound to create a high box office! (End of this chapter)