director of the millennium

After the release conference of Ready Player One was held in Beijing, the countdown to the release of this movie began.

Countless movie fans and audiences across the country have begun to look forward to this blockbuster that Wu Yuan has been working on for three years.

Although Wu Yuan's main theme movie "Ride the Wind" was released in the meantime, movie fans' expectations for Wu Yuan's science fiction blockbuster have not diminished at all.

To be more specific, Wu Yuan’s last Chinese science fiction film was "Gravity" released in 2008.

Since 2008, Wu Yuan has not made any Chinese science fiction films, not even any Chinese blockbusters. He has only made two Chinese films, "Love Letter" and "Dear", both of which are ordinary 2D feature films.

However, he also shot two science fiction films in Hollywood, "Interstellar" and "The Martian", which earned him popularity and box office internationally and established his identity and status as a great science fiction director.

As such, domestic movie fans are even more looking forward to Wu Yuan's Chinese-language science fiction blockbuster.

You know, although science fiction movies have never been very popular and not favored by judges in the field of awards and film festivals, in the field of commercial films, science fiction movies can be regarded as the crown of the commercial film industry and a shining pearl. Except for Hollywood, no country in the world can play science fiction movies well.

Wu Yuan is the only one who can compete with Hollywood directors in the field of science fiction films, and is even a leading director today.

Although, in the eyes of most foreign movie fans, Wu Yuan is also a Hollywood director.

But domestic movie fans are still looking forward to Wu Yuan bringing more excellent Chinese science fiction blockbusters to everyone as a Chinese film director!
But from 2008 to 2016, a full eight years had passed before Wu Yuan finally made another Chinese-language science fiction film, and it was a work that took him three years to make. How could this not excite domestic movie fans?
It can be said that as soon as the release date of Ready Player One was confirmed, this movie has already created a whirlwind on the domestic Internet. The popularity is no less than the influence of Marvel movies, and it is even more so. There are more audiences looking forward to Wu Yuan’s new film than Marvel fans, and even most Marvel fans are also Wu Yuan’s fans!

There is no fan of Marvel movies who is not looking forward to Wu Yuan's new sci-fi film, which has attracted much more attention than his previous films such as "Love Letter" and "Dear".

Compared with these two Chinese-language feature films, Wu Yuan's new film "Ready Player One" is the movie that domestic audiences have been eagerly waiting for. It is a work that everyone has been looking forward to for several years, and its attention is not much different from Stephen Chow's "The Mermaid".

By the way, “The Mermaid” was already released in mainland China when Wu Yuan was busy filming “Doctor Strange” in Hong Kong Island.

The film broke the pre-sale record for Chinese-language films, the first-day box office for Chinese-language films, the single-day box office for Chinese-language films and many other records. It broke 4 billion in just 10 days, breaking the record for "the fastest Chinese-language film to break 10 billion" in mainland film history, and the single-day box office in the first week remained above 2.3 million for a week in a row, breaking the first-week box office record in mainland film history.

As of February 2016, 2, the film had grossed over 21 million yuan per day for 14 consecutive days since its release.

2016年2月26日该片累计票房突破30亿，成为内地影史首个30亿元俱乐部成员。

As of April 2016, 4, the film has accumulated a total box office of 6 billion yuan, currently ranking first in the mainland film and television box office. This first place includes foreign language films, which is of great value.

Of course, such an exaggerated box office result has nothing to do with the quality of the film. It is the result of the combined effect of time, place and people. The public opinion on the Internet that "I owe Stephen Chow a movie ticket" played a major role in this.

Such a legend cannot even be replicated by Stephen Chow himself, and it has surpassed the miracle of the movie itself.

It was also the 30 billion box office performance of "The Mermaid" that stimulated more hot money to flow into the film industry this year, including the three major Internet giants, which also officially entered the market and invested heavily in the film industry.

"Big data" is also invading the film industry. Penguin Pictures and Alibaba Pictures have invested in many movies based on the so-called "movie big data". These are works that these Internet people are very optimistic about and believe will definitely sell well.

Internet companies believe that their winning magic weapon "big data" will also be successful in the film industry. After all, using "big data" as a winning magic weapon, Internet companies have succeeded in the four major fields of clothing, food, housing, and transportation. There is no reason why they will fail in the film industry. No one can stop or persuade this blind confidence, including Wu Yuan, who knows that "big data" is useless in the film industry and chooses to watch from the sidelines.

Anyway, after being beaten by reality for a few years and losing billions, these Internet film companies will calm down, lower their proud heads, give up big data, and listen carefully to the suggestions and ideas of real film practitioners.

And that’s not a bad thing.

It has to be admitted that the entry of Internet companies has indeed swept away many chaos in the film industry and made the industry more standardized, although there is inevitably suspicion that the film industry has become controlled by capital.

But which country’s film industry is not controlled by capital? It’s just a change of people.

This kind of thing cannot be avoided. Even Wu Yuan himself has now become a part of the capital. As the leader of domestic film companies, Guangying Times is itself one of the largest capitals. Even if Internet giants enter the market, it will not shake anything. Wu Yuan can just sit back and watch the storm.

Compared with these industry troubles, he has been more concerned about another thing recently.

As time enters June, another highly anticipated movie is finally released, which is the game-adapted movie "Warcraft" that is full of nostalgia!
Azu's version of Gul'dan is here!

Oh my god!
There will be a day in my lifetime when I cannot recognize Daniel Wu.

The once handsome young man had countless famous scenes in movies.

From "Love in Boyhood" to "City of Glass" to "One Nite in Mongkok" and "New Police Story", for the majority of female fans, he is an irresistible hormone of appearance.

In the words of Xiong Dun, the author of "Go Away! Tumor King": "You are so handsome that I want to...be reborn."

What she actually wanted to say was "so handsome that it makes you want to take off your clothes."

Before his death, Xiong Dun specifically mentioned A-Zu and hoped that he would play Dr. Liang.

As a result, everyone got what they wanted and saw the handsome A-Zu in "Go Away Tumor".

Perhaps it was because his handsome face had brought him countless troubles, as well as the concern of movie fans who only looked at his face and not his acting skills, so this time A-Zu played a big game and was directly shameless, in the physical sense of the word.

Anyway, after "Warcraft" was released, Wu Yuan, who had only heard about it in his dreams but had never gone to the cinema to watch it, went to the cinema this time and watched the movie carefully, and then came to a conclusion.

Frustrated!
He dared to guarantee that even A-Zu's mother would not be able to recognize Gul'dan in the movie!

This special effect is even more excessive than the octopus face in "Pirates of the Caribbean". The special effects have been done to this extent. To be honest, it doesn't matter who you choose to play the role, because it will all be an exaggerated orc face anyway.

When leaving the cinema, Wu Yuan couldn't understand why A Zu would accept such a movie. This was even more outrageous than "Jade Dynasty". He was called an actor, but in fact he was just a motion capture actor behind the scenes. It was really unnecessary. (End of this chapter)