director of the millennium

In the capital, at Wu Yuan's home.

"Based on the current trend, Doctor Strange is likely to eventually earn around $8 million in global box office!"

Wu Yuan counted on his fingers, his eyes full of satisfaction.

Compared to the original version's global box office of $6.7 million, his "Doctor Strange" this time is likely to take in $8 million worldwide.

In this way, he can get about 8100 million US dollars in box office revenue, which is not a small amount of money!
Of course, Wu Yuan did not take on the directorial job of "Doctor Strange" entirely because of the money. Another reason was that he wanted to maintain his influence in Hollywood and have at least one Hollywood movie released every 2-3 years to maintain his own fame and popularity.

Although Wu Yuan's film company has separated from Hollywood and he has shifted his work focus back to China, this does not mean completely abandoning Hollywood.

Apart from anything else, in markets outside of China, the title of "Hollywood director" is still very useful.

If Wu Yuan was not a big Hollywood director, especially a big director of commercial science fiction films, his "Ready Player One" would not have been so popular in South America and East Asia.

Isn't it because he has made many excellent commercial science fiction and fantasy blockbusters in Hollywood that foreign audiences have confidence in him? Even if he makes a Chinese science fiction movie, foreign audiences can go to the cinema to watch it with a try-it attitude, and foreign theaters can also give Wu Yuan face and give him some normal screenings.

Otherwise, if you change to a director who is only influential in China, even if it is Guo Fan, after the success of his "The Wandering Earth 1", when "The Wandering Earth 2" was released in other overseas countries, the screening schedule was just for consolation purposes, with perhaps only dozens of screenings in one country.

Is "The Wandering Earth 2" not good?
Even if it were in Hollywood, a science fiction film of this production level would definitely be a top-notch product.

Then why is it that even if his films have gone through the release process in various overseas countries, only a few or a dozen theaters will show them, and they are mainly theaters near neighborhoods like Chinatown, which clearly shows that they are only targeting the Chinese market.

It’s because he has no influence in overseas regions. Even Hollywood doesn’t want to have a Chinese director who has influence in the global market.

Therefore, no matter how good the "Wandering Earth" series is, it can only be popular in China. It is impossible to export it overseas. From public opinion propaganda to specific screening schedules, it will not be given any preferential treatment and may even be deliberately suppressed.

Wu Yuan was lucky, as he entered Hollywood in the first few years of the 21st century. At that time, Hollywood looked down on the Chinese film market and did not think that Chinese films could compete with Hollywood. It still opened the door to Chinese filmmakers, hoping to attract outstanding Chinese directors and actors to Hollywood.

This is also Hollywood's consistent practice, to absorb all the outstanding foreign filmmakers into Hollywood and make them their own people. Uncle Ba is a Danish actor, but it does not prevent him from becoming famous in Hollywood.

Similarly, from the 21s to the first decade of the st century, a large number of Chinese movie stars were recruited by Hollywood, including actors such as Jackie Chan, Jet Li, and Michelle Yeoh, and later such as Collin Chou, Gong Li, and Zhang Ziyi.

As for directors, there were also a group of directors from Hong Kong who went to Hollywood, but they didn't stay there.

But when the time came to the second decade of the 21st century, Hollywood was no longer the tolerant Hollywood for Chinese filmmakers. It almost completely banned or even suppressed the international living space of Chinese actors and directors. Because the Chinese film industry has developed and even developed rapidly, it has become the second largest film market in the world and is about to become the first.

Under such circumstances, it is certainly impossible for Hollywood to aid the enemy and help Chinese films and actors become famous around the world. Instead, it would be normal for Hollywood to deliberately suppress them behind the scenes.

Wu Yuan and Cheng Long are the Chinese filmmakers who made their way into Hollywood during the "honeymoon period". They have become a combination of interests with Hollywood, not a simple relationship of promoting and being promoted. That is why they will not be suppressed, but will continue to cooperate with Hollywood.

This can only be achieved by grasping the pulse of the times. In the future, there will never be another Chinese filmmaker like Wu Yuan and Cheng Long who can develop in Hollywood. Even supporting actors like Wang Xueqi still have a chance now. In a few years, when Marvel makes "Shang-Chi", they will not select actors from China, but look for their own Asian actors in Hollywood!

It can be seen that Hollywood will become more and more wary of Chinese filmmakers in the future.

In this situation, if Wu Yuan chooses to retreat bravely, then he may really retreat for life.
Therefore, in order to maintain his international influence, Wu Yuan still needs to have a new work in Hollywood every 2-3 years. This is not for the purpose of breaking into Hollywood or conquering the American market, but purely to maintain his international influence and better conquer the Asian market.

After all, after him, it may be difficult for any Chinese director to leverage Hollywood's global distribution channels to gain global influence for themselves.

As for China Film's own international distribution channels.
Before World War III, it would have been impossible to achieve Hollywood's level.

"Given the current situation, let alone making $80 million from a movie, even if it doesn't make money, we have to continue to be a nail in Hollywood and fight for the reputation of Chinese films overseas."

Wu Yuan sighed and thought with a headache: "The Kingsman series has not been doing well in the past two years. Brother Cheng Long's popularity has also declined. He is also old and can't fight anymore."

"When he retires, Chinese actors will really have no global fame."

"Xixi's Mulan is so bad that it can hardly be used as a model for the new generation of Chinese actors to appear on the international stage."

"If it really doesn't work, I can shoot Mulan myself and write the script according to my own ideas?"

Stroke his chin, Wu Yuan was surprised by the idea that suddenly came to his mind. This was absolutely impossible. He still had several shooting plans that were still at the PPT stage in his mind. If he wanted to shoot "Mulan" again, he would be even busier.

"If it doesn't work, we still have to find a few more suitable Hollywood movies for her, and try to take over Jackie Chan's influence internationally!" After thinking it over, Wu Yuan felt that this idea was still reliable.

Liu Yifei's Flash received very good response in the international market. With the help of the big IP "X-Men", she has also gained another well-known role internationally, but this is not enough!
We have to think of a way to push her up a little bit! (End of this chapter)