director of the millennium

"This year's Spring Festival movie season is really lively." Lying on the newly bought sofa at home, Wu Yuan leisurely put his arms around Liu Yifei's slender waist.

Liu Yifei patted Wu Yuan's shoulder in annoyance and said helplessly: "As a big boss, you don't care about your own company. Sister Xiaoping has called me several times to complain."

"Why should I care? What's there to care about?" Wu Yuan rolled his eyes. "I mean vacation, so I'm on vacation. Don't even think about asking me to do any work. I've worked so hard for so long, can't I enjoy myself?"

"How can a company boss take a vacation? Look at the bosses of big companies, they are all busy 365 days a year. I just watched a documentary about Wanda's CEO Wang a few days ago. He got up at six in the morning to prepare for work and didn't finish work until eight or nine in the evening. And it's like this every day."

"Tsk." Wu Yuan was completely indifferent and said, "I have Generals Li Xiaoping and Chen Dewei. I don't need to do it myself."

"Besides, after so many years, they have long been accustomed to my style."

"Sister Xiaoping is just complaining out of habit. The company's performance during the Spring Festival was outstanding!"

There are a total of two films that Guangying Times invested in and released during this year's Spring Festival.

One is naturally "The Great Wall" co-produced with Zhang Yimou, and the other is "Surfing the Waves" co-produced with Han Han.

Both films performed very well during the Spring Festival.

Needless to say, "The Great Wall" lost to "The Monkey King 21" on the first day, but its final total box office exceeded "The Monkey King " and finally won billion in the mainland box office. It is currently being released in many countries overseas.

Over the years, thanks to Wu Yuan's influence, Guangying Times has gained a lot of experience in overseas distribution. It can be regarded as the most capable film company in the country in the overseas market, even China Film Group cannot compare with it.

Although Zhang Yimou's fame and influence overseas cannot be compared with Wu Yuan, he is one of the few Chinese directors in the country who is also very influential internationally, at least in East Asia and Europe.

In addition, the "Great Wall" IP is China's cultural business card, so this time the "Great Wall" movie is quite attractive to foreign distributors.

For example, "The Great Wall" has already been released in Japan, and the screening volume is quite good. Although it cannot be compared with Wu Yuan, it has currently earned 2 million yen at the box office.

Not to mention Southeast Asia, there are relatively few commercial special effects blockbusters in the world at present, and it can even be said that there is only Hollywood. However, this market is far from saturated. An excellent Chinese commercial special effects blockbuster, as long as it does not involve ideology, will also have a market in foreign countries.

Not to mention that "The Great Wall" is what foreigners love the most - a Chinese "historical" movie.

Chinese historical background + magical special effects, this was verified by Wu Yuan through "Painted Skin" ten years ago, and it is indeed acceptable to East Asian audiences.

Currently, Southeast Asian countries are arranging the release of "The Great Wall" one after another. The overseas box office of this movie is estimated to be tens of millions of dollars!
Another film that Guangying Times participated in investing in was "The Breakup Guru". In this film, Guangying Times was only one of the investors and not even the main controller. However, the final box office performance of this film was also good.

Despite the influence of "The Great Wall", the final box office was only 9.8 million, which is more than 6000 million less than the original time and space, but it is also a very good result.

The investors are already very happy with such a high box office. According to the distribution ratio, the film company can get 3.16 million yuan, and after deducting the 1.6 million yuan cost, it has made a profit of 1 million yuan, of which Guangying Times can get 2000 million yuan.

Don't think it's too little.

The fierce competition in the Spring Festival this year is obvious to all. It is not easy to snatch the film from the jaws of blockbusters such as "Kung Fu Yoga", "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" and "The Great Wall". Moreover, "The Breakup Guru" is a literary film. The fact that the film sold well in the end must be attributed to the strong appeal of the actors.

Even Li Xiaoping, who originally did not take this movie too seriously (if she did, she would not have allowed the main investor to put this movie into the Spring Festival schedule), but had a good cooperation with Han Han before and gave him face to participate in the investment again, also paid attention to several leading actors in this movie and the talented Han Han.

Even before the release of "Sisters Who Make Waves" ended, Li Xiaoping took the initiative to find Han Han and asked about his new film. She wanted to continue to participate in the investment of his new film and wanted to increase investment and become the main investor.

However, director Han Han, who has proven himself twice, is no longer short of investors, so it is not easy to impress him.

Li Xiaoping did not put all her eggs in one cage. Currently, Guangying Times is still pushing forward her own film project, which is the previously agreed "A True Story". The adapted script has been prepared, the director has been found, and it has entered the preparation and shooting stage.

These things had nothing to do with Wu Yuan. When he said he was going to take a vacation, he meant it was a complete vacation. Even though Li Xiaoping called him specifically to report on her work, he just let it go.

However, Liu Yifei felt a little uncomfortable seeing Wu Yuan staying at home for almost three or four months.

Wu Yuan took a vacation, but Liu Yifei did not. She still maintained the pace of shooting a movie a year and rarely participated in variety shows. She had a lot of free time.

At present, she has already booked two films to shoot. One of them is "Time Raiders", which will be filmed in the second half of this year. It is a new work by the company's director Su Lun.

Su Lun was very bold. She took the script to ask the boss lady for advice, and she actually impressed her and let Liu Yifei choose her to be the heroine of the movie.

However, this is Guangying Times' own film after all, and it is only a small-to-medium-budget movie. So after discussing with Li Xiaoping, Liu Yifei chose not to take the film remuneration, but to use the film remuneration as investment, which alleviated the financial pressure on "Time Raiders".

Of course, this also shows that Liu Yifei is very optimistic about this movie and believes that there is a high chance that it will be a big hit, which is why she has the confidence to do so.

As for Wu Yuan, he did not interfere with Liu Yifei's decision. Anyway, "Time Raiders" was indeed a movie with pretty good box office performance, so she could just act if she wanted to.

In addition, Liu Yifei will join the crew of "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" next year, that is, in 2018. This is the final chapter of Fox's "X-Men" series of films. Liu Yifei's "Blink" also has a role in the film, and a lot of it.

This is different from the situation in the original time and space. It is obviously a new script by the screenwriter. Wu Yuan himself doesn’t know whether this version of "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" will be good, but since it is produced by Fox, the lower limit can be guaranteed.

Also because Liu Yifei had already finalized her work for the next two years, Wu Yuan was no longer so interested in the "Mulan" movie that he had originally planned to try, so he started working on it thoroughly.

However, Liu Yifei was not used to his behavior.

"Are you really planning to take a break for a year or so?" Liu Yifei smiled and leaned on Wu Yuan's chest, asking in a coquettish tone, "If you don't have any new movie plans, why don't you make the next movie and try to win awards?"

After being in love for so many years, Wu Yuan had already figured out Liu Yifei. As soon as she stuck out her butt, Wu Yuan knew what she wanted to say. He slapped her butt in annoyance and said, "I think you are the one who wants to win the prize, right?"

After saying this, Wu Yuan fell into deep thought again. (End of this chapter)