director of the millennium

Chapter 753: The Evidence

Wu Yuan, who had angered his wife, ran away from home in shame and went to seek advice from his friends on how to give Liu Yifei a perfect second proposal.

And the Chinese entertainment industry will not stop just because Wu Yuan is taking a break.

2017 is still a turbulent year for the domestic entertainment industry.

The era of big traffic has arrived. Traffic stars, led by the four returning sons, are conquering the domestic entertainment industry, and the first batch of post-00s who have grown up have also plunged into the magical circle of "chasing stars".

Compared to 20 years ago, fans in the entertainment industry are much more fanatical today.

Things like collecting data, rushing for likes, comments, controlling comments, fighting against black fans, boosting sales, and tearing down endorsements have become things that the so-called "fan circles" have to do. The entertainment industry has become both unfamiliar and familiar to Wu Yuan, and he has entered a new era.

And this new era belongs not only to stars, but also to directors.

Directors of the older generation such as Wang Jingjing, Chen Kaige, Jiang Wen, and Feng Xiaogang have basically withdrawn from the stage of history, and most of their films are no longer critically acclaimed or commercially successful.

In their place are a new group of directors who focus on commercial films.

The Chinese film industry has officially entered the box office-only era, and the era of big IP has arrived!

Not long after the New Year’s aftertaste, on April 4, "Fast and Furious 14" was released simultaneously on both sides of the Pacific.

In the history of film, the "Fast and Furious" series is worthy of being listed as the craziest business case.

Although the director of the eighth film is not the same as the previous ones, the entire production team, from the screenwriter to the director of photography, editing, and art director, remains the same as before and has not changed.

Screenwriter Gary Scott Thompson participated in the creation of the entire Fast & Furious series. The director of photography, art director, and editor also participated in the production starting with Fast & Furious 3.

With seven successful predecessors, plus the super brilliant performance of "Fast & Furious 7" in China, the release of the sequel has unsurprisingly set off another wave of movie-watching craze in China.

"The Great Wall" was quickly forgotten by mainland movie fans, and the entire second half of April was filled with discussions on the Internet about "Fast and Furious 8".

The film earned 4 million yuan in the midnight show on April 14, the first day of its release. The total box office on the first day exceeded 5980 million yuan, accounting for an exaggerated 4% of the entire day's box office, easily surpassing the daily box office record for Chinese-language films held by "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back".

4月15日继续以15.74万场次占到全体排片的70%，上座率高达50%，最终4.9亿人民币票房，4月16日影片拥有71%的排片，上座率却下降到41%，当天收获3.45亿，最终首周末3天累积票房达到12.46亿人民币。

This movie has been breaking various records since the pre-sale began. The midnight screenings, first-day box office, and first weekend box office are all gradually overturning the past data of the Chinese film market.

The first few films in the "Fast and Furious" series did not achieve very high box office in China, but starting from the seventh film, it turned around and became the best-selling Hollywood film. This phenomenon is incomprehensible to countless industry insiders in China.

As of 4:30 on April 21, the film has been released for 50 days and has grossed 16 billion RMB, equivalent to less than 25 million USD, which also surpassed the seventh film in the mainland. The only suspense is whether it can surpass the 4 billion RMB of The Mermaid and top the mainland box office.

However, the film's North American box office has barely broken $2 million, only half of the box office in mainland China.
This is really crazy, and it also allows mainland film companies to see the influence of "IP".

It was also under the craze of "Fast and Furious 7" and "Fast and Furious 8" that the mainland film industry began its own big IP era, starting with "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" and "Ghost Blows Out the Light". In the next few years, from the small screen to the big screen, there were a lot of TV series, movies, and online movies based on these two novels that were continuously released.
However, Guangying Times is not very interested in this kind of movie adaptation of novels.

Li Xiaoping is still busy creating the fairy-tale movie universe of the light and shadow era, and everything is in line with Marvel Studios!

In 2017, in addition to "Time Raiders" and the already confirmed new literary and artistic film by Zhang Yimou, the focus of Light and Shadow Times is to create a new work in the fairy-tale movie universe - "Sword Immortal".

Yes, as you can tell from the name of the movie, this work tells the story of "Lü Dongbin", which takes place in the Tang Dynasty. The story about the rise of Lü Dongbin can be regarded as the perfection of this character who shines in "The Battle of Demon Tide".

Hu Ge also played the leading actor again and signed a contract with Guangying Times for 3 movies. In addition to "Sword Immortal", he will also participate in 2 fairy tale universe movies next. However, they should no longer be solo movies, but big event movies like "War of the Demon Tide".

Even the concept of "big events" was copied from Marvel.

It's not shameful to learn from foreigners in order to defeat them!

In the first half of 2017, when Guangying Times was busy filming "Sword Immortal", Wu Yuan really disappeared from the public eye and did not announce any new film plans. It seems that he really did nothing when he said he was taking a vacation.

That's not quite right, he still did one thing, which was to propose to Liu Yifei again with the blessings of his relatives and friends, and the proposal location was at Diaoyutai, which was once reserved for Liu Yifei's coming-of-age ceremony.

Under the watchful eyes of relatives and friends, Wu Yuan knelt on one knee and put the engagement diamond ring on Liu Yifei's finger, finally settling down his life together.

And on May 5, Wu Yuan's birthday, the two of them quietly obtained their marriage certificate at the Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau.

Although they said they were keeping a low profile, the news of the two getting their marriage certificate was leaked on the same day. It's unknown which insider risked being held accountable and actually made public the news of their marriage registration, and even directly took a photo of the registration page of the internal system with his mobile phone.

My goodness, this news was like a bomb, shocking the entire entertainment industry.

Even Weibo crashed that day because of this news, and the server took half an hour to be repaired.

Although most people, both inside and outside the circle, were mentally prepared for the two to get married, when it really happened and was made public on the Internet without warning, it still caused a sensation throughout China, and countless fans of Liu Yifei "broke up" on the Internet.

But apart from posting tearful blessings on Weibo, it seems that there is nothing else they can do.

Just like the line in Stephen Chow’s movie, they are a perfect match made in heaven, so how can a monster like you object?

However, Wu Yuan was still very angry because the news was leaked to the Internet right after he got the marriage certificate!
Is there any more royal method!
(End of this chapter)