director of the millennium

There is still no result on the matter of "Mulan" for the time being. Disney has only sent an invitation to Liu Yifei. There will be several more interviews and negotiations before the cooperation will be finalized.

However, Wu Yuan also found out that the main creative team of this movie is basically the same as what he remembered, so as long as Disney agrees to add an additional historical consultant and do the background and scene settings according to the historical consultant's requirements, and don't create too inconsistent era loopholes and makeup, then it's not impossible for Liu Yifei to take on this role.

It will take at least two years for this movie to be released. If it can avoid the impact of the epidemic by then, Liu Yifei can maintain her international influence and fame for at least five years, and everything will be worth it.

As for the follow-up matters, let Liu Yifei handle them herself. She is no longer the teenage girl she used to be, but has become a mature actor.

As for Wu Yuan himself, he continued to focus on the post-production of "The Monkey King" the next day.

This movie requires a lot of special effects shots, which are almost at the same level as the Marvel series of movies. In order to meet the post-production needs of this movie, not only Wu Yuan’s own special effects company, but also Guangying Times found several special effects companies in Hollywood to produce it together, all of which are old partners.

Speaking of which, after so many years of development, Guangying Times Special Effects Company has become one of the top special effects companies in the country. Currently, almost all domestic movies involving special effects production will cooperate with Guangying Times Special Effects Company. This company has long become one of the biggest money-makers under Wu Yuan.

Of course, these domestic special effects movies do not all cooperate only with Light and Shadow Times Special Effects. In fact, just like the movies made by Wu Yuan, most movies that require special effects, unless there are very few special effects shots, usually cooperate with 3-4 special effects companies at the same time, each responsible for part of the special effects production work, which can shorten the post-production time of the movie to about half a year.

Therefore, the Light and Shadow Times Special Effects Company has participated in almost all domestic films that require special effects, but the depth of participation varies.

However, even so, with the support of the entire Chinese film market, the current Light and Shadow Era Special Effects Company has more than 200 special effects artists, otherwise it would not be able to meet the current market needs.

In addition to the Light and Shadow Times special effects company, Light and Shadow Times also has its own independent special effects department.

Because Light and Shadow Times Special Effects Company is an independent enterprise, although the boss is also Wu Yuan, there is no shareholding relationship between it and Light and Shadow Times Film and Television Company.

Therefore, Li Xiaoping also set up a special effects department in the company. Several leaders were directly recruited from the lighting and special effects company. This special effects department was previously mainly responsible for the company's TV drama special effects needs.

For example, "Soul Ferry". The first part was made by a special effects company, and the special effects of the subsequent sequels were all produced by the special effects department of Light and Shadow Times. There were also several fairy tale dramas made by the company in the early years, which were also self-sufficient.

However, Guangying Times has basically given up the TV drama market and focused on the film industry. The company's special effects department is only responsible for the special effects production of the company's other films.

For example, some of the special effects shots in "Time Raiders" were made by the company's own special effects department, and there was no need to find the Light and Shadow Times special effects company to do it.

Unless it is a large-scale film project such as the Xianxia Movie Universe, it is necessary to outsource the special effects to a company. For small and medium-sized films within the company, the special effects production can be completed by themselves.

So even though Guangying Times Special Effects has been busy with post-production for Wu Yuan's "The Monkey King" recently, the post-production of "Time Raiders" has not been delayed at all. Now all the post-production work has been completed and it can be scheduled for release.

After confirming the movie schedule for the second half of the year, Li Xiaoping scheduled the release of "Time Raiders" on December 2018, 12, which can barely be considered a Lunar New Year release, but the competition is not fierce.

After the release date of "Time Raiders" was confirmed, Li Xiaoping came to the company's post-production center and found Wu Yuan who was still busy with the finishing work of "The Monkey King".

"Director Wu, the post-production of "The Monkey King" is almost finished, right?" "Can we set a release date first? This is your movie after all, and the entire company needs to make plans early."

Faced with Li Xiaoping's earnestness, Wu Yuan had no reason to refuse, and said without much thought: "What other choice is there? Of course it should be scheduled for the Spring Festival."

"Come to think of it, my movies have never been shown during the Spring Festival, right?"

Li Xiaoping smiled and nodded: "Yes!"

Wu Yuan has been in the industry for many years and has starred in eight or nine Chinese-language films released in China, but none of them were released during the Spring Festival. Most of them were released during the summer vacation and the National Day holiday.

The outside world now basically assumes that Wu Yuan will not participate in the competition during the Spring Festival, while the National Day period is assumed to be Wu Yuan's world and his basic base of rule.

As for Cheng Long, who pioneered the National Day holiday?

Although with Wu Yuan's help, he was able to gain a foothold in Hollywood and become a first-line movie star in Hollywood, and the global box office of the "Kingsman" series exceeded 15 billion US dollars, Jackie Chan's performance in recent years has indeed not been so good.

Age is the biggest problem!
No matter how great a martial arts actor is, after he reaches 60 years old, he will no longer be able to shoot those desperate martial arts scenes. Cheng Long also has to face the problem of transformation.

However, his transformation was obviously a failure. After all, Cheng Long's literary dramas have never been good, and this is something that cannot be changed at its root. After Uncle Long could no longer act, his later movies, whether they were co-produced with mainland capital or Hong Kong and Taiwan capital, all did not have good box office results.

The international superstar of that year can only maintain a box office of around 3 million yuan for his movies now. In this era of 10 billion box office, it is really not enough.

The times have indeed passed.

"Let's schedule 'The Monkey King' for the Spring Festival, and it will be released on the first day of the Lunar New Year." Wu Yuan said with some anticipation: "In the past few years, all the movies that broke the mainland box office records were released during the Spring Festival."

"I want to give it a try, too!"

"Eh, that's not right!" Wu Yuan, who was daydreaming, suddenly frowned, "Is The Wandering Earth also scheduled to be released on the first day of the Lunar New Year next year?"

"Yes!" Li Xiaoping said nonchalantly, "The domestic science fiction films still depend on you, Director Wu. Even if The Wandering Earth is released during the Spring Festival, the theaters will not have much confidence in it. It is estimated that the opening screening rate will only be in the single digits, at most 9%."

"It won't pose any threat."

"Ha." Wu Yuan snorted coldly and shook his head: "Forget it, the schedule has to be changed." (End of this chapter)