director of the millennium

"An elderly pregnant woman?!" Liu Yifei's thoughts were instantly diverted from the film pay.

Anyway, money is just a number to Wu Yuan, who owns three large companies. Liu Yifei is not very sensitive to money. Her income is enough for her expenses. Money is not the focus of life for this couple.

But the term "elderly mother" really irritated Liu Yifei.

"Only those over 35 years old are considered to be elderly mothers!" Liu Yifei pounded on the table angrily and said, "I will only be 8 next August!"

"That's almost the same, isn't it?" Wu Yuan said in a low voice, spreading his hands and saying, "It will take another ten months to get pregnant, and it's not something that can be done just like that."

"More importantly, I'm actually going to be 37 this year, almost ."

Wu Yuan's tone was full of emotion.

In fact, if he doesn't calculate his age deliberately, he can't really feel the increase of age, because over the years he has not clearly felt the decline in physical fitness and energy brought about by aging.

In fact, men in their thirties are indeed in their prime, and their physical fitness has not yet declined overall.

In addition, he has always paid great attention to his health and has been doing exercise and fitness for a long time. Subconsciously, he always thinks of himself as a young man in his twenties.

After all, he had a special experience when he was 16 years old. He spent 20 years of his life in a dream. After waking up, he could not distinguish between reality and dreams for a while. It took him a lot of time to figure out the current situation. Therefore, he had a very deep memory of being "16 years old" at that time and kept it firmly in his heart.

So much so that after so many years, I still always think of myself as a young person.

This can also be considered as the sequelae of "time travel?" and "rebirth?"

But the fact is that he is indeed about to turn 37 and is heading for 40.

Thinking about this incident now, he couldn't help but feel emotional and had to face up to the problems of the next generation.

Although Wu Yuan is not obsessed with continuing the family line, nor is he a person who likes children very much, it does not mean that he does not want children, especially since Liu Yifei has talked to him about children before, and their words were full of longing.

Then he must consider that his wife must give birth earlier, otherwise if he delays it until the mother is older, there will still be some danger.

"Xixi, in the next two years, the film and television industry may experience a dramatic change. The prosperous environment may be cut short. These are the most critical years for the Chinese film and television industry since the 21st century."

"This isn't a good time to shoot any TV or film productions, but it's a great time for us to have a baby!"

Wu Yuan looked at Liu Yifei with burning eyes and invited her to have a baby.

Liu Yifei nodded and accepted his invitation to have a baby. At the same time, she was very interested in the so-called "dramatic changes" in his words: "What drastic changes?"

"Now everyone is saying that China's film and television industry is in its golden age, creating new peaks every year!" "Whether it's the movie box office or the TV drama market, the performance is getting better year by year, and the actors' salaries have exceeded 100 million yuan!"

That's right.
But who knew that by the end of next year there would be a force majeure event sweeping the world!

And we can’t talk about this now!
Helplessly, Wu Yuan could only follow Liu Yifei's explanation and said, "It's because the market is too hot. The current Chinese film and television industry is actually like a bubble that has been rapidly inflated and may burst at any time."

"The crazy rise in pay and production costs, the reckless accumulation of bad movies flooding the market, the TV drama industry where actors are their own screenwriters and have more say than directors, and other chaos will eventually backfire."

"Let's not talk about anything else, just look at the TV drama industry. The actors in those TV dramas are now paid over 100 million yuan. It costs 300 to 500 million yuan to make a TV drama, but can these TV dramas really make back that much money?"

"Among the four major video platforms, except for our Guangying Kuaibo, the other three platforms are all losing money, losing billions a year, and they are all losing money on TV dramas and variety shows."

"Guangying Kuaibo can barely break even, relying on the profits from overseas markets to make up for the losses in the domestic market. Even so, it needs to continue to raise funds to get new money to invest."

"This also indirectly shows that the market is unhealthy. Guangying Kuaibo can make profits in other countries overseas, but it has been losing money in China. This shows that the domestic film and television industry is indeed overheated. A large amount of capital investment is not as profitable as imagined. Everyone is just making a profit."

"It's like a bomb placed on the crater of a volcano, which could explode at any time. Once the bomb explodes, the industry will not be destroyed all at once, but it will definitely enter a great depression."

Wu Yuan's words were not alarmist, but his sincere thoughts.

In the four years from 2014 to 2019, the domestic film and television industry has indeed fallen into a crazy and abnormal development. It seems that there are movies with billions of box office and phenomenal hit TV series every year, but these are only a small number of the top ones. The vast majority of the middle and lower levels are actually losing money, and they lose a lot when they lose money.

After all, the cost of making film and television dramas is too high now. A third-tier actor needs to be paid hundreds of millions or even tens of millions. It costs tens of millions to make a TV series, and in the end there is a high probability that it will not be broadcast and will be stuck in inventory.

This seemingly prosperous but actually completely deformed overheated market is definitely abnormal and will explode sooner or later.

Even if there was no epidemic, this overheating phenomenon would only last for one or two years before being forcibly burst. In fact, the emergence of the epidemic has forced a basin of cold water on the overheated and deformed market, and the bomb has been dismantled without being detonated.

It can only be said that China does have some national luck. When the film and television industry is about to collapse, there will always be an irresistible savior to forcibly defuse the bomb.
After the cold winter of the film and television industry brought about by the epidemic and the introduction of a salary limit order by the higher authorities, the mainland film and television industry cooled down rapidly, achieving a smooth landing after overheating.

But no matter what the outcome is, the cold winter of the film and television industry in the next few years is ultimately unavoidable, and this time is just right for Wu Yuan and his wife, just in time for them to have a baby!
It took a year to make a baby, a year to be pregnant and give birth, and a year to rest. After that, Liu Yifei made a perfect comeback without any delay!
It just so happens that 2021-2022 is also the year of comeback for several 85 flowers. Shishi, Zhao Xiaodao, Yang Mi and others all made their comeback in these two years.

Can Liu Yifei also compete with those 85 flowers? They all get married, have children, take a break for a few years and then come back to work. How interesting would it be to have a final battle among the 85 flowers?
"Although I don't quite understand what you said, I think it does make some sense." Liu Yifei nodded, not quite understanding.

She also felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the industry and that its development was distorted in recent years, and she thought that there was a high possibility of the industry turmoil that Wu Yuan mentioned after the bubble was burst.

"In that case." Liu Yifei clapped her hands and said with a smile: "Then let's start preparing for pregnancy!"

"Elbow! Follow me into the house!" (End of this chapter)