director of the millennium

It is really not easy to come back from abroad in February when the domestic situation is tense.

However, thanks to Wu Yuan's efforts, he successfully boarded a private plane and returned to China on the third day after the Academy Awards.

As for the subsequent large-scale release of "Bruce Lee" in North America, it was all handed over to Disney and the leading actors, so he, as the director, no longer had to run subsequent publicity.

Now that his goals have been achieved, why would he still go on a roadshow?
Anyway, Bruce Lee didn’t spend his money on it!
Of course, the main reason why Wu Yuan wanted to return home so urgently was that he missed his wife and children.

He has made up his mind not to make any new movies in the next two years. He will just stay at home with his wife and children and be a good family man.

Less than two hours after landing in Beijing, he returned home.

Fortunately, because the black swan has not yet broken out abroad, people like him who flew back from foreign countries do not need to be quarantined. If he had delayed returning to China for another two or three months, he would have to stay in a hotel next to the airport for fifteen days.

“Welcome home~”

As soon as he entered the door, Wu Yuan received a loving hug.

Due to the circumstances, Liu Yifei did not go to the airport to pick him up when he returned to China this time.

After all, the current domestic principle is to stay at home if possible and not run around, and the main focus of the Wu family is obedience.

"I'm finally back." Holding his soft wife in his arms, Wu Yuan rested his head on Liu Yifei's shoulder, greedily sniffing her fragrance, full of joy.

It’s not like he had to go abroad for two or three months for work before, but strangely, this time he missed his wife much more than before.

Maybe it’s because there’s more than one person waiting at home now.

"Where's my daughter?"

"She's sleeping in her room. Babies are very sleepy and need to sleep for more than ten hours a day."

Wu Jingjing is only eight or nine months old. Although she can already crawl, she still doesn’t have much energy every day and often has to sleep after playing for a while.

"Fortunately, I came back quickly, otherwise I would have regretted it so much if I had missed my daughter's first speech." Wu Yuan shook his head and sighed.

Because of going to the United States, Wu Yuan missed his daughter's first crawl, but this is barely acceptable.

But it would be serious if I missed my daughter's first time learning to speak.

You should know that babies can usually speak between 8 months and 1 year old. Of course, they can speak simple words like dad, mom, nienie, etc., but this is the most important thing!

Wu Yuan didn’t care whether his daughter called “Mom” or “Dad” first, he could accept both, but he hoped to see it with his own eyes!

Fortunately, at least until the video call before boarding the plane yesterday, his daughter had not yet spoken a complete sentence, so he has plenty of time to teach her next.

"I'll let you take care of our daughter every day from now on!" Liu Yifei said with a smile.

Just when Wu Yuan returned to his home in Beijing to enjoy family happiness, the news that he won the Academy Award for Best Director was still raging on the Internet.

There is no way. At this time when all industries are shut down and everyone is staying at home, netizens are really too idle!

Although the number of confirmed cases and the epidemic are indeed very worrying, and everyone is always paying attention to this matter. But life cannot really be occupied by such a thing, and everyone still needs entertainment to kill time.

In this special period, apart from playing games on the computer at home, the only way to entertain yourself is to browse entertainment software such as Weibo and Tik Tok.

Coincidentally, the entertainment industry has been almost silent during this period. All the movies originally scheduled for the Spring Festival have been withdrawn. It can be said that there is absolutely no news about movies, and no one is paying attention to them.

At this time, the news that Wu Yuan went to North America to win the Oscar for Best Director became the only new information in the film industry, and netizens had to pay attention to it.

This news also became a ray of light shining into everyone's dark lives, dispelling some of the haze lingering in everyone's hearts.

So even though two or three days have passed, the news of Wu Yuan's award is still as popular as ever. If you just scroll through Douyin and Weibo, you can find a lot of blog posts and videos related to Wu Yuan.

Some of the information was about his film works, some was about his life experience and acting career, and some was about gossip about his love life. In short, all kinds of news about him in the past were dug up again and flooded the screen everywhere.

Even those who do film commentary have dug out his films and made new commentaries.

Well, it’s a collection of stories about handsome, beautiful and strong boys.

Judging from the current situation, this popularity can be maintained for another half a month.
However, while the public was enjoying themselves, Wu Yuan had no time to pay attention to his popularity.

It was after returning home and seeing this shocking situation that he couldn't help but feel filled with pressure.

At present, most industries have come to a complete halt, including the entertainment industry which has entered a full-scale depression.

The celebrities and artists are actually not that affected, as they are not the ones who suffered the most. After all, the most they will earn if they stop working is less money, but they will not lose money.

But the capital in the circle will suffer heavy losses.

Except for the crews that were currently filming and could not stop work and had to grit their teeth and go directly into closed-door filming, all other movies and TV series that were originally scheduled to start filming were suspended. The recording of most variety shows was also stopped, leaving only a small number of programs that were so important that the TV stations were unwilling to stop.

But it is easy to call a halt, but it is difficult to deal with the follow-up.

The film's originally scheduled start time was cancelled, and more than half of the money spent on early preparations would be lost. The actors' schedules would also have to be rearranged, and the entire project cycle that had been planned would have to be completely changed.

The problems faced by TV dramas and variety shows are also very serious.

A single day of downtime would cost millions.

The most difficult thing is for those who work in the film industry, because TV dramas and variety shows can still be watched at home. Although they will be affected, they will only be suspended for two or three months before resuming work.

Movies are different. They will face a cold winter due to a total shutdown!
Wu Yuan was well aware that in the next two years, a large number of film and television companies and studios would suffer bankruptcies due to broken capital chains and would not survive the cold winter of the film and television industry brought about by this black swan event.

Even this wave of cold winter in the film industry did not end until he woke up from his dream. The movie box office market shrank by half and has never returned to the total box office of over 2019 billion in 600.

The Chinese film market was originally thriving and was on the verge of surpassing the United States in total box office to become the world's largest film market. However, after this wave, the upward momentum was interrupted. Even with miracle films like "The Wandering Earth" to support it, the market downturn is irreversible.

In comparison, although the number of confirmed cases in foreign countries was higher and the situation was more serious, the box office market was not greatly affected. After all, they did not completely stop work, and even when the situation was at its worst, people went out to the streets to "enjoy life" and held parties.

Faced with such a grim situation, where will the future of the light and shadow era go? (End of this chapter)