China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 614: Riding on the Popularity of International Directors

The global box office of "Aquaman" finally settled at more than 1.26 billion US dollars.

This number is more than 100 million Mi Yuan more than the original time and space.

The extra 100 million MiYuan were naturally brought by Li Yu.

With Li Yu's support, the final box office of "Aquaman" in China was close to 3 billion.

Although it was only a little bit away from 3 billion, it was a bit regrettable that we couldn't break this number.

But considering that currently in China only "Wolf Warrior 2" has a box office of over billion, the performance of "Aquaman" is very impressive.

Not everyone can be called the son of luck. "Aquaman" did not have the help of the right time and place.

When the performance of "Aquaman" came to an end, people were surprised to find that Li Yu had set a new record by making a movie in Hollywood for the first time and collaborating with Warner for the first time on a DC movie.

The movie "Aquaman" is the highest-grossing movie in the world in the history of DC movies, without a doubt.

"Aquaman" has surpassed Nolan's "The Dark Knight Rises" at the global box office.

Li Yu broke the record as soon as he arrived, which made Huana pay more attention to Li Yu.

They sincerely believe that without Li Yu, the movie will not work, and Li Yu is the new person who can save DC movies.

Let’s take a look at what DC movies are like after the trilogy. They want to keep the dark style, but subsequent directors are unable to continue the glory of the trilogy.

He wanted to break the dark trend and find a new way out, but he failed again and again.

Li Yu is really awesome, he achieved the highest box office with the lowest cost.

Including the additional investment of 30 million yuan by Li Yu later, the production cost of "Aquaman" was just over 200 million yuan. Adding the publicity and promotion costs, it is nothing compared to the box office of more than 1.2 billion yuan.

They won so well, it was not like they had won such a great victory in many years.

This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that they suppressed the slow and arrogant arrogance of their old rival.

"Aquaman" has become the most successful superhero movie worldwide this year. Man Wei can't find a movie this year that can compete with "Aquaman".

Spider-Man: Homecoming, the most popular movie of this year, only grossed 880 million yuan, which is far behind Aquaman.

Manwei was a little jealous when they saw that DC's superhero movies had risen thanks to Li Yu and made a lot of money.

Although most of their movies have been huge hits, who can have too much money?
As soon as Li Yu arrived, he brought DC movies to a whole new height.

If they were the ones to cooperate with Li Yu, this big piece of cake would be theirs.

Unfortunately, they were too arrogant at the time, and extended an olive branch to Li Yu with a condescending attitude. The first project they cooperated on was the somewhat insulting "Shang-Chi".

But it’s not too late to turn around and look for Li Yu to cooperate again.

We are all in the same circle. There are no secrets in China's entertainment industry. It just depends on when those secrets will be exposed.

It’s the same in the United States. There are no secrets in the entertainment industry.

Huana and Li Yu had a little disagreement, which was discovered by Man Wei.

They heard that after the success of Aquaman, Li Yu wanted to make a new film according to his own ideas, but it was too big a step and the senior management of Warner were hesitating.

At this time, if they have good poaching skills, they can dig down the wall.

With this idea in mind, they once again invited Li Yu to cooperate.

After seeing Li Yu's terrifying commercial value, their attitude was much better this time.

They said that Li Yu could choose from among the heroes in Manwei who have not yet made their own independent films.

As long as Li Yu is chosen, we will work together.

Li Yu rejected the olive branch thrown by the other party without any hesitation. Are you kidding? He was the one who had seen the answer.

He knew that after making 20 billion yuan in box office revenue in China, Manwei would do something shameless and make an emulsified movie.

Even if that movie was not shot by Li Yu, as long as he cooperated with Man Wei, he would be implicated.

In addition to the above reason, another reason why Li Yu refused was that he was also proud.

They used to look down on others, but they wanted others to make money for them and they also wanted others to kneel down.

Now that you see they are making money, you want to cooperate with them. But you were arrogant at first and then respectful. What were you doing before?
Even if Li Yu doesn't cooperate with Huana in the future, he will not cooperate with Manwei.

What's more, Huana has already softened her stance a bit.

But Li Yu was not in a hurry, they were the ones who were anxious.

Li Yu has a lot of things to do in China.

The movie version of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" will be released soon, and "The Thirteen Soldiers Return to Yumen" and "Operation Red Sea" for which he served as the screenwriter are also coming out soon.

Especially "The Thirteen Soldiers Return to Yumen", when Chen Kaige heard that Li Yu's "Aquaman" was about to be released, he withdrew it directly and chose to stagger the release date with Li Yu.

Chen Kaige was very generous in giving Li Yu face when his movie held its premiere.

Li Yu understood the simple principle of reciprocity, and he had to give others some face.

When "The Thirteen Soldiers Return to Yumen" is released, he will have to support it.

Li Yu did not support the movie version of "Ghost Blows Out the Light".

Because he wanted to train Cao Qing to be a director who could stand on his own.

He doesn't want people to say that the success of the movie version of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" is due to his credit and has little to do with Cao Qing. This would be too unfair to Cao Qing and would not be good for Cao Qing's future career development.

But to be honest, without Li Yu's help, the movie version of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" would be difficult.

With Li Yu's name attached, people who like to watch movies and pay attention to movies all over the country can more or less hear the name of this movie.

Li Yu did not participate, and if Cao Qing was the only one involved, the attention would probably be much lower.

But this is the path that every great director must take.

Only by achieving success through your own strength can you convince others.

Otherwise, he would be the second Lu Chuan.

You say you are the director and you made the movie, does anyone believe you?

It's just like a child is born with dark skin, and you say that it's just because you drank too much soy sauce that the child became darker, but in fact the child is your biological child. Lao Wang next door and Xiao Hei downstairs don't believe it.

Shortly after the popularity of "Aquaman" faded, news appeared on the Internet that "The Thirteen Soldiers Return to Yumen" was about to be released.

This shows that the film’s publicity and promotion department has begun to exert its strength.

At about the same time, Li Yu received an invitation from Chen Kaige: "Director Li, my new film will be released on the first of next month, and the premiere will be held in Beijing on the 27th of this month. You must come then, so that I can take advantage of your popularity as an international director."

If we rank directors on a popularity list, Li Yu would definitely be ranked number one in China this year, and would also be among the top in the global popularity list.

If Li Yu goes, it will indeed bring popularity to Chen Kaige.

However, to say that Chen Kaige is trying to ride on Li Yu's popularity is obviously just a polite remark.

Chen Kaige is very well-known in China. The movie "The Thirteen Soldiers Return to Yumen" has attracted a lot of attention from netizens since the day the project was launched.

"I will definitely be there that day." Li Yu agreed.

(End of this chapter)