Millennium director

Mads Mikkelsen and Anne Hathaway did not live up to Wu Yuan's expectations, and his vision is still acceptable.

Although the two of them only read the script once, they had already captured the essence of the characters. They couldn't say they had perfect answers, but Wu Yuan was still quite satisfied.

It even made him feel like he had earned something.

Because the salary for the two of them is cheap!

According to the contract negotiated between the two agents and Paramount, Anne Hathaway's salary is more expensive, costing US$5 million, while Mads Mikkelsen's salary is cheaper, only US$3 million.

The combined salary of the two of them is not half as expensive as that of Li Zi. The main focus is to be cheap and affordable.

The highest paid person in the entire crew is director Wu Yuan.

Although Light Times participated in the investment, Wu Yuan did not work for the crew for free. His directing fee was as high as 20 million US dollars plus 5% of the box office.

In other words, during the Light Era, after investing 48 million on the front foot, Wu Yuan got back 20 million on the back foot, which is very comfortable.

It's not that Paramount and Universal throw money away. Whenever they want to hire a top commercial film director in the industry, they have to spend this money, regardless of whether the other party participates in the investment.

This is the standard price for most top Hollywood directors. Whether it’s Spielberg or Cameron, the director’s fee for making a movie is about this level.

It's a little lower than the $20 million + 5%-10% box office share of top actors, but it's not much lower.

Because there are many A-list actors, but the number of top A-list commercial film directors can currently be counted on one hand.

Even Nolan will have to wait until Inception becomes a hit again before he can enjoy this treatment.

Looking at it from another perspective, Light Times' participation in the investment is equivalent to Wu Yuan paying his own director's fee and giving an extra US$28 million to the crew. From this point of view, it is Paramount and Universal who make money.

It can only be said that this is Qin Shihuang touching the wire - winning!

Whether it's Universal, Paramount or Wu Yuan, they all win, win-win!

Take the script back and read it more when you have time.

The schedule after July next year is free, and it is expected to take four months of filming.

We will also go to Iceland to take photos and see the aurora.

As evening approached, Wu Yuan sent off the two actors who came to visit him with a smile. Both parties were very satisfied with the meeting.

The two got the role, and Wu Yuan identified a suitable actor. It was another win-win situation.

night.

Wu Yuan was lying alone in the empty master bedroom, thinking about one thing.

He has been in the United States for more than a month, and he has basically negotiated with the creative team the details of the Interstellar script, as well as the styles of various props and spaceships that will appear in the movie.

Next, the team only needs to find a professional movie prop production company to make these models or a one-to-one replica of the space capsule, and there is basically nothing else to do.

The producer has already taken care of the scenery for Wu Yuan. This movie does not require many scenes, just a cornfield and a single-family house next to it, and then filming the planet with a special time flow in Iceland, and Extraterrestrial space station.

Most other important plots, or plots that shock the audience, need to be completed through special effects, such as the black hole horizon, the space environment, and the high-dimensional world that the protagonist Cooper comes into contact with.

These are all things that the special effects team needs to perfect and produce. Wu Yuan can't really help the special effects artists except for the final decision.

In other words, there is no need for Wu Yuan to stay in the United States in person and follow the crew to make preliminary preparations.

He can also handle the next few things through video conferencing.

Ever since his girlfriend went to England and Switzerland to film with the crew of Kingsman, Wu Yuan stayed alone in Los Angeles and felt a little boring.

He wants to return home.

As the year is approaching, he has been invited to attend many domestic events.

Although he rejected most of them, he still wanted to participate in more important awards like the Golden Horse Award and the Academy Award.

For example, this year's Tokyo Film Festival was held at the end of October. Gravity was originally selected as the closing film of the film festival, but Wu Yuan was unable to attend because he was in the United States.

In the end, the closing film was changed to Wall-E, which made Red Cliff, which was also selected as the opening film, shine and added fuel to the box office of Red Cliff in Japan.

It’s okay if I don’t go to the Tokyo Film Festival, but I really want to go to the Academy Awards and Golden Horse Awards this year.

In the past few years, because Wu Yuan was not in Chinese-language films, it was okay for him to refuse to attend these two awards.

But this year he won the Golden Bear Award for A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die. Although this movie is not expected to be released until early December, it is a domestic entertainment film after all.

If he doesn't go to the Golden Horse and Golden Statue this year, he will be called disunited comrades by the authorities. At the moment, this blame is still quite big, and Wu Yuan doesn't want to bear it.

So this year he plans to visit the Golden Horse Statue.

Fortunately for the Golden Horse, A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die was nominated for six awards, and Wu Yuan estimated that he could win two or three.

On the other hand, the Academy Awards are really too stingy and don’t have the ambition to become bigger and stronger.

Because A Man Called Lee Decides to Die is not a Hong Kong film and does not meet the nomination requirements for the Academy Awards, the film was only nominated for one Asia-oriented award, the Best Asian Film Award.

Moreover, the Academy Awards will not be held until early April next year. If Wu Yuan really shoots Goblin with Liu Yifei, he will have to take time off to attend, which will be very troublesome.

But who said that the current national policy is mainly to unite the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three regions? He, a great mainland director with a well-established background, has to follow the baton of the country.

However, this year's Hong Kong Film Awards will include a director from Hong Kong whom Wu Yuanting admires.

Director Chen Musheng has worked with Cheng Long many times.

Chen Musheng started out as an assistant director to To Qi Feng, and later made films independently, directing The Sky in Mongkok, Stormtroopers on the Streets and Cheng Long's Who Am I, New Police Story and Baby Project.

This year, he wrote, directed, and produced the police action movie Hold the Call starring Louis Koo, Nick Cheung, Liu Ye, and Xu Xiyuan.

Chen Musheng was also nominated for Best Director at the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards.

On Hong Kong Island, there are many directors who can make police and gangster action films, such as Wu Baige, who also made films based on this theme, To Qifeng, Lam Lingtung, Liu Weiqiang, Lam Chaoxian, Mak Siu-fai, Tang Jili and so on.

But to say that among these directors, there are not many who have more artistic ethics.

Lin Chaoxian counts as one, Mak Siu-fai counts as one, and Chen Musheng counts as one.

In the age of light and shadow, I have actually been fascinated by police and gangster films, gangster films, and crime films from Hong Kong and South Korea for a long time.

Wu Yuan also has several outstanding crime film scripts from Korea and Hong Kong in his hands, but because none of his directors are good at this field, he has never set up a project to shoot.

This time Wu Yuan plans to go to Hong Kong Island to find a few good directors of police and criminal films to make some movies of this type to cooperate with the company's next stage of the Korean market offensive.

Moreover, it will be made into a co-production between the Mainland and Hong Kong Island, and maybe it can be edited and released in the Mainland!

Movies such as Mean Streets, Heyday of the Bad Guys, New World, The Insider, The Couple, etc. can all be made into Hong Kong films!

I have to say that the social conflicts and era backgrounds of associations in South Korea and Hong Kong are so similar that it would be a waste not to take advantage of them!