After entering the year 2000, the first movie in China to break the box office of one billion yuan appeared, which was ten years ahead of another time and space!

And the director of the first film to break the box office of one billion is Zhang Yimou, and then Feng Pants, Jiang Qian, Zhou Xingchi, etc. have joined the billion club!

One of the biggest reasons for this is that the recognition of movies by Chinese people far exceeds that of another time and space, and at the same time, there is an increase in domestic theaters, which is a complementary result.

The rise of the film market has also allowed more investors to see the potential of the film industry, and all kinds of capital have entered the film market, some are film and television companies, some are theaters, and of course, some are doing both!

Although Feng Pants and others complained about the disrespect of some actors before, it is undeniable that the domestic film market has now become the second largest film market in the world!

This also made many filmmakers who had gone out begin to return to China to make films, including Xiangjiang director Wu Baige.

When Wu Baige first entered Hollywood, he shot several blockbuster movies and became a hot director in Hollywood, but unfortunately the good times didn't last long, and a "Wind Whisperer" almost bankrupted MGM!

From heaven to hell, Wu Baige only took the time of one movie.

Since then, Wu Baige has never had a chance to turn over in Hollywood, and then has no choice but to return to China for development, although Xiangjiang's movies will not decline like later generations, but it is undeniable that the focus of the film has returned to China!

Wu Baige, like most Xiangjiang directors, chose to go north to make films, and the experience of Xiangjiang and Hollywood made it easy for Wu Baige to find investors.

After returning to China, Wu Baige first tested the waters and supervised the production of a Republic of China movie, which was not good at the box office, but it was not bad.

Then Wu Baige began to prepare his ambitious work "Red Cliff"!

If it weren't for Wu Jianye's appearance, this movie would have been released this year, but because of Wu Jianye's intervention, the film has not started filming so far.

Many people don't understand the reason, after all, Wu Baige was able to re-emerge in Xiangjiang, but he still got the help of Wu Jianye, and Wu Baige was able to get the script of "The True Color of Heroes".

No one thought that when Wu Baige returned to China to shoot, it was Wu Jianye who was the first to stand up and stop him!

This kind of thing is unknown to the outside world, everyone is just curious about Wu Baige shouting to shoot "Red Cliff", it has been shouting for several years, but it has not started filming, but some bigwigs in the circle know that without Wu Jianye's opening, there is really no way to start filming this movie!

On the second day, several directors stayed in the Dynasty Hotel again, including Wu Baige, but to the surprise of many directors, Han Heping of China Film also came to Qiongdao this time!

Han Heping is now at the helm of China Film, a veritable bigwig in the domestic film industry, and he is still the top.

His arrival naturally made many directors visit one after another, but Han Heping did not see them at the first time, but took Wu Baige to find Wu Jianye.

Wu Baige's "Red Cliff" Zhongying intends to be the first investor!

"Teacher Wu, we haven't seen each other for two years!" Han Heping sat on the sofa in the guest room with a bright smile on his face.

Han Heping, who has been in charge of the domestic film industry for many years, is already quite majestic at this time, but when facing Wu Jianye, he still maintains his humble attitude.

"I remember the last time we met was when you were promoted to the chairman of China Film!" Wu Jianye recalled and said.

When Han Heping was in 99 years, he had already served as the vice chairman and deputy general manager of China Film, and in 07 he officially became the helmsman of China Film!

Han Heping nodded and said, "Yes, I haven't thanked you well that day." ”

Wu Jianye waved his hand and said, "It's polite to say this." ”

"Mr. Wu, the domestic film industry has not participated in your films in recent years, which is really a bit monotonous!" Han Heping said.

"Haha, there are talents from all generations, and the young people are also good now. Wu Jianye said with a smile: "Let's get down to business, I know what you think about coming over this time, I still say the same thing, I don't have an opinion if I want to shoot, but what will happen later, I can't guarantee it!"

Han Heping smiled wryly, although he said that he was the helmsman of China Film and was in charge of Huaxia movies in the eyes of outsiders, but people at his level knew very well that if he wanted to make a difference in the Huaxia film industry, it would be impossible without Wu Jianye's nod!

In the past, whether he was the director of Yanjing Film Studio or after entering China Film, he received great support from Wu Jianye, and the cooperation between the two sides was very pleasant, but he didn't expect that there would be a disagreement in the biggest plan of China Film in the past two years, "Red Cliff"!

Although Wu Jianye said that he had no opinion on filming this movie, everyone knew that Wu Jianye was very disgusted with this plan, if he did not get Wu Jianye's support, domestic theaters and overseas theaters would not be able to be released, not to mention that some investors are very likely to withdraw their funds.

Wu Baige's expression on the side was also a little embarrassed at this time, he had been hoping to meet Wu Jianye in the past few years, just to talk about it, but Wu Jianye had never given him a chance, this time it was hard to meet, but he didn't expect Wu Jianye to even give Han Heping face!

"Director Wu, we are really optimistic about this movie, we have found several screenwriters alone, and the draft has been changed more than a dozen times, and we have also found actors from China, Xiangjiang, and Wanwan to star together, and it will definitely become a benchmark for domestic films!"

Although it was embarrassing, the things that should be done still had to be done, so Wu Baige still fought for it.

Wu Jianye glanced at Wu Baige and said, "I said, you want to shoot this movie, I have no opinion, since you are so attentive, then shoot it!"

At this time, Wu Jianye was already very disappointed with Wu Baige's truth!

How could Wu Baige not hear that Wu Jianye was talking back, smiled bitterly, and said: "Director Wu, I know that when I was in Hollywood before, I didn't do well enough, but I still hope you can give me a chance!"

After Wu Baige entered Hollywood, he actually didn't do anything to be sorry for Wu Jianye, but with his own success, it was inevitable that he would be a little over-the-top and speak arrogantly.

is still using his reason that he has his own editing rights, once Wu Baige was interviewed, he once again said that he was the only director in Hollywood who had his own editing rights, even when Wu Jianye was shooting movies in Hollywood, he did not have this right.

Subsequently, after the spread of the media, various versions also emerged in endlessly, but the core gossip was that Wu Baige looked down on Wu Jianye.

This is the only place where Wu Baige can think of offending Wu Jianye!

Wu Jianye smiled and said: "You think too much, I have never taken those words to heart, whether you can have your own editing rights, this is actually not a reason to evaluate whether the director is successful!"

Wu Baige's face became more and more ugly.

Han Heping was a little embarrassed when he saw the atmosphere, and hurriedly said: "Mr. Wu, didn't you say it before, if you want to make Chinese movies real, it should be a hundred flowers blooming, Wu Baige has the intention to put our country's story about the Three Kingdoms on the big screen, which is also good!"

Wu Jianye still smiled: "I didn't say it was bad!"

Han Heping: "......"

Wu Baige: "......"

In the end, Han Heping had no choice but to let Wu Baige leave Wu Jianye's room first.

"Mr. Wu, there are only the two of us left now, can you give me a real explanation, why are you so disgusted with this movie?"

When there were only two people left in the room, Wu Jianye and Han Heping, Han Heping spoke more and more casually!

Wu Jianye asked rhetorically: "Have you ever noticed that when I was making movies before, I never used Wanwan's actors, and I also never participated in Wanwan's Golden Horse Awards, have you thought about this reason?"

Han Heping shook his head and said: "To be honest, everyone is quite curious, I remember that when "Inception" was released, the Golden Horse Awards sent you an invitation, but you directly refused, and even in the movies produced by Tangting Culture in recent years, Wanwan's actors rarely appeared on TV. ”

Wu Jianye glanced at Han Heping meaningfully, and said with a smile: "Then you should know why I don't agree with the movie "Red Cliff"!"

Although China Film is the largest investor in "Red Cliff", there are many other investors in this film, among which Wanwan's investors account for a large proportion.

Not only that, because Wu Baige wants to be the director of this film and at the same time the producer of this movie.

In other words, Wu Baige has absolute rights in this movie, and the result is that many outstanding roles in the movie are given to Wanwan's artists.

As mentioned earlier, the ultimate goal of this movie is actually to use the Chinese market, Huaxia's funds, and Huaxia actors to support Wanwan's artists.

This made Wu Jianye a little unhappy, the market he worked so hard to get out, but in the end he wanted them to pick peaches, Wu Jianye was not so generous!

But Han Heping didn't know about it.

"Mr. Wu, it's just Wanwan's capital coming in, and there is no loss to us?"

"Do you have the right to cast? I think when they talk to you, they're already going to take the right to cast, right?" Wu Jianye asked.

Han Heping nodded, he didn't take this to heart, in Han Heping's heart, what is more important is this movie, as for the casting, he doesn't care very much.

Wu Jianye smiled and continued: "If it weren't for me, at the beginning of the preparation of this movie, I am afraid that the propaganda method would be to take Zhou Yanfa under the knife, right?"

Han Heping smiled awkwardly.

When this film was just beginning to be prepared, as the largest production at that time, it naturally attracted the attention of many media, and the choice of actors attracted the most media attention.

At the beginning, the Wanwan investor of "Red Cliff" hoped to let Wu Baige come forward, invite Zhou Runfa, and borrow the appeal of Wu Baige and Zhou Runfa, the golden pair, to make this movie popular first.

But in fact, their goal is not Zhou Runfa at all, according to their plan, after using Zhou Runfa's fame to make this movie popular, they immediately announced that there was no way to cooperate with Zhou Runfa, and even thought of a reason, that is, Zhou Runfa's salary was too high.

It can be said that they calculated Zhou Yan to the bones, and then found Liang Chaowei, who looked similar to Model Lin in his grade, to save the scene.

The topic of this movie in the early stage is here!

In fact, they never intended to use Zhou Runfa from beginning to end.

When they contacted Zhou Runfa at that time, Wu Jianye called Zhou Runfa directly and asked him to refuse the invitation, and at the same time, he also let go at this time, so that the movie "Red Cliff" had no way to continue the production!

"Mr. Wu, what do you mean?"

Wu Jianye thought for a while and said, "The actors must use our own, forget about those in Wanwan!"

"What about Wanwan's capital?" Han Heping hurriedly asked, afraid that there was no chance of easing at all, but now that he has this opportunity, everything else is easy to say!

Wu Jianye said: "They want to invest, we won't stop it, but don't have those messy ideas!"

Han Heping said: "That's no problem, I'll deal with this matter!"

Later, after Wu Jianye told Han Heping again, Han Heping also left Wu Jianye's room.

Han Heping still likes the story of the Three Kingdoms very much, and now that someone wants to shoot it, he is naturally very happy, and now they are the largest investor, so he doesn't think there is any difficulty in this matter.

It's a pity that when he talked to Wu Baige about this matter, Wu Baige directly rejected this suggestion.

"How can this be, Mr. Han, we have all negotiated with the investors over there, and now we have changed the main cast without authorization, and there is no way to explain to the other party!"

At this time, Han Heping did not have the tone he had when he discussed with Wu Jianye before, and said directly: "If they don't want to, they can let them quit directly, the most important thing in Huaxia is film investors!"

Wu Baige objected: "No, I have promised the other party about this matter, I must use Wanwan's actors, this is something that cannot be changed, otherwise I will quit the crew of "Red Cliff", and I will not authorize my script to be used by you!"

Han Heping glanced at Wu Baige and said, "Yes!"

Wu Baige was stunned, he didn't expect Han Heping to be so straightforward, to be honest, he didn't think about quitting this story at all, after all, this was his chance to turn over, and the reason why he said that just now was just to increase the pressure on Han Heping!

"Mr. Han ......"

"Director Wu, it seems that we don't have the fate to cooperate!" Han Heping said directly.

Wu Baige sat there, not knowing what to say, he never thought that he would have such a result.

insisted on using Wanwan's actor because after Wu Baige defeated Xiangjiang, it was Wanwan's market that gave him a chance to live, and at the same time, several of Wu Baige's movies were also very successful in Wanwan, for Wu Baige, Wanwan is more like his birthplace, so he also hopes to use his influence to drive Wanwan's artists.

But I didn't expect that not only did I not succeed now, but I also put myself in!

"Mr. Han, you have to think clearly, if it weren't for me, I'm afraid that others wouldn't be able to shoot this story!" Wu Baige made the last insistence.

Han Heping said seriously: "If you insist, this movie will be even more unsuccessful!"

If Wu Jianye doesn't let go, this movie will definitely have no chance to be filmed in China......