Wu Yuan and Han Dong talked for an afternoon.

In the end, he agreed to Director Han's suggestion, and he really had to shoot the first part of "Painted Skin" by himself.

If you want to make a sequel in the future, you can consider changing the director again, and the risk will be lower.

But that "Love", Wu Yuan also really wanted to shoot it.

Time waits for no one, and if it drags on for a year, it will delay a lot of things.

This time it will be delayed for a year, and the next time it will be delayed for a year, and in a blink of an eye, 2010 has passed, and it will be a little late for Wu Yuan to make literary films and win awards.

At that time, China is really the era when commercial films are king, and Section Chief Jia and those people are almost cold, how can they be as prosperous as now?

After thinking about it, Wu Yuan felt that he still had to push "Rush Hour 3" back.

This movie is really not in a hurry.

Originally, "Rush Hour 3" was only filmed in 2007, and the first part of the "Ace Agent" series was only released in 2015.

Wu Yuan has time to do this series, and he is not in a hurry.

If you want to do it, Wu Yuan counted the time difference that night, so he made a transatlantic call to John and the new line.

John naturally has no opinion on his side, the project in his hand is already busy enough, "The Hangover 2" is already scheduled to be released, and it should be launched this summer, and there will be "Fake Marriage" to be done in the future.

The film adaptation rights of "Wonderful Night at the Museum", John also bought it under the instruction of Wu Yuan, and is now talking about cooperation with Fox.

The series "Ace Agent", it doesn't matter if he does it now or not.

However, the new line tried its best to persuade Wu Yuan, the new line was ready, and the schedules of Cheng Long and Will Smith were almost coordinated, and they could vacate the schedule for the second half of this year.

As a result, Wu Yuan stopped filming here, and he couldn't spare time, and Elad was unwilling.

But who told them that they couldn't change the director, and they couldn't find a better director than Wu Yuan to take over "Rush Hour 3".

In desperation, at Wu Yuan's insistence, Erad could only agree to put "Rush Hour 3" to be filmed in 2006.

There is no way, Wu Yuan has no schedule in 2005.

"Pirates of the Caribbean 2" will definitely be filmed in 2005, and Wu Yuan really can't postpone this project, he signed a contract with Disney, and he wants to cooperate with Disney, not Disney with him.

Unlike "Rush Hour 3", the contract has not been signed yet, and Wu Yuan can arrange it at will.

At this point, Wu Yuan has arranged the work for the next year and a half.

During the summer vacation, the literary film "Love" was filmed, this kind of literary film is easier to shoot, there is no need to transition, and it can be filmed in a month.

After filming "Love", he will start working on "Painted Skin 1" non-stop, and strive to finish filming this movie before March next year.

Because according to Wu Yuan's memory, "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" will start filming in March next year, and it will not be completed until September.

As for after September, he really wanted to give himself a vacation and rest a little.

made three movies in a row, and Wu Yuan was only 22 years old, so his body could withstand such a build.

This also made him very convinced of Zhang Yimou, Zhang Yimou was able to make movies continuously when he was seventy years old, and he was so energetic that he was preparing for the Olympic Games while filming "Golden Armor", which was really a cow.

Wu Yuan sighed fiercely in his heart.

"Your Name" is still in theaters across Asia.

The Japanese box office is breaking records every day, breaking new highs repeatedly.

But for Wu Yuan, the work of "Your Name" has come to an end.

In addition to still paying attention to the box office results, he has returned to campus life again.

In a blink of an eye, the second year of his doctoral studies was about to pass, but because he was too busy this year, Wu Yuan almost stagnated academically, and only stayed in school for less than a month in the whole year.

While the crew of "Love" had not yet prepared, Wu Yuan went back to school to honestly follow Professor Xie in class.

Don't look at his current box office, there are hundreds of millions at every turn, but he does still have a lot to learn.

At least the "light and shadow aesthetics" that the fourth and fifth generation directors are best at, Wu Yuan still has a lot to learn.

He felt it on "Your Name".

Some of the lens language I learned from Chen Kaige was used to shoot beautiful scenery, and the effect was so good!

Now he still wants to make literary films, of course, he needs to study hard with Professor Xie, and the professors of Nortel are indeed professional in making literary films.

Wu Yuan is only an entry level in comparison.

He still has a clear sense of himself.

It is really difficult for any director to achieve both literary and commercial skills.

There is only one Zhang Yimou in China who can do it, and there are only a handful of directors who can have both commercial literature and art.

Wu Yuan believes that he should be a qualified or even excellent director of commercial films, because he has 20 years of practical memory, coupled with the memory of excellent commercial films in the future, it is not difficult to make good commercial films.

But the literary film, the movie "The Undertaker" picked up the cheapness of the plot, and it was purely by virtue of the plot and the difference in cultural concepts between the East and the West that it impressed the Berlin jury.

This time, "Love" tells a love story, which is a common topic in movies all over the world.

If you want to make this movie well, then Wu Yuan really has to work hard, and he must learn the use of lens language, composition, lighting, and color language.

On April 20, the fourth day after returning to China, Wu Yuan, who had finished handling the company's trivial matters, returned to school.

Liu Yifei and Hu Ge also went back to school separately.

"The Legend of Sword and Fairy" has been completed, and it was completed in March.

At that time, Wu Yuan took the two of them to run for half a month of publicity, and they learned that they were going to Japan in April to do publicity, so they first returned to the crew to focus on filming the rest of the scenes of the two people, and it was completed within half a month.

The filming of "Fairy Sword" this time was much faster than Wu Yuan remembered, because there was no problem in the selection of actors, it started in December and was completed in April.

Cai Yinong is already contacting some TV stations to sell films.

is also thanks to the box office success of "The Name of Ling", and the sales of "Fairy Sword" this time are much better than Wu Yuan's dream.

In Wu Yuan's memory, after the filming of "Fairy Sword", no TV station was willing to buy it for a while.

In the TV series adapted from the game, the male protagonist is a junior college student and does not have any masterpieces, and the female protagonist has only played two supporting roles.

Such a TV series, no matter how you watch it, will not have good ratings.

In addition, the investment of "Fairy Sword" is high, and it cannot be sold cheaply, which makes most TV stations reluctant to buy it, and it was delayed until 2005 before it was broadcast on China Television on Taiwan Island.

Later, it premiered in the mainland on the subordinate film and television channels of Chongqing and Modu TV.

This kind of lower-level film and television channels are all channels that only cover one local city, and only local TV viewers can see them.

It wasn't until 2008 that "Sword and Fairy 1" was finally broadcast on the stars, met with audiences across the country, became an instant hit, and really became a popular TV series.

This drama was produced early, but it became popular very late, but it just happened to catch up with Liu Yifei's two-year window period after "Dragon Babu" in 2006, which established her status as a "fairy" in one fell swoop.

This is also the reason why "Fairy Sword 1" was produced in 2004, but Fairy Sword 3 was not established again until 2008.

In the middle few years, Tang people have not been able to sell this TV series, feeling that this project is losing money, and they have no plans to make a sequel at all.

But that's no longer the case.

Liu Yifei and Hu Ge have already become popular because of "Your Name".

The influence of commercial blockbusters is different from that of literary films.

After Sun Li finished acting in "The Undertaker", her fame did not increase, she was still tepid, and Chen Hong even retired.

But Liu Yifei and Hu Ge are really hot now.

Liu Xiaoli, who said before that she didn't receive any drama appointments, now has various film appointments in hand.

Tang Ren even equipped Hu Ge with a brokerage team, and he also had a special agent to deal with the notice.

In the case that the male and female protagonists have become popular overnight, the TV series "Fairy Sword" has also become the object of attention of many TV stations in the mainland.

Everyone knows that when the popularity of "Your Name" has not gone down, the ratings of a TV series that are also played by these two heroes and heroines are properly guaranteed.

Game adaptation?

It's not a big deal at all!

Just have Liu Yifei and Hu Ge.

"Fairy Sword" had just been completed, and when Wu Yuan went to Japan with the two leading actors, the film buying departments of major domestic TV stations rushed to the magic capital when they heard the news.

Cai Yinong negotiated a good price with almost no effort.

Mango TV is willing to buy the first round of exclusive broadcast rights of "Fairy Sword" at a price of 2 million for one episode!

2 million for one episode, based on the 33 episodes roughly cut, it is 66 million, just one premiere right, and it will be directly returned.

And the TV series doesn't just sell for the first round of broadcasts!

Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Dongfang bought the second round of broadcast rights together at a price of 1 million per episode.

That's another 99 million!

That's it, when Dragon TV left the Tang Dynasty, it was called a gritted teeth.

They originally prepared a top price of 1.8 million episodes, wanting to buy the first round of exclusive broadcasts of "Fairy Sword".

I didn't expect to kill a Hunan station halfway!

After entering the 21st century, Hunan Taiwan has vigorously reformed and shouted the slogan of youth and entertainment, especially this year, the transformation policy has been officially implemented!

Coincidentally, "Fairy Sword", a TV series completely for young people, appeared.

Thinking of the sensation caused by "Your Name" among young people, and considering the handsome men and beautiful women of "Sword and Fairy", the average young lineup is only 21 years old.

The executive deputy director who is responsible for presiding over the purchase of films in the station, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, almost drained the liquidity of the station, and pressed the treasure on "Fairy Sword"!

66 million to buy a TV series, which was definitely a sky-high price in 2004.

Even the second-round broadcast price of 33 million is a price that makes countless TV drama production companies in the circle envious of their drooling.

And this is not the end of the profit of "Sword and Fairy".

TV dramas in this era can at least sell more than a dozen rounds of broadcast rights, and it is normal for a TV series to be broadcast for three or five years.

After all, there are not so many TV series produced on the market now, and there are even fewer excellent works.

"Huanzhu Gege" has been rebroadcast on many TV stations every summer vacation more than ten years later.

TVB's Hong Kong dramas and various Korean dramas and Japanese dramas are often rebroadcast in an afternoon.

"Fairy Sword" doesn't say that it can be compared with Huanzhu, but at least it will be no problem to sell for three or five years.

Even if the follow-up broadcast rights are worthless, and there are only three or five hundred thousand per episode, there will be a profit of 100 million cumulatively.

The income of TV dramas is like this, the first and second rounds together only account for half of the total income.

If it's the kind of TV series that has long been popular, it's not even half of it.

It is estimated that "Sword and Fairy" can bring about 300 million yuan of revenue to the producer.

Of these, 160 million is certain, and it will arrive first in the next two months.

The remaining $140 million will continue to be earned over the next three to five years, possibly more or less than that.

It depends on how long this TV series can be popular.

Wu Yuan, who learned the news, was also very happy.

Although he can earn 500 million in one breath of "Your Name", this is a one-shot deal after all.

He doesn't even want to make genuine CDs, and genuine CDs really can't be sold these days.

The genuine discs of "Hero" in China have only sold tens of thousands of copies, while the pirated discs have sold millions of copies.

Therefore, when making movies in China, there is basically no follow-up income after the box office is earned, and it will not be possible to have some streaming media income until the online video platform is done later.

TV series are different, holding a hit TV series is equivalent to holding a cash flow, which can last for several years or more than ten years to obtain stable income.

This is very important for the start-up of Light and Shadow Times.

Just by doing nothing, you can divide one or two million, twenty or thirty million every year, and this money is enough for Wu Yuan to support one or two small and medium-cost movies every year!

And with such a cash flow, Wu Yuan can still master four more parts.

This made him a little excited about the TV drama market.

This thing is really profitable!

In the past, he had no connections and no resources, so he had no way to enter the field of TV dramas to grab food.

It's different now, Wu Yuan is now in China, and it can't be said that he covers the sky with one hand, but if he stomps his feet, the entire internal entertainment can tremble.

Huayi Brothers looks down on the TV drama market and only wants to make movies.

But the age of light and shadow can afford it!

Dig up a few excellent TV drama producers, and then go to Hengdian to dig up two crews, Wu Yuan will write a few scripts by himself, and the company's TV drama department will be able to operate!

It just so happened that the 160 million of "Fairy Sword" would arrive soon.

Reserve 350 million for the next TV series of the Tang people and Wu Yuan's own "Love", and the rest of the money can be used to make two TV series by himself!

The premise is that Wu Yuan has to find a reliable TV series producer to give the company a hand.

That's what bothered him.

Who are the outstanding producers in China at this stage?

The bearded Zhang Jizhong, who runs his own company, has no shortage of contacts and money, and it is impossible to come to Wu Yuan's company.

Li Xiaowan, the partner of the famous director Li Shaohong, a rare senior female producer in the TV industry, later founded Rongxingda with Li Shaohong, and Wu Yuan couldn't dig it.

Liu Heping, the producer of TV series such as "Yongzheng Dynasty", "A Hundred Years in the Sea", "Li Wei as an Official", "Daming Dynasty 1566", etc., has absolutely no need to say the level, but people are specialized in this kind of historical drama.

And what Wu Yuan wants to do is an idol drama, after all, it is now the era of the rise of idol dramas, and after "Meteor Garden", doing idol dramas is as easy as picking up money.

As for other well-known producers in the mainland, they are all taking the main drama route, even if they can be poached, Wu Yuan is not at ease to let them engage in idol dramas.

"That's right."

In the school library, Wu Yuan held a copy of "On the Development of Chinese Films", and while unconsciously flipping through the book, he muttered: "Who is the producer of "Eighteen-year-old Sky"? ”

(End of chapter)