Mid-October.

"Love" has reached its peak box office potential in China, with a cumulative box office of only more than 30 million yuan, but this is already the best box office work of mainland literary and artistic films this year.

Wu Yuan, who didn't expect to make money from this movie, is already very satisfied with this box office result.

He took a short vacation for the company's employees, and with his suitcase, he flew to Tokyo alone to meet his little girlfriend, who was trained in singing and dancing at Sony Japan.

The little girlfriend was very happy to see him come to see her.

"Senior brother, have you come to see me?" Holding Wu Yuan's arm with a smile, Liu Yifei shared his life in Tokyo with him with great interest.

In fact, they have porridge on the phone every day, and she has also told Wu Yuan about these trivial things in life, but she still wants to share her life with Wu Yuan.

"The food here is not delicious at all, the first time I ate it, it looked novel, but it was boring to eat it a few more times, the taste was too light!"

"Sony Music is really professional, and the vocal and dance teachers are very good."

"The company said that it would tailor an album for me, bilingual in Chinese and Japanese, and ask a very well-known music producer to write songs and compose music for me!"

"Even now, I still have to learn Japanese every day, it's so hard to learn!"

"It's good to learn one more language." Wu Yuan smiled and hugged his little girlfriend's shoulder, "The idol industry in Japan is very popular, and fans are also very supportive of idol activities. ”

"It's just that Japanese fans are more extreme, and they generally can't accept idol love, and those Japanese actors and singers are in love or married, and they even have to hold a special press conference to apologize."

"I'm afraid that in the future, if your Japanese fans know that you have already gotten along with me before you debuted in Japan, will they be angry."

Wu Yuan's face was a little tangled.

When he didn't break the window paper with Liu Yifei before, he still thought that it was good for his little girlfriend to come to Japan to release an album, which could attract a wave of Japanese otaku fans and open up Asian popularity, and he could be said to be an Asian superstar in the future.

But now that he is in sweet love, he begins to worry.

The Japanese rice circle culture is really extreme.

Later, the Korean rice circle culture was actually learned from Japan, what anti fans, illegitimate rice, sending blades, and sending death threats were all the first to be made by Japanese fans.

In the eighties and nineties, if Japanese idols were openly in love, fanatical fans who couldn't accept it would even jump off the building, or turn black and want to kill the idol.

Well, this culture was later also introduced to Hong Kong Island, after all, the Hong Kong Island music scene in the eighties and nineties was a comprehensive study of the Japanese music scene, and directly sinicized Japanese songs.

Therefore, Andy and others only dare to hide their marriages and dare not make their relationship public, just for fear that extremely fanatical fans will do something crazy.

It can be said that the era of fan frenzy experienced by the whole of Asia, celebrities did not dare to fall in love and did not dare to make their relationships public, all of which originated from Japan's fan culture.

So now that Liu Yifei is coming to Japan to be an idol singer, Wu Yuan is also a little worried, afraid that her fans will know that she and herself are "underground love" in the future, and they will directly turn black with a wave of fans.

In other words, what is the reason for the dissolution of Liu Yifei's Japanese fan support club in the dream?

"Oh, I'll talk about that later." Liu Yifei grinned and tightened the hand that was holding Wu Yuan's arm.

If he can say this, it means that Wu Yuan has thought about making his relationship public in the future, which makes Liu Yifei very satisfied.

Although she really doesn't want to make her relationship public now, after all, she is only 18 years old, how can an 18-year-old female star be in a public relationship.

But she didn't want Wu Yuan to not want to make their relationship public.

A woman's mind is so complicated.

"Hehe, let's go, brother, I know a very delicious Japanese restaurant, I'll invite you to eat." Under her mother's helpless eyes, Liu Yifei happily pulled her boyfriend out of the Sony building.

After staying with Liu Yifei in Tokyo for three days and relieving the lovesickness between himself and his girlfriend, Wu Yuan flew directly from Tokyo to Los Angeles, USA.

Before leaving, Liu Yifei agreed with him that she would go to Los Angeles to reunite with Wu Yuan during the Spring Festival.

Well, this year, the mother and daughter of the Liu family are also going to the United States to visit relatives.

On October 28, Wu Yuan arrived in Los Angeles, and his American assistant Daisy came to pick up the plane in person.

still went back to Beverly Hills for a day of rest, adjusted the jet lag, and by the way, after modifying the time zone of the watch, Wu Yuan did not enter the crew of "Rush Hour 3" as soon as possible, but returned to the Light Times Company first.

"Hey Daniel, I'm glad you've only been back to Huaxia for a little over two months this time, and you're back again."

As soon as they met in the company, John teased Wu Yuan first before getting down to business.

"Daniel, Disney wants me to ask you, what do you think about Pirates of the Caribbean 3, and when are you going to start it?"

"You know, it's not easy to get Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley together who are busy like spinning tops, and Disney has to coordinate it early."

"Damn, I really didn't expect Disney, which has not succeeded in the field of live-action movies for a long time, to do such a good job with this success."

"Even if the box office of "Pirates of the Caribbean 1" is so high, the DVD that was discovered later has actually become the best-selling DVD in the world, and has now earned Disney more than 100 million dollars."

"I believe that Disney Chairman Dick Cook must be so beautiful that he is snickering under the covers!"

"Daniel, although I am not a director, in my experience as a producer, "Captain Jack" is indeed one of the biggest factors in the success of the film, but if "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" continues to rely on Johnny Depp's solo performance, then the ship may not be able to avoid sinking. ”

"Captain Jack is a little too important, maybe he should be in the third part, so that his role should not be so heavy."

For a successful film series, putting all the chips on one character in the movie is undoubtedly an extremely risky thing.

Once the actor strikes, or there is some scandal, the whole series will be ruined.

This is why the later Marvel Company, when building its own Marvel Universe, has been developing more different and distinctive superheroes, instead of holding a generation of Avengers to gnaw until old age.

"I understand." Wu Yuan shrugged his shoulders, "I talked to Terry (one of the screenwriters of Pirates of the Caribbean) that we need to add more characters in the third part to share the burden of Depp's acting. ”

"Not only will the characters from the first two films reappear, but there will also be more important new characters."

"At the moment, Terry and I have decided that the third installment will include a pirate overlord in the South China Sea, and his beautiful daughter."

"Wow, that sounds cool." John raised an eyebrow, noncommittal.

The "Pirates of the Caribbean" series has nothing to do with him and the Light Age after all.

The reason why John gave Wu Yuan advice was just because of their good personal relationship.

"Okay, let's get down to business, you haven't answered me yet, when are you going to make this movie?"

"Hmm" Wu Yuan thought for a while, "I'm actually not sure, Terry's script is still improving, and he plans to invite a group of experts and scholars from Huaxia to improve the script of the third part according to my suggestion." ”

"I estimate that it will not be able to start until the second half of next year at the earliest, and it may be delayed until November and February next year."

"If all goes well, this film will be the last Pirates of the Caribbean film I will direct."

"You won't continue filming later?" John looked like he had expected it.

"Nope." Wu Yuan shook his head: "The trilogy is enough, my enthusiasm has been almost consumed, Disney should find a new, more passionate person to partner with." ”

John understood Wu Yuan's thoughts very well.

Hollywood has released countless excellent series of movies over the past few decades, but most of them stop at trilogy, even if there is a sequel later, the director and screenwriter will basically be replaced.

Without him, creative enthusiasm is limited, and it is impossible for a director and screenwriter to grasp a theme and maintain a high level of creation.

In Huaxia's words, there will always be a day when Jiang Lang will run out of talent.

And this gives "Jiang Lang the time to run out", usually the limit is the trilogy, and if you continue to do it, the quality is definitely a visible decline to the naked eye.

Wu Yuan's choice to stop in time was the right decision.

Even Disney would agree.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have just wanted to sign a three-part contract with him in the first place.

The number "three" is really a curse in the Hollywood series of movies.

No director can make four or five movies in a row and still be successful.

Both the Fast and Furious and Harry Potter franchises have changed directors for the umpteenth time

"I'll relay your thoughts to Disney and ask them to coordinate the schedule of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 as much as possible."

John kept writing and drawing on his desktop and correcting documents, and continued: "Night at the Museum has entered the official preparations. ”

"We only paid for the money and the rights, and Fox took care of the rest."

"Fox has found a director named Sean Levy, and Ben Stiller to play the leading role, and other roles are also in the audition, and it is estimated that it will officially start shooting in January next year."

"I'll also be one of the producers, and I'll be staring at the film myself."

"By the way, aren't we going to stop the preparation of "The Hangover 3" and do "Fake Marriage" and "Weakness" first."

"Phillips, who had nothing to do for the time being, handed me a script called "Gimmick King", which he made by himself and a few friends, and wanted the company to invest in the production."

"It's a remake of the same name from a 1960 British film."

"I took a look at the content, and the content of the new version is almost identical to the old version, and of course a lot of modern elements have been incorporated."

"To be honest, I think this movie is pretty average, but you said before that we're going to support Phillips more, so I wanted to ask your opinion."

Without the slightest hesitation, Wu Yuan said directly: "Vote, Phillips will give him as much as he wants." ”

Phillips, the director of the "hangover" series, is a gem!

Although the current Phillips is still very low-end, he makes comedies and comedy romance films that are small and medium-budget movies.

But Wu Yuan knew Phillips' talent too well.

In the future, Phillips, who has been doing comedy for ten years, may be tired of comedy movies, or every good comedy director has a tragic heart hidden in his heart.

In 2019, he wrote and directed a film that cost only $55 million but ended up grossing $1 billion worldwide.

The movie is called "Joker"!

By the way, the famous TV series "Neverending" is the TV series that became a god after taking drugs, and Phillips is also one of the producers.

This is a talent, a star-like talent!

Although Wu Yuan doesn't quite remember the box office performance of this "Gimmick King", he is willing to invest in Phillips.

"Okay, you're the boss, you decide." John spread his hands and said indifferently.

Although he is not very optimistic about this movie, John and Wu Yuan have similar ideas, and he is also optimistic about Phillips himself and is willing to invest in his future.

"Nothing else, right?" Standing up from the sofa, Wu Yuan stretched lazily.

"I'll go back if there's nothing else to do."

"With two more days of rest, Rush Hour 3 is about to start, which is a very important project for the company, and I have to take it seriously."

John agreed, "Yes, Daniel, it's great to see you working for the future of the company. ”

"We must shoot it well, I hope that "Rush Hour 3" will be a big hit, so that we can pick up the "Ace Agent" series in the future."

"Don't worry." Wu Yuan said confidently: "I add Jackie Chan, this is the top combination in the Chinese world." ”

"I can't think of any reason why it might fail."

"Just wait and enjoy the champagne of victory."

(End of chapter)