"Director Wu, Director Zhang's new movie, that's it?"

In Li Xiaoping's office, Wu Yuan sat opposite her and said calmly: "Yes, Leslie has gone back to write the script, and in the end, I will help him check and revise it and sign our names." ”

"When the time comes, you go and ask China Film if you want to participate in the investment, just our investment, there are still some risks."

Wu Yuan didn't dare to pack tickets, and Zhang Guorong's "Good Guys, Bad Guys, Weird Guys" will definitely get a good response in the Chinese and South Korean markets.

can only say that there is a high probability of success, after all, he is the final check for the script, at least it can restore the eighty percent level of the Korean version.

As for how much the final box office can be, it will have to be left to God's will.

From a local film to an overseas film, Wu Yuan has no idea how much box office "Good Guys, Bad Guys, Weird Guys" can achieve in South Korea.

As for the mainland, there can be a box office of 50 to 80 million, which is the limit, after all, mainland fans actually have no concept of "Westerns".

However, this movie can be expected to be at the box office on Hong Kong Island.

Zhang Guorong himself is a native of Hong Kong Island and has a box office base on Hong Kong Island.

"Painted Skin" was originally played by Donnie Yen alone, but it only got more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office on Hong Kong Island, but it was replaced by Zhang Guorong, and after the poster on Hong Kong Island mainly used Zhang Guorong as the C position, it was exchanged for a box office of more than 40 million Hong Kong dollars.

Even the nearly five million viewers of South Korea's "Painted Skin" were attracted by Wu Yuan, and the remaining half was attributed to Zhang Guorong.

In the generation after 65-75 in South Korea, the Asian superstars in their hearts are inevitably Zhang Guorong, Zhou Runfu, Cheng Long, and the actresses are Wang Zuxian, Lin Jingxia, and Zhang Manyu.

The popularity of Hong Kong films in South Korea in the 80s was much more popular than that of Hollywood movies in South Korea now.

Even now, middle-aged people aged 35-40 in South Korea are also very familiar with Hong Kong Island actors.

The appeal of Asian superstars is terrifying!

Wu Yuan is quite confident in Zhang Guorong's exploration of the Korean market.

After explaining her thoughts to Li Xiaoping, Li Xiaoping understood and no longer dwelled on this issue, but instead talked about another important matter.

"Director Wu, the company has done field trips in the four major cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and selected several business districts suitable for opening cinemas."

"Our "Cinema in the Age of Light and Shadow" program is ready to start. ”

"According to your requirements, we have hired a group of professional cinema practitioners from Hong Kong Island, the United States, and Singapore to set up the company's cinema department."

"The company's cinema brand is positioned as an all-digital cinema, using top-level projection equipment, and the first phase is expected to open ten theaters within a year, and all of them will be put into operation before May 2007 at the latest."

"Not bad." Wu Yuan nodded with satisfaction.

As long as you have money, it's still very simple to do a theater.

Most of the private cinemas in China only started in 2004, and there is indeed a lack of talents, and everyone is on the same starting line.

Whether it is Wanda, Dadi, or Jinyi and other cinema brands that will dominate the mainland in the future, they are now poaching cinema practitioners from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia to make their own cinema chains.

On March 7, 2004, the first Wanda Cinema opened in Tianjin.

The first cinema of Dadi Cinema has just opened in Foshan this year.

It's not too late to enter the Age of Light and Shadow, and the time is just right.

Don't be too greedy, in the first year, you will do ten theaters, and if you can have 30-50 screens, you can already stand firm.

Based on the average cost of a movie theater of 2 million, ten theaters only invest 20 million, which is not much money for the light and shadow era.

The company is really poor and only has money left.

The profit of "Your Name" has not been spent yet, and the account sharing of "Painted Skin" is about to arrive one after another.

Even if there is an investment of 100 million in "Gravity" that needs to be prepared, the light and shadow era can also draw out 1-200 million working capital to lay out other industries (not counting film investment).

"Let's do 10 theaters to test the water, and then strive to expand the scale to 30 next year, and strive to achieve a scale of 100 theaters before 2010."

Although it is said that Golden Harvest Film Company on Hong Kong Island will be put on the trading cabinet for sale next year, and Golden Harvest also has dozens of theaters, Wu Yuan has no intention of spending money to buy Golden Harvest.

Whoever makes this deal loses.

It will cost at least more than 2 billion yuan to buy Golden Harvest, but most of this money is used to buy Golden Harvest's film copyright library.

Just one Golden Harvest Cinema brand is not worth so much money, and most of these theaters are in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, and there are less than ten in the mainland.

It doesn't make sense to buy Golden Harvest in the era of light and shadow.

With this money, it is enough for the Light and Shadow Era to open one or two hundred cinemas in the mainland.

Even if you don't choose to rent a venue, you can open at least fifty or sixty of them if you buy the venue in full.

"You keep an eye on the development of the cinema chain first, I will dig a professional cinema person in charge as soon as possible, and when the time comes, the cinema will be independent." Wu Yuan commanded.

After all, Li Xiaoping is not a professional cinema company, she can still stare at a few cinemas in the early stage, and if the cinema brand is to develop in the later stage, it is not something she can do.

Wu Yuan also had to dig a professional to take charge of this part.

This matter is easy to solve.

Golden Harvest will be sold next year, and there will always be some turmoil at the top of Golden Harvest Cinemas, and there will be talents.

Wu Yuan, who has a vision of the future, when he was in business, in a sense, he opened the perspective and hung it, and he could see through the fog of war.

It's just that a person's energy is always limited, and after deciding to still take the road of directing, film and television, Wu Yuan also had to put his energy on it.

"By the way, when did the turmoil in the online listing of potatoes come?"

Wu Yuan pondered in his heart that the layout of the company seemed to be missing some of the layout of the Internet era.

Online video platforms are the most important part of the online pan-entertainment industry.

Netflix in the United States later developed to the point that it could shake Haolaiwu, and the domestic Aitengyou triumvirate also basically controlled the upstream of the mainland's TV drama and variety show industry chain.

These are all film and television giants on the Internet, especially on the mobile Internet, and they are even a bit of a monopoly.

Fight, definitely can't beat.

But Wu Yuan can't stay out of it, otherwise it will really come to the era of Internet giants, and the era of light and shadow will have to give these Internet giants stinky feet, which he can't bear.

So if you can't beat it, you have to join.

In the era of light and shadow, we must also build our own Internet video platform in the future, which can be weaker, just like Mango TV and Sohu Video, but it must not be without!

Buying potatoes before Youku is a very good choice.

If Wang Wei, the founder of Tudou, had a choice, he would never sell the potato videos he created to competitors.

And Wu Yuan still admires Wang Wei very much, Wang Wei really loves the film and television industry.

After Tudou was acquired, he began to enter the animation industry, producing excellent works such as "White Snake: Origin", "Little Door God", "White Snake 2: The Robbery of the Green Snake".

From this point of view, Wang Wei himself is also a very discerning producer, and his film and television blood is very strong, which is suitable for joining the big family of the light and shadow era.

You still have to work hard to make money!

Wu Yuan secretly cheered himself up in his heart.

If you don't work hard to make money, where will you get the money to buy potatoes?

It costs $350 million to buy potatoes!

Fortunately, there are still several years before the advent of the mobile Internet era, and there is enough time left for Wu Yuan.

"Alright, then that's it for now." Wu Yuan stood up and waved his hand to Li Xiaoping, "I'll go back upstairs and continue to work on the concept design of "Gravity". ”

On April 8, 2006, the weather was fine.

Wu Yuan's "retreat" will not affect the normal operation of the Light and Shadow Era.

The company is still running smoothly.

At present, the company is mainly busy with the filming of the TV series "The Star of the Sheep".

On April 5th, the main actors of this TV series gathered in Xiamen, a coastal tourist city.

The main plot of "The Star of the Sheep" will be filmed here.

Led by Lin Zhiying, Jin Sha, Yan Kuan, and Chen Hao, the crew held a grand start-up press conference at the Xiamen Hilton Hotel.

At the launch conference, the crew not only announced the makeup photos, but also announced the roles and relationships played by the four leading actors.

Lin Zhiying plays the unruly and enthusiastic and dedicated male protagonist Zhong Tianqi.

Jin Jin plays the role of Xia Zhixing, a smart, clever, inferior and confident fraudster heroine.

Yan Kuan plays the role of Zhong Tianjun, the second male who is elegant and steady, gentle and amiable, and likes Yaruo.

Chen Hao plays Tianqi's ex-girlfriend, the female number two Ou Yaruo.

Among the four leading actors, only the actor Lin Zhiying is from Taiwan Island, the other three are mainland actors, and most of the other supporting roles in the crew are mainland actors.

For example, the old man Wen Xingyu who plays the male protagonist's father Zhong Wei may not know the name, but when it comes to the roles he has played, it is very deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

The grandfathers of Liu Xing, Xia Yu, and Xia Xue in "Family with Children", and Fu Ming, the head of the family in "I Love My Family", are all played by him.

It is Yuan Hong who plays Zhongwei's illegitimate son Li Wei, and Yuan Hong is also a commonly used actor in the era of light and shadow.

The remaining characters such as Xia Zhixing's uncle and Ou Yaruo's father are also old mainland drama bones.

As for the director of this TV series, he is invited to Song Yang, who is the director of "Talented Men and Women" and "Talented Women and Talents", and is the first director in the mainland to contact and shoot idol dramas.

When the idol drama "Male Talent and Female Appearance" was launched, it was directly broadcast on CCTV's eight sets of prime time.

And the ratings ranked first in the CCTV TV drama programs in the same period, and ranked second in the whole station, second only to "News X Broadcast".

Song Yang's directing level in idol dramas can be regarded as proving himself.

And he is also very young, born in 1978, he is only 28 years old this year, and he was only 25 years old when he filmed "Men and Women", and he is a rare young talent in the TV drama director circle.

handed over "The Star of the Sheep" to him to shoot, Wu Yuan is also more assured, as long as it is filmed according to the script, the finished film will definitely not be bad!

In this way, after the actors of the crew of "The Star of the Sheep" appeared at the start-up press conference, filming officially began the next day.

It's a bit of a cardin, and it's late.

(End of chapter)