The Young Directors Support Program in the Light and Shadow Era has supported a total of six directors.

Among these six directors, some of the directors are ready for the crew, and the scripts have already been perfected and perfected.

Li Ruijun's "Summer Solstice", Li Yang's "Prosperity", and Han Yan's "Who Do I Give My First Kiss To", these three movies are like this.

The money arrived in April or May, and by the end of August and early September, they had already made the movie.

These three movies are not commercial films in the strict sense, but they are not completely literary and artistic.

So Li Xiaoping wanted to ask Wu Yuan's opinion.

After all, the light and shadow era is now the producer and producer of these three films, and they have the right to decide whether the film should go to film festivals and film exhibitions.

However, Wu Yuan did not mean to be arbitrary, but asked: "What do the three young directors think?" ”

"Li Ruijun wants to try it at a foreign film festival."

"As for the other two directors, they don't have much idea about winning awards at the film festival, and they both want the film to be released as soon as possible and meet the audience."

Wu Yuan nodded: "Then help Li Ruijun to participate in the film festival, and report everything you can." ”

"As for "Prosperous" and "Who Do I Give My First Kiss To", does the company have a copy of the film?"

"I'll take a look at the finished product first."

Although digital cinema is developing very rapidly, and most of the new films that have been approved in the past two years have begun to be shot with digital cameras, the six directors supported by Wu Yuan this time have all chosen to shoot with film.

It can only be said that these filmmakers who have just graduated from school, or are still teaching in school, are more conservative than first-line directors.

"Yes, the copy reels of both movies were delivered to the company." Li Xiaoping immediately replied, stood up and took Wu Yuan to the company's screening room.

In the screening room, Wu Yuan watched the two movies carefully from beginning to end.

Li Yang did not disappoint him, "Prosperous" was filmed very well, and the taste of youth pain literature was filmed.

At least it is better than Zhao Junqi's "To Youth" and Su Youpeng's "Left Ear".

Although the core still can't escape the set of love, love triangle, and betrayal in school, after graduation, Lao Yan flew apart, studied abroad, and met again ten years later.

But to put it mildly, a director from a professional class, in the case of the same theme, the picture is much stronger than that of Ye Luzi.

At least in addition to business, Li Yang has also worked the aesthetics of the film, and many shots are very beautiful and meaningful.

For example, the male and female protagonists look at each other on a rainy night.

The heroine is holding an umbrella, the male protagonist is drenched in the rain, the picture is divided into two from the middle, the heroine's side is brighter, but the male protagonist is hidden in the night, which just corresponds to the two of them, one has a promising future to study abroad, and the other fights at school, maybe he can't get a graduation certificate, and his future is bleak.

The future of the two has been told to the audience through this lens.

Wu Yuan likes this scene very much.

And these two protagonists, Wu Yuan is also very familiar.

The actor is Luo Jin, and I don't know how Li Yang fooled him.

The heroine is Zhang Li, a member of the 03-level performance department of Chinese opera, who is just graduating this year.

""Prosperous" is a good shot, Li Yang, this kid has something." Wu Yuan said with satisfaction: "I can't catch up with the summer file, go and coordinate with Han Dong of China Film to see if it can be released on the National Day." ”

However, Li Xiaoping said with some disagreement: "But this year's National Day file has Cheng Long's "Baby Plan", and Li Yang's "Prosperity" is also set to compete in the National Day file, right?" ”

Now, in the mainland film market, the National Day file is also a good popular schedule.

From Wu Yuan's "The Night the Comet Comed" opened the National Day file for the first time, and then Cheng Long from "New Police Story" to "Myth" to "Baby Plan" for three consecutive years, all of which were set at the end of September, and gradually the National Day file is no longer an unpopular schedule.

And now the National Day file has the meaning of being occupied by Cheng Long, just like Feng Xiaogang was the king of the New Year file back then, Cheng Long is now the king of the National Day file in the mainland.

Letting Li Yang go and compete with Cheng Long for food is indeed a bit overwhelming.

"Also, I forgot about this movie." Wu Yuan slapped his head, feeling a little funny, he was tired of patronizing his little girlfriend in the United States, and he didn't pay attention to the recent mainland film industry at all.

"This year's film schedule has been set, show me it." Wu Yuan said to Li Xiaoping.

As a good year-old friend with Han Dong's personal relationship, coupled with the fact that Light and Shadow Times is now one of the top private film companies in China, China Film has always provided the latest film schedule for Light and Shadow Times.

Soon, he had a thin list of mainland films in his hand this year.

As a result, Wu Yuan also had a headache.

If the performance of the mainland film market in the first half of 2006 is described as "collective downturn, with occasional flashes", then the performance of the mainland film market in the second half of the year can be described as a "collective explosion".

"Wu Ji" was released in early August, and due to the impact of word-of-mouth and the release of "Night Banquet", the box office performance of "Wu Ji" finally got 120 million, which was much lower than the 170 million that should have been expected.

I heard that Director Kaigo broke several beloved teapots at home

And "Night Banquet", which was released at the end of August, although it also can't escape being scolded, it shouldn't be a problem for the box office to break 100 million in the end.

"Baby Project", which was released at the end of September, was able to cut 92 million at the mainland box office without accident.

There aren't any blockbusters in October, but "Baby Project" is sure to dominate the box office market in October.

In November, "Ink Attack" was released on November 23, although this is a big bad movie, but with the blessing of Liu Dehua, a superstar, and the publicity is compared with "Hero", it still attracted a lot of audiences and won a box office of 60 million.

Don't even think about it in December, there is a "Golden Armor in the City" to be released in the Lunar New Year, and now Zhang Yimou is in the mainland, which is similar to Cameron in Hollywood, and no one wants to compete with him at the same time.

Li Yang is not qualified to compete with him for schedules and markets.

Wu Yuan, who has a vision for the future, knows how fierce the box office market battle will be in the second half of this year.

In the case that Li Yang himself is not famous, it is unrealistic for him to compete with "Baby Project" and "The City Full of Golden Armor".

The nails stayed for a moment with the word "Ink Attack" on the film schedule, and Wu Yuan remembered a sentence in his heart, persimmons should be pinched softly.

"Let's talk to China Film and see if we can set "Prosperous" to be released in early November, and give us a half-month window period."

was released half a month ago, relying on word-of-mouth to gain popularity and fame, and quickly harvesting a wave of box office, and by the time "Ink Attack" was released at the end of the month, the box office of "Prosperous" was almost finished.

Such a low-cost youth film can have a box office of 20 million, which is a big dark horse.

"Crazy Stone", which was released in the first half of this year, cost 3 million and earned 23 million box office, and it was blown up with this "small cost and high box office".

"Also, contact Li Yang, I have something I plan to talk to him about."

Speaking of this, Wu Yuan pursed his lips and said with some dissatisfaction: "A youth romance film, why do you choose a literary movie name?" ”

"If he doesn't say it, how can the audience guess what theme and type of film this movie is just by looking at the word "Prosperous"?"

Li Xiaoping also agrees with this, and she doesn't understand why Li Yang chose such an irrelevant name for the movie.

So, the next day, Li Xiaoping asked Li Yang to the company.

And today Wu Yuan no longer came to the company empty-handed, but with a freshly printed script.

"Sit."

In the office, Wu Yuan kindly motioned for Li Yang to sit down in the sofa area with him, not to be so formal.

And Li Yang, who was called by a phone call, was also very worried at the moment.

The finished film of "Prosperous" has been handed over to the Light and Shadow Era for half a month, but he has not seen the next move on the company's side, and now Wu Yuan suddenly asked him to meet again, which made Li Yang very worried, whether it was the movie he made Wu Yuan was not satisfied.

It's normal for him to have this thought, who is Wu Yuan?

Winner of the Cannes Presidium Grand Prix, Best Director in Berlin, Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and box office record holder for Chinese directors.

This kind of big guy can't look down on his clumsy work, it's too normal.

Even if he was sitting on the sofa, he only dared to sit on half of his buttocks, and straightened his waist nervously, for fear of hearing words like "Don't continue this movie" from Wu Yuan's mouth.

Fortunately, he was indeed more worried.

As soon as he sat down, Wu Yuan first smiled and praised: "Director Li Yang, your "Prosperity" was filmed very well, and it lived up to the efforts of our young director support plan. ”

As soon as he heard this, the big stone in Li Yang's heart finally landed, and his face showed a bit of excitement and excitement, and he nodded again and again: "Thank you Director Wu for your compliment, thank you Director Wu for your trust and support, I will continue to work hard." ”

Li Yang is now one of the contracted directors of the Light and Shadow Era, and he really needs to "work hard".

Among the six directors supported in the first phase of the Young Director Support Program, Li Yang, Liu Meichuan and Xue Xiaolu have all signed contracts to enter the era of light and shadow.

Although Li Ruijun, Cheng Er, and Han Yan did not agree to sign the contract, they also promised that if there was a film in the light and shadow era in the future, they would give priority to agree.

After all, the era of light and shadow can be regarded as their Bole, and if they develop in the future, they must repay this love.

It is precisely because Li Yang is already the company's contracted director, so seeing that he filmed "Prosperous" well, Wu Yuan immediately found him and was ready to add a burden to him.

But before they could add to the burden, they had to settle something else.

"Director Li, your movie is still very good, but the name of this movie has little to do with the story itself."

I understand that you want to use the word "prosperity" to metaphorize that the heroine chooses bread between love and bread, embraces the prosperity of foreign countries, and abandons domestic love. ”

"But it's a little too obscure, and before the audience has seen the movie, just relying on a movie name and poster will leave the audience confused and don't know what story the film is going to tell."

"This is a big loss for film promotion."

Wu Yuan spoke his thoughts unhurriedly, and Li Yang also listened very carefully.

After Wu Yuan finished speaking, he immediately replied: "Director Wu, you are right, this movie title was improvised when I was writing the script, and I didn't think too much about it. ”

"From a commercial point of view, it's really a bit too subtle and not clear enough to express the theme."

"Director Wu, do you have any good suggestions?"

Hey, the young man is very good and threw the question back to Wu Yuan.

And Wu Yuan also happens to have a lot of ideas, in his dream During the period from 2012 to 2017, the domestic youth film market was hot, any cat and dog could make a youth film, and it could easily sell one or two hundred million, three or four hundred million box office.

Wu Yuan has at least watched more than a dozen or twenty domestic youth romance films, and he is a treasure of this type of title.

Without much thought, he blurted out directly: ""Whose Youth is Not Confused", how about the name?" ”

"Youth and confusion are the core themes of your film."

This was originally the title of a domestic youth film released in 17 years, and Wu Yuan felt that it was quite suitable for Li Yang's movie, and it was easy to remember.

"Whose youth is not confused?" Li Yang muttered to himself in a low voice and nodded: "It is simple and direct to point out the core selling point of this movie, Director Wu is good!" ”

It doesn't matter if he is sincere or deliberately touted, anyway, as long as Li Yang has no opinion.

"Then it's decided, the company will send this movie for review as soon as possible, and if it goes well, it will be released nationwide in early November."

"This schedule is not very good, but there is no way, in the second half of this year, there will be a domestic blockbuster with an investment of more than 100 million yuan released every month, and you can't compete with them as a small body, early November is already the most suitable schedule."

Where can Li Yang take care of the question of whether the schedule is good or not, this is not something that he cares about as a young director at all, and if his debut film can be released nationwide, it will already be a great success for him!

"Thank you, thank you Director Wu." Standing up from the sofa with a rub, Li Yang was a little incoherent and kept thanking Wu Yuan.

"Hey, don't get excited." Wu Yuan motioned for him to sit down again and again, and handed him the script that had been in front of him.

"You look at this script, I think it's quite suitable for you, the company plans to shoot this movie next, you will be the director, and I will hang a producer for you."

Li Yang was stunned on the spot.

And this good thing?

His debut film has just been finalized, and the company has arranged a new movie for him?

Although the script was not written by himself, being able to have a movie made is already something worth celebrating for a rookie director!

Is this the benefit of signing up for a large company?

Simply.

It's so cool!

The salary of "Good Guys, Bad Guys, Weird Guys" was revised before, and I was too anxious when I wrote it, I didn't think about it carefully, it was really unreasonable, and it has all been changed to a lower level.

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