Time is set back for half a day.

Venice Lido.

After the closing ceremony, Wu Yuan returned to the hotel with his excited crew and creators with his head held high.

"Senior brother, what you said on the podium is really fake?"

"Is this still fake?"

As soon as he returned to the hotel room, Liu Yifei couldn't wait to ask what he was holding back in his heart.

In fact, when Wu Yuan stepped down just now, she wanted to ask, but in front of the public, she still held back.

Hehehehe, my brother was on the podium in Venice and confessed to her hotly.

Liu Yifei never thought that Wu Yuan, a person who is relatively wooden in love, would actually do such a thing.

Happiness, excitement, and a little bit of unreality filled her heart.

"It turns out that I am so important in your heart, I am actually the perfect lover, and I am also your mentor on the road of love."

"Hahaha, you've always taught me this, taught me that, but I didn't expect that there would be times when I taught you."

Looking at Liu Yifei, Wu Yuan shook his head and smiled, and rubbed her head with a smile.

The words he said at the award ceremony were indeed sincere.

Before he talked to Liu Yifei, he was indeed very pessimistic about love.

There's no way, you can't expect an assistant director or executive director who has been in the middle and lower echelons of the entertainment industry in his dream for more than ten years to have any yearning for love.

He's seen too much dirty stuff in the circle.

Although, the first-line directors who really come out usually don't lose big because of small things, and do things that are a big loss for themselves, such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige.

But in a circle, the real number is often the middle and lower classes.

In online drama circles, big online movies, ordinary TV series, and small- and medium-cost cinema movies, there are too many producers, assistant directors, and executive directors engaged in pornographic transactions.

When the body is just used as a tool for the upper position, as long as there is a role to play, and after seeing a lot of actors who can sleep with anyone, Wu Yuan really doesn't believe in the so-called love very much.

So after the big dream, Wu Yuan put all his mind on his career, and he didn't touch any love.

Until, Liu Yifei's appearance, she subtly changed Wu Yuan's view of love, making him want to try the bitterness of love.

But the bitterness has not been eaten, but the sweetness has been eaten a lot, and it has also made him less pessimistic about love, although he still does not believe in what lasts forever, the sea is dry and rotten, but at least he will take the initiative to embrace love and embrace the world.

In the past, he was more floating in the world, and he always felt that he had some separation from reality, but now he has integrated into reality and enjoys it.

From this point of view, Liu Yifei is indeed the soul guide of his life.

After knowing these things to her, the little girlfriend was really angry, and she was called a snort when she stuck her waist.

"Okay, okay, didn't the saints all say that there must be my teacher in the threesome."

"I did learn a lot from you, and I changed a lot."

"Couples are supposed to support each other to grow up, and this is healthy love."

Wu Yuan doted on her and took her into his arms, leaning on his arms, Liu Yifei's face also showed a touched look.

For a long time, she thought that it was her "dead face" that made Wu Yuan like her, and in her career and life, she didn't seem to be able to give Wu Yuan any help, just like a dispensable pendant.

But now, she knows that she is also a very important person to Wu Yuan and cannot be lost.

This is the other half!

In Venice, Wu Yuan stayed for a few more days.

The overseas copyright of "A Man Named Li Wen Decided to Die", he has been dragging it out and not selling it, just waiting for the film festival to end and sell it at the highest place.

Film companies from all walks of life also knew his thoughts, and after winning the award, they immediately took the initiative to talk about business.

All kinds of details, in fact, there is nothing to say, Wu Yuan, as the seller, can be sold at the price.

In the end, he sold the distribution rights in Europe, the Middle East, South America, North America, Australia, New Zealand and most of Asia, and the release and DVD rights were packaged, selling a total of 56 million yuan, 16 million more than Jia Zhangke's "The Good Man of the Three Gorges".

It's not that Wu Yuan's fame is more than Jia Zhangke's worth only 16 million, but these film companies can afford to give so much money.

Literary films, after all, are still declining in the global market, and the film market in Europe, its home base, has been gradually shrinking in recent years.

A country's film distributors can only afford tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars at most, otherwise no matter how expensive the price is, they will lose money.

This is also why, after another five or eight years, mainland literary film directors no longer attach so much importance to European awards, and call on mainland audiences to enter more cinemas to support literary and artistic films every day.

In 2000, tens of millions of film revenues were a super high number, and mainland commercial films could not even earn a fraction of this number, and everyone didn't care about the mainland market.

But after 2010, the box office of mainland films breaking 100 million is as easy as drinking water, and the tens of millions of copyright fees are not worth mentioning.

For Wu Yuan, "A Man Named Li Wen Decided to Die", which costs less than 10 million yuan, can be sold for 56 million copyright fees, which is already very profitable.

But a few years later, "Thai Embarrassment", which had a production cost of only 30 million, won a box office of 1.2 billion in the mainland in one fell swoop, with a profit of 17 times more than the cost, and the light was divided into 430 million, which is higher than the literary film that won the Golden Lion Award.

Holding the final statistics of copyright sales data in his hand, Wu Yuan sighed on the plane back to China: "Hey, the glorious era of literary films is about to pass completely." ”

"What's wrong?" Liu Yifei, who was sitting next to him, asked puzzledly: "The results of 56 million are very good!" ”

"It's good, but compared with the mainland box office market, it's getting less and less to watch." Wu Yuan shook his head: "Next, the company will support more mainland films." ”

"The long-delayed "Painted Skin 2" should also be prepared."

Next year, he won't have time to do mainland film projects for a whole year, and he will go to Hollywood to work on "Interstellar".

Starting in 2010, the mainland film market will completely explode, and the emergence of "Avatar" will tell all filmmakers in the mainland that the Chinese market has been able to accommodate a single film with a box office of 1 billion The Big Mac has appeared.

Countless quick money and hot money will increase their efforts to flow into the mainland film market, and movie theater chains around the country are also like crazy, crazy expansion.

This shareholder wind, the era of light and shadow must be mixed with a hand.

Before, Wu Yuan originally wanted to find Wu Yishan and train him to be a tool man for the company's commercial films.

But Wu Yishan helped Wu Yuan shoot a domestic version of "Butterfly Effect", and the mainland took 20 million box office, and after not losing or earning, he went alone.

Wu Yishan has connections and is not short of money, so he is unwilling to be a worker under Wu Yuan.

Only then did he start a project to support new directors, and the first phase discovered Liu Meichuan and Li Yang, two commercial film directors, as well as Li Ruijun, Cheng Er, and Han Yan, three literary film directors.

Coupled with Zhang Guorong, the company's number one general, there is no shortage of directors who can make good movies in the light and shadow era, only suitable scripts.

Wu Yuan thought that he had to work hard and copy a few suitable scripts for the company's director to shoot, at least to catch up with the first wave of mainland films taking off in 2010.

"By the way, Xue Xiaolu's "Ocean Paradise" should almost be released, right?" He muttered to himself.

Xue Xiaolu is also the first batch of directors supported by the Director Support Program in the Light and Shadow Era, but because her film has been waiting for Li Lianjie's schedule, it was not until after the release of "Casting Names" that she finally had time to join the group to shoot this drama.

Now that the film has been filmed, the post-production is almost done, and it can be released.

A literary film like "Ocean Paradise" must be useless to sell money, but after Xue Xiaolu has practiced, she can try to make some movies that are more suitable for female directors.

For example, a chick movie like "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love"!

Thinking of this, Wu Yuan turned his head and said to Liu Yifei: "Qianqian, after returning to China, you go to the United States first, my company has to deal with some things, and I will come back later." ”

I wrote a little less today, and I will make up a thousand more words tomorrow.

(End of chapter)