Max Mikkelsen and Anne Hathaway did not live up to Wu Yuan's expectations, and his vision is still okay.

Although the two of them only read through the script once, they have already grasped the essence of the characters, and they can't say that they are fluent, but they still make Wu Yuan quite satisfied.

It even made him feel like he had earned a little.

Because the salary of the two of them is cheap!

According to the contract negotiated between the two agents and Paramount, Anne Hathaway's salary is a little more expensive, $5 million, and Max Mikkelsen is cheaper, only $3 million.

The combined salary of the two is less than half of Xiao Lizi's price, and the main one is cheap and affordable.

The highest salary in the entire crew is director Wu Yuan.

Although Light Times participated in the investment, Wu Yuan did not work for the crew for nothing, and his directing fee was as high as 20 million US dollars plus 5% of the box office.

In other words, the light era invested 48 million on the front foot, and Wu Yuan got 20 million back on the back foot, which is very comfortable.

It's not that Paramount and Universal Scatter Coin, they have to spend this money whenever they want to hire a top commercial film director in the circle, regardless of whether the other party participates in the investment or not.

This is the standard price of most first-line directors in Hollywood, whether it is Spielberg or Cameron, the director fee for making a movie is about this level.

It's a little lower than the $20 million + 5%-10% box office share of the top A-list actors, but it's not too low.

Because there are many first-line actors, but the first-line top commercial film directors can be counted on one hand.

Even Nolan will not be able to enjoy this treatment until "Inception" explodes again.

From another point of view, Light Times participated in the investment, which is equivalent to Wu Yuan paying his own director's fee and giving the crew an additional $28 million, so it looks like Paramount and Universal have earned it again.

It can only be said that this is Qin Shi Huang touching the wire - winning hemp!

Whether it's Universal and Paramount or Wu Yuan, they all win, win-win!

"You can take the script back and read it more when you have time."

"The schedules after July next year are vacant, and it is expected to be filmed for four months."

"When the time comes, we will go to Iceland to shoot and see the aurora."

Towards the evening, Wu Yuan sent off the two actors who came to visit him with a smile, and both parties were very satisfied with the meeting.

The two got the role, and Wu Yuan determined the right actor, which was another win-win situation.

Night.

Wu Yuan was lying alone in the empty master bedroom, thinking about something.

He has been in the United States for more than a month, and he has basically negotiated with the main creative team the details of the script of "Interstellar", as well as the various props and spaceship styles to appear in the movie.

Next, the team only needs to find a professional movie props production company to make these models or one-to-one restored capsules, and there is basically nothing else.

The producer has already done it for Wu Yuan, and this movie doesn't need many scenes, nothing more than a cornfield and a single-family hut next to it, and then filming the planet with a special time flow rate in Iceland, as well as an extraterrestrial space station.

Most of the other important plots, or plots that shock the audience, need to be completed through special effects, such as the black hole horizon, the space environment, and the high-dimensional world that the protagonist Cooper touches.

These are all things that the special effects team needs to improve the production, and Wu Yuan can't really help the special effects artist except for the final decision.

In other words, there is no need for Wu Yuan to stay in the United States in person and stare at the crew to make preliminary preparations.

The next few things that he can handle through video conferencing can also be handled.

Since his girlfriend followed the crew of "Ace Agent" to the United Kingdom and Switzerland to film, Wu Yuan stayed alone in Los Angeles, and he felt a little bored.

He wanted to go back to his country.

The end of the year is approaching, and he has been invited to attend many events in China.

Although most of them were rejected by him, he still had to participate in more important awards like the Golden Horse Awards and the Academy Awards.

For example, this year's Tokyo Film Festival was held at the end of October, and "Gravity" was originally selected as the closing film of the film festival, but because Wu Yuan couldn't get out of the way in the United States, he didn't have time to attend.

In the end, the closing film was replaced by "Robot Wall-E", which made "Red Cliff", which was also selected as the opening film, shine, and added a fire to the subsequent box office of "Red Cliff" in Japan.

It's okay not to go to the Tokyo Film Festival, but the Academy Awards and the Golden Horse Awards are really going this year.

A few years ago, because Wu Yuan was not in Chinese films, he had always refused to attend these two awards.

But this year, he won the Golden Bear Award for "A Man Named Li Wen Decided to Die", although this movie is not expected to be released until early December, but after all, it has a work in domestic entertainment.

If he doesn't participate in the Golden Horse and the Golden Statue this year, he will be said to be "comrades who are not united", at the moment, this pot is still quite big, and Wu Yuan doesn't want to carry it.

So this year he plans to visit the Golden Horse Golden Statue.

Fortunately, "A Man Named Li Wen Decided to Die" was nominated for six awards, and Wu Yuan estimated that he could get two or three back.

is the Academy Awards, which is really too stingy, and there is no strength to become bigger and stronger.

Because "A Man Named Lee Wen Decided to Die" is not a Hong Kong Island film and does not meet the nomination requirements of the Academy Awards, the film was only nominated for an Asia-oriented award, the Best Asian Film Award.

And the Academy Awards will not be held until early April next year, and if Wu Yuan really shoots "Ghost" with Liu Yifei at that time, he will have to take leave to participate, which is very troublesome.

But who said that the current national policy is mainly to unite the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three regions, he, a great director in the mainland who is well-rooted, also has to follow the country's baton.

However, this year's Academy Awards, a Hong Kong Island director whom Wu Yuanting admires will also participate.

Director Chen Musheng, who has worked with Cheng Long many times.

Chen Musheng is Du Qifeng's assistant director, and later made his own films, directing "The Sky of Mong Kok", "Stormtroopers Streets of Fury", as well as Cheng Long's "Who Am I", "New Police Story" and "Baby Project".

This year, he wrote, directed, and produced the police and bandit action movie "Keep Talking" starring Louis Koo, Zhang Jiahui, Liu Ye, and Xu Xiyuan.

Chen Musheng was also nominated for Best Director at the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards.

Here on Hong Kong Island, there are many directors who can shoot police and bandit action movies, such as Wu Baige also filmed from this theme, Du Qifeng, Lin Lingdong, Liu Weiqiang, Lin Chaoxian, Mak Zhaohui, Tang Jili and so on.

But if you want to say that among these directors, there are more "artistic virtues", then there are really not many.

Lin Chaoxian counts one, Mak Zhaohui counts one, and Chen Musheng counts one.

In fact, the era of light and shadow has been hot on Hong Kong Island and South Korea's police movies, underworld movies, and crime films for a long time.

Wu Yuan also has several excellent crime film books in South Korea and Hong Kong Island in later generations, but because his directors are not good at this field, he has never set up a project to shoot.

This time, Wu Yuan plans to go to Hong Kong Island to find a few good directors of police and crime films to shoot some movies of this genre to cooperate with the company's next stage of the Korean market offensive.

And if it is made into a co-production between the mainland and Hong Kong Island, it may even be cut and released in the mainland!

Movies such as "Despicable Streets", "The Heyday of Bad Guys", "New World", "The Insider", "Lao Qian" and other movies can all be made into Hong Kong Island films!

I have to say that the social contradictions between South Korea and Hong Kong Island, and the background of the community era, are really too similar, and it would be a waste not to take advantage of them!

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