Cooperate?

Participation?

Wu Yuan was stunned and quickly activated his smart brain.

The new movie directed by Kaige should be "Zhao's Orphan"!

If he hadn't pulled Chen Kaige to shoot "Painted Skin 2", he would have been able to shoot "Zhao's Orphan" last year, and it would have been released this year.

Is The Orphan of Zhao a good project?

For 99% of mainland film and television investment companies, this is certainly a high-quality project.

Especially after director Kaige returned with the king of "Painted Skin 2", his commercial value increased again.

Let's put it this way, but whenever Chen Kaige publicly says that he is short of money for his new project, there will immediately be countless investors waving banknotes to send money, whatever he chooses.

It stands to reason that Chen Kaige will never worry that his film will encounter the problem of insufficient funds, let alone take the initiative to find someone to cooperate, because people are crying and shouting to give him money.

After a little bit of brain, Wu Yuan understood that Chen Kaige was showing favor and wanted to deepen cooperation with him.

In Chen Kaige's view, "Zhao's Orphan" is a film project that will definitely make money, and whoever invests will make it.

Now there is a funder, because the film dragged on for a year before it began to be prepared, and the capital chain was broken, which happened to introduce Wu Yuan's era of light and shadow, so that he could make a fortune together.

This is a proper benefit.

He doesn't think that "Zhao's Orphan" will lose money!

This is a masterpiece that he came up with after his business exploration matured!

But Wu Yuan doesn't see it that way.

He knows the movie "Zhao's Orphan" too well.

invested 150 million, the atmosphere of the scene was full, and then the final box office was less than 200 million, and the blood loss was so bad that it couldn't end.

Even if the film is delayed for a year, if the script has not changed in the slightest, and it is still the original script, Wu Yuan will still not be optimistic about this movie.

may be due to the increase in the film market, this movie can be better than the original results, but it will not be much better, with a box office of 250 million in the sky, far less than the cost recovery line of 300 million.

Throwing money into this movie is pure charity.

After hesitating for a moment, Wu Yuan didn't refuse on the spot, but he didn't agree, but said ambiguously: "That's it, I just got off the plane, and I haven't understood a lot of things in the company yet." ”

"Director Kaige, if it's convenient, can you send me a copy of the script of the new movie, and after our company makes some commercial judgments, we will consider whether to participate in the investment of this project."

"The company is not my word, it is not good to set such an important investment project in these three or two sentences."

Chen Kaige said as a matter of course: "This is as it should be, I will send you the script in a while." ”

Between the words, he was still full of confidence.

After the "edification" of "Painted Skin 2", Chen Kaige felt that he still had a lot of enlightenment in commercial films.

Some things, no matter how much others say, or how much they see others do, they will only be superficial, and only by experiencing and feeling it yourself will you find the true meaning.

After personally directing a mature commercial blockbuster like "Painted Skin 2", Chen Kaige had a poignant experience of the definition of "commercial film".

Originally, he was very satisfied with the script of "Zhao's Orphan", but after filming "Painted Skin 2", he also felt that there were problems everywhere, and discussed and revised it with the screenwriter team again.

In the script seminar alone, he has held more than a dozen times in private, and the entire story structure has been changed by almost half, and the rhythm and narrative line have also been drastically changed.

Now Chen Kaige is full of confidence in this movie, and even thinks that it will create a better reputation and box office than "Painted Skin 2"!

Chen Kaige's arrogance has always been there and has never disappeared.

At this time, after answering Chen Kaige's call, Wu Yuan disbanded the expedition team of "Gravity" on the spot.

Gong Li and Wang Xueqi both had a bunch of interview notices waiting for them, and they didn't have time to rest for a moment.

Liu Yifei doesn't belong to the crew of "Gravity", but she doesn't have so much work, so she can go back to her and Wu Yuan's love nest to rest and make salted fish first.

And Wu Yuan, a great director, has no way to be idle.

Interviews and other announcements, although he can push off some, but he can't push off all of them.

After leaving the mainland company for a few months, although he has been contacted by phone and email, Wu Yuan also has to go back to the company to hold some important meetings to arrange some work matters for the next stage of the company.

In short, with a lot of things on him, he also sat non-stop in the car of his assistant Xiao Zhang to pick him up and rushed to the company.

"Director Wu, congratulations, I won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film again."

"Your achievements in the Oscars are already the first person in China, right?"

Li Xiaoping stood at the door of the company and greeted Wu Yuan in person.

Looking at this number one general under his command, Wu Yuan showed a sincere smile on his face.

He can stay in North America for a few months, and he has to rely on this female general to support this mess in China.

In a blink of an eye, it has been six or seven years since Li Xiaoping joined the company, from an urban OL elite in her early thirties at the beginning, to now there are some crow's feet crawling in the corners of her eyes.

Although it looks more mature and has a much more atmospheric temperament, it still can't escape the years and urge people to grow old.

For some reason, Wu Yuan was extremely sentimental today.

Suppressing the inexplicable emotion in his heart, he beckoned to Li Xiaoping.

"Inform the company's executives that the conference room will assemble for a meeting."

Ten minutes later, the conference room of the Light and Shadow Era was full of senior managers from more than a dozen departments of the company.

Over the years, the era of light and shadow has become more and more huge, and the volume is even larger than Huayi, and the company has already fledged its wings from actor brokerage to film, TV series production, distribution, docking, publicity, personnel and other departments.

"I have read the company's annual financial report, and everyone has done a very good job in the past year!"

Standing at the top of the conference room, Wu Yuan first smiled and praised.

In 2009, the book profit of Light and Shadow Times was 526 million yuan, of which more than 400 million yuan was brought by "Painted Skin 2" and "Walking with God", and about 100 million profits were created by the company's TV drama department.

The remaining fraction is the company's artist management department, and there are also some income obtained after the operation of copyright.

This achievement is undoubtedly very eye-catching, and it is firmly in the top spot of domestic private film companies.

Wu Yuan is already very satisfied with this income situation, but the next 10 years will be a blue ocean decade for the Chinese entertainment industry to explode.

Now sitting on the top spot in the age of light and shadow, we can't take it lightly.

How many dicks Huayi is in the original time and space, the first stock listed in the film industry, and the former leading domestic entertainment company, how quickly it fell behind can be said to be known to passers-by.

Wu Yuan didn't dare to repeat the mistakes of the past.

"Everyone's year-end bonuses this year must be very rich, right?" He smiled and first mentioned the benefits and benefits that the company brought to everyone, and then he looked straight and said seriously:

"But don't be in a hurry to be proud!"

"This achievement is just the beginning for the vast domestic film industry!"

"Next, we are about to start a new era for the company!" (End of chapter)