Chapter 407 The Next Plan

On the plane to Paris.

Wu Yuan was still thinking about "Kingsman".

After discussing with John, he agreed to postpone the release of this movie.

After all, this movie is not produced solely by Light Age, and the opinions of New Line must also be considered.

Since New Line attaches great importance to this movie, and Wu Yuan is unwilling to put this movie into the Christmas season, New Line is only willing to consider the summer season next year.

In North America, there is no concept of National Day and Spring Festival. The summer season is the most popular season.

The performance of the "Rush Hour" trilogy, the last two were achieved in the summer season.

Wu Yuan has no objection to this.

The success of "Twilight" in North America has filled Light Age's account a lot. This movie is a typical low-cost high-return movie. The global box office of hundreds of millions of dollars has made Light Age full.

Even with the investment pressure of "Interstellar", plus the production of the second part of "Twilight" and the preparation of "Never Ending", the funds in Light Age's account are still sufficient, and the pressure to collect payments is not great.

Wu Yuan is even considering whether to let Guangshidai start the preparation of "The Martian".

The original work of "The Martian" has already appeared on the North American Internet. Wu Yuan of course asked John to buy the film adaptation rights as soon as possible.

After the explosion of "Avatar", the global market will usher in a three-to-five-year boom in science fiction movies.

Not to mention that Wu Yuan's own "Interstellar" and Nolan's "Inception" will be released next year, which will further ignite the global science fiction movie market.

The market that has been opened up with great difficulty cannot be taken advantage of by others.

Last time in Iceland, Wu Yuan and Matt Damon had a good chat. Faced with his recruitment, Matt Damon was also happy to join.

With Matt Damon, the actors of "The Martian" are settled. This movie is a one-man show.

But Wu Yuan still has to make Chinese films.

"Gravity" was a movie released in 2008. If there is no new film this year and a Chinese film is not made next year, there will be no new Chinese films the year after next.

There have been no new films released in China for three consecutive years. The next few years will be the fastest growing years for the Chinese-language film market. If Wu Yuan misses the mainland market, he will probably suffer a great loss.

This loss is not a loss of money in terms of box office. In terms of box office, Wu Yuan's films made in Laiwu have higher box office.

This loss is a loss of influence and fame.

The next few years will be the most "vibrant" years for the Chinese-language film market. The box office market will double every year, and the box office results will be refreshed every year. They are the most turbulent years.

Even the box office record of "Gravity" held by Wu Yuan will be easily broken and doubled.

How could Wu Yuan miss such an exciting period?

Of course, he did not intend to shoot "Lost in Thailand".

With his current status, if he shoots a vulgar comedy like "Lost in Thailand", even if the box office is a big hit, the word of mouth will probably be very bad.

This is just like Zhang Yimou shooting "Man Jiang Hong". No matter how high the box office is, he will be criticized.

"Better Days" is not bad. This movie can not only win awards, but also sell well at the box office.

The topic of school violence should also be paid attention to and taken seriously by the public.

Wu Yuan, who originally only had an idea, now feels more and more that filming "Better Days" is a very good decision.

If this movie is well made, it is possible for Liu Yifei to win the Best Actress Award of the three domestic golds.

The premise is that she can perform well and show her style!

"Xixi, let's make the movie "Better Days" together next year." After thinking about it, Wu Yuan whispered to Liu Yifei who was sitting next to him.

He didn't want to be so tired this year. He would make another movie and finish the post-production of "Interstellar".

But he still can't rest next year.

Try to finish filming "Better Days" in the first half of next year and release it in the second half of the year.

This movie only needs editing in the post-production, without any special effects. If the action is fast, it can be finished in three months, and the post-production can be completed in one month.

"Great!" Liu Yifei said happily.

She has long wanted to challenge this kind of literary and artistic movie.

If Wu Yuan hadn't tied her up, she would have taken on some miscellaneous literary and artistic films.

There are still many directors of art films in China who want her to star. Most of them are attracted by her fame, hoping to invite her with low salary, and then use her fame to sell the box office for the movie.

Some even only offer a few hundred thousand, hoping that Liu Yifei will be willing to perform at a discount because of the excellent script.

Wu Yuan has never been very happy with such people who want to get a bargain.

If the script is really very good and has the potential to win awards, Wu Yuan certainly doesn't mind Liu Yifei taking it at a low price. After all, their family doesn't lack Liu Yifei's salary to make a living.

But in fact, these so-called "excellent scripts" that come to the door are basically the same as dog shit in Wu Yuan's eyes.

Only Liu Yifei foolishly believes that the script is really good, or her literary youth disease breaks out, and she likes this kind of literary youth movie.

Every time Liu Yifei enthusiastically brings the script to Wu Yuan to read, he basically ruthlessly rejects it.

Wu Yuan also really feels Liu Yifei's level of film selection.

In later generations, many people believed that Liu Yifei's film career was not smooth, and most of them blamed Liu Xiaoli for giving her a lot of bad films.

But in fact, when Liu Xiaoli was Liu Yifei's agent, the movies she took for Liu Yifei were actually pretty good.

From "The Forbidden Kingdom" to "A Chinese Ghost Story", "The Four" and "The Palace of the Golden Phoenix", although they are not considered to be many fine works, they are at least successful in the field of commercial films.

At least the box office results are very good, and even the overseas copyrights have been sold, which has expanded Liu Yifei's influence and fame.

But since Liu Xiaoli got older and completely let go and retreated behind the scenes, Liu Yifei chose the movies herself, and the movies she took on are hard to describe.

Although there are also reasons why good productions and good scripts are not handed over to her, her own aesthetics in selecting movies is definitely problematic.

The commercial ones are not commercial enough, and the literary ones are too literary.

She has to take at least half of the blame for the problem of selecting movies.

The way literary young women select movies is really not good.

In this life, because Wu Yuan was in control of her, Liu Yifei avoided the problem of film selection. Although she did not appear in many movies, only one a year, all of them were well-made and sold well at the box office, which established her status as an Asian superstar!

Liu Yifei also obeyed him. At least in terms of movies, Wu Yuan's authority was unquestionable.

Whatever he said to shoot, Liu Yifei would shoot.

If he said the script was not good and it was a bad movie, even if Liu Yifei liked it very much, she would think Wu Yuan's opinion was right and think about why it was a bad movie.

Over time, her film selection aesthetics was more or less corrected by Wu Yuan.

At least this year, Liu Yifei handed Wu Yuan a lot fewer scripts to read, and the quality was also improved a lot, which shows that the effect of her own screening was already very good.

However, because her life trajectory has completely changed in this life, she has not been suppressed by Huayi and does not need to go south to the Hong Kong circle, so movies such as "Love Notice" and "A Chinese Ghost Story" are estimated to not find Liu Yifei here.

If "Better Days" goes well, Liu Yifei's status in the industry will be even higher, and it will be even more impossible for her to shoot these movies!

Her future lies in Chinese blockbusters and Hollywood blockbusters! (End of this chapter)