Chapter 299 The Butterfly Flapped Its Wings

Beijing International Airport, VIP lounge.

The "Pirates of the Caribbean" promotion team that has landed in Beijing is waiting in the lounge for the airport staff's arrangements.

There is no way, the news of Wu Yuan's return to China cannot be concealed from mainland fans. When they boarded the plane from Tokyo, they were surrounded by reporters and fans at Beijing International Airport.

If they leave the airport now, being surrounded by reporters and fans is a small matter, and affecting the normal operation of the entire airport is a big deal.

So the airport simply opened a VIP channel for them, and sent them directly to the VIP lounge after getting off the plane. After a while, they took a shuttle bus to the parking lot used by the airport's internal employees and left directly by car.

No one had any objections.

Orlando even leisurely took out his laptop, connected to the airport's network, and started playing with the computer.

He is a heavy computer user.

"Hey, Crystal, congratulations!"

"The latest Billboard singles chart has been released, and your new song "Good Time" has won the championship!"

"Wow, now the first place is your song, and the third place is also your song. Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" has been squeezed to the second place!"

"Haha, Katy Perry's "I Kissed A Girl" has even been squeezed to the fourth place. This is a song that has won the championship for four weeks."

Looking at the computer page that has just been opened, Orlando exclaimed with envy.

"Good time" won the Billboard singles chart championship in one fell swoop almost two weeks after its release!

It should be the benefit of "Call Me Maybe". After all, this song is very popular all over the world now, and with Timberlake's popularity, the new song "Good Time" quickly became popular after its release.

"Crystal, you are really amazing. You are a good actor and a good singer."

Orlando shook his head and sighed. In Hollywood, there are really too few stars who can be in the three spheres of film, television and music.

Cheng Long was not surprised by this. There were many actors in the Hong Kong entertainment industry who were good at acting, singing, and dancing. The Four Heavenly Kings were also good at singing, dancing, and acting.

Even he himself had released an album.

The only thing that surprised him was that Liu Yifei became popular in North America, not in China.

"Director Wu, your talent is really amazing." Cheng Long put his hand on Wu Yuan's shoulder: "You wrote these two songs of Yifei, right?"

"What's wrong with your brain? You write good movie scripts and are good at directing, but you are also good at writing cross-border songs."

"You are really gifted!"

Wu Yuan could only laugh at this: "Filming and making music have something in common. They are both artistic creations!"

This is not wrong. Many directors actually write songs for their own movies, but most of them only write lyrics and then find professional musicians to compose music.

It's not a very outrageous thing for Wu Yuan to compose his own music.

"Hehe, it's not me who's awesome, it's my boyfriend~" Liu Yifei raised her chin proudly, looking at Wu Yuan with some admiration.

Since she officially announced her relationship with her boyfriend some time ago, she has not been shy in front of everyone, wishing that the whole world knows that she has an awesome boyfriend.

"Okay." Orlando curled his lips: "If I were a woman, I would also fall in love with Daniel."

"After all, it's really hard to find a second director as talented and handsome as him."

"Crystal, you have to be careful." Orlando winked and teased.

"Humph." Liu Yifei's chin was raised higher, she didn't believe that the coquettish bitch outside could seduce her senior brother away.

This piece of Tang Monk meat, she is eating it to death!

"Dongdongdong."

"Dear guests, the shuttle bus is ready, we can go to the parking lot."

An airport staff member knocked on the door and interrupted their conversation.

Wu Yuan and others quickly ended their chat, stood up and followed the staff in an orderly manner, preparing to take a car to leave the airport.

At the Shangri-La Hotel in Beijing, the team led by Wu Yuan successfully joined the team led by Depp.

The main creators of the "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" crew began their last stop of global publicity.

However, compared with publicity, they are more like traveling, and it is a public-funded tour.

The release of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" in China really cannot be reversed by a few Hollywood stars.

After the box office in the mainland exceeded 100 million, the daily box office performance of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" in the mainland can only barely reach a level of several million a day.

Even if Depp and other leading actors held several fan meetings under the arrangement of China Film (China Film is the mainland distributor), accepted interviews from many media reporters and TV stations, and even appeared on the "China Film Report" column of the Sixth Princess, it only stimulated the box office.

The box office on that day jumped from several million to more than 10 million, that's all.

The reason why Wu Yuan tried his best to promote this trip to China was not really to promote this movie.

He wanted Hollywood stars like Depp, Orlando, and Keira to come and see China in person and change their impression of China.

By the way, I am also doing my part to show my hospitality as a host. After all, they may not be able to collaborate on the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series in the future. Wu Yuan also wants to invite them to China to have some fun before "parting ways".

"Wow, Daniel, is China already so modern?"

"This is completely different from the various news reports I have seen in the United States!"

When Wu Yuan took them around the city, visited the already built Bird's Nest, and visited Xidan and Wangfujing, which are full of high-rise buildings, Wu Yuan heard such comments from Depp.

"Depp, I have told you many times before that China today is completely different from what Americans think of it."

Wu Yuan sighed: "We Chinese have an old saying, which is that seeing is believing, and hearing is false."

"Now that you have seen the rapidly developing China with your own eyes, you are finally sure that what I said is not a lie, right?"

In the eyes of most Americans, China today is still the impression of the 1970s and 1980s, including the mainstream media in the United States.

When Wu Yuan was in the United States, he saw many articles with photos from the 1980s and articles introducing China.

He could do nothing about it.

The only way Wu Yuan could think of to change China's international image was to let these influential Hollywood stars see the current situation of China with their own eyes, and let them use their own influence to subtly influence fans to change their impression of China.

"It is indeed completely different from what I imagined China to be." Orlando, who also finished shopping in Xidan, agreed.

However, he also had some things he didn't understand: "Daniel, although the capital of China is not as good as international metropolises such as New York and Los Angeles, it is also a very modern city."

"This shows that China is already very developed, at least not as backward as we think."

"Then why is China's film market so weak?"

"With more than one billion Chinese people, there is only a box office market of less than 500 million US dollars each year?"

"This is not even as high as the box office of a Hollywood blockbuster movie!"

Orlando's words immediately choked Wu Yuan speechless.

Yes, last year the total box office in mainland China was only 3.3 billion RMB, which is less than 500 million USD.

Even if movie tickets in mainland China are much cheaper than in the United States, the gap is still too big.

"Soon, in a few years the Chinese film market will develop rapidly." Wu Yuan could only answer like this.

Orlando had an expression of "I don't believe you" and didn't care about Wu Yuan's words at all, just thinking that he was just talking about politeness.

Wu Yuan, on the other hand, began to ponder.

When did the Chinese film market surpass North America?

2018, or 2019?

It will be in ten years, very soon!

And it seems that the number of screens in the Chinese film market exceeded that of North America in 2016.

The number of IMAX screens even beats North America.

This is the latecomer advantage!

"Okay, let's not talk about this topic anymore." Wu Yuan came back to his senses and said with a smile: "Let's go, I'll take you to taste the most famous food in Beijing, Quanjude Roast Duck!"

When mentioning Chinese food, Depp immediately became energetic: "Let's go, let's go!"

The creators of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" stayed in Beijing for a total of three days, participated in an offline movie viewing, accepted many media reporters, and recorded the show of Princess 6. Most of the creators said goodbye to Wu Yuan and flew back to the United States.

They still have a little bit of final promotion to do in North America.

Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei stayed in China and did not go back to the United States with them.

The promotion work of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" has basically been completed, and the global box office has reached the figure of 800 million US dollars. Whether it can rely on the aftereffects of the global release to reach a total box office of 1 billion US dollars depends on God's will.

For Wu Yuan, this movie is no longer his focus.

There is another more important thing waiting for him.

Gravity, the first Chinese hard science fiction blockbuster that took three years to prepare, produce and shoot, is about to be released nationwide!

Before the New Year, Gravity was scheduled for July 4.

Now there is less than half a month left before the release of this movie.

Wu Yuan must stay in China to start preheating and promoting this movie.

In fact, this movie has long been known to all Chinese fans, and everyone has always been full of expectations and doubts about this movie.

Can Chinese people really make good science fiction movies?

Does China have the soil for science fiction movies?

Since the birth of the project, Gravity has been controversial, with many supporters, many ridiculers and doubters, and the public opinion on the Internet has always been 50-50 positive and negative.

In the past three years, whenever someone mentions this movie, it will trigger a lot of discussion, and it is common for supporters and doubters to argue for hundreds of floors in the post.

As for the promotion, Wu Yuan doesn't need to spend any more time, this movie is already well known.

However, Wu Yuan never expected that in order to cooperate with the movie "Gravity" and boost China's image as a space power, the higher-ups actually prepared a big move.

The day after seeing off the main creators of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", Wu Yuan received a phone call from the Space Administration.

"Director Wu, Shenzhou VII is ready for launch. It is expected to be launched on July 10 and conduct extravehicular activities on July 12!"

"Now it's up to you!"

Yes, because of the appearance of the movie "Gravity", the butterfly flapped its wings, and the launch of the Shenzhou VII project was advanced by two months!

Wu Yuan inadvertently changed history. (End of this chapter)