Chapter 307: Hollywood's Olive Branch, "Red Cliff" Will Be Released

Chapter 307: Hollywood’s olive branch, “Red Cliff” will be released!

Wang Xueqi is very popular, he is so popular that he is so popular that he is red-hot.

The character of Commander Li is too majestic and upright, and fits the public's impression of "Chinese soldiers" very well.

He is funny but also very responsible. Even in the lonely and dark space, he can give people a sense of security. It seems that with him, all difficulties are not a problem, even if he is "lost" in space. .

Dr. Li Wei, played by Gong Li, can be said to have played a decisive role in successfully returning to Earth. Even after he sacrificed his own life in exchange for Li Wei's survival, he would continue to experience hallucinations in the form of hallucinations. Appearing inspired Li Wei to persevere.

The most important thing is that although the character of Commander Lee is in space, he is very grounded.

He will also miss the beautiful scenery of the Northeast in winter, miss the big lake where he often goes fishing, and also want to return to the earth.

But he is the leader of the entire team, and he carries the responsibility of everyone on his shoulders.

So he gave up his own life to let Li Wei live and save Li Wei.

It was precisely because of his sacrifice that Li Wei found the meaning of life, allowing her to think of him and his teachings every time she faced a desperate situation and seemed to be about to die, and rekindled her desire to survive.

The character of Commander Lee is so heroic that it is difficult for people not to have a favorable impression of this character after watching the movie.

Wang Xueqi, who played this role, naturally became popular in China quickly.

Before starring in "Gravity", Wang Xueqi was not well-known, even though he was the leading actor in Chen Kaige's "Yellow Earth".

He has always been working in the field of TV dramas and has acted in many popular TV dramas, but his fame is limited to middle-aged people.

It's different now. Through the movie "Gravity", he has become famous among young people in one fell swoop.

More importantly, with the very popular role of "Commander Li", Wang Xueqi seems to have successfully opened up his acting career in Hollywood!

Although Wu Yuan's movie has not been released in North America, it does not mean that no North Americans pay attention to it.

On the contrary, the six major Hollywood companies, as well as other second- and third-tier film and television companies, are all paying attention to the release of the movie "Gravity".

Let's put it this way, if there is a Chinese director who can promote Asian actors in the international market, only Wu Yuan can do it.

It was Wu Yuan who single-handedly introduced Liu Yifei to the international market and became an internationally renowned actor and singer.

The Big Six in Hollywood are not fools. After seeing Wu Yuan bring out Liu Yifei, they will of course pay attention to Wu Yuan's actions and the actors in his hands.

Otherwise, Hollywood is said to be very open and welcomes outstanding film professionals from all over the world, but it is still a white man's world.

It is impossible for other ethnic minorities and even white Europeans to gain power in Hollywood.

Hollywood can tolerate a non-white or non-American gaining fame in North America, whether as an actor or a director, but it cannot tolerate him touching the power of Hollywood.

Wu Yuan has now come into contact with the dangers of this taboo area.

Although Liu Yifei's popularity is also due to the channels behind Disney and the big Disney project "Pirates of the Caribbean", Liu Yifei's economic contract is under Wu Yuan's banner.

During the cooperation, Disney was very happy to help Liu Yifei promote her reputation, because this would make the box office of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" better.

But now that the cooperation is over, Disney has immediately turned its back on him and doesn't want Wu Yuan to promote more Chinese actors in Hollywood.

There can be Chinese actors who have made a name for themselves in Hollywood, but they cannot all be artists under Wu Yuan's banner.

Otherwise, wouldn't Wu Yuan become the "father" of the Asian community in Hollywood, suddenly emerge as the seventh force outside of the six major ones in Hollywood?

Damn it, no native-born black man in the United States dares to do this. Will Smith is famous all over the world, and he does not dare to form a small black group.

How could the Big Six of Hollywood tolerate Wu Yuan doing this?

Therefore, they are always watching Wu Yuan's actions in China and paying attention to the situation of the movie "Gravity".

The movie itself is actually not bad. If you look at it outside of the Chinese identity, "Gravity" is a Hollywood-level science fiction movie. At most, the script is better and has a bit of an Oscar-level feel. It’s not like I’m going to criticize Hollywood.

But the actors in this movie are different.

It's okay with Gong Li. She has already been trying to cooperate with Hollywood and want to break into Hollywood.

Now if Gong Li can become a god in China with the movie "Gravity", Hollywood will not mind attracting this Chinese superstar to develop in North America. After all, she has a vast Chinese market behind her.

The same goes for Wang Xueqi.

Even with the movie "Gravity", he gained more favorability from the Chinese public than Gong Li.

The six major Hollywood actors know how useful an actor is with public favorability and mass support.

In front of the camera, Will Smith is humble, humorous, loyal to his family, and loving to his children. He does not have any bad habits of black people. The style he displays is simply that of a top ten idol. Without the guidance of the Big Six behind his back, who would believe it?

Now, a Chinese actor whose screen image is similar to that of Will Smith and who has won a lot of national favorability in China has appeared. How can the Sixth National Congress have no ideas?

The first three days of the mainland box office of Gravity were 165 million yuan, and the second week box office even increased instead of decreasing, winning 226 million yuan in one fell swoop.

Such box office performance also attracted the attention of the six major Hollywood companies. The box office of 400 million yuan is not a small amount of money even for Hollywood.

At the first time, Warner and Universal, two Hollywood companies that entered the mainland market earlier and have offices in Beijing, both extended olive branches to Wang Xueqi.

They can accept more Asian faces in Hollywood, but they cannot accept that these new Asian faces are all Wu Yuan's people.

Yes, they want to pull Wang Xueqi into their camp first, work for them, and open up the Chinese market for them, rather than being Wu Yuan's general and helping Wu Yuan conquer the North American market in turn.

Wang Xueqi, who was running a roadshow with Wu Yuan, soon received an excited message from his agent.

"Warner Bros. Pictures invites you to audition for their Inception project next year. There is an important supporting role in the script, Saito, who is a Japanese businessman!"

"Universal Pictures invites you to audition for Green Zone. Universal has added an Asian soldier role in this movie. Considering your experience in acting in many Chinese military-themed TV series, we invite you to audition!"

"Teacher Wang! This is a Hollywood movie project!"

Facing the agent's excited scream, Wang Xueqi was not as excited as the agent. Instead, he kept a very calm attitude. He just shook his head, pushed the agent away with his hand, and walked out of the room directly.

"Dong Dong Dong..."

Hearing the knock on the door, Wu Yuan gestured to his assistant Xiao Zhang to open the door in confusion.

"Teacher Wang, what are you doing?"

Seeing that it was Wang Xueqi standing outside the door, Xiao Zhang was very surprised. It was already past ten o'clock in the evening, and he had to go to another city for a road show tomorrow. Why did Wang Xueqi come to Wu Yuan now?

But he was not slow in his movements. He turned sideways and led Wang Xueqi into the room.

Seeing him, Wu Yuan was also a little confused, but before he could ask, Wang Xueqi said, "Director Wu, I have something I want to ask you for advice on..."

He told Wu Yuan all the news that Hollywood invited him to audition.

In Wang Xueqi's view, his current achievements are obviously attributed to Wu Yuan, and Wu Yuan is the person in China who is most familiar with Hollywood. Faced with this sudden invitation, he still wanted to ask Wu Yuan's opinion.

Wang Xueqi, who is already in his sixties this year, is mature and steady.

After listening to Wang Xueqi's story, Wu Yuan didn't think anything was wrong, and smiled: "It's good!"

"It's a good thing that Hollywood can throw you an olive branch. This shows that they are optimistic about you and the Chinese base behind you!"

"Now Hollywood is paying more and more attention to the Chinese market, thanks to the good example Yao Ming has set in the NBA."

Since Yao Ming was selected to the NBA, the entire NBA league has taken off in China. The league alone can earn hundreds of millions of yuan in China a year. The Rockets, where Yao Ming is, rely on Yao Ming alone to support the finances of the entire team.

This has made countless North American capitalists re-examine the land of China.

This is a land with countless wealth.

The premise is that they have to master the key to open this land before they can enter this land to make a fortune.

For Hollywood, the key is the actors with Chinese faces.

"Director Wu, do you mean, can we try this?" Wang Xueqi's tone finally showed a hint of excitement until this time.

Old actors in their sixties also want to improve.

"Of course!" Wu Yuan nodded affirmatively: "If you want me to give you some advice, my suggestion is to go all out for the movie "Inception", and forget about Universal's "Green Zone."

The role of Saito, the Japanese businessman in "Inception", is quite good, at least much better than Wang Xueqi's China-only version of "Transformers 3", right?

Wu Yuan didn't have the idea that Wang Xueqi would break away from him and fly solo. In his plan, there was no place for Wang Xueqi in Time.

It's a good thing that a Hollywood project can actively find him now.

"Warner should want to please the markets of two countries at the same time, so they put a Japanese businessman role in the script, and this role has a very important role."

"Then they asked you to audition for this role, and they wanted to use a Chinese actor to play it, so that they can win the markets of both Japan and China at the same time."

Wu Yuan smacked his lips and sighed.

From this aspect, we can also see that Warner really has no confidence in the movie "Inception". They are really afraid that the movie will lose money, so they try to please the Japanese market in the script. After all, Japan is the second largest movie box office in the world.

Now they want Wang Xueqi to play this role again. It is nothing more than seeing the exaggerated performance of "Gravity" in the mainland, and hope that Wang Xueqi can escort "Inception" again.

As for the rumor that "Inception" is a project that Hollywood is not optimistic about, and Nolan does not have enough money, it is really too funny.

If there was this opportunity, Wu Yuan would have intervened long ago.

In fact, the Inception project was not short of money at all. Nolan's own company, Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. almost took up all the investment, leaving only a little bit of money to be distributed to an independent film company with which they had cooperated many times.

"Okay." Wang Xueqi nodded solemnly: "Thank you Director Wu for your advice. I will seriously consider it."

Wang Xueqi stood up and smiled: "Then I won't disturb Director Wu's rest."

The next day, Wu Yuan, Wang Xueqi and Gong Li continued to run the road show.

They had high hopes for this movie. The final box office performance of this movie would not only affect their present, but also their future.

At least, Gong Li and Wang Xueqi had tasted the sweetness of this movie and received many audition invitations from Hollywood.

Of course, they hoped that the box office of Gravity would be better and add a solid result for them.

And at this time, the action above finally took effect.

In first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Suzhou, and Hangzhou, all primary schools, middle schools, and high schools immediately organized group movie-watching activities under the arrangement of a thin notice.

Now, autumn outings, spring outings, and watching movies are still group activities that all major schools must arrange every year.

Primary school students wearing red scarves, junior high school and high school students wearing school uniforms, led by teachers, came to the cinema near the school in classes to watch the space science film "Gravity" together.

For these students, this movie-watching experience will definitely plant a seed in their young hearts.

This movie is really shocking.

Whether it is the loneliness and beautiful space rendered in the movie, or the meaning of life shown by the male and female protagonists struggling to survive, they are all shocking.

Perhaps, they can't understand some of the profound meanings contained in this movie at once, just like most people don't immediately understand the ideological conflict between the colonizers and the colonized when they first watch "Avatar".

But everyone was still attracted and moved by the film's gorgeous special effects and "simple" storyline.

Not only these students, but also major state-owned enterprises and public service departments organized group viewing activities.

Compared with children, adults can understand this movie more easily.

Compared with the previous organization of watching various patriotic education films, fatherly and motherly education films, the space disaster film "Gravity" brought them an extremely wonderful viewing experience.

Sometimes things promoted by administrative power are not necessarily all bad things.

At least this time, the collective viewing arranged by the Ministry of Culture made most of the students and public officials who watched the movie very satisfied.

However, if there was no 500-word review after watching the movie, it would be even more perfect!

Many children walked out of the cinema happily, and when they heard from the teacher that they had to write a review, their happy little faces immediately wrinkled into bitter melons.

The box office of "Gravity", supported by this wave of vitality, has reached an exaggerated and unprecedented figure of 500 million RMB!

However, at this time, the wolf came.

"Red Cliff", a super costume war blockbuster that has also been prepared for several years and promoted to everyone, is about to be released!

I had a good sleep yesterday, it was so comfortable,