Chapter 331 The Mainland Movie Boom Is Coming!

Time went back for a long time.

Venice Lido Island.

After the closing ceremony, Wu Yuan returned to the hotel with the excited crew members.

"Brother, are those words you said on the podium true or false?"

"Is this true or false?"

As soon as she returned to the hotel room, Liu Yifei couldn't wait to ask what she had been holding back.

In fact, she wanted to ask when Wu Yuan stepped down from the stage, but she held back in public.

Hehehe, brother confessed to her passionately on the podium in Venice.

Liu Yifei never thought that Wu Yuan, who was relatively dull in love, would do such a thing.

Happiness, joy, and a little bit of unreality filled her heart.

"So I'm so important to you, I'm not only your perfect lover, but also your mentor on the road of love."

"Hahaha, you've always taught me this and that, but I didn't expect that I'd teach you too."

Looking at the boastful Liu Yifei, Wu Yuan shook his head and laughed, rubbing her head with a smile.

What he said at the award ceremony was indeed 80% sincere.

Before he talked to Liu Yifei, he was indeed very pessimistic about love.

There's no way, you can't expect an assistant director or executive director who has been in the lower and middle levels of the entertainment industry for more than ten years in his dreams to have any yearning for love.

He has seen too many dirty things in the circle.

Although, the first-line big directors who really made it usually don't lose the big picture for the small, and don't do things like hidden rules that are a big loss for themselves, such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige.

But in a circle, the real large number is often the middle and lower levels.

In the online drama circle, online movies, ordinary TV series, and small and medium-cost theater movies, too many producers, assistant directors, and executive directors engage in pornographic transactions.

When the body is just a tool for promotion, and after seeing too many actors who can sleep with anyone as long as they can get a role, Wu Yuan really doesn't believe in the so-called love.

So after a big dream, Wu Yuan focused all his attention on his career and didn't touch love at all.

Until Liu Yifei appeared, she subtly changed Wu Yuan's view of love and made him want to try the bitterness of love.

However, he didn't taste the bitterness, but he tasted a lot of sweetness, which made him less pessimistic about love. Although he still doesn't believe in the everlasting love, at least he will take the initiative to embrace love and the world.

In the past, he was more floating in the world, always feeling that he had some separation from reality, but now he has integrated into reality and enjoys it.

From this point of view, Liu Yifei is indeed his soul guide in this life.

After she knew all this, the girlfriend was really proud, with her hands on her hips.

"Okay, okay, didn't the saints say that there must be a teacher among three people?"

"I have indeed learned a lot from you and changed a lot."

"Couples should support each other and grow up. This is a healthy love."

Wu Yuan embraced her in his arms lovingly. Leaning in his arms, Liu Yifei's face also showed a touching expression.

All along, she thought that it was her "shameless" that made Wu Yuan fall in love with her. In career and life, she seemed to be unable to help Wu Yuan, like a dispensable pendant.

But now, she knows that she is also very important to Wu Yuan, and she can't lose her.

This is the other half!

In Venice, Wu Yuan stayed for a few more days.

He has been dragging his feet on the overseas copyright of "A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die" and waiting to sell it at the highest point after the film festival.

Film distributors knew his idea and immediately came to discuss business after winning the award.

There is nothing much to say about the details. As the seller, Wu Yuan just needs to wait for the price.

In the end, he sold the distribution rights in Europe, the Middle East, South America, North America, Australia, New Zealand and most of Asia. The release and DVD rights were packaged and sold for a total of 56 million yuan, 16 million more than Jia Zhangke's "Still Life".

It's not that Wu Yuan's fame is only worth 16 million, but that these film distributors can afford so much money.

Art films are becoming increasingly weak in the global market, and the film market in Europe, its home base, has been shrinking in recent years.

A country's film distributors can only afford tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars at most. Otherwise, if the price is higher, they will lose money.

This is why after five or eight years, mainland art film directors no longer value European awards so much, and call on mainland audiences to go to the cinema more often to support art films.

In 2000, tens of millions of movie revenue was a very high number, and commercial films in the mainland could not even earn a fraction of this number, so no one cared about the mainland market.

But after 2010, it was as easy as drinking water for mainland movies to break the 100 million box office, and tens of millions of copyright fees were not worth mentioning.

For Wu Yuan, "A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die", which cost less than 10 million yuan, was sold for 56 million yuan in copyright fees, which was already very profitable.

But a few years later, "Lost in Thailand", which cost only 30 million to produce, won 1.2 billion box office in the mainland, with a profit 17 times higher than the cost. Guangguang received 430 million, which is higher than the profit of art films that won the Golden Lion Award.

Holding the final copyright sales data in his hand, Wu Yuan sighed on the plane back to China: "Alas, the glorious era of art films is almost over."

"What's wrong?" Liu Yifei, who was sitting next to him, asked puzzledly: "56 million is a good result!"

"It's good, but compared with the mainland box office market, it's getting less and less." Wu Yuan shook his head: "Next, the company will support more mainland movies."

"The long-delayed "Painted Skin 2" should also be prepared."

Next year, he will have no time to work on mainland film projects for a whole year, and he will go to Hollywood to work on "Interstellar".

Starting from 2010, the mainland film market will completely explode. The appearance of "Avatar" will tell all mainland filmmakers that the Chinese market can already accommodate a giant with a single film box office of 1 billion.

Countless quick money and hot money will flow into the mainland film market with increasing intensity, and movie theaters in various places will also expand like crazy.

This east wind, Light and Shadow Times must get involved.

Before, Wu Yuan originally wanted to find Wu Ershan and train him to be a tool for the company's commercial films.

But after Wu Ershan helped Wu Yuan shoot a domestic version of "The Butterfly Effect", which took 20 million box office in the mainland and broke even, he went to work alone.

Wu Ershan has connections and is not short of money, so he is unwilling to be a worker under Wu Yuan.

He then turned to support new directors and discovered two commercial film directors, Liu Meichuan and Li Yang, as well as three art film directors, Li Ruijun, Cheng Er, and Han Yan.

With Zhang Guorong, the company's top general, Guangying Times now has no shortage of directors who can make good movies, only suitable scripts.

Wu Yuan thought that he had to work hard and copy a few suitable scripts for the company's directors to shoot, at least to catch up with the first wave of mainland movies taking off in 2010.

"By the way, Xue Xiaolu's "Ocean Paradise" should be released soon, right?" he muttered to himself.

Xue Xiaolu is also one of the first directors supported by Guangying Times' director support plan, but her film was waiting for Jet Li's schedule until "The Warlords" was released, and she finally had time to join the crew to shoot this movie.

Now the filming of this movie has been completed, and the post-production is almost done, so it can be scheduled for release.

Art films like "Ocean Paradise" will definitely not sell well, but after Xue Xiaolu has practiced, she can try to shoot some movies that are more suitable for female directors.

For example, chick flicks like "Love Is Not Blind"!

Thinking of this, Wu Yuan turned around and said to Liu Yifei: "Xixi, after returning to China, you should go to the United States first. I have to deal with some things in my company. Come back later."

I wrote less today, and I will add another thousand words tomorrow.