Chapter 502: Love Letter Completed

“That’s the thing.”

“You go and contact Sina. Whether it’s a simple capital injection or a stock swap, I can accept it.”

“Well, the company still has hundreds of millions of liquid funds in its account. Sina will definitely be tempted.”

“Internet companies are well-known for their ability to burn money. Sina Weibo has only been established for two years. Although it has not been spun off independently, it has also received a lot of strategic investment.”

“Didn’t Alibaba buy 10% of Sina’s shares?”

“Besides, Sina is engaged in Internet entertainment. We are the largest entertainment company in the mainland. Sina cannot be unwilling to join forces.”

“Well, that’s it. You go and try to contact them. ”

After hanging up the phone, Wu Yuan let out a long sigh.

He knew very well that Sina was very short of money to develop the Weibo portal.

Because Sina Weibo was almost a very important enterprise in the entertainment industry in the future, he also had a little understanding of the company.

At the beginning, Sina introduced Ali's investment. Later in 2013, Sina announced that it would split its business into two major sectors, the portal website and Sina Weibo, and cooperate with Ali. The latter increased its stake in the split Weibo to 30%, becoming the second largest shareholder of the independently operated Weibo product.

Even so, with the introduction of Ali's investment, Weibo finally succeeded in becoming the only one, and it also burned a lot of money.

When Weibo was listed in 2014, it planned to raise US$500 million, including US$2.5 1 billion US dollars to repay the loan owed to Sina Corporation.

Although this is a transfer from one hand to the other, it also shows that Sina spent at least 300 million US dollars to make Weibo a success.

This is nearly 20 billion RMB!

Although Wu Yuan does not know how much money Alibaba spent to acquire 30% of Weibo's shares, and how many Internet promotion channels it provided to Weibo.

But Wu Yuan's ambition is not that big. Wu Yuan is not a business tycoon, and he can't play the Internet industry.

He just wants a few Weibo shares.

What he cares about is to become "one of us" with Weibo, so that in the future, Light and Shadow Times can rely on Weibo's ability to guide public opinion in the Internet entertainment era and be invincible.

As for expecting to make money from Weibo, it is really impossible. An idea.

Filming movies and TV series, running theaters, investing in film and television, and acting as an artist agent are already profitable enough, and these are the areas he is best at.

After talking to Li Xiaoping about the cooperation with Weibo, he handed the specific work over to Li Xiaoping.

As the largest entertainment company in China, its current development strategy is based on celebrities in the entertainment industry, rather than Sina Weibo, which focuses on the cultural and sports industry like Penguin Weibo. It should still be very interested in cooperating with Light and Shadow Times.

More than half a month later.

Magic City, the set of "Love Letter".

Today the crew came to a cemetery park in the suburbs of Magic City.

This cemetery park is very old and was established as early as the 1950s.

Here, many ancestors who have returned to heaven and earth are buried.

Wu Yuan is holding Holding a bouquet of flowers, standing next to a tombstone with a photo of an elderly woman on it.

This cemetery is of course not a real cemetery, but an empty cemetery that the staff specially borrowed from the cemetery park manager.

And this tombstone, which looks very old and full of ancient and dusty feeling, is also a new tombstone that has been made old.

"Lin Yaer"

"1901-1972"

Looking at the black and white photo of the elderly version of Liu Yifei with old-age makeup and special effects on the tombstone, Wu Yuan felt an indescribable weirdness in his heart.

I didn't feel it when I was a director before, but now I am an actor. Seeing my fiancée who is living well, the photo is posted on the tombstone, and I have to play a man who missed her next, it really feels strange.

"Xixi, did you get the red envelope?"

"Are the firecrackers ready?"

Wu Yuan turned to the staff on the scene and asked.

The responsible stage manager nodded quickly: "The firecrackers have been bought! ”

In domestic film crews, there is an unwritten rule that if actors have to play death scenes, coffin scenes, or death scenes, then after filming, the crew will give them red envelopes, or set off firecrackers after the performance, for good luck and to ward off evil spirits.

Although Liu Yifei did not need to really play a dead person this time, just her photo on the tombstone also made Wu Yuan feel a little sad.

He has always disbelieved in these metaphysical things, but it is rare for him to prepare a whole set of "lucky" measures.

After making sure that everything is ready, he took a deep breath, "Then let's start shooting."

The deputy director in charge of on-site dispatch quickly picked up the walkie-talkie.

"All units get ready!"

"Three, two, one!"

"Start the camera! "

With the sound of a board, Wu Yuan raised the flowers in his hand, half squatted down, and touched the tombstone with a trembling hand.

His eyes were firm, but his eyes were red.

After staring at the photo on the tombstone for a long time, his hand moved down and touched the epitaph on the tombstone.

"I will never forget you, even if I have never seen you."

This sentence is the last sentence left by Lin Yaer, who is sleeping in the cemetery, to the male protagonist.

Wu Yuan, who was still able to hold back his tears, had a tear from the corner of his eye slowly slide down, leaving a tear mark on his cheek.

The close-up camera that had been prepared immediately captured this close-up shot.

"Director Wu's acting skills are great, he sheds tears at the drop of a hat!" Many of the on-site staff who were far away were talking in low voices, a little amazed.

This time in "Love Letter", Wu Yuan's acting skills were obviously much better than in "Ghost", which surprised many crew members who thought that he was only suitable for a director and not an actor.

In the studio, Wu Yuan's drama continued.

Just as he was crying while looking at the tombstone, a golden retriever holding a leash suddenly rushed into the close-up view and was carried into Wu Yuan's arms, as if he regarded him as its master.

Wu Yuan, who suddenly encountered this situation, also had a look of astonishment on his face.

Before he could react, Liu Yifei, wearing a white windbreaker and a beautiful gauze skirt, followed behind and trotted over.

"Sorry, I didn't notice that my hand was loosened for a moment."

Liu Yifei pulled the golden retriever's leash and pulled it into her arms, while still apologizing: "Didn't I scare you?"

However, when Wu Yuan raised his head and saw Liu Yifei's familiar face, his pupils suddenly dilated and his expression was completely dull.

"Sir?" Liu Yifei thought he was frightened, so she shouted again cautiously.

Only then did Wu Yuan come back to his senses, with a bright smile on his face.

The two close-up machines at the scene kept capturing scenes on the faces of Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei.

The breeze kept rustling the leaves, and the pleasant and warm sunshine hit the two people's faces, as if they were covered with a layer of golden light.

"Can I buy you a drink?" They both said in unison with genuine smiles on their faces.

Liu Yifei seemed a little shy. She didn't know why she impulsively invited the strange man in front of her. She lowered her head in embarrassment and stretched out her hand to push back the wind-blown hair on her face.

The smile on Wu Yuan's face became even brighter, his eyes fixed on the shy girl.

The picture was fixed on the two people standing facing each other, and slowly zoomed out.

"Click!"

The assistant director on the scene slapped it down personally and said with the same bright smile: "Director Wu, your acting is great!"

"I think I can do it all over again!"

"We can wrap it up!"