Chapter 629 Another Spring Festival

Wu Yuan had actually watched "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" in a movie theater in his previous life.

On the one hand, this movie was released during the Spring Festival, so he must have had time.

On the other hand, the promotion of this movie was really fierce at the time.

In fact, the promotional concept of "owing Stephen Chow a movie ticket" would not really become popular on the Internet until Stephen Chow's next movie, "The Mermaid".

But when "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" was released, it was already on the horizon.

In other words, it was Stephen Chow's producer, or Stephen Chow himself, who benefited from the netizens' spontaneous promotion of "owing Stephen Chow a movie ticket" during the release of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", and tasted the sweetness, so he promoted this aspect extensively when "The Mermaid" was released.

However, even if there was no promotion in this regard during "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", the intensity of other promotions was not small at all.

After all, this was the first movie in which Stephen Chow completely transformed since "CJ7".

In this movie, he was just a pure director and no longer acted in person.

In addition, the three main actors of this movie, Wen Zhang, Shu Qi, and Huang Bo, are all top actors.

Wen Zhang is currently a leading figure among young actors in the mainland. He is the top actor in the field of TV dramas, and in the field of movies, he has the box office of "Love Is Not Blind" and the acting skills of "Ocean Paradise".

Shu Qi is not to mention, one of the screen goddesses of two generations of Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainlanders.

Huang Bo, his "Lost in Thailand" just broke the box office record, raking in 1.2 billion box office.

These three main actors plus director Stephen Chow, it can be said that this lineup gives the producers 120% confidence!

The overwhelming, carpet-bombing publicity has been fully launched since half a month ago.

Even if Wu Yuan took the "Dear" crew to shoot in the mountainous areas of Yunnan and Guizhou, it is difficult not to receive related publicity news.

Now that he has returned to Beijing, he naturally plans to take his wife and mother-in-law to the cinema to watch this masterpiece.

It has to be said that "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" is still quite good, at least in terms of nonsense and absurdity, it is still above the passing line, and it is a work in the style of Stephen Chow.

Later works such as The Mermaid, Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons 2, and The New King of Comedy are really very different from Master Xing's early and middle-period works, and even make people feel that they are not Master Xing's works.

Wu Yuan actually likes Master Xing's works very much, but he only likes Master Xing's early and middle-period works, and he only likes the works, but he does not have too many filters for Master Xing as a person.

Because he is an insider in both lives, he actually knows that there is a huge gap between the Master Xing in his heart and the Master Xing in reality.

As fans, perhaps few people understand or deliberately ignore Master Xing's habitual cheating behavior.

From Athena Chu to Karen Mok to Yu Wenfeng, Master Xing always falls in love with the next girl before breaking up with the previous girl, and cheating is very straightforward.

But this is just a personal morality issue, and it does not affect his creation of interesting film works.

As fans, everyone will not know that Master Xing is actually a man who loves money very much.

Loving money is actually not a problem, no one does not love money.

But for the sake of money, he hurts the feelings of his relatives and friends, backstabs his brothers, and even becomes greedy in business cooperation, setting up contract traps to trap his partners, so that no matter the actors or companies that have worked with him, they have no good opinion of him, and even never have any contact with him, that is not a good behavior.

The more he understands, the more Wu Yuan feels that the star he admires in his heart and the star in reality are really very different.

Yes, how can a person not change in his life?

The young man who used nonsensical comedy to make everyone laugh has gone through decades of ups and downs and is no longer the same person at that time.

It's just that everyone is unwilling to admit this in their hearts. What everyone likes is never the star in reality, but the Zhou Xingxing in the movie.

Wu Yuan has only one opinion about the star in reality, that is, this is a businessman who knows business operations very well and does whatever it takes, that's all.

He admires director Zhou Xingxing and actor Zhou Xingxing, not businessman Xingye.

On New Year's Eve, Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei, mother and daughter, spent it together in a villa in the suburbs of Beijing.

This year, the mother and daughter had no plans to go back to Jiangcheng for the New Year, mainly because they had already gone back last year, and this year they stayed in Beijing with Wu Yuan.

As for going home to see their relatives, they would go back two or three times a year, not only during the Spring Festival.

On New Year's Eve, Liu Xiaoli personally cooked a table of feasts, and sat around the table with her daughter and son-in-law, watching the Spring Festival Gala while chatting and laughing while eating the New Year's Eve dinner.

The Spring Festival Gala is getting better and better every year, but if you really don't watch it, you always feel that something is missing.

The Spring Festival Gala program group is actually seeking change, and even contacted Wu Yuan, wanting to invite Wu Yuan to be the chief director of the Spring Festival Gala.

Not only him, Feng Xiaogang, Chen Kaige, and Zhang Yimou have also received invitations to the position of chief director of the Spring Festival Gala, only Jiang Wen has not.

But Wu Yuan, Chen Kaige, and Zhang Yimou all refused at the same time.

Only Feng Xiaogang, perhaps because he has too few honors, was very tempted by the position of chief director of the Spring Festival Gala. He knew it was a pitfall, but he still wanted to give it a try and challenge himself, so he took on the position of chief director of the 2014 Spring Festival Gala.

Very brave!

Wu Yuan was ready to watch the fun.

On the night of this year's Spring Festival Gala, Wu Yuan stayed up until more than three in the morning before he fell asleep with the fragrant Liu Yifei in his arms.

The next day, he had already instructed the Light and Shadow Times Cinema to book 20 screenings for "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" early in the morning, which was also the copyright infringement fee he paid for selling pirated discs of Stephen Chow.

At the same time, he also took Liu Yifei and her daughter, as well as several company employees in Beijing, and invited them to the cinema to watch "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" for free.

The news that Wu Yuan booked a theater to support Stephen Chow was also spread online by company employees and directly topped the Weibo hot search list.

Stephen Chow, who learned the news first, expressed his gratitude to Wu Yuan through the channels of China Film.

His active support can at least bring "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" an extra 10 or 20 million box office in public opinion. Stephen Chow was willing to give a few words of thanks, after all, Wu Yuan's behavior was giving him money!

At this point, Wu Yuan has finally paid off the debt he owed to Stephen Chow for selling pirated discs. (End of this chapter)