director of the millennium

Chapter 144 "Rush Hour 3" Postponed, Entering the TV Drama Market?
Wu Yuan talked with Han Dong all afternoon.

In the end, he agreed to Director Han's suggestion that he really had to shoot the first part of "Painted Skin".

If you want to make a sequel later, you can consider changing the director, and the risk will be lower.

But Wu Yuan really wanted to make that "Love".

Time waits for no one, and delaying this for a year will delay a lot of things.

This time it was delayed for a year, next time it was delayed for another year, and 2010 passed in the blink of an eye. It would be a little too late for Wu Yuan to make a literary film to compete for awards.

By that time, the country was really in an era when commercial films were king. People like Chief Jia were almost in disgrace. How could they be as prosperous as they are now?

After much deliberation, Wu Yuan felt that he still had to push "Rush Hour 3" back.

This movie is really not rushed.

Originally "Rush Hour 3" was only filmed in 2007, and the first part of the "Kingsman" series was only released in 2015.

Wu Yuan has plenty of time to do this series, so he is not in a hurry.

Whatever he wanted to do, Wu Yuan made an overseas call to John and New Line that night, taking into account the time difference.

Of course, John has no objection. He is already busy with the projects he is working on. "The Hangover 2" is already scheduled to be released and should be released this summer. There will also be "Fake Marriage" to follow.

John also bought the film adaptation rights of "Night at the Museum" under Wu Yuan's instructions, and is now negotiating cooperation with Fox.

It doesn't matter to him whether he does the series of "Kingsman Agent" now.

On the contrary, the new line tried their best to persuade Wu Yuan that the new line was ready, and the schedules of Cheng Long and Will Smith were almost coordinated, and the schedule for the second half of this year could be vacated.

As a result, Wu Yuan stopped filming here, and couldn't spare time, Elard was so unwilling.

But who told them that they couldn't change directors, and they couldn't find a better director than Wu Yuan to take over "Rush Hour 3".

In desperation, under Wu Yuan's insistence, Elard could only agree to put "Rush Hour 3" in 2006 for filming.

No way, there is no schedule for Wu Yuan in 2005.

"Pirates of the Caribbean 2" will definitely be filmed in 2005, and Wu Yuan really has no way to postpone this project. He has signed a contract with Disney. He has to cooperate with Disney, not Disney with him.

Unlike "Rush Hour 3", the contract has not been signed yet, and Wu Yuan can arrange it at will.

So far, Wu Yuan has arranged the work for the next year and a half.

During the summer vacation, the literary film "Love" was shot. This kind of literary film is easier to shoot. It doesn't need to change scenes, and it can be shot in about a month.

After filming "Love", he will start working on "Painted Skin 1" non-stop, and strive to finish filming this film before March next year.

Because according to Wu Yuan's memory, "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" will start shooting in March next year, and filming will not be completed until September.

As for after September, he really wanted to give himself a holiday and have a little rest.

After shooting three films in a row, Wu Yuan was only 22 years old, so his body could handle it.

This also made him very convinced of Zhang Yimou. At the age of 70, Zhang Yimou was able to make consecutive movies and was extremely energetic. He was preparing for the Olympics and filming "The Golden Armor" at the same time. He was really awesome.

Wu Yuan sighed deeply in his heart.

"Your Name" is still being released in Asia.

Japan's box office breaks new records every day and breaks new highs repeatedly.

But for Wu Yuan, the work on "Your Name" has come to an end.

Apart from paying attention to the box office results, he returned to campus life again.

In a blink of an eye, his second year of Ph.D. study was almost over, but because he was too busy this year, Wu Yuan's studies almost stagnated, and he only stayed in school for less than a month in a whole year.

Before the crew of "Love" was ready, Wu Yuan went back to school and followed Professor Xie to class.

Don't look at his current box office is hundreds of millions, but he still has a lot to learn.

At least the fourth and fifth generation directors are best at "light and shadow aesthetics", Wu Yuan still has a lot to learn.

He felt it on "Your Name".

Some lens languages ​​learned from Chen Kaige are used to take pictures of beautiful scenery, and the results are amazing!
Now he also wants to make literary films, so of course he needs to study hard with Professor Xie. When it comes to making literary films, the professors at Nortel are indeed professionals.

In comparison, Wu Yuan is only at the entry level.

He still has a clear sense of himself.

It is really difficult for any director to achieve both art and business.

There is only one Zhang Yimou in China who can do it, and there are only a handful of directors in Hollywood who can be both commercial and artistic.

Wu Yuan believes that he should be a qualified or even excellent commercial film director, because he has 20 years of practical memory, coupled with the memory of future excellent commercial films, it is not difficult to make good commercial films.

But the literary film, "The Undertaker" took advantage of the plot, and the Berlin jury was impressed by the plot and the differences between Eastern and Western cultural concepts.

This time "Love" tells a love story, which is a common and constant topic in movies all over the world.

If he wanted to make this movie well, Wu Yuan would really have to work hard and learn the use of lens language, composition, lighting, and color language.

On April 4th, the fourth day after returning to China, Wu Yuan returned to school after dealing with company chores.

Liu Yifei and Hu Ge also went back to school respectively.

"Legend of Sword and Fairy" has already been completed, and it was completed in March.

At that time, after Wu Yuan took the two of them to run for half a month to promote, they learned that they were going to Japan for promotion in April, so they went back to the crew to focus on filming the remaining scenes of the two of them, and it was finished within half a month.

The filming of "Sword of Immortal Sword" this time was much faster than Wu Yuan remembered, because there was no problem of actor selection, the shooting started in December, and it was completed in April.

Cai Yinong is already contacting some TV stations to sell the film.

Also thanks to the box office success of "Your Name", the sales of "Sword" this time are much better than Wu Yuan's dream.

In Wu Yuan's memory, after the filming of "The Immortal Sword" was finished, no TV station was willing to buy it.

In the TV series adapted from the game, the male protagonist is a junior in college, without any masterpieces, and the female protagonist has only played two supporting roles.

Such a TV series, no matter how you look at it, will not have good ratings.

Coupled with the high investment of "Sword" and the fact that it cannot be sold at a low price, most TV stations were reluctant to buy it. It was delayed until 2005 before it was broadcast on Taiwan's China Television.

After that, it premiered in the Mainland on the lower-level film and television channels of Chongqing and Modu TV.

This kind of low-level film and television channels are all channels that only cover one local city, and only local TV viewers can watch them.

It was not until 2008 that "Legend of Sword and Sword 1" was finally aired on the stars, and met with audiences across the country. It became an instant hit and truly became a hit TV series.

This drama was produced early, but became popular very late, but it just happened to catch up with the two-year window period after Liu Yifei's "Dragon Babu" in 2006, and established her status as a "celestial being" in one fell swoop.

This is also the reason why "Legend of Sword 2004" was finished in 1, but the project of "Legend of Sword 3" was not approved again until 2008.

In the intervening years, the Tang people have been unable to sell this TV series, thinking that this project is losing money, and have no plans to make a sequel at all.

But it's different now.

Liu Yifei and Hu Ge have already become popular because of "Your Name".

The influence of commercial blockbusters is different from that of literary films.

After Sun Li played "The Undertaker", her fame didn't increase much, and she still looked tepid, and Chen Hong even retired.

But Liu Yifei and Hu Ge are really hot right now.

Liu Xiaoli, who said before that she hadn't received any drama appointments, now has various movie appointments.

Tang Ren even equipped Hu Ge with a management team, and he also had a special manager to handle the announcement.

With both the male and female protagonists becoming popular overnight, the TV series "Sword and Fairy" has also become the focus of many mainland TV stations.

Everyone knows that when the popularity of "Your Name" has not gone down, the ratings of the TV series starring the two leading actors will be guaranteed.

Game adaptation?

It's nothing at all!

As long as there are Liu Yifei and Hu Ge.

"Sword" had just finished filming, when Wu Yuan took the two leading actors to Japan, the buying departments of major domestic TV stations heard the news and rushed to the magic capital.

Cai Yinong negotiated a good price with almost no effort.

Mango TV is willing to buy the first-round exclusive broadcast rights of "Sword" at a price of 200 million yuan per episode!
One episode costs 200 million, and based on the 33 rough-edited episodes, that’s 6600 million. The initial broadcast rights alone are enough to recoup the cost.

And TV dramas are not just for the first round!
Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Eastern Channel 100 jointly purchased the second-round broadcast rights at a price of [-] million per episode.

This is 9900 million again!

Just like that, Dragon TV gritted its teeth when it left Tangren.

They originally prepared a top price of 180 million for an episode, and wanted to buy the first round of exclusive broadcast of "Sword".

Unexpectedly, a Hunan TV station popped up halfway!

After entering the 21st century, Hunan TV vigorously reformed and shouted the slogan of youth and entertainment, especially this year, it officially implemented the transformation policy!
Coincidentally, "Sword and Fairy", a TV series completely prepared for young people, appeared.

Thinking of the sensation caused by "Your Name" among young people, and considering the young cast of "Sword and Sword" with all handsome men and beautiful women, with an average age of 21.

The executive deputy director who was in charge of the film purchase work in the station, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, almost emptied the working capital of the station, and put the treasure on "Sword of Heaven"!

6600 million to buy a TV series, which was definitely a sky-high price in 2004.

Even the 3300 million second-round broadcast price is a price that makes countless TV drama production companies in the circle envious to the point of drooling.

And this is not the end of "Sword"'s profitability.

TV dramas of this era can sell at least a dozen rounds of broadcasting rights, and it is normal for a TV drama to be broadcast for three to five years.

After all, there are not so many TV series produced in the market now, and there are even fewer excellent works.

"Han Zhu Ge Ge" has been rebroadcasted on many TV stations every summer vacation after more than ten years.

TVB's Hong Kong dramas and various Korean and Japanese dramas are often replayed for an afternoon.

I’m not saying that “Sword of Immortal” can compete with Princess Huanzhu, but it will have no problem selling for at least three to five years.

Even if the subsequent broadcast rights are worthless and only cost 50 million per episode, there will be a cumulative profit of [-] million.

This is the case with the income of TV dramas. The first round and the second round together only account for half of the total income.

If it's the kind of long-running TV series, it's not even half of it.

It is expected that "Sword and Fairy" can bring about 3 million yuan in revenue to the producer.

Among them, 1.6 million is confirmed, and it will be credited in the next two months.

The remaining 1.4 million will be earned in the next three to five years, which may be more or less than this figure.

It depends on how long this TV show will be popular.

Wu Yuan who heard the news was also very happy.

Although his "Your Name" can earn a small [-] million in one breath, it is a one-time deal after all.

He doesn't even want to make genuine CDs. Genuine CDs really can't be sold these days.

The genuine disc of "Hero" sold only tens of thousands of copies in China, but the pirated disc sold millions of copies.

Therefore, when domestic movies are made, there is basically no follow-up income after the box office is earned. Only after the online video platform is established later can there be some income from streaming media.

TV series are different. Holding a popular TV series in hand is equivalent to holding a cash flow, which can continue to obtain stable income for several years or more than ten years.

This is very important to the start-up company Light and Shadow Times.

Just by doing nothing every year, you can get 2000 million or 3000 million [-] million. This money is enough for Wu Yuan to support one or two small and medium-budget movies every year!

And with such cash flow, Wu Yuan can still control four more movies.

This made him a little bit excited about the TV drama market.

This thing is really making money!

In the past, he had no connections or resources, so he couldn't enter the TV drama field to grab food.

It's different now, Wu Yuan is now in the country, it can't be said that he is covering the sky with one hand, but when he stomps his feet, the whole family can tremble.

Huayi Brothers looked down on the TV drama market and only wanted to make movies.

But the era of light and shadow is worth it!
After digging out a few excellent TV drama producers, and then going to Hengdian to dig out two crews, Wu Yuan can write a few scripts by himself, and the company's TV drama department will be able to operate!

It just so happened that the 1.6 million of "Sword" will be credited soon.

Reserve 5000 million for Tang Ren's next TV series and Wu Yuan's own "Love", and the remaining money can be used to make two TV series by myself!

The premise is that Wu Yuan has to find a reliable TV drama producer to help the company.

This question troubled him.

Who are the best domestic producers at this stage?
The bearded Zhang Jizhong, who runs his own company, is not short of contacts and money, so it is impossible for him to come to Wu Yuan's company.

Li Xiaowan, the partner of the famous director Li Shaohong, and a rare senior female producer in the TV circle, later founded Rongxingda together with Li Shaohong, and Wu Yuan couldn't dig it.

Liu Heping, the producer of TV series such as "Yongzheng Dynasty", "A Hundred Years of Change", "Li Wei Becomes an Official", "Ming Dynasty 1566" and other TV series, is definitely not good at it, but he specializes in such historical dramas.

And what Wu Yuan wants to do is an idol drama, after all, now is the era when idol dramas are on the rise, after "Meteor Garden", making an idol drama is as easy as picking up money.

As for the other well-known producers in the mainland, they are all following the drama route, even if they can be recruited, Wu Yuan is not at ease letting them do idol dramas.

"correct."

In the school library, Wu Yuan was holding a copy of "On the Development of Chinese Films", flipping through the book unconsciously, and muttering, "Who is the producer of "The Sky of Heaven"?"

(End of this chapter)