director of the millennium

After winning the Best Director trophy, Wu Yuan's Oscar journey officially came to an end.

Although there was still a Best Picture award that had not been announced, he knew that this award had nothing to do with him.

Disney doesn't have any public relations, and his movies are not at the level where they can crush other movies of the same generation without any public relations.

The only thing that makes Wu Yuan a little curious is, in this time and space that he has messed up, can Warner make "Joker" beat "Parasite" and take away the trophy for Best Picture?

The original time and space did not do this.

But maybe in this time and space, because of the appearance of Wu Yuan and the intrusion of "Bruce Lee", Warner invested more effort and money in public relations and achieved this?

Wu Yuan returned to his seat and was a little curious.

If nothing else, just for fun.

After all, he is the only one in the world who knows the original ending. If the ending changes, it will be his own fun.

He should be the only one in the world who knows about this, right?
While I was thinking about all sorts of things, not long after, Jane Fonda, the presenter of the Best Picture Award, walked onto the stage.

At an award ceremony, the more prestigious the award, the more prestigious the presenter.

Although Jane Fonda is not well-known in China, she is a truly famous grandmother-level movie queen in North America and the United Kingdom.

Born in 1937, she is over 80 years old this year, but she is still active in the film industry. During her acting career, she has won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress, two British Academy Film Awards for Best Actress, and the 36th Emmy Award for Best Actress.

The number is not very large, but each one is a top award.
And she herself is also a super elegant beauty. Even though she is now in her eighties, she is still extremely elegant, which proves the saying that beauty lies in the bones, not in the skin, and she ages gracefully.

At least when Wu Yuan saw this grandmother-level actress walking onto the award stage, he couldn't tell that she was in her eighties. She even had dyed her hair blonde.

Unfortunately.

The final award result did not make Wu Yuan happy.

I don’t know if it was because Warner’s public relations were not strong enough, or if the Academy really wanted to promote political correctness this year, but the Best Picture award was ultimately given to "Parasite."

When Jane Fonda read out the name of the movie, the entire "Parasite" crew jumped up, hugged each other excitedly and laughed, and the sound was so loud that Wu Yuan, who was more than ten meters away, could hear it clearly.

Unfortunately, both "Bruce Lee" and "Joker" became losers, only nominated but not winning.

However, compared to the "Bruce Lee" crew who didn't have much hope for this, the "Joker" crew next door was really regretful. Wu Yuan could even see deep disappointment on Todd Phillips' face.

I don’t know whether he is disappointed in himself or in Warner.

Wu Yuan knew Todd Phillips, and Todd Phillips even worked for him.

When Time Warner was first founded, Todd Phillips was poached to be a supporting director. He directed the "Hangover" series. During this period, the company also invested in him to shoot two films that Todd Phillips himself wanted to make.

However, although "The Hangover" was a success, the experimental films that Todd Phillips wanted to make were not successful. The first one suffered a small loss of more than one million US dollars, and the second one made a small profit of more than three million US dollars.

Later, Todd Phillips contacted other film companies. After Guangshi Era was sold by Wu Yuan, he left Guangshi Era directly. After many twists and turns, he finally got back to the original track and hooked up with Warner.

Looking at Todd Phillips's somewhat lonely back, Wu Yuan was filled with emotion. Although the Joker is the IP of the DC Universe, it is rare for a single company to bear all the costs when making a movie. Everyone has to spread the investment risk, especially Warner's DC movie universe, which has always been a series of two movies. Warner doesn't dare to do it all by itself, and often pulls other companies to make it together.

I remember that when he tried to win over Todd Phillips, he also wanted to establish a good relationship with him so that he could interfere in the production of "Joker" and make a fortune from it.

However, plans cannot keep up with changes. After Time Travel was sold, Wu Yuan lost interest in investing and producing movies in Hollywood, and naturally he no longer cared about Todd Phillips.

But as a director, he still has empathy for Todd Phillips.

For Todd Phillips, this Oscar journey may be his only chance in his life to win the Best Picture award.

But he missed this opportunity.

(Wu Yuan didn’t know about “Joker 2”)
“However, since ‘Joker’ is so successful, maybe Warner will think about making ‘Joker 2’. If the second part can maintain the level of the first one, Todd Phillips still has a chance to win the Best Picture award again.” Wu Yuan thought to himself.

And just like that, the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony came to an end with the announcement of a Best Picture result that was recognized by movie fans all over the world except North America, but slightly controversial among North American movie fans.

Well, North American moviegoers and even more ordinary audiences really don’t know what kind of movie “Parasite” is. They also don’t understand why the Oscars, which have always only awarded awards to movies released in North America, would give the Best Picture to a Korean movie this year.
But overseas, this result is widely recognized. After all, "Parasite" is indeed the best international film last year. Looking around the world, it can be said that it deserves the title.

It was Jovan who gloated over the result, "Hahaha, Warner messed it up."

"Those old guys in the academy are not completely obsessed with money. They can't be bought off just by throwing money at them."

"Fortunately, we took a step back and chose Best Director."

"Daniel, this result is still good for you, and it is highly recognized by the public!"

"All we have to do now is strike while the iron is hot and push forward the global release of Bruce Lee."

"I bet this movie could make over $3 million worldwide!"

"Yes!" Wu Yuan nodded and said firmly, "Hurry up!"

"It will be released in North America on a large scale in February, and it will be fully released in major markets around the world at least before May!"

"Otherwise it will be too late!"

"Too late?" Jovan was a little confused.

"Have you not been following the news in China?" Wu Yuan smiled bitterly, "All the movie theaters in China have withdrawn their schedules. There are no movies showing now."

"If it drags on, I believe this will be a black swan event that will affect the entire world, and movie tickets will not be sold anywhere in the world."

"Let's not talk about this anymore. I will return home immediately after the dinner tonight."

"It took me a lot of effort to arrange a flight route so that my private jet could fly back to the Chinese capital."

"There is no time to waste." (End of this chapter)