Huayu: Director started with art films

Chapter 186 Chapter 196 [One person beat the entire mainland box office! ]

mid-July.

"The Sixth Sense" has officially been withdrawn from theaters in Japan, which also means that its global screenings have come to an end.

It took more than a month from its release in North America on May 5 to its large-scale release around the world in June, and it achieved a global total box office of 25 million US dollars.

4 billion dollars!
The Min Bao also published an article on the second day after the dollar officially broke through 4 million US dollars.

The article is titled "Young men should have lofty ambitions and ride on fine horses to conquer the vast plains." It highly praised Li Yishu's outstanding achievements overseas and perfectly displayed the Chinese aesthetic and delicate emotions through a thriller film.

At the same time, the article also quoted a film review by Pauline Kael, a famous North American film critic, which highly praised Lee Yi-shu. Naturally, Min Bao praised her highly through this review.

In this era of lack of national self-confidence and confusion about international vision after the disintegration of Big Brother, we need to open our eyes to the world.

Lee Yi-su, the superstar director who achieved a global box office of 4 million US dollars for her first Hollywood movie, deserves to be highly praised.

At the same time, with the help of Li Yishu's identity and her current popularity in the country, she implicitly tells those people who keep talking about emigrating abroad that talented people can become famous and successful anywhere.

Li Yishu is not only successful in North America, he is also very successful in China, Japan, and Europe.

People with strong abilities can succeed anywhere.

To use a later internet slang, it probably means "the strong never complain about the environment"!
After the reports, as expected, Lee Yi-su became a topic of discussion again.

Especially the global total box office of "US$4 million" is really jaw-dropping, the gap is really too big.

Strictly speaking, it is hard to say who is the director with the highest box office in mainland China at the moment, but no matter who it is, he will probably be blasted into pieces in front of Li Yishu.

Last year in 1992, the national film revenue was approximately 32 billion. The total box office of the films directed by Li Yishu has exceeded 7 million US dollars. Converted into RMB at the lowest ratio of 1:5, it is a huge amount of 35 billion, which exceeds the national film revenue last year.

This is equivalent to Li Yishu alone challenging all the directors in mainland China in 1992.

The total box office revenue earned by one person is higher than the total box office revenue of all movies shown in cinemas in a year.

The most exaggerated thing is that Li Yishu only used five movies: "The Mountain", "Love Letter", "Farewell My Concubine", "Sword Rain" and "The Sixth Sense". The total box office of "Farewell My Concubine" has not yet come out, and it has not yet been released in Japan, South Korea and North America.

Even in Hong Kong and Taiwan, no matter how great the directors are, Xu Ke, Wu Yusen, Liu Zhenwei, Wang Jiawei...

Compared with Li Yishu, he cannot compare with him in terms of artistry as he won two gold medals in Europe, and he cannot compare with him in terms of box office as his global total box office has exceeded 7 million US dollars.

Even if we put aside that Hollywood film, the global box office revenue of "Sword Rain" of 1.8 million US dollars is only comparable to Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon".

He is truly the best director in the country. Even though some old guys don't quite recognize him, they really can't find any fault with him.

You say they don't pay attention to artistry? Li Yishu won two gold medals in Europe, the first person in China.

Talking about mud-legged people in private?
Li Yishu's parents are both literary and artistic workers. They have worked in Emei Factory for more than 20 years. Her grandfather was also a cadre of the former commune in the countryside. Li Yishu is also a graduate of Beijing Film Academy and is now a graduate student.

During this period, "Nobody" was officially completed.

Li Yishu held a wrap-up party and invited Han Sanping and the leaders of Emei Film Studio, as well as several leaders of Shancheng TV Station. They also provided a lot of costumes and props during the filming.

At the finals banquet.

Lee Yi-shu became the focus of the whole audience. A single movie of hers grossed over 4 million US dollars worldwide. Not to mention in China, there are not many people in the world who are as young as Lee Yi-shu and can achieve such amazing results.

Even among those directors who are in their 4s and s, there are definitely only a handful of them who can break the million US dollars global box office.

Director Zhang of Shancheng TV said with a big smile: "Director Li, congratulations on your box office revenue of over 4 million!"

"Director Zhang, you are too polite. This small achievement is not worth mentioning. The crew of "Nobody" would like to thank Director Zhang for helping with the coordination this time."

While being modest, Lee Yi-su also thanked the other party for their help during the filming. "Nobody" had several outdoor scenes, and a street was closed for this purpose. This was all arranged by Zhang Taizi who helped contact the city government.

Director Zhang is already old, and he seemed very happy to hear Li Yishu's humble words: "Haha, Director Li is too modest, this is no small achievement. Besides, even if I didn't help coordinate, I believe the city would definitely agree."

The two chatted for a while, and Director Zhang left with a smile. Han Sanping came over and whispered, "Yishu, which European film festival will your movie participate in?"

Lee Ye-su said, “It should be the Cannes Film Festival.”

"Central Station" was at the Berlin Film Festival, "Nobody" was at the Cannes Film Festival, and "The Reader" was at the Venice Film Festival.

He had thought of this before.

In fact, if "The Reader" was filmed according to the original version and made into a German reflective film, it would have a very high chance of winning an award at the Berlin Film Festival.

But unfortunately, after Lee Yi-su’s change, she will definitely miss out on the Berlin Film Festival.

The Cannes Film Festival is nice, but I don’t have enough time, so I can only attend the Venice Film Festival.

"Next year's Cannes Film Festival~ Can't attend this year's Venice Film Festival?"

Han Sanping also thought that if the movie could win an award before he went to the Beijing Film Studio, he would definitely get some credit.

"Uncle San, I can't attend. It's already mid-July, and the registration deadline is mid-August. I won't be able to make it in this month."

Li Yishu could understand Han Sanping's mentality. He was the one who brought the movie together, prepared the crew himself, and was busy all the time. But in the end, whether the movie won awards or had high box office, it had little to do with Han Sanping who went to the Beijing Film Studio.

At most it would make his resume look better. If "The Unknown" is successful, it would also bring some benefits to Han Sanping in the future.

"pity."

Han Sanping sighed, then he recovered and said, "Yishu, I will be going to the Beijing Film Studio in the second half of the year. You have to help my uncle. In the past, new officials always have to start with three things. I am counting on you to make this first thing happen."

Although Han Sanping graduated from Beijing Film Academy, he did not have much communication with the studio. He went to Emei Film Studio in 84 and stayed there for a total of ten years.

This time when he went to the Beijing Film Studio, he didn't have his old leader and capable subordinates. If he didn't bring something with him, he might not be able to keep his position. Now his appointment is almost finalized. If the news reaches the Beijing Film Studio and the people there know about it, they will probably curse.

To promote a factory director, one must either be promoted from within the factory or be dispatched from above. There is no way of directly pulling a deputy director from Emei Factory to be the director of Beijing Film Studio.

"Don't worry, Uncle San. I will definitely support you."

Li Yishu smiled and said, "I will go to Hong Kong in a few days to talk to Cheng Long and others about the new movie. When you go to the Beijing Film Studio, I will definitely ask someone to find you with the project as soon as possible."

"Well, with your words, I feel relieved, Uncle San."

Han Sanping laughed out loud and immediately felt much better. There was no domestic production studio that did not want to cooperate with Li Yishu. Cooperating with him meant that they could still make money in this era of self-financing.

When money is made, the workers in the factory are happy about their higher wages, and the leaders are happy about their political achievements.

"Okay, I won't bother you as the host anymore. I'm going to go talk to Director Zhang."

Han Sanping noticed Zhang Manyu coming over, patted his arm, and then took the wine glass and enthusiastically went to find the director of Shancheng TV Station.

"Director Li, I'd like to toast you."

Zhang Manyu came over, took the wine glass, drank it all in one gulp and said: "I benefited a lot from this movie, thank you."

"You're so polite, Sister Manyu."

Li Yishu also asked Yongmei to bring her a bottle of wine. After filling it up, she drank it all in one gulp: "Sister Manyu, you also let me see the hardworking spirit of Hong Kong actors."

Zhang Manyu smiled shyly: "It's okay, I'm not very hardworking. The hardest working one is Liang Jiahui, he is the real hardworking one."

"I have heard about Liang Jiahui's hard work..."

"Director Li..."

After chatting for a few sentences, someone suddenly called him. Li Yishu turned around and found that Zhao Fei was looking for him. He said to Zhang Manyu, "Sister Manyu, let's talk later. I have something else to do."

"Yeah, you're busy."

Looking at Li Yishu's departing back, Zhang Manyu sighed slightly.

Beijing Film Studio.

In the family home.

At Chen Kaige's home, he is working hard to create a new script. This time he went to Cannes and made a huge fool of himself, with a total of three domestic films, one Palme d'Or and one Critics' Award.

Only Brother Chen Kai didn't get any awards at all.

This dealt a great blow to Director Chen's self-esteem, and he felt unprecedented shame and unwillingness.

Fortunately, the overseas copyright of the movie "Tree" has also been sold for more than one million US dollars. Although it cannot make a profit, it should be able to make a profit if it is released in mainland China.

Since there was no loss, Brother Chen Kai naturally would not feel that he had done anything sorry to the Xi'an Film Studio. Through his father's connections, he got in touch with the Beijing Film Studio and went straight to the Beijing Film Studio.

"咚咚-"

At this moment, there was a knock on the door.

Brother Chen Kai, who was sitting in the living room writing, looked up and asked, "Who is it?"

"Brother Kai, it's me, Teng Wenji."

"Old Teng!"

Hearing that it was Teng Wenji, Brother Chen Kai stood up and went to open the door with a smile. When he saw Teng Wenji holding two bottles of wine, he was surprised and said, "You came so easily, why did you bring two bottles of wine?"

"Haha, this isn't a gift for you. It's for us to drink together at noon."

When Teng Wenji entered the room, he immediately looked around, but he didn't see Ni Ping, so he couldn't help asking, "Where's Ni Ping?"

"I'm recording a program on CCTV."

Brother Chen Kai said as he closed the door.

Not here!
There was a flash of disappointment in Teng Wenji's eyes. He came here not only to drink and talk with Brother Chen Kai, but also to see Ni Ping.

It would be a lie to say that Teng Wenji was not envious of Chen Kai for being able to catch up with Ni Ping. Ni Ping has been quite popular in recent years. By hosting programs on CCTV, she has become a well-known female host in China.

She is beautiful, has a good personality, and is caring. It would be a lie for Teng Wenji to say that he was not tempted. This time, he was thinking of asking Ni Ping to cook while he and Brother Chen Kai had a couple of drinks. He would then ask Ni Ping to have a few drinks with him.

Who knew that Ni Ping was not there.

There was no choice but to go out to eat.

After a while, we arrived at a small restaurant outside.

After drinking a glass of wine, Teng Wenji said directly: "Old Chen, I have something to ask you!"

"What's so grand about this?"

Brother Chen Kai raised his eyebrows. He had some minor friction with Teng Wenji because of Li Yishu's matter before, but after coming to Beijing Film Studio, with Teng Wenji's deliberate flattery, their relationship returned to what it used to be.

“It’s not the movie ‘That Faraway Place’ yet.”

Teng Wenji said with an unhappy look: "The Xi'an Film Studio won't give me the copyright."

(End of this chapter)