Chapter 192: Completed Guest Appearance, Returned to China to Start Supporting Young Directors

Chapter 192 Completed the guest appearance, returned to China to start the young director support plan!

"Catch them all!"

Wu Yuan stood on the chariot pulled by six horses, holding the weak and naive Liu Yifei in his left hand, and raised the bronze sword high in his right hand, pointing it at the panicked Western cowboy and Roman general.

"Damn it! How did he alarm him!" The Roman general pounded his chest in annoyance, and didn't care about continuing the melee with the Western cowboy, and planned to run away with his soldiers.

"Who is he?" The Western cowboy was stunned, not understanding why the Roman general was so scared, and why he had such a large army.

"Idiot, he is the Qin Shi Huang in the Huaxia Pavilion next door!"

"The first emperor of Huaxia!"

"It was he who built the huge imperial mausoleum after his death and made tens of thousands of terracotta warriors and horses for burial!"

"In the entire museum, we Roman Legion are not afraid of anyone, but we are afraid of him!"

"Why?" The Western Cowboy took out his revolver with a look of disdain, "Isn't he just an Eastern emperor from two thousand years ago?"

The Roman general looked at the Western Cowboy deeply, "You will know later."

After that, he quickly led the soldiers to run wildly in another direction, leaving the Western Cowboy in place.

Just when the Western Cowboy was puzzled, a dark shadow gradually rose and covered his figure.

"What?"

A large army with black as the main tone and long spears in their hands appeared from behind Wu Yuan.

They marched in a uniform pace, and the long spears in their hands tilted, all aimed at the Western Cowboy, and the cold light flashed on the tip of the spear.

"Damn it!" The Western Cowboy cursed, and he knew why the Roman Legion was afraid of the Qin Legion.

"What's the big deal about having more people?" The cowboy cursed loudly with his hands on his waist, then he decisively gave in, rode on his big horse, and ran away.

"Good! Cut!" Shawn Levy poked his head out from behind the monitor: "Daniel, great acting!"

"Crystal's acting is also good!"

Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei, who were still standing on the chariot, smiled at each other, and neither of them responded.

Wu Yuan was lucky, at least he had a line in this scene, Liu Yifei didn't even have a line, she just showed her face, what's the point of talking about good or bad acting.

Carefully helping Liu Yifei get off the chariot, Wu Yuan patted the shoulder of the extra who was driving the carriage in front of him, "Awesome, there are not many people who can drive this kind of carriage these days.

The extra who drove the carriage also had a Chinese face, he smiled innocently, "Actually, it's not difficult to learn this, it mainly depends on whether the horse has been trained. "

"That's also amazing. "Wu Yuan shook his head.

The Hollywood film industry is still well developed, and extras who can drive a six-horse chariot can be easily found, and they are all Chinese.

If Wu Yuan wants to find a foreigner who can drive such a carriage in China, he may not be able to find one no matter how hard he tries.

Next, the filming continues.

In order to make good use of time, Sean Levy filmed Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei's scenes together.

It took two days for the two to complete this guest appearance.

There are not many scenes, and the two people only have a dozen lines in total, but the style is very high. They are the ceiling of combat power in the museum (among the little pottery figurines), and finally helped Ben Stiller drive away the thieves.

After completing the cameo in the movie, Wu Yuan has basically finished dealing with his affairs in the United States.

Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli's family visit is also coming to an end.

But they have no intention of returning to China or Tokyo.

Because there is another thing waiting for them.

At the 2006 Academy Awards, "Love" was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Award!

Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei will attend the award ceremony on March 6, 2006!

After attending the award ceremony, Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei will leave the United States.

The release date of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" has been set. It will be released in July and August this summer. He will come to the United States again at that time.

However, before leaving the United States Before, Wu Yuan still needed to wave money to recruit people and build up the Light and Shadow Times Special Effects Company first!

In fact, he did so.

After returning to Los Angeles from Vancouver, Wu Yuan turned around and immediately waved money in Hollywood, spending money like crazy.

He needed to recruit a group of Hollywood's top special effects engineers, CG modelers and other professionals, and then let them list the equipment and purchase a batch of high-precision special effects production equipment, that is, computers.

Although, in the eyes of the Hollywood special effects team, China is really backward now, and their impression of China remains in the backward appearance of the 1980s and 1990s.

This is normal.

In Before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, most foreigners thought that China was very backward and poor, and was not much different from Africa.

It was not until the Beijing Olympics showed the global audience a modern new China that foreigners' impression of China changed. After the influence of the four great inventions of the new China, foreigners finally regarded China as the next superpower.

But this did not affect Wu Yuan's recruitment of people to work for him in China.

Just pay enough money.

As long as he offers enough salary, there will always be people who are tempted.

In 2020, there will also be a lot of people from China going to Africa to work, isn't it because the salary and benefits offered by the foreign aid companies are good enough.

With Wu Yuan's poaching efforts with a general salary increase of 50%, he soon poached a team from Industrial Light & Magic, Weta Digital, and Digital Domain, three major companies engaged in film and television special effects.

The three teams together only had 15 people, but Wu Yuan needed to spend nearly $2 million a year to support them, with an average annual salary of more than $120,000 per person.

This is considered a high salary in the United States. At least one person's income is enough to support a middle-class family, and it is the most decent among the middle class.

He spent money to poach these three teams, of course, not only to want them to work for him, but also to bring Chinese newcomers and train a group of truly local special effects artists for Chinese films.

Learn from the barbarians to defeat the barbarians!

The money was worth it, a thousand gold for a horse bone.

And compared to the salary, what really made Wu Yuan spend a lot of money was the equipment prepared for these special effects artists.

According to the equipment list provided by the heads of the three teams, Wu Yuan ordered nearly 20 million US dollars worth of equipment for them in total. This is only the first phase. If they want to expand production capacity and train more new people, they will probably have to buy the second and third batches of equipment.

Again, Industrial Light & Magic spends more than 100 million US dollars to upgrade its equipment.

Even if it is not benchmarked against Industrial Light & Magic, Wu Yuan has to spend at least tens of millions of US dollars on the investment in special effects companies.

The good news is that this money does not need to be spent all at once, but can be invested in three to five years, which will not put much financial pressure on him.

Light Era is still his biggest cash flow. The two parts of "The Hangover" alone have earned him more than 300 million US dollars, and the following "Proposal Marriage" and "The Blind Side" can also earn 100 million or 200 million US dollars.

The box office of the first part of "Night at the Museum" exceeded 500 million. Even if it is divided into half, Light Era can still earn 100 million US dollars.

Moreover, the copyright of this series is still in the hands of Light Era, so there is no need to worry that Fox will abandon itself and go it alone in the subsequent cooperation.

In addition to the "Kingsman" series that will be co-produced with New Line, Wu Yuan should not be short of money in the next three to five years.

After calculating his disposable income in the next few years, Wu Yuan is even thinking about doing cinema business.

In late February, three special effects teams recruited by Wu Yuan boarded the flight back to China first.

Li Xiaoping, who had received the news long ago, has rented another 1,000 square meters of office area upstairs in the Light and Shadow Era, and rented apartments for these "foreign aid".

These Hollywood special effects artists who came to China for the first time, or even went abroad for the first time, were all surprised when they walked out of the Beijing International Airport.

The real China is not the same as the China they imagined!

Although Beijing is not as developed and prosperous as Los Angeles and New York, there are also many high-rise buildings, and the atmosphere of the modern urban circle is already very strong, but it is not backward at all.

"Is China already so developed?" Phyllis, from Industrial Light & Magic, who had worked with Wu Yuan in "Pirates of the Caribbean", exclaimed in surprise: "This is completely different from the China in Western newspapers and on the Internet!"

"Mr. Phyllis, the surprise is still to come." Li Xiaoping, who came to the airport with several employees to pick them up, chatted with them enthusiastically: "When you live here for a long time, you will know what the real China is like."

"Although it may not be as developed as the United States, it is definitely not a backward country, and our culture, food, and humanities are much better than those of the United States."

"I believe that in another ten or eight years, Beijing will not lose to international metropolises such as New York and Los Angeles."

"After all, Beijing has become a big construction site now."

Not to mention them, even Wu Yuan, a native of Beijing, is a little surprised by the changes in Beijing in recent years.

It has only been five or six years since 2000, but Beijing has been renovated almost from top to bottom. Not only have countless new buildings been built, but they are all very modern high-rise buildings, with 20 to 30 floors and all-glass exterior walls.

Even in the two old urban areas of the east and west, many old houses and old alleys have been demolished or renovated.

Many places where Wu Yuan often went to play when he was a child are unrecognizable when he goes there again now.

It is also because of this that Wu Yuan took time out of his busy schedule to look at houses last year.

He liked a lot of good real estate projects, but they were all under construction, including villas and large flats. He bought one of each and planned to live in them in the future.

The current courtyard house is really not very comfortable to live in, especially after being used to living in a mansion in Beverly, Wu Yuan dislikes courtyard houses even more.

However, the delivery of these houses will have to wait until next year or the year after.

After picking up the people at the airport, Li Xiaoping brought several translators and successfully brought these external special effects teams back to the company.

"Take them to their office area for a tour, and then take them back to the company-provided apartment to rest."

"After a while, when all the equipment arrives, let them recruit a group of domestic special effects artists, and the old ones will teach the new ones."

"It's best to recruit people from Hong Kong Island's Xintao Digital. Director Wu has instructed this matter. Xintao Digital's technology is still good."

Just after giving a few words to the assistant, Li Xiaoping immediately received a cross-border call from Wu Yuan.

"Mr. Li, have you received the people? We need to properly settle them. It costs more than two million US dollars a year to support these fifteen people. It's not cheap."

"I understand, Director Wu." Li Xiaoping quickly assured: "I will definitely not neglect these technical talents!"

"Okay, that's good." Wu Yuan on the other end of the phone smiled and asked again:

"Mr. Li, how is the young director support program I mentioned last time going?"

Li Xiaoping, who was used to Wu Yuan's character of thinking out of the blue, was not surprised and reported it neatly.

"The preliminary preparations have been done, and the promotional copy has been written."

"The initial plan is to spend 30 million yuan to support 5-6 mainland directors to shoot movies."

"As for which directors will be supported specifically, it depends on the review status of the scripts they submit. Do you want to personally review this director Wu?"

"I will review it myself." Wu Yuan nodded and agreed. He is a person with a vision for the future. Scripts that pass his review are more likely to maintain capital.

Although I have been mentally prepared to lose all the 30 million, the loss should be more meaningful.

Andy Lau's Asian Rising Star Director Program also produced Ning Hao, and Wu Yuan's Young Director Support Program also produced two fairly good directors, right?

"Okay, let's arrange it like this."

“Spread the word about our young director support program as soon as possible.”

"After I return to China, I can review a batch of scripts and select a few suitable directors."

There is one more chapter to be posted before three o'clock.