Wu Yushen had heard of Zhang Hehuan, and held Zhang Hehuan's hand and said, "Hehuan! I heard Xu Ke mention you." As he grew older, the grudges he had with his old partners in the past were also relieved. Now everyone has turned their development center to the mainland. Wu Yushen is one step ahead of Xu Ke in this regard, but he is not as good as the old monster in adapting to the mainland market.

Mr. Xu has been constantly working in recent years, and has ushered in the second peak of his creative career. After Wu Yushen returned to the Chinese film industry, he only made one film "Red Cliff".

Zhang Hehuan said respectfully: "I especially like Director Wu's works. It can be said that I grew up watching your movies."

Wu Yu smiled deeply and said, "This sentence proves that I am old and now it is the world of you young people."

Guo Kaige said: "Director Wu, my little brother has excellent appearance and acting skills, which is no less than Brother Fa back then."

Wu Yushen looked at Zhang Hehuan with a smile and said, "I have seen your works. Fazi is not as handsome as you at your age." He didn't say that Zhang Hehuan's acting skills are better than Fazi, but he affirmed Zhang Hehuan's appearance.

Since "Red Cliff", a rift has arisen between Wu Yushen and his former beloved general Fazi. The latter attaches too much importance to interests and withdraws at a critical moment almost made Wu Yushen's hard work fail. If Wei Zai didn't help him, Wu Yushen would have fallen into a big flaw in the movie "Red Cliff".

Zhang Hehuan said: "What masterpiece is Director Wu filming recently?" He actually understood in his heart that Director Wu's "Taiping Wheel" has invested a huge amount of investment. He has been preparing for six years and has invested as much as 400 million yuan. However, after the release, it was because Wu Yushen basically bid farewell to the film industry.

Hua Wu Rihong, even a great director like Wu Yushen has to face the reality of exhaustion of creative power.

Wu Yushen said: "Taiping Wheel."

Guo Kaige guessed from Wu Yushen's expression that the progress of the movie was not going smoothly: "Is the shooting still going smoothly?"

Wu Yushen said: "The budget may be overspent, and the production of this movie is even more difficult than I expected."

Guo Kaige's investment share in "Taiping Wheel" is not large, even so, it is 50 million. At the beginning, the budget for this movie was 200 million, but later it was said that it could not be defeated by 300 million. Now it seems that it will probably exceed 400 million. Guo Kaige has a kind of ominous sign in his heart. A movie with a 400 million investment can only be guaranteed if it has a box office of at least 1.2 billion yuan.

Wu Yushen said: "Xiao Guo, I originally planned to be one episode of this movie, but now everyone's advice is to divide it into two movies, and make it into a model like "Red Cliff".

Guo Kaige nodded. He knew about this. Not long ago, several major investors held an internal meeting in Beijing, mainly to discuss the investment issues of "Taiping Wheel". In the current market environment, although there have been many movies that have exceeded one billion, no one can guarantee that "Taiping Wheel" can exceed one billion. Even if it exceeds one billion, their investment will only recover the cost.

Therefore, Li Ming, chairman of Xiaoma Pictures, the producer and the main investor, proposed to split the blockbuster into two episodes, so that the cost of each movie can be halved, divided into two releases, and harvested two box offices. If each movie can achieve a box office of 600 million, then the capital can be guaranteed. The movie market is so big, as long as the movie quality is good and the promotion and promotion keeps up, the box office of 600 million should not be difficult.

From Wu Yushen's personal perspective, he did not want to split the movie into two parts. "Taiping Wheel" and "Red Cliff", which are based on the Three Kingdoms and are well-known, but few people know that the story of "Taiping Wheel" is a whole. If it is divided into two parts, it will produce a strong sense of separation, which will affect the viewing experience.

Wu Yushen also came to meet Guo Kaige this time to talk about this issue. Although Guo Kaige sympathized with the capital pressure he had suffered, it was natural for investors to seek returns. The huge investment in "Taiping Wheel" has made the film's riskier and higher. Li Ming of Xiaoma Pictures is also his good friend. When the two were drinking privately, Li Ming confessed that he regretted doing this project.

The market trend has been changing in the past two years. Big scenes and big productions are no longer as popular as they used to. Audiences do not blindly buy tickets when they listen to blockbusters. Nowadays, audiences prefer relaxed and humorous themes. According to market analysis, audiences are under great pressure in daily life. They want to laugh happily and relax their bodies and minds when they go to the cinema instead of going to the cinema for two hours of preaching.

Guo Kaige promised Wu Yushen that he would help mediate. He wanted to keep Wu Yushen for lunch together, but Wu Yushen had an appointment first. A starring actor in "The Peace Wheel", a Korean intellectual beauty, Song Huiqiao, invited him to a meal.

After Wu Yushen left, Guo Kaige sighed and said, "Four hundred million! The investment in "Taiping Wheel" has set a precedent for domestic films."

Zhang Hehuan said: "Actually, there is no need to invite so many stars in the movie. You can't even get a 100 million yuan salary."

Guo Kaige said: "Director Wu's work of sentiment."

Zhang Hehuan laughed and said, "The most common thing people do is to pay for their feelings."

Guo Kaige said: "It's good luck. The movie has not been released yet. You kid just say such words. If Li Ming hears it, he will be angry to death."

Zhang Hehuan thought to himself that the chairman of Xiaoma Pictures died of a heart attack shortly after the release of Taiping Lun. Later, everyone said that his tragedy was related to the huge loss of the movie. Although it was just a rumor, it is certain that the failure of "Taiping Lun" had a severe blow to his psychology.

Zhang Hehuan laughed and said, "I will take back what I said just now and wish "Taiping Wheel" a big box office."

Guo Kaige said: "Huanzi, you are an expert in this field. Now the producer insists on splitting "Taiping Wheel" into two parts. What do you think of this method?"

"It's not convenient for me to express my opinions on other people's affairs."

"Tell me, our Qiyi Video also invested 50 million, just pretend you help me."

Zhang Hehuan nodded: "Brother Guo, then I will just say a few words. Don't take the wrong things seriously."

"Tell me."

"I don't like the movie "Taiping Wheel" and it's divided into two parts. Although the cost is halfway on the surface, have you considered that if the reputation of the upper part is not good, will anyone still watch the lower part?"

Guo Kaige is actually worried about this problem. If the box office of the upper part is not as good as expected and the reputation is not good, then which audience in the lower part will be fooled to the second time?

Zhang Hehuan said: "Director Wu's emotional work is to make the local version of "Titanic". Many factors of family, country, hatred, disaster, love, and war are all integrated into it. The more such a movie is, the harder it is to control it."

Guo Kaige said: "With more factors, will the audience be bigger?" He couldn't figure out this point.

Zhang Hehuan shook his head and said, "This is all the creators' ideas. A movie is usually two hours. The director wants to stuff it into as exciting highlights as possible within these two hours, but he usually ignores the audience's experience. The more factors presented in the movie, the more things the audience needs to accept. They originally came to relax, but you forced them to stuff so many things to the audience, which made the audience very tired. For most viewers, there are only two types of movies, good-looking and not good-looking."

Guo Kaige thinks this sentence is right.

Zhang Hehuan said: "If we look back and see Director Wu's past movies, his more popular movies are basically simple, rough and refreshing. Every time he wants to play with his feelings, he basically suffers a Waterloo at the box office."

Guo Kaige recalled that Wu Yushen's "Bloody Street" is a work of emotion and a good movie with stars, but the box office is a failure. "The Whisperer" is also his work of emotion. As a result, the Hollywood filmmakers missed him, making him a box office poison. Is it the turn of "The Wheel of Peace" this time? If I had known this, I wouldn't have invested in this movie, and I suddenly felt bad. I might have lost all my money for 50 million.

Zhang Hehuan said: "Titanic only grasps two factors: love and disaster. The success of Titanic is inseparable from the two actors. The cast of "Taiping Wheel" seems to be very powerful, but when you look closely, none of them can support the box office."

Guo Kaige said: "Zhang Ziyi, Jin Chengwu, Huang Xiaoming, Song Huiqiao, Tong David, Nagano Ami, this lineup is not bad."

Zhang Hehuan laughed and said, "The impact of Zhang Ziyi's fraudulent donation is still there. Even if it is not the case, she does not have the ability to support the box office. All the top-notch films of Jin Sung-woo are basically repeated, not to mention the following few. You say that actors like the leader are not popular, but there are a lot of news reports all day long. Do you think of him? He really can't think of it, claiming that he has a lot of fans, but not many of his men are willing to buy tickets to support him. Let's not talk about his acting skills, but his line skills are not up to standard."

Guo Kaige laughed, Zhang Hehuan told the truth, but after being ridiculous, he immediately became worried. These actors could not afford the box office, and Wu Yushen was not the box office elixir of that year. It seems that this "Taiping Wheel" is likely to be defeated.

If the filming has not started yet, Guo Kaige can withdraw now, but if the filming has exceeded half, almost 300 million yuan has been invested, and the loss is even greater now.

Guo Kaige said: "Huanzi, according to what you said, "Taiping Wheel" will definitely lose money?"

Zhang Hehuan said: "It may not be possible. The real money-burning is the shipwreck drama and the war drama, and the actors are not important." He has watched this movie, and the one with the most poor acting skills in this movie is still Huang Xiaoming, and Song Huiqiao's performance is not good. According to Zhang Hehuan's view, it is possible to cut the line between the two of them from the movie. If they are missing, the narrative of this movie will be clearer.

Guo Kaige said: "You mean reshoot?"
Chapter completed!