Millennium director

"What a romantic love movie.

"It feels like destiny."

Outside the Beijing Light and Shadow Times Cinema, Zhu Yilong and Yang Rong walked out of the theater and chatted enthusiastically about the movie they had just watched.

Although they are also contracted artists of Light and Shadow Era, they did not attend the previous internal premiere of "Love Letter".

Nowadays, there are more and more contracted artists in Guangying Era. There are almost 30 contracted artists under the company. Most of them have no relationship with Wu Yuan. They may not even have met Wu Yuan since signing with the company.

Of course, these newcomers will not be invited by Wu Yuan to the internal premiere, which is mainly composed of his friends.

However, Zhu Yilong and Yang Rong still bought their own movie tickets to watch the movie.

It would be outrageous not to support a movie directed and starred by the company's big boss himself.

They are the new actors that the company will strongly support in the next stage.

The two of them starred in the movie "Soul Ferry: Huangquan", with Zhu Yilong playing Shushan monk Changsheng and Yang Rong playing Meng Po Sanqi.

For this movie, the two spent almost two years of time and energy from the preparation stage to the time it is about to be released.

For a new actor, few two years are wasted.

The two of them completely bet their acting careers on this movie.

However, both Yang Rong and Zhu Yilong are very confident about this movie.

It’s not about having confidence in yourself, but having confidence in the company.

After all, this is a film project that Director Wu personally paid attention to and arranged, and it is an important layout for the company's next stage of the film universe.

In addition, "Soul Ferry" has been blessed by the popularity of TV dramas. Now the "Soul Ferry" web drama has been aired in its third season, becoming one of the most popular TV drama IPs in the mainland and the originator of web dramas, harvesting a large number of Young audience group.

It can be said that the movie "Soul Ferry" is one of the best IPs in China. It has the right time, place and people, so the probability of success is still very high.

"The box office of "Love Letter" has exceeded 150 million, right?"

"As a romance film, this box office result is already very impressive."

Although he said this, Zhu Yilong's expression was still full of regret.

Perhaps the box office result of 150 million is not bad for any domestic director, including Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou and others.

Chen Kaige's "The Orphan of Zhao" only had a box office of 220 million, and Zhang Yimou's "Hawthorn Tree Love" only had a box office of 160 million.

Not to mention that "Love Letter" has broken the single-day box office record for domestic romance films and is currently the film with the highest single-day box office record.

No matter which way you look at it, this small-budget romance film with an investment of less than 10 million has achieved extremely brilliant success.

However, the director of this film is Wu Yuan.

In the light of Wu Yuan's past brilliant achievements, the box office performance of "Love Letter" is really nothing, not even comparable to that year's "Your Name".

There is no way, times have changed.

When "Your Name" was released, there were not many domestic movies, and even fewer good movies. The entire market was in desperate need of a movie that could bring audiences across the country into theaters.

Under such circumstances, "Your Name" produced a siphon-like effect of crowds out, dominating all movie theaters, and happened to cause a sensation in colleges and universities. Only then can it create such phenomenal results.

Just like the phenomenal performance of "Hero" back then, even Zhang Yimou himself was unable to replicate it again.

The phenomenal success of "Your Name" is something Wu Yuan will never be able to replicate.

Even though the domestic box office market has increased tenfold now, with seven or eight movies released in the same period and domestic audiences choosing more, the final box office of "Love Letter" is estimated to be around 200 million, which is the same as "Yours" "Name" is almost the same.

This box office performance may have been an exaggerated phenomenon ten years ago, but now, it cannot even enter the top five of this year's domestic film box office list. If imported films are included, it is difficult to enter the top ten.

Although the cost of "Love Letter" is less than 10 million, it can have a box office of about 200 million, which can already reach a revenue ratio of 1:20. This will definitely secure the throne of the movie with the highest revenue ratio this year.

However, more people are still paying attention. It seems that the box office of 200 million is not worthy of Wu Yuan, the "King of Box Office". It seems that as long as his movies do not win the box office championship in the mainland, their performance is substandard.

Who knows, almost every one of his previous commercial films has won the mainland box office title, and even topped the mainland box office record many times.

"Wu Yuan's new film grossed 150 million yuan at the box office! But its stamina has waned, and he may have exhausted his talent!"

"Four years of hard work, but the box office is less than 200 million. Is this the end of Wu Yuan's undefeated myth?!"

"Wu Yuan's new film has been lukewarm, and the mainland box office king suffered his first failure!"

Many media reporters immediately exaggerated Wu Yuan's "box office failure" and published lengthy reports on the box office failure of Wu Yuan's new movie.

The box office expectation of 200 million can actually be described as "cold". Perhaps this is really a treatment that only Wu Yuan can enjoy.

Of course, not all media is so exaggerated.

There are also many media that are objectively evaluating the performance of the movie "Love Letter".

"An invisible and unheard love that spans more than a hundred years."

"The film doesn't have any stunning shots, but it can make you hold your breath and your heart beat faster time and time again."

"For example, when Wei Lai first went to an old house and Jiang Lan sensed each other on the stairs, it was actually a very simple shot, but it made people concentrate and even feel that they should feel a hundred years apart. Years of presence.”

“The intuition and coincidence that can be felt by people who fall in love in the same scene.”

"The original voice is also very appropriate, eloquent and affectionate."

"Finally, you met him at that time, and he met her in this time and space. The ending is a touch of sadness accompanied by the coming full happiness, which makes people sigh."

——"Film Review"

After leaving the theater, Zhu Yilong bought this newspaper about movie reviews on the street. The headline on the front page was a long film review of "Love Letter".

There is no doubt that this movie is definitely one of the top romance films in mainland China in recent years.

In this era of impetuousness, this kind of slow and sincere love is really rare. This kind of romance can only be found in movies.

With a box office expectation of 200 million, for such a small-budget romance film, it is really beyond the standard and cannot be too demanding.

"On Douban, Director Wu's "Love Letter" has a very high rating. It seems to have a score of 8.1." Standing next to Zhu Yilong, Yang Rong said softly: "Most of the viewers who have watched this movie , all gave it high praise and thought it was the best romance film in recent years."

"Now on Weibo, "Love Letter" has also received a very high reputation."

"The media's remarks that badmouth Director Wu have no effect at all. Anyone who has watched the movie will sneer at their statement that "Director Wu has exhausted all his talents."

"Many people think this movie is Director Wu's love confession to Liu Yifei, especially the song "My Love Is Missing" written by Director Wu himself."

While talking, Yang Rong also hummed the chorus that he had heard many times in the theater.

"I'm sure I said I loved you hundreds of years ago."

"It's just that you forgot, and I didn't remember either~" (End of Chapter)