China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 117 Shocked
"Do you think we should try to persuade Li Mu? If his "How to Steal the Key" is withdrawn until next summer, the box office performance will definitely be much better than this year's. The last film that Cheng Long and Li Lianhe collaborated on "Assassin" slashed 3.5 million box office domestically, even if our "Kung Fu King" this year only took 3.1% of the box office of "Assassin" that year, it would still be [-] million."

"Zhou Xingzhi's last film "Kung Fu" took in 1.73 million at the box office nationwide. Even if this year's "Yangtze River No. 1.7" only took in 4.8 million, the sum of those two films would be [-] million. The national film market is so big. We and Zhou Xingchi directly won such a big piece of cake, how much of Li Mu's "How to Steal the Key" can be left?"

In a private room of a hotel in Beijing, several core members of Huayi Brothers were pushing glasses and changing glasses. At the banquet, Wang Zhonglei, the president of Huayi Brothers, talked eloquently: "If I were Li Mu or Zhou Xingchi, I would choose Withdraw."

"The "Assassin" directed by Li Mu has proved the box office appeal of Cheng Long + Li Lian's double-J duel. It is more appropriate for a Hollywood movie made for Chinese people."

"Now "The King of Kung Fu" makes up for the shortcoming of "Assassin". The Chinese elements in the movie have been greatly increased. I think the box office results will probably be better than "Assassin". Play the leading role, "Assembly" in December, and "The King of Kung Fu" in January. This year is destined to be the strongest Lunar New Year file. If other people's movies want to have a good score, avoid these two movies Almost the only option."

Wang Zhongjun added: "It shouldn't be a big problem for "The King of Kung Fu" to surpass "Assassin" at the box office, but if you don't consider the content of the movie, the total number of domestic screens alone has made great progress in the past two years, the market is bigger, and the box office performance There's no reason to be worse."

"Li Mu's sci-fi blockbuster has a strong international influence. Huayi Brothers will seek to go public next year. At this time, it is particularly important to have a good relationship with Li Mu. If you can invest in Li Mu's sci-fi blockbuster, Huayi will be able to win capital The market is more favored. At this time, don't ruin the relationship between the two parties because it affects the box office of "The Way to Steal the Key". I think it is still necessary to persuade Li Mu, but the words must be tactful. Li Mu became famous when he was young. , I must be very proud in my heart."

"I want to persuade you, but don't let us talk about it, Lianhua—" Wang Zhonglei looked at Li Lianhua next to him and continued, "You and Li Mu have a good relationship, I think you should persuade Li Mu privately The market recognizes him as a sci-fi blockbuster, and "How to Steal the Key" is a low-cost comedy. Even if this movie can recreate the low-cost counterattack miracle of "The Master of Hypnotism" back then, it will only have a box office volume of 6000 to 8000 million. , It’s amazing to sell [-] million yuan. After all, the cost is small, and there is really no need to rush to release it at the same time as "The King of Kung Fu" and "Yangtze River No. [-]."

Li Lianhua nodded. Although she is a signed artist of Huayi Brothers, from the bottom of her heart, she would rather that Li Mu's movie can beat Huayi Brothers in terms of box office, but she also knows that this is impossible at least this year. , "The King of Kung Fu" is too popular. In contrast, Li Mu's "How to Steal the Key" may really be difficult to achieve a good result under the attack of two blockbuster films.Therefore, for Li Mu this year, withdrawing files is indeed not a bad choice.

At this time, Wang Zhonglei smiled again: "If Li Mu announces the withdrawal, then the film that originally belonged to "The Method of Stealing the Key" will be added to "The King of Kung Fu" or "Yangtze River No. [-]". A win-win deal."

Wang Zhongjun said with a smile: "If Zhou Xingzhi's "Yangtze River No. [-]" is also announced to be withdrawn, three wins are still three wins, but Huayi will definitely win the most!"

"Hahaha……"

After all, the two brothers laughed together.

At this moment, Wang Zhonglei's cell phone rang.

"It's Li Mu."

Wang Zhonglei immediately pressed the answer button.

"Uh-huh……"

"what?"

"Spring Festival gear?"

"Okay, let's talk in detail sometime."

……

"What did Li Mu say?"

Seeing that Wang Zhonglei had hung up the phone, Wang Zhongjun couldn't help asking.

Wang Zhonglei looked at the crowd with surprise on his face:
"Li Mu said that he would work with our Huayi Brothers, as well as Cheng Long, Li Lianlian, Zhou Jielun, and Zhou Xingchi to promote the "Spring Festival file". And Li Lianlian got in touch. Everyone has decided to hold high the banner of "Spring Festival" when promoting the movie. Everyone will make this new schedule bigger and stronger. Everyone will work together to make the cake bigger. Only the cake Only by being made big enough can more filmmakers make money."

After Wang Zhonglei finished speaking, Wang Zhongjun was also taken aback for a moment.

The two of them kept saying that it was for Li Mu's benefit to persuade Li Mu to withdraw the file, but who didn't know that if Li Mu really announced the withdrawal, Huayi Brothers' own movie "The King of Kung Fu" would be able to eat more movies?

Business competition has always been very cruel, and the two of them are benevolent enough if they don't make small moves that are not on the stage in the face of Li Mu's ability to make world-class sci-fi blockbusters, but what about Li Mu?

Their goal is not to find a way to let you get less box office and let me get more box office. They just want to unite everyone and let everyone work together to create a stronger schedule!

Compared with Li Mu, the Wang brothers who had always been conceited felt a little ashamed for a moment. Of course, it was only for such a short moment.

Because the two of them were really shocked by Li Mu's chest, although it was only for a moment.

I saw Wang Zhongjun suddenly chuckled and said:

"Promise him, it may not be realistic to create a stronger schedule 'Spring Festival', but it is indeed a very good idea for everyone to cheer for the release of our "King of Kung Fu"."

"Movies have always been a winner-takes-all industry. Letting more people enter theaters at a certain time is to let more people go to a certain movie at a certain time. From the current market heat, This movie is neither "Yangtze River No. [-]" by Zhou Xingchi, nor "How to Steal the Key" by Li Mu, but "The King of Kung Fu" by Hua Yi Cheng Long and Li Lian."

The two sisters, Li Lianhua and Li Xuehua, admired Li Mu even more. The two sisters, who are over [-] years old, already know the rules of this society very well, and they have learned too much from working with Huayi Brothers for many years. The means of competition that cannot be put on the table, everyone has slowly accepted the concept that commercial competition should be bloody.

But now the two suddenly realized that it seemed that Li Mu had never resorted to those nasty methods against competitors, that Li Mu had always competed in an upright manner, and that Li Mu had never regarded other people as life-and-death opponents.

He seems to be just trying to make his own movies well, trying to improve the domestic film market environment, and then his movies have become the world's top-grossing movies without knowing it.

It feels like—the Huayi Brothers, who used to think they were very powerful, are not at the same level in front of Li Mu. Li Mu's eyes undoubtedly have to look further.

……

"Let me tell you, if your mother is dissatisfied with me when I go to your house this time, I will show him this video. Li Mu, a top director worth more than a billion yuan, is so optimistic about me, you Mom, why doesn't she like me?"

In a rental house in Beijing, Shen Teng said this to his girlfriend Wang Qi.

At this moment, Shen Teng's girlfriend is playing a video on Shen Teng's mobile phone. In the video, director Li Mu is patting Shen Teng on the shoulder and speaking:

"Shen Teng and we have also collaborated in two movies. Through these two movies, I discovered that you still have a bit of comedy in you. If you can bring out all these things, you might not be able to become a generation of comedy kings in the future..."

Shen Teng's girlfriend was stunned. She didn't expect that an international director like Li Mu would have such a high evaluation of Shen Teng, but seeing Shen Teng's proud expression, she couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable, so she curled her lips and said :
"Is it fake? Can Li Mu really value you so much?"

"Ah? Why can't it? This video is still fake? He doesn't think I can ask me to make a movie?" Shen Teng felt a little guilty. After all, he did ask Li Mu to boast himself, although he didn't expect Li Mu to be so To boast, to boast so harshly, but it is true that he begged for this passage.

Shen Teng's girlfriend Wang Qi continued: "If Director Li Mu really thinks so much about you, why didn't he recruit you to his company? Didn't Director Li Mu open a company called Huashang? Even Liu Yifei They all signed with Huashang."

"what?"

Shen Teng was stunned.

"Because... because I signed a contract with Happy Twist!"

Wang Qi said: "A good bird chooses a tree to live in. Isn't it possible to break the contract after signing the contract? If he really thinks so much about you, he would have paid the liquidated damages for you a long time ago!"

Shen Teng was speechless.

What his girlfriend said was right, everything Li Mu thinks about him is fake, but the ridiculous thing is that he almost took it seriously after watching this video over and over again in the past two days.

(End of this chapter)