China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 178 Strength and Daily Life

There are four main distribution companies of "Lost in Thailand" - China Film Group, Light Limit, Bernard, and Maoyan. The original-price ticket became an instant hit, thus quickly occupying the online ticketing market.

Consumers look at the scalper movie tickets that cost hundreds or even 1000 yuan offline, and whether they can choose seats online or the original-price Maoyan movie tickets. Every audience can know how to choose.

After Maoyan Films took advantage of the momentum and quickly occupied nearly 7% of the online ticketing market, Li Mu took advantage of the opportunity to set foot in the field of film distribution, and "Lost in Thailand" was his first attempt in this regard.

Unexpectedly, the first distribution attempt of Maoyan Films shocked the entire film distribution industry-the eight major cinema chains in the country actually increased the proportion of Li Mu's films to 46%!

There are not only eight theaters in the country, but when the eight theaters unanimously agree to increase the proportion of all Li Mu's films to 46% in the future, the rest of the smaller theaters and theaters in the country can only follow suit.

Mr. Yu from Berna, Mr. Wang from Guangjian, and Mr. Han from China Film Group, these three people have all called in the past few days to ask Li Mu about the details of the negotiation.

As the three giants in the domestic distribution industry, these people know how difficult it is to make concessions from theaters and cinemas like iron roosters.

"Ah? You said this! In fact, there was not much negotiation. Didn't Director Feng Xiaogang approach me to discuss negotiating a while ago? I thought it was a good thing, so I promised Director Feng that he would support him when the time came. The next day, the representatives of the eight major cinema chains called my mobile phone. I remember at first they said that they would mention 45%, but then they immediately changed their words and said that they could mention 46%, and then it was done.”

However, after listening to Li Mu's words, the reactions of the three bosses were almost exactly the same.

"Gone?"

"That's it?"

"That promises?"

Then Li Mu's reaction is generally:
"It's said to be an increase of 3 percentage points, but in fact it doesn't have much money. Let's take "Lost in Thailand" as an example. It means that this film can earn 10 billion box office, and the three points are not too much. It is about 600 million or so."

The reason why the three points are not 3000 million is because the film box office must first pay 5% of the film special fund and 3.3% of business tax during the distribution process.

Then the three bosses were even more speechless.

"Three o'clock, how much money is there?"

"Listen...listen, are you speaking human language?"

Especially Chairman Han Sanping, after hearing this, he even calculated the math for Li Mu on the phone on the spot:

"Not much money? Last year your kid's movie took nearly 40 billion box office in the domestic market alone, right? 3 points of the account, the agreement between you kid and the eight theaters can be signed one year earlier, last year you kid You can get an extra 1.1 million! This is called not having much money? How much more do you want?"

"Hey, isn't that a special situation last year? The movies that have been filmed for several years just happened to get together."

The result is that Li Mu often responds while being silly.

While waiting for "囧囧" to be released, Li Mu had to watch the post-production work of "The Hunger Games" while patiently sorting out various preparatory work for the "The Martian" project.

At present, all the preparatory work for "The Martian" has been completed, and the actor Jiang Wen is almost missing the schedule.Director Jiang Wen is currently busy with the post-production work of his movie "Let the Bullets Fly". Recently, Li Mugang and Jiang Wen had a phone conversation. Make time for the group.

"What are you looking at?"

In the evening, Liu Yifei, who had just taken a shower, came behind Li Mu wearing a silver silk bathrobe. At this time, Li Mu was sitting in front of the computer and reading a novel.Liu Yifei's half-wet and half-dry hair hung forward against Li Mu's cheek. Li Mu's nose twitched, and a pleasant smell that was difficult to describe in words penetrated into his nose.

"A very special romance novel." Li Mu said.

Liu Yifei embraced Li Mu's neck from behind, while looking at the screen in front of her, she read: "33 Days of Broken Love?"

Li Mu raised his hand to hold Liu Yifei's hand, rubbing it lightly and said, "The novel is good, I'm going to buy it and make it into a movie."

"Oh." Liu Yifei didn't seem very interested, "I heard... Yang Mi is contacting you recently?"

"Why, jealous?" Li Mu stood up and hugged Liu Hou from the front and said.Liu hugged Li Mu's waist with his backhand, and the two hugged and swayed from side to side like two teetering penguins.

"No way." Liu looked up at Li Mu and refused to admit it.

Li Mu explained: "The contract between Yang Mi and Rong Xinda expired this year."

"She wants to come to Huashang?" Liu Yifei asked.

Li Mu nodded.

"Oh."

Liu Yifei didn't say much.

Of course Li Mu knew that Liu Yifei didn't want to get too close to Yang Mi. Yang Mi's cool outfit on the audition day of "On the Journey" had already alerted her, but Li Mu wouldn't just because she didn't like it too much. Really no contact with anyone.

Yang Mi's commercial value is relatively high, and Li Mu does have a lot of film and television drama projects that are suitable for her to act in. For example, the film and television copyright of "Three Lives Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" is in Li Mu's hands.

In addition, some small-budget horror dramas in Europe and America should also be suitable for her to act, such as "Happy Death Day", "The Fall", "Shark Beach" and so on.

With a production cost of US$800 million, it has a global box office of over US$[-] million.

Of course, it is incomparable with sci-fi blockbusters such as "Gravity" and "Inception", but from a purely commercial point of view, the cost performance of these low-budget films can be said to be very high.

Therefore, Li Mu is actually inclined to sign Yang Mi to his company. This is a decision made on a commercial level. Since it is a purely commercial decision, Li Mu will of course try to eliminate interference from other aspects.

The two hugged for a while, then Liu raised his head and whispered: "Why are you still standing there, you don't know what to do at this time?"

She said and closed her eyes.

Li Mu hugged Liu Daheng as if he had just woken up from a dream, and Liu was caught off guard and let out a burst of exclamation.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"Why? What do you think I want? Isn't this what you just wanted?" Li Mu said as he walked towards the bedroom holding her.

Liu Yifei was angry and funny and said, "I mean kiss, not... that."

Li Mu kept laughing and said, "It's a joke, the driver's license is already down, who still needs to take subject one!"

"Subject one?"

After entering the bedroom, Li Mu closed the door with his foot.

……

Early the next morning, Li Mu immediately arranged for someone to go to Bao Jingjing, the author of "33 Days of Broken Love", to buy the copyright, using the name of a brand new company.

Given Li Mu's current fame and status in the entertainment industry, if he always used the name of Huashang Media to buy the copyright of Xiangzhong's works, there was a high probability that people would deliberately raise the price.

Even if the deal fails in the end, as long as the news that Li Mu's company tried to buy the copyright of the work at a high price is spread, the copyright price of the work can be raised very high.

So this time until the deal was concluded, the author Bao Jingjing didn't know that the person who actually bought the copyright of her novel was director Li Mu.

(End of this chapter)