China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 196 Huashang Moment, Schedule Arrangement

"You want to come to my place?"

Zhao Liying nodded.

Li Muchi smiled.

"What's wrong?" Zhao Liying blushed a little.

Li Mu shook his head with a smile and said, "I don't feel very smart."

"Ah?" Zhao Liying looked up at Li Mu.

Li Mu continued to laugh and said: "Your contract with Huayi Brothers expires next year. Before the end of this year, you have a film "33 Days of Broken Love" to be released. You are the heroine. This year you also acted in "My Fair Princess". Dear Qing'er, this drama is estimated to be released next year, other than that, your characters are all secondary."

Zhao Liying listened quietly.

Li Mu continued: "Although the investment in "33 Days of Broken Love" is not large, it is also a key project of Huashang. I am very optimistic about it. "New My Fair Princess" is a remake of the phenomenal TV series "My Fair Princess". There is a high probability that this drama will still be popular. If you come to me now to talk about job hopping, you will be just a secondary actor who has played a few small roles. If you wait until next year when the contract officially expires, you will come to me again Let’s talk, you have a high chance of successfully becoming a second- and third-tier actress by then, and the conditions you can ask for by then will not be comparable to what you have now.”

Zhao Liying hesitated to speak.

Li Mu continued: "You are now negotiating terms with me as a secondary player. If you have already entered the second and third tiers when the contract expires next year, and your status changes by then, you may feel that the terms you negotiated today are actually a loss. Yes. If you feel a loss, you will inevitably have the thought of regretting it, but regretting it may offend me. Are you not smart enough to come to me in such a hurry?"

Seeing that Li Mu had finally finished speaking, Zhao Liying said: "Maybe next year I will really have a little fame, and maybe I will really be qualified to ask for some conditions, but what use are these to China? Yang Mi and Tong Liya is much more famous than me, and they are both contracted artists of Huashang. As a result, neither of them could star in Huashang's movie. Instead, I, a small actor from another company, starred in the company's "33 Days of Broken Love" first. "."

"It can be seen that Huashang's most important thing in casting is that the role should be suitable. When I become famous, what promise will I ask the signing company to give me? I think it must arrange a certain number of good roles for me within a few years. I believe that in Huashang in the future, I will be given a role that suits me, so I have nothing else to ask for."

Li Mu was a little surprised when he heard the words, he stared at Zhao Liying twice, not sure if she just said the truth or complimented Hua Shang.

"That's fine, let's settle this matter first, don't mention it, there are really a few IPs suitable for you in the company's copyright library."

"Thank you Director Li."

"No, it's a win-win situation for us. I'm still very optimistic about your commercial value."

After the wrap-up banquet, when Li Mu returned to his residence, he was still thinking, in fact, Zhao Liying is really suitable for signing with Huashang.

Li Mu has attached great importance to the work of hoarding potential copyrights in advance since time travel. So far, Huashang Media has hoarded as many as four novel IPs originally starring Zhao Liying——"Shanshan Comes to Eat" , "A Thousand Bones of Flowers", "The Biography of Chu Qiao", "Knowing Whether You Know or Not".

If Zhao Liying is not signed and all these dramas are entrusted to her to act, I am afraid that Huashang's other contracted female artists will inevitably have some ideas.

If you can sign in, you must try to sign in as much as possible.

Then Li Mu thought of another artist who should also be signed to Huashang.

Dilly hot!

The current hot bar should have been admitted to the Shanghai Academy of Drama. In the original timeline, she will sign with Yang Mi's studio in the year after next.

Now that Yang Mi has signed into Huashang, the fate of the hot bar will inevitably change drastically. In this case, why not just sign her into Huashang as well.

The next morning, Li Mu called Liu Siying.

"There is a freshman named Di Lieba at the Shanghai Academy of Drama. Pay attention and find a way to sign her to the company."

"Okay, what roles has she played before?"

"No, it's just a pure rookie."

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away."

In fact, Liu Siying was quite curious. A pure newcomer without any role, who is still in the magic city, suddenly fell into the eyes of the boss?

But no matter how curious she was, she wouldn't ask, because it had nothing to do with her job.

Since the boss wants to sign her, then she can just find a way to sign her. Gossip is pure heartlessness.

When Liu Siying sent someone to Shanghai to find someone, Di Lieba was full of ambitions to participate in an audition.

At this time, the new movie "The King's Feast" directed by Lu Chuan is about to start, but the role of Concubine Yu has been unable to decide on a candidate.

In the end, Director Lu Chuan simply organized a massive national audition for "Concubine Yu".

Di Lire also signed up with the mentality of giving it a try. At that time, she wanted to take her classmate Yuan Bingyan to come with her. Unfortunately, Yuan Bingyan felt that this kind of audition was more gimmick than reality, and the chance of being selected was too small. Just lazy to waste time.

It turned out that the audition hadn't even participated yet, and the staff of Huashang Media came to the door first.

"Hua Shang Media? Which Hua Shang? It can't be that Hua Shang, right?"

"It's that Hua Shang!"

It took a lot of effort for the staff to finally convince her that it was Huashang Media who came looking for her, but she was still very puzzled—how did Huashang know her?

"Then if I sign the contract, can I continue to participate in the audition?"

"of course can."

……

In fact, the audition organized by Director Lu Chuan was quite miraculous. The champion was unknown in the end, and those who were eliminated turned out to be several big stars.

Such as Di Lireba, Guli Nazha, Xu Lu and so on.

In the next period of time, Li Mu took the time to sort out the third part of the "Hunger Games" novel. He has delayed this book for too long. Now even the "Hunger Games" movie is about to be released. The novel It would be really outrageous to drag it on any longer.

It is estimated that when the movie "The Hunger Games" is officially released, the sales of the novel will usher in a wave of explosion.

After all the post-production work of "The Hunger Games" was completed, Li Mu organized an internal movie viewing event. After watching the movie, the word-of-mouth phenomenon was seriously polarized. Movies may not be suitable for China's movie market.

Li Mu also carefully watched his own version of "The Hunger Games" with everyone. In the end, he felt that the overall feeling was okay. In terms of the plot alone, it should be better than the original version. After all, Li Mu has the original version as a reference. Where the original version is insufficient, he can also make some targeted improvements.

To say that it may not be as good as the original version is probably because the heroine has become a Chinese. I don’t know how much impact this change will have on the European and American markets.

The good news is that Liu Yifei has already gained considerable popularity in Europe and the United States. The consequences of changing the heroine to other Chinese actresses may be very bad, but it is very likely that Liu Yifei will be fine.

Anyway, Liu Yifei at this time is much more famous than the big cousin before the release of "The Hunger Games" in the original time and space.

half a month later.

Li Mu discussed with Liu Siying about the arrangement of the follow-up movie schedule in the office.

Huashang Media has three films to be released in the second half of the year, and the schedule of the films is destined to be a bit of a headache.

"The post-stage of "33 Days of Broken Relationship" can be completed in at most one month, and "Beijing Meets Seattle" is about half a month away from completion. If necessary, it can also be arranged to be released before the year."

Li Mudao: "In this way, our company will have three movies to be released in the second half of the year. How do you think the schedule should be arranged?"

Liu Siying said: "According to our practice, the company's most important projects are usually scheduled to be released at the end of the year. "The Hunger Games" is directed by you personally, Mr. Li, and you are also not starring in it. The total investment is nearly 7000 million U.S. dollars. This movie is undoubtedly a Our company's most important project in the second half of the year should be scheduled to be released at the end of the year, but..."

"but what?"

"However, judging from the fact that in the first half of the year "Lost in Thailand" won a national box office of 3000 billion at a cost of less than 15 million, excellent domestic comedy films will undoubtedly win the hearts of domestic audiences. And Among the three films in the second half of the year, "33 Days of Broken Relationship" has the strongest comedy effect, and it is also the most suitable for the holiday atmosphere of the New Year, so I think we should arrange "33 Days of Broken Love" to be released at the end of the year. The movie plays."

Li Mu nodded and said, "What else?"

Liu Siying said: "The two months before the Chinese New Year are still one of the strongest schedules in China, and the company will also arrange for a movie to be released."

Li Mudao: "Let's arrange "Beijing Meets Seattle" in this schedule."

Liu Siying nodded, and then said: "The box office of "The Hunger Games" must be in foreign countries, so the schedule of this movie mainly needs to listen to the opinions of the distribution company in the United States."

Li Mu nodded and said, "Disney just told me about this today. They suggested that "The Hunger Games" be released worldwide on November 11."

Liu Siying nodded: "November is a good schedule. There are no other important domestic movies released in November, which can be regarded as taking into account both domestic and foreign markets."

Li Mu asked again: "It seems that there will be several important movies released in China in December, so try to avoid them if you can!"

刘思盈道：“12月4日赵本杉老师的《大笑江湖》、陈凯哥导演的《赵氏孤儿》上映，12月16日姜闻导演的《让子弹飞》上映，12月22日冯晓刚导演的《非诚勿扰2》上映。”

Li Mu said: "We also invested in "Let the Bullets Fly", and we definitely can't beat ourselves up. "If You Are the One 2" has the popularity foundation of the previous work. I heard that director Feng Xiaogang invited Wang Shuo out again this time. The box office performance should be good. It will be bad, we must avoid it if we can, "Laughing Jianghu" and "Orphan of Zhao" in early December should not pose a big threat, but the schedule of "The Hunger Games" is too close."

Liu Siying thought for a while and said, "Then arrange to release "Beijing Meets Seattle" in January."

Li Mu nodded.

At present, there is no major movie announced to be released in January, but Li Mu searched the film database in his mind and found that the release time of "New Shaolin Temple" and "Wulin Biography" in the original time and space happened to be in January.

But it's not a big problem.

In this way, the schedules of the three films that Huashang Media will release in the second half of the year are roughly determined.

The first is "The Hunger Games", which is scheduled for November 11.

Followed by "Beijing City Meets Seattle", the schedule is tentatively scheduled for January, the specific date is to be determined.

Finally, "33 Days of Broken Relationship" is initially confirmed to be officially released during the Spring Festival.

At the beginning of October, "Beijing Meets Seattle" was officially announced to be finished, and Li Mu specially went to the movie's wrap-up banquet.

At the banquet, Gao Yuanyuan walked to Li Mu with a glass of wine.

"Director Li."

"how?"

"Thank you for inviting me to star in this movie."

"Why are you still polite to me? We are friends, and I will definitely think of you if I have a suitable role."

"I mean, the role of Wen Jiajia is really suitable for me. I used to hear that a certain actor was too involved in the play and even couldn't get out after a long time. I couldn't understand it before, but this time I understand a little bit."

Li Mu was a little curious, he looked Gao Yuanyuan up and down for a while.

"Well, the temperament is a bit different. Congratulations, your acting skills have improved."

The two clinked glasses, and Gao Yuanyuan smiled and said, "It's hard to say whether the acting has improved or not, but I can really empathize with the role of Wen Jiajia this time."

……

After attending the wrap-up banquet of "Beijing Meets Seattle", Li Mu flew to France to visit Liu Yifei. I haven't seen her for more than a month, and I really miss her.

When I arrived, I found out that the crew had arranged Liu Yifei and her mother Liu Xiaoli in a suite. The environment in the suite is of course very good, but the daughter is already an adult and still lives in the same suite with her mother. Don't they feel awkward as a mother and daughter?

"Why are you living with your aunt? The crew doesn't have enough money to open two rooms, does it?"

After seeing Liu Yifei in the crew, Li Mu dragged her to a corner and complained in a low voice.

Liu Yifei found it funny and said, "I asked for it. It's boring to be alone in the room at night when you're away from home. What's wrong?"

Li Mu said: "It's nothing, it's just that I will open a new room and call you over as soon as I come. Doesn't this mean that I have traveled thousands of miles just to sleep with you in the eyes of others?"

Liu Yifei said angrily and amusedly: "You came to sleep with me, and you were afraid that people would say it. How dare you say so?"

Li Mudao: "Yes, there is indeed this item in the plan, but it's just a side effect, okay? The most important thing is that I haven't missed you for a month, and I want to talk to you more."

Liu Yifei suddenly realized: "Well... so it is like this! So you came this time just to have a conversation with me... That's just right, I just happened to have relatives who came over these few days, and just now I was worried about how to satisfy them. And you, now it seems that I think too much."

Li Mu stared at the words and said, "Are relatives here? It's true or not! Isn't the day right?".

At this time, Liu Yifei said again: "Didn't you just want to chat with me? Well, let's have a good chat tonight. I haven't seen you for more than a month. To be honest, I have a lot of things I want to talk to you. .”

"Ah? Just talking?!" Li Mu asked.

Liu Yifei wondered, "What else?"

Well, what she just said meant speaking with her mouth.

After a while Li Mu saw Liu Xiaoli again.

"Aunt Liu!"

"Li Mu."

"By the way, I heard that the film called "The Hunger Games" starring Yifei is about to be released. How do you think the market performance of this movie will be after it is released?"

Hearing this, Li Mu really thought about it carefully.

The global box office of "The Hunger Games" in the previous life was nearly 7 million US dollars, and the sales of the "Hunger Games" series of novels in this life are much more popular than in the previous life.

Speaking of which, how could the original author of "The Hunger Games" be as famous as Li Mu in this life?Cameron-level director, the author of more than ten best-selling books such as "The Hunger Games", "Divergent", "Maze Runner", "Inception" and so on--by the way, he is also a superstar writer such as "Frozen" and so on. The author of the best-selling manga.

All these fames superimposed on each other formed a huge advertising effect, which made the sales of "The Hunger Games" even more terrifying on this timeline.

In general, the sales volume in this life is about 1.5 times that of the previous life. In theory, my version of "The Hunger Games" has a certain chance to sell better than the previous life.

After all, the fan base is much stronger than in the previous life.

In addition, because of Liu Yifei's starring role, at least the domestic box office in this life will be better than the previous life. After all, it is possible to hope for a global box office of 8 million US dollars?

But of course he doesn't talk too much.

"Ideally, it should have a box office of about 7 million US dollars. Of course, this is the most optimistic estimate." Li Mu said.

(End of this chapter)