China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 91

"Super Body" is performing a series of box office miracles, and its market performance has shocked many domestic filmmakers.Since the film was officially released worldwide on June 6, "Super Body" has quickly captured the global film market with an unstoppable momentum.

After three days of release, the number of movie viewers in South Korea exceeded 100 million; it landed in France and won the French movie box office ranking for four consecutive weeks; it swept the United States, and the North American box office officially broke through the $26 million mark in 1 days of release; it exploded in the mainland, and it was released in 28 days at the mainland box office Officially suddenly hit the 3 million yuan mark.

The four major web portals used their headlines to settle accounts for Li Mu: Since Li Mu officially entered the entertainment industry in 04, the total box office of his screenwriting works has officially exceeded 70 billion yuan, and the total box office of his director's works has exceeded 50 billion yuan. The global sales volume of the novel has exceeded 3000 million copies, and the royalty income is conservatively estimated at 6000 million US dollars.

The four major portal websites settled accounts, and the national news media reproduced it one after another. The morning and evening news reading programs of satellite TV stations in various provinces took turns, and netizens all over the country discussed heatedly.

Almost overnight, Li Mu's name became popular all over the country. Even people who have never been in a movie theater know that this young man who is always worth hundreds of millions or billions, is even more popular than the movies. starring Li Lianhua.

Liu Yifei.

Under a post titled "What kind of man is worthy of our princess Sissi".

"How old is Li Mu this year?"

"It seems to be 3 years older than Yifei."

"So young?"

"What do you think?"

The originally lively post suddenly fell silent, as if everyone was amazed at Li Mu's youth.

In everyone's mind, Liu Yifei is still the little sister who hasn't grown up. Once Li Mu's various achievements are displayed, anyone will think that this person is at least 50 years old, but his actual age is only 22 years old.

"Hey!"

Suddenly someone sighed in the post, and then replied: "As a fan of Liu Yifei, I never wanted to see any scandals about Liu Yifei before. If one day Yifei's younger sister falls in love and the relationship is exposed, I will I thought it would be difficult for me to lose my fans. But today I suddenly felt that if the person Yifei is looking for is Li Mu, I can accept it."

"I agree, although I really don't want to see Liu Yifei really fall in love with someone, but Li Mu is really the best choice for Yifei. As a rational fan, although I don't want to admit it, I have to accept the reality. If you want to fall in love, instead of finding someone who is not good enough for Qianqian, you might as well just talk to Li Mu."

"As a fan, I hope that the sooner Sissi falls in love, the better, but as a fool who has been hurt by eight love affairs, I hope that Sissy and Li Mu can establish a relationship as soon as possible. Normally, a man like this is surrounded by a group of women If the water cannot get through, even a fly, as long as the sex is female, it will not easily fly in."

"It's not that everything is good, it's just that her personality is too tepid. How can she do this? Other women have fallen into her arms, and she is still drinking coffee and reading books leisurely. How can this be better than those? A coquettish bitch, I think Li Mu will be robbed by some super easy-going entertainment circle sooner or later."

"He's handsome, talented, and rich. If you don't go for those with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physical education, and labor, you'll only be able to find people with partial science in a few years."

Beijing.

Liu Xiaoli beckoned her daughter to her side.

"What's wrong?" Liu Yifei came over with a smile.

Liu Xiaoli handed the computer to her daughter:

"Netizens call you to chase Li Mu."

Liu Yifei: "Huh?"

……

Li Mu's office.

"Okay, okay, well, I will send someone to pick it up then, okay, okay, I wish the cooperation a success."

After hanging up the phone, Li Mu called Liu Siying:

"The double negative person will come over in a few days, you go and pick it up."

"it is good."

Li Mu handed over the contact information to Liu Siying, and then continued to work on the movie budget.

Double Negative, the largest film and television special effects post-production company in Europe, was established in London, England in 1998. The company has more than 900 professional computer special effects personnel and is one of the top ten special effects companies in Hollywood.

"Inception" has a large number of special effects shots. Without communicating with the special effects company in advance, it is difficult for Li Mu to estimate the film's production budget relatively accurately.

In the last month, after communicating with Weta, Industrial Light & Magic, Moving Image, and Sony Pictures, Li Mu finally chose this British special effects company.

Double Negative The company also attaches great importance to the project, and has decided to send important people from the company to Beijing to communicate in person.

The filming locations are initially determined to be the United States, China, Morocco, Canada, RB, France, and the United Kingdom. Li Mu needs to calculate a rough figure for the cost of the actors and crew in the budget, and add it to the budget.

Movie budgets can be divided into two categories: online expenses and offline expenses.

Online expenses generally include script costs, salaries paid to executive producers and directors, and actors' salaries and additional remuneration.

Offline expenses include salaries paid to crew members, use of equipment, purchase of videotapes or film, plus the cost of sets, props, costumes, make-up, transportation, food, sound effects, music and editing.There are also insurance premiums, legal fees and licenses.

Li Mu listed the relevant expenses one by one, made a form, and then took this form to recruit other investors.

It is impossible to produce independently, the six major Hollywood film companies are strong enough, right?When making blockbuster films, it is always necessary to recruit several companies to share the risk, and besides, Li Mu simply can't afford that much money.

He made preliminary calculations, and the production budget of "Inception" should be between US$1 million and US$1.2 million. The reason why the gap is so large is that there is currently no choice for the main actors, especially the leading actor. settle down.

After confirming the approximate investment amount, Li Mu immediately called Chairman Han Sanping of China Film Group.

"Mr. Han, I made the budget for the new movie. The investment is a bit large. Huashang alone will definitely not be able to make it, so I am asking for your help. China Film is the 'big brother' in the national film industry, and my younger brother is in trouble. Seek help from big brother, big brother must lend a helping hand."

Han Sanping on the other end of the phone was overjoyed when he heard the words: "So fast? Don't worry, China Film Group will not turn a blind eye to the difficulties of private film companies. I would hesitate to invest in big productions a few years ago. At that time, the box office was 4000 million and it was the national champion. Yes, there is indeed a lot of pressure on big investments. But now, two big investments of 6000 million US dollars have been invested, and "Assassin" has made all participating companies make a lot of money, and now my back is hard ——Tell me, how big a battle do you want to engage in this time? But don’t worry, it doesn’t matter how big the battle is, as long as it’s your Li Mu’s project, China Film and I will definitely fully support it.”

Li Mudao: "Thank you, Director Han. The main actors have not yet been decided, and the budget can only be used as a reference. The total cost of preliminary calculations is about 1.2 million. It may be less, or it may be more."

Li Mu felt that the breathing on the other side became heavy, and after a pause of more than [-] seconds, he asked:
"1.2 million... 1.2 million... Li Mu, if another director tells me that he wants to make a big production and invest 1.2 million, I must know that he is talking about RMB, and then I will try to persuade the other party not to make such a big production. If it’s not good, it’s going bankrupt, but it’s you, Li Mu, who said this now—then I have to ask a little more clearly: the 1.2 million you just said is US dollars, right?”

Li Mudao: "U.S. dollars, the investment is indeed a bit big. I will study carefully and study which money can be saved later."

Han Sanping: "Listen, listen, is it really a little big? The investment of 1.2 million US dollars is really a little big after you say it? What a grandson."

Li Mu: "Huh?"

Han Sanping: "I mean, you can really make a fuss—let's make an appointment, call those companies to China Film Group, and discuss it together."

Li Mu: "Okay."

(End of this chapter)