China Entertainment started from Nortel 2002

Chapter 13 Preparing for "High School Musical"

Li Mu strolled around the imperial capital leisurely. He still wanted to live a freer life after rebirth. What was the point of a life of restraint?

The China Film Building was easy to find, but Li Mu was startled by the people who came down to greet him.

The next chairman is Han Sanye, who is still the deputy director.

This was the first time to see Li Mu since his rebirth, but he had seen him several times in his previous life.

Whether this circle is big or not, it's just the top social circle. Maybe new people will break in occasionally, such as Li Mu now.There were other people in the office, which was beyond Li Mu's expectation.

Wang Changtian, the head of Guangguang, is also in the China Film Office at the moment.

Li Mu saw that Master Han Sanye didn't say anything, and he understood in his heart.Wang Changtian took the initiative to shake hands, and the two briefly exchanged a few words.

"China Film will ask for half of the cost of a new movie." Mr. Han directly plans to ask for half of the investment share.

Wang Changtian was a little anxious and said quickly, the light needs to be [-]%.

Li Mu shook his head and thought, you all have taken [-]% of it, and the remaining [-]% ​​is for me to drink soup?
There are no doors.

"I want to be in charge of this project. I can only take out 1000% at most, and the cost budget is [-] million."

"Director Li is very confident about this movie. In this case, China Film will charge 3% and lighting 1%." Mr. Han directly made the final decision. Wang Changtian opened his mouth, wanting to say something but couldn't, so he could only nod silently.

"Okay, the money will go to the project account when the time comes." Li Mu took a sip of tea and didn't care about the division of accounts between the two families.

Li Mu is very clear about the reason for the participation of Guangguang. The current distribution of Guangwang is still dominant. Everyone has to eat meat together, and it is difficult to fatten if you eat it alone. This principle applies everywhere.

"Should the role be recommended, invited or auditioned? Has the heroine been decided?" Mr. Han wanted to intervene in the casting. After all, favors come and go in this industry, so if you have the opportunity, you might as well sell a few.

"I personally invited the casting, and Liu Yifei was chosen as the heroine."

"A new actor? He's not famous enough. Do you want to consider changing to another one?" Wang Changtian was very direct and wanted to recommend Guang Guang's leading actress.

"We didn't consider using famous actors in this drama. The cost would be that they would all be newcomers."

Soon everyone stopped worrying about the roles. After all, Li Mu is in charge of the show. He decides. They can only suggest, not force.

Han Sanye participated with the mission of China Film and his own selfishness this time. Wang Changtian wanted to board a new ship and buy a ticket for the first time.

After discussions between the three parties, Li Mu borrowed a team from China Film Group. Mengying Media has just been established and has not yet had time to build a team.

In the localization of "High School Musical", the boys' roles are not bad, and the male lead Li Mu plans to play the role himself.

The role is suitable and the difficulty is not high, so just practice. After all, I am also an acting major.

As for the second male lead, Li Mu plans to let Zhu Yawen, and the third lead actor Luo Jin. The rest will be given to the acting department teachers for their recommendation.

This time, Li Mu plans to use a pure Nortel lineup to make Nortel lose face, and trouble the school to solve some subsequent annoying problems. Nortel's resources in the circle are unimaginable by others.

On the girls' side, Li Mu was a little confused.Li Mu, the second female lead, plans to ask Zhou Yang before he goes out to take the role.

At this time, the crew of "Dancing with the Sunshine" probably hasn't found her yet.

Zhou Yang was a little surprised to learn that Li Mu was looking for him.The two chatted for a few words outside the classroom, and Zhou Yang was a little excited after the conversation.

This scene was seen by Jiang Yiyan.

"Yangyang, what does Li Mu want from you?"

"It's nothing. He lacks a role in his new movie. If he thinks I'm suitable, he invites me to participate." Zhou Yang didn't hide anything. He would know it in a few days anyway.

"Oh, you are so happy." Jiang Yiyan smiled a little reluctantly, but also a little unconvinced.

Some girls next to him also looked at Zhou Yang with envy.

Jiang Yiyan rushed directly to Li Mu with an angry look on her face.

"Does Director Li have a role suitable for me? I feel like I can do it too." He walked with great momentum and his voice was gentle and gentle.

"No, you are not suitable." Li Mu refused without raising his eyelids.

Jiang Yiyan was so angry that she froze on the spot.

At this moment, Li Mu was considering whether to throw the rest of the girl's characters over to be a favor to Teacher Beidian. Anyway, they were not of high importance and would not have any impact.

This also prevents some teachers from always joking that Nortel directors are all actors who like Chinese opera.Li Mu directly wrote down the requirements for each role and gave them to the teachers in the acting department, asking them to help introduce the actors.

The teachers happily accepted it, patting their chests and promising to choose the best one for him.

The filming location was basically all done in one place. Li Mu picked up the text message and sent a text message directly.

The next morning, an advertisement appeared on the homepage of Imperial Entertainment's advertising section. It didn't contain much content, but it attracted the attention of all private schools across the country.

Li Mu, the youngest Chinese director in Hollywood, is going to make a movie. The main set is a beautiful private high school. This is simply a natural and high-quality advertisement.

Suddenly, private schools across the country took action, inviting professional photographers to take beautiful photos of their schools, just so that the Li Mu crew could choose their high school.

Li Mu's advertisement is very targeted. It only needs to be private, not public. First, it can save a lot of trouble. Second, private schools often charge high prices for students to study, and the campus will be more beautiful. The most important thing is that private schools need enrollment promotion, and Li Mu's movies are the best. A good promotional video can help the school expand its popularity.

Li Mu's mailbox was filled with photos of various schools. In the end, Li Mu chose a high school in Yangcheng among the dozen schools he finally selected.

The school covers an area of ​​more than 400 acres. Not only does the school have a beautiful environment, it also has a gymnasium, swimming pool, concert hall, dance studio and various educational buildings on campus. It is not far from home, so it is naturally the best choice.

Li Mu also has selfish motives. As his hometown, Yangcheng will naturally give priority to his own family if he can help him.

In order to invite Li Mu to film the movie, the school leaders also paid a lot of money, not only to solve the venue and food problems during the filming.

Even the extras include guest appearances by school students, free of charge.School uniforms are all included, and a set of school uniforms is specially designed to be even more beautiful than before.

Li Mu really couldn't find a reason to refuse, so he accepted it happily.

As a film producer, Li Mu must show the school's real name, and pseudonyms cannot be used in publicity, and the real name must be used throughout the process.

After the filming location and filming crew were sorted out, Li Mu was ready to gather all the crew and rush to Yangcheng to start the filming.

Nortel finalized all the personnel within a few days. Not only did they send out outstanding sophomore students, they also directly invited two music teachers to arrange the music for Li Mu's film.

It can be seen that Nortel reciprocates the favor.

Li Mu gathered the arrangers and choreographers in advance to roughly set a tone, and left the rest to the professionals to discuss. He only looked at the final results and made improvements.

Liu Xiaoli was very busy in the end. She not only had to help supervise her daughter's dance practice, but also worked with the arranger on the song and dance part of the play. I have to say that as a former winner of the highest award for dancers, she is indeed professional in this aspect. , Even the teacher from Nortel praised Li Mu privately.

Hero was still unstoppable at the box office in its second week, directly taking over 4000 million.

It also directly topped the list in South Korea, Southeast Asia and other places. South Korea also made a special statistics. The movie "Hero" attracted a total of 2 million 180 viewers for 4762 weeks after its release, ranking first in the Korean movie box office for 13 consecutive days.

Lao Mouzi was instantly unparalleled and famous. Zhang Weiping directly announced that Lao Mouzi was the number one director in the country and lived up to his reputation.

In North America, as expected, "Cat and Mouse" started a massacre as soon as it was released. The box office of 3300 million US dollars directly slaughtered the Christmas season. DiCaprio + Spielberg, it was so terrifying.

However, Li Mu's "Little Miss Sunshine" withstood the pressure and ranked second. It took in US$1600 million in the Christmas season, and also took in US$1300 million in Europe and other places. The total global box office came to US$5600 million.

The third No. 4 was not so lucky, and was instantly reduced to rubbish. The two together were less than 300 million, which is terrible.

After Li Mu hung up the phone at Warner, he looked at the box office data in the email and couldn't help but shake his head.

Even though "Cat and Mouse" is so strong right now, when "Chicago" is released in two days, this movie will break out and become the new box office champion.

The overall situation of "Little Miss Sunshine" has been decided. China Film has already given the news that it will be introduced and released in April, which is about the same time as in the previous life. It seems that there is no shortage of processes to go through.

During his busy period, there was an article that interested Li Mu slightly.

"American story, Chinese director!" was written by the trouble-loving Southern Entertainment News. It is somewhat ironic that the core of Li Mu's "Little Miss Sunshine" is still an American story, not a Chinese story. The box office results are not worth mentioning. , that’s the overall meaning.

Li Mu also knows very well that his reputation is still a bit empty at present, and the article also grasps this point.That's why Li Mu changed the American version of "High School Musical" into a local version.

Naturally, word of the casting came to the Wang brothers, and at this time Wang Zhonglei walked into the office with great momentum.

"Brother, the role of "High School Musical" has been decided, and Hua Yi is not involved." Wang Zhonglei threw the document on the ground angrily.

"How dare he? Not only does he have a role, he doesn't even have a share of the investment."

Wang Zhongjun looked calm at this time, as if there were not many disturbances.

"Go and make arrangements and see what the schedule is. It's been a long time since I've seen a master who doesn't take us seriously." Wang Zhongjun's words were calm and indifferent.

"I understand, brother." Wang Zhonglei also calmed down at this time.

[Xiao Muzi, we will go to Yangcheng tomorrow, right?]——Crystal Kitten
[Hasn’t it already been notified?]——lucky puppy
[It feels like I'm in a dream, why am I suddenly acting in a movie, and I'm still the heroine] - crystal kitten
[Then how about I change it? 】——lucky puppy
【How dare you(╬￣俣)=○】——crystal kitten
(End of this chapter)