China Entertainment started from Nortel 2002

Chapter 159: Take a Gamble (Complete Chapter)

Li Mu's last words gave these future practitioners in the animation industry a lot of expectations.

The questions that followed were also raised in this regard.

"Brother Pastor Li, you said that China's animated films will usher in a new glorious period. Will Mengying produce animated films independently?"

A girl wearing glasses asked seriously, with some expectation.

"Definitely, Mengying Media has a dedicated animation department and will definitely produce animated films in the future. You can look forward to it."

"Brother Pastor Li, I just want to ask if Mengying Media is recruiting people? We want to go!"

These words aroused cheers from many people present. After all, Mengying had a great reputation in the industry and received good treatment.

It is a company that is in the minds of many people behind the scenes.

"Of course, Mengying Media welcomes Nortel students. By the way, the animation department is still expanding its enrollment recently. Those who are interested can apply."

Li Mu naturally would not refuse these high-quality workers. After all, Nortel's behind-the-scenes staff are still very good in the industry.

It can also increase the school’s employment rate, killing two birds with one stone.

Sun Jun took the lead in applauding. This was to solve his own employment problem, so he must be applauded vigorously.

"Brother Pastor Li, can you predict where the global box office of "Kung Fu Panda" will go? We are all very curious."

Li Mu looked at the girl who asked the question in surprise. Is this a movie fan?

Unexpectedly, this girl's question also attracted a lot of people's echoes, "Yes, Pastor Li, where can the total box office of "Kung Fu Panda" go?"

Unexpectedly, quite a few people were interested in the movie's box office performance, which surprised Li Mu.

Sun Jun and the teachers in the audience are all looking forward to Li Mu's answer. This is the first Hollywood A-level animated film with domestic personnel participating in the production, and everyone is full of expectations for it.

There were media present at this speech, but Li Mu did not accept interviews from the media.

The reporters' eyes are bright now. After all, the predicted amount coming from Li Mu's mouth is just a gimmick.

"The global box office is expected to be US$7 million."

Li Mu thought for a moment and gave a reply,

There was an uproar in the venue, and there was some disbelief.

Jingtian's eyes were filled with beautiful eyes at this moment, and his admiration was beyond words.

The reporters quickly took pictures and recorded it, then picked up their mobile phones and made calls.

Timely information is news, one step behind is history.

Everyone is racing against time to see which one is faster.

There were some questions later, and Li Mu responded to them one by one.

"Sun Yuan, that's it for now." Li Mu also said goodbye to Sun Jun. He was still a little tired after this speech.

But it feels pretty good. No wonder Hang Zhouma gives a speech like this. This kind of persona that is regarded as a successful person is really fascinating.

"Come here often!" Sun Jun was very satisfied with this speech. Not only was it high-level, it could also solve employment problems.

Kill two birds with one stone, I wish I could come here every once in a while.

After Li Mu heard this, he felt like he almost fell down. Good guy, you are trying to tease me for a long time.

This kind of behavior must be strictly stopped!
"Hey, our speech master is back." Li Mu just opened the door of the editing room. Before the door was closed, he heard Ning Hao's teasing voice.

"Okay, I highly recommend you to Lao Tian for the next Nortel speech. After all, your humorous eloquence will be wasted if you don't give it."

Li Mu sat on the chair and said to himself.

"Brother, I was wrong, give me a chance to change my ways!"

Ning Hao was immediately frightened. With his speech skills, he had to break through his defenses as soon as he came on stage. How could he maintain his image as a billionaire director?

"Have you finished editing the video? How long have you been staying there?" Li Mu felt like this guy had been staying there for several months.

Is this movie so difficult to edit?

It was also taken by you. Logically speaking, it should be easy to capture with ease.

"Hehe, there are still some small details, I promise to finish them within this week." Ning Hao vowed.

Seeing him like this, Li Mu didn't bother to pay attention to him.

The content of Li Mu's speech has already been posted on the portal website, but the more attractive title is Li Mu's prediction of global box office.

"Director Li Mu predicts that the global box office of "Kung Fu Panda" will exceed US$7 million!"

You know, at this time "Kung Fu Panda" has reached the top of the domestic animated film No. 1, and is far behind "The Lion King".

"Li Mu really dares to say that the global sales exceeded 7 million US dollars!"

"I don't think 7 million is a big problem. It has already exceeded 3 million US dollars. 7 million is just more than double."

"The guy upstairs is really good at math. Do you know how much 7 million US dollars is? 56 billion yuan, you can't spend it all in your lifetime."

"Don't say anything. I'll do it again. I have a lot of credit for the $7 million."

Li Mu's 7 million U.S. dollars in box office has really created a wave of popularity for "Kung Fu Panda", and the box office has also increased a little. Domestic sales have exceeded 2 million at this time.

The first-week box office in the Mainland of "The Legend" also successfully exceeded 8000 million yuan, and the total box office in the Mainland and Hong Kong has exceeded 9000 million yuan, which is considered a good result.

The cost of this movie is not low, 4000 million U.S. dollars, which translates into more than 3 million yuan.

Moreover, Li Lienjie alone took away a salary of [-] million, becoming the highest paid actor in Asia in one fell swoop, breaking the Chinese language film salary record.

This is still a friendly price for Chen Kexin, because Jet Li's net worth in Hollywood is already 2000 million US dollars, and [-] million is still a fraction.

If the box office of a movie is not satisfactory and the royalties are not expensive later, the probability of loss is quite high.

There isn't much time left for "The Call to Action". In one week, Feng Xiaogang's "Assembly" will also be released, and the two films will be on the same level.

At this moment, Zhang Yimou called urgently and asked Li Mu to participate in a discussion.

Although it was a simple sentence, in Li Mu's opinion, the problem was probably not small. If it was really a simple discussion meeting, Zhang Yimou would not have called him personally.

Zhang Yimou has held thousands of meetings these days. The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is completely different from his movie shooting.

The former can only succeed, not fail, and failure will lead to eternal disaster.

If you fail in the latter case, you will fail, and that will be the case if you make another film next time.

Brother Chen Kai's failure in "The Promise" didn't affect his filming of "Mei Lanfang" either.

Early the next morning, Li Mu rushed to the special conference room. When entering, he had to hand over his mobile phone.

Just from here you can see that this matter is not simple.

Not many people came, but everyone could be counted.

Director: Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Gu Changwei, Feng Xiaogang, Jia Zhangke
There are also famous professors from the Academy of Fine Arts and so on.

Li Mu looked at the Olympic leadership team and Zhang Yi. At this time, Zhang Yi was still feeling deeply tired and had not rested well.

The reason for the meeting was also very simple. When the ideas of the four major inventions were reviewed by the leadership group for the second time, they were rejected.

The reason is that 5000 years of civilization and the four major inventions cannot replace this past history.

Zhang Yimou immediately came up with a new plan, using a continuously unfolding scroll to simultaneously display our 5000-year history and civilization from ancient times to the present.

This idea passed the review immediately as soon as it was proposed.

The scroll is used to carry the display of civilization, but the 'paper' as the core prop becomes a problem. First of all, the source. Where can you find such a large paper?

Fortunately, Yu Jianping of the material production team thought of using aviation materials to make a huge "paper", which temporarily solved the problem faced by Zhang Yimou.

The core prop is a "big paper" that is 36 meters long and 14 meters wide. Nine programs need to leave traces on the paper, so the gesture of this paper is particularly important.

However, the ideal is full, and the reality is cruel.

When 1800 kilograms of paper was controlled by a crane and slowly pressed down on the evenly arranged martial arts students, Zhang Yi and others were stunned because it was impossible to realize the original idea and the designed actions were simply impossible to complete.It is obviously impossible to change the plan temporarily at this time.

Only then did this emergency meeting be held, and Mark Fisher, the chief stage designer of the BJ Olympics opening ceremony, raised a very pointed question, which also hit Zhang Yimou again.

"As a spectator, whether you're sitting in a stadium or sitting in front of a TV, it's hard to understand with the way it's being represented right now that what we're doing is a piece of paper, and from what I understand personally, I never think any of the world's When a material is as large as 36 meters by 14 meters, it can still behave like a piece of paper.

All of us here ask ourselves the question, will we be able to show what we want to show by August 2008, 8? "

At this time, the problem was also thrown to everyone present, because this problem must be solved, and it must be solved today.

Everyone was frowning at this time, because the problem seemed to have reached a dead end.

Even Li Mu was a little confused at this time, where did the scene of the Olympic opening ceremony come from.

I kept thinking about it in my mind.

At this time, Zhang Yimou also withstood the pressure and took the lead, suggesting: "How about making the paper smaller."

Zhang Yimou still insisted on using this plan. His compromise was just to make the paper smaller.

No one responded, and the room was completely silent. After Li Mu heard this suggestion, the picture reappeared in his mind.

Since the scroll was shown in the final opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, it proves that this plan is definitely feasible. Lao Mouzi's suggestion is very likely to be the solution. Even if it is not, it is probably close.

The long silence in the conference room was finally broken by Li Mu: "I think director Zhang Yi's suggestion is to give it a try. Since 35*14 doesn't work, then change it to an acceptable size."

Obviously others were still hesitating at this time, and they were a little surprised to see Li Mu being the first to stand up and express his support for Zhang Yimou.

After all, Li Mu's identity is different. If the Olympics are held again in the future, it is very likely that this person will be the chief director of the next Olympics.

After all, Li Mu's achievements were too dazzling.

Zhang Yimou's eyes looked at Li Mu with gratitude. He had been under so much pressure recently that he was thinking about how to direct the opening ceremony even when he was sleeping.

"OK, we admit that this idea is great, but there are too many problems in it. The first is how to make the audience understand this piece of paper. Secondly, the large-scale use of LED screens has no precedent in the entire Olympic Games. Assume that there are One screen is malfunctioning”

The person in charge of the technology side has already begun to ask questions. This is indeed a harsh reality, because with electronic products, you cannot guarantee that it will be good on the same day.

Then a series of problems were thrown up, such as waterproofing and lighting failures.
The entire conference room was arguing non-stop. These real issues affected the entire opening ceremony. If they are not resolved, there will be no way to move forward.

The leadership team was also watching them at this time, waiting for the final conclusion.

After a while, the scene gradually became quiet, and then remained silent.

"Director Li, why don't you tell me your opinion." At this time, a member of the leadership team sitting in the center suddenly shouted.

Li Mu was also a little surprised. He looked around at the people around him and saw that they were all looking at him with expectation. He couldn't help but cursed secretly: It's no use. You can't rely on big things, but you don't need to rely on small things.

Now that he was named, Li Mu said what he was thinking.

"I support director Zhang Yi's point of view. There may be a risk of screen failure, but without a screen, the program will turn into traditional gymnastics, and the effect will be greatly reduced."

Li Mu didn't finish the rest of the sentence. The remaining half of the sentence was: It's worth a gamble here.

Directors such as Chen Kaige and Jia Zhangke finally stood up and supported Li Mu and Lao Mouzi. There were indeed risks, but this is what perfectionists should accept.

Risks and benefits coexist. How to present the most perfect opening ceremony requires the support of these technologies. It cannot be ignored just because of risks.

Finally, a few more people were named, and they all said the same thing.

After the meeting, Lao Mouzi also found Li Mu alone. We all had a tacit understanding and couldn't express our gratitude.

Without Li Mu, Lao Mouzi would have to endure a few more pressures to implement this plan. The plan is not so easy to pass because it involves too many things.

"Junior brother, Tiancai, please do me a favor. Of course, your efforts will not be in vain."

Zhang Yimou thought for a moment, and if he followed his plan, the presentation of this effect would require many technical aspects from a special effects company. In China, Tiancai is the only one in the industry.

Zhang Yimou is not reassured by the results produced by other companies.

"Senior brother, if you need anything, just ask."

Li Mu will definitely not refuse this suggestion. Tiancai is definitely the best in the industry, and if Tiancai can be included in the Olympic cooperation list, the benefits will be too many.

The special effects are all done in advance, and there will be no mistakes.

"Okay, please, I will find Renren to contact Tiancai."

After Zhang Yimou finished speaking, he left in a hurry. All the big and small things about the Olympic Games were waiting for him to solve.

The North American box office of "Kung Fu Panda" is already approaching 2 million U.S. dollars. The domestic box office has exceeded [-] million U.S. dollars, and both sides have begun to move much slower.

On the other hand, after "The Legend" broke through [-] million, the box office began to show signs of decline. Chen Kexin was also a little anxious. "Assembly Number" was about to premiere. At the same time, "The Legend" could not be released at the same time. A huge space was compressed.

He quickly stepped up his promotion and took advantage of these days to recover as much blood as possible.

In Southeast Asia, "The Legend" performed fairly well and earned more than 3000 million yuan at the box office.

Li Mu looked at the recent movie news, and the entire popular post was occupied by these three movies. At this time, Huayi's promotion began to become fierce, and "Assembly" gained momentum.

These days, Nortel has become popular in the industry. Li Mu gave lectures at Nortel a few days ago, and Li Jian will also come to communicate with Nortel students in the next few days.

Two famous teachers in the world communicated twice, which aroused the envy of students from other schools.

Nortel students are naturally full of pride. They have no choice but to show off, as is human nature.

Li Mu estimated that Nortel wanted to invite Li to become a visiting professor this time.

This is also the routine of many art schools. If Li Mu hadn't graduated from graduate school, he would have already received many invitations.

This will be of great help in improving the reputation of the school and its teachers.

Tian Zhuangzhuang also invited Li Mu to participate in the exchange meeting, but Li Mu thought about it and realized that he had just made his debut a few days ago, and the lingering warmth was still there. Going to exchange it again would be a bit frequent.

Li Mu politely refused.

The premiere of "Assembly Number" was not false at all. There was also an honor guard of the three armed forces and a huge "Assembly Number". Feng Xiaogang even called out the members of the [-] million box office club to join People.

Currently, in the Mainland, only Li Mu and Zhang Yi are in the [-] million box office club.

In order to compete for popularity, "The Signature" held a 1.3 million celebration party that day, and the two films officially started a box office battle.

"Boss, Oscar's public relations has started." David called, and his voice sounded like he was already at the party.

It’s almost Oscar nomination season, and major film crews are spending crazy money on public relations.

"Work hard. How is the operation at DreamWorks Animation?"

"Renting a big villa is already throwing money into it."

When David talks about spending money on Oscars, he no longer feels bad about it.

The benefits gained from spending money over the years far outweigh the investment.

"By the way, boss, your prediction for "Kung Fu Panda" is really accurate. The professional box office forecasting agency in the United States also gave data a few days ago. The global box office is expected to be US$7 million."

David was very excited when he talked about this, and he really admired Li Mu's vision.

Just by looking at the surface data, you can guess the approximate box office.

You need to know how many analysts a professional organization hired and how many mathematical tools it used to provide data.

After hanging up the phone with David, Li Mu was in a good mood.

With DreamWorks and Warner behind the public relations, "Kung Fu Panda" is basically guaranteed to be nominated, not to mention winning.

Recently, the "Kung Fu Panda" peripherals in Europe and the United States have been sold out, but the data has not been reported back yet. If the subsequent Oscar nominations are added, there will be another wave, and the rental and sales of subsequent DVDs will definitely account for the majority.

A sequel can be put on the agenda.

The first-day box office of "Assembly Number" was not as good as that of "Report", with a first-day box office of only 1500 million. However, it continued to explode, with a daily growth rate of 2000 million, and quickly won a box office of over [-] million.

And the potential has not been exhausted yet, it seems that there is still room left. This movie, with an investment of only 8000 million, seems to be a hit.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the 2 million "Assembly Number" is no longer able to stop it. Unfortunately, the box office space of "Report" was immediately compressed, and it began to decline significantly, and it cannot stop.

(End of this chapter)