China Entertainment started from Nortel 2002

Chapter 177 Suspense goes to sea
"Breaking 15 million in 3 days, a new record is born!"

As Li Mu's film officially reached 3 million, the media rushed to report that "The Invisible Guest" set a record for the fastest Chinese-language film to exceed 3 million in China.

"There is drama, there is definitely drama."

Han Sanping saw that 3 million was easily broken, and he became more confident in breaking the record of "Titanic".

Even if the extension key is used, this record must be broken, Han Sanping secretly made up his mind.

This record is very important for domestic films.

Even if there is a gap between 3.5 million, it is obviously different, which is exciting enough.

"We can start preliminary negotiations with the film producers." Li Mu came to Mengying and gave instructions directly to Liu Weijuan.

The negotiation team is ready to appear.

The copyright fee for a movie is generally determined based on factors such as the movie's popularity, director, production cost, and cast.

Factors such as the quality, appreciability, and reputation of a movie determine its popularity, which in turn affects future copyright profits.

The production cost of "The Invisible Guest" is not high and the cast is not strong, but with the support of a director of Li Mu's level, these are not the most important factors.

You must know that when film producers select from such a large number of films around the world, the most important thing is the film's popularity and director.

These two can quickly filter out unprofitable movies, and experience has proven that with the support of the first two, they can bring huge profits to film producers.

Of course, there are exceptions. For example, if an actor of DiCaprio's level appears in a movie, then the copyright value of the movie will increase.

There is no doubt that film studios' bids are also subject to local market demand.

Mengying Media has already produced a rough list of copyright fees, and Li Mu personally reviewed it and made corrections.

In business negotiations, you never expect to succeed in one go. Only by taking your time can you maximize your benefits.

In addition to "The Invisible Guest" becoming a hot topic among film critics recently, there is another movie that is also slowly becoming popular.

"Nine Perfections" has been rated as a model for copycat movies.

However, this type of movie also secretly took away 2000 million at the box office.

As the Olympic Games progressed, there were more and more reports about Zhang Yi. There were even rumors that he would serve as the director of the Film Bureau. Zhang Yi immediately denied it in media interviews. However, the energy of the Nortel director was always so strong, and he immediately Started preparing a new movie again.

The media have speculated that it should be "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins", which Zhang Yimou has mentioned on many occasions.

After watching it, Li Mu shook his head. It would be okay if he made this movie. The problem is that the next movie Lao Mouzi made was indeed bad enough.

Zhang Weiping is indispensable!

The special effects of "District [-]" took half a year to finally be produced. Blomkamp was very excited and called Li Mu to see the final effect.

Seeing these ugly aliens in "District [-]" in this life, Li Mu is still a little disgusted, but fortunately, the main radiation range of this movie is Europe and the United States. Even the Night Stalkers would like those people, so they want to come to this stupid prawn. There must have been tears of pity.

"Do you have any ideas about the schedule?" Li Mu asked. After post-production is completed, he can start thinking about the schedule.

"Early next year?" Blomkamp expressed his thoughts with some hesitation.

"Want to try for an Oscar?" This seductive voice instantly caused Blomkamp to nod one after another. Who is out of his mind and doesn't want to try for an Oscar?

"Then let's put it in August and use half a year to impact the world of those old men." Li Mu said with a smile. It's not that Li Mu doesn't want to let it go until the end of the year, but it can't beat it at the end of the year.

This movie is more suitable for the audience during the summer vacation.

The reversal shock brought by "District [-]" is indeed suitable to refresh these judges' understanding of aliens, and its impact on the Oscars can also add fuel to subsequent DVD rentals.

Blomkamp stayed for a few more days and then returned to Crystal Pictures to communicate with David about follow-up matters.

Taking advantage of the good momentum, the Propaganda Department of Mengying Media edited a trailer for "Painted Skin". In this one-and-a-half-minute trailer, all the leading actors appeared one after another.

At the end of the trailer, the succubus tried to take off the human skin from the back of her head, scaring Pei Rong so much that she screamed...

As for what a succubus with human skin would look like, Mengying Media said it would keep it a secret to the end, which attracted netizens to comment wildly below.

"The same editing techniques!"

"Mengying knows suspense, Li Mu must have taught him!"

"Brother Xun, you are going to post this time." Huang Xiaoming whispered to Zhou Xun. She was afraid that "Painted Skin" produced by Mengying Media would be the next "Invisible Guest".

"I know, but it's a pity that Director Li didn't direct it himself." Zhou Xun is very satisfied with "Painted Skin". As the starring role, she knows how exciting this movie is. The only pity is that Li Mu is only the producer.

"That's also Director Li's work." Huang Xiaoming was full of envy. Anyone who has acted in Mengying movies in the industry would not jump a few times.

Yuan Quan, who was in the movie, and Zhang Songwen, who was from Nortel, are now being offered film offers, and I heard that they are not willing to accept them casually.

"Stop talking about this, do you know why we were called here today?" Zhou Xun looked and saw that not many people were called. Her other nemesis was also there. Li Binbin was sitting not far away with a calm expression.

"There seems to be a new movie, but I don't know the details." Huang Xiaoming also heard some rumors.

"New movie?" Zhou Xun blinked confused eyes. Huayi's biggest director at this time is Feng Xiaogang, but his new movie seems to have been postponed. Who is it?
In Li Mu's villa, Liu Yifei hung on Li Mu like a tree, unable to drive her away.

Mother Li was here a few days ago, so Liu Yifei had to be more elegant. Then she had to work on "Your Name" and answer one or two announcements. There was no chance to be alone with Li Mu afterwards.

It cannot be made up now.

"When will your movie break the record?" Liu Yifei muttered, and her words were also the sentiment of netizens.

Seeing that the box office is getting higher day by day, the record is close at hand.

"I feel like you are more impatient than me." Li Mu looked at the recent daily box office, which still showed a cumulative increase of several million. "It is estimated that it will break through in three days."

"Then you are not No. 1 in the domestic box office?" Liu Yifei's eyes lit up.

"Actually, after accounting for inflation, the box office of "Shaolin Temple" in 82 was estimated to be 1.6 million yuan. At that time, the average ticket price was about 1 cents, and pork was 7 cents per pound at that time."

Li Mu deliberately calculated these accounts. Of course, the global box office of Titanic was even more exaggerated after inflation.

But there is actually another movie. If we really count, "Titanic" will probably have to give way, and that is 1939's "Gone with the Wind".

"I don't care. Anyway, I only see what's on the surface, and so do netizens."

Everyone in the industry was waiting for Li Mu's movie to break the 3.5 million yuan mark. Although the box office began to fall sharply after reaching 3 million yuan, it finally reached 22 million yuan in 3.58 days of release, officially breaking the record of "Titanic" It sealed the box office record of Chinese movies for ten years.

At this moment, No. 1 was finally replaced by a domestic movie.

"The number one box office title changed hands, and Li Mu took the top spot with his suspense film."

"Li Mu broke the record that had been dusty for ten years!"

“‘Titanic’ is officially second, and first is the suspense film!”

Li Mu, with the domestic box office trend, finally broke this record in 08. Originally, this record was broken by "09" released in 2012. However, this movie is also in Li Mu's hands, and the later stage is expected to be completed in October.

"Old Tian, ​​are the banners ready?" Xie Xiaojing hurried over and asked. All entertainment portals are now reporting this. "I've let the people below do it a long time ago. I guess this will fail." Before the box office record was broken this time, Tian Zhuangzhuang sent people to make banners in advance and waited.

"Okay, it's finally broken this time." Xie Xiaojing was also extremely excited. You know, domestic directors have dreamed of turning this mountain into their own movies.

Tian Zhuangzhuang is no exception at this time. Who wants to keep a foreign movie under pressure?

"Your junior brother's new movie has broken the record." Chen Hong looked at Brother Chen Kai, "Why don't you send a text message to congratulate?"

"Well, it was released early." Brother Chen Kai looked depressed because "Mei Lanfang" still failed to catch up with Venice. The later stage was too slow and missed two world film festivals in a row.

"Didn't Hong Zuxing say that "Mei Lanfang" can represent China's Xiangjiang region and apply for next year's Oscar? If possible, please help your junior brother to push it."

Brother Chen Kai pinched the crowd and felt annoyed: ""Mei Lanfang" has to meet one condition if it wants to enter next year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film: it will be released in theaters for a week before October. Now the film has only completed a 10-hour preview. Whether the cutting can be completed before October is still unknown.”

Brother Chen Kai thinks that if his film can catch up, it still has great hope of competing for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

Mei Lanfang's opera achievements have a great influence abroad. Together with Brecht and others, it is one of the three major performance systems.

At this time, Li Mu had Liu Yifei in his arms and received a call from Liu Weijuan.

"What's the matter?" Liu Yifei asked, raising her head.

"The copyright dealer relented." Li Mu said with a smile.

"Because it broke the record?"

"Correct."

"No wonder you keep letting Sister Liu hang them, you are so bad." Liu Yifei said with a smile.

"This is called a win-win situation." Li Mu pointed out Liu Yifei's statement.

"How did you quote the price?" Liu Yifei knew that there were many interested copyright dealers this time. With so many countries, she had to learn how to quote the price. As a producer, the copyright transaction was also closely related to her.

"It's very simple. Look at the country's market. It's cheaper in poor places and more expensive in rich places."

"so what?"

"The poor ones will start with a million dollars, and the rich ones can keep doubling it. It depends on how rich they are."

"You feel so dark." Liu Yifei looked directly at Li Mu.

"Shopping malls are like battlefields. If we don't agree, we can continue talking. I didn't force them."

"But I like it." Liu Yifei found a more comfortable position in her arms and moved her body. Who cares, these film producers have a lot of money, so they deserve a little more Mengying.

Film producers were also intrigued, but in order to make money, they had to sit down and talk.

The two sides go back and forth, pulling to the extreme, both sides have evil hearts, it just depends on who is more evil.

"Director Li, please help me." Wu Kebo suddenly called Li Mu.

"What's the matter, Mr. Wu?" After receiving a call from Wu Kebo and going to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, Li Mu thought about the background and made a guess in his mind.

"I'll be a lobbyist for Ai Hui Group for the movie rights. It's US$1200. What do you think, Director Li?"

Ai Hui Group, Wu Kebo was of course talking about Little Japan, Wu Kebo’s Japanese backstage.

The one we are currently discussing with Mengying Media is Toei, which we have cooperated with before.

Wu Kebo helped Mengying cut off Jiahe's theater chain, and Li Mu naturally gave him a chance: "Mr. Wu, as far as I know, of the 2000 million US dollars Chengtian and Ai Hui invested in Chibi, 1200 million were used to purchase the copyright. This is not right. Count?"

Li Mu made it very clear that his copyright fee cannot be the same as Wu Yusen's. Does he think he can't compare to Wu Yusen?

The Three Kingdoms is popular in Japan, is suspense not popular in Japan?

"1300 million!"

"Mr. Wu, I just broke the record!"

"1400 million!"

"Mr. Wu, the suspense soil in Japan is even stronger than in China. You need to know many famous suspense works."

"Director Li, I won't say any more, 1500 million!" Wu Kebo finally showed his trump card.

Hearing Wu Kebo's tone, Li Mu also knew that this was the point, and it would be difficult to talk further.

"Okay, then congratulations to Mr. Wu."

"Director Li, what about the rights to adapt the movie?"

"Let's talk about it later. If the price is the same, you will definitely be given priority."

"It's so dark!" Wu Kebo couldn't help but muttered to himself as he hung up the phone, but he finally got the copyright.

The news that Aihui Group spent 1500 million US dollars to take away the copyright of "The Invisible Guest" from Mengying Media couldn't help but spread. Naturally, Mengying deliberately spread the news.

The purpose is to put some pressure on the countries that are negotiating, and necessary means must be used.

You see, Japan spent a high price of 1500 million to buy it. Why don’t you poor people raise the price?

When the news came out, the progress of the negotiations went much smoother, and everyone paid.

"The 1500 million copyright fee for "The Invisible Guest" goes to Japan!"

As soon as the news came out, the box office on the day it was released was very strong. However, according to this trend, "The Invisible Guest" should have no hope of breaking the 4 million mark before it is released.

Some directors who are making suspense films became even more motivated after seeing it. The copyright fees are enough to earn them, so it is the right way to hurry up and shoot.

The popularity of suspense films in the industry remains high, and I heard that Huayi seems to be working on similar films recently.

"Director Chen, when this movie is started, Huayi fully supports it." Wang Zhongjun looked at this "gold medal producer" poached from Columbia Pictures.

As the "artistic director" of Huayi, Chen Guofu has always been regarded as Huayi's savior. Now that he is going to make a spy thriller, Wang Zhongjun has to support whatever he says.

These days, actors are being scouted intensively. People within Huayi will definitely be given priority, and actors from outside will be chosen last. This is the consistent style of Huayi movies.

On August 8, as the scrolls in the hands of the athletes slowly closed, the flame of the 24th Olympic Games was slowly extinguished at the BJ Bird's Nest.

Li Mu did not participate in the closing ceremony, which was not as exciting as the opening ceremony and was not worth watching.

After the Olympics, it was the Venice International Film Festival that attracted attention in the circle. This time Jia Zhangke was featured again. Li Mu felt that this guy would not be absent at every three major international film festivals.

Jia Zhangke's "Love on the River" was invited to the special screening section of this Venice Film Festival.

Li Mu also accepted the invitation to the opening ceremony in Venice. However, due to the evacuation of a large number of athletes after the Olympic Games in the imperial capital, flights were affected, and Li Mu had to miss the opening ceremony.

This trip was not for the copyright transaction, but because there was a movie in the main competition section. Li Mu was very interested and wanted to chat with the director and learn about it. This was also related to the development plan of Mengying Media next year.

(End of this chapter)