China Entertainment started from Nortel 2002

Chapter 2 "Little Miss Sunshine"

On the plane to the beautiful country, Li Mu thought quietly.

Mark Tetotu, Li Mu was reviewing his life resume in his mind.

Li Mu is a relatively unknown director and actor born in the United States. Li Mu remembers him because of the movie "Little Miss Sunshine" he watched when he was studying at the University of Southern California in his previous life.

It is also one of the teaching cases of the Director Department of Southern California.

Speaking of this film, the previous life was also quite tortuous.

The birth process of "Little Miss Sunshine" was extremely difficult, and it took 5 years from preparation to release.

The script of the film was written by Michel Andert. However, after he wrote the script, he could not find any production company to accept it. No company was interested in this script about the trivial matters of this small family.

After much deliberation, the script was spotted by Mark Turtotu, the producer of BIG BEACH, who invested US$800 million to fund the filming of the film.

After the filming was completed, producer Mark took the film around to find distribution companies. However, many companies turned a blind eye to this film with no big stars and no hit points.

After hitting a wall, Mark came to the Sundance Film Festival. The film only attracted people's attention after it was a huge success at this independent film festival. Finally, 20th Century Fox Searchlight bought the distribution rights of the film for US$1000 million. , creating a record high price for independent film copyrights.

The film grossed over US$1.5 million at the box office and was nominated for four Academy Awards in 07, including Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress.

After the movie was released, DVD rental and sales created huge profits for Fox Searchlight.

One of the classic examples of making a big difference out of something small, it is also a must-learn film for the directing department at the University of Southern California.

Now the script of this film is in Li Mu's hands, and this is what Li Mu has been doing in the past few years, constantly writing scripts, novels, registering scripts, and firmly controlling the copyright.

In this life, "Little Miss Sunshine" was born early. According to Li Mu's understanding, this has little impact.

The problem now is how to shoot it and who to find to distribute it.

As long as you can successfully publish and take one step forward, the rest will be much easier.

The first step of a long march is often the most difficult.

Everything in the world is turbulent, and capitalism is no exception.

The premise of cooperation has always been to create a community of interests, whether it is interest exchange or resource sharing.

Li Mu slowly had an idea in his mind.

……

The Chinese character Li Mu was written in crooked Chinese characters. If Li Mu hadn't had good eyesight, he wouldn't have known that these two characters were Chinese characters.

"David, where did you learn this Chinese?" (=@__@=), Li Mu walked over and patted this white American. Was this man a cultural broker found in the beautiful country, or did he rely on his father Li Peng to I found him from an acquaintance in the beautiful country. A large part of Li Peng's clothing business is also in the beautiful country, so he is relatively familiar with it.

"WOW, BOSS, I didn't expect you to be so young, it's unbelievable!" David's face was full of disbelief when he saw the young and unattractive man in front of him.

Others don't know, but he knows what this person is holding in his hand. Many people have called him.

The two got into the car while chatting. Li Mu brought a lot of luggage with him this time and would have to stay here for about two weeks. This is also the longest leave that Li Mu can take so far. After all, he is not acting on a set. Nortel was able to give him more than a week's leave because of Li Mu's good relationship with the teacher and Hua Zai's cigarettes from time to time.

The two of them worked together to stuff the luggage into the trunk.

"Mark Tetotu, how are you going to reply to him?" David asked.

Li Mu, the co-pilot, thought for a while and said

"Reject it. We can just make this movie ourselves. There is no need for one more person to get a piece of the pie. It's not like there's no money to be made."

I have to say that this fate is really wonderful.

A few years in advance, the original producer still took a fancy to the script, which seemed to be God's will.

It's a pity that Li Mu thought about it for a long time, but there was still no need to take him to play. After all, it was so difficult to release the movie in his previous life. It is obvious that the other party was not strong enough, and Li Mu didn't want to go through another twists and turns.

"What did Warner say?"

"Yes, we made an appointment tomorrow morning, and their vice presidents Richard and Nolan will come over in person. Since they knew you were coming this week, they have called several times." David said excitedly as he drove the car.

"Oh." Li Mu didn't really care.

"That's Warner, Nolan, you don't look excited at all, brother?" David looked at Li Muchao, knowing how important these two names are in the beautiful country at this time, especially the former.

"David, this is America, capitalism."

"That's true. After all, this is America!" David did not refute.

"Have you found the crew of "Little Miss Sunshine"?" Li Mu is still most concerned about this matter, after all, it is related to his first movie.

"No problem, there is only a shortage of money here in Hollywood, not actors. All kinds of labor unions are available. When the money is available, the people will be there immediately." David smiled.

"But BOSS, this script feels like... I don't know how to put it. It's at the bottom among the scripts you sent me. Until now, I've only asked about Mark Turtle. I don't even look it up online. I don't know who Mark Turtle is." Who is Totu.”

"David, don't look at it with your shitty eyes. Have you forgotten about the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon bet? Oh, I don't know who lost [-] US dollars."

"SHIT, what a bad bet!" David shook his head, obviously still sad about the $[-].
……

Li Mu came to the company he asked David to register last year, Crystal Pictures.

At present, there are only two or three people who have no business yet, so they are only dealing with Li Mu's copyright.

Li Mu looked at David next to him and said:

"David, why don't you run this company with me? I need someone to help look after this place. How about you follow me?"

David thought for a moment and then agreed.

"OK, you will be my long-term boss from now on!" David knew that what this young man was holding was something special.

"Come on, I'll treat you to a big dinner today."

After Li Mu finished speaking, he pulled David out of the company.

……

The next morning, Warner's vice president and Nolan's team met in a hotel conference room under Hollywood
"Oh, is this Mr. Li Mu, a screenwriter and writer from China?" Richard, the vice president of Warner, stretched out his hand and shook it.

Li Mu looked at this middle-aged white man in a black suit, stretched out his hand and said with a chuckle, "I'm still a director from China."

Richard was obviously surprised.

"Okay, Mr. Director!"

"Hello, Li Mu, I am Nolan, a director." Nolan also reached out to Li Mu.

"Director Nolan, hello, I'm Li Mu, a director from China." Li Mu, neither humble nor overbearing, stretched out his hand and said.

Nolan, Li Mu in his previous life had watched many of his films. Nolan, who is known as a genius, is indeed a top film master.

"I have read the script of "Inception" and I like it very much. I hope to direct this movie. Please give me a price." Nolan came up and got straight to the point. After all, their purpose was very clear and there was no need to beat around the bush. around.

Li Mu was very clear about this matter. David had told him on the phone before that he did not expect that fate would still be closely linked, and Nolan still fell in love with the script at a glance.

Li Mu glanced at the Warner Vice President standing aside, knowing full well that this person was here to support Nolan.

Although I was very reluctant to part with it, in order to open up the market and implement follow-up plans, "Inception" still had to be given away as a bargaining chip.

""Inception" is an excellent script. I am also a director myself. This movie is what I prepared for my future. I have watched your "Memento" and "White Nights", which are great movies. , I can give up the directing rights, but I have two conditions." He looked at Nolan and Charlie.

"OK, tell me." Richard and Nolan were not surprised. After all, everything is of equal value. They must pay a corresponding price when they see the business opportunities here.

At this time, Warner is inviting Nolan to direct Batman. This is Warner's big follow-up plan and there is no room for failure. They must do their best for Nolan.

"First, I will make a small-budget film, and Warner will need to assist in distribution. Of course, I will pay the corresponding distribution fees. Secondly, I have the right to decide the role of the dreamer in "Inception", and of course I will not choose it. You can rest assured that the right person will be in charge.”

Nolan looked at Richard, who nodded, stretched out his hand and said, "Happy cooperation."

Li Mu also extended his hand, shook hands one by one and said: "It's a pleasure to cooperate."

The two groups of people walked out of the hotel after dinner. At this moment, reporters outside the hotel saw it and quickly took pictures. Although it was not a big news, this was Warner and Nolan. Well... there was another person next to them. Yellow face.

……

David had already set up the crew. At this time, Li Mu was sitting on the director's chair, his eyes focused on the monitor screen.

"OK, GOOD, passed, next one!"

"Boss, this is a bit unbelievable. Have you directed a movie before?"

In the past few days, David has watched Li Mu go from shooting to directing the actors, and he was so smooth that he didn't look like a new director at all.

It seems as if I have experienced the industrial streamlined system of Hollywood production.

Everyone also showed respect to the director at this time. This is a place where the strong are respected.

"Have the arrangements been made by the Children's Association? Don't make any mistakes. If you make a mistake, it will be delayed for a few days." Li Mu looked at the screen and said to David behind him, without answering his question.

"Don't worry, everything has been arranged, these vampires." David was obviously distressed.

"How many dollars are left in the company account?"

"It's less than 200 million, but the dividends for the booksellers of "The Hunger Games" will arrive next month, and it's estimated to be about 800 million. Making a movie is really expensive, and a small movie costs close to 600 million U.S. dollars."

"When the movie comes out, you'll realize it's a money grab!" Li Mu laughed.

"By the way, I'll finish shooting the main part this week and I'm going back to China. The rest can be shot by the assistant director. You can supervise it. I'll come over once for the subsequent editing."

"OK no problem!"

……

At the airport, Li Mu looked at his phone and opened QQ. There were not many friends on QQ, only a few people. One of them had a cat avatar named Crystal with unread messages on the kitten.

……

[Makiko, why don’t you come to visit the class? Crying expression]——Crystal Kitten
[If you dare to forget, hum, angry expression] - crystal kitten
[Immediately, immediately, I went to a beautiful country and went to visit the class immediately after I got back] - lucky puppy
Li Mu’s original QQ name was I am Dashuaibi. After seeing Liu Yifei’s QQ name, he immediately changed it to this.

Liu Yifei was surprised at first when she saw Li Mu's Q name, and asked him if he liked dogs very much.

He also said that he particularly likes small animals, especially cats and dogs.

……

As soon as I returned to the Imperial Capital, I received a call from Li Peng.

"I heard that you just filmed a movie. Do you still have any money? Do you need some money for you?" Li Peng asked specifically. Obviously he knew something about his son in the United States, but he didn't know much about money. Too clear, and I don’t want to know too clearly.

Li Mu hasn't let them worry about it since they grew up. He only wants to ensure that Li Mu doesn't go astray, and he doesn't particularly care about the rest. Although he doesn't have a lot of money, it is enough to keep their family comfortable with food and clothing for the rest of their lives.

"Well, I happened to have a suitable script, so I filmed it. I brought you some gifts and sent them to you when I got home."

"Okay, come back when you have time. If you don't have enough money, ask your mother. Your mother misses you."

(End of this chapter)