China Entertainment started from Nortel 2002

Chapter 579: Offending the entire industry
Openai has been established.

But it was founded with the goal of advancing digital intelligence in a way that benefits all of humanity, unconstrained by the need to generate financial returns.

So it is currently a non-profit organization.

However, neither the founders nor the donors imagined that in order to successfully complete the mission, the massive amount of funds required would be far greater than originally imagined.

This also leads to Openai needing to completely solve the funding problem for expensive training and attracting scientists.

It is imperative to adjust the structure.

Li Mu has enough patience to wait for the day of structural adjustment.

This is one of the keys to the future world. If there is an opportunity, he will naturally not let it go. If not, it will not have much impact.

But at this time, suddenly on the domestic hot search, a few big words were clearly written, "The pressure is all on Li Mu and Brother Chen Kai."

The reason is that at the just-released 52nd Golden Horse Awards, Feng Xiaogang, the best actor from "Lao Pao Er", was not present.

When Jiang Wen heard the word "coward" and then heard the condition, he waved his hand and started shouting.

Jiang Wen felt that he had already won.

"Look at how cowardly you are." Li Mu said with a smile, "In three years, Mengying Media's single movie box office exceeded 50 billion. How about that? I think that's interesting."

Jiang Wen really couldn't imagine that there were movies in China that could break 50 billion in three years.

"What's the stakes?"

Jiang Wen talked about one thing after another. Anyway, let’s put aside your advantages and talk about mine first.

Li Mu suddenly smiled.

Although it was ridiculed by netizens, it is really the case when you think about it.

How can a man be called a coward?

Several well-recognized directors in China are basically cross-border directors.

"Okay, Brother Jiang, please wait."

"In three years, you said it would exceed 30 billion, but I was lying. If it exceeded four billion, I was a little bit hypocritical. But if you said five billion, hey, I really don't believe it."

Jiang Wen was still making calculations here, "Even if we convert 7 yuan to 1 US dollar, this is a box office of more than 7 million US dollars. It seems that the box office in the United States has never been this exaggerated."

Jiang Wen said slightly boldly, "If it breaks 50 billion, it doesn't hurt to call you big brother."

Zhang Yimou, Jiang Wen and others are all excellent actors, and they all won the title of Best Actor before 2000.

Li Mu said angrily.

It’s just that the local box office of 50 billion is a bit exaggerated.

"Your box office can't exceed one billion? Are we going to catch up with you?"

"Hahaha, Lao Li, have you been wandering recently? Let's not forget three billion, but five billion?"

"It's okay for Li Mu. After all, he can act occasionally. To be honest, the best actor will be given to him one day!"

"Jiang Wen did a good job, Lao Mouzi and Xiaogangpao were also good, but Li Mu missed an award."

"and many more!"

"Just say it."

Therefore, Feng Xiaogang, Zhang Yimou, and Jiang Wen all won Best Actor, and now the pressure is all on Li Mu and Chen Kai!

"That's right. Brother Chen Kai is hanging. This is not a pretty thing. There is only one missing!"

"Now there are two out of five, and one out of five is inevitable in the future. Brother Chen Kai, please work hard!"

"So you don't believe it? How about we make a bet?"

"Old Li, please tell me the terms of the bet first."

Jiang Wen won the Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actor twice, in 1987 and 1989.

Li Mu's eyes lit up, this would be fine.

"Let's put it this way. Money is meaningless. If you win, I'll call you Big Brother in public. If you lose, the same thing happens."

Jiang Wen paused for a while, probably thinking. After all, when it comes to box office, Li Mu has always been on the road to making history, so it's not completely impossible.

Jiang Wen was a little more cautious.

"Come on, then you can continue to develop forward and go to quality education." Li Mu waved his hand, "I will do three billion, four billion, and five billion at the box office first."

Li Mu felt that he was sure of victory, so he should let Jiang Wenti, so as not to take advantage of him too much.

"Go away, take advantage of me!"

"Old Li, do you see that you have to work hard to have a chance to catch up with me!"

"You bet, when did I, Jiang Wen, ever get scared!"

Jiang Wen was immediately praised by netizens.

"Oh, that's wrong. We are talking about actors' awards now. You always talk about box office. It's not good. We need all-round development and quality education, do you understand?"

For example, in 1987, Zhang Yi won the Best Actor at the nd Tokyo Film Festival for "Old Well".

Jiang Wen cursed.

At this time, in the imperial capital, Jiang Wen's home.

Zhou Yun saw Jiang Wen drink a few more drinks in the evening and seemed to be in a good mood.

"What happened today?"

"Hey, Lao Li made a bet with me today, and he will definitely lose." Jiang Wen couldn't help but drink another glass, and then breathed a sigh of relief, "Ha"

"What's the bet with Director Li?" Zhou Yun couldn't help but be curious.

"Hey, Lao Li said that Mengying Media has a movie that can break 50 billion within three years. Do you think I can be afraid of him?"

Jiang Wen said loudly, swallowed a piece of beef with soy sauce, and hummed a ditty.

Zhou Yun was also surprised after hearing this, "50 billion! Director Li really dares to think and speak."

"Only Lao Li dares to estimate domestically, but 50 billion is worth a gamble. If you lose, you can just say big brother and you won't be ashamed."

Jiang Wen didn't think it was anything important at all.

Liu Yifei also learned about it from Li Mu the next day.

"Really, you made a bet with Director Jiang? Are you confident?"

Liu Yifei didn't seem worried at all. He blindly believed in what Li Mu said.

"Of course I have confidence, but the difficulty is just like breaking 10 billion in box office back then. It's difficult, but it will happen eventually."

"Well, I believe you!"

Liu Yifei said without hesitation.

Bet it's just a sideshow during Li Mu's filming of "Operation Red Sea". It's been a lot more lively here in China recently.

For example, Baodao singer criticized the new movie star Feng Xiaogang, "If you don't want to come, don't sign up." The fire was very fierce and it was just a sideshow.

A statement by Xu Yuanxiang, vice president of Alibaba Pictures, caused huge controversy in the screenwriting circle.

The reason is very simple. Xu Yuanxiang said in a forum with the theme "Why is there such a rush for originality and IP to compete" that he "will not hire professional screenwriters again" in the future.

Instead, we invite IP post bar owners and countless fan fiction writers to select ten of the best to form a group, and then select a few people to write stories. They will be eliminated like a killing game. In the end, whoever writes the best will be given a prize. Give him a huge financial reward, and then give him the title credit as the screenwriter and even the original story.

Then, under the guidance of these big directors, we will find professional screenwriters to create together. This will be a development process consistent with super IP.

Then he also proposed a concept called "Diaosi Ticket Buying Psychology", saying that 85% to 86% of Chinese movie audiences are between 19 and 29 years old. Therefore, there must be either a strong IP, a star cast, or a reverse. It is possible, otherwise it will be "uncollected".

As soon as these remarks came out, they stirred up waves and quickly aroused heated discussions in the industry. They were also besieged by public opinion in the screenwriter circle and became the target of public criticism within a day.

"This is not a screenwriter, this is Gu practice! I wonder where he got the courage to say this."

"This is cultivating gu"

“A screenwriter doesn’t just know more than others, the core skill is to select and combine what he knows into a good story.

Inviting IP bar owners and novel authors to enter the Colosseum to kill each other is using capital to enslave Internet writers.

After the slaughter, directors and professional screenwriters are brought among the corpses to harvest the bloodbathed IP. Professional screenwriters may not necessarily cooperate, and Internet writers will also rise up. We are a socialist society, not a slave society. "

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Apparently this typical act of servility aroused anger.

Although Alibaba Pictures CEO Zhang Qiang urgently issued a formal response through his official Weibo, the popularity of this topic has not diminished.

But people like Li Mu, Yu Dong, Wang Changtian and others saw more.

This argument is probably Alibaba Pictures’ real idea, which is to use the Internet to turn movie scripts into products.
However, this arrogant attitude is obviously disrespectful to the screenwriting industry and some well-known screenwriters, and Li Mu, as a screenwriter, cannot bear it.

“I’m also a screenwriter and I want to say something.

May I ask, Mr. Xu, why don’t you summon all those writers who have worked so hard to write for a high-sounding reason, and then let them be your gladiators for your amusement?

Where is the dignity of a writer?
In this way of trampling on human dignity, the writer still needs to calmly participate in exchanges and discussions?

If the writer can even tolerate this kind of naked trampling on his own dignity, then does the writer no longer need dignity? "

Li Mu's remarks quickly became a hot search topic.

"Ning Hao, hurry up, give Director Li a like, and forward it, and forward what I wrote. This Xu Yuanxiang is really unreasonable."

Xing Aina was also furious at this moment. As a screenwriter, her position was being trampled under their feet. Who could bear it?

"Lao Lu, have you seen Weibo? Go to Weibo and give Director Li a like."

"Old Wu"

"Director Xue."

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Ning Hao was also very prompt and notified several directors in the company.

Most of them are both directors and screenwriters.

"Okay, Director Li said it well!"

"That's right, I want to thank you for trampling on human dignity? What the hell."

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Li Mu's words received a quick response from screenwriters in the industry, and with the addition of Xing Aina, Ning Hao, Xue Xiaolu and others, the momentum was even greater.

"Li Mu is a company boss, what is he getting involved with?"

Alibaba Pictures, Xu Yuanxiang was also troubled by these words at the moment, and Li Mu's interference made him even more confused.

"What do you mean by mixing in? I'm still a screenwriter. What do you think? I don't speak through my brain."

Zhang Qiang was very angry and said that he did not achieve great results as the CEO of Alibaba Pictures, but he was boycotted by the entire screenwriting industry.

Li Mu's speech was considered polite. Some screenwriters even said, "Please reject Alibaba Pictures like you reject drugs."
The pressure of public opinion has become unstoppable and has become a crisis.

"Hurry up and issue another statement, take the initiative to clarify, saying that it was "taken out of context", and the public relations will deal with it later."

Zhang Qiang said angrily, "If you can't achieve results, get out."

(End of this chapter)