China Entertainment started from Nortel 2002

Chapter 77 Cooperation with CJ Entertainment
The two of them walked around for several hours, during which time someone recognized Li Mu and came over to take photos and sign autographs.

Li Mu and Lucas spoke on the phone and declined each other's kindness.

Lucas expressed some regrets, but the two discussed other matters.

"Star Wars Trilogy: Revenge of the Sith", a movie released in May, has not yet been downloaded in some areas.

The film will be completely finished in October, which is a long enough time for the film to be released.

At this time, the global box office has accumulated more than 8 million US dollars, making Lucas famous again.

Lucas' voice got a little louder when he talked about the movie, and he was obviously very satisfied with the results.

After communicating with Lucas, Park Geun-tae from CJ Entertainment called him and hoped to make an appointment to meet at the DreamWorks headquarters.

Li Mu directly scheduled a meeting at Crystal Pictures tomorrow afternoon.

Anyway, it was CJ Entertainment that wanted something from him, so he had to maintain a higher posture and not be spoiled.

Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli returned to China early the next morning. Liu Yifei became even more determined to take the postgraduate entrance examination after knowing that Li Mu would not go to the University of Southern California for graduate school.

I am planning to go back and study harder.

Liu Yifei looked reluctant to leave before leaving, and a black line flashed across Liu Xiaoli's forehead, unable to bear it any longer.

"It's just a matter of returning to a country, and you turned it into a romantic drama about life and death?"

Liu Yifei's face turned red, and she hurriedly pulled Liu Xiaoli towards the aircraft security checkpoint like an ostrich.

Li Mu smiled cheerfully. Liu Xiaoli was pretending to be confused now, and he was pretending to be confused to Liu Xiaoli. Maybe Liu Yifei was the only one who was really confused at this time?
Probably not, this girl is just naive, but not stupid.

In the afternoon, Li Mu and David were waiting for the arrival of CJ Entertainment at Crystal Pictures.

At this time, Crystal is no longer the shell company with only a few people.

Although there are not too many people, the departments are complete and can handle most business.

"Boss, YouTube has released financing information, but it is Sequoia Capital that competes with us." David was communicating with Li Mu at this time.

"Sequoia Capital?" Li Mu asked. Of course Li Mu was familiar with this famous name. It was difficult not to know.

"Yes, Sequoia Capital partner Botta once worked at PayPal with the co-founder of YouTube." David also explained quickly.

Li Mu was speechless after hearing this. It was really unlucky, it was PayPal again.

When investing in Facebook, Peter Thiel was the co-founder and former CEO of PayPal. He refused to accept external investors, which directly led to the failure of Li Mu's investment.

Now another one.

"In addition to providing funds, Sequoia Capital also has other conditions for gifts. Do you understand?" Li Mu asked.

David shook his head.

Li Mu also knew that such business secrets would most likely not be available.

He just tried his luck and asked.

Li Mu recalled the development history of oil pipes and had an idea in his mind.

In the past, the rapid development of YouTube relied on a strategy: piracy of TV content.

Also commonly known as content porters, they record the content on TV and upload it to YouTube after simple editing, so that these wonderful contents can be redistributed on the Internet.

This gray approach allows YouTube to not only enrich the content of the platform but also quickly gain traffic, making it stand out among many competitors.

Of course, there are also a lot of hidden dangers.

Li Mu just wants to guide the other party on this path and provide some resources to eliminate hidden dangers to make the other party take the bait.

Otherwise, how can we compete with Sequoia Capital? Money is not enough.

"In this way, I will give you a document later, and you can talk to them again."

David nodded.

The two continued to communicate about work matters, and the receptionist walked in and signaled that CJ Entertainment had arrived.

David got up quickly and went out to greet him. Li Mu got up and came to the door.

"Hello, Mr. Li!" Pu Gentai saw Li Mu coming out and quickly stepped forward to shake hands.

"Mr. Park!" Li Mu was shocked when he saw the other party's enthusiasm.

When the two people around Pu Gentai saw Li Mu, they even bent down and lowered their heads, shouting: "Hello, Mr. Li!"

The culture of respect and inferiority in this Bangzi country really makes the superiors a little happy.

Li Mu automatically ignored the man next to Pu Gentai and focused on the female secretary.

Slim waist, long legs, delicate face, wearing uniform and black silk, rich and generous.
You can question the character of the Bangzi Zaibatsu, but you cannot question their vision.Moreover, this person is not considered a chaebol, he is just the president of CJ Entertainment China.

Several people entered the conference room, Park Genta couldn't wait.

The female secretary took out the document from the document bag and handed it to Li Mu for review.

This was the sincerity of CJ Entertainment. However, Li Mu took one look and shook his head and did not agree.

"I want to take the dominant share of the movie." Li Mu put down the document and said directly.

"I still have partners to share with, and you have to know that there is still China's market." Li Mu continued to seduce.

Li Mu plans to make the movie a co-production between the two countries. In this case, CJ Entertainment cannot take the lead.

"Let me ask for instructions from the headquarters." Pu Genta quickly stood up and said that Pu Genta could not decide on the issue of dominant share.

After a few minutes, Park Genta came back and solemnly said to Li Mu:
"In South Korea, CJ costs 6%, but in China, CJ only costs 4%."

Li Mu understood what he meant and thought about it carefully.

Bangzi is an extremely xenophobic country. They can’t drive away Hollywood, but they really dare to drive away Chinese filmmakers.

If you let the stickies know that China has a dominant share in this movie, I'm afraid something bad will happen.

Forget it, give in.

"Okay, it's up to me to decide the actor." Li Mu finally gave the answer.

"Korean actors must account for at least 30%." Park Gentae is not stupid, and quickly added that if Li Mu ends up using all Chinese actors, then CJ Entertainment will be hated by the Korean people.

Li Mu nodded. Li Mu couldn't refuse this request. After all, CJ was also one of the investors. The Korean market was still good, so the money was not shabby.

Li Mu only planned this movie to make money at the box office, and did not intend to give him any depth.

"It's a pleasure to cooperate. We will announce it later. Do you mind?"

"Okay, I'll make other specific arrangements." Li Mu didn't object to the other party promoting it in advance. The other party was so anxious to invite him, didn't he just want to build momentum for CJ's movie.

This new film company has a high status in CJ Entertainment's strategy, Li Mu thought to himself.

After the two parties reached an agreement, Pu Gentai left.

Li Mu stayed in the company and was still writing documents for YouTube.

There are no details in the document. These are matters after subsequent investment participation.

Li Mu was very serious about investing this time. Time was running out. The rapid development of Crystal required huge funds, and oil pipelines were one of the best ways.

In the past few days, Li Mu also stopped by Industrial Light and Magic to check out the special effects production progress of "I Am Legend". The model of Night Stalker will eventually be realized through special effects.

"Kung Fu Panda" is already in production and will take two years, with the animation alone taking a year and a half.

Previously, Li Mu provided the initial concept drawings and storyboard drawings. Of course, they were only for the character's appearance. Li Mu had no time to draw the rest.

This is only to provide direction to the team and save some time.

Li Mu also plans to rely on the money from foreign fans to attract fans around the world.

Xiong Xinxin and Xu Haofeng are still guiding the styling design of each kung fu action and the design of the overall martial arts environment style in the storyboards.

"Kung Fu Panda" is expected to be completed in mid-2007.

Li Mu went over and took a look. Overall, he was quite satisfied and was developing in the direction he guided.

CJ Entertainment is very efficient in its work. In just a few days, the news has been announced. Only the name of the director has been announced. As for the genre and the amount of investment, it has not yet been determined.

Despite this, the entertainment industry in Bangzi Country exploded with the news. This is a movie co-produced by CJ and Hollywood director Li Mu.

You must know how much the people of Bangzi Country pursue Hollywood, and the soldiers of this beautiful country are still stationed in the country to protect them.

This news also caused a stir in the country.

Because CJ Entertainment has made it clear that actors from China and South Korea will participate.

Is this another movie like "Myth" with actors from many countries participating in the filming?

At this time, everyone in the industry is wildly speculating about the follow-up, waiting for more specific details to be announced.

　Let’s talk about cooperation with CJ.

　　1. First, CJ approaches the protagonist. The protagonist can accept or not accept the offer. This is an inherent advantage. CJ cannot influence the protagonist’s decision.If you don't care about you, the plutocrats and the plutocrats will not have any influence at all.

　　2. South Korea is an extremely xenophobic nation with low self-esteem. To make a movie in South Korea, the investment and the number of actors must be proportional, otherwise the Korean people will not buy it, unless you are a beautiful soldier.History has proven this, so it is impossible to directly dominate some shares by writing mindless and cool articles. This is unrealistic, unless this market is no longer available.

　　
　
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