China Entertainment started from Nortel 2002

Chapter 251 The First Shot

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the celebration officially started. Chen Kaige spoke as the representative of the "Class of 78" alumni.

"Standing on this stage, I feel very emotional. I see our teachers back then, Xie Tieli, Xie Fei and Yu Yang... They are all old, but our alma mater is getting younger and younger."

Those in the front row than Li Mu and the others are these directors of the older generation.

Zhang Yimou was also filled with emotion after listening to Brother Chen Kai's words.

After Chen Kaige finished his speech, it was Li Mu who spoke on behalf of the new generation of alumni.

"It's your turn." Liu Yifei gently pushed Li Mu's arm.

The moment Li Mu stood up, everyone's attention focused. Level 78 to level 02 was regarded as the inheritance of the fire after 24 years.

"In 2002, the plaque at the school gate was very old and had a heavy sense of history. Of course, now the plaque at the school gate has a completely new look, as if it is a new life."

"In 2002, Li Mu was still with our acting department."

The teachers in the performance department in the audience were already feeling complacent, and this was partly due to them.

Tian Zhuangzhuang and other directors of the directing department glanced at them, but they were helpless because this was indeed the case. This was considered a failure of the directing department.

You must know that because of Li Mu's existence, this year's Hollywood Reporter magazine ranked the world's film schools, and Yanjing Film Academy ranked third in the world.

HR is of course a very authoritative magazine. It has a great influence on school rankings for film and television related majors (especially schools in the United States) and even on the admissions of many schools.

But what many people don’t know is that HR magazine’s rankings are conducted every year, and the rankings mainly involve the achievements of current students and alumni that year.

For example, although the London Film School is extremely prestigious, its rankings in HR magazines have always been lackluster.

The Golden Globe Award and Oscar that Li Mu won this year directly pushed Nortel up the rankings.

The school anniversary, in addition to singing praises and boasting, is still the same for Nortel's school anniversary. After the lengthy meeting, the school arranged three different methods: visits, interviews, and discussions.

Li Mu was busy from morning to night, and even Liu Yifei had symposiums to participate in.

"I feel a little numb just taking pictures with people today." After Li Mu returned home, he lay down lazily.

"Yeah, I think you're enjoying it a lot. There are so many senior and junior sisters taking photos with you, like Yan Danchen, Yuan Li, Jingtian, Yang Mi."

Liu Yifei looked at Li Mu with a smile, as if she didn't mind too much.

"Ahem, this is unavoidable. Like Yang Mi, he also took a photo with senior brother Zhang Yimou."

"Oh, is it?"

"Why do you speak so eccentrically?"

"Do I have it?"

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Li Mu looked at Liu Yifei's expression, and it seemed that nothing had changed, but at this time there should be three words written all over her face: Hurry up and coax me!
At this time, you must be able to understand people's clothes.

"You bad guy, what are you doing?"

"What do you think, who made you so evil?"

Liu Yifei suddenly became angry and said fiercely: "Be careful, I will sue you tomorrow."

"Then let's talk tomorrow."

The next day, Liu Yifei gave Li Mu a slightly charming look, as if the sky had cleared after the rain.

Compared with the bright stars of this year's Nortel School Anniversary, this year's Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, whether opening or closing, seems dim, mediocre and weak, and it doesn't always mean what it says, always taking the results to negate the rules.
Three Lunar New Year blockbusters, Jiang Wen's "Let the Bullets Fly", Chen Kaige's "The Orphan of Zhao" and Feng Xiaogang's "If You Are the One 2" were not exhibited at the festival.

At the end of October, the box office of Tsui Hark's "Detective Detective" had reached 10 million yuan, which was better than the National Day holiday. However, it seems that there is no hope of exceeding 2.9 million yuan, and the average daily box office has dropped to tens of thousands of yuan.

Entering November, Mengying Media has two movies to be released, Lu Yang's "Cinema for the Blind" and Xue Xiaolu's "11 Days of Love".

"Cinema for the Blind" almost doesn't plan to promote it, because it would be in vain. The audience for this movie is too small.

"Cinema for the Blind", which quietly hit theaters, did not have a high box office, with a box office of over 10,000 on the first day. If it weren't for the fact that there were not many movies released in the early part of this period, theaters would probably want to remove it from the shelves.

The atmosphere of the Lunar New Year festival has arrived, and several blockbusters have begun intensive promotion. Mengying is also playing the love card to build momentum for "33 Days of Love".

But at this time, the film bureau came to an end. It was targeting the three blockbusters in the Lunar New Year period. As "If You Are the One 2" was confirmed, everyone discovered that "Let the Bullets Fly" will be released on December 12th, and "Zhao Zhao" will be released on the 16th. "The Orphan" followed "If You Are the One 18" on the 22nd. These three movies were released almost within a week. This schedule made both the theater and the bureau unhappy.

Several major theater chains quickly spoke out: "The Lunar New Year period is a ticket warehouse, but every film should be thoroughly reviewed and not diverted too much, resulting in a shortage of theaters and an inability to queue up films. This will be a loss for the audience and the movie."

Such a schedule would mean too much less money for the theater chain, and they would definitely not be willing to do so.

For the film bureau, this schedule puts them under huge pressure.

As early as the beginning of the year, the bureau proposed that the box office in 2011 should exceed 100 billion yuan. Now it has taken 75 billion yuan, and the box office hit by the Lunar New Year is 25 billion yuan.

Therefore, the film bureau finally persuaded the three blockbusters not to kill each other, hoping to adjust the schedule to a reasonable period and have good box office.

"The Lunar New Year holiday is so long, why do we have to compete at the same time? They all came out at once, and then there were no blockbusters, and the box office was extremely low."

“It’s so crowded three times a week!”

"This is a 'sandwich schedule', and the one in the middle will definitely be the most unfavorable. If the schedule is not changed, all three of them will be great directors, and the screening time will definitely be squeezed infinitely."

"Two comedy Ge You and one tragic Ge You!"

Some netizens couldn't stand it and tried to persuade them below.

"Who do you think will change the schedule?" Liu Yifei asked while watching everyone's discussion.

"It's more reasonable to put Brother Chen Kai's "The Orphan of Zhao" first, to avoid the audience's strengthening of Ge You's comedy side and then creating an obstacle to viewing "The Orphan of Zhao". The way they arrange it now is just a fool's errand!"

"This may be the competitive spirit of great directors."

Li Mu thought about the tempers of these three people and said, "It's really possible!"

No one wants to give in to the other person, so just go ahead and do it.

But now that the game is over, things will definitely be adjusted appropriately.

"Two big guys, I hope the two of you can support "33 Days of Love" starring a little girl!" Shu Chang doesn't care about the December schedule. Her movie with a big heroine will be released in mid-November. .

"It's easy to say, you can let me help, Chang Chang, peel an apple for me!" Liu Yifei shouted with a smile, put the apple in Shu Chang's hand, and signaled to work quickly.

"I'll cut your head off, I'll cut it off."

Shu Chang immediately pounced on him, and the two of them were laughing and playing around.

Sure enough, the next day, "The Orphan of Zhao" announced that it would be released on December 12th.

In this month, three blockbusters, before, during and after, can be considered a more reasonable solution to this overcrowding problem.

"It's a pity. I still wanted to have a good PK with them." Jiang Wen didn't take the matter seriously, and he felt a little regretful.

"Come on, this is best, otherwise the film bureau will not be able to complete its mission and you will suffer."

"It's enough to have "Let the Bullets Fly" in the Lunar New Year this year, so stay tuned!"

Jiang Wen vowed that he was extremely optimistic about this movie.

"Let's send out the release date of "The Martian."" After hanging up the phone with Jiang Wen, Li Mu thought about it and simply took this opportunity to announce it together.

On the same day, Mengying Media announced the release time of "The Martian".

February 2, the first day of the new year.

"Mars is finally set."

“On New Year’s Day, you can watch it with your family!”

"The long-awaited blockbuster"

The audience didn't react much, but many movies in the industry that were scheduled to be scheduled for this schedule were planning to reschedule. They didn't want to encounter this kind of 3Dimax blockbuster, and they might not be able to drink the soup if they were not careful.

"Did you fancy the potential of the Spring Festival?"

Many people from the film company are speculating on Mengying's intention for this move. Last year's "Avatar" performed well during this period. However, because in recent years, Hollywood blockbusters have performed during the Spring Festival period, the performance of domestic movies has been average. They I don’t dare to put big productions into it at will, for fear of losing money.

"Forget it, let Mengying give it a try, it will become better."

The publicity work for "The Martian" has not yet begun on a large scale, and it is still three months away from release.

Before the release of "33 Days After Love", there was a somewhat similar work, the romantic kung fu comedy "My Sassy Girl 2" created by the original Korean screenwriter.

Many viewers were attracted into the cinema by the words "My Sassy Girl" and then started making crazy comments.

"WTF! This breaks the bottom line of all the bad movies I've ever watched when I was growing up."

“It’s the first time I’m watching a movie and I want to curse someone!”

"A lump of xxx"

"Just rely on Mengying's "33 Days of Love" to wash my eyes quickly."

"Sing, sing, you have a huge responsibility with this film!"

Liu Yifei looked at the heated comments from netizens and smiled at Shu Chang on the side.

Shu Chang stood up, put his hands on his hips, and looked majestic:
"The first shot of the Lunar New Year holiday will make me happy!"

"Take off and sing"

Li Mu looked at these two live treasures chatting here and couldn't help but shook his head and muttered in his heart: "Is it because there are too few publicity announcements for Shu Chang?"

David suddenly called from far away in the United States: "Boss, MGM filed for bankruptcy today."

"The aging MGM has reached its limit if it can survive this year."

The failure of "Windtalkers" directly accelerated MGM's demise.

"Boss, do we want to get involved? It is currently undergoing bankruptcy and reorganization."

"Forget it, Crystal Pictures should remain an independent production company!"

Li Mu has also thought about this matter for a long time, but due to the future Sino-US relations, even if he is involved in the reorganization of MGM, there will be no good results in the future. It is easy to buy shares but difficult to own!

And MGM's $40 billion in debt is a bit too much.

MGM's life can be summed up in one sentence: "The first 30 years were brilliant and important; the last 56 years were absurd and dispensable."

MGM has been prosperous for 30 years. It once was the boss of the Hollywood family for a period of time. It also had a share of credit for the establishment of the Oscar Awards, but it fell in the new century.

"Amu, what's wrong?" Liu Yifei looked at Li Mu who seemed to be deep in thought after hanging up the phone.

"Nothing, MGM filed for bankruptcy protection today."

"It's really down."

"Is Hollywood dying soon?" Shu Chang asked stupidly.

"Which eye can see that Hollywood is dying. Hollywood seems to be dominated by film companies such as Warner, Paramount, DreamWorks, and Disney, but this is just an appearance. In fact, it is dominated by major companies such as Viacom, Sony, and General Electric. The consortium firmly controls most of the U.S. entertainment industry. The collapse of 1 MGMs, let alone one MGM, cannot shake the foundation of Hollywood."

The news of MGM's bankruptcy caused a stir in the country, and seemed to be a warning to the growing Chinese film industry.

"Mr. Li, we need to make a statement!" Because MGM went bankrupt, it was later reported that a domestic company was willing to take over.

This news was also confirmed by China Film Group Promotion Company.

Suddenly everyone was speculating which company in the industry planned to take over MGM.

Among them, China Film, Mengying, and Huayi are the most suspected.

"Director Li, if you want to buy it, just say it. Netizens will support you!"

"China Film and Television Huayi should also have a chance. If you want to buy it, hurry up."

China Film has responded overnight: China Film does not know which company is interested in MGM, but China Film itself only wants to make national films bigger and stronger.

"Send it." Li Mu nodded.

Later, Mengying also clarified on the official website: There are no plans to acquire "MGM"!
Lu Yang's "Cinema for the Blind" won three awards at the Chinese Youth Film Forum: Emerging Director, Emerging Actress, and Emerging Photographer. However, the box office only fluctuated slightly, from less than 10 per day to over 10. , many theater chains have already planned to remove this movie from their shelves.

November 11th, the premiere of "11 Days of Love".

It will be held at 7 o'clock in the evening at the movie theater owned by Mengying.

Xue Xiaolu, Shu Chang, Luo Jin and others were interviewed jointly by reporters, and then interacted with fans.

Shu Chang was very popular at this time, and almost all fans shouted her name.

Li Mu and Liu Yifei had something to eat in the small banquet hall at the back.

This premiere did not have so many fancy performances. After a few procedures, it quickly got to the main theme.

"I wonder if Mengying can take the first shot in the Lunar New Year period!"

"It should work. Have you noticed that there seem to be more girls coming?"

One of the reporters glanced around and noticed that the ratio of men to women seemed a little off.

"Really? Maybe girls like to watch this kind of movies more."

"Do you think it's possible that Mengying arranged it specially?"

Although the story of "33 Days of Love" is about lovelorn, it is indeed a comedy.

However, unlike ordinary comedies, its laughter is more reflected in the lines, so there are few plots that can make people laugh, but more of a knowing smile with a bit of literary flair.

In the movie theater, there was continuous laughter from time to time.

"She sings and acts really well. Huang Xiaoxian did a great job for her." Liu Yifei leaned on Li Mu's shoulder and said softly.

"Wang Xiaojian is not bad either."

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(End of this chapter)