China Entertainment started from Nortel 2002

Chapter 288 Entering the game?

There is news in the circle that Huayi Brothers is about to reach a strategic cooperation with UAM Alliance.

However, the next day, Wang Zhonglei signed a strategic cooperation intention with UAM, an alliance of South Korea's six major brokerage companies, in Busan.

The signing dinner was solemn. Li Mu looked at the media reports, mainly the shining appearances of many female stars, such as the popular star Girls' Generation.
These reporters are really good at taking pictures, and they will catch anyone they miss and take pictures.

Just as Li Mu opened it and took a look, Liu Yifei stared at it.

"Does it look good?"

Liu Yifei glanced at the screen, her thighs were all over the screen.
"If I say I clicked on it accidentally, would you believe it? These pop-up ads are so abominable. I obviously wanted to browse CCTV news."

"Then this pop-up advertisement was made very timely. I'm afraid this news hasn't even been out for an hour."

Liu Yifei smiled dangerously, and then put her hand on Li Mu's waist.

"Hey, how did you learn this skill? You can be fast and accurate."

"Huh, born!!!"

Among the major directors in the industry, Li Mu is still waiting for the preparatory work for "Edge of Tomorrow" to be completed. Zhang Yimou's "The Thirteen Hairpins" is about to be released, so there is no time to start a new film.

Jiang Wen's new script didn't even have a single character, and now he's starting to get a little bloated. Although he didn't bother to participate in the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers, he still signed up for the Golden Horse.

For the Golden Horse Awards, "Let the Bullets Fly" was shortlisted for nine categories, only inferior to the epic blockbuster "Sedek Balai" directed by Wei Desheng.

Yesterday, he was chatting with Li Mu, but Li Mu mocked him: "Don't think too much, this award has nothing to do with you. I advise you not to participate in the Golden Horse in the future."

Jiang Wen had a look of disbelief on his face: "For best picture and best director, who else would I win? At least I can win one of them. Are there any chances for those scraps to compete with me?"

Li Mu felt that only the golden horse's mallet could wake him up.

Wei Desheng's "Seediq Bale" and "Sister Tao", which won Yip Tak-han the Venice Film Festival Best Actress Award, which one is the most ordinary one.

As for Feng Xiaogang and Brother Chen Kai, both of them are currently filming.

Feng Xiaogang's "Reviewing the Past 1942" has recently received big news.

Adrien Brody, who won the Oscar as the youngest actor in history for "The Pianist", and Tim Robbins, the star of "The Shawshank Redemption" who is most familiar to Chinese movie fans and is also a Cannes film star, will be invited The double winner of Film Festival and Golden Globe Awards joins.

Feng Xiaogang, who had benefited from "Tangshan Earthquake", was ready to make big plans, and Huayi also increased its investment to 2.1 million.

Many people in the circle are extremely envious.

""Reviewing the Past 1942" aims at the international market."

Feng Xiaogang put down his bold words, and Huayi even cheered for him.

Li Mu sneered when he saw Feng Xiaogang's bold words.

He admitted that "Review of 1942" is a good movie, but if you capture two foreigners and shoot it with the intention of hitting the international market, it's really a wonderful idea.

Do others buy it?
Compared with Feng Xiaogang's "smooth sailing", Chen Kaige's "Search" has been shut down and waiting at this time.

As Chen Hong waited, his face became increasingly ugly and a little angry. The staff around him were also silent.

Yang Mi has been late several times in succession, and this time it directly caused the crew to stop work.

Brother Chen Kai's face was even more ugly, mainly because the people he invited were so uncooperative. It was just the previous few times, but this time because the scenes had already been arranged, everyone was waiting, and it took a lot of time to change scenes and shoot. Change clothes and put on makeup again
At this time, Yang Mi was late and apologized quickly: "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry."

"From now on, you don't need to come here anymore, and you don't need to act anymore. Our professional crew doesn't want to work with unprofessional actors."

After Chen Hong finished speaking, he turned around and left without looking back.

The crew was full of people at this time, and the news immediately spread throughout the circle.

After all, that was Chen Hong.
As the saying goes, good things do not go out, and bad things spread for thousands of miles.

"The drama. It's still Chen Kai's drama. I can only say that it's really awesome."

"The iron rule of great directors is that you are not allowed to do anything unless you are qualified."

"I heard that no one is allowed to film Director Li's plays."

There was a lot of discussion in the industry, and many people were gloating over the misfortune, especially the actresses. After all, they were missing another competitor.

What a beautiful day.

This is especially true for Cai Yinong.

Ever since "Palace", she hated Yang Mi so much that her teeth itched.

"Block her quickly."

"Can it be blocked?"

Liu Shisi was a little confused. This matter didn't seem particularly big.

"If it's an ordinary director, it definitely won't work, but you have to look at who it is. Great directors like Li Mu, Chen Kaige, and Zhang Yimou. Even if they don't say anything, there will be people in the industry who will spontaneously boycott."

The person involved was a little panicked at this time.

Is this just going to fall?

"What should I do, Sister Jia, can the company help?" Yang Mi asked anxiously. Ever since she became famous, it has become almost routine to do dramas, but the crew didn't say anything.

Unexpectedly, Chen Hong kicked her out of the crew.

And after hearing the news, it seems that he wants to ban her in the Beijing circle. "Don't worry, don't worry, I'm in contact."

Zeng Jia also kept making phone calls.

Li Mu naturally also learned about this, but he ignored it. At this time, he was on the phone with Ye Zhu from Wanda.

"Director Li, this time we plan to unite to boycott "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins". We know that you have a good relationship with Zhang Yi, so we did not invite Mengying to participate together. We will not give Zhang Weiping any color this time. Look, I don’t know why the flowers are so red.”

Li Mu smiled: "Mr. Ye, actually I am also the producer."

"Uh, Director Li, Mengying also has theaters under its umbrella."

Of course Ye Zhu also knew that, he was just afraid that Li Mu would also stand behind the producers, which would make the matter serious.

After all, Li Mu's movies can satisfy theater chains, and it is impossible to boycott them. It will be difficult for several major theater chains to work together.

Zhang Weiping has indeed been involved in a lot of trouble recently. First, the ticket price of "Thirteen Hairpins" was raised, claiming that the price would increase for additional ingredients.

""Thirteen Hairpins" is the most heavily invested domestic film in history. The film is 2 hours and 25 minutes long, which is 4 to 50 minutes longer than the average domestic film. It is a product with added ingredients. A product with added ingredients will of course increase the price."

This sudden move made all the major theaters uncomfortable, including Mengying.

The theater has been carrying out promotions and group buying activities for "The Thirteen Hairpins" for some time. Now that the price has suddenly increased, the theater's follow-up work has become very complicated.

Later, Weiping wrote a manuscript directly in the voice of the heroine: "I performed a 'sex scene' with Christian Bale."

This article went crazy and topped the trending searches for a few days.

Zhang Weiping was also very proud of how much publicity expenses this article saved for "Thirteen Hairpins".

Fortunately, Lao Mouzi made some repairs later, otherwise Ni Ni would have collapsed.

Even a calm person like Liu Yifei couldn't help but curse a few times.

Li Mu hung up the call with Ye Zhu.

"Are they really going to unite?"

Liu Yifei found it a bit unbelievable. There are more than 40 theater chains in the country, and they usually operate independently, each working on its own and doing its own thing.

Moreover, these eight theater lines are all ranked among the top 2011 theater lines in terms of box office revenue in October 10. Their market share should be around 13%.

If it really succeeds, then "Thirteen Hairpins" will definitely be cool.

"Who is willing to let others take away a piece of meat in their own bowl with a chopstick? What's more, the theater chain has been the boss for many years, who can tolerate challenges?"

"Then how does this scene end?"

Now this matter has become a hot topic, but the producers are not united and are still very divided.

There are other blockbusters saying that they "will fill the gap in the market that was blocked by "The Thirteen Hairpins" at any time." This kind of demolishing the wall adds insult to injury and is too ugly.

"You have forgotten that the domestic theater chain may appear to be the boss, but there is still a department that can control the boss."

Liu Yifei suddenly understood: "You mean the General Administration?"

"Yes, but this time the producers cannot lose. If the eight major theater chains today block "The Thirteen Hairpins", and if the theater chain ends up winning, it will be a dead end for the Chinese film production industry."

The Chinese film industry is different from Hollywood. There is almost no derivative income. Box office is almost the only source. The account sharing ratio is the only means for producers to resist risks.

Just as Liu Yifei was about to ask further questions, Zhang Yimou called first.

Li Mu was a little surprised. He thought Zhang Weiping would call first.

"You don't need to go through this muddy water. Zhang Weiping calls later and you can refuse him."

Zhang Yimou's voice was a little low, and one after another things happened, making him feel a little exhausted.

Sure enough, after Li Mu and Zhang Yimou finished communicating, Zhang Weiping's call came.

"Mr. Li, I won't call you Director Li this time because I think you are different from other directors. Lao Zhang is just a director. He doesn't understand these commercial operations. The increase from 43% to 45% is not the same as the other directors." An improvement of one point, which is a box office revenue of millions and tens of millions, is crucial to our producers."

What Zhang Weiping said was so passionate that he wanted to regard this incident as a ground-breaking feat of reform for the producers and theaters.

"Mr. Li, I believe you are a qualified businessman"

Li Mu smiled and said: "Mr. Zhang, I already know the matter. I have my own ideas on this matter."

Zhang Weiping was still a little confused after the call was hung up. He was moved by the speech just now, so why didn't Li Mu react a little bit?

"Whose side are you on?" Zhang Weiping felt a little uneasy.

In fact, this time he is really a little vain. He has taken too big a step. With an investment of 6.5 million, he wants to make a profit wherever he deducts. The ticket price has been raised, and now he must increase the debit to recover more costs. Just a little.

"Director Li, you decide what to do about this matter. The lighting is up to you."

Wang Changtian is also very prompt. In fact, the producers only depend on them, and small companies do not have a high say.
"Don't worry, Mr. Wang, there are still big guys who haven't said anything yet."

"Oh, that makes sense. Then let's let the bullets fly for a while?"

Wang Changtian suddenly said with a smile.

"You Jiang Wen is possessed, and you let the bullets fly for a while."

Not only Raytheon, but also many producers such as Huayi and Bona have not spoken out for the time being, waiting for the situation to change.

　My body feels uncomfortable. Could it be that the recently popular gadget is possessing me? ? ? ?
　　GG
　　
　
(End of this chapter)