China Entertainment started from Nortel 2002

Chapter 318 Only fools cooperate

"How about it, do you want to change the schedule? According to the statement given to me by the theater, "Titanic", "Battleship" and "Avengers" may account for 2/3 of the schedule by then."

Li Mu asked Ning Hao who came to visit the class.

"There is still one third left."

Ning Hao is very confident.

The remaining 1/3, according to the current market capacity, is enough to release two domestic movies.

Besides, we are all sixth-generation directors. If he shrinks from this box office battle, wouldn't it mean that others think he is afraid?

Li Mu also understood what Ning Hao meant.

"The schedules of several domestic films and Hollywood blockbusters do not completely overlap. It depends on the abilities of you guys."

Although the schedule is very intense, it will not have a big impact on the current film market.

If this had happened a few years ago, we would have been crying and shouting. We had to change everything. Otherwise, let alone meat and soup, we would just wait to drink the northwest wind.

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The box office of "The Hunger Games" film on its first day of release is officially released - $6825 million.

This result also surpassed "The Dark Knight" ($6717 million) again.

At the same time, it set many records such as the highest first-day box office for a non-sequel film in film history, the highest box office for a March release in film history, and ranked among the top five in the single-day box office list of film history.

"Congratulations! It seems that taking over "The Twilight Saga" is not a problem."

Han Sanping congratulated on the phone that Crystal Pictures' new series is off to a good start again.

"Director Han, there are still quotas for the sub-account."

"When do you want to release it? Forget about April and May in the near future. Several blockbusters have already been released. Let's release it in June or July."

Han San commented after a pause.

This change in the policy on imported films has resulted in almost three Hollywood blockbusters being released in the domestic schedule every month, so we still need to be more cautious when scheduling films.

We should not overly squeeze the living space of domestic films, but we should make good use of Hollywood blockbusters to form a "catfish effect" that promotes the development of the film market and the reform of the film system.

This is what Han Sanping is thinking now.

"Early June or late July"

Li Mu thought for a while, because there will be "Painted Skin 6" at the end of June, so the two movies still can't be too close to each other.

"Row"

"The epic masterpiece "The King's Feast" directed by Lu Xun held a global "banquet opening" press conference in the imperial capital."

Lu Xun started to promote his new film again, and even gave himself a nickname.

"There is a fixed routine for making costume films in China. I don't want to follow that routine, but I don't know which direction to go in, so I put it off. But everyone calls me 'Lu Manman'. I can still be in this industry in the future." Are you hanging around?"

"I couldn't bear it for a while. The contrast was too great and I became very fragile. After finishing the work, I would often hide in the room and cry because I was too involved in the play! But when I saw the rough cut of the film where I was dubbing Empress Lu, I I think everything I endured was worth it!”

Li Mu saw Qin Lan's words and almost laughed out loud.

Is this serious?

If he hadn't seen the movie, he would really believe it.

I have to say that many fans and netizens cheered for publishing this article and liked it one after another.

Ever since Li Mu started visiting the cast some time ago, "Edge of Tomorrow" has occasionally released news that someone is visiting the "Edge of Tomorrow" cast.

Zhang Yimou, who has hardly been seen recently, also came.

Zhang Yimou had a smile on his face, and it was clear that after the heavy stone in his heart fell to the ground, all his thoughts became clear.

When I came here, I also met the media visiting team, and I didn’t refuse the reporters’ interviews.

"Actually, I should thank that girl. Really, thank you!"

Zhang Yimou said sincerely, and this sentence was immediately exposed by the media.

"Brother, are you going to England to film "Turandot"?"

"Turandot" is an opera in three acts adapted from a fairy tale by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini.

It tells a Chinese legendary story imagined by Westerners and has been adapted into various forms of plays in China.

In 1998, Zhang Yimou directed the opera "Turandot" for the first time and premiered it in the Forbidden City, the imperial capital, which aroused enthusiastic response.

“Contribute to cultural cooperation between China and foreign countries”

Zhang Yimou smiled.

This performance brought together more than 600 people from the Chinese and British art circles to perform on the same stage, making it the largest Chinese-foreign cultural cooperation performance in London to date.

"Aren't you going to make a movie this year?"

"It's 'broken'. Let's take a rest for a year."

Zhang Yimou felt a little emotional. He really didn't expect that one day he would break up with Zhang Weiping to such an extent.

You must know that he was the one who named "New Picture", and the company has only produced his films since its establishment.

Zhang Weiping once even told him that if he stopped making movies when he got old, he would go traveling together. Find a place with beautiful scenery to rest, or watch a movie shot by others

"If you have time, take Yifei to London to watch this opera. It will be performed on June 6 this year. The movie should also be finished."

Zhang Yimou shook his head and invited. Li Mu smiled and said: "Look at the schedule, I will find something for her to do later."

"Hahaha"

The two chatted for a while, and then Li Mu continued filming "Edge of Tomorrow."

Zhang Yimou watched with gusto. This scene was no smaller than the movies he directed before.

"Zhang Yimou showed up to visit the cast of "Edge of Tomorrow"."

"Zhang Yimou personally thanked He Jun"

Zhang Yimou's appearance obviously put an end to this matter

"The Hunger Games" easily took in a box office of US$1.5 million within three days of its opening in North America, replacing "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part )" and ranking among the top five on the film's opening weekend box office list.

There is also news from China Film Group that "The Hunger Games" is confirmed to be introduced and may meet the audience in June or July.

Netizens applauded one after another. There was another movie to watch, but Lu Xun was the only one cursing.

"Does this Li Mu have to target me? This is really unreasonable."

When Lu Xun looked at the schedule, he felt that Li Mu was targeting him anyway. Isn't July the day when his "The King's Feast" will be officially released.

"The traitor will never die if he kills me."

Lu Xun sighed.

If Li Mu knew what Lu Xun was thinking at this time, he would definitely be speechless.

In his opinion, one "Painted Skin 2" is enough to beat "The King's Feast", and there is no need to add another one.

At night, Li Mu still looked at the email messages sent by David.

"Gravity" has basically been released in North America, except for a few theaters in a few continents where it is still playing.

The North American box office revenue was US$3.01 million, temporarily ranking first in the North American box office rankings in 2012.

The global box office potential has almost been exhausted, with a revenue of 9.68 million US dollars, temporarily ranking first in the global box office rankings in 2012!

As for the domestic box office results, Mengying Media had compiled the data and reported them to Li Mu two days ago.

Domestic revenue was 15.96 billion.

"No wonder "Avengers" is coming to the Imperial Film Festival for its domestic premiere."

Liu Yifei rested her hands on Li Mu's shoulders, looked at the data sheet, and said with emotion.

You must know that in the past, Hollywood movies would rather go to South Korea and Japan for promotion than come to China to hold grand premieres and send actors for road shows. On the one hand, the domestic box office was too low, and on the other hand, the split was too low, making little money. money.

However, the domestic box office has grown from 10 million to 100 million to more than 1 billion now, and it has never stopped and has become the second largest box office in the world.

At this moment, no one can underestimate China’s box office potential.

After reading the data, Li Mu was thinking about getting ready to rest, so he stood up. Unexpectedly, Liu Yifei behind him suddenly lost his balance. He was caught off guard and stumbled back. Fortunately, Li Mu had quick hands and eyes, and grabbed Liu Yifei's waist, and then Shou Li fell on the bed with him.

"I almost fell."

Liu Yifei panted with lingering fear, then looked at Li Mujun's face, moved forward, and with a "pop" sound, Liu Yifei kissed Li Mujun's face.

"This is your reward." Liu Yifei said delicately.

Li Mu felt the moisture on his face and the hot breath on his face. He was distracted and itchy for a moment. He couldn't help but press forward and kissed the red lips.

"Uh-huh, I have to film tomorrow."

"I'll send you a text later and work will start two hours later tomorrow morning!"

Filming for "Edge of Tomorrow" continues as usual.

There is news from Hollywood's Legendary Entertainment that it will develop the movie project "The Great Wall".

As soon as you hear this name, you know it must be related to China.

However, the project investment, script and other aspects have not yet been determined, and some domestic actors have already begun to compete.

Li Binbin and Zhang Jingchu went to the United States to contact Hollywood Legend Entertainment respectively, hoping to compete for the heroine of "The Great Wall", but they were too eager.

Rumor has it that there are more people wanting to get involved.

At this moment, Liu Weijuan called.

"Mr. Li, Legend Entertainment wants to cooperate with Mengying Media."

"what?"

Li Mu was a little surprised. The "Legendary East" jointly launched by Legend Entertainment and Huayi failed, so they actually turned to Mengying Media?

Others may not know the inside story of Legend Dongfang's failure, but Li Mu knows it clearly.

Against the background of the boom in Chinese concept investment, Legend Entertainment regards "Chinese money" as stupid money, and actually used its two story concepts including "The Great Wall" and its project management capabilities to become the company's major shareholder, and investors invested more than 2 million US dollars. Cash, however, is a minority shareholder, and must also pay Legendary's production costs in addition and let distribution company Warner withdraw publicity fees before taking a share of the box office.

As we all know, the production and promotion costs of Hollywood blockbusters are mostly black holes, and there are many profit margins.

Since there is no good return mechanism, investors do not buy in, project financing has not been completed, and the big and small kings are not stupid. When they see others taking advantage of them, they will naturally stop cooperation quickly.

However, Li Mu looked at the terms of cooperation between Legend Entertainment and Mengying Media, and found that they were much looser than Huayi's. He did not treat Mengying Media like a fish in water. It seemed that he wanted to take advantage of Mengying Media's long-standing reputation.

"With these two broken scripts, I still want Mengying to appear!"

Li Mu was speechless. Maybe the story seemed good to them, but to Li Mu, this was absolutely terrible.

"Only fools cooperate."

Before Li Mu finished complaining, Han Sanping called.

"I heard that Legend Entertainment and Mengying Media are going to cooperate?"

"Director Han, your news is too fast, but Mengying Media has no such idea."

Han Sanjing still has some regrets:

"The Great Wall, this is a good subject."

(End of this chapter)