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Chapter 774: More Capitalist Than Capitalists, Project Announcement

"What? Six big studios?"

"Director Li, that's more than 8,000 square meters?"

Zeng Maojun was also stunned when he heard Li Mu's request, and said with some surprise.

"There's no other way, Mr. Zeng. We can't go to these real departments to shoot. What about the safety of the thousands of planes in the sky? We can only restore these scenes one by one."

"Director Li, you are really generous." Zeng Maojun sighed, "Okay, I'll take care of it."

"Okay, thank you, Mr. Zeng."

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After hanging up the phone, Li Mu continued to think about the follow-up of the play.

Since screenwriters need to learn, actors naturally must as well.

After all, how pilots operate planes and what behind-the-scenes work flight attendants do are big questions for actors.

The effect that Li Mu wanted was naturally for the leading actors to stand in their own seats, as if these crew members were themselves.

"In that case, we must cast as soon as possible after the script comes out and gather the whole team for training."

Li Mu tapped the table with his fingers, and then wrote this matter down in his notebook so as not to forget it.

The box office of "Love Apartment" and "A Good Show" was so great that the former really shocked the industry.

This IP, which has been waited for four years and accompanied for ten years and witnessed the youth memories of a generation, directly exploded with a box office of 3 million. In contrast, "A Good Show" seems to have only 1.5 million.

It’s just that there is a huge difference between the two movies in terms of reputation.

Because of the widespread criticism of "Love Apartment" on Douban, the rating was as low as 2.4 points! It received a one-star rating!

“Has sentiment become so cheap?”

"No wonder Wang Chuanjun said this was a plagiarized movie, full of advertisements. I didn't believe him at first, thinking he was too self-righteous. But in the end, I was heartbroken after watching it."

"Don't watch it, really don't watch it. Just trust Mengying Media. The movies produced by Mengying Media are really trustworthy. No matter what, they can't be this bad. The plots of every movie are online."

Maybe because "Love Apartment" was so bad, there was more hype about "A Good Show", which was really unexpected.

As expected, the next day, "A Good Show" continued to break through, earning 1.9 million yuan, while "Love Apartment" fell by more than 60%, earning only 1.2 million yuan at the box office. There was a lot of criticism on the Internet, and even the hot searches were criticizing "Love Apartment".

This rate of decline has basically announced the ending of "Love Apartment", which is basically being cut in half every day.

It's just that the producers obviously still made money, but this kind of money-making method, which relies entirely on IP nostalgia, is really disgusting. It could have been a good movie if it was filmed well, but they used the tomb-robbing method and turned the whole movie into "Cemetery of Love".

In the evening, the color of the sky gradually changes from orange-red to dark blue until the last light is swallowed up, and the neon lights of the imperial capital will light up from this moment.

The lights in the house have already been on, bringing warmth to everyone's heart.

The little Baozi was playing happily with Ala in the courtyard, while Liu Yifei was excitedly talking on the phone in the living room.

"Really? Have you set a time?"

"Oh, October 28th. OK, remember to send me the invitation."

"Yeah, I'm good at this. I'll definitely choose something beautiful for you."

I don’t know if Liu Yifei has started to learn to talk like a little kid recently, using all kinds of interjections frequently.

"What's wrong?" Li Mu poured himself a glass of juice and added some ice cubes.

This combination is a pleasure in summer, but Li's mother would nag her when she saw it. After all, in the eyes of the elderly, always drinking cold drinks is bad for the stomach.

"Didn't Luo Jin tell you?" Liu Yifei asked with a blink of her eyes.

"Uh, not yet." Li Mu immediately guessed what was going on. After calculating the time, it was indeed almost time.

"They are getting married, at the end of October, in Vienna. Yanyan has also invited me to choose a wedding dress for her. Tomorrow, the task of taking care of the little bun will be given to you."

Liu Yifei said happily.

"Then choose carefully, but don't choose something too ugly." Li Mu was still skeptical about Liu Yifei's aesthetic sense in choosing clothes.

"What are you talking about? What's not good-looking about what I chose? Humph." Liu Yifei crossed her arms, pouted and said unhappily.

"Besides, Yanyan is so pretty, no matter which one you choose, she will look good. The situation you described does not exist at all."

"Okay, okay!" Li Mu responded perfunctorily. He wanted to see what the final choice would be.

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The next day, early in the morning, Liu Yifei simply dressed up and went out.

Li Mu was leisurely playing with the little kid at home.

However, the industry was not calm at this time, because several video websites jointly issued a statement with the six major film and television production companies, including Noon Sunshine, Huace Film & TV, Lemon Pictures, Ciwen Media, Yaoke Media, and New Classics Media, to jointly boycott sky-high pay, "yin-yang contracts", tax evasion and other industry chaos.

The single-episode pay (tax included) of a single actor shall not exceed RMB 100 million, and the total pay (tax included) shall not exceed RMB 5000 million.

Obviously, this time it also comes with some kind of signal.

For a time, all parties praised it.

"Okay, okay, this should have been done a long time ago. If all that money had been used for post-production special effects, the quality of Chinese TV dramas would have improved a long time ago."

"Great, great, this should have been done a long time ago."

“I hope the staff behind the scenes can be paid more!”

Li Mu estimated that many people were probably cursing Fan Binbin at this time. After all, Fan Binbin played an indispensable role in the final promotion of this matter.

On Monday, the box office of "A Good Show" on Sunday was still as high as 1.9 million, ranking first in the schedule. As for "Love Apartment", it has dropped to more than 5900 million.

As usual, Li Mu went to Maoyan first.

This is already the final sprint stage for Maoyan, but the success of two consecutive movies during the summer vacation has also increased Maoyan's chances of success in its upcoming IPO in Hong Kong.

"There's no need to worry about it. Since it's set for September, it's better to do it sooner rather than later. Let's do it on September 9rd."

Li Mu finally made the final decision.

It happened to be Monday, September 9rd, otherwise Li Mu would have wanted to set it on September 3st directly.

“I wish you a smooth listing!”

"Congratulations to Director Li and Director Wang."

"Joy and rejoice together!"

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At noon, Li Mu organized a dinner party after the meeting, and the guests who attended the dinner were naturally the directors of Maoyan.

"Mr. Wang, you can keep it for us as we agreed before." Li Mu and Wang Xing touched each other and whispered.

"That's natural. I, Wang, am a man of my word. Besides, it's enough for Meituan to keep a little. I have to thank Mr. Li and Mr. Wang for their hard work. Otherwise, it would be difficult for Maoyan to go public so quickly."

Wang Xing was also very happy, after all, Maoyan made a lot of money.

Li Mu smiled, and both of them just took a sip.

"Mr. Li, I'd like to toast you. I have to thank you for the "Richest Tomato" episode of Rocket 101's "Calories" last time."

Seeing that Li Mu had gotten away, Ren Yuxin also walked over with a glass of wine in his hand.

You should know that "The Richest Tomato" now has a box office of over 30 billion yuan. It is because of the exposure of such high box office traffic that the song quickly became popular. Although people in the streets and alleys can hum a line or two now, most of them have heard it.

Rocket 101 became a huge hit because of this.

"It's just a small matter." Li Mu smiled faintly, "By the way, Mr. Ren, I heard that a member of Rocket 101 wants to quit the group?"

Recently, news about Meng Meiqi, Wu Xuanyi, and Zhang Zining’s withdrawal from Rocket Girls has frequently appeared on hot searches.

Because Lehua Entertainment and Mairui Entertainment jointly issued a statement saying that there were differences in their cooperation with "Zhoutian Entertainment Company" on issues such as artists' overwork and artists' schedules, the two parties decided to terminate their cooperation with Zhoutian Entertainment Company ahead of schedule and announced that their artists Meng Meiqi, Wu Xuanyi, and Zhang Zining would withdraw from the group.

Li Mu asked casually.

"Haha, this kind of thing will never happen." Ren Yuxin said confidently.

Everyone nodded without any doubt.

In fact, everyone present knew that the fundamental reason for this kind of thing was the uneven distribution of the pie of benefits.

"Zhou Tian and several other companies under Tencent are more capitalist than capitalists." After dinner, Wang Changtian and Li Mu talked as they walked back to Maoyan.

"I heard that for a multi-million dollar endorsement, Tencent took 7% first, while Wajijiwa and the original agency only took 3%. And this 3% had to be divided among the 11 companies, so each company got only a tiny amount."

Wang Changtian always felt inferior to him. If he could be like this, Guangxian would have been making huge profits long ago.

"In China, not many resources are willing to offend capital giants like Tencent. After all, it is difficult for small companies to compete with the power of capital. It is estimated that the last few will compromise and the benefits they can gain will not be great."

Li Mu said calmly, it has to be said that this is the advantage of capital. What Tencent has is not something the other companies can compete with.

Otherwise Ren Yuxin wouldn’t be so confident.

"That's right." Wang Changtian nodded silently.

"Have you chosen Tang Yan's wedding dress?"

When Li Mu returned home, he saw Liu Yifei was already at home. She had been going out early in the morning for the past two days and was very conscientious and responsible.

"It's well chosen, absolutely beautiful. Finally, we hired a top designer, the same one who designed the wedding dress for Jay Chou and Hannah Quinlivan when they got married."

Liu Yifei said proudly, "I made a great contribution this time."

"Oh oh!" Li Mu uttered two "ohs" and was immediately questioned by Liu Yifei.

Immediately, he almost put his face close to me, his big eyes full of dissatisfaction: "Humph, wait and see."

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At the same time, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television announced on its official website the filing and project approval information for national film scripts (synopses) in late July.

The notice of the project establishment shows that Mengying Media has applied for registration to shoot a film called "The Captain", and the current registration result of the film is "agreement to shoot in principle", which immediately attracted great attention from both inside and outside the industry.

Because the plot synopsis says: Captain Zhang Changjian was on a mission to fly from Chongqing to Lasa early in the morning.
For a while, netizens were talking about it.

"Oh my god, isn't this the Sichuan Airlines incident? Mengying Media wants to film it? Who will be the director? I'm curious."

"Sure, sure. Watching the news is thrilling. I'm very curious whether this movie can show what I want to see."

"Great, another movie to add to my watchlist."

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(End of this chapter)