China Entertainment started from Nortel 2002

Chapter 780: Decline
"Is he still in Yunnan?"

During the dinner, Brother Chen Kai and Li Mu talked in a low voice.

The one he was referring to was naturally Tian Zhuangzhuang.

"Yes, the teacher is still scouting locations." Li Mu nodded. He even called on the first day of National Day.

"Is there a new movie coming up?"

Brother Chen Kai's eyes moved slightly. Tian Zhuangzhuang hasn't directed many movies for many years, but he has acted as an actor several times. This news is definitely not small in the industry.

"It's hard to say, I think so." Li Mu smiled slightly.

If the entire Chinese film industry is like a vast forest, the news that director Tian Zhuangzhuang will take the director's chair again is like a breeze, seemingly light and insubstantial, but brushing against every leaf, and causing ripples in the hearts of all filmmakers.

"Good director, good." Brother Chen Kai said with a hint of regret, "Your teacher has made too few movies in his life."

After finishing speaking, Brother Chen Kai did not delve further into this topic. However, Li Mu could see that Brother Chen Kai probably wanted to talk to Tian Zhuangzhuang about something. Considering the tribute film that was currently being put together, Li Mu also had some guesses in his mind.

“I have sent out the topic selections to the group. It’s first come first served. You can choose any topic you like.”

Huang Jianxin said happily.

"Haha, it's so quick?" Li Mu was surprised when he heard it. Everyone isn't even here yet, but they've already come to the topic selection stage.

"Director Li, you don't know that our schedule is so tight. Get up early. Oh, I forgot, I have to add you to the producer's group. If there is anything I can help you with, Director Li, please lend a helping hand."

After Huang Jianxin's operation, Li Mu directly entered the producer group. However, there were not many people in the group yet. However, Li Mu saw that not long after he came in, Yu Dong was also pulled in. It was obvious that this time, apart from Mengying Media Investment, the remaining one was Bona.

"The group will be lively soon. I will bring in the rest of the people later." Huang Jianxin did not continue with the operation for the time being, guessing it would depend on Fu Ruoqing's opinion.

Li Mu estimated that most of the heads of production companies in the industry would have to come in, and those who didn't need to pay would have to contribute.

"Okay, see you tomorrow." After the meal, Huang Jianxin and Chen Kaige seemed to be going back to discuss the remaining matters, while Ning Hao and his friends didn't have so much to do. They only needed to take care of their own topics, and the rest would be handled by the others.

"You three all chose comedy elements?" Li Mu walked and chatted with Ning Hao and others, as if they were taking a stroll after dinner.

"I'm good at this. Otherwise, even if you ask me to make it into an epic, I can't do it, right, Old Xu?" Ning Hao said with a smile, putting his arm around Xu Zheng's shoulder.

"Senior brother, if you hadn't come, we could all be called the 'Medicine God Quartet'. Look, this name is quite impressive." Wen Muye was very pleased with his own name and was patted on the forehead by Ning Hao.

"What a lousy name, 'The Four Gods of Medicine'. Look at what happened to the Gods of Medicine in the end."

Everyone laughed.

"Director Ning, I'm a little curious. I saw that you chose the theme of BJ's First Impressions as soon as you saw the information. What's the reason?"

Xue Xiaolu suddenly asked, and several people looked over.

Because Ning Hao was the one who chose the fastest among them, he made his choice almost immediately after the information was sent out.

"Hey!" Ning Hao subconsciously reached into his clothes, pulled out a Marlboro, and used his hand to block the wind. The past seemed to appear in his eyes like smoke.

"There's a story!"

"Okay, listen."

Guo Fan and the others did not participate in it, but everyone loves to listen to the story, so they whispered it among themselves.

"To be honest, I almost forgot about it." Ning Hao said slowly, "When I was fifteen, it was my first time to come to BJ. I had a bowl of knife-cut noodles at a small restaurant. I didn't have much money at the time, but I could afford noodles."

"As everyone knows, I spent my childhood in a steel factory full of charred black. I am very curious about everything in BJ. It happened that day that a big brother from BJ shared the table with me while eating knife-cut noodles.

To be honest, this BJ brother is really a chatterbox. He chatted with me a lot, from age, hometown, family background to future plans.
Before leaving, the BJ brother patted me on the shoulder and said, "BJ, you came to the right place."

When I finished eating and went to pay the bill, I found that the guy I had never met before had already paid for me in advance, so when I saw the topic, I suddenly thought of this guy in my mind, so I chose it. "

Ning Hao finished talking about the past with a look of emotion, but unexpectedly Xu Zheng continued in a frivolous manner:
"Okay, it seems like you had a free lunch, so it's normal that you still remember it vividly."

After these words, everyone burst into laughter, but Ning Hao almost dropped his cigarette. He was about to hit the "boiled egg", but Xu Zheng dodged it flexibly.

"Okay, shoot well. Let me know if you need anything." Li Mu smiled faintly. After all, he was also the producer of this film.

"Don't worry, we haven't been polite."

"Hahaha"

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These two days, although it is National Day, the hot topics are dominated by Fan Binbin, who has not appeared in public for 123 days.

However, this time it was not a good thing for him to appear on the hot search. The reason was that his tax evasion and tax avoidance were officially confirmed, and he needed to pay a total of 8.84 million in back taxes. He apologized on Weibo and promised to "overcome all difficulties, raise funds, pay back taxes, and pay fines."

Under such circumstances, Li Chen, who had disappeared for a long time, also showed up.

Of course, it was only on the Internet. "No matter how difficult it is, we will get through it together."

Such a sentence, such eleven words, also attracted great attention and heated discussion.

There was even news that Li Chen's family had a courtyard house in the capital, and it was currently being sold at a value of 3.2 million yuan to raise money for Fan Binbin.

Although it is over 8 million yuan, such funds may be affordable for Fan Binbin, but it is doubtful whether he has so much liquid funds.

After all, most people's money is not in the form of liquid funds.

As a result, this news spread like wildfire, and for a while Li Chen was transformed from a scumbag into a good man of the new century, and his reputation instantly reversed.

"He's still a real man!"

"Not bad, not bad, and you are responsible."

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However, netizens were quickly slapped in the face, because it was confirmed in the evening alone that this courtyard house was the shooting location prepared by the program crew during the recording of "New Year's Fun", and it was not Li Chen's own property.

At this time, Li Chen and netizens were embarrassed.

"Fuck you, Li Chen, are you kidding me?"

"Brothers are connected with you by heart, why are you playing tricks with them?"

"Next time, why don't we find a topic that's not easy to expose? Look at this, it makes us all very embarrassed."

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"Hahaha, I can't take it anymore, Xixi, the netizens' comments are making me laugh to death." Shu Chang laughed while holding his phone in one hand and covering his stomach with the other.

“This plot twist is so interesting”

"Exaggerated!" Liu Yifei gave Shu Chang a reproachful look, took the phone from Shu Chang, and couldn't help laughing out loud for a moment.

The National Day holiday fell into a lull, and data for the seven-day National Day holiday were released one after another.

Zhang Yimou's "Shadow" lost to "Wushuang" with a box office of more than 6 million in the seven days of the National Day holiday. The latter earned more than 7 million and nearly million in the seven days of the National Day holiday.

Just at this moment, Fu Ruoqing called suddenly.

Li Mu originally thought it was for a tribute film, but he didn't expect it was actually for "Aquaman".

"Director Li, you are aware of the situation of this year's Lunar New Year holiday. We plan to bring Aquaman here, and we hope it can be released before North America."

"Aquaman" has been scheduled for Christmas in North America. If it is to boost the year-end box office performance, it will naturally have to be released earlier in China.

"Mr. Fu, I understand this matter, but I'm just worried that there might be objections from the industry."

Li Mu's concerns are not unfounded, because the Lunar New Year period has always been the preserve of domestic films. Even though "Aquaman" was shot by Li Mu, it is still an overseas film after all.

"Don't worry, if they really cared that much, there wouldn't be no blockbusters during the Lunar New Year holiday this year, and Aquaman wouldn't be the only movie introduced."

Although Fu Ruoqing was very disappointed with the Lunar New Year movie market, it was all market behavior and he couldn't say anything.

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After Li Mu hung up the phone and sent a message to Warner, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

You should know that the domestic Lunar New Year box office has been around for 1997 years since Feng Xiaogang's "Party A and Party B" first debuted in 20.

After the new century, especially after 2005, top blockbusters have rushed to occupy the Lunar New Year period, including "The Promise", "Curse of the Golden Flower", "Assembly", and "Red Cliff".
Along the way, every year's box office champion comes from the Lunar New Year period, and in many cases, the annual runner-up and third place also come from the Lunar New Year period.

In the past, the output energy of the entire Lunar New Year period even accounted for one-third of the annual market.

However, things are quietly changing.

There is no Lunar New Year atmosphere in the market this year, because the movies scheduled for the Lunar New Year are almost all small and medium-cost, and there is almost no sign of them being a hit.

Of course, the Lunar New Year box office has long shown signs of weakening. It has been slowly declining since Li Mu opened the Spring Festival period. However, I didn’t expect that seven years later, the Lunar New Year period is already on the decline.

Once upon a time, blockbuster movies would release their latest blockbuster films at the end of November just to grab the reputation of having a good start during the Lunar New Year. But now, no blockbuster movie is scheduled to be released at the end of November to promote itself as the first blockbuster during the Lunar New Year.

This year, not only was there no domestic blockbuster at the end of November, but even after officially entering the December Lunar New Year holiday, there was no domestic blockbuster to take the lead.

Because all the domestic films were oddly betting on being released on December 12st, in order to compete for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and rely on word of mouth to impact New Year's Day, they had to be introduced to fill the gap.

So just two days later, China Distribution announced that the Hollywood blockbusters "Aquaman" and "Spider-Man" were scheduled to be released in December.

Everything seemed to be natural and did not cause any big waves, as if the industry had already guessed it.

(End of this chapter)