In the North American market, after the film is produced, in order to hype up the professional/audience reputation of the film before the official release, the producer will generally hold a film viewing party, but in general, it is just a means of publicity.

Most companies don't hold a lot of screenings.

Because for most companies in the industry, even if the feedback from the viewing party is not good, they are unable to change it, and the people who participate in the viewing meeting are largely deviated from the outside audience, so there are not a few movies that are not held or are released after only one viewing party.

Of course, there are also movies that have been held two or three times to watch the film, and found that there is nothing to change, and finally they still land in theaters.

Legend has it that the movie "Catwoman" starring Harry Berry held four viewing sessions before and after, and the feedback from the final preview meeting was still not good, and the producer, Warner Bros., simply didn't care about any praise or not, and went online directly......

Of course, the final result is known to everyone.

Harry Berry, who just won the Oscar, was in a slump after this war, not only failed to climb to the position of super A-class actress, but even fell to the point where no A-level production dared to use her as the heroine except for the role of storm girl in the solidified image of "X-Men......

And in the Celestial Empire, this kind of thing has already changed its taste.

With the advent of the Internet era, more and more companies have changed from attaching importance to the opinions of industry insiders to attaching importance to audience responses, and the rise of audience scoring platforms such as Hudou.com and Meow Eye has also made the trial meeting, which was originally an occasion for industry insiders in the film and television industry to entertain themselves and boast about themselves, becoming more and more practical.

To put it simply, the film viewing meeting has gradually changed from inviting peers to taste it, and has gradually become an occasion for some companies that have no distribution ability but are quite confident in their own works to find potential partners, or even the discovery party.

The "Mermaid" viewing party held by Xinghui Company is such an event.

For Molong Media, which already has its own distribution channels, it is not as valuable to hold a film viewing party as to hold audience screenings in several hot cities......

Everyone knows that Xinghui Company is Zhou Xinchi's personal studio at all.

Since several 'star girls' have fallen out with Zhou Xinchi, he has also found that with the economic development of the mainland, the long-term brokerage model of Xiangjiang has long been outdated, so naturally he has no idea of creating new people, but focuses all his energy on making and shooting movies.

Not to mention, after not being distracted, Zhou Xinchi, although there is still a lot of negative news among some people, the quality of the movie has made great progress.

"Journey to the West" and "Mermaid" are very different in quality compared with the likes of "Macau Fengyun" in the same schedule.

Of course, with the continuous change of the audience's tastes and preferences, the effect of Zhou Xinchi's card will gradually become smaller, but at least in this time period of 2015, the words 'Zhou Xinchi's works' can indeed be called a well-known golden signboard.

…… It's just that Li Mo didn't expect that Molong Media would also be invited to participate in this film viewing meeting.

"Xiaomo, is there anything wrong with Zhou Xinchi's "Mermaid"?" Zong Shuai glanced at Li Mo strangely, "Your reaction is too big, right?"

"Uh...... I'm sorry, I just didn't expect Zhou Xinchi to send an invitation to our company," Li Mo quickly found an excuse to cover up his gaffe, "If I'm not mistaken, after he went north to the mainland to develop, "Kung Fu", "Yangtze River No. 7", and the last movie "Journey to the West", aren't they all cooperating with the Wang Group?"

"Let me explain this, I happened to be in the Wang Group at the time. ”

Zong Shuai and Ye Ning glanced at each other and opened their mouths to explain.

After Zong Shuai's explanation, Li Mo knew that Zhou Xinchi actually did not take any advantage from the Wang Group in the original cooperation of "Journey to the West".

At the beginning of the project of "Journey to the West", Zhou Xinchi and Wang's Group agreed on a guaranteed box office figure of 500 million yuan, and once the threshold of 500 million yuan was exceeded, Wang's Group should increase Zhou Xinchi's revenue ratio in accordance with the floating proportion clause.

Then, the total box office of "Journey to the West" reached 1.2 billion.

According to the original agreement between the two parties, Wang's Group should pay Zhou Xinchi's side more than 500 million yuan in the box office share.

And then......

Wang's Group didn't know which tendon was the mistake, and directly rejected Zhou Xinchi's request to pay this part of the fee.

As a result, the two sides went to court.

Since no written agreement was signed at the beginning, the court directly rejected Zhou Xinchi's claim based on the principle that whoever asserts the claim shall bear the burden of proof.

…… Although there are many rumors against Zhou Xinchi in the industry, this guy is very small-minded, and this article is still very accurate.

Since then, Zhou Xinchi's blacklist has naturally added the name of Wang's Group.

This time, the production cost of "Mermaid" alone is close to 300 million, and in order to pass on the risk and recover the cost safely, Xinghui Company naturally hopes that a company can directly buy out the distribution.

As a result, after putting aside the Wang Group, almost all the large-scale distribution companies in the industry received an invitation from Xinghui.

This includes Molong Media.

As a traverser, Li Mo naturally knew the content of the movie "Mermaid" and the repercussions after its release at this time, but he didn't participate in the viewing party, so he could only continue to pretend to be stupid.

"Brother Zong, Brother Ye, both of you went to the film party, how do you feel about the quality of the movie?"

“…… It's okay, but I don't think the distribution of jokes is so dense," After a little consideration, Ye Ning continued to speak: "On the contrary, there is a childlike perspective, and the story logic is not so ...... Fluent. ”

"Zhou Xinchi's comedy movies have never been known for their story logic, otherwise how could his movies be called 'nonsensical'," Li Mo waved his hand, indicating that this issue was not the key to the matter, and then directly turned to the topic, "What is the guaranteed issue price that Xinghui Company is looking forward to?"

Zong Shuai and Ye Ning glanced at each other again, and finally Zong Shuai reported a number.

"1.8 billion ......"

"I wipe ......"

Li Mo exclaimed.

The expressions on Zong Shuai and Ye Ning's faces were not very good-looking.

In all fairness, although "Hong Kong", which is now the champion of the domestic film box office list, has pulled the number of the champion box office to close to 1.8 billion, it is the result of Xu Zheng's reputation accumulated over the years, plus a suitable schedule and effective marketing......

If "The Mermaid" is a movie starring Zhou Xinchi himself, the figure of 1.8 billion is not outrageous, but the problem is that the actor of "The Mermaid" this time is Deng Chao......

Deng Chao is undoubtedly a good actor, there is no problem with this.

But whether Deng Chao is a good comedian or not, most people still have doubts.

Don't forget, Deng Chao's last comedy was "The Breakup Master", and the Deng Chao in that movie was almost unanimously recognized by everyone as the worst Deng Chao.

Today, the starring role of "Mermaid" is still Deng Chao, but the director has been replaced by Zhou Xinchi.

Can Zhou Xinchi train Deng Chao well and let him play enough comedic effect?

For this matter, everyone has no bottom in their hearts.

This is also the main reason why Zong Shuai and Ye Ning came to Li Mo to discuss it as soon as they got the offer.

Just as the two of them were thinking about how to explain to Li Mo Xinghui's consideration of making this offer, Li Mo's second half of the sentence made their eyes widen again.

“…… So cheap?"

“………… Huh?"