Chapter 754: The Wronged Boss
In other words, the mantra 'heheda' that Li Mo brought from the original time and space is really a good thing.
The good thing about this kind of thing is that even if Zong Shuai has not experienced the baptism of the original space-time network language, there is a generation gap with Li Mo for more than ten years, but it does not prevent him from hearing Li Mo's reaction to the 'naΓ―ve threat' of Xinghui Company from just three words.
In a word: love what's the matter, don't bother to pay attention to you!
For Zhou Xinchi, or the people in the circle of the entire Xiangjiang and Treasure Island, Li Mo never thought that he could become friends with them.
It's very simple, everyone has been educated since childhood, the working and living environments are different, the three views are different, the pursuits are different, it's good to be able to work together, even if Li Mo wants to make friends, he is not so many people, right?
Besides, even if he wants to make friends with the people of Xiangjiang, Li Mo will not make friends with people like Zhou Xinchi.
In addition to the two brushes in the professional field, Zhou Xinchi is definitely a very, very, very difficult type even in the circle of Xiangjiang movies.
Not to mention getting along, there are basically few people who have worked with him who can last long.
If one or two can't cooperate, it may be that the other party has a problem, but if many people can't cooperate with him, then Zhou Xinchi himself is okay?
Wu Mengda, Wang Jing, Hong Jingbao......
Although these people have their own problems, at least when people in the circle talk about them, the worst case is mixed up......
But as long as Zhou Xinchi is mentioned, even Wu Mengda, who has cooperated with him the most, just didn't say anything bad about him......
Since Li Mo felt that he was not sure that he could invite a Bodhisattva as big as Zhou Xinchi, it was better to do business, and it was better to be one and two wide.
"Okay, Zhou Xinchi is not a panacea, who knows if his next movie will be ......"
"How is it possible?!!" Before Li Mo finished speaking, Zong Shuai directly called out on the phone, "Now the industry is unanimously optimistic that his next movie is very likely to start with a box office of 2 billion, I dare to guarantee that if Zhou Xinchi didn't offer too hard this time, there would definitely be companies in our distribution alliance that would be 'traitors'!"
"Heheda, industry insiders, how many people in the industry can be called professionals now?" Li Mo sneered, "Xinghui Company has not analyzed at all, why "Mermaid" broke out at the box office this time. β
"So tell me what's going on?"
"First of all, I don't deny that "Mermaid" is a qualified commercial comedy movie, but in Zhou Xinchi's works, "Mermaid" is only at the upper middle level, and the quality is definitely not top......-notch.
"Okay, okay, the whole company knows that the promotional phrase was personally thought up by President Li Da," Zong Shuai interrupted Li Mo angrily, "You just say the movie itself, don't give yourself credit!"
ββ¦β¦ Isn't that what I'm talking about?" Li Mo said aggrievedly: "Because of this advertising slogan, coupled with the fact that the current mainstream movie-watching groups have come from the golden age of Xiangjiang films, they will naturally buy tickets at the cost of consuming the audience popularity accumulated by Zhou Xinchi." β
Secondly, in this year's Spring Festival, the other two movies pose no threat to "Mermaid". β
Hearing Li Mo say this, Zong Shuai naturally took over the conversation, ""Three Dozen White Bone Spirits" was trapped by the bad reviews of the previous work "Havoc in the Heavenly Palace", and fell behind in the early stage......;
"So ......" Li Mo smiled and comforted Zong Shuai: "The three billion box office of "Mermaid" is definitely a product of the right time, place and people, and it is not replicable at all, if a company spends a lot of money on him because of this movie, I dare to guarantee that the final result will definitely make them vomit blood!"
"Shall we ...... Just look at it?"
"Just look at it like this," Li Mo said categorically: "Our company will not have good movies in the future, as long as the things we make are in place, there will naturally be audiences to appreciate them!"
β¦β¦ Soon, the four companies involved in the formation of the "Mermaid" distribution alliance basically gave back the same statement: whether they will cooperate with Xinghui Company and even Zhou Xinchi in the future depends on the future situation, but on the project of "Mermaid", everything is operated according to the buyout distribution contract signed at the beginning, and the company has no intention and will not conduct any negotiations with Xinghui Company on the follow-up new director sharing and other content.
Truth be told, this is the common attitude of all film and television studios in the industry, and indeed in the world, towards contract violators.
Xinghui Company thinks that it is moving the cake of the four companies of the distribution alliance?
Hehe, think too much.
This is fundamentally challenging the bottom line of all companies in the industry.
The primary purpose of opening a film and television media company is to make money.
The cake is only that big, and the more others share, the less things will be in their own bowls.
Xinghui's approach is basically that when the cake has already been divided, after serving it, he sees that there is more meat in other people's bowls, so he temporarily proposes to grab it from other people's bowls.
Even if you put aside the unlisted company of Molong Media, Wanda, Penguin, and Guanglu Media are all listed companies, and the matter involving the producer's new distribution share must definitely be discussed by the board of directors, even if Wang Changtian's level is vigorously promoted, he can't guarantee all shareholders that the part of the director's share given now will definitely be able to earn back through follow-up projects in the future.
On the contrary, once the opening of such an unconventional operation is opened, the subsequent troubles are simply endless.
If Xinghui dares to ask for 10 percent this time, will it be able to rise to 15 percent next time? Won't it be 20 percent next time?
If they continue to toss like this, Xinghui Company will not have to take risks and can obtain high returns, wouldn't it be that all the good things in this world have been met by them?
Regarding the fact that the distribution alliance broke up with Xinghui, Ahri Pictures said that it was very happy.
Within a week's time, they negotiated a partnership with Xinghui at lightning speed.
Not only that, but they also pulled Xu Ke onto the boat.
Xu Ke is the director, Zhou Xinchi is the screenwriter and producer, and intends to continue the glory of the previous work "Journey to the West", and spend 400 million yuan to create "Journey to the West", which is known as the pinnacle of Chinese magic movies......
Hehe, Ahri Pictures probably hasn't carefully understood Xu Ke's past history.
This boss is definitely an out-and-out technical controller, but whenever he has a little money, he will plunge into the whirlpool of technical experiments and can't pull it out. In that case, expecting the movie that came out of Xu Ke's hand to tell a good story can basically only be regarded as an extremely face-saving thing.
Moreover, it is a failure for Ahri Pictures to let Zhou Xinchi write and produce on one shoulder.
When Xu Ke was in the Xiangjiang film industry, Zhou Xinchi was still playing bandit A and passerby B in TVB, no matter how unruly Zhou Xinchi was, he didn't dare to criticize Xu Ke, "Journey to the West" is not so much a movie that continues Zhou Xinchi's style, but rather a test field for Xu Ke......
For Ahri Pictures' action, Wanda and Penguin both chose to stand still, but Wang Changtian of Guanglu Media once called Li Mo and asked if he needed to take action.
Li Mo's answer was also very crisp.
"Since Ahri Pictures likes to be the boss of the wrongs, can we still stop it?