When Li Mu heard that Hollywood was competing for Hong Kong film rights, he was particularly pleased with this.

What he wants is not to make money by hyping up Hong Kong film copyrights, but to help Hong Kong films and even Chinese films go abroad.

The category of "Hong Kong films" is a special title only for Chinese, and only Chinese people will divide films into Hong Kong films, mainland films and Taiwan films, and in front of the whole world, whether it is mainland films, Hong Kong or Taiwan films, there is a collective term - Chinese films.

If a Hong Kong film becomes popular in North America, it will have a certain pull on the entire Chinese-language film industry, and now Hollywood is starting to compete for Hong Kong films, and it won't be long before it will start competing for other Chinese-language films in the mainland and Taiwan.

Before this, an excellent Chinese film sold to a distributor in North America is nothing more than hundreds of thousands of dollars, Hollywood in addition to its own film value, all overseas films are treated with the same glance, so the quotation is also as low as possible, in their opinion, anyway, the North American market has such a large demand for overseas films every year, so many overseas countries have so many movies every year, and there are thousands of films that can be negotiated if one cannot be negotiated, and the lower the quotation, the better.

But now, Hollywood has a clear view of Chinese-language films because of the success of "Zombie-Master", and it will definitely set off a wave of Chinese-language films in the entire North American market in the future.

In Li Mu's view, the more excellent Chinese films can be released in North America and even other countries, the more successful Chinese films and Chinese culture are exported.

However, Hong Kong's film companies don't see the problem this way, they have been suffering for so long in the Hong Kong film depression for many years, and suddenly because of Li Mu's efforts, they can see the moon, and the film copyrights that they have accumulated in their hands that are no longer profitable have been given commercial value again overnight, so they are only thinking about one thing now, that is, how to take the opportunity to use the film rights in their hands to make more money.

After the price of "Infernal Affairs" plunged, Uniasia immediately contacted several first-line film companies in Hong Kong, and the bosses of several companies sat together and exchanged information about the current progress of their copyright transactions with Hollywood.

As far as all the companies that have reached cooperation with Hollywood are concerned, none of them have successfully obtained a "guaranteed share" agreement from Hollywood distributors, and the offers given by these distributors are all copyright buyouts without exception, but the buyout price has increased several times compared with the past.

However, several other film companies are also very satisfied with this, after all, these copyrights were not cared for before, and they could not be sold for even 10,000 US dollars, and now they can suddenly sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, which is tantamount to flying windfalls for these companies.

But the boss of Uniasia can't have the mentality of being so rich as them, because he feels that the movie "Mr. Zombie" has made him lose too much, and he had the opportunity to make tens of millions of dollars from this movie, but in the end, he didn't even get 100,000 dollars.

It is precisely because of such a huge psychological gap that he hopes that "Infernal Affairs" can sell at a better price, but he didn't expect that the distributors in Hollywood would "reduce" in an instant, several companies withdrew from the competition, and the rest also lowered their offers, which made the boss of Uniasia even more depressed.

In order to sell "Infernal Affairs" at a better price, the boss of Uniasia took the initiative to contact Makino Image, although he hated Makino Image's teeth itching, but at this time, if he wanted to increase the value of "Infernal Affairs" in the North American market, he had to borrow from Makino Image.

Uniasia told Makino Imaging that they hope to cooperate with Makino Imaging to develop the North American copyright of "Infernal Affairs", and the decision on the specific operation is up to Uniasia, Makino Imaging does not need to contribute, but only needs to promise to give "Infernal Affairs" enough recommendation resources in the North American market, and can get 30% of all the income of Uniasia from "Infernal Affairs" in North America.

The person in charge of Makino Imaging routinely reported this matter to Li Ziwei, and Li Ziwei conveyed the news to Li Mu on the way when Li Mu took her to Yanjing, Jinshi and Langfang for a field trip.

After listening to this, Li Mu said to Li Ziwei: "A message from Huanya, if they want to cooperate with us in the overseas market of "Infernal Affairs", they will show some sincerity, adjust the conditions of cooperation, and give us the right to decide, the copyright will be exclusively authorized to us first, and the sublicense will also be given to us, and then we will take it to the North American market to operate, and we will share 30% of all the income earned overseas by "Infernal Affairs". ”

After that, Li Mu added: "By the way, you tell them that we will not promise to give any recommended resources." ”

Li Ziwei nodded and asked tentatively: "Will this condition be too harsh for Uniasia?"

Li Mu said: "It seems to be a little harsh, but the actual result is much better than their cooperation with any Hollywood distributor, the North American distribution rights of this film, it is said that it can sell for five or six million dollars, if you cooperate with us, with our promotion and operation resources, Uniasia will definitely take a 30% share is definitely better than selling it with a hammer." ”

After that, Li Mu said to Li Ziwei again: "If you contact the people in Warner America, they will say that I am interested in buying back the English remake rights of "Infernal Affairs" from them, and the price is double their original transaction price. ”

Li Mu feels that if Huanya can calm down and look at the problem, it is the best thing for "Infernal Affairs" to cooperate with him, as for why he wants to reduce their account share to 30%, it is because he must take out more profit margins for North American theaters, so as to be able to occupy enough advantages in film scheduling.

"Mr. Zombie" looks very high at the box office, but most of the income goes to the theater chain and Lucas, what Makino Imaging can really get is only a small head, and in order to promote this movie, now the ticket system of Makino Film has a 5% box office subsidy for this movie in North America, which reduces the revenue ratio by 5%, in addition, the daily lottery also needs to pay a lot of costs, "Mr. Zombie" has the great favorable conditions of "Plants vs. Zombies Online", and you have to pay such a price if you want to succeed, " Infernal Affairs" is even less so.

If Huanya can't even understand this layer, and all he wants is to make more money, then just let him toss it, and then buy back the English remake rights from Warner, and then cooperate with DreamWorks to make the American version of "Infernal Affairs" by himself.

As early as February this year, Warner of the United States bought the remake rights of "Infernal Affairs" for $1.75 million, setting a record for the remake rights of Hong Kong films at that time.

If it is advanced according to the normal rhythm, the Hollywood version of the film will be officially approved next year, but Warner has been more unlucky this year, and the "promotion of extreme bushido spirit" caused by "The Last Samurai" has dealt a huge blow to Warner, and Warner's reputation has not yet recovered.

In addition, director Edward Zwick, and the future of the starring Tom Cruise in the film industry have also suffered a huge blow because of this movie, which also makes other Hollywood stars cast a bogey on Warner, and Warner is still the target of global audiences, and the actors who cooperate with Warner, even if they open a completely positive movie, will attract infamy on the Internet, after all, Warner took the money of the Japanese chaebol to shoot "The Last Samurai" Promoting the extreme bushido spirit of fascist colors to the world has brought a lot of hatred to Warner around the world, and it is impossible to slow down for a while without holding his tail and being honest.

Moreover, the "Last Samurai" incident also brought a great shock to Warner's top management, Li Mu speculated that Warner's current entire rhythm in film and television will be greatly affected, so whether it can be on the Hollywood version of "Infernal Affairs" next year is still a big question.

At this time, Warner should not hold on to a movie that has not yet been officially approved, and its own Muying ticketing system is currently controlling the monetization end of the box office in North America, Warner has to give itself some face.

Li Mu's plan is that after buying back the copyright from Warners, he will shoot it with joint investment from Makino Imaging and DreamWorks, and then invite Martin Scorsese to direct this movie, and then bring Leonardo, Matt Damon and Tom Hanks to play this play, and then Leonardo will still play the role of Liang Chaowei, Matt Damon will still play the role of Liu Dehua, and the older Tom Hanks will play the role of Huang Qiusheng.

After watching the American version of "Infernal Affairs" in his last life, Li Mu has always felt that in the American version of "Infernal Affairs", Martin Xin, the original actor of Huang Qiusheng's role, feels a little weak in the movie.

Moreover, Li Mu wants to shoot the American version of "Infernal Affairs" is a bit of a chicken thief mentality, first of all, this is a remake of a Chinese movie, which is a good recognition of the quality of Chinese films, in addition, the American version of "Infernal Affairs" in the previous life won four awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing, as well as Best Supporting Actor nomination.

In fact, Leonardo had two films shortlisted for the Oscar for Best Actor that year, one was the American version of "Infernal Affairs" and the other was "Blood Diamond", because the same actor can only have one movie nomination, so the final nomination is "Blood Diamond", that is, if the two movies hit the Oscars separately, each of them can be shortlisted for Best Actor.

Because the Oscars use a lobbying system, when competing for awards, in addition to the quality of the actors and the movie itself, it is also necessary to rely on the resources behind it to fight, Harvey is a strong player in the Oscar Awards, but unfortunately it is now infamous, and Li Mu has money in his hands and has enough influence in the world, and there are partners such as Spielberg and DreamWorks, as well as an artifact like Makino ticketing system that is rooted in the theater terminal, combined with the script of "Infernal Affairs", combined with Martin · Scorsese's influence, combined with the influence of Leonardo and Tom Hanks, is certainly not a big problem to win the four awards that the American version of "Infernal Affairs" has successfully won.

Moreover, if there is no "Blood Diamond" to grab resources, Leonardo will definitely be able to win an Oscar nomination for Best Actor through the American version of "Infernal Affairs", and it is not impossible for him to pour more resources into mediating and lobbying to help Leonardo win an Oscar!

If the American version of "Infernal Affairs" invested by Li Mu can win the five Oscar awards of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing, it will definitely be the biggest winner of the Oscars at that time, and the investor and producer of this film will be Makino Image from China!

Huaxia's films, Huaxia's directors, Huaxia's actors, and Huaxia's capital all have their own "Oscar dreams", if their own operation is successful, then the American version of "Infernal Affairs" operated by Huaxia Capital may realize their "Oscar dreams" for Huaxia Capital and Huaxia's film companies in advance!