Chapter 232: Expansion
The Beijing International Hotel is holding a grand reception.
When you enter the hotel lobby, you will see a banner hanging from above.
"Tianmu Film and Television Production Company Establishment Press Conference"!
That's right, a year later, Li Mu finally decided to expand Tianmu Studio, and the new Tianmu Company will be a large-scale film and television production company with five departments: marketing department, artist agency department, production department, human resources department, and finance department.
These departments are subdivided into public relations department, advertising department, publicity department, artist management department and other small departments.
As the most dazzling filmmaker in China this year, Li Mu's actions naturally attracted the attention of the industry, and almost all the famous film and television companies in the country arrived, and there were hundreds of reporters present.
For a while, the huge hotel lobby turned out to be a little crowded.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Li Mu took the management of various departments of the company to the stage.
"Ladies and gentlemen, hello everyone, welcome to the inaugural press conference of our Tianmu Film and Television Production Company, thank you for coming!"
"Bang Bang Bang ......"
With Li Mu's opening speech, the press conference officially began, and everyone applauded facelessly.
"A year ago, I got the first start-up capital in my life from Tomato Video, and used it to set up Tianmu Studio, and filmed our studio's first TV series "Love Apartment", more than a year has passed now, during which we have filmed a lot ......of film and television dramas, and we have experienced many twists and turns along the way, and it is not easy to get to this point," Li Mu began to tell about his entrepreneurial journey.
The guests and reporters in the audience suddenly discovered that Li Mu's rise was so rapid, in just one year, with a capital of two million, his net worth has now exceeded one billion.
That's right, a billion!
This is the figure given by a statistical agency, the "Love Apartment" series, "You from the Star", "Beautiful Li Huizhen", "Thai Embarrassment", and "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" have brought Li Mu more than one billion profits.
Among them, the movie "The Return of the Great Sage" alone made a profit of nearly 700 million.
The domestic box office is 1.1 billion, excluding the expenses of the theater chain and the distributor, Li Muneng will share nearly 400 million, excluding the investment of up to 250 million, and the net profit is still 150 million.
According to the 25 percent sharing method agreed with the Songzhu Film Company, the overseas box office of 240 million yuan can be divided into 60 million meters, which is converted into more than 400 million yuan.
This also made Li Mu a little glad that he chose to share the way in the first place, otherwise it would not be a big loss to sell the copyright for millions.
In addition to the box office revenue, the peripheral copyrights were sold for 30 million, and the network copyrights, television copyrights, and audio-visual product copyrights together were also sold for more than 40 million.
Taken together, the profits of "The Return of the Great Sage" exceed the box office of most domestic films, and all this also makes outsiders very angry.
Li Mu continued, and after introducing his entrepreneurial path, he began his routine formula-like speech, "Here, I would like to thank Jiangnan TV, Jingcheng TV, Minnan TV, and other major TV stations, for making our studio's TV series visible to the audience, thanks to Huaying Group, Berner Group, Guangxian Media, and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television...... Thank you to the media friends who were not present at the scene, and thank you to ......"
"Bang Bang Bang ......"
After Li Mu thanked him, there was another round of applause.
After listening to Li Mu's nonsense for more than half an hour, the reporters in the audience finally began to speak.
"From the studio to the company, does it mean the expansion of Mr. Li's career, and will he enter other industries in the future, such as media and cinemas?" a reporter asked.
Li Mu picked up the microphone and said, "With the slow development of the company, expansion is inevitable, after all, we have to shoot several film and television works a year, and there are three or four hundred crew members alone, and no one can say what will happen in the future, but I am a filmmaker first, and then a businessman, my career will focus on the film industry, and there will be no other actions for a while!"
After all, the two variety shows you have produced have always been at the top of the ratings, and the TV series has also been regarded as classics by the audience, and now many viewers are waiting to see your new work!" the reporter asked again.
Li Mu said, "Although I will focus on movies in the future, I will still write a few scripts and hand them over to other directors to shoot when I have time, I believe I will not disappoint the audience!"
"Mr. Li, the "Journey to the West: Havoc in the Heavenly Palace" prepared by Hua Yi has officially started filming, what do you think of the second Journey to the West-themed movie shot by Hua Yi this time with the luxury combination of Zhou Runfa, Guo Fucheng, Donnie Yen, and the popular Huadan Fan Bingbing!"
Li Mu said with a smile, "Of course I hope Huayi can make an excellent movie for the audience, and here I wish "Havoc in Heaven" a box office hit!"
"But Donnie Yen said at the previous launch conference that the box office of "Havoc in Heaven" will definitely surpass "The Return of the Great Sage", what do you think?"
How can this Donnie Yen not go away, Li Mu was just borrowing him to hype up before, and then the box office hit and he didn't bother him, but he didn't expect to jump out again.
"Donnie Yen, I remember him, I said before that the box office of "Jin Yiwei" can surpass "The Return of the Great Sage", and now everyone has seen the results, I don't want to say anything more to this kind of person, everything is based on facts!"
Li Mu said that he disdained to talk to Donnie Yen!" The reporter silently typed the draft in his heart.
"Now that the two films invested by your company have been painted, do you have any plans for Mr. Li this year?" a reporter asked a key question.
Li Mu did not hide this, "Our company's new film historical war drama "Zhao Zilong" has been filed with radio and television, and casting will begin in the near future, and filming is expected to start at the end of April!"
Wow!!!
Hearing that Li Mu announced his new film plan, the reporters at the scene and the CEOs of major companies were shocked.
"Zhao Zilong" is clear at a glance when you hear the name, and everyone is still surprised that Li Mu chose a historical film.
Originally, many people thought that Li Mu would make another mythological film, or go back to his old job and make a comedy romance film.
But I never expected him to choose a historical drama, as we all know, historical dramas, especially historical war dramas, are the most difficult to film, the key is that there was already a "Seeing the Dragon Unloading the Armor" the year before last, although the box office was not high, only more than 70 million, but it was also starring Liu Tianwang, and now Li Mu suddenly wants to shoot a "Zhao Zilong" What does it mean?