Chapter 241: Summer Season Preview

On the evening of June 27, Li Mu was invited to attend the premiere of the new film "God of Wealth Inn" invested by Berner.

This film was made by Nicholas Tse shortly after taking over "Witness", and it is also the third collaboration between Nicholas Tse and Cheung Jiahui.

And the director of this film is also the famous comedy director Wang Jing, who shot a large number of classic comedies in the eighties and nineties, but in the mainland, the Hong Kong-style comedy films in the past gradually lost the market, and in recent years, a lot of bad movies have been made, such as the "science fiction film" "Future Police", and the alternative Journey to the West theme "Hip Travel".

Although "God of Wealth Inn" only has an investment of more than 20 million, as a relatively important movie at the beginning of the summer file, plus for the sake of Bernard's face, there are really a lot of stars and industry insiders present tonight.

Except for some people who have a good relationship with Berner, all major companies sent representatives to congratulate them, and Li Mu even saw Feng Xiaogang's figure.

"Ah Feng, you are amazing, there are three movies released this summer, I wish you a box office hit!" Li Mu smiled beside Nicholas Tse.

Nicholas Tse smiled bitterly, "Don't be joking, "Lu Bu" will be released the day after tomorrow, and it would be good if my movie could have a box office of tens of millions!"

Li Mu said with a smile, "If you want to lose your confidence, the next few movies will either be war movies or action movies, which will not conflict with your comedy, maybe you can become a dark horse!"

Li Mu is not just talking, in my impression, the box office of this movie seems to have broken 100 million, which is already good for a small-budget movie with an investment of more than 20 million, at least it can earn more than 10 million.

Just when the two were chatting, Tong Dawei, another actor in the movie, came over, along with Wang Jinghua, vice president of Wanda Pictures.

At the beginning of this year, Wanda Pictures officially merged with Wanda Cinemas, and after the reorganization, the new company was renamed Wanda Film and Television Group, becoming a supergiant integrating film and television production, artist management, publicity and public relations, distribution and screening.

The president of the new Wanda Film and Television Group is none other than Zhao Fang, the former general manager of Wanda Pictures, and in the battle for the merger of companies, Wanda Pictures finally won.

The original general manager of Wanda Cinema Line, Ye Xuan, was transferred to the vice president of the group, and became one of the two vice presidents of the new group like Wang Jinghua.

However, Ye Xuan still controls the huge Wanda Cinema Line, and Wang Jinghua's rights have not changed much, and the scope of responsibility is still the artist management department.

And with the reorganization of the group, the heads of several departments under the artist brokerage department have basically changed, and some of them are the original Ye Xuan's henchmen, and they are not so obedient to her, which makes Wang Jinghua very angry.

However, at this time, Wang Jinghua seemed very happy, and deliberately ran over to greet Li Mu.

"Long time no see, Mr. Li!"

Li Mu was slightly stunned when he saw Wang Jinghua walking towards him with a smile on his face, he had almost forgotten that there was Wang Jinghua after not seeing him for two years.

Although she is still the vice president of Wanda Group, it is not worth mentioning to Li Mu at all, and the things of that year have long been left behind by Li Mu, so in the face of Wang Jinghua's greeting, Li Mu just responded lightly.

Wang Jinghua, who was originally smiling, saw Li Mu's indifferent look and suddenly the anger in her heart was about to burst out, but with so many people watching and so many reporters at the scene, she had to hold back.

"It seems that Mr. Li is in a good mood, and I hope that Mr. Li's movie will be released to maintain such a good mood!" Wang Jinghua dropped a sentence lightly and left.

What a situation!

Looking at the inexplicable Wang Jinghua, Li Mu was a little confused.

However, Li Mu then threw her words aside, chatted with Nicholas Tse and walked inside.

"Oh, Mr. Li is here!" Yu Dong, who was chatting with the CEO of a certain company, saw Li Mu coming and hurriedly greeted him.

"Congratulations to Yu Dong, the first shot of this New Year stall is up to Yu Dong!" Li Mugong smiled.

Yu Dong smiled and shook his head, "Mr. Li said that it was funny, it would be good if this movie could recover its cost, fortunately, the investment is not high, otherwise it would be enough for me to feel distressed for a few days!"

Li Mu smiled, "Yu Dong, you are too pessimistic, according to my opinion, the box office of this movie may exceed 100 million!"

Yu Dong said, "Then I'll borrow Mr. Li's auspicious words!"

After Yu Dong finished speaking, he remembered what he had talked about with Wang Changtian some time ago, so he told Li Mu about his thoughts.

In fact, Li Mu said by Yu Dong has long considered that so many movies have been raised this year, and the second half of the year is destined to not be peaceful, after September and October of the off-season of Chinese movies, there must be greater challenges waiting for them in the future.

However, Li Mu didn't tell others, he was afraid that someone wouldn't be able to bear the pressure, so he also changed the schedule to September and October or simply postponed it to the Spring Festival.

Of course, this is what he doesn't want to see, if everyone avoids it, then the Chinese New Year will become the world of Hollywood blockbusters for three months, isn't this exactly what Mi Guoyan wants to see!

Hearing Yu Dong say it now, Li Mu pretended to be surprised and said, "So that's the case, why didn't I think of it, it's still Yu Dong's thoughtfulness!"

However, Li Mu then said, "But even if this is what's the matter, the Hollywood blockbusters in the past two years have not had any outstanding results in China, and "Transformers" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" in the first half of the year have no decent opponents, and I don't know who will kill the deer when it comes to the Chinese New Year!"

Yu Dong nodded, he didn't plan to change the schedule, if there is no risk, it would be better to release it in September, there is no opponent, but then the box office is estimated to be more pounced, and now after listening to Li Mu's words, he is not so worried.

After chatting at the door of the screening hall for a while, Li Mu gathered Yu Dong and entered the venue together.

After the simple ceremony, the film officially began, and I didn't pay much attention to the movie Li Mu, but it was just another Wang Jing-style movie, a work that pursued the level of short, flat and fast entertainment, the story was still straightforward, simple and lively, the characters were still nymphomaniac and cute, funny and still exaggerated and nonsensical.

In fact, it is difficult to say that it is low grade, low IQ, low taste, typical Wang Jing style.

Li Mu couldn't remember the specific plot a little, but he only remembered that there was a scene where Huang Yi and Zhang Jiahui put a long cloth in their noses to drug their opponents, which still felt quite funny.

Just when he was feeling bored and didn't know what to do, Li Mu saw that Feng Xiaogang next to him was no longer thinking about the movie, so he took the initiative to say, "How come Director Feng also has time to watch movies?"