Chapter 525: Strong
"Chairman Li, why didn't you invite people from Colombia over?" asked Toshita Matsushita.
The two Japanese were arrested, but only a few days later, they were released on bail by a Japanese bag company.
In this regard, Li Mo has long been mentally prepared, but his revenge also comes quickly.
After the incident, he stayed at home and spent more than ten days writing the outline of several scripts, which was not to grab intellectual property rights, and then let some authors change it to the kind of outline written in a hurry. Although it is an outline, it has a detailed storyline, and it is accompanied by notes on the filming matters, as well as the actors and directors who should be invited, as well as the production and publicity budget. Li Mo himself also needs to think carefully, although it is the same era, because of different time and space, many years have actually passed.
After it was written, the six major film companies were invited to get the script, but no one from Colombia was invited to come.
"Mr. Panasonic, this year's Lantern Festival, a company in Japan sent someone over to bewitch a lithium battery R&D personnel, asking him to steal the relevant data of lithium batteries and hand them over. With the development of the times, various enterprises have become more and more global. As a qualified business, it is better not to carry a nationalist vs. nationalist point of view......"
It's impossible, but with these points of view, it's better not to expose them either.
When encountering some major events, you can support them in secret, but also don't stand up publicly, just like South Korea's Lotte, you have transferred your land to the United States to station in THAAD, and you still say that you love China? Are Chinese fools?
Li Mo continued: "So I am involved in the animation industry and game industry in your country, including Yibao, and eighty percent of the top executives are from your country. I have no objection to your Panasonic acquisition of Universal, Sony acquisition of Columbia and Samsung. I am not a nationalist, at least not a narrow nationalist, and even less an American. But again, I'm not a masochist. Mr. Matsushita, do you have any questions?"
Sony researched lithium batteries and was sniped by Li Mo's CLP Workshop, and Panasonic also knew about it.
Toshita Matsushita shook his head.
Maybe there is no evidence in Li Mo's hands to prove that it was sent by Sony, but so what?
Just like now, getting rid of Colombia, does Li Mo need evidence?
In fact, Li Mo didn't think about it, he was about to launch Sony's PS game console, a game industry, how much revenue does it bring to Sony in a year, and PS machine is the soul of Sony Game Company, without PS machine, how can Sony enter the game industry?
If the truth is known, Sony is the group of people who fainted in the toilet crying.
However, whether it is Colombia, or PS machines, or lithium-ion batteries, in the end, everyone is still sitting down to negotiate a solution, there is no way, at present, China does not have the strength to monopolize these cutting-edge industries. But even if it is solved, Sony will pay a heavy price.
And Yihua into the ranks of electrical appliances, electronics, also need some Japanese technology, but money may not be able to buy, 92 years of the last big decline in the Japanese stock market, the first to fall is not the enterprise, but many financial institutions, and then the Japanese policy is not well adjusted, since 94 years, only a large number of enterprises have gone bankrupt. Li Mo can't wait, and the Japanese government may not allow Li Mo to buy these technologies and equipment back to Xiangjiang, let alone the mainland.
The fastest way is to trade technology for technology.
At least Sony has a lot of technology that Li Mo covets.
Thanks also to Clinton.
There are three most important nodes in China during this period.
If a real person succeeds in leading a group of students to evolve, the consequences are unimaginable.
If there had been no Gulf War, a group of sleeping old people had woken up, realized the huge gap with other people in terms of industry, science and technology, weapons, and military, and continued to entangle social justice and capitalism, then it would have dragged on for four or five years, and the consequences would have been unimaginable!
Without Clinton's hostility, China would still not be able to make up its mind and persist in independent research and development, let alone realize that the Western society is full of malice towards China, and the consequences will be unimaginable. At least there will be more and more researchers, for the sake of a nationality or a green card, and some money, to dedicate these research results of Li Mo to Japanese or American masters. On the top of the country, maybe the problem is even bigger, and if you don't get it, there will be a movement that is far better than eight or nine.
Representatives of several companies bowed their heads, one by one trying to laugh.
Li Mo dug into the corner of the big brother of socialism, and some big national intelligence agencies knew about it.
The problem is that the Soviet Union knows about it, because there are too many implications, it is not a government, so many governmentaries are involved, and they can't afford to offend, so it is better to stretch out their hands and follow behind to reap a little benefit, that is, they don't pretend not to know if they know.
Some other countries also wished that the Soviet Union would become like this, and that the more corrupt it was, the less the Soviet Union would be able to pose a threat to the West, and it would be better if a few member countries could break away from the Soviet Union, which would further weaken the Soviet Union's power. They could not have imagined that the Soviet Union would collapse now, but soon, some companies in some countries also copied Li Mo's approach......
But these companies still have no channels to know.
However, Li Mo used some disgraceful means to get a lot of benefits from East Germany, and they all knew it.
Some people think that you are all East Asian countries, and you are all of the same nature.
Li Mo explained the reason clearly, and of course, these companies were also desperate.
He began to send scripts, not to let them choose the scripts themselves, of course, with the success of these film departments, Li Mo also has more confidence.
First Disney.
Li Mo gave them the script of "Home Alone 3".
The Disney representative asked, "Lee, is this the end of it?"
"There is a saying in China that evil cannot defeat good, and a really blockbuster movie needs a certain storyline and wonderful pictures to meet the visual effect. These movies belong to the theme of the sword, and the audience will continue to be very novel when they watch it occasionally, and if they continue to shoot one by one, the audience will get bored. And the little protagonist is also growing up...... If you are interested, when this one is released, I will sell you the license to it. It doesn't take more, 10 million, to take it away. ”
"Ten million?"
But after this representative screamed, he looked at the representatives of several families who were eyeing him around, and immediately came to his senses.
In the past, Li Mo charged very cheaply for copyright, and that was because Li Mo himself had invested in it, which could bring him more returns.
Is 10 million expensive?
It's really not expensive.
After all, its production cost is relatively cheap, if you hire a few good screenwriters, you can shake out a few stalks, Disney can still shoot three or four, and each one will have a lot of returns, of course, it must be far worse than the previous three.
It's not a matter of return, but Li Mo has mixed up the few ghost masters he watched, and concentrated all the stalks together in these three, he can't make up more jokes, and he is too lazy to dig into making jokes. Without jokes, will Li Mo still be interested in "Home Alone 4"?
"Lee, let's counsel and counsel. ”
"Okay, in addition, you will also make this movie this year and release it next year. Li Mo handed them the script of "Youth Singing and Dance".
The story content is not much, and the selling point of this movie is the gorgeous dance, so Li Mo deliberately drew a lot of choreographed pictures in it.
"Lee, isn't that fair?" said representatives of several film companies.
"It's a youth song and dance film, and as you know, my economic company has also signed a few little girls, and this year they are all adults. It's a gift for them, and if it's done well, it may make a little money, but it's impossible to make a lot, and I don't expect the film to win any awards. Among your companies, the one that is best at making these youth song and dance films is undoubtedly Disney. ”
Later, youth or youth magic song and dance films such as "Youth Singing and Dancing" and "Dance Out of My Life" were all produced by Disney. Other studios have produced some films with similar themes, but most of them have not worked very well.
This is a series of movies, at least Li Mo plans to make up a trilogy, and of course, it also gives Julie and the three of them the best start. As for what path they will take in the future, that is their choice and freedom when they truly become adults.
In fact, Disney still has a big IP in its hands, that is, "The Lion King" released the year after tomorrow, but it has not yet opened the curtain on the big sale of animated feature films, and several companies also know that these animated feature films have accumulated a lot of popularity under the promotion of Rong Dirk, and they are an interesting story in themselves, but it is not easy to say what the final box office is, so they don't pay too much attention to this IP.
But it can't be said that Disney is Li Mo's godson, the two have a happy cooperation, Li Mo may be a little biased, and it is not only Disney who is biased, but also Warner and Fox, and the two main bosses have a good relationship with him. Then there is Paramount, as for Universal, although in the end Panasonic sold it again, but the boss keeps changing, this deal is not easy to fight, and the same is true for Big Brother MGM, this eccentricity is about to be manifested in the distribution of various blockbusters.
It turned out to be a movie in which Li Mo praised his own people, and several representatives were silent.
The manuscript that Li Mo gave to Fox was Mission Impossible.
After Mr. and Mrs. Tom returned, Mr. Li Mo asked Kit Gray, the manager of the artist department of the Liangshu Water School, to buy out the contract between Mr. and Mrs. Tom and their economic company for $10.6 million. It's not too cheap, at least in the eyes of their economic company, it's a lot of money. But it's not too expensive, at least Lee's opinion is a good deal.
Tom Cruise's "Thunder and Ambition" box office is okay, the North American box office has reached more than 80 million US dollars, and the global box office has reached more than 150 million, but considering the salary of their husband and wife, as well as the cost of making this film, it is actually not much.
Then he was depressed, and it wasn't until next year that their husband-and-wife film "Earth Ambition" and another popular and blockbuster "Yihai Xiongfeng" were released, and he regained his strength. However, Li Mo can't remember the ambition of the earth clearly, and Li Mo has never seen another movie.
Therefore, Li Mo launched the first "Mission Impossible" first, and Tom's age is barely enough, and there will not be too many technical problems.
This year is Paramount's "Spy 1", and next year is Fox's "Mission Impossible 1", which happens to be a different spy movie every year.
The year before last, I gave Fox "The Silence of the Lambs", Fox always thought it was a "small production" movie, so just right, they are both big-budget movies, and they are two companies, so you can play by yourself.
MGM's movie next year is "Nuns Are Crazy 2".
MGM's representative was a little dumbfounded: "Lee, 1 hasn't been released yet." ”
"Don't worry, when the time comes, it will be like "Strange Heroes in Disguise", and it will bring you a surprise. ”
"Can you shoot 3?"
"No, as I just said, these movies belong to the bias, they belong to appetizing desserts, if you eat too much, the audience will get tired, and the result of getting tired is that you don't want to eat together. If 2 continues to perform well at the box office after its release, like Disney, I can also sell you the rights to adapt it, and as for the price, the same, ten million dollars. ”
For Universal is "Detective Plane Head", which has a very low production cost, including the salary, but only about 10 million US dollars.
On the other hand, Mission Impossible, its original production cost was $80 million.
Now Tom Cruise is much less famous, and the salary plus inflation may save two or three million US dollars, but if Li Mo wants to keep improving, it will also cost more than 60 million US dollars in production costs.
In the future, the cost of each will be higher and higher.
The cost of the spy film production is not low, even if it is advanced, after the end, it will cost Paramount more than 40 million US dollars.
However, does Universal, or Panasonic lack the production cost of 20 million, 20 or 30 million?
Although on the surface, the box office of the detective plane head is also good, the North American box office has reached more than 70 million, and the global box office has exceeded 100 million US dollars. But the total return is very low.
Similarly, although the box office of "Nuns Are Crazy 2" is okay, it is not as crazy as the first part.
This also shows Li Mo's selfishness.
Then came two heavy dramas, one is "Forrest Gump", which was originally produced by Paramount, and Li Mo moved to Warner.
One is a sycophancy movie, "Air Force One".
It is better to let it boast for Clinton in disguise a few years later, and it is better to put it on the big screen now, and when it is released next year, Bush Sr. will still be in the presidency, and he will take a small picture of Bush's sycophants, and Bush Sr. was originally a pilot.
This is the movie that was handed over to Paramount.
Anyway, Li Mo can't remember the production companies of various films, youth song and dance films and cartoons, it is generally not wrong to hand them over to Disney, there is nothing wrong with handing over realistic movies with a dark style to Warner, there is nothing wrong with handing over plasma films to New Line and Lionsgate in the future, and it is not wrong to hand over large-scale movies to Fox and Paramount.
After the distribution, Li Mo said: "Because "Jurassic Park" was released at Christmas, you have advanced or ......postponed all the movies."
In addition to Paramount and the people of Universal, the rest of the companies smiled wryly together. Who wants to collide with this monster, whoever crashes and who dies!Isn't the death of "Blade Runner" bad enough?
Li Mo disagreed, although countless people later shouted for "Blade Runner".
The reason is that its director Ridley Scott still remembers this director Li Mo vividly, because this person is a famous blockbuster killer.
In his hands, he produced a series of well-received movies, but almost none of them were blockbusters. For example, "Heavenly Dynasty", which invested 130 million, barely exceeded 200 million at the global box office, and the North American box office was only about 40 million.
"Black Hawk Down" is undoubtedly another good film, with a production cost of more than 90 million US dollars, but the North American box office is more than 100 million, and the global box office is only 170 million, which is still a loss.
"The Body of Lies" invested 70 million, the North American box office was less than 40 million, and the global box office was only more than 100 million, and it lost again.
There are also several movies such as "The Great Wave" and "A Good Year of Time", which also made the producers have tears in their eyes......
Someone has made such a statistic, the average cost of each of his films is more than 40 million US dollars, but the average box office is only 60 million, and what is even more strange is that many movies have been applauded later. This is not a matter of injustice, but whether he will cater to the appetite of the audience at that time. Wang Mang's change of law has transcended the entire era, but can it succeed?
However, whether a movie can succeed or not, the later stage is also very important.
This post-production is not post-production, but publicity and scheduling.
The most successful publicity is "Blair the Witch", "Ghost Record", and "2012", which almost caused global panic, but which, as Li Mo said, are all unconventional means and cannot be applied according to the script.
As long as the two sides negotiate the cost of publicity and distribution, Li Mo will hand it over to various companies, these companies are not small and medium-sized companies, and they have not done a bad job in publicity and distribution methods, but they can't get the final box office, and often there should be more publicity and distribution costs, and there is no more publicity and distribution costs.
But no company will now question the cost of publicity proposed by Li Mo......
So the key is the schedule of each movie.
Last year's "Fatal Bend" of the new line was released ahead of schedule, and there was no conflict. However, the subsequent "Scream" was sandwiched between "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Four Hundred Years of Horror", losing at least sixty percent of the box office, and Li Mo also lost nearly ten million dollars in revenue.
Therefore, Li Mo is talking about this schedule.
First of all, this year's schedule.
The summer or Christmas files don't care about "Instinct", maybe because of these two prime schedules, it has affected its controversy, there is less controversy, and the box office is not expected to be high. And even though Li Mo set the tone for Paul's performance in the film, Nicole still doesn't know how many times she has to get stuck in order to shoot all the shots in it. But Nicole is not only this movie, but also has other movies and activities scheduled, so if you want to finish this movie, it will be even later. Therefore, it will be released in September, maybe it will be delayed, and it will not be released until early October.
"Nuns Are Crazy" and "Stranger in Disguise 2" are both comedies, which must be staggered, and the damage will be tragic once the car crashes. "Strange Heroes in Disguise 2" has a certain audience base and shooting base, so Li Mo will start to release it in June. "Nuns Are Crazy", Li Mo has not seen the sample film yet, and maybe he will do a lot of reshooting, so it was released in mid-July. There is another blockbuster movie in late June, and that is "Spy 1".
"Spy Shadow" didn't dare to collide with "Jurassic Park", maybe it was successful, but who would dare to bet? Li Mo didn't dare to bet either.
In addition, there is also the new line of "Fatal Bend 2", Li Mo controlled it to be released in early December, and the schedule was also very crowded during this time, and they were hiding from "Jurassic Park" together, but there are very few movies of the same genre, but they can still get a good box office.
As for the other "Scream 2", it will be left in the summer next year, although the new line is very satisfied with the box office, but Li Mo knows its real box office potential, it can be said that it is also a big IP, this series of movies is successful, so that there can be a funny version of the youth horror film "Scream" series of appearance.
The Holy File Festival is the king of movies this year, "Jurassic Park 2", and Li Mo also has a lot of confidence in it. The previous life trilogy is worse than the other, mainly because the original author and the two books are relatively similar, so the movies are also similar, except for some dinosaurs, the other storylines are similar.
But after Li Mo's adaptation, not only will there be many new dinosaurs in each movie, but the storyline will also be different, which will attract more audiences to the cinema.
There will be more movies coming out next year, but even less so you can't crash.
"Song and Dance Chunqing" was placed in March, when the firepower of "Jurassic Park 2" also decreased, and it was also the colder schedule of the year, but it is not easy to say, if the movie is outstanding, maybe it can achieve good results in this schedule, such as Roberts's "Pretty Woman", after all, there are fewer blockbusters in this schedule, and the competition is not strong.
The Disney representative had no objection, and Li Mo explained that this was a movie that praised a few of his own small artists, and he had to give this face. Besides, with Li Mo's fame, and the production cost of this movie is not too big, I believe it will not lose money.
In mid-May, the new line's "Scream 2" will be released. At the beginning of June, it was "Home Alone 3", two weeks later, in the middle of the year it was "Air Force One", and another three weeks was "Forrest Gump".
Maybe Warner's people were a little negligent at the box office after they got the script, but Li Mo knew that this movie was also a monster. With its release, other movies would do well to avoid it.
Therefore, "Detective Plane Head" can only be postponed until September.
"Nuns Are Crazy 2" and "Mission Impossible" are left in the Christmas file.
But these arrangements are just to avoid their own movies, in fact, because of Li Mo's measures, next year's schedule will also become very miserable, in addition to his movies, there are also Disney's "Aladdin" released in November, Warner's "Batman 2: Batman Returns" released in mid-June, and it will inevitably collide with "Air Force One" at that time. Warner's "Boom" released in May, "The Heroes of the Righteous Sea" released in Colombia Christmas file, Tom Cruise PK Tom Cruise. There are also Warner's "Protecting Flowers" in the Christmas file, "Pink Alliance" in Colombia in July, "Unforgiven" released by Warner in September, "The Hand That Pushes the Cradle" released by Disney in January, "Hidden Dragon" released by Warner in October, and "Patriot Game" released by Paramount in June...... Including Tom Hanks's other film "Earth Ambition", there are more than a dozen films in total, and the global box office has exceeded $100 million.
Some of their schedules will definitely have to be adjusted, but crashes are also inevitable.
Which movies have nothing to do with Li Mo, and he has no right to make any requests, but these movies are the "ideas" he provides, so he said strongly: "If you agree with my schedule arrangement, you will take the script away, and I will arrange for someone to negotiate and sign the contract." If you don't agree, please leave the script behind. ”
Representatives of various companies had mixed feelings on their faces.
Li Mo's unhappiness with Sony left them with one less opponent. The new line has two movies a year, so that Li Mosheng has split it into one movie a year.
But the launch of so many movies has undoubtedly brought a headache to the adjustment of the schedule.
As for the Limer agreement, to hell with it, and they heard a terrible piece of news......