Chapter 501 Scene 501 Who is the boss?
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"Then you're upset? At least United America still has half a chance to win this time. Li Xiaole looked at Wagner with a burst of surprise in his heart, and asked rhetorically, this female agent is really terrifyingly shrewd, and her sensitivity and sophistication do not seem to be below Han Sanpin, and she will predict his box office.
"Because you're going to give Tommy something that shouldn't be hopeful." Wagner glanced helplessly at Tom Cruise on the sofa and said affectionately:
"Tommy is like my child, he is very impulsive and courageous, but he lacks strategy and has a simple personality, I advised him not to fall out with Paramount, but he did it anyway, and now everything is not an accident, I originally planned to leave the company next year and go back to CAA, and then talk to Paramount about the Mission: Impossible series, so that both of them can step down......"
Speaking of this, Wagner turned his head and looked at Li Xiaole with worried eyes: "But once your movie box office is good, the United States Company will be stiff and not dead, then Tommy will also have a glimmer of hope and continue to work hard, which is the situation I am most worried about." ”
"You don't think so." Li Xiaole couldn't help laughing when he heard this:
"If our film gets 100 million at the box office and I become a first-line director in Hollywood, then Luen Mei can join forces with Tom, and we may really hope to break a new path."
"100 million dollars?" Wagner looked at Li Xiaole with kindness and persuaded:
"Lee, I really hope you can do it, but in fact it's impossible...... I know you have a lot of influence on the Internet, but after all, it's only for young people, and there are many adults who don't go online to the main audience of American movies, and you don't have any support from traditional media, and you will never be able to extend the influence of "Life Remote Control" to the whole of the United States. ”
San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and other big cities can expand the box office through online influence, but how can Texas, Utah, Kentucky and other states without traditional technology culture promote it?
"I'll find a way." Li Xiaole blinked and looked at Wagner expectantly: "Ms. Wagner, if I get 100 million US dollars this time, are you willing to help me and Tom build Lianmei into a first-class company in Hollywood?" ”
"If that's the case, then of course it's best, I'm so old that I don't want to show off my lust to please those old bastards." Wagner looked at Li Xiaole's cynical appearance, and couldn't help laughing, his impression of this cunning Chinese kid was much better, and he took the initiative to reach out and shake Li Xiaole's hand:
"Xiexie, Lee, if you hadn't been crazy with Tommy, I really don't know if he would have survived this time."
"You're welcome, this is what I'm supposed to do, okay, I'm going back to rest too." Li Xiaole smiled and asked, "Do you want me to let Ah Gai carry Tom back?" ”
"No, you go first, I'll just look at him......" Wagner finished sitting on the sofa, gently stroking Tom Cruise's hair with his hand, his eyes full of love...... I don't plan to leave either.
Li Xiaole couldn't help but hurriedly retreat, muttering in his heart, Nima...... Tom Cruise is really a heartthrob, this is like his mother's Wagner probably loves him to death...... But she didn't say anything? Now sister and brother love is also quite popular, and the relationship between female agents and male stars is really complicated......
Early in the morning, although he only slept for a few hours, Li Xiaole still got up on time at eight o'clock in the morning, washed up, and let himself cook a bowl of noodles, everything is used to in the United States, but the diet is not very good, but it is a pity that it is too far from the nearest Chinatown, and the nearby Chinese restaurant is not authentic, so he can only settle for himself, at this time he misses Sun Li, and her cooking is not bad.
Li Xiaole is ready to see how the movie is reflected on the Internet. When the computer was entering the system, the mobile phone rang, and it was a call from MGM's named CEO Foday.
He couldn't help but wonder a little about what this old boy Foudy was calling him for, and when he connected the phone, he heard Foday say excitedly on the other end of the phone:
"Lee~~Good News~Good News~~"
"What's the good news?" Li Xiaole yawned.
"Yesterday your box office statistics came out, and your average single-screen score exceeded $500, and it is expected that the box office score of a single screen will exceed 5,000 this week!" Foday's voice looked excited.
A single screen exceeds $5,000 a week, this is a standard line for Hollywood B-level directors, Foudy never expected that "Life Remote Control" would have such a result, in the case of the box office fiasco of "The Lion into the Sheep's Mouth", Li Xiaole suddenly became his only hope for a comeback, which made him not excited.
"So it means that you want to increase the number of films scheduled for "Life Remote Control"?" Li Xiaole asked curiously, it seems that Foday is desperate now, even if a single screen exceeds 5000,498 screens, it will be more than 2.5 million box office in a week, this result is not too good, so he will be happy to this extent.
"I'm going to Sony head office today and try to help you get 1,000 more screens." Foudy swears by it.
"Understood, nothing else, right? It's okay, I'll hang up~" Li Xiaole hung up the phone impatiently after speaking, this dead fat man is too lazy to talk nonsense with him.
"Huh~?" Foday, who was walking out of the MGM building, couldn't help but curse when he heard the phone being hung up: "This rude Chinese kid is all about helping you do things, what kind of attitude do you have...... Who's the boss of who......? "But after scolding, he still has to go to Sony headquarters and apply for more screens for Li Xiaole...... There's no way~ Who told him to count on Li Xiaole now that he is the CEO of MGM......
Li Xiaole leaned on his bed, opened his laptop, leisurely browsed Facebook, Yahoo forums and other places, he used Jobs's account to send a photo, the photo of Apple employees in the theater coming out, crying in front of the poster of "Life Remote Control".
The following message asks, "Did you find your phone in the movie?" ”
Almost within minutes, more than 500 people left messages on Facebook, most of them saying that they didn't pay attention and just watched the plot of the movie.
"Alas, I originally wanted to find a mobile phone to buy a ticket, but I didn't expect the movie to be too touching, especially the part where Mike's father passed away, I was moved when I saw it, and I forgot to look at my phone, I recommend everyone to watch it, it's really touching, Mike's shot in the rain is so moving."
"I understand your buddy, I just cried while watching, and I cried so much that I forgot that I entered the cinema, and there was a little girl next to me who kept looking at me curiously and laughing...... I'm afraid this is the first time I've been embarrassed to go to the cinema. ”
However, there are also many people scolding: "What a bad movie, obviously it is a comedy, and the people next to me are crying so much that the text is not right, I fell asleep watching it, so I didn't notice the mobile phone." ”
"I think Jobs is fucking lying to us again, so where is the cell phone footage in the movie? I didn't even see it. ”
Without Li Xiaole to refute this kind of similar message, many people @ replied: "You are stupid, you didn't see such a long future footage!?" There's a mobile phone inside, you're blind! I proved, I saw, that phone really didn't have buttons, it seemed to be controlled with fingers. ”
"If you want to look at your phone, you will be given a good movie to watch by the way, and you are not satisfied, what do you want?"
Those who like are liked; The people who scolded were also scolding, and there were a lot more "Is this movie really that good?" "Then I want to see too", "What is the iPhone like", "Is Jobs not lying to us" and other questions.
The desire to know the truth has grown; And there are more and more people who say that they are going to go to the cinema to find out.
In fact, this is normal, although the iPhone appears in the movie, but many of the shots are flashing, and it is not clear at all, and the only few close-ups stay for a short time, if you want to see it carefully, you can only watch it a second time.
This is thanks to the very strict system in American theaters, if you are like China, bring a DV player to record, or there will be close-up photos uploaded today.
Now the momentum is very good, of course Li Xiaole will not ask everyone to praise "Life Remote Control", that is impossible;
A "comedy" that makes people cry is not too mainstream in the first place, especially next week there is a spoof comedy "Screaming 4" released, many pure comedy fans hate the most laughing films to play deep, they just plan to go to the theater to relax......
Li Xiaole, of course, doesn't expect much box office from them.
Li Xiaole told Ha Ji Won about this box office result by phone, and he smiled with Ha Ji Won: "This is much better than when I was in Korea, it can be regarded as breaking my debut record." ”
Ha Ji Won followed him and joked: "You are not afraid that your American counterparts will hate you, I think you have at least 50 million US dollars this time, and with the domestic box office, it is not impossible for you to break a new record at the total box office." She doesn't know the box office of "Life Remote Control", but she guesses by inertia that $50 million is the profit point of this movie with an investment of more than 30 million, Ha Ji Won does not have high requirements for Li Xiaole in the United States, as long as he doesn't lose money, anyway, there is still the Chinese market to support it.
Li Xiaole smiled half-truthfully: "Well, I think it may be more than that." ”
Just when Sony was considering whether to agree to Foday's request to increase the number of screens next week, the box office results of "Life Remote Control" on the second day surprised everyone, and the attendance rate on the 498 screen increased by 35%! It is expected that the box office of a single screen will exceed $8,000 in a single week!?