Chapter 311: Pull Investment
He Mu rushed to the UK, he didn't have time to deal with this little trouble, everything was left to Chen Li to deal with, he only asked for one point, not to affect the box office of the movie.
In fact, now Night. The box office of "Shop" is no longer a small slander can be affected, people have formed a habit, like love love drama movies to watch "Dragon and Phoenix", like comedy to watch "Crazy Racing" and "Night. Shop", the two comedies are almost evenly divided, each leading the way, the online statement about plagiarism is mainly focused on Douban, this place has a certain influence, but also relatively closed, the people here almost have a lofty attitude towards Chinese movies, in their eyes, everything foreign is good, all domestic can always find a lot of faults, and they are good at using irony, irony, irony and other means to point out the country, especially for commercial films.
The influence of Douban is basically only concentrated on this forum, and now the most important thing for people to choose movies is to watch the movie schedule in the theater, watch the evaluation of online news, and choose movies according to their favorite actors, if you follow Doubanzhong's advice to watch movies, you can only watch those boring petty bourgeoisie, which can make people depressed to death, so Chen Li's solution is to dredge the news media and write more reviews of "Night. Shop" positive reviews of the news, in order to achieve the role of guiding the audience.
Three days later, He Mu came back from London with the trophy, and it was two, but he did not win the actor crown.
Stepping into London again, He Mu was welcomed by the British film industry, and as one of the contenders for the best actor, he accepted the arrangement of the organizing committee to attend several events, and became familiar in the British film industry. However, the Oriental face is the Oriental face after all, and it is not very recognizable in the eyes of Westerners, just like Asians and Africans always think that they look similar. He Mu walked on the street without concealment, not worrying about anyone recognizing him at all, but he was recognized by the waiter when he went to the store a few times to buy something, they only knew that He Mu was an actor and had watched He Mu's movies, but they didn't know much about He Mu's name, He Mu told them that his name was Wood.He, Wood He. This is He Mu's English name, if you mix international in the future, it will be easier to have an English name.
Then Wood Ho attended the award ceremony, and he was more impressed that "Slumdog Millionaire" won two awards: Best Picture and Best Director. In addition, there were several small awards such as Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, which became the biggest winner of the night, and it is said that the film will hit the Oscar in a few days.
In addition, the awards related to He Mu and "One Shot 147", the best actor winner is the actor Mickey of the American movie "Wrestler". Locke. The winner of the best foreign language film was a film called "Love You For a Long Time". The two awards were missed, but they unexpectedly won the Best Original Screenplay Award (Li Yifeng) and a non-fixed award Orange Rising Star Award (He Mu), which were a bit unexpected.
First of all, Li Yifeng never took the script he wrote seriously, and he never cared about it after selling it to Bayi Factory, including the later changes and movie promotion, he didn't participate in it at all, but he didn't expect to win the award abroad this time, and the Rising Star Award has been won by British local actors over the years, although He Mu didn't win the actor. But his appearance also broke the practice of the Rising Star Award for his own people for more than ten years, and it can be seen that the organizing committee is still very positive about his performance.
He Mu put the two newcomer awards of his own in the company. Another contacted Li Yifeng and asked him to get it himself, although the heavyweight award was not fished, but at least it was not short, and the good market response of "One Shot 147" in the UK gave Yankees confidence, and the film officially landed in the United States last month, although there is only a premiere scale of more than 100 theaters, which is dozens of times worse than mainstream Hollywood movies, but at least it is guaranteed that it will not be shown only in Chinatown theaters, so that Americans can also see this movie, for He Mu, this is a zero breakthrough, congratulations.
"There hasn't been any mess in the company during my absence, has it?" He Mu sat in the office and chatted with Chen Li.
"There's a little bit of chaos, "Night. Bootleg copies of The Shop have already begun to flow out. ”
"HD?"
"Hmm."
He Mu gritted his teeth and wanted to be angry, after thinking about it, forget it, the national situation is like this, it is not for him to decide alone, it is already very good that there is piracy in the week of the release, in the third week, they are lucky, as far as he knows, there are high-definition piracy before it is released, high-definition piracy is different from the robbing of the movie theater audience, the outflow of this kind of piracy is generally the leakage of copies, the problem usually appears in the theater, the copies are sold to them, but they can't protect it, either they leak it themselves or their employees take out the coupons to sell for money, There are a lot of problems.
"Pay attention to the future when choosing a cooperative cinema to find those with a good reputation, no one with a criminal record will be used, I know that you don't have a choice this time, as long as you are willing to accept our cinemas, they have carried out cooperation, but with "Night. The success of the store" should have more options for us to choose from. He Mu said helplessly.
"It should be." Chen Li also nodded helplessly, piracy is a major problem that all domestic entertainment and cultural industries have to face, the state is not very strict in this regard, and the relevant laws and regulations are not perfect, so we can only watch a large amount of profits slip away from our hands.
"Night. How did the store perform this week, and did the impact of piracy be big? He Mu asked again.
"There will definitely be some impact, and the film schedule has also declined, but other movies have the same problem, generally speaking, our attendance rate is still very high, even if it can't exceed 50 million this week, it will definitely pass next week, the million director fee you promised to Yang Qing will definitely not be able to run, it may be that our company's first shot is so good, and now someone has asked us to invest." Chen Li said with a smile.
"Oh? Is it a company or an individual? He Mu asked, in addition to investing in their own shooting, Shuimu Forest Film Company does not exclude cooperation with other companies, they can do distribution for other companies' films, or they can only be responsible for investment, anyway, they have plenty of funds now, and the next shooting plan is more than enough.
Nowadays, although there are also large companies such as Huayi Brothers and Bona Film in China, there are more than countless small film companies, sometimes they have good film projects in their hands, but they do not have enough funds, and they do not have their own distribution channels. It is rare for a film company to complete a big production on its own like several major Hollywood studios in China.
"It's a person, Zhang Ziyi." Chen Li replied.
"Zhang Ziyi? What is her position? ”
"Producer," Chen Li explained the matter in detail, in fact, he didn't see Zhang Ziyi, and he didn't even get through the phone, but he still communicated through Zhang Ziyi's agent, but He Mu was in charge of this kind of thing, so he promised to wait for He Mu to reply to her after returning to China, "Didn't Zhang Ziyi say that he was going to make a movie called "Sophie's Revenge" before, and now the movie is called "Very Perfect", with Zhang Ziyi as the producer, and Perfect Time and Space as the main investor, In addition, Zhang Ziyi also brought two Korean companies to invest together, she hopes to find another mainland company to be responsible for part of the investment and shooting, although Perfect Time and Space is rich but the game is professional, the movie is a bit amateurish, and you need to find a movie expert, so that two companies in China and South Korea may have a good momentum to see Shuimu Forest, so they picked us. ”
"Mizuki's momentum is really good, but we are also very immature, and we only have experience in one movie." He Mu was puzzled, he and Zhang Ziyi were not very familiar, they had only met a few times and said a few words, and her choice of Shuimu Forest made He Mu feel a little surprised.
"It's because I'm immature, so it's easy to talk about the conditions." Chen Li gave an explanation.
"Maybe, did she leave the phone?" He Mu plans to contact Zhang Ziyi now.
"I've already called her agent and told them your number, and she'll call you directly when the time comes." Chen Lidao.
"Okay, I'll wait for her call." He Mudao, after Chen Li left, he began to surf the Internet in the office.
The first thing I did on the Internet was to update my blog, write about my trip to the UK, and take some photos with it, and I won a personal award anyway. He Mu is not good at taking selfies, so it is either the cultural scenery he photographed, or the beautiful street photos that Xiao Nan helped him take.
After finishing the blog, He Mu then searched for "Night. Shop", I don't know how to do it without searching, I was shocked when I searched, there were too many pirated websites, not only "Night. Popular films such as "Shop", "Crazy Racing", and "Dragon and Phoenix" can be found, and they are all in HD versions, but those less popular movies are either not pirated or pirated with poor picture quality.
"Why are you looking at these, aren't you making yourself angry!" He Mu quickly shut down several pirated websites, and once again greeted the women in the founder's family.
After the most lucrative He Mu searched the evaluation of "True Treasure" on the Internet, yesterday "True Treasure" has come to an end on CCTV, and the highest rating of the finale reached 12.8%, only 0.1% lower than the highest rating of "The Legend of Bruce Lee", but the average rating is slightly higher, "The Legend of Bruce Lee" broke the ratings record of "Mansion Gate" for eight years, and "True Treasure" broke the new record of "The Legend of Bruce Lee", this result can't help but make netizens sigh: Only Guo Baochang can beat Guo Baochang!
He Mu was open, and his mobile phone rang, an unfamiliar number.
"Hey, hello, this is He Mu."
"Hey, hello He Mu, I'm Zhang Ziyi, can I ask you out to talk?"
…… (To be continued......)
PS: [ps: The second update, there is another watch after the early morning~ You can watch it tomorrow when you get up, maybe when it will be written~]