Chapter 136: Contrast and Soberness, Baoqiang and Big Honey

Li Mu offered himself a director's salary of 10 million US dollars, plus a 10% dividend at the global box office.

Is it expensive? Sure, you're dead!

Li Mu's last two films have a global box office of more than $350 million, and now everyone also has high hopes for this "Gravity", and many people's psychological expectations for this movie have even reached more than $500 million.

The box office of 500 million US dollars is put in advance, even if the final global box office of this movie can only take the average of Li Mu's movie, that is 350 million US dollars, and 10% of the global box office dividend is 35 million US dollars!

plus the director's salary of 10 million US dollars, that is 45 million, which is 310 million when converted into RMB!

For a movie, the remuneration of the director and screenwriter alone is as high as 310 million?!

This is rare in Hollywood, not to mention the 40% film revenue dividend of Huashang Media.

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This is no longer a question of whether it is expensive or not, but it is so outrageous that it is difficult for everyone to accept it.

But obviously people in Colombia don't see it this way, not only do they not think that Li Mu takes too much, but they think that Li Mu takes too little.

Now Hollywood's salary for Li Mu has reached 15 million US dollars, and it will be added with a 10% global box office dividend, the key is that he Li Mu still refused.

There was a brief silence in the room, and everyone present was a little preoccupied, at which point the representative of Colombia spoke again:

Will Smith also contacted Cheng Long, the two of them have a good relationship, Cheng Long has agreed to star at a friendship price, 10 million US dollars plus global box office dividends. But we still hope that Director Li Mu can think about it again, Director Li Mu + kung fu superstar Cheng Long, the combination of the two of you is the biggest box office guarantee for this kind of movie. ”

Of course Li Mu would not agree, and the Colombian people did not continue to invite, and soon everyone shifted the focus of the discussion to the project "Gravity" again, but at this moment, the mood of many representatives of Huaxia Film Company in the conference room could no longer remain calm.

Cheng Long has always been the ceiling of Chinese salaries, and at his peak, Hollywood's salary was more than $20 million.

But now the salary offered by Colombia to Cheng Long is 10 million US dollars plus global box office dividends, while the salary offered to Li Mu is as high as 15 million US dollars plus global box office dividends!

It's only been a few years? Li Mu seems to have stepped into the entertainment industry with Cheng Long he met in 2004, right?

How did it take less than 4 years to develop like this?

The most important thing is...... He's too young!

Everyone felt a little dazed when they saw Li Mu's appearance, he had already made such a big achievement, but he had just turned 24 years old, and he still looked good-eyed, didn't this look like a college student who had just graduated?

Then everyone began to discuss the starring role of the film, Li Mu planned a figure for the actor's salary in the film budget table is 25 million, for a movie with a total investment of 700 million yuan, the total salary of 25 million actors is a very low number, but who makes this movie so special?

From beginning to end, there are basically only two actors, a man and a woman, of which the actor is still a supporting role with few scenes, and the budget of 25 million for the two actors is actually not low.

"Who do you want to play?" Han Sanping asked.

"Director Zhang Yimou and Ms. Gong Li, director Zhang Yimou has rich experience and can also be the producer of this film." Li Mu replied.

Everyone looked at Li Mu in surprise when they heard this, and said in their hearts, what do you think?

Director Zhang Yimou hasn't acted for almost ten years, right? How did you come up with the idea of asking him to act in a movie?

But if you think about it carefully, it seems really interesting to let Zhang Yimou and Gong Li act on the same stage again.

But can Director Zhang Yimou agree?

Moreover, you alone will get a $10 million director's salary, plus a 10% global box office dividend.

As a result, the combined salaries of Zhang Yimou and Gong Li were only 25 million?

What the hell do you think? What is Zhang Yimou's status in the rivers and lakes? How many years have you been on your debut? How many years have you only debuted?

"How much does director Zhang Yimou get paid?"

Soon everyone thought of this problem, and everyone is an insider, and they are also familiar with the market price of famous directors.

Director Zhang Yimou's salary is more than 10 million, and it just so happens that Gong Li's salary for starring in "The City is Full of Golden Armor" is also more than 10 million.

Speaking of which, Li Mu really didn't make a random offer.

But many people still find it very difficult to accept.

Zhang Yimou, such a big director, has a market price of more than 10 million yuan, but what about Li Mu? Will Smith and Columbia directly offered $15 million plus a 10% global box office dividend, and the key person also refused.

Suddenly, there was a feeling that the world was really changing, and the world was really developing too fast.

At this time, I heard Li Mu say: "More than 10 million is the market price of the film directed by Zhang Yimou, the male character in "Gravity" does not have many scenes, and on the whole it is actually a supporting role, and this movie is actually a one-man movie and a one-man show for the heroine. So what I mean, the salary of more than 10 million is not only for Zhang Yimou, the actor, but also for his ability to direct the movie, and invite him to be the producer of the movie, and the two of us will work together to make this movie a good one. ”

"Can Director Zhang Yimou agree?" Han Sanping asked.

"I'll talk about it, it doesn't matter if I don't agree, the most important thing in this movie is the choice of the heroine, and the rest of the roles are highly replaceable."

In the afternoon, Li Mu drove to pick up Liu Yifei, during which Liu Xiaoli asked about the situation of the three villas, and Li Mu naturally told the truth. The contract has been signed, and a total of 110 million yuan was spent, with a unit price of less than 40,000 square meters.

Now Chen Zhixi is staring at the new decoration, and he will put it before the official move-in after the renovation, anyway, Li Mu does not plan to live in it this year.

Liu Xiaoli has a good impression of the three villas, the internal environment is really good, but the price is too expensive. There are often 30 or 40 million houses, which are really not affordable for ordinary people.

As for Li Mu, the reason why he bought these three villas was that in addition to his own real needs in this regard, he did not have the intention of getting a little bit of the sky-high dividend of housing prices in Beijing.

Now the price of less than 40,000 square meters is really expensive, but when you enjoy it for more than ten years, the price here will become 150,000 yuan per square meter, and the total price of a house will be 150 million yuan.

Before Liu Xiaoli sent her daughter out, she deliberately pulled her daughter aside and asked some more private things, such as whether the two of them took protective measures when they were together? What is the protective wording? and whether Li Mu occasionally asked not to take measures or something like that.

In Liu Xiaoli's eyes, her daughter Liu Yifei is still young, and it is a critical period for her career to rise, she is afraid that her daughter is young and inexperienced, and if she has a good time, she may cause death.

As far as she knows, men don't like to take measures, and they always have a fluke mentality, and she is worried that her daughter Yifei and Li Mu will be like this, so she seized the opportunity to remind her daughter.

As a result, Liu Yifei immediately made a big red face, but Liu Xiaoli was not embarrassed at all.

"Look at you, you're still blushing, and you're still shy about talking to your mother? Mom just wants to remind you that the safe period doesn't mean that it's absolutely safe, and you two don't just take that small probability wrong for the sake of temporary fun. ”

"Hmm." Liu Yifei's voice is the same as that of a mosquito.

"What do you mean? Have you ever done it before? ”

"Nope." Liu Yifei's face was about to drip blood.

Of course, she didn't tell her mother the truth this time, but when Li Mu didn't use the measures, it was a hundred times more obscene than when she used it, but the safety was completely guaranteed.

After Liu Yifei got into the car, Li Mu asked while reversing, "What's wrong with your face?" It's so red, it can't be sick, right? Is there anything wrong with it? ”

"Huh? It's okay! Let's go home. ”

Li Mu nodded.

The two of them did it twice in the afternoon, and then took a shower together. After that, Liu Yifei wandered around Li Mu's house, and wore a white T-shirt, which was Li Mu's clothes, so Liu Yifei looked looser when he wore it.

Li Mu asked her to sit on the sofa obediently, saying that she was going to paint her, but Liu Yifei thought it was quite interesting, so he obediently did it.

In fact, it is not necessarily true to say that she does it obediently, because she will also put on a more tempting pose from time to time to seduce Li Mu.

After Li Mu found a comic manuscript paper and pen, he sat opposite Liu Yifei.

Some time ago, Li Mu registered a new company called Manwu Comics, and its main business is to occupy the world's outstanding animated films in advance. The new company has already hired a group of comic book artists and writers, and now they are working on the comic book version and sequel of Pacific Rim.

But "Pacific Rim" has never been the focus, and the reason why Li Mu wants to create "Manwu Comics" is that his primary targets have always been those excellent animated films that have achieved good box office results.

For example, Disney's classic animation "Frozen", which is why Li Mu has to prepare the original comic manuscript paper at home in advance.

As a director who often draws storyboard scripts, Li Mu's hand-drawing skills are naturally not bad, plus he can play the golden finger of the movies of his previous life frame by frame in his mind, so it is not very difficult for Li Mu to copy a comic.

Speaking of which, the characters of the two sisters in "Frozen" are still more in line with the aesthetics of the Orientals, and Li Mu even ignored the fact that the two sisters are a pair of white girls when watching the movie.

Therefore, Li Mu suddenly had a whim, wanting to integrate some of Liu Yifei's personal appearance characteristics into Aisha's style, and try to see what the effect is first, whether it is suitable or not.

Of course, the main body is still based on the original movie modeling, but in the depiction of some specific facial features, Li Mu tried to incorporate some of Liu Yifei's appearance characteristics.

In this way, a new image of Elsa with seven points like the original movie shape and three points like Liu Yifei is obtained.

After drawing a few versions, Li Mu gradually became satisfied, and at this time, Liu Yifei fell asleep on the sofa unconsciously.

So Li Mu put down the comic manuscript paper in his hand first, got up and picked up Liu Yifei and sent it to the bedroom and covered the quilt, and then returned to the living room to continue drawing his comics.

In the early morning, Liu Yifei turned over and put his arm on Li Mu's stomach, but Li Mu didn't wake up, but Liu Yifei woke up first.

When she saw Li Mu sleeping in Zhengxiang, she quietly got up and dressed alone, carefully for fear of disturbing Li Mu, but she was also secretly pouting in her heart.

"Isn't he a little weak, he did it twice yesterday, and he slept like a dead pig this morning."

Liu Yifei complained about Li Mu in her heart while getting up and coming to the living room, until she saw the original comic manuscript paper on the sofa, and then she remembered that she had fallen asleep on the sofa last night.

"It seems that I am also very empty, so I only did it twice and fell asleep on the sofa."

Liu Yifei sat down on the sofa in a cranky thought, and then she picked up the comic manuscript paper.

"Why doesn't it look like me? I'm still serious about modeling him! ”

After opening the comic, Liu Yifei looked at it for a moment, and felt that the characters drawn by Li Mu were not at all like herself, and she was uncertain and walked to the mirror with the comic to compare it carefully, and finally couldn't help but complain about Li Mu's painting skills.

"What kind of level is he, at most...... Three points at most like me! ”

At nine o'clock in the morning, Li Mu finally woke up completely after stretching a big lazy waist, he got dressed and came to the living room, and saw Liu Yifei curled up on the sofa, still holding the book "Frozen" he drew last night.

"What do you think of the drawing?" Li Mu asked.

Liu Yifei looked up at Li Mu and said, "You tricked me into being a model last night, and the painting looked like me at all - well, at most three points like me." ”

"What else?" Li Mu asked again.

"And then - when will you finish the rest of the story, where did Elsa go after escaping the banquet? Will there be any dangers? Liu Yifei said.

"What else?" Li Mu asked again.

"Okay, okay." Liu Yifei put down the comic and walked to Li Mu's side, then giggled and jumped hard, and his legs were already wrapped around Li Mu's waist.

"You're pretty good at drawing, aren't you? I'm fascinated. ”

The two kissed for a while, and then Li Mu put her down and said, "Why don't I drive you back, I'm going to the company today, and I don't have time to accompany you." ”

"Is there anything important?" Liu Yifei asked.

Li Mu smiled: "That's not true, but today Wang Baoqiang and Yang Mi are going to audition in the company, in fact, it is not an audition, these two actors are set by me, call the two of them over today, let's sit together to take a look and talk, if there is no problem, the contract will be signed." ”

"Is it the script of "People in Embarrassment"?"

"That's right."

"I'm going too, I haven't seen Yang Mi for a long time, so I just went over to see him." Liu Yifei said.

Li Mu said curiously: "By the way, how is your relationship with Yang Mi?" ”

Liu Yifei said: "It's good! However, if they don't film together, there will definitely be a lot less contact. ”

Huashang Media Conference Room.

Wang Baoqiang, Wang Baoqiang's girlfriend, and Yang Mi glanced at each other awkwardly from time to time.

Yang Mi is wearing a cooler dress today, and her career line is revealing a large semicircle, and Bao Qiang will be red for a long time if he accidentally looks at it.

Yang Mi wore it like this on purpose today, and she was extremely irritable when she watched the news of Li Mu and Liu Yifei in the past two days. A few years ago, when she and Liu Yifei were filming together in the Condor crew, although Liu Yifei was much bigger than her, she didn't pay much attention to it at that time.

Through contact, she knew that although Liu Yifei had good resources at that time, she was obviously not very good at handling the relationship in the circle, so Yang Mi at that time felt that sooner or later she would be able to press Liu Yifei in the coffee position one day.

But who would have thought that Liu Yifei's luck would be so good?

If you want to say that this God is really unfair, why did you give a man like Li Mu to her?

After so many years, why are you still worried about a supporting role with 10 million investment in movies? Looking at her Liu Yifei again, the total investment of the two dramas is 1.4 billion yuan! Why?

In all fairness, where is she worse than her?

So when she guessed that Li Mu might come to the signing site in person, she deliberately found such a more enterprising dress to wear.

As for why Bao Qiang's girlfriend also came along, according to her and Bao Qiang, she can barely be regarded as Li Mu's junior sister and fellow villager.

She went to Northwest University, Li Mu went to Northwest University of Political Science and Law, and everyone was in the same city. Her home is in Linyu District, and Li Mu's home is in Lintong District, and the two places are only 20 kilometers apart.

The most important thing is that she confirmed that she had seen Li Mu before, and she had spoken, and she was in the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum.

With this relationship, Bao Qiang's girlfriend is naturally bent on following.

Isn't there always a legend in the market that he auditioned with his friends and was selected instead?

God knows if such a pie will hit itself on the head.

At about ten o'clock in the morning, Li Mu finally came to the company, and after Yang Mi finally saw Li Mu, she pulled down the clothes on her chest very indistinctly, so that her ambition looked more surging, but as soon as she raised her eyes, she saw Liu Yifei who was following Li Mu again.

The two women looked at each other, and Yang Mi saw that Liu Yifei's gaze fell on her chest for a short time, and she couldn't help but sigh in her heart: "Yes, I'm afraid that little friendship from the Condor crew will also fly." ”