Last year, Maoyan Films took advantage of the difficulty of buying tickets offline for "Gravity" and "Avatar" to become popular with online tickets at the original price, thus quickly occupying the online ticketing market.

Consumers look at the scalper movie tickets that are hundreds or even 1,000 yuan offline on the one hand, and whether they can choose online seats or the original price ticket Maoyan Movie, how to choose every audience can do it in their hearts.

After Maoyan Films took advantage of the situation and quickly occupied nearly 7% of the market share in the online ticketing market, Li Mu began to get involved in the field of film distribution, and "Thai Embarrassment" was his first attempt in this regard.

Unexpectedly, the first release attempt of Maoyan Films shook the entire film distribution industry - the eight major theater chains across the country actually increased the proportion of Li Mu's films to 46%!

There are not only eight major cinemas in the country, but when the eight major cinemas unanimously agree to increase the proportion of all Li Mu's films to 46% in the future, the rest of the smaller cinemas and theaters in China can only follow up.

Mr. Yu of Bernard, Mr. Wang of Guangguang, and Mr. Han of China Film, all three of them have called over to ask Li Mu for specific negotiation details in the past few days.

As the three giants of the domestic distribution industry, these people know too well how difficult it is to make concessions to theaters and theaters like iron roosters.

"Huh? That's what you say! In fact, there was not much negotiation. Isn't this some time ago when Director Feng Xiaogang came to me to discuss that he wanted to negotiate, I thought this was a good thing, so I promised Director Feng that he would support him when he said it, but the next day the representative of the Eight Cinema Line called my mobile phone, I remember that at first it was said to mention 45%, and then I immediately changed my words to mention 46%, and then it was done."

However, after listening to Li Mu's words, the reactions of the three CEOs were almost identical.

"Gone?"

"That's it?"

"That's a promise?"

Then Li Mu's reaction is generally as follows:

"It's said that it's an increase of 3 percentage points, but it's actually not a lot of money, just take "Thai Embarrassment" as an example, that is, this film can get a box office of 1 billion, and three points are not too much about 25 or 6 million."

The reason why the three points are not 30 million is because the film box office must first pay 5% of the special film fund and 3.3% of the business tax in the distribution process.

Then the three CEOs were even more speechless.

"Three points, not much money?"

"Listen...... Listen, are you talking about human language?"

Especially Chairman Han Sanping, when he heard this, he calculated the math account for Li Mu on the phone:

"Not much? Last year, your kid's movie took nearly 4 billion at the box office in the domestic market alone, right? 3 points of account sharing, your kid and the eight major cinema lines of the agreement, but if you can sign it a year earlier, your kid will be able to share 110 million more last year! That's not much? How much more do you want?"

"Hehe, wasn't that a special case last year, the movies that had been made for several years just happened to be piled up."

As a result, Li Mu often responds while being silly.

During the period of waiting for the release of "Thai Embarrassment", Li Mu had to keep an eye on the post-production work of "The Hunger Games", and at the same time patiently sort out the various preliminary preparations for the "The Martian" project. Chinese Net

At present, all the preliminary preparations for "The Martian" are ready, and the actor Jiang Wen is almost out of schedule. Director Jiang Wen is now busy with the post-production work of his movie "Let the Bullets Fly", and recently Li Mugang communicated with Jiang Wen on the phone, Jiang Wen means that he will be able to free up time to join the group when "Thai Embarrassment" is released.

"See what?"

In the evening, Liu Yifei, who had just taken a bath, came behind Li Mu in a silver silk yukata, and Li Mu was sitting in front of the computer watching at this time. Liu Yifei's half-wet and half-dry hair hung forward against Li Mu's cheeks, Li Mu's nose twitched, and a very good smell that was difficult to describe in words penetrated his nose.

"A very special romance." Li Mu said.

Liu Yifei hugged Li Mu's neck from behind

The probe looked at the screen in front of her, and then she read, "33 Days of Broken Love?"

Li Mu raised his hand to hold Liu Yifei's hand, and he said while rubbing it gently, "Yes, I'm going to buy it and make it into a movie."

"Oh." Liu Yifei didn't look very interested, "I heard...... Yang Mi has been contacting you recently?"

"What, jealous?" Li Mu stood up and hugged Liu Hou from the front and said. Liu hugged Li Mu's waist with his backhand, and the two of them swayed from side to side like two rickety penguins.

"Nothing." Liu looked up at Li Mu and said without admitting it.

Li Mu explained: "This year, Yang Mi and Rong Xinda's contract expired."

"She wants to come to Huashang?" Liu Yifei asked.

Li Mu nodded.

"Oh."

Liu Yifei didn't say much.

Of course, Li Mu knew that Liu Yifei didn't want to get too close to Yang Mi, and Yang Mi's cool clothes on the day of the audition for "People in Embarrassment" had already alerted her, but Li Mu wouldn't really not contact anyone just because she didn't like it very much.

Yang Mi's commercial value is high, and Li Mu does have a lot of film and television drama projects that are suitable for her to act, such as the film and television copyright of "Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" in Li Mu's hands.

In addition, some low-budget horror dramas in Europe and the United States should also be suitable for her to act, such as "Happy Death Day", "Falling", "Shark Beach" and so on.

The production cost of 18 million US dollars, the global box office of more than 100 million US dollars.

Of course, it can't be compared with sci-fi blockbusters like "Gravity" and "Inception", but from a purely commercial point of view, these low-budget movies are very cost-effective.

Therefore, Li Mu is actually inclined to sign Yang Mi to his own company, this is a decision made at the business level, since it is a pure business decision, Li Mu will of course try to eliminate interference from other aspects.

The two hugged for a while, and then Liu raised his head and whispered, "Why are you still stunned, you don't know what to do at this time?"

She closed her eyes as she spoke.

Li Mu picked up Liu Heng as if he had just woken up from a dream, and Liu let out an exclamation in surprise.

"What are you doing?" She asked.

"What? What do you think I'm going to do? Isn't that what you just wanted?" Li Mu hugged her and walked to the bedroom.

Liu Yifei was angry and funny: "I mean kiss, no...... That."

Li Mu laughed while keeping at his feet: "Joke, the driver's license has come down, who still learns subject one!"

"Subject 1?"

After entering the bedroom, Li Mu closed the door with his foot.

Early the next morning, Li Mu immediately arranged for someone to go to Bao Whale, the author of "33 Days of Broken Love", to buy the copyright, in the name of a brand new company.

With Li Mu's current reputation and status in the entertainment industry, if he always uses the name of Huashang Media to buy the copyright of the works in the photo, then there is a high probability that the price will be deliberately raised.

Even if the deal does not work out in the end, as long as the news that Li Mu's company has tried to buy the copyright of the work at a high price is spread, the copyright price of the work can be speculated very high.

Therefore, until the deal was reached this time, the author Bao Whale did not know that the person who really bought her copyright was director Li Mu.