Soon after returning to China, Liu Siying came to Li Mu for the purpose of discussing the copyright transaction of "Step by Step".

A few months ago, "Beijing City Love Story" has been officially broadcast on the star and landed on the newly established Tencent Video, and the ratings have been ranked second to fourth in the provincial satellite TV in the same period, and occasionally won the first place, but the time it has not been maintained for long.

It can't be compared with the ratings of CCTV dramas, but it is already a very good result in provincial satellite TV, Li Mu didn't pay much attention to the results of TV dramas on video websites, tens of millions or hundreds of millions of clicks don't make much sense, the website can modify the rules casually, and the click-through rate can be tens of millions away.

However, it seems that the performance on the video site is not bad, and now Youku, iQiyi and Tengxun Video are talking about the network copyright of "Step by Step Shocking" and "Palace Lock Heart Jade", and the bid has also been raised to the standard of 1 million episodes.

In the first few months, it was only the standard of six or seven hundred thousand episodes, but in just a few months, one episode has risen by three or four hundred thousand.

At present, "Step by Step" has completed all the post-production work, and "Palace Lock Heart Jade" still has finishing work to do. Li Mu's meaning, this time he will only sell one drama "Step by Step", and "Palace Lock Heart Jade" will be pressed for two months.

Liu Siying smiled and said: "Mr. Li, don't you want to press for a few months first, and then increase the price of a single episode by another three or four hundred thousand, right?" ”

Li Mu smiled and waved his hand when he heard this: "No, no, I mean, if you press it for a few more months, maybe the price of a single episode will be 2 million per episode." ”

Liu Siying couldn't help but laugh when she heard this, the online copyright of last year's TV series was only worth one or two hundred thousand episodes, and it can rise to 2 million episodes this year?

But if you say that it is absolutely impossible - or the situation just introduced, last year there were 120,000 episodes, and this year it will be 1 million episodes, which has risen fivefold in less than a year, can't it increase five times this year?

"Then I'll go and talk to those companies, let's just say that "Palace Lock Heart Jade" is still in the late production stage, and secondly, we don't want our own TV series to play our own TV series, so we have to wait for the specific release time."

Li Mu nodded.

By the way, some time ago, the second and third rounds of authorization of "Beijing City Love Story" have also been sold, and the company has signed contracts with a total of ten ground stations, with a total price of 1 million yuan per episode, counting the first round of 2 million episodes of the four star satellite TVs, plus 600,000 episodes sold to Tengxun Video, so that the total price of "Beijing City Love Story" has reached 3.6 million per episode.

The TV series has a total of 39 episodes, and the total price is 140 million, which can be regarded as a big profit for Huashang, and you must know that the total investment of this drama is only a little more than 40 million.

And this is just the income from selling to TV stations and video websites, "Beijing Love Story" is a modern drama, and modern dramas have always been easy to implant ads, if you count the income from advertising placement, the income brought by TV dramas to the company will be more considerable.

Then the two talked about the new drama "You from the Stars" that is being prepared, and the company has officially invited Director Kong Sheng to direct this play, Director Kong also brought an apprentice named Jian Chuanhe this time, Jian Chuanhe is not famous at present, but Li Mu knows this person, the directors of "Ode to Joy" and "It's All Good" in the original time and space are all this person, but there are two directors of "Ode to Joy", in addition to Jian Chuanhe, the other happens to be Kong Sheng.

"Director Kong recommended Ni Dahong to play lawyer Zhang Yingmu."

"Yes."

Previously, Li Mu had already set most of the actors, and only Zhang Yingmu, Li Jaejing and Liu Shimei were left in the main roles. Zhang Yingmu originally wanted to find a teacher Fan Wei to play the role, but the reason why he hesitated was because now Fan Wei's main focus is on movies, and inviting him to TV series is a bit overkill.

Ni Dahong, recommended by Kong Sheng, is indeed not bad, and Li Mu has no reason to refuse.

"What about the villain Lee Jae-kyung? Do you have any recommended candidates for Director Kong? ”

"I mentioned it, saying that Liu Yijun is good, he can not only perform the extravagance of the son of a big group, but also have his own villain aura."

"Yes, you can let him give it a try, what about the second female Liu Shimei?"

"Not for now."

"I have a candidate here, let Li Chun try it."

"Okay."

Li Chun is labeled as Li Mu in this time and space, and the first film and television drama she starred in was "Celebrating More Than Years" starring Wang Kailiu Yifei, in which she played the role of manager.

At that time, she was preparing for the Northern Dance exam in Beijing, Beiying was just an alternative option, it was Li Mu who fell in love with her at a glance in "Serendipity", and named her as the manager, from then on, even if the little girl flew on the branch and became a phoenix, after the TV series was completed, she decisively changed her first goal from Beiwu to Beiying, and friends said that she is now barely a "Mu girl", it must be right to apply for Beiying, there is a relationship with Li Mu, and the influence of "Celebrating More Than Years", I am not afraid that there will be no drama to shoot in the future.

Later, with the encouragement of friends and family, she applied for Beiying, and was successfully admitted to the second class of the undergraduate program of the acting department.

Some time ago, she heard that Huashang Media was preparing a new modern drama, and there was a second female role in it that had not been determined for a long time, and she heard that many actresses in the circle, including some well-known actors, were fighting for this role, she thought of her relationship with Li Mu, so she mustered up the courage to make a phone call to Li Mu, the purpose of course was to recommend herself.

The two chatted on the phone for about fifteen minutes, and Li Mu did not agree to her on the spot, but Li Chun's name was also successfully entered Li Mu's mind and became one of the options.

Until today, he talked to Liu Siying about the preparation progress of the TV series, and I heard that the second female was still undecided, so he pushed Li Chun out.

Originally, it was just one of the options, but now that there are no other options, this role will probably fall on Li Chun's head.

By the way, the characters in the TV series will not completely follow the name of the original time and space, after all, the stick in it is too heavy, and Director Kong Sheng has also been discussing this matter in the past few days, and the reason why Li Mu has always been commensurate with the name of the original time and space character is just a matter of habit.

Back to the movie "The Martian".

In the fourth week, the domestic box office of "The Martian" reached 1.55 billion yuan, officially surpassing the 1.53 billion yuan that surpassed "Thai Embarrassment", rising to the second place in mainland film history.

In the North American film market, "The Martian" managed to grossing $25 million this week, retiring to the second place in the box office list, and the champion was "Green Lantern" produced by Warner Bros., with a box office of $52.69 million in the first week.

How to describe this "Green Lantern"?

It's just miserable!

To be honest, more than $50 million is not bad, but you must know that the cost of this film is $200 million! There have even been rumors that the fiasco of "Green Lantern" decided the direction of Hollywood for ten years.

The 10s of the 20th century was the era of the Marvel Universe, and the only one who had a chance to compete with it was Warner Bros., which owned the DC brand.

However, Warner Bros. has not made the effort to integrate these resources before, because before Marvel, Hollywood only had movie series, no movie universe, and everyone did not have this awareness, and no one could have imagined that the original movie could still play like this.

Second, Marvel was about to go bankrupt at that time, and even the money for making movies had to be mortgaged to the bank for funds with the hero's copyright, so Warner Bros. did not regard Marvel as much of a threat.

Until Disney spent $4 billion to buy the entire Marvel universe and fully supported the creation of the Marvel universe. In this way, it is the turn of Warner Bros. to be nervous.

So there is this "Green Lantern" that cost $200 million to build, it can be said that this "Green Lantern" is an attempt by Warner Bros. to spend a lot of money to build the DC Universe, Green Lantern is one of the Big Seven of the DC Justice League, and his popularity is very high, and it seems to be a very good idea to use him to start the DC Universe.

As a result, the $200 million investment in "Green Lantern" ended up with a global box office of only $229 million, which was miserable. The attempt of the Warner Bros. Cinematic Universe went bankrupt, and then Marvel launched "The Avengers" and instantly became popular all over the world, and since then Warner Bros. has made a wrong step and has almost no ability to compete with the Marvel Universe.

Back to the topic, after the fourth week, the cumulative box office of "The Martian" in North America has reached $250 million, and the overseas box office outside North America is $320 million, including $43 million in the United Kingdom, $41 million in South Korea, $37 million in RB, $32 million in Australia, and $26 million in France.

Then Russia, Germany, Spain and Mexico, etc., so far the film's global box office has accumulated 800 million US dollars, which has far exceeded the total box office of its original time and space, of which the largest contribution is the Chinese market, the Chinese box office of the original time and space is only 80 million US dollars, and this time and space because it has become a local film, the Chinese box office of the film has been converted into US dollars as much as 230 million.

Chairman Han Sanping of China Film happily called over and said that the superior leaders had praised Li Mu by name many times recently, praising him for his amazing success in the head-on confrontation with Hollywood movies.

Movies all over the world, even including Europe, where the film originated, are losing under the offensive of Hollywood films, and there is almost no room to fight back, only Chinese films in the world have resisted the fierce attack of Hollywood movies, not only resisting the attacks of Hollywood movies, but even hitting Hollywood's interior, hitting Hollywood's hometown, this time it has also achieved amazing success in the head-to-head competition with Hollywood's highly concerned big productions, and the biggest contributor to the completion of this great victory by Chinese films is Li Mu.

The film that Han Dong said about being highly watched refers to "Kung Fu Panda 2".

In the end, Chairman Han Sanping said unsatisfied: "I said that you kid, your face is very big, but the boss said that you and Huashang Media's film production work should be conveniently provided as much as possible, no matter what difficulties you encounter in the process of making movies in the future, you can only mention it, and leave the rest to us to solve." ”

"Thank you, thank you...... That Han Dong, can I shoot something that other directors can't shoot? Li Mu couldn't help but joke with Han Dong.

Han Sanping was stunned for a moment and asked, "What do you kid want to shoot too?" "Lust and Caution"? ”

"No, no, no......" Li Mu hurriedly denied, "My appetite is not that big, at most the scale is a little bigger than others." ”

"That's fine." Han Sanping said with a smile, "Don't go too far, take proper care of your Li Mu's movie, that's a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people." ”

"Don't dare, don't dare ......"

In fact, Li Mu has no desire to shoot on a large scale at all, but it doesn't seem to hurt to get a preventive shot in advance, but now he really doesn't have this will, but if he can't keep it, he will suddenly have it again one day.

In the next few days, the broadcast of "Step by Step" was finally decided, and it was still a four-star simulcast on the TV station, with 600,000 episodes per family, so that the first round of authorization was 2.4 million episodes.

The network copyright finally fell into the hands of Tencent Video, but the price is no longer 1 million episodes, but 1.2 million episodes, and the market price rose again during the negotiation process, iQiyi first came out to 1.1 million episodes, and finally Tencent Video was handed over for 1.2 million episodes.

The second and third rounds or ten ground stations have a total of 1 million yuan per episode, so that the total single episode of "Step by Step Shocking" has reached 4.6 million episodes, and "Step by Step Horror" has a total of 35 episodes, with a total authorization fee of 160 million yuan.

And this is not all the income that this drama can bring to the company, the follow-up is like a constant rebroadcast by the TV station, although the cost is not much each time, but the company will have a money every time it is broadcast, in addition to some other authorizations, in short, the income period of a TV series is also very long.

After the cooperation between Huashang Media and Tencent Video was exposed by the media, it unsurprisingly once again aroused discussions in the industry about sky-high copyrights.

Of course, Li Mu also saw the relevant news, but he didn't take it too seriously, in the future, the copyright of a drama can be sold for 9 million episodes, he is a TV station, counting the first, second, and third rounds, he only made up 4.6 million episodes, why is it sky-high?

However, seeing what experts said, the so-called sky-high copyright is unsustainable, and I am afraid that it will return to the reasonable price range of 200,000 per episode within two years, Li Mu wanted to laugh, and said in his heart that this is all 2011, and he is still dreaming, returning to the reasonable range of 200,000 per episode? Who defines the reasonableness in the first place? Secondly, it is impossible, 2 million per episode is probably really fast.

In June, Li Mu also took Lei Jun to the set of "Living Together in Time and Space", and Boss Lei spent 80 million advertising dollars in this movie, when he was very curious about where he spent all the money.

The main reason is that Boss Lei is also quite interested in making movies.

accompanied Lei Jun around the set a few times, and finally Boss Lei sighed: "I see that making movies is much more difficult than doing business, you let me talk in front of the camera, in front of so many people, I definitely can't do it." ”

Li Mu almost didn't laugh when he heard this, Li Muke, as a traverser, knows better than anyone how much Boss Lei loves to perform in front of the camera.

Famous scenes are one after another, and you dare to say that you can't speak in front of the camera?

To Li Mu's surprise, he actually saw Chen Sicheng on the set, and when he inquired, he knew that this kid had taken a fancy to Tong Liya, and he was going to launch a fierce offensive, Li Mu didn't care too much, and then left the set with Boss Lei.

And the same today, Tong Liya once again clearly rejected Chen Sicheng's pursuit, her assistant was a little puzzled by this, Chen Si grew up not to say how handsome, at least not bad, the most important thing is that the first TV series he directed was a great success, earning nearly 100 million yuan for Huashang, this is a potential stock, maybe he will become an industry boss in a few years, he is not satisfied with this, so what else do you want to find?

Tong Liya shook her head and said with a smile: "I feel that he is very attentive, if I want to find someone who is dedicated to feelings." ”

The assistant smiled: "Single-minded? That's a good relationship, but it seems rare to be single-minded in the entertainment industry, I'm talking about whether it's a man or a woman. ”

Tong Liya smiled: "It's because I want it more, I'm not uncommon on the bad street, and it's not that it's rare." ”

In fact, Tong Liya was very inferior in the face of Chen, in 2012, the two were invited to record "Happy Camp", during the recording of the show, Tong Liya suddenly announced her relationship with Chen with a happy face, and took the initiative to hug Chen, Chen's expression was very confused at that time, obviously unprepared.

It can be said that in the original time and space, Tong was still very dependent on Chen's resources in the early days.

But this time and space are completely different, Tong's roles in "Mythology" and "Beijing City Love Story" were given by Li Mu, and I signed in Huashang Media, which countless actresses missed, it seems that the boss still attaches great importance to her, and after acting in "Palace Lock Heart Jade", she was immediately arranged to serve as the heroine of "Chrono Love".

This is a script written by Boss Li Mu himself, or a big heroine movie, I heard that it is also related to a big publicity strategy of the company, and his resources in all aspects are very good, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he has a promising future, so he doesn't think Chen is very good.

(End of chapter)