Li Shengyao handed over the soundtrack of "Border Killer" to Chen Guangrong to deal with, and this incident did not cause too many waves in the entertainment industry.

At this time, the vast majority of people were discussing "The Siege of October" and "The Legend of the Three Guns".

Fans recognize "October Siege", this movie has a good reputation and praises a lot.

And the reputation of "The Legend of the Three-Gun Shooting" naturally collapsed, and there were many negative reviews for this movie.

But Lao Mouzi deserves to be Lao Mouzi, his basic plate is still very stable, plus the attraction of Zhao Jiaban.

Even if the reputation is bad, it can still get a box office of more than 180 million.

Although "October Siege" has a better reputation, it is a little worse than "The Legend of Three Guns" at the box office.

You must know that "The Legend of Three Shots" only uses Sun Honglei, Yan Ni, and a few actors from Zhao Jiaban, and the production cost is very low, and this movie must be profitable.

Although "October Siege" has a better reputation, the investment cost is high, and the box office of this movie has accumulated 1.8 billion, and it is still in a state of loss.

Reflected in public opinion, it is to praise the audience of "October Siege", but many industry insiders said that they are studying "The Legend of Three Shots" and want to shoot a similar historical comedy.

At this time, everyone didn't realize that a super movie was coming soon.

For "The Legend of the Three-Gun Shooting" did not break 200 million, some media ridiculed Lao Mouzi, saying that he can't keep up with the times now.

Soon New Year's Day passed, 2010 came, and then "Avatar" was grandly released.

This movie, which is known as the first 3D blockbuster in film history, has just been released, and it has frantically refreshed the box office record of mainland films.

First-day box office records, first-week box office records, and total box office records.

Many people think that "2012" can get a box office of 460 million, which is already a very incredible achievement.

However, "Avatar" reached 460 million in just four days.

The film swept the box office with an extremely incredible attitude, and also tapped the box office potential of the mainland market.

Originally, "2012" and "The Great Cause of Jianguo" got more than 400 million, and everyone thinks that next year, there may be a single box office that can rush to more than 500 million, and maybe more than 600 million the year after tomorrow.

However, "Avatar" broke this rule, "Avatar" really exploded, and the box office exceeded 100 million in a single day, rushing forward crazily.

Not to mention that 560 million can't be stopped, even a billion can't be stopped.

It's really too strong.

By the end of January 2010, the total box office of "Avatar" in the mainland had reached 1.3 billion, which means that this movie had almost 200 million US dollars in the mainland.

This is the second best achievement in the global market after the beautiful country.

In old film markets such as France, Great Britain, and Italy, the highest box office in Hollywood is only about 100 million US dollars.

Now the mainland has exceeded the single chip limit of these countries.

A senior executive of a film company in Hollywood said, "This is an obvious thing, the Chinese film market will surpass the island country, surpass the United Kingdom, and become the second largest film market in the world after the beautiful country." ”

"It's really surprising, but it did happen, and we realized that the middle class in China may be larger than the population of the beautiful country."

……

Hollywood studios are surprised by the performance of "Avatar" in the mainland market, let alone the mainland film and television industry.

Just a month ago, everyone thought that the upper limit was "2012", and they thought that there would be a maximum of 500 million.

But I didn't expect "Avatar" to directly make the mainland single-film box office rush to 1.3 billion.

It turns out that mainland audiences like to watch movies so much.

It turns out that mainland audiences are so rich.

It turns out that our film market is no worse than that of an island country.

For a while, the entire Chinese entertainment industry was boiling, and it was even more excited than when the coal boss entered the market before, and it seemed that making movies had become a very promising investment.

After the turn of the millennium, the Hong Kong Island film industry, which has always been lifeless, has become much more active at this time.

At the end of January, "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Tiger and Tiger Might", "Armored Warrior: The Emperor", "The Legend of the Seven Heroes of the Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit", and "Confucius" were released successively.

Except for "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Tiger and the Tiger" is okay at the box office, the others have become street hits.

At the beginning of February, it was the time when Hong Kong Island comedy was in full swing, "Happy Events in the Flower Field 2010", "Seventy-two Tenants", "The God of Wealth Arrives", "Love in the City", and "Perfect Wedding Dress" were released in turn.

At this point in time, there are only two non-comedy movies - "Jin Yiwei" and "Su Qier".

Li Shengyao and Chai Zhiping's "My Girlhood" was also released on February 14.

There is no difficulty, with the foundation of Valentine's Day special romance films in previous years, "My Girlhood" quickly came out of a lot of messy movies, and was the first to break 100 million.

Li Shengyao now has a big family and a big business, and he doesn't care much about ordinary movies that break 100 million yuan.

"My Girlhood" broke 100 million, which did not make him get carried away, he is still very calm.

In particular, the fluctuations brought by "Avatar" to the Chinese film and television industry did not change Li Shengyao's mentality.

On the morning of this day, the cold wind in Yanjing continued, and at the headquarters of Fenghua Film and Television Company, Li Shengyao met Huo Wenxi.

Compared with the last time Lee Shengyao saw Huo Wenxi, he felt that this time the Hong Kong Island agent was more attractive at this time.

Wearing a khaki suit on the upper body, a pair of black jeans on the lower body, and a pair of small high heels, it looks very casual and handsome, which is very eye-catching.

He had some regrets in his heart, Chen Hao was currently in Yanjing, otherwise, he could take Huo Wenxi home to exchange skills.

"Director Li, I haven't seen you for a few months, you are still handsome."

Li Shengyao smiled, "Did you come to me to compliment me on being handsome?" ”

The assistant stepped forward to pour tea for Li Shengyao and Huo Wenxi.

Huo Wenxi shook his head, picked up the teacup, and took a sip of tea gently, "Director Li, I came here this time, and I still want to talk about cooperation with you." ”

"The mainland film market is so big now, many people want to invest, we Yinghuang have seen a lot of big pipes, I don't know if you are interested in working together."

Huo Wenxi is telling the truth, when the mainland film market exploded and shocked the entire film and television industry, the first to get hot money was not the mainland film and television companies, but the group of people on Hong Kong Island.

The sources of funds for these people are relatively mixed, and they are not very well on the table.

But they did have money during this time.

Huo Wenxi continued: "Cooperation with us is definitely beneficial, we are wholly owned by Yinghuang, we don't need you to invest a penny, after the movie is released, we will give you 20% of the profit dividends and 20% of the copyright." ”

"In addition, we are responsible for the distribution and publicity, and you don't need to spend on any project."

"We can also give you a 30 million director's salary, how about it? You can make tens of millions of dollars just by using your talents. ”

When Li Shengyao heard this, he looked at Huo Wenxi in a daze, inexplicably embarrassed.

"What's wrong?"

Huo Wenxi asked puzzled.

She felt that those conditions were really very favorable, and if she was replaced by someone else, she would definitely agree.

In the past, she looked for Li Shengyao, but was always rejected by Li Dadao.

This time, she was eager to see Lee Shengyao's expression as she accepted her.

Li Shengyao came back to his senses, and then said: "What movie is 30 million directors' salary, and then 20% of the profit dividends, 20% of the copyright?" ”

"That's right, Director Li, isn't it very sincere?"

Li Shengyao was a little speechless and rolled his eyes.

He thought of Uncle Ge.

He thought of Uncle Ge.

In his previous life, that is, in 2010, Ge You dominated the Chinese New Year file with the three movies "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 2", as well as "Let the Bullets Fly" and "Zhao's Orphan", becoming the hottest male star in this schedule.

The mainland has always had a tradition of acting and directing.

Ge You also has this idea, Hua Yi can't trust him, China Film is unwilling to let him be a director, at this time Yinghuang entered the game and signed a contract with Ge You for five years, saying that he wanted to invest 500 million to make a movie for Ge You.

At that time, the news spread widely, but Yinghuang did not give Ge You any chance to direct at all in the past five years, they just used Ge You to make a few bad movies.

For example, "The Battle of the God of Food", "The Dangerous Road of Fragments", "Two Tigers", "Antique Game in the Game".

When Ge You was in the mainland film industry, Wu Jing and Xu Zheng were still acting in TV series?

As a result, he signed a contract with Yinghuang at his peak, and he was miserable.

When Ge You got out of this pit, Wu Jing, Xu Zheng, and Wang Baoqiang had risen, and the audience no longer recognized Uncle Ge.

Once one of the most appealing actors in the mainland, it quickly declined.

Lee Shengyao believes that Yinghuang can get hot money, after all, Hong Kong Island is known as the freest city in the world, and there is a lot of money from unknown sources.

But he can't believe in Yinghuang, Yang Shoucheng is very ruthless to everyone except Nicholas Tse and Joey Yung.

Not to mention Director Li's movies, the copyright is in his hands, he will not make movies for other people, and then give up the copyright.

Unless the movie is really good enough.

Yinghuang obviously doesn't have such a movie in his hands, let Nicholas Tse play a chef, "The Battle of the God of Food" is already their top production.

"It's okay, I'm not interested."

When Huo Wenxi heard this, his eyes widened, his eyes were full of doubts, and he was silent for a moment before he came back to his senses.

"I know, you can't trust Yinghuang."

Talking to smart people is a matter of convenience.

Li Shengyao nodded, "That's half right." ”

Huo Wenxi thought for a while, and then said: "You cooperate with Yinghuang, we can help you find a building on Hong Kong Island, and sell it to you as a cinema when the time comes." ”

"What's the matter, China Film doesn't have a cinema on Hong Kong Island."

When Li Shengyao heard this, he was a little moved in his heart, just like Huo Wenxi said, China Film does not have a cinema on Hong Kong Island, if Fenghua can build a cinema on Hong Kong Island, it will be of great significance.

But then he thought about the high housing prices on Hong Kong Island and immediately understood that it wasn't a good deal.

With this money, it is better to build a cinema in the mainland, because it is cheaper to buy a house in the mainland, and the market is developing rapidly.

"I'm not interested."

Huo Wenxi clasped his hands on his chest and looked puzzled, "You are not willing to cooperate like this, you have a deep prejudice against Yinghuang." ”

……

It's not just Yinghuang who came to Li Shengyao to cooperate, but there are many people who want to cooperate with him, including Hong Kong Island, Bend, and mainland film and television companies.

These people all saw the success of "Avatar" and wanted to come to the film industry to make money.

Li Shengyao is famous, so naturally there are many people looking for him.

However, in the face of such a thing, Director Li refused all of them, and he didn't even bother to meet those people.

Li Shengyao knows very well that in the mainland film market, there has never been a thing where any film can make money.

The mainland film market is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more movies are produced every year, but there are always a few people who make money, and this has never changed.

Now that hot money is pouring in, these people think that it is easy to make a lot of money by making movies, which is wishful thinking.

Movies aren't that easy.

It wasn't until this evening that Xu Zheng called Li Shengyao to ask him for a massage, and Li Shengyao agreed to meet.

Director Li soon arrived at the place and saw Xu Zheng and a boy.

Xu Zheng was still the same as before, thin and thin, with a wry smile of self-deprecation on his face.

He has always been the temperament of a failed middle-aged man.

The boy next to him is very young, looking less than thirty years old, with long hair, very good, a bit of a literary young man.

This person's name is Yang Qing, and he and Xu Zheng worked together to make the script of "People in Embarrassment", and later he also directed "Hot Pot Hero".

"Let's go, let's have a full massage."

Lee Sing Yew actually has a lot of time, and he also likes massages.

But he never went to a massage alone.

He still likes to massage and chat at the same time, just like fighting with Xu and Ning Hao.

I guess that's more atmospheric.

Ning Hao and Xu Zheng completed the filming of "No Man's Land", and Ning Hao is in post-production and is very busy.

Xu Zheng filmed "No Man's Land", and he was thinking about making a new movie, and this time he wanted to make a movie he liked, so he found Li Shengyao.

An hour later, Li Shengyao, Xu Zheng, and Yang Qing lay on the massage table together, and the three eldest sisters massaged them.

"Director Li, I used my brains with Xiao Yang and thought of a very interesting comedy."

Li Shengyao nodded, "What type of comedy?" ”

"A road comedy about a successful man in the city who travels thousands of miles from north to south with a migrant worker."

Isn't this "People in Embarrassment"?

"Okay, bring me the script another day."

Xu Zheng didn't expect Director Li to agree so quickly, and he still had something to say.

"Director Li, about this movie, our budget is 30 million, I want to be the actor of this movie, Xiao Yang and I are very confident, we hope that the final box office of the movie will exceed 100 million."

When Li Shengyao heard this, he couldn't help frowning and looked over puzzled.

"Budget 30 million."

In his previous life, "People in Embarrassment" had a very good reputation, but the box office was actually not very high, only 30 million.

However, this movie has no big stars, no big scenes, and the cost is only 7 million, even if it is 30 million at the box office, the producer still makes money.

Xu Zheng nodded, with a look of expectation in his eyes, "Director Li, the cost of 30 million, the movie can return to its original cost if it breaks 100 million." ”

Li Shengyao was stunned for a moment, and then reflected that the high box office of "Avatar" really affected all people in the film and television industry.

Xu Zheng has always starred in movies that break 100 million, and he thinks that it is very simple for movies to break 100 million.

He smiled, and then said: "Xu Zheng, this movie is directed by Yang Qing, you should be an actor honestly first."

When Xu Zheng and Yang Qing heard Li Shengyao's words, they both looked over with blank expressions.

Li Shengyao understood what the two of them meant, but his decision would not change.

Xu Zheng's strength as a director is far inferior to that of a producer, he does not have the strength to be a director, his works as a director, the main line is very noisy, the editing is unnatural, and it is awkward to watch.

Xu Zheng is suitable for producers and acting.

If he invests in "People in Embarrassment" and asks others to be directors, he will not let Xu Zheng be the director.

(End of chapter)