Chapter 1376

Li Mu hopes to improve the overseas coverage and influence of zombie movies as much as possible. Based on this, he requires Muye image to find a powerful issuer, and then reduce the proportion of Muye image.

According to the normal situation, for most countries, the box office share of overseas film input and film parties should be between 25-35%, and most of them should be in the 30% position. Li Muna's cost of these copyrights is surprisingly low. He can recover all his own copyright investment and even surplus just by relying on the copyright income broadcast by domestic TV stations. Therefore, the income from overseas licensing to Li Muna It's not that important.

Immediately, Makino image formulated a cooperation tone within the company, only looking for the most influential distributor in the national market. If the other party does not contact with them actively, Makino image can contact with them initiatively. However, the cooperation requirement of Makino image is that the box office share can be reduced to 15% or even 10%, but the film arrangement rate must be guaranteed, and the distributor must be in cooperation with the company It is clear in the contract that 50% of the income that the image of Muye gives up should be allocated to the cinema.

Giving more profit space to the distributors will make them work harder for the promotion and landing of the film, and giving more profit space to the theatres will make them take the initiative to put out more film arranging resources.

If the attendance rate of movie a is 10% higher than that of Movie B, the cinema will naturally prefer to arrange more films for movie a, but if the distribution profit of Movie B is 10% or 15% higher, the cinema will prefer the latter.

The overseas market is very fragmented. The core battle areas are North America and Europe, followed by Japan and South Korea. The rest are a large number of countries. Traditional film distributors, even Hollywood's top film and television companies, are hard to achieve global promotion, but the Internet is an exception. If globalization is the trend of all walks of life, then globalization is the fundamental foundation of the three words , is the Internet, so, in all walks of life has not really achieved globalization today, the only way to achieve globalization, only the Internet.

The strong point of "plant vs. zombie online" is that it has a wide coverage and is suitable for the young and the old. After the new version comes out, the players have a high degree of acceptance, so they have a strong curiosity about the Chinese zombies themselves. This is very important, which means that they have done a good job of preheating zombie movies in the global scope in advance.

In order to improve the performance of "Mr. zombie" in the North American market, Li Mu specially contacted Spielberg, hoping that he could introduce himself to a publisher with enough ability to promote the release of the film in the North American market as soon as possible.

Spielberg is busy shooting the Flying Tigers. A few days ago, under the pressure of China's SARS, he led the team to China and set up a shooting site in Chuncheng. Then he never left China and focused on his work. Naturally, he didn't have time to pay attention to what was happening on the Internet. Even the new version of "plant vs. zombie online" hasn't been heard of.

When Spielberg suddenly heard that Li Mu wanted to release a film made in Hong Kong in the United States in 1985, his idea was that it would not be possible for the 85 year old film in the United States to be re released, even if it was a DVD and video market, there was no room for it. What's more, a Hong Kong film, Li Mu, even if it had strong influence, could not force the audience to be a 8 Five years of Hong Kong movies.

However, Spielberg didn't explain this directly because he knew Li Mu's routine. He believed that it was difficult for ordinary people to make him change his mind. Even if he broke his tongue, he still wouldn't give up. What's more, he asked himself for help. If he refused to help, it would be a kind of injury to the cooperation between the two people.

Therefore, Spielberg can only promise to Li Mu that he will communicate with publishers he knows so as to help Li Mu to promote cooperation.

Later, Spielberg immediately called DreamWorks, one of the most cooperative and closest distributors. He expected to ask for help from the other party. If the other party refused, he would go in with some human feelings. Li Mu rarely dragged himself to help. If he was uncertain this time, he could not hang on his face.

Spielberg has been in contact with Chinese people recently, and has more or less understood some of their human feelings. He regards this kind of human feelings as an oriental philosophy of life and has studied it for some time.

At this time, it was night in Los Angeles time. When Spielberg called, he joked like an old friend: "Hey, Steven, how about being in China? Are you infected with the terrible SARS? "

"Shit, Lucas." Spielberg smiled helplessly and said, "China is safe, at least safer than the United States. You may not be able to hear a gunshot when you live here for 30 years."

"Ha ha." The other side said with a smile, "I can't imagine how it would be when there was no gun. Two days ago, there was a shooting in Hollywood. A brain cripple who would always play the third-line role in the third-line TV series shot and killed a director and a screenwriter on the set. I just went to the next set to have an interview that day and almost scared me to pee my pants."

Spielberg said with a smile: "you should thank God, you are such a bastard, and God still keeps protecting you."

"Come on." "The other side smiled and asked," what's the matter with calling me half a world away, manSpielberg said with a smile, "do you know Li Mu? It's Li Mu of Muye technology. "

“Fuck！” The voice of the other party immediately got serious and said, "of course, I know. Otherwise, it's just his movie and animal husbandry ticketing system that helps me a lot. Otherwise, how could the box office be as good as it is now? The Internet is a real ox, Li is a real ox. that guy is a god!"

"All right." Spielberg smiled: "since you know him, then what I'm going to say next, you need more snacks. After all, Li Mu has brought you a lot of help."

"You say!"

"That's it..." Spielberg said in a voice of some embarrassment, "Li Mu has a film made in Hong Kong in 1985. Yes, you haven't heard of it. In 1985, the film of the 1980s was called" Mr. zombie ". According to him, it's about what China zombie started the mountain. I'm sorry, I don't know what the hell China zombie is..."

The other side laughs and interrupts: "shit Steven, you are out of touch with the times now! China zombie, this is a Chinese zombie. It's a mess now! Don't you play plant vs. zombie online? Even my three-year-old grandson can play. "

"Oh, please..." Spielberg helplessly said: "I'm working, nearly $200 million investment in big production, it's draining all my energy, I have no energy to play computer games!"! But I've played this game before. What does it have to do with China zombie? "

"They have a new version!" The other side said with a smile: "in the new version, a lot of Chinese native elements have been added, among which there is a whole set of image and system about China zombie. To be honest, people's Zombie system is much more interesting than our zombie and vampire. At least people's upgrade system is very clear and huge. Unlike us, our zombies are almost the same, with the same level of combat power and suction There is no clear hierarchy for the strength of blood ghosts, only to see who lives longer... "

As he said that, the other party suddenly turned to himself and asked, "wait, Steven, what did you say just now? Li Mu has a Hong Kong zombie movie? God, does he want to cooperate with us?! Released in North America? "

Spielberg said, "if you feel embarrassed, don't force yourself, oh no!"! I hope you can help me... "

"God!" The other side said excitedly, "Steven, if you can win the North American distribution rights of this movie, you are helping me!"

"What?!" Spielberg was full of wonder and perplexity.

The other side said excitedly, "you know, now everyone is talking about Chinese zombies. Many people have disassembled Chinese zombie movies into image interpretation, which has aroused great curiosity and attention on the Internet. Everyone wants to see a Chinese zombie movie in the cinema. It's really fucking mysterious. It's said that they have a profession specialized in dealing with zombies, With a piece of yellow paper, you can stop the zombies. With glutinous rice, black dog blood and black donkey's feet, you can drive the zombies away, just like our vampires are afraid of sunlight and garlic. It's an interesting setting... "

Spielberg was puzzled, and asked him, "you mean, now American audiences are looking forward to seeing a 1985 Hong Kong movie in the cinema?"

"Yes!" The other side said excitedly, "everyone hopes to spend a few dollars to understand the mysterious oriental culture. It's so damn worth it. To see an exhibition of foreign cultures, the tickets are at least tens of dollars, so there's no money to go!"

Spielberg felt that the three views had been subverted, but in another way, Li Mu did things like this! Impossible things become possible when they arrive at him, and there will always be many amazing operations.

So Spielberg asked him, "would you like to release this movie in North America?"

"Shit Steven, of course I do. I'm too fucking willing! Do you know how many distributors around the world want to get the distribution rights of this film? God, too many, and now Makino hasn't responded to these requests. If you can help me win the North American distribution rights of this movie, I will fly to China to kiss your ass in person! "

Spielberg said: "Li Mu is asking me to help find a powerful North American distributor. In this case, let me help you lead the line. Specifically, you can talk with Li Mu's people in detail!"

"Great!" The other side was very surprised and said: "you can help me to convey Li Mu. Now it's the stage where cinema films are relatively scarce. If we can, we'd better release them as soon as possible, otherwise it will be difficult to operate until the summer vacation. Now the vacancy rate of cinema lines is more than 60% as a whole. At that time, I will try my best to make the most of this movie in North America!"

"I think it's necessary for you to come to China," Spielberg said with a smile. "Li Mu cares about each other's sincerity."

The other end of the phone was silent for a moment, and suddenly decided, "OK, I'll fly to Yanjing tomorrow morning!"

"Do you have a visa?""Of course I do!"