Chapter 1377

Lucas Ben is one of the largest film distributors in the United States. He has been cooperating with DreamWorks for many years and has a good personal relationship with Spielberg. Spielberg and Li Mu have joint venture to transplant the animal husbandry film ticketing system to the American cinema. Indeed, because of the convenience of the online ticketing system, Lucas has brought a comprehensive improvement to the whole box office market. With the relationship with Spielberg, Lucas has become Among them, the most benefited.

Lucas himself is not only a loyal supporter of the film and television ticketing system, but also a loyal supporter of Li Mu. He has always wanted to meet Li Mu, but also suffered from the lack of a suitable opportunity. What he didn't expect this time is that Li Mu even asked Spielberg to help him introduce North American distributors, and Spielberg found himself, which is perfect.

Lucas' company is also trying to contact Makino image, hoping to get the copyright of zombie film, and then make a small profit in North America during the off-season. Moreover, Lucas specially found copies of "Mr. zombie" and other zombie films for internal small scale screening. After watching the film, everyone commented very well.

The main reason for the high evaluation is that the movie itself is more interesting and humorous, especially for the audience who has not been exposed to zombie movies. It is important to know that Mr. zombie has opened up the first river of zombie movies and directly brought zombie movies into the golden period. Therefore, the movie has a very good effect on popularizing zombie movies.

For these American filmmakers, the film itself has the possibility of operation if its quality is good. What's more, the film is full of Oriental mysterious elements. Every detail makes people feel novel, and the logic of the film itself is also very strict. It can explain the formation, attack, spread and restraint of zombies perfectly, and it can't be found What bug? It's more interesting for them.

Finally, the new version of "plant vs. zombie online" really planted the seeds of curiosity for everyone's psychology and the preliminary impression of Chinese zombies, so there are more expectations for this movie. After seeing that the content of this movie can correspond to the image in the game, the viewing experience has been further improved.

Based on these facts, Lucas, with his keen sense of working for many years, concluded that if Mr. zombie was released in North America, it would not be a big problem to win $50 million at the box office on the basis of the present mass.

Moreover, it's only one. Li Mu, the animal, has bought all the rights of zombie films and TV series accumulated in Hong Kong for so many years. If Mr. zombie becomes popular, there will be at least tens of millions of dollars or even hundreds of millions of dollars of box office space for the whole Chinese Zombie theme.

For the sake of the box office, I would like to go to Huaxia and have a talk with Muye Yingxiang in person to prove my sincerity. If I have a chance to see Li Mu, it would be great.

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Spielberg told Li Mu by phone about Lucas' decision to come to Beijing. Li Mu was not prepared to follow up the matter in person, but when Spielberg said that Lucas was one of the largest film distributors in the United States, he decided to meet him in person.

Lucas rushed to Yanjing with two purposes. One is to discuss the distribution rights of zombie movies in North America, the other is to meet with Li Mu.

Although Lucas is very influential in the American film industry, his influence will be greatly reduced if he jumps out of the film industry. Especially in front of the big entrepreneurs and the top rich, people in the film industry have no status to speak of. Let alone Lucas, even Harvey Weinstein, who is the most powerful man in Hollywood, will be a good boy in the abstinence Department on Wall Street.

Because of this, Lucas especially hopes to see Li Mu on this trip to China under Spielberg's guidance.

When he got a clear reply from Spielberg and told Li Mu that he would like to meet him in Yanjing before boarding the plane, he was excited all the way for more than ten hours. Instead of closing his eyes, he did not feel tired at all.

When the plane landed at Yanjing airport, it was 2:00 p.m. Yanjing time. Li Mu arranged the driver of Muye technology to meet him at the airport. At the same time, he asked the driver to make two arrangements for him on behalf of himself: first, go to the hotel to have a rest, tomorrow morning to meet with Li Mu at Muye technology, or directly to meet with Li Mu at Muye technology.

Lucas almost immediately chose the latter, although he had not closed his eyes for more than 20 hours.

The driver took Lucas to Makino technology and gave him to Makino technology's administrator. A moment later, Li Ziwei knocked on the door of LiMou's office and said to him, "President Li, Lucas Ben of the United States has come. Do you want to see him now?"

Li Mu nodded, "let him in."

A moment later, Lucas followed Li Ziwei to Li Mu's office. When Lucas saw Li Mu himself, he said excitedly, "Hello, Mr. Li, it's a great honor to meet you!"

"Nice to meet you, too." Li Mu replied in fluent English, then came out of his desk, pointed to the sofa in the reception area, and said to him, "have-a-seat-please, Mr.Ben 。”

Lucas heard Li Mu call himself Mr.Ben "Mr. Li, please call me Lucas."Li Mu nodded and smiled: "OK, Lucas, please sit down. Would you like some coffee or some tea?"

"Coffee, thank you!" Although Lucas was very energetic, he was already tired and worried about his lack of condition in the interview with Li Mu.

Li Mu then said to Li Ziwei, "arrange to pour Lucas a cup of coffee and make me a cup of tea."

"Good Mr. Li." Li Ziwei said and turned away. Li Mu sat opposite Lucas and said to him, "welcome to China Lucas, especially when it's said that China is very dangerous. It takes courage."

Lucas said with a smile, "Mr. Li, we have learned about the actual situation of Yanjing epidemic through your statement. I don't think Yanjing is as dangerous as many media exaggerate."

Said Lucas: "what's more, I come to Yanjing to meet you. Even if it's dangerous, I must come here."

Li Mu smiled and said, "Lucas, I think Steven has told you what I need?"

"Yes." Lucas nodded repeatedly and said, "he told me that you want to release Hong Kong's 1985" Mr. zombie "in North America. I'm very interested in that movie and I'm very optimistic about it, so I hurried to catch up by plane."

Li Mu asked him, "do you know the movie Mr. zombie?"

Lucas said: "of course, since the new version of" plant vs. zombie online "was updated, some elements and backgrounds about Chinese zombies have been very popular in North America. Most people want to know more about the details of Chinese zombie legends. There are many articles and contents that use this movie material to explain on the Internet. In the" Mr. zombie "movie In the movie, it explains the background of Chinese zombies, the reasons for their formation, their combat effectiveness and the way to deal with them. In particular, the role of Taoist priest is very interesting, and his skills are also very interesting. Therefore, the audience is very looking forward to the movie. In my opinion, the movie has a good potential audience base. If it can be shown in North America, the box office will certainly be better than that Considerable. "

Li Mu asked him, "how much box office do you think you can make if this film is handed over to you for the distribution of the whole North America?"

"Fifty million dollars, maybe more!" Lucas said: "the popularity of the public is very high now. If it can be released as soon as possible, to avoid wasting or even missing the popularity, I don't think $60.7 million is a problem."

Li Mu nodded and asked him, "if we cooperate, according to your normal process and rules of introducing overseas film copyright, how much can the copyright party get at the actual box office?"

"It doesn't have to be, we've done something that doesn't cost a cent at the box office, and we've done something that's 30% or more," Lucas said

Li Mu asked curiously, "and the copyright owners don't share it?"

"Yes." Lucas said: "but they are all films made by small people. The copyright owners usually want to open up the situation, so they prefer to divide one cent of the box office into Chengdu, and hope we can help them to open up their influence. However, such films are generally of poor quality. Even if we don't want one cent of Chengdu, we may not be willing to operate. After all, if the films are too bad, The cinema will also refuse to arrange films. "

Speaking of this, lucaston said: "the normal commercial films are generally about 20-30%. If you are willing to hand over the North American distribution right of Mr. zombie to my company, then I can give you the highest share proportion within my ability, 35%!"

For Lucas, he went to China to make money, which was the second thing. The key was to get on the line of Li Mu. Li Mu's movie ticket system will play an increasingly important and influential role in the North American box office in the future. In this case, he will have many opportunities to deal with Li Mu's enterprises and platforms in the future. If he plays with Li Mu in advance A good relationship is a very favorable guarantee for oneself.

Li Mu heard him say 35%. I knew that the offer he gave was really good. Apart from the share he gave to the cinema and various taxes, he gave himself 35%. Lucas worked for himself in this business.

Lucas thought that Li Mu would be very satisfied with this sincere offer, but the first sentence of Li Mu's opening was: "if I only need 15%, then I will take the additional 20%, 10% to you, 10% to the cinema, how much room do you think the box office can be improved?"

"Give 10% more to the lines?" Lucas asked off.

Li Mu nodded: "yes, you and the cinema are 10% each. What I want is not how much money I can earn, but how much box office can this movie finally achieve in North America. Can you understand what I mean?"

Lucas nodded at once.

Li Mu didn't want to make more money, but he hoped that the box office would be as high as possible, and he would certainly like to raise the influence of the film to the highest.

Think about it. If it's only a matter of tens of millions of dollars at the box office, even if Li Mu's Muye image is 35%, it's only $120 million. Such a little money is not worth his energy, not to mention his special time to see himself. What he wants is not money, but influence.Thinking about this, Lucas immediately said: "Mr. Li, if you only have 15% of the box office, then I promise you that I will return the remaining 20% to the cinema in various forms!"