Chapter 1132 A World of Difference

Indeed, no one is willing to take over for "Hero" overseas!

If you just watch this movie, the content itself is not attractive enough to Westerners, and the cast is relatively unfamiliar. Except for a few who have a certain influence in Hollywood, other actors are basically unfamiliar to Western audiences. Faces, do not have a box office basis.

Although it is somewhat well-known now, it was a movie named by Li Mu and participated in killing Li Mu's innovative products. Just this, it is doomed that no one dares to take the copyright of this movie.

YY is already a world-class product, and its users are all over the world. In this case, no one ignores the influence of YY, and the power of the Muying ticketing system has shocked and shocked all practitioners in the film and television industry. Crazy, everyone hopes that the Shepherd Film ticketing system will one day be able to land on the film market in their area. If someone takes over "Heroes" at this time, wouldn't it make themselves uncomfortable?

Therefore, even if "Hero" has a certain profit margin, there is absolutely no company in the industry that is willing to bet the price of offending Muye Technology, Muye Imaging, and Li Mu to operate this film.

The cruel reality has caused the entire producers of "Heroes" to fall into despair. The current situation is that their films cannot be sold with overseas copyrights. Without cooperation with overseas companies and theaters, they naturally cannot be released overseas, so the overseas box office is basically It's just wishful thinking. In addition, overseas DVDs are also in vain. Without the cooperation of the distribution company, it is absolutely impossible for the producer of "Heroes" to legally distribute and sell even a single DVD in any country.

Losing the bottom line is basically a sure thing!

At the team meeting, many people shed tears. Originally, they planned to use this film to make a big name, but they did not expect to be defeated like a mountain, and there was no room for them. The most expensive film in movie history...

This kind of blow like the sky is falling, for the entire "Hero" production team, it is devastating, everyone becomes extremely depressed in an instant, this movie is messed up, their next way is It is much more difficult to go, from the director to the producer to the screenwriter to the actor, to the producer, the reputation and word of mouth will be greatly affected.

Only then did Director Zhang realize that Li Mu played a Go game for "Hero" and directly trapped the entire "Hero" in his game, so that "Hero" could not break through the shackles with all his strength, and could only be He was bound in a cage with no chance of survival.

At this time, Li Mu didn't know what kind of fate "Hero" would face and what kind of losses he would bear. He had always been adhering to the non-contact competition of fair competition, not attacking the opponent, and not slandering the opponent, but the "Hero" team secretly found himself It's troublesome, and I haven't wiped my ass and let myself grab the handle, so I can't blame myself for not giving him a way to live!

With the infinite loneliness of "Hero",

In sharp contrast to it, "Those Years", as a campus clear stream, continues to nourish the hearts of every audience, and the box office is constantly creating new records.

From the day it was released, the box office of "Those Years" has been advancing rapidly. After breaking through the 300 million yuan mark, it continued to rush upwards, and there is no momentum to stop at all. Now it is about to touch 400 million yuan, which has shocked the whole country. .

Interestingly, many viewers who were unwilling to spend money to go to the cinema were also forced to enter the cinema, because they had been waiting for the pirated version of "Those Years", but found that they could not buy it.

It's not just this group of users, most people can't buy the pirated CD of the movie "Those Years" in the pirated disk market, although many people go to various pirated video stores and booths every day to inquire, hoping to buy it. The discs of "Those Years" can even be pirated, but the vast majority of pirated sellers can only say to the customers who come to them: "Sorry, there is no "Those Years"."

Not long after the release of "Those Years", pirates did make a small fortune by this. The original pirated disk of five yuan a piece, because of the popularity of the movie, the price of "Those Years" is still in short supply at ten yuan, and even some Some shop owners who specialize in renting discs buy a dozen or twenty discs in one go, and they can rent them all in one day. Other movie discs are one piece a day, and only two pieces a day are still empty in seconds.

However, such a good day did not last a few days.

When the box office of "Those Years" exceeded 100 million, local business departments received an order to comprehensively crack down on pirated products related to "Those Years".

Relevant authorities knew about Li Mu's influence. His first big movie was released. If he was really hit by piracy and suffered heavy losses, what would he do if Li Mu attacked the industry and commerce department in front of the media? Who will fight this big bag? Instead of doing this, it is better to take the initiative to let the following engage in a special operation to crack down on all pirated products related to "Those Years", and naturally there will be no remaining risks.

This is really hard for those pirated peddlers. Usually, the industry and commerce don’t care about it at all. Unexpectedly, the industry and commerce and the urban management are checking together. When they see the pirated discs selling “Those Years”, they seize all the discs and confiscate all the discs, which makes the pirated merchants panic.

The most irritating thing is that when the pirates began to deliberately hide from the industrial and commercial city management, the industry and commerce and the city management began to enforce the law in plainclothes. It was said to be plainclothes law enforcement, but it was actually more like fishing law enforcement, usually sending some young girls in plainclothes to the pirate vendors. There, with a harmless look on his face, he asked: "Boss, do you have a set of "Those Years"?"

As long as the boss said yes, and then took out the plate, he would immediately swarm out a large number of plainclothes law enforcement officers and urban management officers from all directions, and copy all the discs.

In this way, almost all the pirated dealers have failed in "Those Years", and some even failed more than once.

After several times, pirated dealers from all over the country basically dare not sell "Those Years". Although the market demand is extremely strong, they still do not dare to buy them, let alone sell them on the streets. These people have been pulling equipment around the country to produce pirated discs all year round. When they encounter popular movies and popular albums, they immediately turn on their horses. They wish they could use 200% of the production capacity to produce crazy and make a lot of money, but this time they really hit the wall.

A businessman who is currently manufacturing pirated discs in a rural area in Guangdong Province is worried about the hundreds of thousands of "Those Years" CDs in his warehouse.

The film source used in his batch of CDs is the best pirated version on the market, with high brightness, good color, and stable picture, and the most commendable thing is that the quality of the people in the theater was very high during the pirated recording, and no one was making any noise. There were no children crying, so the businessman bought a copy at a high price of 20,000 yuan, and after he came back, he worked hard to make plates.

The first 30,000 copies were snapped up by the distributors below. When he saw that the profit was too large, he did not hesitate to increase the horsepower and produced 200,000 copies in one go. It was returned by the distributor, which left his husband at a loss.

This fucking is the best selling plate on the market! Why did you all return it to me?

Distributors expressed their opinions one after another: "Brother, this film is easy to sell, but it's easy to get into trouble! Many distributors have even handed over pirated copies of this movie to their mother's nest, and people have also entered, we think Make money, but don't want to go to jail."

"My day, you weren't so afraid of selling Japanese films in previous years! Are there ghosts in "Those Years"?"

Although the pirates are puzzled, in the face of this situation, they can only smash their teeth and swallow them in the stomach. At the same time, they will accept all the returns. There is no way. In the future, they will rely on these distributors to make money. If they are annoyed this time If they do, the CDs produced in the future will have to be sold on the street by themselves.

After such a thing happened a few times, the entire piracy industry chain has clarified a purpose, don't touch "Those Years" if you think about it...

Not only the production and sales industry chain of pirated discs has been impacted, but even the rental business of pirated discs has received strong control from industry and commerce and urban management. Any disc rental shop with "Those Years" will confiscate the disc for the first time and close the door for the second time. .

Unlike those pirated vendors who sell at street stalls, disc rental has a fixed storefront, and there is no way to move the case, so when the industry and commerce and the city management team up to fight, they will immediately admit it, and no one dares to rent again. "Those Years" idea.

It is because of such a strong crackdown on piracy that it supports the back end, and the box office growth momentum of "Those Years" can achieve a completely unstoppable effect.

The box office of nearly 400 million is definitely the first time for a Chinese commercial film, and the shock of this number to the industry is too great. Before this, no one dared to imagine that the box office of a movie could be Breaking through 200 million, 300 million or even 400 million, they originally thought that Huaxia users did not like to spend money to watch movies, but what they did not expect was that Li Mu had his own way to make these users flock to the cinema. come here.

The media has been tracking and reporting the box office miracle of "Those Years", and film critics have begun to speculate on what level the film's final box office can reach. While watching the tragic death of "Hero", industry insiders secretly vowed not to fight against Li Mu in the future. , while pondering that since there is such a market for campus youth-type movies, why don't you shoot more?

As a result, in late December 2002, many film and television companies began to set up projects, preparing to shoot a campus youth love drama, and even some fast-moving ones have already started filming.

And just when the box office reached 390 million in those years and was about to break the 400 million mark, Li Mu suddenly received news that Harvey, a famous Hollywood actor, had come to China and was waiting to meet Li Mu in Yanjing.

Li Mu had heard a little about Harvey, and knew that this was an industry scum with a very scumbag character based on the values ​​of Chinese people. He came all the way to China, and he wanted to see himself, and 80% of the time he came to the Muying ticketing system. yes...)!!