Chapter 1377 Lucas Arrives in Beijing

Lucas Ben is one of the largest film distributors in the United States. He has cooperated with DreamWorks for many years and has a very good personal relationship with Spielberg. Spielberg and Li Mu have a joint venture to transplant the Muying ticketing system to American cinemas. Indeed, because of the convenience of the online ticket system, it has brought a comprehensive improvement to the entire box office market, and Lucas has benefited the most by virtue of his relationship with Spielberg.

Lucas himself is not only a loyal supporter of the Muying Ticketing System, but also a loyal supporter of Li Mu. He has always wanted to get acquainted with Li Mu, but he has no suitable opportunity. What he did not expect this time was that Li Mu actually Asking Spielberg to help him introduce North American publishers, and Spielberg finding himself again, was perfect.

Lucas' company itself is also trying to contact Makino Imaging, hoping to get the copyright of the zombie film, and then take advantage of this off-season to make a small profit in North America, and Lucas also specifically found "Mr. Zombie" and other Several copies of the zombie film were tested on a small scale within the company, and after everyone saw the film, the evaluation was very good.

The reason for the high evaluation is that the movie itself is more interesting and witty, especially for audiences who have not been exposed to zombie movies. You must know that "Mr. Zombie" has opened up a precedent for zombie movies and directly brings zombie movies Entering the golden period, it can be seen that this movie has a very good effect on popularizing zombie movies.

For these American filmmakers, the film itself is of good quality and already has the possibility of operation, not to mention that this film is full of oriental mysterious elements, every detail feels novel, and the logic of the film itself is also It is very rigorous and can explain the formation of zombies, the attack, spread and restraint methods of zombies very well, and no bugs can be found, which is even more interesting to them.

Finally, the new version of "Plants vs. Zombies Online" has indeed planted the seeds of curiosity and a general impression of the Chinese zombies in everyone's mind, so I have a little more expectation for this movie. After the content can correspond to the image in the game, the viewing experience has been greatly improved.

Based on these actual situations, Lucas, with his keen sense of smell in the industry for many years, deduces that if "Mr. Zombie" is released in North America, with the current mass base, it is not a big problem to win the box office of 50 million US dollars.

Moreover, this is just one. Li Mu has bought all the zombie-themed movies and TV drama copyrights accumulated in Hong Kong over the years. If "Mr. Zombie" is an instant hit, there will be at least thousands of zombie-themed follow-ups in China. $10,000 or even hundreds of millions of dollars in box office space.

For the sake of these box office, why do you have to go to Huaxia and talk to Muye Imaging in person to prove your sincerity. If there is a chance to meet Li Mu, that would be great.

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Spielberg told Li Mu by phone of Lucas' decision to come to Beijing. Li Mu was not going to follow up on the matter in person, but when he heard Spielberg say that Lucas is the largest film distributor in the United States One of them decided to meet him in person.

Lucas rushed to Yanjing for two purposes. One was to discuss the North American distribution rights of zombie films, and the other was to meet Li Mu.

Although Lucas is very influential in the American film industry, when he jumps out of the film circle, his influence is greatly reduced, especially in front of big entrepreneurs and top rich people, people in the film circle have no status at all, let alone Lucas, even the all-powerful Harvey Weinstein in Hollywood, has to be an ascetic darling when he arrives on Wall Street.

Because of this, Lucas placed his hopes on this trip to China, and hoped that he would be able to meet Li Mu with Spielberg's help.

And when he got a clear reply from Spielberg before boarding the plane, informing him that Li Mu was willing to meet him in Yanjing, he was very excited. After more than ten hours of flight, not only did he not close his eyes, but he Not at all tired.

When the plane landed at Yanjing Airport, it was two o'clock in the afternoon of Yanjing time. Li Mu arranged for 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: go to the hotel to rest first, and then come to Muye Technology tomorrow morning. Meet with Li Mu, or go directly to Muye Technology to meet Li Mu.

Lucas chose the latter almost without hesitation, even though he had not slept for more than 20 hours.

The driver took Lucas to Muye Technology, and handed it over to the administrative staff of Muye Technology. After a while, Li Ziwei knocked on the door of Li Mu's office and said to him: "Mr. Li, Lucas Ben from the United States has come, Do you want to see him now?"

Li Mu nodded: "Let him come in."

After a while, 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!"

"It's an honor to meet you." Li Mu replied in fluent English, then walked 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 calling himself Mr.Ben, and hurriedly said respectfully, "Mr. Li, just call me Lucas."

Li Mu nodded and said with a smile, "Okay, Lucas, please sit down. Would you like some coffee or tea?"

"Coffee, thank you!" Although Lucas was very excited, his body was already feeling tired, and he was worried that he was not in a good state during the interview with Li Mu.

Li Mu said to Li Ziwei, "Arrange to pour a cup of coffee for Lucas, and make me a cup of tea by the way."

"Okay, Mr. Li." After Li Ziwei finished speaking, she turned and left. Li Mu sat opposite Lucas and said to him, "Welcome to Huaxia Lucas, especially when it is rumored that Huaxia is dangerous. It takes courage."

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

After speaking, Lucas said again: "What's more, I came to Yanjing to meet you. No matter how dangerous it is, I must rush over."

Li Mu smiled slightly and said, "Lucas, I think Steven has already told you about my needs, right?"

"Yes." Lucas nodded again and again and said, "He told me that you wanted to release the 1985 Hong Kong movie "Mr. Zombie" in North America. It happened that I was very interested and optimistic about that movie, so I quickly Came here by plane."

Li Mu asked him, "Do you also know about the movie "Mr. Zombie"?"

Lucas hurriedly said: "Of course, since the new version of "Plants vs. Zombies Online" was updated, some elements and backgrounds about Huaxia Zombies have been very popular in North America, and most people want to know more about the legend of Huaxia Zombies. For details, there are many articles and content on the Internet that use the material of this movie to explain. In the movie "Mr. Zombie", it explains the background, reasons, fighting power and methods of dealing with them very well. , especially the role of Taoist priest is very interesting and his skills are very interesting, so the audience is looking forward to this movie. In my opinion, this movie already has a good potential audience base. If it can be released in North America If so, the box office will definitely be more impressive.”

Li Mu asked him, "What do you think, if you were to distribute this film throughout North America, how much box office would you be able to do?"

"Five 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 six or seven million dollars is a problem."

Li Mu nodded and asked him, "If we cooperate, according to your normal procedures and rules for importing overseas film copyrights, how much of the actual box office can the copyright owner get?"

Lucas said: "This is not necessarily the case. We have done things that don't take a penny at the box office at all, and we have also done 30% or higher."

Li Mu asked curiously, "And the copyright owner should not share it?"

"Yes." Lucas said: "But those are some niche, small-production films. The copyright owners generally want to open up the situation, so they would rather not take a penny from the box office, and I hope we can help them open up their influence. , but the quality of such films is generally relatively poor, even if we don’t want to pay a penny, we may not be willing to operate it, after all, if the film is too bad, the theater chain will refuse to arrange it.”

Speaking of which, Lucaston paused and said, "Normal commercial films are generally around 20-30%. If you are willing to hand over the North American distribution rights of "Mr. Zombie" to my company, then I can I'll give you the highest share within my ability, 35%!"

For Lucas, making a trip to China is the second priority, and connecting with Li Mu is the key. The Muying ticketing system in Li Mu's hands will play an important and influential role in the North American box office in the future. It will definitely get bigger and bigger. In this case, I will definitely have many opportunities to deal with Li Mu's companies and platforms in the future. If I have a good relationship with Li Mu in advance, it will be a very beneficial guarantee for me.

Li Mu heard him say 35%. I knew that the offer he gave was really good, except for the share of the theater and various taxes and fees, giving himself 35%, Lucas was working for himself in this transaction.

Lucas originally thought that Li Mu would be very satisfied with this sincere offer, but unexpectedly, Li Mu's first sentence was to ask: "If I only want 15%, and then split the extra 20%, 10% For you, 10% to the theater chain, how much room do you think the movie box office can improve?"

"Give the theater 10% more?" Lucas blurted out.

Li Mu nodded: "That's right, you and the theater chain, each with 10%, what I want is not how much money I can make, but how much box office this movie will eventually achieve in North America, you can understand what I mean? "

Lucas nodded immediately.

Dividing more into the theater chain is to provide motivation for the theater chain to arrange films. Li Mu didn't want to make more money, but he hoped that the box office would be as high as possible, and he must have wanted to maximize the influence of this film.

Thinking about it, if it's just a matter of tens of millions of dollars at the box office, even if 35% of Li Mu's Makino image is divided, it's only 10 to 20 million dollars in revenue. This kind of money is not worth his energy at all, and it is not worth his specialization. Taking time out to see himself, what he wants is not money, but influence.

Figuring this out, Lucas immediately stated: "Mr. Li, if you only want 15% of the box office share, then I promise you that the remaining 20% ​​will be returned to the theater in various forms! "

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