Chapter 1396 The Right to Remake "Infernal Affairs"

Any motivated nation or group is eager to be recognized by the world authority.

Academics from all over the world hope to win the Nobel Prize, athletes from all over the world are eager to win the Olympic champion or the World Cup champion, and the same is true for the literary and art industry.

It’s not just Chinese films that have Oscar sentiments for many years. All countries in the world, including Hollywood in the United States, have deep Oscar sentiments. No matter which country’s film workers are, they hope to win an Oscar. The same is true for Chinese film workers.

Li Mu is not an actor, a director, or a screenwriter, but he is the boss of a film and television company. If the Huaxia film industry cannot make a film that can win an Oscar at this stage, then as the boss of the Huaxia Film Company and a capitalist, It's always okay to invest in an Oscar-winning film, right?

With the size of DreamWorks and the current intention of DreamWorks to fully cooperate with him, Li Mu could easily let DreamWorks work for him. After all, a big director like Spielberg, and Huaxia specially made a low-quality film for the movie channel. Like the third-rate directors of cost digital movies, they are all workers in the industry. Since they are workers, in the eyes of capitalists, the core difference is who is more valuable.

If you can’t afford the money, the casual workers squatting at the bridge head will not help you; if you can afford the money, let alone Spielberg, the whole of Hollywood will also become your wage earner. Li Mu wants money and resources. Resources, influence and influence, and the Makino ticketing system, which is the iron chain that choked the film industry from the audience level, it is too late for DreamWorks to stick to itself in the future, and it is impossible to refuse its cooperation request.

On the way to the inspection, Li Mu had already made up his mind that as soon as he got the copyright of the American version of "Infernal Affairs", he would immediately find DreamWorks to land with him, and Makino Imaging would not only invest in the proportion of investment, but also in the proportion of shares. , and the voting rights ratio must exceed 0% or even higher. At that time, although this film is jointly produced by Huaxia and the United States, it is essentially the boss of Huaxia.

Huaxia Capital’s impact on the Oscars is not just for the sake of gaining fame, but more importantly, the impact and replacement of old Western capital by Oriental New Capital. If Huaxia Capital begins to flood into Hollywood on a large scale, it indicates that Hollywood must The Huaxia film market has bowed its head, which is why after 2008, a large number of Hollywood blockbusters began to incorporate Chinese elements, Chinese actors and Chinese corporate advertising.

As for the "Flying Tigers" that is currently cooperating with DreamWorks, Li Mu's sustenance for it is to hit the high box office and high influence, so as to realize the worldwide popularization of the history of China and the United States' joint anti-Japanese history, and did not hold it. To shock Oscar's hope.

After all, this movie is a commercial war movie, and it also has a certain mainstream value output. Oscar itself does not like war themes.

Therefore, it is basically impossible to rely on it to have a big harvest at the Oscars, not to mention the "Flying Tigers" that reflects the joint resistance of China and the United States to Japan. Even if the Americans themselves beat the Japanese, "Pearl Harbor" only won the Oscar. A best sound editing award, this kind of award is quite water in the Oscars.

But the American version of "Infernal Affairs" is different. As long as this movie is tied to Martin Scorsese, it is appropriate to get an Oscar. After all, for a big director like Lao Ma, Oscar must give him an Oscar no matter what. To explain, and the American version of "Infernal Affairs" is Lao Ma's best-known film since "Goodfellas" in 990, if Oscar decides to give Lao Ma a Best Director Award, then there is no doubt that the American version of "Infernal Affairs" 》 is the most suitable carrier

From this point of view, Li Mu needs the copyright of the American version of "Infernal Affairs" to make Huaxia Capital successfully enter the Oscars, while Martin Scorsese needs the American version of "Infernal Affairs" to achieve the highest honor as a director at the Oscars, Even if done properly, Leonardo can rely on this film to achieve his own highest honor as an actor, so this project Li Muzhi is sure to win.

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The site selection inspection of the film and television base has not been disclosed to the public. Li Mu, Wei Lan, Chen Ze, and Song Liang visited the junctions of Yanjing, Tianjin and Langfang together. The main contents of the inspection were It is the investigation of the terrain and the use of the land.

To build a large-scale film and television base, a development area of ​​nearly 100 square kilometers is bound to be required. Li Mu's goal is not to replicate a Hengdian, but to create a "new Hengdian" that is much stronger than Hengdian. It is also necessary to combine various supports for film and television production, as well as related industries such as post-production, so it is necessary to first determine whether the target address has such a large area of ​​plain land, and then examine the cost of land use.

The southeast of Yanjing is actually a treasure land of feng shui. Unlike Yanjing’s large fan shape of nearly 300 degrees from the northeast to the southwest, there are very few hills in the southeast.

After the overall inspection, the first thing that can be determined is the topography. The land of more than 10,000 square kilometers is basically all plains, so it fully meets the requirements for building a super-large film and television base. The remaining problem is to choose where to use the land with lower cost.

To calculate the cost of land use, the main consideration is the land quotation of the local government, as well as the compensation standard of the land itself for cultivated land, residential houses and enterprise land. The more densely populated areas are naturally less suitable for the development of non-residential projects, because the relocation cost is too high. , the placement fee alone is a huge cost.

Wei Lan is more sensitive to land and more professional. In this respect, he is more authoritative than Song Liang. When Song Liang was still staring at the Haizhou map to study the land, Wei Lan was already controlling large-scale real estate projects in the Shanghai stock market, so In this regard, we fully trust Weilan's ideas and suggestions.

After a general inspection, Wei Lan put forward her own suggestions on the spot. The first is to come up with a budget and hire a professional aerial survey company to conduct aerial photography and aerial surveys of this area, and then draw a detailed topographic map. It clearly reflects the distribution and density of cultivated land, wasteland, homestead and enterprise land, so that Wanying can avoid the most important layout when planning the film and television city project.

Even if it requires 100 square kilometers of land, there is no need for it to be square or regular and concentrated. In order to reduce costs, it can be designed as a block distribution. On the basis of ensuring the overall connection, avoid the land with high cost to the greatest extent possible. For such large-scale real estate project planning, aerial photography and aerial surveys are the best solution. The only drawback is that the cost is too high. The cost of such a large aerial survey area will cost at least several million, and it may be higher. Compared with such a huge project, Wei Lan feels that this cost is worth paying.

In 2003, the term aerial photography may not have been heard by many people, but Wei Lan's vision is ahead of most people.

Although Chen Ze and Song Liang support the use of aerial photography and aerial surveys to support site selection, neither of them recommends starting a horse first. To formulate an approximate range, and then ask an aerial survey company to carry out the measurement, this can be regarded as a target.

But Li Mu didn't want to wait.

He recognized Wei Lan's suggestion very much, and immediately said: "Our film and television base project, if we want to leverage Yanjing's capital influence and huge tourism resources, is destined not to be too far away from Yanjing, so whether we follow No matter what the three governments have negotiated, it is impossible to leave this area. In this case, we don’t need to wait for the aerial survey to be completed after the talks with the local government. It is better to hurry up and start the survey first. After all, such a large area, aerial survey, mapping It also takes a certain amount of time, if we start the horse later, then we will have to wait for Tu, I would rather spend more money and let Tu wait for others.”

What Li Mu said was right to the point. Anyway, if you want to get on this project, you can't live without this place. What else do you have to worry about? Quickly figure out the whole terrain and land use situation and make a map, and then you can see at a glance which land is the most cost-effective on the map.

The so-called plaque distribution, to put it bluntly, is the same as urban greening. You have to see the needles and avoid roads, buildings and large buildings. Therefore, the green color in the aerial photos of most cities is basically the same as psoriasis. This piece and that piece, but Li Mu's The film and television base cannot adopt a completely isolated patch distribution. Even if it is divided into multiple "patches" of different shapes and sizes, there must be connecting lines to ensure that all the patches are a whole from a spatial point of view.

To achieve the lowest land cost on this basis, aerial survey is the most scientific and accurate solution.

After a general survey of the region's topography and determination of the rhythm of taking aerial maps first, everyone returned to Yanjing by car at night.

When the car entered the urban area of ​​Yanjing, Li Ziwei received a call, and then immediately relayed Li Mu with joy, saying: "Mr. Li, Warner accepts your offer and is willing to pay 3.5 million for the English remake copyright of "Infernal Affairs" Resold to Makino Imago for a dollar price!"

"That's great." Li Mu snapped his fingers and said excitedly, "Immediately arrange for someone to connect and finish the contract process as soon as possible!"

Li Mu guessed right, the battered Warners seem to have just suffered a full-scale bombing. Now their energy is all on disaster relief, and they can't even enter the post-war reconstruction stage in a short period of time, let alone post-war development. .

Therefore, the English remake copyright of "Infernal Affairs" is useless for them to hold it in their hands, and it is difficult to have the energy to approve the project. At the beginning, several Hollywood companies were interested in this copyright, and the reason why it was finally taken by Warner was because 75 The price of 10,000 US dollars itself is relatively high. If Warner wants to sell it to other Hollywood companies now, no one will give him the price of 750,000 US dollars.

Moreover, the copyrights of movie scripts are time-limited. It usually takes only a few years to buy the film and television adaptation rights of popular novels. Suppose that Warner bought the exclusive rights to remake in English for the next five years from Uniasia. At the end of the five-year period, Warner has not yet filmed, and the authorization will expire. At that time, the bamboo basket will be empty.

In this case, it would be safer and more cost-effective to sell it to Li Mu, a big-headed man, at double the price!