It’s true that no one wants to take over for “Hero” overseas!
If you just watch this movie, the content itself is not attractive enough for Westerners, and the cast is relatively unfamiliar. Except for a few who have certain influence in Hollywood, the other actors are basically unfamiliar to Western audiences. Face, no box office foundation.
Although it is now somewhat well-known, it was a movie that was named by Li Mu and participated in killing Li Mu's innovative products. This alone is doomed that no one will dare to take the copyright of this movie.
YY is already a world-class product, with users all over the world. Under such circumstances, no one can ignore the influence of YY, and the powerful Muying ticketing system has shocked and shocked all practitioners in the film and television industry. Crazy, everyone hopes that one day the Muying Ticketing System will be launched in the movie market in their region. If anyone takes over the "Hero" at this time, wouldn't that make themselves uncomfortable
Therefore, even if "Hero" has a certain profit margin, absolutely no company in the industry is willing to risk offending Makino Technology, Makino Imaging, and Li Mu to operate this film.
The cruel reality has plunged the entire producers of "Heroes" into despair. The current situation is that their films cannot sell overseas copyrights. Without the cooperation of overseas companies and theaters, they naturally cannot be released overseas, so the overseas box office is basically It's a wishful thinking. In addition, overseas DVDs have also come to nothing. Without the cooperation of a distribution company, it is completely impossible for the producer of "Heroes" to legally distribute and sell even one DVD in any country.
It’s basically a certainty that you’ll lose everything!
At the team meeting, many people shed tears. They originally planned to use this movie to make a big name, but they did not expect that they were defeated like a mountain and there was no room for them. This movie suffered a complete setback in all fields and became a Chinese business. The most expensive movie in movie history...
This kind of sky-falling blow was devastating to the entire "Heroes" production team. Everyone became extremely depressed in an instant. This movie was messed up. Their next journey There are many difficulties to overcome. From the director to the producer to the screenwriter to the actors and then to the producer, the reputation and reputation will be greatly affected.
Only then did Director Zhang realize that Li Mu had played a game of Go for "Hero", trapping the entire "Hero" in his game. Even though "Hero" tried his best, he could not break through this shackles and could only be trapped. He was trapped in a cage with no chance of survival.
At this time, Li Mu didn't know what kind of fate "Hero" would face or what kind of losses it would bear. He had always been adhering to the non-contact competition of fair competition and not attacking or slandering the opponent. However, the "Hero" team secretly came to find him. It's troublesome, and he hasn't wiped his butt yet and let himself get the handle, so he really can't blame himself for not leaving him a way to survive!
With the infinite loneliness of "Hero", in sharp contrast, "Those Years", as a campus fresh air, continues to nourish the hearts of every audience, and the box office continues to set new records.
Since the day it was released, the box office of "Those Years" has been soaring. After breaking through the 300 million yuan mark, it continues to surge upwards with no intention of stopping. It is now close to 400 million yuan, which has shocked the country. .
Interestingly, many viewers who were unwilling to spend money to go to the cinema were forced to go to the cinema because they had been waiting for the pirated version of "Those Years", only to find that they couldn't buy it.
Not just this group of users, most people are unable to buy pirated discs of the movie "Those Years" in the pirated disc market, although many people go to various pirated video stores and stalls to inquire about it every day, hoping to buy it. The disc of "Those Years" can be used even if it is a pirated version, but the vast majority of pirate sellers can only say to the customers who come to them: "Sorry, there is no "Those Years"."
Not long after "Those Years" was released, pirates did make a small fortune from it. The pirated discs originally cost five yuan each. Due to the popularity of the movie, "Those Years" discs priced at ten yuan were still in short supply. There were even some Some store owners who specialize in renting DVDs buy more than ten or twenty discs at a time, and they can rent them all in one day. Other movie discs cost one a day, but this one costs two a day, and they are still empty in seconds.
However, such good days did not last for a few days.
When the box office of the movie "Those Years" exceeded 100 million, the industrial and commercial departments in various places received an order to comprehensively crack down on pirated products related to "Those Years".
Relevant departments know Li Mu's influence. His first big movie is released. If he really suffers heavy losses from piracy, what if Li Mu launches an attack on the industrial and commercial department in front of the media? Who can resist this big package? Instead of doing this, it would be better to take the initiative and let the subordinates carry out a special operation to crack down on all pirated products related to "Those Years", and naturally there will be no remaining risks.
This is a big pain for the pirated vendors. Normally, the industrial and commercial authorities don't care about it at all. Unexpectedly, now the industrial and commercial authorities and the urban management team are conducting inspections. When they see the pirated discs of "Those Years" being sold, they seize them and confiscate all the discs, which makes the pirated merchants panic.
The most annoying thing is that when pirates began to deliberately hide from the industrial and commercial city management, the industrial and commercial and urban management began to enforce the law in plainclothes. It was said to be plainclothes law enforcement, but in fact it was more like fishing law enforcement. Generally, some young girls were sent to the pirated vendors in plainclothes. There, he asked with a harmless look: "Boss, do you have a copy of "Those Years"?"
As long as the boss said yes and took out the plate, a large number of plainclothes industrial and commercial and urban management officers would be dispatched from all directions to copy all the discs. If the vendors did not cooperate, they would be sent to the police station for administrative detention for three days.
As a result, almost all pirate dealers have folded "Those Years", and some have even folded it more than once.
After several repeated attempts, pirated vendors across the country basically no longer dare to sell "Those Years". Although the market demand is extremely strong, they still dare not purchase the goods, let alone go to the streets to sell them. This is a hardship for those pirated CD manufacturers. These people have been traveling around the country with equipment to produce pirated disks all year round. When they see popular movies or albums, they immediately turn on their power and wish they could use 200% of their production capacity to produce like crazy and make a lot of money. But this time they really hit a wall.
A businessman who was currently manufacturing pirated discs in a rural area in Guangdong Province was worried about the hundreds of thousands of "Those Years" discs in his warehouse.
The film sources used in this batch of discs are the best pirated versions on the market, with high brightness, good color, and stable picture. And the most valuable thing is that the people in the theater during the pirated recording were of high quality and no one made any noise. There were no children crying, so the businessman spent a high price of 20,000 yuan to buy a copy, and after returning, he worked hard to produce and make discs.
The initial 30,000 copies were snapped up by the distributor below. When he saw that the profit was too great, he increased his power without hesitation and produced 200,000 copies in one go. However, as soon as half of the 200,000 copies were sold out, he immediately The distributor sent it back, leaving him confused.
This is the best selling disc on the market! Why did you all send it back to me
Distributors expressed their opinions one after another: "Brother, this disk is easy to sell, but it is also easy to get into trouble! Many distributors even sold the pirated disk of this movie to their mother's nest, and people came in. We want to You make money, but you don’t want to go to jail.”
"My God, you weren't so scared when selling Japanese movies in the past years! Is there a ghost in "Those Years"?"
Although the pirates are puzzled, in the face of this situation, they can only break their teeth and swallow it in their stomachs. At the same time, they will accept all returns as ordered. They have no choice but to rely on these distributors to make money in the future. If they are annoyed this time Without them, the CDs produced in the future will have to be sold on the streets.
After something like this happened several times, the entire piracy industry chain had a clear purpose: to avoid touching "Those Years"...
Not only has the pirated disc production and sales industry chain been affected, but the pirated disc rental business has also come under strong control from the industrial and commercial administration and urban management. Any disc rental store that sells "Those Years" will have the disc confiscated for the first time, and will be closed for the second time. .
Unlike those pirated vendors who sell in street stalls, disc rentals have fixed stores and cannot be circulated to file cases. Therefore, after being beaten by the industrial and commercial and urban management together, they immediately gave in and no one dared to rent anymore. The idea for "Those Years".
It is precisely because of such a strong back-end support against piracy that the box office growth momentum of "Those Years" can be completely unstoppable.
The box office of nearly 400 million is definitely an unprecedented first for Chinese commercial films, and this figure is really shocking to the industry. Before this, no one dared to imagine that a movie could have such a box office It may exceed 200 million, 300 million or even 400 million. They originally thought that Chinese 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 following and reporting on the box office miracle of "Those Years". Film critics began to speculate on what level the film's final box office could reach. While watching the tragic death of "Hero", industry insiders secretly vowed not to confront Li Mu in the future. , while thinking that since there is such a market for campus youth movies, why don’t I make more of them
Therefore, in late December 2002, many film and television companies began to initiate projects and prepare to film a campus youth romance drama, and some were even quick to start filming.
And just when the box office reached 390 million in those years and was about to exceed the 400 million mark, Li Mu suddenly received news that the famous Hollywood star Harvey had come to China and was waiting to meet Li Mu in Yanjing.
Li Mu had heard a little about Harvey, and knew that he was an industry scum with extremely bad character according to Chinese people's values. He came all the way to China to see him, so he was probably coming to Muying Ticketing System. That’s it…
(End of chapter)