Li Mu actually doesn't have a good impression of Harvey. He always feels that this kind of person goes against his mainstream values. Harvey is a person who particularly likes to show his authority, and he has no moral integrity at all. He is good at playing with various hidden rules, gray transactions, He operates in secret, and even does some cheating and selling things for money. Let alone cooperate with such a person, even making ordinary friends is a little worrying. I always feel that I will be betrayed by him if I turn around. .
Harvey wanted to see Li Mu sincerely. He knew Li Mu's situation and the gap between himself and him. If he was in the United States, it would be too impolite and sincere to contact Li Mu directly and say he wanted to meet, so he I can only come first, and then say that I have arrived after arriving in China. I came all the way here just to meet Li Mu and see if Li Mu would see him for this reason.
After Li Mu received the news, he rejected Harvey's request to meet without any hesitation. The reason was that this person was indeed of no great use to Li Mu.
If Li Mu wants to open a film and television company in Hollywood, find directors, find actors, make movies, and earn box office, then looking for Harvey can basically solve all problems in one stop. After all, he is an industry veteran, and he is basically the best in the entire industry. Familiar, but Li Mu is not prepared to go to Hollywood and start from the most basic content side. For this kind of thing, he can just package and acquire ready-made film and television companies. What he really wants to do is to control Hollywood!
Li Mu's plan for the future of Hollywood is to first use the ticketing system to capture the box office share for himself, and then use box office resources to expand downstream, that is, invest and acquire theater chains himself, and also hold the theater chains in his hands.
When the ticketing system and theater chains become the norm, the combined influence cannot be underestimated. At that time, the influence can be released to the entire upstream. If we can understand the upstream thoroughly, and then cooperate with capital operations, we can directly control the entire Hollywood.
Under this huge structure, even though Harvey has great influence in Hollywood, in Li Mu's eyes, he is still far from him and is not an ideal partner at all.
Harvey, who had traveled all the way to China, did not expect that Li Mu would directly reject his request to meet. He was in a dilemma for a while. He did not have Li Mu’s contact information, so the only thing he could do was to contact Makino Image and continue to convey his hope that he could meet with him. Li Mu's mood when meeting.
However, for the employees of Makino Image, as long as Li Mu said he was gone, they would never ask Li Mu a second time, so no matter how Harvey asked them for help or asked them to pass on the message, they just turned a deaf ear.
Seeing that there was no effect, Harvey suddenly became anxious. The reason why he came all the way to visit the pier was just to get the Muying Ticketing System. Unexpectedly, Li Mu wouldn't even give him a chance to visit the pier.
However, Harvey was not a person who gave up easily. He put down all his work and came to China. If he could not see Li Mu, he would never be willing to go back. So he thought about whether there was anyone who could help him at this critical moment. Help yourself to mediate between Li Mu. Let’s not say whether the matter can work out, but at least let yourself meet Li Mu.
Harvey thought for a long time. Among the people he knew, Spielberg was probably the only one who could mediate with Li Mu on his behalf. After all, he had successfully invited Li Mu to his dinner, which proved that he was closely related to Li Mu. Li Mu has a certain personal relationship.
Thinking of this, Harvey immediately called Spielberg. At this time, Spielberg, who was one step behind Harvey, had just landed in Yanjing.
The moment Spielberg landed, he immediately called Li Mu, just in time to avoid Harvey's call.
Li Mu had exchanged phone numbers with Tag at Spielberg's charity dinner before, but the two had not contacted each other since returning to China. Seeing the notification on his phone, Li Mu immediately smiled knowingly and answered the call.
Before Spielberg could speak, he already knew the purpose of Spielberg's call. He had introduced the Muying ticketing system to him before, but he might not have heard it very clearly, or he might have said it himself. It has to be a bit abstract. I wasn’t really interested in watching Spielberg at the time. However, this time Li Mu was exposed by dozens of film and television companies through Muying’s ticketing system. In conjunction with Ben. Clarkson’s overseas promotion strategy, Muying Ticketing System has gained great attention and recognition in the West in a short period of time, and Spielberg will certainly be no exception.
Therefore, Li Mu felt that Spielberg's call this time must also be about Mu Film's ticketing system.
Li Mu smiled and asked: "Director Spielberg, why do you have time to call me?"
Spielberg's voice came: "Hello Mr. Li, I'm calling to say hello. Is everything going well recently?"
Li Mu smiled and said, "It's been pretty good lately, how about you?"
"I'm fine too." Spielberg said with a smile: "I'm currently preparing for a new movie, which may be shot in China, so I came over to take a look in person. I just thought I haven't seen you for a long time, so I wanted to talk to you. Make an appointment to meet and catch up on old times.”
"Oh? Are you in China?"
"That's right, I'm in Yanjing now." After Spielberg finished speaking, he added: "By the way, I'm going to cast Anne as the heroine in the new play, so this time she came with me to get familiar with it in advance. Let’s take a look at the Chinese environment and feel the charm of Chinese. It just so happens that she also said she wants to meet you.”
After Spielberg said this, he felt guilty.
He really didn't want to lie, especially dragging a twenty-year-old girl to lie with him, but this matter was too important to him, and he could only use the safest method, because he didn't care about Li Mu either. I'm not familiar with him, and I'm not sure whether the cooperation model Li Mu mentioned at the beginning was genuine or just casual. Now that I want to cooperate with him, if I communicate directly on the phone, once the other party's desire to cooperate is not so strong, I can just find any reason to talk on the phone. If you talk face to face, the chance of success is much greater.
Spielberg didn't want his motives for coming to China to be too obvious, so he used the excuse of scouting and filming to catch up with Li Mu and talk about the Mu Film ticketing system after meeting.
When he brought Anne Hathaway over, Spielberg also had some considerations. When they were talking about this system, Anne Hathaway was also present. If he talked to Li Mu in front of Anne Hathaway, When it comes to this matter, she is present at the scene. It is definitely not easy for a man like Li Mu to deny or go back on his word. Having Anne Hathaway by his side will definitely have a BUFF effect.
It is normal in the film and television industry for directors to do location scouting and on-site investigation for their own movies, and the stage of location scouting is the preparation stage of the movie. This process is still the initial stage of the film project, and the outside world rarely hears about it. , even if you hear the news, you may not know the specific script and shooting plan, so Spielberg's statement is not a problem.
It doesn't matter if the movie is not shot in China in the end. As long as I found a better choice during the filming, I gave up on China, and no one can find anything wrong with it.
Moreover, Spielberg has also thought about it. If Li Mu can really take out the Muying ticketing system and cooperate with him in North America, then he will really come to China to make a movie, and when the movie is made, he will Get Li Mu and Li Mu's Makino image to work together, so that we can deepen the cooperative relationship and bind each other.
If Li Mu hadn't been paying close attention to Spielberg in his previous life, Li Mu would have barely believed half of his words. But because Li Mu knew Spielberg very well and could even be said to be his fan, Li Mu didn't believe his words at all.
The reason is simple. Li Mu knows that Spielberg has never filmed a movie in China except for "Empire of the Sun" in the 1980s. He has now finished filming "Cat and Mouse". ", the next movie is "The Terminal", which was released in 2004, and it has nothing to do with China. So now that Spielberg is saying that a new movie will be shot in China, it is simply telling lies with open eyes.
This is the advantage of the reborn. Li Mu knows many of his next moves even better than Spielberg. When Spielberg lies to Li Mu, Li Mu can see through it at a glance.
After seeing through his lie, Li Mu realized that his visit to China must be for his Muying ticketing system.
The film market in North America is so mature, and so is the Internet. However, it lacks products that can connect the Internet and the film and television industry. Therefore, once Muying Ticketing System is launched in North America, it will be a huge success. Spielberg is not. He is just a successful director and a successful businessman, so he must be able to see the profit margins behind this system.
Although lying at such an old age makes Li Mu feel a little helpless, but generally speaking, he is still more inclined to cooperate with people like Spielberg, because he not only has business acumen, but also has strong influence and He has artistic attainments and doesn't have any dark history. Working with such a person is much more reassuring than working with Harvey.
So Li Mu didn't expose his lies and said with a smile: "You all came to China? That's great. I must follow the Chinese customs to help you."
At this point, Li Mu changed the subject and sighed: "But Director Spielberg, I am not in Yanjing right now. You can go about your business first, and we will get together when you are done."
When he heard Li Mu say that he wanted to cleanse himself from the dust, Spielberg felt relieved. No matter what the outcome was, as long as he could face Li Mu face to face and Anne Hathaway was with him, he would have a much greater chance of success. I am afraid that there will be no chance to meet, in which case the success rate will be greatly reduced.
But just after he said that, Li Mu made him nervous again by saying: Are you not in Yanjing? Let’s wait until we’re done with the business to get together again? Where did I get my business? My main business is to see you, my brother!
(End of chapter)