Li Mu himself also knew that it was not that easy to kill a competitor, because no one would sit still and wait for death in the competition.
In the first few days, QQ, which has been going smoothly and monopolizing the domestic instant messaging market, has never recovered. Once they recover, they will definitely try their best to counterattack. What's more, they have capital behind them. , in order to ensure that their money is not wasted in vain, capital will definitely come out to act as a firefighter at critical moments. Sure enough, in just one week, MIH Group came over with food, ammunition, and the sword that would be used to cut meat from Teng Xun in the future. .
MIH's intervention made Mr. Ma suddenly think of the idea he had had a flash of inspiration a few months ago.
At that time, he was in a superior position in the competition with Makino Technology and had the upper hand, so at that time he only thought about pacifying Makino Technology first, seizing its two core products, and then slowly developing QQ Game Hall products. concept, but I didn’t expect that the dispute between QQ Fishing Farm and Happy Farm cost me a lot of manpower, material resources and energy, and the most important thing is the energy of the development team, so that the project has never been started. In addition, the recent He was beaten by Makino Technology, so he never thought of this idea.
After being reminded by Guo Haiming, Mr. Ma immediately realized that the original idea of imitating Lianzhong Game Hall was likely to become the key point for QQ to reverse the situation.
Immediately, the somewhat excited Mr. Ma swept away the gloom and excitedly told Dean his idea about the game hall.
Dean was also very excited after hearing this. He is very familiar with the development trend of Lianzhong in China. He knows that chess and card games are very popular in China and have very strong user stickiness. He also knows that there are great business opportunities in it. Tingma Having said that, he also realized how awesome it would be if a game lobby could be integrated into QQ.
The biggest problem of Lianzhong is that it has a single platform, but QQ is different. It is also a large platform with over 100 million users. It has a large number of users and a wide network of users. On this basis, QQ will create a new game lobby than Lianzhong. Elements of: Social.
Dean is a big investor himself and has a deep understanding of the Internet. After thinking about it carefully, he felt that this platform has great potential. He couldn't help but give a thumbs up and said to Mr. Ma: "Mr. Ma, this product concept is really great. I think even if it can’t defeat YY, it can at least guarantee QQ’s place!”
Mr. Ma also thought so. He said to Guo Haiming: "Notify all technical staff to brainstorm tonight. We must sort out the product logic and requirements of the game hall in the shortest possible time!"
Guo Haiming was also extremely excited. He nodded immediately, stood up and said, "I'll inform them right away!"
After Guo Haiming left, Mr. Ma sat back in his chair and said to Dean: "I will allocate most of the technical development team to step up the development of the game lobby. At the same time, we will continue to develop group functions and cartoon shows that imitate YY. By then, our QQ group will allow all users to create a large group of 500 people for free! The cartoon show will also be promoted at the lowest discount, and coupled with the game lobby, QQ will definitely be able to regain the initiative!"
Dean also nodded repeatedly and said solemnly: "I believe in you, Mr. Ma. Under your leadership, QQ will be able to turn defeat into victory!"
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Ning Hao, who had not been in contact for a few days, suddenly called Li Mu. He said that he had written a script and was going to show it to Li Mu.
Li Mu happily agreed and invited him out to have dinner together.
At the dinner table, Li Mu got the script bound by Ning Hao. When he saw the three large characters "A Thief Among Thieves" printed in black on the cover.
Li Mu curiously read the first page and was surprised to find that this thief among thieves was Ning Hao's future famous work and the pinnacle of domestic comedy movies - "Crazy Stone".
Li Mu's expression was expressionless, but the more he read back, the more surprised he became. The story structure of the entire script is almost the same as that of "Crazy Stone", which was only released in 2006. The only difference is that some of the storyboard descriptions are different from "Crazy Stone". 》The movie also has some differences.
It took Li Mu half an hour to finish reading the script. Ning Hao looked at Li Mu nervously and led him to close the script. Then he couldn't wait to ask: "Boss, what do you think?"
Li Mu did not answer directly, but asked him: "When did you come up with this idea?"
Ning Hao said: "This story idea has actually been around since 2000. To be honest, I was influenced by Guy Ritchie's "Two Smoking Barrels" and "Snatch". I had this story structure, but it just stayed in my mind and I didn’t have time to write it. Didn’t you promise me to invest in making a movie this year, so I wrote this book recently.”
Li Mu nodded, admiring Ning Hao even more in his heart.
In the future, there will be countless directors who will immediately come up with any bullshit idea and make it into a movie. The final film will be so shoddy that it cannot be called a one-step movie at all. A truly good director will have one story and one movie. The scene was even conceived in my mind for many years, and everything was thoroughly understood before I shot it with my heart. A movie made by a director like this can naturally be regarded as a high-quality film.
Li Mu asked again: "Why is it called "The Thief Among Thieves"?"
Ning Hao scratched his head: "Aren't you trying to borrow some light from "Mission: Impossible"..."
Li Mu nodded and smiled, but he was thinking in his heart. In fact, he had envisioned Ning Hao and his "Crazy Stone" before. Based on Li Mu's previous psychology, he didn't want Ning Hao to film "Crazy Stone" so early because he I am worried that Ning Hao is not mature enough now, and I am also worried that Huang Bo, the future five billion actor, is not mature enough. However, judging from the script, Ning Hao is now extremely familiar with the overall context of "Crazy Stone" and should have been prepared for it long ago. Well, as for Huang Bo, if his acting skills are not up to standard, they can be improved. This is not very important.
So, Li Mu finally expressed his opinion on the script: "The script is very good. The black humor is very Guy Ritchie's style, and you have successfully localized this style. I think this movie can be made." .”
"Really?" Ning Hao asked excitedly: "Is it really possible to shoot?"
Li Mu nodded and said, "It's definitely no problem shooting. Please tell me what your budget is first."
Ning Hao instinctively wanted to say two to three million, but considering that his boss was a super rich man, he mustered up the courage to hold out five fingers and stammered: "Five... five million..."
Li Mu waved his hand: "For such a good book, five million is not enough. Let's tentatively decide on 20 million!"
"Two... ten million..." Ning Hao's hand trembled and he knocked over the beer glass in front of him. He didn't care if the beer spilled on himself. He stared at Li Mu and asked, "Boss, are you kidding me?"
Li Mu smiled and said: "Of course I'm not kidding you, the budget is 20 million, while retaining the space to increase it to 30 million."
Ning Hao said with some fear: "Boss, the concept of this movie does not require such a high budget...a small-cost production is enough..."
Li Mu smiled slightly and said grandly: "Of the 20 million, 10 million is the salary of a king-level actor."
Ning Hao waved his hands in fear: "No, no, no, no need, no need for such a low-cost black comedy, it doesn't need a king-level actor to join..."
Li Mu waved his hand: "It must have front-line actors to have box office appeal. This is market demand, unless you don't want to make money."
Although "Crazy Stone" was a dark horse at the box office in 2006, it only grossed 23 million. In the same year, the box office of "The Golden Jacket" was close to 300 million, the box office of "The Banquet" was 130 million, and the box office of "Fearless Fearless" was 130 million. 100 million. Compared with them, "Crazy Stone" could only rank in the 20s at the box office that year.
If Li Mu remembers correctly, the media at that time praised "Crazy Stone" highly, and even CCTV News mentioned this small-budget comedy film by name. But even so, its box office was only 2,300. The reason is actually very simple: the director Neither the actor nor the actor is famous.
Domestic movie box office is closely related to the director and cast. If the director and actors are not famous, no matter how good the movie is, such as "Crazy Stone", no matter how bad the movie is, the market is guaranteed by the well-known director and actors. , this is the fan effect.
If "Crazy Stone" had been placed in 2015 or 2016, with the same lineup as that year, I'm afraid the box office would not have been less than 2 billion, but in 2006, it would have only been 23 million, and that was only achieved on the premise of adding many more tap fans. This height, so Li Mu didn't want him to make the same mistake again, so if he wanted to do something big, he would do it bigger.
Ning Hao felt a little unconfident because of Li Mu's promise of 20 to 30 million yuan. He said: "To be honest, I don't think any of the characters in this movie are suitable for A-list stars, because they are all very special." A down-to-earth character, so... "
Li Mu said with a smile: "I think the international thief from Hong Kong in your role is very suitable to be played by a Hong Kong first-line actor, such as Andy Lau. If he plays the role, he won't even need to dub, just use his Hong Kong voice." The Mandarin accent perfectly fits the needs of the characters in the script."
Ning Hao wiped his sweat and said: "Actually, I am planning to arrange a Hong Kong actor to play this role, but I think it is enough to find a has-been Hong Kong actor..."
Li Mu waved his hand and said seriously: "You can't think about the problem like this. From the character itself, it is true that every character does not have to introduce a superstar, but if we consider the market, we must have enough eye-catching points. "
With that said, Li Mu added: "In addition, I think you can consider Tang Wei for the role of the thief boss's girlfriend. She is also our contracted actor now. She can try to appear in the scene, and Zhang Kexuan , he is also a first-line star now, he should play a guest role at least, the role may not be much, but at least we can use him to make a fuss when we promote it to the outside world. As for Du Wei, there is really no suitable role for her. .”
It's the last day of August. I hope everyone can reserve the guaranteed monthly pass for this book next month. I rarely ask for monthly passes. This time I am brave enough to ask for it. I hope my brothers and sisters will support me!
(End of chapter)