Chapter 1133 Spielberg comes to China
Li Mu actually has no good impression of Harvey. He always feels that such a person is a bit contrary to his mainstream values. Harvey is a person who particularly likes to show authority, and has no moral integrity. He is good at playing various unspoken rules, gray transactions, secret operations, and even does some tricks and cheating for money and selling dog meat on the head of sheep. Not to mention cooperating with such people, he even feels a little worried about making ordinary friends, and always feels that he will sell it when he turns his head.
Harvey's attitude of wanting to see Li Mu was very sincere. He knew Li Mu's situation and the gap between him and him. If he was in the United States, he would contact Li Mu directly and say that he wanted to meet him. That would be too rude and sincere enough. So he could only come first. After coming to China, he would say that he had arrived. He came all the way just to meet Li Mu and see if Li Mu would see him for this purpose.
After receiving the news, Li Mu directly refused Harvey's request for meeting without any worries, because this person was indeed useless to Li Mu.
If Li Mu wants to start a film and television company in Hollywood, find directors, actors, film movies, and earn box office, then finding Harvey can basically solve all problems in one stop. After all, he is an old man in the industry, and he is basically very familiar with the entire industry. However, Li Mu is not prepared to go to Hollywood by himself to start with the most basic content. Just package and acquire ready-made film and television companies directly. What he really wants to do is to control Hollywood!
Li Mu’s plan for the future Hollywood is to first use the ticketing system to capture the box office share in his arms, and then expand the downstream through box office resources, that is, invest and acquire theaters, and hold them in his hands.
When the ticketing system and theaters become a climate, the combined influence cannot be underestimated. At that time, it can release influence to the entire upstream. If you can fully understand the upstream, and then combine it with capital operations, you can directly control the entire Hollywood.
Under this huge structure, even though Harvey has a great influence in Hollywood, in Li Mu's eyes, he is still a thousand miles away from him and is not an ideal partner at all.
Harvey, who had traveled thousands of miles to China, unexpectedly, Li Mu refused his request for a meeting. He was in a dilemma for a while. He did not have Li Mu's contact information, and the only thing he could do was contact Muye Yingxiang and continue to convey his desire to meet Li Mu.
However, for Muye Yingxiang's employees, as long as Li Mu doesn't see him, they will never ask Li Mu again for the second time. So no matter how Harvey asks them for help, and even if he can persuade them to pass the message, they will only treat it as if they are in their ears.
Seeing that there was no effect, Harvey suddenly became anxious. The reason why he ran over to the Wharf was to get the Muying ticketing system. Unexpectedly, Li Mu didn't even give him the opportunity to worship the Wharf.
However, Harvey is not a person who gives up easily. He gave up all his work and went to China. If he couldn't see Li Mu, he would never be willing to go back like this. So he thought about whether anyone could help him mediate between Li Mu at this critical moment. Not to mention whether the matter could be done, at least he had to meet Li Mu.
Harvey thought for a long time and found that among the people he knew, Spielberg was probably the only one who could mediate with Li Mu for him. After all, he had successfully invited Li Mu to attend his dinner, which proved that he had a certain personal relationship with Li Mu.
When Harvey thought of this, he immediately called Spielberg. At this time, Spielberg, who was one step late, had just landed in Yanjing.
The moment Spielberg landed, he immediately called Li Mu and just avoided Harvey's phone number.
Li Mu exchanged phone numbers with Hege at Spielberg's charity dinner before, but since he returned to China, the two have not contacted each other. Seeing the prompts on his phone, Li Mu immediately smiled and answered the phone.
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 well, or he might have said it was a bit abstract. At that time, Spielberg was not really interested. However, this time Li Mu was exposed by dozens of film and television companies using the Muying ticketing system. The overseas publicity strategy combined with the Muying ticketing system made the Muying ticketing system gain great attention and recognition in the West in a short period of time, and Spielberg will definitely be no exception.
So Li Mu felt that Spielberg's call this time must be for the Muying ticketing system.
Li Mu asked with a smile: "Director Spielberg, why do you have time to call me?"
Spielberg's voice came: "Hello, Mr. Li, I called to say hello. Is everything going well recently?"
Li Mu smiled and said, "I'm pretty good recently, where are you?"
"I'm fine too." Spielberg smiled and said, "I'm planning a new show recently, which may be filmed in China, so I came here to see it myself. I just thought I haven't seen you for a long time, so I want to make an appointment with you to meet and reminisce about the past."
"Oh? Are you in China?"
"Yes, I'm in Yanjing now." Spielberg finished speaking and added: "By the way, I'm going to let Anne play the heroine in the new drama, so this time she also came with me to get to know the Chinese environment in advance and feel the charm of Chinese. She also said she wanted to see you."
After Spielberg said this, he felt relieved.
He really doesn't want to lie, especially dragging a 20-year-old girl to lie with him, but this matter is too important to him. He can only use the safest way, because he is not familiar with Li Mu, and is not sure whether the cooperation model Li Mu mentioned was sincere or casual. Now he wants to cooperate with him. If he communicates directly on the phone, once the other party's desire to cooperate is not so strong, he can just find a reason to get it over the phone. If he talks in person, the chances of getting the talk will be much greater.
Spielberg didn't want his motivation to come to China to be exposed too clearly, so he used the excuse of surveying and filming, pretending to reminisce with Li Mu, and then talk about the Muying ticketing system after meeting him.
Spielberg also had a certain consideration when he brought Anne Hathaway over. When talking about this system, Anne Hathaway was also on the scene. If she mentioned this matter to Li Mu in front of Anne Hathaway, she would be present at the scene. Li Mu, a man, would definitely not deny it or go back on his word. Taking Anne Hathaway by his side would definitely have a buff effect.
The director takes pictures of his own movies and conducts on-site surveys. This kind of thing is normal in the film and television industry. Moreover, the survey and scene stage is the filming stage of the filming. This process is still the initial stage of the start of the film project. The outside world rarely hears the sound of the wind. Even if he hears the sound of the wind, he may not know the specific script and shooting plan. Therefore, Spielberg's rhetoric is not a problem.
Even if you don’t make a movie in China in the end, it doesn’t matter. Just say that when you are filming, you find a better choice, so if you give up on China, no one can find any problem.
And Spielberg also thought about it. If Li Mu could really take out the Mu Ying ticketing system and cooperate with him in North America, then he would really come to China to shoot a movie. Moreover, when filming this movie, he would also have to cooperate with Li Mu and Li Mu's Muye image together, so that he could 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 could barely believe half of his rhetoric, but because Li Mu knew him very well and could even be said to be his fan, Li Mu did not believe in his words at all.
The reason is very simple. Li Mu knew that Spielberg had never filmed a movie in China except for filming "The Sun Empire" in China in the 1980s. He has now finished filming "Cat and Mouse Game". The next movie is "Happy Terminal" which was released in 2004. It has nothing to do with China, so Spielberg now says that there is a new movie to be filmed in China, which is simply lying with his eyes open.
This is the advantage of the rebirth. Li Mu even knows many of his next moves than Spielberg. At this time, Spielberg lied to Li Mu, and Li Mu could see through it at a glance.
After seeing through his lies, Li Mu realized that he must have come to China this time for his Muying ticketing system.
The film market in North America is so mature and the Internet is so mature, but there are only a lack of products that can wear the Internet and film and television industries. Therefore, once the Muying ticketing system is launched in North America, it will surely achieve great success. Spielberg is not only a successful director, but also a successful businessman, so he will definitely be able to see the profit margin behind this system.
Although Li Mu still lies at such an old age, which makes Li Mu feel a little helpless, overall, he is more inclined to cooperate with people like Spielberg because he not only has a business acumen, but also has strong influence and artistic attainments. He has never revealed any dark history as a whole. It is much more reassuring to work with such people than to work with Harvey.
So Li Mu did not expose his lie and said with a smile: "You all come to China? That's great. I must welcome you according to the customs of China."
Speaking of this, Li Mu changed his mind and sighed: "But Director Spielberg, I am not in Yanjing now. You can do your business first. Let's get together after you finish your work."
When he heard Li Mu say he wanted to welcome him, Spielberg breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what the result was, as long as he could face Li Mu and Anne Hathaway was there, the chance of success would be much greater, and he was afraid that he would not have the chance to meet. In that case, the success rate would be greatly reduced.
But he had just given that breath, and then he became nervous by Li Mu's words: Isn't you in Yanjing? Let's get together after finishing my business? Where did I get the business? My business is to meet you, my brother!
Chapter completed!