China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 145 Conferring the Gods, Sweeping the World

At the same time that "Inception" won the box office champion in North America, its performance in the domestic film market has already killed many great directors.

The box office on the first day was 7800 million, the box office on the third day exceeded 5 million, the domestic box office on the sixth day exceeded 5400 million, and the box office on the ninth day was still as high as 6.14 million. At this time, the total domestic box office has reached [-] [-] million.

On the 10th day of its release, Sunday, January 2009, 1, "Inception" had a single-day box office of 18, and the total domestic box office was 4200 million.

On the same day, China Film Group and Chengtian Entertainment, the producers of "Red Cliff", jointly announced that the film will be temporarily rescheduled and released on January 1.

This is already the third time the movie "Red Cliff" has been changed.

The first time was to change the file to January 1th, forcing "If You Are the One" to temporarily change the file.

Immediately afterwards, Li Mu's "Inception" was officially scheduled for January 1th. Director Wu Yusen had just finished saying that he would not change the file, and then announced that the file would be changed to January 9th. Second file change.

Then it came to January 1th, when "Inception" had been released for the tenth day, but the single-day box office was still as high as 18 million!
What is the concept of 4200 million?
"Red Cliff", which was released last year, created a box office miracle, with a total box office of 3.14 million, far higher than the 1.8 million of "The King of Kung Fu" starring Cheng Long and Li Lianlian, and the 2.02 million of "Yangtze River No. [-]" starring Zhou Xingchi. , but what was the first-day box office of "Red Cliff" at that time?
2700 million!
Now "Inception" had a box office of 5400 million on the ninth day of its release, and 4200 million on the tenth day. The box office on the ninth day was even double that of the first day of "Red Cliff", which created a box office miracle last year!
May I ask, where does the producer of "Red Cliff" have the courage to officially release it nationwide on January 1?
Not to mention that on January 1, the movie "People on the Journey", which is also written by Li Mu, will also be released.

Who knows if this movie will perform another miracle?
It is very possible, after all, it is written by Li Mu.

In this way, on the schedule of January 1, not only did "Inception" have been released for 20 days, but the single-day box office was still twice the box office of "Red Cliff" on the first day, there was also a huge threat in the future. "Lost on Journey".

May I ask, what else can "Red Cliff" do besides changing the file at this time?
Wu Yusen is also a well-known director in the country, and he is one of the rare international directors who have made a big career in Hollywood - "Broken Arrow", "Face Changing", "Mission: Impossible 2", director Wu Yusen Whether it is strength, achievements, or reputation, it is definitely the most powerful among Chinese directors.

But today, under the pressure of Li Mu's "Inception", I had to temporarily change the file twice, especially this second time, even because I didn't dare to compete with the movie that had been released for ten days!
The emergence of such a situation is really surprising and embarrassing.

Faced with "Inception", which has almost scared the entire film industry, even Shen Junsheng, the director of "On the Journey" produced by Li Mu's company, can't help but feel a little uneasy.

"Mr. Li, why don't we announce the file change of "People on the Journey" as well."

Huashang Media Office.

Li Mu flipped through the script and said, "No, "On the Journey" will be released normally on January 1."

"But..." Shen Junsheng stood in front of the desk and hesitated to speak.

Li Mu raised his head and said with a smile: "I have already watched the finished film of "People on the Journey".

"Ok."

After Shen Junsheng left, Li Mu continued to read the script in his hand. This script was the script of the TV series "Mythology" that the screenwriter Li Haishu had just handed in. Cheng Long's intentional TV series was jointly invested by him and Li Mu, and the script had to be approved by Li Mu .

Now Brother Cheng Long trusts Li Mu very much. "Mythology" is one of his obsessions, so he must shoot it well. Therefore, Li Mu doesn't nod, he always feels uneasy.

……

On January 1, the domestic box office of "Inception" reached 19 million.

On January 1, "Inception" had a cumulative domestic box office of 20 million.

On January 1, "Inception" had a cumulative domestic box office of 21 million. At the same time, the movie "On the Journey" held its premiere in Beijing. Li Mu and Liu Yifei were present to cheer.

On January 1, "Inception" had a cumulative domestic box office of 22 million. At the same time, the movie "On the Journey" was officially released on a large scale nationwide, and achieved a first-day box office of 7.32 million.

1月23日-1月25日，《盗梦空间》国内票房累计7.9亿，《人在囧途》分别斩获1800万、4600万、4100万票房，上映四天累计票房1.22亿元。

At the same time, according to the data given by China Film Group, the two films "Inception" + "On the Journey" one week before the Spring Festival accounted for more than 95% of the country's daily box office market.

According to the forecast of China Film Group, the domestic box office of "Inception" is expected to reach 9 million yuan, and the box office expectation of "On the Journey" has also increased to 3.1 million yuan.

It can be said that the entire Spring Festival in 2009 has completely become the stage for Li Mu's family.

Apart from marveling at the sky-shattering box office curve of "Inception", the outside world expressed their astonishment at the great success of "On the Journey".

Almost everyone in the circle knows that the total investment of this movie is only 1000 million, and there are no big-name actors, but the box office of such a small-budget comedy movie is already estimated to reach 3 million!
The predicted box office figure was thirty times the investment amount!
Such a heaven-defying rate of return makes every filmmaker envious and envious. At the same time, they also feel envious of Li Mu's strength, and even feel a little fear.

Many filmmakers even walked into the cinema with a pilgrimage-like mentality to watch "On the Journey". Everyone can't learn "Inception", but "On the Journey" can.

Then such people are startled by the almost non-stop laughter in the theater.

However, although the audience never stopped laughing, although the scene of Wang Baoqiang drinking milk almost made these professional filmmakers look stupid, although the plot of Shen Teng going to the wrong room made the audience burst into laughter, although Shen Teng and Wang Baoqiang The encounters of this pair of living treasures along the way made the theater burst into collective laughter every few minutes. Although this film is indeed very good, no matter how you watch it, it is at most a 1 million-rated movie, right? !
But looking at the current box office trend, the final box office of this movie is clearly going for 3 million yuan.

How can a low-budget comedy movie like "People on Journey" get such a high box office?
Just because its screenwriter is Li Mu?
To be honest, even Li Mu himself was amazed by the box office performance of "People on the Journey". Although the box office performance of "People on the Journey" in the original world was not bad, it was far from reaching today's level.

He analyzed that there may be several reasons as follows.

First, the release time is different.In the original world, "People on the Journey" was released in June, while Li Mu's version was released on the 6th of the twelfth lunar month.As a movie about the Spring Festival travel season, it is released just in time for the Spring Festival travel season, so it may be more attractive to the audience.

Second, the audience base is different.In the original world, "People on the Journey" has a small investment, a small starring role, and a small scale of publicity. It is indeed very good to achieve that result.

Later, "Tai囧" had the popularity foundation of the first film, so wouldn't it just go to heaven?

Although Li Mu's version of "On the Journey" does not have the popularity foundation of the previous work, "The Way to Steal the Key" also starring Shen Teng has achieved very good results. The themes of the two films are similar, and the actors are also similar. The audience is also willing to believe that this is another excellent comedy movie similar to "The Way to Steal the Key", so they enter the theater.

Thirdly, "Li Mu's Screenplay Works" has already been labeled popular, classic, and worth seeing in the hearts of countless viewers. Therefore, many viewers immediately decided to bring their whole family into the theater when they saw that the screenwriter of the film was Li Mu. .

In short, the combination of various factors has allowed Li Mu's investment in "People on the Journey" to achieve box office results far exceeding the original world.

January 1 is the Spring Festival, and Li Mu has returned to his hometown in Xijing ahead of schedule to spend the New Year with his parents.He stayed at home for less than a week, and then flew back to Beijing.

At the same time, "Inception" also ushered in the third week after it officially landed on the North American film market.

2009年1月30日-2月1日，《盗梦空间》以4200万美元的票房蝉联第三周北美票房榜冠军。

As the runner-up of this week's box office list, "Department Cop" only had a weekend box office of 1400 million US dollars. In the third week of "Inception", the box office opened No. 22800 million.

At this time, the total box office of "Inception" in North America has reached 2.6 million US dollars.

From February 2009 to February 2, 06, "Inception" officially landed in North America for the fourth week. The three-day box office on the weekend was still as high as 2 million US dollars. At this time, the total North American box office has reached 09 million US dollars. box office champion.

This week's new releases, Warner Bros.' "He's Not That Into You," took in $2700 million at the box office and finished runner-up.

The third place is the movie "Ghost Mother" produced by Focus Company, with a box office of 1600 million US dollars in the first weekend.

So far, "Inception" has been the North American box office champion for four consecutive weeks, and the total box office in the North American market has successfully exceeded the 3 million US dollar mark!
It was not until the fifth week that "Inception" was knocked out of the championship next week by Warner's new film "Black Friday". At this time, Li Mu was already close to Yu Fengshen.

Let's take a look at the brilliant achievements of the movie "Inception" in the world:
The domestic box office is about 8.9 million yuan, which is about 1.3 million US dollars after conversion.

The overseas box office is divided into two parts, one is the North American region, and the other is the overseas box office outside North America.

As the film was about to be released, "Inception" had a total box office of 3.21 million US dollars in North America, while outside North America, "Inception" swept a box office of 5.01 million US dollars.

That's right, the overseas box office of "Inception" outside North America is much higher than its box office in North America.This is the case in the original time and space, and the same is true in this time and space.

In the original time and space, although the total box office of "Inception" is much lower than that of "Batman: The Dark Knight" directed by Nolan, its overseas box office is in turn higher than "The Dark Knight" by a full 7000 million US dollars.

So far, the global box office of "Inception" has reached a terrifying US$9.52 million, which is even higher than the version made by the original director Nolan.

In fact, there is not much difference in the overseas box office of the two versions. The extra box office of Li Mu's version is mainly concentrated in the Chinese film market.

What is the concept of $9.52 million?
After seeing the relevant box office figures, some Huaxia reporters checked the global movie box office list:

No.1, "Titanic", $18.42 billion.

No.2, "Lord of the Rings 3: The Invincible King", $11.19 billion.

No.3, "Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest", $10.66 billion.

No.4, "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight", $10.01 billion.

No.5, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", $9.74 million.

No.6, "Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End", $9.61 million.

No.7, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", $9.38 million.

Seeing this, the reporter stopped suddenly, and then his eyes returned to the No.7 line again.

"No.7, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", $9.38 million?"

"What about "Inception"?"

Go back and look at the box office figure of "Inception"-$9.52 million.

"This is the seventh in global film history?"

"Huh!" The Huaxia reporter took a deep breath, and then he was suddenly as excited as if his adrenal glands had been pumped.

"Huaxia Movies has actually entered the top ten in global film history, and it's still seventh, awesome, amazing!"

He was about to write a press release, but he suddenly thought: "Is this "Inception" a Chinese-language movie? There are indeed Chinese in it, but this ratio—forget it, it's made by Huaxia Director, Li Mu , Liu Yifei, and Hong Jinbao, why is it not a Chinese movie?"

"The global box office is 9.52 million US dollars, the seventh in the global film history, the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes is 92%, and the IMDB score of 9.3 temporarily ranks the fourth in the global film history-director Li Mu this time, even on a global scale, this is still considered Immediately enshrine the gods, right?"

"Netizens have been saying that Li Mu is comparable to Spielberg, and that Li Mu is comparable to James Cameron. It used to be flattering, and it was a joke, but now it has become more and more a fact. Maybe Li Mu is now The background is still a bit worse, but you must know that he has just turned 25 this year!"

……

At the same time, Han Sanping called Li Mu to China Film Group.

"Li Mu, come, sit down!"

"it is good."

"Brother Huang, you are here too." Li Mu greeted Huang Jianxin who was also in the office.

Many of Li Mu's films since his debut have been produced by Huang Jianxin, and the relationship between the two is good.

"Well, Boss Han asked me to come over to discuss something."

Huang Jianxin shook hands with Li Mu, then patted him on the shoulder and said, "Amazing! The global box office of 9.5 million U.S. dollars. When I first saw this figure, I was shocked. It's too exaggerated. It's scary!"

"The luck is really good this time." Li Mu said.

"Good luck? One is lucky and two are lucky. How can there be luck? Let's stop playing the game of modesty."

"hey-hey……"

After seeing Li Mu, Han Sanping was also very happy. While talking about the grand occasion of "Inception" sweeping the global film market, he was full of praise for Li Mu himself.

According to what he said, Li Mu is now registered with several high-level leaders above, and recently it has even reached the level where it is inevitable to mention culture, movies, and foreign exchanges.

"How many people are ranked in the global ranking now?" Han Sanping asked Li Mu with a smile after sitting opposite Li Mu and Huang Jianxin.

李沐笑着答道：“应该是No.11名吧，No.10是2007年上映的《加勒比海盗3：世界的尽头》，这片全球票房9.63亿美元。再往后就同样是2007年上映的《哈利·波特与凤凰社》了。”

"The latter has a global box office of 9.399 million US dollars, which is slightly lower than "Inception". The temporary ranking of "Inception" is between these two films, which is the 11th place."

No.11 in global film history!

Han Sanping and Huang Jianxin looked at each other, both of them were deeply moved.

Once upon a time, the [-] million yuan club was a symbol of top domestic directors, but how long has it been this time?
Our Huaxia director will be able to make a billion-dollar movie now?
What an exaggeration, what an incredible achievement!

After sighing with emotion, Han Sanping felt a little regretful again.

"It's a pity that we still didn't make it into the top ten in film history. If China can produce a film in the top ten in global film history, what a glorious sight it would be!"

Huang Jianxin also said: "It's really a pity. No. 11 and No. 10, although there is only one place difference, but the symbolic meaning is completely different."

Li Mu said with a smile: "'The way of heaven is to damage more than make up for what is not enough. That's why the emptiness wins the real, and the insufficiency wins more than enough.' I think No. 11 is pretty good, and the number [-] feels a bit drifting."

Han Sanping smiled and said, "You have a good attitude."

Li Mu smiled.

At this moment, his cell phone rang suddenly, he picked it up and took a look, and saw that it was Liu Yifei calling.

"I'm going out to answer the phone." After saying hello, he got up and walked to the door.

"Congratulations!" The other end of the phone said with a smile.

Li Mu asked, "Congratulations on what?"

"Play stupid!" Liu Yifei smiled, "A lot of friends and classmates just called to congratulate me."

"Congratulations again?" Li Mu asked with a smile.

"Of course, congratulations to my boyfriend's film that has successfully entered the top ten in global film history, and it is the seventh in global film history. They all said that you are already a world-class director comparable to Spielberg and James Cameron. , and is the youngest and most handsome international director."

Li Mu was stunned for a moment. The box office of "Inception" has basically been finalized. Why did it suddenly reach the seventh place in the world's film history?He obviously checked the relevant information just now, and there is still some distance between "Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End", the tenth film in film history, what's going on?

At this time, Liu Yifei on the other end of the phone said: "A lot of news websites have already reported it, so it shouldn't be wrong."

……

After hanging up the phone, Li Mu returned to the meeting room with a puzzled expression.

"what happened?"

Huang Jianxin asked.

Li Mu said with a dazed expression: "Just now I called and said that there is already a news report, "Inception" is the seventh in the world's film history! But - no, I remember it is No.11."

"The seventh film history?"

Han Sanping stood up and walked to his desk, opened and browsed, and soon a related report came into view.

[War to God, Huaxia director Li Mu's latest sci-fi masterpiece "Inception" has a global box office of 9.52 million US dollars, temporarily ranking No.7 in global film history! 】

At this time, Li Mu and Huang Jianxin also walked behind Han Sanping.

"9.52 million US dollars, the number is correct, why is it suddenly seventh?"

Han Sanping opened the relevant news, only to see that the bottom of the article also listed detailed information about the top ten film history.

[No.1, "Titanic", $18.42 billion. 】

[No.2, "Lord of the Rings 3: The Invincible King", $11.19 billion. 】

……

[No.6, "Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End", $9.61 million. 】

"Titanic, $18.42 billion?"

But the information in Li Mu's mind is clearly:
("Titanic," 1997, $21.868 million]

At this moment, Li Mu suddenly reacted.

Because of the existence of this golden finger, all the information that has been carefully read before time travel will be printed in his mind. This has caused Li Mu to rarely use Baidu to search for information. He has most of the information in his mind, so why bother to search? engine?

But there is a bug here, that is, the information he saw is likely to be from 2022, or even from 2025 when he traveled through the time point.

Previously, he only excluded those movies that had not yet been released in the ranking of the film history in his mind, but he did not exclude those re-screening box office parts of the movie box office that had already been released.

In the data in Li Mu's mind, the total box office of "Titanic" is 21.868 billion US dollars, because this movie has been re-screened many times after 09, and the data in Li Mu's mind includes the later release of these films. box office reruns.

And if the box office of the re-screening after 09 is removed, wouldn't Li Mu's "Inception" be ranked seventh in the world's film history?
　Thank you for the 1500 reward for "Release a Cup of Wine with the Wind".

　　
　
(End of this chapter)