China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 154 One person, monopolizing half of the movie world
On June 6th, "Transformers 24" was detonated all over the world at the same time, only in the United States. On the 2th alone, it earned a box office of 24 million U.S. dollars, which is more than the box office of "Taken 6060" in the first three days of the weekend. It is so high that it became the number one film in the history of American film opening on Wednesday. In the five days of the first weekend, it raked in 2 million US dollars in box office in the North American film market and broke many records.

On June 6, the costume fairy tale drama "Legend of Sword and Fairy III" starring Hu Ge, Yang Mi, Tang Yan, Liu Shishi, etc. premiered in the mainland, and achieved good results and good reputation.

7月1日，动画电影《冰河时代3》在北美地区正式公映，影片在首周末三天共收获4200万美元票房，远不及其前作《冰河时代2》的6800万美元票房，以及《飓风营救2》的6000万美元票房。

It seems that the box office of "Ice Age 3" in the first weekend is not high, but Li Mu knows that the final global box office of this movie will even be as high as 8.86 million US dollars.In short, this is a typical post-production movie, and the box office trend is exactly the opposite of Li Mu's "Taken 2".

As time enters July, the release of "Taken 7" has also come to an end. At this time, its box office in the domestic market has accumulated to 2 million yuan, and the single-day box office of the film has also dropped to 6.3 million. about.

In the overseas film market, the total box office of "Taken 2" in North America has officially exceeded the US$2 million mark at this time, and its box office in overseas regions outside North America has also reached US$1.7 million.

Domestic market box office, North American box office, and overseas box office outside North America—the total global box office of "Taken 2" has reached 4.683 million U.S. dollars after adding up the three, temporarily ranking 65th in the top [-] global film history bit.

The 64th place at this time is the classic movie "Jaws" directed by Steven Spielberg released in 1975, with a global box office of 4.70 million US dollars, while "Taken 2" has not yet been officially released. , it seems that the latter is very likely to go up to another ranking later.

The movie "Jaws" is next to the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indian Crusaders", with a global box office of 3 million US dollars.

而在《飓风营救2》之下的三部电影则分别是排在第66名的《风月俏佳人》，全球票房4.63亿美元；排在第67名的《汽车总动员》，全球票房4.61亿美元；以及排在第68名的经典科幻电影《黑客帝国》，全球票房4.60亿美元。

So far, four of Li Mu's films have entered the top 2009 box office list of global film history. At the same time, this is Li Mu's second film released in [-]. In addition, Li Mu has two other films to be released this year. And these two movies almost all have the potential to make the list.

In just one year, Li Mu had four new films released, and almost all of these four films had the strength to enter the top [-] box office lists in global film history. Among them, the best-performing film "Inception" even directly entered The seventh place in global film history!

It can be said that since Li Mu officially set foot in the entertainment industry in 2004, after five years of intensive development, when the time finally came to 5, his years of accumulation finally broke out completely.

In 2009, the statement of "Film History Li Mu Nian" was gaining support from more and more people, and even the authoritative media CCTV specially invited experts from the film and television industry to discuss this statement.

Also in 2009, when Huayi Brothers Media was about to go public, brothers Wang Zhonglei and Wang Zhongjun vowed to seize every opportunity that would help boost the market's confidence in their company.

Among them, President Wang Zhonglei specifically mentioned in an interview with reporters that among the top ten films in the box office rankings of Chinese film history, there are as many as seven films invested by Huayi Brothers alone, which is enough to show that their Huayi Brothers The company has a pivotal position in China's entertainment circle and a precise investment vision.

Among the top ten in Chinese film history, the Huayi Brothers have invested in as many as seven movies? !

After the interview was broadcast, it quickly aroused widespread discussion on the Huaxia Internet.

After reading the relevant reports, countless netizens searched the so-called top ten movies in China's film history with strong curiosity.

The first place is of course the film "Inception" directed by Li Mu, with a domestic box office of 8.9 million yuan.

No.2, "Taken 2", written by Li Mu, has a domestic box office of 6.3 million yuan.

No.3, "Assassin", directed by Li Mu, has a domestic box office of 3.6 million yuan and a re-screening box office of 9700 million yuan.

No.4, "Super Body", directed by Li Mu, has a domestic box office of 3.1 million yuan and a re-screening box office of 9100 million yuan.

No.5, "Taken 1", written by Li Mu, has a domestic box office of 2.8 million yuan and a re-screening box office of 9300 million yuan.

No.6, James Cameron's "Titanic", with a domestic box office of 3.595 million yuan.

No.7, "If You Are the One", directed by Feng Xiaogang, has a domestic box office of 3.2 million yuan.

No.8, "Red Cliff", directed by Wu Yusen, has a domestic box office of 3.14 million yuan.

No.9, director Li Mu's "On the Journey", with a domestic box office of 3.01 million yuan.

No.10, directed by Zhang Yimou, "Curse of the Golden Flower" has a domestic box office of 2.91 million yuan.

After reading the rankings, many netizens were puzzled—there are seven films among the top ten in the box office list of Huaxia Film History that were invested by Huayi Brothers alone?Why do I look left, right, front and back, and there is only one movie "If You Are the One" produced by Huayi Brothers?
The Wang Zhonglei brothers are confused because the company is about to go public?
But soon some netizens took the initiative to stand up and explain to everyone.

"Strictly speaking, what Wang Zhonglei said can't be wrong. After all, people only talk about investment and not independent production, right? As far as I know, director Li Mu's works are usually produced by large domestic companies. Yes, like China Film, Xiying, Bernard, Guangxian, Huayi Brothers, Xiangjiang's Yinghuang, and even the six major Hollywood film companies, everyone has invested. So Mr. Wang counts all the films directed by Li Mu as his own. Strictly speaking, there is nothing wrong with the works invested by the company.”

"Fuck, can you still count like that?"

"Why not?"

"It seems that there is nothing wrong with it, but this is too thick-skinned, right? What kind of skill is it to use the works of director Li Mu to make up money?"

"You don't understand this, do you? Do you think Mr. Wang said this to ordinary netizens across the country? Shit! People don't care what ordinary netizens think. They are buying shares of Huayi Brothers after it goes public. What the capital said: Look, our relationship with director Li Mu is very good, we have invested in every work of director Li Mu, and we will still actively participate in the works of director Li Mu after that!"

"At this time, if you were the capital, what would you think? You must think that Huayi Brothers' company itself is good, and with such a good relationship with Director Li Mu, this company will definitely develop in the future, right? If Director Li Mu comes again A $10 billion movie, is that okay? A company that has a good relationship with Li Mu is a favorite in the film and television industry!"

"Fuck, it turns out that's the case. I said, if it were me, I would be ashamed to take the top ten and seven of the director Li Mu as my grades. The grades are also the grades of director Li Mu, not my own grades. , There is no gold content in the results of the rubbish!"

"However, Mr. Wang's mention of this ranking really opened my eyes! Li Mu alone has six of the top ten box office rankings in national movie history?!"

"Look carefully, the top five are all directed by Li Mu. In fact, this is the most awesome one!"

"In fact, Li Mu also made a coincidence. If the box office of the reruns is removed, the top three works are still Li Mu's works, but the fourth place should be "Titanic". If You Are the One, "Taken 1" dropped directly from fifth to tenth."

"But no matter how you calculate it, there is nothing wrong with the fact that six of the top ten films in China's film history are directed by Li Mu!"

"This result is indeed terrifying!"

The topic aroused by Wang Zhonglei made Li Mu really lose face in front of the whole country again, and it was a big time!

Of the top ten box office charts in China's film history, director Li Mu alone accounts for six?Do you want to be so exaggerated?What are the other big directors doing?
Where is director Zhang Yimou?

The top ten is only one "Golden Armor in the City"?
Director Chen Kaige?
Didn't see any of them?How did you become a great director?
Hollywood blockbusters are awesome, right?

As a result, in the domestic market, only one "Titanic" released in 1998 is in the top ten box office charts in film history?Among the rest of the Hollywood movies, the highest box office in the mainland is "Transformers", which ranks No. 11?

"Li Mu has directly occupied half of the top ten box office rankings in the Chinese film market by himself?"

"Great!"

"exaggerate!"

Then some netizens said:
"Half the country? It seems right now, but it's hard to say whether it will be right at the end of the year!"

"How do you say it?" asked a netizen.

"In late July, director Li Mu will have another film called "The End of the World Collapse", and at the end of December or early next year there will be another "Gravity", which is very likely to be a big hit. Maybe it will be on the list by the beginning of next year. There will be 7 works directed by Li Mu!"

"One person, eight parts?"

Then the netizens exploded again.

"Director Li Mu, one of the top ten directors in Chinese film history, will occupy eight positions alone? Alright! I won't say anything, I'm speechless."

"Other domestic directors are too good at this!"

……

To be precise, there is a high probability that Li Mu will not have two more movies this year, but three.

Just when he and Cheng Long, Liu Yifei, Liu Xiaoli and others went to the United States to promote their new movie, he learned that his other new movie - "Manchester by the Sea" was going to be released in September.

However, the domestic box office of this film is unlikely to be very high, because the plot is too depressing, so Li Mu has no idea of ​​introducing this film to China for the time being.

In the previous life, this film was introduced to China in 2017. At that time, this film had already won two Oscars for Best Actor and Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. The Douban score was also as high as 8.6 points. Only a mere 818 million!
To be honest, Li Mu doesn’t think he can get a good result by introducing this version into China. It may indeed be higher than 818 million. After all, Li Mu is a native of China, and his reputation in China is big enough At the same time, he also has a lot of fans, so Li Mu feels that if this movie is introduced to China, the box office will definitely be better than that of the previous life, but in terms of how much better it will be, it will not be much better, it will be better.

Anyway, it was an award-winning movie. From the beginning, Li Mu didn't expect this movie to make him much money at the box office, so Li Mu had no motivation to introduce it to China.

If this film can really win the Oscar winner next year, it will not be too late to introduce it to China.

In short, this "Manchester by the Sea" is about to be released, but as a result, few people in China know about it.

……

On July 7, another film by Li Mu, "The Doomsday Collapse" starring Cheng Long, Liu Yifei, and Liu Xiaoli, will be officially released worldwide.

Since the main creators of the film flew back to China from the United States last month, while continuing to promote "Taken 2", they are also promoting the new movie "Doomsday Collapse".

Since it is a movie promotion, it is natural to have to deal with media reporters. At this time, the reporters will also ask some things that have nothing to do with the current movie.

"Director Li, can you tell us about your plans after "Collapse" and "Gravity"? May I ask if you have started preparations for your new movie? I think many netizens across the country must be very interested in this topic. interest."

Li Mu smiled and said: "The new movie... I have a preliminary plan, but I haven't made a final decision on whether to make this movie or not."

"Can you give some details?"

"I originally wanted to make the new movie "The Hunger Games", which is also a teen-themed novel. In fact, the novel version of "The Hunger Games" was released earlier than "Twilight", but now "Twilight" I have already filmed two films of "The Hunger Games", and the box office performance is still very good, but the earlier "The Hunger Games" has not even been filmed, so I have considered making this film before. .”

"So is there any difficulty now?"

Li Mu said: "There are indeed some troubles in the casting. The heroine of this play has been determined for a long time, which is Liu Yifei, but according to the script, the heroine in the movie also has a younger sister and a mother. Now Since the heroine is of the yellow race, the mother and sister of the heroine will naturally continue to use the yellow race."

"Although the role of sister is not much, its importance is not bad at all, and the actor who plays this role has to sign the trilogy directly, so I have to be more cautious when choosing a role. If If a suitable actor can be found, the new movie can be officially launched at any time, but if a suitable young actor is still not found, then the project may be delayed for another two years to start."

"Excuse me, Director Li, how old is the role of the younger sister in the movie?"

Li Mu said: "12 years old."

The reporter said: "That is the post-95 generation."

Li Mudao: "If the actor looks suitable, it is not impossible for the post-00s to consider."

……

Then the entertainment circle exploded again.

Seriously, director Li Mu is actually worried about the cast of the new movie?
Who is Li Mu?Four of the top 11 box office films in global film history are on the list, with the highest ranking being seventh. The top [-] in China's film history box office rankings occupy six seats, and may change to eight seats by the end of the year.

Such an international A-level blockbuster that such a big director is preparing to shoot, the heroine is still Liu Yifei, and now there is still a lack of "Liu Yifei's younger sister" role, and this role will sign a trilogy as soon as it is signed!
The role of the sister of the heroine of the Hollywood A-blockbuster trilogy? !
What exactly this represents, everyone in the circle knows.

There used to be a star girl, but now director Li Mu is short of a "Mu girl".

Although this role is just a female supporting role, it doesn't seem to be high enough to be called a certain girl.

But this is a female supporting role in a Hollywood A-level production!
How many actors at the Huadan level in China are trying their best to show their faces in Hollywood blockbusters? !
In short, after this interview, the entire Chinese entertainment circle became lively.

　Thanks to "boring middle-aged man" for the reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)