China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 157 Epoch-making films, awards

"Li Mu—has the total box office surpassed that of James Cameron?"

Many people in China were fooled by that news.

Who is James Cameron?Is the director of the Terminator series!He is the director of the world's No. [-] box office "Titanic"!

What is the global box office of "Titanic"?

$18.45 billion!
It has been 1997 years since the movie was released in 12. In the past 12 years, no movie has surpassed it—let alone surpassed it, not even a box office close to "Titanic". nothing!

The second-ranked "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King" has a global box office of 11.18 billion, which is 7 million less than "Titanic"!

Got it wrong?
Many people, especially domestic directors, were all in disbelief to verify it for themselves, including Chen Kaige, a director who also considers himself an international director.

Cameron's just a few films - "Titanic", "Terminator 1", "Terminator 2", "True Lies", "Alien 2", "Alien in the Abyss", "Alien in the Abyss (IMAX) ", the box office data was quickly added - 30.57 billion US dollars.

Not a single decimal point is wrong!

Counting Li Mu's box office, it turned out that the editor added all the box office of Li Mu's screenplay works, which made Li Mu a little bit invincible, but-in any case, Li Mu was already on a par with James Cameron. Are directors good to compare with?

And the most important thing is that Li Mu has only been making movies for less than 5 years - 5 years, has it reached this level?

Ziyu Villa.

Liu Xiaoli asked: "Have you read the news? It says that Li Mu's total box office has surpassed that of James Cameron."

"I see, but it counts the total box office of all his screenwriting works, not the total box office of his director's works." Sitting opposite his mother, Liu Yifei continued lazily, "But Director Cameron has already filmed a full 25 He has only been making movies for less than 5 years, and I believe that when he makes movies for 25 years, his achievements will truly surpass that of director Cameron."

"Yeah, he's only 25 years old this year—by the way, his movies will be released in a concentrated manner this year, so he should be able to make a lot of money?" Liu Xiaoli first sighed with emotion, and then immediately changed the subject.

Liu Yifei thought for a while and said, "I seem to have heard him mention that the three movies "Inception", "Taken 2" and "Doomsday Collapse" combined will probably bring him 2.5 million yuan. to $3 million in box office revenue."

Liu Xiaoli was a little surprised.

I remember that in 2002, Lao Chen ranked 2.15rd in the Forbes list of the richest people in mainland China with assets of 23 million US dollars. At that time, she really thought that Lao Chen was very amazing.

Now that seven years have passed, Lao Chen's total assets are still more than 20 million U.S. dollars, but now Li Mu's movie has won nearly 3 billion U.S. dollars in the global box office in just half a year, and he himself has received nearly [-] billion U.S. dollars at the box office. [-] billion dollars.

In half a year, the earning has exceeded Lao Chen's total assets?

My daughter is so lucky...

"He should be around... I mean around a man like him..." Liu Xiaoli hesitated to speak twice in a row. Some words seemed to be difficult for her as a mother, but sometimes her daughter's temperament is really a little confusing Confused and careless, she couldn't do without saying some things, so she organized her words before continuing, "There should be a lot of women around him who want to borrow his superiors, right? Anyway, be careful, don't A good relationship was disturbed by someone."

"Him? He won't." Liu Yifei was stunned for a moment and then smirked.

But her reaction made Liu Xiaoli even more worried.

"How do you know he won't?"

"Because everything a man wants from a woman... I can give it." Liu Yifei blushed for no reason.

It was said that the worry on Liu Xiaoli's face not only did not decrease, but actually deepened.

"Anyway, please take care of yourself. With his current status, as long as he thinks, he doesn't even need to think about it—it's not because you are young and haven't seen the methods of those women. They really do everything for the sake of being superior. Come out." Finally Liu Xiaoli couldn't help reminding.

"I know? I've seen their tricks before." Liu Yifei said.

"Have you seen it?" Liu Xiaoli was a little surprised.

"Of course I've seen it!" Liu Yifei said with a bit of a smile, "One time in the film crew, there was a special actor, who didn't have many roles, and she seemed to be seventeen or eighteen years old. She gave Li Mu some local specialties from her hometown, and I told him to open it himself, and it seemed that if he liked it, she would bring some to Li Muduo."

Speaking of this, Liu Yifei suddenly couldn't help laughing and leaned back.

"That day Li Mu vowed to ask me to eat local products together. I was also curious, and then the two of us opened the box together."

Liu Xiaoli was fascinated by what she heard, and at this moment she couldn't help asking: "What's wrong with opening it, isn't it a souvenir inside?"

Liu Yifei couldn't bear it anymore, she laughed and put her head on the sofa, giggled for a while, then sat up straight again and cleared her throat, then said: "There are really souvenirs, but The souvenir was covered with a pair of leggings that looked like they were worn."

After speaking, Liu Yifei laughed again.

I remember that Li Mu called the phone at that time, and the other party said that he took it off and threw it away and forgot.

Liu Xiaoli looked at the daughter who laughed like a fool, and couldn't help being speechless for a while. She really couldn't figure it out. Is this difficult thing really funny?What's so funny?How much crisis and difficulty is hidden in it, can the girl really not feel it?
What if Li Mu didn't open the package with his daughter?
"No, you just said that you can give men everything they want, but I don't know if you have thought about it. Do you really know what men want?"

"What do men want?"

Liu Xiaoli didn't answer, and it was difficult to answer, because she was not her daughter, not her best friend. There were some things that I could say to my best friend, but it was not easy to say it to my own daughter.

However, Liu Xiaoli's words still aroused Liu Yifei's curiosity, so shortly after the end of this conversation, she searched the Internet very seriously for the question of what a man really wants.

She read a lot of answers on the Internet, and it turned out that netizens had everything they said—family, career, honor, etc., until someone answered this question with the words written in a diary by a generation of Chinese master Ji Xianlin:

"In this life, I only wish to spend more time with a few women."

"What?"

Liu Yifei was stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't help wondering if the difficulty was really the original words of the master?
That night she insisted on pestering Li Mu to pursue this topic, and asked Li Mu if he thought the same way, but of course Li Mu would not admit it.

"Me? Of course I'm not, why would I think that?!"

"Well, I see, that means you are higher than the master, right?!"

"Actually not, but the most I can think about is..."

"Huh? What's the most you can think about?"

"So should I think about it or shouldn't I?"

"Do you have that kind of thought in yourself and need to ask others?"

……

A few days later, Li Mu responded to the fact that his total box office surpassed James Cameron in an interview with reporters, but almost beyond everyone's expectations, Li Mu jumped out of the framework of talking about the box office comparison between the two. , but talk about James Cameron's great impetus to the progress of the film industry.

He talked about James Cameron's latest movie "Avatar", talked about the great progress of 3D technology and the broad prospects of motion capture technology in movies, and talked about the consulting he has mastered, he dared to assert that this time Cameron director Will definitely shock the whole world with "Avatar".

When the reporter asked whether Li Mu thought that the new film directed by Cameron could surpass the box office of his predecessor "Titanic", Li Mu gave an affirmative answer without hesitation.In the end, he asserted that this time it is not as simple as surpassing the box office of "Titanic". This time, Director Cameron wants to promote a revolution in the film industry.

In the end, Li Mu even clamored for all theaters to introduce as many 3D screens as possible and build more IMAX theaters, because everyone will soon see the spectacle of scalpers who speculate on train tickets entering the movie market. , I will soon see that the absurd plot of a movie ticket being fired for [-] or even [-] is staged in reality.

"I know that no one will believe what I say now. Maybe some people will say that you need to find a scalper to buy tickets to watch a movie? Theoretically, the release period of a movie can be as long as two months. During this period, it is not OK to buy tickets ? Is there any reason to buy movie tickets that have been increased by scalpers? But what I want to say is, think about why I said "Avatar" and "Gravity" are epoch-making movies."

"Of course, I also know the truth that what you say is not what you see, so now I officially invite the directors of theaters and theaters across the country to come to Beijing to watch movies. At the same time, I also believe that after watching the movie, you will come back After taking up my own job, the first thing to do is to quickly introduce more 3D screens and quickly increase the number of IMAX theaters.”

"Finally, I would like to say something to movie fans all over the country. In the future, when you want to watch "Avatar" or "Gravity" but you cannot buy tickets offline or the ticket price is too high due to scalpers, you can log in to our company. The online ticket purchase on the Maoyan Movie website is not only at the original price, and there is no need to queue up, but you can also choose seats online, which is very convenient.”

……

Li Mu's words became popular, and it went out of the circle. The most pertinent evaluation given by netizens across the country is: Li Mu is probably crazy this time!

After watching a movie, scalpers came out?
Has anyone boasted about their new movie so much?Epoch?Go too far!

Still can't buy tickets offline, and buy tickets online, and the price of a ticket will increase by several hundred?

Do Chinese people love watching movies so much?
3D movie?

Is this something new?This thing has been around for decades, right?
The people in charge of theaters and theater chains are even more unconvinced. If you say it’s epoch-making, it’s epoch-making. If you say it’s hard to get a ticket, is it hard to get a ticket?
You said vigorously introduce 3D screens?Do you think that the introduction of 3D screens and new IMAX theaters cost nothing? IMAX is so expensive, how many Chinese people are willing to watch it?

However, Li Mu invited everyone to the capital to watch epoch-making movies in advance. Everyone still wants to go. Now the annual film market is more than 60 billion, and Li Mu's three movies have won more than 20 billion in half a year. Li Mu is a well-deserved god of wealth in theaters. The face of the God of Wealth still has to be given.

Many directors of theaters have already thought about it. Although everyone doesn't believe Li Mu's so-called epoch-making movie, in order to improve the relationship with Director Li Mu, some 3D screens should be introduced.

In fact, "Gravity" has not yet completed all the post-production work at this time, but I want to show the finished product for more than half an hour, so that the directors of theaters across the country can experience the latest 3D shooting effects, which is still completely achievable .

While Li Mu was nervously preparing for the movie viewing plan in advance, the global release of the movie "Doomsday Collapse" has basically come to an end.

As of the latest day's data, the film has won a total of 7.9 million yuan at the box office in the mainland, ranking second in the domestic film market.

The first is of course Li Mu's movie "Inception", and the third is also Li Mu's movie - "Taken 2", which was just released this year.

As of the official release, "Collapse" has won a total of 2.21 million US dollars in box office in North America, plus 2.62 million US dollars in overseas box office, so far "Doomsday Collapse" has won a total of 4.83 million US dollars in the box office in the international market.

Converting the domestic box office of 7.9 million yuan into US dollars at the current exchange rate, plus the international box office of 4.83 million US dollars, the global box office of "Doomsday Collapse" has reached 5.97 million US dollars, ranking 39th on the top [-] box office list of global film history.

……

On August 2009, 8, the 29th Huaxia Film Huabiao Award Ceremony was held in the Beijing Exhibition Hall. Among them, the movie "Inception" directed by Li Mu won the "Excellent Feature Film" award, which was the same as the movie "Inception". The other nine films including "Assembly" directed by Feng Xiaogang and "Mei Lanfang" directed by Chen Kaige also won this honor.

Well, the grand prize of ten yolks.

In addition, the "Excellent Director Award" of this year's Huabiao Awards also issued three yolk eggs. The award-winning directors and works are:

Director Feng Xiaogang, "Assembly".

Director Chen Kaige, "Mei Lanfang".

Director Li Mu, "Inception".

In addition, Li Mu also won the Outstanding Screenwriter Award and Outstanding Actor Award of this year's Huabiao Awards, and Liu Yifei also won the Outstanding Actress Award.

It is worth mentioning that these awards are also three yolks. For example, the other two yolks of this year's Outstanding Actress Award were awarded to Zhang Ziyi ("Mei Lanfang") and Fan Zhibo ("Mei Lanfang"). Emergencies").

In early September, Li Mu's other film "Manchester by the Sea" officially entered the North American film market. Although its box office performance was mediocre, it received rave reviews and went straight to the Oscars.

On September 9, the nomination list for the 8th China Film Golden Rooster Awards was officially announced. "Inception" won Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Nine nominations including Best Recording, Best Art, and Best Music.

Li Mu didn't care much about the Golden Rooster Award, but Liu Yifei was very excited. The title of Best Actress of the Golden Rooster Award is quite attractive to domestic actresses.

That's right, in this year's Golden Rooster Award nominations, Liu Yifei was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Inception".

Strictly speaking, "Inception" is a movie with two heroines, but Marion Cotillard is an Oscar queen, so it is obviously impossible for her to receive China's Golden Rooster Award.

Therefore, although Liu Yifei's performance in the movie was far inferior to Marion Cotillard, the Golden Rooster Award awarded Liu Yifei the nomination for Best Actress.

In addition, Li Mu was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor in this year's Golden Rooster Awards for his role as "The Outpost", which also made Liu Yifei very happy.

"You said, can we win this time?"

"Definitely!"

Since she was nominated, Liu Yifei asked Li Mu this question every now and then, and Li Mu gave her a very positive answer every time. Liu Yifei would be very happy every time she listened to it.

Liu Yifei pretended to be Li Mu to coax her. In fact, only Li Mu knew that Liu Yifei would definitely win the award this time, not only her, but also Li Mu, including the movie "Inception". In short, all nominations won this time will win.

Now Li Mu's influence in the film industry is really too great, but so far he hasn't won a few decent domestic awards, which is really unreasonable.

So long before the nominations for this year's Golden Rooster Awards were officially announced, Li Mu had already received hints in advance.

But there is no need to tell Liu Yifei about this, just treat it as a surprise for her.

　Thanks to "boring middle-aged man" for the reward
　　
　
(End of this chapter)