China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 183 Box Office Crazy Horse, Revenge Watching Movies

"Box Office Crazy Horse!"

This is the media's brand-new name for "Lost in Thailand".

[-] million in three days, the media is boiling, and the industry is shocked!

The official Weibo of "Lost in Thailand" announces the box office of the previous day at the first time every morning, and the media editors squat to monitor the latest data every night. The next day, the news of "Lost in Thailand" breaking the record will spread all over the world. net.

On the day "Lost in Thailand" was officially released nationwide, the total box office of "Tangshan Earthquake" directed by Feng Xiaogang officially exceeded 5 million. For a while, Director Feng was in high spirits, and he even held a special press conference to officially thank the public for "finally he did not break his promise".

And just three days later, the box office of "Lost in Thailand" was infinitely approaching 4 million yuan, and at this time the total box office of "Tangshan Earthquake" had reached 5.5 million yuan.

This is the highest-grossing movie ever directed by Feng Xiaogang. He has imagined countless times that his movie box office breaks 5 million, 5.5 million, or even 6 million. At that time, he always felt that it would be his most glorious moment. .

But when this day really came, director Feng Xiaogang didn't feel comfortable and relaxed at all.

Now the first thing he does when he wakes up every morning is to open Weibo, and then check how much the box office of "Tai囧" is, to see if it is about to surpass his own "Tangshan Earthquake".

It's outrageous to say the least!
"Tangshan Earthquake" is his highest-grossing movie ever. Feng Xiaogang has won the national box office championship many times. As a result, "Tangshan Earthquake" is released [-] days ahead of schedule. In the end, he was worried about the box office of "Lost in Thailand" Will you overtake yourself in a few days?
The most outrageous thing is that the director of "Lost in Thailand" is not Li Mu, but a former "mediocre" director who Li Mu casually supported. If it was Li Mu, he would feel better.

For the next two days, the single-day box office of "Lost in Thailand" remained at around 7000 million yuan.

On Monday, July 7, the total box office of "Lost in Thailand" was 26 million.

At this time, the total box office of "Tangshan Earthquake" was 5.69 million.

On Tuesday, July 7, the total box office of "Lost in Thailand" was 27 million.

At this time, the total box office of "Tangshan Earthquake" was 5.85 million.

It was released for 20 days, with a total box office of 5.85 million. "Tangshan Earthquake" is constantly breaking the previous highest box office record of director Feng Xiaogang.

What is particularly exciting is that according to the current box office trend, it only takes one more day for the total box office of "Tangshan Earthquake" to officially break through the 6 million yuan mark.

Director Feng Xiaogang previously declared that he was confident that the box office would exceed 5 million, but he was questioned by many media. Now it is more than 5 million?In just 21 days, the box office is about to break 6 million—that’s how domineering it is.

What an elated thing, it turned out that a junior used a piece of "Tai囧" to completely dispel his mentality of seeking defeat alone.

Next up is Thursday, July 7.

This morning.

The first thing Director Feng Xiaogang did after waking up was to turn on his mobile phone to check the latest box office data of "Tangshan Earthquake".

"6.03 billion!"

After 21 days of release, the total box office has officially exceeded 6 million. For Director Feng, this is an unprecedented box office achievement.

Then Director Feng immediately thought of the "Tai囧" again, but he wanted to open Weibo several times to check it out, but there was no follow-up action several times.

Just like that, after hesitating for a few minutes, Director Feng finally opened Weibo.

"Good news, just yesterday, #《人在囧途之泰囧》# took another 7100 million at the single-day box office, and the total box office totaled 6.13 million. After 6 days of release, the total box office of "Tai囧" officially exceeded 6 million!"

Director Feng Xiaogang felt mixed feelings after watching it.

In just 6 days, it broke 6 million. "Tangshan Earthquake" was so loved by the audience, and the response was so enthusiastic, it took 21 days for the box office to break through 6 million.

"Times have really changed!"

The media has fallen into a carnival, and the whole network is discussing the box office limit of "囧囧" at the moment.

"Hunger for comedy: "Lost in Thailand" 6 days of 6 million box office miracle!"

"With a cost of more than 2000 million and less than 3000 million, and a box office of 6 million in 6 days, why is the box office of "On the Journey: Lost in Thailand" soaring all the way?!"

""Lost in Thailand" went crazy, triggering audiences to retaliate to watch the movie. "Inception" with a domestic box office of "Lost in Thailand" exceeding the cost of 1.2 million US dollars is a foregone conclusion!"

The media's box office forecast for "Lost in Thailand" has been raised to 15 billion yuan. If the prediction comes true, "Lost in Thailand" will be the second movie in the country with a box office of over 15 billion yuan.

"Avatar" domestic box office did not exceed 15 billion, just rely on "Thailand"?
are you crazy?
A reporter interviewed Li Mu for his views on this.

Li Mu is actually not surprised at the box office performance of "Tai囧".

In the previous life, "Tai囧" was able to earn nearly 13 billion at the box office. In this life, there is Li Mu's popularity bonus, and the popularity of "The Way to Steal the Key" and "People on the Journey", two films with an original cast of 15 to [-] million Basically, the overall conditions are much better than in the previous life, and Li Mu is not surprised that the final box office broke [-] billion.

But of course he wouldn't say that when answering reporters.

""Lost in Thailand" is not a "magic work", but a qualified and well-organized work. "Lost in Thailand" can have such an explosive box office performance. From a macro perspective, perhaps the main reason is the serious lack of qualified comedy movies in China. "

Regarding Li Mu's answer, some Douban netizens pointedly pointed out: "OK, the meaning of director Li Mu is obvious: it is not how good my script is, or how amazing the skill of director Shen Junsheng is. The reason for "Lost in Thailand" Today's explosive results are actually all due to the support of everyone in the industry!"

"Damn it, it turns out that Director Li Mu is possessed by Guo Degang!"

"I guess Director Li Mu is also not feeling very well. I filmed "Inception" for 1.2 million US dollars, and the national box office was only 9 million. In the end, it was less than 3000 million yuan to shoot "Lost in Thailand", and then it took 6 days. Just take 6 million? I spent a lot of time filming "Inception", but in the end, I can't beat "Thailand" in China? If it weren't for the support of foreign markets, Chinese sci-fi movies would be a pill!"

The entire entertainment circle is paying attention to "Tai囧"'s "abnormal box office results", but Li Mu himself is not very interested in it.

He is busy.

The preliminary preparations for "The Martian" have entered the final sprint stage, and the actual shooting location far away in the Gansu Desert has basically been determined.The Wailian producer sent the photo to Li Mu, and after seeing it, Li Mu thought it was pretty good, so he decided on it.

In addition, Li Mu is still preparing another movie.

He said before that he would ask Andy Lau to make a movie, now is the time.

This time he chose Source Code.

This movie has a high score on Douban, but the upper limit of the box office is mediocre. In the previous life, the global box office was about 1.5 million U.S. dollars. However, compared to the production cost of 3000 million U.S. dollars, this movie can be regarded as a movie with a high return rate.

Li Mu himself has a lot of movies to choose from, so Li Mu will initially hire other directors to shoot "Source Code", which has an average upper limit. He thinks that director Lin Chaoxian from Xiangjiang is good, and he will send out invitations to try when the time is right. .

"Source Code, is this a new movie?"

Liu Yifei came behind Li Mu and said.

Li Mu nodded and said, "Yes."

Liu Yifei picked up the storyboard and looked at it, and then asked, "Is this the only way to shoot "The Martian" after filming?"

Li Mu shook his head and said, "I'm not sure yet, and it's possible to invite other directors to shoot."

"Andy Lau starring?" Liu Yifei asked after seeing the annotation on the character draft.

Li Mu nodded: "Brother Hua's price-performance ratio is very high. If you invite Cheng Long or Li Lianlian to act in this movie, the proportion of the film salary will be too high."

"What about the other actors?"

"Not sure yet, I'm thinking about it in the past two days."

Liu Yifei immediately volunteered and said, "Then let me help you think about it!"

"You?" Li Mu said disapprovingly.

Liu Yifei was unhappy, and said coquettishly: "You look down on people, so, you introduce the role to me, and I will help you choose a staff member, and keep it to your satisfaction."

Li Mu pulled her over and sat on his lap, and then introduced her the biography of the movie with great interest.

"The heroine, Lin Na, is the hero's friend, so she can be regarded as a vase character."

"Song Ke!" Liu Yifei blurted out.

"why?"

Liu Yifei said: "The vase, anyone can use it. Song Jia is his own artist, which means that the rich water does not flow to outsiders, and you can't always use people like Li Lianhua and Gong Li when you make movies in the future. You also need to cultivate some talented people. A newcomer with international influence."

"Not bad." Li Mu boasted, and then continued, "Gu Man, a middle-aged female officer, is sympathetic and has a lot of conversations with the male lead."

Liu Yifei looked at the character draft for a moment, and said, "Female officer, when I saw this manuscript, I immediately thought of Yang Ziqiong. There is a photo of her military uniform in "Police Story 3", which looks very similar to your manuscript."

Li Mu's eyes lit up, he went up and kissed her on the cheek, then smiled and said, "Not bad!"

Liu bowed his head and asked, "Is that right, I just said that I am very accurate at seeing people?"

Li Mu babbled and said: "I'm talking about a pretty face, very smooth."

"What?!" Liu Yifei lightly punched Li Mu.

Li Mu laughed, and then he took out a brand new character manuscript, and said: "Look at this, the superior of the middle-aged female officer Gu Man, a mad scientist, fat, bald, by the way, he is still lame."

Liu Yifei blurted out again this time: "Teacher Fan Wei!"

Li Mu was taken aback, and asked: "Fan Committee? How did you think of him?"

Liu Yifei proudly said: "Look at the manuscript you drew, whether it's the figure or the hair loss, isn't this Mr. Fan just like him? Especially the setting of the cripple, I immediately thought of the abductee played by Mr. Fan Wei Pieces."

"Is it suitable?" Li Mu said to himself.

Liu Yifei immediately continued: "It's definitely suitable. You think Mr. Fan's acting skills are very good, and don't you think it's a bright spot for Mr. Fan Wei to play the cripple? The domestic audience will definitely smile when they see it."

Li Mu quickly kissed her again on the face, then said with a smile, "That's right, she's really my good wife."

……

At the same time, the box office trend of "Lost in Thailand" is making more and more people break their defenses.

It was released for 8 days, with a total box office of 7.46 million.

It was released for 10 days, with a total box office of 8.7 million.

On the 11th day of its release, the total box office was 9.1 million.

So far, the domestic box office of "Lost in Thailand" with a total production cost of less than 3000 million yuan has officially surpassed "Inception" with a cost of 1.2 million US dollars!
This time, not only the black Li Mu's people broke the defense, but also Li Mu's most loyal fans broke the defense.

That is the masterpiece "Inception"!

Less than two years after its release, it was overtaken by this mediocre "Tai囧"?

A small-budget comedy movie with a total cost of less than 3000 million yuan, but it took only 11 days to surpass the masterpiece "Inception" in the hearts of countless people?

The total investment of "Inception" is 1.2 million US dollars, and director Li Mu personally directed the film!

Just let "Tai囧" super easy?
Like talk?
Director Shen Junsheng, who had been living in Li Mu's shadow before, suddenly stood in the spotlight this time. A reporter interviewed him and said, "May I ask Director Shen, what do you think about the box office of "Tai囧" surpassing that of "Inception"?" view?"

Director Shen Junsheng thought for a moment, and then said in a very serious tone: "I think Director Li Mu is unfathomable!"

The reporter asked why.

Director Shen Junsheng replied: "I remember that not long after the end of "People on the Journey", I started to prepare for the sequel. At that time, I had a long discussion with Shen Teng and Baoqiang in private. It took about a year. The three of us worked together for a year to hand over the script to Director Li Mu."

"Director Li Mu took a brief look at the script, and then he rejected the script. In fact, he was still quite uncomfortable at the time, and he was a little unconvinced. As a result, Director Li handed over the script of "囧囧 in Thailand" a few days later. me."

"That is to say, the process of director Li Mu's creation of "Lost in Thailand" only took a few days from conception to creation. At that time, I deeply felt the unfathomable depth of director Li Mu!"

Netizens who have watched the interview with director Shen Junsheng all said: "Director Li Mu is too scary!"

"Do you know where the scariest part of director Li Mu is?"

"where?"

"Horror is horror in "Inception", "Gravity", and "Lost in Thailand" are all made by him; horror is in Hugo Award-winning works, it is said that even NASA can't pick it out A couple of erroneous "The Martian" and "The Hunger Games," "Divergent," and "The Maze Runner" all came from him."

"It's really scary, and the grasp of people's hearts is too good-I know that American teenagers like to read childish utopias, so I wrote "The Hunger Games" and "The Maze Runner", and then sold more than 1 million copies worldwide; I know The highest honor of science fiction is the 'Hugo Award', then I wrote "The Martian", "Gravity", "Moon" and then swept the World Science Fiction Convention; I know the future of 3D movies is awesome, so I will shoot "Gravity" then smashed 17 billion US dollars in box office worldwide, and became the person who opened the era of 3D movies with an extremely coquettish posture."

"Then today, I know that Chinese people like to watch a comedy, so I took the time to write a script called "Lost in Thailand", and then found a director to shoot it, and then, my good guy, the box office exploded!"

"It's so scary!"

"Suck it up!"

"Cissy has found a monster boyfriend!"

"The traverser, the absolute traverser, dissect! Dissect! Dissect!!!"

"I'll wipe it, the upstairs is so ruthless, even the autopsy came out."

……

The miracle of "Lost in Thailand" continues.

On the 13th day of its release, the total box office of "Lost in Thailand" officially exceeded the 10 billion mark.

This also means that the third movie with a box office of over 10 billion yuan in the Chinese film market was born.

The first "Gravity", the second "Avatar", and the third "People on the Journey: Lost in Thailand".

At the same time, the news media began to report on the herd mentality of the audience caused by "Lost in Thailand".

Ge Ying, a professor at the School of Film and Television of Shanghai Metropolitan University, said: "Watching "Tai囧" has already formed a herd effect among ordinary people. Everyone will feel that if they don't watch this film, they will miss a hot topic in the city. They all want to watch it. What the hell is going on with a movie. Once a movie becomes a phenomenon, you can’t completely link its box office with its real quality.”

As the box office of "囧囧 in Thailand" is booming all the way, some different voices have begun to appear on the Internet.

“I really didn't feel the magic”

“Not that great”

"This is just a regular comedy film with an investment of less than 3000 million. As a result, the box office has reached 10 billion so quickly, and it seems that it will soon reach 12 billion or 13 billion. Some people have even predicted that it may refresh "Gravity" created a box office record of 16.9 billion, which is abnormal and harmful."

Regarding the harmfulness of the high box office of "Lost in Thailand", which is hotly discussed by some netizens, a netizen on the Tianya Forum retorted: "Do you know that watching "Lost in Thailand" is not just a movie now? It is now the audience's spontaneous 'revenge' Watching movies' is the audience slapping some film directors with money and box office."

"I slap you for pretending to be deep! I slap you for being mentally handicapped and stealing money! I slap you for a gimmick but it's horrible! I slap you for $1.2 million and I can make a movie with a box office of 10 billion, so Director Li Mu It’s nothing awesome—brainless directors are optimistic about it. "Lost in Thailand" has been proved by facts. As long as you make a solid script and shoot with heart, then even an investment of 3000 million can produce a movie with a box office level of 15 billion! "

……

On the 20th day of its release, "Lost in Thailand" had a total box office of 14.35 billion.

Breaking 15 billion is already a matter of time.

The industry has been dumbfounded.

　Thank you "children who love to drink water" for their rewards.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)