China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 195 The Martian Rescue Finished, Hurricane 3 Started

Seeing that the ratings of "Celebrating More Than Years" reached a new high in the ratings of CCTV's set of channels in the past two years, video sites such as Youku and iQiyi are not calm. Road copyright, and Li Mu's attitude towards each family can be summed up in the word "drag".

Li Mu doesn't plan to start a video website by himself. This business is a bottomless pit when it comes to burning money. Even big Internet companies such as Penguin and Baidu are quite difficult to burn, and the profitability of video websites in the foreseeable future is not strong. Mu is not very interested in this kind of thankless business, so in the long run, the film and television drama copyrights in his hands will be sold sooner or later.

So of course he doesn't want to freeze up the relationship with these potential customers, but knowing that the copyright for an episode of 20 million this year will rise to 200 million an episode next year, of course Li Mu will procrastinate as much as he can.

Excuses are readily available.

CCTV has always been strict with Party B. When signing the contract, it has already been agreed that China will not be able to transfer the second round of broadcast rights and network copyright within three months of the first broadcast. Therefore, if each company wants to buy the copyright, at least they have to wait for the contract between Huashang and CCTV to expire. Bar?

Anyway, let's talk slowly!

But these copyrights will cost more than this price after three months!
Next, "Celebrating More Than Years" continued to be popular on CCTV. Although its daily ratings fluctuated, they basically remained above 8%, which is not a small miracle. The popular broadcast also brought many actors in the play into flames.

The male protagonist Wang Kai, the female supporting roles Song Yi, Li Chun, and Xin Zhilei, and the male supporting roles Tian Yu, Zhang Ruoyun, etc. All of these people have gained popularity due to the popularity of the show.

As for the heroine Liu Yifei, it is better to say that "Celebrating More Than Years" made her popular than saying that she was popularized by "Celebrating More Than Years".

Liu Yifei in this life has been a phenomenon-level movie one after another since "The Legend of Condor Heroes" was broadcast, especially "Inception" which gave it a very high international influence.

If "Gravity" starring Gong Li hadn't set off a 3D movie storm in the world last year, I'm afraid that the title of the number one Chinese actress would have already fallen on her head.

In August, the crew of "The Martian" returned from the United States and quickly rushed to Gansu to continue shooting the film's location. During this period, it just happened to catch up with the official start of Huashang's new drama "Scary Step by Step", and Li Mu also took time to participate in the production of the new drama Inauguration ceremony.

"Scary Step by Step" employs a large number of new actors, many of whom Li Mu can't name, but obviously these people really want to leave a little impression on Li Mu's heart, and some people will use some caution during the period. Li Mu didn't feel disgusted by this either.

There are so many white lotuses in this world. It is understandable to want to fight for some resources for himself. When he first crossed over, he was still jumping back and forth between Xiying Studio and Brother Cheng Long to fight for the right to speak.

Nie Yuan was basically neither humble nor overbearing in front of Li Mu, whether it was behavior or speech, he was more decent, but inadvertently, he still leaked a little nervous and apprehensive emotions.

"I saw you played the young Qianlong in "The Granary of the World" and thought that you must be suitable to play the Yongzheng in this drama, but the two roles are somewhat similar. I know that actors want to try some roles that have not been played before. At that time, I was worried that you would not pick it up." Li Mu laughed at the start-up scene.

Nie Yuan also laughed and said: "Qianlong in "The Granary of the World" is indeed very similar to Yongzheng in "Scary Step by Step", especially the costumes. I wear this dragon robe and stand somewhere else, no one can see Is it Yongzheng or Qianlong who played this role, but if you do your homework, you will find that Yongzheng and Qianlong are actually completely different. Compared with Yongzheng, Qianlong is more like his grandfather Kangxi..."

It can be seen that Nie Yuan has done enough homework in advance, and this also made Li Mu's impression of Nie Yuan very good. The happy conversation between the two naturally attracted the attention of the surrounding people. I think Nie Yuan may have many good opportunities in the future.

At the opening scene, almost all the actors wore ancient costumes, except for the heroine Liu Shishi, who was seen standing among a group of "ancient people" in modern clothes, but she didn't feel awkward at all.

This girl seems to be born with such a little classical temperament.

After the photo was taken, a group of people gathered around Li Mu, and Li Mu joked: "Shi Shi will wear modern clothes alone at the launch conference, will it be reversed when Shi Shi wears ancient clothes alone at the press conference? ?”

The director immediately laughed and said, "Director Li reminded me that Shi Shi was wearing modern clothes alone at the opening press conference, which means that only Shi Shi has traveled through time alone. It only means that Shi Shi has crossed over, but it can be different from today's press conference and can also echo, wonderful!"

The people around also flattered after hearing the words, and Liu Shishi did too, but it was not smooth enough, but it could be seen that she had worked hard.

After the press conference, Li Mu rushed to Gansu to continue filming "The Martian".

In fact, there are not many scenes that really need to be filmed in Gansu, but Gansu's location selection is extremely important, because whether it is a scene in the studio or in the United States, a lot of self-Gansu is needed. The material shot at the hotel was incorporated into it.

While Li Mu and others were filming in Gansu, the TV series "Love Story in Beijing" was officially completed. Yang Mi and Tong Liya had just left the crew and hadn't rested for a few days. "Palace Lock Heart Jade".

During this period, the TV series "Celebrating More Than Years" officially ushered in the finale, and the audience rating of the finale was 8.7%.

It was hotly discussed by the whole people. During the popular broadcast, CCTV sold a set of advertising fees for 2.5 million yuan. From the perspective of economic benefits, CCTV has made a lot of money by purchasing the copyright of "Celebrating More Than Years".

But CCTV, especially a set of CCTV channels, is not a purely commercial TV station. It not only has to consider the ratings of the broadcast programs, but also considers the social and educational significance of related programs.

Therefore, although this wave of CCTV has made a lot of money with "Celebrating More Than Years", it has also received some criticism. Li Mu estimates that it will be difficult to broadcast time-travel dramas on CCTV in the future.

At least it must be difficult to broadcast it on CCTV.

At the end of August, "The Martian" was officially wrapped, and the crew held a wrap-up banquet at the hotel as usual.

Jiang Wen was the most active in the whole wrap-up banquet, and he dragged this and that around to drink, and in the end he drank to the point of retching and then swallowed it back violently, Liu Yifei frowned.

"Li Mu... I, Jiang Wen, have never convinced anyone in my life, but I especially admire you. Before I made my first movie, I didn't think that the things made by such big directors were actually nothing special. From the first day I knew from the beginning that I could make better movies, better movies than those big directors! But after I met you, I was convinced, the movies you can make, I can't make."

Li Mu smiled.

"But you know what I admire most about you?" Jiang Wen glanced drunkenly at everyone in the room, and then heard him continue, "What I admire most is that you can wear the crown of the Oscar queen On Gong Li's head, this is... so amazing, she seems to be the first Oscar queen in Asia, right? I'm convinced! I'm convinced!"

Hu Jun and Jiang Wen have collaborated in two films, and they seem to have a good relationship. At this time, Hu Jun laughed and said, "Director Jiang, why does this Oscar queen wear a crown? Shouldn't it be a crown?" ?”

Jiang Wenhuang wandered around to find a glass, poured himself another half glass of white wine, then raised his glass and said, "That's right, Oscar queens should be wearing tiaras, I was wrong, I should be punished!"

As he said that, he drank the wine in his hand, and after he drank it, he looked at Li Mu again and asked, "Director Li, you asked Gong Li to act in a play, but the crown of the Oscar queen was worn on her head Come on, now that you are looking for me to act, what about next year's Oscar winner's crown?"

Li Mu Wenyan punched Jiang Wen in the chest, and then laughed and scolded: "What are you thinking? Do you think the Oscar committee listens to me alone? If I want to be able to do that, I would have put the actor's crown on my head a long time ago." gone."

Jiang Wenwen said with a chuckle: "That's right, Oscar depends on both strength and luck, and it's not even close at all."

After chatting with Jiang Wen, Li Mu approached the heavenly king Andy Lau again. The two of them chatted about the new movie "Source Code".

The cast of the movie "Source Code" is also considered strong.

The male lead Andy Lau, the female lead Song Jia, the female supporting role Yang Ziqiong, the male supporting role Fan Wei, plus the screenwriter Li Mu and the director Lin Chaoxian, it is not easy for this movie not to attract attention.

In fact, when netizens learned that the heavenly king Andy Lau was finally going to take the lead in a film written by Li Mu, countless netizens rushed to tell the news with excitement.

To be honest, even with the popularity of Andy Lau, if he can star in Li Mu's movie, it will make countless fans extremely excited.

At the beginning of this year, "Gravity" swept the world and Gong Li won the Oscar, which had a great impact on the psychology of the Chinese people.

The fly in the ointment is that this movie is not directed by Director Li himself, but it doesn't matter, the screenplay by Director Li himself is still a sci-fi theme, which is very good.

"Director Li, does the male protagonist open up a new parallel universe every time he enters the source code?"

Li Mu was a little surprised, he didn't expect Liu Tianwang to understand the concept of "parallel universe".

"What do you say?"

Li Mu asked back.

The reason why he asked back was because he wanted to hear how deep Andy Lau knew about this story, and because he didn't really want to give a clear answer to this question as a writer and director.

It's like he was often asked whether the spinning top at the end of "Inception" fell down, but he never gave a clear answer for a reason.

Sometimes with a clear answer, the film has no charm.

Andy Lau laughed and said, "I think the protagonist has entered a new parallel world."

"Why do you say that?"

"I have studied the script carefully in the past few days, and found that every time the protagonist enters the world of source code, the newly entered world will be slightly different from the previous one. For example, a passenger always drips coffee on the male protagonist's shoe , the first time the heroine didn't wipe it for him, but the second time she took out a tissue. This shows that the source code world that the hero enters every time is not a simple fixed program, and that every code (person) in it is They are alive, they are living beings who have thoughts, free will and can move freely.”

Li Mu was quite surprised, and when Andy Lau finished speaking, he couldn't help applauding him.

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When the time was almost up, Li Mu took the stage to give a speech to the whole crew. What he said was nothing more than thanking everyone for their contribution to "The Martian", etc. At the end, he and everyone wished "The Martian" a great success and a box office hit .

After returning to Beijing, Li Mu took a good rest at Ziyu Villa's home. During this period, Cheng Long contacted Li Mu several times, of course, because of the launch of "Taken 3".

After Liu Yifei learned that "Taken 3" was about to start, she flirted with Li Mu a few times, just to get Li Mu into the group together.The prospective mother-in-law Liu Xiaoli also had the same meaning, saying that "Taken 3" was filmed by the director Chen Musheng, even if Li Mu joined the crew, he didn't need to do anything himself, just went to France for vacation.

Naturally, Li Mu won't really stay with Liu for a long time. He still has a lot of work to do, so how can he leave easily?

He will be watching the post-editing and special effects production of "The Martian", and he will arrange the schedule of "The Hunger Games". wait.

In addition, the TV series "Gong Suo Xin Yu" is about to start, "33 Days of Broken Love" and "Beijing Meets Seattle" are being filmed, and he will join the cast to watch when he finds time.

In short, there are a lot of things to be busy. I really don't have time to join the group and pay Liu Yifei for a month or two.

Liu Yifei was naturally a little unhappy at first, but then Li Mu coaxed him with both mouth and heart for a while, and it was all right.

Li Mu asked the special effects company about the time needed for the post-production period, and the special effects company gave a reply of about 26 weeks. Li Mu was a little surprised when he heard this. "The Martian" has more than 1100 special effects shots, and the entire post-production process only took half a year. It seems that the efficiency of these special effects companies is getting higher and higher.

At the beginning of September, "Taken 9" was officially launched. Liu Yifei and her mother Liu Xiaoli both joined the group. Before joining the group, Liu reluctantly entrusted her four dogs and one cat to Li Mu.

Li Mu felt a little headache when he saw it. He also likes small animals, but Liu Yifei seems to keep a little too much. In his cognition, isn't one pet enough?

"I'd better ask someone to take care of it!"

Li Mu originally wanted to say that he let his assistant Liang Bing live in and take care of him, but after thinking about it, let it go, so there is no need to cause misunderstanding.

When Liu Yifei was on a business trip before, Liu Xiaoli took care of her or was simply taken to the crew by her. The trouble this time is that Liu Xiaoli also joined the crew and the filming location had to run around the world.

"Actually, it's not that difficult. Xiao Mu is so smart. Just let Xiao Mu help you watch over other dogs."

There is a German Shepherd in Liu Yifei's dog, and the name of this German Shepherd is "Xiaomu". Yes, every time Li Mu asked her, she would say that the name of this German Shepherd is "Xiaomu", However, gossip about Liu Yifei raising a German Shepherd named "Xiao Mu" has been widely circulated on the domestic Internet.

In mid-September, the film "9 Days of Broken Relationship" was officially completed, and Li Mu also personally attended the film's finale banquet.

During the period, the heroine Zhao Liying watched Li Mu hesitate to speak several times, so Li Mu simply called her to the side alone.

"You have something to tell me?"

"Ah."

"Go ahead."

"Director Li, I...Actually..."

"It's okay, just tell me, I will help if I can."

"Okay, it's actually Director Li like this. My contract with Huayi Brothers will expire next year. Regarding how to go in the future, I want to ask Director Li for advice. I know that I may be abrupt, but apart from Director Li, I I really can’t think of anyone who could give me better advice.”

It could be seen that Zhao Liying was very nervous at the moment, and she didn't even dare to look into Li Mu's eyes when she spoke.

Li Mu knew that Zhao Liying must terminate the contract with Huayi Brothers this time.

She signed with Huayi Brothers in 2006, but she has been playing tricks for four years. Zhao Liying is a relatively ambitious girl, so she is naturally not satisfied with her current situation.

This time, she knows better than anyone how the heroine of "33 Days of Broken Relationship" came to be. In short, the Huayi Brothers have little credit for this.

I heard that Director Li asked her directly by name.

In her previous life, Zhao Liying actually did nothing during her time at Huayi. It was not until she and Huayi Brothers terminated the contract that she signed a contract with Hairun Film and Television, which ushered in a turning point.

It seems that the girl is already thinking about quitting at this moment.

(End of this chapter)