China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 198 The big coffee plays a role, the premiere of the Hunger Games
"How can you have seven fights?"

At home, in the evening, Liu Yifei suddenly wanted to read Li Mu's palm on a whim, but instead of looking at the palm prints, she first counted the fight lines on Li Mu's fingers.

"Why can't I have seven fights?"

Liu Yifei broke Li Mu's fingers and said: "One fight is poor, two fights are rich, three fights and four fights sell tofu, five fights and six fights open a pawn shop, seven fights and eight fights make officials, nine fights and ten fights enjoy happiness. You didn't do it Officer, how can there be seven buckets? It should be six buckets, but you are starting a company and doing business, and six buckets are the best."

Li Mu: "Is this why you brag about reading palms?"

Liu Yifei smiled and said: "This is just the most basic, I will also look at the lifeline, career line and marriage line."

Li Mu pulled her over and hugged her in his arms: "It's amazing, but my seven dippers mean the Big Dipper. The Big Dipper is very expensive, and I don't care about being an official."

Just as the phone rang, Liu Yifei broke free from Li Mu's arms and said, "I'm going to get the phone."

After she took the phone and glanced at the caller ID, a look of surprise appeared on her face.

"Whose phone number?"

"you guess!"

"Yang Mi?"

"I knew you liked her!"

Liu Yifei was angry and handed the phone to Li Mu.

"It's him?"

Li Mu was also taken aback when he saw the caller ID, and he connected the call immediately.

"Hello, Master Xing."

"Director Li, hello, hello, did I disturb you?"

"No, no, Master Xing, if you can call me, I will be pleasantly surprised before it's too late."

"It's fine if you don't bother me. Then I'll just say it straight. There is a character in my new movie that suits you very well. I would like to invite you to come and help out with a cameo role. I don't know if Director Li has time."

Li Mu was even more surprised now, Master Xing actually wanted him to play a cameo role?
Now which director's film has a higher gold content than Li Mu's own film?Li Mu doesn't even make cameo appearances in his own movies now, so how could it be possible to make cameo appearances in other people's movies?
Now his movies have the third highest box office in the world, second only to Spielberg and James Cameron, two great directors. It is not appropriate to make cameo appearances in other directors' movies with this status.

It is true that Master Xing is a director that Li Mu respects very much, but it does not mean that Master Xing will go if he asks him to play a guest role.However, he was a little curious about which character Master Xing asked him to play as a cameo.

Judging from the timeline, the film currently being prepared by Master Xing should be "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons"?
So which character is it?
"I may not have time for a guest role, but I'm curious what kind of role you have arranged for me, Master Xing."

On the other end of the phone, Zhou Xingchi said swearingly: "It's a very interesting character, Yushu Linfeng, suave, elegant, handsome, and young master Pianpian, and there are four beauties around him at any time. In short, I am envious of others!"

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in Li Mu's mind: "Damn it, this is Mr. Void?! But Master Xing is also very good at fooling people, and he always follows the four beauties, the four beauties in the wilderness! This is a bad character, Xing How did the Lord think it was suitable for me? I am so handsome in this life!"

"Director Li, don't worry. If you can come, I will definitely film Director Li's scenes as soon as possible. It will take ten days at most, and five days at the shortest. I will definitely film all of Director Li's scenes."

Li Mu thought for a moment, and he must refuse to refuse, but there is something particular about how to say it.

At this time, Li Mu thought of two things.

The first thing is that Zhou Xingchi has never acted in a film in person since "Yangtze River No. [-]".

The second thing is that Zhou Xingchi invited director Feng Xiaogang to play the role of the boss of the Shark Gang in "Kung Fu". Later, director Feng Xiaogang asked Zhou Zhou Xingchi to guest star in "If You Are the One", but Zhou Xingchi directly rejected it.

Thinking of this, Li Mu said: "It's not impossible to play a cameo role... But, it's like this. I just happen to have a character that is very suitable for Master Xing to play a guest role. Do you think we should play a cameo role with each other?"

"Huh?" Hearing the words on the other end of the phone was obviously very surprised.

At this time, Li Mu continued: "I'm talking about a comedian character. A bomb was planted by terrorists on the train. The hero knew that the explosion was inevitable. He looked at the passengers with all kinds of lives and paid for the comedy on the train. The actor made everyone laugh, the comedian said yes, and the moment the passengers burst out laughing, time stood still..."

That's right, what Li Mu was talking about was the plot in "Source Code", which is about to start. The talk show actor in the original "Source Code" is indeed a talk show actor in reality, and he seems to be a little famous. Huaxia is currently talking The show hasn't started yet, and Li Muyuan wanted Shen Teng to play this role as a cameo. At present, there are only a few comedians in China, and there are very few who have enough influence.

Of course, the more famous this role is, the better the final effect will be. If Zhou Xingchi is capable, there may be unexpected effects.

But he also knew that Zhou Xingchi would never come. Others didn't know that he knew that Zhou Xingchi stopped acting after "Yangtze River No. [-]".

This can be regarded as an excuse for Li Mu to reject Master Xing.

But what surprised Li Mu was that Master Xing seemed to be really interested in this role. He asked a lot of relevant details on the phone, and even gave some suggestions for improvement.

"Director Li, the role you mentioned is very interesting. If it was me before, I might have accepted it, but after "Yangtze River No. [-]", I..."

Li Mu: "I understand."

After hanging up the phone, Liu Yifei asked curiously, "Zhou Xingchi invites you to play a guest role?"

Li Muzheng nodded: "Well, for a character with excessive wine and dark circles under the eyes, I don't understand why Zhou Xingchi thinks I'm suitable. I'm so elegant and personable, so I don't fit in with the kid with kidney deficiency at all."

Liu Yifei laughed and said: "I think Zhou Xingchi is quite accurate in judging people. Do you remember how many times you slept with me in one night when we first lived together? Looking at it now, compared to that time, you are so stupid .”

"You say I'm stupid? Look at how I'll deal with you tonight!"

"Come, come, come!"

……

A few days later, Zhou Xingchi called again. What Li Mu never expected was that this time he directly agreed to the cameo invitation that Li Mu mentioned last time.

"Director Li, we agreed earlier that if I take your role, you will take my role. Now that I have officially decided to take your role, what do you think of my role now?"

"what?"

"Director Li, don't refuse any more, I promise I won't waste too much of Director Li's time."

"Then...we'll make a deal!"

Now that Zhou Xingchi has promised to make a cameo in Hua Shang's movie, Li Mu no longer rejects people thousands of miles away.

Left and right is only a ten-day scene, and there is nothing to be delayed.

In early November, "Source Code" was about to launch, and Li Mu and related creators had dinner at a hotel in Shanghai.

Director Lin Chaoxian, leading actors Andy Lau, Song Jia, Yang Ziqiong, and supporting actor Fan Wei participated in the dinner.

"Director Li, you asked Mr. Fan to play the doctor, is it because of the sketch about selling crutches? I think the biggest feature of the role of the doctor in the script is crutches."

Halfway through the meal, Song Jia drank some wine and asked with a rosy cheek.

"I know the skit selling abductees. Teacher Gao: 'Then take it, as much as you want.' Then Teacher Zhao: 'What kind of bicycle do you want? What kind of bicycle do you want!' Finally, Teacher Fan shouted thank you!"

Li Mu said with a smile: "I really didn't consider this when I was casting the cast. I just think that Mr. Fan's image is suitable, and the character shaping ability is also strong."

Lin Chaoxian said: "In fact, Teacher Fan is also very suitable to play the comedian at the end. Now that Teacher Fan is playing Dr. Crazy, the comedian at the end has to find someone else."

Li Mu asked: "Director Lin thinks who is suitable for this role?"

Lin Chaoxian said: "This role does not have many roles, and its role is not too great. In fact, it has little influence on anyone. But if it can interact with the actor's real identity, it will play a finishing touch. Just like "People Liu Yifei, who appeared at the end of "囧听之四之囧", surprised the audience very much. If this character wants to achieve a similar effect, Zhao Benshan, Chen Peisi, or even Shen Teng will do."

Li Mu smiled and said, "What if it's Zhou Xingchi?"

Lin Chaoxian said: "Of course Zhou Xingchi would be better, but with his personality, it is impossible to accept this kind of guest appearance, and I heard that he has retired."

Speaking of which, Lin Chaoxian shook his head.

Andy Lau said at this time: "I haven't cooperated with Zhou Xingchi for almost 20 years, and now I still miss the days of filming with him, but the opportunity may not come again."

In fact, Andy Lau is still very afraid of cooperating with Zhou Xingchi. One is that Zhou Xingchi is too demanding in filming, and the other is that Zhou Xingchi's movies have limited space for Andy Lau to play. Zhou Xingchi is too dazzling, and he will be robbed unconsciously In the limelight.

But it would be great if Zhou Xingchi could be invited to play "Source Code". Andy Lau has read the complete script and knows that the comedian at the end has very few roles. Therefore, even if Zhou Xingchi comes, there is a high probability that he will not be able to steal the lead's halo. .

At this time, everyone heard Li Mu continue to say: "Since everyone thinks that Zhou Xingchi is suitable, then we will settle this matter and invite Zhou Xingchi!"

Lin Chaoxian smiled and said: "We want to invite, but we must invite!"

Andy Lau smiled and said, "Of course it's good to be invited, I think that role is really suitable for him."

Yang Ziqiong looked at Andy Lau and said with a smile: ""Tricky Expert" is a 1991 movie, the two of you really haven't worked together for almost 20 years."

Song Jia leaned on one arm and said, "Director Li, you really didn't invite Zhou Xingchi, did you?"

Everyone was quiet for a while after hearing the words, and then everyone looked at Li Mu, and then thought together: "No way? It shouldn't be possible?! It can't be true, right?"

At this time, Li Mu nodded with a smile and said, "That's right, Zhou Xingchi has indeed agreed to play this role."

Andy Lau: "Huh?"

Lin Chaoxian: "Well, what? Director Li, are you serious?"

Yang Ziqiong: "Huh?"

Song Jia continued to lean on her arms and stare at Li Mu. She drank a few more glasses tonight, and her face was going to be red.

……

A few days later, "Source Code" was officially launched, and Li Mu returned to Beijing immediately after attending the launching ceremony.

"The Hunger Games" will be released soon, and this will be the stage with the most intensive publicity for the new movie.

On November 11, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 19)" officially opened its global release.

On the evening of November 11th, the premiere of the movie "The Hunger Games" was held in Beijing. Liu Yifei appeared on the red carpet of the premiere in a black swan dress, showing elegance and sexy beauty. He held Zhao Jinmai, who was only 20 years old, in his hand, pampering and pampering him all the way , just like a warm big sister.

The film's official global release date is November 11. The reason why the premiere ceremony was held in Beijing on the 26th is because the crew will go to the United States to hold another premiere ceremony.

The box office of "The Hunger Games" must be in the North American market, so Liu Yifei had to do publicity in the United States in the days when the film was officially released.

On November 11, the box office data for the first three days of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 22)" was released. It was officially detonated in advance by this "Harry Potter".

Some film critics praised "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part [-])" as "the most exciting 'Harry Potter' movie so far".

《哈利波特与死亡圣器(上)》自11月19日正式在北美4125家影院约9400块银幕上映。截止到21日凌晨，其在北美市场共计斩获1.25亿美元票房，位列本周北美票房榜冠军，而且领先排行榜No.2《超级大坏蛋》足足1亿美元以上。

The super-high box office of US$1.25 million in the first three days of the first weekend made this seventh film in the Harry Potter series directly on the No. 6 list of the "strongest opening weekend box office in history".

At this time, the No.1 movie on this list is "Batman: The Dark Knight" directed by Nolan, with a three-day box office of 1.58 million US dollars in its first weekend.

The record set by director Nolan in 2008 has never been broken.

Li Mu's previous best opening weekend score was 8700 million US dollars, which was created by the film "Inception" in 09.

After the box office of "Harry Potter 7" was officially announced in the first three days of the weekend, many people in China couldn't help but think of what Li Mu said in an interview with reporters before.

"By the way, when Li Mu was interviewed before, did he say that his "The Hunger Games" has a certain chance of surpassing "Harry Potter 7" at the box office in North America?"

"Yes, there is such a thing. He said that his "The Hunger Games" has a very wide audience in North America, so the box office in North America is likely to surpass that of "Harry Potter 7."

"Haha, I feel like Li Mu is going to stumble this time. The figures of "Harry Potter 7" look very strong. The first weekend is 1.25 million US dollars, which is nearly 4000 million US dollars higher than Li Mu's best result."

"The box office of "Harry Potter 7" is higher than Li Mu's best result? Isn't that right? Didn't it mean that "Gravity" is second only to "Avatar" in film history?"

"That's the total box office in the world. Now we are talking about the box office of the first weekend. The box office of "Gravity" was 7900 million US dollars in the first weekend, which is nearly 7 million lower than that of "Harry Potter 5000". "Gravity" is the box office. The curve is stable. For example, if the box office of other movies is 7900 million in the first weekend, it can directly drop to 3000 million in the second week! But "Gravity" made 7900 million in the first weekend, and it will still be paid in the second week. With $7700 million and almost no decay, that's a real miracle!"

""Gravity" took the light of the 3D movie storm, otherwise it would not have such a high box office. Li Mu's other films almost have top stars to join. "Assassin" has Cheng Long and Li Lianlian, "Taken" has Cheng Long, "Collapse" has Cheng Long and Yang Ziqiong, "Inception" has Tom Hanks and other top Hollywood stars, "The Hunger Games"? There is Liu Yifei—in short, it is not very optimistic."

"It's not very optimistic! I feel that this time Li Mu asked Liu Yifei to support such a large production alone. It is a bit risky, and the quality of the novels of "The Hunger Games" is completely incomparable with the sci-fi giants of "Inception". It's very naive, it's essentially a fan-oriented movie, and it's estimated that the box office will not go very well."

"I feel that it would be better to use a Hollywood superstar as the heroine, but there is no way, who made Liu Yifei his real girlfriend?"

"Super "Harry Potter 7" is definitely useless, I hope it's not too bad."

On November 11, the film "The Hunger Games" was officially released worldwide.

(End of this chapter)