China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 201 The global box office is 9.13 million US dollars

Before officially returning to China, Liu Yifei took Li Mu to the theater to watch "Tangled". Li Mu had seen this movie in his previous life, and his impression was very good, especially the white horse named Maximus in it was real. pleasing.

Before the two entered the theater, Li Mu's cell phone rang suddenly, and he took it out to have a look.

"Jon Ferreme"

"?" Liu Yifei had a question mark on his face.

Li Mudao: "The president of Lionsgate Pictures."

As he spoke, he pressed the connect button.

"Mr. Li Mu, do you have time now? I'm Jon Ferreme, and I'm at the door of your hotel right now."

"I'm very sorry, Mr. Jon Ferreme, I'm watching a movie in the theater now, or we can make an appointment another day."

"Okay, excuse me, let's make an appointment another day!"

After hanging up the movie, Li Mu said to Liu Yifei, "Let's go, the movie is about to start."

"Tangled" is a pretty good animated film, with 26 people on Douban.com giving it a high score of 8.3, and its reputation is much better than Li Mu's "The Hunger Games".

Liu Yifei also liked this movie very much. During the whole viewing period, her emotions were influenced by the plot of the movie.

In the film, when the protagonist and his party are in danger, she becomes nervous, and when the protagonist and his party are saved from danger, she also smiles knowingly, and from time to time, she has to praise a comment such as how good the movie is or how cute Princess Rapunzel is.

"Princess Rapunzel is cute, but she's far from the cutest."

"Then who do you think is the cutest?" Liu Yifei faintly felt that Li Mu was talking about her, which made her feel a little nasty, but she couldn't help but want to hear him say it himself, sometimes the more nasty, the more goosebumps. above.

"Of course Princess Elsa is the cutest." Li Mu said seriously.

"Aisha...princess?" Unexpectedly, Liu Yifei's voice was a little louder unconsciously. She was afraid of disturbing others, so the word "princess" after that deliberately lowered her voice.

"Yeah, don't you know that our animation studio is making an animated movie called "Frozen"? One of the characters in it is Princess Elsa. Believe me, when this movie comes out, it will definitely put All the Disney princesses are inferior, including this "Tangled"."

"Oh." Liu Yifei, who didn't hear the answer she wanted, let out a oh. ,

"Princess Elsa will definitely compare all Disney princesses, because when I created the character of Princess Elsa, I referred to the image of a real and most beautiful princess."

"Who is it?" Liu Yifei asked softly with a blushing face.

"Ask knowingly!" Li Muxin said, and then he said, "Princess Aisha has three resemblances to her, and the reason why there are only three resemblances to her is because I am afraid that if it is really exactly the same, the audience will all go to see people and no one will care. The plot of the movie."

Liu Yifei stopped talking, she knew that there was a character in "Frozen" who was three times like him.

She didn't speak, neither did Li Mu, the two watched the movie quietly for a while, and then Liu Yifei asked:
"Hey, how much box office do you think this movie can get? I think it looks very good."

Li Mudao: "The quality of the movie is very good. The global box office will definitely not be bad. I dare not say how much. However, this movie is released on the same week as our "Hunger Games". It is considered a competitor. I really paid attention to it. The weekly box office is 3900 million, ours is 1.88 million, and the box office in the first week is 1.4 million US dollars lower than ours."

"what?"

Liu Yifei suddenly looked up at Li Mu.

"For such a good-looking movie, the box office in the first week is so much lower than our "Hunger Games" by 1.4 million U.S. dollars?"

She knows the data of her own movie, but she really didn't pay much attention to the data of other movies in the same period. Today, she watched "Tangled" which was very exciting, but the box office was so much lower than her own movie? !
Li Mu: "The production cost of "Tangled" was 2.78 million U.S. dollars, and the cost of "The Hunger Games" was 7000 million U.S. dollars. The production cost of "Tangled" was nearly four times that of "The Hunger Games."

Liu Yifei: "??"

Li Mu: "The first week of Hunger was 1.88 million U.S. dollars, and Magic Hair was 4900 million U.S. dollars. The box office of Hunger's first week was almost four times that of Mofa."

Liu Yifei: "???"

Li Mu: "I already said that Princess Rapunzel is far from the number one princess."

After the film ended, the two came out of the theater, and a group of people walked towards them. Li Mu pulled Liu Yifei behind him. At this time, an old man walked out from the crowd. Li Mu felt relieved when he saw this person.

"Jon Ferreme, CEO of Lionsgate!"

Li Mu stepped forward to shake hands with this person, and asked, "Mr. Ferreme is waiting for me? Didn't we make an appointment later? And how do you know I'm here?"

Jon Ferreme smiled and said: "I was indeed waiting for Mr. Li. The reason why I didn't say anything on the phone just now was because I was afraid of disturbing Mr. Li's pleasure of watching movies with his girlfriend. As for how to find this place, of course it is because it is The theater closest to the hotel where Mr. Li is staying."

Li Mu smiled and said, "Mr. Ferreme is for the copyrights in my hand?"

……

Jon Ferreme made an appointment for the meeting place, and Li Mu also called the lawyer.

Lawyers are expensive, but also worth it.

Although it is impossible for the two parties to sign a formal contract when they meet for the first time today, there is of course no harm in being able to consult a lawyer at any time during the negotiation.

Of course, what Lionsgate is interested in this time is Li Mu's film adaptation copyrights of "Divergent" and "Maze Runner". Li Mu does intend to sell one of them, and Lionsgate's sincerity is obviously higher than that of Li Mu. Other companies, so the two sides quickly reached a basic cooperation intention.

Li Mu will sell the film and television adaptation rights of "The Divergent".

The production cost of "Maze Runner 1" in the previous life was only one-third of that of "Divergent 1", but the box office was a full 1 million US dollars higher than "Divergent 6000".

The production cost of "Maze Runner 2" is only half of that of "Divergent 2", but its global box office is still higher than that of "Divergent 2".

Obviously, from Li Mu's point of view, the value of the film and television copyright of "Maze Runner" is undoubtedly higher, so when one of the two is sold, the only one that is sold is the "Divergent" series.

According to the preliminary agreement between the two parties, Li Mu will sell the film and television adaptation copyright of the "Divergent" series of novels to Lionsgate Films, and Li Mu will receive 4% of the global box office dividends of the series of films.

It is the global box office dividend, not the profit dividend. If the global box office after the film is released is 1 million U.S. dollars, then Li Mu will directly share 400 million U.S. dollars, regardless of whether the film is profitable or not.

……

A few days later, Liu Yifei and Li Mu set off to return to China. As soon as they got off the plane, they were surrounded by a large number of domestic reporters and fans.

In order not to affect the normal exit order at the airport, Li Mu took Liu Yifei's hand and quickly squeezed out of the crowd, during which he casually answered some questions raised by the reporters.

"Director Li, we all know that "The Hunger Games" has created many miracles in the North American market this time - No. [-] box office in the first day of film history, No. Breaking through the [-] million US dollar mark, the fastest breaking through the [-] million US dollar mark in film history, etc. - May I ask, Director Li, did you ever think that "The Hunger Games" could become such a hit?"

Li Mu: "I never thought about it at all. I made this movie just to flatter my girlfriend. It doesn't really matter if I make money or not."

reporter:"?"

Is this supporting your girlfriend?
I remember that some people criticized that "The Hunger Games" using Liu Yifei will ruin this potential series, and Li Mu can't ruin a good work just to praise his girlfriend.

Visually guess that now is Li Mu's response?

What's wrong with me just holding my girlfriend?Not only did I win it, I also created a miracle at the box office!

Reporter: "Director Li, what do you think is the key to "The Hunger Games" being able to create more than ten firsts? Why do audiences all over the world love watching this movie so much?"

Li Mu: "Maybe the whole world loves to see me supporting my girlfriend!"

reporter:"??"

The reporter asked Liu Yifei again: "Hello Yifei, may I ask what you said to some netizens that the reason why you have achieved today is actually because you are Li Mu's girlfriend. What do you think about this?"

Liu Yifei said indifferently: "That's right, I rely on him, I like to rely on him."

Li Mu next to him: "That's right, she likes to rely on me, and I like to rely on her, is there any problem?"

Speaking of which, Li Mu protected Liu Yifei and got into the car sent by the company, and then the two left without a trace.

……

The North American box office of "The Hunger Games" is really insane.

The film won a total of 7900 million US dollars at the box office in three days during the second week of its release, and won the championship for the second week in a row.In the same period, "Tangled" only had 2100 million US dollars, and "Harry Potter 7", which ranked third, had only 1700 million US dollars.

The strengths of The Hunger Games are enormous.

The film won a total of 4300 million US dollars at the box office in the three days of the third weekend of its release, winning the championship for three consecutive weeks.

New release "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" ranked second with a $2500 million debut.Johnny Depp's "Tourist," starring Angelina Jolie, came in third with $1700 million.

The film won a total of 2700 million U.S. dollars in three days on the weekend of the fourth week of its release, and the film won the championship for the fourth week in a row.

So far, the film has been released for a total of four weeks, and its total box office in North America has reached 4.3 million U.S. dollars, plus the overseas box office of 2.5 million U.S. dollars, and the Chinese box office of 9000 million U.S. dollars. At this time, the global total box office of the film has reached 7.7 million U.S. dollars.

So what is the global box office of "Harry Potter 7", which is released a week earlier than "The Hunger Games"?
9.4 billion dollars!
According to the predictions of relevant agencies, the global box office of "The Hunger Games" should eventually fall to around 9 million US dollars, while the box office of "Harry Potter 7" is still growing.

In other words, the global box office of "The Hunger Games" is unlikely to surpass "Harry Potter 7".

But the problem is that since the release of "The Hunger Games", its various statistics have been pressing against "Harry Potter 7"!
The box office of "The Hunger Games" overwhelmed the opponent on the first day, the single-day box office record overwhelmed the opponent, and the first week of the opening box office overwhelmed the opponent.

Even "The Hunger Games" successfully won the box office championship for four consecutive times and directly suppressed the opponent for four weeks.

In the end, the global box office of "The Hunger Games" was still lower than that of "Harry Potter 7".

what is happening?
This is why the global influence of the IPs of the two films is incomparable.

"The Hunger Games" took only four weeks to pull the North American box office to a high of 4.3 million U.S. dollars, while "Harry Potter 7" took five weeks and its North American box office was still only 3.1 million U.S. dollars. It has reached as high as 6.4 million U.S. dollars, while the overseas box office of "The Hunger Games" is only 3.4 million U.S. dollars at this time.

If the mainland part of the box office is removed, it will not even be half of the other party.

And as the global box office of "The Hunger Games" continues to rise, the fans of Liu Yifei and Li Mu are completely shaken.

When the global box office of "The Hunger Games" broke 6 million US dollars, the fans of the two moved out "Iron Man 08", which was released in 1.

"I'm stupid, awesome! The global box office has surpassed "Iron Man 1"! This movie has exploded in word of mouth and is known as the pioneering work of the Marvel universe. As a result, "The Hunger Games" surpassed it so quickly, and I am speechless! Don't be so mighty!"

"To popularize science, the production cost of "Iron Man 1" was 1.4 million U.S. dollars, while "The Hunger Games" was only 7000 million U.S. dollars, only half of others!"

"Brilliant!"

Then when the box office broke 6.5 million U.S. dollars, the fans of the two climaxed again without any surprise.

This time everyone brought out "Iron Man 2" and "Kung Fu Panda 1".

"Panda's global box office is 6.31 million U.S. dollars, and Iron Man 2's global box office is 6.23 million U.S. dollars. The cost of these two products is 1.3 million U.S. dollars and the other is 2 million U.S. dollars. They still can't beat the 7000 million cost of "The Hunger Games"!"

""Kung Fu Panda" is pretty good. The global box office of 6.31 million US dollars seems to be very impressive. It seems that the global box office of more than 3 million US dollars can basically make a sequel, which shows that it is already very good, but it is not enough when it comes to "The Hunger Games". Look!"

Then it was when the box office broke $8 million.

This time, fans of the two brought up "Up" and "Transformers 1" for discussion.

These two films have a global box office of 7.35 million US dollars, and the other has a box office of 7.9 million US dollars.At the same time, the cost of the two films was more than 1.5 million US dollars, but in the end they still couldn't beat Liu Yifei and Li Mu's "The Hunger Games"!
Fans went wild.

The major portals reported wildly, and the number of discussions on Sina Weibo was astonishing. However, Weibo has not yet launched a hot search function, otherwise there must be several hot searches a day.

In the end, the global box office of "The Hunger Games" stopped at 9.13 million US dollars, and this figure has left countless classic blockbusters in the minds of the audience far behind, and its highest box office ranking in film history has also rushed to No. 17 , ranked 16th after "Jurassic Park".

So far, there have been three works directed by Li Mu in the top 20 of the world film history box office rankings.

And the fans of Liu Yifei and Li Mu, when the total box office of the film officially broke the 9 million US dollar mark, they promoted "Transformers 2".

"Transformers 2" has a total investment of nearly 3 million U.S. dollars, with a global box office of 8.36 million U.S. dollars. The production cost is more than four times that of "The Hunger Games", but the global box office is more than 4 million lower than "The Hunger Games". Let me ask you Do not accept it!
Even some Liu Yifei fans felt that the box office results were outrageous.

"Let me tell you something from my heart, friends, don't scold me, I just feel that the box office results this time are a bit evil. "The Hunger Games" is definitely not a bad movie, and I was very happy when I watched it, but is it strong enough? You Looking at the series of various records, it’s almost like opening a cheat, everyone said, why does Lao Mei love this movie so much?”

"I agree, the film is not bad, but the box office is too scary!"

"Excited! It's cool! Checking the data every day is more enjoyable than doing anything else. These two are really awesome and too popular. I think they will give birth to a child in the future and just call them Honghaier!"

"Bah! The Bull Demon King is looking for mistress later!"

"Halo! It's not Princess Sissi, not Princess Iron Fan!"

(End of this chapter)