China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 210 Incarnation of Mr. Void, PK Kung Fu Panda
At the beginning of March, Li Mu left for Hengdian to participate in the filming of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons". Although the role of Mr. Kong Kong this time is a cameo, he actually has a salary, but the salary is much cheaper than the normal market price. As for the specific amount , In fact, there are several million, but Li Mu can be invited for a few million, which is definitely a great value for the Jiangmo crew.

Because I had communicated with Zhou Xingchi in advance, after joining the group this time, all filming plans have to give way to Li Mu's role. After completing this filming task, Li Mu will fly directly to the United States to officially launch "The Revenant" Filming work.

When Zhou Xingchi invited Li Mu last time, he said that Li Mu's role this time would be surrounded by four beauties, but in fact the four beauties Zhou Xingchi mentioned were four aunts hired for 150 yuan a day.

Now that Li Mu is about to enter the group, Zhou Xingchi thought it was funny when he thought about it. One time he suddenly thought of this in front of the "Four Beauties", and then he laughed. Why did Zhou Xingchi laugh? Zhou Xingchi said this matter with a smile, and then everyone was looking forward to Li Mu's reaction when he saw the "four beauties".

Li Mu joined the crew that afternoon, and his part would not start filming until the next day. After coming to the crew, he did not hide in the hotel room to rest, but went directly to the set.He hadn't been in Zhou Xingchi's group in two lifetimes, so he was still very curious.

In the afternoon, we were filming the scene where Shu Qi and Wen Zhang were forced into the bridal chamber. When Li Mu came to the crew, he happened to meet Zhou Xingchi calling the card. Not long after Wen Zhang, Shu Qi and others came to the monitor, Zhou Xingchi pointed at the replay The screen said to the two of them: "His face is exaggerated enough, but acting in a serious manner is the funniest."

It turned out that the person who was called out this time was Yang Di. His role is still very famous in later generations, and he is called "Blood Squirting Brother".Yang Di started out with being ugly, funny, and with exaggerated expressions. Now his performance is still running on a more "funny" road, so Zhou Xingchi is not very satisfied.

Yang Di finally fixed the blood-spraying device on his neck, so he also came to the back of the monitor. At this moment, Li Mu arrived.

Zhou Xingchi hurriedly stood up and took a few steps to meet him. All the main creators of the production team followed after seeing this. After watching the footage just shot, Zhou Xingchi asked Li Mu what he thought of this performance.

Normally speaking, in other people's crews, especially when the director himself does not know what the attitude of a certain performance is, Li Mu is not very good at directly commenting on the performance of a certain character, but with his current status, It is also true that there is no need to dare not even say a sincere evaluation for fear of offending others.

"It just doesn't feel right."

"I don't feel right either. What's wrong with you? See if we both think the same or not?" Zhou Xingchi asked again with interest.

Li Mu said: "His situation is already exaggerated, and acting in a serious manner is the funniest."

Speaking of which, Li Mu shook his head.

The meaning is already very obvious, Yang Di's performance is a bit funny for the sake of being funny, he should play this funny scene seriously.

Zhou Xingchi laughed immediately after hearing the words: "It seems that we two are heroes and see the same thing."

This sentence is quite interesting in Zhou Xingchi's Mandarin.

Speaking of Zhou Xingchi, he pointed out Yang Di on the spot again, to the effect that he should not be funny and act in a serious manner, and Yang Di thought about it after hearing it.

Soon the second filming started, and the leading actors returned to the filming location. Shu Qi mentioned what had just happened to Yang Di.

"Just before Director Li came, Director Zhou said, 'His face is already exaggerated, and acting in a serious manner is the funniest.'"

Yang Di was stunned for a moment. Director Li Mu's evaluation of him was exactly the same as Zhou Xingchi's evaluation of him?No, it's not exactly the same, there are two words that are different, Zhou Xingchi said "his face is already very funny", and director Li Mu said "his situation is already very funny", It's just that different!
The leading actors all thought it was amazing. Li Mu had just joined the group, so he must have not heard Zhou Xingchi's comment. It turned out that the two people's comments were so similar, which is simply unbelievable.

Li Mu rushed to the dressing room at seven o'clock the next morning to put on makeup. The character of Mr. Kongkong has a strange shape, with white powder on his face, dark circles around his eyes, white clothes, white coat and white hat. He looks like a "white-faced" scholar, and his face looks like the dead.

In short, it was quite strange. After changing into costumes, it took more than an hour for the makeup artist to finally get it done.

At this time, Zhou Xingchi, Shu Qi, Wen Zhang, Huang Bo, etc. are already waiting on the set. At this moment, everyone wants to see Li Mu's real reaction when he suddenly discovers the so-called "four beauties".

Huang Bo and Li Mu are the most familiar. When Li Mu arrives, he clamors about how beautiful the four beauties who are going to play with Li Mu today are, and even proposes that Zhou Xing should be the director of Zhou to add some large-scale scenes to Li Mu. Kiss scene.

"Director Li, you should relax a bit this time, since Yifei isn't here anyway, right? Let's talk about filming, what's wrong with adding a kiss scene? You can't even film a kiss scene if you have a girlfriend, right?"

After Huang Bo finished speaking, the whole crew held back their laughter and waited for Zhou Xingchi to invite the "Four Beauties of the Wilderness" out.

But Li Mu joked to Huang Bo: "I think you should leave this opportunity to you, I can't bear it."

"It's okay to accept it." Huang Bo continued to persuade.

Li Mu looked at Zhou Xingchi, who was smiling slightly beside him, and said, "If it's really a beauty, I would kiss it today, but as the saying goes, 'If you don't make mistakes, you can't make jokes.' Director Zhou said that most of the beauties are not beauties. Don't be a vegetable market lady hired for 100 a day, I will be satisfied."

As soon as these words came out, everyone around them all smiled.

Again, it's absolutely perfect.

Li Mu smiled and said, "I won't guess right again, will I?"

Everyone looked at Zhou Xingchi.

Zhou Xing said solemnly: "It's half wrong, it was actually hired by 150 a day."

Then the assistant director greeted, and the so-called "Four Beauties" in ancient costumes officially appeared on the stage.

After all the preliminary work is ready, the official shooting will start immediately.

In fact, Li Mu's acting skills are not bad at all, not only not bad, but very good at it. In addition, he had watched "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" many times in the original time and space, and Luo Zhijiang's version of Mr. Kongkong was used as a reference. I also understand what kind of effect Zhou Xingchi wants, so it is very handy to shoot.

It's not that he deliberately imitated Luo Zhijiang's performance. With Li Mu's acting skills today, he no longer needs to imitate others to complete the performance, but other people's performances did provide him with a certain reference value.

In fact, Luo Zhijiang's acting skills are not bad, even better than many professional actors, otherwise he wouldn't be called "Master Empty" after "Journey to the West" and "Brother Octopus" after "The Mermaid".

Zhou Xingchi is very strict with filming, sometimes even a scene will be shot hundreds of times.When filming "Domestic Lingling Paint", the group performer who played kicking legs and floating on the water still couldn't meet Zhou Xingchi's requirements. Seeing that the sky was about to dawn, once it was dawn, it still couldn't work, so the filming would have to wait more than ten more Hour.At this time, director Li Lichi couldn't bear to watch it any longer, so he decided to do it himself. Only then did the filming of that classic segment be completed before dawn.

So after the filming started this time, many people in the crew were also worried.Zhou Xingchi has such high requirements for filming, and Li Mu is a super director who can enter the top ranks in the world. What if Xingye repeatedly n-cameras and makes Director Li impatient?
As a result, when the filming officially started, Li Mu's scenes were almost all done once, twice as many, and the third time was almost unique.

The only times when the third filming was required was due to other people’s problems, such as the pole was worn, the group performer was in the wrong position, the opponent forgot the words, etc.

It can be said that any scenes involving Li Mu, as long as you don't meet pig teammates, you can basically pass it once or twice, so Li Mu's acting skills left a deep impression on everyone.

Five days later, Li Mu's scenes were all wrapped, and he set off for the United States to film "The Revenant".

The filming cycle of "The Revenant" is about 70 days, and it is expected that all filming plans will be completed in mid-May. At that time, he will not be in a hurry to return to China. On May 5, "The Martian" will be officially released globally. The largest ticket warehouse, Li Mu and the film-related creators will definitely run and promote in the United States.

May 2011, 5 is Thursday. Normally, new films in North America will be released on Friday. The box office of the first week, the second week, and the third week of North American movies do not refer to the box office of a whole week, but the weekly box office. 26. The sum of the box office of the three days of Saturday and Sunday.

A new movie released on Thursday, assuming that the box office of the first day of the film is 4000 million U.S. dollars, and the box office of the remaining three days is 2000 million U.S. dollars, then the film will be released for four days in the first week, and the total box office will be 1 million U.S. dollars. According to statistics, its box office figure in the first week is actually 6000 million US dollars.

That's right, North America's first-week box office would exclude Thursday's $4000 million box office in the example, and the first day of release is often the highest-grossing day.

Therefore, new films in North America often choose to be released on Fridays.

The reason why Li Mu's "The Martian" was chosen to be released on Thursday is because that week will coincide with a memorial day in the United States, and the country has a four-day holiday. Of course, it will be released one day in advance.

In fact, there are quite a few heavyweight new films that have chosen to be released on this day.

At present, two high-profile films, "The Hangover 2" and "Kung Fu Panda 2", have been confirmed for this day.

"The Hangover Part 1" cost $3500 million to produce and grossed $4.69 million worldwide.

"Kung Fu Panda 1" even swept the world in 2008, achieving a brilliant score of 6.33 million US dollars.

Li Mu is going to compete with these two films this time, and the pressure on his shoulders is still great.

In my impression, the box office of "The Hangover 2" seems to be very good, and the word-of-mouth of "Kung Fu Panda 2" is also very good. Of course, "The Martian" in the previous life also had a good reputation at the box office, but the leading role in the previous life was Matt Damon , Jessica Chastain, Kate Mara, but the leading actors in this life have been replaced by Jiang Wen, Gong Li, and Liu Yifei.Whether the box office can continue to sell well after the main creator is replaced, Li Mu actually has no idea.

The good news is that Jiang Wen is well-known in the United States. Gong Li has just won an Oscar. In addition to her previous fame, it is not an exaggeration to say that she is the most familiar Asian actress in the United States.And Liu Yifei has acted in two films such as "Taken", one "Inception", and one "The Hunger Games". He also has a certain appeal in the North American film market. Global Appeal—Actually, the audience in North America is looking forward to Li Mu's version of "The Martian" is still very large.

Anyway, "Kung Fu Panda 2" and "The Martian" will be released on the same day, which is still very exciting for domestic movie fans.

As for "The Hangover 2", [-]% of this movie will not be introduced into China, because no one cares too much.

"Kung Fu Panda 1" is a movie that Chinese people like very much, and it is no longer a day or two for domestic audiences to look forward to the release of "The Martian". Besides, Li Mu is still the pride of Chinese people. Now the schedule of these two movies They actually bumped into each other head-on, this is just a sentence in the eyes of most people in the country-this time it really has to be a good show!
Most of them think that the box office of "The Martian" must be higher. As for the reason, is the director Li Muquan?

Let's take a look at Li Mu's previous record:

"Gravity" has a global box office of 17 billion US dollars.

"Inception" has a global box office of 9.56 million US dollars.

"The Hunger Games" has a global box office of 9.21 million U.S. dollars, and its first-day box office of 8531 million U.S. dollars and its first-week box office of 1.88 million U.S. dollars. These two sets of figures are still the highest records in the North American film market.

How could the box office of "The Martian", which has the same theme as "Gravity", be worse?

The "Kung Fu Panda" series is really good, but compared with Li Mu's space movies, it is still a bit inferior.

Of course, those who are optimistic about "The Martian" are also optimistic about "Kung Fu Panda 2", and with Li Mu's status in China today, if you say that Li Mu's movie can be popular, no one cares about you.

You need to say something that everyone knows?On the contrary, if you say that Li Mu's movie is not good, there will be many fans of Li Mu to argue with you.

If someone argues with you, you will become famous.

So a netizen with the ID "meat-eating wolf" wrote a post specifically to explain why "Kung Fu Panda 2" must win.

According to this netizen, the reason why Li Mu's "Gravity" released in 2009 was able to earn a super high box office of 17 billion US dollars in the world, but in fact, it was all because Li Mu was too good at the schedule, and it happened to be "Gravity". Gravity won the title of "the world's first real 3D movie", and even rushed to release it before "Avatar" very aggressively. box office.

But now times have changed, and the wave of 3D movies has passed. Without the title of "the world's first true 3D movie", the box office of "The Martian" will naturally return to the normal range.

As for what is the normal range?

Like "Doomsday Collapse" or "Taken 2" is the normal range, and four to five billion US dollars is the normal range!
This person also specifically emphasized that "The Hunger Games" is not a normal range. This series of novels has sold more than 8000 million copies worldwide, which is an anomaly, while the novels of "The Martian" are far less than this sales volume.

After talking about "The Martian", let's talk about "Kung Fu Panda 2".

This person also gave an example.

同是动画电影的《怪物史瑞克1》的全球票房是4.88亿美金，而《怪物史瑞克2》的全球票房就暴增至9.29亿美金，第二部的票房甚至是第一部的1.9倍。

Now it is known that the global box office of "Kung Fu Panda 1" is 6.33 million US dollars, so according to the same ratio, "Kung Fu Panda 2" should have a box office of 12 billion US dollars.

Therefore, he judged that this time Li Mu's "The Martian" will be severely defeated by "Kung Fu Panda 2".

As of mid-May, this post has been widely disseminated on the domestic Internet and has been recognized by many netizens.

And at the same time.

On May 5, the movie "The Revenant" was completed.

On May 5, the movie "The Martian" held an early premiere in Beijing.

On May 5, Jiang Wen, Gong Li and other related leading actors flew to the United States to participate in the promotion of the film. As for why Liu Yifei, who also participated in the film, did not come together?
Of course it was because she had been with Li Mu in the United States for a long time.

(End of this chapter)