China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 214 John Wick and Mars Box Office $9.5 Billion

Liu Siying came to Li Mu to discuss the schedule of "Taken 3". After the two discussed, the company went to communicate with other investors and publishers.

In fact, the range of choices for Hurricane 3 is very narrow this time. It is known that the company will release "Cohabitation in Time and Space" in August, and then there will be a series of films such as "The Revenant", "Source Code", "Not Embarrassed", "Time and Space Traveler" and so on. In fact, the range of schedule options left for Hurricane 8 is basically concentrated in July.

北美那边新片上映一般都是选周五，因而飓3可选档期基本就是7月15日、7月22日、7月29日中三选一。

"July 7 probably won't work, that's the finale of Harry Potter." Liu Siying raised her head.

Li Mu nodded.

He remembered that the global box office of the finale of "Harry Potter" seemed to be over 13 billion U.S. dollars. The original time and space directly reached the third place in the global film history, and also set a series of world premiere box office records and North American premiere box office records. box office records.

The box office of this film in North America reached more than 7 million US dollars on July 15 alone. The box office in the first week was 9000 million, and it couldn't beat the first day of the "Harry Potter" finale in the first week.

Fan films have had a hell of a run at their debuts, as did the Harry Potter franchise, as did the Twilight Saga, as did the Hunger Games franchise.

"How about July 7? The box office of fan movies usually drops a lot in the second week of their release." Liu Siying said again.

Li Mudao: "Harry Potter may not be that scary on July 7, but Marvel's new movie "Captain America" ​​will be released on this day."

Liu Siying said: "How does "Captain America" ​​compare with our Hurricane 3?"

Li Mudao: "The comic character Captain America is very popular in the United States."

Liu Siying said: "Then it will be released on July 7th. On this day, there are no movies that have received too much attention to announce their release."

Li Mu shook his head: ""Cohabitation in Time and Space" needs to cooperate with the promotion of Xiaomi mobile phones. It may be released in early August, and "Taken 8" will be released on July 7. My left hand beats my right hand. I think it will be July 29. , Even if you want to hurt both, you have to hurt both others, it doesn't make sense to be with yourself."

Liu Siying nodded: "I'll go communicate."

Li Mu nodded, and Liu Siying left immediately.

In fact, in Li Mu's impression, the box office of "Captain America 1" can only be regarded as quite satisfactory, with a global box office of 3.8 million US dollars, which is not as high as that of "Taken 2". But the problem is, compared with "Taken 2", "Hurricane Rescue 3" is actually going downhill.

……

In mid-June, Li Mu accepted an exclusive interview with "Southern Metropolis Daily". Most of the interview was about "The Martian", and it was also to promote the movie that was nearing the end of its release. At the end of the interview, the beautiful reporter from Nandu specifically mentioned To the upcoming "Scary Step by Step".

This is Nandu reciprocating. Li Mu accepted Nandu's exclusive interview. Nandu helped promote Huashang's new drama. The two parties are mutually beneficial and win-win. During this process, Nandu's beautiful reporter mentioned a question that many netizens are very concerned about. , that is, why did the heroine of "Scary Step by Step" choose Liu Shishi?
You know, Liu Shishi is an artist from the Tang Dynasty, and Li Mu's Huashang Media has signed a lot of female artists. It has a lot of artists to use, but it chooses Liu Shishi from the Tang Dynasty. This is somewhat unreasonable .

His own new drama is about to be released, so Li Mu naturally tried his best to say it nicely, so he inevitably praised Liu Shishi a few more words, especially at the end of the interview, Li Mu simply proposed the concept of "Four Little Flowers".

In 2002, "Southern Metropolis Daily" collectively referred to four mainland actresses born in the 70s as "Four Little Huadans".

In 2009 in the original time and space, Penguin and CCTV also conducted a selection. The "Four Little Stars" selected this time were Huang Shengyi, Liu Yifei, Yang Mi, and Wang Luodan. It may be due to the butterfly effect. This time and space 2009 In [-], this selection magically disappeared.

"I'm a fairy sword fan. Liu Shishi's Solanum nigrum left a good impression on me. She has a good image and temperament, especially suitable for ancient costumes. The casting of TV dramas must be the first one. As for whether it is my own Artists, maybe Liu Siying will be more concerned about these things, but I don't really care, and in my opinion, this girl will definitely be one of the new "Four Little Flowers" in the Mainland in the future. Now is Xiaohua's growth period, and I love her more Just, if you can help me, I will help you."

The beautiful reporter from Nandu's eyes lit up, keenly aware that this might be the biggest breaking point of today's interview.

"The new 'Four Little Huadans'? This idea is very interesting. I think netizens all over the country will be very interested in this topic. May I ask Director Li, can you tell me who are the 'Four Little Huadans' in your mind in the future? "

"Bai Bing, Zhao Liying, Yang Mi, Liu Shishi."

Well, three of these four people are Huashang's signed artists, only Liu Shishi is an exception. How can this be promoting Liu Shishi?This is clearly hyping up his Huashang's own female artist!Liu Shishi's only role seems to be to make this list at least look less unfair.

Otherwise, wouldn't the so-called "Four Little Stars" in the mainland that Director Li talked about become the "Four Little Stars of Huashang"?They are all entertainers from your family, and how persuasive are they?
The beautiful reporter from Nandu seemed to have seen through everything, but after careful consideration, the list was not so unfair.

Bai Bing has the hit "Mythology", and Zhao Liying's "33 Days of Broken Love" broke 7 million at the box office. Yang Mi was eligible to be selected as a small flower in 2009 in the original time and space, let alone in this time and space now?The only one who almost meant it was Liu Shishi.

In fact, strictly speaking, Tong Liya, who is also a Huashang artist, may be more qualified. Concubine Yu in "Mythology" and Shen Bing in "Love Story in Beijing", especially this year, she also starred in "" "Cohabitation Beyond Time and Space", in terms of influence, especially in terms of influence in the next year, Tong Liya probably surpasses Liu Shishi.

So if it is really necessary to select the post-80s florets, Huashang Media may really be able to take over the new four florets, so the female reporters in Nandu reluctantly accepted Li Mu's division.

"What about Liu Yifei? She is younger than these four people, and her influence is greater than the sum of these four people."

"Yifei's stage is the global film market, and the comparison is also with the actresses around the world."

Well, to put it simply, it is not a grade.

After the interview, Li Mu met another actor born in the 70s in the office. This man went to Xiangjiang in 2003 and had no background. He had to go from house to house to sell himself to a film company. Only then did he get a chance to play the villain.He has been drifting in Hong Kong for many years, bumping into walls everywhere, and his career has never made a big improvement. He wholeheartedly wants to create an action era of his own, but he has experienced unimaginable darkness in Xiangjiang. In order to get a chance after returning to China, he did not hesitate to mix with the book friends of famous military writers The group is close, and this is a rare opportunity for him to turn around in the future.

That's right, it was Wu Jing who came.

In 2003, in order to create his own era of kung fu movies, he went south to do "Hong Kong Drifter" in the great era when Hong Kong's performing arts circles went north. In 2011, Wu Jing, who had returned to the mainland, deeply realized that creating belongs to The hope of my own action era is not in Xiangjiang but in the mainland, to be precise in Hua Shang under the name of director Li Mu.

With this understanding, it became a must for Wu Jing to come to Li Mu.

Wu Jing was later the mainland male actor's total box office number one, and also the first actor with a box office of 300 billion yuan, which was higher than the total box office of Shen Teng later. "Wolf Warrior 2" can be called the work that broke the box office ceiling in the mainland , has maintained the number one box office in the Mainland for five years, and the film that broke the box office record of "Wolf Warrior 2" is still him!

Now that Wu Jing has already taken the initiative to come to the door, and his commercial value is so huge, Li Mu will naturally not let this opportunity go lightly.

He wants to sign him into Hua Shang's sect, and he has the ability to make Wu Jing in this time and space achieve achievements that are even better than those in the original time and space.

No matter how high the box office of Wu Jing in the original time and space is, his influence is mainly limited to the country, and Li Mu has the opportunity to make him an international action superstar.

Although it is unlikely to reach the level of Cheng Long and Li Lianlian, it will definitely be stronger than him in the original time and space.

Li Mu is very confident about this.

However, signing him into China does not mean that he has to ask for very high conditions.

Now is the low ebb of Wu Jing's career. Except for Li Mu himself, no one in this world knows that Wu Jing will achieve such a great achievement later, so Li Mu has no need to charge him an exorbitant price.

A down-and-out martial arts actor has the courage to find a major international director just for a chance, but the international major director comes up and offers him a contract that is not inferior to signing Cheng Long, Li Lianlian, and Zhen Bullet?
Is this reasonable?

I'm afraid that if this is the case, even Wu Jing himself will feel guilty in his heart.

In the end, Li Mu offered to help him create his own era of action movies, but the condition was that he would sign into Huashang Media Company under Li Mu's name. The contract period was six years, and the company agreed to arrange at least four leading roles in action movies for him. The dividend ratio is 5:5, which can be adjusted once a year.

Of course, the amount of liquidated damages stipulated in the contract is quite astonishing.

Wu Jing is still confused, how many six years can he have in his life?A contract will bind him for six years, and the liquidated damages are still set so high. He is too aware of the risks here.

Many brokerage companies are so deceitful. If there is friction with the company in the future, the company can completely block you with this kind of contract. Although the contract promises to arrange four action movie actors for the artist, but action movies and action movies The difference is huge.

In short, if you don't obey, I will give you four super, super bad scripts, and the rest will be refrigerated and you will not be allowed to act.

Of course Wu Jing didn't want to sign this kind of contract, but director Li Mu said that he would arrange four action movie male leads for him.

"Director Li, I want to ask if you are the screenwriter of these four action movies?"

"Of course!"

"Um"

"Okay, I'll sign!"

After receiving Li Mu's affirmative answer, Wu Jing said decisively.

Li Mu also nodded upon hearing this.

Wu Jing immediately went to Liu Siying to discuss the details of the contract, while Li Mu leaned on the chair and sorted out the action movie library in his mind.

Keanu Reeves' "John Wick" series is an inspirational drama among Hollywood action movies.

The production cost of the first part was 2500 million U.S. dollars, the second part was 4000 million U.S. dollars, the third part was 7500 million U.S. dollars, and the production cost of the fourth part had exceeded 1 million U.S. dollars.

The reason why the production cost is higher than the other is that its global box office is also higher than the other at the same time.

《疾速追杀1》全球票房8600万美元，《疾速追杀2》全球票房1.74亿美元，《急速追杀3》全球票房3.28亿美元，《急速追杀4》4.4亿美元，《急速追杀5》全球票房……

Can Wu Jing be the hero of the "John Wick" series?
Not only is it possible, but it is also likely to be the only suitable candidate in the country.

Cheng Long's style is not compatible, Li Lianjie is old, at least he must be too old when the fifth and sixth parts are filmed, Zhen Bullets can barely do it, but it is definitely not as suitable as Wu Jing.

Since it is appropriate, then this matter is settled like this.

At the same time, the premiere ceremony of the TV series "Scary Step by Step" was held in Beijing. Before the ceremony officially started, all the leading actors were chatting in the background.

"Do you think Director Li Mu will be here today?"

"Probably not. Director Li didn't seem to be at the premiere ceremony of "Beijing Love Story" some time ago."

"Mr. Cai must have realized that Vice President Liu Siying should show up to represent Huashang."

"Not necessarily, after all Mr. Li..."

That's the end of the topic, but everyone is looking in Liu Shishi's direction whether intentionally or not. It has been rumored that Liu Shishi's protagonist was hand-picked by director Li Mu. As an outsider who is not from the Huashang family, he can be so valued by Li Mu , the outside world will inevitably have some conjectures.

At this time, a female supporting role in the play came to Liu Shishi's side and asked directly.

"Sister Shi Shi, do you think Mr. Li will come today?"

Liu Shishi: "How would I know."

"Aren't you familiar with Mr. Li? But they all said Mr. Li valued you very much."

"It's nothing, my role was won by Mr. Cai."

"Oh."

As a result, as soon as the voice on this side fell, the other actors on the other side all looked at this side, and almost everyone's eyes seemed to be filled with surprise.

"What happened?"

The little girl who asked Liu Shishi just now also noticed the strangeness in everyone's eyes, so she hurriedly asked around.

Finally, someone took out his mobile phone and showed everyone today's hot news from Southern Metropolis Daily.

"Huh? The new fourth little Huadan?" The man was surprised from ear to ear after seeing it.

Liu Shishi, who couldn't help being curious, finally joined the crowd to find out.

Seeing Li Mu's original words quoted in the interview, Liu Shishi's eyes widened instantly:
"I'm a fairy sword fan. Liu Shishi's Solanum nigrum left a good impression on me. She has a good image and temperament, especially suitable for ancient costumes. The casting of TV dramas must be the first one. As for whether it is my own Artists, maybe Liu Siying will be more concerned about these things, but I don't really care, and in my opinion, this girl will definitely be one of the new "Four Little Flowers" in the Mainland in the future. Now is Xiaohua's growth period, and I love her more Just, if you can help me, I will help you."

"Mr. Li said that I am the future - 'Four Little Flowers'?" Liu Shishi was shocked.

Bai Bing, Yang Mi, Zhao Liying, Liu Shishi—good guy, so these are the four young female roles born in the 80s in Mr. Li's eyes!
Three of the four are his Huashang Media artists!

But let's not say, this list is actually quite convincing.

With Li Mu's status in the entertainment industry today, the four little female roles he personally confirmed broke the circle in an instant.

What is a broken circle?

Those who don’t usually watch TV shows know that the most popular post-80s actresses are Bai Bing, Yang Mi, Zhao Liying, and Liu Shishi, because they are the new “Four Little Stars”! .

Liu Shishi's fan group is even more popular. How can Liu Shishi get so much attention now?I can have it later.

"Long live, long live, Director Li! It's our Director Li who has the vision, and my Shi Shi is the best in the world!"

"Isn't this too pampering? Why don't you just make a promise with your body!"

"He has long been famous, how can you ask Shi Shi to agree with him?"

"A big Liu Yifei, a young Liu Yifei, a big wife, and a young wife, isn't that good? How well-matched?!"

"Bah! Seriously suspect that you are a fake fan!"

……

At the end of June, Li Mu's new movie "On the Journey, Not the Journey" was launched in a low-key manner. Because Wu Jing has signed a contract with Huashang, Li Mu also specially added a role for Wu Jing in the film.

On the day the crew left for Africa, Wu Jing made enough time to ask Li Mu.

"Director, did you really find more than 100 armed bodyguards this time?"

Li Mu glanced at Wu Jing and said, "Of course, that's Africa. Who would dare to go reckless without some means of self-protection? Isn't that courting death?"

"But more than 100 are too many, right? If you want me to say that I can guarantee your personal safety as the director, if something happens, I will block the gun for you."

As he spoke, Wu Jing patted his chest.

"Forget it, even Li Lianlian needs a large group of bodyguards to protect him when he plays bodyguard movies."

……

On the other hand, "The Martian" is already in its fifth week.

"The Martian" was released in its fifth week, and its domestic box office reached 16.1 billion, breaking the previous record of the first domestic box office held by "Gravity". The fifth week of North American box office was 1950 million, ranking third.

The first is the newly released Disney animation "Cars 6" on June 24, with a box office of 2 million US dollars in the first week.

In second place is also a newly released film, "Bad Teacher" produced by Sony Corporation, with a box office of 3100 million US dollars in the first week.

The third is of course Li Mu's "The Martian", and the fourth is "Green Lantern" with 1835 million US dollars.

Well, the box office of Li Mu's "The Martian" in the fifth week overturned the second week of Warner's 2 million investment and 1.5 million announcement of the giant production "Green Lantern".

So far, the release of "The Martian" has come to an end. At present, its North American box office is 2.9 million US dollars, and its overseas box office is 4.1 million US dollars. If its domestic box office is added, its current global box office has reached 9.35 million. Dollar.

Relevant agencies once again raised their forecasts for its total box office, reaching 9.5 million US dollars.

　Sorry for being late.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)