China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 218 Shanshan is Here and Huaxia's Partner
On July 7th, "Taken 15" was officially released nationwide. Netizens can check its box office data at any time through Maoyan's real-time box office. However, this box office data is not completely accurate because it is calculated by Maoyan through a series of complicated formulas. An approximate value of , the calculation is based on Maoyan's online ticketing share of more than 3%, and its coverage of more than 7% of theaters across the country.

Only the data released by the special fund office is the truly accurate data. Maoyan adjusts the estimated value of the previous day based on the data of the special fund office every day.

The pre-sale box office of 1.4 million does not mean that the first-day box office of the film is 1.4 million, because the pre-sale box office includes many movie tickets for other dates, and at this stage, direct offline ticket purchases are still the most important way for audiences to buy tickets.

However, on July 7, the data of the Special Fund Office was officially announced, and the box office of "Taken 16" on the first day was really 3 million.

It was even more than 2000 million higher than the first-day box office of "The Martian" some time ago, directly creating a new first-day box office record in the mainland market.

In the 1.4 million box office on the first day, there were about 2000 million yuan in ticket subsidies, but even if the ticket subsidies were removed, the box office was still very high.

The Douban score of the film is 6.9 points, which echoes the evaluation of the film by Li Mu and Liu Yifei in the previous interview - this is a mediocre work!However, it is very surprising that not many viewers expressed great disappointment with the content of the film.

Many audiences knew that this film was not a work that could bring a sense of surprise before they entered the theater. Everyone also understood that this story was really difficult to write down, but I grabbed a movie ticket of 9.9 yuan. It is the first film of Li Mu and Liu Yifei, and the representative work of Brother Cheng Long's return to the peak period. It can be said that it has a certain commemorative significance. The first two films, especially the first one, have brought me very amazing movie watching. Experience, isn't that enough?

What's the point of disappointing a mediocre movie?
Most of the audience's expectations for this film are not high, and the film is just mediocre. In fact, the basic quality is still guaranteed, so many viewers said that the film is actually better than they expected. Even better.

Especially at the beginning of the film, it feels a bit spooky, and the experience is still amazing, but it's a pity that it's a bit high and low.

Li Mu, who was far away in Africa, was surprised for a while when he saw the first-day receipt, but soon he was relieved.The Douban score of "Detective Chinatown 3" in the original time and space is only 5.3 points. This is no longer the score of a mediocre movie, it is simply the standard of a bad movie, but the result?

《唐人街探案3》首日票房10.5亿元，打破了之前由《复仇者联盟4终局之战》保持的7.28亿元的内地票房纪录，成为内地第一部单日票房破10亿元影片。而且还超过了《复联4》在北美首日1.5746亿美元票房（唐三1.626亿美元），创单市场单片首日和单日全球最高票房纪录！
Hurricane 3 has the same advantages as the original Time and Space Tang 3, so it created this seemingly exaggerated but actually very reasonable first-day box office results.

But mediocre movies are mediocre movies after all. The previous "The Martian" had a box office of 1.2 million on its first day, but the highest single-day box office was as high as 1.55 million yuan. The first-day box office of "Taken 3" was its highest single-day box office. The box office has basically gone downhill.

The next day's box office was 1.25 million yuan, the third day's box office was 1.01 million yuan, and the fourth day dropped to 8300 million yuan. As of July 7, Thursday, the film's total box office just exceeded the 21 million yuan mark.

Starting from July 7, the film was officially released on a large scale in North America and other overseas markets, and achieved a box office of 22 million US dollars in the first three days of the weekend, ranking second on the North American box office list this week, the first being Marvel Films "Captain America 5100" grossed $1 million in its opening weekend.

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During the release of the film, Liu Siying called Li Mu to discuss the casting of new dramas. Li Mu has been hoarding all kinds of potential copyrights for so many years. As the vice president of the company, Liu Siying naturally knows about these. With a large number of copyrights, and the company's cash flow is extremely abundant, so much investment in the production of several film and television dramas has almost become an inevitable choice.

This time Liu Siying wanted to shoot Gu Slow's novel "Shanshan Come Eat", so she called to ask Li Mu's opinion.

"What about the author's opinion? Who does she want to invite to play the leading role?" Li Mu asked.

Liu Siying smiled: "Let's forget about the heroine and heroine that Gu Slow likes, this drama still can't invite such an actor."

Li Mu was a little surprised: ""Shanshan Come to Eat" is an idol drama, the hero and heroine must not be too old, are there any young actors that we can't invite?"

It's not that Li Mu is conceited. With Huashang Media's current domestic and international status, there are really few actors who would refuse Huashang's invitation, except for those with great reputations, such as Chen Daoming, Gong Li, Li Lianhua, Zhang Ziyi, Zhou Xun, etc., of course, these people are likely to reject Hua Shang's invitation to adapt an online novel with a small investment. How many actors like them are there in this country?
Moreover, Li Mu felt that if the author of the original work really liked Zhang Ziyi and Zhou Xun, Huashang Media might not be unable to invite them.

Even if these two don't care about this show, they definitely care about the opportunity to show their faces in front of Li Mu. What if Director Li gets a name in his heart and dumps you as a movie heroine?

Wouldn't that be developed?

Liu Siying smiled and said, "Gu Man's favorite heroine and heroine are you and Yifei. How about it, Mr. Li, why don't you condescend to make this web adaptation?"

Li Mu on the other end of the phone couldn't help being stunned when he heard the words, thinking how could he think of himself and Liu Yifei?The hero of this show is a domineering president, do you look like a domineering president?
"It's definitely not good. I think Zhao Liying is the heroine. I feel that she is still very suitable for this role."

Liu Siying smiled and said: "Gu Man also knows that you and Yifei cannot be invited, so Liying happens to be the second candidate she suggested."

In fact, Yuan Shikong Gu Slow was quite dissatisfied with the choice of the hostess, because Zhao Liying was too young at that time, and it seemed that he was hacked miserably at that time.

This time and space is different. This time and space Zhao Liying is the heroine of "33 Days of Broken Love", and "33 Days of Broken Love" is a very rare movie with a box office of over 7 million. It can be said that Zhao Liying's popularity in this time and space is far away Stronger than the original space-time.

"Where is the leading actor?"

"Chen Xiao."

Li Mu thought for a while and said, "Okay, but I thought you would like Huang Xiaoming or Zhang Han."

"Huang Xiaoming and Zhang Han? Are these two suitable?"

"Whether it's appropriate or not is another matter. Whenever I hear the word 'overbearing president' mentioned, these two people must be the first thing that comes to my mind."

In the end, the two chatted about the female supporting roles in the play. There are many female supporting characters in "Shan Shan Come to Eat", such as the male lead's childhood sweetheart, ex-girlfriend, younger sister, female lead's best friend, older sister, and the male lead. When the company staff and others learned that there were no suitable candidates for these roles, Li Mu directly called them.

"I'll just name a few candidates. You can see if they are suitable. The actor's childhood sweetheart Jiang Xin, his ex-girlfriend Mao Xiaotong, his younger sister Tan Songyun, and the heroine's best friend Lan Yingying..."

Many of the people he casually mentioned were later actors in "The Legend of Zhen Huan". "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is a phenomenal TV series, and Li Mu will be filming it sooner or later. The production team first familiarized themselves with these people in advance.

After Liu Siying wrote down these lists one by one, the two hung up the phone.

Because Huang Xiaoming was mentioned just now, Li Mu thought of the "Huaxia Partner" again.

In fact, he had the idea of ​​making this movie a year ago, because it was adapted from the experience of real people in reality, so he had to ask for the opinions of the original characters.At first, Li Mu thought that this matter must be all right, so he asked someone to get Yu Minhong's phone number. Unexpectedly, after talking carefully, he found that Yu Minhong was actually quite repulsive about this matter.

Naturally, Li Mu would not force others into difficulties. He originally thought that this matter would be let go. Unexpectedly, Xu Xiaoping, the vice president of New Oriental, found Huashang Media a few days later, saying that he had successfully persuaded Yu Minhong to make this movie. Li Mu talked with Yu Minhong a few more times. From the conversation, he could still feel that Yu was actually a little bit resistant to this matter, but it was obvious that he had been persuaded by Xu Xiaoping and others, and he was open-minded about this matter. One eye is closed and the other is closed.

In fact, the project "Huaxia Partners" has been advancing. Li Mu provided the company's scriptwriting department with a story outline. Some time ago, he heard Liu Siying mention that the script had been written, but Li Mu hadn't read it yet. .

When Huang Xiaoming was mentioned by accident today, Li Mu thought of this project again, so after thinking about it, he called Huang Xiaoming again.

When Huang Xiaoming learned that Li Mu wanted to invite him to play a leading role, his whole voice became very excited, so he couldn't wait to ask about the specific details of the role on the phone, Li Mu even joked with Huang Xiaoming .

"Actually, it's not a very brilliant character. The project is a TV series adapted from an online novel. Your character is Feng Teng, the president of Feng Teng Enterprise. As for the character design, there is a black-bellied and domineering president..."

After a brief introduction, I thought that Huang Xiaoming would probably find an excuse to decline. With his status today, there is really no need to act in this kind of TV series adapted from an online novel. Unexpectedly, Huang became a little excited after hearing it.

"This role is very suitable for me. I am very touched that Mr. Li can think of me at critical times. Don't worry Mr. Li, I will take this role!"

"what?"

"what happened?"

"It's okay." Li Mu and Huang Xiaoming actually have a good relationship, otherwise he wouldn't have made this joke today, but he didn't expect him to agree.

Now seeing that the leader took it seriously, Li Mu had no choice but to put away the joke and show his cards: "Hey, you said I was just making a joke, but I didn't expect you to take it seriously. Well, then I'll just say it, this time I actually want to find You played the male lead in "Huaxia Partner""

"Huaxia's partner? What kind of story is it telling?"

"The hero has a real-life prototype, that is, Yu Minhong..."

Huang Xiaoming immediately said again after listening: "This role is very suitable for me, Mr. Li, don't worry, I will take this role!"

"Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity!"

Li Mu nodded, thinking about whether he should call Liu Siying again later and ask her to contact Deng Chao and Tong Dawei, when Huang Xiaoming added: "Mr. Li...Actually, I have enough time now , that "Shanshan Is Coming", I can take it together."

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Since late July, Huashang Media’s other new movie "Cohabitation in Time and Space" has also officially started a large-scale publicity work. On August 7, "Cohabitation in Time and Space" was to some extent a promotional film for Pintuan, Xiaomi, and Haidilao. The production cost of the film was 1 million, and Hua Shangguang's advertising fee was 8 million. Created a miracle that made the circle talk about it.

And since it has shouldered the mission of promoting Xiaomi mobile phones, the release date of this movie must be set before the official release of the mobile phone.

Therefore, the final release date of the film is set on August 8th, ten days before the official release of Mi 16.

Starting from August 8, the movie tickets for the first day of the release of "Cohabitation in Time and Space" will be officially sold on Maoyan and Pintuan. This time, Huashang Media will invest 1 million yuan in a large-scale ticket supplement for "Cohabitation in Time and Space". Relevant information has been released through various media, and the result naturally caused an uproar on the entire Internet again.

Are four and 51 movie tickets expensive?It seems not expensive, but if it costs 50 yuan to watch a movie, many people will feel a little distressed, but if you can grab a movie ticket for [-] yuan and [-] yuan a piece, you can watch a movie for a bowl of noodles, and It is still a movie produced by Huashang Media, so I feel that it is very worthwhile.

Talking about the box office situation of "Taken 3"
影片的国内票房自7月21日突破5亿元大关后，又在24日这天正式突破了6亿元大关，达到6.13亿元，之后影片的日票房就跌到了2000万到3000万元左右。

At this time, the movie released by Maoyan predicts that the total box office in the mainland will be 10.03 billion yuan.

In the North American market, the weekend box office of the film's second week of release was 2320 million US dollars, ranking fourth on this week's list.

Ranked first this week is Universal's new film "Cowboys and Aliens", followed by Sony's "The Smurfs". Both films are newly released this week, and the third is "Taken 3 "The Marvel movie "Captain America" ​​released on the same day, "Taken 3" ranked fourth, and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" produced by Warner Bros. ranked fifth with a box office of 2130 million US dollars.

It is worth mentioning that although the North American box office of "Taken 3" is not as good as that of "Captain America 1", its overseas performance is slightly better than the latter.

As of the weekend of the second week of overseas releases, "Taken 3" has earned a total of US$1.7 million in box office overseas outside North America, while the figure for "Captain America 1" is US$1.4 million.

The domestic box office is about 1.4 million US dollars, the North American box office is 1 million US dollars, and the overseas box office outside North America is 1.7 million US dollars. The global cumulative box office is 3.5 million US dollars.

According to the predictions of relevant agencies, the final North American box office of the film should be around US$1.3 million, overseas box office outside North America is 2.4 million, and the domestic box office is US$1.5 million. The final global box office of the film should be around US$5.2 million.

Around the same time, Mao Xiaotong, Tan Songyun, Lan Yingying, Jiang Xin and others in China had already received invitations to audition from Huashang Media, and almost all the people who received the notification became ecstatic.

Some time ago, "Scary Step by Step" just had its finale. The final average ratings of this drama were 3.4%, and the highest ratings were 3.7. Liu Shishi, who was originally well-known, has a tendency to be among the first-line because of this drama. How does this make other actors Can you not envy?

Being able to act in Huashang Media's new drama, even if it's just a supporting role, is enough for these unknown actors to be excited for a while, not to mention that they heard that director Li Mu personally called them to audition.

"Does Director Li Mu even know me?"

A few people suddenly couldn't help feeling a little flattered.

(End of this chapter)