China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 222 Breaking 7 million in 5 days, Li Mu's dominance over domestic entertainment

The box office of "Cohabitation Beyond Time and Space" exceeded [-] million on the first day, which caused quite a shock to the domestic film market. Which movie is Li Muqi's family?Most Chinese people can say the name of "Taken" without thinking.

Encyclopedia information, in 2004, Li Mu, who had just graduated from university, met Cheng Long, who was going to Xijing to film. The Immortal Tongue successfully persuaded Cheng Long and Yang Shoucheng, and since then officially opened a new and magnificent page in Chinese films.

From the debut novel "Taken", to "Assassin", which brought together two Kung Fu superstars Cheng Long and Li, to "Inception", which swept the world, and "Gravity", which led the global 3D movie storm, and so far "The Hunger Games 1" maintained the highest single-day box office in North America and the highest first-week box office in North America. It can be said that Li Mu has proved his unparalleled dominance in the fields of science fiction blockbusters and action blockbusters with box office miracles time after time.

During this period, Li Mu also wrote a script called "The Master of Hypnotism". It is said that Director Li originally wanted to shoot it himself, but later because he got the opportunity to direct "Assassin", he gave up the script to the still lonely at that time. The unknown director Shen Junsheng.

Since then, the two have started a fixed model of big investment, $[-] million investment going to Li Mu, and small-budget dramas and comedies going to Shen Junsheng.

After that, movie audiences across the country have seen the potential of the low-cost script written by Director Li Mu in his spare time.

"The Way to Steal the Key", "On the Journey 1" and "On the Journey 2: Lost in Thailand", Li Mu's small-budget comedy films certainly cannot be compared with blockbusters such as "Inception" in the international market, but their The performance in the domestic film market can be called horror level.

Especially for the movie "Lost in Thailand 2", the box office score of 15.3 billion yuan almost broke the box office record of "Gravity" in China.

This means that director Li Mu also has the dominance that all domestic directors can't match in terms of small-budget comedies. Lost to Li Mu in the field of expertise.

The director of these comedy films is Shen Junsheng, the director of Huashang Media, but everyone knows that these are "Li Mu movies", and they have distinct Li Mu characteristics!
Then "Beijing Meets Seattle" and "33 Days of Broken Love" turned out. The investment of the former was less than 3000 million, and the investment of the latter was less than 1000 million, but the box office results of both were more than 7 million yuan.

At this time, everyone in the circle should realize that Li Mu also has a strong dominance in love movies and chick movies.

Action blockbusters, sci-fi blockbusters, comedy movies, romance movies, is there really no subject matter that Li Mu is not good at?
If the success of "Beijing Meets Seattle" doesn't explain anything, how about adding "33 Days of Broken Love"?

If the huge success of two back-to-back romance movies still doesn't prove anything, how about the addition of "Cohabitation in Time and Space" now?

There is a consensus among theater managers that at least one-third of the audience will follow the trend and watch movies blindly. Many audiences cannot stand the hype and deception. At least half of the audience will follow suit and watch Li Mu's movies.

It can be said that as long as the quality of Li Mu's films is decent, and as long as there are a few bright spots in the film, the box office results will basically not be bad.

So here comes the question, what is the quality of "Cohabitation Over Time and Space"?
Rationally speaking, of course it cannot be compared with "Inception" and "The Martian", but as a romantic comedy, to be fair, you have to compare it with its similar works.

Romance movies have always been the type that is extremely easy to shoot with thunderous effects, such as car accidents, amnesia, abortions, empty content, moaning without illness, bursting of three views, ungrounded, out-of-the-ordinary, and life-seeking.

Everyone longs for love, so there must be a market for romance movies as a genre, but how can ordinary people's love have so many things?But if you want to really film the love of the most ordinary people, the dramatic conflict is obviously not enough.

How to do?
When two people with similar identities, statuses, and experiences meet together, the dramatic conflict is obviously not enough, but you let the domineering president fall in love with a very low-level woman for no reason, and it is obviously a bit drifting and unconvincing. What are you talking about?Just picture you poor, picture you miserable, picture you give a child a piece of candy on the side of the road, how caring?So the elite CEO should not want to completely crush you regardless of family background, knowledge, knowledge, and temperament, and also has a deep-rooted affection for him and the second female number who is well-matched, rather than you?
The solution of "Cohabitation in Time and Space" is very flattering. It designs a time and space that merge with each other.

In 2011, Lu Shiyi was a 44-year-old real estate tycoon and a business elite; in 2011, Gu Xiaojiao was 31 years old, a bit of a money-worshiping older woman. It stands to reason that the possibility of these two people getting together in reality is almost impossible.

However, the 31-year-old Gu Xiaojiao met Lu Ming, who was only 92 years old in 25.

Lu Ming in 1992 and Gu Xiaojiao in 2011, both of them have no money and their lives are messed up.

In this way, when two people get to know each other a little bit, and like each other a little bit, they become reasonable and down-to-earth.

The two of them took the bus together, went to see Gu Xiaojiao's father and her own childhood together, ordered takeaway together, and talked together. It was smashed, but the two hearts were slowly approaching each other.

And in the process, Lu Ming also discovered that Gu Xiaojiao was not so money-worshiping as he first showed. Lu Ming coaxed Gu Xiaojiao with a piece of peanut and a piece of dried tofu to taste chicken, and Gu Xiaojiao also Gu Xiaojiao said that he wanted to eat chocolate cake. Lu Ming sliced ​​the steamed bun and sprinkled it with black sesame paste. After Gu Xiaojiao tasted it, he and Lu Ming started fighting like ordinary couples.

The same poor two people finally thought of going to buy lottery tickets together, and then sat together on an old bus. Under the disgusted expression of the aunt, they fantasized about the rich future together, buying luxury cars, luxury houses, and traveling everywhere. Seeing the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, but also eating all kinds of delicacies that are still unaffordable, the two imagined the future together. Lei Jiayin rode a [-]th pole, and Tong Liya sat behind and ate ice cream. I have done almost all the things that ordinary couples would do in life, and moved the most beautiful and true fragments of love about ordinary people in reality to the big screen. Of course, it can also arouse the resonance of ordinary audiences in the theater.

But if there are only these in the movie, it is obviously not enough, because ordinary couples in reality, after imagining the beauty in this way, will eventually find that those so-called beautiful imaginations are just unrealistic dreams, and they will almost never be realized. The painted pie.

Because in reality there is already a lot of chicken feathers, so what's wrong with letting the audience have fun in the movie?
Therefore, "Cohabitation in Time and Space" also has a lot of jokes, such as the ramen chef played by Huang Bo, and the hero and heroine who asked for Lafite for 2011 years in 90, but owed a lot of money to the bar, etc. , There are a lot of jokes caused by time and space disorder in the film, so it must be qualified as a comedy.

Then Lu Ming appeared in 2011. At this time, he had changed his name to Lu Shiyi and became a real estate tycoon, so there was enough dramatic conflict.

The impoverished money-worshiping older girl had an emotional entanglement with Lu Ming in 1992, and then had an emotional entanglement with the real estate tycoon Lu Shiyi. Lu Ming in 92 was good everywhere, but poor; Not Lu Ming.

So, does the heroine Gu Xiaojiao like the poor Lu Ming or the rich Lu Shiyi?
As a romantic comedy movie, "Cohabitation Beyond Time and Space" can make people think, but it is not heavy; Beautiful, reasonable and not too sweet; it has a down-to-earth atmosphere, conflicts and domineering presidents that ordinary people don't have in reality, and of course, there is a happy ending.

In the end, Lu Ming did not listen to the advice of his prosperous future self, but chose to stick to his heart; and Gu Xiaojiao finally realized that the one who really moved his heart was actually always having fun with him and using dried tofu as chicken Lu Ming, not the real estate tycoon Lu Shiyi who almost satisfied all her previous fantasies.

The performances of the actors in "Cohabitation in Time and Space" are also remarkable.

Especially Lei Jiayin, who plays Lu Ming, from the indecisive, kind and optimistic Lu Ming in the early stage, to Lu Shiyi, who is meticulous and secretive in order to achieve his goals in the later stage, Lei Jiayin performed it vividly and vividly.

Tong Liya's performance in the film is also impressive. The heroine Gu Xiaojiao's appearance is actually not pleasing. She worships money, is realistic, and has no brains. I was deceived. In reality, this kind of woman is definitely not pleasing, but Tong Liya's acting is fine.

Firstly, it is true that having good looks is the relationship of justice, and secondly, it is actually Tong who interprets the characters very well.

It's not a big crime for a materialistic gold digger to have some small fantasies in her mind that a domineering president falls from the sky.Li Mu also fantasized about the four dan double ice and four little flowers, what's so strange about this, who hasn't?

In addition, the performances of the supporting actors in the film are also remarkable, adding many highlights to the film.

For example, Huang Bo who plays the ramen chef, Yuan Quan, the owner of the jewelry store, Yang Di, the boy in the bar, and Sicheng, the pretending husband of the green tea best friend.

That's right, Li Mu replaced Xu Zheng and his wife, and chose to use Huang Bo and Yuan Quan, who cooperated more tacitly.

In addition, the pretending husband of the original Gu Xiaojiao’s green tea best friend is named Sicheng, which can be regarded as director Su Lun’s public complaints about Chen Sicheng. In this time and space, Li Mu simply asked Chen Sicheng to come and play the role of Sicheng in person, but because of this time and space, these two people are not the same. It doesn't matter, so Li Mu's operation is basically just for self-entertainment.

A romantic comedy movie like "Cohabitation in Time and Space" is qualified in all aspects, and there are occasional surprises, coupled with the reputation of Li Mu's production, and the driving effect of 6000 million votes, the most important thing is that there are no competing products in this schedule A series of favorable conditions - at the moment, the only film on the market with a daily box office of over 7 million is "The Smurfs", which has been in theaters for [-] days.

像上映13天的《哈利波特》日票房是900多万；上映27天的《变形金刚3》，日票房700多万；上映29天的《杨善洲》和上映了两个月的《建党伟业》日票房就只有一200万。

"Cohabitation Beyond Time and Space" was selected to be released at such a schedule, which already gathered the right time, place and people, and the box office results were naturally not bad.

自首映拿下1亿票房后，又在第2、第3、第4天分别拿下9100万、7300万、6700万票房，第5和第6天是周六和周日，票房情况略有反弹，周末两天分别拿下7800万和7100万票房。

Immediately after the seventh day, on Monday, the daily box office was 7 million. So far, the film has been released for 4100 days, with a total box office of 7 million yuan, and Su Lun has also become the second female director after Xue Xiaolu to break 5.21 million at the box office.

Director Su Lun became famous after this battle!
When she just received the invitation from Huashang Media and Li Mu to direct, Su Lun was still very nervous and apprehensive. Director Li and Hua Shang are basically satisfied.At that time, what she thought was that her debut work might not be too perfect, but as long as she can leave a good impression on Director Li Mu, it will be considered a success this time.

But as the filming process continued, director Su Lun became more and more confident. At this time, she had a new ambition, which was to win at least 2 million yuan in the box office for Hua Shang.

The shooting cost of the film was only 1000 million, and with a production cost of 1000 million, it won the box office of 2 million yuan. This goal is not too small, but at this time, Su Lun has already built up such confidence in the specific shooting.

It wasn't until later that she heard that Director Li Mu was going to spend 6000 million yuan just for ticket subsidies this time. At this time, Su Lun's ambitions inevitably rose again, and it was not impossible to produce 3 million or 4 million box office.

You know, at this time, male directors who can earn [-] to [-] million box office are still very rare, let alone a female director who just graduated from the central opera director department?

But now, the film has been released for 7 days, with a total box office of 5.21 million!
The first work of a female director, only 7 days after its release, the box office of the film has already reached 5.21 million yuan, and Maoyan predicts that the final box office of the film has reached 9.45 million yuan at this time.

Unexpectedly, my first film has a high probability of being locked in the No.1 female director's work!
In addition, Lei Jiayin has been overjoyed for the past two days.

His last work "33 Days of Broken Love" has transformed him from an unknown little actor into a hot newcomer in an instant. Unexpectedly, in less than half a year, new miracles will follow one after another Arrived.

If the box office of "Cohabitation in Time and Space" can reach 9 million yuan, there is no doubt that Lei Jiayin has advanced to one of the most popular actors in the country.

In addition, Tong Liya, as the heroine of the film, has naturally gained a lot. Last year, she just made her debut with "Myth" and "Beijing Love Story". As a result, it took less than a year to show her box office and influence. A successful film, it can be said that since then, Tong Liya will successfully enter the ranks of first-line actresses.

At least it's quasi-line.

(End of this chapter)