China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 239 2012, the Explosion of the Huashang Department

The box office of "Non-囧" on the fourth day of its release had a significant drop compared to the third day, from 2.13 million yuan in a single day directly to 1.43 million yuan in a single day, and further fell to 1.27 million yuan in a single day on the fifth day, although it is still falling, However, compared with the fourth day, the decline has narrowed significantly.

On the sixth day, it received 1.14 million yuan. So far, the film has been released for six days, with a cumulative box office of 10.54 billion yuan, breaking the record of the fastest box office in China to exceed 10 billion yuan.

On the seventh day, the reported revenue was 1.16 million yuan, and on the eighth day, it was 9741 million yuan——"Non-囧" also set a historical record of over [-] million yuan at the box office for seven consecutive days.

At this time, the box office forecast given by Maoyan Movies has also been raised to 21.3 billion yuan.

It seems that the first domestic film with a box office of more than 20 billion yuan is really about to be born.

And at the same time that "Non-囧" broke a series of box office records, "Time and Space Traveler", which is also a film of Huashang Media, has also entered the intensive promotion period before the film's release.

The completion date of "Time and Space Traveler" is only a little later than "Cohabitation in Time and Space". Last year, the company felt that there were more films from the same company that were released together at the end of the year. It has been postponed to Valentine's Day this year, which is February 2.

At the end of January, director Shen Junsheng, who had just finished filming "Back to 20", came to Li Mu's office, along with Bai Bing.She is not only the heroine of "Back to 20", but also the heroine of "Time and Space Traveler".

The large-scale publicity of "Time and Space Traveler" has already begun. As the heroine of the film, Bai Bing is naturally on standby to participate in various promotional activities arranged by the company.

"How long will it take to complete the later stage of "Back to 20"?"

"If it is fast, it will be in early April, if it is slow, it will be in the middle or end of April."

"If all the post-production work can be completed in early April, then it will be released on May 5st. If there is no time, then it will be released on May 20."

"Okay." Director Shen Junsheng said.

The white soldier next to him was already full of smiles from his eyes to his cheeks.

"Time and Space Traveler" was finished a long time ago, but due to various considerations, the company finally set the schedule for this year's Valentine's Day.

Regarding the schedule arrangement, Bai Bing doesn't know much about it, and she doesn't think it's something she should worry about. It's just that last year, from "Beijing Meets Seattle" to "33 Days of Broken Love", and then to the release of "Cohabitation in Time and Space" starring Tong Liya, the company These three films are really more popular than the other.

Especially the movie "Cohabitation Beyond Time and Space" starring Tong Liya, a film with a production cost of only 1000 million yuan, actually earned a box office of 11 billion yuan. With this film, Tong Liya immediately became popular all over the country, and the limelight faintly overwhelmed the four little ones. Huadan's posture, Bai Bing didn't say he was jealous, at least he was a little hot-eyed.

"Time and Space Love Traveler" and "33 Days of Broken Love", "Beijing Meets Seattle" and "Cohabitation in Time and Space" are similar in genre. Zhao Liying, Gao Yuanyuan and Tong Liya can become popular with these three movies, so why can't I rely on " Time and Space Traveler" is also a small hit?
If she might have lacked confidence before, she no longer has that worry at all now.

"Time and Space Traveler" has been confirmed to be released on February 2th, and the new film "Back to 14" seems to be scheduled for early or late May, so that my two films will almost be linked together.

In just three or four months, two movies starring her were released. If only one of the two movies hit, then she would be Zhao Liying, Gao Yuanyuan and Tong Liya from years ago.

If both movies are popular, with such a large-scale exposure in such a short period of time, maybe I will be even more popular than the three of them who were popular years ago!

Thinking of this, Bai Bing felt happy in his heart, and even the eyes he looked at Li Mu unconsciously became more admiring.

Unexpectedly, director Shen Junsheng actually mentioned this issue of schedule arrangement. He asked Li Mu, saying that Mr. Li, you deliberately postponed the release of "Time and Space Traveler" last year. Did you already consider two films starring Bai Bing for a short time? Has it been released successively?
Last year, Li Mu really didn't think about this, but it seems that this arrangement is somewhat beneficial to Bai Bing?There is no need to deny it, so he generously admitted that he really wanted to consider for the artists under the company, which made Bai Bing very moved.

Not to mention the final effect of this arrangement, for a director as big as senior brother Li Mu, who still manages such a big business under his command, he can still think of taking care of himself when arranging the release schedule of his films, this is simply too flattering have you?

After talking about the film's schedule, Li Mu and Shen Junsheng chatted about Di Lireba and Jin Chen, both of whom played roles in the just-wrapped "Back to 20".

Shen Junsheng's evaluation of Jin Chen was not bad, saying that she has certain acting skills and talents, but when evaluating Di Lieba, he just repeatedly emphasized that this actress is really very, very beautiful.

It was Li Mu who insisted on signing Di Li Hot Bar to the company, and Shen Junsheng couldn't help but say in front of Li Mu that this girl seems to have a mediocre acting talent.

Li Mu generously admitted that Di Lireba still has a lot of shortcomings in acting skills, but said that this girl can be ranked among the first-line only by her looks.

Li Mu was full of praise for Di Lire's appearance, which made Shen Junsheng and Bai Bing think of some rumors on the Internet, that is, Li Mu actually likes looks with a bit of exotic style, from Tong Liya to Di Lire. in this way.

The time has entered February, and many films that were approved in the middle or end of last year began to enter the intensive finishing period.

First, the film "John Wick" directed by director Lin Chaoxian and starring Wu Jing officially announced that it had finished filming and returned to China.

Immediately afterwards, "Huaxia Partners", directed by Chen Kexin and starring Huang Xiaoming, Deng Chao, Tong Dawei and others, was officially announced to be completed.

Then in the middle of last year, "Monster Hunt", directed by Xu Chengyi and starring Zhang Ruoyun, Zhou Xun, etc., was officially announced to be completed.

In the end, even the "Shark Beach", which was approved in October last year, directed by Guo Fan and starred by Yang Mi, was officially announced to be completed in February.

If you add the film "Search" that has completed all post-production work for a while, it means that this year Huashang Media will at least have "Time and Space Traveler", "Search", "Return to 20", "Quick Chase" and "Killer". Seven films including China Partner, Monster Hunt, and Shark Beach will be released.

This does not include Li Mu's upcoming films such as "The Hunger Games 2", "The Fault in Our Stars" and "Send You A Little Red Flower". Among these three films, except for "The Hunger Games", the production cycle is longer In addition, the remaining two films actually have a very good chance of being released within the year.

In addition, "Frozen", which has a production cycle of more than two years, has a high probability of completing all production work within this year. The progress of the film is almost a year faster than expected, and the biggest contributor to this is actually Li Mu is a hands-off shopkeeper who just asks about the progress from time to time.

With Li Mu around, almost all the creation steps of "Frozen" don't need to be time-consuming anymore. Li Mu directly copied the content from the original movie in his previous life, and these content came to the production team of "Frozen", which is simply a masterpiece. A genius design.

Many people in the team are saying that it turns out that director Li Mu is not only good in the field of live-action movies, but he did not expect that director Li Mu can be self-taught in the field of animation to such an extent that many professionals feel ashamed.

Then someone refuted the person who said this, and the person who refuted told the other party that Director Li Mu is not just a self-taught animation film.

Strictly speaking, in the field of live-action movies, director Li Mu is also self-taught!
The person who refuted in the end couldn't help but give everyone another science popularization of director Li Mu, or Mr. Li's glorious resume.

According to the public information, Li Mu actually majored in computer science when he was in college, and a computer major unexpectedly became one of the top three directors in the world for no apparent reason.
"Director Li Mu studied computers?"

Not to mention, there are really many people who don't know this, and then someone from the "Frozen" team said with emotion that Director Li seems to have learned computers for nothing.

Then I was popularized by someone under Director Li's banner again, and I was about to join a group to take out the disabled Ele.me.

So is director Li Mu's computer learning really for nothing?

Apparently not.

From Maoyan Movies to group shopping, these two fast-growing companies are more or less related to computers, right?

In short, you can't talk about Li Mu. Talking about Li Mu makes people think that this person is abnormal.

It stands to reason that the appearance of such people in the world is like a bug in the world.

How can anyone know so many things without a teacher?

In short, if "Frozen", which may be released this year, is added, then this year alone, Huashang Media may release as many as 10 films.

Even if there are less than 10 films, there are at least 9.

That is to say, Huashang Media has movies released in almost most of the months of this year. If it only produces a dozen or so movies a year, it is actually not an exaggeration just looking at the numbers. In terms of box office records, the scale of these nearly ten films is very scary.

In recent years, almost all of the domestic blockbuster movies are Huashang movies. Based on this alone, it is impossible for major theaters and theaters in the country not to sell the face of Li Mu and Huashang Media when arranging the film schedule.

In the original time and space, Zhang Yimou relied on the power of "Hero" to repeatedly force theaters to increase the proportion of accounts. In this time and space, Li Mu and his Huashang Department, if a certain theater or theater chain is really not allowed to show their own films, it is really not true. Which theater can afford it.

Let’s continue to talk about the follow-up box office situation of "Non-囧".

After the time entered February, the daily box office of "Non-囧" remained in the range of 9000-5000 million for another week or so, and then fell to the range of 22.13-[-] million, and the predicted box office given by Maoyan Movies at this time has also further improved. increased to [-] billion yuan.

The box office of 22 billion yuan, converted into US dollars, has exceeded 3 million.

As for the box office of 3 million US dollars, even if you look at the global market, it is already a very good result. That is to say, now only relying on the single film market of China, it has been able to produce works with the highest global box office rankings.

All domestic movie fans are very excited about this.

Speaking of which, the total global box office of films directed by Li Mu has already reached 55 billion US dollars before this, and it is expected that this figure will increase to more than 58 billion US dollars after "Not Laugh" is released.

The total box office of director Cameron, who is currently ranked second in the world, is 62 billion US dollars.

In other words, soon the gap between Li Mu and the world's second director Cameron will be less than 4 million U.S. dollars. Probably this year, Li Mu will most likely become the world's second director in terms of total box office.

James Cameron, a director who is almost god-like in the hearts of many movie fans, is about to be surpassed by our local directors in China. Who would have dared to think of this ten years ago?

The key is that Li Mu is only 28 years old this year.

too young!

In the past, some netizens said that a director worth tens of billions of dollars felt very far away. It seems that even the world's number one director Spielberg can't easily reach this figure, but now it seems that Li Mu may really be able to break into the world The title of the first tens of billions of dollars director.

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At the end of February, Li Mu will go to the United States, and then he will stay in the United States for a few months. During this period, the preparatory work for "Now You See Me" can start ahead of schedule.

After Li Mu finished filming the two versions of "The Hunger Games 2" and "The Fault in Our Stars", the preparatory work for "Now You See Me" is almost ready.

So Li Mu personally called Guo Da, his favorite candidate for the Four Horsemen.

To be honest, Guo Da himself was very surprised when he received Li Mu's role invitation suddenly, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he was flattered.

In terms of age, Guo Da is nearly 30 years older than Li Mu. It stands to reason that Li Mu should not feel flattered to ask Guo Da to act in a play, but in terms of status in the film and television industry and international influence, there are really few in China. The actor can still calm down after receiving the invitation of Li Mu's lead role.

Don't people in this business just want to make a name and make a profit?They have all starred in Li Mu's movies, how can this fame not come one after another?

When the fame comes, can this benefit be less in the future?

In the past, Guo Da had to read the script before accepting plays, but when it comes to Li Mu, this step can be completely omitted.Judging from the past history, the film and television dramas produced by Li Mu and Huashang Media under his name really don't have bad scripts.

So with just one phone call, Guo Da's role was basically settled.

Afterwards, Li Mu called Zhang Songwen again, and the phone only said that there was a character who wanted to invite him to try it out. If he was interested, then the two of them made an appointment and asked Zhang Songwen to come to Huashang Media.

Not to mention that Li Mu called Zhang Songwen himself, even if other very ordinary directors approached him, Zhang Songwen did not refuse at all.

At this time Zhang Songwen, almost every director who worked with him would praise him as a very good actor, but after being praised repeatedly, he still would not get a role for a long time.

Sometimes reality is so helpless.

Everyone knows you are good, but everyone is rushing to use popular actors instead of good ones.

Not to mention others, in fact, even Li Mu is similar.

Last time, Li Mu and Zhang Songwen had cooperated in "Latent", and Zhang Songwen's role as Long Eryi in the play also received unanimous praise from the crew of "Latent", but then?
After "Latent", Li Mu also never approached Zhang Songwen again.

It wasn't until this time that Li Mu began to prepare for the project of "Shocking the Devil", that he finally thought of the actor Zhang Songwen again.

After Zhang Songwen came to Huashang Media, Li Mu asked him to try out a scene, and then he decided on the spot that the role of the thief among the four knights was given to Zhang Songwen to act.

It wasn't until this time that Zhang Songwen finally realized that the character Li Mu invited him to play could barely be called the protagonist. Although it was only one of the four knights, it was a group portrait, but one of the protagonists was also the protagonist!

The investment of the play directed by Li Mu is said to be as high as 7000 million U.S. dollars, and there are international superstars like Cheng Long and Liu Yifei in the starring role, and he can play the thief, one of the four knights in the film. Director Li Mu actually invited himself play such an important role.

Zhang Songwen's nose felt a little sore for no reason.

(End of this chapter)