China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 240 It's not embarrassing to break 22 billion in 20 days, the premiere of Time and Space Love Traveler

Li Mu wants to determine the main actors of "Now You See Me" before going to the United States to film, and then appoint a producer, assistant director and other candidates, so that during the time he is going to the United States to film, "Now You See Me" The preparatory work of "Tuan" can be carried out simultaneously, so that he can quickly devote himself to the shooting of the new film after returning to China.

The only main character that has not yet been determined is the leader of the Four Horsemen, who is the trickster in the film.Assistant Liang Bing called Deng Chao, Huang Xiaoming, Duan Yihong and Lei Jiayin to come to Huashang to audition, and all four of them agreed that they would come to Huashang on time to participate in the audition.

After hanging up the phone, the four of them had different reactions, but without exception, everyone became extremely excited.

Today's entertainment industry has a consensus, that is, Huashang Media's dramas can be snatched with one's eyes closed.That's right, it's not enough to catch it with your eyes closed, you have to grab it!This is a truly scarce resource.

A popular one is released, and a phenomenon-level blockbuster is released every so often, and since its establishment six or seven years ago, it has never missed a hit. Whoever comes across this kind of resource, who dares to neglect it?

What I mentioned above is only the film and television drama produced by "Hua Shang Media", but what film are they invited to audition now?It is director Li Mu who personally wrote the script, directed it himself, and is facing the global market. Cheng Long and Liu Yifei are two international superstars confirmed to star in the film!

Moreover, the role to be auditioned is still the protagonist, and it is said that it is even more important than the roles of Cheng Long and Liu Yifei as the first protagonist!

Opportunities like this level can really be fought for by all means. Basically, as long as you are selected, the upper limit of your high probability life will be different.

When Zhang Big Beard was filming a Jin Yong drama, a well-known star could go out of his way to chip away at the role of a male lead, but he still didn't get the role.

Now that Li Mu is choosing the first male lead for "You Now You See Me", the reactions of the actors who received the audition invitation are exaggerated one by one.

After Huang Xiaoming hung up the phone, he first yelled, then clenched his fists and shouted "yes!" five times in a row. He even wanted to privately ask Liu Yifei to say something nice for him.

Liu Yifei is Li Mu's official girlfriend and the heroine of "You Now You See Me". If she speaks, Li Mu will probably think seriously.

However, after thinking for a long time, Huang Xiaoming finally gave up the idea of ​​going through the back door.

It's not that he can't get in touch with Li Mu himself. The hero of Huashang Media's new movie "Huaxia Partner" is himself, so what's the matter with contacting Li Mu's girlfriend in private?Even if you want to contact them privately, you should go directly to Li Mu himself.

Duan Yihong sat down on the chair seemingly very calmly, and then began to be in a daze for more than half an hour, her mind was almost full of ideas about how to stand out in the audition.

Deng Chaolai walked back and forth in the living room of his home, asking Sun Li to advise him from time to time. After going to bed at night, he tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. His mind was full of the words rare opportunities.

Lei Jiayin has already acted as the male lead in two Huashang films, and this time director Li Mu actually found himself to audition for the film directed by himself. It seems that he is the most favored male lead of director Li Mu since Shen Teng on the Internet. Actors are not all groundless.

The bad news is that there are several other very strong actors who received the audition invitation at the same time. The good news is that Lei Jiayin is a signed actor of Huashang Media.

Before the official audition, Huang Xiaoming invited Li Mu and Liu Yifei to dinner; Deng Chaosun Li, Duan Yihong and Lei Jiayin also took the initiative to visit.

Among them, Lei Jiayin also brought red blood sausage, a specialty from his hometown. After Deng Chao and his wife came to the door, Li Mu didn't talk much about movies. Instead, Li Mu chatted with Sun Li about TV dramas. It is very important Qing palace drama, and Li Mu intends to invite Sun Li to play the heroine of the new drama.

In the end, Li Mu simply canceled the agreed audition. Since all four of them had already visited the door in private, and they had also tried the audition in private, there was no need to choose another date to continue the audition.

In the end, Li Mu chose Lei Jiayin to play the role of the blindfolded master among the four knights.

Lei Jiayin has three main advantages - relatively stable acting skills, a more suitable age, and the status of an actor signed by Huashang Media.

After all the main actors of "Now Now You See Me" were confirmed, Li Mu began to worry about the "Zhen Huan Biography" project again.

The original time and space "The Legend of Zhen Huan" was officially released as early as 2011, and now it is already 2012. The filming of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" has not started yet, and it is indeed not suitable to continue to delay, so Li Mu privately mentioned it to Liu Siying .

Liu Siying also attaches great importance to "The Legend of Zhen Huan", and couldn't help feeling that there are so many characters in this drama in front of Li Mu. I am afraid that after Huashang Media officially announces the preparation of the filming of Zhen Huan, it is inevitable that most of the entertainment agencies will be shocked. I'm going crazy to recommend actors to the crew.

""The Legend of Zhen Huan" will not open the casting mirror to the public."

"Cast casting is not public? But there are so many characters in this show?"

"I decide most of it myself."

"Choose it yourself? Will the main character and the supporting role be together?"

"more or less."

"Okay, but the author of the original book has his own opinion on the choice of the heroine."

"I know that. It seems that Cai Shaofen is going to play Zhen Huan? It's not suitable, but it's okay to play a supporting role."

"After the chairman has selected the candidate, I will ask someone to communicate with the author of the original work."

"Ah."

In the end, Liu Siying also told Li Mu that "You Who Came from the Star" was about to start broadcasting, and the premiere date was also set for Valentine's Day, February 2, which was the same day as "Time and Space Traveler" was released nationwide.

Li Mu asked Liu Siying: "How much did we sell for "My Love from the Star"? I remember it was 1.5 million, right?"

Liu Siying said: "It's 1.584 million! Star You has 22 episodes in total, the first round plus the second round and three rounds add up to 420 million episodes, the unit price sold to Tencent Video is 300 million an episode, and the TV station plus video website, a total of 720 million episodes , has broken the ceiling of the copyright price of national dramas."

Li Mu nodded and said: "According to the script, "The Legend of Zhen Huan" will have a total of 76 episodes. If the unit price of 720 million episodes is also calculated, then the total price is 5.4 million—it is already more profitable than most movies! "

Liu Siying felt that Li Muli was a little too optimistic.

"Chairman, "You Who Came From The Star" was able to sell 720 million episodes because of the small number of episodes. "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is expected to have as many as 76 episodes. If it is also sold at the unit price of "You Who Came From The Star" , I am afraid that no TV station or video site will take over."

Li Mu joked, "Isn't it possible to sell an episode for 720 million? I was wondering if I could sell an episode for 1000 million."

Liu Siying couldn't help but shook her head with a smile: "Chairman, I think you have won too many billions and billions at the box office, and you are about to lose your sensitivity to money. A 1000 million-episode TV series, The copyright price of a TV series alone is as high as [-] to [-] million yuan - how can there be TV stations and video sites willing to spend such money?"

Li Mudao: "It's not enough now, it may be almost the same when "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is filmed for the first time."

……

On February 2th, Shen Junsheng's film "Time and Space Traveler" held its premiere in Beijing, and Li Mu was also present.

But this time he didn't take Liu Yifei with him, she was going to attend a luxury endorsement event, and she had already flown to the Magic City yesterday.

During the viewing session, Li Mu and Shen Junsheng were chatting offstage.

Shen Junsheng is the director of the first two films in the "Lost in Lost" series. While "Lost in Thailand" made him famous at the box office, he also carried a heavy burden. In the end, he couldn't write an ideal script no matter what. In such a situation, he went to seek Li Mu's help.

Then the third director's position returned to Li Mu's hands.

In fact, since "Tai囧" became popular, countless people have been analyzing the reasons for its great success, and many of them attribute it to chance and coincidence.

In the eyes of many people, "Tai囧" is actually not that good.

Even Shen Junsheng himself sometimes faintly feels that the so-called coincidence theory is quite reasonable, so sometimes he even thinks that even if the third part of the "囧" series is filmed by Mr. "'s super high box office.

He never doubted the strength of Mr. Li Mu and Li. Except for "Tai囧", almost all of the domestic works with a box office of more than 10 billion or even 15 billion were directed by Director Li Mu himself.

But those movies that made Mr. Li Muli kill the Quartet are all sci-fi action blockbusters without exception, with an investment of 1 million U.S. dollars to start. In contrast, "Tai囧" with an investment of 3000 million and a box office of more than 15 billion is simply an outlier.

I am afraid that Mr. Li Mu himself will not be able to replicate the great success of "囧囧"!
But it was obvious that Shen Junsheng was wrong this time, and it was very wrong.

Just on the 23rd of last month, "People on Journeys, Not Journeys" was officially released nationwide.As of now, that is, February 2, the film has been released for 13 days, and the cumulative box office has officially exceeded the 22 billion mark, reaching 20 billion yuan, and the single-day box office of the film is still above 20.31 million yuan.

With an investment of tens of millions of renminbi, a movie with a box office level of 20 billion was actually produced. The result is simply unbelievable!

"Mr. Li, it's fortunate that you personally directed "Non-囧" this time, otherwise the series would have been ruined by me."

"It's not that exaggerated. I know your strength, otherwise I wouldn't have entrusted so many scripts to you to direct."

"Mr. Li, what rank would you say "Time and Space Traveler" is in?"

"Judging from the pre-sale box office situation, the final box office may be around [-] to [-] million yuan, or maybe a little more. The specifics depend on the market performance of several new films released on the same day."

"I saw that the pre-sale box office of "Truth or Dare" is very poor, and it should not pose any threat. The pre-sale of the movie "Love" is not bad, and it should have a certain impact on "Time and Space Traveler."

""Love" is stronger than "Truth or Dare", but it is limited. The real opponent of "Time and Space Traveler" should be "Journey to the Center of the Earth 4", which has been released for 2 days."

……

A total of three new films will be released during Valentine's Day, namely "Time and Space Traveler" produced by Huashang Media, "Love" directed by Michael Haneke, and the imported horror film "Truth or Dare".

"Love" is definitely a very good love movie. In addition to the Douban score of 8.6, this film will also win the 65th Cannes Film Festival, the main competition unit, and the Palme d'Or.

But a good movie doesn't mean it will be a blockbuster. "Love" is obviously not a movie that can threaten "Time and Space Traveler".

Speaking of the release date of "Time and Space Traveler", except for our company's "Non-囧", almost all of the rival films are imported films.Most of them are not very popular movies. The only one that can be called a hit is "Mission: Impossible 4", and it has been released for 18 days. Today, the box office has dropped to 2000 million. level.

Basically, it does not pose a major threat to "Time and Space Traveler".

Soon after the film was played, Shen Junsheng, Chen Xiao, Bai Bing and other related main creators came to the stage to thank all the audience and friends present. There was extremely warm applause at the scene, and then the premiere ceremony officially ended.

……

That night, comments about Huashang Media's new film "Time and Space Traveler" spread rapidly on the Internet.

"Did anyone attend the premiere? Let's talk about whether "Time and Space Traveler" is good or not?"

"Do you need to ask? The movie produced by Huashang Media seems to be a script written by director Li Mu himself. I heard that during the preparatory stage, Li Mu and Liu Yifei almost played the hero and heroine in person. Don't say anything else, just say Once Director Li Mu wanted to act in person, and Li Mu moved his girlfriend Liu Yifei to play the heroine, this movie is definitely not bad!"

"That's right, it's unnecessary to ask, it's good to ask! Could it be that if someone says it's not good, you don't want to read it?"

"Currently, I haven't let the movies of the Huashang series let me too much, so I still have to watch it even if it's not good! However, if the evaluation is good, I may go to see it tomorrow. If the evaluation is not good, I may have to wait until I have enough time to go again. Look."

"I feel that Hua Shang has produced too many low-budget romance films like this in the past two years, but that's right, from "Beijing Meets Seattle", to "33 Days of Broken Love", and then to "Cohabitation Beyond Time and Space", Hua Shang shot Every one of these chick movies is a hit, and Hua Shang has tasted the sweetness, so he will definitely continue to shoot, but I always feel that this kind of movie has been watched too much, and it is actually meaningless."

"I agree, especially this time with the theme of time travel. Such themes include "The Time Traveler's Wife" and "Cohabitation Beyond Time and Space".

Soon some netizens who claimed to have attended the premiere of "Time and Space Traveler" said that this film may be Huashang Media's best romance film so far.

""33 Days of Broken Love" Douban score is 7.8, "Beijing Meets Seattle" Douban score is 7.6, "Cohabitation in Time and Space" Douban score is 7.3, based on the ratings of these three Huashang films, I am "Time and Space Love Traveler" Score 9.1! That's right, my evaluation of "Time and Space Traveler" is above 9!"

After reading this netizen's evaluation, many netizens said that it is very possible for Douban to score above 8, but do you want to reach the level of 9?It should be unlikely!
There are only a few films with a score of 9 or above on Douban?A time-travel romance film with a somewhat vulgar theme, but no matter how good it is, where can it be so good?

9 point?
impossible!That's the only way to rate it like this!
However, several other netizens who claimed to have attended the premiere soon appeared.

"It may be an exaggeration to say that it is worth 9.1 points on Douban, but it is definitely not a problem to get 8.8 points or 8.9 points."

"Agreed, if I were to rate it, I would rate it 8.9, the film is indeed very good-looking."

"I've just finished watching. I heard that Li Mu and Liu Yifei were supposed to play the leading roles in the movie? It's a pity, if these two people really played the role, then I would give it a score of 9.6. If Chen Xiaobai Bing starred, the score would be 9 points!"

Looking at the comments of these netizens who have seen it, netizens who have not seen it feel a little weird.

"There are so many people who gave it a high score of 8.8 or even 9? Is this movie really that good?"

(End of this chapter)