China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 253 Rapid pursuit, $2170 million to win the North American weekly crown?
After dismissing Jiang Shuying, another day later, Li Mu finally saw Zhang Tianai's information on the desk, and the year of birth was written in 1988.

There are multiple versions of Zhang Tianai's birth year in later generations - 1988, 1990, 1991, and 1992. Later, because of too many questions, the encyclopedia data simply did not write the age.

In 2020, there was a character interview program in China. The program team invited a girl named Gao Weixuan. This person once played a role in "The Golden Armor in the City" with Zhang Tianai. At that time, Zhang Tianai also did Gong Li's lighting stand-in.

In the video material played by the program group, director Zhang Yimou also used Zhang Tianai's example to encourage another lighting stand-in actor. Zhang Yimou said: "At that time she (referring to Zhang Tianai) was also seventeen or eighteen years old."

"Golden Flowers in the City" was filmed in 2006. If Zhang Tianai was seventeen or eighteen years old at that time, she should have been born in 1988 or 1989.

Back to the topic, Li Mu pulled out Zhang Tianai's information and handed it to his assistant Liang Bing: "Give this information to Director Chen Zhixi, and say that I like this girl as the heroine of the princess, and let Director Chen arrange it for her." This girl auditioned."

"Ok."

Li Mu himself has not seen Zhang Tianai. The investment in "Prince Princess" is less than 2000 million, and Zhang Tianai is just a secondary actor. Li Mu really has no need to meet in person. Now his main energy is in the new On the movie "Send You A Little Red Flower".

Although the title of the movie was "Send You A Little Red Flower", Li Mu didn't plan to copy the movie starring Yi Yangqianxi. In order to make a distinction from "The Fault in Our Stars", lest the audience mistakenly regard the two movies as one movie.

The main plot of Li Mu's version of "Send You A Little Red Flower" will still follow the plot of "The Fault in Our Stars", but the details, especially the finale, will be different from the European and American versions of "The Fault in Our Stars". different.

The Fault in Our Stars is the love story of two young cancer patients.

The heroine is a girl suffering from cancer since she was a child. Her life is coming to an end in the torment of cancer and pulmonary fluid, but a new drug miraculously saved her life. I went to the hospital for reexamination, and I had to take a lot of medicine every day, but there was still a possibility of recurrence.

Lung lesions made it difficult for her to breathe, and oxygen cylinders and oxygen tubes became her daily standard equipment.She became depressed and had no interest in anything until she met the male protagonist, a boy who also suffered from cancer and had his limb amputated, but was still extremely optimistic and cheerful.

In daily contact, the heroine began to open her heart to the hero, and her originally gloomy world began to become colorful.The hostess recommends her favorite book to the host - "Majestic Sorrow", which tells the very real story of a girl suffering from cancer.

It's a pity that the book stopped abruptly in the middle. They emailed the author to ask the heroine's final ending, but they got a reply unexpectedly. The author invited them to Amsterdam to narrate it face to face.

After going through many twists and turns, the hero and heroine finally came to the author's house, only to learn that it was the author's assistant who sent the email to them in the name of the author, but what they didn't know was that the little girl in the author's book was actually his biological daughter.

Since the death of her daughter, the author has become extremely decadent, and the author's assistant hopes that the arrival of the two can help the author untangle his heart.

The author didn't give the two any good looks. The heroine mustered up the courage to ask about the ending of the girl in the book. The author told a plausible story, and then rudely drove the two out of the house.

The trip to Amsterdam made the relationship between the two people warm up quickly. After returning to China, the hero told the heroine something that he had concealed for a long time. In fact, his cancer had relapsed long before going to Amsterdam. Maybe the two will soon It's about to say goodbye, the heroine is in pain, but the hero is still positive and optimistic.

In order for the heroine to face death optimistically, the hero decided to hold a funeral for himself in advance, and hoped to hear the eulogy prepared by the heroine for him before he died.

The most touching part of the whole film is the eulogy prepared by the hero and heroine for each other, and the saddest thing is that the hero finally lost his young life to cancer.

The original novel "The Fault in Our Stars" has sold tens of millions of copies in North America, and it has caused countless European and American teenagers to cry for it. The English version shot by Li Mu fully respects the original novel, but it is the turn of domestic During the version, he had some different ideas.

The little red flower in Sending You A Little Red Flower itself has the meaning of hope. Li Mu plans to prepare a brand new ending for the hero and heroine in the Chinese version.

Later in 2021, articles and short videos related to "120 million yuan per injection of anti-cancer drugs, one injection can cure cancer" spread wildly on the Internet, causing heated discussions among people.The high-priced drug mentioned here refers to the CAR-T therapy. In June 2021, the first CAR-T injection was officially approved for domestic marketing.

Although CAR-T therapy was launched in China in 2021, in fact, 2017 is the first year of CAR-T cell therapy!

As early as 2012, this therapy had already carried out clinical research in the United States.

In 2022, there will be a report on the Internet - CAR-T therapy with millions of injections: the first patient has survived cancer-free for 10 years!
Now it is exactly 2012. At this time, the first clinical trial of this brand-new anti-cancer therapy should have started, so Li Mu thought that in the Chinese version, most of the previous plots can be roughly the same as the American version. They also went to Amsterdam to meet the author of "Majestic Sorrow". After returning to China, the hero told the heroine that his cancer had recurred, and the two were about to say goodbye forever.

The male and female protagonists also wrote touching eulogies for each other in advance, but the difference is that at the end, the author in Amsterdam found the male protagonist and told him that the United States is conducting clinical trials of CAR-T therapy and recruiting volunteers. information.

It can be assumed that the author used similar words to encourage her daughter, telling her that as long as she perseveres, she will be able to wait for an effective and brand-new therapy that can cure her. Unfortunately, the author's daughter did not wait for this day after all.

So when the writer learned of this brand-new therapy, while regretting his daughter, he immediately thought of the hero.

In short, Li Mu's plan is that "The Fault in Our Stars" will be open to the global market, and the ending will follow the ending of the original novel, and the hero will eventually die of cancer.

In the Chinese version of "Send You A Little Red Flower", Li Mu intends to let the hero survive.

There are actually two reasons why he did this. One is that he really doesn't like tragedies, and the other is that he and Liu Yifei will play the male and female protagonists in the Chinese version, and he doesn't like playing a dead person.

As for whether changing the ending to a non-tragedy will increase or decrease the box office, Li Mu can't control it, he is not short of this little money, the main thing is to act comfortably.

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the other side.

Zhang Tianai received a call from the staff of Huashang in the rental house, and the other party invited her to the Huashang company's location the next day to talk about the role.

Zhang Tianai was naturally happy to go. In fact, people like her in the circle were willing to play tricks in Hua Shang's crew. Hua Shang was famous in the circle for employing eclectic people.

Although Song Qi was born in a major, she could only play some extra roles at the beginning, and finally met Li Mu.

Tong Liya, also played a long time in the beginning, but you look at her now?
There is also Jin Chen, who is also from a background, but after being spotted by Hua Shang, he first played the female supporting role in "Back to 20". I heard that now she has been confirmed as the heroine of a new film by Hua Shang.

There are so many living examples right in front of our eyes, that all the actors in the circle who still have some ideals are very willing to take Hua Shang's play, even if it's just some actor roles.

However, Zhang Tianai didn't hold out much hope. There was a possibility that he would be favored by Hua Shang as a dragon suit, but who dared to say that he would be caught up in such a thing?

But when she really came to Huashang, she was immediately confused by one thing after another that was completely different from what she thought.

First of all, she was an extra, but was interviewed by Huashang Liu Siying's vice president and Chen Zhixi's producer.

Secondly, as an actor, she was asked to try a large number of lines that seemed to be quite important, and it seemed that the role she played was still a "princess"?
What is the name of this show?

"Prince Concubine's Promotion"!
So Hua Shang put on such a big battle to let her play the heroine of this show, right?

is it possible?
It's really possible!

After the audition, Huashang's gold medal producer Chen Zhixi told her directly that Huashang will formally invite her to be the heroine of the new drama "Princess Concubine's Promotion".

"Director Chen, thank you and Mr. Liu for giving me this opportunity. You will never forget your trust in me. I will definitely play the role seriously and never let you and Mr. Liu down."

After Liu Siying left first, Zhang Tianai hurriedly expressed his loyalty to Chen Zhixi.

Chen Zhixi smiled and said, "You are beautiful and talented, no wonder Li always looks up to you."

When Zhang Tianai left Huashang, Chen Zhixi's last words were still on Zhang Tianai's mind: "You are beautiful and talented, no wonder Mr. Li is optimistic about you."

"Mr. Li likes me?"

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On August 8, the premiere of "John Wick" was held in Beijing. Li Mu did not attend the premiere because "Send You A Little Red Flower" was officially launched just a few days ago.

Somewhat unexpectedly, Wang Baoqiang and Hong Jinbao even made a special trip to Beijing to cheer for Wu Jing. He can act in the action movie he is thinking about.

Wu Jing respected Hong Jinbao very much, and Hong Jinbao was also very optimistic about Wu Jing.

In the background, Hong Jinbao patted Wu Jing on the shoulder and said: "I originally thought that there would be no more kung fu superstars in the future. It's not that people who came later could not fight, but because the times have changed. But now my thinking has changed. Can you Hey, Mr. Li has the best vision for watching movies in the world. He signed you to his Huashang and arranged for you to act in action movies. If Mr. Li is also very optimistic about your action movies, then you have hope, and action movies will still has hope."

"Then I'll borrow my elder brother's blessing!"

After the final movie-watching session, Hong Jinbao couldn't help saying with emotion: "Isn't it not easy for this movie to pass the review?"

Wu Jing also said with emotion: "Compared to the English version, it was cut a bit. There was indeed some controversy when it passed the review, but then it passed again if it was muddled."

On August 8, "John Wick" was officially released worldwide.

"John Wick" is a rather simple and rough movie. The hero Leng Han is a Chinese retired killer living in the United States. One day, the son of the gangster took a fancy to his old car, so he knocked out the man. The protagonist, stole the male protagonist's car, and what's more, even killed the pet dog left by the male protagonist's deceased wife.

So a hearty killing began.

Once the film was released, it immediately gained a large number of fans, especially the young audience who praised the film even more.

At noon that day, all kinds of comments about the film had spread all over the Internet.

"Surprise, it's simple and rough enough, it's over!"

"Don't touch Wu Jing's dog, otherwise the Heavenly King and I will not be able to save you, Leng Han said!"

"You kill my pet dog, I'll kill your whole family! The surprise comes from two aspects, one is that the movie is really good enough, and the other is that the release of this kind of movie is already a victory!"

"Be optimistic about Wu Jing, it will depend on him to revive Chinese-language action movies in the future!"

"That's right, the rhythm of the action is comparable to director Li Mu's "Taken", which came out of the mountain. I heard that the investment is only more than 1000 million US dollars, which is considered a small investment in a B-level film. The investment is not as good as "Taken". The plot is weaker than "Taken", and Wu Jing's reputation is far weaker than that of Cheng Long's elder brother - in conclusion, Li Mu is such a top chef, he can cook a table of delicious food for you with any ingredients you give him !"

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The domestic box office of "John Wick" was 5520 million on the premiere day, 6325 million the next day, and 7170 million on the third day.

Although the film looks very enjoyable, the plot is still weak, and the audience is relatively limited. It is not as wide as the audience of comedy movies. At least parents will not like to take their children to watch such movies.

However, the global audience of such films is significantly stronger than that of Chinese comedies such as the "囧 series".

The "囧" series of movies are popular in China and have a very wide audience, but when they go abroad, they are immediately dumb, and the overseas box office is very poor.

But "Quick Chase" is different. Its killing, revenge, hearty fighting, and extremely chic action design are very popular all over the world.

In the end, in the first three days of its first weekend in North America, it grossed a total of 2170 million US dollars at the box office.

This achievement is naturally incomparable with Li Mu's previous films. First of all, its investment is just over 1000 million US dollars, and the starring role of the film is hardly famous in the United States. It can earn more than 2100 million box office in three days. Already pretty good.

It's been pretty good indeed.

On August 8, there were also no heavyweight films in North America. There were only two new films, one was Hua Shang's "John Wick", and the other was Sony's "Deadly Express", which had the same theme as "Quick". Chase" is similar, both are low-budget action films, but the box office performance of the two films is quite different.

"Quick Chase" had 2170 million in the first weekend, but "Deadly Express" only had 630 million.

By the way, "Quick Chase" won this week's North American box office champion with a box office of 2170 million!

That's right, this small-budget action film has surpassed the $2 million weekend gross of "The Expendables 1350," which has been released for two weeks, and the $4 million box office of "Mission: Impossible 930," which has been released for three weeks, and topped this week's No. North American box office champion!
Although the first-week box office against the two-week box office of "The Expendables 2" and the three-week box office of "Mission: Impossible 4" seems to be an unbeatable victory, although the weekend box office of 2170 million US dollars is indeed not high. You must know that "Hunger "The Game" had a weekend box office of $1.88 million, but the weekend box office champion is the weekend box office champion!
In short, Wu Jing's first film after signing with Huashang Media was the North American weekend box office champion, and it beat "The Expendables 2" starring Stallone, Jason Statham, Li Lianlian and other big names to win the championship!

This moment is actually insignificant to Li Mu and Hua Shang, but to Wu Jing, this is undoubtedly a huge surprise!

(End of this chapter)