China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 262 The global box office has broken through 14 billion US dollars, and it has become the second in the world since then

During the second week of "Frozen"'s release, the film of another great Chinese director happened to be released globally, and it also attracted the attention of many domestic media and netizens.

That is "Life of Pi" directed by Li An.

"Fantasy Drifting of Boy Pi" received rave reviews after its release. Whether it scored 9.1 points on Douban or 7.9 points on IMDB, it was slightly better than Li Mu's "Frozen".

However, the film's box office performance is far inferior to Li Mu's "Frozen".

Taking the box office list in North America as an example, "Frozen" grossed US$4570 million in the second weekend, while "Life of Pi" only had a box office of US$2200 million in its first week. It can be said that it is not at the same level as "Frozen".

By the third week, "Frozen" still had a weekend box office of 3100 million US dollars, successfully winning the weekend box office champion; while "Breaking Dawn", which had a box office of 1.45 million US dollars in the first weekend, fell to 1741 million US dollars this week. , the runner-up.

In addition, "Skyfall" came in third with $1700 million, and "Life of Pi" came in fifth with $1200 million.

the fourth week.

"Frozen," $2400 million, No. [-].

"Skyfall," $1100 million, came second.

"Breaking Dawn" fell to $920 million, third.

"Life of Pi" $830 million, fifth.

"Frozen" was the North American weekend champion for the third week in a row.

The film was officially released worldwide on November 2012, 11. As of December 16, 2012, the film has been released for 12 days, and its domestic box office has accumulated 10 billion yuan, which is 25 million yuan when converted into US dollars.The North American box office officially broke through the 20.7 million yuan mark, reaching 3.04 million US dollars.In addition, the overseas box office outside North America was 2 million US dollars, and the global cumulative box office was 2.2 billion yuan.

In 25 days of release, the global box office reached 10.04 billion US dollars - "Frozen" shocked the global film world.

Overseas netizens gave a very high evaluation to this animation film directed by Huaxia and adapted from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales.

"Best animated film since The Lion King!"

"Another masterpiece of animation that is comparable to "Wall-E"!"

"The story is wonderful, the scenes are shocking, unparalleled, and pleasing to the eye!"

"Disney animation is old and lacks new ideas. Director Li Mu's animation debut is full of new ideas and successfully creates an audio-visual feast!"

"Disney should have a sense of crisis. Director Li Mu, who set off a global 3D movie storm, has entered the animation film circle. I wish Disney good luck! I wish director Li Mu from the East good luck!"

"The well-conceived plot injects modern colors into traditional fairy tales!"

"The ever-changing ice and snow world brings shocking viewing effects, and adults and children can watch it happily!"

North American authoritative media such as "New York Times", "Wall Street Journal", "Los Angeles Times", "Variety Show" and "Hollywood Reporter" have sent praises, and North American audiences even scored an average score of A+! In 2013, only 4 films received this high score.

In addition, "Frozen" was also selected as the "Top Ten Films of the Year" by "Time" magazine, "New York Post", Yahoo Movie Network, etc.

What's more, "Frozen" was nominated for the Golden Globe Awards for Best Animation and Best Song.

The Golden Globe nomination itself is not very important, but the Golden Globe has always been hailed as an important indicator of the Oscars. After winning awards such as Best Cinematography, it is very likely that in 2012, "Frozen" will win important Oscars such as Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Song again in 2013.

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In mid-December, Brother Cheng Long came to Beijing to promote his new movie "Zodiac".

At this meeting, the main actors of "You Now You See Me" - Lei Jiayin, who plays the trickster, Guo Da, who plays the hypnotist, Zhang Songwen, who plays the thief, and Liu Yifei, who plays the escape artist, were all present .

As soon as the few people met, Brother Cheng Long put his palms together to apologize to everyone.

"Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm busy promoting the new movie, which may delay the filming progress."

Li Mu replied with a smile: "There can't be any delay. On the filming schedule, Uncle Long's scenes are relatively late, and the time for Uncle Long's movie promotion has long been set aside."

Cheng Long clasped his hands again and nodded with a smile.

Cheng Long is also one of the leading actors in "You Now You See Me", but he won't be waiting for the movie to start. Brother Cheng Long is still busy when he joins the crew and when he is filming his scenes.

Among the actors present here today, Lei Jiayin is a contracted actor of Huashang. Netizens nicknamed him "Mu Nanlang".

Although it is the first time for Mr. Guo A to cooperate with Li Mu, he has acted in sketches for so many years, and he has seen many big leaders. Compared with those leaders he had met, he was naturally not too restrained in front of Li Mu.

Not to mention Liu Yifei, how could he be restrained in front of Li Mu when he hugged the person who slept naked all night?
Only Zhang Songwen, the whole process of the meeting seemed very restrained, and he seemed very careful in everything he said and did.

Zhang Songwen's acting skills are excellent, and the directors he has worked with have all agreed, but he is still in a difficult period when he has to fight for extra roles, lives in a small rental house, and only buys short-term vegetables when buying vegetables.

He was suddenly invited to act by the famous director Li Mu, and he was one of the four leading actors, and his partners were all international superstars like Cheng Long and Liu Yifei. This kind of opportunity, let alone Zhang Songwen at the current stage, even domestic first-line actors can’t ask for it. He must be able to ask for it, but this kind of opportunity fell on him inexplicably.

He didn't know what Director Li valued him in the end. In short, the opportunity was rare, so he cherished it very much, so he was naturally cautious.

"Now Now You See Me" is scheduled to start on December 12, Cheng Long's "Zodiac" will be released, and Li Mu will show up at that time to cheer Uncle Long.

Before the film officially started, Li Mu tried to decide the main actors of "Interstellar", and the first person he discussed was Liu Yifei.

Now Li Mu has confirmed that actors generally follow this set of procedures: first discuss with Liu Yifei in bed, and then discuss with Huashang’s production director Chen Zhixi after they have a general idea, and then communicate with Liu Siying after discussing with Chen. The last thing is to communicate with the investors and producers.

"Who will play Little Liu Murphy?"

"Zhao Jinmai, I like this little girl very much, she is smart and cute."

The Liu Mofei they mentioned was naturally the daughter of the hero in "Interstellar".

The name of the character in the original movie is Murphy Cooper. The name Murphy has a special meaning in the film and is highly related to the plot of the film, so it cannot be changed easily. But since the character setting has been changed to Chinese, of course it cannot Continue to call Murphy Cooper, so Li Mu changed it to Liu Murphy.

Liu Mofei not only retained Murphy's original meaning, but also had a high degree of similarity with Liu Yifei's name, so Li Mu was quite satisfied with this change.

In the role setting in the film, in addition to changing Murphy Cooper to Liu Murphy, Li Mu also changed the name of the actor Joseph Cooper to Liu Mu, and changed the name of the actor's son to Liu Molong.

In the original movie, Murphy's childhood, middle age, and old age are played by three actors respectively. In this version of Li Mu, he plans to have Liu Yifei play the role of the middle-aged and old age of the heroine alone.

"Do you think it's suitable for Deng Chao to play the hero's son?"

In the evening, Li Mu continued to chat with Liu Yifei in bed.

"What's inappropriate?"

"Look, I'm so handsome, the person who plays my son must at least match me in appearance so that he won't violate harmony, right?"

Liu Yifei: "???"

She was a little defeated by Li Mu.

Before going to bed, Li Mu was still thinking about the young son of the protagonist looking for Yi Yangqianxi, the other heroine has already decided to use Anne Hathaway, and the role of Mark Damon will not be replaced, and the old For the black character, try to use the original actors as much as possible. "Interstellar" is aimed at the international market, so it is natural to consider the political correctness of each country, and all races can be arranged to have some roles.

"Liu Yifei will play my daughter, and Deng Chao will play my son? Well, it's quite interesting! Anne Hathaway's appearance is not broken now, and it should feel good to act with her..."

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The time has come to the weekend of the fifth week of the official release of "Frozen", that is, from December 12th to December 14th. This week, Warner's new film "The Hobbit 12" was officially released, so "Frozen" " lost the title and finished runner-up with $16 million.

At this time, "Breaking Dawn", which was released at the same time as "Frozen", has dropped to 500 million US dollars at the weekend box office, ranking sixth.

"Life of Pi", which was released a week later than "Frozen", continued to rank fifth this weekend with a score of 540 million US dollars.

This week, Li Mu and Liu Yifei participated in the premiere of the film "Zodiac". Liu Yifei was wearing a Tony Ward dress, holding Li Mu's arm, radiant and smiling like a flower.

After the premiere ceremony, Li Mu led the crew of "You Now You See Me" to the United States and officially announced the start of the film. At the same time, "Frozen" has also entered its sixth week of release.

At this time, the domestic box office of the film has accumulated to 22 billion yuan, while the daily box office has dropped to less than [-] million yuan.

Compared with the end of the domestic film, the international box office performance of the film is still impressive.

In the sixth week, "Frozen" won the box office of US$1820 million in the North American market in one fell swoop. Like last week, it is still the runner-up.

The champion is still "The Hobbit 1" produced by Warner Bros., which earned $3720 million at the box office this weekend.

At this time, "Frozen", which was released at the same time as "Frozen", and "Breaking Dawn", which stabilized the box office of "Frozen" with a box office of 1.45 million US dollars in the first weekend, has completely disappeared. "Fantasy Drifting" has also completely withdrawn from the North American weekend box office list.

The box office performance of "Frozen" is still strong.

In the seventh week of the film's release, "Frozen" spread word of mouth with its excellent reputation, and the box office rose instead of falling. It even soared from $1820 million last weekend to $3340 million.

In the seventh week of the film's release, the box office of "Frozen" rose instead of falling. With a score of 3340 million US dollars, it surpassed the 1 million US dollars of "The Hobbit 3292: An Unexpected Journey", which was released four weeks later, and regained the championship. !

Since the release date of a new film, the weekend box office of each week has dropped by as much as 50% compared with the previous week. This is almost the golden rule of the North American film market.

But just today, just this week, in the seventh week after the global release of "Frozen", its weekend box office did not fall but increased, skyrocketing 84%, returning to more than 3000 million US dollars!
It can be said that the performance of "Frozen" directly shocked the world film world!

In this regard, many netizens even think that the box office statistics in North America are wrong.

"What's the situation? Hasn't "Frozen" been in theaters for a month and a half? Why is it the North American box office champion again? It's still the champion in the seventh week of its release? "Avatar" is nothing more than that?"

"I'm not mistaken? I watched it specifically last week. Bingxue's weekend box office has dropped to more than 1800 million US dollars. Why did it skyrocket this week?"

"I don't understand. To be honest, I was dumbfounded when I saw the 3340 million US dollars this week. Can the box office grow reversely this weekend?"

"Brothers, you must be right. Many websites have already reported that the weekend box office of "Frozen" has indeed increased instead of falling!"

"It's awesome! Hollywood Reporter: '"Frozen" overwhelmed the $3000 million of "Avatar" in the seventh week, ranking first in the seventh week of film history!' And the third is "Titanic" ", the fourth is "Gravity"! Two of the first four are Li Mu's works!"

"Siguoyi!"

Then came the eighth week, "Frozen" North American weekend box office was 2680 million US dollars, once again won the North American weekend champion!

This week, Lionsgate's new film "Chain Saw Massacre 3D" lost to "Frozen", which has been released for eight weeks, and finished second with a score of 2300 million US dollars.

So far, the film has been screened for a total of eight weeks, and it was officially released in China a few days ago, and its final domestic box office was 23.13 billion yuan.

In the North American market, the cumulative box office of "Frozen" reached 3.44 million US dollars, the cumulative box office of overseas markets outside North America was 7.61 million US dollars, and the total overseas box office totaled 11.05 billion US dollars.

Coupled with the conversion of the domestic market, it is about 3.40 million U.S. dollars. So far, the total global box office of "Frozen" has reached 14.45 billion U.S. dollars!
It is worth mentioning that before this, the total box office of Li Mu's films was 52.4 billion US dollars, plus the box office of "Frozen" so far, the global total box office of Li Mu's films has reached 66.85 billion US dollars, officially More than the $62 billion made by director James Cameron.

Li Mu's global box office officially ranks second in the world!

Li Mu himself didn't feel much about this, but a large number of netizens were already not calm.

Since Li Mu officially entered the entertainment industry in 2004, how many years has it been?How to surpass Cameron, second only to Spielberg?
It can only be said that it is too awesome!

In addition, this week, that is, January 2013, 1, the nomination list for the 10th Academy Awards was officially announced. "Frozen" won two nominations for the Best Original Song Award and the Best Animated Feature Film Award. !

Once the list of nominations was announced, the Chinese-speaking Internet world once again went into an uproar.

“Another Academy Award nomination for Frozen? Am I not mistaken?”

"It's true! Frozen is indeed on the list of nominations!"

"I also know that I'm sure I'm not mistaken, but now I'm nominated again? Is it an exaggeration?"

""Gravity", "Manchester by the Sea", "The Revenant", and now there is another "Frozen", which is indeed exaggerated!"

"No, do you think "Frozen" is not good-looking? Is it not eligible for Hauska's best animated feature film? Or is the theme song "Let It Go" not eligible for the best original song award?"

"That's right, that's right, being qualified is definitely qualifying, but..."

　In the 6th and 11th week of Frozen, the box office did not fall but rose twice, and it even returned to the championship strongly in the sixth week

　　
　
(End of this chapter)