China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 267 Going to the Records of Domestic Film History
"Monster Hunt" had a box office of 6.73 million in its first three days, breaking the domestic box office record in three days. Fans of Zhou Xun were not calm about this.

Previously, "Painted Skin 2" performed well at the box office after its release, and as a result, fans of Buffett Zhao and fans of Zhou Xun immediately competed for credit.

Zhao's fans said that the biggest hero is of course Zhao, and Zhou's fans said that the box office is all due to Zhou.The fans are in full swing, and the stars themselves are constantly fighting openly and secretly.

Both Zhao Buffett and Zhou Xun were absent from the film's premiere, and only Chen Kun was the three leading actors.

Now there's no need to argue, "Monster Hunt" doesn't have Zhao Bajie as the leading role, right?The results of it?The box office hit "Painted Skin 2" has a total box office of more than 8 million, and "Monster Hunt" has a box office of nearly 7 million in three days. Zhou's fans have even shouted the slogan of surpassing "Painted Skin 2" in four days.

The box office of "Monster Hunt" has far exceeded expectations. Zhang Ruoyun, as the leading actor, has also skyrocketed in popularity. Now that he has contacted him years ago but has not yet negotiated a project, the price has been very consciously raised after the year.

In addition, Mary's popularity is also a bit sudden. Mary plays the role of the chef Tianshi in the film, which is the role played by Yao Chen in the original version. In fact, this role does not have many roles, but if there is a role in it, it must be in the theater. There was bursts of laughter.

"Master!"

"Oh my god, what the hell, scared me to shiver!"

Many netizens said that the funniest part of the film is the part where Mary appears.

What's more, after seeing the box office performance of "Monster Hunt", Director Feng Xiaogang's mentality collapsed a bit, because just a few months ago, it was said that he had been planning for more than ten years before finally being put on the big screen. The box office of "2" collapsed. The film invested nearly 4 million yuan, but the total box office was only over [-] million yuan. It must have lost money.

It can be said that Director Feng put a lot of effort into this film, and the evaluation of the film is not bad, but it just doesn't sell well!In the past, he just played around with filming, and easily became the number one in the country, but now he is serious about filming, but with this result, it would be strange if Director Feng didn't break his guard.

Especially looking at the box office performance of "Monster Hunt", it was released in two days, and it was 4.42 million even if it didn't count the zero points. It surpassed his total box office in two days.

It doesn't matter if the film has to be directed by Li Mu himself, the annoying thing is that it isn't.

He, Feng Xiaogang, is no match for Li Mu. He believes that it is not shameful to lose to the world's second-largest director who has directed films with a cumulative box office of 70 billion U.S. dollars, but you can't just crush him with any Hua Shang director, right?

He is also a great director who has been a national champion for many years. Where do you put his face?

Especially since he feels that "Monster Hunt" is far less good than his "[-]".

"Huaxia's audience is not worthy of enjoying a really good movie!"

Director Feng Da looked away because of this, and the next movie still needs to be played for fun.

The cumulative box office of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" in three days is 5.63 million, which is more than 1 million less than "Monster Hunt", but it is not bad.

The film contributed many classic scenes, such as Huang Bo's "I think I took two watermelon knives from Nantianmen to Penglai East Road. I chopped them for three days and three nights without blinking my eyes. For example, do you really think that one Bananas sent me away?"

Of course, the scene where Li Mu appears in the film is also one of the most exciting and hilarious scenes in the whole film.When the four beauties in the wilderness appeared in the camera carrying Li Mu, there would often be bursts of laughter in the theater.

"Wow! Where did you pull those four old onions?"

"It's good luck to find four in the wilderness."

Often when this line comes out, the whole theater laughs badly, and then some people on the Internet start calling Li Mu a kid with kidney deficiency.For this reason, Li Mu also specially posted a Weibo, clarifying that he is "empty", not "kidney deficiency". Said: "Director Li is in good health, thank you for your concern."

Dude, the netizens are crazy, and the fans are crazy too.

"My sister is covering for Director Li!"

"Don't have kidney deficiency? Don't believe it! To have such a girlfriend who doesn't have kidney deficiency, isn't it worse than a beast?"

"Everyone looks at Mr. Li's photos in the past two years, and the number of dark circles under his eyes is obviously increasing, so it is not clear whether it is emptiness or kidney deficiency?"

This wave of fans of Li Mu and Liu Yifei has increased by hundreds of thousands, and the box office of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" has also ushered in a more obvious rebound.

Li Mu and Liu Yifei are not in a hurry to return to Beijing after the year. The 85th day of the first lunar month of this year is the day of the [-]th Academy Awards ceremony. "Frozen" is the big hit for this year's Oscars for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Song At that time, Li Mu will take Liu Yifei to fly directly from Xijing to the United States.

In the two days of the fourth and fifth day of the lunar new year, "Monster Hunt" won another 2.84 million box office. So far, the film has been released for five days, with a cumulative box office of 9.57 million yuan.

"Journey to the West Conquering the Demons" has a cumulative box office of 8.11 million yuan in five days.

For the next five days, the daily box office of "Monster Hunt" basically fluctuated between 9000 million and 1.2 million. By the end of the tenth day of release, the cumulative box office of the film had reached 14.72 billion yuan.

At this time, the predicted box office given by Maoyan Movies has reached 26.8 billion yuan.

You must know that the current box office champion in the domestic market is only 23 billion yuan, which is the record set by "Frozen" years ago. At that time, people in China were still guessing when this new record would be broken. My opinion is that it depends on when the next film directed by Li Mu will be released.

However, what everyone didn't expect was that the new record created by "Frozen" had only been maintained for more than a month, and it was about to be broken by "Monster Hunt".

The most important thing is is this movie really that good?In fact, there is no, but the box office is beyond everyone's expectations.

There is another situation that has also aroused extensive discussion in the circle.

"Monster Hunt" had a box office of 14.72 billion in ten days, and "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" was a little bit worse, but it also won a box office of 12.33 billion in ten days, and the box office of the former was nearly 8000 million yuan on the tenth day, while the latter was a little less , There are also about 5000 million.

This is amazing. Two popular movies were released at the same time. As a result, the box office of both movies was a big hit. Other blockbuster movies have to be released on a staggered schedule. At present, it seems that only the Spring Festival is an exception. Everyone was released together. The result It seems that there are no losers, and everyone wins.

The Spring Festival file has undoubtedly grown into the most important schedule in China, and the market size of the Spring Festival file is large enough to accommodate multiple blockbuster films being released at the same time.

During his stay in Xijing, Li Mu also found time to audition for Jing Tian, ​​the location was in the West Theater, and Li Mu went off to play against him in person.

There is no script for this meeting, Li Mu originally didn't plan to copy this play, and this meeting has not even started writing the original novel, so Li Mu first intercepted a few fragments from his mind and wrote lines, let's test the current situation first. Can Jing Tian act out the feeling of future generations?

Jing Tian was a little confused when he got the lines, because it didn't look like the lines that normal people should have at all.

For example, Li Mu said: "When you didn't die, my great-grandfather happened to be in the prime of life. Could it be that you and him? No way?"

Then Jingtian said: "You don't have much attachment to this world anymore, do you?"

For example, Jing Tian’s lines first said that Grandpa Li Mu’s photo is too ugly, and then praised Li Mu’s good looks, just like a genetic mutation, and then Li Mu’s lines told her not to learn some lines and use them indiscriminately, and scolded Jing Tian. It's a genetic mutation, but Jingtian's lines say: "I am a genetic mutation!"

So what exactly is she going to play this time?
Jing Tian asked Li Mu, and Li Mu replied that he hadn't figured it out yet. If it was a ghost or a demon, it might not be able to show it on TV. If it was an alien, it might be shown on satellite TV.

Then Jingtian's reaction after hearing it turned out to be overjoyed.

It stands to reason that it would be a pity if the new dramas couldn't be shown on satellite TV for the opportunity that was so hard to find, but what did President Li say?

He hasn't figured it out yet!
Doesn't the hidden meaning of this sentence mean that Mr. Li wrote the script himself?

Mr. Li acted as the screenwriter himself, does it matter if the new drama can be shown on Satellite TV?Is it important?
It doesn't matter at all!

Then in the formal audition session, Jing Tian's performance was not as good as in the later dramas. For example, when she said the sentence "You don't have any attachment to this world, do you?" That feeling of saying the harshest words in the softest tone.

Sure enough, although the actor is still the same actor, but the age is different, the experience is different, and the performance in front of the camera is also different.

"Let's do it again, pay attention to the tone, be gentle, be gentle again, the tone and the lines should form a contrast."

Li Mu shook his head while saying.

"Again."

"Okay, okay, try the next line."

"Have you seen Zhang Manyu's "Ruan Lingyu" and "In the Mood for Love"? The script of this drama has not been written yet, and the plot is honestly mediocre. Whether it can be popular or not is actually very cannibalistic. You have to perform that kind of romantic feeling. "

"Again, it doesn't feel quite right..."

"Again……"

As Li Mu kept vetoing Jingtian's performance, she couldn't help but blushed. She was anxious. It seemed that Mr. Li wrote the script himself. What should I do if I still can't meet Mr. Li's requirements?
This audition lasted for a long time, and Jing Tian's performance was not satisfactory, but in fact, the overall situation is not that bad. Considering that she has not read the script yet, she still lacks the most basic understanding of the story, not to mention Being able to enter the character, so the poor performance is not entirely her problem.

Overall, the problem is not big, this play is customized for Jing Tian, ​​so there is no other actor options, so after confirming that she is barely qualified, Li Mu immediately told Jing Tian the result, saving the step of going back and waiting for the phone call .

Then Jing Tian felt as if all the strength in his body had been taken away by someone, and he even became a little bit exhausted.

Although Mr. Li was not very satisfied with her, she passed the test after all.

Two days later, Li Mu and Liu Yifei flew directly from Xijing to Los Angeles, USA, and the date for the 85th Academy Awards ceremony was approaching.

The attention of Chinese people to this year's Oscars is still very high, because the works of two great Chinese directors, Li Mu and Li An, are all the favorites for this year's Oscars.

The work directed by Li Min is of course "Life of Pi", and Li Mu's work is naturally "Frozen".

Coincidentally, both of them are surnamed Li, so some netizens shouted the slogan "Huaxia Double Li", but most netizens do not recognize this slogan.

Li Mu is currently the only one in the country, and it feels inappropriate to be as famous as anyone else.

Not only Chinese netizens, but Korean and RB netizens are also very concerned about this year's Oscars.

In recent years, Korean films have developed quite well, but in terms of winning awards, there is really no way to compare with Chinese films.

Chinese films have won a lot of awards internationally, but the gap between the two countries was not so big that Koreans despaired until Li Mu appeared in the Chinese film industry.

This time he was completely crushed, and there was almost no possibility of any challenge. How many Oscars did Li Muguang win?This year is even worse, Huaxia simply produced two award-winning directors.

When will South Korea have such a great director who wins glory for the country?

As for some RB people paying close attention to this year's Oscars, what's more, they really like "Frozen" so much, so they very much hope that "Frozen" can really win the award.

February 2013, 2, US time.

Los Angeles, Dolby Theater, Hollywood.

The "Frozen" team brought by Li Mu met with the "Life of Pi" team led by director Li An.Li Mu and director Li An greeted each other, and after a brief chat, they took their seats. In fact, the two of them didn't meet much, and they didn't have much friendship with each other, so naturally they didn't talk too much when they met.

Instead, Liu Yifei and Li Min chatted a little more. When Li Min was preparing to shoot "Lust, Caution", Liu Yifei was his ideal candidate for the heroine. Because of this, the two had a lot of contact, but in the end Liu Yifei gave up because of the scale of the film. That opportunity, but after all, the two had an intersection.

"Do you think Director Li An can win the award this time?"

After taking his seat, Liu Yifei approached Li Mu and whispered in Li Mu's ear.

Li Mu also leaned into her ear and said, "You can win the best director, but you can't win the best film."

Liu Yifei smiled and said, "Don't be so sure, as if you can predict the future."

Li Mu chuckled and said, "I am the prophet of the future. Director Li An won the best director, best cinematography, best visual effects, and best soundtrack this year, and "Frozen" will win the best animated feature film and the best original song award, and the best picture this year is "Escape from Tehran."

Liu Yifei smiled and said: "These you said are all the favorites for the award, you will definitely be fooled by a few, and if you have the ability, you will count the others."

Li Mu leaned close to Liu Yifei's earlobe and whispered: "In the future we will have three children, one boy is an older brother, and two twin daughters are younger sisters."

Liu Yifei's earlobes turned red, flushed, and said: "Nonsense, don't think I don't know that having three children is illegal, I've seen that skit called "Superborn Guerrillas."

Li Mu said disapprovingly: "By the time we have children, the state probably has already released the rules for two and three children. Even if it hasn't been released yet, we'll just have to pay a fine when it's exposed."

"Nonsense, you are a great director, you are super born, fans will scold you to death." Liu Yifei still blushed.

Li Mudao: "It's not a big deal for the director to surpass his personality, don't worry."

"Of course I don't worry, I won't have an extra life with you."

"Okay, okay, then we will be alone!"

……

Soon the awards ceremony officially began, and Li Mu hit everything he said.

"Frozen" won the best animated feature film and best original song, "Life of Pi" won four awards including best director, and "Escape from Tehran" won the biggest award of the night-the best Film Awards.

"How is it?" Li Mu leaned over and asked Liu Yifei in a low voice.

Liu Yifei nodded in admiration, but unexpectedly, he really hit all of them.

At the moment when Liu Yifei nodded, Li Mu continued: "I said we will have three children!"

Liu Yifei stopped nodding suddenly, and then gave Li Mu a supercilious look.

(End of this chapter)