China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 274 $5687 million in the first weekend, North American crushing bureau
After Pan Yueming learned that Li Mu invited him to star in Hua Shang's movie, his first reaction was similar to his manager's reaction at the time. At first, he couldn't believe it, thinking it was a prank or a scam, until he met Li Mu's assistant Liang After Bing reconfirmed, this finally believed.What followed was a surprise. There was a feeling of "the mountain is heavy and the river is full of doubts, and there is no way out, and the willows are dark and the flowers are bright." He even immediately said that he could star in with zero pay.

In fact, if possible, most of the actors in the entertainment industry are willing to lower their salaries to appear in Huashang film and television dramas.

In the entertainment industry, "fame" is equal to money. You can get "fame" or even "big name" in Huashang's film and television drama. The salary is too much - such a simple account, who is not a genius in the entertainment industry?They can't figure it out.

Of course, Huashang Media will certainly not use anyone who lowers their salary more. Of course it is important to control the cost of filming, but it is even more important to produce the desired effect.

After returning home, Chen Sicheng began to step up his familiarity with the script. At the same time, the promotion work of "Send You A Little Red Flower" has reached a feverish stage - paper media, TV stations, radio, Internet, supermarkets, stations, subways, movie theaters, everywhere. All relevant information.

How popular is Liu Yifei today?
The salary can best reflect the market appeal of an actor!
At present, the salary ceiling for domestic actresses is only about 1000 million. Gong Li, Li Lianhua, and Zhang Ziyi are mostly in this range. The Huashang Five Beauties are so popular, and the highest salary is only 700-800 million, and the less is less than 500 million. , This is the market price, and it can be much lower when you meet a favorite script, and Liu Yifei's current market price is over 1000 million US dollars.

Liu Yifei's remuneration was of course raised by Li Mu, but the price is actually recognized by Hollywood. Some time ago, Disney wanted to hire Liu Yifei for a movie, and the offer was once 1000 million US dollars.

What does this salary mean?
It means that it has represented the ceiling among Chinese actors, and it means that her salary has equaled or even exceeded that of Li Lianlian or Cheng Long.

Of course, the above mentioned here refers to exceeding the current salary of the two of them. At present, Liu Yifei's salary is still far from that of Cheng Long and Li Lian in their peak period.

The $1000 million remuneration not only represents the market's recognition of her box office appeal, but also means that Liu Yifei has basically no way to act in plays other than Huashang Media's film and television dramas.

If the salary is not greatly reduced, it will be difficult for domestic film and television companies to afford her.

That is to say, it is very rare for Liu Yifei to star in a pure Mandarin film like "Send You A Little Red Flower". It is really hard to invite films that are not co-produced or aimed at the world market.

Now Liu Yifei not only starred in such a pure Mandarin film, but also the director and leading actor of the film are all top directors in the world, although Li Mu is an occasional cameo, but the extremely popular Li Mu, the most important thing is that Li Mu is still the genuine Liu Yifei Boyfriend, there are only so many hot spots in one drama, it would be abnormal if the market attention is low.

With the upcoming release of the two new films, all related personnel within Huashang, mainly those involved in the publicity and distribution, became excited. Everyone was looking forward to another miracle that Huashang could create this time.

During the publicity period, Li Mu and Liu Yifei rushed to the company together more than once. When the two arrived at the company at the same time, although the internal staff had a lot of contact with them, they still created a star-chasing fan atmosphere. When the two left the company together Afterwards, there is often a lot of exciting discussion behind.

"It's so beautiful, it's white and glowing!"

"Hey, do you feel that the world is really amazing. If there is no Mr. Li in the world, I don't know who can be worthy of our future proprietress. Then she won't be single for the rest of her life."

"It's true, besides Mr. Li, I really can't think of anyone else in the circle who is worthy of her. It's not good to say that a woman is too good. If she is too good, no one is worthy of her."

When it comes to "Send You A Little Red Flower", which will be released soon, everyone is full of confidence.

"The pre-sale box office has already exceeded [-] million, and this time the box office will definitely not be lower!"

"That's for sure, Liu Yifei and Li Mu starred, and Li Mu personally wrote and directed the script. If the box office of this lineup is so low, it's hell!"

"Hey, tell me, can the domestic version sell the English version this time?"

"It stands to reason that the English version of "The Fault in Our Stars" is aimed at the film market of the entire world, and director Li Mu himself directed it. In the past, the box office of the films directed by Director Li for the world market was rarely even less than 3 million U.S. dollars. Normally, the box office of the English version must be higher, but this time it is really different."

"What's different this time?"

"One is that China's film market has risen, and 20 billion-rated movies are no longer isolated cases. Second, I heard that the production cost of "The Fault in Our Stars" is less than 1000 million U.S. dollars. It's low, but in Hollywood - it's super low-cost! And the two leading actors are still unknown, but looking at the Mandarin version of "Send You A Little Red Flower", in terms of the lineup alone, "Little Red Flower" It is very possible to win the world-oriented "Lucky Star" just by relying on the domestic market!"

"It makes sense. The $800 million investment in "The Fault in Our Stars" is obviously just for fun. This time, the Chinese version of "Little Red Flower" is the real deal."

Not only ordinary employees, but also Liu Siying and Chen Zhixi, the company's top executives, are almost all focused on "Little Red Flower".

First, the publicity and distribution of "Lucky Star" was handed over to an American company, and second, no matter how you look at it, it is indeed "Little Red Flower" that has more money.

With the overwhelming publicity of "Little Red Flower", "Lucky Star", which was released earlier, has not received much attention.

The time soon came to April 2013, 4. On today, "The Fault in Our Stars" directed by Li Mu was finally officially released worldwide (except for the Chinese market).

Domestic portal sites such as Sina and Tencent have reported on it, but the response is not very high. It is said that a low-cost youth movie has a tragic ending. A little attention is also very normal.

Liu Siying and Chen Zhixi only paid attention to it for a while, and then shifted their main energy to "Little Red Flower".

After April 4, the North American box office data of the first day of "The Fault in Our Stars" is freshly released - 20 million US dollars!
The news came back to the ears of Liu Siying, Chen Zhixi and the others. They were surprised and instinctively recalled the data of Hua Shang's previous films released in North America.

"Source Code" grossed $2600 million in North America in its first week, and $5.5 million worldwide.

The North American box office of "Shark Beach" was 2100 million U.S. dollars in its first week, and the global box office was 3.03 million U.S. dollars.

"Quick Chase" made $2170 million at the North American box office in its first week, and $2.58 million worldwide.

Now the box office of "The Fault in Our Stars" in North America on the first day is 2804 million US dollars!
Note, this is the first day box office, not the first week box office!In other words, the one-day North American box office of "The Fault in Our Stars" has completely crushed the first three-day North American box office of the above three blockbuster films!

Hearing this result, how do Liu Siying and Chen Zhixi, the two high-level Huashang executives, feel now?It's kind of like—"Huh? That's okay?" feeling.

"The cost was 800 million US dollars, and the box office on the first day was 2804 million US dollars. Mr. Li is really..." In the vice president's office, Liu Siying took a deep breath.

Chen Zhixi said regretfully: ""Source Code" had a box office of 2600 million US dollars in the first week in North America, but its global box office was as high as 5.5 million US dollars. Now "Lucky Star" has a North American box office... It's a pity that the film will not be introduced to China, and even if it is imported Domestically, the domestic box office is unlikely to catch up with "Source Code", otherwise it will be another top ten movie in the global annual box office."

Li Mu didn't think it was an exaggeration when he saw the North American box office of "Luck of the Stars", it was only slightly higher than the original time and space by more than 100 million.

However, the sales volume of the original novels of this time and space is obviously higher. This is the effect of the superposition of fame. Li Mu is a big director or a popular actor. The total sales volume of novels under his name even exceeds 2 million copies. Fans of other books, film and television dramas, or fans of Li Mu himself will also buy the original novel of "Lucky Star".

This has also led to the fan base of his original version of "Luck of the Stars", which must be larger than that of the original time and space, so the higher box office of the film is not beyond his expectations.

In fact, he wouldn’t be surprised that the film’s North American box office broke $3000 million on its first day. In his opinion, $2800 million is still less, only a little higher than the original time and space.

Then came the second day after the film was released, that is, on April 4, the North American box office of "Lucky Star" was 20 million US dollars.

And then the third day, $1225 million.

So far, the film's North American box office data for the first weekend has finally been determined-a total of 5687 million US dollars.

It even exceeded the US$2 million of "Taken 5000" starring Cheng Long and Liu Yifei.

Of course, Li Mu himself didn't find this result strange, but to other people in Huaxia, this result was a bit unbelievable. After all, this was just a movie that cost only 800 million dollars to shoot, and it turned out...

With a score of 5687 million US dollars, it directly topped the North American weekend box office chart. The key is that this result was achieved under the circumstances of the competition of "Oblivion" starring Tom Cruise with an investment of 1.2 million US dollars.

"Oblivion" ranked second at the box office with only US$3705 million in its first weekend.

No.3 "Legend No. 42" is even less, only 1772 million US dollars.

The box office of No.3 and No.[-] in North America this week can't compare with "The Fault in Our Stars". How can Tom Cruise's box office appeal?
Isn't it said that Tom Cruise is the top actor in Hollywood?Is this because the top Hollywood stars are too weak, or is our own director Li Mu really too strong?

Inside Huashang Media.

The employees who were busy preparing for the release of "Little Red Flower" were also a little confused. Everyone was waiting for "Little Red Flower" to become a blockbuster, but...then finally turned their attention to another movie of their own.

"I only paid attention to "Little Red Flower", but I didn't expect "Star Luck" to be so awesome!"

"The original novel sells well in China, so everyone underestimated this movie a little bit. With sales of more than 1000 million copies, the fan base of the original novel is still quite large."

"Unexpected, but reasonable."

"How much do the audiences in North America love our President Li? With that lineup, they just managed to achieve this result?"

"It's not just fans of the original work. We director Li is such an awesome director. North American audiences should still recognize the films he directed himself."

"It shows that Mr. Li is really awesome! Such a small cost, such an awesome result, handsome!"

In fact, some lesbians spend more time chatting than men. When they mentioned cattle, a middle-aged female employee immediately smiled and said, "It's true that Li is always awesome, but no matter how awesome he is, there is no land. You haven't heard of it." That sentence? Saying 'There are only exhausted cows, no rotten fields.'!"

"That is to say, the only one who can cure Mr. Li is the proprietress?"

"Haha, that makes sense!"

Baidu, movie box office.

Tom Cruise's "Oblivion" is definitely on the list, which is the most concerned movie among netizens in the bar recently.

Since about ten days before the official release of the movie, there have been many related discussion posts in the bar.

""Oblivion" will be released in a few days, are you all looking forward to it?"

"Am I the only one who thinks that Oblivion is bound to explode?"

"Although I like Li Mu's movies very much, I still have to say that this week's box office champion is definitely Cruise's "Oblivion"!"

"Does it need to be said? Does anyone really think that Li Mu can still win the championship this time?"

"Seeing someone saying that Li Mu's new film will be the North American champion again, I laughed. Does the person who said this really know the lineup and investment scale of the two films?"

For a while, discussions like this one after another.

It is not unreasonable to say that the predictions of netizens are not unreasonable, after all, that is Brother Cruise!But who would have thought that "The Fault in Our Stars", which is mediocre except for the director, could be so good?
So as soon as the box office figure came out, most of the netizens in the bar were almost dumbfounded.

"I said, it seems that the word-of-mouth of "Oblivion" is not bad. The IMDB score is 7.0. This score is okay. Why is the box office so different from "Lucky Star"?"

"Who knows, if an investment of US$1.2 million can't make an investment of US$800 million, who should we reason with?"

"Haha, I said before that "Fortune of the Stars" might win the championship. The domestic sales of original novels are not high, so everyone ignores the fact that this is a fan film. For example, "The Hunger Games", the masterpiece of fan films, did not sell well at the box office in the first weekend. As high as 1.88 million US dollars! It has been the record for the highest opening weekend in film history for several years, and it was not broken until the release of "The Avengers", and the sales volume of the novel "Lucky Star" is also in the tens of millions!"

"I guessed that "Lucky Star" might win the championship, but even if it killed me, I dare not guess that it could surpass "Oblivion" by so much US$1982 million."

"The IMDB score of "Lucky Star" is 7.9, and it has also crushed "Oblivion" in terms of word-of-mouth."

"Suddenly I want to watch "Lucky Star", but I heard that it will not be introduced in China."

"Actually, you don't need to watch "Luck of the Stars". You can just watch "Little Red Flower" next week. Li Mu and Liu Yifei are starring, and they are all adapted from the original novel "Incomparably Beautiful Pain" written by Li Mu."

"expect!"

The score of "The Fault in Our Stars" on domestic Douban has also come out, with a score of 8.1. Many netizens who have watched it abroad highly appreciate the film, and often post a sentence or two at the end to criticize the upcoming "Little Red Flower" "the opinion of.

"When I watched "Fortune of the Stars" in Los Angeles, the audience in the theater cried even more than the heroine. Knowing that Liu Yifei's version will be released in China, I suddenly felt that it was redundant to shoot two versions. With "Fortune of the Stars" ahead, After Liu Yifei's version is released, most of them will be criticized."

"The number between 0 and 1 is infinite. It is a very warm and tear-jerking film. The two young actors performed very well. It is predicted that Liu Yifei's version will be sprayed."

"Actually, the plot is a bit clichéd, but the movie-watching experience is surprisingly good. The two young and fresh actors are very brilliant. Now the pressure is on Liu Yifei and Li Mu."

After seeing the relevant comments, Liu Yifei looked at Li Mu with big eyes flashing aggrievedly: "Do you think the audience will really scold us like they said?"

Li Mu hurriedly comforted: "Don't worry, it's okay, I probably won't scold... Me, after all, the director of "Lucky Star" is also me, and "Lucky Star" is also good because of me."

Liu Yifei first heard Li Mu say "it's okay", and just felt a little relieved, but later heard Li Mu said that he should not scold him, what do you mean?Mad at her!

"Damn it!" Liu Yifei pressed Li Mu on the sofa, "I'm going to strangle you to death!"

(End of this chapter)