China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 57 Results
"Master of Hypnotism" is a relatively well-completed film as a whole. The suspense and horror atmosphere is also well rendered, and the acting skills of the actors are basically online, but it is only a small-budget film after all, and the production cost is less than 400 million yuan. This is almost doomed to make it difficult for this movie to lose money, but if it wants to make a lot of money from it, it seems unlikely.

The box office results were quickly calculated, and the total revenue in the first weekend was 520 million yuan, which is not particularly high, but considering its cost, this is actually a very good result.

Li Mu specially paid attention to the evaluations on the Internet for two days, and found that the overall evaluations were not bad. Among them, some of the most praised film critics commented: This is a movie that is only one step away from a classic!

Some netizens think that the several reversals in the movie are a bit simple. Most people can roughly guess the ending of the movie after watching half of it. Some netizens even suggested that it would be perfect if the ending could be that the male and female protagonists kill their girlfriend and ex-husband together. As a result, many over-interpreted film reviews were born.

Half a month later, the box office revenue was 2500 million, and one month later, it was 4600 million. There is no suspense for the total box office to break 5000 million.

Undoubtedly, "The Master of Hypnotism" was a group of dark horses in the film market in the first half of the year. With a cost of only 400 million, it won the box office of 5000 million. Such an amazing rate of return has also attracted a lot of attention in the circle.

Huayi Brothers.

Wang Zhonglei: "I didn't expect such a low-budget movie to earn such a high box office!"

Wang Zhongjun: "The script of the film is very neat, full of suspense and horror atmosphere, and Li Mu's writing skills are really good."

Wang Zhonglei: "We already knew that Li Mu could write, but this movie is not just as simple as being able to write. There is not a single famous actor in it, but the acting skills of all the members are online, especially Shen Teng, who has great potential. I don't know these things. How did he discover people?"

Wang Zhongjun: "People should be poached here."

Wang Zhonglei: "Poaching? Shen Teng or Li Mu?"

Wang Zhongjun: "Dig them all, especially this Li Mu. He has dug up an artist who can stand up to all the runners."

……

Bernard culture.

Yu Dong looked at the box office statistics in his hand and fell into deep thought.

Who would have thought that this small-budget film would actually earn 5000 million at the box office?

Mr. Yu couldn't help being amazed.

From "Taken" to "The Hypnotist" to "Assassin", this Li Mu always surprises everyone inadvertently.By the way, the sales of the novels he wrote are even more terrifying. A "Hunger Games" detonated the entire United States-Li Mu is really amazing.

Well, in the future, for all the movies of this kid, even if he is ashamed and shameless, he must find a way to participate in the investment. He has to keep an eye on Li Mu, keep an eye on him, and it may not be able to bring much profit to Berner in the future. Woolen cloth.

And even "Master of Hypnotism" with an investment of 400 million can be sold like this, what about "Assassin" with an investment of 6000 million?Got it?

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China Film.

Han Sanping is also paying attention to the box office trend of "The Master of Hypnotism" recently.

"400 million investment, box office of more than 5000 million, not bad, the movie is not bad, Li Mu is also not bad."

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West Movies.

Yan Yiyun looked at the box office data in his hand, and a smile crept up on his face unconsciously.

"It is said that Xiying has fallen and Xiying has fallen, but look at the works of Xiying in the past two years, "Hurricane Rescue", which has a global value of 2.7 million U.S. dollars, which is 20 billion yuan in conversion—Which movie was Xiying when it fell? Got this result?"

"The box office of "The Master of Hypnotism" is definitely over 5000 million, but the total investment of this movie is only 400 million! When Xiying was in decline, which movie had a higher return on investment than this movie?"

"There is also the movie "Assassin", with an investment of 6000 million US dollars, starring Cheng Long and Li Lian, two international superstars - what kind of top-level production did the Western Film Studio participate in when it was in decline? Is this movie top-notch?"

"That's right, Xiying may have never fallen, but that's all in the past. Now that Xiying is in the hands of me, Yan Yiyun, it's slowly turning around?"

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Just when the movie "Master of Hypnotism" was released, the 25th Hong Kong Film Awards Ceremony was officially held in Hong Kong. The movie "Taken" was also nominated for the Golden Award, but Li Mu did not fly to Xiangjiang. He is only the screenwriter and assistant director of "Taken", not the director; secondly, he estimates that the probability of "Taken" winning is not high.

As a result, the awards of the Golden Image Awards were announced, and as expected by Li Mu, To Qifeng won the best movie: "Underworld".

Best Director: Johnnie To "Underworld".

Best Screenplay: You Naihai, Ye Tiancheng "Underworld".

Best Actor: Liang Jiahui "Underworld".

In short, "Taken" accompanied the whole process, and when the result was announced, Li Muxin said, "Fortunately, I didn't go!"

Well, Cheng Long went, and Uncle Long's two films "Myth" and "Taken" were both nominated, but unfortunately the two films won a total of 0 awards.

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In the first half of 06, Liu Cixin finally began to serialize his latest novel "Three-Body Problem" in "Science Fiction World". Confidently told Liu Cixin that if his book could be published as a single edition, the sales volume would be at least 5 copies!

Liu Cixin said that he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Li Mu's book has sold tens of millions in the United States, but Liu Cixin's book is still worried about the sales figure of 5 copies.

The point is that even 5 volumes is probably wishful thinking for him this time, because the content of this book is a bit sensitive, serialization in magazines is not a big problem, and it may not be easy to publish a book.

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At the same time, Li Mu, who was free, took the time to write the novel versions of the two films "Inception" and "Interstellar". At this time, "The Martian" has been published in the United States for nearly 3 months. The sales volume is not bad, about 10 copies per month.

Although it is less than one-tenth of the sales figure of "The Hunger Games" at its peak, it is already the standard of bestsellers. Don't underestimate the figure of 10 copies sold per month, because its annual sales volume is likely to exceed 100 copies. Breaking [-] million copies.

And no matter which country it is in, a novel with an annual sales volume of more than 100 million copies is considered a bestseller, but this achievement is too insignificant compared with the achievement of "The Hunger Games".

But that's also because the results of "The Hunger Games" are too bad, not how bad the results of "The Martian" are.

It is worth mentioning that at this time, the total sales volume of the first and second volumes of "The Hunger Games" has officially exceeded 1500 million copies. At this time, more than a year after the release of "The Hunger Games", the monthly sales figure was finally surpassed by the more brutal "Twilight".

On June 2006, 6, director Ning Hao's "Crazy Stone" officially landed in major theaters. This is another low-budget movie, and the box office results are also impressive. Some media have even shouted "Small-budget movies come in spring up" slogan.

On July 7, Li Mu sent the Chinese versions of two novels, "Inception" and "Interstellar", to the work mailbox of Science Fiction World Magazine.

At the same time, inside the editorial department of Science Fiction World Magazine.

"Li Mu's new book is here!"

Boom.

The magazine is on fire.

"what?"

"This time Li Mu actually sent two novels at once!"

""Inception"? It's about dreams? The other one is..."Interstellar"? I'd better read "Interstellar" first. The title of the book makes the content very vast."

"Then I'll watch "Inception" first—by the way, why didn't Li Mu directly send the English version along with it this time?"

"Perhaps he finally finds it troublesome to translate? In fact, with his current fame, he is afraid that no one can translate his books? With the time to translate his own works, it is better to write two more interesting articles. Well, maybe Li Mu finally figured it out this time."

At this moment, Editor Qin Li's phone rang, and it was Li Mu who called.

"Hey, Editor Qin, I have already written the English versions of these two books. I will send them to you when you contact foreign publishing houses."

"Ok."

After hanging up the phone, editor Qin Li shook her head: "Li Mu said that his English version has also been written."

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In August, the film "Assassin" finally completed all the post-production work, the film was sent for review, and it was quickly awarded the Dragon Label.

(End of this chapter)