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Chapter 195 Let the bullets fly?
"Director Li, this is quite touching." Zhou Xun also watched the Lily Awards ceremony last night.

The four major directors jointly sent short videos to express their blessings, which became the most touching moment of the night.

"Hey, why haven't you seen Yifei in the past two days?" Zhou Xun looked around, still a little confused, because usually Liu Yifei would stay in the crew all day long, but today after looking for a long time, no one was seen.

"Going to be a tour guide."

"with who?"

"Charlize Theron!"

"Yifei's acting skills are about to improve by leaps and bounds, and a big boss will be there to guide her."

"What are you thinking about all day long? Get out of here and go filming."

Li Mu laughed and scolded, "This week's news has been out of tune all day long."

Recently, because of the natural advertisement of "Your Name", the May Day festival in the Oriental Girl Country was even more crowded.

Director Yang is both happy and troubled now. There are too many people, which also puts a lot of pressure on him.

However, the above are very satisfied, because during the peak tourist season of May Day, the growth rate is even faster than in previous years, and the effect is obvious.

"This report needs to be polished up." Director Yang looked at the report materials he had written with great satisfaction. He felt that he had not yet hit the point, so he had to write a big book about it.

In the past two days, the two protagonists of "The Twilight Saga" have been on the hot search list in North America.

Reporters clearly captured the two kissing passionately in a Vancouver bar last Saturday.

Although the two people strongly deny the matter, the evidence is irrefutable. If this is not a passionate love, who would believe it!
"Boss, do you want to intervene?" David called specifically.

"No need, as long as it doesn't have a bad impact on the movie, just ignore it."

The relationship between these two people is good for the popularity of "Twilight".

This year's "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" has been scheduled for November.

I learned from David that the "2012" North American movie expectation index has been promoted to the first place, and the second place is "Avatar", which will be released in December.

Two major 3D productions have become the number one focus of North American audiences.

The theme of the end of the world is superimposed with the predictions of the Mayan civilization, making the doomsday stream very popular.

The doomsday website developed in North America has become completely popular. In Twitter’s search index, doomsday is often a hot word.

During the filming of "Ip Man 2", there was also promotion from time to time. For example, the martial arts plot in "Ip Man 2" was revealed, which mainly focused on the battle between Wing Chun and Hong Kong, which immediately made the anticipating fans excited.

Li Mu, Duan Yihong, and Zhou Xun were basically chatting about the hottest Cannes Film Festival right now.

This year's Cannes competition section is full of big-name directors, including Tarantino, Jane Campion, Lars von Trier and Ken Loach, who have won the Palme d'Or in Cannes, and some who have won the top spot with "Brokeback Mountain" Oscar winner Li Jian, and others competing with them include Pedro Almodóvar, Johnnie To and others.

The 3D animated film "Up" will be the opening film of this year's Cannes Film Festival.

This time, the word 3D has once again entered the country.

Thierry Fremaux, the artistic director of the Cannes Film Festival, told relevant media that he likes 3D. The development of 3D movies is an adventure. He hopes that the Cannes Film Festival can keep up with the times. 3D movies have now penetrated into people all over the world. in life
"Director Li, is this 3D the same as what you guys shot?" Duan Yihong also had some doubts. Now it seems that many Hollywood movies have begun to convert to 3D.

"It is a CG animation that was post-produced into 3D and cannot be compared with a commercial film shot in real 3D, but you will understand after watching it later."

Li Mu roughly explained that this digital technology is too complicated, and even Duan Yihong and others can't understand it now.

When "2012" and "Avatar" actually come out, there will naturally be a large number of netizens popularizing them for everyone.

The popular science article has now begun.

"Director Li, would you like to take a look? Yi Fei seems to be exposed." Zhou Xun suddenly discovered something.

"???"

Li Mu quickly took out his phone HTC Touch HD and clicked on it.

This touch-screen mobile phone was just released last year. Li Mu has finally waited for this day. Life without smartphones is very painful, and there is only one year left before Steve Jobs changes the world.

In January this year, mobile 1G has begun to slowly become popular. The 3G network is still much faster than 3G. It is not difficult to open this unsightly web page.

"Yifei Liu and Charlize Theron were exposed while playing together, and they fled in panic!"

I have to say that I am pretty good at writing this title, and the word "embarrassing" is used very well!

Sure enough, Liu Yifei turned on the phone after a while.

On their last day, the two of them were probably having too much fun and didn't pay attention. When they were eating, Liu Yifei took off her mask. She originally attracted attention when she was wearing a foreigner, but with this mask, she was immediately recognized by others.

Fortunately, the management staff of the scenic spot acted quickly and arranged people to maintain order.

"Hehe, Director Yang is sending us back now." Liu Yifei said with a smile, not caring at all.

"Okay, come back early."

The fact that Yifei Liu and Charlize Theron visited the Oriental Girl Country quickly attracted the attention of netizens, especially foreign friends who were attracted by the movie, which made people even more curious.

People in the circle have seen more things. After all, they can play together, at least the level gap between everyone is not big.

This can't help but make many actresses silent.

"Pity!"

Director Yang felt that it was a bit of a loss not to take advantage of this wave of natural advertising. If he knew in advance that Yifei Liu and Charlize Theron were coming to play, he would have made good arrangements anyway.

"Hey, leader, the arrangements have been made. There are absolutely no accidents. The number of tourists is increasing rapidly now, yes." Director Yang received a call from his superior and quickly reported.

The local tourism bureau has compiled statistics. Since the movie was released, the number of tourists has increased by more than 50% in the same period. If it were not able to accommodate too many people, this number would continue to rise.

The last time was Zhang Yi's "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles", which activated the local tourism industry.

On May 5.11th, "Your Name" exceeded the box office record of 17 million in the 5th day after its release. The average daily box office is now around 2000 million, and it often falls below 2000 million.

Mengying Media and Toho Co., Ltd. have initially reached an agreement as a separate distributor. "Your Name" will be released in Japan at the end of May. Mengying's first animated film will be distributed by Toho Co., Ltd. under the same conditions.

Toho Co., Ltd. has already started promoting "Your Name". Recently, "The Bride of the Last Month" has become a dark horse in Japanese movies. The story also tells an ordinary and touching story between lovers, and "The Bride of the Last Month" has become a dark horse in Japanese movies. The box office miracle created by "Love in the Sky" seems to be exactly the same.

This allows Toho Co., Ltd. to better see the potential of "Your Name" in Japan. What these movies have in common is that they are all pure love stories.

And "Your Name" seems to be more emotional than the previous two movies.

The film "Under the Red Cliff" directed by Wu Yusen and starring Jin Chengwu and Liang Chaowei ranked second in Japan. However, the copyright has been sold, and the box office it takes has nothing to do with the country.

It's mid-to-late May, and "Your Name" is approaching a box office of over 6 million, and everyone is waiting for the moment to break the record.Mengying also prepared a 6 million celebration banquet, waiting for Li Mu to finish the work and go back to celebrate.

"Don't these love movies have any magic power? The box office is so scary!" Many people in the industry were dumbfounded by it, as was the case with "Titanic" back then.

Love is the eternal theme of mankind. This sentence is true. Otherwise, in all kinds of movies, the male and female protagonists will always have emotional lines. Why is this?
Jiang Wen went to Cannes to promote the movie with a new movie poster. The movie hadn't been filmed yet, and the casting hadn't been finalized yet, so the promotion was done first.

I also learned Li Mu’s routine in Venice and went there early to grab a spot with posters.

Jiang Wen has targeted his fourth feature film as a "commercial blockbuster," adapting a legendary story from the Beiyang warlord period in the novel "Ten Stories of a Night", but the title of the film has always been a question mark.

Now it's finally a movie in Cannes, with the name printed on the poster.

"How about Director Li, my English name is domineering, you can understand it." Jiang Wen was very proud. He thought about this name for a long time and finally came up with a Chinese-English translation.

"'Let the bullets fly', let the bullets fly! What a crappy translation you are, according to your English name, bullets are still plural, why not add 'let the bullets fly'!" Li Mu scolded with a smile.

Jiang Wen thought for a moment: "That's the name. "The Sun Also Rises" was said to be incomprehensible by the audience. I don't think there is anything difficult to understand. It's just that the bullet didn't fly. I fired, but you didn't fall. Next, you yell that you don’t understand, don’t worry, the bullet will hit you. This is the reason why I chose this name. Adding them ruins my artistic conception."

Li Mu didn't care, "Okay, as long as you like it! You still want to educate the audience!"

"The audience will understand." Jiang Wen was as confident as ever.

"By the way, you didn't come to see the premiere of Li's new movie "Woodstock". The scene was packed with people. After the screening, the audience stood up and applauded for 10 minutes."

"you look at it?"

"I watched it. To be honest, I didn't think it was very good. Li Yi's movie is a bit complicated."

Li Mu smiled: "Do you know the three unspoken rules of the Palme d'Or?"

"tell me the story!"

"Unspoken rule one: No awards will be given to comedy films; Unspoken rule two: Masters often fail; Unspoken rule three: "Avoid suspicion" of French films;"

"The summary is quite right, I understand!" Jiang Wen said with a smile.

"I heard Lu Xun is going to Cannes!"

Jiang Wen cursed: "This guy actually wants to sell the copyright. Damn it, I'll kill him if I don't."

It is true that Lu Xun went to Cannes to sell the rights. He was squeezed out by "Your Name" in China, so he directly found another way.

The distribution rights in the UK and Ireland were sold first, making Lu Xun very proud.

Jiang Wen still went over to say a few words, but now Lu Xun had thickened his skin, and Jiang Wen's bullets couldn't hit him.

"Adopting the perspective of a Japanese soldier makes it easier for the film to be accepted by overseas markets. This is a narrative strategy and narrative posture I adopted."

Lu Xun directly talked about narrative strategy.

On the set, the filming is getting closer. The crew's tasks are not stressful now, and Li Mu also intends to relax.

Li Mu looked at Zhou Xun, who was talking carelessly to everyone: "Your performance in "The Wind" seems to have sold well in Cannes."

According to current news from Cannes, the movie "The Wind" is very popular with film producers, and the promotional brochure and booth layout have been praised.

"No one can compare to you, Director Li. Your movies have been distributed overseas. How optimistic are you about this movie, Director Li?"

Zhou Xun is also very curious about the fact that Hollywood movies can only get 13%-15% of the total ticket sales in China when they are distributed overseas. Of course, this is due to domestic policy issues.

Although "Your Name" will soon have a box office of 6 million, it is hard to say whether it will be popular overseas. There are too many examples of flops in China.

It’s better to sell copyright insurance, that’s what people in the industry think too.

"We'll know when the time comes. Let's take a look." Li Mu smiled.

"Okay, let's get ready to start filming. After the filming is completed, we will have a big filming banquet to reward everyone." Li Mu clapped his hands and signaled everyone to get to work.

"Let's do it, to finish the banquet!"

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On May 5.18th, the 24th day after the release of "Your Name", it officially exceeded the box office record of 6 million. The official website of Mengying Media compiled a huge carousel of 6 million box office.

""Your Name" exceeded 6 million, a new box office era is here!"

Reports poured in, and the movie directly raised the record by more than [-] million, leaving "The Invisible Guest" and "Titanic" far behind.

"Can any movie break this record?"

"Yes, don't forget there are two super blockbusters!"

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Liu Yifei has successfully become the actress with the highest commercial value in China. You must know that her endorsements are too few, and excellence is not enough to describe her.

"Wow, so many eight-figure endorsements, I'm getting rich!" Liu Yifei felt happy as she saw the endorsements coming in like snowflakes.

But then I thought, "Ah Mu, I'm so tired, maybe I should have pushed it all."

Liu Yifei looked at Li Mu with tears in her eyes. One or two shoots a year are enough for endorsements, but too many are too tiring.

"Whatever, I won't starve to death anyway." Li Mu didn't care.

Liu Yifei nodded quickly and waited until she was almost starved to death.

Zhang Zinan looked at Zhang Ziyi with a look of disdain: "Liu Yifei's endorsement fee is more than yours, you have to work hard! What does your fiancé say?"

Now all we have to do is wait for Zhang Ziyi's fiancé to speak. Once the two get married, Zhang Ziyi will be able to soar into the sky with her Hollywood resources.

"No reply yet."

Zhang Zinan said disdainfully: "He wants to sign a prenuptial property agreement, but he has a pretty good idea."

This year's Cannes barely experienced a power outage because, in the middle of the Cannes Film Festival, workers at a French electrical company went on strike for the eighth day in a row. They did not miss this good opportunity for the world's media gathering.

In order to raise wages, workers also worked hard.

Fortunately, after power outages that lasted for different periods of time, Cannes finally regained its light before nightfall.

The Jury Prize was awarded with a double yolk egg, and the Palme d'Or for Best Picture went to the German film "The White Ribbon." Li returned empty-handed.

The 62nd Cannes Film Festival ended amid controversy
(End of this chapter)