China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 202 The $50 Billion Director
The schedule of "Beijing Meets Seattle" is set on January 1th. Li Mu originally planned to set it in December, but later found that it was really difficult to arrange and finally had to give up.

It is scheduled for the beginning of December. Firstly, the schedule of "The Hunger Games" is too close, so that the two films of their own are competing with each other. What is Li Mutu doing?He is not sick.

Second, early December was not without opponents.

On December 12, there will be the comedy movie "Laughing Jianghu" starring Zhao Benshan, Xiao Sunyang, etc., and on December 3 there will be "Orphan of Zhao" directed by Chen Kaige.

There was a saying on the Internet before: No one can beat the small loss in 09, except Li Mu in 09!It can be seen that its popularity is high.

As for "The Orphan of Zhao", according to Zhejiang Workers' Daily, the local government invested 1.2 million yuan to build a Spring and Autumn and Warring States City for "The Orphan of Zhao" - Xiangshan Film and Television City.

It can be seen that Director Chen still has a lot of cards at present, although he has made several movies in a row.

It's not easy to arrange at the beginning of the month, and it's almost the same in the middle of the month. "Let the Bullets Fly" is scheduled for December 12th. Li Mu knows better than anyone how strong the box office of this movie is, and he also invested money in this movie.

It is not easy to arrange at the beginning of the month and the middle of the month, and there are also strong opponents at the end of the month."If You Are the One 2" directed by Feng Xiaogang is scheduled to premiere nationwide on December 12.

"If You Are the One 1" was the box office champion among non-Li Mu movies in 2008, and the box office reputation of the previous work has laid a good foundation for this year's sequel.

The movie sold more than 6000 million yuan just for the placement of advertisements, and all the investment in the movie has been recovered before the movie is released, which shows how optimistic the market is about it.

In order to avoid "If You Are the One 2", after discussing with Wang Changtian, Yu Dong, director Xue Xiaolu and others, Li Mu finally set the schedule on January 1th.

This schedule not only avoids "If You Are the One 2", but also sets a certain distance from "New Shaolin Temple", which will be released on January 1. It is a choice that takes into account the interests of all aspects.

The Huaxia entertainment circle in December was very lively.

First, "Laughing Rivers and Lakes" and "Orphan of Zhao" caused an uproar due to "stealing box office" incidents at the beginning of the month, and then "Orphan of Zhao" hit the box office. Responding "Frankly, I'd rather not roll over. You can easily make movies when people don't expect much from you..."

The box office of "Let the Bullets Fly" released in the middle of the month was really strong, even stronger than the original time and space. It took only 9 days to break through the 4 million yuan mark. I've watched it two or three times and still don't feel like it.

Released at the end of the month, "You Are the One 2" had a stronger initial box office than "Let the Bullets Fly", breaking the box office of 7 million in just 4 days. .

Without Li Mu and his "The Hunger Games", December would have belonged to "Let the Bullets Fly".

"Let the Bullets Fly" did better than "The Hunger Games" when it comes to the film's domestic box office, but if you look at the global film market, there is no film that can overshadow "The Hunger Games" this winter .

The global box office is 9.13 million U.S. dollars, and the number of box office records it has broken even makes Chinese people dazzled.

For this reason, Sina Entertainment also compiled the box office data of all Li Mu's works since his debut. They added the box office of the films directed by Li Mu together, and finally came up with a figure of "50.03 billion".

The unit is USD.

In other words, since Li Mu's debut, the total box office of the films he has personally directed has reached 50.03 billion US dollars, ranking third in the world!

The number one ranking is of course Steven Spielberg, with a global box office of 82.805 billion US dollars.

Ranked second is James Cameron, who shocked the whole world with "Avatar" last year, with a global box office of 61.75 billion US dollars.

The third is Li Mu. With the US$9.13 million of "The Hunger Games" that has not yet been released, his personal global box office has reached US$50.03 billion.

It seems that if Cameron only makes a movie for many years this time, then it should only be a matter of time before Li Mu surpasses Cameron.

Everyone knows how much Li Mu is a model worker.

值得一提的是，上面提到的50.03亿美金就只是李沐亲自执导影片的总票房，除此之外李沐还有没有亲自执导的6部编剧作品——《催眠大师》、《飓风营救1》、《飓风营救2》、《盗钥匙的方法》、《人在囧途》、《泰囧》，这6部作品的总票房统一换算成美元后就是10.05亿美金。

Adding 50.03 to 10.05, the total box office of Li Mu's works in a broad sense has reached 60.08 billion US dollars.

The title of "50 Billion Dollar Director" spread across the country for a while.

In December, Li Mu appeared in the British "Empire" magazine and the American "Entertainment Weekly" magazine respectively. The title published in the "Empire" magazine was: "After Akira Kurosawa, the greatest director in Asia."

As early as 05, the British "Empire" magazine selected the global TOP40 director hero list, among which Spielberg was named the world's greatest director with an absolute advantage score.

In this gang, only Akira Kurosawa is on the list in the whole of Asia, ranking sixth in the list of the greatest directors.

The American "Entertainment Weekly" published a title for Li Mu: "The Huaxia director who makes the whole Hollywood tremble."

Some people count the total box office of Li Mu's works, and naturally some people count the total box office of Liu Yifei's movies since his debut.

《飓风营救1》2.83亿美元、《功夫之王》0.52亿美元、《飓风营救2》4.68美元、《盗梦空间》9.56美元、《末日崩塌》5.9亿美元、《饥饿游戏》9.13亿美元——加起来就是，32.62亿美元！
This number is not only the best in China, even if you look at the whole world, it can easily rank in the top ten among actresses.

Even Gong Li, who starred in "Gravity," is no match at all, and that figure doesn't include the films she's acted in but didn't star in.

So Liu Yifei recently added a new nickname: "Sister Jin, 30 Billion Dollars."

In fact, there was also a "30 billion sister" in China in the original time and space, and this person was none other than Chen Zhixi, Li Mu's former secretary in this time and space.

Chen Zhixi, the former space-time producer, served as the producer of "Lost in Thailand" and "Pancake Man" one after another, and these two films hit the box office one after another. In the end, "Lost in Thailand" and "Pancake Man" set box office records, and Chen Zhixideng ranked first in the hot search list Sealed "30 billion sister".

It seems that Yang Mi has also been named "Sister 30 Billion" in the original time and space, but whether it is Chen Zhixi or Yang Mi, the "30 billion" in their "Sister 30 Billion" refers to RMB, while Liu Yifei's "30 Billion" refers to But it is US dollars.

If it is also converted into RMB, then Liu Yifei should be called "Sister 220 Billion" at this time.

In short, it is not "250 billion sister".

In fact, whether it’s Li Mu’s $50 billion director or Liu Yifei’s $30 billion actress, except for their fans and some insiders, most ordinary audiences don’t pay much attention to these things.

For ordinary audiences, good-looking movies are enough. I don’t care if you have 30 billion or 50 billion?At most, after seeing relevant news, discuss it with colleagues or classmates for a few minutes, and then forget about it.

But the impact of this incident on the insiders and their respective fans is too great.

Last year, the total national box office was less than 100 billion yuan. As a result, Li Mu and his wife came up with a "30 billion dollar sister" and a "50 billion dollar brother"?
Especially Li Mu, counting the screenwriting works, he is already a "$60 billion brother"!

As soon as this news comes out, who in the circle can see it without getting dizzy?
Director Zhang Yimou's "Three Guns Surprise" last year had a box office of 2.44 million. Director Chen Kaige's massive "Orphan of Zhao" had a box office of only 2 million. Director Feng Xiaogang, who has won the annual box office champion for many years, has only one work with a box office of 5 million. "The Great Earthquake", um, and "If You Are the One 2" will be added soon, but how much is Director Feng's total box office?
For these former top directors in China, watching Li Mu's achievements today feels like a dream.

"This... this is 50 billion 60 billion U.S. dollars?"

"Can a movie like "The Hunger Games" get $9 million?"

"It seems that just a few years ago, everyone was still pessimistic that Hollywood movies would continue to squeeze the living space of domestic films, but it has only been a few years? Someone in China can counterattack Hollywood?!"

"60 billion U.S. dollars, converted into RMB - more than 400 billion?"

"My darling!"

The stars and actors in the circle watch the relevant news and even breathe faster unconsciously. Who doesn't want to star in a movie that can sweep the world like Liu Yifei?
Not to mention that "The Hunger Games" is the rarest "chick" movie for an actress.

Especially for those actors who are familiar with Liu Yifei, they will undoubtedly feel more complicated at the moment.

For example, Jiang Yiyan.

They were all classmates, and Liu Yifei easily reached the pinnacle of actress just because she found a good man.

So what's the use of acting well?What good is acting better?No matter how good her acting skills are, can Li Mu give her the position of heroine?

impossible?So in the end it's not about looking at men!
And Yang Mi.

At the beginning Liu Yifei played the role of Little Dragon Girl, and she played Guo Xiang. At that time, the gap between the two was not that big, but it has only been a few years?

In addition, Liu Yifei's classmates like Zhu Yawen, Luo Jin, etc., were also filled with emotion after reading the report.

The gap between us was already huge when we were still on campus, but we didn't expect the gap between us to become even bigger after graduation.

Li Mu has not participated in many movies in person, but he has quite a few fans.Some time ago, Li Mu said in an interview that there should be four films in the "Hunger Games" series. As a result, Li Mu's fans were excited.

Now the global box office of the films directed by Li Mu is 50 billion US dollars. If the box office of the next three "Hunger Games" series is similar to that of the first one, then this series alone can add nearly 30 billion US dollars to Li Mu's revenue. box office?

Spielberg, who ranks No. 82 in the world, currently has a total box office of only [-] billion U.S. dollars. Doesn’t that mean that if Li Mu makes one or two more movies after finishing the “Hunger Games” series, he will definitely surpass the world’s largest box office? The first Spielberg?
It seems that the number one in the world will fall on the head of our Huaxia director sooner or later!

Especially since Li Mu is still so young, it is not impossible for the total box office to exceed 100 billion US dollars in the future!

The world's first $100 billion director? ——Just thinking about this picture makes me feel exciting!
And in Chengdu.

During the recent period, the mental state of the editors in the editorial department of "Science Fiction World" has become a little excited.

"The Hunger Games" was published by Qin Li, the current president of the magazine, and the first reader of the novel was Yang Feng, the key editor of the magazine.

This is Li Mu's second work. At that time, the editors of the magazine felt that Li Mu's idea of ​​insisting on publishing in the United States was somewhat unrealistic. Who would have thought that it would only be a few years ago?

Some time ago, "The Hunger Games" hit theaters all over the world, but the novel version was taken by the movie and became popular again.

In just five days after the movie was released, the "Hunger Games" trilogy series sold a full 700 million copies, with an average of more than 100 million copies sold in a day.

On January 1, the novel sales data for December came out.

12月份《饥饿游戏》三部曲的火爆程度相比于11月有所回落，不再如上个月月底5天卖700万册的那般吓人了，可全球销量仍然高达1700万册。

36 days, 2400 million copies.

So far, the global sales of the "Hunger Games" series have exceeded the 8000 million mark, reaching 8500 million copies.

"You said that the total sales volume of this series will not exceed [-] million in the future?"

Some editors couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

The other editors nodded silently when they heard the words.

Then the entire editorial department fell silent.

……

Recently, Li Mu has suddenly become very busy, as if there are endless meetings to attend, leaders to meet, and various interviews to accept.

In addition, while arranging the schedules of "Beijing Meets Seattle" and "33 Days of Broken Love", while watching the progress of the post-production of "The Martian", he also cares about the development of its Maoyan and teamwork. The situation can be described as busy feet not touching the ground.

And during his busiest time, Shen Junsheng, the director of the company's tool man, suddenly found Li Mu again.

"Boss, why don't you write the third script of the "囧" series yourself."

Li Mu looked at Shen Junsheng in front of him and asked, "Old Shen, why do I feel that you have less hair on the top of your head?"

Shen Junsheng's face immediately collapsed when he heard it: "It's not because of the pressure!"

It turns out that Li Mu once said before that the script of the third part of the "People on the Journey" series was handed over to director Shen Junsheng to handle it himself.

In fact, the box office of "囧囧 in Hong Kong" is not bad, even higher than the box office of "Charlotte Annoyance", the comedy masterpiece in many people's minds.

But the high box office does not mean that "June in Hong Kong" is a good movie. In fact, a large part of the high box office of "Journey in Hong Kong" is due to the credit of the first two films. In 2015, the domestic market won a high box office of 16 billion yuan?

Now that he knew that the script of "囧囧 in Hong Kong" was almost meaningless, Li Mu didn't intend to continue copying it.

You can learn a little bit, but it is impossible to copy everything.

Firstly, if director Shen Junsheng wrote the script himself, the box office may not be as good as that of Yuanshikong's "囧囧", and secondly, if he copied it forcibly, Li Mu, a director worth 50 billion US dollars, wrote a script like "囧囧 in Hong Kong" - I have to say This is also detrimental to Li Mu's personal reputation.

So he simply threw the task of writing the script to Shen Junsheng.

Whose child will be held, you, Shen Junsheng, want to direct the film, and you, Shen Junsheng, will write the script yourself.

In the end, Shen Junsheng worked on it by himself for more than half a year, but what he wrote was completely unsatisfactory to himself. Coupled with the huge controversy caused by the news of the third scriptwriter change in the "囧" series, the pressure on Shen Junsheng's shoulders It's even bigger.

It’s okay if the box office of "Lost in Thailand" is only 15 billion. He still dares to write a sequel to a movie with a box office of [-] billion, but he is really guilty of a sequel to a movie with a box office of [-] billion.

Afraid to ruin the series.

Li Mu looked at Shen Junsheng's scrapped draft, and to be honest, he thought it was alright, but he didn't think it was too amazing. The key is that no one dared to say whether the movie would be a hit at the stage of the script.

Can you judge whether it can sell at a glance?

No one has this vision.

How did the Hollywood Big Eight become the Big Six?

Others think that Li Mu has this vision because Li Mu is a time traveler, and the box office of each movie and the evaluation of later generations are all in his mind.

So Li Mu was not sure about the script that Shen Junsheng handed over.

"Don't worry about the third part. If you think it's not good, you can take it back and change it slowly."

But when these words fell into Shen Junsheng's ears, it meant that the proper boss was not satisfied with the script.

With the boss' supernatural vision, if he is not optimistic about the project, what is the need to change?
"No, Boss, I'd rather you come to read the script yourself. Netizens are demanding too much from the '囧' series. Let me write the script. This is a proper way to put me on the fire!"

"Put you on the fire?" Li Muxin said, "Isn't it forcing me to be original if I write it? It's clearly putting me on the fire!"

(End of this chapter)