China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 278 How should you be rewarded with $9.4 million worldwide in three weeks?
"The Hunger Games 2" hit the box office in North America, and Liu Yifei was in a very good mood. On the one hand, everyone hoped that their hard work would be recognized by the outside world. Hua Shang makes money because Li Mu makes money, and she is happy when Li Mu makes money.

Most of her achievements today are due to Li Mu. Otherwise, from "Inception" to "Doomsday Collapse", and now the "Hunger Games" series is currently being screened, why does Li Mu use her every time? ?
Is it because I am his girlfriend?She knew all of these things in her heart, and because she knew it, she felt that she should be able to help him too, not just him helping her.

She really can't help with other things. What she can do is to make the movies she starred in make money as much as possible, and let him have her own share of the money he makes.

Now "The Hunger Games 2" has a box office of 1.93 million US dollars in its first week in North America. There is no doubt that the box office of the film has exploded, and I have successfully helped him earn money. Therefore, Liu Yifei is naturally in a very good mood.

"How are you going to reward me?"

At Ziyu Villa's home, Liu Yifei reached out and hugged Li Mu's waist from behind and said coquettishly.

Li Mu turned around and kissed her lightly on the lips, then asked her: "Is it enough?"

"Not enough!" Liu Yifei pursed her lips.

Li Mu kissed again without saying a word, and then continued to ask: "This time, is it enough?"

Liu Yifei still said: "Not enough!"

……

Li Mu is very satisfied with the box office of "The Hunger Games 2" in the first week. The result of 1.93 million US dollars is not as good as that of "Avengers 1", but it is not without regrets. It is not that the box office of the film should be better. It's that he really can't find a way to surpass the Marvel Universe.

Take "Avengers 4" as an example. This is the pinnacle of Marvel movies. Its first-week box office in North America was 3.5 million U.S. dollars, and its global first-week box office even reached 12 billion U.S. dollars. How can Li Mu compete with these films?
As a time traveler, Li Mu definitely has the ambition to be number one in the world. However, the reality is that even if he is a time traveler, even if he has a complete future film library in his mind, he still has no way to make a movie like "Revenge". Movies like the League of Legends series.

Maybe it is okay to be the first in the total box office, but it is almost impossible to make a series of movies like the Marvel Cinematic Universe that can take the world.

This still made Li Mu tangled for a while, but now he has seen it, and just continue to make a good movie seriously, and let the rest take its course.

In the first three days of its premiere, "The Hunger Games 2" has a domestic box office of 5360 million US dollars, a North American box office of 1.93 million US dollars, and other overseas markets of 1.87 million US dollars, with a total global box office of 4.336 million US dollars in three days.

In the next three days of the weekend of the second week, "The Hunger Games 2" earned a cumulative box office of 8840 million US dollars in the North American market, and won the box office champion this weekend. In terms of statistics, this week's box office decreased by about 52.9% compared with the first week. This decline is normal for fans of movies, but it is definitely not as good as "Iron Man 3".

Although the box office of "Iron Man 3" is not as good as that of "The Hunger Games 2" in the first week, its final box office will definitely exceed that of "The Hunger Games 2".

Then, on the weekend of the third week, the North American box office of "The Hunger Games 2" was 3796 million US dollars, winning the North American championship for the third week in a row. At the same time, the box office this week decreased by about 52% compared with the previous month's data.

So far, the film has been released for a total of three weeks. Its North American box office has reached 3.85 million US dollars, the rest of the overseas market has accumulated 3.77 million US dollars, and the mainland market has 12.35 billion yuan, which is about 1.81 million US dollars. At this time, the global box office of the film has reached 9.43 million. One hundred million U.S. dollars.

At this time, "Send You A Little Red Flower" and "The Fault in Our Stars" have been released one after another. The former has a final box office of 16.1 billion yuan in the mainland, and the latter has a cumulative global box office of 3.59 million US dollars.

With these three films alone, and even before "The Hunger Games 2" was fully released, its cumulative box office has exceeded 15 billion US dollars. The global film market has once again seen the crazy money-absorbing ability of the films directed by Li Mu.

While "The Hunger Games 2" is showing worldwide, the preparatory work for Li Mu's next film "Interstellar" has also entered the final stage. Anne Hathaway, one of the leading actresses of the film, even flew to China from China.

It will take some time before the official start, but the preparations before the start are not unrelated to the actors, such as script study and other preparations before the start, even if they are Hollywood stars, they also need to participate in person.

After the photos of Anne Hathaway appearing at the Beijing airport were leaked, it caused a lot of discussion on the Huaxia Internet. The photo of her appearing at the entrance of Huashang Building even aroused a lot of speculation among Huaxia netizens.

Some netizens know that Li Mu's next film will be adapted from his well-known science fiction novel "Interstellar", so everyone speculates that Anne Hathaway is the heroine in "Interstellar".

This has also caused dissatisfaction among some Liu Yifei fans. Everyone knows that "Interstellar" will be a very important film directed by Li Mu. How can such an important film not have Liu Yifei as the heroine?

Huashang Company did not immediately respond to the speculation of netizens. Li Mu also took a lot of makeup photos with Anne Hathaway in the next few days. The purpose is of course to see if the two of them have a sense of CP when they stand together After all, in the film, the character played by Li Mu and Anne Hathaway are just a couple, and the character Liu Yifei wants to play is the daughter of Li Mu's character.

By the way, Anne Hathaway's remuneration for starring as the heroine Emilia Brand is 800 million U.S. dollars, while Li Mu's remuneration for Liu Yifei this time is 1200 million U.S. dollars.

That's right, Liu Yifei's salary now exceeds Anne Hathaway's. Of course, it's because Li Mu takes care of his girlfriend, but even without Li Mu's relationship, Liu Yifei's normal salary in Hollywood still exceeds Anne's. Hathaway.

Hollywood is the most realistic place in the world. In the words of Li Lianlian, when your data is good, the chairman of Hollywood’s Big Six can kneel down and beg you to make a movie. Immediately I don't know you again, it's just so realistic.

And now Liu Yifei's data is very good, not ordinary, especially the "Hunger Games" series almost relies on her to take care of the box office. As a result, the two "Hunger Games" all hit the box office.

In the face of such a solid record, it is normal for Liu Yifei's salary to rise.

Besides, in the investment of up to 1.5 million US dollars in "Interstellar", a considerable part will be shared by other companies that have long-term cooperation with Huashang.

The girlfriend is my own, but the cost of the film salary has to be shared by everyone, so what does it matter if the film salary is higher?
At the same time, the "Detective Chinatown" project directed by Chen Sicheng has finally officially started casting.

The male lead remains the same, and Wang Baoqiang will still play the role.

When Chen Sicheng called to invite Wang Baoqiang, Wang Baoqiang was still a little hesitant, but when Cheng Sicheng said that director Li Mu wrote the script himself, Wang Baoqiang agreed without saying a word, and Chen Sicheng scolded Baoqiang for being meaningless. Inviting him, he had to read the script first, but when he heard that the script was written by Li Mu, he immediately agreed.

In the end, the actor Wang Baoqiang was settled in this way, with a salary of 700 million.

Whether "Detective Chinatown" can be successful or not, the role of Qin Feng is also very important, because Li Mu has already had a preconceived idea of ​​Qin Feng played by Liu Haoran in his previous life, so Li Mu is not going to change this time, he is with Chen Sicheng When discussing candidates, Li Mu directly mentioned Liu Haoran, who had played a role in "Beijing Love Story", and then the feeling of living in President Li's shadow resurfaced in Chen Sicheng's heart.

Liu Haoran was originally an actor discovered by Chen Sicheng. He knew the weight of this actor better than anyone else, so when he finished reading the script of "Detective Chinatown" for the first time a while ago, the idea appeared in his mind. The right candidate for the first Qin Feng is this Liu Haoran. He thinks that Liu Haoran will definitely be able to do it, but he probably will spend a lot of time talking this time.

After all, Liu Haoran is not well-known for the time being. For such a big project of Huashang Media, Qin Feng's role is so important, but the protagonist uses a newcomer, Xiao Transparent?

Unexpectedly, when discussing candidates with Director Li Mu, Director Li's No. 1 choice turned out to be Liu Haoran, and Liu Haoran is not a star, but all of them came to mind?Just say what level of tacit understanding this is!
Li Mu and Chen Sicheng were satisfied, and Liu Haoran's role as Qin Feng was settled.

For Liu Haoran, being able to act in Huashang Media's movie, or the script written by director Li Mu himself, is definitely a piece of pie in the sky, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it has soared into the sky, so to show that he cherishes it very much This time, he even directly asked Chen Sicheng to act with zero pay.

Then Chen Sicheng decided to set a salary of 1 yuan for him.

This salary will take several months to perform. It seems to be a loss, but in the long run it will definitely make a lot of money.

As for the candidate for the heroine A Xiang, Chen Sicheng still wanted to use his girlfriend Cao Xiwen, so he did not hesitate to discuss it with Li Mu several times, but Li Mu vetoed it cleanly. Preconceived first, and secondly, Tong Liya is still an artist under her own banner in this life, how could Li Mu agree to change?

But Chen Sicheng is the director after all, and Li Mu, the boss, can't decide all the roles, so Li Mu said, the heroine A Xiang should still use Tong Liya, as for the other characters, I will leave it to you, Chen Sicheng, to make up his own mind .

As for the company's new movie "Detective Chinatown", Mr. Li wanted to use Tong Liya, and director Chen Sicheng wanted to use Cao Xiwen. In the end, the news spread inside the company, and Tong Liya quickly found Li Mu.

The purpose is of course to express gratitude to Li Mu for supporting her, and at the same time, a little bit of dissatisfaction with Chen Sicheng.

According to rumors, director Li Mu has already agreed to let Tong Liya play the heroine, but Chen Sicheng still wants to replace her with his own girlfriend again and again. How can this make Tong Liya have no other ideas?
Fortunately, she used to think that she and Chen Sicheng were friends in the circle. The two collaborated on the TV series and movie version of "Love Story in Beijing", but he still didn't want to use her at the critical moment.

"You have a bad relationship with Chen Sicheng?" Li Mu asked curiously.

Tong Liya said: "No, we are very good friends."

"Then he still?"

"No matter how good you are, can you be better than the person next to your pillow?"

"Too!"

……

In June, Huashang Media's new drama "Gongsuo Bead Curtain" officially premiered.

With the popularity of "Gong Suo Xin Yu", "Gong Suo Bead Curtain" exploded as soon as it was broadcast. Although there are many criticisms on the Internet, and the plot of the TV series has also been picked on by netizens, this drama is very good. The fire is no ordinary fire, it is even hotter than "The Thousand Bone of Flower", which just created a miracle some time ago.

The ratings on the day of the premiere directly soared to 1.5%, the average ratings rose to 2.1% within five days, and 2.4% in eight days-it is not an exaggeration to say that it is popular all over the country.

Song Yi, as the heroine of "Palace Lock and Bead Curtain", is naturally one of the biggest beneficiaries of the explosion in TV ratings.His previous role as Fan Ruoruo in "Celebrating More Than Years" has already made him stand out in the entertainment circle, and this time he played the role of Lian Er, the heroine in "Gong Suo Bead Curtain", which has successfully consolidated his previous popularity. At the same time, And it's clearly improved to the next level.

With the popularity of "Gongsuo Bead Curtain", various domestic satellite TVs with certain strengths, as well as major video websites such as Tencent and iQiyi, all focused their attention on Huashang's other major video sites for a while. On a TV series that has not yet been sold.

It is "The Legend of Zhen Huan" co-starred by Chen Jianbin, Sun Li, Jiang Xin and others.

In the past year, from "Obstetrician" starring Tong Liya, to "The Legend of Chu Qiao" starring Bai Bing, to "A Thousand Bone Flowers" by Zhao Liying, and "Palace Lock Bead Curtain" by Song Yi——Hua Shang Media One of the popular TV series is released, and one is popular, so is this "The Legend of Zhen Huan" still going to be popular?

Of course!
At least the domestic David TV and video sites think so.

So soon everyone scrambled for it, and each of them told Huashang Media in private that they could increase the copyright transfer by a certain percentage on the basis of the copyright prices of "Gongsuo Bead Curtain" and "Flower Thousand Bone". fee.

For example, the online copyright fee of "A Thousand Bone Flowers" reached 350 million per episode, so "The Legend of Zhen Huan" can be raised to 370 million per episode!

Although it seems that only 20 is raised for each episode, it seems very little, but you must know that the total number of episodes of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is as many as 76 episodes, and 20 is raised for each episode. After 76 episodes, it is 1520 million !
From everyone's point of view, this time they are already sincere enough.

After all, no matter how good "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is, it may not be better than "The Thousand Bones of Flowers", which has a double-boom in word-of-mouth and ratings, right?
Li Mu didn't mean that this drama had to sell as many episodes as possible, but he always felt that all parties were still underestimating the value of "The Legend of Zhen Huan", so he simply told Liu Siying and asked her to notify all parties who were interested in buying the copyright. Let me just say that "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is the number one drama of its kind in Li Mu's eyes, so if the price is not suitable, he would rather hold the drama for a year.

That's right, it is to press for a year first, until the market price rises to a reasonable price in my heart!

In a word: "Zhen Huan's Legend" is a boutique among high-quality goods, it is too cheap to sell!
The five major TV stations in the country, as well as video website platforms such as Tencent, iQiyi, and Youku, have all paid more attention to "The Legend of Zhen Huan" at once.

Generally speaking, when the show creators boast about their own dramas, everyone doesn't take it seriously, but the problem is that this time the old Wang sells melons is Li Mu, and Li Mu is the old Wang selling melons and boasting himself, so everyone has to think carefully. Is this melon really that good today?

(End of this chapter)