China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 310 Official announcement, sensation, space passengers sold for US$6.51 billion

Liu Yifei timidly walked up to her mother Liu Xiaoli: "Mom, you can also come to the wedding banquet tonight."

Liu Xiaoli glanced at Li Mu with a smile, then turned back and said, "Mom won't go, she has other things to be busy with."

Liu Yifei blushed slightly and hugged Liu Xiaoli's arm and asked curiously: "Anything else?"

Liu Xiaoli continued to smile and said: "Mom wants to discuss the wedding of you two with Li Mu's mother, silly boy."

Liu Yifei blushed even more: "Don't be in such a hurry!"

But then she thought that she was almost going to propose in reverse today, so her face suddenly felt as if it had been roasted by fire, and it was a little hot.

In the car rushing to the hotel for the wedding banquet, Liu Yifei leaned on Li Mu's arm and said, "Today is just like a dream."

Li Mu was also filled with emotion: "Yes, now I'm really afraid that when I wake up, I will realize that everything was a dream. I, Li Mu, am so virtuous and capable in my life that I am lucky enough to marry you."

Li Mu's words were completely sincere. Although he was a relatively successful director in his previous life, what could happen with Liu Yifei?
To be honest, he doesn't deserve it!
Hearing this, Liu Yifei hugged Li Mu's arm a little tighter. She was somewhat unconfident when facing Li Mu because there were so many people in the circle who liked him, and none of them were necessarily as good as him. She was poor. Now that she heard Li Mu say this, and it seemed extremely sincere, she vaguely felt that Li Mu might have the same idea as her.

Because I like him too much, I am very afraid of losing him, so I often feel inexplicably unconfident. Now it seems that maybe he will do the same when facing me because he likes her too much?

It feels so good for two people to cherish each other!
The driver in front looked at his nose, his nose and his mouth, and his mouth and his heart. It was as if he had not heard the conversation between the two people in the back. At this time, Liu Yifei warned again: "There will definitely be a lot of people coming to toast at the closing banquet in the evening. When the time comes, Don’t be brave.”

Li Mu patted her on the shoulder and said: "Don't worry, I promise not to drink a sip of wine tonight, if anyone dares to toast me, I will tell them that the two of us are preparing to conceive now, and we can't take a sip drink."

Liu Yifei was stunned for a moment, and then his face turned red again not long after returning to normal:

"You...you...who said we are preparing for pregnancy!"

"Who is there to say? Believe it or not, someone will soon advise us to have a baby while we are young? Because the sooner you give birth, the faster your body will recover!"

"what?"

Liu Yifei had not thought about this issue at all before, but she always felt that it was still far away from her before. She didn't expect that it would be put on the agenda so soon, but she was not mentally prepared yet.

"But……"

"Crack!"

The shutter sounded, and it turned out that Li Mugang had taken a photo of Liu Yifei's hand with the engagement ring.

"What are you doing?"

"Post it on Weibo. There are so many people here today. I can't hide it, so why not admit it openly? By the way, please like me on Weibo later."

"Send it later, I want to send pictures too."

Li Mu straightened his chest and said, "Let's shoot, shoot from any angle you want to shoot, anyway, any angle is so handsome!"

Liu Yifei couldn't help but laugh: "I didn't say I wanted to photograph you."

"If you don't want to photograph me? Then who will you photograph?"

"You will naturally know when I forward your Weibo."

"Hey, you're still playing suspense with me!"

Liu Yifei didn't say anything anymore. She had already thought about it. When she arrived at the hotel, she took a photo of the ring she had prepared in advance for a reverse proposal. She didn't know if it would be okay to tell her about it. Okay, but she just got the urge.

"Have you been preparing those eleven songs for a long time?" Liu Yifei raised his head and looked at Li Mu.

Li Mu said: "I'm a straight man, but I don't understand romance. Fortunately, I'm somewhat talented, so I thought of using a TV series and an album to propose."

Liu Yifei whispered: "You still said you didn't understand romance, and you almost killed me."

Regardless of whether Li Mu heard these words clearly, she immediately said: "Let's go record songs in a few days."

Li Mu said: "Okay, there are six of the eleven songs that I will sing solo, namely "Just Encountering You", "The Beauty of the World Is Intertwined with You", and "Spending the Longest Years with You" , "You look so pretty when you smile", "Confession Balloon", "Let's Get Married", there are three songs sung by you solo, namely "So Many People in the World", "Little Lucky" and "The Most Beautiful Expectation", in addition There are also two songs that the two of us sang together, namely "A Little Sweet" and "The Rest of My Life"."

……

At about the same time, rumors in Liu Yifei Bar, Li Mu Bar, Weibo and other communities were already intensifying.

"Now it is rumored that Li Mu proposed to Liu Yifei, is it true?"

"I think it's [-]% true. In fact, I've had this premonition for a long time. Don't you think it's strange that Li Mu and Liu Yifei are also filming TV series? Let's look at the title of the TV series - —"Let's Get Married"! Things are already clear!"

"I think it is 100% true. The key is that the details are very realistic. It is said that Li Mu sang eleven love songs live, and even the lyrics of the love songs are said to have noses and eyes, and judging from the leaked lyrics , is indeed of a high standard, in short, judging from various signs, there is a high probability that Li Mu really proposed this time!"

"No more words, just wish me the best!" "Eleven songs? Well, I'm looking forward to the album!"

At about eight o'clock in the evening, Li Mu posted a Weibo. There was a picture on Weibo of a delicate jade hand with a diamond ring on the ring finger, and the text: "A very important day in life."

Does anyone know how many people have been squatting on the Weibo of the two at this moment?In short, as soon as this Weibo was published, the traffic on Weibo instantly soared. How terrifying is the popularity of related topics at this moment?Let’s not mention the few hot searches, let’s just talk about David TV. It is no exaggeration to say that the ratings of several channels have plummeted by several points. Many TV viewers ran to Weibo to eat melons when they heard the news. went.

Then Liu Yifei's Weibo finally started to move. While retweeting Li Mu's Weibo, she also uploaded a picture, which was also a diamond ring, but obviously not the one in Li Mu's official announcement photo, with the same caption: " I originally worked up the courage to propose to a certain big pig today, but I didn't expect that someone beat me to it."

"What do you mean?"

Seeing Liu Yifei's Weibo, almost all netizens didn't react at all. They had to wait and read it several times and use the reading comprehension posture that they used to do before they finally understood it, but I understand it, but is it really reasonable?
Judging from what Liu Yifei revealed on Weibo - was she originally planning to propose to Li Mu in reverse? !
No way? !

Liu Yifei proposed to Li Mu in reverse?
Now it's not just the ratings of major TV stations that have plummeted by a few points. Now Weibo has been directly shut down.

Even Li Mu himself was taken aback. The reason why he proposed on the set temporarily was to prevent Liu Yifei from responding to his proposal. For this reason, he sang eleven songs in a row, but he was too busy. , Liu Yifei finally announced the matter. What do you think this is?
At the hotel, Li Mu went to Liu Yifei aggressively, but Liu Yifei begged Li Mu for mercy with a pitiful expression.

In the next few days, the two of them dealt with various problems from their parents while going to the studio to record songs. Li Mu also took the opportunity to pay attention to the box office and revenue of "Passengers", in addition to the promotion and distribution of "Chinatown Detective" He was also worried about the schedule of "Interstellar".

At this time, "Passengers" has been released in most regions around the world. As of the latest date, the film has earned a total of 21.7 billion yuan in box office in the domestic market. The current exchange rate is around 6.05, which translates to a box office of 3.586 million yuan in U.S. dollars. Including 2.93 million yuan in overseas markets, the film has earned a total of 6.51 million U.S. dollars at the global box office, temporarily ranking fourth in the global box office list in 2014, only ranking behind "Transformers 4" and "The Hobbit". After "Man 3" and "Captain America 2".

Depending on the situation, "X-Men: Days of Future Past" will soon surpass "Passengers", but at least for now "Passengers" is still sitting in the fourth position at the global box office this year.

Although the North American box office of "Passengers" was not very good, its excellent mainland box office performance just made up for these shortcomings. In short, the director of this film, Guo Fan, is completely famous in the Chinese film industry.

After so many years, Huaxia has finally produced another director who can shine so brilliantly in the global film market. He temporarily ranks fourth in the global box office for the whole year, and his total box office has reached the top 100 in global film history, temporarily ranking No. 68 in global film history. 2, and even ranked in front of the famous "Star Wars Episode [-]: Attack of the Clones", what does this mean?

It shows that the rise of Chinese sci-fi movies is no longer just a slogan, nor is it just a false prosperity supported by Li Mu alone, but a real trend of development and growth.

Although director Guo Fan is still a director under Huashang Media, and although the rise of Chinese science fiction movies is still inseparable from the stereotypes of Huashang Media and director Li Mu, the success of "Passengers" is still of great significance to the Chinese people. symbolic meaning.

In addition to being concerned about the box office performance of "Passengers", Li Mu is most concerned about the schedule of "Interstellar". However, the situation does not look very optimistic. Li Mu has just received the news. The global release date of "Interstellar" has finally been set at July 7.

Of course, Li Mu can decide the release date of "Interstellar" in mainland China, but the trouble this time is that the film has to be released simultaneously around the world, and Li Mu does not have such a big say in determining the schedule of the overseas film market. , and now it happens to be the North American release date of the film finally determined by the overseas distributor, which is July 7.

If Li Mu wants to release it simultaneously globally, there is a high probability that it will have to accommodate the North American schedule.

Speaking of which, there is nothing wrong with the July 7th schedule. It can even be said to be a very good summer schedule. But the key to the problem now is that there is another blockbuster that will be released on this day at the same time, which is produced by 11th Century Fox. Released film "Dawn for the Planet of the Apes".

Remember that the final global box office of "Dawn for the Planet of the Apes" in the original time and space was US$2 million, while the final global box office of "Interstellar" was US$7.10 million. The latter was more than US$7.01 million less than the former.

It is not necessary to compete with "Interstellar" and "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes", and Li Mu is not sure of winning at all, but sometimes the distributor arranges the films like this, and it is impossible for people to be completely satisfied. .

Take the original space and time, for example. The release of "Interstellar" of the original space and time coincided with Walt Disney's "Big Hero Marines". The production cost of both films was US$1.6 million, which was a blockbuster level, but in the end the two films It was still scheduled to be released on the same day, but in the end, "Interstellar" lost to Walt Disney's "Big Hero [-]" at the box office in its first week.

In addition, "Oppenheimer", which is also directed by Nolan, also encountered similar treatment. On July 2023, 7, the two popular films "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" were released at the same time. It is rumored that director Nolan He was very dissatisfied with this and even said privately: He couldn't understand why the producer Warner would arrange for two such highly anticipated movies to be released on the same day.

Director Nolan's worries are not unreasonable. It turns out that "Barbie" has almost completely overshadowed "Oppenheimer" directed by Nolan.

In short, as the producer of the film, Li Mu understands director Nolan's mood very well, because he is currently experiencing almost the same situation.

……

Let's talk about the preparations for the wedding of the two.

After taking into account the personal wishes of both parents, Li Mu and Liu Yifei, as well as the opinions of some masters, the date for the two to officially receive the certificate was finally set on June 6, and the wedding date was set on July 17. day.

In fact, the wedding date originally set was July 7th, but unexpectedly Liu Yifei took the initiative to ask Li Mu that she wanted to move the wedding forward. Li Mu naturally would not go against her wishes on such a matter. He was just very I’m curious why Liu Yifei had to advance the wedding by half a month?
Are you really that impatient to become Mrs. Li?
At night, Li Mu was still joking with her about this matter in bed. Unexpectedly, Liu Yifei said to Li Mu:
"Aren't you worried that our "Interstellar" will not be able to sell Twentieth Century Fox's "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes"?"

"Yes, but what does this have to do with our wedding date?"

"Of course it does matter. When you see so many movies being released, the leading actors and actresses are always gossiping and making headlines. Isn't that just to sell more box office?"

"Do you want to use our wedding to increase the popularity of "Interstellar"? It is useful, but it is not necessary. We are not short of money, and the quality of "Interstellar" itself is good."

"It's necessary, it's necessary. I can't help you with anything else. I just hope that the popularity of our wedding can increase the box office of the movie by tens of millions."

Li Muchi smiled: "In this way, the dates of the wedding and the premiere will be very close, and it will increase the box office by tens of millions."

Li Mu shook his head. He felt that Liu Yifei was still conservative, but since she wanted to help, let her go.

……

On June 2014, 6, Li Mu and Liu Yifei officially obtained their marriage certificate at a civil affairs bureau in Xijing. At the same time, their album "Let's Get Married" was officially announced to fans. The album contains a total of eleven songs and is available in physical form. The album is priced at 17 yuan. At the same time, "Let's Get Married" will also cooperate with major music platforms to release an online digital album. The digital album is priced at 52 yuan.

The eleven songs of Li Mu's proposal that have been uploaded on the Chinese Internet and that netizens are eager to hear are finally officially met with the vast number of netizens across the country on the day when Li Mu and Liu Yifei received the certificate.

(End of this chapter)