China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 319: Top five in the global rankings, one person holds three seats

Both Li Mu and Liu Yifei have great influence in Korea. When Li Mu first emerged, Koreans would say weird and sarcastic words from time to time, and would compare Li Mu with local Korean directors.

At that time, although local Korean directors could no longer compare with Li Mu as a whole, in some specific aspects, they could still compete with Li Mu even if they were biased. However, as time went by, , gradually there is no need to compare anymore.

Li Mu has developed so fast in the past few years. The status of Oscars in the eyes of Koreans is much higher than that of Chinese people. As a result, Li Mu desperately won Oscars in the past few years, and he still won the best director. , the most valuable award such as best film.

Speaking of the global influence of movies, Hollywood movies are conquering the world, and Li Mu's movies are also conquering the world. The total global box office of the movies directed by Li Mu is more than 92.37 billion US dollars. Can you believe it?

Even directors like Spielberg, who was a god in the film industry in the 90s, are ranked second. Koreans have been bigoted for thousands of years, and people worship whoever is strong. Li Mu has become a bit stronger in recent years. Outrageous.

Brother Cheng Long's influence in South Korea is unparalleled. Li Mu may still be inferior to Cheng Long in the eyes of middle-aged and elderly Koreans. After all, another way of saying that he rose too fast is because he lacks foundation.

But in the eyes of the younger generation in South Korea, Li Mu is actually a god-like existence. Coupled with Liu Yifei's super popularity in South Korea, these two leaders went to South Korea to promote the new movie. The young generation in South Korea are going crazy!

To be honest, Li Mu and his wife have never been so crazy about stars in China. The enthusiasm of Koreans made him feel that he was not a director behind the scenes but a popular star.

By the way, the Korean remake of "My Love from the Star" was officially released some time ago, and as expected, it became a huge hit. Li Mu also met with the relevant creative staff for this purpose. This meeting made him I have a new understanding of the low social status of Korean artists.

Even an artist of Jun Ji-hyun's level must still be as humble as possible in front of foreign guests like Chaebol and Li Mu.

The results of this trip to South Korea were very good, and the performance of "Interstellar" in South Korea was outstanding.

200 million people entered the theater on the first weekend, and another 200 million people entered the theater on the following weekend. The film was officially released on July 2014, 7. As of November 11, it had been released for a total of 11 days, attracting a total of 20 million people into the theater. The cumulative box office gross reached US$10 million.

What is the concept of 10 million moviegoers in 540 days?You must know that the total population of South Korea is only 5000 million, and 540 million people are already more than one-tenth of the total population of South Korea!

What would it be like if this ratio were converted to China?
Director Jiaozi's "Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes to the World" has a total of 1.4 million viewers, which is almost one-tenth of China's population, and the total box office of this film is 50 billion!
The total number of viewers of "Hello Li Huanying" directed by Jia Ling was 1.2 million, less than one-tenth of China's population, and the total box office of this film was 54 billion!
It only took "Interstellar" 10 days for more than one in [-] Koreans to enter the theater in South Korea. This shows how popular the film is in South Korea.

After their trip to South Korea, Li Mu and Liu Yifei returned to China. After joining other domestic creative staff, they continued to run road shows in small and medium-sized cities in China.

For "Interstellar", Li Mu and his wife also worked hard!
At present, the final box office of "Interstellar" in the mainland is likely to exceed its entire overseas box office. As the largest single market for the film, the mainland cannot be overemphasized.

In the last week that just ended, "Interstellar" grossed a total of 12.88 billion yuan at the box office from Monday to Friday. On Friday, the film's single-day box office was still as high as 1.73 million yuan. Then on Saturday, the film successfully reversed the decline and almost almost fell again. Breaking through the 3 million yuan mark, reaching 2.91 million yuan, it dropped slightly to 2.75 million yuan on Sunday. The cumulative revenue in the two days over the weekend was 5.66 million yuan, and the total box office in the mainland reached 31.98 billion yuan.

At this time, the real-time U.S. dollar exchange rate is around 6.05, which after conversion is 5.285 million U.S. dollars.

The cumulative box office in North America during the three-day second weekend of the second week was US$3120 million, slightly ahead of "War for the Planet of the Apes" by more than US$2. The cumulative box office in North America was US$70 million, and the cumulative box office overseas was US$1.03 million, nearly US$3.57 million ahead of "War for the Planet of the Apes". .

Although "War for the Planet of the Apes" is indistinguishable from "Interstellar" at the box office in North America, it is far behind "Interstellar" in the overseas market.

This does not include its box office in the mainland. If the box office in the mainland is also included, "Interstellar" is more than 2 million US dollars ahead of "War for the Planet of the Apes"!

Of course, such a comparison with "War for the Planet of the Apes" is obviously not fair. After all, it has not yet been released in the mainland. However, even if it is released in the mainland next time, it will not be as good as "Interstellar" with the support of Li Mu, Liu Yifei and others. 》box office performance in the mainland market.

The domestic market’s US$5.285 million, plus the overseas market’s US$3.57 million, totals US$8.855 million, and the film has only been released for two weeks.

In this regard.

Ordinary domestic netizens:
"Fuck! Dreaming back to 2009, when "Gravity" swept the country, Li Mu became more and more fierce after getting married!"

Maoyan Film Promotional Staff:

"Brothers, the global box office of "Interstellar" has exceeded 3 million US dollars!"

"Brothers, it's $5 million!"

"It's 8 million U.S. dollars, brothers, cheer!"

"I declare that when the box office exceeds the $10 billion mark...I...I will run naked around the Fifth Ring Road!"

"Keep your word?"

"Of course not!"

"I'll go, Lao Zhang, you can't be too shameless!"

China Film:

"Ha ha ha ha……"

"Working with Li Mu is a test of the heart. Two weeks, 8.855 million US dollars, how come it is so popular? It is such a high-risk investment, and one movie can send away one of the eight major Hollywood companies. How come Li Mu can make a profit without losing money?" What’s up?”

Light Limited Media:

"Isn't there any news about the sequels of "The Hunger Games" and "The Thieves" yet?"

"When cooperating with Hua Shang, we can boldly give up the profits. Others are short of money for making movies, and that guy Li Mu has too much money to spend. If he is willing to accept our investment, he will openly give up the profits. We must know what we can make up for. Just make up for it as much as possible from other aspects!"

Bernard:

"With US$10 billion, we will definitely not be able to stop it. This guy Li Mu really has no creative bottleneck!"

Huayi Brothers:

"How can you make so much money just by making movies without playing stocks, going public, or operating capital? How big is the total movie plate? This kid Li Mu is full of evil!"

Xiying Studio:
"This is the director of our Western Film Festival!"

Li Mu Bar:
"Congratulations to Director Li. The previous cumulative box office of "Interstellar" was 92.37 billion U.S. dollars. The current global box office of "Interstellar" is 8.855 million U.S. dollars, which adds up to 101.225 billion U.S. dollars. Congratulations again to Director Li for officially becoming the first director in the world to have a film with a total box office of over 100 million U.S. dollars. Billion dollar mark director!”

"Huh? The total box office exceeded 100 billion US dollars?"

It's absolutely true. The total box office of the films directed by Li Mu has officially exceeded the 100 billion US dollar mark. In the previous life, only Spielberg had this honor. In this life, Spielberg is still early. Instead, Li Mu relies on cheats. He reached it first, but this time Li Mu learned the news from a CCTV reporter.The release cycle of a film is at least two months. Li Mu usually pays more attention to the specific box office trend in the early stage. In the later stage, when the daily sales are only 100 million or even hundreds of thousands, Li Mu usually does not pay much attention to it. As for keeping an eye on your total box office every day?

To be honest, he is not that free yet.

As for how you feel after breaking 100 billion?
It seems that there is no special feeling. To be more specific, it is not as exciting as when the global box office of the first screenwriter's work "Taken" exceeded 1 million US dollars. So when a CCTV reporter asked Li Mu how he felt, Li Mu just said it lightly. He groaned and said: "It feels pretty good!"

The reporter asked about the next plan, and Li Mu said that he was planning to shoot "The Hunger Games 3" in the second half of the year.

Whether it is "The Twilight Saga 3" or "The Hunger Games 3", they have been filmed into two parts. The purpose is naturally to maximize profits.If "The Hunger Games 3" were filmed alone, the box office would only be around $9 billion, and would not exceed $[-] million at most. But if it were filmed in two parts, the total would be a global box office of $[-] billion.

Although the film is bloated, this experience is not worth mentioning in the face of hundreds of millions of dollars.

In fact, Li Mu has no passion for the "Hunger Games" series, especially when it comes to filming the last one. But no matter how passionate he is, he still has to film it. With a box office of more than one billion US dollars, including peripherals, how many people pointed out that Spend a good year watching this film, and besides, it can continue to enhance your wife's national influence, so why not?
I heard that Li Mu was finally going to start the "Hunger Games 3" project, and the domestic companies that had a close relationship with Hua Shang were very happy.

The "Hunger Games" series has a mediocre reputation, but in terms of its ability to attract money, let's put it this way, not even "Inception" can compare.

"The Hunger Games 2" has held the highest weekend box office record in North America for several years. It was a super hit with a weekend box office of US$1.93 million in the single market of North America.

To be able to participate in this level of film investment is to pick up money directly from the ground!
The matter of "The Hunger Games" is not urgent yet. Currently, Li Mu's focus is still on the promotion of "Interstellar".

After the second week, the film took in a box office of 4.53 million yuan in the third week, and then 2.27 million yuan in the fourth week. At this time, "Detective Chinatown" was officially released, and its final box office was 26.33 billion yuan, which was higher than that of "Transfiguration". "King Kong 4" was about 3 million lower. The box office of "Transformers 4" in the mainland ended at 29.5 billion. Unfortunately, it failed to break the 30 billion mark.

Chen Sicheng became famous in the film industry with this film.

Although Lao Chen still lives in the shadow of Li Mu, a director with a box office of 26 billion to his name, even if he lives in the shadow, it is still an eye-catching dark reflection!

Anyone who has studied art knows that the intersection between light and dark is the darkest part of an object, and there is reflection in the dark part. This reflection is also very eye-catching.

Tong Liya's popularity continues to soar.

The role of Ah Xiang has already attracted a lot of attention, not to mention that she has two films to be released in the second half of this year: "The Secret of the Dragon" and "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom."

The roles played by the two main protagonists Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran have left a very deep impression on people across the country. It is foreseeable that as long as the quality of the sequel is not too bad, the box office performance will shock the attention of many followers.

Next, in its fourth week of release, "Interstellar" grossed 2.1 million yuan at the mainland box office.

In the fifth week, 1.1 million yuan.

The sixth week, 0.5 million yuan.

After six weeks, the cumulative box office in the mainland was 40.21 billion yuan. The first film in the mainland market to break the 40 billion yuan mark was officially born.

Overseas, after six weeks, "Interstellar" has a cumulative box office of US$1.93 million in North America and US$6.53 million overseas. In addition, the cumulative global box office in the Mainland is US$13.17 billion, ranking fifth in the global list.

The box office of "Avengers" in this time and space is a little worse than that in the original time and space. Maybe it's the reason why Li Mu's comic strip "Pacific Rim" surpassed a lot of jokes in advance?
At this time, there are already three films produced by Li Mu in the top five of the global list, the others being "Frozen" ranked third, and "Gravity" ranked fourth.

Although "Interstellar" has not yet been released in theaters at this time, it has also entered the late stage of its release. At present, the film's daily new box office has been minimal, and it is visually impossible to exceed the US$14 billion mark.

But even if the film ends up with $14 billion, it's still a huge achievement, but fan industry netizens will always have a bigger appetite.

For example, now, Li Mu's total box office has exceeded 100 billion U.S. dollars, has ranked first in the world, and has three of the top five in the global box office list, but some netizens are still not satisfied.

"Brothers, it's not an exaggeration at all. After seeing the statistics of "Interstellar" today, I knelt down in front of the computer console. This is so awesome!"

"You are indeed awesome. Li Mu is really a god-like director. I really wonder if this guy has a whole library of films from parallel worlds in his head. Otherwise, how could he be so awesome?"

"It's awesome. Three of the top five at the global box office are very encouraging, but - the cumulative box office ranks first in the world, but it turns out that the first and second place in the overall list are Cameron's movies, which still feels a bit uninteresting."

""Avatar" is 27.8 billion, and I feel like there is little hope!"

"I think Li Mu will be able to make a film that surpasses "Avatar" sooner or later. After all, he is still young, and youth is his greatest asset."

……

Ziyu Villa.

Liu Yifei said: "Now netizens are looking forward to you making a film that surpasses "Avatar" soon."

Li Mu thought for a while. It seemed that there was no film in his film library that could surpass "Avatar". If there were, he would have copied it long ago. How could he wait until now?

"Have you seen "Eternal Dragon Sword"?" Li Mu asked Liu Yifei.

"Look at it, what's wrong?"

"In "The Legend of Heaven and Sword of the Dragon", Zhang Wuji mastered most of the mental techniques in "The Great Shift of the Universe" in one day. Only the 19 sentences in the seventh level could not be understood no matter what. At this time, Zhang Wuji practiced the mental techniques Respectfully putting it back in its place, Xiao Zhao asked her if there were only 19 sentences left, so she might as well try her best, but Zhang Wuji said: "Today I practiced the seventh-level mental method of the Great Shift of the Universe. Although 19 sentences were skipped, there are some flaws." , but as you said in your song: “The sun waxes and wanes, the moon waxes and wanes.Heaven and earth are not yet complete. 'Why should I be insufficient and greedy for too much? "'"

When Liu Yifei heard the words, there was a question mark on his forehead. Li Mu lightly tapped his forehead and said with a smile: "It means that you have to be selfless and stop doing it in moderation. The founder of the mind-shifting method in the book, although his internal strength is strong, he also He has not reached the level equivalent to the Nine Yang Divine Skill, and can only practice it up to the sixth level. The seventh level mental method he wrote can no longer be practiced by himself. He only relies on his intelligence and wisdom to indulge his imagination and strive for changes. That’s it. The 19 sentences Zhang Wuji didn’t practice are specious and have gone astray. If you practice them seriously, you will only go astray, so I say..."

At this point, Li Mu also made a long note.

Liu Yifei tilted his head and thought for a while, then said, "I understand."

"What do you understand?"

"You can't think of a way to surpass "Avatar" for the time being, so you give up."

Li Mu was choked for a moment. Although he just talked a lot, wasn't it really just the same thing?
But if you want to surpass "Avatar" in the future, there is no way.

(End of this chapter)