China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 337 Damimi said she was convinced
"The schedule for Tencent Video has been decided," Liu Siying said slowly in Li Mu's office.

The schedule she mentioned naturally refers to the specific launch date of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: The Ancient City".

没等李沐说话，刘思盈就继续说道：“正式定档的概念海报下周一就出，上线时间是5月25日，初步定的会员用户25日20：00更新1-6集，非会员用户24:00更新1-3集，以后每周一更新3集。”

Li Mu said: ""Jingjue Ancient City" has a total of 21 episodes, with 3 episodes updated every week, which will be completed on July 7th."

Liu Siying nodded and said: "The movie schedules in the first half of the year are generally not as good as the second half. What I mean is that it would be better to push "The Secret of the Dragon" to the summer release."

Li Mu said: "Early July?"

Liu Siying nodded.

Li Mu smiled and said: "The reason why you chose July is probably not just because the summer market is obviously bigger!"

Liu Siying also laughed: "Tencent Video bought the exclusive online broadcast rights of our "Jingjue Ancient City" for 750 million per episode. Naturally, they have high hopes for our online drama. Now that they have even paid 1.5 million A lot of money has been spent, so naturally I won’t miss out on subsequent publicity.”

Li Mu laughed and said: "It's also a series of "Ghost Blowing Out the Lamp", and the promotional funds that Tencent Video spent on "Jingjue Ancient City" were also spent on "The Secret of the Dragon"."

Liu Siying said: "Publicity funds are secondary. The most important thing is that we have absolute confidence in the quality of "Jingjue Ancient City". We also believe that "Jingjue Ancient City" will definitely set off a ghost blowing lantern craze after it is launched. The announcement of "The Secret of the Dragon" is getting twice the result with half the effort."

Li Mu nodded and said: "That's the truth. Okay, let's do it this way. This announcement of "Searching for the Dragon" can be regarded as borrowing an arrow from Tengxun Caochuan."

Liu Siying smiled and said, "Chairman, what do you use this idiom for?"

Li Mu laughed and said: "It does not seem right to borrow arrows from a straw boat and use them here. Is that a fox pretending to be a tiger's power?!"

Liu Siying also smiled: "Chairman, I have to criticize you."

"What's wrong?" Li Mu asked.

Liu Siying: "On the final poster of Tencent Video, the four characters 'Produced by Hua Shang' are particularly conspicuous. Chairman, how can you think of us as the fox pretending to be a tiger? In fact, we Huashang Media is the majestic tiger."

Li Mu laughed heartily and said: "Yes, yes, yes, we are tigers, and others are using our reputation for nothing!"

Huashang Media is a tiger, abbreviated as South China Tiger?

……

On April 2015, 4, "Fast and Furious 3" took the lead in opening in North America, breaking multiple box office records in its first weekend.

In the United States, the first weekend box office of "Fast and Furious 7" reached an astonishing US$1.43 million, surpassing the US$2 million of "Captain America 9500", becoming the first weekend box office champion of April opening films in North American history.

In 29 overseas markets outside of North America, the box office performance of "Fast and Furious 7" is equally astonishing. The total overseas box office in the first three days has reached 2.45 million US dollars, and it has won the box office championship in every country and region. .

2015年4月10日-4月12日，《速度与激情7》毫无悬念的再次拿下北美周末冠军，上映10天北美票房达2.5亿美元，海外票房更是突破5.5亿美元大关！
On April 4, "Fast and Furious 12" officially landed in the Chinese film market, and Yang Mi bought the tickets early that day, and then took her assistant and walked into the theater immediately.

"Sister, why do you suddenly want to watch this kind of movie?" the assistant asked curiously in the car.

Yang Mi curled her lips and said: "The big boss of our company is almost praised as a god by the outside world. He is the world's first tens of billions of dollars director, Asia's first Hauskar best film director, etc. But what happened? ? I heard that this movie was going to be released in April, so I didn’t dare to arrange for my own movie to be released at the same time. I just wanted to see what kind of movie this was that could make him so afraid."

Yang Mi's assistant seemed to admire Li Mu very much: "Sister, the big boss is very discerning. Since even he is so worried about this movie, it means that this movie must have something special."

Yang Mi snorted and said, "'Fast and Furious 6' only had a box office of 4 million. It's not a big deal. It's tens of millions less than my 'Tiny Times'!"

While chatting, the theater arrived. After the assistant parked the car, the two of them ran to the ticket hall. Then they were stunned by the sight in front of them.

I saw that there was already a long queue of people in the ticket hall, and there were voices talking about "Fast and Furious 7" everywhere.

Obviously this movie became a hit before it was released, and it’s not just an ordinary hit, it’s extremely popular!
Yang Mi and her assistant stood there and watched the lively scene in front of them for a full 2 ​​minutes. Finally, the assistant said in a very exaggerated tone: "Sister, what were you talking about in the car just now?"

"Ah?" Yang Mi replied absentmindedly.

The little assistant showed admiration and said: "I haven't seen such a lively situation for a long time. I guess the box office of this movie will be very high. Let me tell you that the big boss has great vision!"

Yang Mi was a little dissatisfied and said: "Maybe this one theater is very popular, but maybe other theaters are deserted!"

……

More than two hours later, the two came out of the screening hall. Yang Mi couldn't help but sigh: "It doesn't seem to be that good. I really don't know what those people are excited about."

The assistant said: "Fortunately, the big boss avoided the schedule, otherwise it might be really troublesome."

Yang Mi teased: "You seem to admire him very much?"

The assistant said: "Of course, sister, don't you admire him?"

Yang Mi said: "I don't, what is there to admire about him? I don't understand that there are many people on the Internet who want to marry him."

The assistant said: "I want it too, sister, don't you want it?"

"Me? I'm full." Yang Mi said.

……

How popular is "Fast and Furious 7" in China?

Use data to speak.

The box office of the zero-hour show was 6600 million yuan, and the box office on the first day was 4.13 million yuan. It was the second film to have a single-day box office of more than 4 million yuan after the film "Interstellar" directed by Li Mu. The first-day box office of "Interstellar" at that time (not counting the zero-point show) ) is 4.32 million.

Fortunately, Li Mu is here, otherwise the single-day box office champion in the mainland film market would have been this Hollywood movie.

The box office of "Fast and Furious 7" dropped significantly the next day, with a box office of 2.17 million yuan, and then on the third day it received a box office of 2.05 million yuan.

截止4月14日的凌晨，《速度与激情7》内地累计票房达到惊人9.01亿元，虽然不如《星际穿越》的3天13.46亿，但仍然十分骇人。

Faced with this simply appalling result, the entire Internet was suddenly filled with news that "Fast and Furious 7" had created a box office miracle. Even the film's director, James Wan, was compared to Li Mu by netizens.

Of course, James Wan is far from being compared with Li Mu, but some people put him and Li Mu together. This in itself is the performance of netizens who were shocked by the box office performance of "Fast and Furious 7".

After returning home after the premiere of "Fast and Furious 7", Yang Mi couldn't calm down for a long time. Before the film was released, she was still thinking that since her "Tiny Times" two years ago could beat "Fast and Furious 6" One end, then "Tiny Times 4: The End of the Soul" to be released this summer should also be able to beat "Fast and Furious 7".

But what's the result?Last time "Fast and Furious 6" China's total box office was just over 4 million, and this time its sequel "Fast and Furious 7" had a box office of 4.79 million on the first day plus zero points!
One day beats the entire release cycle last time!

……

A few days later, the first meeting of the crew of "Shoplifters" was held in the Huashang Conference Room. Director Shen Junsheng and two children starring Zhang Songwen, Li Mingqi, Song Qie, Cheng Feng and Wang Shengdi all arrived. Of course, the two children who played the role in the film Yang Mi, who plays the younger sister, is also there.

The meeting only briefly introduced the basic situation of the project, and also allowed the relevant creators to get familiar with each other. After the meeting, Yang Mi chased Li Mu's office alone.

"What do you want from me?" Li Mu asked.

Yang Mi stared straight at Li Mu: "Why do I feel more and more like you are a time traveler?!"

Li Mu's expression didn't change at all when he heard this. It is very reasonable for such a magical thing like time travel to happen in the book, but in reality, if you say that you are a time traveler, no one will believe you!

Believe it or not, even if Li Mu directly revealed that he is a time traveler on Weibo tomorrow, no one would believe it?

It is indeed a bit exaggerated to say that it is impossible for anyone to believe it. After all, in reality, scammers can defraud money even if they claim to be Qin Shihuang.

"Why do you say that?" Li Mu's face remained calm.

Yang Mi said: "The world's first billion-dollar director, this is too exaggerated. If someone had told me ten years ago that the world's first billion-dollar director would be Chinese, I would have thought that person was crazy - no. , let alone ten years, even five years ago I would have thought that person was crazy, but you just did it."

Li Mu neither admitted nor denied, but just smiled lightly: "If you were to travel back to ten years ago, what do you think you can develop into now?"

Yang Mi really thought about it seriously for a while, and then suddenly she became as full of energy as a deflated rubber ball: "Okay, I admit that even if I traveled through time, I estimate that I would probably be just a little bit stronger than I am now. That’s all—that’s not right…”

"What's wrong?" Li Mu asked.

This time Yang Mi smiled and didn't answer.

In fact, she just suddenly thought that if she really traveled to ten years ago, then she would definitely get to know Li Mu before he met Liu Yifei.

Maybe even if she travels through time, she still doesn't have the ability to change the world, but she can conquer men who have the ability to change the world.But these words are naturally not suitable to be said to the man opposite who is now a married man.

"Actually, I just came here to make a joke. In fact, I don't think you are a time traveler." Yang Mi said again.

"Oh?" Li Mu looked up at her in surprise this time. It turned out that she had nothing to say to talk about this nonsense.

Yang Mi said: "If you look at those online novels on Qidian.com, any time traveler will not push this one down and push that one down. The most perverted ones will even accept everything."

Li Mu couldn't help being surprised. Is this person still reading online articles at Qidian?She actually understands everything!
"You still understand this?"

"Of course I understand. I have sent out several letters from lawyers."

"A lawyer's letter?"

"Well, you get angry when you don't like it." Then she changed her tone and said, "Look at you, you have saved such a big family fortune, but in the end you are as timid as a mouse. You don't dare to move this one, and you don't dare to move that one." If you dare to touch it, you will see that you are not a time traveler."

Li Mu said unconvinced: "I didn't want to, not because I didn't dare!"

"it's the same!"

"How could it be the same!"

"Not to mention this, I'm just curious how you knew in advance that "Fast and Furious 7" would be a box office hit. At that time, the movie had not even been released overseas. If it had been released overseas, judging from the overseas box office performance and reputation It is not impossible to deduce its box office performance in China, but at that time the movie had not even been released abroad."

"It's very simple. Six or seven parts of this series have been filmed. The accumulated popularity of six or seven parts is certainly not trivial."

"Is it because of this? Just because the sixth film had a total box office of more than 4 million in the mainland, and the seventh film soared to a single-day box office of over 4 million?"

"It's actually very simple. On November 2013, 11, shortly after the release of "Fast and Furious 30", its star Paul Walker passed away unexpectedly. From that day on, "Fast and Furious 6" was given more It has a lot of emotional meaning, and many people can predict that it will be a box office hit. If you go to the forum and take a look, many movie fans have expected it. You don’t know because you have no interest in this movie, but even I don’t. To think that it could become as popular as it is now.”

"It's that simple?"

"Of course, what do you think?"

"Me? I almost thought you could tell fortunes."

"Fortune teller? Aren't you a time traveler?"

"Forget it, the idea of ​​a time traveler is too silly. It's more believable to be able to tell fortunes."

Then the two chatted about the prospects of "Shoplifters". Yang Mi was more concerned about whether this movie really had the hope of winning the Palme d'Or. Li Mu replied that she didn't know, but Yang Mi said: "You are not Can you tell fortunes?"

"When will I know how to tell fortunes?" Li Mu said helplessly at that time.

……

Then in mid-April, "Edge of Tomorrow", which had been in preparation for a long time, was finally officially launched.

The start-up location was chosen at Huashang Media’s own giant open-air studio in Shanghai. After a simple start-up ceremony that day, the main creative staff of the crew first came to the various equipment that the props team had prepared in advance.

It will take more than ten days for Matt Damon to join the cast.

It is worth mentioning that Li Mu created an original role for Matt Damon in the script. After all, this time it is aimed at the global film market, and it is a theme of global armies uniting to fight aliens. If all the relevant starring actors It features all Asian faces, which will definitely affect the film's acceptance in the Western world.

Hollywood movies are filled with Chinese supporting actors to make money at the Chinese box office, and Chinese movies are filled with Hollywood actors and actresses to make money at the Hollywood box office.

The prop team of "Edge of Tomorrow" has produced a total of two different mechas. The highly restored mecha that is fully equipped with weapons weighs 90 kilograms in total. In addition, there is also another type of stunt armor, which is cast with latex and plastic. , the purpose is to reduce the risk of injuries to actors during filming as much as possible.

Hu Jun, who plays the role of the Master Chief, looked left and right. Among the main actors, except Li Mu, he seemed to be the strongest, so he had to try on the highly simulated fully equipped mecha weighing 90 kilograms. , and immediately grinned after putting it on.

Unexpectedly, Liu Yifei was also eager to try it. Li Mu stopped her, but she said, "I can wear it if others can wear it!"

Li Mu was a little speechless. Others were still big men. Do you think it would be interesting for you, a woman, to compete physically with a big man?

After trying it on, Liu Yifei took off the armor and stood in front of Li Mu and cried. Literally, he cried from exhaustion. Li Mu quickly put him in his arms to comfort him. When the other creators saw this situation, they immediately all I went around to study other props.

(End of this chapter)