He Mu's mind is now full of whispers about the town he set foot in, the beautiful buildings, landscapes, kind old people, naughty children, and those monsters who like to scare humans are actually deeply hurt by humans, the whole town constitutes this twists and turns and bizarre story, and also expounds the ancient Chinese philosophy to a certain extent.

Although the first part of the movie version of "Zi Bu Yu" has determined the stories of "Cocoon", "Shadow", "Carpenter", etc., they are all relatively loose and lack the story backbone that can support the whole film, although it is also interesting to watch a beautiful little girl see a mysterious world that has never been seen before, but it is not enough to simply "I see and I understand", that is too scattered culture, not that such a movie is not good, but a movie with a flawed plot is not good after all, why don't you ask everyone to like it, But we still want to attract as many audiences as possible to audiences of all ages.

In the next few days, the three-person team of He Mu, Li Wenhua, and Bei Sihan will focus on overcoming the script of the first part, and Li Wenhua, who has successfully passed the re-examination of the graduate students of the Beijing Film Directing Department, just took this opportunity to carefully study the movie.

At the same time, the pre-publicity of this movie has begun, this time He Mu played a curve to save the country, he did not put the intensity of publicity on the movie itself, but focused on promoting the comic "Zi Buyu", and raised the fame of the comic and cartoonist Xia Da, so that those who are not interested in girl comics can also understand, after all, the sales of the single book of "Zi Buyu" and the high popularity of the work in Japan are very proud, and the author himself is also a beauty with an ageless face. These tasks will be done by Tiandi Media, including the list of comic book writers who are expected to be released this year. There must be a place for Xia Da, and the ranking will not be too low, so "Zi Buyu" must have a high reputation as soon as possible.

The end of "Cold Heart" left He Mu with nothing to do for the time being. He Mu gained a lot from making this movie, not only that he may gain a foothold in Hollywood with this film one day in the future, but most importantly, he came into contact with and learned about Hollywood's advanced shooting methods and film industry system, which is not suitable for complete transplantation to the domestic film industry, but it did give him a lot of inspiration, and we can learn from many places, and the purpose of learning is to make us better. It is not shameful to learn to learn and not be bullied. He Mu hopes that Chinese films can get rid of the situation of being bullied by Hollywood blockbusters.

However, He Mu will not forget that now he is also a part of Hollywood movies, and he also owns a lot of shares in the Hollywood film company Rubik's Cube Pictures.

As the leader of Rubik's Cube Pictures, Jeff. Stark's enthusiastic investment in "Cold Heart" was filmed. Then comes the intense post-production process. There is still a long process of waiting for the release, and he has not been idle during this time, "Hey, Mu Zhilu said, we still have two million left in the production fee!" Jeff proudly showed off his "provincial" wealth to He Mu.

"And then?" He Mu asked.

"I want to invest in James. Wen's other small-budget horror movie costs just over a million. Jeff said in a consultative tone.

He Mu also knows that this project was originally called "Strange Spirit", and it has been renamed several times. The most lucrative title was "Latent" (Note 1), if there was no "Cold Heart". Wen Ziren may make this horror film first, and the same is still made by his old partner Lei . Werner wrote the screenplay, and he didn't need a big-name actor, just gave him a few people who could act, just like he did when he made "Saw" for $1.2 million.

Jeff added, "You also know that there is still more than half a year before the release of "Cold Heart", and James still has a lot of time to do something else after the post-production, and the last "Cold Heart" is not released by ourselves, so there is no need to reserve publicity and distribution costs. ”

He Mu understands that what Jeff means is that he hopes that "Cold Heart" can be promoted and distributed by a stronger company, even if they make less money, they will raise the box office, but Rubik's Cube Pictures is definitely not willing to be only a film producer, they also want to enjoy the profits brought by distribution, and the low-budget horror film "Latent" is the practice of the Rubik's Cube.

"Jeff, you don't have to discuss with me, this company is still up to you, I still don't understand a lot about Hollywood, say more and make mistakes, you make bold decisions, I just watch and listen." He Mu behaved very modestly, Hollywood is not his own territory after all, or the domestic territory is more suitable for him.

After staying in Hollywood for a few more days, He Mu went back before the Oscars, Jeff had the heart to take him to the Kodak Theater to see the scene, like Joseph and Scarlett are invited guests, He Mu can only be an ordinary audience if he wants to go, after all, he has no more influential works in the United States, and he can't be introduced as a Chinese giant who is very good at breaking his wrists.

He Mu returned to China before the Oscars, and when he came back, he heard that "Avatar" lost to Cameron's ex-wife on this battlefield for "Bomb Disposal Unit", including Best Director, Best Picture and other awards fell into the hands of "Bomb Disposal Unit".

After returning to China, He Mu did not immediately start to reshoot "First Love Diary", all the stories and pictures are in his mind, this is not in a hurry, it is not too late to shoot when the weather is warmer, according to Xiao Fang, "12 Degrees of Youth" is now only two filmed, He Mu promised not to finish filming after the most reluctance, according to the playback order of this youth-themed series of micro-films, "First Love Diary" is released as the finale, as long as the post-production is completed before August, it is not too late, of course, He Mu will not really drag on until that late, after all, he will still direct " in the summer Zi is silent", thinking about this fantasy story, he couldn't sleep with excitement.

At the beginning of returning to China, in addition to accompanying his wife, He Mu also focused on the relevant market performance of the first film "My Beautiful Boss" released by Shuimu Forest this year.

"My Beauty Boss" was released on Friday the 12th, at this time "Avatar" has been released for the tenth week, and it has won nine weekly championships before, and there is no strong new film in the tenth week, I am afraid that the ten crowns will be caught, the mainland box office of the film has accumulated nearly 1.3 billion, a domineering mess, and the other two old films "Sherlock Holmes" and "Big Soldier" have also performed well, of which "Big Soldier" has a box office of more than 140 million, which is a good result for Chenglong Movies in the mainland second only to "The King of Kung Fu".

This week, a total of five new films were released, including "Beauty Boss", and the biggest blockbuster was the Hollywood blockbuster "Posey. Jackson: The Thief of the Divine Fire", which is also the most careful opponent of "Beauty Boss", was distributed by China Film, but this high-cost special effects blockbuster did not become a big hit, only a pitiful 5.6 million in the first week, which is higher than Kim Sung-moo's new Japanese film "Twenty-Four Faces of Strange People", lower than the French film "Don't Look Back", and of course it is even worse than "Beauty Boss".

With the cast and investment scale of "Beauty Boss", it is already quite considerable to get 10.5 million in the first week, and the production cost can almost be recovered, which is the best among all new films, and it also ranks fourth on the weekly list, second to "Avatar", "Sherlock Holmes" and "Big Soldier" who won ten consecutive championships.

The overall weakness of the new film can't shake the status of a strong blockbuster, the first three days of "Beauty Boss" over 10 million results are enough to make the stars bright and happy, they are ready to lose money for the sweet well, but look at it like this, you can make a small profit, Shuimu Forest's publicity and distribution ability is really visible, of course, this is also inseparable from the strong support of Wanda Cinemas, in order to make way for this movie, Wanda has reduced a lot of prime times of "Big Soldier" and "Sherlock Holmes" to supply "Beauty Boss", of course, "Avatar" No one moved, and they were reluctant to move, the film was too profitable, and the number of shows was equivalent to one-quarter or one-fifth of "Sherlock Holmes" and "Little Soldier", but the box office was far better than the latter.

Compared with the okay box office, the reputation of "My Beautiful Boss" is not too good, in fact, the quality of the film is indeed very average, and it is optimistically estimated that the final box office can exceed 20 million, but it will never reach 30 million, and this film will create a new low in the distribution record of Shuimu Forest.

Even if it is a new low for Shuimu Forest, it is not a problem to earn a few million, Boss He has been waiting to count the money, although the company's distributors feel that they have not met their expectations and have a negative trust, but He Mu comforted them that it doesn't matter, "This film can have this performance, you have already turned decay into magic." ”

He Mu wants to open it very much, but someone can't think of it for him, the famous film critic taoxinxu Shi Fan lashed out at the garbage of "My Beauty Boss" on the Net'Yi Entertainment Film Review Edition, and criticized it, He Mu also wanted to lose a few words after watching this film, the key is that this product not only criticized the movie, but also boldly predicted that Shuimu Forest was going downhill, "I got carried away and said that this kind of company was Shuimu Forest, although there were no high-quality products last year, but at least you can watch it except for "Very Perfect", but look at this year, The first film released is so rubbish, I can't watch it at all, the publicity is so lively, the box office is only 10 million, what to say to create a box office myth that surpasses last year, I think it's a joke at all, this film plus April's "Du Lala's Promotion", I am optimistic that the box office of the two films will not exceed 100 million. ”

taoxinxu Shifan is a relatively famous but unskilled film critic, who became famous because of his "Raptors" directed by Li Rengang, and called himself the leader of the Raptors gang. Of course, Master Shi Fan is still a very principled film critic, and his principle is that all the directors he likes have good works, such as Li Rengang and Wang Jing; If he doesn't like it, judge the quality of the film by looking at how much money the other party gives. (To be continued......)

PS: [ps: Note 1: "Latent" is also translated as "Yin Child's Room", the second update, tomorrow's update will be in the evening~]