On November 7, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" was released simultaneously around the world.

On November 14, America's first-week box office was released, reporting $55 million.

The rest of the world reported a total of $22 million in the first week.

As soon as this number came out, Old Man Zou and Miramax knew that they were going to make a fortune.

A month later, on December 8, the movie was drawn.

"Mr. and Mrs. Smith" grossed worldwide: $510 million.

When Mr. Zou saw this data, he almost had a heart attack.

Miramax's Harvey thumped his chest, regretting how he had invested $15 million in the first place.

When the data was released, the entire world of cinema exploded.

With an investment of $100 million and a total box office of $520 million, the return is 5,000%, which seems to be not as high as 6,000% of "Saw", but what you get is not comparable to "Saw".

In terms of box office revenue alone, Zuo Mu calculated that he could get about 200 million US dollars in the end.

That's about 1.8 billion Hong Kong dollars.

Well, not bad.

You know, even those billionaires who are tens of billions or hundreds of billionaires may not be able to come up with 2 billion in cash.

Zuo Mu estimated his net worth, and the stock of Zuo Ji Industrial Group in his hand has risen a lot in more than a year, and is now worth about 1.1 billion.

Not to mention the shares of Golden Harvest, which have basically been in a state of daily limit for the past two months, originally worth 100 million, but now they have risen to about 300 million.

"Saw Horror" he can get more than 23 million US dollars, which is probably more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars.

Taken together, he is now worth about 3.6 billion.

It is still half away from acquiring TVB.

I still need to work hard.

Zuo Mu sighed and glanced at the date on the wall calendar.

In December, Xiangjiang talked about "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" the most.

The explosions, gunfights, and car chases in it all belonged to the top level at that time, Zuo Mu was all shot in real time, and the post-production team also looked for the top one, so the whole movie looks very real.

The Smiths have also been dubbed "2004 Must-See Movie" by the press.

Zuo Mu once again achieved a double harvest at the box office.

Moreover, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" was also released in the mainland.

The results are also very good, and it has won nearly eight million US dollars at the box office in the mainland.

Within a few days, Zuo Mu received a phone call.

"Director Zuo, hello, I'm Fang Yihua."

This name Zuo Mu is a little familiar, but he can't remember who it is all at once.

"Uh, hello." Zuo Mu still responded politely.

He was also a little strange, few people knew his phone number, and even Hu Ge didn't give it, only gave him the company phone number.

"That's the case, we TVB would like to invite you to be our guest of honor, do you have time on December 15th?"

These words made Zuo Mu instantly remember who was on the other side.

Fang Yihua, the wife of Mr. Shao, ranked sixth, known as the sixth aunt, and is now the actual controller of TVB.

"I'm free, but earlier your TVB also notified me to attend the Thousands of Stars Awards Ceremony on the 15th." Zuo Mu said.

He is the crew of "Golden Branches Desire", and he will also attend the Thousands of Stars Awards Ceremony on the day, he remembers that in his previous life, TVB's Emperor and Queens were both actors of "Golden Branches Desire".

The emperor is Lin Baoyi, and the queen is Li Zi.

The sixth aunt also asked herself to be the guest of honor.

Does it also mean that this year's best drama series is not "Golden Branches", otherwise it would be him who presented the award to himself.

"We plan to let Director Zuo give the award to Li Zi after the award, and we will arrange a heavyweight guest to present you with the best drama."

Zuo Mu sighed a little, it really deserves to be TVB, it was set a week in advance after the emperor's view.

No matter how good the drama is, no matter how high the ratings are, it is useless, standing on the wrong team is a lifetime of companionship.

Part of the reason for TVB's decline is due to the intricate relationships within it.

Although this mountain culture does allow it to produce high-quality dramas, it is also consuming the patience of its artists.

There are pros and cons.

On December 15th, the crew of "Golden Bough" was told that their director could not attend the awards ceremony.

Everyone in the crew was a little disappointed.

The average rating of "Golden Branch Desire" is as high as 53 points, and winning the award is already a certainty, just to see how many you can get.

They don't know that Zuo Mu, who is hiding in the backstage of TVB, is very clear.

TVB awarded the Emperor, Queen, and Best Drama Series to "Golden Branches", and he was also told by Fang Yihua two days ago that this year's Best Female Leap Award will be awarded to his girlfriend.

Zuo Mu raised objections at that time.

You must know that Zhong Jiaxin just entered TVB this year, and only played a second female in the drama "On Call", and "All Happy" is also a cameo.

This can take a female leap, just to give him face.

But TVB is still very persistent, and Zuo Mu can't help it, so he can only let them operate.

He could already imagine Zhong Jiaxin's expression after winning the award.

At eight o'clock in the evening, TVB's Thousands of Stars Awards Ceremony officially began.

"Dear viewers, today is the day of our TVB 38th anniversary, and we are very happy to celebrate with the global audience." Fat and full of spring breeze, leading a group of TVB artists to say in front of the camera.

At this time, Taiqing was still live broadcast, and Zuo Mu was basically watching in the background in real time.

"Thanks to the support of our audiences, TVB is able to produce the highest quality TV programs." Sister Wang took over and said.

Then it was Zeng Zhiwei's turn to say the opening remarks.

It's all unnutritious.

Finally, there is the heavyweight lighting ceremony.

"Let us have the Chief Executive Chairman of CNB Limited, Sir Shaw."

Zuo Mu watched Mr. Shao, who was still very energetic, in front of the TV, and Fei Fei and Sister Wang pressed the crystal TVB TV city in front of him.

Then he saw a rainbow light outside the window.

As soon as the camera turned, the voiceover began to introduce the history of TVB, and after the nonsense was over, it was time for TVB's traditional programs and talent shows.

You must know that more than ten years ago, Liu Tianwang once performed chest crushing boulders in this link.

Of course, this year's talent show was not so exciting, but it arranged for its actors to dance a dance full of alien style.

After more than ten minutes of singing and dancing performances, Sister Fat began to present the first award, the "My Favorite TV Character" award.

This award is basically a consolation prize, and four were directly awarded, respectively to Xuan Xuan who played Fan Lihua in "Beacon Adventure", Guo Jin'an who played He Tianguang in "Chasing the Murderer in Another World", Lin Feng who played Kou Zhong in "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", and Chen Hao who played Kong Wu in "Golden Branch Desire".

After the four of them finished their acceptance speeches, Qiu Guan led the four beauties to a special "trumpet dance".

It's hard to imagine that Qiu Guan and those few well-known beautiful artists can perform such a mentally retarded dance.

I have to admit that TVB is a real cow.

Zuo Mu really wants to rush to the front of the stage now, after all, the atmosphere he felt in front of the TV is still a little worse.

But there is no way, this is the arrangement of the sixth aunt, saying that she wants to surprise everyone.

A song and dance, a section of awards.

Zuo Mu also saw his girlfriend dance a huge funny waist twisting tap dance.