"Hypnosis Master", a movie released in 2014, online information shows that the cost is only 10 million yuan, but it won a box office of 273 million yuan that year, which is a typical low-cost high-box office counterattack. With a Douban score of 7.6 and a good reputation, Li Mu feels that this movie is suitable for his first movie in the true sense.

In the next period of time, Li Mu continued to write the Chinese and English novels of "The Martian", wrote the script of "Hypnosis Master", and used the manuscript fee of "The Hunger Games" to buy three houses in Beijing, and at the same time took the time to recruit an assistant from a headhunting company and let the assistant help deal with the company's daily work.

There is a lady named Liu Siying in the list of personnel recommended by the headhunting company, 37 years old this year, according to the headhunting company, Liu Siying was a middle-level person in a large enterprise when she was young, and their company had a promotion quota at that time, and this Liu Siying was the most popular candidate for that promotion.

But it was during that most critical period that Liu Siying suddenly fell in love, and soon after, despite the old leader's suggestion to promote first and then get married, she chose to marry her boyfriend immediately, and what is more serious is that she was found to be pregnant soon after she got married.

When she returned to the company after she became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter, she found that there was no place for her in the company, not only did the previously promoted place fall on the head of a lady whose ability was far inferior to her, but her original middle-level leadership position had also been replaced, and in desperation, she had to go home and become a full-time wife.

didn't expect her to pay so much for the marriage she paid, and in the end she still couldn't avoid the fate of disintegration. Now she is alone with a child, her ex-husband has a new family, and she doesn't care much about their mother and daughter.

The child is a high-quality kindergarten, the annual expenses are a lot of expenses, she wants to come out to work, but she finds that she has long been out of touch with society, the information is placed in the headhunting company, but no one cares for a long time, after several twists and turns, reluctantly found a job as a shopping guide, but the salary can not meet the daily expenses of the mother and daughter, and even reach out to borrow money from the parents every month.

The eldest sister of the headhunting company was very sympathetic to Liu Siying, and after knowing that Li Mu's requirements were not too high, she also had the attitude of trying it out, so she sandwiched her information in a list of other recommended candidates, but she didn't expect Li Mu to really ask about Ms. Liu Siying's situation after reading the information.

Li Mu met Ms. Liu Siying in his office in Xijing, the two talked for more than ten minutes, Li Mu was basically satisfied with her, and saw that Li Mu was about to open his mouth to hire her, but he didn't expect her to suddenly speak first.

"Mr. Li, you also know my situation, I have been talking about my advantages before, talking about how I am suitable for this job, I cherish this opportunity very much, but I still want to talk about some of my disadvantages."

"Oh?"

Li Mu was a little surprised, but also a little curious, and said with a smile: "Then let's talk about your disadvantages." ”

Liu Siying nodded: "I have a daughter who is still in kindergarten, usually when I am busy, my mother helps me pick up the child, but the second elder is old, and I can't let the second elder help me take care of the child every day, so I may not be able to put all my energy on work like a young person, I may have to pick up the child at the end of work, maybe the child is sick and has to take the child to the hospital to see a doctor, which may delay the work of some companies, but I can guarantee that these delayed work due to my personal reasons, I'll be sure to make it up to another time. ”

Li Mu nodded: "The boss is the boss who makes money, the family is his own, Huashang is still a small company, and there is not so much business, as long as it can handle the daily work, if it is not handled well, the company will change people at that time." ”

Liu Siying nodded, and then said: "And I can drink, I used to be very drunk, but I don't want my daughter to see me drunk, so if it's a business trip and there is drinking and socializing, I'm fine, but if I need to go home at night, I want to try not to touch alcohol." ”

Li Mu still nodded.

On the one hand, he knew the importance of the wine table to talk about business, and on the other hand, he was very unimpressed with the wine table culture, so although he knew that an assistant who could not drink might indeed affect his work, he still nodded in agreement.

Seeing Li Mu nodding in approval, Liu Siying finally let out a long breath.

"If there are no other problems, then come to work next week."

"Thank you, Mr. Li."

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In mid-July 2005, "The Hunger Games 2: Burning Girl" was officially published in China and the United States, and the sales of "The Hunger Games 1" in the United States exceeded 1 million copies in June, and the sales began to decline slowly in July, and the potential of the book seems to have peaked.

In the end, "The Hunger Games 1" sold a total of 930,000 copies in the United States throughout July, and it fell further to 850,000 copies in August.

But in mid-August, the sales figures for "The Hunger Games 2: Burning Girl" in the United States came out in the first month. In a full month from mid-July to mid-August, "The Hunger Games 2: Burning Girl" sold 800,000 copies in the United States, so that the two films combined sold 1.65 million copies in a month.

Science Fiction World Magazine is currently negotiating with major publishers in the United States and Europe to translate the "Hunger Games" series into more than 20 languages and start selling it worldwide by the end of the year.

On August 25, "Hurricane Rescue" was officially screened in more than 2,500 theaters across the United States.

From the 25th to the 27th, "Hurricane Rescue" entered the second place in the North American box office with a box office score of 33 million US dollars.

Since the end of August, "Hurricane Rescue" has been released in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and other European countries, and without exception, it quickly topped the weekly box office in these countries.

In September, the good reputation of "Hurricane Rescue" in the United States and European countries continued to ferment, and the box office revenue continued to rise.

On September 15, the North American box office of "Hurricane Rescue" officially exceeded the $100 million mark, but by this time the film had already shown signs of lack of follow-up.

On September 27, the North American box office of "Hurricane Rescue" exceeded $120 million, while the daily box office of the film fell to only a few hundred thousand dollars, and it seems that it is completely hopeless to break through the $130 million box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", but it is still an exciting achievement.

It is worth mentioning that on September 23, another movie "Myth" by Brother Cheng Long officially landed in major theaters across the country, because of the huge success of "Hurricane Rescue", so the whole country has high expectations for this other movie of Brother Cheng Long.

However, it backfired, the box office of "Myth" on the first day of the mainland reported 8 million yuan, which was only half of "Hurricane Rescue", and the box office of Xiangjiang in the first week was 6.5 million yuan, less than one-third of Xingye's "Kung Fu", and less than one-quarter of Cheng Long's last movie "Hurricane Rescue".

In the original time and space, after "Myth", Cheng Long even rumored that he was going to retreat into the background, it can be seen that although "Myth" finally won nearly 100 million yuan at the box office across the country, in the heart of Cheng Long's eldest brother, the box office of "Myth" was far from meeting his previous expectations.

Now that there is Zhuyu of "Hurricane Rescue" in front, Cheng Long will naturally be more dissatisfied with the box office performance of "Myth".

However, a more in-depth discussion has also been launched in the circle, that is, why did "Hurricane Rescue" achieve such a huge success?

Is it because the investment is huge?

Speaking of which, it is obvious that the investment in "Myth" is larger, but the box office of "Myth" is far less than that of "Hurricane Rescue".

Is that because of Cheng Long's huge box office appeal?

"Mythology" also starred Cheng Long, but obviously the box office was not satisfactory.

And is it because of the director?

This is obviously not convincing enough, Chen Musheng's previous movie box office performance was not satisfactory, the same movie directed by Chen Musheng, 04 "New Police Story" The box office is less than half of "No Thieves in the World" in the same period, but this time "Hurricane Rescue" directly topped the national box office championship.

But in addition to the above three, what are the other reasons for the success of "Hurricane Rescue"?

Won't it be because the script is well written?

However, everyone heard that the action director of "Hurricane Rescue" was fully responsible for the screenwriter and assistant director Li Mu, and even Cheng Long publicly advertised at the premiere celebration of "Hurricane Rescue" that he wanted to add a scene and was stopped by screenwriter Li Mu.

And the editing of the movie is the screenwriter Li Mu's own uncle, I heard that the editing was completed by the two of them.

So......

Suddenly, countless pairs of eyes in the circle were staring at Li Mu again.