At the end of September, "Hurricane Rescue" was released around the world, and its final box office in the mainland was 280 million yuan, breaking the box office record of 250 million set by the film "Hero" directed by Zhang Yimou and becoming the new national box office champion.

In the North American market, "Hurricane Rescue" finally won $120 million at the box office, and the total overseas box office was as high as $230 million, plus its box office in the mainland, so far the global box office of "Hurricane Rescue" has reached $270 million, breaking the record for the highest global box office of a Chinese film created by "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

And as "Hurricane Rescue" continues to refresh the records of Chinese films, all participants in the film have gained fame and fortune.

First of all, Brother Cheng Long's global popularity has soared because of this movie, and friends around the world keep calling to congratulate Brother Cheng Long on his box office miracle.

In the past three months, as the box office of "Hurricane Rescue" has become higher and higher, Yan Yiyun, director of Western Film Studio, has been full of red light every day, and has participated in many film seminars on "Hurricane Rescue" since this time.

is again the actors who participated in the movie, Liu Yifei not only gained a lot of attention in China with this film, but also played an international influence in one fell swoop, gaining a large number of fans in Europe and the United States.

And Song Ji, who has very few scenes in this film, has received many film contracts, but she rejected these film contracts one by one, because at this time she had received Li Mu's new movie invitation, Song Qi did not hesitate, and directly agreed.

Of course, as the screenwriter, assistant director of the movie, and the ruthless person who is rumored to be able to directly stop Cheng Long's crew from revising the movie, Li Mu has certainly received a lot of attention in the circle.

Just when Li Mu was preparing for the new movie "Master of Hypnosis", he suddenly received an invitation from Wang Zhonglei of Huayi Brothers Group.

At this time, it is really difficult to bypass Huayi Brothers Group when making movies in China, if nothing else, let's just talk about its many actor resources, and it is impossible for Li Mu to completely abandon it when making movies in the future.

7 p.m., private room at Grand Hyatt.

Li Mu went to the appointment alone, and three people came from Huayi, in addition to Wang Zhonglei, president of Huayi Group, there were also actor Li Lianhua, and Li Lianhua's sister Li Xuehua.

In addition to Li Xuehua's sister, she is also Li Lianhua's agent. This person has been a scholar since he was a child, which also made Li Lianhua, who is a scumbag, feel very inferior when facing his own sister, and later Li Lianhua coincidentally created a world in the entertainment industry, Li Xuehua joined Huayi Group after graduating from college and became the agent of her sister Li Lianhua.

It is reported that whether it is the movie "No Thieves in the World" and "The Wind", these two films that are crucial to Li Lianhua's film career are all decided to star under the persuasion of his sister Li Xuehua.

Later, Huayi Brothers broke up with Wang Jinghua, the first agent of domestic entertainment, and Li Xuehua took advantage of the situation with her excellent work ability to become the leader of Huayi's agent business, and later served as the co-general manager of Huayi Brothers, Wanda Film and Television executive, and chairman of Hesong Media.

At the same time, his sister Li Lianhua is also a partner of this company, and later Zhao Liying will also join Hesong and become a new partner of Hesong.

The two sides met, and after some politeness, Wang Zhonglei finally said the reason for inviting Li Mu.

""Hurricane Rescue" sold $270 million worldwide, and Lionsgate and Columbia Pictures in the United States all saw business opportunities, and both companies wanted to replicate the success of Cheng Long and "Hurricane Rescue", so the two of them joined forces to find Li Lian together, hoping to invite Li Lianlian to participate in a new kung fu movie."

Li Mu nodded, and the reaction of the two companies was not difficult to understand.

At this time, Wang Zhonglei continued: "However, Li Lian neither agreed to the invitation of the two companies, nor categorically refused the other party. The two companies found Huayi again, hoping that Huayi could help inquire about Li Lianlian's true thoughts, I went to see Li Lianlian in the past few days, and Li Lianlian did not hide it from me, according to him, he had two main concerns. First, he is on par with Cheng Long, and now Cheng Long's new movie "Hurricane Rescue" is a global hit, if his new kung fu film suffers a box office failure in the future, then he will become the person who imitates Dong Shi in the idiom. ”

Li Mu nodded, Li Lian's concerns were not unreasonable.

Wang Zhonglei continued: "Secondly, the script that Lionsgate and Columbia gave him was very lackluster, and he didn't believe that such a script could be sold - not to mention the results of "Hurricane Rescue", I am afraid that even the passing score of ordinary films will be difficult to achieve. ”

Li Mu said at this time: "But Li Lian really wants to make a movie that can be compared to "Hurricane Rescue", so he didn't directly refuse the other party. ”

Wang Zhonglei nodded: "Yes, in fact, Li Lianlian's concerns are not unreasonable, if Cheng Long's "Hurricane Rescue" has just achieved outstanding results, Li Lianlian's side will immediately follow suit, if the results are good, it will be said in the past, if the results are too bad, the face is really not good-looking, so my idea for Li Lianlian is to strive for him and Cheng Long to co-star in a new kung fu movie. ”

Li Muxin said: "It's coming, it's finally coming, is it you?" "The King of Kung Fu"? ”

Wang Zhonglei continued at this time: "After listening to my opinion, Li Lianlian was really interested, he thinks that "Hurricane Rescue" has achieved this kind of movie to the extreme, and no matter how it is filmed in the future, it will be difficult to surpass this movie, but if the two kung fu superstars Li Lian and Cheng Long can be put into one movie, and let the two have a peak duel, it may really have the possibility of surpassing "Hurricane Rescue". ”

Li Mu doesn't agree with this very much, the gimmick is enough for the peak showdown between the two kung fu superstars, but whether it can be recognized by the audience depends on the quality of the movie.

The King of Kung Fu is a living example of this.

Wang Zhonglei said again: "After I put forward this opinion, Li Lian thought for a while and said that he could give it a try, but he hoped that the script would be written by you." ”

"Me?"

"That's right."

After speaking, Wang Zhonglei glanced at Li Mu deeply, and continued: "Li Lian said that your screenwriting talent is very powerful, and what is even more rare is that you have an extremely accurate grasp of the tastes of Westerners, he now lives in a house in Los Angeles for a long time of the year, and during this time, several American friends have asked him about a book called "The Hunger Games", and it is reported that the author of this book is a Chinese. ”

"The author of the English version of "The Hunger Games" is signed by Mu Li, I heard that at this time, several film companies have expressed interest in the film and television rights of this novel, including Lionsgate, and Li Lian was very surprised to find that this "Hunger Games" was actually released in Chinese in China, and the name of the author of the Chinese version is Li Mu."

After speaking, Wang Zhonglei looked up at Li Mu, and then said: "So this book sold nearly 8 million copies in the United States in just eight months, of which in August alone, the first two novels sold a total of 1.65 million copies, and the author of the novel who topped the New York Times bestseller list for six consecutive months is you, right, Mr. Li Mu?" ”

In the private room at this time, everyone's eyes fell on Li Mu's face, and Li Lianhua and Li Xuehua's eyes were even more brilliant.

At this stage, the status quo of the Chinese entertainment industry is that the mainland looks up to Xiangjiang Treasure Island, and Xiangjiang Treasure Island looks up to Hollywood.

Although the Xiangjiang films have declined at this time, the mainland filmmakers can't turn their brains for a while, and it is not until the box office success of "Thai Embarrassment" and the completely crushing of the movies with the directors and stars of the Xiangjiang director that the mainland filmmakers finally have the confidence to face the Xiangjiang filmmakers.

And the filmmakers of Xiangjiang Treasure Island look up to Hollywood very much. The big directors and stars of Xiangjiang are all proud to go to Hollywood to develop and become famous, and Li Mu's English version of "The Hunger Games" has achieved such great results in the United States, and it is simply a dimensionality reduction blow to the domestic entertainment industry at this stage.