"Master of Hypnosis" is a movie with a high degree of completion as a whole, the suspense and thriller atmosphere is also well rendered, and the actors' acting skills are basically online, but after all, it is only a small-budget movie, and the production cost is less than 4 million yuan, which is almost destined to make it difficult for this movie to lose money, but if you want to make a lot of money from it, it seems unlikely.

The box office results were quickly counted, and the total income in the first three days of the weekend was 5.2 million yuan, which is not particularly high, but considering its cost, it is actually a very good result.

Li Mu deliberately paid attention to the evaluation on the Internet for two days, and found that the overall evaluation was not bad, and several of the most praised film reviews commented: This is a movie that is only one step away from the classic!

Some netizens feel that the several reversals in the movie are still a little simpler, and ordinary people can roughly guess the end of the movie after seeing half of it, and some netizens even suggested that it would be perfect if the ending could be that the male and female protagonists collaborated to kill their girlfriends and ex-husbands, and a lot of over-interpreted film reviews were born.

Half a month later, the box office income was 25 million, and a month later, 46 million yuan, and the total box office exceeded 50 million There is no suspense.

There is no doubt that "Master of Hypnosis" is a group of dark horses in the film market in the first half of the year, winning a box office of 50 million at a cost of only 4 million, and such an amazing rate of return has also attracted many attention in the circle.

Huayi Brothers.

Wang Zhonglei: "I didn't expect such a small-budget movie to get such a high box office!" ”

Wang Zhongjun: "The movie script is very neat, the suspense and thriller atmosphere is full, and Li Mu's pen power is really good." ”

Wang Zhonglei: "We have known for a long time that Li Mu can write, but this movie is not just so simple to write, there is no too famous actor in it, but the acting skills of all the members are online, especially that Shen Teng, who has great potential, and I don't know how he found out about these people." ”

Wang Zhongjun: "People should be poached." ”

Wang Zhonglei: "Digging people? Shen Teng or Li Mu? ”

Wang Zhongjun: "Dig it all, especially this Li Mu, dig up an artist who can stand up to all the runners." ”

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Berner Culture.

Yu Dong looked at the box office statistics in his hand and fell into deep thought.

Who would have thought that this small-budget movie would really win 50 million at the box office?

Mr. Yu couldn't help but be amazed.

From "Hurricane Rescue" to "Master of Hypnosis" to "Assassin", this Li Mu always surprises everyone inadvertently. By the way, the sales of the novels he wrote were even more terrifying, and a "Hunger Games" detonated the whole United States - Li Mu, this kid is really amazing.

Yes, in the future, all this kid's movies must find a way to participate in investment even if he is out of the box and has no face and skin, and he has to stare at Li Mu, this kid, and keep an eye on him, and he may not be able to bring much profit to Berner in the future.

And even the 4 million investment of "Hypnotic Master" can be sold like this, what about the 60 million investment of "Assassin"? Still got?

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Medium Shadow.

Han Sanping has also been paying attention to the box office trend of "Hypnosis Master" recently.

"4 million investment, more than 50 million box office, not bad, the movie is good, Li Mu is not bad."

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West Shadow.

Yan Yiyun looked at the box office data in his hand, and a smile unconsciously crept up on his face.

"It is said that Western Film has declined, Western Film has declined, but look at Western Film's works in the past two years, "Hurricane Rescue", 270 million US dollars worldwide, which is converted to 2 billion yuan - which movie had this achievement when Western Film declined?"

""Hypnotic Master", the box office is set to be more than 50 million, but the total investment of this movie is only 4 million! When Western Film was not in decline, which movie had a higher rate of return on investment than this movie? ”

"There is also the movie "Assassin", with an investment of 60 million US dollars, starring Cheng Longli and two international superstars - what top production did Western Film Studio participate in when it was in decline? Is there a movie that is top-notch enough? ”

"That's right, the Western Shadow may have indeed declined, but that was all in the past, isn't the current Western Shadow slowly reversed in my Yan Yiyun's hands?"

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During the release of the movie "Master of Hypnosis", the 25th Xiangjiang Film Awards ceremony was officially held in the Xiangjiang area, and the movie "Hurricane Rescue" was also nominated for the Academy Awards, but Li Mu did not fly to Xiangjiang, first, he was only the screenwriter and assistant director of "Hurricane Rescue", not the director; Second, he estimated that the probability of "Hurricane Rescue" winning the award was not large.

As a result, the Academy Awards were announced, and as Li Mu expected, Du Qifeng won the best movie: "Underworld".

Best Director: Johnny To, "Underworld".

Best Screenplay: You Naihi, Ye Tiancheng "Underworld".

Best Actor: Liang Jiahui "Underworld".

In short, "Hurricane Rescue" accompanied the whole process, and the results were revealed, Li Muxin said: "Fortunately, I didn't go!" ”

Well, Cheng Long went, Uncle Long's two movies "Myth" and "Hurricane Rescue" were all nominated, but unfortunately the two films won a total of 0 awards.

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In the first half of 06 years, Liu Cixin finally began to serialize his latest novel "The Three-Body Problem" in the "Science Fiction World" magazine, "The Three-Body Problem" quickly caused a sensation in the entire Chinese science fiction industry as soon as it was released, and Yao Haijun, deputy editor-in-chief of Science Fiction World Magazine, was full of confidence and said to Liu Cixin that if his book could be published in a single book, the sales would at least exceed 50,000 copies!

Liu Ci said that he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Li Mu's book has sold tens of millions of books in the United States, and his Liu Cixin book is still sad about the sales figure of 50,000 copies.

The point is that he is afraid that even 50,000 copies this time is wishful thinking, because the content of this book is somewhat sensitive, and it is not a big problem to serialize it in magazines, and it may not be easy to publish a book.

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At the same time, Li Mu, who was free, seized the time to write the novel versions of the two movies "Inception" and "Interstellar", at this time, "The Martian" has also been published in the United States for nearly 3 months, and the sales are not bad, about 100,000 copies per month.

It's less than one-tenth of The Hunger Games' peak sales figures, but it's already a bestseller, and don't underestimate the 100,000 copies a month, as it's likely to sell more than 1 million copies a year.

Regardless of the country, a novel that sells more than 1 million copies a year can be considered a bestseller, but this result is too insignificant compared to the results of "The Hunger Games".

But that's also because I thought that the results of "The Hunger Games" were too rebellious, not how bad the results of "The Martian" were.

It is worth mentioning that at this time, the total sales of the first and second parts of "The Hunger Games" have officially exceeded 15 million copies, but since then, the monthly sales figures of the novel have also declined seriously, and the total monthly sales of the two books have fallen below 1 million copies.

On June 30, 2006, Ning Hao's directorial work "Crazy Stone" officially landed in major theaters, which is another small-budget movie, and the box office results are equally bright, and even the media has shouted the slogan "Spring is coming for small-budget films".

On July 1, Li Mu sent the Chinese versions of two novels, "Inception" and "Interstellar", to the work mailbox of Science Fiction World Magazine.

At the same time, inside the editorial department of Science Fiction World Magazine.

"Li Mu's new book has been sent!"

Bang.

The magazine is boiling.

"Huh?"

"This time, Li Mu actually sent two novels directly at once!"

"Inception? What about dreams? The other is ...... "Interstellar"? I'd better read "Interstellar" first, this title is very vast at first glance. ”

"Then I'll watch "Inception" first-by the way, why didn't Li Mu directly send the English version this time?"

"Maybe it's finally troublesome to translate, right? In fact, with his current fame, he is afraid that he will not find anyone to translate his books? With the time to translate his own works, it is better to write two more interesting articles, Li Mu may have finally figured it out this time. ”

At this moment, Qin Li's editor's phone rang, and the person who called was Li Mu.

"Hey, Editor Qin, I have already written the English versions of these two books, and I will send them to you when you contact foreign publishing houses."

"Okay."

Hanging up the phone, editor Qin Li shook his head: "Li Mu said that his English version has also been written. ”

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In August, the film "Assassin" finally completed all the post-production work, and the film was sent for review, and it quickly received the dragon mark.