On April 15, 2007, the 26th Hong Kong Film Awards was held at the Grand Theatre of the Hong Kong Cultural Center, and Li Mu's film "Assassin" was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, New Director, Best Action Design, etc.

On the same day, Li Mu and Li Lianhua were invited to attend the award ceremony.

The Xiangjiang Film Awards have always had problems such as xenophobia, locality, seniority, etc., Li Mu, as a mainland director, has been in the circle for a short time, so there is basically no possibility of winning the award, but considering that Li Lianhua was nominated for Best Actress, and the heroine of Li Mu's new movie "Super Body" happened to be Li Lianhua, for the promotion of the new movie, Li Mu finally decided to attend the award ceremony.

At this year's Academy Awards, Li Lianjie was nominated for Best Actor for "Huo Yuanjia", Gong Li was nominated for Best Actress for "The City Full of Golden Armor", and director Zhang Yimou was nominated for Best Director for "The City Full of Golden Armor".

However, as the three popular candidates for actor, actress and best director, Li Lianlian, Gong Li, and Zhang Yimou were all absent from the awards ceremony. Even the king Andy Lau changed his attitude of being invited in the past, and he was also absent from the award ceremony of the Academy Awards.

To Li Mu's surprise, Zhao Benshan actually served as the guest of this year's Academy Awards, and sat with Zhou Xingzhi. The two comedy kings are in the same frame, and Li Mu couldn't help but take out his mobile phone to record this moment.

Zhang Liangying did not recognize the traditional surname of "Zou Zhisheng", the winner of the best visual effects "Ghost Domain", the Thai name of the winner of the best sound effects was read stumblingly, and the introduction of Zhao Benshan by the host of Baodao Zeng Baoyi highlighted the lack of basic understanding between Xiangjiang, the mainland and the treasure island.

The list of winners was finally announced, and director Tan Jiaming's "Father and Son" became the biggest winner.

Best Picture: "Father and Son".

Best Director: Tan Jiaming "Father and Son".

Best Screenplay: Tan Jiaming, Tian Kailiang "Father and Son".

Best Actor: Liu Qingyun "I Want to Be Famous".

Best Actress: Gong Li "The City is Full of Golden Armor".

In 1997, Zhang Manyu won the Academy Award for "Sweet Honey", but she was absent; In 2007, Gong Li won the Academy Award for "The City is Full of Golden Armor", but she was also absent.

With Gong Li's status in the film industry today, she no longer needs to use the Xiangjiang Film Awards to prove herself, so she can only be heard relaying her acceptance speech through her agent: "I am very grateful to the conference for winning the award, I didn't expect to win the award at all, I am very happy to win the Academy Award for the first time in so many years." Every time I work with Zhang Yimou, he has a chance to let me win an award, and it is my luck to cooperate with him! ”

This year is the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, and Gong Li has been identified by the organizing committee as the first batch of invited Chinese filmmakers.

Gong Li won the Best Actress Award, which is commonly known as the actress, although it was expected, Li Mu still saw a little disappointed look on Li Lianhua's face, and it seemed that she didn't expect to win the award before.

What surprised Li Mu was that he really won the award - the New Director Award, the award was not heavy, but he still won the award after all.

Because I didn't expect that I could really win the award, so I didn't prepare the acceptance speech in advance, when the host announced that Li Mu won the award, Li Mu had to go to the stage and temporarily organize a language, the key words are nothing more than happiness, excitement, and gratitude. No surprises, no joy, very ordinary speech.

At the end of April, the movie "Super Body" completed all the post-production work, and Li Mu discussed with Western Film, Bernard, China Film, and Huayi and decided to officially release the movie in the summer.

This year's summer schedule has the Hollywood blockbuster "Pirates of the Caribbean: The End of the World" in June, and "Transformers" in July, and Li Mu proposed to set the movie schedule in June.

In his impression, "Transformers" is much more popular than "Pirates of the Caribbean: The End of the World", he likes to make movies, but to make money, mainly to make money, so there is no need to fight with a blockbuster like "Transformers".

On May 13, Li Mu led the creator of "Super Body" to fly to Cannes, a city in southern France. It is worth mentioning that "Super Body" did not enter the main competition unit of this year's Cannes Film Festival, and the purpose of Li Mu's trip was not to win awards, but to promote the film and sell films, so Liu Siying, manager of Huashang Media, also went to Cannes with Li Mu.

On May 14, Li Mu's film "Super Body" held a press conference in Cannes and released the movie trailer for the first time. More than a dozen studios from all over the world, as well as dozens of media outlets, attended the press conference.

After the press conference, at the Martinez Hotel opposite the Cannes Cinema Palace, Liu Siying represented Li Mu and conducted several rounds of negotiations with many foreign film companies. Due to the great global success of Li Mu's previous works "Assassin" and "Hurricane Rescue", foreign filmmakers have confidence in Li Mu's latest film "Super Body", and the edited version released by Li Mu has deepened the confidence of filmmakers, so the negotiation process is still smooth.

The cooperation is still based on a sharing model, and this time it will be more thorough than the previous two. For the first time, the North American DVD rental and sale rights will also be subject to a guaranteed share contract.

The company that finally won the North American distribution rights of "Super Body" was Sony Classic Pictures, which promised in the contract that the North American opening scale of "Super Body" would be no less than 2,800 museums.

On the evening of May 16, in Cannes, a coastal city in southern France, Chinese Treasure Island actor Shu Qi and Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira jointly announced the official opening of the 60th Cannes Film Festival.

The figure of Chinese filmmakers has become a bright spot at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

On May 19, Cheng Long appeared in Cannes with the trailer of "The King of Kung Fu" and held a press conference, which caused quite a stir among foreign film companies.

Brother Cheng Long personally came to Cannes to promote the movie, Li Mu and Li Lianhua naturally wanted to help on the spot, Cheng Long was very happy to see Li Mu and Li Lianhua, and said many times that it was very pleasant to cooperate with Li Mu and Li Lianhua, and everyone would have to make movies together if they had the opportunity in the future.

The movie "Assassin" released last year has proved the huge market potential of the cooperation between Cheng Long and Li Lian, two kung fu superstars, so although "The King of Kung Fu" has not been completed, it has been frantically chased by many Hollywood studios, and many studios have lined up in long queues in order to get relevant information.

Liu Yifei has not left the crew half a step since the start of "The King of Kung Fu", cooperating with Cheng Long and Li Lian, the two major kung fu superstars, Liu Yifei is under great pressure, and has been worried that his performance will not be recognized by the two superstars, directors and producers.

On the evening of May 20th, the Cannes Film Festival screened the short film "Everybody's Cinema" specially shot by 35 famous directors for the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, followed by a gala dinner.

Directors and stars from all over the world gathered to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Festival de Cannes.

Xiangjiang actress Zhang Manyu wore a golden floor-length dress, highlighting her nobility and elegance; Actress Gong Li wore a green backless outfit, showing the charm of mature women; Zhang Ziyi was wearing a white long dress, which was extremely glamorous and moving.

Cheng Long greeted Gong Li very excitedly after seeing him, the relationship between the two is very good, and Cheng Long has always had the intention of cooperating with Gong Li to make movies, and will even publicly shout that he wants to cooperate with Gong Li to make romantic movies in the future.

There are really few actors who can make Cheng Long publicly shout and want to cooperate.

Seeing Gong Li this time, Cheng Long directly grabbed Gong Li's hand and sent an invitation, but obviously Gong Li was not enthusiastic about it.

Cheng Long's movies Cheng Long himself is the absolute protagonist, most of the actresses only play the role of vases, and Cheng Long's movies are all action movies, which are not very suitable for Gong Li's style, so Gong Li can only shirk the lack of a suitable script.

At this time, as soon as Cheng Long turned his head and saw Li Mu, he stretched out his hand and called Li Mu to his side, and then said to Gong Li:

"This Li Mu is very powerful, I have always wanted to cooperate with Li Lian, but I never had the opportunity, the most important thing is that there is no good script, and later after meeting Li Mu, I made the movie "Assassin" with Li Lianlian, wow, the results are very good! And Lee Link and I are both satisfied with the characters. ”

Saying that, Cheng Long faced Li Mu:

"Li Mu, you have to help people to the end this time, I have always had the idea of cooperating with Ms. Gong Li to make a movie for several years, but I have also been suffering from no suitable script. How about it, can you write a good script for me and Ms. Gong Li too? You don't have to be an action movie! ”

Li Mu looked at Gong Li, then at Cheng Long, and saw that Gong Li had no intention of objecting, so he nodded and said, "Then I'll try?" ”

Cheng Long happily patted Li Mu on the shoulder and said, "Then you can try." ”

Gong Li was suddenly a little moved.

She really doesn't care about the Xiangjiang Academy Awards now, because at this time her focus has shifted to the European and American international film industry, and if it comes to grasping the European and American international markets, then the Li Mu in front of her ......?