"Do you have work in the afternoon?" Liu Yifei asked.

"No, but it's a bit personal." Li Mu said.

"Private?"

"Well, to see the property, my assistant has already made an appointment with the agent, and I will go out right now."

"Then you are busy, pay attention to safety on the road."

Liu Xiaoli also heard a few words, and she asked Yifei: "Li Mu wants to go to see the house?" ”

Liu Yifei nodded and said, "Yes, I said that I was going out soon." ”

"Let him pick us up, the two of us will go together, we just bought a house and have experience, we can help him with the staff."

Liu Yifei's mother and daughter sold their property in New York in 06, and then bought a house in Beijing in 07.

Liu Yifei covered his mobile phone and said, "This is not appropriate, right?" ”

Liu Xiaoli said: "What's inappropriate? Didn't you say he wanted you to move in with him? Where to move? This room may be your nest with him in the future! Don't you want to see in advance where you're going to live? ”

Hearing this, Liu Yifei let go of the mike and said to Li Mu on the other end, "Can you come and pick me up and my mother?" We just bought a house last year, and we have some experience and may be able to give you some advice. ”

"I can't ask for it, I'll be there soon." Li Mu said on the other end of the phone.

……

Purple Jade Villa.

In the past two days, she has taken the Ms. Chen in front of her to see no less than six villas, and Ms. Chen seems to be more interested in three of them, but she doesn't know which one she will choose in the end.

The unit price of a single-family villa here has risen from 20,000 yuan at the opening price to nearly 40,000 yuan now, each set of 1,000 square meters, and the price of the whole set is nearly 40 million.

"Ms. Chen, are you quite satisfied with the environment here?"

Seeing that Chen Zhixi didn't speak, the intermediary smiled again: "Surrounded by thousands of acres of verdant green, the central axis is superior, it is the peach blossom source in the center of Beijing, 20 minutes' drive from the international airport, it is very convenient to travel, and the high wall and deep courtyard are excellent in isolation from the hustle and bustle......

Chen Zhixi interrupted the other party and said: "Let's talk about these words when my boss and his girlfriend arrive, I can't afford it no matter how much I like it." ”

It didn't take much effort for Li Mu's car to arrive, and Chen Zhixi hurriedly greeted him, followed by the anxious and longing intermediary Xiao Zhang.

After Li Mu got out of the car, he opened the car door for Liu Xiaoli, and Chen Zhixi helped Liu Yifei to get out of the car.

The intermediary Xiao Zhang found out that the girlfriend of her boss in Ms. Chen's mouth turned out to be the big star Liu Yifei!

This discovery is really amazing, it turns out that the buyer of the villa is actually asking for a gold house to hide! But fortunately, Ms. Chen's boss is not the pot-bellied old man she imagined.

Liu Yifei and Li Mu's love affair was exposed in the past two days, and this intermediary surnamed Zhang is busy every day, so he hasn't paid attention to these news yet.

Next, the intermediary took a few people to visit the three most luxurious single-family villas here, Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli's mother and daughter liked it very much, and the intermediary introduced actors Zhang Guoli and Ge You to live here in a timely manner.

Li Mu asked Liu Xiaoli, "Aunt Liu, what do you think of here?" ”

Liu Xiaoli smiled: "The environment is very good. ”

"What do you think?" Li Mu turned his head again and asked Liu Yifei.

Liu Yifei smiled and said, "It's good, but it should be very expensive here, right?" ”

Intermediary Xiao Zhang said with a timely smile: "Looking at the price alone, it is indeed not cheap, the first set we just saw is 41 million, the second set is the most expensive, 43 million, and now this set is 40 million, but if a few people put the quality of the house in the first place, this place is definitely worthy of its price." ”

"It's so expensive!" Liu Yifei couldn't help but sigh.

When she and her mother just sold their house in New York at the end of last year, the money in the account was the largest, with 11 million at the peak, and after buying a house in Beijing last year, there were only a few million left in the account, and all her assets were realized to buy only a quarter of the villas here.

Li Mu was quite satisfied with this, so he called Chen Zhixi to his side and gave a few words, and then turned to Liu Xiaoli and said, "Auntie, I'll take you to dinner." ”

"Okay!"

After Li Mu's car disappeared from view, the intermediary Xiao Zhang nervously asked Chen Zhixi: "Ms. Chen, is your boss quite satisfied here?" What did he just say? ”

After Chen Zhi saw Li Mu and the three of them leave, he turned to the intermediary and said, "My boss said that it's okay here, let's talk about the specific details of the signing." ”

Intermediary Xiao Zhang's head buzzed, and suddenly the adrenal glands began to surge. If this order is realized, the commission is a lot of money.

"Okay, then please come with me to the office to sign the contract. By the way, may I ask Boss Li which of these three sets he just fancied? ”

Chen Zhi regretted: "I want all three sets." ”

"Huh?"

……

In the car, Liu Yifei said with emotion: "The three villas look very good, and each one has its own unique scenery. ”

Li Mu said while driving: "Then which set do you guess I just photographed?" ”

Liu Yifei said with a smile: "You must choose the most expensive one, men generally choose this way." ”

Li Mu smiled: "Do you know why I didn't ask your opinion when I decided which set to buy?" ”

"Why?" Liu Yifei asked.

Li Mu smiled: "Because I bought three sets together, I save you from being entangled." ”

"What are you?" Liu Yifei was stunned, "You bought them all?!" ”

Hearing this, Liu Xiaoli also showed a look of surprise.

……

The post-editing work and special effects production of "Inception" are still being done, but the progress is a little slower than expected, and it may not be able to catch up with the Spring Festival at the end of this year.

Chen Zhixi is still talking about buying a villa in Ziyu Villa, and the price may come down. Shen Junsheng, the company's tool director, brought the script of "People in Embarrassment" to Li Mu, who officially approved the project after modifying some plots by himself.

Regarding several actors in the movie, this time Li Mu directly gave a list, and Shen Junsheng only needs to hire people according to this list.

In the list drawn up by Li Mu, Shen Teng plays Li Chenggong; Wang Baoqiang plays Niu Geng; The *** woman Li Chenggong met in the wrong room still looked for the original Huang Xiaolei to play; Gao Yuanyuan plays Li Chenggong's wife; Song Ji, an actor from his own company, plays the "female liar" that the two met at the station; Yang Mi plays Li Chenggong's junior Mannie; Originally, Li Xiaolu played Nana, who migrated to stations all over the country to sell goods, but this time Li Mu wanted to invite Mary, who was also in Happy Twist, to play it, and also add a little comedy effect to the movie.

Of course, who will be used after the final movie starts filming depends on whether these actors have a schedule or whether they are willing to come, but Li Mu estimates that most of them should be able to be invited, even if there are a few who don't come, as long as the two core characters can come, other actors can be replaced at any time.

The investment amount is the same as the previous movie, it is still 10 million, which is 3 million more than the investment of the original "People in Embarrassment", Li Mu hopes that the investment amount will increase, and the box office of the movie will be higher than the original movie.

After handling the work of "People in Embarrassment", Li Mu began to prepare for his next sci-fi movie.

A few days ago, he had a telephone communication with Tom Hanks, in which Li Mu told the other party that the filming of "Manchester by the Sea" or "The Revenant" will be delayed until next year at the earliest, and Tom Hanks has no opinion on this, so that the two films also have more time for preliminary preparation.

Next, Li Mu focused all his work on the three science fiction movies.

The first is, of course, the post-editing and special effects production of "Inception". In this regard, the crew of "Inception" has a professional post-production team, Li Mu only needs to check the general direction, the rough cut of the movie has been completed by Li Mu himself, and Li Mu is mastering the final effect of the movie throughout the whole process.

The second is the filming task of "Doomsday Collapse", and it can be said that Li Mu has high hopes for this movie. This original 2015 film won a high box office of $470 million worldwide that year, and the return on investment can be said to be very good. The point is that it's only 2008, and in this year, even the culmination of disaster movies, 2012, has not yet been released.

From 2008 to 2015, how many special effects blockbusters were released during this period? How much of the audience's appetite has been raised?

Li Mu is ready to let this film be released before "2012", and parachute into 2009 as a 2015 disaster masterpiece, and the audience with less knowledge will encounter a disaster blockbuster with a super grand scene and even comparable to "2012", Li Mu hopes that his "Doomsday Collapse" can surpass its achievements in the original world.

The third is the preparation of the new film "Gravity".

As for why Li Mu chose this movie, of course, because even if it comes to the point in time he has traveled over in 2025, when netizens list the 3 best works after "Avatar", "Gravity" is also one of the six or seven movies that netizens will definitely mention.

The combination of space and 3 makes people feel as if they are really in the vast universe, and there are even news reports that "Avatar" director James Cameron once commented that it is "the best space film in the history of cinema".

At the 86th Academy Awards in 2014, "Gravity" was even more popular, with 10 nominations and 7 awards - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, Best Actress, etc.

Although it doesn't mean that Li Mu can shoot well, it at least shows that this movie has great potential.

Of course, there is another key factor why Li Mu wants to give priority to this movie, that is, at the end of 2009, Cameron's amazing work "Avatar" will be released.

A storm of 3 movies sweeping the world is coming, and Li Mu, as a time-traveler who knows the future, of course he has to choose to intervene in the face of the upcoming grand occasion in the film industry.

Or "Gravity" was released in one and a half months before "Avatar", and Li Mu himself won the title of director of the first epoch-making 3 films in history.

If this matter is successful, if the response is good, the film industry will inevitably compare Li Mu and James Cameron together.

At that time, Li Mu's "Inception" + epoch-making 3 works "Gravity", two blockbusters will be released in turn, even if the world's evaluation of him Li Mu will still be far lower than that of Cameron and Spielberg, but becoming a director who can be compared with Cameron is already a huge success in itself, right?

If Cameron or Spielberg director is Qiao Feng, then Li Mu, who can be compared together, is at least a Murong Fu's treatment and fame, right? Meika Shenhua Li Mu, if you can really do this, even if the box office is released first, it will be worth it to follow the back of "Avatar"!

Or simply wait until "Avatar" sets off a storm of 3 movies around the world, and when the world is desperately hungry for the real 3 movies, Li Mu will take advantage of the situation to launch "Gravity". Taking advantage of this shareholder trend and occupying the right time and place, Li Mu believes that the box office of this version of "Gravity" he filmed has even a chance to surpass the original.

Alice in Wonderland in the original world operates just like that.

The entire world film industry after "Avatar" urgently needs a new 3 movie to meet the strong 3 experience needs of fans, so at this critical moment, this "Alice in Wonderland" swept the world under the name of another 3 major works after "Avatar", and swept the box office of 1.025 billion US dollars.

In fact, this "Alice" is completely a pseudo-3 movie, but even if it is a pseudo-3 movie, because it was released at such a good time, it also made the North American box office of "Alice in Wonderland" reach an astonishing $111 million in the first weekend, ranking sixth in the first weekend box office in film history, surpassing the 77 million US dollars of "Avatar" in one fell swoop, becoming the highest-grossing 3 movies in North America in the first weekend.

With the east wind of "Avatar", a pseudo-3 movie can achieve such a huge achievement, so what if it is "Gravity" with amazing 3 effects? What if "Gravity", which is recognized as one of the 3 best movies in later generations?

In the past few days, Li Mu has completed the formulation of the budget table for the movie "Gravity", and preliminarily obtained the approximate investment budget for the movie, and the estimated investment is about 100 million US dollars.

It's just that in this way, among the films that Li Mu and his Huashang Media are preparing and producing, the investment in the three most important science fiction films will add up to an astonishing 300 million US dollars!

"Inception", with an investment of 120 million US dollars, and "Doomsday Collapse", with an investment of 80 million US dollars; "Gravity", with an investment of 100 million US dollars.

If the scale of investment, let alone a domestic film company, even compared with the six major Hollywood film companies, it is not much inferior.

And just when Li Mu was busy buying a villa and preparing for a new movie, the exposure of his relationship with Liu Yifei on the Internet was also continuing to ferment, and the momentum and influence were becoming bigger and bigger.

Liu Yifei's fans were still a little uncomfortable at first, but then the mentality of these people turned into heartfelt blessings.

After all, it is really not easy to find another young man who can be comparable to Li Mu in China, and it can even be said that there is no one at all.

At the age of 24, he ranks 203rd on the New Fortune Rich List with a fortune of 3.33 billion, and is also the youngest self-made billionaire and the youngest richest person on the list. In addition, in the eyes of netizens, Li Mu's amazing talent can be called a pervert, a world-class best-selling author, an international director, handsome, and of the right age.

Those who meet the above conditions may still be found in China, but it is simply wishful thinking to meet so many of the above conditions at the same time.

Liu Yifei's fans thought about it over and over again, but after thinking about it, everyone had to admit the fact that Li Mu was already the best object that his own Qianqian could find in all aspects.

And the most important thing is that Li Mu really loves Sissi, the investment of 120 million US dollars in "Inception", and the participation of the Oscar actor and actress - Li Mu can let Sissi play the heroine, isn't this just the daughter who is shouting on the Internet to be a red face?

Is it romantic?

Do you envy the dead?

Does Li Mu's ceiling-level boyfriend have a powerful favorite wife?

Since it's already a ceiling-level choice, what else can fans do? I can only choose to bless.

But some other netizens didn't see it that way, and some netizens began to scold Liu Yifei for ruining "Inception", which should have been a great work.

Scold this $120 million super production again, why did Liu Yifei come to be the heroine?

Just because you're the girlfriend of a director, investor, and screenwriter?

Isn't that the unspoken rule?

Is this really fair to other actors who have better acting skills?

If "Inception" messes up in the end, can you Liu Yifei afford this responsibility?

Isn't it enough to ruin a "King of Kung Fu"?

Even some netizens have deducted the unsatisfactory results of "The King of Kung Fu" on Liu Yifei's head.

There are even some netizens who publicly stood up and appealed, asking Li Mu to promise to uphold the principle of acting skills and role first in the future casting, and not to continue to risk ruining the movie for the sake of Bo's girlfriend's laughter, not to waste high-quality film resources wantonly, not to be unfair to other outstanding actors, and not to be responsible for other investors such as China Film, Huayi, Bernard, West Film, and Light Limited!

Liu Yifei was a little depressed when he looked at these turbulent discussions on the Internet, and in order to relieve these depressions, Liu Yifei took the initiative to call Li Mu and asked him to drive her to Li Mu's house for the night.

It was Li Mu, who was hard at the age of Bangbang, naturally went happily, and after a confrontation with the sofa, bathtub, and bed at any time, Li Mu said to Liu Yifei:

"Let's have a press conference tomorrow."

"What press conference?" Liu Yifei asked, not knowing why.

Li Mu said with a smile: "The launch of the movie "Doomsday Collapse" is ready for the press conference! At that time, Uncle Long and Yang Ziqiong will all be present to participate. The outside world has long known that our Huashang Media has another big-budget movie in addition to "Inception", but the outside world does not know more detailed information. ”

Liu Yifei asked, "But aren't you a person who doesn't have a lot of cold boot rituals?" ”

Li Mu smiled: "Isn't it true that some people have been saying recently that the reason why you can star in "Inception" is because you are comfortable serving me?" Isn't there anyone who says that you are wasting high-quality movie resources by starring in "Inception"? That's right, you did make me comfortable, so what kind of line is it for you to only play a "Inception"? Isn't that obvious that I, Li Mu, am stingy? "Inception" + "Doomsday Collapse", a total investment of 200 million US dollars, the combination of Oscar winner and actress plus Cheng Long and Michelle Yeoh, this is like words! ”