Early morning June 12, Western Time.

Li Mu's room.

Almost all the main creators of the crew arrived: Cheng Long, Chen Musheng, Liu Xiaoli, Liu Yifei and Li Mu himself.

Today is not only the day when "Hurricane Rescue 2" was officially released in the United States, but also the day when the box office results of the film on the first day in the mainland market were officially announced.

At this time, Huaxia time is close to 0:00 on June 13, if nothing else, in about half an hour, China Film should send the first-day box office data of "Hurricane Rescue 2" to the relevant creators.

"Li Mu is the most accurate for your vision here, why don't you talk about the box office prospects of "Hurricane 2" in North America and mainland China?" At this time, Brother Cheng Long suddenly proposed.

Seeing that everyone's eyes fell on him, Li Mu no longer shirked.

"Then I'll just talk about it intuitively, but I can't guarantee accuracy in advance, let's talk about the North American market first......" Li Mu said.

Then he paused, and his brain began to think seriously.

To predict the box office performance of "Hurricane Rescue 2" in North America, it is natural to refer to the box office performance of the same movie in the previous life in North America, and then add or subtract the weight according to the difference between the two films.

So what was the North American box office performance of "Hurricane Rescue 2" in the previous life?

$50 million in three days on the opening weekend! It broke the record for the highest box office in the same week in American film history, and more than double the $24.6 million in the opening weekend of its predecessor "Hurricane Rescue 1."

The reputation of "Hurricane 2" is far inferior to that of "Hurricane 1", but this is also the benefit of having a fan base of the previous work, just like "Detective Chinatown 3", the box office on the first day was as high as 1 billion yuan, and even broke the single-day box office record in global film history!

But in fact, the reputation of "Tang Detective 3" is also not very good.

Carefully compare the differences between the two versions of "Hurricane Rescue 2", and compare the two directors first.

In his previous life, the director of "Hurricane Rescue 2" was Luc Besson, who was a big name in Hollywood; In this life, although the director of "Hurricane Rescue 2" is Chen Musheng, Li Mu has always been the core during the promotion, and now Li Mu's popularity in Hollywood is not inferior to Luc Besson, especially after the release of "Inception".

Therefore, compared to the soul alone, Li Mu feels that he should be slightly better, after all, the popularity of "Inception" has not yet dissipated, and now is the peak of Li Mu's popularity.

Compare the actors of the two films.

Who has a bigger wrist in Hollywood, Cheng Long or Liam Neeson?

Li Mu thinks it's Cheng Long!

Cheng Long in his previous life was not inferior to Liam Neeson at all, and Cheng Long in this life was more famous because he starred in several Li Mu movies one after another, so Li Mu felt that in terms of the male lead, he still won his version.

As for the heroine, at this time, Liu Yifei has successively starred in "Hurricane Rescue 1", "Assassin", "King of Kung Fu", "Inception" and other influential movies in North America, and its influence in the North American market is also not inferior to the heroine of the original work.

Finally, compare the number of theaters for the two movies.

The previous version of "Hurricane Rescue 2" was released in more than 3,600 theaters at the same time; And Li Mu's version won about 3900 openings - this time it was still Li Mu's version that won.

So theoretically speaking, the North American box office performance of Li Mu's version of "Hurricane Rescue 2" should be better than that of the previous version.

Since the box office of the previous version in the first weekend has been as high as 50 million US dollars, why should Li Mu's version be increased by 2 million US dollars? !

After careful comparison, Li Mu finally spoke: "The box office of the first weekend of "Hurricane 2" in North America, I guess...... $52 million! As for the global box office, it may be a bit difficult to break the $400 million mark."

The room fell silent.

It's not that everyone hasn't predicted the first weekend box office of the movie before, and even everyone has predicted the North American box office of the movie in their hearts, but everyone dared to guess at most 30 or 40 million US dollars before, but now Li Mu has guessed 52 million US dollars?!

It would be great if we could get this result, but is it really possible?

"$52 million in the first week, that's a good number, the total North American box office of "The King of Kung Fu" is $52 million!" Saying that, Cheng Long added, "Let's talk about the first-day box office forecast in China, this is about to be revealed, and we will know it right away, which is interesting."

Li Mu thinks that it should still be possible for "Hurricane Rescue 2" to get four or five billion at the box office in China, so if you push it back according to the general ratio - the box office on the first day is thirty or forty million?

"35 million, I guess!" Li Mu finally said.

"Okay, it's only 35 million, and we'll see if Li Mu's vision is accurate or not." Cheng Long said with a smile at this time.

At 08:35 a.m. Western Time on June 12 and 0:35 a.m. Beijing time on June 13, China Film Group finally sent the first-day box office data of "Hurricane Rescue 2" in China to the mobile phones of Li Mu and others.

Everyone opened the email in unison, and then quickly swiped over the unimportant information and headed straight to the movie's first-day box office figures.

""Hurricane Rescue 2", the box office on the first day was 74 million yuan." (Note: Huaxia Market Box Office)

Li Mu himself gasped directly - it was only 4 million yuan lower than the box office of "Inception" on the first day?

Although he thinks that "Hurricane Rescue 2" is not a bad movie in any way, but - only 4 million lower than the first-day box office data of "Inception"?

Does it deserve it?

Although the script was written by Li Mu, he still couldn't help asking: Is it worthy?

"Inception" invested 120 million US dollars, "Hurricane Rescue 2" invested 40 million, the box office is so close, why?

Almost everyone in the room was a little dumbfounded, Director Chen Musheng was also dumbfounded, Liu Yifei was holding Li Mu's arm at this time, and his face was also surprised.

Cheng Long suddenly smiled at this time: "It is said that you Li Mu has the right vision, I think it's actually just like that, you only guessed 35 million at the box office on the first day of 74 million, and you didn't even get half of the actual one, where is this guess?" It's just outrageously wrong!"

After Brother Cheng Long finished speaking, the room fell silent again, in fact, everyone knew in their hearts that it was not how wrong Li Mu's guess was, but that this box office result was really exaggerated and outrageous.

It seems that Li Mu still underestimated the influence of himself, Cheng Long, and Liu Yifei, and underestimated the huge popularity that "Hurricane Rescue 1" has accumulated for the movie.

But at the same time, Li Mu also believes that no matter how bright the box office data of "Hurricane Rescue 2" is, it will not be possible to get out of the box office curve of "Inception".

In the previous life, the box office of "Hurricane Rescue 2" in North America was as high as 50 million US dollars, and it deservedly won the North American box office weekend championship without any suspense, but its box office fell to 22.5 million US dollars in the second week, although it won the North American weekend box office champion, its box office fell by as much as 54.6%!

Although Li Mu's version of the movie has been partially optimized and adjusted, it still follows the plot of the previous work as a whole, so Li Mu has reason to believe that his version of the box office curve will not be too good.

But there's no need to talk about it right away, so you can't get everyone interested.

Saturday, June 13.

After the movie "Hurricane Rescue 2" won a super high box office of 74 million in China on the first day, it continued to make efforts the next day, and the single-day box office directly broke through the 100 million yuan mark, winning a super high box office of 102 million, and also broke the previous single-day box office record of 101 million created by "Inception".

"Hurricane Rescue 2" has also become the second film in the country to break 100 million at the single-day box office after "Inception".

At this moment, not only is the film and television industry across the country almost collectively stupid, but even Li Mu himself has begun to doubt life. Even he himself had to ask in his heart, "Is there a mistake? Breaking the single-day box office record set by "Inception" half a year ago? Are you crazy?"

But the facts are right in front of you, so that people can believe even if they don't believe it.

Sunday, June 14.

"Hurricane Rescue 2" has a national box office of 75 million yuan.

The results are still exaggerated, but Li Mu breathed a long sigh in his heart - it's okay, it's okay, this is the result it should get!

At the beginning, "Inception" was 78 million on the first day, 93 million on Saturday the next day, and 101 million on Sunday on the third day, and the box office results in the first three days of the first weekend were higher than one day by day.

Now "Hurricane Rescue" is 75 million on the first day, 102 million on Saturday the next day, and then 75 million on Sunday on the third day.

On the third day, the box office has begun to decline significantly, indicating that the reputation of "Hurricane Rescue 2" is much lower than that of "Inception", and it also shows that although the early box office data of the two films are very close, the total box office of the two is completely different.

Next up is Monday, June 15.

The national box office of "Hurricane Rescue 2" is 34 million, which is almost one-third of the single-day box office of more than 100 million yuan at its peak, and the box office performance of "Inception" on the first Monday when it was released was still as high as 62 million yuan.

So far, on the fourth day of the movie's domestic release, the single-day box office of "Hurricane Rescue 2" has changed from beating "Inception" to just a little more than half of the latter.

At the same time, the box office results of the film's first weekend in the North American market were finally revealed.

From June 12 to June 14, three days of the opening weekend, "Hurricane Rescue 2" grossed a total of $60 million at the North American film market, beating the box office of "The Hangover" at $34 million and "The Flying House" at $31 million. (North America data)

To be honest, although Li Mu had a vague premonition that the box office would surpass his previous life, after all, the number of openings was more than 300 more than in his previous life, but he didn't expect that the weekend box office would be directly higher than the original movie by $10 million.

At the same time, with the announcement of the film's first-week box office results in North America, all the main creative staff of the entire crew were jubilant. Brother Cheng Long even confidently said that the total global box office of the movie is very likely to exceed the $500 million mark!

In this regard, Li Mu had to pour a basin of cold water on Brother Cheng Long. Li Mu pointed out that the film's reputation seems to be a bit average, so when predicting the total box office, you can't directly apply the box office curve of other movies. :

And Brother Cheng Long said that Li Mu has a very good set of movies, but when it comes to predicting the box office, he still lacks some experience.

Li Mu was speechless about this.

That's right, after all, he just guessed that the domestic box office on the first day was 35 million, but the domestic market was really unlucky, and he came up and gave a 74 million!

Didn't he guess accurately?

But Li Mu still insisted on his judgment, because the box office curve of this movie in his previous life was in his mind.

In the previous life, "Hurricane Rescue 2" had a box office of $50 million in the first three days of the first weekend, but it fell to $22.5 million in the second week, a drop of 54.6%!

If you don't have an idea of this decline, you might as well make a comparison with "The Hangover", which is currently being released.

"The Hangover" grossed $44.97 million in the first weekend and $33.42 million in the second week, a drop of only 25.7%, of course, the decline of "The Hangover" is relatively low in the whole of the United States.

Then you might as well look at the movie "Flying House" in the same period, the decline of "Flying House" is 30.9%, which is also much better than the decline of "Hurricane Rescue 2".

And what about Hurricane Rescue 2? The decline was as high as 54.6%, which was nearly 30 percentage points wider than the decline of "The Hangover"!

In the previous life, "The Hangover" was $44 million in the first weekend, and "Hurricane Rescue 2" was $50 million, the latter was higher, but the box office of "The Hangover" in the second week was more than $11 million higher than that of "Hurricane Rescue 2", which also shows that "Hurricane Rescue 2" is not as amazing as the first part.

But it seems that only Li Mu himself is interested in this movie

's follow-up box office trend is cautious, and the rest of the people, whether it is Brother Cheng Long, or director Chen Musheng, or Liu Yifei, Liu Xiaoli's mother and daughter - almost everyone is full of confidence in the global box office of "Hurricane Rescue 2".

In fact, not only the main creators of these movies, but also the entire Huaxia film and television circle, and even the entire Huaxia Internet, almost all say that Li Mu has created a box office miracle again.

In forums, post bars, and major portals, netizens are fiercely discussing related topics.

"I heard that the quality of the movie can only be regarded as passing, so I didn't rush to watch it, but as a result, good guy, the single-day box office exceeded 100 million? It's not even as simple as breaking 100 million, but it also broke the single-day box office record of "Inception" for less than a year?"

"Surprised, huh? Let me tell you this, when the box office data came out on Saturday, almost all the people who had predicted the box office results of this movie were dumbfounded, everyone kept saying that "Hurricane Rescue 2" could only be regarded as passing, and kept saying that it felt like everyone should know that this film was at least inferior to "Inception", right? The result? The single-day box office actually exceeded "Inception", can you believe it?"

"Of course I'm surprised, the only two films in China that have a single-day box office of more than 100 million are all Li Mu's works!"

"It's really incredible, I feel like everyone doesn't care if the movie is not as good as "Stolen Dreams", since it's not a bad movie, since there are Cheng Long and Liu Yifei, then go and watch it."

"If you want me to say that Li Mu's group has already created a word-of-mouth effect, the audience believes that as long as it is a movie made by their group, it will definitely not be too bad!"

"yes, this time I feel like I'm on point!"

"Now I want to say that Li Mu's box office appeal is the No.1 in China, and no one should object, right?"

"Originally, I wanted to say that Cheng Long and Li were connected, but after thinking about it, Cheng Long's non-"Li Mu movies" in the past few years have been like that."

In Huayi Brothers Group, the Wang brothers are also emotional.

""Hurricane 2" can break 100 million at the box office in a single day? It's incredible!"

"Now the market has some blind faith in Li Mu."

"Actually, it's no wonder that the market blindly trusts his films, as if he hasn't made too bad films since his debut."

"It's impossible for people to always be infallible, and Li Mu's movies can't be blockbusters forever, but I don't know when his first box office Waterloo will appear."

"It's pointless to think about these now, Huayi Brothers is about to go public, and when publicizing it, I still have to talk about Liu Yifei's purchase of a large amount of Huayi Brothers' original shares, Liu Yifei is Li Mu's genuine girlfriend, Liu Yifei is optimistic about Huayi Brothers' stocks, to a certain extent, Li Mu himself values Huayi Brothers' stocks."

"I understand this, and at the same time, I also want to talk about the projects we have cooperated with Li Mu over the years, and the cooperation cases between Huayi Brothers and Li Mu so many times can enhance the market's confidence in Huayi Brothers stocks."

Inside the Film, West Shadow, Bernard, Light Limit, etc.

Several well-known CEOs in the Chinese entertainment industry can't help but feel a lot of emotion when facing the box office results created by "Hurricane Rescue 2" in China and North America respectively.

The domestic single-day box office exceeded 100 million, and TM broke the record again!

The first weekend of foreign North America was 60 million US dollars, and the total box office of "The King of Kung Fu" Cheng Long and Li Lian cooperated, and the total box office in North America was only 52 million US dollars!

The super high box office performance of "Hurricane Rescue 2" obviously can't all be attributed to the leading actor Cheng Long and others, but this Li Mu - after all, it's a bit too exaggerated, right?

In the entire Chinese entertainment circle.

Whether it is a star or a leading actor, looking at the box office results created by "Hurricane Rescue 2", there is almost nothing that can be looked at calmly.

Many of them began to be proud of having seen Li Mu and greeted Li Mu.

"Let me tell you, I used to run tricks in Director Li Mu's crew, and Director Li Mu personally handed me water!"

"Really?"

"Is that fake? I say ...... to you."

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In the following week, the single-day box office of "Hurricane Rescue 2" in China basically remained at about 20 million, and I remember that the box office of "Inception" at the same time basically maintained at about 50 or 60 million.

Although the box office of "Hurricane Rescue 2" fell a lot, the spokesman of China Film still said that there was no problem with the domestic box office of the film breaking 600 million.

At the same time, the box office results of "Hurricane Rescue 2" in the second week of the North American film market also came out, with $30.7 million, and it continued to be the North American box office champion.

Compared with the $60 million box office in the first week, the decline is about 51.1%, which is indeed not small, but it is still slightly better than the 51.6% decline of the original in the previous life.

According to the latest forecast data of relevant institutions, the global box office of "Hurricane Rescue 2" has reached $430 million.

Although it is much lower than the $500 million that Cheng Long swore before, no one can deny that this is still a very staggering figure.