From August to September 2009, Li Mu met a group of post-95 young actors one after another, although there are not many roles in the role of his sister in "The Hunger Games", but the importance is not bad, and he signed a three-part contract, so Li Mu still attaches great importance to this role.

Among the group of young actors I saw, there were three of the most famous ones later - Guan Xiaotong, Song Gu'er and Zhang Xueying, but Li Mu was not very satisfied with these three, so he told his assistant Chen Zhixi that he heard that a teacher named Guo Limin in Shenzhou opened an acting class dedicated to cultivating children, and then he told Chen Zhixi to go to this acting class to have a look and see if there were any suitable candidates there.

A few days later, Chen Zhixi brought a 15-year-old girl back, saying that she was one of the three disciples of Teacher Guo Limin, named Wang Heyan. In her previous life, Li Mu knew that this girl had good resources, there had been controversial incidents, and her acting skills were okay.

After meeting people, Li Mu praised the little girl a few words, and then said to Chen Zhixi, "Since you are one of the three major disciples, what about the other two disciples?"

A few days later, the other two of the three disciples of the so-called teacher Guo Limin also rushed to Huashang Media, the eldest of them was called Zhao Juehan, and the youngest was named Zhao Di.

Zhao Di was born in 2002, a little younger, if the film starts next year, the little girl is barely 9 years old, and the role in the previous life was played by a 10-year-old white girl, but the 10-year-old white girl looks more mature than Asian children of the same age.

But Li Mu finally decided to use this Zhao Di, in a sense, the reason why he told Chen Zhixi to find Guo Limin's acting class was for this Zhao Di.

When Zhao Di's parents learned that Director Li Mu finally fell in love with their daughter, the two couldn't believe their ears.

Before coming, the two knew that Director Li Mu was looking for a little girl about 12 years old this time, and their daughter was only 8 years old this year.

Zhao Di's parents thanked Li Mu for their kindness, and Zhao Di himself walked over and grabbed Liu Yifei's hand and asked, "Brother Director, did you promise to let me play my sister's sister?"

One sentence made everyone in the office laugh, and Liu Yifei squatted down and smiled, "Of course, then are you willing to play your sister's sister?"

"Yes!" The little girl's voice was very crisp.

At this time, Li Mu turned his head to the little girl's parents and said, "Zhao Di, this kid has a good understanding, and he should be able to make some achievements in the entertainment industry, but her name is too obscure and not easy for the audience to remember."

Zhao Di's mother immediately said, "Then please ask Director Li to change his name."

Li Mu resigned several times, but Zhao Di's mother insisted that Li Mu change it, and Li Mu finally simply revealed this Zhao Di's later name in advance.

"Then I'll just think of one, and I'll be your reference." Li Mu said after refusing, "What do you think of the name Zhao Jinmai?"

"Zhao Jinmai, I like this name."

Before others could speak, Zhao Di, who was holding Liu Yifei's hand, rushed to agree.

……

In September, Li Mu held an online meeting with people from distribution companies in North America and Tom Hanks to discuss the Oscars of "Manchester by the Sea" and "Inception".

"Manchester by the Sea" has been running for the Academy Awards since the day the project was established, and it goes without saying that this film has signed up for the award, but in fact, "Inception" also has a certain potential to win the award.

In the original timeline, "Inception" was nominated for 8 Oscars, and in the last 8 mentions, although they all won technical awards such as Best Cinematography and Best Sound, there were also heavy nominations such as "Best Picture".

However, Li Mu estimates that the probability of his "Inception" winning the award should be much lower than that of the original movie in his previous life, because if he signs up now, he will compete with "Avatar" directed by James Cameron, and "Avatar" is also a big hit for technical awards.

But for Li Mu, it is also very fragrant to use this film to brush a nomination for "Oscar Best Picture".

Liu Yifei listened to Li Mu discuss with the people in North America how to win the Oscars, and the young lady's mind became lively.

That's the Oscars!

In fact, the young lady is still very envious.

That night, when Li Mu was working in the study, the young lady came over and leaned against the door in her pajamas.

"Do you think those two films have a good chance of winning the Oscars?"

"It's still pretty big." Li Mu replied while tapping on the keyboard.

The young lady said "oh", and then asked, "Then do you think there may be a Chinese actor and actress at the Academy Awards in the future?"

Li Mu turned his head and pressed his arm on the computer chair and said, "It's very difficult, but it's not completely impossible, at least the nomination of the Chinese actor and actress will definitely be won in the future."

The young lady's eyes lit up when she heard this, and then she continued to ask, "Then do you think I may win the Oscar in the future?"

Li Mu looked at the young lady and said in his heart: Good looking is really good-looking, and the acting skills are generally really average.

"To be honest, if your acting skills can improve a little bit every year, then I can send you to the Oscars sooner or later." Saying that, Li Mu stretched out his finger and pointed at his brain, and then continued, "I have several films here that are suitable for the Oscar queen, but I'm worried that your acting skills won't be able to hold up, otherwise we can start filming at any time."

"Oh." Liu Yifei was a little disappointed when she heard this, and she actually knew her acting skills.

So Li Mu comforted again: "It's just that your acting skills have stagnated, not for long, so it doesn't matter, can't we win the Oscar and still get a nomination?" Don't worry, I'll nominate you at least one actress in the future."

"Bragging! There has never been a Chinese nominated actress in the history of the Oscars - not even the yellow race!" The young lady said both unbelieving and longing.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with her words, in the original history, it will not even be until 2023 that the first yellow person is nominated for an Oscar, this person is Yang Ziqiong.

This time, Li Mu smiled but didn't answer, and finally the young lady couldn't help but ask again: "Then do you really have a script in your mind that is suitable for me to play and for the Oscar?"

"Of course!" Li Mu cut the railway.

"Can you write it out and show me?"

"That...... It's up to you to behave." Li Mu said in a long voice.

……

After the young lady returned to the room early, Li Mu continued to work, in fact, what he said just now was by no means fooling Liu Yifei, and he did have a film in his mind that was suitable for Liu Yifei's age and suitable for the Oscar queen.

One of them he has even occupied in advance, that is, "The Happiness Line Behind the Dark Clouds".

In her previous life, her eldest cousin Jennifer Lawrence won the Oscar for Best Actress for this film.

In addition, there is also a film called "La La Land", which is also one of Li Mu's works, and this movie is also a song and dance movie that Li Mu liked very much in his previous life.

Oscar-winning films don't usually do well at the box office, but this one has slashed $448 million at the global box office.

It is clear that people all over the world also love this movie very much.

At the same time, this film is even more soft in terms of awards.

At the Academy Awards alone, he received 14 nominations, and finally won 6 out of 14. And it has also won blockbuster awards such as "Best Director" and "Best Actress".

The young lady's acting skills are indeed mediocre, otherwise, with these two movies, and with his Li Mu's connections in Hollywood, not to mention that the young lady won the Oscar for Best Actress and was directly crowned, right? At least give her two Oscar nominations back!

After working for about half an hour, Li Mu turned off the computer and rested, but when he returned to the room, he was suddenly stunned.

I saw that Liu Yifei not only hadn't slept yet, but also inexplicably wrapped himself in a quilt and turned himself into a silkworm chrysalis, so he leaked a little incense and came out

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"Wrapped so tightly, aren't you hot?" Li Mu walked to the side of the bed and asked.

The young lady turned her head to look at Li Mu and said, "Didn't you just say that my acting skills are average? I'm practicing my acting skills, but as a great director, can't you see what role I'm playing now?"

Li Mu cautiously guessed, "You are acting...... Is it a silkworm chrysalis?"

The young lady glanced at Li Mu and said, "It's also a great director, I can't guess it when it's so obvious."

"I can't guess, but if you want to role-play I'm not sleepy—why don't you give me a hint?" Li Mu sat on the side of the bed and said.

"Your Majesty, please have mercy on your concubines." The young lady suddenly whispered softly.

Only then did Li Mu suddenly realize, "Are you - playing an ancient concubine?"

"Of course! Isn't that how it is played on TV? The concubines who are sleeping take a bath in advance, then wrap them in a quilt, and then carry them to the emperor's bed by the eunuchs."

"Hahaha, you really know how to play! But ......"

"But what?"

"It's nothing, you can put more costumes in your closet in the future."

"Perverted!"

"Am I perverted? Who is it—"

"Your Majesty!"

"Yo Yo Yo, Concubine Ai......" Before Li Mu finished speaking, he was called "Emperor" by the young lady, and his bones were lightened.

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At the end of September, Li Mu invited the heads of major theaters and cinemas across the country to Beijing, the purpose of course was to invite everyone to watch some clips of "Gravity" in advance, mainly to invite these people to feel the style of the upcoming "3 Movie Storm" in advance.

Among the people who came, there were some celebrities in later generations, among which the most famous in later generations was actually a father and son, that is, Wang Jianlin and his son Wang Sineng, who had just returned from studying abroad this year.

To be honest, Li Mu was still very surprised, because he heard Wang Jianlin say in an interview in later generations that he had no interest in watching movies, but he didn't expect to take the initiative to watch the test screening of "Gravity" this time.

But it's best if he can come, if he can finally say that Wang Jianlin can introduce more 3 screens in time, then his test screening today will not be in vain.

It is worth mentioning that Li Mu had a relationship with the other party's peers when he welcomed Mr. Wang.

At present, Wang Jianlin's total assets are about 7 billion yuan, and Li Mu's box office income in the first half of this year alone is as high as 300 million US dollars, which is 2 billion yuan when converted into RMB, which is only box office income, so what about the company's market value? How much should his Huashang Media be valued now?

The valuation of non-listed companies will generally be multiplied by a multiple of 15-20 for the profit of the previous 12 months, what is 2 billion times 20 times?

40 billion!

Not to mention that Li Mu still has a "Gravity" to be released in the second half of this year, and in addition, he also has a lot of manuscript fee income every month.

Even Li Muzai In addition to Huashang Media, he also has two companies under his name, "Maoyan Movie" and "Manwu Comics".

Therefore, when Li Mu faced the future richest man in China, he was still able to deal with it calmly.

On the contrary, when Wang Jianlin saw Li Mu, his heart was far less indifferent than on the surface, and it was inevitable to secretly sigh in his heart.

Speaking of which, Li Mu is only four years older than his son, but look at the achievements that others have achieved today?

The clip of this test screening is only less than 40 minutes, but these 40 minutes are already the most suitable clips selected by Li Mu to show the effect of movie 3.

As the lights in the screening hall dimmed, the screening officially began.

In fact, human adaptability is very strong, let's just say that it is 3 movies of the same level, generally when a person watches it for the first time, he feels that the effect is very shocking, but once the later 3 movies are flooded, then even if the effect of the later 3 movies is also very good, but because people have adapted to the form of this movie, it is difficult to have the shock when I watched it for the first time.

And now this is the case in the screening hall, and today everyone in the hall is counted as one, and almost all of them are the first to contact this real 3 movie.

So for these people, today's movie clip of less than 40 minutes is simply powerful.

Especially when the scene of the speeding satellite debris rushing towards the protagonist was played, almost the entire theater instinctively reached out to cover it.

This is the most instinctive knee-jerk reaction of people, almost not controlled by personal reason, so when everyone realizes that they will uncontrollably reach out to cover up when watching a movie, everyone's heart is shocked.

"This is the so-called real 3 movie! The effect is amazing!"

"Amazing! It turns out that movies can really do this effect! It seems that Director Li's revolution in leading the film industry is not unfounded!"

"This is already a movie that can go down in history! It's really like being in outer space, especially when you look at the debris of the satellites flying in the film, you instinctively want to reach out and cover it, it seems that this movie is much more powerful than you thought before!"

It can be said that the results of this test screening were a great success, and when the theater and theater directors who had watched the "Gravity" clip returned to their jobs across the country, the legend about the effect of "Gravity" 3 began to spread widely in the world of the Chinese Internet.

For example, since the end of September, the staff of theaters and theaters have taken the initiative to break the news, saying that since the person in charge went to Beijing to watch "Gravity", they have vigorously introduced 3 screens and rushed to build an IMAX giant screen hall.

Obviously, a significant number of people who have watched it have been swayed by the effects of Gravity.

"This is an epoch-making film!"

"I don't know what Cameron's 'Avatar' looks like, but I do know that 'Gravity' must be the highest-grossing film directed by Li Mi! That's right, the box office of this film is very likely to surpass Director Li's masterpiece "Inception"!"

"Anyone who has seen this movie will never forget it!"

As more and more evaluations of the film by theater chains and theater leaders across the country come out, the expectations of fans across the country for "Gravity" have been filled all at once.

And as the release schedule of "Avatar" is getting closer and closer, Li Mu has to start thinking seriously about the schedule of "Gravity".

"Avatar" was released on December 18, 2009 in North America, and January 4, 2010 in mainland China.

So how should the schedule of "Gravity" be arranged?

It is obviously more satisfying for Li Mu's vanity to be released before "Avatar", but if it is arranged to be released and broadcast after "Avatar" sets off a global 3 movie storm, then with the global fans' desire for 3 movies to be extremely stimulated by "Avatar", with the rapid expansion of 3 theaters and IMAX giant screens around the world under the storm of "Avatar", then it is obvious that his "Gravity" will achieve more beautiful box office results.

The pseudo-3 movie "Alice in Wonderland" in the previous life operated in this way, and the result was that the North American box office of this movie reached $111.63 million in its opening weekend, ranking sixth in film history, surpassing "Avatar" with $77 million in one fell swoop, becoming the highest-grossing 3 movies in North America in the first weekend.

So how do you choose between money and vanity?