At the beginning of January, "Avatar" officially landed in major theaters in China, and while the domestic audience was deeply shocked, it was inevitable that a huge sense of pride would swell in their hearts.

The view that 3D movies are the development direction of future films has almost become a consensus, and it is our Huaxia who really leads the global storm of 3D films - our directors in China!

In the future, whenever 3D movies are mentioned, it will be impossible to spare the name "Li Mu", right?

No. 2 in the total box office list of global film history, No. 1 in the total box office list in North America, pioneer of 3D movies, and creator of five consecutive box office lists in North America!

The United States has Steven Spielberg and James Cameron, and China has Li Mu. Now it's not just Chinese audiences who are thinking like this, but even the vast majority of fans around the world have begun to compare Li Mu with Spielberg and James Cameron.

"Gravity" made Li Mu gain a huge reputation, and also allowed him to gain a huge amount of practical benefits.

Although the movie has not yet been officially released, the box office trend has been basically clear. According to the predictions of relevant institutions, the North American box office of "Gravity" is likely to end up between $640 million and $660 million, and the global box office is between $1.68 billion and $1.7 billion, which is difficult to exceed $1.7 billion.

The domestic box office is between 1.55 billion yuan and 1.6 billion yuan, and there is a high probability that it will not be able to break through the 1.6 billion yuan mark.

This is a number that makes investors feel that their ancestral graves are smoking, and it is also a number that silences all the people in the relevant circles. There is no way not to be silent, everyone is stunned, and they don't know what to say.

So how big of a piece of cake will Li Mu himself and his company get from it? In order to facilitate the estimate, let's first take the whole number of 1.7 billion US dollars, and the film party will probably be able to share about 550 million US dollars, and at least 280 million US dollars of this 550 million will fall into the accounts of Li Mu and Li Mu's company.

And this is only the box office dividends, if you count the income from movie peripherals, copyrights, etc., then it is obvious that 300 million US dollars cannot be stopped.

So what do insiders think about this?

Anyway, Liu Xiaoli first thought of Chen Jinfei, Lao Chen's total assets have not grown much for so many years, and it is still more than 200 million US dollars and less than 300 million US dollars, in short, her future son-in-law will earn Lao Chen's lifetime worth a movie.

Recently, Han Sanping, chairman of China Film, is preparing his new film "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Party", and like "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic", the cast of "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Party" is also luxurious.

Ren Dahua, Nie Yuan, Hou Yong, Zhou Yanfa, Zhang Hanyu, Zhao Benshan, Li Mi and so on. Once when Li Mu went to China Film to do business, he happened to catch up with the crew of "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Party" for a meeting, Li Mu did not show up, but everyone knew that Li Mu had arrived, so Li Mu naturally became the object of discussion among this group of people.

Someone also calculated an account, counting all of Li Mu's works since his debut, and the total box office has reached 4.2 billion US dollars, which is converted into RMB - about more than 28 billion?

At present, there is only one director Spielberg left in the world who can exceed this number, and maybe there will be one more James Cameron after the release of "Avatar".

In short, no matter how you calculate it, Li Mu is already in the top three in the world.

After this group of celebrities finished settling the accounts, they all had mixed feelings in their hearts, among which Li Mi, who played the wife of a great man, suddenly wanted to cry.

When she heard others mention $4.2 billion, she thought of the more than 400,000 yuan she was cheated of, that is, she worked hard for several years to make "Dream of Red Mansions" and earned all her salary, but all of a sudden she was deceived by the damn liar.

"Director Li's total box office of 4.2 billion is how many times the money I was cheated of?"

Li Mikou did the math, but in the end, he shamefully didn't calculate it.

In the evening, Purple Jade Villa.

Li Mu was sitting on the sofa watching TV, Liu Yifei was not very interested in the show, so he walked next to Li Mu and then sat on Li Mu's lap while hooking Li Mu's neck: "Some people on the Internet say that I am very ......."

"Oops!"

"What's wrong?"

Li Mu is here, and Liu Yifei is with him

Sitting on a nail and bounced up.

"It's okay!" Li Mu will continue to watch TV as if he is fine.

Liu Yifei pursed his lips, and then sat down again.

"Oops!"

"I said what's the matter with you?"

Needless to say, this time Liu Yifei reflexively bounced again.

"It's okay!" Li Mu is still the same.

"You think I'm heavy?" Liu Yifei asked.

"Huh? No, I think it's just right, and I don't like it if it's too thin, you see the current female stars, they are all beautiful in the camera, but in reality, they are all thin and ghostly, I still like a kind of meat like you."

"And what are you about?" Liu Yifei continued to ask.

Li Mu said as a matter of course: "You just sat on me, if I don't even make a sigh, doesn't it seem a little too perfunctory?"

"What's this and what - you're a rascal."

Li Mu smiled and turned down the sound of the TV, then patted his thigh and said, "Come and sit!"

Liu Yifei was still sitting, still hooking his neck with his hands.

Li Mu asked, "What did you want to tell me just now?"

"Don't say it, I don't think you're serious."

"I promise I'll be serious this time."

"Well, okay, believe you, that is, I saw that some netizens said that I am the most watery Golden Rooster actress in history, and they said that the real heroine of "Inception" is actually Marion Cotillard, not me."

"Actually, the water point is good, the more water I like, didn't Cao Gong say it?" All women are made of water."

"You're a hooligan again." Liu Yifei reacted for a while before saying.

Li Mu looked surprised and said, "Is there a problem with what I said? This is what Cao Gong said, do you mean that Cao Gong is also obscene?"

Liu Yifei said: "Cao Gong is no problem, and his words are no problem, but your eyes and expressions are wrong!"

Li Mu said, "Did you just notice that my eyes were wrong? You haven't noticed anything else wrong in so long?"

"Found it." Liu Yifei hid his head behind Li Mu's shoulder and whispered.

"And then?" Li Mu asked.

Recently, netizens are most concerned about the dynamics of the entertainment industry, in fact, there are three things: first, how much the final box office of "Gravity" can reach, and whether it can break through the $1.7 billion mark; the second is when Director Li's new movie will officially start, and whether there are any other projects besides "The Hunger Games"; The third is whether Director Li will make persistent efforts this time and create a miracle at this year's Oscars.

At first, no one paid attention to this year's Academy Awards, until some netizens broke the news on the Internet that now the two films directed by Li Mu are frantically brushing various film critics association awards.

Such as the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, the Washington Film Critics Circle Awards, the Kansas Film Critics Association Awards, the Southeastern Film Critics Circle Awards, and so on.

Ordinary netizens obviously didn't think much of these awards at the beginning, many people hadn't even heard the names of these awards before, and when they heard it, it was a pheasant award, until some knowledgeable netizens patiently popularized science for everyone, and then everyone finally understood, it turned out that these seemingly unimportant awards turned out to be important weather vanes of the Academy Awards!

In other words, these so-called Film Critics Guild Awards are actually the outposts of the Academy Awards.

So what does it mean to be crazy about swiping these awards?

Director Li Mu won't really enter the Oscars directly this time, right?

Also, When was this "Manchester by the Sea" released? How did I not know?

When will this year's Oscar nominations be announced?

Netizens soon began to discuss it enthusiastically, and with more and more news coming from the United States, netizens' attention to this year's Oscars has reached an unprecedented height.

Because judging from the news coming back from the United States, Director Li's two movies this time - "Manchester by the Sea" and "Gravity" turned out to be complete

They are all big favorites to win awards.

In particular, Gong Li's performance in "Gravity" has been unanimously recognized by the American film critics, which means that Gong Li is likely to be nominated for Best Actress at the 82nd Academy Awards this time!

And once Gong Li really succeeds in getting the actress nomination this time, even if she fails to win the award in the end, it will be a breakthrough of zero Asian nominations.

The final announcement of the nominations, February 2, 2010, is very fast, and many people are paying attention to this date.

When Gong Li attended a brand event ceremony, a reporter also asked this question.

Reporter: "Hello Miss Gong Li, we have noticed that "Gravity" has won a number of critics' awards recently, and these awards have always been considered an important bellwether for the Academy Awards, what do you think about this? Did you ever think that you might get Asia's first Oscar nomination for this film?"

Gong Li said: "The Academy Awards have a great influence in the world, and if I can get a nomination, of course it will be a happy thing for me, as for whether I will be nominated in the end."

"I don't think that's the most important thing, the most important thing is that I did a really great work with one of the best directors in the world."

"I don't like to repeat myself all the time, because it's tiring to repeat and it's hard for you to break through, so when choosing a script, I think the most important thing is to be different, it's different. There are billions of women in the world, and the fate of each woman is different, I want to create more and richer female images in my lifetime, Director Li gave me this opportunity, let me play the role of an indomitable female astronaut, and finally we completed her together, which is enough, as for whether I can get a nomination or even an award in the end, I think it is secondary."

Gong Li was very calm in an interview, and she was recognized by the vast majority of netizens, but netizens actually still hope that Li Mu and Gong Li can be nominated, of course, it would be best if they could get one or two important awards in the end.

Even if you can't win heavyweight awards such as "Best Picture", "Best Director", "Best Actor", and "Best Actress", you can only win some general awards.

"To be honest, if you ask me who among the Chinese actors is the most qualified to win the first Oscar, the only thing I can think of is Gong Li, I hope there will be a good result this time."

"Yang Ziqiong is not bad, but "Doomsday Collapse" is obviously impossible to win an award."

"I only found out today that after so many years, the Oscar has not even been nominated for an Asian actress? I hope Gong Li can achieve a breakthrough of zero this time."

"No, I said, why are you just looking forward to nominations? Why is no one looking forward to coming back with a movie queen?"

After asking the question, this netizen was quickly educated by the majority of netizens.

"It's a bit possible to get a nomination, just forget it, everyone used to say that Li Mu's movies are not pure Chinese movies, if I want to say that "Gravity" is also a high proportion of foreign actors, maybe it can really win the award, but this time all the Chinese actors (there are only two or three actors in the whole film), this is a pure Chinese film, what award to get? At most, I won the award for Best Foreign Language Film."

""Manchester by the Sea" has a high probability of winning awards, and "Gravity" and "Inception" are basically running together."

On February 2nd, Li Mu met two people in the office, Dumpling and Tian Xiaopeng, both of whom will be the best Chinese animation film directors in the future, one filmed "Nezha's Demon Boy Descends to the World", and the other filmed "The Return of the Great Sage".

Li Mu has occupied a large number of excellent Hollywood animated films in advance, and these movies will be made sooner or later, so recruiting outstanding animation talents has become something Li Mu must do.

In fact, as long as you have money in your hands, you can still dig up excellent animation talents in the United States, Li Mu also plans to put the company that produces animated films in the United States, but he can't use foreigners for all talents, so he found the two people in front of him.

In Li Mu's vision, in the future company specializing in the production of animated films, the beginning

Foreigners may account for the majority, but with the passage of time and the cultivation of talents, the proportion of Huaxia employees will continue to increase in the future.

Dumpling and Tian Xiaopeng both have their own ideas, but at present, there are not many people in China who are optimistic about animated films, and it is difficult for the two to invest in making their own movies.

Now Li Muken promised that they would invest in their films in the future, on the condition that he would only help Li Mu make an animated film first, and by the way, build Huashang's animation department. The most important thing is that this animation department also hires a lot of Hollywood animation talent, and they can learn a lot by working with these people.

Therefore, the two naturally did not have the intention of rejecting Li Mu.

By the way, the first animated movie Li Mu wants to make is naturally "Frozen" that he copied first.

Just as the two were about to leave, Li Mu's assistant Chen Zhixi came in.

"Mr. Li."

"Hmm."

"The nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards have been announced." Chen Zhixi said with a smile on his face.

Li Mu nodded.

Chan continued, "Inception won eight nominations at this year's Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Effects, and Best Original Score."

"Manchester by the Sea won six nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay."

"Gravity won 10 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Cinematography."

Finally, Chen Zhixi raised his head and said, "Three films, a total of 24 nominations, including a total of three nominations for Best Picture, two nominations for Best Director, two nominations for Best Original Screenplay, one nomination for Best Actor, one nomination for Actress, and Ms. Gong Li is also the first actress in Asia to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress."

Li Mu nodded, not feeling any surprise in his heart, but the dumplings and Tian Xiaopeng in the office were shocked.

Boy! Just now, this female secretary - Bah Bah, is a female assistant, and she is reading an Oscar nomination? How does it sound like a rural wholesale market?!