Chapter 170: Returning Home, You from the Stars
A week later, Beijing International Airport.
Li Mu and Liu Yifei walked towards the exit of the airport while talking and laughing, Li Mu was holding a black suitcase in his hand, and Liu Yifei was only carrying a small backpack.
"There are a lot of reporters up front." Liu Yifei stopped and said.
Li Mu also saw that there were at least dozens of people blocked dozens of meters in front of him, with long guns and short cannons, and at first glance they were media reporters.
"Try to keep a low profile when you're interviewed, I've been a little too much lately." Li Mu couldn't help but admonish.
Liu Yifei nodded: "Don't worry."
The two continued to walk forward, and the group of media reporters in front of them also saw the two of them at this moment, so Wuyang and Wuyang surrounded them, and the two answered reporters' questions as they walked.
"May I ask Director Li, did you think that your film would win a series of important awards such as the Oscar for Best Director, Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Actor?"
"I thought about it, but what I thought about the most before was that "Manchester by the Sea" might win the award, and "Gravity" could win the Best Director and Best Actress awards was really something I didn't expect before."
"You never thought Gravity would win an Oscar?"
"Actually, this is the case, I made "Manchester by the Sea" from the beginning to rush for the Oscar, but I really just wanted to shoot such a story when I made "Gravity", but I didn't expect that in the end, the center of the earth not only sold well at the box office, but also won an award."
The reporters were speechless!
The global box office of "Gravity" is nearly $1.7 billion!
"May I ask Director Li, it is reported that you are preparing to invest heavily in the filming of "The Hunger Games", which is currently the most popular selling under your name - "The Hunger Games", which has sold nearly 50 million copies worldwide, and some media say that you want to make this book into a Chinese version of "Harry Potter", is this true?"
Li Mu stopped and looked at the reporter who asked the question just now, and said, "This must be nonsense, the investment in "The Hunger Games" is only about 70 million US dollars, why spend a huge amount of money? And the IP value of "The Hunger Games" cannot be compared with "Harry Potter" in any way. The Harry Potter franchise has grossed $5.4 billion, and I'm very happy that The Hunger Games franchise has grossed $3 billion."
"May I ask Director Li, I heard that your other film "The Martian" is also in preparation, as an adaptation that also won the Science Fiction Hugo Award, what are your expectations for this movie? Do you think this film can replicate the box office miracle of last year's "Gravity"?"
"It's difficult, the huge success of Gravity is the result of the combination of the right people at the right time, and it's hard for The Martian to come up with so many favorable conditions."
At the same time, Liu Yifei was not idle over there.
"It's not as beautiful as it is today."
"Thank you."
"Director Li Mu won a big victory at the Oscars this time, and won four Oscars in one fell swoop, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress, how do you feel about this?"
"What do you think...... It's exciting, it's exciting."
"Have you ever thought that one day you would stand on the stage of the Oscars?"
"Of course I did, and I think most actors should have thought about it."
"To ask a hypothetical question, if Director Li Mu told you one day that he would also send you to the podium of the Oscar, and then he would officially propose to you on the day you got the Oscar and let you marry him, would you be moved to agree then?"
"Probably not."
"Why?"
"Because the Oscar is so difficult to win, I don't think I can wait that long. What if I don't get an award after thirty or fifty years? You won't even get an award for the rest of your life?"
The two of them answered questions while walking to the BMW car not far ahead, the car was specially sent by the company to pick up the two, under the siege of a large number of reporters, the two struggled to squeeze out of the crowd and get into the car, and then the car left a group of unfinished reporters to grow
And go.
At night.
After returning home, Liu Yifei said a few words that she was very tired from taking a plane, and Li Mu persuaded her that since she was tired, she should go to bed early, and she shouted that she couldn't sleep.
"What then?" Li Mu asked.
Liu Yifei bit his lip and said, "There is a method on the Internet that has a good sleep aid, why don't we two try it?"
Li Mu understood everything as soon as he saw her expression, to be honest, he didn't think much about it tonight, he was a little tired, but looking at her expression, he was really embarrassed to refuse.
"That still helps you sleep?"
"Really, that's what it says online."
"Alright then, let's try."
It turns out that that thing is not conducive to sleep, he divides people.
For example, now, Liu Yifei did fall asleep early, and it seemed to be really useful, but Li Mu had insomnia.
Since he had insomnia, he simply sorted out the main work of himself and the company for the next period of time.
The first is the film projects that the company has launched or is about to start, a total of three.
"The Hunger Games", "Frozen", and "Lost in Thailand".
"Hong Kong Embarrassment" and "Russian Embarrassment" after "Thai Embarrassment" are very ordinary, and Li Mu no longer intends to copy them completely. He is going to have a good talk with director Shen Junsheng after filming "Thai Embarrassment", and hand over the follow-up embarrassing series to them to play freely, Li Mu himself provides a little advice at most, that is to say, the previous model of low-budget films written by Li Mu and directed by Shen Junsheng is almost over.
In the future, Shen Junsheng must learn to be self-reliant.
Of course, Li Mu will not write small-budget scripts in the future, such as "Charlotte's Troubles" and "The Richest Man in Xihong City", he will definitely still write, but he may come to shoot these works in person at that time.
Next up is the company's TV drama project.
Now that "Latent" and "Celebrating More Than Years" have been completed, it is time to find buyers for the two TV series.
Li Mu entered the field of TV dramas at this time, and the timing was still good, and the past few years have been a period when the price of TV drama copyrights has been soaring.
It is said that in the ten years from 06 to 16, film and television copyrights have skyrocketed by 7,200 times, and the price of online copyrights of TV dramas alone has soared directly to tens of millions of yuan per episode.
Since making TV is so profitable in the future, and Li Mu has a lot of high-quality TV series resources in his mind, of course he must continue to work hard in the field of TV dramas.
By the way, in the previous life, there was a TV series called "You from the Star" in South Korea, which seemed to be very popular for a while, and of course Li Mu wanted to take it for himself in this life.
Li Mu thought a lot about it that night, and finally fell asleep until about one o'clock in the morning.