Chapter 183: Crazy Horse at the Box Office, Revenge Movie
"Box Office Crazy Horse!"
This is the new name of "Thai Embarrassment" in the media.
400 million in three days, the media is boiling, and the industry is shocked!
The official Weibo of "People in Embarrassment" announced the box office of the previous day for the first time in the early morning of every day, and the media editor squatted on the latest data every night, and the news that "Thai Embarrassment" broke the record the next day will spread all over the Internet.
On the day of the official national release of "Thai Embarrassment", the total box office of "Tangshan Earthquake" directed by Feng Xiaogang officially exceeded 500 million.
And just three days later, the box office of "Thai Embarrassment" is infinitely approaching 400 million, and the total box office of "Tangshan Earthquake" has reached 550 million yuan.
This is director Feng Xiaogang's highest-grossing movie in history, and he has imagined countless times that when his movie box office breaks 500 million, 550 million, or even 600 million, he always feels that it will be his most glorious moment.
But this day really came, but Director Feng Xiaogang didn't feel so comfortable and relaxed at the moment.
Now the first thing he does when he gets up every morning is to open Weibo, and then take a look at the box office of "Thai Embarrassment", and see if it is about to surpass his "Tangshan Earthquake".
It's outrageous to say!
"Tangshan Earthquake" is his highest-grossing movie ever, and he Feng Xiaogang has won the national box office championship many times, but now "Tangshan Earthquake" is released fifteen days ahead of schedule, and in the end, he is worried that the box office of "Thai Embarrassment" will surpass him in a few days?
The most outrageous thing is that the director of "Thai Embarrassment" is not Li Mu, but a former "mediocre" director who Li Mu casually supported, and if it is Li Mu, he can feel better.
In the next two days, the single-day box office of "Thai Embarrassment" has always remained around 70 million yuan.
On Monday, July 26, the total box office of "Thai Embarrassment" was 468 million.
At this time, the total box office of "Tangshan Earthquake" was 569 million.
On Tuesday, July 27, the total box office of "Thai Embarrassment" was 542 million.
At this time, the total box office of "Tangshan Earthquake" was 585 million.
Released for 20 days and with a total box office of 585 million, "Tangshan Earthquake" is constantly breaking the highest box office record before director Feng Xiaogang.
What is particularly exciting is that according to the current box office trend, it only takes one more day for the total box office of "Tangshan Earthquake" to officially break through the 600 million yuan mark.
Previously, director Feng Xiaogang claimed that he was confident that the box office would break 500 million, but he was questioned by many media, so why is it 500 million now? It's only been 21 days before the box office is about to break 600 million - it's so domineering.
What a thing to raise his eyebrows, but as a result, a junior used a "Thai Embarrassment" to completely dispel his lonely mentality.
Next up is Thursday, July 29.
This morning.
The first thing director Feng Xiaogang did when he got up was to turn on his mobile phone to check the latest box office data of "Tangshan Earthquake".
"603 million!"
In 21 days after its release, the total box office officially exceeded 600 million, which is an unprecedented box office result for Director Feng.
Then Director Feng immediately thought of the "Thai Embarrassment" again, but he wanted to open Weibo several times to take a look, but there was no follow-up action several times.
In this way, after hesitating for a few minutes, Director Feng finally opened Weibo.
"Good news, just yesterday, #"People in the Embarrassing Journey: Thailand" #εζ₯η₯¨ζΏεζΏ7100δΈ, with a total box office of 613 million. After 6 days of release, the total box office of "Thai Embarrassment" officially exceeded 600 million!"
After watching it, Director Feng Xiaogang had mixed feelings in his heart.
In just 6 days, it has broken 600 million. The audience of "Tangshan Earthquake" liked it so much, and the response was so enthusiastic, and it took 21 days to break the 600 million at the box office.
"Times have really changed!"
The media has fallen into a carnival, and at the moment the whole network is discussing the box office cap of "Thai Embarrassment".
"The Hunger of Comedy: The Miracle of the 600 Million Box Office in 6 Days of "Thai Embarrassment"!"
"The cost of more than 20 million is less than 30 million, and the box office of 600 million in 6 days, why is the box office of "People in Thailand in Embarrassment" soaring all the way?!"
""Thai Embarrassment" soared, triggering the audience's revenge movie, and "Inception", which exceeded the cost of $120 million at the domestic box office of "Thai Embarrassment", is a foregone conclusion!"
The media's box office forecast for "Thai Embarrassment" has been raised to 1.5 billion yuan, and if the prediction comes true, "Thai Embarrassment" will be the second film in the country to exceed 1.5 billion at the box office.
The domestic box office of "Avatar" has not exceeded 1.5 billion, just with "Thai Embarrassment"?
Crazy?
A reporter interviewed Li Mu about his views on this.
Li Mu is not surprised at all by the box office performance of "Thai Embarrassment".
In the previous life, "Thai Embarrassment" was able to get a box office of nearly 1.3 billion, and in this life, there is Li Mu's popularity bonus, and there is the popularity base of the two original teams of "The Way to Steal the Key" and "People in Embarrassment", the overall conditions are much better than in the previous life, and it is not surprising that the final box office broke 1.5 billion Li Mu.
But in response to reporters, of course, he would not say that.
""Thai Embarrassment" is not a "masterpiece", just a qualified and neat work, "Thai Embarrassment" can have such explosive box office results, from a macro point of view, perhaps the serious lack of qualified comedy films in China is the main reason."
Regarding Li Mu's answer, some Douban netizens pointed out sharply: "OK, Director Li Mu's meaning is clear: It's not how good my Li Mu's script is, nor how shocking Director Shen Junsheng's skills are, the reason why "Thai Embarrassment" can have today's explosive results is actually all due to the foil of your peers!"
"***, it turns out that Director Li Mu is possessed by Guo Degang!"
"I guess Director Li Mu is not very comfortable, Lao Tzu filmed a "Inception" for 120 million US dollars, and the national box office was only 900 million, but it turned out to be less than 30 million yuan to make a "Thai Embarrassment", and then take 600 million in 6 days? Lao Tzu was tired of filming "Inception", but he couldn't beat "Thai Embarrassment" in China? If it weren't for the support of foreign markets, the Chinese sci-fi movie pill!"
The entire entertainment industry is paying attention to the "abnormal explosive box office results" of "Thai Embarrassment", but Li Mu himself is not much interested in it.
He's busy.
The preliminary preparations for "The Martian" have entered the final sprint stage, and the real-life shooting location in the Gansu Desert has been basically determined. The external producer sent the photo to Li Mu, and Li Mu thought it was not bad after reading it, so he made up for it.
In addition, Li Mu is also preparing another movie.
He said before that he would ask Andy Lau to make a movie, and now it's time.
This time he chose Source Code.
This movie has a high Douban score, but the box office ceiling is average, with a global box office of about $150 million in the previous life, but compared to the production cost of $30 million, this is also a movie with a high rate of return.
Li Mu himself has a lot of movies to choose from, so Li Mu will initially hire other directors to shoot this "Source Code" with a general ceiling, he thinks that director Lin Chaoxian of Xiangjiang is good, and he will send an invitation to try it when the time is right.
"Source Code, is this a new movie?"
Liu Yifei came to Li Mu and said.
Li Mu nodded and said, "Hmm."
Liu Yifei picked up the storyboard and looked at it, and then asked, "After filming "The Martian", you will shoot this?"
Li Mu shook his head and said, "I'm not sure yet, I may also invite other directors to shoot."
"Starring Andy Lau?" Liu Yifei asked after seeing the annotations on the character draft.
Li Mu nodded: "Brother Hua's cost performance is very high, if Cheng Long or Li Lian are invited to play this movie, the proportion of salary will be too high."
"What about the other actors?"
"It's not decided yet, I've been thinking about it for the past two days."
Liu Yifei immediately volunteered and said, "Then I'll help you think about it!"
"You?" Li Mu said disapprovingly.
Liu Yifei was not happy, and said coquettishly: "Look down on people, in that case, you introduce the role to me, and I will help you choose the staff member, and keep it to your satisfaction."
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Mu pulled her over and sat on his lap, and then introduced her to the biography of the movie with great interest.
"The heroine Lin Na is a friend of the male protagonist, so she can be regarded as a vase character."
"Song Eggplant!" Liu Yifei blurted out his debut.
"Why?"
Liu Yifei said: "Vase, you can use anyone, Song Qi is his own artist, this is called fat water does not flow into the field of outsiders, and you can't always use Li Lianhua and Gong Li in your future movies, but also cultivate a few newcomers with international influence."
"Not bad." Li Mu praised a sentence, and then continued, "Gu Man, a middle-aged female officer, is compassionate and has a lot of conversations with the male protagonist."
Liu Yifei looked at the character manuscript for a moment, and said, "Female officer, as soon as I look at this manuscript, I think of Yang Ziqiong, she has a photo of the military uniform in "Police Story 3", which feels very similar to your manuscript."
Li Mu's eyes lit up, and he went up and kissed her on the cheek, and then smiled, "Not bad!"
Liu lowered his head and asked, "Yes, I just said that I see people very accurately?"
Li Mu chirped and said, "What I'm talking about is that the face is good, very moist."
"What?!" Liu Yifei lightly gave Li Mu a punch.
Li Mu laughed, and then he took out a brand new character manuscript and said, "Look at this, the middle-aged female officer Gu Man's superior, a mad scientist, fat, bald, by the way, he is still a lame."
Liu Yifei blurted out again this time: "Teacher Fan Wei!"
Li Mu was stunned for a moment and asked, "Fan Wei? How did you come up with him?"
Liu Yifei said proudly: "Look at the manuscript you draw, whether it is your figure or hair loss, isn't this Teacher Fan who is alive and well? Especially the setting of the lame, I immediately thought of the abduction sketch played by Mr. Fan Wei."
"Is it appropriate?" Li Mu muttered to himself.
Liu Yifei immediately continued: "It must be suitable, you think Teacher Fan's acting skills are very good, and don't you think it's a highlight to let Teacher Fan Wei play a cripple? The domestic audience will definitely smile when they see it."
Li Mu quickly kissed her on the face again, and then smiled, "Yes, it's really my virtuous help."
At the same time, the box office trend of "Thai Embarrassment" is making more and more people break their defenses.
It was released for 8 days, with a total box office of 746 million.
It was released for 10 days and had a total box office of 870 million.
On the 11th day of release, the total box office was 910 million.
So far, the domestic box office of "Thai Embarrassment", which has a total production cost of less than 30 million yuan, has officially surpassed "Inception" with a cost of 120 million US dollars!
This time, not only the people who broke the defense of the black Li Mu, but also the most loyal fans of Li Mu broke the defense.
That's the masterpiece "Inception"!
It's been less than two years since it was released, and it was surpassed by this mediocre "Thai Embarrassment"?
A low-budget comedy movie with a total cost of less than 30 million yuan, but it only took 11 days to surpass the masterpiece "Inception" in the hearts of countless people?
The total investment of "Inception" is 120 million US dollars, and it is also directed by director Li Mu himself!
Just let "Thai Embarrassment" easily surpass?
Like words?
Director Shen Junsheng, who had been living in the shadow of Li Mu before, suddenly stood in the spotlight this time, and a reporter interviewed him: "May I ask Director Shen, what do you think of the box office of "Thai Embarrassment" surpassing "Inception"?"
Director Shen Junsheng thought for a moment, and then said in an unusually serious tone, "I think Director Li Mu is unfathomable!"
The reporter was busy asking why.
Director Shen Junsheng replied, "I remember that not long after the end of "People in Embarrassment", I started to prepare for the sequel. At that time, I privately discussed with Shen Teng and Bao Qiang for a long time, about a year, and finally I handed the script that the three of us had been working together for a year to hand to Director Li Mu."
"Director Li Mu took a brief look at it, and then he rejected the script, in fact, I was still very uncomfortable at the time, and I was a little unconvinced, but Director Li was a few days later
He handed me the script for "Thai Embarrassment."
"That is to say, the process of director Li Mu's creation of this "Thai Embarrassment", from conception to creation, only took a few days, and I felt very deeply the unfathomable depth of director Li Mu at that time!"
Netizens who watched Director Shen Junsheng's interview said: "Director Li Mu is too terrifying!"
"Do you know where the scariest thing about Director Li Mu is?"
"Where?"
"The horror is the horror in "Inception", "Gravity", and "Thai Embarrassment" are all from him; Horror is horror in the Hugo Award-winning work, and it is said that even NASA can't find a few mistakes, "The Martian" and "The Hunger Games", "Divergent", and "Moving Maze" are all from him."
"It's really terrifying, and I have a great grasp of people's hearts - I know that American teenagers love to watch a childish utopia, so I wrote "The Hunger Games" and "Moving Maze", and then sold more than 100 million copies worldwide; I knew that the highest honor of science fiction was the "Hugo Award", so I wrote "The Martian", "Gravity", "Moon" and swept the World Science Fiction Convention; I know that the future of 3D movies is very awesome, so I will shoot "Gravity" and slash the global box office of 1.7 billion US dollars, and become the one who started the big era of 3D movies with an extremely coquettish ***."
"And then today, I know that Chinese people love to watch comedy, so I took the time to write a script called "Thai Embarrassment", and then found a director to shoot it, and then, good guy, the box office exploded directly!"
"It's terrifying!"
"Gasp!"
"Sissi, what kind of monster boyfriend are you looking for!"
"Traverser, Absolute Traverser, Dissect! Dissect!! Anatomical !!"
"I'm rubbing, it's so hard upstairs that even the autopsy came out."
The miracle of "Thai Embarrassment" continues.
On the 13th day of its release, the total box office of "Thai Embarrassment" officially exceeded the 1 billion yuan mark.
This also means that the third film in the Chinese film market with a box office of more than 1 billion yuan was born.
The first part is "Gravity", the second part is "Avatar", and the third part is "People in Embarrassment in Thailand".
At the same time, the news media began to report on the herd mentality caused by "Thai Embarrassment".
Ge Ying, a professor at the School of Film and Television of Modu University, said: "Now watching "Thai Embarrassment" has formed a herd effect among the common people, and everyone will feel that if they don't watch this film, they will miss a hot topic in the city, and they all want to see what this film is all about. Once a film becomes a hot phenomenon, it can't be completely linked to its box office and real quality."
With the box office of "Thai Embarrassment" all the way to the ground, some different voices have begun to appear on the Internet.
"I didn't really feel the magic."
"Not so good"
"This is just a regular comedy with an investment of less than 30 million, but the box office has hit 1 billion so quickly, and it seems that it will soon hit 1.2 billion, 1.3 billion, and some people have even predicted that it may break the box office record of 1.69 billion set by "Gravity", which is abnormal and harmful."
Regarding the harmful remarks about the high box office of "Thai Embarrassment" that some netizens are hotly discussed, some netizens on the Tianya Forum ridiculed each other: "Do you know that now everyone watches "Thai Embarrassment" is no longer just watching movies? Now it is the audience spontaneously "revenge viewing", and the audience is slapping some film directors with money and box office."
"I'll slap you and pretend to be deep! I'll slap you mentally retarded and brainless and grab money! I'll slap you with a gimmick, but it's miserable! I'll slap you, give me 120 million US dollars, and I can make a 1 billion box office movie, so Director Li Mu is nothing awesome - the brain-dead directors are optimistic, "Thai Embarrassment" has been proven with facts, as long as you do a solid script and shoot it carefully, then even an investment of 30 million can make a 1.5 billion box office movie!"
On the 20th day of its release, the total box office of "Thai Embarrassment" was 1.435 billion.
Breaking 1.5 billion is already a matter of time.
The industry is already dumbfounded.