On the 25th day of its release, the cumulative box office was 1.51 billion, officially becoming the second film in the country with a box office of more than 1.5 billion.

And as the start date of "The Martian" is approaching, the leading actors of the movie have also gathered in Beijing in advance.

"Liya, there are guests in the chairman's office today, you go and help entertain them, nothing else, just make a tea and refill a little thing like water."

"Okay, Sister Liu."

Tong Liya auditioned for a very small supporting role in the crew of "Mythology" before, and was eliminated, but I didn't expect Director Li Mu to have a good impression of her at that time, and helped her speak, but she didn't get a small supporting role, but played Yu Ji, who played a very important role, and after that, she signed a contract with Huashang.

Pushing the door in, I was first startled by the identity of the guests in the office.

Sitting on the sofa on the left side with Erlang's legs crossed and talking is Director Jiang Wen, opposite Director Jiang Wen is Ms. Gong Li, next to Ms. Gong Li is Liu Yifei, and next to Director Jiang Wen is the king Liu Dehua.

Tong Liya generously entertained these famous figures in the entertainment industry, Jiang Wen quipped: "Director Li, you are really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, even the waiters are so beautiful."

Li Mu smiled: "What waiter, this is a newly signed artist in our company, if Director Jiang encounters any suitable roles in the future, he will have to take proper care of one or two."

Jiang Wen smiled, "It's easy to say."

Tong Liya hurriedly expressed her gratitude.

After that, several people continued to talk about the details of the filming of "The Martian", and Tong Liya looked at these people in the office, and she inevitably felt excited.

Needless to say, Jiang Wen is a big director and a well-known actor, Ms. Gong Li is a new Oscar actress and the first Oscar actress in Asia, which is basically the highest achievement that an actress can achieve.

Liu Yifei is the boss's girlfriend, and her starring film has a global box office of more than $2 billion, making her the second most internationally renowned Chinese actress after Gong Li.

Andy Lau is one of the Four Heavenly Kings and a super idol in the hearts of countless Chinese people.

Now this group of people are all gathered in the office of Chairman Li Mu, and it is obvious that Director Li Mu is at the core.

It didn't take much effort, and Brother Cheng Long actually arrived. He came to Beijing to do some business, and after getting off the plane, he heard that Li Mu was very lively here today, so he went directly here.

"I just got off the plane and came over, you're very busy."

"The new movie is about to start, let's see you in advance."

Cheng Long looked up and saw Tong Liya, others didn't know her, Cheng Long wouldn't know her.

"Isn't this the Yu Ji?"

"Uncle Long, do you remember me?"

"Of course, you danced very well, very beautifully."

"Thank you."

Cheng Long turned his head to Li Mu and smiled, "I heard that the movie you are going to make this time has a production cost of 100 million US dollars, which is really a big deal!" But if you want to shoot big, we can't leave Li Mu behind, right?"

Li Mu asked, "Uncle Long, are you talking about the "Hurricane Rescue" series?"

Cheng Long smiled, "It's better that your kid reacts fast enough."

The copyright of the first part of the "Hurricane Rescue" series is relatively scattered, respectively in the hands of Cheng Long, Yinghuang and Xiying, and the copyright has returned to Li Mu since the second part, and now if you want to shoot the third part, of course you can't do it without Li Mu's nod.

To be honest, Li Mu's enthusiasm for this series is not very high now, for no other reason, just because this series is a typical one, which is not as good as one.

Let's take the Douban score as an example.

In the first part, the Douban score was still 8.3 points, the second part dropped to 6.9 points, and in the third part, it was further reduced to 6.6 points.

Although the score dropped a little in the second part, the global box office rose a lot, and in the third part, even the box office dropped.

"Are you having trouble?" Cheng Long asked.

Li Mu pondered for a moment and said, "The difficulty is that no matter how you write it

It's not amazing, and it's not impossible to write hard, but the result may not be as good as the second part."

Everyone in the office couldn't help but look at each other when they heard this.

Everyone said, "Listen, what does it mean to be worse than the second part? The second part is also called poor? Remember the global box office seems to be $460 million, right? What's wrong with this? There are definitely no more than 15 films in the world that have this box office a year!"

In the entire Chinese world, there is no director who can shoot this box office!

As a result, this is a poor thing in the eyes of Director Li Mu?

Cheng Long said at this time: "This series is not easy to do, I also thought that the third part may decline in both word-of-mouth and box office, and it is really difficult to write in the follow-up, but the cost of this series is low, with an investment of four or five hundred million US dollars, it is already very profitable to get 150 million US dollars at the global box office."

"$150 million?" Li Mu turned around and said, "No, no, 300 million dollars should be fine, 400 million may indeed be very difficult."

The big names in the office were speechless again.

The global box office of three or four billion dollars is already a proper global top 20 of the year, right? Why does this kid seem to be a little uninterested?

After sending the group of people away, when Li Mu returned to the office, he met a man who he was very familiar with, and the man came over to say hello very excitedly after seeing Li Mu.

Li Mu unconsciously glanced at Tong Liya who was standing next to him, and then turned around and looked at the person again.

"Hello Director Li, I'm Chen Sicheng."

"Hello." Li Mu and Chen Sicheng shook hands and said.

"Director Li, I came all the way to find you."

"Looking for me?"

The man smiled and said, "Originally, I wanted to find Mr. Liu, but now that I have met Director Li, it means that I am more destined for Director Li, so please give me three minutes."

Li Mu nodded and said, "Let's talk about it!"

"Okay." Chen Sicheng hurriedly nodded in response.

After coming to the office, Tong Liya helped Chen Sicheng make a cup of tea, and when she was about to leave the office, Li Mu stopped her.

Chen Sicheng said thank you, but didn't drink it, but directly explained his intention.

To put it simply, he recently wrote the script of a TV series, and it is currently in the stage of attracting investment everywhere.

The script is good, so there are many companies that are interested, but as soon as I heard that he asked to direct and act by himself, those companies that were still optimistic about the script before all stopped moving.

Basically, he has run all the famous companies in the entertainment industry, but he has never been able to find a company that is willing to agree to let him direct and act by himself. It just so happened that now the whole network is talking about how Director Li Mu has a vicious vision, so he wants to come over and try his luck.

"Where's the script?" Li Mu asked.

"Here, here." Chen Sicheng hurriedly said excitedly.

I didn't expect a director as big as Li Mu to really look at his little-known and transparent script in public.

Li Mu took the script and flipped through it briefly, and as he expected, it was the "Beijing City Love Story".

Li Mu knows that there are actually two screenwriters of this script, one is Chen Sicheng and the other is Li Yaling.

The two were originally very good friends, but then they would have a very unpleasant quarrel. Li Yaling will publish many blogs in a row, pointing out that Chen Sicheng monopolized the screenwriter's work and defaulted on his remuneration, and finally "broke off relations" with him in anger.

I remember that "Detective Chinatown" also had a similar dispute later.

It is said that Chen is not very good at writing scripts independently, but he can think of a good script framework, can make up some clever bridges, can come up with some beautiful dialogue, but he can't put these things together into a script.

"You wrote this script yourself?" Li Mu suddenly asked.

Chen Sicheng immediately said conclusively: "That's right, I wrote the script, Director Li, what do you think of this script?"

Li Mu was silent for a moment and then said, "Looking at the text, many of the details and psychological descriptions here seem to be from the hands of female screenwriters, it's hard to believe that an old man like you is

Men can write such works. Yes, it's a good script."

Chen Sicheng was very surprised when he heard this.

The heart said, "It's really fake, just a casual flip can see that there is a female screenwriter in it?"

But there was nothing to hide, so he added, "I wrote the script, but then I asked a female friend to help polish it."

Li Mu nodded and said, "The script is good, let's say, what are your requirements?"

Chen Sicheng immediately became energetic when he heard this: "I wrote this script, and I know it best, so I want to write, direct and act by myself."

Li Mu nodded, and asked again, "Is there anything else?"

Chen Sicheng was even more happy in his heart, and said that this was to promise him?

How many companies that are far inferior to Huashang in terms of fame and strength will not agree to let him, a pure newcomer, direct, I didn't expect that such a good company as Huashang seems to have a play?!

"There is also the choice of actors, and I want to respect my opinion as much as possible."

Chen Sicheng observed Li Mu's face as he spoke.

In fact, as long as the other party is willing to agree to let him write, direct and act by himself, he can give in to the rest of the conditions, but he still wants to fight for it, after all, no one will dislike himself for having a greater right to speak, right?

Li Mu knew that he would definitely look for Li Chen and Zhang Yi, so he didn't bother to interfere. The reason why he intends to vote for this "Beijing City Love Story" is more because he values the follow-up "Detective Chinatown" series.

He has a lot of movies to make by himself, and he really doesn't have the energy to see a potential series and end it himself, so he prefers to be a screenwriter himself, hold the project in his hands, and then return the project to the original team.

But you can't really let Chen Sicheng make his own decisions about everything.

Since the company has spent money, it should always look like it has spent money.

So Li Mu said: "The actor company tries to respect your opinion as much as possible, but the main actress must be decided by the company."

It's really a coincidence, Tong Liya and Yang Mi have both signed with Huashang Media, and in the original world, these two happened to participate in this TV series.

Thinking like this, Li Mu inadvertently glanced at Tong Liya who was standing next to him, and this glance fell in Chen Sicheng's eyes, and he felt that he "understood" in an instant.

Li Mu, Mr. Li, this is trying to arrange the somewhat exotic girl in front of him into the crew, right?

He casually looked at it.

The girl is really beautiful, and what is even more rare is that this girl has a particularly simple atmosphere, and it looks very much in line with the role of Shen Bing in the script.

In fact, as long as Li Muken nods and invests, let alone arranging a few actresses to come in, it doesn't matter if all the male actors except himself are set. Judging from "Latent", which was popular all over the country some time ago, let Huashang be fully responsible for the casting, maybe the result will be better.

It's just that what is the relationship between this exotic girl in front of you and Director Li Mu?

Is it that kind of relationship?

Probably yes!

Not to mention that Li Mu already has a genuine girlfriend or something, so what?

Compare your heart to your heart, if you also have Li Mu's status today, can you really be so honest!

I only heard Chen Sicheng reply while thinking nonsense: "It's no problem for your company to appoint an actress, but for the male role, in fact, I already have a few suitable candidates in my heart, all of them are my old acquaintances, and their acting skills are absolutely reliable: one is Li Chen, the other is Zhang Yi, I don't know if Director Li has heard of these two actors."

"These two can." Saying that, Li Mu looked at Tong Liya, who was still standing in the office, and then continued, "What do you think of her playing the heroine Shen Bing?"

Tong Liya was stunned at first when she heard this, and then she was happy in her heart.

It seems that Director Li Mu attaches great importance to this script, and no one in the circle knows what Director Li Mu's vision is.

At the same time, Chen Sicheng was also stunned, and said in his heart: "Sure enough, I guessed it, Li Mu really wanted to arrange this girl into the crew

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But this girl looked really suitable, so she became excited and said, "Director Li, the two of us really want to go together this time, I'll tell you the truth, as soon as I entered the door today, as soon as I saw this girl, I felt that she was simply Shen Bing alive!" It's only fitting that she should play the heroine."

Li Mu also nodded and said, "Then this matter is settled."

The next day, Li Mu called his former assistant, Chen Zhixi, who is now the gold medal producer of Huashang Media, to the office.

"People in Embarrassment: Lost in Thailand" is Chen Zhixi's first work as a producer, but he didn't expect the first work to directly create a box office miracle.

With an investment of less than 30 million and a box office of more than 1.5 billion, Chen Zhixi has become famous in the producer circle.

It is no exaggeration to say that with this movie alone, she almost has the qualifications to stand on her own.

But this woman is so shrewd that she remains unmoved, no matter how much other companies offer good terms.

Staying in Huashang and changing jobs to other companies or starting your own business, the level of access that different options can reach is simply a world of difference.

When she first became the assistant to director Li Mu, the characters she came into contact with were already at the vice president level of the six major Hollywood companies.

"Director Li, are you looking for me?"

Chen Zhixi asked after pushing the door in.

Li Mu nodded and gestured with his eyes, "I have two new scripts here, you can take a look at them first."

Chen Zhixi took two steps forward and walked to the desk, and then reached out to pick up the two scripts on the table.

She quickly flipped through the synopsis first, and looked at the synopsis, which are two love-themed movie scripts - one is called "33 Days of Broken Love", and the other is "Beijing Meets Seattle". ap.

"Both scripts are handed over to you, and you decide whether to start filming the two together or whether you want to finish one and then make the other." Li Mu said.

Chen Zhixi nodded and said, "I will take these two scripts with me in a while, and I will decide which one to shoot first or start filming together after I finish reading them." By the way, about the actors, I don't know if you have the right person in mind now, chairman?"

Li Mu really thought about it, and finally said, "I think it's better to cast it publicly, don't rush it first, wait until you finish reading."

Chen Zhixi nodded, "I see."

In fact, with Li Mu's usual approach, he will use actors from the original world in most cases, but these two movies are somewhat special.

Take "33 Days of Broken Love" as an example, this movie in later generations is known as "all the villains", not only the protagonists Wen Zhang and Bai Baihe had an accident, but the supporting actors Yao Di and Zhang Zixuan also had an accident, and later it developed to even the guest actor Chen Yufan had an accident.

Therefore, the actors in the previous life basically have no reference value, so let's just open casting.

There is also "Beijing Meets Seattle", and the actor's later incident is also not small.

Although it was still early before these people had an accident, even if Li Mu continued to use these people, it would not affect the box office of the movie, but Li Mu still decided to replace them directly.

These movies are good resources, and it's definitely better to leave good resources to more deserving people than to them.