Before officially returning to China, Liu Yifei took Li Mu to the theater to watch "Tangled", Li Mu watched this movie in his previous life, and his impression was still very good, especially the white horse named Maximus in it was really cute.

Before the two entered the theater, Li Mu's mobile phone suddenly rang, and he took it out to take a look.

"Jon Fellerme"

“？” Liu Yifei has a question mark on his face.

Li Mudao: "The president of Lionsgate. ”

As he spoke, he pressed the connect button.

"Mr. Li Mu, do you have time now? I'm Jon Felemen, and I'm right on the doorstep of your hotel. ”

"I'm so sorry, Mr. Jon Fellermet, I'm in the theater right now, or we'll make an appointment another day."

"Okay, excuse me, we'll make an appointment another day!"

Hanging up the movie, Li Mu said to Liu Yifei: "Let's go, the film is about to start." ”

"Tangled" is a pretty good animated movie, with 260,000 people giving it a high score of 8.3 on Douban, and its reputation is much stronger than Li Mu's "The Hunger Games".

Liu Yifei also likes this movie very much, and during the entire viewing period, her whole mood was affected by the plot in the movie.

In the film, she is nervous when the protagonist and his party are in danger, and when the protagonist and his party in the film save the day, she will also smile heartily, and from time to time she will praise a comment such as the movie is really good or Princess Lepei is so cute.

"Princess Lepei is cute, but she is far from the cutest."

"And who do you say is the cutest?" Liu Yifei faintly felt that Li Mu was talking about her, which made her feel a little numb in her heart, but she couldn't help but want to hear him say it in person, sometimes the more numb the more goosebumps appeared.

"Of course, Princess Elsa is the cutest." Li Mu is serious.

"Elsa...... Princess? Unexpectedly, Liu Yifei's voice was a little louder unconsciously, she was afraid of disturbing others, and the word princess deliberately lowered her voice again.

"yes, didn't you know that our animation studio was working on an animated film called Frozen? There is a character in it who is Princess Elsa. Believe me, when this movie is released, it will definitely compare all Disney princesses, including this "Tangled". ”

"Oh." Liu Yifei, who didn't hear the answer, sighed. 、

"Princess Elsa will definitely compare all Disney princesses to others, because I used the image of a truly beautiful princess when creating the character of Princess Elsa."

"Who?" Liu Yifei asked in a red face and whispered.

"Knowingly ask!" Li Muxin said, and then he said, "There are three images of Princess Elsa, and the reason why there are only three images of her is because I am afraid that if it is really exactly the same, the audience will all go to see people and no one will care about the plot of the movie." ”

Liu Yifei stopped talking, she knew that there was a character in "Frozen" who had three images of him.

She didn't speak, Li Mu didn't speak, the two watched the movie quietly for a while, and then Liu Yifei asked:

"Hey, how much do you think this movie will win at the box office? I feel very good-looking. ”

Li Mu said: "The quality of the movie is very good, and the total global box office will definitely not be bad, I dare not say how much, but this movie was released in the same week as our "Hunger Games", which is considered a competitor, and I really paid attention to it, its first week box office was 39 million, ours was 188 million, and the first week box office was 140 million US dollars lower than ours. ”

"Huh?"

Liu Yifei looked up at Li Mu suddenly.

"Such a good-looking movie, the box office in the first week is 140 million US dollars lower than our "Hunger Games", so much?"

She knows the data of her own movies, but she really didn't pay much attention to the data of other movies in the same period, and she watched "Tangled" very exciting today, but the box office turned out to be so much lower than her own movie?!

Li Mu: "The production cost of "Tangled" is 278 million US dollars, and the cost of "The Hunger Games" is 70 million US dollars, and the production cost of "Tangled" is nearly four times that of "The Hunger Games". ”

Liu Yifei: "?? ”

Li Mu: "The first week of hunger was $188 million, and the magic hair was 49 million dollars, and the box office of the first week of hunger was almost four times that of the magic hair. ”

Liu Yifei: "??? ”

Li Mu: "I said earlier that Princess Lepei is far from being the first princess. ”

After the film ended, the two came out of the theater and walked over to each other, Li Mu pulled Liu Yifei behind him, and then an old man walked out of the crowd, and Li Mu felt relieved after seeing this person.

"Jon Fellerme, CEO of Lionsgate!"

Li Mu stepped forward to shake hands with this person and asked, "Is Mr. Feleme waiting for me?" Didn't we say we'd make an appointment later? And how do you know I'm here? ”

Jon Feleme smiled: "I was indeed waiting for Mr. Li, the reason why I didn't say it on the phone just now was because I was afraid of disturbing Mr. Li Yaxing who accompanied his girlfriend to watch a movie, as for how to find here, of course, it is because this is the closest cinema to Mr. Li's hotel." ”

Li Mu smiled: "Mr. Feleme is for the copyrights in my hands?" ”

Jon Fellermay made an appointment for a meeting address, and Li Mu also called a lawyer.

Lawyers are expensive, but they are also worth it.

Although it is impossible for the parties to sign a formal contract today after the first meeting, it certainly does not hurt to be able to consult a lawyer at any time during the negotiation.

Lionsgate is of course interested in the film adaptation rights of "Divergent" and "Moving Labyrinth" in Li Mu's hands this time, and Li Mu does intend to sell one of them, and Lionsgate's sincerity is obviously higher than that of other companies, so the two sides quickly reached a basic cooperation intention.

Li Mu will sell the film and television adaptation rights of "Divergent". Chinese Net

In the previous life, the production cost of "Moving Maze 1" was only one-third of that of "Divergent 1", but the box office was a full $60 million higher than that of "Divergent 1".

"Moving Maze 2" is only half the production cost of "Divergent 2", but its global box office is still higher than "Divergent 2".

Obviously, from Li Mu's point of view, the film and television copyright value of "Moving Maze" is undoubtedly higher, so when one of the two is sold, the only one that will be sold is the "Divergent" series.

According to the preliminary agreement between the two parties, Li Mu will sell the film and television adaptation rights of the "Divergent" series to Lionsgate, and Li Mu will receive 4% of the global box office dividends of the series films.

is a global box office dividend, not a profit dividend, if the global box office of the film is 100 million US dollars after its release, then Li Mu will directly share 4 million US dollars, regardless of whether the film is profitable or not, he will share so much.

A few days later, Liu Yifei and Li Mu set off to return to China, but as soon as the two got off the plane, they were surrounded by a large number of domestic reporters and fans.

In order not to affect the normal exit order of the airport, Li Mu took Liu Yifei's hand and quickly squeezed out the crowd, and casually answered some questions raised by reporters during the period.

"Director Li, we all know that "The Hunger Games" has created a number of miracles in the North American market this time - the first day box office list in film history, the first place in the single-day box office list in film history, the first week opening list in film history, the fastest time to break through the $100 million mark in film history, the fastest time to break through the $200 million mark in film history, etc.

Li Mu: "I didn't think at all, I made this movie to praise my girlfriend, and it doesn't matter if I make money or not." ”

Reporter: "? ”

Is this supporting your girlfriend?

I remember that someone seemed to have criticized it before that "The Hunger Games" would ruin this potential series with Liu Yifei, and Li Mu couldn't spoil a good work in order to praise his girlfriend.

Visually, now is Li Mu's response coming?

What's wrong with Lao Tzu praising his girlfriend? Lao Tzu not only won it, but Lao Tzu also created a box office miracle!

Reporter: "May I ask Director Li, what do you think is the key to "The Hunger Games" being able to create more than ten firsts? Why do audiences all over the world love watching this movie so much? ”

Li Mu: "Maybe the whole world loves to watch me praise my girlfriend!" ”

Reporter: "?? ”

The reporter asked Liu Yifei again: "Hello, may I ask what you said to individual netizens that the reason why you have today's achievements is actually entirely because you are Li Mu's girlfriend, what do you think about this?" ”

Liu Yifei had an indifferent face: "That's right, I just rely on him, I like to rely on him." ”

Li Mu next to him: "That's right, she likes to rely on me, and I like to rely on her, is there any problem?" ”

Saying that, Li Mu escorted Liu Yifei into the car sent by the company, and then the two of them left.

The North American box office of "The Hunger Games" is really crazy and crazy.

The film grossed $79 million over three days in its second week of release, winning the second consecutive week. In the same period, "Tangled" was only $21 million, and "Harry Potter 7 (Part I)" in third place was only $17 million.

The advantages of The Hunger Games are enormous.

The film won a total of $43 million at the box office in three days of the third week of its release, winning the championship for three consecutive weeks.

The new film "The Chronicles of Narnia: Dawn Treader" came in second with a $25 million first-week box office. Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie's "The Tourist" came in third with $17 million.

The film earned a total of $27 million over three days in its fourth week of release, and the film won the fourth consecutive week.

So far, the film has been released for a total of four weeks, and its total North American box office has reached $430 million, plus the overseas box office of $250 million, and the Chinese box office has reached $90 million, and the global box office of this film has reached $770 million.

So what is the global box office of "Harry Potter 7 (Part I)," which is now released a week earlier than "The Hunger Games"?

$940 million!

According to the predictions of relevant institutions, the global box office of "The Hunger Games" should eventually fall around $900 million, while the box office of "Harry Potter 7 (Part I)" is still growing.

In other words, it is unlikely that "The Hunger Games" will surpass "Harry Potter 7 (Part I)" at the global box office.

But the problem is that since the release of "The Hunger Games", its various statistics have been pressing "Harry Potter 7 (Part I)"!

The box office of "The Hunger Games" pressed the opponent on the first day, the single-day box office record pressed the opponent, the box office in the first week pressed the opponent, and the fastest speed of breaking 100 million and breaking 200 million still pressed the opponent.

Even "The Hunger Games" successfully achieved the box office championship and won four consecutive hegemony, which directly suppressed the other party for four weeks.

As a result, in the end, the global box office of "The Hunger Games" was still not as good as "Harry Potter 7".

What's going on here?

This is the incomparable performance of the global influence of the IP of the two films.

"The Hunger Games" took only four weeks to pull the North American box office to a high of $430 million, while "Harry Potter 7" took five weeks to still only $310 million in North America, but at the same time its overseas box office has reached $640 million, and "The Hunger Games" has only 340 million dollars overseas.

If you remove part of the mainland box office, it will not even be half of the other party.

And with the continuous rise of the global box office of "The Hunger Games", the fans of Liu Yifei and Li Mu are completely shaking now.

When the global box office of "The Hunger Games" exceeded 600 million US dollars, fans of the two moved out "Iron Man 1", which was released in 08.

"***, awesome! The global box office has surpassed "Iron Man 1"! The word-of-mouth explosion of this movie is known as the pioneering work of the Marvel Universe, but "The Hunger Games" was surpassed so quickly, and I was speechless! You don't have to be so mighty! ”

"Let's popularize science, the production cost of "Iron Man 1" is 140 million US dollars, and the production cost of "The Hunger Games" is only 70 million US dollars, which is only half of others!"

"Awesome!"

Then when the box office broke $650 million, the fans of the two unsurprisingly climaxed again.

This time, everyone moved out "Iron Man 2" and "Kung Fu Panda 1".

"The global box office of Panda is 631 million US dollars, and the global box office of Iron Man 2 is 623 million US dollars, one of these two goods costs 130 million US dollars, and the other costs 200 million US dollars, but the result still can't beat the 70 million cost of "The Hunger Games"!"

""Kung Fu Panda" is very good-looking, the global box office of 631 million US dollars seems to be very awesome, it seems that the world's more than 300 million US dollars can basically make a sequel, which shows that it is already very good, but when it comes to "The Hunger Games", it is completely not enough to watch!"

Then it was when the box office broke $800 million.

This time, fans of the two brought "Flying House" and "Transformers 1" out to discuss.

The two films grossed $735 million and $790 million at the global box office. At the same time, the cost of both movies is above 150 million US dollars, but in the end, they still can't beat Liu Yifei and Li Mu's "The Hunger Games"!

The fans are starting to binge.

Major portals have reported wildly, and the number of discussions on Sina Weibo is very amazing, but this Weibo has not yet had a hot search function, otherwise it will inevitably have several hot searches a day.

In the end, the global box office of "The Hunger Games" stopped at $913 million, and this number has left countless classic blockbusters far behind the audience, and its highest grossing total in film history has also rushed to No. 17, behind "Jurassic Park" at No. 16.

So far, there have been three directorial works in the top 20 of the world film history box office list.

And Liu Yifei and Li Mu's fans lifted "Transformers 2" out when the total box office of the film officially broke the $900 million mark.

"Transformers 2" has a total investment of nearly 300 million US dollars, a total global box office of 836 million US dollars, and the production cost is more than 4 times that of "The Hunger Games", but the total global box office is more than 80 million lower than that of "The Hunger Games".

Even some Liu Yifei fans feel that this box office result is a bit outrageous.

"I said something from the bottom of my heart, friends, don't scold, I just feel that the box office results this time are a bit evil, "The Hunger Games" is definitely not a bad movie, and I was very happy when I watched it, but is it strong enough to this extent? You look at that series of various records, it's like opening a plug-in, everyone says that Lao Mei loves this film so much? ”

"I feel the same way, the film is not bad, but the box office is too scary!"

"Excited! Refreshing! Checking the data every day is more cool than doing anything, these two are really good, and they are too popular, I think that after the two of them have children, they will simply call them red children! ”

"Phew! The Bull Demon King later looked for a junior! ”

"Dizzy! It's not Princess Sissi, it's not Princess Iron Fan! ”