The schedule of "Beijing Meets Seattle" was set for January 6, and Li Mu originally wanted to set it in December, but later found that it was really difficult to arrange and finally had to give up.

is scheduled for the beginning of December, firstly, it is too close to the schedule of "The Hunger Games", so that his two movies compete with each other, what is Li Mutu? He's not sick.

Second, the beginning of December was not without opponents.

On December 3, there will be the comedy movie "Laughing Jianghu" starring Zhao Benshan and Xiao Xiangxiang, and on December 4, there will be "Zhao's Orphan" directed by Chen Kaige.

There was a saying on the Internet before: No one can be popular with the small loss of 09, except for Li Mu in 09! It can be seen that its popularity is high.

As for "Zhao's Orphan", according to the Zhejiang Provincial Workers' Daily, the local government invested 120 million yuan to build a Spring and Autumn Warring States City for "Zhao's Orphan" - Xiangshan Film and Television City.

It can be seen that Director Chen is still quite good at present, although he has saved several movies in a row.

It's hard to arrange at the beginning of the month, and it's about the same in the middle of the month. The schedule of "Let the Bullets Fly" is December 16, and Li Mu knows better than anyone how fierce the box office of this movie is, and he has also invested money in this movie.

At the beginning of the month, it was difficult to arrange in the middle of the month, and there were also strong opponents at the end of the month. Feng Xiaogang's "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 2" is scheduled to premiere nationwide on December 22.

"If You Are the Truth, Do Not Disturb 1" is the box office champion of non-Li Mu films in 2008, and the previous work of box office reputation has laid a good foundation for this year's sequel.

This movie has sold more than 60 million yuan just for advertising placement, and all the investment in the film has been recovered before the movie is released, which shows how optimistic the market is about it.

In order to avoid "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 2", Li Mu finally set the schedule on January 6 after discussing with Wang Changtian, Yu Dong, director Xue Xiaolu and others.

This schedule not only avoids "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 2", but also distances itself from "New Shaolin Temple", which will be released on January 19, which can be regarded as a choice that takes into account the interests of all parties.

The Chinese entertainment industry in December is quite lively.

At the beginning of the month, "Laughing Jianghu" and "Zhao's Orphan" made a fuss due to the "stealing the box office" incident, and then "Zhao's Orphan" hit the street at the box office. When people don't expect much from you, you can easily make movies......"

The box office of "Let the Bullets Fly" released in the middle of the month is really fierce, even more fierce than the original time and space, and the box office broke through the 400 million yuan mark in only 9 days, and the movie's reputation is even rave reviews, and many fans even watched it twice or three times but still felt that it was not enjoyable.

"Do Not Disturb 2", which was released at the end of the month, was more fierce at the initial box office than "Let the Bullets Fly", and the box office broke 400 million in only 7 days, but it was trapped by the movie's word-of-mouth and was quickly overtaken by "Let the Bullets Fly" in the later stage.

If it weren't for Li Mu and his "Hunger Games", December would have belonged to the world of "Let the Bullets Fly".

When it comes to the domestic box office, "Let the Bullets Fly" does perform better than "The Hunger Games", but if you look at the global film market, then no film can overshadow the glory of "The Hunger Games" this winter.

The global box office is 913 million US dollars, and the number of box office records it has broken even makes Chinese people dazzled.

Sina Entertainment also specially sorted out the box office data of all Li Mu's works since his debut, and they added the box office of the films directed by Li Mu himself, and finally came up with a figure of "5.003 billion".

The unit is in US dollars.

In other words, the total box office of the films directed by Li Mu since his debut has reached 5.003 billion US dollars, ranking third in the world!

The number one is of course Steven Spielberg, with a global box office of $8,280.5 million.

The second place is James Cameron, who shocked the whole world with a "Avatar" last year, with a global box office of 6.175 billion US dollars.

The third is Li Mu, plus the $913 million of "The Hunger Games", which has not yet been fully released, his personal global box office has reached $5.003 billion at this time.

It seems that if Cameron does not make a movie for many years this time, then it should only be a matter of time before Li Mu surpasses Cameron.

Everyone knows how much Li Mu is a model worker.

It is worth mentioning that the 5.003 billion US dollars mentioned above is only the total box office of the films directed by Li Mu himself, in addition to the 6 screenwriting works that Li Mu has not personally directed - "Hypnosis Master", "Hurricane Rescue 1", "Hurricane Rescue 2", "How to Steal the Key", "People in Embarrassment", "Thai Embarrassment", the total box office of these 6 works is 1.005 billion US dollars after being converted into US dollars.

50.03 plus 10.05, at this time, the total box office of Li Mu's works in a broad sense has reached 6.008 billion US dollars.

The name of "$5 billion director" went viral across the country for a while.

In December, Li Mu appeared in the British "Empire" magazine and the American "Entertainment Weekly" magazine, of which the "Empire" magazine published the headline: "After Kurosawa, Asia's greatest director." ”

As early as 05, the British "Empire" magazine once selected the world's top 40 director heroes, among which Spielberg was named the world's greatest director with an absolute advantage.

Among the gangs, only one director in the whole of Asia is Akira Kurosawa, ranking sixth in the list of the greatest directors.

The headline published by the American "Entertainment Weekly" for Li Mu is: "The Chinese director who made the whole Hollywood tremble." ”

Some people count the total box office of Li Mu's works, and naturally some people also count the total box office of Liu Yifei's movies since his debut.

"Hurricane Rescue 1" is $283 million, "King of Kung Fu" is $52 million, "Hurricane Rescue 2" is $4.68, "Inception" is $9.56, "Doomsday Collapse" is $590 million, "The Hunger Games" is $913 million - that adds up, $3.262 billion!

This number is not only the best in China, even if you look at the whole world, you can easily rank in the top ten among actresses.

Even Gong Li, who starred in "Gravity", is not an opponent at all, and this figure does not include those films in which she participated but did not star.

So Liu Yifei recently added a new nickname: "Sister 3 billion US dollars." ”

In fact, there was also a "3 billion sister" in the original time and space Huaxia, and this person was none other than Chen Zhixi, the former secretary of Li Mu in this time and space.

Chen Zhixi served as the producer of "Thai Embarrassment" and "Pancake Man" one after another, and these two movies exploded at the box office, and finally "Thai Embarrassment" and "Pancake Man" set box office records, and Chen Zhixi was awarded the title of "3 billion sister" on the hot search list.

It seems that Yang Mi in the original time and space was also awarded the title of "3 billion sister", but whether it is Chen Zhixi or Yang Mi, the "3 billion" of their "3 billion sister" refers to RMB, while Liu Yifei's "3 billion" refers to US dollars.

If it is also converted into RMB, then Liu Yifei should be called "22 billion sister" at this time.

In short, it's not a "25 billion sister".

In fact, whether it is Li Mu's $5 billion director or Liu Yifei's $3 billion actress, except for the fans of the two and some insiders, in fact, most ordinary audiences don't pay much attention to these things.

For ordinary audiences, it's enough for a good movie to be good, do I care if you are 3 billion or 5 billion? At most, you can discuss it with your colleagues or classmates for a few minutes after seeing the relevant news, and then forget about it.

But the impact of this incident on the insiders and their respective fans is too great.

Last year, the total box office in the whole country was less than 10 billion yuan, and as a result, Li Mu and his family came up with a "$3 billion sister" and a "$5 billion brother"?

Especially Li Mu, counting the screenwriter's works, he is "6 billion US dollars"!

As soon as this news comes out, who in the circle can not get dizzy after watching it?

Director Zhang Yimou's "Three Guns Shooting Surprise" last year had a box office of 244 million, and the box office of Director Chen Kaige's powerful "Zhao's Orphan" was only 200 million, and director Feng Xiaogang, who has won the annual box office champion for many years, has a box office of more than 500 million works so far, and the work is "The Great Earthquake", well, there will be another "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 2" soon, but how much does Director Feng's total box office add up? ap

These former top directors in China, looking at Li Mu's achievements today, it feels like a dream.

"This, this, this...... That's 500 billion 6 billion dollars? ”

"A movie like "The Hunger Games" can get 900 million dollars?"

"It seems that just a few years ago, everyone was still pessimistic about Hollywood movies constantly squeezing the living space of domestic films, but it has only been a few years? Is there anyone in China who can counterattack Hollywood?! ”

"6 billion US dollars, converted into RMB is - more than 400 billion?"

"My goodness!"

The star actors in the circle will speed up their breathing even unconsciously when they look at the relevant news, who doesn't want to star in a movie that can sweep the world like Liu Yifei?

Not to mention that "The Hunger Games" is still the rarest "chick" movie for actresses.

Especially those actors who are not familiar with Liu Yifei, there is no doubt that their mood will be more complicated at this moment.

For example, Jiang Yiyan.

are all classmates, and Liu Yifei easily reached the peak of actresses because she found a good man.

So what's the use of acting well? What's the use of better acting? No matter how good her acting skills are, can Li Mu give her the position of the heroine?

Impossible, right? So in the end, it's not about the man!

and Yang Mi.

At the beginning, Liu Yifei played Xiaolongnu, she played Guo Xiang, and the gap between the two was not so big at that time, but it was only a few years of hard work?

In addition, Liu Yifei's classmates like Zhu Yawen and Luo Jin were also emotionally moved after seeing the report again.

The gap was already big when we were still on campus, but I didn't expect the gap to become even bigger after graduation.

Li Mu has not participated in many movies in person, but he has quite a lot of fans. Some time ago, Li Mu said in an interview that the "Hunger Games" series should be filmed in four parts, and Li Mu's fans were excited.

Now the global box office of the films directed by Li Mu is 5 billion US dollars, if the box office of the next three "Hunger Games" series is similar to the first one, then this series alone can add nearly 3 billion US dollars to Li Mu's box office?

Spielberg, who ranks No. 1 in the world, currently has a total box office of only $8.2 billion, so doesn't it mean that Li Mu will make one or two more movies after filming the "Hunger Games" series, and he will properly surpass the world's No. 1 Spielberg?

It seems that the world's No. 1 will fall on the head of our Chinese director sooner or later!

Especially Li Mu is still so young now, it is not impossible for the total box office to break 10 billion US dollars in the future!

The world's first $10 billion director? - This picture is exciting just by thinking about it!

And in the city.

Recently, the mental state of the editors in the editorial department of "Science Fiction World" has become a little excited.

"The Hunger Games" was published by Qin Li, the current president of the magazine, and the first reader was Yang Feng, the backbone editor of the magazine.

This is Li Mu's second work, and the editors of the magazine at that time still felt that Li Mu's idea of insisting on publishing in the United States was somewhat unrealistic, who would have thought that it had only been a few years?

Some time ago, "The Hunger Games" was a global hit, and the resulting version was brought by the movie to explode again.

In just five days after the film's release, the Hunger Games trilogy sold a full 7 million copies, an average of more than 1 million copies a day.

On January 1, the December sales data came out.

The popularity of the "Hunger Games" trilogy in December has dropped from November, and it is no longer as scary as selling 7 million copies in five days at the end of last month, but it still sells 17 million copies worldwide.

36 days, 24 million copies.

So far, the global sales of the "Hunger Games" series have exceeded the 80 million mark, reaching 85 million copies.

"You say the total sales of this series will not exceed 100 million in the future, right?"

Some editors couldn't help but sigh.

The other editors all nodded silently.

Then the entire editorial office fell silent.

Recently, Li Mu has suddenly become very busy, as if he has endless meetings and leaders, as well as endless interviews.

In addition, he also has to arrange the schedules of "Beijing Meets Seattle" and "33 Days of Broken Love", while staring at the progress of the post-production of "The Martian", and at the same time caring about the development of its Maoyan and grouping, which can be described as busy.

And during his busiest time, the company's tool director Shen Junsheng suddenly found Li Mu again.

"Boss, if you don't want to write the script for the third part of the series, you should write it yourself."

Li Mu looked at Shen Junsheng in front of him and asked, "Old Shen, why do I feel that there is less hair on the top of your head?" ”

Shen Junsheng's face immediately collapsed when he heard this: "This is not a lot of pressure!" ”

It turned out that Li Mu had said before that the script of the third part of the "People in Embarrassment" series would be handed over to Director Shen Junsheng to handle it personally.

In fact, the box office of "Hong Kong Embarrassment" is not bad, and it is even higher than the box office of "Charlotte's Troubles", the comedy masterpiece in many people's hearts.

But the high box office does not mean that "Hong Kong" is a good movie, a large part of the high box office of "Hong Kong" is actually due to the first two films, without the foundation laid by the first two films, how can "Hong Kong" He De be able to win a high box office of 1.6 billion yuan in the domestic market in 2015?

Since he knew that the script of "Hong Kong Embarrassment" was almost meaningful, Li Mu did not plan to continue copying it.

It is possible to borrow a little, but it is impossible to copy it all.

First, if director Shen Junsheng writes the script himself, the box office may not be as good as "Hong Kong" in the original time and space, and secondly, if he forcibly copies it, the $5 billion director Li Mu wrote a script like "Hong Kong" - I have to say that this is also detrimental to Li Mu's personal reputation.

So he simply threw the task of writing the script to Shen Junsheng.

Whose child is held, you Shen Junsheng want to direct the film, and you Shen Junsheng will write the script in person.

In the end, Shen Junsheng worked on it himself for more than half a year, but what he wrote was completely unsatisfactory to him, coupled with the huge controversy caused by the news of the change of the screenwriter of the third part of the "Embarrassment" series, the pressure on Shen Junsheng's shoulders was even greater.

If the box office of "Thai Embarrassment" is only seven or eight billion, he still dares to write a sequel to a movie with a box office of seven or eight billion, but he is really a little weak in the sequel to a box office movie with a box office of 1.5 billion.

I'm afraid of ruining the series.

Li Mu looked at Shen Junsheng's scrap draft, to be honest, it felt okay, but it didn't feel too amazing, the key is that no one dares to say whether the movie can sell well in the script stage.

Can you tell if it will sell at a glance?

No one has that vision.

How did Hollywood's Big Eight become Big Six?

Others think that Li Mu has this vision entirely because Li Mu is a time-traveler, and the box office of every movie and the evaluation of future generations are all in his head.

So Li Mu actually couldn't get the script handed over by Shen Junsheng.

"The third part is not in a hurry, if you think it's not good, take it back and change it slowly."

But these words fell into Shen Junsheng's ears, and the proper boss was dissatisfied with the script.

With the boss's supernatural vision, he is not optimistic about the project, so why should he change it?

"Don't, boss, I'll read the script or you come in person, now netizens have too high requirements for the "Embarrassment" series, let me write the script, this is to properly put me on the fire and roast it! ”

"Roast you on the fire?" Li Muxin said, "Isn't letting me write this to force me to be original?" I'm a traverser who has been forced to be original, this is to roast you on the fire, this is clearly to roast me on the fire! ”