At the beginning of March, Li Mu set off to Hengdian to participate in the filming of "Journey to the West", although the role of the empty boy this time is a cameo, but in fact, there is also a salary, but the salary is much cheaper than the normal market price, as for the specific amount, in fact, there are millions, but millions can invite Li Mu, which is definitely worth it for the demon crew.

Because of the communication with Zhou Xingzhi in advance, all the shooting plans after joining the group this time had to make way for Li Mu's role, and Li Mu would fly directly to the United States after completing this filming task to officially start the filming of "The Revenant".

Last time Zhou Xingzhi invited Li Mu, he said that Li Mu's role this time would be accompanied by four beauties, but in fact, the four beauties Zhou Xingzhi said were four aunts hired for 150 yuan a day.

Now that Li Mu is about to enter the group, Zhou Xingzhi felt funny when he thought of it, one of the times he suddenly thought of it in front of the "Four Beauties", and then he laughed, Shu Qi and other leading actors on the side asked Zhou Xingzhi what he was laughing at, Zhou Xingzhi said it with a smile, and then everyone looked forward to Li Mu's reaction when he saw the "Four Beauties".

Li Mu was in the group that afternoon, and his role would not start filming until the next day, and after coming to the crew, he did not hide in the hotel room to rest, but went directly to the set. He hadn't entered Zhou Xingzhi's group in his previous two lives, so he was still very curious.

In the afternoon, what was filming was the scene where Shu Qi and Wen Zhang were forced into the cave room, and when Li Mu came to the crew, he happened to meet Zhou Xingzhi shouting card not long after, Wen Zhang, Shu Qi and others came to the monitor, Zhou Xingzhi pointed to the playback screen and said to the two: "His face is exaggerated enough, just a serious acting, but it is the funniest."

It turned out that the person who was called this time was Yang Di, and his role was still very famous in later generations, called "Brother Blood". Yang Di started by selling ugliness, funny, and exaggerated expressions, which will make his performance run wild on a more "funny" road, so Zhou Xingzhi is not very satisfied.

Yang Di finally got the blood spurting device on his neck, so he also came to the back of the monitor, and at this time, Li Mu arrived.

Zhou Xingzhi hurriedly stood up and walked a few steps to meet him, and all the main creators of the crew also followed when they saw this, and everyone greeted each other after meeting, and then Zhou Xingzhi pulled Li Mu behind the monitor, and then showed him the picture he had just taken, and after watching it, Zhou Xingzhi asked Li Mu what he thought of this performance.

Normally, in other people's crews, especially if they don't know the director's attitude towards a certain performance, Li Mu is not very good at directly commenting on the performance of a certain character, but with his current status, there is really no need to even make a sincere evaluation for fear of offending people and dare not say it.

"It doesn't feel right."

"I don't feel right, what doesn't feel right about you? See if the two of us think the same thing?" Zhou Xingzhi asked again with interest.

Li Mu said: "His situation is already very exaggerated, just a serious acting, but the most funny."

Li Mu shook his head as he spoke.

The meaning is already very obvious, Yang Di's performance is a bit funny for the sake of being funny, and he should act in this funny scene seriously.

Zhou Xingzhi immediately laughed when he heard this: "It seems that the two of us are heroes, and we see things in common."

This sentence is quite flavorful to say in Zhou Xingzhi's Mandarin.

Saying that, Zhou Xingzhi pointed out Yang Di on the spot, to the effect that he should not be funny and funny, just act seriously, Yang Di was thoughtful after hearing it.

Soon the second shooting started immediately, and the leading actors returned to the filming location, and Shu Qi mentioned what had just happened to Yang Di.

"Just before Director Li came, Director Zhou said, "His face is already very exaggerated, just a serious acting, but it is the funniest." 」

Yang Di was stunned for a moment, Director Li Mu's evaluation of him and Zhou Xingzhi's evaluation of him were exactly the same? No, it's not exactly the same, there are two words that are different, Zhou Xingzhi said "His face is already funny", and Director Li Mu said "His situation is already very funny", it's so different!

The leading actors thought it was amazing, Li Mu had just joined the group, and he definitely didn't hear it

Zhou Xing's evaluation of the sentence, as a result, the evaluation of the two people can be the same to this extent, which is simply a bit incredible.

At seven o'clock in the morning the next day, Li Mu rushed to the dressing room to put on makeup, the role of the empty boy has a peculiar shape, his face is painted with white powder, his eyes are dark, his white clothes and white coat are white, he is dressed like a "white-faced" scholar, and his face looks like a dead person.

Anyway, it's weird, I changed into a costume and worked with a makeup artist for more than an hour to finally get it done.

At this time, Zhou Xingzhi, Shu Qi, Wen Zhang, Huang Bo, etc. were already waiting on the set, and at this moment, everyone wanted to see Li Mu's real reaction when he suddenly discovered the so-called "four beauties".

Huang Bo and Li Mu are the most familiar, and when Li Mu arrives, he clamored about how beautiful the four beauties who are going to play with Li Mu today, and even proposed to let Zhou Xing hold Director Zhou to add a little large-scale kiss scene for Li Mu.

"Director Li, you should also let go this time, anyway, it's not there, right? Let's talk about filming, what's wrong with adding a kiss scene? You can't even shoot a kiss scene if you have a girlfriend, right?"

After Huang Bo finished speaking, the entire crew held back a smile and waited for Zhou Xingzhi to invite the "Four Beauties of the Wilderness" out.

Li Mu joked to Huang Bo: "I think this opportunity is still left to you, I can't afford it."

"The beginning of the dissipation of the receptivity of the dissipation." Huang Bo continued to persuade.

Li Mu looked at Zhou Xingzhi, who was smiling slightly, and said, "If it's really a beauty, I will kiss it today, but as the saying goes, "Li'er is not crooked, and jokes are not coming." Director Zhou said that most of the beauties are definitely not beauties, don't be a 100 vegetable market lady hired a day, I'll be content."

As soon as these words came out, everyone on the side smiled.

It's right again, it's absolutely amazing.

Li Mu smiled, "I won't guess again, will I?"

Everyone looked at Zhou Xingzhi.

Zhou Xing said solemnly: "Half of the mistakes are actually hired for 150 a day."

Then the assistant director said hello, and the so-called "four beauties" in ancient costumes officially appeared.

Once the preliminary work is all ready, the official shooting will begin immediately.

In fact, Li Mu's acting skills are not bad at all, not only are they not bad, but they are very good, plus he has watched "Journey to the West" many times in the original time and space, and Luo Zhi's version of the empty son as a reference, and he also understands what Zhou Xingzhi wants to effect, so he is particularly handy when filming.

It's not that he deliberately imitates Luo Zhichuan's performance, with Li Mu's acting skills today, he no longer needs to imitate others to complete the performance, but the performances of others do provide him with a certain reference value.

In fact, Luo Zhichuan's acting skills are good, even better than many professional actors, otherwise he would not have been called "Empty Boy" after "Journey to the West", and "Squidward" after "Mermaid".

Zhou Xingzhi is very strict with filming, and sometimes a shot will be repeated hundreds of times. During the filming of "Domestic Lingling Paint", the group performance that played kicking and floating on the water never met Zhou Xingzhi's requirements, seeing that the sky was about to dawn, once it was dawn or not, the filming would have to wait for more than ten hours. At this time, director Li Lichi couldn't stand it anymore, so he decided to go in person, and only then did he complete the shooting of that classic clip before dawn.

So after the start of filming this time, many people in the crew were also worried. Zhou Xingzhi has such high requirements for filming, and Li Mu is a super director who can enter the top few in the world, what if Xing Ye repeatedly makes Director Li impatient as a result?

As a result, when filming officially started, Li Mu's scenes were almost all over once, two more times, and the third time was almost unique.

The only few times I had to shoot the third time were all problems with other people, such as the pole master wore it, the group performance stood in the wrong position, the opponent forgot the words, and so on.

It can be said that all the scenes involving Li Mu, as long as you don't meet your pig teammates, you can basically pass it once or twice, so Li Mu's acting skills left a deep impression on everyone.

Five days later, Li Mu's scenes were all completed, and he left for the United States to shoot "The Revenant".

The filming period for "The Revenant" is about 70 days, and it is expected to be in mid-May

Complete all the filming plans, he will not be in a hurry to return to China at that time, "The Martian" will be officially released worldwide on May 26, North America is the first box office of "The Martian", Li Mu and the film-related creators will definitely run to promote it in the United States.

May 26, 2011 is Thursday, normally new films in North America will choose to be released on Friday, the first week box office of North American films, the next week box office, three weeks of box office, etc. does not refer to the box office of a whole week, but the sum of the box office of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

A new film released on Thursday, assuming that the film's first-day box office is $40 million, and the box office is $20 million every day for the remaining three days, then the film will be released for four days on the first Monday, and the total box office will be $100 million, but in the statistical caliber, its first-week box office figure is actually $60 million.

Yes, the first week of the North American box office excludes the $40 million box office on Thursday, which is often the highest day of release.

Therefore, new films in North America often choose to be released on Fridays.

The reason why Li Mu's "The Martian" chose to be released on Thursday this time is because that week will coincide with an anniversary in the United States, and the country will have a four-day holiday.

In fact, there are quite a few heavyweight new films that choose to be released on this day.

At present, it has been confirmed that there are two high-profile films on this day, "The Hangover 2" and "Kung Fu Panda 2".

"The Hangover 1" cost $35 million to produce and grossed $469 million worldwide.

"Kung Fu Panda 1" swept the world in 2008 and achieved a brilliant result of 633 million US dollars.

Li Mu wants to compete with these two movies this time, and the pressure on his shoulders is still very high.

In my impression, the box office of "The Hangover 2" seems to be very good, and the reputation of "Kung Fu Panda 2" is also very good, of course, "The Martian" in the previous life was also a double harvest at the box office, but the starring roles in the previous life were Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, and Kate Mara, but the starring actors in this life were replaced by Jiang Wen, Gong Li, and Liu Yifei. Whether the box office can continue to sell well after the change of the main creator, in fact, Li Mu has no bottom in his heart.

The good news is that Jiang Wen has a certain degree of popularity in the United States, Gong Li just won the Oscar, plus her previous fame, it is not an exaggeration to say that she is the most familiar Asian actress to the American people. And Liu Yifei has acted in two movies such as "Hurricane Rescue", one "Inception", and one "Hunger Games", and he also has a certain appeal in the North American film market.

In any case, "Kung Fu Panda 2" and "The Martian" will be released on the same day, which is still very exciting for domestic fans.

As for "The Hangover 2", ninety percent of this movie will not be imported into China, because no one cares too much.

"Kung Fu Panda 1" is a movie that Chinese people like very much, and it is no longer a matter of one or two days for domestic audiences to look forward to the release of "The Martian", not to mention that Li Mu is still the pride of the Chinese people, and now the schedules of these two movies have collided head-on, which is a sentence in the eyes of most Chinese people - this time there is really going to be a good show!

Most of them think that the box office of "The Martian" will be higher, as for the reason, is the director Li Mu enough?

Let's take a look at Li Mu's previous results:

"Gravity", the global box office is 1.7 billion US dollars.

"Inception", the global box office is 956 million US dollars.

"The Hunger Games" grossed $921 million worldwide, and its first-day box office of $85.31 million and its first-week box office of $188 million are still the highest in the North American film market.

How can the box office of "The Martian", which has the same theme as "Gravity", be bad?

"Kung Fu Panda" is really good, but compared with Li Mu's space movies, it is still a little inferior.

Of course, those who are optimistic about "The Martian" are optimistic about "Kung Fu Panda 2", and Li Mu is in China today

status, you said that Li Mu's movie can be popular, and no one pays attention to you at all.

What everyone knows still needs to be said? On the contrary, if you say that Li Mu's movie is not good, there will be many fans of Li Mu to argue with you.

Someone argues with you, and you become famous.

So a netizen who is a "meat-eating wolf" wrote a post for this purpose to discuss why "Kung Fu Panda 2" must win.

In the mouth of this netizen, Li Mu's "Gravity" released in 2009 was able to get a super high box office of 1.7 billion US dollars in the world, but in fact, it was entirely because Li Mu was too able to get the schedule, and he just won the title of "the world's first real 3 movie" for "Gravity", and even rushed to be released before "Avatar", which achieved a super high box office that did not match the quality at all.

But now the times have changed, the trend of 3 movies has passed, and without the title of "the world's first real 3 movies", the box office of "The Martian" will naturally return to the normal range.

As for what is the normal range?

Like "Doomsday Collapse" or "Hurricane Rescue 2" is the normal range, and four or five billion dollars is the normal range!

The man also went out of his way to emphasize that The Hunger Games was not a normal range, and that the series sold more than 80 million copies worldwide, which is an outlier, while "The Martian" was nowhere near that sales.

After talking about "The Martian", let's talk about "Kung Fu Panda 2".

The man also gave an example.

The global box office of "Shrek 1", which is also an animated movie, is $488 million, and the global box office of "Shrek 2" has skyrocketed to $929 million, and the box office of the second part is even 1.9 times that of the first part.

Now that the global box office of "Kung Fu Panda 1" is known to be 633 million US dollars, then according to the same proportion, "Kung Fu Panda 2" should have a box office of 1.2 billion US dollars.

Therefore, he judged that this time Li Mu's "The Martian" would lose to "Kung Fu Panda 2".

As of mid-May, this post has been widely disseminated on the domestic Internet and has been recognized by many netizens.

And at the same time.

On May 16, the movie "The Revenant" was completed.

On May 18, the movie "The Martian" held its premiere in Beijing in advance.

On May 22, Jiang Wen, Gong Li and other related leading actors flew to the United States to participate in the promotion of the film, as for why Liu Yifei also participated in the film?

Of course, it's because she has been with Li Mu in the United States for a long time.

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