Liu Siying came to Li Mu to discuss the schedule of "Hurricane Rescue 3", and after the two discussed, the company went to communicate with other investors and distributors.

In fact, the range of options for Hurricane 3 this time is very narrow, it is known that the company will be on "Living Together in Time and Space" in August, and then there will be a series of films such as "The Revenant", "Source Code", "Non-Embarrassment", "Time and Space Traveler", etc., and the range of schedule options left for Hurricane 3 is basically concentrated in July.

New films in North America are generally released on Fridays, so the available schedule for Hurricane 3 is basically one of the three on July 15, July 22, and July 29.

"Most of the time on July 15th won't work, the finale of Harry Potter on this day." Liu Siying raised her head and said.

Li Mu nodded.

He remembers that the global box office of the finale of "Harry Potter" seems to be above $1.3 billion, and the original time and space directly entered the third place in global film history, and also set a series of box office records such as the world premiere box office record and the North American premiere box office record.

The North American box office of this film on July 15 alone was as high as 90 million US dollars, which is a one-day box office, and other films can have this box office in the first week, the famous "Avatar 1" has a box office of 26.75 million on the first day, and a box office of 77 million in the first week, and it can't beat the first day of the finale of "Harry Potter" in the first week.

The box office horrors of fan movie debuts are the same as for the Harry Potter series, the Twilight series, and the Hunger Games series.

"How about July 22nd? The box office drop in the second week of fan movie release is generally large. Liu Siying said again.

Li Mu said: "Harry Potter on July 22 may indeed not be so scary, but there is Marvel's new movie "Captain America" on this day. ”

Liu Siying said: "How does "Captain America" compare with our Hurricane 3? ”

Li Mudao: "The comic character Captain America is very popular in the United States. ”

Liu Siying said: "Then it will be on July 29th, and there are no films that have attracted too much attention on this day." ”

Li Mu shook his head: ""Living Together in Time and Space" should cooperate with the promotion of Xiaomi mobile phones, it may be on in early August, and "Hurricane Rescue 3" on July 29, it is my left hand to fight my right hand, I think it will be on July 22, even if you want to lose both, you have to lose both with others, there is no reason to be with yourself." ”

Liu Siying nodded: "I'll communicate." ”

Li Mu nodded, and Liu Siying left immediately.

In fact, Li Mu's impression is that the box office of "Captain America 1" can only be regarded as decent, with a global box office of 380 million US dollars, which is not as high as the box office of "Hurricane Rescue 2", but the problem is that compared with "Hurricane Rescue 2", "Hurricane Rescue 3" is actually going downhill.

……

In mid-June, Li Mu was interviewed by "Southern Metropolis Daily", most of the interview was about "The Martian", and it was also to promote the movie that was nearing the end of its release.

This is Nandu reciprocating the favor, Li Mu accepted an exclusive interview with Nandu, Nandu helped promote Huashang will screen a new drama, the two sides are mutually beneficial and win-win, in this process, Nandu's beautiful reporter mentioned a question that many netizens are very concerned about, that is, why did the heroine of "Step by Step" choose Liu Shishi?

You must know that Liu Shishi is an artist of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Mu's Huashang Media has signed a lot of female artists by itself, and he has a lot of artists who don't need it, but he uses Liu Shishi of the Tang Dynasty, which is somewhat unreasonable.

His new drama is about to be released, Li Mu naturally chooses as good as possible to say, so he inevitably praises Liu Shishi a few more words, especially at the end of the interview, Li Mu simply put forward the concept of "Four Little Flowers".

In 2002, "Southern Metropolis Daily" collectively referred to the four post-70s mainland actresses as the "Four Little Flowers", and this word has gradually entered the public's field of vision, these four are Unspeakable, Zhang Ziyi, Zhou Xun, and Xu Jinglei.

In 2009, Penguin and CCTV also conducted a selection, and the "Four Little Flowers" were Huang Shengyi, Liu Yifei, Yang Mi, and Wang Luodan, which may be due to the butterfly effect, in 2009, this time and space In 2009, this selection magically disappeared.

"I'm a fan of fairy swords, Liu Shishi's nightshade left a good impression on me, her image and temperament are good, especially suitable for ancient costumes, TV series casting must be suitable for the first, as for whether it is its own artist, maybe Liu Siying will be more concerned about these, but I don't care very much, and in my opinion, this girl will definitely be one of the new 'Four Little Flowers' in the mainland in the future, and now is the growth period of Xiaohua, I love talent more, and I can help if I can."

The beautiful reporter in Nandu had her eyes lit up, and she was keenly aware that this might be the biggest explosion point of today's interview.

"The new 'Four Little Flowers'? This is a very interesting proposal, I think netizens across the country will also be very interested in this topic, may I ask Director Li, can you tell us who you have in mind about the future 'Four Little Flowers'? ”

"Bai Bing, Zhao Liying, Yang Mi, Liu Shishi."

Well, three of these four people are Huashang's signed artists, and only Liu Shishi is an exception, which is the promotion of Liu Shishi? This is obviously just hyping his own female artist! Mr. Liu's only role seems to be to make the list seem at least less unfair.

Otherwise, wouldn't the so-called new "Four Little Flowers" in the mainland in Director Li's mouth become the "Four Little Flowers of Huashang"? It's all your family's artists, and you're still convincing?

The beautiful reporter in Nandu seems to have seen through everything, but when she thinks about it carefully, this list is really not so unfair.

Bai Bing's popular "Myth", Zhao Liying's "33 Days of Broken Love" broke 700 million at the box office, and Yang Mi was eligible to be rated as a small flower in 2009 in the original time and space, not to mention the present in this time and space? The only thing that is almost meaningful is really Liu Shishi.

In fact, strictly speaking, Tong Liya, who is also a Huashang artist, may be more qualified, Yu Ji in "Mythology", Shen Bing in "Beijing City Love Story", especially this year She also starred in "Living Together in Time and Space" written by Director Li Mu himself, in terms of influence, especially in terms of influence in the coming year, this Tong Liya is likely to surpass Liu Shishi.

Therefore, if you really want to select the post-80s flowers, maybe Huashang Media may really be able to win the new four little flowers, so the female reporters in Nandu can be regarded as reluctantly accepting Li Mu's division.

"What about Liu Yifei? She is younger than all four of them, and her influence is greater than that of all four of them combined. ”

"Yifei's stage is the global film market, and it is also compared with actresses around the world."

Well, it's not a grade.

After accepting the interview, Li Mu met a post-70s actor in the office, who went to Xiangjiang in 2003 and had no background, so he could only go door to door to the film company to promote himself, so he got a chance to play the villain. Hong Kong drifting for many years, everywhere hit a wall, career has never been a big improvement, bent on creating a self-contained era of action, but in Xiangjiang experienced unimaginable darkness, after returning to China in order to get a chance, did not hesitate to mix into the famous military writer's book friends set almost, this got a rare opportunity to turn over in the future.

That's right, the person who came was Wu Jing.

In 2003, in order to create his own era of kung fu movies, he went south to do "Hong Kong drifting" in the big era when the performing arts industry in Xiangjiang went north, and in 2011, Wu Jing, who had returned to the mainland, deeply realized that the hope of creating his own action era was not in Xiangjiang but in the mainland, to be precise, it was Huashang under the name of director Li Mu.

With this understanding, Wu Jing came to Li Mu and became a must-do.

Wu Jing is the first mainland actor in the total box office, and the first actor with a box office of 30 billion, which is higher than the total box office of Shen Teng later, "Wolf Warrior 2" can be called a work that breaks the ceiling of the mainland box office, and has maintained the first box office in the mainland for five years, and the film that broke the box office record of "Wolf Warrior 2", the protagonist is still him!

Since Wu Jing had already taken the initiative to come to the door, and the commercial value on his body was so huge, Li Mu naturally would not let go of this opportunity lightly.

He wants to sign him into Huashang's sect, and he has the ability to make Wu Jing in this plane achieve achievements that are even better than those of the original plane.

No matter how high the box office of Wu Jing in the original time and space is, his influence is mainly limited to China, and Li Mu has the opportunity to build him into an international action superstar.

Although it is unlikely to reach the point where Cheng Long and Li are connected, it will definitely be able to be stronger than him in the original time and space.

Li Mu is very confident in this.

However, signing it into China does not mean that high conditions should be imposed on it.

Now is the low ebb period of Wu Jing's career, except for Li Mu himself, no one in this world knows that Wu Jing will achieve such great achievements later, so there is no need for Li Mu to overprice him.

A down-and-out martial arts actor had the courage to find an international director, just to ask for a chance, but the international director came up and offered him a contract that was not inferior to signing Cheng Long, Li Lianlian, and Zhen Dan?

Is this reasonable?

I'm afraid that if this is the case, even Wu Jing himself will mumble in his heart.

In the end, Li Mu offered to help him create his own era of action movies, but the condition was that he would sign into Li Mu's Huashang Media Company, with a contract period of six years, and the company promised to arrange at least four action movie actor roles for him, with a dividend ratio of 5:5, which can be adjusted once a year.

Of course, the amount of liquidated damages stipulated in the contract is quite staggering.

Wu Jing is still quite entangled, how many six years can he have in his life? A contract will bind him for six years, and the liquidated damages are set so high, he knows the risks here too well.

Many brokerage companies are so cheating, if there is friction with the company in the future, on this kind of contract, the company can completely block you, although the contract promised to arrange four action movie actors for the artist, but the difference between action movies and action movies is big.

In short, if you don't obey, I'll give you four super super bad scripts, and the rest will be refrigerated and you're not allowed to act.

Of course, Wu Jing didn't want to sign this kind of contract, but Director Li Mu said that he would arrange four action movie male protagonists for him.

"Director Li, I want to ask if the screenwriter of these four action movies is you?"

"Of course!"

"Hmm"

"Okay, I'll sign!"

After getting Li Mu's affirmative reply, Wu Jing said decisively.

Li Mu also nodded when he heard this.

Wu Jing immediately went to Liu Siying to discuss the details of the signing, while Li Mu leaned back on the chair and combed through the action movie library in his mind.

Keanu Reeves' "Fast Pursuit" series is an inspirational drama in Hollywood action movies.

The first part cost $25 million, the second $40 million, the third $75 million, and the fourth part already cost more than $100 million.

The reason why the production cost is higher than one is that its global box office is also synchronized, and one is higher than the other.

"Fast and Furious 1" grossed $86 million worldwide, "Fast and Furious 2" grossed $174 million worldwide, "Fast and Furious 3" grossed $328 million worldwide, "Fast and Furious 4" grossed $440 million, and "Fast and Furious 5" grossed ...... worldwide

Is it okay for Wu Jinglai to be the male protagonist of the "Fast Pursuit" series?

Not only yes, but he may well be the only suitable person in the country.

Cheng Long's style is not harmonious, Li Lianjie is old, at least when he filmed the fifth or sixth part, he must be too old, Zhen Dan is barely okay, but it is definitely not as suitable as Wu Jing.

Since it is appropriate, then this matter is settled.

At the same time, the premiere ceremony of the TV series "Step by Step" was held in Beijing, and before the official start of the ceremony, the leading actors chatted backstage.

"Do you think Director Li Mu will arrive today?"

"Probably not, Director Li didn't seem to have arrived at the premiere ceremony of "Beijing City Love Story" some time ago."

"Mr. Cai is sure that Vice President Liu Siying should appear on behalf of Huashang."

"Not necessarily, after all, Mr. Li ......"

The topic ends here, but everyone looks in the direction of Liu Shishi intentionally or unintentionally, it has been rumored that Liu Shishi's protagonist is hand-picked by Director Li Mu, as an outsider in the non-Huashang department, Li Mu can be so valued, and the outside world will inevitably have some conjectures.

At this time, a female supporting character in the play came to Liu Shishi's side and asked directly.

"Sister Shi Shi, did you say that Mr. Li will come today?"

Liu Shishi: "How do I know?" ”

"Are you not familiar with Mr. Li? But they all said that Mr. Li values you very much. ”

"No, my role was won by our President Cai."

"Oh."

As a result, as soon as the words fell, the other actors over there all looked at this side, and almost everyone's eyes seemed to be full of surprise.

"What's wrong, what's wrong?"

The little girl who had just asked Liu Shishi also noticed the strangeness in everyone's eyes, so she hurriedly inquired around.

Then finally someone took out their mobile phone to show everyone today's hot news of Southern Metropolis Daily.

"Huh? The new four little flowers? The man was amazed and couldn't close his mouth.

Liu Shishi, who couldn't help but be curious, finally came to the crowd to find out.

As a result, seeing Li Mu's original words quoted in the interview, Liu Shishi's eyes widened instantly:

"I'm a fan of fairy swords, Liu Shishi's nightshade left a good impression on me, her image and temperament are good, especially suitable for ancient costumes, TV series casting must be suitable for the first, as for whether it is its own artist, maybe Liu Siying will be more concerned about these, but I don't care very much, and in my opinion, this girl will definitely be one of the new 'Four Little Flowers' in the mainland in the future, and now is the growth period of Xiaohua, I love talent more, and I can help if I can."

"Mr. Li said that I am the future - 'Four Little Flowers'?" Liu Shishi's heart was shocked.

Bai Bing, Yang Mi, Zhao Liying, Liu Shishi - good guys, it turns out that this is the four little flowers of the post-80s generation in the eyes of Mr. Li!

Three of the four are his Huashang Media artists!

But don't say it, this list is actually quite convincing.

With Li Mu's status in the entertainment industry today, the four little flowers he personally determined broke the circle in an instant.

What is breaking the circle?

Even those who don't usually watch TV series know that the most popular of the post-80s actresses are Bai Bing, Yang Mi, Zhao Liying, and Liu Shishi, because the four of them are the new "Four Little Flowers"! .

Liu Shishi's fan base is even more directly fried, how can Liu Shishi have so much attention? Yes, there will be one.

"Long live Director Li, long live, long live! Or our Director Li has a vision, my family is the best in the world! ”

"That's too much of a favorite, isn't it? Or just make a promise! ”

"People have long been known as the master of grass, how can you let Shi Shi promise each other?"

"A big willow is not a big willow, a small willow is not a child, a big wife, a little wife, isn't this good? How well matched?! ”

"Whew! Seriously suspect you're a fake fan! ”

……

In late June, Li Mu's new movie "People in Embarrassment" was launched in a low-key manner, because Wu Jing had signed a contract with Huashang, Li Mu also specially added a role for him in the film.

On the day the crew set off for Africa, Wu was shocked enough to ask Li Mu.

"Director, did you really find more than a hundred armed bodyguards this time?"

Li Mu glanced at Wu Jing and said, "Of course, that's Africa, who would dare to be reckless without some means of self-preservation?" Isn't that looking for death? ”

"But more than a hundred is too much, right? If you want me to say that I alone can ensure your personal safety as a director, there is really something, I will block the gun for you. ”

Saying that, Wu Jing also patted his chest.

"Forget it, even when Li Lian is acting in a bodyguard movie, he has to have a large group of bodyguards to protect him."

……

On the other hand, "The Martian" has been released for its fifth week.

In the fifth week of its release, the domestic box office of "The Martian" reached 1.61 billion, breaking the previous record of the first box office in the mainland held by "Gravity", and the box office in North America in the fifth week was 19.5 million yuan, ranking third.

The first is the new Disney animation "Cars 2" released on June 24, which grossed $68 million in the first week.

In second place is also a new film, "Bad Teacher" produced by Sony, which grossed $31 million in its first week.

The third is, of course, Li Mu's "The Martian", and the fourth is "Green Lantern", $18.35 million.

Well, the fifth week box office of Li Mu's "The Martian" overturned the second week of Warner's 200 million investment in 150 million to promote the giant "Green Lantern", and Warner wanted to cry without tears.

At this point, the release of "The Martian" has also come to an end, with its North American box office of $290 million, overseas box office of $410 million, and if you add its domestic box office, its current global total box office has reached $935 million.

The agency has once again raised its forecast for its total box office to $950 million.

Sorry for being late.

(End of chapter)