On July 15th, "Hurricane Rescue 3" was officially released nationwide, and netizens can check its box office data at any time through Maoyan's real-time box office, but in fact, this box office data is not completely accurate, because it is an approximate value calculated by Maoyan through a series of complex formulas, and the calculation is based on Maoyan's online ticket share of more than 7 percent, and the coverage rate of more than 9 percent of theaters across the country.

Only the data released by the special fund office is truly accurate data, and Maoyan has to adjust the previous day's estimate according to the data of the special fund office every day.

The pre-sale box office of 140 million does not mean that the first day box office of the film is 140 million, because the pre-sale box office contains many tickets for other dates, and at this stage, offline direct ticket purchase is still the main way for the audience to buy tickets.

However, on July 16, the data of the special funding office was officially announced, and the box office of "Hurricane Rescue 3" on the first day was really 140 million.

It was more than 20 million higher than the first-day box office of "The Martian" some time ago, directly creating a new first-day box office record in the mainland market.

There are about more than 20 million yuan in the first-day box office of 140 million, but even if the ticket supplement is removed, this box office is still very high.

The film's Douban score is 6.9 points, and the score echoes Li Mu and Liu Yifei's previous evaluation of the film in an interview - this is a mediocre work! However, it was very surprising that not many viewers expressed great disappointment with the content of the film.

Many viewers knew before they walked into the theater that this film was not a work that could bring a sense of amazement, and everyone understood that this story was really not good to make it up further, but they grabbed a movie ticket of 9.9 yuan, this series is Li Mu and Liu Yifei's first movie, and Cheng Long's masterpiece of Brother Cheng Long's return to his peak, which can be said to have a certain commemorative significance, the first two, especially the first one, have also brought themselves a very amazing viewing experience, isn't it enough to have these?

What's so disappointing about the mediocre film?

Most audiences' expectations for this film are not high, and the film is just mediocre, in fact, the basic quality is still guaranteed, so many viewers said that the film is actually a little better than they expected.

Especially at the beginning of the film, it feels like a spy movie, and the experience is still amazing, but it's a pity that the back is a bit high and low.

Li Mu, who was far away in Africa, was also surprised for a while when he saw this first-day receipt, but he was soon relieved. The original Douban score of "Detective Chinatown 3" is only 5.3 points, which is no longer the score of a mediocre movie, it is simply the standard of a bad movie, but what is the result?

"Detective Chinatown 3" grossed 1.05 billion yuan on the first day, breaking the previous mainland box office record of 728 million yuan held by "Avengers 4 Endgame", becoming the first mainland film to break 1 billion yuan at the single-day box office. It also surpassed the box office of "Avengers 4" on the first day of North America of 157.46 million US dollars (Tang San's 162.6 million US dollars), setting the highest box office record for a single film in a single market on the first day and in a single day!

Hurricane 3 has similar advantages as the original Tang 3, so it has created this seemingly exaggerated but actually very reasonable first-day box office result.

However, mediocre films are mediocre films after all, the previous "The Martian" had a first-day box office of 120 million, but the highest single-day box office was as high as 155 million yuan, and the first-day box office of "Hurricane Rescue 3" was its highest single-day box office, and then the box office of the film was basically downhill.

The box office was 125 million yuan the next day, 101 million yuan on the third day, and 83 million yuan on the fourth day, as of Thursday, July 21, the total box office of the film just exceeded 500 million yuan.

Since July 22, the film has been officially released in North America and other overseas markets on a large scale, and has achieved a box office of $51 million in the first three days of the weekend, ranking second in the North American box office list this week, the first is the Marvel film "Captain America 1", which grossed $66 million in the first weekend.

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During the release of the film, Liu Siying called Li Mu to discuss the casting of the new drama, Li Mu has been keen to hoard all kinds of potential copyrights for so many years, Liu Siying, as the vice president of the company, naturally will not be unaware of this, since the company has hoarded a large number of copyrights, and the company's cash flow is unusually abundant, so much investment in the production of a few film and television dramas has almost become an inevitable choice.

This time, Liu Siying wanted to shoot Gu Slow's "Shanshan Comes to Eat", so she specially called to ask Li Mu's opinion.

"What about the opinion of the author of the original work? Who does she want to cast in the starring role? Li Mu asked.

Liu Siying smiled: "Forget it, forget about the male and female protagonists that Gu Slow likes, this drama can't invite actors with this kind of coffee." ”

Li Mu was a little surprised: "Shanshan Come to Eat" is an idol drama, the age of the male and female protagonists is definitely not too big, are there any young actors who can't be invited?" ”

This is not Li Mu's conceit, with Huashang Media's status at home and abroad, there are really few actors who will refuse Huashang's invitation, except for those who are very famous, like Chen Daoming, Gong Li, Li Lianhua, Zhang Ziyi, Zhou Xun, etc., of course, these people are likely to refuse the invitation of Huashang's small investment network adaptation, how many actors in the country have their coffee position?

And Li Mu thinks that the author of the original book really likes Zhang Ziyi and Zhou Xun, and Huashang Media may not be invited.

Even if these two don't care about this drama, they must care about the opportunity to show their faces in front of Li Mu, what if they hang up in Director Li's heart and dump you as the heroine of a movie?

Wouldn't that be developed?

Liu Siying said with a smile: "The male and female protagonists that Gu Slow likes are you and Yifei, how about it, or Mr. Li, you will make this online adaptation?" ”

Li Mu on the other end of the phone couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and said in his heart, how could he think of himself and Liu Yifei? The male protagonist of this drama is a domineering president, does he look like a domineering president?

"This is definitely not good, I will use Zhao Liying for the heroine, I feel that she is still very suitable for this role."

Liu Siying said with a smile: "Gu Slow also knows that he can't invite you and Yifei, so the second candidate she suggested happens to also have Liying." ”

In fact, Gu Slow was quite dissatisfied with the choice of the hostess, because Zhao Liying's coffee was too small at that time, and it seemed to be hacked very miserably at that time.

And this time and space is different, this time and space Zhao Liying is the heroine of "33 Days of Broken Love", "33 Days of Broken Love" is a very rare box office of more than 700 million heroine movies, it can be said that Zhao Liying's coffee position in this time and space is far stronger than the original time and space.

"Where's the actor?"

"Chen Hao."

Li Mu thought for a while and said, "Okay, but I thought you would like Huang Xiaoming or Zhang Han." ”

"Huang Xiaoming and Zhang Han? Are these two people suitable? ”

"Whether it's appropriate or not, I'm now as long as I hear the words 'domineering president' mentioned, the first thing that comes to mind must be these two people."

In the end, the two talked about the female supporting candidates in the play, and there are many female supporting roles in "Shanshan Come to Eat", such as the male protagonist's childhood sweetheart, ex-girlfriend, sister, female protagonist's best friend, sister, and the staff of the male protagonist's company, etc., when he learned that there were no suitable candidates for these roles, Li Mu directly named them.

"I'll just say a few candidates, you can see if it's suitable, the hero's childhood sweetheart Jiang Xin, ex-girlfriend Mao Xiaotong, sister Tan Songyun, and the heroine's best friend Lan Yingying ......"

Many of these people he casually said were actors in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" later, "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is a phenomenal TV series, Li Mu is going to shoot sooner or later, so you might as well take this opportunity to let the company's production team get familiar with these people in advance.

After Liu Siying wrote down these lists one by one, the two hung up the phone.

Because Huang Xiaoming was mentioned just now, Li Mu thought of "Huaxia Partner" again.

In fact, he had the idea of making this movie a year ago, because it was based on the experience of real people in reality, so he had to ask for the opinions of the prototype characters. At first, Li Mu thought that this matter must be fine, so he asked someone to get Yu Minhong's call, but after chatting carefully, he found that Yu Minhong was actually quite repulsed by this matter.

Li Mu naturally won't be strong, originally thought that this matter was going to be over, but he didn't expect that a few days later, Xu Xiaoping, vice president of New Oriental, found Huashang Media and said that he had successfully persuaded Yu Minhong to make this movie, and then Li Mu talked to Yu Minhong a few times, and from the conversation, he could still feel that Yu was still slightly resistant to this matter, but it was obvious that he had been persuaded by Xu Xiaoping and others, and he turned a blind eye to this matter.

In fact, the project of "Huaxia Partner" has been advancing, Li Mu provided the company's screenwriting department with a story outline, some time ago he heard Liu Siying mention it, saying that the script has been written, but Li Mu has not read it specifically.

Accidentally mentioned Huang Xiaoming today, Li Mu thought of this project again, so after thinking about it, he called Huang Xiaoming again.

When Huang Xiaoming learned that Li Mu wanted to invite him to play a male role, his whole voice became very excited, so he couldn't wait to ask about the specific details of the role on the phone, and Li Mu also joked with Huang Xiaoming when he heard it.

"Actually, it's not a too brilliant role, the project is a TV series adapted from the Internet, your character, called Feng Teng, is the president of Fengteng Enterprise, as for the character setting, the black-bellied and domineering president is a ......"

gave a general introduction, I thought that Huang Xiaoming would probably find an excuse to excuse himself, with his coffee position today, there is really no need to act in this kind of online adapted TV series, but I didn't expect Huang to be a little excited after listening to it.

"This role is very suitable for me, Mr. Li can think of me at a critical time, I am very moved, Mr. Li, rest assured, I took this role!"

"Huh?"

"What's wrong?"

"It's fine." Li Mu and Huang Xiaoming actually have a good relationship, otherwise he wouldn't have made this joke today, but he didn't expect him to really agree.

Now seeing that the sect leader is serious, Li Mu had no choice but to put away the joke showdown: "Hey, you said I made a joke, but I didn't expect you to take it seriously, okay, then I'll say it directly, this time I actually want to find you to play the leading role of "Huaxia Partner"

"Huaxia Partner? What kind of story is it telling? ”

"The actor has a prototype in reality, that is, Yu Minhong's ......"

After listening to this, Huang Xiaoming immediately said again: "This role is very suitable for me, Mr. Li, don't worry, I took this role!" ”

"Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity!"

Li Mu nodded, thinking about whether to call Liu Siying again later, asking her to contact Deng Chao and Tong Dawei, when Huang Xiaoming added: "Mr. Li...... Actually, I have a lot of schedule now, and I can pick up the "Shanshan is Coming" together. ”

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From the end of July, another new movie of Huashang Media "Living Together in Time and Space" has also officially started large-scale publicity work, Li Mu and Xiaomi's Mr. Lei talked on the phone, and learned that the official release time of Xiaomi 1 is set for August 26 This day, "Living Together in Time and Space" is, to some extent, a promotional film for the group, Xiaomi, Haidilao, the production cost of the film is 10 million, and Huashangguang took 120 million in advertising fees, which can be regarded as creating a miracle that makes the circle talk about it.

And since it has shouldered the mission of promoting Xiaomi mobile phones, the release date of this movie must be set before the official release of the mobile phone.

Therefore, the final release date of the film is set for August 16, ten days before the official release of the Xiaomi Mi 1.

Starting from August 1st, the movie tickets for the first day of the release of "Living Together in Time and Space" will be officially sold in Maoyan and the group, and Huashang Media will invest 50 million yuan in large-scale ticket compensation for "Living Together in Time and Space", and the relevant information has been released through various media, and the result is naturally a boiling of the whole network again.

Is forty or fifty-one movie tickets expensive? It doesn't seem to be expensive, but if you really watch a movie for forty or fifty yuan, many people will feel a little distressed, but if you can grab a movie ticket for nine yuan and ninety-one, you can watch a movie for a bowl of noodles, and it is a movie produced by Huashang Media, then it feels very worth it.

Let's go back to the box office situation of "Hurricane Rescue 3".

After the domestic box office of the film broke through the 500 million yuan mark on July 21, it officially broke through the 600 million yuan mark on the 24th, reaching 613 million yuan, and then the daily box office of the film fell to about 20 million to 30 million yuan.

At this time, the film announced by Maoyan predicts that the total box office in the mainland is 1.003 billion yuan.

In the North American market, the film grossed $23.2 million on the weekend of its second week of release, ranking fourth on this week's list.

This week's ranking is the new Universal film "Cowboy and the Alien", the second Sony company's "The Smurfs", both films are new films released this week, the third is the Marvel movie "Captain America" released on the same day as "Hurricane Rescue 3", "Hurricane Rescue 3" is fourth, and Warner Bros.'s "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part II)" is in fifth place with a box office of $21.3 million.

It is worth mentioning that although the North American box office of "Hurricane Rescue 3" is not as good as that of "Captain America 1", its overseas performance is slightly better than the latter.

By the end of its second week of overseas release, "Hurricane Rescue 3" had grossed $170 million overseas outside of North America, compared to $140 million for "Captain America 1."

The domestic box office is about $140 million, the North American box office is $100 million, and the overseas box office outside North America is $170 million, and as of the third weekend of the film's domestic release, which is the weekend of the second week of the film's release in North America, the film's cumulative global box office is $350 million.

According to the predictions of relevant institutions, the final North American box office of the film should be about 130 million US dollars, the overseas box office outside North America is 240 million, the mainland box office is 150 million US dollars, and the final global box office of the film should be about 520 million US dollars.

Around the same time, Mao Xiaotong, Tan Songyun, Lan Yingying, Jiang Xin and others in China had already received audition invitations from Huashang Media, and almost all of them who received the notice became ecstatic.

Some time ago, "Step by Step" just came to an end, and the average rating of this drama was 3.4%, and the highest rating was 3.7.

Being able to act in Huashang Media's new drama, even if it is just a supporting role, is enough for these actors who are not yet famous to be excited for a while, not to mention that they also heard that Director Li Mu personally named a few of them to audition.

"Does Director Li Mu even know about me?"

A few people suddenly couldn't help but feel a little flattered.

(End of chapter)