Yang Mi even lost her breathing rhythm now.

It's not that she's not angry, it's not that she hasn't seen the market, it's how cruel and realistic the entertainment industry is, she has seen too much. Today, you are still popular, that is, you are surrounded by flowers, and the almost director, the almost script, and the almost investment can't be handed over; Tomorrow you will be cold, no one will be popular, the person who used to want to kneel down and beg you to play the leading role will turn his head and not know Ling, and you may not be able to ask for a role in turn.

Don't look at yourself as popular now, but who knows how long this popularity will last? The entertainment industry is changing rapidly, and the only thing actors can do is to keep improving and keep coming up with classic roles that can be remembered.

Now Li Mu said that he had a good script in his hand, and this was in Yang Mi's ears, and there was an opportunity to fly in place in front of her.

Ordinary people can get their hearts pumping when they catch a leopard card, not to mention that a big director of Li Mu's level says to an actor that he has a good script?

Nervous, Yang Mi began to think wildly.

"A few days ago, I didn't have a movie script that suited me, why did I have it again today? Is there any difference between today and the other day? ”

"I seem to have said today that I can do everything that the white soldiers can do, and I also said that my figure is better than the white soldiers, does it have anything to do with this?"

At this time, I heard Li Mu continue: "This script is very important, don't look at "Living Together in Time and Space" broke the record of 1.1 billion box office, but in terms of importance, it may not be comparable to this one." ”

Yang Mi nodded again and again: "Mmmmmmmm ”

Li Mu continued: ""Living Together in Time and Space" is very popular in China, but the overseas box office is very unsatisfactory, adding up to less than 2 million US dollars, but the movie I am talking about is different, the domestic box office of this movie may not be as good as the former, but it will definitely achieve a good result overseas. ”

Li Mu is starting to draw a big pie for Yang Mi, and the operation method is very typical, that is, the more rare the opportunity the leader says, the more employees will feel valued, and the more grateful they will be to the boss.

Yang Mi's face became hot when she heard this.

Stars in the entertainment industry, especially those in the entertainment industry at this stage, are not eager to play an international influence, to put it more realistically, why do stars desperately rub the red carpet of major film festivals? Many times it is better to be driven away than to take a few more photos? Because when I went back and sent the photos to the domestic media, it was very compelling!

You have to desperately grab the camera for a photo on the red carpet, if you can star in a film that is very popular all over the world, what if you can still do it?

"Uh-huh-hmm......"

Yang Mi will know that she will keep nodding.

At this time, Li Mu looked up at Yang Mi again and said, "But if you want to star in this movie, you still need to make sacrifices." ”

Hearing this, Yang Mi fanned her cheeks with her two hands like fans, then exhaled and said, "The office is a little hot - sacrifice? Sacrifice is no problem. ”

Li Mu smiled: "I know you're okay, the plot of this movie is actually very simple, but the theme is a shark theme that foreigners like very much, have you heard of "Jaws"?" It's like that, but this time it's a mini version. ”

Yang Mi: "Mmmmmmmmmmmm......mm

The mentality exploded.

"Jaws" is a classic work of the world's No. 1 director Steven Spielberg, well, director Li Mu may not really surpass Spielberg in the future, in short, this movie can win 470 million US dollars at the box office in 1975.

Li Mu: "The plot is very simple, the heroine went to a relatively remote beach to surf alone, but encountered a great white shark, and the heroine was trapped on a reef. As for the sacrifice I just mentioned, since the heroine is here to surf, she will definitely have to leave the bikini when shooting. ”

Yang Mi stopped fanning her hands: "Huh? This...... That's the sacrifice you just said? ”

Li Mu: "Otherwise? No matter how big the scale is, it will be difficult to pass the trial. ”

Yang Mi: "Hehe...... Hehe...... It's a big sacrifice indeed......"

……

After Yang Mi left, Li Mu shifted his attention to the upcoming "The Revenant", and he made several phone calls one after another to discuss distribution and publicity matters with the film's distributors at home and abroad.

The release date of the film was finally set for October 7th, and there were no too strong opponent films released during this period, and the only one that can be called a certain threat is "Iron Fist" starring Uncle Wolf Hugh Jackman, this movie has a Douban score of 8.3 points, which shows that it is still very much in line with the appetite of the Chinese people, the original time and space in its box office in China is 122 million yuan, which is not bad, and the box office of "Iron Man 1", which was released 3 years earlier than it, is only 92 million yuan.

In Li Mu's memory, the North American box office of "Iron Fist" was $85 million, and the global box office was $317 million, which was generally a success relative to the production cost.

is about to be released, whether it is "Iron Fist" or "The Revenant", large-scale publicity activities have been launched, and from the perspective of publicity effects, the popularity of both films can be called very good.

However, this time, domestic netizens don't seem to have much confidence in Li Mu.

What are the labels on "Iron Fist"? Men and mechas, sci-fi, hot-blooded, commercial blockbusters, etc.

Let's look at "The Revenant" again, who in China doesn't know that this movie is a bait for Li Mu? Director Li Mu invited Xiao Li Zi and Tom Hanks to star in Cobb in "Inception" at that time, but at first both of them rejected Director Li, and Director Li was helpless, so he came up with two scripts that could rush for the Oscar to bundle the invitation.

As a result, "Inception" created a global box office miracle, and one of the baits, "Manchester by the Sea", also won the Oscars for Best Actor and Best Picture.

can win the award, and winning the award does not affect the fact that the Chinese people still can't watch this "Manchester by the Sea", and the box office of this film is also very dismal.

Now that the bait of the original bundle is about to be released, no one will object to saying that this "The Revenant" has a chance to win an award, but how high can this movie be at the box office?

Is Manchester by the Sea a box office hit?

In fact, it can't compare to ordinary films, since even if "Manchester by the Sea" of the same genre wins the Oscar for Best Picture, it will not affect its unsatisfactory box office performance at all, so how strong can "The Revenant" of the same genre be?

Some netizens even simply said on the Internet that they actually like Li Mu's movie very much, but this time he will not go into the theater to watch this "The Revenant", there are many ways to support Li Mu, he would rather choose to watch Li Mu's "Non-Embarrassment" twice during the Spring Festival this year.

It's not that I don't support Li Mu anymore, it's really not exciting for this kind of pure American story, or for award-winning dramas.

This netizen's opinion basically represents the opinion of a large part of netizens.

On Douban, the "want to watch" message under "Iron Fist" is that you must watch it, I heard that it is very good, I look forward to it, I like this type of film, etc.

And when it comes to the part of "The Revenant", the style of the message has become like this: Come on, win another Oscar; I don't want to see it, but I hope to win an award; Rushing for award films, I don't have much interest, but it would be nice to be able to sweep the Oscars like "Manchester by the Sea"; If you win the grand prize again, Li Mu will really be a god!

It seems that apart from Li Mu himself, there are really not many people who are optimistic about the box office performance of "The Revenant", so why is Li Mu optimistic about "The Revenant"?

Because he's a traverser, of course!

In the original plane, the North American box office of "Iron Fist" was $85 million, while the figure of "The Revenant" was $183 million, which is 2.2 times that of the former.

"Iron Fist" grossed $317 million worldwide, while "The Revenant" grossed a whopping $532 million.

The domestic box office of "Iron Fist" is 122 million yuan, while the domestic box office of "The Revenant" is 376 million yuan.

While "The Revenant" is indeed a typical Olympic film, it has performed significantly better at the box office in all markets than "Iron Fist".

But it is not good to let domestic netizens misunderstand that this is a boring Oscar movie, so Li Mu asked the publicity department to focus on the production cost of this film.

The actual production cost of "The Revenant" is as high as 120 million US dollars, which is among the best among all Li Mu's blockbusters, and such a big investment is just a dull Oscar feature film?

This is obviously a bit similar to "Desert Island Survivors", the Count of Monte Cristo-esque, epic blockbuster!

That's basically it, "Desert Island Survivors" has a lot of fans in China, so let's focus on bundling the two films for promotion, plus the production cost is there, hoping to reverse the impression of netizens that this is a "boring foreign feature film".

……

In the evening, Liu Yifei curled up on the sofa at home and talked to Zhang Liangying on the phone, during which Liu Yifei also said that she and Li Mu happened at the 14th China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival and the centennial celebration of the birth of Chinese films, that is, she invited Li Mu with the cake of the celebration, and then Li Mu used the fireworks of the celebration to invite her back.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Liangying's mouth couldn't close when she heard it, and she said while laughing that Li Mu and Liu Yifei were really not a family and didn't enter the door.

"I didn't expect Director Li to have this hand! Tell me, what else has he done that is very impressive? ”

Liu Yifei thought for a while, and then said: "He doesn't know much about romance, but he said something that day, and I was happy for a long time after hearing it." ”

"Tell me what did he say?"

Liu Yifei said: "He said that he saved the galaxy in his last life, so he can have me in this life." ”

"Huh? That's it? That's all you were impressed? No, to be honest, I'm afraid that one day you will be abducted. ”

Liu Yifei said again: "Actually, it's not, this sentence does sound like nothing now, but at the time...... Then? ”

Zhang Liangying on the other end of the phone suddenly realized: "At that time? He couldn't have said that when he happened to be lying on top of you, was he? ”

"Huh? No...... How did you...... Actually......"

"Did I say yes?"

……

Well, in fact, women spend more time chatting than men, and they can really talk about very, very specific details, but Liu Yifei and Zhang Liangying are much more restrained, after all, they are stars, although everyone trusts each other very much, but what if it spreads?

Paying attention to words and deeds is already instinctive.

In short, in the end, Liu Yifei said seriously: "Actually, the reason why I am very touched by that sentence is because ...... Because that was exactly what I was saying from the bottom of my heart at the time, it was something I wanted to say to him but didn't have time to say it and couldn't say it, and then he suddenly said it first, so I had a special feeling of being in my heart. ”

Then the two talked about the fact that female stars in the entertainment industry are very envious of Liu Yifei, the "Hurricane Rescue" trilogy, "Inception", "The Hunger Games", "Doomsday Collapse", like this kind of world-class blockbuster resources, other stars may not have the opportunity to get one in their lifetime, but Liu Yifei can have so many top-level resources that there is even no schedule to act, it is really more popular than people.

Then Liu Yifei said:

"In fact, Huashang's films are not like I can play whatever I want, and sometimes there will be situations where I obviously like a role very much, but I just can't talk to him."

Zhang Liangying asked, "Why can't you talk to him?" Is the role inappropriate? If it's really not suitable, you definitely won't want to act, and if it's suitable, then why can't you talk to him? ”

Liu Yifei said: "Because it may affect the box office, I can't affect his career just because I like it." ”

Then Liu Yifei mentioned a book written by Li Mu called "Incomparably Beautiful Pain". This sales volume can easily rank in the top four among Li Mu's all, and the current global sales have approached 15 million copies.

It is a story about love, life and death between two teenagers with cancer. Liu Yifei fell in love with this one from the first glance, and I cried when I read the moving place.

It can be said that from the first time she saw this one, there was a voice in her heart that kept telling herself: she was going to play the heroine!

But this book has a very big influence in North America, and teenagers all over the United States are crying because of this book, the male and female protagonists in the book are typical white young people, if the heroine is suddenly replaced by an Asian after making a movie, I am afraid that there will be a great chance of affecting the box office of the film.

But it is not absolute, "The Hunger Games" replaced the heroine with Liu Yifei, and in practice, the result is still good.

But after all, the risk has become higher, so although Liu Yifei likes it very much, she has never revealed to Li Mu what she wants to act.

However, what Liu Yifei didn't notice was that Li Mu had already returned home at this moment, and he also happened to hear the phone call between her and Zhang Liangying.

In fact, "Incomparably Wonderful Pain" has entered Li Mu's adaptation plan at this time, but after it is adapted into a movie, it will no longer be called this name, but will be modified to "The Fault in the Stars".

That's right, it is the "Fault in the Stars" with a mere 7 million production cost, which defeated Tom's 178 million production cost blockbuster in the North American market.

7 million beats 178 million, many people may instinctively think that this $178 million movie must be a big bad movie, but in fact, it is not, this blockbuster was scored 8.2 by 470,000 people on Douban.

Well, it's "Edge of Tomorrow", in fact, Li Mu likes this film quite a lot, and the adaptation rights of this film are still in Li Mu's hands, but in the North American market, it lost to "The Fault in the Stars".

"The Fault in the Stars" grossed $124 million at the North American box office, while "Edge of Tomorrow", which cost $178 million, only $100 million.

However, the global box office is still a little higher than "Edge of Tomorrow".

"The Fault in the Stars" grossed $307 million worldwide, and "Edge of Tomorrow" earned $370 million.

Liu Yifei wants to play "The Fault in Star Fortune"?

Will Li Mu agree?

Not really.

Because he has a better way.

(End of chapter)