Li Mu chatted with Guo Fan for about two hours, and then finally confirmed that he was fully qualified for the job of director of "Shark Beach", and then he directly sent Guo Fan an invitation to sign a contract.

The original time and space Guo Fan will officially sign the director's studio under his name in Wanda Film and Television next year, and sign the director to Beijing Shihorn Culture Co., Ltd., Guo Fan is one of the few Chinese directors who can shoot science fiction themes, Li Mu of course wants to collect it to his own company as much as possible.

Guo Fan agreed to sign the contract without much hesitation, from his point of view, he wants to realize his dream of being a sci-fi director, and signing with Huashang Media is really almost the only way out, at least for now.

"After signing the contract, the project of "Shark Beach" will be done by you." After Guo Fan verbally accepted the invitation, Li Mu said with a smile.

"No problem—huh?" Guo Fan looked up with some surprise and said, "What does Mr. Li mean, I will be the director of this movie?" ”

Li Mu nodded and smiled: "Yes, what's the matter, what I said just now is the Tao, and I won't have confidence again?" ”

"That's not it, it's just that I just thought that Mr. Li meant that he wanted me to be an assistant director first to familiarize myself with the company's situation." Guo Fan said with a smile.

Li Mu said with a smile: "First, you have enough ability, second, I believe in the team of Huashang Media, and third, the shooting fund of "Shark Beach" is only 15 million, the investment scale is not large, and the overall risk is controllable. ”

"Then I have no problem, and 15 million is not a big investment, I feel that I really came to the right place this time." Guo Fan said with a smile.

He was a little emotional now, and he didn't expect to be able to control such a big project as soon as he came up. The investment of 15 million is indeed not too big to say big, and it is definitely not small to say small, and I heard that the filming fund of "Living Together in Time and Space", which won a box office of 1.1 billion, is only 10 million yuan.

Li Mu shook his head when he heard this.

"The unit of 10 million production funds for "Living Together in Time and Space" is RMB, the 15 million shooting funds for "Shark Beach" are in US dollars, and "Shark Beach" is a work for the global market.

Guo Fan: "15 million...... Dollar? ”

……

Three days later.

Jin Chen heard some gossip, saying that Huashang Media was preparing two new films recently, and it seems that one of them is a time-traveling theme like "Living Together in Time and Space". The box office performance of "Living Together in Time and Space" is 1.1 billion, and Tong Liya has directly risen to the front line with this drama, such a good opportunity, all the actors and actresses in the circle are active, and I heard that several well-known actresses have taken the initiative to say that supporting roles are okay.

She also took the initiative to say that she could play a supporting role? Not really, right? ”

"How not? The key is to have the opportunity to be familiar in front of Director Li Mu, Yu Feihong lost to Gao Yuanyuan during the audition for "How to Steal the Key", but so what? Director Li remembered that Yu Feihong was red, didn't Huashang Media use Yu Feihong when filming "Celebrating More Than Years"? I heard that Hua Shang deliberately invited Li Xiaoran at the beginning, but it was because Director Li remembered Yu Feihong's audition that time, so she was used. ”

"Makes sense."

"Have you heard? It seems that Huashang found a rookie actor to play an important supporting role this time, but was directly rejected by the rookie actor, and now everyone is guessing who this rookie actor is, it is so good! ”

Jin Chen also interjected: "No, the rookie actor directly rejected the invitation of Huashang Media......"

Then he froze.

She suddenly remembered the phone call she had received three days earlier.

"No, I'm ...... Eating gossip and eating it on yourself? ”

Thinking of this, Jin Chen was no longer in the mood to talk about gossip, she hurriedly dialed the number back, and after receiving a positive reply, Jin Chen hurriedly apologized, and said that he thought he had met a liar, and the staff of Huashang Media didn't say anything else, that is, if she was interested, she could also come to Huashang to audition, but the difference from three days ago was that if she came three days ago, she was the only one who participated in the audition for this role at that time, and now it is different, and now many people are competing for this role.

Jin Chen thanked him and said that he would definitely go to the audition on time.

There are more people competing and she has to go, after all, it is such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but if she can't pass this audition, she will regret it.

……

In 2011, there seemed to be no too heavyweight works to be released for the Chinese New Year and Spring Festival, and on November 29, there was a "Legend of the Hongmen Banquet" directed by director Li Rengang; On December 15th, "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" directed by Director Xu Ke and starring Li Lianjie, Zhou Xun, Li Yuchun, Fan Shaohuang, etc. will be released. The rest is Huashang Media's work "Source Code", which will be released on December 21, and "People Are Not Embarrassment", which has been officially scheduled for the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Speaking of the movie "The Legend of Hongmen Banquet", it is quite interesting, the original director of this film was Lu Chuan, and later Lu Chuan had a falling out with the investor, so he was replaced by Li Rengang.

Zhao Buffett, who was invited at the beginning of Yu Ji's candidate, was rejected, and invited Fan Binbin, Fan Binbin said that it would depend on the final cast combination and the quality of the script to decide, in fact, it was a tactful refusal, Fan Binbin's refusal to act triggered a chain reaction, Andy Lau, Gu Tianle, Zheng Yijian, etc. resigned one after another, and finally the crew found Liu Yifei to save the scene to play Yu Ji.

The crew of this time and space is even more difficult, the original time and space Yu Ji corner and Liu Yifei came to the rescue, the crew of this time and space didn't have the courage to find Liu Yifei at all, a crew that couldn't even invite Xiao Fan dared to invite the boss of Huashang Media?

Who's going to be the last to be invited?

Tong Liya, Tong played Yu Ji in "Mythology", the costume style is still very amazing, but the popularity at that time was still a little worse, but that was before the movie started, as for now - the total box office of "Living Together in Time and Space" has exceeded 1.1 billion, Tong Liya's popularity is high, and the crew of "The Legend of Hongmen Banquet" is about to laugh out loud!

Moving on to the box office situation of The Revenant.

In the domestic market, after the film won 236 million box office on the first 3 days of its release, it exceeded 500 million box office on the 10th day of release, 600 million yuan in 16 days, and 700 million yuan in 37 days, reaching 704 million yuan.

The box office of the film is very strong in the early stage, and it is slightly worse in the later stage, a pure foreign film, only the director is Chinese, and the overall attraction to Chinese people is still average.

Compared with the later weakening of the Huashang market, the performance of "The Revenant" in the North American market is much longer.

After topping the North American weekend box office with $59 million in the first three days, it won the top spot with $40.2 million in the second week, while "Iron Fist", which was released at the same time, grossed $16.3 million in the second weekend. The third was Paramount Pictures' "All Body," which grossed $16.1 million over the weekend.

With $32.5 million in the weekend box office in the third week, it was the runner-up, and the first place was won by Paramount Pictures' new film "Paranormal 3" with $54.1 million, and "Iron Fist" has grossed as low as $11 million in the weekend, ranking third.

It grossed $16.4 million in the fourth weekend, $13.1 million in the fifth week, and $7.1 million in the sixth.

As of the weekend of the sixth week, the North American box office of "The Revenant" has exceeded $150 million, the overseas box office has accumulated $240 million, and the mainland market has been officially released some time ago, with a cumulative box office of $107 million - so far, its global box office has accumulated $497 million.

"The Revenant" is the 8th directorial work directed by Li Mu himself, and the global box office of his first 7 directorial films has reached a total of 4.916 billion US dollars, if you add the 497 million US dollars box office of "The Revenant" so far, then the total global box office of Li Mu's directorial works has reached an astonishing 5.413 billion US dollars.

According to the prediction of relevant institutions, the North American box office of "The Revenant" is likely to exceed 200 million US dollars, and its overseas box office should be about 310 million US dollars, which means that by the time "The Revenant" is released, the total box office of director Li Mu's works is very likely to exceed the $5.5 billion mark.

It is still far from the $8.3 billion of Spielberg, the world's No. 1 grossing gross, but it is only about $700 million away from the $6.2 billion total box office of Cameron, the world's second-highest gross-grossing director.

Director Cameron's next film is still far away, and director Li Mu expects at least three films such as "The Hunger Games 2", "Fault in the Stars" and "Send You a Little Red Flower" next year, while the global box office of "The Hunger Games 1" that year was $913 million.

In other words, it is almost a certainty that Li Mu will officially become the director's second in the world at the global box office next year.

In Li Mu's bar, netizens have already started to carnival.

"The second director in the world? If you want me to say it's really a little family! "Twilight" has been filmed in a four-part series, and the "Hunger Games" series of the same theme is most likely to be the same, if the four films are all 900 million US dollars at the box office, 4936, 3927, the "Hunger Games" series alone can add about 2.7 billion US dollars to Li Mu's global box office, 55 plus 27 equals 8.2 billion US dollars - after filming the "Hunger Games" series, Li Mu will most likely be able to catch up with the current Spielberg's record of 8.2 billion US dollars! ”

"I'm grass,!"

"No. 1 in the world!"

"You think that's the end of it? Some people say that Spielberg is not a dead man, and he will still make new films in the future, but the question is whether he is as efficient as Li Mu? You must know that Li Mu still has the "Moving Maze" series in his hand and has not filmed, and the sales of this series are also tens of millions, if the "Moving Maze" series can also win two or three billion US dollars at the global box office in the future, then the total global box office directed by Li Mu will easily exceed 10 billion US dollars! ”

"I'm grass! Li Mu has a chance to become the world's first director with tens of billions of dollars? ”

"Don't say it, it's really very possible!"

"It's blowing up!"

"It's a pity that Li Mu sold the film rights of the "Divergent" series to Lionsgate, you must know that the global sales of this are also tens of millions, otherwise it is really amazing!"

"I'm rubbing, I don't have anything to say, it looks like 10 billion US dollars can't stop Director Li Mu at all!"

"Of course I can't stop it! You must know that this is only the expected box office of these series of movies, the question is that Li Mu won't make other movies? For example, the upcoming "Non-embarrassing"? Or the upcoming "Fault in the Stars" and "Send You a Little Red Flower"? ”

"When I was a few years old, I was still thinking that the box office of Chinese films would be the national champion at the box office of 30 or 40 million yuan, and then look at the American imperialists, a movie could not move the global box office of 500 million or 600 million US dollars at every turn, and at that time, I really felt that Chinese films could not catch up with the American imperialism for decades, but it was only a few years? It can only be said that Li Mu is really awesome! ”

Netizens have carnivaled, and major media have also followed up and reported, and even Liu Yifei was asked relevant questions by reporters when he participated in a high-end luxury brand event.

"Hello or not, now netizens are saying that after Director Li finished filming the "Hunger Games" series, the global box office is likely to surpass Director Spielberg, and the total box office after filming "Moving Maze" is likely to exceed 10 billion US dollars, what do you think about this?"

Liu Yifei: "In fact, when he is at home, he rarely talks about the box office, and more often, he thinks about who is suitable for which role and whether there are obvious logical loopholes in the plot, or what latest technologies in the world have been applied to film shooting." ”

Reporter: "Okay or not, your answer is worth pondering for all filmmakers in China, Director Li is not interested in the box office, Director Li is only interested in how to make a good movie, and as a result, Director Li has made almost the world's highest-grossing movie, which is very philosophical." ”

After interviewing a few more questions, the reporter began to care about the relationship between Li Mu and Liu.

"By the way, you and Director Li have been together for more than three years, have you ever thought about when you will get married?"

Can you ask that question as well? It feels too private and I don't really want to answer. Liu Yifei looked left and right, and said with a smile, "It's strange, everyone doesn't seem to have asked him this question, if you really want to know, then go and ask him directly, it's useless to ask me this kind of question, how do I know." ”

Well, Liu Yifei blew up after the interview, and many people felt sorry for the young lady.

"I didn't answer anything, but I seemed to answer everything."

"I feel sorry for my family for three seconds, the sentence 'If you really want to know, go and ask him directly' has already said everything, she can't be the master of this matter, the man doesn't propose, and the woman can't help if she wants to marry."

"It hurts together, I used to think that there was a tacit understanding between the two of them, not to mention that the entertainment industry is getting married late, even if you don't get married for the rest of your life, it's completely normal. But now it seems that it is not the same thing at all, judging from the interview, it is not that he still wants to settle down earlier, and the crux of the problem is still Li Mu. ”

"The reporters are going to go to the road, and the meaning is obvious, don't just interview me, go interview him!"

……

In November, Huashang Media has three more film and television works.

Director Chen Kezhen directed "Chinese Partner" starring Huang Xiaoming, Deng Chao and Tong Dawei.

Directed by Chen Sicheng and starring Chen Sicheng, Tong Liya, Liu Jialing, Liang Jiahui, Wang Xuebing, etc., the movie version of "Beijing Love Story".

Director Liu Junjie directed, Zhao Liying, Chen Bi, Jiang Xin, Mao Xiaotong, Tan Songyun, Lan Yingying, etc. starring "Bin Bin is Coming".

At the same time, the film "Source Code" officially started large-scale publicity, according to the company's arrangement, when the film is officially released, the company's publicity team will be divided into two ways - one way is dominated by Andy Lau, Fan Wei and others, and these people will stay in China for publicity; The other part is dominated by Yang Ziqiong, which is mainly responsible for propaganda in the United States.

Among the actors in "Source Code", Yang Ziqiong has a certain international reputation, and all of them are sent to the United States to promote, which is actually of little use, and the current domestic market is also rising, maybe the domestic box office will surpass North America, so it is appropriate for most of the actors to stay in China for publicity and roadshows.

By December, Huashang Media had two film and television works completed successively - one was directed by Xue Xiaolu and starring Gao Yuanyuan and others; The other is co-directed by Kong Sheng and Jian Chuanhe, Wang Kai plays the male protagonist Professor Du, Song Qi plays the heroine Qian Songyi, Li Chun plays the female supporting role, Ni Dahong plays the lawyer, Liu Yijun plays the villain, Zhang Ruoyun plays the chaebol's youngest son, and Chen Bi plays the heroine's younger brother Qian Yuncai's "You from the Stars".

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