Li Mu wants to determine the main actors of "Shocking Demon Thieves" before going to the United States to film, and then designate producers, assistant directors and other candidates, so that during the time he goes to the United States to film, the preliminary preparations for "Shocking Demon Thieves" can be carried out simultaneously, so that he can quickly devote himself to the filming of the new film after he returns to China.

The main role that has not yet been determined is only the head of the Four Horsemen, that is, the role of the master of blinding in the film. Assistant Liang Bing invited Deng Chao, Huang Xiaoming, Duan Yihong and Lei Jiayin to come to Huashang for auditions, and all four of them promised to rush to Huashang on time to participate in the audition.

After hanging up the phone, although the reactions of the four people were different, without exception, everyone became extremely excited.

There is a consensus in today's entertainment industry, that is, Huashang Media's drama can be grabbed with your eyes closed. That's right, it's not enough to close your eyes, you have to grab it! This is a truly scarce resource.

released a popular one, and a phenomenal hit every three or five days, and has never missed a deal since its establishment in the past six or seven years, as far as this kind of resource is encountered, who dares to be half a point lazy?

The above is just the film and television drama produced by "Huashang Media", and what kind of film is inviting them to audition now? It is a movie in which director Li Mu personally wrote the script, directed it himself, and faced the global market, and Cheng Long and Liu Yifei, two international superstars, confirmed to star!

And the role to be auditioned for is still the protagonist, and it is said that it is still the first protagonist who is more important than Cheng Long and Liu Yifei's roles!

Opportunities at this level can really be fought for by all means, basically, as long as you are chosen, the upper limit of the high probability of life will be different.

Zhang Dabeard filmed a Jin Yong drama, and an already famous star could deliberately shave his bones for the role of a leading actor, but he still didn't get the role after cutting his bones.

Now that Li Mu has chosen the first male lead for "The Shocking Demon Thieves", the reactions of these actors who received the audition invitation are more exaggerated than the other.

After Huang Xiaoming hung up the phone, he first shouted, and then clenched his fists and shouted "yes!" five times in a row. He even wanted to ask Liu Yifei to say a few good words for him in private.

Liu Yifei is Li Mu's official girlfriend and the heroine of "Shocking Demon Thieves", if she speaks, Li Mu will probably have to consider it seriously.

However, after thinking about it for a long time, Huang Xiaoming finally gave up the idea of going through the back door.

It's not that he and Li Mu can't get in touch, the actor of Huashang Media's new movie "Huaxia Partner" is himself, what's the matter with contacting Li Mu's girlfriend privately? Even if you want to contact you privately, you will go directly to Li Mu himself.

Duan Yihong seemed to sit on the chair very calmly, and then began to be in a daze for more than half an hour, almost all in his mind was the idea of how to stand out in the audition.

Deng Chao walked back and forth in his living room, and from time to time asked Sun Li to give advice for himself, and after going to bed at night, he couldn't sleep over and over again, and his mind was full of four words: rare opportunities.

Lei Jiayin has already starred in two Huashang films, this time Director Li Mu personally directed the film and actually found himself to audition, it seems that the Internet says that he is the most favored actor of Director Li Mu since Shen Teng, and it is not all groundless.

The bad news is that there are several other very strong actors who received audition invitations at the same time, and the good news is that he Lei Jiayin is a contracted actor of Huashang Media, and director Li Mu uses himself to belong to the field of fat and water without flowing into the field of outsiders.

Before the official audition, Huang Xiaoming invited Li Mu and Liu Yifei to dinner; Deng Chao, Sun Li, Duan Yihong and Lei Jiayin also took the initiative to visit.

Among them, Lei Jiayin also brought the specialty red blood sausage of his hometown, Li Mu didn't talk much about movies after Deng Chao and his wife came to the door, Li Mu chatted with Sun Li about the TV series, and finally bluntly said that Huashang Media was going to prepare a very important Qing court drama next, and Li Mu intended to invite Sun Li to play the heroine of the new drama.

In the end, Li Mu simply canceled the agreed audition, since the four of them had all come to the door in private, and the auditions had all been tried in private, there was no need to choose another day to continue the audition.

In the end, Li Mu chose Lei Jiayin to play the role of the master of the four knights.

Lei Jiayin has three main advantages - his acting skills are relatively stable, his age is more appropriate, and his identity as an actor signed by Huashang Media.

After all the main actors of "The Shocking Demon Thieves" were confirmed, Li Mu worried about the "The Legend of Zhen Huan" project again.

The original time and space "The Legend of Zhen Huan" was officially released as early as 2011, and now it is 2012, "The Legend of Zhen Huan" has not started filming yet, and it is indeed not suitable to continue to drag on, so Li Mu privately mentioned it to Liu Siying.

Liu Siying also attaches great importance to "The Legend of Zhen Huan", and can't help but sigh in front of Li Mu that there are many roles in this drama Yingying Yanyan, I am afraid that after Huashang Media officially announces the preparation for the filming of Zhen Huan, it is inevitable that most of the brokerage companies in the entertainment industry will be crazy to recommend actors to the crew.

""The Legend of Zhen Huan" will not be open to the public."

"No open casting? But so many characters in this play? ”

"I make most of it myself."

"Decide for yourself? Is the main character together with the supporting characters? ”

"Pretty much."

"Okay, but the original author has his own opinion on the choice of the heroine."

"I know this, it seems that Cai Shaofen wants to play Zhen Huan? It's not suitable, but it's okay to give a supporting role. ”

"After the chairman selects the person, I will ask people to communicate with the original author."

"Hmm."

In the end, Liu Siying also told Li Mu that "You from the Star" was about to be broadcast, and the premiere date was also set on Valentine's Day on February 14, which was the same day as the national release of "Time and Space Traveler".

Li Mu asked Liu Siying: "How much did we sell "You from the Star"?" I think it's 150 million, right? ”

Liu Siying said: "It's 158.4 million!" Xingyou has a total of 22 episodes, the first round plus the second round and the third round are 4.2 million episodes, and the unit price sold to Tengxun Video is 3 million per episode, and the TV station plus video website has a total of 7.2 million episodes, which has broken the ceiling of the copyright price of national dramas. ”

Li Mu nodded and said: "According to the script, "The Legend of Zhen Huan" has a total of 76 episodes, and if it is also calculated according to the unit price of 7.2 million episodes, then the total price is 540 million - it is already more profitable than most movies!" ”

Liu Siying felt that Li Mu Li was a little too optimistic.

"Chairman, "The Girl from the Stars" can sell 7.2 million episodes precisely because of the small number of episodes, and "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is expected to have as many as 76 episodes.

Li Mu joked: "Can't you sell 7.2 million episodes?" I just wondered if I could sell 10 million episodes. ”

Liu Siying couldn't help but smile and shook her head: "Chairman, I see that you have won too many box office billions and billions, and you are about to lose your sensitivity to money, 10 million episodes of TV series, the copyright price of a TV series alone is as high as seven or eight hundred million - how can there be TV stations and video websites willing to spend money like this?" ”

Li Mu said: "It's still enough now, and it may be almost the same when "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is filmed and premiered." ”

……

On February 13, the premiere of Shen Junsheng's film "Time and Space Love Traveler" was held in Beijing, and Li Mu was also present.

However, this time he didn't bring Liu Yifei, she was going to attend a luxury endorsement event, and she had already flown to the Demon Capital yesterday.

During the movie-watching session, Li Mu and Shen Junsheng chatted offstage.

Shen Junsheng is the director of the first two parts of the "People in Embarrassment" series, and while the super high box office of "Thai Embarrassment" made him famous, he also carried a heavy burden, and finally when he couldn't write an ideal script no matter what, he went to seek Li Mu's help.

Then the position of director of the third part returned to Li Mu's hands.

In fact, since the explosion of "Thai Embarrassment", countless people have been analyzing the reasons for its great success, and many of them have attributed it to coincidence.

In the eyes of many people, "Thai Embarrassment" is actually not so good.

Even Shen Junsheng himself sometimes vaguely feels that the so-called coincidence is quite reasonable, so sometimes he even thinks that even if the third part of the "Embarrassment" series is filmed by Mr. Li himself, I am afraid that it may not be able to have the super high box office of "Thai Embarrassment".

He never doubted the strength of Li Mu and Li Zong, the domestic works with a box office of more than 1 billion or even 1.5 billion, except for one "Thai Embarrassment", almost all of the rest are films directed by Director Li Mu himself.

But those films that made Li Mu and Li kill all sides are all sci-fi action blockbusters without exception, with an investment of 100 million US dollars at every turn, compared to "Thai Embarrassment" with an investment of 20 or 30 million and a box office of more than 1.5 billion, it is simply an outlier.

I'm afraid that even Li Mu and Mr. Li themselves will not be able to replicate the great success of "Thai Embarrassment"!

But it is obvious that Shen Junsheng was wrong this time, and he was very wrong.

On the 23rd of last month, "People in Embarrassment" was officially released nationwide. Up to now, that is, on February 13, the film has been released for a total of 22 days, and the cumulative box office has officially exceeded the 2 billion yuan mark, reaching 2.031 billion yuan, and until now, the single-day box office of the film is still more than 30 million yuan.

With an investment of tens of millions of yuan, a box office movie of 2 billion yuan was really made, and the result is simply incredible!

"Mr. Li, fortunately, you personally directed "Fei Yi" this time, otherwise this series would have been ruined in my hands."

"It's not that exaggerated, I know your strength, otherwise I wouldn't have handed over so many scripts to you to direct."

"Mr. Li, what rank do you say "Time and Space Love Traveler" is about in this time?"

"Judging from the pre-sale box office, the final box office may be around seven or eight billion, or it may be a little more, and it depends on the market performance of several new films released on the same day."

"I watched it, the pre-sale box office of "Truth or Dare" is very bleak, and it should not pose any threat, and the pre-sale of the movie "Love" is okay, which should have a certain impact on "Time and Space Traveler".

"Love" is a little stronger than "Truth or Dare", but it is also limited, and the real opponent of "Time and Space Traveler" should be "Adventure in the Center of the Earth 2", which has been released for 4 days."

……

There are a total of three new films released on Valentine's Day, namely "Time and Space Traveler" produced by Huashang Media, "Love" directed by Michael Haneke, and the imported horror film "Truth or Dare".

"Love" is definitely a very good love movie, in addition to the Douban score of 8.6 points, this film will also win the 65th Cannes Film Festival, the main competition unit, the Palme d'Or.

However, a good movie does not mean that it will be a blockbuster, and "Love" is obviously not a film that can threaten "Time and Space Traveler".

Speaking of the schedule when "Time and Space Lovers" was released, except for the company's "Non-Embarrassment", almost all the rest of the rival films were imported films. Most of them are not very high-grossing films, and the only one that can be called a blockbuster is "Mission Impossible 4", and it has been released for 18 days, and the box office has fallen to 20 million today.

Basically, it does not pose a big threat to "Time and Space Traveler".

Soon after the movie was played, Shen Junsheng, Chen Bi, Bai Bing and other relevant creators came to the stage to thank all the audience and friends present, and the scene erupted in extremely warm applause, and then the premiere officially ended.

……

That night, the evaluation of Huashang Media's new film "Time and Space Traveler" has spread rapidly on the Internet.

"Did anyone attend the premiere? Let's talk about whether "Time and Space Traveler" is good? ”

"Do you need to ask? The movie produced by Huashang Media seems to be a script written by director Li Mu himself, and I heard that in the preparation stage, Li Mu and Liu Yifei almost played the male and female protagonists in person. If nothing else, let's just say that it can make Director Li Mu want to act in person for a while, and it can make Li Mu move the mind of arranging for his girlfriend Liu Yifei to play the heroine, and this movie is definitely not bad! ”

"That's it, it's superfluous to ask, it's nice to ask! Does someone say that if you don't look good, you won't watch it? ”

"At present, the movies of the Huashang series have not made me too much, so even if it is not good-looking, I have to watch it! However, if the evaluation is good, you may have to watch it tomorrow, but if the evaluation is not good, you may have to wait until you have enough time to see it. ”

"I feel that there have been too many low-cost romance films of this kind in Huashang in the past two years, but yes, from "Beijing Meets Seattle", to "33 Days of Broken Love", and then to "Living Together in Time and Space", each of these chick movies made by Huashang has exploded, Huashang has tasted the sweetness, and he will definitely continue to shoot it, but I always feel that I have watched too many of this kind of movie, and it is actually not interesting."

"I feel the same way, especially this time and the theme of time and space travel, this kind of theme has movies such as "Time Traveler's Wife" and "Living Together in Time and Space", what flowers can be shot again?"

Soon, some netizens who claimed to have participated in the premiere of "Time and Space Traveler" said that this film may be Huashang Media's best romance film so far.

""33 Days of Broken Love" has a Douban score of 7.8, "Beijing Meets Seattle" has a Douban score of 7.6, and "Living Together in Time and Space" has a Douban score of 7.3, based on the scores of these three Huashang films, I give "Time and Space Love Traveler" a score of 9.1! That's right, my rating of "Time and Space Traveler" is more than 9 points! ”

After reading this netizen's evaluation, many netizens said that it is very possible for Douban to score more than 8 points, but if you want to reach the 9 point level? It shouldn't be very likely!

How many films are there with more than 9 points on Douban? A time-traveling romance film with a somewhat vulgar theme, no matter how good it looks, how can it be seen?

9 points?

No way! That's how brain-dead fans rate it!

However, several other netizens who claimed to have also attended the premiere soon popped up.

"It may be an exaggeration to say that it is worth 9.1 points on Douban, but 8.8 or 8.9 points is definitely no problem at all."

"Agreed, if I had to rate it, I would give it an 8.9 rating, the film is really good."

"I just finished watching it, and I heard that the movie was supposed to be Li Muliu and Yifei as the male and female leads? It's a pity, if these two people really act, then I will give a score of 9.6, starring Chen Bibaibing, 9 points will be the sky! ”

Looking at the comments of these netizens who have seen it, netizens who have not seen it inexplicably feel a little incredible.

"There are so many people who give a high score of 8.8 or even 9 or more? Is this movie really that good? ”

(End of chapter)