Valentine's Day, February 14th, in addition to the national release of "Time and Space Traveler", is also the day of the national premiere of "You from the Star".

The box office of "Time and Space Love Traveler" broke 250 million in the first three days of its release, with a Douban score of 9.1 points.

What is especially rare is that "Time and Space Traveler" has also achieved very outstanding results overseas.

The North American premiere received $13 million in three days.

The three-day box office in South Korea is equivalent to $11.3 million.

The three-day box office in the UK is equivalent to $9.7 million.

In addition, the film has also achieved very good results in Australia, Spain, Mexico, Germany and other countries.

If the box office performance in the domestic market is still expected by all parties, then the overseas box office performance of the film is a bit of a surprise to peers and even Huashang Media.

Because according to past experience, it is almost impossible for a low-budget comedy film with all-local actors like "Time and Space Traveler" to achieve too good results overseas.

From "How to Steal the Key" to the "People in Embarrassment" trilogy, to "33 Days of Broken Love" and other films. These films are all domestic hits and the overseas box office is dismal, but when it comes to "Time and Space Traveler", it seems to have changed.

No one expected this film to be a hit in overseas markets, but it just did.

The cumulative box office of $13 million in North America in three days does not seem to be much, and it is completely incomparable with Li Mu's previous sci-fi action blockbusters, but you must know that its production cost is only 10 million yuan!

Converted to less than 1.5 million dollars, North America received 13 million box office in three days? It is no exaggeration to say that Huashang has already made a lot of money by relying on the box office of North America for three days, not to mention that the overseas box office is not only a market in North America, and the film is not only released for three days.

The second one I didn't expect was that I didn't expect "Time and Space Traveler" to completely conquer South Korea.

With such a small market size in South Korea, it cut a box office of $11 million in just three days, and it is unceremonious to say that the box office Huashang in South Korea alone made a lot of money.

In addition, the United Kingdom is also, relying on the British market alone, "Time and Space Traveler" still achieved a three-day return on investment.

It is no exaggeration to say that "Time and Space Traveler" has recovered all the production costs in advance by relying on the income of product placement, and it has also made a lot of money.

Is this a movie? It's a very productive cash cow!

After talking about movies, let's talk about TV series.

Since February 14th, in addition to discussing "Time and Space Traveler", the rest of the streets and alleys across the country have basically discussed "You from the Stars", this TV series is really hot.

How hot is it?

On the day of the premiere, the average rating of Dragon TV soared directly to 3.1%, and the first broadcast rating of "Palace Lock Heart Jade" was so popular before, and the premiere rating was only 2.75%, but the premiere rating of "You from the Star" directly broke three.

And that's not all.

"You from the Star" is a four-star simulcast, in addition to Dragon TV's ratings directly breaking three, Suzhou Satellite TV is not to be outdone, the first broadcast ratings reached 2.6%, in addition to Zhejiang Satellite TV 2.4%, Beijing Satellite TV 2.1%, "You from the Star" directly raised the upper limit of local satellite TV's ratings by a level.

In addition, "My Love from the Star" is also the first TV series in history to reach 4 million with a Baidu index and the first TV series with a Baidu index of 5 million.

In the past, the highest peak of the Baidu index of TV dramas in the past was actually about 3 million, and the TV dramas with a Baidu index of 3 million were all Huashang TV dramas without exception.

is a non-Huashang TV series with a Baidu index of more than 3 million, and it can be said that there is not even one so far.

If nothing else, it will not be until this summer that the first non-Huashang Baidu TV series with a Baidu index of more than 3 million will appear, that is, "Love Apartment 3".

However, at this stage, all the dramas with a Baidu index of more than 3 million are Huashang TV dramas, and as a result, the Baidu index of "You from the Star" rushed to 3 million on the first day of its premiere, 4 million on the second day, and 5 million on the third day.

At least judging from the Baidu index, the popularity of "You from the Star" has reached a very terrifying level.

What's more, the Douban score of the TV series is also very amazing, reaching 8.8 points, there is no doubt that this is another high-quality TV series that sells well and is a blockbuster.

It can be said that the extraordinary explosion of "My Love from the Star" has even had an extremely significant impact on the entire industry.

Since 2010, in less than two years, the online copyright of domestic TV dramas has soared from hundreds of thousands of single episodes to 3 million per episode of "You from the Stars"!

A TV series with only 22 episodes was sold for 66 million yuan for the online copyright alone, and the cost of buying such a huge drama has long been unbearable for major video websites.

Because the video website platform buys dramas at this price, no matter how popular the purchased dramas are, most of the platforms will lose money, but even if you know that you are losing money, the major platforms still want you to fight for it, because you don't buy others to buy, and in the end, other people's platforms will establish a monopoly advantage before you.

In a word, at this stage, it is still a crazy money-burning staking stage, and the major platforms must grit their teeth and continue to throw money into it even if they know that they are losing money.

Unless, even the sky-high dramas produced by Huashang have hit the streets, which means that its contribution to the platform's absorption of users has become very few.

The TV series that completed this task in the original time and space is "The Secret History of Princess Taiping", before this drama, there were many dramas with more than one million episodes on the market, and after the poor premiere results of this drama, the price of TV series network copyright plummeted to three or four hundred thousand episodes.

Before the official premiere of "My Love from the Star", almost all video website platforms were staring at its premiere data, and at this time, if its premiere data was not ideal, the online copyright price of domestic TV dramas would be beaten down immediately.

As a result, the ratings of "My Love from the Star" exploded.

Not only did the ratings break three on the day of the premiere, but the Baidu index directly rushed to an unprecedented height of 5 million within three days.

Yes, the price of online copyright is too high to bear? Believe it or not, Huashang Media's next drama is not so cheap as 3 million an episode?

What's more, when Huashang negotiated with TV stations and video websites before, it was made clear that "You from the Star" is Huashang's most potential drama in the near future, so the price must be high.

"What's the matter? You say that "You from the Star" is special, it is special, and if you say that it can explode, it can explode? ”

Everyone has long eyes, the quality of "My Love from the Star" is indeed very good, and it does look very potential, but whether a drama is popular or not, and to what extent it can be popular, this is simply a metaphysical question, before the TV series is officially broadcast, who dares to say that they must see through its results?

As a result, Li Mu saw it through, not only did he see it through, but he also said bluntly when negotiating the price, this drama will definitely be popular!

The results turned out to be unexpected.

Previously, iQiyi had spent a huge amount of money to win "The Secret History of Princess Taiping", so it couldn't help but have more pressure on its shoulders when competing for "You from the Star", and finally chose to give up when Tencent Video raised the price to 3 million per episode. At that time, Gong Yu of Aiqiyi was secretly glad of his sanity, and he firmly believed that only 22 episodes of "You from the Star" could not be worth 66 million, but now it seems that he was wrong, and it was very wrong.

With the hit of "You from the Star", the careers of the leading actors in the play, Wang Kai, Song Ji, female supporting Li Chun, male supporting Zhang Ruoyun, Chen Bi and others have also ushered in a wave of very amazing growth.

The time soon came to the end of February, Li Mu and Liu Yifei and some of the crew set off for the United States, the purpose of this trip was of course to complete the filming of "The Hunger Games 2" and "The Fault in the Stars", but before the movie officially started, Li Mu had to go to the Hollywood Heights Center in Los Angeles, California, to participate in the 84th Academy Awards.

"The Revenant" is a popular work for this year's Academy Awards, and Li Mu, as the director of the film, naturally wants to participate in the award film in person.

Of course, Li Mu brought Liu Yifei with him this time.

The award ceremony started at 17:30 on February 26, 2012, and the night before the award ceremony began, Li Mu was lying on the big bed in the hotel, Liu Yifei was lying on his chest, and Li Mu was holding her shoulders.

"Can you still win the prize this time?" Liu looked up at Li Mu's chin and said.

Li Mu said: "It's hard to say, there may be one or two small prizes." ”

"What about awards like Best Picture and Best Director?" Ryu asked again.

Li Mu shook his head lightly and said: "There is not much hope, the taste of the Oscars is the taste of a group of Caucasian old men in the final analysis, and the average age of the judges is as high as 62 years old." And this time our biggest competitor, the film "The Artist" is really very flattering, first of all, it is a black and white silent film, and the silent film will have a natural intimacy with these old male judges, and it is easy to have a psychological self-satisfaction and intoxicated mentality, "When I fought with my grandfather, you didn't know where it was". ”

"In addition, the theme of this film and the emotions expressed are the kind of loneliness of 'a man suddenly does not fit in the current era', and this is undoubtedly very touching to the hearts of those old men."

"Therefore, I estimate that the biggest winner of this year's Oscars is probably this "Artist"."

Liu Yifei changed to a more comfortable position, and then hugged Li Mu and said: "I don't think you guessed right, I guess the three awards of the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor are still yours." ”

Li Mu just smiled and didn't speak.

Liu Yifei raised his head and asked: "Why don't we make a bet, if you can't get the three big prizes I just said this time, you win, and if you get it, I win." ”

Li Mu was also interested and asked, "It's okay to bet, but what are we betting on?" ”

At this time, Liu Yifei's eyes rolled and said, "There is!" If I win, then you pay me - only 100,000 yuan, if you win......"

"What if I win?" Li Mu asked with a smile.

Liu Yifei said with a pure face: "If you win, it's a big deal." ”

Li Mu rolled his eyes and asked with a smile: "What do you want me?" ”

Liu Yifei snorted.

Li Mu smiled evilly: "What posture do you want to use, including what posture do you use with me?" ”

Li Mu also scratched Liu Yifei's itch while talking, which made Liu Yifei giggle and laugh non-stop, and said while laughing: "Say whatever you want, and ask." ”

Li Mu was blindsided, and said with a smile: "Then I want to advance tomorrow's reward now, okay?" ”

"No way!"

The sound of the two laughing came from the bed.

……

In other words, why did Liu Yifei have to make this bet tonight? In fact, after listening to Li Mu's analysis of the situation of this year's Oscars, she also felt that Li Mu might really not win the award this year.

So what to do?

Since Li Mu may have a little setback in her career tomorrow, she will have to make up for Li Mu in other aspects.

In the past, Li Mu was always the most excited and happiest when she agreed to some of his requests in that regard, so she simply gambled and let him make the request this time.

Tomorrow, if Li Mu wins those three awards, of course it will be a thousand good, he won the grand prize, and he won 100,000 yuan, which is perfect.

If tomorrow he fails to win the prize, then isn't there a "consolation prize" that he asked for?

In short, no matter whether he can win those three awards tomorrow, she wants the two of them to be happy.

Liu Yifei felt that her thoughts were a little naïve, but in front of Li Mu, she was willing to live a little naïve.

Then it was not long before the day of the official award ceremony the next day.

At the 84th Academy Awards, the film "The Revenant" directed by Li Mu won a total of three awards: Best Cinematography, Best Director, and Best Actor, and in the most important and weighty Best Film Award, "The Revenant" unfortunately lost to "The Artist" directed by Thomas Langman.

Finally, at the moment when the grand prize was announced, in addition to the winner Thomas Langman, a considerable part of the cameras were aimed at Li Mu and Liu Yifei.

Filming the live reaction of the disappointed loser is also the basis of the live cinematographer of the Oscars.

As a result, under the collective gaze of more than 40 million viewers around the world who watched the live broadcast, director Li Mu, who regretted missing this year's Oscar Best Picture Award, was full of joy, and the international superstar Liu Yifei, who was his girlfriend, was also smiling at the time, and his face was inexplicably blushing.

More than 40 million viewers, especially the Chinese audience, were all confused by the expressions of Li Mu and his wife at that moment.

"Why, is it worth being happy to miss out on the Oscar for Best Picture? Or is Li Mu very content to win this year's Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Cinematography? ”

What outsiders don't know is that it's certainly worth having fun about!

When the final prize was announced, Li Mu leaned into Liu Yifei's ear with a happy face and said, "I won, go back to wash Xiangxiang at night and wait for me on the bed." ”

Liu Yifei was not convinced: "We bet on three jackpots, and now you have won two jackpots and lost one jackpot, it looks like I should have won, right?" ”

Li Mu said: "It's okay to win three awards before you win, but now "The Revenant" only won two awards plus one best cinematography, and of course I won." ”

Liu Yifei leaned into Li Mu's ear and asked with a smile: "Look at you, you obviously lost the Oscar for Best Picture, but you are still happy and something." ”

Li Mu also leaned into Liu Yifei's ear and said: "How can you promise me the Oscar for Best Picture, let me ask for it casually, if I really win the Best Picture Award tonight, then I will be greatly disappointed." ”

Liu Yifei couldn't help but take a bite of Li Mu.

As a result, when Li Mu missed the Best Picture Award at the 84th Academy Awards, he looked very happy, and it was clearly seen by more than 40 million viewers around the world through the live broadcast.

(End of chapter)