In the second week of the release of "Frozen", the film of another Chinese director happened to be released worldwide, and it also attracted the attention of many domestic media and netizens.

That is, "Life of Pi" directed by Li Amine.

"Life of Pi" has received rave reviews after its release, whether it is a Douban score of 9.1 points or an IMDB score of 7.9 points, it is slightly stronger than Li Mu's "Frozen".

However, the box office performance of the film is far inferior to Li Mu's "Frozen".

Taking the North American box office list as an example, "Frozen" grossed $45.7 million the next weekend, while "Life of Pi" only grossed $22 million in the first week, which can be said to be completely different from "Frozen".

By the third week, the weekend box office of "Frozen" was still as high as $31 million, successfully winning the weekend box office champion; And "Breaking Dawn" (below), which had a box office of $145 million in the opening weekend, has fallen to $17.41 million this week, ranking second.

In addition, "Skyfall" came in third with $17 million, and Life of Pi came in fifth with $12 million.

Week 4.

"Frozen" $24 million, number one.

"Skyfall" $11 million, second.

"Breaking Dawn" (below) fell to $9.2 million, third.

"Life of Pi" $8.3 million, fifth.

For the third week in a row, Frozen topped the North American weekend.

The film was officially released worldwide on November 16, 2012, and as of December 10, 2012, the film has been released for 25 days, and its domestic box office has accumulated 2.07 billion yuan, which is 304 million yuan when converted into US dollars. The North American box office officially exceeded the 200 million yuan mark, reaching $220 million. In addition, the overseas box office outside North America was 480 million US dollars, and the global cumulative box office was 1.004 billion yuan.

After 25 days of release and a global box office of $1.004 billion, "Frozen" shook the global film industry.

Overseas netizens spoke highly of this animated film from Huaxia director and adapted from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales.

"The best animated movie since The Lion King!"

"Another animation masterpiece comparable to "Robot Wall-E"!"

"The story is wonderful, the scene is shocking, unparalleled, and pleasing to the eye!"

"Disney animation is old and lacks new ideas, and director Li Mu's animation debut blooms with new ideas and successfully creates an audio-visual feast!"

"Disney should have a sense of crisis, director Li Mu, who has set off a global 3D movie storm, has entered the animated film circle, good luck to Disney! Good luck to director Li Mu from the East! ”

"A well-conceived plot that puts a modern twist on a traditional fairy tale!"

"The ever-changing world of ice and snow brings a shocking viewing effect that adults and children can enjoy watching!"

"The New York Times", "Wall Street Journal", "Los Angeles Times", "Variety", "Hollywood Reporter" and other authoritative media in North America have sent high praise, and the North American audience has scored as high as an average of A+! Only four films in 2013 received this high score.

In addition, "Frozen" was also selected as one of the "Top 10 Films of the Year" by Time magazine, New York Post, Yahoo Movie Network, etc.

What's more, "Frozen" was nominated for the Golden Globe Awards for Best Animation and Best Song.

The Golden Globe nomination itself is not very important, but the Golden Globe Award has always been known as an important bellwether of the Oscars, that is to say, after Li Mu successfully won the Oscar for Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography and other awards for "The Revenant" in 2012, it is very likely that he will win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Song again in 2013 with "Frozen".

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In mid-December, Brother Cheng Long came to Beijing to promote the new movie "Zodiac", which has been officially scheduled for December 20, during which he naturally met with Li Mu.

At this meeting, the main actors of "Shocking Demon Thieves" - Lei Jiayin, the actor of the master of blinding, Guo A, the actor of the hypnotic master, Zhang Songwen, the actor of the thief, and Liu Yifei, the actor of the escape master, were also present.

As soon as several people met, Brother Cheng Long first folded his hands and apologized to everyone.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm busy with the promotion of the new movie, and I may have to delay the filming progress."

Li Mu replied with a smile: "I can't delay, Uncle Long's scenes on the shooting schedule are relatively late, and I have already set aside time for Uncle Long's movie promotion." ”

Cheng Long clasped his hands together again and nodded with a smile.

Cheng Long is also one of the leading actors in "Shocking Demon Thieves", but the film will not wait for him when it starts, when he will join the group and when he will be filming his role, Brother Cheng Long is still relatively busy.

Among the actors here today, Lei Jiayin is a Huashang contracted actor, and netizens jokingly call him "Mu Nanlang", who has acted in several Huashang films since he signed the contract, and is very familiar with Li Mu, and he is also the most open.

Although it is the first time for Mr. Guo to cooperate with Li Mu, he has acted in sketches for so many years, and he has seen more big leaders, no matter how good Li Mu is in the film industry and the business world, he can't compare with the leaders he has seen, so he will naturally not be so restrained in front of Li Mu.

Not to mention Liu Yifei, how could he be restrained in front of Li Mu by holding the person who slept naked all night?

Zhang Songwen was the only one, who was very restrained throughout the whole meeting process, and he was very careful in what he said and did.

Zhang Songwen has excellent acting skills, and the directors he has worked with all say that he is good, but he is still in a difficult period when he needs to fight for all roles, living in a small rental house, and only buying expiring vegetables.

was suddenly invited by the famous director Li Mu to act, and he is still one of the four leading actors, and his partners are international superstars like Cheng Long and Liu Yifei, not to mention Zhang Songwen at this stage, even domestic first-line actors may not be able to get it, but this kind of opportunity fell on him inexplicably.

He didn't know what Director Li valued him for, in short, the opportunity was rare, so he cherished it and was naturally cautious.

The start date of "Shocking Demon Thieves" is set for December 22, and Cheng Long's "Zodiac" will be released, and Li Mu will show up to help Uncle Long.

Before the movie officially started, Li Mu tried to give the main actors of "Interstellar" first, and the first object he discussed was Liu Yifei.

Now Li Mu is sure that actors generally have such a set of processes: first discuss with Liu Yifei in the bed, wait for a rough idea, then discuss with Huashang's production director Chen Zhixi, discuss with Chen and then communicate with Liu Siying, and finally communicate with various investors and producers.

"Who will play Murphy Liu?"

"Zhao Jinmai, I like this little girl very much, she is smart and cute."

The Liu Murphy in the mouths of the two is naturally the daughter of the male protagonist in "Interstellar".

The name of this character in the original movie is Murphy Cooper, and the name Murphy has a special meaning in the film, which is highly related to the plot of the film, so it can't be changed easily, but since the character setting has been changed to Chinese, it naturally can't continue to be called Murphy Cooper, so Li Mu changed it to Murphy Lau.

Liu Murphy not only retains Murphy's original meaning, but also highly similar to Liu Yifei's name, so Li Mu is quite satisfied with this change.

In the role setting in the film, in addition to Murphy Cooper changed to Liu Murphy, Li Mu also changed the name of the actor Joseph Cooper to Liu Mu, and changed the name of the actor's son in the film to Liu Molong.

The childhood, middle-aged, and old age of the role of Murphy in the original movie were played by three actors, and Li Mu was ready to be played by Liu Yifei alone in the roles of the heroine in the two age groups of middle-aged and elderly.

"Do you think it's appropriate for Deng Chao to play the son of the male lead?"

In the evening, in the bed, Li Mu continued to chat with Liu Yifei.

"What's inappropriate?"

"You see, I'm so handsome, the person who plays my son must at least match me in appearance so that it won't go against me, right?"

Liu Yifei: "??? ”

She was a little defeated by Li Mu.

Before going to bed, Li Mu was still thinking that the protagonist's childhood son was looking for Yi Yang Qianxi, and the other heroine had already decided to use Anne Hathaway, and the role of Mark Damon would not be replaced, and the role of Lao Hei should be used as much as possible.

"Liu Yifei plays my daughter, and Deng Chao plays my son? Well, that's interesting! Anne Hathaway's appearance hasn't collapsed now, and it should feel good to play with her......"

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Time came to the weekend of the fifth week of the official release of "Frozen", that is, from December 14th to December 16th, this week's new film "The Hobbit 1" by Warners was officially released, so "Frozen" lost the championship and fell to second place with a score of 21 million US dollars.

At this time, "Breaking Dawn" (below), which was released at the same time as "Frozen", had fallen to $5 million at the weekend box office, ranking sixth.

"Life of Pi," which was released a week later than Frozen, continued to hold on to the top five this weekend with $5.4 million.

This week, Li Mu and Liu Yifei participated in the premiere of the film "Zodiac", Liu Yifei was wearing a Tony Ward dress, holding Li Mu's arm, radiant and smiling like a flower.

After the premiere, Li Mu led the crew of "Amazing Demon Thieves" to the United States and officially announced the start-up, and at the same time, "Frozen" has also come to the sixth week of release.

At this time, the domestic box office of the film has accumulated 2.2 billion yuan, and the daily box office has fallen to less than 10 million.

Compared with the domestic near the end, the international box office performance of the film is still outstanding.

In the sixth week, "Frozen" grossed $18.2 million in North America, and like last week, it was still the runner-up.

The winner is Warner's "The Hobbit 1," which grossed $37.2 million this weekend.

At this time, which was released at the same time as "Frozen", "Breaking Dawn" (below), which was stable at the box office of "Frozen" with $145 million in the first weekend, has completely disappeared, and "Life of Pi", which was released a week later than "Frozen", has also completely withdrawn from the North American weekend box office list.

And the box office performance of "Frozen" is still strong.

In the seventh week of the film's release, "Frozen" relied on excellent word-of-mouth word of mouth, and the box office rose instead of falling, and it soared from $18.2 million last weekend to $33.4 million.

In the seventh week of the film's release, the box office of "Frozen" did not fall but rose, with a score of $33.4 million, beating the $32.92 million of "The Hobbit 1: An Unexpected Journey", which was released four weeks later, and regained the championship position!

Since the release date of a new film, the box office of each weekend has dropped by about 50% compared with the previous week, which is almost the golden rule of the North American film market.

But today, just this week, seven weeks after the global release of "Frozen", its weekend box office increased instead of falling, soaring 84% to more than $30 million!

It can be said that the anti-heaven performance of "Frozen" directly shocked the world film industry!

In this regard, many netizens even felt that the box office statistics in North America were wrong.

"What's the situation? Hasn't "Frozen" been in theaters for a month and a half? Why is it the North American box office champion again? Still a champion in the seventh week of release? "Avatar" is nothing more than that, right? ”

"Am I not mistaken? I also watched it last week, and the weekend box office of Ice and Snow has fallen to more than $18 million, why has it skyrocketed this week? ”

"I don't understand, to be honest, I was stupid when I saw the results of $33.4 million this week, and the box office can still grow against this weekend?"

"Brothers, it's definitely right, many websites have already reported that the weekend box office of "Frozen" has indeed increased instead of falling!"

"It's awesome! The Hollywood Reporter: ''Frozen' beat "Avatar" to $30 million in the seventh week, ranking first in the box office list of the seventh week in film history! Then the third is Titanic, and the fourth is Gravity! Two of the top four are Li Mu's works! ”

"Si Guoyi!"

Then came the eighth week, "Frozen" grossed $26.8 million at the North American weekend box office, winning the North American weekend championship again!

Lionsgate's new film "The Weekly Chainsaw Massacre 3D" released this week lost to eight-week-old "Frozen" and finished second with $23 million.

So far, the film has been released for a total of eight weeks, and it has been officially released in China a few days ago, and its final box office in China is 2.313 billion yuan.

In the North American market, the cumulative box office of "Frozen" reached $344 million, and the cumulative box office in overseas markets outside North America was $761 million, and the total overseas box office was $1.105 billion.

Coupled with the conversion of the domestic market, it is about 340 million US dollars, so far the total global box office of "Frozen" has reached 1.445 billion US dollars!

It is worth mentioning that the total box office of the films directed by Li Mu before this was 5.24 billion US dollars, plus the box office of "Frozen" so far, the total global box office of the films directed by Li Mu has reached 6.685 billion US dollars, officially exceeding the 6.2 billion US dollars directed by James Cameron.

Li Mu's global total box office officially ranks second in the world!

Li Mu himself didn't feel anything about this, but a large number of netizens were already not calm.

Since Li Mu officially stepped into the entertainment industry in 2004, how many years has it been? How did he surpass Cameron and second only to Spielberg?

It can only be said that it is too awesome!

In addition, this week, that is, on January 10, 2013, the list of nominees for the 85th Academy Awards was officially announced, and "Frozen" won two nominations for the Best Original Song Award and the Best Animated Feature Film Award!

As soon as the list of nominees was announced, the Chinese-speaking Internet world was in an uproar again.

"Frozen" was nominated for an Academy Award again? I can't be mistaken, right? ”

"It's true! There is indeed "Frozen" in the list of nominees! ”

"I know I'm not mistaken, but that's the nomination again? Isn't that an exaggeration? ”

""Gravity", "Manchester by the Sea", "The Revenant", and now there is another "Frozen", which is indeed an exaggeration!"

"No, do you think "Frozen" is not good? Don't qualify for Hauska Best Animated Feature? Or is the theme song "Let It Go" not worthy of the Best Original Song award? ”

"That's right, yes, it's definitely qualified enough, but ......"

In the 6th week and 11th week of Frozen, the box office rose twice instead of falling, and it also made a strong comeback in the sixth week

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