The box office of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" fell sharply on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, from 350 million on the third day of the Lunar New Year to 263 million, then to 235 million on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, 207 million on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, and the seventh day of the Lunar New Year is the last day of the Spring Festival holiday.

Generally speaking, the box office of films released during the Spring Festival can account for more than 60% of the total box office in the first seven days, and in this way, "The Richest Man in Xihong City" is likely to be the first film in China with a box office of more than 3 billion.

There is no doubt that the box office performance of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" far exceeded Li Mu's previous expectations, he originally thought that if he could sell 2 billion, he would be qualified, sell 2.5 billion would be a big hit, and sell 3 billion, to be honest, he didn't dare to think about it before, after all, it was only 2014.

Although because of him, the Chinese film market in this time and space is maturing more rapidly, but judging from the scale of the current domestic film market and the number of screens, it is still very difficult for a single film to get a box office of up to 3 billion.

Because the box office performance of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" exceeded Li Mu's best estimate before, he also specially called Director Shen Junsheng and praised him well. Of course, Li Mu is not used to empty white tooth praise, so there will definitely be red envelopes, but the number will not be very large.

Shen Junsheng, as a veteran director of Huashang Media, is now not just a simple director's salary, "The Richest Man in Xihong City" is a big hit, and he can also get a share of the box office of the film.

Not only him, but the actor of the film, Shen Teng, will also get a dividend, and the amount will not be very low, and then other actors will not have this kind of treatment.

As a rookie actor who plays the heroine for the first time, even if she is the heroine in the film, she still will not get a high salary, and even the salary of some supporting actors in the film is still above it, for example, Liu Jiannan's actor Chang Yuan's salary is millions higher than that of her heroine.

Jin Chen's salary is almost at the same level as Xu Dongdong's salary, both of which are about 2 million, and although Wang Lihong only appeared for three minutes, his salary is also as high as 1 million yuan.

The entertainment industry is originally a very realistic industry, and the actors at the top of the pyramid often have a salary of 20 million to 30 million, and at the bottom of the pyramid, most of the actors, who account for more than 90% of the actor industry, often only live in the basement, and even buy groceries are only willing to buy discounted dishes before closing.

Li Mu and Liu Yifei flew back to Beijing on the seventh day of the new year, and the backbone of the company has returned to their posts one after another, Li Mu seized the opportunity of "Let's Get Married" before the official launch of several meetings of the company's backbone members, the purpose of which is of course to arrange the specific work in 2014.

Let's not mention the group and the cartoon animation for the time being, just talking about Huashang Media, everyone first completely decided the main actors of "Looking for the Dragon".

The main actors of "Looking for the Dragon" have almost been determined before - Pan Yueming as Hu Bayi, Zhao A as Wang Kaixuan, Yue Yang as the big golden tooth, Yang Xinming as Professor Chen, and Lu Zhen as Sister Hong. At that time, it was not determined that Shirley Yang's candidate, some time ago, Chen Zhixi met Zhang Yuqi and Lu Jingshan respectively, and after comprehensive consideration, it was finally decided that Zhang Yuqi would play this role.

In addition, the company also sold the premiere and online video rights of the modern drama "One Servant and Two Masters" a year ago, and the TV station has one round, two rounds and three rounds, plus the copyright of the video website, with a total unit price of 7.8 million yuan per episode, and a total of 43 episodes of TV dramas, with a total contract price of 335 million yuan.

On New Year's Eve, the TV series has been officially broadcast on the stars, and it has achieved a good score of 1.5 on both stations, of which the average rating of Beijing is as high as 2.03%, which has surpassed the highest average rating of Beijing and Taiwan in 2013.

Many companies and individuals in the industry who are looking forward to Huashang Media's overturning in the gutter are obviously disappointed again, and now "Huashang production, must be a high-quality product" is no longer just a slogan, but a real fact, and even the belief in the hearts of the majority of drama fans.

The ratings of "One Servant and Two Masters" are popular with a lot of actors, among which the most outstanding ones are, of course, Zhang Jiayi and Yan Ni, the two have a strong sense of CP in the play, and even many viewers said after watching the drama that the two must also like each other in reality, but they are limited by Zhang Jiayi's family.

Guan Xiaotong, the princess of the Beijing circle, also took advantage of this drama to make a small hit, and her agent also came to show loyalty to Huashang, saying that as long as it is Huashang's drama in the future, Xiaotong can reduce the salary to star, and if the script is very suitable, they can even accept zero remuneration there.

The so-called script is very suitable, most of which refers to the protagonist role, or the script written by Director Li Mu himself.

As one of the heroines, Jiang Shuying naturally became popular with the hit of the TV series, but she also received a lot of doubts when she became popular, and many netizens said that her performance in the play was not as brilliant as Zhu Lili's supporting role.

Jiang Shuying's role in the play is an older leftover girl, because she looks like the ex-wife of the male protagonist Yang Shu, so Yang Shu's daughter arranged a blind date with her father without authorization.

Yang Shu's boss Tang Hong, that is, the character played by Yan Ni, is a little interesting to Yang Shu, so he often buys clothes for Yang Shu for various reasons, and if Yang Shu shirks it, she says that it is needed for work, plus Yang Shu drives Tang Hong's most luxurious Cadillac model, so he was matched by Jiang Shuying's role on a blind date.

In the final analysis, it is still a famous brand and luxury car of Yang Shu in the picture, and later Yang Shu has to explain that he is a driver, not a boss and a tyrant, and the more he explains, the more he can't explain it, and the more he explains Jiang Shuying's role, the more he feels that Yang Shu is a rich man, and the reason why he denies it is a test for her, and then he takes the initiative to stick it up.

My girlfriend went to Yangshu's company to explore the truth, and I happened to see that the company's senior management was very polite to Yangshu, and finally decided that Yangshu was a rich man.

also kept saying that it was not Poplar's money that she fell in love with, but Poplar Tree, but finally the truth was revealed, and she immediately broke up from the previous rush to deliver to the door.

The characters are really not very likable.

On the contrary, Jiang Shuying's best friend named Lili is much more real, although the setting is a junior, her style is very frank, and there are many crooked quotes, which make many viewers like it.

"One Servant and Two Masters" is popular, although it is not as popular as the previous "The Legend of Zhen Huan", but the ratings of two stations breaking 1.5% and a single station breaking 2% are still amazing enough.

Therefore, various TV stations and video websites must have more confidence in Huashang dramas than before, in fact, since the broadcast of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" for more than half a year, the national TV drama industry has completely looked up to Huashang.

The premiere ratings of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" are very high, and the number of views on the video website is also very amazing, these are all known to everyone for a long time, although shocking, but it is acceptable, but since the end of the TV series for most of the year, the popularity of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" does not seem to have decreased much, which is very terrifying.

From the perspective of the industry, no matter how popular your drama is, it should ebb in half a year, right? The result is not at all, the popularity of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" has a tendency to intensify, and even many second- and third-round satellite TVs have received ratings of 1.7 or 1.8, and the popularity of video websites is even higher than one wave.

No one thought that "The Legend of Zhen Huan" would continue to ferment to this extent.

When "The Legend of Zhen Huan" sold 10 million episodes, the industry still thought it was incredible, but now looking back, I feel that this copyright fee is not so outrageous.

The current situation is that there was a big hit in the ratings of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" in the past, and the ratings of "One Servant and Two Masters" in the back, and now Huashang Media has completed all the preliminary work with another palace fighting drama, so how much money do various satellite TV and video websites have to pay to buy it?

"One Servant and Two Masters" has sold for 7.8 million episodes, how much does "Yanxi Raiders" starring Liu Shishi, one of the new four post-85 Xiaohuadans, sell for?

To be honest, without Huashang opening his mouth, both TV stations and video websites understand that the total price of a single episode is less than 9 million.

The question now is what is the quality of "Yanxi Raiders", if it can reach the level of "The Legend of Zhen Huan", then everything is negotiable.

Li Mu feels that the quality of "Yanxi Raiders" is still not as good as "The Legend of Zhen Huan", so the single episode of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is sold for 10 million, so it is completely acceptable that the price of a single episode of "Yanxi Raiders" is appropriately lower than that of "The Legend of Zhen Huan".

However, this is not the logic of the market.

For example, the copyright fee of the original time and space "The Legend of Zhen Huan" was only about 2 million per episode, but when it came to "The Legend of Ruyi" by the same author, it soared directly to more than 14 million per episode.

"The Legend of Ruyi" is of course not as good as "The Legend of Zhen Huan", but the copyright fee far exceeds the former.

Huashang's "Yanxi Raiders" this time is the same.

There is a successful example of "The Legend of Zhen Huan", "Yanxi Raiders" was spared no effort to scramble, and finally its single episode price was pushed to a high level of 11 million yuan, of which the first round, second round, and third rounds of the TV station added up to 6 million per episode, and the unit price sold to iQiyi was as high as 5 million per episode.

The total number of episodes of "Yanxi Raiders" is as high as 70 episodes, so the total contract price is as high as 770 million.

Huashang drama has once again set a new record.

Regarding the fact that "Yanxi Raiders" sold 770 million, who is the most excited? Li Mu?

His own project was sold at an ideal price, and Li Mu, as the boss of the company, was naturally excited, but to be honest, he was not so excited.

Now the annual transaction volume of his group is close to 50 billion yuan, and in terms of earning potential, although the price of the 770 million TV series is not low, it is not as high as Li Mu is very excited.

In fact, the most excited group of people is likely to be Liu Shishi's fans.

The fact that Liu Shishi was at the bottom of the new four little flowers has always made fans linger, but joining Huashang first is a better development, and fans just mind the reputation of being at the bottom, and in the end they can only accept the reality helplessly.

But now it's different, the situation seems to have changed, as soon as Shi Shi joined Huashang Media, Li Mu arranged a TV series and a movie for her.

It's hard to say what the future of the movie will be, at least in the TV series, Shi Shi can be regarded as a complete turnaround.

The copyright fee of "Yanxi Raiders" is even higher than the popular "The Legend of Zhen Huan"?!

If the response after the broadcast can be close to "The Legend of Zhen Huan", then the gap between Shi Shi and several other Xiaohua will not be as big as before.

If it goes one step further, the new movie "I'm going to See You Now" can also be a big hit, then maybe Shi Shi will be able to completely take off the hat at the bottom of the new four little flowers.

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Let's talk about Huashang's side.

At the subsequent meeting, Li Mu also proposed that the company should launch the "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky" project this year, and the drama "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky" has no original work, so the script was naturally completed by Li Mu himself.

Because "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky" in his previous life is classic enough, Li Mu does not plan to make drastic changes to the cast this time, at least the candidates for the male and female protagonists will definitely not move.

Although Zhang Yi is not an artist under Huashang Media, Yin Tao did not even have many opportunities to contact Huashang before, but this did not prevent Li Mu from inviting the two to serve as the male and female protagonists of the new drama respectively.

Of course, it is important to praise one's own people, but for Li Mu, the overall quality and taste of the TV series always come first.

However, in addition to the hero and heroine, the other characters are not completely immobile.

For example, the role of Qiu Yan in it, the original version used Zhang Jia to screw, and Zhang Jia screwed this role very well, but at the same time, Li Mu also felt that this role was completely capable of being played by his own Song Yi, so is it necessary to ask Zhang Jia to screw it?

Then there is no need.

For example, the role of Yang Xue in it, the original version used Gao Shuyao, and she also interpreted this role very well. The role of Yang Xue has even become uneasy for many audiences, and many netizens said that if they were Chen Jianghe, they would definitely choose Yang Xue instead of Luo Yuzhu.

This role Li Mu wants to play with white soldiers.

In fact, normally speaking, Bai Bing's coffee position at this moment is not suitable for playing such a role, and the entertainment industry is an actress who is much smaller than Bai Bing's coffee position, and when she takes over the play, she often asks not to act.

With the coffee position of Bai Bing, playing a supporting role in a TV series where the male and female protagonists are not as famous as themselves, normally most actors will refuse, but in reality, how can there be so many roles suitable for you?

There are more than a dozen famous actresses under Huashang, and if everyone doesn't act, then I'm afraid many people won't be able to act in their own dramas for several years.

Therefore, Li Mu only considers whether the role is suitable in most cases, and as for whether the coffee position is suitable, Li Mu doesn't think much about it most of the time.

Of course, it doesn't mean that whoever Li Mu recommends to play which role must be played, such as the role of Yang Xue, if Bai Bing feels that it is a loss for Yin Tao, then of course she also has the right to refuse.

However, it is clear that Bai Bing does not refuse to play a supporting role.

As for the company's 14-year film planning, with the success of "The Richest Man in Xihong City", the "Iron Fist of Shame" project was also put on the agenda, and the director of the film continued to be directed by Shen Junsheng.

Speaking of "The Richest Man in Xihong City", after the film won the box office of 1.891 billion in the seven days of the Spring Festival, its box office on weekdays has had a relatively obvious decline.

On the eighth day of the first month, it fell directly to 164 million yuan on the basis of 251 million yuan on the seventh day of the first month, and further fell to 115 million yuan on the ninth day of the first month, then 97.74 million yuan on the tenth day of the first month, 92.44 million yuan on the eleventh, and 12 rebounded slightly and broke 100 million yuan in a single day again, reaching 129 million yuan, and then 113 million yuan on the 13th day, and 14 further fell to 85 million yuan, and only 53.66 million yuan was left on the fifteenth day of the first month.

As of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the cumulative box office of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" is 2.74 billion yuan, and it is worth mentioning that in the current domestic film market, "Monster Hunt", which ranks first in the box office, has a cumulative box office of 2.77 billion yuan.

In other words, as long as "The Richest Man in Xihong City" wins another 30 million yuan at the box office, then it will be able to top the box office championship in the mainland market.

Judging from the current box office trend of "The Richest Man in Xihong City", there is no longer any suspense that its final box office will surpass "Monster Hunt".

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