"The schedule of Tencent Video has been set." Li Mu's office, Liu Siying said slowly.

The schedule in her mouth naturally refers to the specific launch date of "Ghost Blowing Lantern: The Essence of the Ancient City".

Without waiting for Li Mu to speak, Liu Siying continued: "The officially finalized concept poster will be released next Monday, and the online time is May 25, and the preliminarily scheduled member users will update episodes 1-6 at 20:00 on the 25th, and non-member users will update episodes 1-3 at 24:00, and 3 episodes will be updated every Monday in the future." ”

Li Mu said: ""Exquisite Ancient City" has a total of 21 episodes, and 3 episodes are updated every week, that is, it will be broadcast on July 6. ”

Liu Siying nodded and said: "The movie schedule in the first half of the year is generally not as good as in the second half of the year, what I mean, "Looking for the Dragon" is better to be pushed to the summer file." ”

Li Mu said: "Early July? ”

Liu Siying nodded.

Li Mu said with a smile: "The reason why you chose July is probably not only the reason why the summer market will be significantly larger!" ”

Liu Siying also smiled: "Tengxun Video bought the online exclusive broadcast rights of our "Exquisite Ancient City" at a price of 7.5 million per episode, and they naturally have high hopes for our online drama, and now that they have even spent 150 million yuan, they will naturally not drop the chain in the later publicity." ”

Li Mu said with a smile: "It is also the "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" series, and the publicity funds that Tengxun Video smashed on "Exquisite Ancient City" were smashed on "Looking for the Dragon". ”

Liu Siying said: "The publicity funds are still secondary, the most important thing is that we have absolute confidence in the quality of "Exquisite Ancient City", and we also believe that "Exquisite Ancient City" will inevitably set off a ghost blowing lamp craze after it is launched, and then the publicity and release of "Looking for the Dragon" will be twice the result with half the effort. ”

Li Mu nodded and said: "That's the reason, okay, let's do it, this time the announcement of "Looking for the Dragon" can also be regarded as borrowing arrows from Tengxun grass boats." ”

Liu Siying smiled on her face and said, "Chairman, what do you use in this idiom?" ”

Li Mu laughed and said: "It really doesn't seem right for the grass boat to borrow arrows here, that's the fox and the fake tiger?!" ”

Liu Siying also smiled: "Chairman, I'm going to criticize you." ”

"What's wrong?" Li Mu asked.

Liu Siying: "Now on the finalized poster of Tengxun Video, the four big words 'produced by Huashang' are particularly conspicuous, how can you see ourselves as the fox in the pretending to be Huwei?" In fact, our Huashang Media is the majestic tiger. ”

Li Mu laughed heartily and said: "Yes, yes, yes, yes, we are tigers, and we are all prostituted by others for nothing!" ”

Huashang Media is a tiger, referred to as South China Tiger?

……

On April 3, 2015, "Fast and Furious 7" was the first to open in North America, breaking a number of box office records in its first weekend.

In the United States, the box office of "Fast and Furious 7" reached a staggering $143 million in the first weekend, surpassing the $95 million of "Captain America 2", and became the first weekend box office champion of a film that opened in April in North American history.

In the 29 overseas markets outside of North America, the box office performance of "Fast and Furious 7" is also amazing, with a total overseas box office of $245 million in the first three days, and it has won the box office championship in every country and region.

From April 10 to April 12, 2015, "Fast and Furious 7" won the North American weekend championship again without suspense, with a North American box office of $250 million in 10 days of release, and the overseas box office exceeded $550 million!

On April 12, "Fast and Furious 7" officially landed in the Huaxia Film Market, and Yang Mi bought tickets early that day, and then walked into the theater as soon as possible with her assistant.

"Sister, why do you suddenly want to watch this kind of movie." In the car, the assistant asked curiously.

Yang Mi pouted and said: "The big boss of our company, the outside world is about to blow up to God, what is the world's first 10 billion dollar director, what is Asia's first Hauska Best Film Director and the like, but what is the result?" I heard that this movie was going to be released in April, so I didn't dare to arrange for my own film to be released at the same time, I just wanted to see what kind of movie this was, and it could make him so jealous. ”

Yang Mi's little assistant looked very much admired Li Mu: "Sister, the big boss has a super good eye, since even he is so worried about this movie, it means that this movie must have something outstanding." ”

Yang Mi snorted with her nose and said: ""Fast and Furious 6" is only 400 million box office, it's not a big deal, it's tens of millions less than my "Little Times"!" ”

The theater arrived, and after the assistant parked the car, the two ran to the ticket hall together, and then the two were stunned by the scene in front of them.

I saw that there was already a long queue of people in the ticket hall, and there were voices talking about "Fast and Furious 7" everywhere.

Obviously, this movie became popular before it was released, and it was not an ordinary fire, it was a super fire with a lot of popularity!

Yang Mi and the assistant stood in place and watched the lively scene in front of them for two minutes, and finally the little assistant said in a very exaggerated tone: "Sister, what did you say in the car just now?" ”

"Huh?" Yang Mi replied absentmindedly.

The little assistant showed a look of admiration and said: "I haven't seen such a lively situation for a long time, I guess the box office of this movie will be very high, I will say that the big boss's vision is super good!" ”

Yang Mi was a little unconvinced: "Maybe this theater is popular, maybe other theaters are very deserted!" ”

……

More than two hours later, the two came out of the screening hall, and Yang Mi couldn't help but sigh: "It doesn't seem to be very good-looking, I really don't know what those people are excited about." ”

The assistant said: "Fortunately, the big boss avoided the schedule, otherwise it might be really troublesome." ”

Yang Mi teased: "You seem to admire him very much? ”

The assistant said, "Of course, sister, don't you worship him?" ”

Yang Mi said: "I don't, he has nothing to admire, I don't understand that there are still many people on the Internet who say they want to marry him." ”

The assistant said: "I want to too, sister, don't you want to?" ”

"Me? I'm full. Yang Mi said.

……

How popular is "Fast and Furious 7" in China?

Let the numbers speak.

The box office of the zero point field was 66 million, and the box office on the first day was 413 million yuan, which was the second film to break 400 million in a single day after the movie "Interstellar" directed by Li Mu, and the box office of "Interstellar" at that time (not counting the zero point field) was 432 million.

Fortunately, Li Mu is here, otherwise the single-day box office champion in the mainland film market will become this Hollywood movie.

The box office of "Fast and Furious 7" fell sharply the next day, closing at 217 million yuan, and then receiving 205 million yuan on the third day.

As of the early morning of April 14, the cumulative box office of "Fast and Furious 7" in the mainland reached an astonishing 901 million yuan, although it was not as good as the 1.346 billion in the three days of "Interstellar", but it was still very terrifying.

In the face of this simply appalling achievement, the whole network was full of news about the box office miracle of "Fast and Furious 7", and even the director of the film, Wen Ziren, was compared with Li Mu by netizens.

Of course, Wen Ziren is far from being comparable to Li Mu, but someone said that he and Li Mu were put together, which in itself is a performance that netizens were shocked by the box office performance of "Fast and Furious 7".

Since returning home after the premiere of "Fast and Furious 7", Yang Mi has been unable to calm down for a long time, before the release of this film, she also thought that since her "Small Times" two years ago could beat "Fast and Furious 6", then "Small Times 4: The End of the Soul", which will be released this summer, should also be able to beat "Fast and Furious 7".

But the result?

Last time, the total box office of "Fast and Furious 6" in China was only more than 400 million, and then this time its sequel "Fast and Furious 7" added 479 million box office on the first day!

It's the last time the whole release cycle is over!

……

A few days later, the first meeting of the crew of "Thief Family" was held in the Huashang Conference Room, director Shen Junsheng, starring Zhang Songwen, Li Mingqi, Song Jia, Cheng Feng and Wang Shengdi, two children arrived, of course, Yang Mi, who played the role of her sister in the film, was also there.

The meeting just briefly introduced the basic situation of the project, and also made the relevant creators familiar with each other, and after the meeting, Yang Mi chased to Li Mu's office alone.

"Looking for me?" Li Mu asked.

Yang Mi stared at Li Mu directly: "Why do I feel more and more that you are a traverser?!" ”

Li Muyan's expression did not change by half a dime when he heard this, it is very reasonable for such a magical thing to happen in the book, but if you say that you are a traverser in reality, the ghost will believe you!

Believe it or not, tomorrow Li Mu will directly disclose on Weibo that he is a traverser, and no one will believe it?

It is indeed a bit of an exaggeration to say that it is impossible to believe it, after all, in reality, a liar is a liar who claims to be Qin Shi Huang and can cheat money.

"Why do you say that?" Li Mu's face was unwavering.

Yang Mi said: "The world's first 10 billion dollar director, this is too exaggerated, if someone told me ten years ago that the world's first 10 billion dollar director would be a Chinese, I would definitely think that person was crazy - no, let alone ten years, even five years ago I would have thought that person was crazy, but you just did it." ”

Li Mu neither admitted nor denied it, but just smiled faintly: "If you are allowed to travel back ten years now, then what do you think you can develop now?" ”

Yang Mi really thought about it seriously for a while, and then suddenly became as imposing as a deflated ball: "Okay, I admit that even if I cross over, I estimate that I am probably a little stronger than I am now-no......"

"What's wrong?" Li Mu asked.

This time, Yang Mi smiled and didn't answer.

In fact, she just suddenly thought that if she really traveled to ten years ago, then she would definitely know Liu Yifei in advance before Li Mu met him.

Maybe even if she crosses, she also doesn't have the ability to change the world, but she can conquer men who have the ability to change the world. But these words are naturally not good to say to the man who is now a married man on the other side.

"Actually, I'm just here to make a joke, and I don't actually think you're a traverser." Yang Mi said again.

"Oh?" Li Mu looked up at her with some surprise this time, it turned out that she had nothing to say to put this nonsense aside.

Yang Mi said: "Look at the networks on the starting point, which traverser is not pushing this and that, and the most perverted one will even take it all over." ”

Li Mu couldn't help but be surprised, and said in his heart, is this still reading online articles at the starting point? She even knows how to collect everything!

"You still know this?"

"Of course I understand, I've sent several lawyer's letters."

"Lawyer's letter?"

"Well, if you don't like it, you will send it." Then she changed her tone and said, "Look at you, you have saved such a big family business, but you are still as timid as a mouse, this one dare not move, that one does not dare to touch, at first glance it is not the style of a traverser." ”

Li Mu was unconvinced: "I don't want to, it's not that I don't dare!" ”

"It's all the same!"

"How could it be the same!"

"Don't talk about this, I'm just curious how you knew in advance that the box office of "Fast and Furious 7" would explode, at that time, this movie had not even been released overseas, if it had been released overseas, it was not impossible to infer its box office performance in China from overseas box office performance and word of mouth, but at that time, this movie had not even been released abroad."

"It's very simple, this series has been filmed six or seven times, and the accumulated popularity of six or seven is certainly not trivial."

"Because of this? Just because the total box office in the mainland was more than 400 million in the sixth part, and the seventh part soared to a single-day box office of more than 400 million? ”

"It's actually very simple, on November 30, 2013, shortly after the release of "Fast and Furious 6", its starring Paul Walker passed away unexpectedly, that is, from that day on, "Fast and Furious 7" has been endowed with more emotional significance, and its box office explosion should be expected by many people, you go to post it to see, many fans have expected it, you don't know because you have no interest in this movie, but even I didn't expect it to be as popular as it is now."

"It's as simple as that?"

"Of course, what do you think?"

"Me? I almost thought you could tell fortunes. ”

"Fortune telling? Isn't it a traverser? ”

"Forget it, the traverser is too stupid to say, it's still more credible to tell fortunes."

Then the two chatted about the prospects of "Thief Family", Yang Mi was more concerned about whether this movie really had any hope of winning the Palme d'Or, Li Mu replied that he didn't know, but Yang Mi said: "Aren't you a fortune teller?" ”

"When will I be a fortune teller?" Li Mu said helplessly at that time.

……

Then in mid-April, "Edge of Tomorrow", which had been in preparation for a long time, finally officially started.

The start-up location was selected in Huashang Media's own giant open-air studio in the magic capital, and after the simple start-up ceremony that day, the main creators of the crew first came to the various equipment that the props team had prepared in advance.

Matt Damon will not be able to join the group in a dozen days.

It is worth mentioning that Li Mu created a role for Matt Damon in the script, after all, this time it is for the global film market, and it is the theme of the global army uniting to fight aliens, if the relevant leading actors are all Asian faces, it will definitely affect the acceptance of the film in the Western world.

In Hollywood movies, Chinese supporting actors go in to get the Chinese box office, and Huashang movies stuff Hollywood actors go in to get the box office of the Hollywood base camp, each other.

The props team of Edge of Tomorrow produced a total of two different mechas, of which the highly restored mecha fully equipped with weapons weighs a total of 90 pounds, in addition to another stunt armor, which is cast from latex and plastic, in order to minimize the risk of injury to the actors during filming.

Hu Jun, who played the role of the non-commissioned officer, looked left and right, and it seemed that he looked the strongest except for Li Mu, so he had to try on the kind of high-level simulation fully equipped mecha weighing 90 pounds, but he immediately grinned after putting it on.

Then I didn't expect Liu Yifei to be a little eager to try, Li Mu stopped her, but she said: "I can wear it if others can wear it!" ”

Li Mu was a little speechless, others are still big men, do you say that you are a woman and a big man are more interesting than physical strength?

As a result, Liu Yifei, who tried it on, cried when he stood in front of Li Mu after taking off his armor, literally, tired and crying, Li Mu hurriedly took the person into his arms to comfort him, and the other creators saw this situation, and immediately went around to study other props.

(End of chapter)