China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 331: 2.57 million, the champion on the first day of the Spring Festival!
On February 2th, "The Shameful Iron Fist" kicked off its premiere event in five cities across the country. Director Shen Junsheng and starring actors Ai Lun and Mary landed in Pengcheng, the first stop.

There was constant laughter at the premiere, and the impromptu cross-dressing performance by Elun and Mary set off the atmosphere. The screening of the premiere movie even triggered waves of laughter in the screening hall.After the premiere, reporters randomly interviewed the audience. The vast majority of the audience said that the quality of the film was extremely high, even not inferior to the "Journey to the Road" series and "The Richest Man in Xihong City", which have always been the ceiling of domestic comedies.

According to director Shen Junsheng, the film will premiere in Jiangcheng, Shencheng, Magic City and Beijing. Some viewers immediately expressed their intention to rush to Jiangcheng for a second viewing.

On February 2th, the movie came to Jiangcheng, the second stop of the five-city premiere. After the movie viewing session, the audience praised the endless laughter in the movie. Afterwards, many people posted online saying: "It was so happy, I laughed so hard." My muscles are showing, and I will go to the cinema on the first day of the new year!"

At the same time, the discussion on the Internet about this year’s Spring Festival stalls is becoming more and more intense.

Movie.

"Shy Iron Fist VS The Lion of Heaven VS Zhong Kui's Demons VS Macau Storm VS Wolf Totem, which one are you going to watch during the Spring Festival this year? I'm really waiting online!"

""The Shameful Iron Fist", it is said that the premiere has been very popular, and the Internet is saying that it is not inferior to "The Richest Man in Xihong City"."

"The Spring Festival stall was created by Hua Shang. In the past, the Spring Festival stall was just an underappreciated tail end of the Lunar New Year stall. Unexpectedly, it has now become the largest schedule of the year. Look at this year's lineup of new films. Not to mention that the movies are good. Come on, at least big investments are coming."

"The reputation of "The Shameful Iron Fist" is indeed very explosive. The several film critics I am currently paying attention to have good reviews, but it does not rule out the possibility of being charged money. Moreover, Huashang now also has fan filters, and sometimes the reputation cannot be achieved. allow."

"Top "Macau 2""

"Macau 1 is a bad movie, 2 is probably not much better."

"What about Uncle Long's lion?"

"I can't say, I guess it won't be too ugly, but it's hard to say how good it is. In the past ten years, some of Uncle Long's most amazing movies were all made with Li Mu. Facts have proved that after leaving Li Mu, Uncle Long's The work is definitely getting mediocre.”

"If I only watch one film, I'd definitely choose "The Shameful Iron Fist"! Not to mention how amazing Hua Shang's comedy is, at least it doesn't make anyone regret it after watching it, right? I heard that the main line of the story was thought up by Li Mu himself, and After several years of polishing the drama, and with Huashang’s talented team leading the production, the quality will definitely not be too bad.”

"Pengcheng, Jiangcheng and Shencheng personally followed three stations and watched them all three times. I was still laughing from ear to ear after watching them for the third time. Highly recommended!"

"I am also most optimistic about "The Shameful Iron Fist", but there is no need to brag about the main plot that Li Mu personally thought about. In recent years, Hua Shang's movies always promote the main plot that Li Mu personally thought about. I wonder if Li Mu is a superman. ? He writes books, makes movies, and acts, and he always thinks of a main line for the movie to complete. Although I like Li Mu very much, I still feel that he and Hua Shang are a bit consuming the audience's trust now."

"Hua Shang is really brave to employ people. Can Ailun and Mary support a 20 billion movie? I will watch it, but I am not very optimistic about it."

Netizens’ discussions are varied. Some people like Huashang movies very much, while others hate them. No matter how well-made a movie is, it is impossible for everyone to like it, but no matter what, Huashang movies never seem to be popular. No shortage of heat.Especially now, as the Spring Festival is approaching, anyone on the Internet who talks about a movie that will be released in the near future will mention "Shameful Iron Fist".

The movie promotion of "Shameful Iron Fist" is in full swing, and Li Mu is not idle at this time. In addition to various trivial matters every day, the most important things for him recently are two things: one is staring at "The Hunger Games" 3"; the second is to continue to advance the post-production preparations for "Edge of Tomorrow".

Years ago, the company held a preparatory meeting for "Edge of Tomorrow." In addition to company executives such as Li Mu, Liu Siying, and Chen Zhixi, China Film also specially sent people to attend.

Chairman Han Sanping has officially retired, and the newly appointed Chairman Pei Kang is ambitious to make some big noise.

When China Film Group was under the control of Han Sanping, it successively invested in Huashang Media's "Inception", "Gravity", "The Martian" and a series of super blockbusters that swept the world. Now that the new chairman has taken office, it is natural that he is intentional. Make some noise that is no less than that of your predecessor.

"The Great Wall" directed by Zhang Yimou was the first hit after taking office, while Huashang Media's "Edge of Tomorrow" was another one.Compared to "The Great Wall", Chairman Pei is of course more optimistic about Li Mu's "Edge of Tomorrow".

Li Mu directed it himself, and Li Mu and Liu Yifei co-starred. In terms of production team and cast, "Edge of Tomorrow" is not inferior to most of Li Mu's previous hit works.

At the meeting, everyone focused on the basic setting of the movie. In fact, this time Li Mu did not completely copy the setting of the original movie as usual.

In the original movie, the European continent has been completely occupied. China and Russia blocked the attack of alien creatures in the east, while the Western Legion led by the United States carried out a landing in Normandy, France, on the back of the aliens to reduce the impact of China and Russia. The pressure on the Eastern Front battlefield helped China and Russia completely drive the alien creatures into the sea.

If it were ten years ago, Li Mu would definitely have filmed according to this setting, but now the situation has changed.

Several recent blockbusters invested by Huashang Media have had domestic box office sales exceeding overseas box office. Now that the ceiling for a single movie in the mainland market has exceeded the 40 billion yuan mark, Huashang's logic for investing in blockbusters has also changed.

In the past, Huashang invested in a science fiction blockbuster. If the overseas box office was exhausted, the overall box office of the blockbuster would also be exhausted. At that time, blockbusters with an investment of 1 million US dollars were entirely supported by overseas markets. Without big sales in overseas markets, the film would not be possible. profit.

Now that Huashang invests in a blockbuster film, overseas box office is of course still important, but the importance of the mainland market is also becoming more and more important.

For the mainland market, the protagonist team from China organized a landing operation in Normandy, France. In terms of sense of substitution, how could it be more exciting to land directly in China, which is more familiar to everyone?

And it’s not difficult to change the settings.

For example, in the original version, alien creatures landed in Europe, then Europe fell, China and Russia resisted in the east, and finally the United States landed behind the monsters to open a second battlefield. This time and space can be changed to alien creatures landing in Europe and East Asia at the same time!
Then all the coasts of Europe and East Asia fell. The Chinese fought on both the east and west fronts in the northwest region of China, and successfully blocked the attack of alien creatures.

Then the United States advocated the implementation of landing operations behind alien creatures to relieve the pressure on the Chinese army. As for the choice of landing site, on the surface the human army made a grand sneak attack on Normandy, but in fact the real elites were ready to attack at any time and be occupied by aliens. The magic city.

The seemingly massive Normandy landing turned out to be just a feint to paralyze alien creatures, and the Magic City, which did not seem to be the best choice, was the real target of the human army.

The seemingly unexpected actions of human beings have long been detected by alien creatures with special abilities to travel through time, which is exactly in line with the setting of the original movie.

Li Mu feels that when the landmark buildings of the Magic City appear in the movie, domestic audiences will have a sense of immersion.

To carry out landing operations along the coast of China, it is even more reasonable for China to send its most elite team.

After discussing the plot, everyone then discussed the casting of the film.

In fact, the issue of casting for the film has been discussed many times within the company before, and some preliminary candidates have been made. Among them, the most important male and female protagonists in the film have already been selected, Li Mu and Liu Yifei, and the other roles are of average importance. .

Among them, the general who forced the male protagonist to go to the front line to participate in the battle at the beginning of the film was the most vocal in the previous discussion. Li Youbin and Zhang Fengyi have both appeared in many military-themed film and television dramas, and the roles they played as generals They are also very popular.

But today Li Mu has a new perspective on this role.

"Li Youbin and Zhang Fengyi are both good, but something still feels wrong."

Liu Siying asked: "What specifically does it feel wrong?"

Li Mu shook his head, he still just had a feeling.

Chen Zhixi frowned and thought for a moment and then said: "The role of the general gives me the feeling that he is neither a wise and iron-blooded commander nor a stupid old stubborn idiot, but should be somewhere in between. He is too wise and iron-blooded. , it won’t be so difficult for the protagonist team to complete the mission, it’s too idiotic, and it’s a bit unreasonable to be appointed to command a super big battle like opening the second battlefield.”

Li Mu nodded and said, "That's pretty much what it means."

Chen Zhixi said: "How about finding an actor who is a little fatter? He uses the inconvenience of a fat man to show his clumsiness, but in fact this does not affect his job as a qualified commander."

"You can try it." Li Mu said.

I remember that the character of the general in the original movie was a fat man.

Chen Zhixi said at this time: "How about Teacher Liang Guanhua? The scene where Teacher Liang scolded Wang Xiaojie in Dee Renjie was very impressive."

Li Mu looked at the other people and saw that everyone nodded, and then he said: "That's it, I'll invite Teacher Liang to audition after the year."

Among the remaining more important characters is the Master Chief, the one who made the protagonist's team do push-ups, and then the protagonist rolled under the car and was crushed to death. At that time, he frowned and said, "What is in this retarded head?" Li Mu intends to invite Hu Jun to play this role of a low-level official.

Hua Shang and Hu Jun have collaborated many times before, and Hu Jun's acting skills have also been recognized by Li Mu.

There is also a female warrior character in the film. This character is mixed with a group of male warriors. She is arm-in-arm and carefree. She is regarded as an embellishment in the team. This character is secondary to others. The key is to be able to fight.

Li Mu originally wanted to invite Xin Zhilei to play the role. Her fighting scene in "Celebrating More Than Years" was good, and the sword in "Xiu Chun Knife 2" was also amazing, but currently only Li Mu knows this. Because at this time, "Xiu Chun Dao 2" doesn't even have a script ready yet.

However, Xin Zhilei has signed a contract for a drama later this year, and she is still the main heroine, so Li Mu has no choice but to find another candidate.

After "Celebrating More Than Years", Xin Zhilei has good resources. In recent years, she has also taken on some film and television dramas with leading roles. At this time, a female supporting role with a small role, even if it is Li Mu's drama, is indeed not as attractive to her as a movie. The heroines in other dramas are more attractive.

If it were Li Mu who invited her to star in a new film, would she rather offend the crew who had already signed a contract than push her to play Li Mu's role? Believe it or not?
“Let’s wait until the official casting of this role after the year!”

Finally, Li Mu made the final decision.

As for the other characters in the protagonist team, Li Mu still wants to add a few foreigners, and they should be a little famous, similar to Matt Damon.

It is right to pay more attention to the mainland market, but the overseas market must also be taken into consideration. Even if it is no longer as good as the mainland market, it is still about [-] million in size, and it is still in US dollars. How could Li Mu give up so easily?

At the end of the meeting, everyone naturally mentioned the Spring Festival show that was about to start. When it came to this year's Spring Festival show, the person who came from China Film Group was a little confused.

"Wolf Totem", which was also released on the first day of the Lunar New Year, was invested and filmed by China Film Group. Now it is collaborating with Huashang Media's "Shameful Iron Fist", can there be any good results?

Fortunately, China Film Group also invested in "Shameful Iron Fist", although its share is far less high than that of "Wolf Totem".Then the time quickly came to February 2015, 2, and this year’s Spring Festival officially kicked off.

……

Beijing City, Wanda Cinema.

A young couple walked to the ticket machine.

"The theater is so busy this year. There are only so many people there in the morning." The woman sighed while looking around.

The man quickly took out the ticket, with the words "Shameful Iron Fist" clearly written on the ticket.

"Of course, there are seven blockbuster movies released during the Spring Festival this year, which is definitely more lively than in previous years. However, although there are many new movies this year, it is a pity that there are no works that are too eye-catching."

When the woman heard this, she couldn't help but curl her lips and said: "Isn't "The Shameful Iron Fist" enough to make people shine? Ellen and Mary exchange souls, how interesting!"

The man held his forehead: "Is this still impressive? This kind of idea should have been around at least 20 years ago, right?"

The woman asked back: "One trick can change the world. Take your favorite entertainment novel as an example. Ten years ago, the protagonist traveled back in time and copied Li Mu's works. Ten years later, the protagonist still traveled back in time and copied Li Mu's work. Mu’s works, you’ve been watching the same routine for ten years, and you’re still watching it with gusto?”

The man was speechless, but he still couldn't help complaining: "But you said, how can we write entertainment novels without copying Li Mu? There is no way to write! If we really avoid Li Mu and his Huashang movies, then this We can simply cancel the classification.”

The woman smiled happily and said: "Then we won't get married? The same goes for soul exchange between men and women. Don't be afraid of old tricks, just make it look good!"

The man nodded: "That's true, but in the end it still depends on whether the movie itself is interesting."

……

Magic City, the entrance of a movie theater.

Two people who looked like reporters stopped a couple.

"Hello, excuse me, can I ask you a question?"

"Okay, just ask!"

"Which do you think is the most anticipated movie during the Spring Festival this year?"

""Shy Iron Fist"!"

"Have you bought your tickets yet?"

"Yes, we booked it on Maoyan Movies. We got tickets for 9.9, which is very cheap."

"Really cheap."

"Thank you Li Mu, thank you Maoyan. With Maoyan, a ticket can easily cost fifty or sixty yuan. At that time, I didn't dare to go into the theater easily."

……

Xijing, a residential building.

A man about 30 years old shouted in the direction of the dressing room: "Honey, hurry up, the movie starts in half an hour."

Soon a voice came from the dressing room: "It's still half an hour, what's the rush?"

After a while, the woman finally walked out of the dressing room.

The man immediately sighed with emotion: "You said that Li Mu was smart when he was in school, but who would have thought that he would develop like this in the future? In less than ten years, Huashang Media's development is no worse than that of Warner."

It turns out that the man is Li Mu's high school classmate, and now this has become a good talking point for him when chatting with others.Speaking of which, his wife is still a fan of Li Mu. She flew thousands of miles to ask for Li Mu’s autograph. Later, he successfully got close to the goddess with a photo taken with Li Mu in high school.

"Hey, you said you are high school classmates after all. When can't you organize a high school reunion?"

The man curled his lips: "Come on, if it were really organized, I guess [-]% of the time Li Mu wouldn't go. He's no longer in the same circle as his high school classmates now."

The woman also mentioned it casually. When her husband said there was no chance, she immediately changed the subject and said, "Li Mu really never had a girlfriend in high school?"

"Definitely not!"

"It can't be that you didn't notice it, right? He is so good, are all the girls in your high school blind?"

"Why are you asking about this?"

"I'm just curious. If so, what do you think those women would think when they see Li Mu develop like this?"

"What else can I think about, it's a pity!"

The woman hesitated to speak.

Just now she suddenly thought that if she was also Li Mu's female high school classmate, then regardless of whether she could marry him seriously in the future, she would directly push him down. It would be better to conceive a child for him and then not tell him. Waiting for him to come to the house with his children more than ten years later... Oh my god, what an idol drama plot!

While I was thinking wildly, I heard my husband urging me from the side: "Let's go, the movie should start soon."

……

On the first day of the new year, people all over the country bought tickets to watch "The Shameful Iron Fist". Although Li Mu is neither the director of the film nor the protagonist of the film, the probability of him appearing in the audience's mouth is not low at all. Sometimes even more than the film's male and female protagonists Ellen and Mary.

Nowadays, "Produced by Huashang Media" is a well-known sign. Among the target groups of "Shameful Iron Fist", there are definitely not a few people who choose to buy tickets because of the sign of Huashang Media. When it comes to Huashang Media, this The gold nugget sign often brings the topic to Li Mu and Liu Yifei.

There are really too many topics about the two of them and they are too hot.

Two hours later, the first movie on the morning of New Year's Day ended. Almost everyone who walked out of the theater had a smile on their face, and many of them were discussing the highlights of the movie.

A reporter stopped the audience to ask about their experience of watching the movie.

"It's funny, I haven't seen such a good comedy in a long time!"

"A man in front of me burst out laughing, really!"

"I kind of want to watch it again. It feels like the laughs are even denser than in "The Richest Man in Xihong City"."

"Marie Ellen received great reviews. Before watching it, I was a little worried that the two of them wouldn't be able to support the movie. After watching it, I felt that no one else would be suitable to play the role of these two in the movie!"

"It doesn't feel like it has much depth, and the jokes are a bit old, but I can't help but laugh when I watch the whole scene. I think the most important thing about a movie is to be happy!"

"The movie 'Three Pains' makes me laugh until my face hurts and my stomach hurts, and I hold it in until my bladder hurts."

"To be honest, the movie doesn't have much depth, but Hua Shang is the only company in China that can make comedy without much depth!"

"It feels average, but I really can't help but laugh at the scene."

Overall, "Shameful Iron Fist" received moderate reviews from film critics, but the film's on-site response in theaters was overwhelming. Almost every local theater triggered rounds of laughter when it was screened.

Director Shen Junsheng, Mary and Ai Lun also clearly felt the enthusiasm of the audience during the road show. At this time, the two people's previous worries that they would not be able to sustain a hit movie were finally relieved.

It seems that the results of "Shameful Iron Fist" are far beyond the two people's previous estimates?

Time soon came to the next day, and Li Mu, Liu Siying, Chen Zhixi, Shen Junsheng and others also received the exact first-day box office statistics of the film.

In fact, it doesn’t matter whether we receive the exact figures or not, because as early as [-] o’clock last night, Maoyan Movies had already used an algorithm to calculate the film’s first-day box office in advance. Although Maoyan Movies’ data is not very accurate, it is still accurate. Get a rough idea.

2.57 million yuan.

Ranked first among films released during the Spring Festival!
(End of this chapter)