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Chapter 959 Visiting Team
2021年的的五一放五天假，从5月1日到5日，可是电影的五一档却是从4月30日已经提前开始了。

Although it is only a short 5-day holiday, it is the most crowded period in 2021, with more new films entering the theater than during the Spring Festival, a total of 15.

Therefore, this is destined to be a period with even more intense competition.

"The Antique Bureau", "Secret Visitor", "Your Wedding", "She Exists in the World".
Even though we have already entered May 1st, promotions for major movies are still going strong.

In fact, from the box office battles in previous years, especially this year's Spring Festival, we can see that there are many factors that affect the final box office results, but early publicity and promotion are becoming more and more important because it is directly related to the actual offline scheduling.

The screening schedule directly determines the box office performance, including the total number and quality of screenings, both of which are very important.

Like this year's Spring Festival, "Raging Fire", produced and starred by Andy Lau, made a comeback thanks to its good reputation, but the final box office did not exceed 10 billion, which is far from the 40 billion of "Detective Chinatown 3".

However, the reputation of "Raging Fire" is much better than that of "Detective Chinatown 3", but it lost in the screening schedule, especially in the first three days when the box office exploded.

So, the same goes for this year's May Day period.

However, for Li Mu, the only films he can pay attention to during this period are "Your Wedding" and "Chasing Tigers and Catching Dragons", which were co-produced and distributed by Maoyan.

"Boss Wang, your temporary change of schedule is a wise move."

On May 1st, Li Mu took the opportunity of his break to take a look at the box office situation during the May Day period.

Although "Your Wedding" did not have a good reputation, its box office on the first day was quite outstanding, earning 1.4 million yuan and directly winning the championship during the period. For this, Li Mu also congratulated Wang Changtian.

"Your Wedding" was originally scheduled to be released on May 5, but was changed to April 20 at the last minute.

On the one hand, it is naturally about betting on the dark horse miracle.

Because the release schedule of Chinese films seems to have become particularly clear in recent years, each film company has been gearing up to target the three most valuable golden schedules - the Spring Festival, the National Day and the Spring Festival.

The bigger the schedule, the bigger the piece of cake you can get.

This change in the market has directly led to the number of films released in each period repeatedly setting new historical records.

Having a peak season also means having an off-season.

It is generally believed that March and April, late May and early June, September and November are relatively off-seasons, which often means that no popular films will choose to be released during these periods.

Looking back at the film market in recent years, most of the dark horses and blockbusters came from the off-season.

In 2018, there were movies such as "More Than Blue", "Time Raiders", "Nobody", and "A River of Sadness", which injected vitality into the quiet schedule.

"No, this is the only achievement that Guangguang has this year." Wang Changtian laughed cheerfully, "And I heard that the Fast and Furious series is scheduled to be released in mid-to-late May after being postponed for a year. How can the movie My Wedding compete head-on with it? Guangguang is counting on these movies this year, and this is one of them."

Obviously, there is a more important reason why Wang Changtian moved up the schedule, which is to avoid "Fast and Furious 9".

"By the way, Director Li, are you almost done? I heard that you'll be wrapping up this month?"

"Almost. It should be the end of this month."

Li Mu did not hide it and spoke directly.

Currently, the filming of "Changjin Lake" has come to an end, with only about twenty days left before the final shooting.

Time flies and it is already mid-May.

Li Mu, who had just finished filming a big drama, had no time to take a sip before his assistant handed him a cell phone.

"Zhou Xun?" Li Mu was a little surprised. For a moment he didn't know what Zhou Xun wanted to talk to him about.

"Sister Xun, this is rare."

Li Mu answered the phone with a smile and then joked.

"Director Li, it's not that difficult. I'm here right now!" Zhou Xun smiled on the phone, leaving Li Mu confused.

"I'm here to shoot a magazine promotion, and I want to visit you and Director Zhang. How about it? Are you welcome?"

Zhou Xun obviously also knew that "Changjin Lake" was in a busy shooting period, and was afraid that visiting the set rashly would affect the progress, so she specifically asked Li Mu in advance.

"Come on." Li Mu thought for a moment and then responded. "Okay, I'll have someone bring some stuff over."

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"Zhou Xun is coming."

While Zhang Yi was resting, he also learned about this from Li Mu.

"I remember that you, senior brother, have never worked with Zhou Xun, right?" Li Mu suddenly thought of this, which was strange.

"It's a coincidence that we haven't worked together before. But she has a wide range of acting skills, so there should be opportunities for us to work together in the future."

Zhang Yi said with a faint smile.

Li Mu nodded when he heard this, and he also knew why.

The main reason is that many of Zhang Yimou's films use new actors, while the films that use veteran actors are mostly Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Li Mu specifically asked Zhou Xun to come at about this time, mainly to coordinate with the crew's rest time.

"Director Li, Director Zhang has someone coming to visit the set."

The groundskeeper suddenly shouted loudly.

For a moment, everyone looked at the vehicle in the distance.

"Oh my god, that's a lot of stuff." Zhu Yawen sat near Zhang Yimou because the scenes being filmed at the moment were all about Zhang Yimou.

"How can it be less? There are so many people in our crew!" Zhang Hanyu responded immediately.

"Those who dare to come and visit our crew must be wealthy, otherwise they can't afford it at all."

Huang Xiaoming immediately started joking too, because he knew who was coming, and immediately stood up to welcome him.

"Hey, Sister Xun is here!"

"Look at you, look at you, even with the treatment by Director Li and Director Zhang, you are still so oily. Hurry up and ask the makeup artist to add more dirt."

As soon as Zhou Xun arrived, he started arguing with Huang Xiaoming, who was more familiar with him, and the whole place suddenly burst into laughter.

"Hello, Director Zhang!"

"Hello, Director Li!"

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Zhou Xun greeted everyone one by one.

"By the way, Sister Xun, did you recently post a childhood photo on Weibo?" Li Mu suddenly thought of something and said with a smile.

"Yeah, what happened to Director Li?"

"No, I saw netizens praising your long legs and good body proportions when you were a child. How come your legs have become shorter as you grew up?"

Li Mu shook his head.

In other words, Zhou Xun's personality is like that of a man, otherwise Li Mu would not have made such a joke.

Zhou Xun was not indifferent. "I grew ugly. If I could be like when I was little, I would be a beauty like Xixi!"

"Hahaha!"

Everyone burst into laughter when they heard this.

"Director Li, if you have any plans after filming "Changjin Lake", you can call me. I'm quite free anyway."

(End of this chapter)