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Chapter 488 Disney: Hmm? It's a bit prosperous
She wasn't very interested at first, but since everyone said so, she had to taste it.

After all, Zhou Yi also had a "criminal record" in China with the movie "Hero", and the evaluation of him at the time was that it was a pity that he had to act in such a bad movie.

Although she doesn't understand instrumental music, she knows how to argue with people online.

This has received rave reviews. As a fan, how can she brag to others if she doesn't learn more about it?

"Like this, it's very simple. I think someone should have made MP3s of Zhou Yi's songs. Just search the song title on Baidu MP3 and download it. Then import it into Qianqian Jingting and you're done."

Li Jiafeng, who was familiar with dial-up Internet access at his girlfriend's house, quickly imported "He's a Pirate" into the player - and then he began to shake his legs to the strong rhythm of the music.

While shaking my legs, I didn't forget to go online to check what this song was about -

"Can anyone tell me what the quality of this song is? My ears are dull, but I think the rhythm is quite strong. It makes me want to shake my legs when I hear it, but that's it."

"From the perspective of classical music, this song is not even allowed to enter the realm of music."

"Oh my god, this song is not classical music, okay? Is your classical music like this? Why are you pretending to be so high and mighty? Which black traitor sneaked in?"

"..."

What follows is an endless battle between pinks and haters.

Li Jiafeng, who couldn't find anything useful in the fan forum he often visited, turned to Tianya, ready to see what the brothers here had to say, but found that most of the posts here were also saying that they didn't know what to do if they couldn't watch the movie.

"Don't worry, don't worry. If you can't wait, you can wait for the pirated discs from Hong Kong and Taiwan. The movie will be released in Taiwan on August 8 and in Hong Kong on August 9. The mainland still needs some procedures and schedule arrangements. The most optimistic time to see it in the cinema is November."

"Where's the movie soundtrack? What the hell is Warner Bros. doing?! They just want to hold Zhou Yi back! Don't you know I can buy a disc for Zhou Yi?!"

"Let's be honest. The soundtrack was also released by Disney, and they are also a giant. There is no way they would give up this piece of cake to Warner. If anyone is to blame, they should blame the Rolling Stones and EMI."

"..."

Since the Rolling Stones had been declining year by year since the beginning of the new century, the contract for Rolling Stones to distribute a large number of CDs and tapes in mainland China and Taiwan expired in early 03, and both parties had no intention of renewing the contract.
EMI also ended its business as the agent for Disney Records' distribution in Hong Kong and Macau at the beginning of the year.

This directly leads to Disney’s inability to release the soundtrack album simultaneously in China.

As for the medium and large-scale pirates who have the ability to record, they are now busy selling a series of albums such as "Warner Love Story II" that can make them huge profits, and have no time to deal with a piece of instrumental music.

Therefore, everyone can only watch the external network news brought by the big guys who climb over the firewall to satisfy their addiction——

Because of Zhou Yi's joining, Disney spared no effort in promoting the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" and praised him again and again even though he had returned to China.

Make money, not shabby.

This project is being made with great effort by certain factions within Disney. Not only is it a huge investment of over 100 million US dollars, but there were also various conflicts during the filming, including calls to reduce investment or modify the plot and characters.

Michael Eisner, the current CEO of Disney, once publicly criticized Depp's role as the captain for ruining the movie. Before it was even released, there was already a lot of negative news about it. The internal strife seemed to be just like Warner, putting the ship in danger of running aground and sinking before it even set sail.

You should know that before Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean", the last company that dared to invest nearly 100 million US dollars in a pirate movie was called Calomi Films.

The company invested more than 90 million U.S. dollars to shoot the pirate movie "Cutthroat Island", but the final box office revenue was less than 10 million, which directly caused the company to go bankrupt. The copyrights of its classic movies such as "First Blood" and "Terminator" were all divided up and acquired.

It is also for this reason that, amid internal and external troubles, Disney, in addition to the main creators, also brought in Zhou Yi as the face of the film's promotion before its release. Even the song "Pirates" that he originally wrote for Elva Hsiao frequently appeared in European and American news.

In a nutshell - stir-fry as much heat as possible.

Under this high-intensity bombardment, naturally, Zhou Yi's words when he was a guest at New York University were once again dug up and "tortured" -

After all, that result was something that even Disney itself did not dare to imagine. Their initial idea was that if they could make a little money and build a reputation for the surrounding area, it would be a victory, and a slight loss would not be unacceptable, after all, this thing was mainly for advertising their own theme park.

As for the goal set by Zhou Yi, it was basically used as "evidence" by many media outlets who disliked Zhou Yi. No one in Disney took it seriously. If the global sales were around 460 million US dollars, it would be a blessing. 500 million US dollars is just a dream. Even the current CEO of Disney himself is not optimistic about it, how can you expect more than 600 million?

That is unless God appears.

How many years has it been since Calomi Pictures died?

"Cutthroat Island" The body is still warm!

The words "Spike doesn't understand movies" were even publicly shouted out.

As the popularity continues to rise, the movie is also released.

Then, an unexpected accident happened.

On the first day of the release of "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", a large number of Zhou Yi fans mixed with fans of the movie's male lead Depp flocked into the cinema, supporting a very good first-day box office.

After that, things got out of control.

The film was released on July 7, and a week later, the box office had reached a staggering $9 million.

The high quality of the film made audiences across the United States rave about it, and the praise rate of the theme song "He's a Pirate" written by Zhou Yi was no longer limited to a small range of people who watched the premiere -

It was heard in major theaters across the United States within this week, attracting one person after another who was attracted by Captain Jack's exclusive BGM!

"The Chinese king takes action again! Helping the pirates set sail!"

"Disney made the right bet! Spike's legend continues!"

Depp: Spike is the most talented musician I have ever met

"Disney executive Robert Iger praises Spike's creative ability!"

"Pirate March, another classic by Spike!"

"..."

Compared to Asia and Europe, which have not yet been affected by this wave of pirate incidents, the speed at which the American media reported related news was simply crazy.

One is a movie that even the current CEO of Disney was not optimistic about and even publicly criticized, and the other is Zhou Yi, who had never written a theme song for a big-budget movie before. No one expected that the combination of the two would directly create a classic that is popular all over the world.

Yes, it's popular all over the world.

In just one week, all the box office analysis of this movie and all the discussions about "Pirates' March" are enough to make people sure that Disney and Zhou Yi hit it off and created a classic that will go down in film and television.

"It's incredible. Who would have thought that Spike had never composed a theme song for a big-budget movie before."

"The song 'He's a Pirate' he wrote is so suitable for the movie. Whenever I close my eyes, I can see the image of Captain Jack Sparrow appearing to this music!"

“Audio-visual art and audio-visual art, this is the perfect combination of audio-visual art!”

"I heard that he is holding a world tour, why hasn't Warner arranged a US show yet?"

"..."

A movie, with the intentional intervention of Warner, Disney, which had made a comeback, was happy to give something in return, helping to boost Zhou Yi's fame and discussion.

Robert Iger, a senior Disney executive who admired Zhou Yi very much, has taken his voice in the company to a higher level thanks to the success of "Pirates of the Caribbean". He also did not forget to publicly express his gratitude to Depp, Zhou Yi and others.

(End of this chapter)