China Entertainment: Starting from 07 Kuainan

Chapter 157 The end of the European trip and the co-production of the movie

Not only domestic media, but American media also reported the news of Lu Yuan's Billboard victory.

The first Asian artist to top the Billboard 200 album chart.

Full of gold!
Even though "Counting Stars" is still ranked No. 2, it failed to complete the double crown of singles chart and album chart.

But from the same album, 6 songs entered the Billboard singles chart. Let alone a newcomer, even if you look at well-known singers, it is a great thing.

If you include "Not Afraid" in the collector's edition, Lu Yuan alone has 7 songs on the list at the same time.

This is a rather scary statistic.

The Billboard Hot [-] singles chart does not appear casually. Even if it is at the bottom of the chart, it is still a hot new song.

Today, the record for the most songs on the chart at the same time was set by the Beatles in 1964, with fourteen songs on the chart at the same time. More than 40 years later, this record has never been broken.

Even Miss Niu, known as the mother of Billboard, couldn't shake the Beatles' record.

Continuous news reports have also given Lu Yuan's album another wave of sales.

Looking at the increasing album sales, Universal has fallen into troubles of happiness.

Who will be on the Billboard 200 album chart next week?
Is it Lu Yuan who wins the championship?
Or is Mariah Carey parachuted into first place?

The palms of the palms and the backs of the hands are all meat.

Of course, if forced to choose, Universal would definitely prefer Mariah Carey to win.

If Sister Niu lands first, she will tie Madonna and Janet Jackson to become the second female singer with the most number one albums.

However, if Lu Yuan continues to win, Universal Music Group will have no regrets.

A newcomer, fighting for sales, beat Mariah Carey head-on. Before releasing the album, neither Universal nor Lu Yuan ever thought of this possibility.

4 month 28 number.

Lu Yuan has finished his European tour. In the past three weeks, he has been working non-stop.

Although people are a little tired, the effect is remarkable.

In the new UK chart, "unstoppable" reached the fifth position.

Another suppression of Flo Rida's single "LOW", and this week's UK number one single is Madonna's new song "4 Minutes".

In the UK rankings, the boss of Lu University is very satisfied with being able to reach fifth place.

Keep it for a while longer. Although this song has the potential to hit the number one single, it is not necessary. The UK chart is not his main focus.

When the album is released in Eagle Country, it won’t be too late to come back and check the rankings during that time.

In addition, Lu Yuan is also planning to take a few days off to spend time with his girlfriend.

Yes.

Zeng Li flew to Europe. During this period, she was also one of the hottest female stars in China. In terms of popularity, she was no worse than those A-list celebrities.

Although "Star You" has not yet become a star, "Star You" has set a ratings record for the local station in Shanghai. Industry insiders are extremely optimistic about the satellite TV premiere of "Star You".

Lu Yuan is the guarantee of ratings!
During this time, Star Media received a bunch of scripts and quotes.

As long as Lu Yuan is willing, he can choose any role, and the lowest salary offer is 1000 million, and the highest one has soared to 3000 million.

However, that quote didn’t even have a script, so it was probably some kind of crooked film.

Not only Lu Yuan, but Zeng Li also received a lot of film offers during this period, but many of them were not easy to make.

There are good movie scripts, but Lu Yuan rejected all of them.

Instead of making those movies, it would be better to act in your own movies.

Not to mention the long-arranged "Cohabitation in Time and Space", Lu Yuan has recently set his sights on a new movie. The science fiction film "Source Code" was released in 11.

It is also a time-space loop film. The protagonist is an air force pilot who enters a mysterious project called 'Source Code'.

His mission is to investigate the truth behind a terrorist bombing.

During this period, the protagonist discovers that he can continuously observe and participate in the world before the explosion through the mechanism of 'turning back time'.

Through repeated exploration (and death), the protagonist finally finds out the truth.

The structure of this movie is generally similar to the TV series "The Beginning", and it was Boss Lu's long-awaited plan.

While running through Eagle Country, he also met with the film's original director, Duncan Jones.

There is no other reason for choosing the original director, just because he can save money. Any movie related to "science fiction" will not be cheap.

If you change those blockbuster directors, the cost of "Source Code" is likely to be 4-5000 million US dollars, but this one made a science fiction film with good effects for 3200 million US dollars.

Good reputation + box office success.

The global box office exceeded US$1.2 million.

This time, if it were a big boss from Mainland China who invested, it might be possible to make the film without spending US$3200 million.

He is planning to film "Source Code" as a co-production.

Star Media is cooperating with Universal Pictures. Of course, the specific investment ratio and other contract-related matters have not yet been discussed.

But with the relationship between Universal Music and Universal Pictures, there is no problem in matchmaking.

Among the eight major Hollywood companies, Universal Pictures ranks second and was founded second only to Paramount. However, among the eight major Hollywood companies, Universal Pictures is the company that has changed hands the most.

In 1936, the founders, Lai Moore and his son, were deeply in debt crisis and had to sell Universal.

After World War II, Eagle Nation billionaire Arthur Rank acquired a quarter of Universal's shares.

In 1952, Decca Records acquired Universal.

In 1962, American Music Company and Universal merged, and MCA Universal was established.

In 1991, Panasonic acquired Universal. (imitate Sony)

In 1995, Panasonic sold Universal to the Maple Leaf wine giant Sigma at a loss of money.

Sigma, which acquired Universal, was in high spirits. In 98, it made another move and acquired the record giant PolyGram, becoming the world's largest music company.

Later, it acquired the American cable TV network USA-Networks and prepared to create a media empire.

However, Sigma made his fortune from alcohol, so he doesn't know anything about movies.

Just like the high-spirited Brother Belt, who always wants to do cross-border business, he has great success, but no matter how fast he starts, he will suffer miserably.

In 2000, French media giant Vivendi acquired Sigma and French Pay TV for US$330 billion.

After the merger, the new company was renamed Vivendi Universal.

In 02, Vivendi, like Sigma, also suffered a big setback. Blind and rapid expansion made Vivendi debt-ridden.

By 04, Vivendi had to sell Universal Pictures for a blood transfusion, and General Electric acquired 80% of Universal Pictures' shares.

After the acquisition was completed, General Electric merged Universal Pictures and America's NBC television network to form a new company, NBC Universal.

Universal, which has been sold out eight times, is now majority shareholder of General Electric Company, but Vivendi still retains a small stake in Universal Pictures.

With this kind of relationship, with Lu Yuan's current celebrity status, it shouldn't be too much of a problem to do a co-production.

(End of this chapter)