China Entertainment: Starting from 07 Kuainan

Chapter 256 Box Office Refresh and the Fall of a Superstar

same day.

The first-day box office of "Transformers 2" has been released, and the first-day box office record set by "Cohabitation" has been refreshed.

3317 million!
This is an increase of 3200 million from the record of 117.

Not only the box office in the mainland, but also in North America. Last Wednesday, "Transformers 2" was released in North America ahead of schedule.

It grossed US$6063 million in a single day. Such an exaggerated single-day box office record not only broke the "Best Wednesday Opening in Film History" record set by "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix".

At the same time, it also ranked second in the single-day box office in film history.

The first is "Batman: The Dark Knight" directed by Nolan, with a single-day box office of 6717 million.

On this day, the atmosphere on the set was much more tense. Because Lu Yuan's expression was a bit scary, everyone thought the record had been broken, so the boss was in a bad mood.

However, this is not the case.

Lu Yuan was in a bad mood because of another thing. In the original timeline, today was the day Michael Jackson passed away.

According to the official announcement, Jackson's cause of death was an overdose of propofol injected by a private doctor.

Propofol, commonly known as the 'milk shot', is an ultra-short-acting intravenous anesthetic that also has a slight sedative effect.

Moreover, milk injections are addictive, and milk injections will give people a pleasure similar to taking stimulants such as cocaine.

If it is used illegally, it is no different from product D.

Celebrities over at Xiaobangzi like to inject this stuff very much. The Three Virgin Marys in Lotus Lantern were once sentenced to illegal milk injections.

Xiaobangzi’s national treasure artist Ha Jung-woo also has a record of abusing propofol.

MJ's death is definitely a loss to the pop music industry. As for the cause of his death, there was negligence or murder, let alone now.

Even more than ten years later, there is still no 'truth' that convinces everyone.

No matter what the specific reason was, Lu Yuan did not interfere.

Maybe in another world, MJ would be happier.

People are keen on creating gods, and they also like to push them off the altar with their own hands.

The guidance of capital, the media's follow-up reports, and the public's doubts made MJ suffer, not only mentally, but also physically because of the disease.

After going to another world, he no longer needs to be manipulated, misunderstood, slandered, or hurt by others.

The next day.

06:30am.

At 03:30 pm Los Angeles time, Lu Yuan received a call from overseas, and Max relayed a piece of news to him with a heavy heart.

Michael Jackson unfortunately passed away due to heart disease.

To give an inappropriate example, the news of MJ's death shocked the world far more than the original 911 incident.

After hanging up the phone, Lu Yuan logged onto an external blog that had not been online for a long time and posted a condolence blog post.

That's all.

When he calmed down and came to the set, he found that the atmosphere on set was also very heavy.

The news of MJ's death has spread.

At 4:[-] in the morning, the morning news on CCTV News Channel temporarily inserted an emergency news piece that lasted more than [-] minutes.

At this time, CCTV rarely broadcast entertainment news, let alone four-minute emergency news.

Major portals on the Internet also published urgent news of Jackson's death on their homepages.

Not only domestic but also global news headlines are basically the news of Jackson's death.

Seeing that the crew was in poor condition, Lu Yuan simply gave the crew a day off to adjust their mood and start filming again tomorrow.

Not long after, Zeng Li's call came.

"Are you OK?"

Hearing the concern on the other end of the phone, Lu Yuan said calmly: "I'm fine, just a little sad. But don't worry, I have a strong ability to adjust."

"Where are you now?"

"Here in Qingchuan."

"Qingchuan?"

Lu Yuan muttered in a low voice: "Is the library over at the Golden Cave completed?" "Well, it was completed last month and is now in use." Zeng Li said, "The children like it here very much."

"nice! You love it."

Hearing the news, Lu Yuan's mood lifted a little.

"Is there any problem with the scholarship over there?"

"No problem. The accounts are clear and there is no problem in disbursing the scholarships. Those who receive the scholarships are families who really need them."

Immediately afterwards, the two chatted for a while and then hung up the phone.

Not long after the call was made, Mina also called.

This girl called, not because she was worried about the EP release, her mind wasn't thinking so fast.

She was worried about Lu Yuan.

Not long after Lu Yuan's blog was updated, someone moved it in China. When Mina saw the content on the blog, she was a little worried about his condition.

After chatting with Mina for a while, Lu Yuan called Du Hua.

Adjust the release schedule of Mina EP and postpone it to July 7th.

This is not done for the benefit of the company.

After all, Mina's audience overlapped very little with MJ's fans. He just didn't want to release such a cheerful song at this time.

At least we have to wait until the first seven days pass.

In fact, when the release date was originally set, Lu Yuan deliberately avoided this time point, but based on the suggestions of the marketing department and public relations department.

No. 28 is more appropriate.

If it comes to July, it will inevitably collide with Wang Sulong's album.

Therefore, the EP is scheduled to be released on the 28th.

6 month 27 number.

The crew of "Xiuchundao" has restarted production. Although the crew still has a somewhat sad atmosphere, it no longer affects the normal shooting.

In the next few days, media outlets across the country were basically filled with news reports about MJ's death, even CCTV.

For a whole week, relevant news was broadcast from CCTV1 to CCTV13, and even the simulcast devoted nearly 2 minutes to broadcasting the clip of MJ's death.

America will be on July 7, 7 a.m. local time.

Jackson's memorial service was held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. On that day, about 70 fans poured into Los Angeles.

Even though there were less than [-] tickets, fans without tickets still rushed to the venue.

As for the fans who did not come to the scene, the number was even larger, with more than 30 billion people participating in the memorial ceremony through live broadcast.

Because the domestic broadcast signal could not be received, Lu Yuan did not watch the live TV broadcast.

He actually didn't really want to see it.

MJ's death is undoubtedly sad among the fan community, but in the eyes of those capitalists, this is a business.

A business of great value.

Tickets were even sold at the memorial service, with a total of 1.75 tickets, and the number of tickets was once sold to tens of thousands.

They do all kinds of immoral things.

There is also AEG, the company that hosted Jackson's farewell concert. Originally there were only ten farewell concerts, but later they were increased to 50.

The total box office was 8500 million US dollars. After Jackson's death, AEG immediately issued a tearful announcement.

And claimed that the concert tickets can be refunded.

But very few fans chose to refund their tickets.

At least half of the US$8500 million fell into AEG's pockets.

Then, not long after, AEG announced another news. In order to commemorate the King of Pop, AEG would make the video of MJ's final rehearsal into a movie.

Rehearsal videos are usually worthless, but AEG spent $1500 million in advance to buy the full rights to the rehearsal videos.

It just doesn't make sense.

In the end, the box office of the rehearsal video was as high as 1.8 million, which does not include the proceeds from the subsequent production of DVD products.

(End of this chapter)