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Chapter 581 [8] 05 years of income, a unique premiere!
"The pre-sale of "The Expendables" exceeded 1000 million yuan on the first day, breaking the first-day box office record for Chinese films!"

"Chen Yu and Liu Yifei made a low-key appearance at the third rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala!"

"Chen Yu and Liu Yifei will perform together on the Spring Festival Gala?"

"Lang Kun, the chief director of the Spring Festival Gala, confirmed that Chen Yu will definitely appear in the 06 Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Dog!"

"The world premiere of "Taken" will officially begin on the evening of the 28th day of the lunar year, and Super Girls will make a special appearance!"

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After spending a few days with Liu Yifei on the set of "Blind Mountain", Chen Yu was called directly to the capital by the Spring Festival Gala's chief director Lang Kun. Also going there were Liu Yifei and her daughter. They had passed the Spring Festival Gala's review and participated in the first and final rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala.

Chen Yu did not prepare any program this year, but Lang Kun asked him to be the first to perform, and sing "Hundred Family Names" together with Nicholas Tse from Hong Kong, Yu Chengqing from Formosa, and Li Fei from Macau!
This is another program with great political significance, but Chen Yu has long been accustomed to it.

Political stance has always been a major issue in the entertainment industry. Chen Yu is one of the best mainland actors currently doing in Hollywood. His multiple appearances on such programs speak for themselves.

Another song and dance performed by Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli, "Yes, Mother, Yes, Daughter", was performed after Zhao Benshan's performance.

Originally, Chen Yu was preparing the program by himself. He had already written the song "Chinese", but the program crew said they had a song, so Chen Yu thought about it and decided to go on the show next year.

If nothing unexpected happens, he will become a permanent guest on the Spring Festival Gala like Zhao Benshan, and he will have to prepare some programs in advance.

Programs like "Chinese" and "We're Not Short of Money" are all reserved for his future performances on the Spring Festival Gala.

After successfully completing the last rehearsal, Chen Yu picked up Liu Xiaoli and her daughter and drove home.

Liu Yifei's face still has some roughness from filming. Maybe it will look better after taking care of herself for a few days and putting on makeup for the Spring Festival Gala. However, after the Spring Festival, she still has to continue filming in the mountains. The film will definitely not be completed in a few months.

"Xiao Chen, what are your plans for the New Year?"

Liu Xiaoli, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned around and suddenly asked.

"No plans, just a roadshow!"

Chen Yu smiled bitterly. He was definitely the busiest person during this Spring Festival.

These days, he also has to prepare for the global premiere of "Extraction", and Chen Yu thought of a good gimmick - the Internet Spring Festival Gala.

It just fits the meaning of the Spring Festival period.

Moreover, the publicity has already been released and there will be a live broadcast on the Internet on the evening of the 28th.

"A roadshow during the Spring Festival?"

"Yes, this is the first time we're opening a Spring Festival movie this year. We've already done the marketing, so we have to visit several big cities!"

The main purpose is to stimulate consumption!
Ordinary movie watching does not have this kind of energy.

But if the news of Chen Yu's roadshow gets out, the shopping malls will definitely be packed with people. Of course, local shopping malls will also have to make contingency plans. This is a joint marketing between Bona Promotion and several urban commercial complexes, and the local government also agrees with this approach.

After all, it can promote the economy. Although local cultural tourism and governments do not have the kind of Internet sensitivity of later generations, they still understand that consumption can increase GDP.

It was the first time that the Spring Festival season started, and no one knew how to do marketing, so it was Chen Yu who taught them how to do it.

Roadshows become particularly important at this time. It is no longer as simple as just watching a movie.

As long as Chen Yu's plan is implemented, the Spring Festival period every year will not be valued by film and television companies, but an achievement of government departments. Only in this way will the importance of the Spring Festival period become more and more prominent.

The improvement in box office revenue is definitely not driven by a single film, but rather the result of industry and marketing upgrades.

This requires collaboration among multiple units to create each record.

"So you don't have time to celebrate the New Year?"

"Almost. I estimate that it will take until the seventh or eighth day of the Lunar New Year to finish the work. I will go to my hometown to visit the elderly, and then join the group after the Lantern Festival!"

Jiang Wen's "The Sun Also Rises" is definitely going to be filmed.

"Better Days" will start filming in April, and his scenes will be shot first. After Liu Yifei finishes filming "Blind Mountain", she will probably have to work on "Better Days", and she will have to shave her head by then.

As for Mission: Impossible 4, it should be released around summer vacation.

"Bruce Lee" will be released around the end of the year.

Chen Yu only has these four films scheduled this year. If he has any breaks, he will attend classes and shoot some commercials.

As for the films that will be released, in addition to "Extraction" which will be released during the Spring Festival and "Departures" during the Qingming Festival, there are two blockbusters of the summer vacation - "Mission: Impossible 3" and "Fast & Furious 3".

The two films were released one month apart.

"Taken", directed by Cheng Long and Liu Yifei, is also released in the summer, and there is also "Crazy Stone", invested by Yu Xin, so the competition in this year's summer season is quite fierce, and it is obviously much better than in 05.

There are nearly 7 films related to Chen Yu alone, not to mention others.

……

Buzz!

As soon as he got home, Chen Yu's cell phone rang with a text message alert.

"If nothing unexpected happens, pre-sale will exceed 2500 million today!"

"Japan and South Korea have also broken the pre-sale record for Chinese-language films!"

“Many Chinese in the United States also buy it!”

"Breaking the pre-sale record depends on your show!"

Yu Dong's message was sent quite timely. Chen Yu was just about to go home to ask about the box office pre-sale situation.

With the current overwhelming hype, the Spring Festival movie season is indeed on the rise.

Although it cannot be compared with the pre-sales of hundreds of millions in later generations, the speed of less than 3 million in three days is still a number that shocked the industry.

Generally speaking, box office pre-sales are the highest on the first day, and then begin to decline, and then become more two days before the release. Especially in this era when there are no apps or online ticket purchases, this peak and valley curve is more obvious.

According to the pre-sale trajectory of previous blockbusters, if pre-sales start a week in advance, the pre-sale box office in the last four days will definitely exceed that of the first three days!

Of course, this needs to be marketed in conjunction with various premieres.

In other words, if nothing unexpected happens, the pre-sale box office of "Extract" before its release will definitely be over 5000 million.

This is the best pre-sale result in the history of Chinese films, even exceeding the total pre-sale box office of "House of Flying Daggers" two years ago.

"House of Flying Daggers" only grossed over 5000 million, so it should be no problem to break this record.

"It must be very difficult to open the Spring Festival movie in the first year!"

“Although I was the first to try it out and was able to maximize the traffic, I still couldn’t create the right atmosphere!”

"It all depends on whether this premiere is a hit..."

This is inevitable.

Because the concept of the Spring Festival period has not yet been formed in people's minds, it will take several years for them to form this perception of the Spring Festival period. However, being able to get more people to go to the cinema to watch movies during the Spring Festival is actually a very successful first step.

Even a low-budget movie like "The Two of Us" sold over 200 million, which would have been unimaginable at any other time. …

The next morning, Chen Yu went to the company first, while Liu Yifei went to the premiere to rehearse. Chen Yu went there after checking the accounts.

It's the end of the year, and dividends, income, etc. will be released.

Yuxin Pictures has achieved great results this year and has successfully become the number one film company in China with its undisputed strength.

Not only did all the movies I invested in lose money, but several of them were also huge hits.

The overseas revenue of just a few movies starring Chen Yu reached 1 million US dollars, more than 6000 million in Europe and the United States, and more than 3000 million in Asia, including "Departures" and "Extraction".

After deducting various overseas transaction taxes, there is still less than 9000 million.

This is Yu Xin’s overseas account.

The box office revenue of the movies that have just been released in China, such as "A World Without Thieves", "Aroma Journey" and "SPL", has not yet been paid in. The subsequent income from several dramas such as "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" and "Conquest", plus the funds in the account before, and the box office share of "Ren Changxia" of 1200 million, has left a surplus of nearly 7000 million.

As for some dramas like "Tengu" and "Tokyo Trial", the release dates have not been determined yet, but they have already been completed.

Yuxin Pictures has successfully transformed from a domestic film and television company to the first one to successfully go overseas; and the scale of its films has reached the 10 billion level. Currently, even a few companies such as Huayi Brothers have only achieved a scale of 1 million.

Being the number one in the industry, Yu Xin is indeed worthy of the responsibility.

As for Chen Yu's income as an artist, it is nothing more than endorsements and authorizations. Huaxia Audio-Visual took their share, and Chen Yu received 3670 million!
With the CAA endorsement and some copyright income, plus the public relations for the Golden Globe Award winner, there is basically not much left.

After investing in Marvel, his personal overseas account was left with more than 5000 million US dollars, and this was the profit after Tencent’s stock price soared.

The domestic account experienced a stock market crash in 05, but fortunately Moutai withstood it. The 9 million yuan of funds at the beginning of the year only increased by 1 million yuan, and the total personal assets exceeded the 10 billion mark; the other companies were all developing in an orderly manner.

Alibaba has been negotiating to acquire Erdong.com in order to expand Taobao's territory, but Chen Yu has no plans to sell it. He may exchange it for some Alibaba shares.

This was a value-added product until 2018.

"I've been busy for a year, but why do I feel like I haven't made much?"

Last year, Chen Yu estimated that he had about 21 billion yuan in liquid funds.

After investing in Marvel this year, our working capital has been greatly reduced; except for the sharp increase in the value of Yuxin Pictures, the other increases are not that large.

“I don’t feel comfortable looking for a team to manage my finances!”

“It’s still more cost-effective to invest in popular TV series and movies!”

The main investment this year is "Mission Impossible 4", which requires a capital flow of 1 million US dollars. "A World Without Thieves" had a box office of 3.36 million. In the end, Yuxin Pictures can get about 7000 million in profits. With overseas accounts, it is barely enough.

“We need to invest in a few domestic films!”

Chen Yu opened some recent film scripts that Yang Lu had sent him, and planned to take a look at them during the New Year holiday.

This is the only project that Chen Yu is confident about and will not lose money.

Many of the movies that were popular in the previous life will probably be big sellers in this life as well.

But unfortunately, he used to check his mailbox every month, but found basically nothing, and there was no familiar notebook.

He doesn't dare to vote for something he is not familiar with.

Recently, the box office market in mainland China has basically been losing money, except for Hollywood blockbusters and movies from a few big domestic directors and Hong Kong.

Even if Chen Yu boosted the box office in this way, he definitely doesn't have that incredible ability on his own.

"It seems that we have to change the track!"

Chen Yu looked at Yang Lu who was standing beside him and said, "Old Yang, is there any TV series that needs investment?"

"Yes, we were just talking about this a few days ago!"

"Someone wants Baoqiang to shoot a TV series about military subjects. It seems Huayi is planning to invest in it. I was just about to ask you about it!"

"Oh?"

Chen Yu's heart trembled. Military theme, Bao Qiang?
"Soldier Assault"?
Holy shit, this is a hit show.

"Send me the script when the time comes!"

“It’s in the mailbox!”

In the next few days, Chen Yu has to finalize the investment for the new year.

Sure enough, when Chen Yu opened his email, he saw the script of "Soldier Assault", which was adapted from Lan Xiaolong's novel. This best-selling novel should have no trouble getting investment, and Chen Yu just happened to catch up with it.

By then, we can invest some money with Huayi and make some profit. After all, Baoqiang has its own traffic now.

Li Yu, who had appeared in Venice before, seems to be making a movie as well. If nothing unexpected happens, it should be the large-scale "Apple"!
Ulan Tana, where "Warm Spring" was a huge success, is going to shoot a TV drama version of "Warm Spring"... After Chen Yu finished handling the company's business, he went straight to the Workers' Stadium.

The world premiere of "Extraction" is here.

After all, he had participated in many premieres and performances and had sufficient experience in stage directing; however, this time, he and Ye Weixing only had the title of assistant director.

The chief director is Mr. Yuan Dewang, the director of the previous Spring Festival Gala. Because of his friendship with Chen Yu and the money, he came to host this special Spring Festival celebration program for the world premiere of "Escape Plan". However, the chief planner is Chen Yu!

Moreover, this premiere ceremony cannot be openly called the "Internet Spring Festival Gala", it is just a similar online party.

Because this involves copyright, Chen Yu definitely would not do anything like going against CCTV.

It is just imitating the format of a party, and CCTV cannot get any handle on it. As for the comparison of it to "Internet Spring Festival Gala" on the Internet, no one can stop netizens from calling it that.

This premiere was also co-organized with Mango TV, and Tomato.com and Tomato PPS were responsible for the live broadcast.

Yuxin Films invested 10 million yuan of its own money, plus sponsorship and the platform of Mango TV, to host this premiere party.

In addition to Chen Yu and Liu Yifei's performances, the main creators of "Escape Plan" will of course also have to go on stage; among them are Chen Yu's friends in the circle such as Zhang Yimou, Stephen Chow, Jackie Chan, etc., who will also record videos for playback.

CAA even invited several Hollywood stars to join the video, including Tom Cruise, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and others.

This kind of momentum is probably something that even the premieres of Zhang Yimou's or Stephen Chow's movies could not achieve.

Happy Twist will also perform several skits, and then it will be the Super Girls newly promoted by Mango TV this year, Chun Ge, Zhang Liangying, Zhou Bichang... This time, Chen Yu can be said to have completely maximized the traffic, and has been marketing on the Internet for several days.

In addition to promoting the upcoming film "Taken", the party also promoted Happy Twist and Fanqie.com in disguise.

The evening party was being rehearsed intensively, and Chen Yu had also prepared several programs personally this time.

Time passed by unknowingly and it was the night of New Year's Eve in 2006.

The day of the world premiere of "Extraction".

The film will have its premiere at midnight the day after tomorrow, and "The Two of Us" will be at 10 a.m. on New Year's Eve.

Chen Yu, Jiang Yilang, who rarely came back to celebrate the New Year, as well as Jiang Wen, Liu Yifei and others, attended the global premiere of "Extraction" together, and invited a number of guests, such as Ge Da Ge, Xia Yu and more!
A group of people were waiting in the backstage for the premiere to begin.

He Jiong and Wang Han from Mango TV are ready to go on stage to open the show!
(End of this chapter)