China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 50 Hello, 2004
  2003 has passed.

The entertainment industry in 2004 was still very lively.

First of all, on December 12 last month, Xiaogang Pao’s New Year’s Eve movie “Mobile Phone” was officially released.

The movie "Mobile Phone" received a very good response when it was released. If nothing else happens, it will become the annual box office champion of mainland movies in 03.

Director Feng once again proved his influence in the field of commercial films with his works.

The success of the mobile phone gave Director Feng and Huayi confidence in their next feature film "A World Without Thieves".

Director Feng is still very ambitious. His "A World Without Thieves" is on par with Zhang Yingmou's "Heroes" and is his first work with the characteristics of a Hollywood genre film.

He plans to change the comedy model that he relied too much on in the past and start trying real commercial blockbusters. He also introduces the performance elements of action movies and is ready to show off his talents.

Some are happy and some are sad.

Director Feng and Hua Yi had their hands cramped from counting the bills, so they probably had already opened the champagne.

A certain well-known host of Yangma was made miserable by his mobile phone.

Because according to rumors, the plot of the mobile phone alluded to the famous host, which had a great negative impact on him.

But Director Feng and the screenwriter of Mobile Phone both firmly denied that the movie had anything to do with the host.

Just at the beginning of the new year, the entertainment industry is already so lively, so there is no need to talk about it later.

The famous producer Zhang Dabeard's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has begun casting, which has attracted a lot of attention and controversy.

Because Zhang Dabeard is really good at touching porcelain. One moment he said thank you for stopping the wind, and the next moment he asked Chen Bolin, Nie Yuan, and Huang Xiaoming.

There are so many celebrities involved. I can only say that Beard Zhang is very good at playing. The actors have not yet been decided, and the draft is already flying all over the sky.

In addition to these things in the film and television circles, there are naturally indispensable reserved items in the industry. For example, it is rumored that the famous female singer Lin Yilian and Li Zhongsheng have broken up and may divorce.

Tian Liang's love affair with the diving queen was suspected to be photographed by the paparazzi.

2004 was definitely a lively year.

Our Director Li naturally has his own plans in the new year.

After a month of post-production, 25 episodes of ghosts are ready to go, ready to hunt down student parties during the winter vacation and young office workers who go home early.

The premiere of Ghost has been negotiated, and the two TV stations in Hanbei and Xiangnan will broadcast it at the same time.

During the Golden Eagle Festival in October, Li Yu flew to Xingcheng in Xiangnan.

At that time, the deputy director of Xiangnan Station had a private conversation with Li Yu.

The two TV stations' joint broadcast is the result of nearly two months of negotiations between Hanbei TV, Xiangnan TV, and Hualiu Company.

The excellent results achieved by Full House last time were seen by everyone.

Li Yu and Hualiu Company have proven their strength.

People from the film purchasing departments of Xiangnan Channel and Hanbei Channel have already received the first five finished episodes of Ghost. They all agreed that the quality of Ghost is particularly high and the production is much better than Full House.

So this time it’s not just cabbage prices, the price of ghosts has skyrocketed.

The two channels worked together to purchase the first-round broadcast rights of Ghost at a price of 70 per episode, which is 1750 million.

Just by selling the first-round broadcast rights, Li Yu's Hualiu Company has already made a profit.

Since Ghost has become very popular during the filming process, and considering the results of Full House, the price is not outrageous.

Also, Hanbei and Xiangnan stations plan to use high prices to speculate.

Rounding it off, it’s not too much to publicize that you spent one million to buy an episode of Ghost, right? The main thing is to bluff people.

The title must be deceptive enough to make it popular.

On January 1, Hanbei Channel and Xiangnan Channel were already in operation. It was announced that the latest masterpiece of the director of Full House, Ghosts, was coming soon. The TV station purchased one episode of Ghosts at a cost of millions.

As expected, this subtitle caused a tsunami of public opinion and triggered controversy among everyone.

One million episodes was definitely a high price in 04.

Li Yu, who was in the capital, was not idle either. In mid-December last year, he had already made a call to Hu Yanbin.

Li Yu himself funded the production of 50,000 cassettes and 15,000 CDs of the dozen or so OSTs he had previously asked Hu Yanbin to record.

The CD requires a music video, which is easy to solve. The ghost scenes from the highest quality songs are directly used as music videos.

Full House OSTs such as "Destiny" are very popular and are popular in the streets and alleys of the country.

There are many Full House fans who have reported that they first heard the song and thought it sounded good, then discovered that it was the theme song of a TV series called Full House, and then they started to follow the show.

In fact, even if there is no feedback from fans, Li Yu still has the idea of ​​using good songs to hit the charts to increase the popularity of the TV series and increase its influence.

It's just that during the Full House period, they were strapped for money, and many promotional methods were unavailable due to lack of financial resources.

After the huge success of Full House and the high-priced sale of the first-run broadcast rights of Goblin, Li Yu has money in his pocket and has a lot of room for maneuver.

Let the factory engrave 15,000 CDs and 50,000 tapes, and the cost will only be between 100,000 and 200,000.

Even if he lost money, Li Yu said it didn't matter.

What's more, Li Yu is very confident in those songs.

The quality of Ghost's OST is really high, and I can basically say that it's a good song.

An album with more than a dozen OSTs, in terms of quality alone, can be regarded as a very high-quality album in 04, the twilight of the gods in the Chinese music scene.

What's more, there is also the blessing of Hu Yanbin, who is popular on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

When Hu Yanbin and his company heard Li Yu's promise to lose money, they did not hesitate and immediately contacted the factories that cooperated with their company to start producing optical discs and tapes.

Li Yu lost money and made everyone fifty-fifty. Is this such a good thing?
  In this way, also on January 04, 1, 1 CDs and tapes titled "Goblin - Original Soundtrack" were rolled out across the city and sent to various video stores across the city. .

Lao Wang is the owner of an ordinary video store in Shanghai. He cooperates with Hu Yanbin's company, so he got the first batch of goods, two hundred and fifty tapes and fifty CDs.

Lao Wang took out a CD from the cardboard box that had just been delivered to the store and found the words "Ghosts - Original Soundtrack" written on the outer packaging.

Lao Wang lamented that singers have become more and more fancy in naming their albums recently, such as "Civil and Military", "Octave Space", "Moonwalker" and "Love Normandy".

Lao Wang wondered how could there be love in Normandy? He had only heard of D-Day.

Now it's good, another heavyweight player has arrived. The human world can no longer satisfy him. He just named it "Ghost". Isn't it a hit record?

As a video store owner, I have seen too many records being thrown off the street.

Not every singer's album can be a big seller. Only a few may be a big seller, while the majority are losing money.

Lao Wang was also very helpless. He was cooperating with others and had to help them sell the records even though he knew that it was likely to be a hit on the street.

Otherwise, if someone has a popular record, they won’t take him.

If you can't sell it, you'll have to return it, which will only cost you a little trouble at most.

Lao Wang was thinking about it when he heard footsteps coming from outside the store. The first customer of today's opening had arrived.

(End of this chapter)