Chapter 1206 The Power of Idol Groups

In the past year, Kirin Films has been conducting joint screenings throughout Asia.

That is to say, the movie is released at the same time in most countries and regions in Asia.

This is the same as the North American film industry.

Don't forget, North America is not just the United States, there is also Canada, but Canada has always been a vassal of the United States.

There are actually many problems in achieving simultaneous screenings of a movie in multiple countries and regions. First of all, the time zone issue has stumped many people.

In this world, the span of time zones is very large. It can make the UK at night and China at noon.

This will definitely cause the absolute release time to be out of sync. It's impossible for others to show it at 3 o'clock in the morning, so it has to match your 8 o'clock release time.

So you can only set the same date according to your own time zone. Whoever's time zone reaches that time first will be released first.

In the previous life, the world premiere of "Titanic" was held in Japan, not the United States.

It is now impossible for Yin Jun to let all Qilin Film Company's movies be released globally. In fact, only Hollywood blockbusters have this qualification.

This does not mean that you have a strong distribution network.

No matter how powerful Hollywood is, there are times when it is beyond its reach in many places.

Not to mention the current 1980s, even when the Marvel and DC universes were running rampant around the world, weren't they unable to follow their own wishes in the Chinese market?

As for poor and backward film markets such as Africa, do you think it would be interesting to have a global screening?

Therefore, only those big-budget, well-received movies can be screened in developed areas.

This is still Hollywood.

It is impossible for Yin Jun's films that favor Asian tastes to be screened together in the United States and Europe. He usually gives these distribution rights to Disney and United Artists Film Company and lets them distribute them.

Although the two film companies are Yin Jun's private companies, the distribution fees they charge are not low at all. What ends up falling on Qilin Film's account is only 30% of the total box office in Europe and the United States.

In Asia, Qilin Movies’ average take is around 45%!

That is to say, the economy of Asia is not as developed as that of Europe and the United States. Otherwise, Kirin Movies would be able to make a lot of money based on this.

Of course, Qilin Movies are also making a lot of money now.

The three major overseas markets of Japan, South Korea and Baodao have been completely conquered by Kirin Movies, which can always sell high box office.

So there is a prerequisite for simultaneous release. As for the condition that the time zones are almost the same, it is just additional.

In the same time zone, if your movie is not good, why should others agree to release it at the same time and let you get a share of the box office?

Kirin Films also relied on movies with huge reputations and box office to gradually open up these markets, forcing them to recognize the strength of Kirin Films, allowing them to agree to release them at the same time, and giving Kirin Films a high box office share.

It was under such circumstances that "Happy Ghost" began to be screened across Asia.

In this era, there are still very few girl groups. Japan's first large-scale girl group would not be established until three years later.

This group is called "Kitten Club", and the person who founded it is a fat man named Akimoto, who is also the producer of the AKB48 girls who later became very popular and dominated the Japanese pop group music scene for more than ten years.

To put it bluntly, in this era, Hong Kong films are far ahead of Japanese films, especially commercial films.

Even though they have a great person like Akira Kurosawa, he is just one person. There are many types of commercial films in Hong Kong, and all kinds of high-quality films emerge in an endless stream. The Japanese film industry is completely unstoppable.

This is true even for Japanese and Japanese movies, let alone Korean movies that don’t even have the bud.

Therefore, when an interesting movie like "Happy Ghost" came out, it immediately caused a huge sensation in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and other places.

Because Asia is basically an area influenced by traditional Chinese culture.

What kind of ghost movies, zombies, Taoism, Buddhism... basically everyone can understand these without any hindrance.

"Happy Ghost" is undoubtedly a very good movie, at least in the 1980s.

A good movie must have good elements.

The concept of "Happy Ghost" is a warm story about several boys and girls helping Zhu Xiucai, and Zhu Xiucai also helping them.

With the addition of ghost movies, comedy, beauties, handsome guys... and other elements, it will naturally make people's eyes shine.

Twenty years later, a movie like this could be classified in another category.

Youth movie.

The power of youth films will not be known until "The Girls We Chased Together in Those Years".

But the youth movies at that time sold feelings, not youth.

As for "Tiny Times", which can be classified as a youth film, it is youthful, but all it sells is disgusting.

"Happy Ghost" is a serious youth film, so the girl group "Happy Girls" in the previous life was very popular for a few years.

Same now.

Under the strong publicity of Qilin Movie, boys and girls from all over the world, like the students in Xiangjiang, swarmed into the cinema, and then swarmed to influence their friends to let them watch this movie too. Nice and interesting movie.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the total Asian box office of "Happy Ghost" in the first weekend reached 80 million Hong Kong dollars.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the already recorded album "Next Stop Queen" has been officially launched throughout Asia.

Before the filming of "Happy Ghost" started, after gathering five beauties, Yin Jun had already planned to form a happy girl group. On the one hand, the five of them would film together, and on the other hand, they would also go to Kirin Records Inside, learn various musical knowledge and pronunciation skills.

Of course, such a short time is certainly not enough for them to learn.

But as the saying goes, idol groups do not need strength, as long as they have good looks. If you put it on the Happy Girls group, then good looks are justice.

No matter which one of these five girls shows up, they are all top-notch beauties.

Looking at it in another five years, if the Happy Girls group has not been disbanded, there will definitely be no group that can surpass them.

Because they are the essence of entertainment in Hong Kong for fifty years, and few female stars can compare with them.

From Yin Jun's point of view, in terms of appearance alone, Li Jiaxin cannot compare to Li Lizhen.

Li Lizhen is so beautiful. If her luck hadn't been a bit bad and she didn't fit in with the Hong Kong movies of that era, if you put her in the mainland TV industry after 2010, she would have blown away any little actress.

Li Lizhen suffered the most when Wang Jing deceived her into starring in an X-rated film, and then she got out of hand and couldn't put her clothes back on.

Yin Jun will not let her suffer this loss again in this life. When Li Haozhen grows up in a few years, there will be a lot of movies and TV series waiting for her.

Such a high-quality beauty idol cannot be wasted like this.

Back to the topic.

What a girl idol group needs is youthful and energetic dancing and catchy and beautiful singing. The intention does not need to be too profound. Song gods such as Leslie Cheung, Chen Yixun, and Zhang Xueyou are not needed. The easier it is to understand, the better.

It just so happened that Yin Jun knew a lot of girl groups in his previous life, and there were many songs suitable for them.

Today's albums are still mainly composed of 10-12 songs.

As a newcomer's first album, the 12 songs must be more sincere.

Yin Jun then composed three songs by himself, and left the rest to Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng, and Li Zhiheng to compose.

In terms of the softness of the songs, Baodao's songs far surpass those of Xiangjiang's songs. Therefore, Baodao has far more idol singers than Xiangjiang. Letting three future music masters try idol-style music creation will be of great benefit to Kirin Records. .

As for Yin Jun himself, the three songs he prepared for them also have great backgrounds.

The first song, which is also the title song of the album - "Next Stop Queen", is a Cantonese song and the most representative song of Twins. Twins can stand out in the post-apocalyptic era of Hong Kong music and represents the idol music of Hong Kong. SHE can't hold his head up, "Next Station Queen" takes the most credit.

Then for the second song, Yin Jun chose "Lovers Are Not Full" by SHE; the third song was "One Thousand and One Wishes" by 4 in love.

Both songs are full of little girls' beautiful yearning for love and youth, so they have been circulated for a while and are very typical pop songs.

It was still more than 20 years ago, and this kind of light and bright song is naturally more beautiful and more touching.

no way.

This is the first time that someone has created such a sweet and youthful song for students like them. Regardless of men or women, they will be fascinated by it as soon as they hear it.

"Next Stop Queen" is the theme song of "Happy Ghost", while "Not Yet Lovers" and "One Thousand and One Wishes" are interludes.

In about 90 minutes, these three songs appeared at the right time and matched with the plot inside, they were able to suddenly resonate with the audience.

Especially these students who have not grown up yet are really shocked.

Therefore, as soon as the album was sold, these students who had watched "Happy Ghost" started to buy the album in groups, just like they lined up to buy tickets to watch "Happy Ghost" a few days ago. .

This is also the second time people see the power of students.

Compared with inexpensive movie tickets, cassette players and music tapes are a bit expensive, but this does not deter the students' enthusiasm at all.

Those who have money will buy it for themselves, and those who don’t have enough money will buy it together. After buying it, everyone will listen to it together happily...

Xiangjiang, Baodao, Japan, South Korea...

In most countries and regions in Asia, the sweet songs of the Happy Girls group can be heard in video stores on the streets, and records and tapes are sold out one by one.

The distribution department of Kirin Records was almost flooded with calls from video stores and record stores urging shipments!