Chapter 1428 Hot Again!
The plot of "Happy Ghost 2" is very similar to last year's first one.
Yin Jun added some more changes, not only increasing the role of Zhu Xiucai's reincarnated teacher, but also increasing the role of the five happy girls in his class.
The original version of "Happy Ghost 2" put too much emphasis on the role of Zhu Xiucai, played by Huang Baiming, and ignored the happy girl group that was outstanding in the first episode.
Perhaps it was also because New Art City did not continue to promote the idea of a happy girl group, thinking that this would be enough.
But if you want to become a good idol group, you have to put in a lot of effort to be successful.
In the previous thigh era, they have been the number one group in Asia for so many years. The company behind them has tried their best. It is definitely not what everyone imagined. After they became famous, the management and production company could count the money easily.
It's the early 1980s, and idol culture has not become popular in Japan or South Korea, nor in Xiangjiang or Baodao.
Due to the limitations of the times, Yin Jun did not use as many techniques as later generations, but only chose the simplest and crudest support.
Within three years, three "Happy Ghosts", three exquisite albums, three tours and a large number of commercial endorsements... these are just the most basic.
Then Yin Jun was ready to let them fly solo.
Just like Japan's first-day group S.MAP in the future, the five of them, Takuya Kimura, Masahiro Nakai, and Go Kusanagi, are each busy with their own careers on weekdays, but from time to time they will use their own The team came to release albums and host shows. This way, not only did they not suffer losses due to solo careers, but they also made the group more famous because of their respective solo careers.
If it weren't for the internal strife in their agency, this group would not only have dominated Japan for more than ten years, but would probably have continued to do so for another ten or eight years.
It is a common practice for ordinary brokerage companies to bundle all the members into a group, but the result is that after the group is formed, the audience does not know who they are at all.
They became popular because of the group, but also disappeared because of quitting the group.
In addition to a large number of girl groups and boy groups in South Korea, Japan actually also has such groups, such as Morning Musume Girl Group and AKB48.
Around 2000-2004, Maki Goto of the Morning Musume girl group was so popular that she had no friends, but what happened to her after she graduated and quit?
Ten years later, it is said that this innocent idol of the year is going to film a movie! !
This is especially true for AKB. A super group with hundreds of people is a kind of destruction to the members in it. Basically, there are no people like them who are popular in the Japanese entertainment industry.
So Yin Jun couldn't let the five girls he carefully selected make the same mistake again.
So learning from Kimura Takuya and others is the best way.
It happens that there are five girls, all of whom are more talented.
Wen Bixia is destined to develop in movies in the future, specializing in large-scale commercial production.
Zhou Haimei and Zeng Yuqian are more suitable for the small screen, which is more suitable for their styles.
Li Lizhen is the most beautiful, so being a fashion guru and hosting one or two travel programs from time to time, allowing the audience to follow her to enjoy the beautiful scenery, taste delicious food, and look at fashion, is a good development path.
Not to mention the last Li Saifeng, Yin Jun was planning to let her take over for Hui Yinghong.
Li Saifeng is not required to be as real as Hui Yinghong, but he must have physical flexibility, martial arts learning, etc.
To put it bluntly, as the next generation of female martial arts stars in Hong Kong, you have to put up a showy show, right?
As long as the five of them follow this route, considering that they are all under 20 years old, at least ten years of glory can be guaranteed.
Yin Jun is not that changed, and will not say that they are not allowed to fall in love and get married, but if they fall in love and get married, whether the group can exist is also a problem.
But that doesn't matter.
There is no such thing as a banquet that lasts forever.
Could it be that after Happy Girls, Yin Jun can't make a second girl group?
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The new album of "Happy Ghost" + Happy Girl Group has proven its power last year.
The target is the student group.
The student groups who are on summer vacation are also very impressive. When it was jointly released across Asia, in just three weekends, it made a box office of 180 million Hong Kong dollars, which was more than the well-received "The Raid" released some time ago. A full 60 million higher!
But if you think about it carefully, it's not that incredible.
Although "The Raid" is a classic, its target group is too narrow. Not to mention children, women will not like to watch it.
Only men between the ages of 20 and 40 will like this kind of blood-stirring violent movie.
But "Happy Ghost" is different. It is originally suitable for all ages.
Huang Baiming's films were still very innovative and attractive in the 1980s.
"Happy Ghost" even created a genre of comedy ghost films, no worse than the "Mr. Zombie" series.
The students watched "Happy Ghost" last year and got to know the Happy Girls group, which also triggered a wave of idol worship across Asia.
This time, after a year, "Happy Ghost 2" is here again, and it also brings the new album of the Happy Girls group. Of course they are willing to watch it.
The boys went to see the beauties and listen to the new songs of the Happy Girls group.
The girls also went to see the beauties, and then learned how to dress like the Happy Girls group.
Usually those who watch the movie more than once are young people.
Especially girls, they usually do this kind of thing after watching it a dozen times.
Next is the couple. It is possible for them to watch a movie that they think is good for more than ten times.
Then there are the students, who watch the same movie five or six times in groups as one of their holiday entertainment activities.
At this point, "Happy Ghost 2" has it all.
Therefore, it is normal for the box office to have a blowout, and it is also normal for it to be more popular than "The Raid".
However, it is not that easy to sell the copyright of "Happy Ghost 2" in Europe and the United States.
No matter how much Yu Zheng negotiated with Disney, they didn't give much price, and now they only talked about 5 million US dollars.
Unlike "The Raid", the European and American version sold 20 million U.S. dollars in one go, and the European and American box office reached as high as 140 million U.S. dollars, making United Artists Movies make a lot of money.
This does not include the income from video tapes, which is still a big revenue segment. United Artists Film Company expects to earn more than 50 million US dollars within three years!
With such good results, it is very possible that the next "The Raid 2" will increase the price or even ask for a share.
But Qilin Film Company will not feel sorry. If it has an accurate target group and can achieve the predetermined goals, then it is already a success.
What's more, "Happy Ghost 2" not only drove the movie box office, but also the popularity of the third album of the happy girl group - "Don't Want to Grow Up".
"Don't Want to Grow Up" was originally one of the most popular hits in the 2000s. Now it was released more than 20 years in advance and was sung by five sweet and lovely girls. It immediately attracted the ears of many young people.
First, in the plot of "Happy Ghost 2", the most touching scene was accompanied by the song "I Don't Want to Grow Up", and then at the moment of the perfect ending, "I Don't Want to Grow Up" was also sung as the ending song.
As the old saying goes, touching a scene triggers feelings.
"Don't Want to Grow Up" is integrated into the plot, giving people, especially young people, a sense of immersion.
That's how it is sometimes.
It doesn’t mean it has to be a classic that has been handed down from generation to generation. As long as it touches you in that time period and at that specific time, it is the best.
This can’t just be said of songs, movies, books, or even people.
Students are always easily moved by simple things.
They liked "Happy Ghost 2", and the song "Don't Want to Grow Up" immediately captured their hearts because of its bright rhythm and beautiful singing.
Then the students went to the record store in groups to look for records and music tapes. A group of people rushed to buy more than a dozen records, which made the record store owner grin from ear to ear.
With the support of the students, the weekly sales of "Don't Want to Grow Up" successfully exceeded 1 million copies!
According to the previous rules, the best-selling period of an album is at least 3 months. The release time of "Happy Ghost 2" is 6 weeks. These 6 weeks will definitely be more popular.
If calculated this way, the half-year sales of "Don't Want to Grow Up" were suddenly raised to above the expected 3 million copies.
Even the people at Kirin Records were surprised.
"Next Stop Queen" is so ground-breaking, but only now, nearly a year after its release, has it reached sales of 3 million copies.
Company insiders commented that "Don't Want to Grow Up" was at best on par with "Next Stop", but they didn't expect it to be such a big hit.
But being surprised, Huang Bogao immediately raised his sales forecast and contacted the Kirin Record Factory in the mainland to ask them to increase the production volume of music tapes to 2 million.
The movie is a box office hit, the record is a hit, and the next step is the concert.
Businessmen are always driven by profit.
The 15 concerts negotiated before were all done through old relationships, and some of the organizers from several countries were a little reluctant.
As a result, seeing how popular the Happy Girls' movies and records were, and how many people were inquiring about their concerts, they immediately raised their expectations and called them one after another, hoping to add one or two more concerts.
As for the price, everything is easy to say.
The treatment conditions of various concerts have also been improved accordingly.
Under the changing relationship between supply and demand, Chen Jiaying did not get carried away and did not ask for as much as the lion.
She was still patiently negotiating with organizers from various countries and regions, but with more than 30 concerts, it was already a done deal.
If they hadn't added a lot of practice in the past two months, Chen Jiaying would have been worried about whether the Happy Girls group could survive.
But for the five girls, hard work is nothing. It is the happiest thing to be even more popular and more popular than last year!
In addition to concerts, there are actually many commercial endorsements and activities, which are floating like snowflakes to invite them.
Chen Jiaying, who is solely responsible for all affairs of the Happy Girls group, is quite stable in this regard.
Except during the concert period, some ribbon-cutting and opening activities in the local area, or activities for contracts that have been signed, Chen Jiaying will not talk about new contracts at all.
That’s not to say I’ll ignore it, but I’m saying we’ll discuss everything after the tour.
Advertisers are thinking of signing on early to get a bargain before their influence has spread to the greatest extent.
Chen Jiaying is not a fool, so how could she be so stupid as to sign the contract in advance?
It will definitely be worth it to sign a contract until the concert tour triggers another wave of excitement and the Happy Girls girl group is once again in full swing!