Chapter 526 Ready to Go

Li Qian once again swiped the newspaper headlines for a month in a row.

On January 11, the Golden Globe Awards in the United States, on January 18, the Great Wall Awards for China Film and Television, on January 25, the Feitian Awards for Chinese TV Dramas, on January 28, the Oscars in the United States, and on February 3, the Grammys.

Take the prize, take the prize, take the prize.

Fly here, fly there.

For the Golden Globes and Oscars, Li Qian's participation is not high, both are nominations for original music and soundtrack because of "My-heart-will-go-on", and they are both nominated and double-winning. It's just a brush with international standards. In terms of Grammy, the more important thing is Liao Liao. Li Qian's appearance is also for her.

In the end, of course, a bumper harvest.

Liao Liao's status as an international queen is as stable as Mount Tai.

In China, the Great Wall Award has won eleven awards, reaching the top with glory, and the Feitian Award, although it is well known that this is a very official award, and China TV has a great influence in it, but no matter what How, when it comes to the TV series in 1999, "Legend of the White Snake" is definitely something that no one dares to ignore. Therefore, although the awards won are slightly less than the Great Wall Award, it is basically not given to those who can not give it, But the few awards that had to be given were still given.

The best TV series of the year, the best director of the year, the best screenwriter, the best actress, the best newcomer, and the best supporting actor-the last one is an accident and a small surprise. To some extent, it is not so much It's Fa Hai's outstanding character, rather it's Zhou Yuhai's personal connections cultivated through years of hard work in the circle, which contributed a certain amount of strength.

But that's good too, "Legend of the New White Snake" has another success, and Zhou Yuhai is also honored, so everyone can be happy in the end.

Moreover, when Li Qian was busy flying around to attend various awards ceremonies, TV station buyers from East and Southeast Asian countries began to negotiate with Minghu Culture to purchase films.

The export of domestic TV dramas was a common thing in the 1980s. In the 1990s, in the cultural circles of East Asia and Southeast Asia, domestic TV dramas began to become less popular than before, but domestic emotional dramas, romance dramas and martial arts dramas are still popular. It can be exported in large quantities, but as Japan's film and television industry began to exert its strength and the gradual rise of Korean film and television entertainment, domestic dramas began to encounter great competitive pressure. After 1995, they began to encounter the governments of East and Southeast Asia. With the cultural barriers set up, it becomes more difficult to export.

But all these problems are not a problem in front of "Legend of the New White Snake".

It is so popular that even Japan and South Korea, which have begun to make efforts in recent years and have even begun to counterattack the Chinese market, are extremely active in waving checks and running to Shuntianfu. The major TV stations are scrambling to get it To win the premiere rights of this TV series in the country, let alone Southeast Asian countries that have always been weak, and have been the dumping grounds of Chinese cultural products for the past 20 to 30 years.

Thus, another round of negotiations that were close to auctions began under the auspices of Qi Jie.

Of course, compared with the incomparable strength of "Legend of the New White Snake", "Love of Green Onion" seems to be just a small wave. Except for Cheng Suping who received a nomination for the best newcomer at the Great Wall Awards, there will be no more They also found nothing, and were soon completely buried by various news during the awards season and various New Year blockbusters during the Spring Festival. The movie hall arranges one or two shows every day, and continues to reap the little residual value of the box office.

And amidst such a carnival at the end of the year, various awards, various reviews, various comments, and Zhao Meicheng's Lunar New Year comedy began to be released, although in the past year, the domestic film market has continued to decline , the domestic record market finally began to show negative growth after years of rapid growth, but in the midst of the carnival, many people chose to temporarily ignore these.

But some things don't exist if you ignore them.

In 1997, the domestic box office market was as high as 8.1 billion yuan, but in 1999, it was only 5.3 billion yuan. The box office market has plummeted. The first result is that in the past two years, many film and television companies and production companies across the country have declared bankruptcy. There are even many films that have not had time to finish filming, or have not finished filming at all. Before it was released in time, the company was over.

With the closure of a large number of film and television production companies, the film market became more indifferent, and then a large number of theaters and theaters began to be unable to support them. Outdated movie theaters may close or stop, and with a certain degree of layoffs, they can barely support themselves, but smaller movie theaters or movie theaters can only struggle between losing money when they open or closing their doors. choice.

It is conceivable that in one year, at most two years, if the record market shrinks sharply like the film market in the past two years, a large number of record companies in China will face losses and close down. Businesses are also doomed - it is very simple, the market becomes smaller, and there are fewer people who can support them.

The strong stay and the weak are eliminated.

Against this background, Minghu Culture is still orderly and orderly.

After the Spring Festival, the copyright export of "Legend of the New White Snake" was basically negotiated, and Minghu Culture sold the broadcasting rights to Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, etc., a total of 11 countries. Among them, the Southeast Asian countries are all bought by Chinese TV stations, and the domestic Chinese version can also be broadcast directly in the local area without additional dubbing. However, those sold to Japan and South Korea are dubbed by the TV stations on both sides.

Correspondingly, those sold to Southeast Asian countries all have the right to play one or more times, while those sold to Japan and South Korea are directly packaged and bought out for five years.

Specifically, after the other party bought their respective domestic copyrights, they completed the dubbing of the Japanese and Korean versions. Within five years, they will have the right to broadcast unlimited times, and have the right to produce and distribute video tapes and VCDs. And the rights of the DVD version, after five years, the authorization will be terminated. If they want to continue to use it, they must renew the contract and pay another sum of money.

It is precisely because of this that the broadcasting rights of nine countries in Southeast Asia were only sold for about 20 million yuan, but a five-year authorization in South Korea was as high as 14 million, and in Japan it was as high as 18 million!

At the same time, "Legend of the New White Snake" actually sold the right to adapt the manga in Japan!

This is the charm of a TV drama!

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At the end of February, the accounting firm finally issued a final financial audit report.

They have given a preliminary data before, but with the huge sales of Rose Power's "Girls' Dormitory" and various sales of "Legend of the New White Snake", they have to re-examine the albums in the hands of Minghu Culture And the value of TV drama copyright.

What's more, in the final report, they not only included the value of Li Qian's several albums produced by He Runqing, Zhou Mo and himself in the past few months that have not yet had time to be released, Moreover, the valuation of various copyrights in the hands of Minghu Culture, including creative ability, has also been greatly increased.

In the end, this valuation greatly exceeded Li Qian's own surprise.

In the report of this accounting firm, they believed that as of January 31, 2000, the net asset value of Minghu Culture should be 1,672.8 million yuan.

And because Minghu Culture has almost all high-quality copyrights that generate net profits at any time, and a large amount of profits earned in the past few years that have accumulated in the past few years, and this company has no debt at all, financial status and future development. The prospects are too good to be good, so in the report given by the accounting firm, they gave a high score of 93 points for the operation of Minghu Culture.

According to their evaluation system, this score represents "extremely worth investing in"!

As for the points deducted, the other party believed through analysis that although Minghu Culture has always been operating steadily, its business ideas tend to be conservative, and its business scope is too single, so it is considered that its ability to resist market changes is limited.

Moreover, another reason is that they also noticed the abnormal trends in the domestic cultural and entertainment market in the past two years, so they had to lower their scores slightly.

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Not long after the report came out, Minghu Culture gathered all the people who had been selected before and who were qualified to participate in this round of share expansion financing, and Cao Zhan and Yu Bojun also attended in person.

After the report was distributed, Qi Jie personally read out the financing plan for this time.

As a result, no one who was qualified to participate in this round of financing was delineated, and no one gave up the opportunity in their hands, and no one was willing to sell their allocated quota.

If you don't have enough money for the time being, even if you borrow money, you must take the full amount you can get.

So happily, it took only two days, and even without any news from the outside world, Minghu Culture's first share expansion financing since its establishment was successfully completed.

This round of financing is targeted financing. A total of 418.2 million yuan was raised from Cao Zhan, Qi Jie and others. After the financing is completed, Minghu Culture will change from a sole proprietorship company to a joint stock company with dozens of shareholders. The total assets will be It will exceed 2 billion yuan - in the current domestic market, even if the large and small domestic film and television companies are counted, this magnitude is definitely a big crocodile.

After the completion of this financing, Li Qian personally holds 80% of the equity, Yu Bojun 2.5%, Cao Zhan 2.4%, Wang Huaiyu 0.1%, Qi Jie 3%, Liao Liao 1.5%, He Runqing 1.5%...

And just a few days after the completion of this financing, and after a few years, Li Qian once again personally created He Runqing's new album "Cloudy Sky" from the beginning to the end, and it was officially released.

And not long after the album was released, the major media highly praised this new album, which contains a certain style of jazz and folk songs. Ordinary reviews called this album a "masterpiece", and those who exaggerated simply thought that it was a new album. This album is definitely a "rescue work" when the record market begins to shrink as a whole!

Whether to save the market or not, Li Qian dare not praise the general trend of the HK market, nor can He Runqing or one of his own albums change it. For him, this album sold very well. "The transformation is basically an attitude of recognition, which is enough.

And then, when the time came to the end of March, under the close attention of many TV stations in China, the large-scale variety show "Super Girl", which has been prepared for a long time by Minghu Culture and Hunan Satellite TV, finally began to gradually surface. .

Before the official registration was opened, the news and publicity in the early stage were released one after another, and the domestic public opinion began to be noisy.

Entertainment variety shows are not uncommon, and the talent show is not the first of its kind, but it is definitely the first time in China that a music company and a TV station jointly hold a variety show.

Some people disdain, some are cautious and watch on, but there are still people, especially those girls who have dreams or are pretentious, when they learn that there is such a singing talent show open to the whole society that will be held soon, and this When the planner and producer of the show was their guru Li Qian, they couldn't help but get excited.

On March 27, HUNAN Satellite TV officially released the promotional video of the program.

Led by Li Qian, the three instructors He Runqing, Cao Zhan and Zhen Zhen also appeared on camera. Within three minutes, they not only explained the general rules clearly, but also tried their best to seduce them, and finally even released a big killer move—the final The top three will directly sign a contract with Minghu Culture, and Li Qian, a gold medal producer, will personally create the first album! The top ten in the final will also depend on their performance, and there is a high chance of signing with Minghu Culture!

As soon as the promotional video came out, there was not much movement in the upper echelon, or in the music world, but among the people, there was an immediate uproar!

In recent years, Li Qian and the leader, these two names have truly become synonymous with "high-quality" in the domestic music scene. It has conquered half of the domestic music scene!

It is impossible for any girl who has a dream of singing not to be moved after seeing such a promotional video!

After last year's "Legend of the New White Snake" hit the air, Hunan Satellite TV has already emerged among the major provincial satellite TVs across the country, becoming the one with the leading ratings. The ratings, which had been falling gradually, rose rapidly again!

After three consecutive days of bombardment with promotional videos, on March 30th, HUNAN Satellite TV finally officially announced that the program registration will start on April 6th, and it will be fully launched in the six major regions of the country at the same time!