Chapter 965: A New Page
Until many years later, the internal annual meeting of Minghu Culture Company held at the beginning of 2004 was a grand event that people talked about.
It is generally believed that this is a sign of the peak of Minghu culture, and it is a general mobilization before Minghu culture completely dominates the world.
And at that time, it indeed received widespread attention from all over the country.
It's just that at that time, few people could understand that from that day on, a new era was really about to open its first page!
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February 9, 2004, at 4:00 pm local time in the UK.
London.
Elizabeth McCullough walked into the cinema for the fourth time to watch "Calabash Baby", and the joke in the middle made her laugh hard for the fourth time.
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Since mid-to-late February 2004, "Calabash Baby" has been released in major film markets around the world.
On February 21, after 59 days of screening, the box office residual value of "Calabash Baby" in North America seems to have been harvested almost. The animated film has been drawn from the last 19 cinemas that participated in the screening, officially ending its entire theater journey in North America.
Released in North America in the past two months, the film has accumulated a box office of 162.4 million US dollars. Although it is still not as good as Disney's "Wig the Pooh" in the same period, it has become the best Chinese film in North America so far. The second place "The Gate of Life and Death" is 67.44 million US dollars.
Moreover, the reputation of this animated film among North American movie fans is quite good, and even the peripherals are selling quite well. The profit share brought to Minghu Culture by its peripherals has even far exceeded its box office revenue. !
Moreover, because the box office is very good, and because the peripherals are selling well, when the DVD production and distribution rights of this film in North America were signed to Colombia within five years, Du Yihua, who was in charge of the negotiations, won a 35% guaranteed share and the highest 45% sharing ratio.
Although it is only a left-handed and right-handed relationship, a business is a business, and both parties will try their best to strive for their own best interests. Therefore, this condition will be approved by the Colombian side, which proves that that side believes that this is definitely a profitable business.
On March 24, the screening of "Calabash Baby" officially ended in China, and the entire screening period lasted for 91 days. With the end of the screening in China, except for a few regions that have not yet ended the screening, the film has been completely canceled in major film markets around the world.
As the first Chinese film to be released simultaneously globally, and China's first major animation film, it has achieved quite good box office results in many markets around the world.
The box office in China was 365 million Chinese yuan, equivalent to about 182 million U.S. dollars, the box office in North America was 162.4 million U.S. dollars, the box office in Japan was 29.44 million U.S. dollars, the box office in Europe was 62.18 million U.S. dollars, the box office in South Korea was 9.42 million U.S. dollars, and the box office in Southeast Asia was 17.26 million U.S. dollars.
Cumulative worldwide box office, $503 million.
Among Chinese films, it is second only to the $541 million global box office generated by "The Gate of Life and Death", making it one of the most successful Chinese films to date.
Moreover, although it still relies heavily on the box office contribution of China and pan-Chinese cultural regions, this film has achieved quite good box office and influence in North America and Europe. When it comes to the ability to harvest box office in the Western world, In fact, it still far surpasses "The Gate of Life and Death".
Of course, it still failed to break the box office record of "The Gate of Life and Death" in China and around the world.
So much so that when its global box office was finally counted, many media wrote with emotion: Although the box office of "Golden Terrace" was somewhat unsatisfactory, it made Qin Wei, a film master, a little frustrated in the movie for the first time , but "The Gate of Life and Death" stands there like a monument. In the past 2003, Minghu Culture has produced many box-office hit movies, but including Li Qian, Minghu Culture and other directors across the country Although they all worked hard, they were still unable to surpass the record left by "The Gate of Life and Death". Moreover, I am afraid that in a short period of time, the box office record of this Chinese-language film will hardly be broken.
When the media said this, it was the end of March and the beginning of April in 2004.
"Gourd Baby" was just painted in China.
And when the media are keen to discuss the various harvests, explorations, and data of Chinese films in the past year, and to look forward to the new 2004 and the upcoming summer season, on the 3rd At the end of the month, Minghu Culture suddenly announced the launch of a new production plan.
First of all, Li Qian and Cao Zhan announced that they would launch Minghu Animation's second animation film production plan. The new film is not the second "Calabash Baby" that many people are looking forward to, but a brand new theme attempt.
The film is tentatively titled "Kung Fu Panda".
At the press conference to start the production, Li Qian and Cao Zhan attended together. Li Qian announced that he would only serve as the producer, producer and screenwriter of this film, and would no longer be the director like "Calabash Baby", and Cao Zhan Zhan, will serve as the producer and director of the animated film.
This is Cao Zhan's first film director.
According to him, the story and script of this movie were written by Li Qian a long time ago, and he personally likes it very much, and in the production process of this animation, it will continue Minghu Animation's last work "Calabash Baby" "The production style, from art style to story style, will be a continuation.
He said: I promise this must be a particularly good-looking animated movie!
Minghu Animation paid 240 million Chinese yuan for this film, which is equivalent to 120 million U.S. dollars in production funds-this is definitely the film with the highest production cost in Chinese film history!
Of course, so far.
Just six days after this press conference ended, Minghu Culture once again held a new film launch conference.
This time, it was Li Qian and Zhao He who attended the press conference.
They are the directors of "Once Upon a Time" and "Once Upon a Time in Huang: A Man Should Be Self-Reliant".
Because of this, the reporters who received the invitation to the press conference were all gearing up and excited—after the previous two films had exploded in word-of-mouth and box office, among the media and fans, the third part of "Once Upon a Time" was It has long been mentioned and highly anticipated.
However, this time, the two great directors appeared at the same time, and the new film launch plan announced had nothing to do with the "Once Upon a Time" series.
The name of this new movie is called "Shaolin Temple".
The director is Zhao He, and this time, he will also serve as the producer. Of course, as always, the screenwriter is Li Qian. The art director and producer is Fang Baijin.
Moreover, under the questioning of the reporters one after another, Zhao He revealed with a smile that he admitted that the leading actor would be Zhou Baoshan.
But who is the heroine?
Deer consonance? He Yingyu? Qin Jingjing? Bai Yujing? Zhao Yingying?
Zhao He denied it one by one with a smile, and finally kept the question. By the end of the press conference, he did not give any information, but left it to the media and fans to guess.
However, Zhao Hejia Zhou Baoshan's new martial arts movie, Li Qian's screenwriter, and the production budget of up to 70 million announced at the press conference all made the film's launch conference quickly suspended. The appetite of moviegoers across the country—the huge success of the two "Once Upon a Time" has made Zhou Baoshan's box office appeal in the domestic film industry almost unmatched except for Li Qian and Guo Yulong.
Immediately afterwards, in early April, Minghu Culture once again held a launch conference for a new film.
This time, Li Qian appeared again.
This time, the person sitting next to him was replaced by the great director Feng Bicheng who had long been rumored to be at odds with him.
The production plan announced this time is called "Crazy Stone".
It's still an urban comedy, it's still Li Qian's script, and the investment is still not big, it's said that it's only 20 million, but the leading actor is no longer Huang Ge.
According to Feng Bicheng, he said that the hero of this movie needs another kind of temperament, and he already has a candidate in mind.
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In this way, in March and April when the domestic film market was sluggish, Minghu Culture threw out the production plans of three films without stopping, and each of them was a big name that attracted everyone's attention.
Cao Zhan, Zhao He, Feng Bicheng.
That's not all.
The movie launch conference for "Crazy Stone" has just ended, and the two albums of Xiu Enai have been released - Li Qian's second solo album "Love Song 2004", after four years with Zhou Mo His solo album "Promise" was officially released on April 14, the same day!
Shocked the entire Chinese music scene.
Zhou Mo's mesmerizing and moving voice was once again pushed to its peak.
Songs such as "Promise" and "The Edge of Love and Pain" quickly became popular.
And Li Qian continued to push the several styles in his first album to the extreme.
"Love Like a Tide" and "Twilight" are love songs all the way.
"East Wind Breaks" in Chinese style.
Folk-style "Love Song 2004" and "Match Paradise".
Rap style "Nunchuck" and "Love in BC".
There is even a rap-style Chinese style, "Lady".
etc.
And this time, in addition to the regular ten songs, there are also a few songs that Li Qian sang in the concert, such as "Facing the Sea, Spring Blossoms" and "Chengdu", and all of them are It was recorded in the studio and has undergone a new arrangement.
It is conceivable that the release of the two albums together naturally aroused great buying enthusiasm from fans all over the country in the first place-because the trailer was released one month in advance, so in the ten days before this day, and after this day In the past twenty days, there has not been a single new album released nationwide!
Moreover, the high-profile show of love between Li Qian and Zhou Mo released a new album on the same day, which led to another result, that is, people who bought this album would basically buy that album, and those who bought that album would also basically buy this album. .
As a result, the sales of the two albums jointly exploded!
Of course, no matter how popular the album is, the two of them will remain faceless as always.
Only on April 22, 2004, 8 days after the two albums were released, Li Qian suddenly published his first article on his blog.
Three words: Does it sound good?
The blog has been open for more than half a year until the end of April. With the help of QQ's powerful platform and publicity, although the investment in publicity is not very large, it has already accumulated more than 10 million users.
As for the blog, Li Qian's personal blog existed on the first day it was released on this platform, and after half a year, his blog has more than 6 million followers, and it has always been the number one on the entire platform. name.
It's just that he never published his first article.
In China’s Internet in 2004, there were about 200 million or 300 million users, and more than 100 million active users, and more than 10 million users within half a year of its release, and the activity was quite high, which made blogging a thing. , has become an influential platform.
But it is still quite a distance from the super platform.
And now, when Li Qian finally released his first blog post, although it was only three words, it quickly hit the headlines of all major online platforms that day!
Especially the pop-up window of QQ, and the publicity on the homepage of Xunfei.com, spared no effort!
This level of propaganda is extremely terrifying!
Within three days, the registered users of the blog exceeded 30 million in a straight line!
The number of followers of Li Qian's personal blog quickly exceeded 25 million!
And just under the "Does it sound good?" This blog post with only three words and a punctuation mark, the number of replies reached more than one million!
Many replies are actually just two words - nice!
If there are a few more words, it will be "It sounds so good!"
Of course, some people will say, "Can I have another one?"
Of course, there are also people who will leave a message and reply at the bottom of the blog post, and directly write a long article with thousands of words!
With the sudden popularity of the blog, many professional music critics simply uploaded their own music reviews and appreciation articles on the blog, attracting many people who specially registered to watch because of Li Qian. Is it?" Fans have liked and left comments.
On April 26, 2004, Liao Liao, who was in the United States, suddenly and unexpectedly published his first blog post——x-on:李贤x-on:周櫫, nice!
This blog post and blog this thing once again set off a big hit on the Internet!
Because this is the first direct dialogue between Liao Liao and Zhou Mo, two singers who have been exposed to the public!
The increase in the number of registered bloggers was originally slowing down, but on this day, it suddenly accelerated.
Blogging is really starting to heat up.
Those netizens who signed up for blogs because of Li Qian, Zhou Mo, and Liao Liao seemed to have suddenly opened up a new world after entering the blog.
It is closely connected with Xunfei's homepage and news of Xunfei, various things, various people, various comments, current affairs, politics, economy, military, technology, culture, and entertainment, stars Wait, almost everything, you can find what you want to see on it.
As a result, not only did the number of registered users increase, but the number of active users also increased significantly.
When the time entered May, the total number of registered bloggers exceeded 44 million, and the number of active users was as high as 31 million. In less than half a month, it quickly became the most popular network application platform on the Internet in China!
When the time came to the end of May, his number of registered people exceeded 60 million in one fell swoop, and the number of active people has reached more than 40 million!
The blog is really hot!
And at this time, on the evening of June 20th, Li Qian finally released his second blog post.
Still very simple, just one line——
"The countdown is 30 days, get ready, "The Matrix" is coming!"
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After a serious illness, I feel that I am very weak, everyone, give me a few monthly tickets to make up for it!