Chapter 704 Winning Hearts

"Police Academy" has entered its third week of screenings, and it is inevitable that the box office will slowly decline.

In terms of normal movie box office, it is already very good. Generally, the second week of a movie will be less than the first week, and the third week will drop even more.

"Police Academy" is naturally better, and Xiangjiang's box office fell to 6.3 million, a drop of about 16% from the second week.

The overseas box office is also similar, closing at 32 million US dollars, down 18% from the second week, a very healthy drop, and it can even be said that the performance is extremely dazzling and excellent.

But Yin Jun was still a little dissatisfied.

In the previous life, "Police Academy" won a super high box office of more than 80 million US dollars in the United States alone, and when Yin Jun edited in this life, he also specially edited a version of the film for the American market based on the movie clips from the previous life. , but in this life in the United States, it only won a box office of 40 million U.S. dollars in three weeks, which is less than half of the total box office.

This is because Yin Jun and Universal Pictures collaborated on "E.T.", and then made a large profit. Universal and Lei Shidong contacted each other, and they arranged more than 400 screens in the United States.

Fortunately, "Police Academy" is a very good-looking movie, and the plot is more in line with American values. Therefore, after the first week, the box office has reached 10 million US dollars, and the theater operators have actively increased the number of screens to 800. Zhang, and then another bumper harvest.

Originally, the films that performed well for two consecutive weeks, according to the normal situation, could still add a little more screens in the third week, and gradually decreased until the fourth week.

However, "Police Academy" was unlucky, and hit the blockbuster "Heaven's Gate" produced by United Artists this year. Therefore, the screen of the third week of "Police Academy" has long been assigned to "Heaven's Gate". ", there is no way to add more.

"Heaven's Gate" is produced by United Artists, one of the top seven companies in Hollywood. The Oscar-winning director of "The Deer Hunter" Michael Cimino was invited. The production cost was 38 million U.S. dollars, and the promotional cost was as high as 5 million U.S. dollars. , the number of screens for the premiere was 1788, and it was screened simultaneously in five countries in Europe, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. No matter how you look at it, it is an A-level production that continues to receive both word-of-mouth and box office.

But Yin Jun inevitably felt a little gloating in his heart.

He is the only one who knows that Oscar directors may not be able to master every movie well, especially this kind of one who has just won an Oscar, who is most likely to not know what his last name is.

Unsurprisingly, on Wednesday, November 19th, after the grand premiere, everyone in United Artists was stunned, as were all the media reporters.

North American premiere box office 330,000! ?

What the hell is this! ?

1788 screens!

There were two screenings last night!

Even if only 30 people are seated in each screening hall each time, it is not so low as 330,000, right? This is the big production of the Oscar-winning director!

Are the statistics wrong?

Everyone hurriedly went to every movie theater to inquire, and the results were summed up. They did not make a mistake at all, and some even miscalculated the movie tickets sold this morning.

Forcibly calling the European side, their real-time box office is slightly more-750,000 US dollars.

All right.

It's completely overwhelmed like this.

No need to wait for the next day, no need to wait for the weekend to know that "Heaven's Gate" is completely finished.

In the next few days, as of the weekend, the total box office in North America in the five days was only 1.6 million US dollars, setting the lowest box office record for blockbuster films in ten years.

The theater chain has already notified it, and it will be released directly in the second week without any negotiation.

Hearing the bad news, Michael Cimino locked himself in the room and did not come out for three days and three nights.

United Artists Films is even more clouded.

They invested more than 43 million US dollars!

Even with the share of Shanghai's overseas box office, they still have to lose 40 million US dollars!

At this moment, which film company can pay 40 million US dollars in one go?

Originally, the situation of United Artists Film Company was not good recently. The film repeatedly lost money, and various diversified investments also encountered many failures.

They originally thought of relying on Michael Cimino to regroup, but they didn't expect that it was Michael Cimino who gave them the heaviest blow.

The entertainment media in North America did not let them go, and they started to mock them one after another, comparing "Heaven's Gate" with "Cleopatra" in 1963.

Back then, "Cleopatra" almost caused 20th Century Fox to go bankrupt, which shows how unfavorable they are to United Artists.

However, United Artists is one of the top seven in Hollywood after all, and there are still three catties of nails in the rotten ship. Most of the media thought that United Artists would definitely be severely damaged, and they would not be able to recover for several years, but that was all.

However, there is a giant company hidden in the depths, but with their falcon-like eyes, they are firmly staring at United Artists.

"Didn't that Xiangjiang guy ask us to help buy a Hollywood company some time ago? Would United Artists be a better choice?"

"Well, the scale of United Artists must be very large, but I don't know if Xiangjiang people can afford it?"

"Don't worry about him. The dozen or so Transformers toys your son is playing with are produced by his company. Jason estimates the annual profit of Transformers toys at 200 million dollars. If he is willing to sell Transformers Some people are willing to buy all the copyrights of 1 billion US dollars."

"Also, I can see that he has great ambitions! Now that he has bought a TV station in Xiangjiang, does he want to learn from Warner, Paramount and Universal?"

"I don't know if his ability is worthy of his ambition."

"Why do you care so much? Hurry up and make an evaluation report for United Artists. If we can earn more money, we will recommend United Artists to him!"

"I know. But there is another point, United Artists may not be willing to sell itself."

"It's very simple. Put more pressure on them, or just let them go bankrupt. Wouldn't that make them sell?"

"Hehe, that's a good idea!"

...

The fiasco of United Artists Company was already expected by Yin Jun, so he didn't devote more energy to pay attention to it.

As long as Goldman Sachs is not a fool, it will definitely recommend United Artists to itself.

At that time, my first goal in Hollywood will be successfully achieved.

What he has to be busy at this time is the arrangement and handling of the two actors.

"Police Academy" has been screened for the third week, and it has sold well at the box office, and its influence has swept the world, which is beyond doubt.

Therefore, Li Xiuman, who stayed in Xiangjiang for more than a month, is ready to return to Korea.

In the last week, his manager made a total of 75 calls to him, all asking him to return to China to participate in activities, movie performances and small concerts.

Before Li Xiuman came to Xiangjiang, he was not well-known in Korea. He was just a newcomer in the singing and hosting industry.

Let alone him now, no matter how famous a Korean actor is, he still feels like a second-rate or third-rate actor in Xiangjiang.

Before 2000, the Korean entertainment circle couldn't hold its head up in front of the Xiangjiang entertainment circle.

So Li Xiuman came to Xiangjiang to make a movie, and he participated in such a big production. For him, it was definitely a very good gilding trip, and it was also promoted as a glory trip in Korea.

The result was just as everyone imagined. "Police Academy" became popular all over the world. Although Li Xiuman's monitor role was a bit dull and silly, he was able to show his face in front of fans all over the world through the film.

In the eyes of Koreans, that would have a different meaning.

With "Police Academy", Li Xiuman became popular all over South Korea at once, and vaguely became the number one star in South Korea. That's why his manager was so anxious to let him return to South Korea. Consolidate.

The overall situation of "Police Academy" has come to an end, Li Xiuman felt that it was meaningless for him to stay in Xiangjiang, so he came to bid farewell to Yin Jun.

Later inlanders, no matter how they hated Koreans, they still agree with their etiquette between superiors and subordinates, seniors and juniors, elders and juniors. This ancient etiquette passed down from China is actually in Japan. It has been well inherited in Korea and South Korea, but it gradually disappeared in Huaguo, which is really embarrassing.

Li Xiuman, who is 28 years old this year, is 10 years older than Yin Jun, but Li Xiuman respectfully admires Yin Jun, a genius, and worships him from the bottom of his heart.

"Jun Shao!" This address is standard Xiangjiang dialect. Next, Li Xiuman spoke English, "I will go back to Korea tomorrow, thank you for taking care of me this time, thank you! After I return to Korea, I will definitely work harder! You are welcome to come to Korea to play when you have time!"

"Oh, that's it." Yin Jun nodded, took out a document from his drawer, and handed it to Li Xiuman, "Brother Man, I don't have anything for you, take this song!"

Li Xiuman was full of surprises, "This... the song you wrote for me, Young Master Jun?!"

He is a singer, so he naturally knows that Yin Jun is not only a genius script writer, but also a genius songwriter.

He has heard and studied all the Chinese, English and Japanese songs sung by Zhang Guorong and Deng Lijun.

From this, Li Xiuman admired Yin Jun so much that he felt that there is no more powerful songwriter than Yin Jun in this world.

Because it is relatively easy for a songwriter to write popular songs in his own language based on the influence of his own culture, but it is not so easy to write songs in other languages ​​across one language.

This is not as simple as finding someone to fill in the lyrics after the composition is completed. The songs that come out in this way are just assembly-line songs, and they are not classics at all.

Only when the lyrics and music are perfectly integrated, and can arouse the heartfelt approval of fans of this language, is it a classic song.

Of course, there are also talented songwriters who can write songs in two languages, but they are definitely a minority among the few.

Like Yin Jun, who has written songs in three languages: Chinese, English and Japanese, and each capital is so touching, in Li Xiuman's impression, there is no second one.

Singers like Lee Soo-man, who come from South Korea where entertainment has not yet matured, would never dare to ask Yin Jun to write a song for him-in fact, half of his manager's phone calls this week are to encourage him Ask Yin Jun to write a song.

Li Xiuman's manager didn't dare to ask Yin Jun to write a Korean song. He expected Yin Jun to write an English song. Thank God. If it doesn't work, a Cantonese song is fine. Anyway, Xiangjiang's TV series and songs are popular in Korea. Very, very welcome.

Li Xiuman resolutely stopped this kind of behavior that didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, and didn't have the slightest sense of dignity. He never told Yin Jun at all.

But unexpectedly, when he said goodbye before returning to China, Yin Jun suddenly took out a song and gave it to him, which surprised Li Xiuman and was beyond flattered.

Taking the sheet music tremblingly, Li Xiuman was even more stunned after seeing it.

"Korean song?"

"Well, this is the first time to make a Korean song. You can try it out. If you don't like it, forget it. I'll give you another English song." Yin Jun said.

"No, no, I didn't mean that..." Li Xiuman blushed and said in panic, "I'm just too excited! I didn't expect Jun Shao to write a Korean song for me personally. I don't know how to thank you You are good...thank you..."

As he spoke, Li Xiuman's eyes turned red.

In Li Xiuman's view, the difference in status between him and Yin Jun is the difference between heaven and earth.

Not only did Yin Jun not look down on him, he also changed a more suitable role setting for him in the movie, encouraged him to act well, and now he wrote a Korean song specially for him. What kind of care is this? ah!

Li Xiuman has nothing for Yin Jun to spy on, and he is going back to China soon. Because of his poor acting, there is not much chance, and it is impossible to come to Xiangjiang to make a movie again, so it is basically the last time between Yin Jun and him Meeting in private is basically the rhythm of passers-by in the future.

But even so, Yin Jun still wrote a Korean song for him, why don't you make Li Xiuman so moved that he wants to cry?

"Okay, Brother Man, the plane is in the afternoon, you can watch the song first!" Yin Jun smiled slightly, raised his hand and said.

"Oh, yes, yes."

Li Xiuman quickly wiped away her tears, sat on the sofa next to her, and watched Yin Jun's song seriously.

The name of the song is "After Love".

Li Xiuman has been singing since 1971. Although he is not the most famous one, his music quality is absolutely outstanding.

He just hummed the song once, and he couldn't help but feel refreshed. He hummed it again with the lyrics, and his whole spirit was immediately immersed in the song.

Once, twice, three times...

"good!"

Unable to restrain himself, Li Xiuman slapped the sofa vigorously, his eyes bulging out of excitement.

"That's great! That's great!" Li Xiuman stood up quickly, holding the song lyrics in his hand, and bowed to Yin Jun again and again, "Thank you! Young Master Jun! Thank you!..."

Apart from shouting thank you and bowing, he didn't do anything else, and even his whole body has not yet woken up from the slightly sad and desolate melody.

Because Li Xiuman is so excited, to get such a good song, such a touching song, is simply the luck of a singer in his life!

Of course Li Xiuman should be grateful.

This song "After Love" is a classic masterpiece released in 1985 by Jeon In-kwon, a Korean godfather rock singer who was born in the same year as him, and it was a sensation in Korea that year.

The first time Yin Jun heard this song, he heard a female singer sing it on the original Korean version of "I Am a Singer". Then Yin Jun went to search for some information, and he liked it very much, so he learned it.

After returning to Xiangjiang 42 years ago, Yin Jun wrote some songs from many countries. Among the few Korean songs, there is this "After Love".

Although it is not as popular as songs such as "I beileve" and "GEE", it is the most suitable according to the current Korean appreciation level and stage.

In order to win over Li Xiuman, the future genius of the brokerage company, Yin Jun has also worked hard!