Chapter 343 That Song

On May 18, it was sunny.

It is advisable to accept mining, break ground, install a bed, trade, seek medical treatment, marry, consecration, avoid making stoves, erecting beams, and building ships.

On the outskirts of Shuntian Prefecture, Huairou Film and Television City.

The scene of the launching ceremony of "Love of Scallions".

The staff of the film crew were preparing nervously, preparing the offerings, joss sticks, etc. required for the opening ceremony, and a camera was also symbolically covered with red silk.

Many of the invited reporters have already arrived, chatting and eating in the interview area.

The current Yu Bojun is not only a third-rate film director, he is also the rhythm guitarist of the most popular rock band in China. When his new movie was launched, his bandmates would also come to join him. Of course, the reporters came here after receiving the invitation. There is no doubt about this. The news at the opening ceremony site can be posted.

Some main actors are arriving one after another. The director and first producer Yu Bojun, and his assistant director and second producer Jin Han are busy walking around, talking, directing and exchanging pleasantries.

Li Qian, Liao Liao, Cao Zhan, Wang Huaiyu and others stood outside, watching them busy back and forth.

Taking a puff of his cigar and puffing out a long puff of smoke, Cao Zhan turned his head to look at Li Qian in bewilderment, "American movies? Propaganda songs? What's so strange about this? Over the past few years, more than a dozen Hollywood movies have been shown in China every year. There are at least five or six of them that will use this kind of publicity, including me, who also took a job like this!"

After a pause, he explained: "The people in Hollywood are very smart. In our country, no, in fact, it is not only in our country. The influence of the Chinese music scene, as you know, can radiate to Southeast Asia, no problem. How big is this market? ? Last year’s domestic box office was 8.3 billion! Including Southeast Asia, it’s no problem to break through 10 billion, which is 5 billion U.S. dollars!”

"In such a big box office market, people spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a song for publicity. Even if you are more expensive, it is not a big deal for them to pay you two million! You know, Hollywood movies , usually how much money is used to invest in making a movie, and will spend at least no less than the filming fee for publicity and distribution. Two million, if you buy a song for distribution, it is estimated that you and Liao Liao helps the platform, how much more can they increase the box office?"

He patted Li Qian on the shoulder, "For them, this kind of business is profitable. For singers and record companies, they can get as little as hundreds of thousands just for the right to use it... It's also a good deal! Let’s all benefit from each other!”

Having said that, he looked at Li Qian and asked, "The other party's asking price is very low?"

Li Qian shook his head.

Cao Zhan took another sip of his cigar, thought for a while, and showed a look of sudden realization, "I know, James Cameron... this director, I know, he is one of the few Hollywood stars who can always shoot new things. Director, and his characteristic is that he is never overly literary, but never overly commercial, his films are always clever!"

"But... Titanic? Titanic? Titanic? There seems to be news about this last year. I remember when I saw the report, I said that I don't know what this guy can do in a disaster movie! But... …Isn’t it just a promotional song? If you want to pick it up, pick it up, if you don’t want to pick it up, just pull it down!”

Li Qian smiled when he heard the words, "I have initially agreed, and he called the next day, saying that the United States will send an assistant producer to talk to me in the near future. I just don't think so... Ha ha, I don't know what to do To describe it, it should be said to be... helping the evildoer?" He frowned and said, "Anyway, it's a bit awkward!"

"Aiding evildoers?" Cao Zhan looked over in surprise, and then laughed, "Brother, you think too much!"

After a pause, he held his cigar in his mouth, and said nonchalantly: "Whether a movie can be sold well or not depends on the quality of the movie itself. Asking you to write a song as a promotional song will definitely be of great help to them." But as long as the movie is not good, it is still useless, and as long as the movie is good, if they don’t do this, it will still be a big hit! Like this green onion, even if Bo Jun suddenly has eighty years of skill, he can make this movie The filming of the movie is so awesome that it won't sell well!"

Li Qian smiled when he heard the words, and nodded his head, which seemed to agree with his statement.

Yes, James Cameron, the big boat... whether they have their own promotional songs, they will sweep the world just the same.

It's just... want to take out "my-heart-will-go-on"?

Although I have searched all the information I can find in the past two days, it seems that there is no soundtrack master named James Horner in Hollywood, but God knows if there is another musician who I don’t know who has or is making this The song is written!

It is even hard to say whether the big boat that is still being photographed after 1998 is the same as the other big boat.

And... Liao Liao wants to go to the world, this is no problem, but, is it really necessary to sing English songs?

Li Qian was a little uncertain.

The time for the opening ceremony seems to be approaching, and everything is already in order.

Li Qian suddenly asked Cao Zhan, "You said, I want to propose to the other party's producer that I hope to make a soundtrack for this movie. Will the other party at least consider it?" After a pause, he smiled, slightly Some self-deprecating, "After all, I am now one of the most famous musicians in the Chinese music circle, right?"

Cao Zhan turned his head to look at Li Qian, a little surprised, but immediately shrugged his shoulders, and seemed a little sad, "Don't think too much, at least so far, English music and European and American culture are the mainstream of the whole world, while Chinese Culture can only be regarded as a coward. Hollywood..." At this point, he patted Li Qian on the shoulder again, "We don't look down on Chinese musicians like us."

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Cheng Suping is here.

She first went to say hello to both Yu Bojun and Jin Han, and then she saw Li Qian, so she rushed over here.

Li Qian greeted Liao Liao, and the two walked over, took the initiative to say hello, called "Sister", and then said: "This is Liao Liao, Liao Liao, this is my teacher's daughter, Cheng Suping."

So, the two shook hands, and Liao Liao politely called her "Sister Su Ping", although in fact, the two of them should be about the same age.

After exchanging pleasantries with each other, she walked away quickly. After all, she is the absolute protagonist of this movie, and this is her first role as a movie actor, so although she looks calm, Li Qian I think she should still be a little nervous.

When she walked away, Liao Liao whispered, "It looks like a calm person."

Li Qian nodded, and said in a low voice: "It's still very generous to be a human being, and you can try to get in touch with her more often. There are some very special things about her, especially in this era, which is very rare."

It was rare to hear Li Qian give such a high evaluation to a person, Liao Liao couldn't help turning his head to look at Li Qian in surprise. Then, she turned her head to look at Cheng Suying's back, thoughtfully.

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At nine o'clock in the morning, the opening ceremony of "Love of Scallions" officially began.

Burn incense, kowtow, and pray.

Although Li Qian and Cao Zhan are the screenwriters of this play, they are not members of the crew. The crew has their own screenwriters who are responsible for temporarily adjusting the script and so on. Therefore, the crew members are led by Yu Bojun and Jin Han. Xiang, Li Qian and Cao Zhan were watching from the sidelines, which can be regarded as watching the ceremony.

When the ceremony was over, a group of reporters surrounded them. Li Qian and Liao Liao shrank back as much as possible. Even if the reporters chased after them, they couldn't avoid it. They tried to focus on the movie.

But even so, even though he and Liao Liao stepped back again and again, the reporters still chased the two of them, making this film conference gradually become a press conference for the two of them, and the main creators of the crew could only stand Watching the excitement on the sidelines.

"Prediction? Sales are never predictable. I hope both of them can sell well! Oh, by the way, I also wish brother Yu's movie a big hit!"

"Uh... the script... yes, I'm one of the scriptwriters of this drama.... No, you all know, I'm still studying, at least in the near future, I don't have a movie contract, and I haven't made a movie myself, and I've changed my career to the movie Of course, maybe, if there is a particularly good script and crew, I might occasionally go to play a small role or something."

"Well, yes. Uh...not for the time being. A few people in our band, everyone is busy with their own things, the next album...I don't know when it will come out, but the song is still being written Wait, when everyone is free and in the mood, maybe there will be a next one. I said at the beginning that our band was established purely because everyone thought it was fun, but... That's not our main job."

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On Monday, May 15th, "Women's Flower" and "Witch's Tears" will be released simultaneously.

On the same day, the two started their new album promotion tours one after another. Among them, Liao Liao was a guest on a talk show launched by Huaxia TV last year called "Art Dialogue", while Zhou Mo was rarely invited to participate in a talk show on Dragon TV called "A Date on Monday".

Also on the same day, the latest issue of Dongguan Bookstore Sales Rankings was released.

In the ninth week of its release (5.8-5.14), the album "Fake Monk" achieved a sales volume of 23,690 copies in a single week, and continued to sit firmly at the top of the sales chart without suffering a strong impact. Counting this week, the album has been at the top of the chart for nine weeks! Moreover, compared to last week's 26,715 sales, this week's sales only dropped by 11.3%, which is definitely a surprising drop.

In the first nine weeks so far, this album has already achieved a total sales volume of 239,817 copies only in the hands of a distributor of Dongguan Bookstore. It can be estimated that the total sales volume nationwide has steadily surpassed four million copies. close!

And according to the gentle decline curve of this record, this almost predicts that the final sales volume of this album will be at least 8 million copies.

In the past five years, there are only a handful of albums that have sold more than 8 million copies.

Liao Liao, Wu Xing Wu Su, He Runqing. The sky is the top plus Zhao Xinfu who is about to break through 8 million copies.

Only these four.

And the four beauties bands have become the most likely fifth!

Of course, everyone knows that with the launch of the two blockbuster albums "Woman's Flower" and "Witch's Tears", "Fake Monk" will definitely be severely impacted, even though "Fake Monk" has been released before. It shows that even if it is hit, it should be able to maintain its basic sales volume, so that there will be no sudden drop in sales. In addition, this is a rock album after all, and it does not have the same fan base as the pop styles of the two queens. Not too much... In short, although it is not easy to say, at least there is no need to be too pessimistic.

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May 18, night.

Xie Bing's home.

The slightly ancient yellow light gently shone on the two of them.

Xie Bing was lying on Li Qian's body with half of her body, and was talking about their dinner together tonight, while Li Qian's gaze was fixed on her snow-white arm exposed outside the quilt.

Under the dizzy yellow light, the white and tender arms faintly glowed with a different kind of luster, which was so beautiful that it made one's heart skip a beat.

However, Li Qian was obviously distracted.

Xie Bing didn't seem to be aware of it, and still said to himself: "... Dodo wants us to help communicate with us. It's best to ask you. Her new album has been finished. She wants to It will be listed in mid-June, and I want to hear your opinion."

"Oh!" Li Qian suddenly came back to his senses, "Have you finished?" Seeing Xie Bing nodded, he pondered for a moment, and said: "June...hehe, she has a lot of ambition! It seems that she is very interested in this album. Confident. Liao Liao and Zhou Mo in May, He Runqing at the beginning of July, and Liu Mingliang at the end of the month...how could she be stuck among these people?"

Xie Bing smiled, with a hint of worry on his face.

Li Qian understands her, she is such a person: Although everyone has separated and belonged to different companies, even though the relationship between everyone was not very harmonious when they were in the same group, she still I can't help but worry about the future of every little sister.

Especially... Everyone can see Sima Duoduo's adventures.

Li Qian smiled, couldn't help holding her face, lowered his head and kissed her between the eyebrows.

Xie Bing hesitated to speak, finally sighed slowly, and said: "We all persuaded, even Pingping, and she also said that the company didn't seem to support her idea. It was she who insisted on doing this all the time, and the company reluctantly agreed. So...we don't know what to do."

Li Qian nodded, "This is her album, and it's her own idea, so it proves that she is very confident. In this case, we just wait to listen to her album. But you, recently You must practice singing well, but don't let her fly up by herself, and the three of you get down instead, we will be so ashamed..."

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It's chaotic, I don't know what time it is.

Li Qian suddenly opened his eyes.

The night is still dark outside the window.

He turned sideways, touched the phone from the bedside table, thought about it, and dialed the phone.

The phone rang four or five times before the other end suddenly connected.

"Hey... what's the matter? Why are you calling so late?"

"Let Wei Lan adjust your recent schedule and give me four to five days to come out. You'd better come back tomorrow."

The other end was silent for a moment, and then asked, "What's wrong?"

Li Qian said calmly: "We will make a song."

"Urgent? Do you have to do it soon?"

"Yes. I want to try."

"good."