China Entertainment 1997

The top performer in the 2011 Spring Festival Gala is still Cao Xuan.

There's no way, with so many songs appearing together in the Spring Festival Gala, it's hard for people to ignore them, even more so than him attending the Spring Festival Gala himself, which is a gimmick.

At the same time, the Spring Festival Gala also added to the success of several new songs by Cao Xuan.

The first one is "Because of Love". Queen Wang's popularity and influence are strong enough. The key is that there are also classic works in the Spring Festival Gala. "Meet Me in 1998" and "Legend" are both considered golden songs in the Spring Festival Gala.

So on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, if Xiao Zhou wants to take over from Cao Xuan, he may not be able to surpass Wang Fei.

In addition to "Because of Love", another popular song is "Under the Sea". In other words, "Under the Sea" was already very popular, but Phoenix Legend's outstanding performance made the song even more popular.

Phoenix Legend and Yao Beina also relied on this program to win the first prize in the song and dance category of the 2011 Spring Festival Gala, beating Wang Fei, Xiao Zhou and other institutional singers.

The last song that became a hit was "The Lonely Warrior".

However, the popularity is a little off. In addition to being popular on the Internet, it is also welcomed by a large number of primary and secondary school students.

It's still winter vacation right now, so it's not obvious yet. When the new semester starts after the Lantern Festival, I'm afraid they'll be exchanging secret codes with each other in the classroom.

"I love you and walk alone in a dark alley?"

"I love the way you don't kneel down!"

It's hard to say whether he can reach this point, but Cao Xuan got a headache when he heard that his daughter returned to the capital from her hometown, still humming "Lonely Warrior" with her cell phone in her hand.

But in any case, the Spring Festival Gala made the performance of "Xuan" reach a higher level.

As of early February, just over a month after the release of the new album, domestic physical album sales will reach 500,000 copies.

Compared with other singers, it is a big hit, but considering Cao Xuan's past results, it can only be said to be average.

However, the physical album is not conspicuous, but the digital album sales have reached a terrifying 1.4 million copies, and some other single sales have also been successful.

Overseas sales are also good. The cumulative physical/digital sales in Asia, Europe and the United States are almost 1 million. After all, it is a purely Chinese album, and those who can spend money to support it are Cao Xuan's fans.

Frankly speaking, these data are not bad, and they are considered to be in the middle and upper reaches of Cao Xuan's albums over the years.

But considering the quality of this album and Cao Xuan's current popularity, we can still clearly feel the collective malaise in both the domestic and international record markets.

Apart from anything else, a large number of video stores are closing down or changing businesses one after another, and there are very few stores that make a living purely by selling records.

According to Warner's statistics, more than 35% of the physical album of "Xuan" was sold through online shopping platforms such as Taobao and JD.com. With the increasing development of online shopping, a large number of people lined up to buy the album like a few years ago. Gone forever.

The record era has entered the countdown to history...

Cao Xuan, who witnessed and participated in the golden peak of recording in the past ten years at the beginning of the century, was still very emotional when he saw this scene of things changing and people changing, even if he knew the ending in advance.

It flourishes and then declines, and remains unchanged forever.

There are industries that have declined from their peak, and there are naturally industries that have risen strongly.

The Chinese music scene is in decline, but the film industry is booming.

Just two days after the Spring Festival Gala, the box office of "Let the Bullets Fly", which had been in theaters for nearly 50 days, officially exceeded 1 billion.

This is also the first Chinese-language film in history to have a box office of over 1 billion, ranking second in mainland box office history, second only to "Avatar" and surpassing the third place "Tangshan Earthquake" by 300 million yuan.

Although many people had predicted this result before, when "Let the Bullets Fly" actually exceeded 1 billion, it would still have a huge shock to the industry and the outside world.

Major media outlets focused on the report, and the industry was also amazed and excited.

If the box office of "Let the Bullets Fly" is counted to 2010, the mainland's box office for the whole year last year was 11.3 billion, officially breaking the 10 billion mark.

In other words, the film industry is getting bigger and bigger, and its potential is getting stronger.

Everyone wants to make the next "Let the Bullets Fly", become famous, and make a lot of money.

Jiang Wen has been praised to the sky. It is no exaggeration to say that he can easily raise tens of millions of funds by throwing out a script.

Many investors came to him with money to make movies. Fortunately, Fanxing started early and signed a priority investment contract early, otherwise he might not have been able to win over these people.

Uncle Ge has also become a hot favorite. The three movies he starred in during the Lunar New Year holiday have a cumulative box office of 1.5 billion, surpassing Cao Xuan and becoming the highest-grossing movie actor in 2010.

"The Orphan of Zhao" received 4 million, "Let the Bullets Fly" Uncle Ge received 5.2 million, and "If You Are the One 2" is not clear, it seems to be even lower.

Nowadays, if the salary is less than 10 million, there is no need to talk about it. If you want to finalize the actors, you may not be able to get a salary of 20 million, and you may not be able to hire them even if you have money.

If you want Uncle Ge to film, you must either be an old friend of the famous director, or the script must make him like it, or you must return the favor.

As for Cao Xuan, you may not be able to afford it even if you want to.

The salary is at least 100 million, and if you want to reach a cooperation, you will probably have to invest 150 million.

At this price, unless the remuneration for a film like "Let the Bullets Fly" is considered an investment, or more dividends are given, 99% of the crew would not dare to think about it.

To put it bluntly, even if Fanxing wants to use Cao Xuan to film movies, they have to think carefully about how to save costs as much as possible.

After all, as Fanxing Company has become more formalized in recent years and some senior executives have participated in stock dividends, even if Cao Xuan films his own movies, he will not cut his salary on a large scale or even collect symbolic fees like before.

Public is public, private is private.

Discounts can be given, but certainly not as much as before.

The three giants have benefited a lot, and several supporting roles have also benefited a lot. For example, Hu Ge has successfully entered the film market with this drama. I heard that several film crews are considering approaching him.

The one who benefited the most should be Liuzi, who suddenly became the representative of the second generation of stars.

Not only has she received several film offers, but relying on her father's aura, she has also caught the attention of Feng Pengtong, who is expected to participate in "1942", which the latter has been thinking about filming.

The entertainment industry is like this. A good work may not necessarily allow people to reach the sky in one step, but there are many more ways to choose upwards.

………

On February 10th, Lao Jiang held a public celebration party for "Let the Bullets Fly" in Beijing. Many celebrities came to support the film, which gave him enough face as the new billionaire director.

However, it is a pity that neither Cao Xuan nor Fan Xiaopang was present. They flew to the United States to film "Avengers" two days ago.

New York, set of "Avengers"

Cao Xuan met his colleagues from the new movie, most of whom were acquaintances.

Black Widow has just finished filming, Thor has met her before, Hulk and Captain America are both starring in "Now You See Me", and Agents such as SHIELD Director Fury have also met her before in "Hawkeye".

The leading actors meeting for the first time in the entire "Avengers" should be Loki, Tom Hiddleston and Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr.

The last time Cao Xuan went to the set of "Thor" for a guest appearance, he didn't see Loki. As for Iron Man, he has been close to him for a long time and has never seen him before.

"Hey, Donnie, I've always been envious of your armor."

"If I could choose, I would rather trade it for a figure like this."

Cao Xuan also had some interactions with this group of people and roughly understood part of their personalities.

Thor and Hulk are relatively reserved, but they can also joke when they get acquainted with each other. Widow is not as cold as in the movie, and is quite lively in private. Captain America also likes to be funny from time to time, but sometimes he is also quite serious.

The character who most resembles the character in the movie is Robert Downey Jr., who is as foul-mouthed as Iron Man, loves to joke, and likes to play tricks.

Such a personality is often not easily disliked by others at work, and may even make people like to work with them.

After exchanging pleasantries, Cao Xuan introduced Fan Xiaopang to everyone.

"Bingbing Fan, the most popular actress in China, also plays Hill in the movie."

When Boss Cao came up, he made it clear that I was the one covering this person and it was up to everyone.

Fan Xiaopang has a very low profile. Cao Xuan has enough capital and confidence. She is different. She is a pure Hollywood newcomer. There is no harm in being low-key.

"Cao, is Fan also an artist in your company?"

"That's right, the most powerful actress in our company has just been China's first local box office movie to surpass 150 million U.S. dollars, and she is the heroine."

Cao Xuan seized the opportunity and helped Fan Xiaopang with a few words. After spending a long time with these old diplomats, he was able to figure out some tricks. He should not be too humble in everything. Show off his energy and achievements from time to time, and he will gain more attention.

Sure enough, as soon as Cao Xuan said these words, everyone's eyes changed obviously when they looked at Fan Xiaopang.

The box office of 150 million US dollars is not a small number in North America. At least among this group of people, the only ones who have achieved this achievement as male and female protagonists are Robert Downey Jr. and The Widow Sister.

The others are either supporting roles, or the movie hasn't been released yet, so they really don't have much capital to show off their resume in front of Fan Xiaopang.

However, some people's attention was focused on another matter, and Robert Downey Jr. curiously asked Cao Xuan.

"Fan is an artist in your company. Has Cao opened a management company in China?"

As soon as these words came out, before Cao Xuan said anything, the widowed sister was speechless: "Donnie, don't you know, Cao is the boss of China's largest entertainment company."

"Ahem, it's the largest in Asia."

Boss Cao couldn't help but correct the widow's wording, while Robert Downey Jr. opened his mouth in surprise.

It's no wonder that he didn't understand Cao Xuan's situation. After all, Cao Xuan didn't spend much time in the United States and rarely participated in some business operations publicly.

Even though some media have reported it, this news obviously has not gone out of the circle, and it may only be paid attention to by some Cao Xuan fans.

In the minds of most Americans, Cao Xuan is an excellent singer. In the past two years, he has added the new label of actor, but he is rarely associated with rich people and businessmen.

Even the widowed sister has a better understanding of the situation because she cooperated with Cao Xuan and conducted investigations.

As for Captain America and the others, because they collaborated on "Now You See Me", they knew that Cao Xuan was not just an artist, but they didn't expect that Cao Xuan was so powerful, so they were a little surprised.

"Cao, I would like to take the liberty to ask, what is the market value of your company?"

Robert Downey Jr. couldn't help but ask, Cao Xuan was counting on his fingers, but Fan Xiaopang next to him stood up to show off to his boss.

"I saw the valuation published by Forbes a year ago, and it was about US$18.5 billion."

Now everyone is really confused!

What is the concept of a market value of US$18.5 billion? It ranks high among the major Hollywood giants. After all, MGM was acquired by Sony in 2005 for US$4.8 billion.

Even if Fanxing’s valuation has some merit, if it is squeezed out, there will still be billions of dollars left.

This is shocking enough for many actors who can't even afford tens of millions of dollars.

Robert Downey Jr. had a complex look on his face: "We two and you are the billionaire who plays with mechas and picks up girls all over the world."

"..."

Cao Xuan was silent. It was true that he was a billionaire, but he really didn’t have a mecha. If he had been given an Iron Man suit, he would have gone to recapture Yizhou long ago. He would have no time to film.

After a few casual remarks, Cao Xuan discovered that showing off his wealth also had its benefits. At least everyone had a better attitude toward him.

Capital society's worship of money is unabashedly unabashed.

Considering Cao Xuan's status, they are colleagues now, and they might one day become their servants, just like Captain America and the others in "Now You See Me", there is no harm in leaving a good impression.

If "Cao Xuan" knew what they were thinking, he would definitely tell everyone that they would not look back one day, but now they are just wage earners.

After all, Cao Xuan is a shareholder of Marvel, and these people filming movies are, to some extent, working for him to make money.

Boss Cao felt that he should buy a few more cups of coffee and drinks to reward everyone later.

As for the rest, there is no need for it. He is not a major shareholder...

………

The crew of "Avengers" started shooting in the last two days of early February. It still started shooting secretly, but it also revealed the news to some media to pave the way for the movie.

The director of the new movie is Joss Whedon, who is not well-known in Hollywood at present, and there are great differences within Marvel about hiring him.

Many people don't understand why such an important movie as "Avengers" should be handed over to such a young director.

In fact, Joss Whedon is no ordinary character. Born into a family of screenwriters, he has worked as a screenwriter, director, and producer, and has participated in many film and television productions.

The most famous one should be the science fiction theme "Firefly". It was precisely because of this movie that Marvel showed his ability to shoot group scenes.

"Avengers" is a group drama. Iron Man may be the first starring role, but the roles of other people are not much different.

To make a movie like this well, not only does the director need to have strong character creation skills, but also the ability to schedule and coordinate group scenes is also a top priority. If the latter does not grasp the heat and proportion, the effect of the movie will be greatly compromised.

On the other hand, Joss Whedon is an out-and-out comic book fan, and has also worked as a comic screenwriter. He is very knowledgeable about many things about Marvel, which is something Marvel values ​​​​very much.

Cao Xuan actually had an impression of this director, not because he was the director of the first and second "Avengers" films.

But later he took over the reshoots of "Justice League", was scolded as a dog, and once became a "man of the hour" in Hollywood.

Regardless of the subsequent turmoil, Cao Xuan had a very good first impression of Joss Whedon, because the latter, who wrote and directed the film, took him very seriously and arranged a lot of scenes for Hawkeye.

If you count it based on playing time alone, it is difficult to say that Iron Man is the real male lead.

Because Hawkeye's role is even worse than that. Even in the early and middle stages of the plot, strictly speaking, it can be regarded as the mind-controlled Hawkeye fighting half of the Avengers alone.

This is not the original version of a one-on-one duel that relies on sneak attacks to defeat Iron Man, Black Widow, Thor and Captain America with super combat power.

Hawkeye turned SHIELD upside down by himself and almost destroyed the entire Sky Battleship.

Judging from the damage and destructive power to the Avengers alone, Loki, the so-called villain, has to take sides.

Cao Xuan liked this script very much. It was comfortable to fight aliens, but beating the Avengers first was also quite satisfying...