Chapter 24 EP
The term "fan movie" in China was first called out by Guo Xiaosi in 2013, and then the targeted fan movie strategy of "IP + young man". It is now 2008, and Xu Hui directly proposed this concept is quite attractive.
Of course, Xu Hui did not forget that there was no ticket replacement in this era. The actual movie tickets cost 50 yuan per ticket, which is quite expensive for ordinary families.
If you buy a pirated disc or download it online, it will be much cheaper. This is also the main reason for the rampant pirated versions in those years.
For Wang Zhonglei, investing in "The Embroidered Spring Knife" is of course just to see the profits.
He has no ambition to reproduce domestic action movies.
Although he was very interested in the fan economy, he was still a little hesitant after listening to Xu Hui's words. After all, he didn't have Weibo yet. Who knows how many fans Xu Hui has and how purchasing power these fans are, it is impossible to count.
Huang Wen, who had not spoken, suddenly said: "The novel of the same name in "Embroidered Chun Dao" has sold almost 300,000 copies. With the role of a pirate, it is roughly estimated that at least millions of people have seen this work. If you are optimistic, tens of millions of people should know the topic of "Embroidered Chun Dao". In addition, Xu Hui's first film work, directed and acted by himself. The topic is so big, I believe that it is no problem to recover the cost!"
"And, if we don't go to July, there will be Olympics in August, September will always be the off-season for the box office, and Xu Hui will join the crew to shoot "The Sound of the Wind" in September. It will be almost November when he finishes shooting..."
After Huang Wen's analysis, let alone Wang Zhonglei thinks July is the most suitable schedule, even Xu Hui thinks so.
He just felt that in July and August students had a holiday, and his fans were mainly students, so he was scheduled to be scheduled for July, and he didn't think so much at all.
"Okay, I'll ask the publicity department to cooperate with the publicity, and we will schedule it on July 1st!"
Wang Zhonglei thought about it for almost three minutes and decided to set the release date of "The Embroidered Spring Sword".
Xu Hui looked at Huang Wen, and the two of them breathed a sigh of relief almost at the same time.
"By the way, Mr. Wang, can I finish the lawsuit as soon as possible? According to the law, I can't appear on the small screen as a personal identity, so I can't promote it."
"No need, we are in the country..."
Wang Zhonglei felt that Xu Hui was a bit of a big deal.
"Mr. Wang, the fans in China who are obsessed with the Korean team are looking for me in a corner. I don't want them to catch them!"
Xu Hui explained, and Huang Wen also said: "And Xu Hui has written three songs recently and is preparing to release an EP. The contract has not been terminated, so he cannot act alone..."
"Are you going to release a new song?"
Wang Zhonglei, no, it should be said that the Wang brothers have always wanted to build Huayi into a media empire. In addition to movies, TV series, and music are also very important, so they signed a group of singers who debuted in talent shows, including BOBO, He Jie.
The reason why they were particularly concerned about Xu Hui was not only because of his good image and high popularity, but also because of his good image and high popularity, Xu Hui once released a Chinese single, a Chinese-style single called "Rolling Bead Curtain". It had a great influence. Although it was not as good as Zhou Jielun, it was already very good, especially Xu Hui's appearance is much more handsome than Zhou Jielun.
Therefore, they think that signing Xu Hui is equivalent to signing the future king of music.
Huayi's expectations for Xu Hui in music far exceeded his expectations for him in movies.
Now that I heard Huang Wen say that Xu Hui wrote three songs, I was of course very excited.
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"Actor, "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky", "Red Dust Inn", "My Song", "Wukong"...are these five songs?"
"I've been inspiration these days, thank you for two songs."
Xu Hui looked at Gao Xiaosong in front of him, with a faint smile on his face, without any guilt of plagiarism.
"You might as well write a few more songs and let's make an album!"
"…Teacher Komatsu, you are also an insider. Now that you are releasing your album, you will lose money. I might as well get an EP."
In fact, any producer can do the job of recording songs. Perhaps to reflect Huayi's emphasis on Xu Hui, Huang Wen asked Gao Xiaosong to act as the producer for recording this EP.
Most of us know Gao Xiaosong's reputation, he is known as the upper half of the country in the domestic music circle!
The domestic music circle probably started to enter the vicious circle in the late 1990s, that is, no matter how hard you work, you will definitely not be able to support yourself with the album alone.
Because piracy is too powerful, and many music websites do not pay you copyright fees.
About 2016, Shangfeng saw that domestic music websites had almost developed, so he decided to have copyright, so that there was a good era of musicians!
Gao Xiaosong briefly looked through several songs written by Xu Hui and looked at him in surprise. Especially when he turned to "Wukong", he couldn't help but ask: "Did you write this song yourself?"
"certainly…"
Xu Hui was too lazy to explain what. A proud person like Gao Xiaosong probably looked down on the so-called talent singers and returning idols!
"Okay, let's start recording."
With suspicion, Gao Xiaosong began a one-week cooperation journey with Xu Hui.
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"In 2008, I made an EP for our current director Xu Hui, which is the EP that all six songs are very good. He wrote that EP, five songs himself!"
In 2016, Gao Xiaomatsu recorded "Xiaoshu" and gave an example to tell the birth of an album.
"There is one thing that I was very impressed. I just arrived at the recording studio that day and saw Xu Hui sitting on the sofa. After seeing me, he stood up politely and handed me the songs he wrote. When I saw that there were already five songs, I asked him why he didn't write a few more songs or collect a few songs to make an album. He said, 'It's a loss of money to make an album now. I might as well do EPs. I will leave tens of thousands more to give to my fans...'"
"Xu Hui's tone is quite good, and the range is quite wide. Of course, it's not as good as a true big soul singer, but it's enough for pop music. To be honest, before I met Xu Hui, I was biased against the so-called idols, and felt that they could not mention anything except that face. However, after I met Xu Hui, I felt that I was simply too shallow!"
"Tell me what happened. We recorded it very smoothly at that time. When we were recording the third or fourth song, I and his assistant Xiao He. The three of us chatted in the recording studio and couldn't remember what topics we were talking about. I said, 'Life is not just about the fertility in front of us, but also about things and distance...' Ten minutes later, Xu Hui wrote a song with this sentence, which is the sixth song of the EP!"
"So, no matter how many blockbuster movies Xu Hui has made and how many awards he won, I always think that if he insisted on the path of music, he would definitely be a great man of the generation!"
Chapter completed!