Chapter 100
Jixue is not a professional singer, so she doesn’t really understand this. She can only tell whether a song sounds good or not like an ordinary audience.
I have listened to some songs, but many hosts on the Internet have edited their voices. And when Su Ning was looking for new members for his idol group, he did consider internet celebrities. He also looked for internet celebrities during the Idol Star Chart competition, and they have all made their debuts now.
He has looked for several well-known ones on the Internet, but none of them can meet his requirements.
Such people are hard to come by.
Ji Xue had said before that she would keep an eye on Li Chu and the others, but that was more of a courtesy. She was not the kind of person who would speak casually, nor would she meddle in matters she was not good at.
However, when she was on a roadshow, she happened to pass by the university town. There was a traffic jam ahead and she heard someone performing there.
Maybe she was a campus singer. Her face couldn't be seen clearly in the snow. The small square where she was performing was a long way away from the traffic jam. I just felt that she sang well and had a good voice.
Even though they were quite a distance apart, Jixue couldn't help but take a look over there when he heard it.
And they probably knew that they were coming to University Town for promotion today, and the song they sang was "Secret".
The sound quality of the live performance was not very good, but one could tell that the voice was very good, so she filmed a clip and sent it to the small group chat of her, Li Chu, and a few other people.
This group was originally created by them and Zhou Chunqing. It was set up when Su Ning and Shen Mingzheng just broke the news. Later, many things in the circle were discussed in it.
Later, Shu Miao came in, and a few days ago, Ji Mowei and Lin Zhi were also brought in. It is considered an internal communication group for several people of the same age in the company, and it is usually very lively.
Her original intention in posting it was to praise the popularity of Li Chu's song, and the pre-sales of this song have increased significantly since then.
Recently, Su Ning and Mr. Shen have been negotiating with several key cinema managers, hoping to increase the first-day screening rate from 15%, and the song "Secret" can be said to have played an indispensable role in this.
However, Ji Mowei listened to it and replied in the group first. He said that the voice sounded quite professional, and that it was not the original song, but sounded like it had been adapted.
At this time, Li Chu and Ji Xue happened to be in the same city.
Ji Xue was on a roadshow. He came here to shoot a magazine, the news has not been announced yet, the itinerary is confidential. After seeing the video and discussion in the group, he said he would stop by to find out.
Jixue was surprised: "Are you really going?"
She didn't see the person clearly, but she remembered the location.
"I just happen to be here, and it doesn't look too far away, it'll only take half an hour to get there," Li Chu said, "and even if I sneak over to take a photo and post a blog post, it'll be considered helping with the promotion."
He also went to the premiere of the movie. After watching the movie, he thought it was a good movie, and then agreed to let Su Ning sing this interlude. If he could help at this time, he would be happy to do so.
And what if you happen to meet someone really nice?
Normally, this kind of thing would be arranged by the boss Su Ning, but Li Chu has always been a very thoughtful person. He knew that the company was very worried about this matter, and too many people wanted to squeeze into their prepared new group.
Not to mention the mess in the Shen family, Shen Zhaolan's eyes have always been on Su Ning.
This time the movie has actors from Hong Kong Island and the publicity is very cooperative, but Shen Zhaolan also came along with this matter, saying that it doesn't matter even if the box office is not good, he has his own way to make Su Ning recoup his investment.
Although Hong Kong Island is small, it has a world-renowned film award, the Ming Long Award, which has a deeper origin than the "Audience Choice Award". Shen Zhaolan has not made a final decision on this award, but only said that for him, it is easy to send a nomination.
Minglong's nomination was indeed a great temptation, and Shen Zhaolan knew that Jixue in the movie was a person favored by Su Ning Company. For an actor like Jixue, being nominated for Minglong's Best Actress for a movie at this age is a huge reputation and honor.
What Shen Zhaolan meant was that even if the movie failed at the box office, Su Ning could still make the money back from the actors in a roundabout way, and it would still be considered a very successful work.
But such a proposal is not without conditions.
Shen Zhaolan tried to get closer to Haicheng, so he had to squeeze in people. Now the best chance was of course for Li Chulin to lead this idol group that was short of one person.
Su Ning looked at the information he handed over and, out of courtesy, invited Liang Xiaoliang to come over to meet the person, but Mr. Liang told the truth and said it was not possible.
It’s not like Hong Kong has never produced stage superstars, but it seems that each generation is inferior to the previous one. They are not as good as those Su Ning had found before. Naturally, they had to turn them down, but Shen Zhaolan did not give up.
Li Chu even met him several times in the company.
Although it was a relationship with the Shen family, he rarely looked for Shen Mingzheng, but came to Su Ning every few days. Later, Shen Mingzheng probably found out about it, and insisted on following Su Ning to work in the company, so he came less often.
Li Chu didn't know much about the company and the Shen family, but he knew what Su Ning was thinking. Under the current circumstances, if he found the right one, Hong Kong Island would have nothing to say.
Besides, how can Shen Zhaolan, a crow-mouthed man, be so sure that this movie will not do well at the box office? Ji Xue acted well, and even without him, it could still be nominated.
Li Chu really doesn't like this person.
The longer he stayed in the circle, the more he felt that there were very few people like Su Ning, and Shen Mingzheng was considered good compared to others.
Since other people were keeping an eye on this position, it would be better for him to go and look for it himself. So he went there today.
When Li Chu arrived, the group of people singing in the small square in the university town were still there. Someone must have requested a song, as they started singing "Secret" again.
It was indeed good when it was listened to live, but not particularly good. Li Chu had seen people who sang better than this before.
But he felt that, as Ji Mowei said, the changes were good and had highlights. "Secret" is a lyrical song that tells a story, and it may not be suitable for performing outside to create an atmosphere, so the band changed the climax of the song. Although the style has changed a bit, it is still nice to listen to. Moreover, this song has only been out for a few days, so it is indeed interesting to be able to change it and perform it.
Li Chu didn't show any expression either. He took a short video and posted it on his official Weibo as a show of support. Then he left quietly.
Su Ning didn't know about this at first, as he was busy with this movie during this period.
Movies are different from TV series. The opening schedule is very important. Fortunately, this film has the support of fans from all over the world. Before the official release, the pre-sale on the first day reached more than 20 million.
This is already a great honor from the fans. Next, it will depend on the quality and reputation of the video.
Then the movie "No Disease" was released. The box office on the first day was about 50 million, which was not very high. A lot of it was supported by the fans of Ji Xue and Li Chu. But after the first day, the rating on the ticket purchasing website came out, with a score of 9.5. This website's rating is high, but generally speaking, movies with a score of 9 or above are good.
That afternoon, a more rigorous and notarized scoring website also released its score, 7.4 points.
This opening score is already pretty good, and it's clearly the score of a good film.
And the next day, the score rose by 0.1 points to 7.5.
The film was released on Friday, and the next day was Saturday. On holidays, the number of moviegoers objectively increased. The performance of "No Disease" on the first day was not bad, from more than 17% of the screenings to 20%.
The box office did increase the next day.
And it was better than Su Ning expected, with a box office of more than 70 million yuan, so the third day's screening schedule had a big leap, accounting for 25% of the screening volume. Among the several new films, it performed the best and gradually overwhelmed the foreign blockbuster that was released earlier.
After Sunday, the box office had already reached the break-even point of 200 million in the first three days.
He Fan was very excited about this.
She was originally a very reserved person, but after seeing the box office results, she worked even harder and promoted the film everywhere, hoping to attract more audiences' attention.
Her efforts were indeed seen by more people. Three days later, word of mouth for the movie started to spread on a large scale on the Internet.
Monday is a working day, so the box office should drop. Ordinary movies will cut their box office by about half compared to Sunday. But "No Disease" is different because it performed well in the first week, which was originally a very cold period. As long as the theater managers see that they can make money and have good communication with Su Ning, they will start to increase the screening schedule.
By Monday, it was around 30%.
This movie performed well enough. It barely made any money on Monday, earning over 60 million, almost the same as on Sunday. More and more people came back to discuss the movie after watching it, and the ratings on the rating websites went up a bit.
For films with average reputation, the final box office is usually about 2.5 times that of the first week, but the situation is different for films with good reputation and almost no competitors.
The film's curve kept rising, and it exploded on the next weekend, reaching the 100 million mark in a single day, and the cumulative collection has reached 700 million. There are no big movies in the April schedule, and the new movies in the past few weeks are not very good.
This situation is already a perfect combination of time, place and people.
A few days later, the box office forecast for "No Disease" has reached a conservative level of 1.5 billion to 2 billion, which is a real comeback for director He Fan.
Everyone associated with this movie was very excited. Even though Zhu Lan had made a lot of money, the return on investment from this movie was extremely rare in her career.
As the largest investor, Su Ning was of course very happy when he first saw the box office curve. Then, when it skyrocketed, he roughly judged based on his experience that the box office of this movie should be around 1.7 to 1.8 billion.
The director and actors should be happy about the good performance of the work, and Su Ning has already booked a celebration banquet in advance, but as a boss, he has to look forward to everything.
All grades will pass, and he still has a lot of things to do right now.
He only saw the content of Li Chufa after he had been busy for several days, and it was Shen Mingzheng who noticed it and showed it to him.
Li Chu has a lot of fans. This song even made it to the top of the trending searches. The blog posts he published are enough to affect the life of an ordinary person. They all said that he rapped well and the adaptation was interesting. Su Ning went to check it out.
It is said that this band was formed by several young students in the university town. Because of Li Chufa's attention, their online accounts were dug out, and the popularity soared. There are also some performance videos. The lead singer can sing well, and he looks good, very young. Su Ning looks like a star, but I have never seen him in person.
He had been very busy with a movie recently and had no time to go there. Now in Su Ning he finally had time to go and see the band that Ji Xue and Li Chu had seen.
He had asked people in the company to look into it before, and for the time being he did not go under the guise of light and shadow entertainment, but inquired around secretly first.
The band often performs in bars in university towns.
Su Ning picked a day when they were performing and went there. He didn't call them in advance because he wanted to see how they performed in their daily routine. Shen Mingzheng knew about this and wanted to go with him too.
They hadn't gone to places like bars like other couples. Although Su Ning went there for business, she couldn't persuade him, so the two of them went.
And if Shen Mingzheng were there, he could help him judge whether this band is worth signing, especially the lead singer.
But unexpectedly, he arrived on time but did not see the person he wanted to see.
That band, or to be more precise, the lead singer who gained popularity thanks to a post shared by Li Chu, is back today.
There were many people here who came for him and were making a fuss. Su Ning and Shen Mingzheng sat at the side wearing masks to simply cover themselves. They looked at each other when they heard what was happening.