Chapter 100
Jixue is not a professional singer, so she doesn’t quite understand this. She can only judge whether the song sounds good or not like an ordinary listener.
I have listened to some songs, but many hosts on the Internet have had their voices edited. And when Su Ning was looking for new members for the 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 names on the Internet, but none of them met his requirements.
Such people are hard to come by.
Jixue 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 spoke casually, nor would she interfere 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 due to the snow. The small square where she was performing was a long way away from the traffic jam. I just thought 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 the university town for promotion today, and the song they sang was "Secret".
The sound effect was not very good when singing live, but one could tell that the voice was very good, so she filmed a clip and sent it to the small group chat where she, Li Chu, and a few other people were.
This group was originally created by them and Zhou Chunqing when Su Ning and Shen Mingzheng just broke the window paper, and later they discussed many things in the circle in it.
Later, Shu Miao came in, and a few days ago, Ji Mowei and Lin Zhi were pulled in. It is an internal communication group for several people of their age in the company, and it is usually very lively.
Her original intention in posting it was to praise Li Chu for the popularity of this song, as the pre-sales of this song have obviously increased 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 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 an adaptation.
At this time, Li Chu and Ji Xue happened to be in the same city.
Ji Xue was on a roadshow. He came here for a magazine shoot, the news has not been announced yet, the itinerary is confidential. When he saw the videos and discussions 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 seem too far away, so 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 it on my blog, it'll be considered helping with publicity."
He also went to the movie premiere. After watching the movie, he thought it was a good movie and agreed to let Su Ning sing the interlude. If he could help at this time, he would be happy to do so.
And what if you could 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 concerned about this matter, and too many people wanted to squeeze people into their new group.
Not to mention the mess in the Shen family, Shen Zhaolan's eyes were always on Su Ning.
This time the movie has actors from Hong Kong Island in it, 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 recoupe 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 any final decision on this award, but only said that it is easy for him to send a nomination.
Minglong's nomination was indeed a huge temptation, and Chen Zhaolan knew that Jixue in the movie was a person favored by Su Ning Company. For an actress like Jixue, being nominated for Minglong's Best Actress for a movie at this age was a huge reputation and honor.
What Chen Zhaolan meant was that even if the movie lost money at the box office, Su Ning would be able to 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.
Chen Zhaolan tried to make himself closer to Haicheng, so he had to insert people. Now the best chance was of course Li Chulin, who was short of one idol combination.
Su Ning looked at the information he handed over and, out of courtesy, asked Liang Xiaoliang to come over to see the person, but Mr. Liang told the truth that 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, these had to be turned down, but Chen Zhaolan did not give up.
Li Chu had even seen him several times in the company.
Although he had a relationship with the Shen family, he rarely looked for Shen Mingzheng, but instead went to Su Ning every few days. Later, probably because Shen Mingzheng found out, he 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 could Shen Zhaolan, who is such a bad-mouthed person, be so sure that this movie would not do well at the box office? Ji Xue acted well, and even without him, it could still be officially 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 this position was something that others were thinking about, it would be better for him to go and find 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 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" was a lyrical song that was told in a leisurely manner, and it might not be suitable for performing outside to create an atmosphere, so the band changed the climax of the song. Although the style of the song changed a bit, it was still nice to listen to. Moreover, the song had only been out for a few days, so it was really interesting to be able to change it and perform it.
Li Chu didn't show up at the side. 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 film was officially released, the pre-sale on the first day reached more than 20 million.
This is already a great respect from the fans. Next, it depends on the quality and reputation of the film.
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, a movie with a score of 9 or above is a good movie.
In the afternoon of the same day, a stricter and more notarized scoring website also released the score, 7.4 points.
This opening score is pretty good, and it's obviously the score of a good movie.
And the next day, the score rose by another 0.1 point 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 even 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 surpassed 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 introverted person, but after seeing the box office performance, 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, the film's reputation officially fermented on a large scale on the Internet.
Monday is a working day and the box office should drop. The average movie will be cut by half compared to Sunday. But "No Disease" is different because it performed well in the first week. This was originally a very cold period. As long as the theater manager saw that there was money to be made and communicated well with Su Ning, the screening schedule began to increase.
By Monday it was around 30%.
The film performed well enough, with almost no drop in box office on Monday, earning over 60 million, almost the same as on Sunday. More and more people went back to discuss the film after watching it, and the ratings on the rating websites also rose 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 until the next weekend, when it reached the line of breaking 100 million yuan in a single day, and the cumulative collection has reached 700 million yuan. There are no big movies in the April schedule, and the new movies in the past few weeks are not very popular.
This situation is considered to be the right time, right place and right people.
A few days later, the box office forecast for "No Disease" has reached a conservative level of 1.5 billion and may even reach 2 billion. This is a real turning point for director He Fan.
Everyone associated with this movie is very excited. Even though Zhu Lan has made a lot of money, the return on investment of this movie is 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 of course be happy about the good performance of the work. Su Ning has already booked a celebration banquet in advance, but as a boss, he has to look forward.
The results will all be in the past, and right now he still has a lot of things to do.
He didn't see the content posted by Li Chu until he was busy for a few days, and it was Shen Mingzheng who noticed it and showed it to him.
Li Chu has so many fans that this song even made it to the top of the trending searches. The blog posts he published are enough to influence the lives of ordinary people. Everyone said that he sang well and the adaptation was interesting, so Su Ning went to find out.
It is said that this band was formed by several young students in the university town. Because of the attention Li Chufa received, their online accounts were also dug up, and the popularity soared. There are also some performance videos. The lead singer can sing well and looks good, very young. Su Ning thinks he looks like a star, but I have never seen him in person.
He had been very busy with a movie some time ago and had no time to go there. Now Su Ning finally had time to meet the band that Ji Xue and Li Chu saw.
He had asked people in the company to look into it before, but for the time being he did not go under the banner of Guangying Entertainment, so he asked around secretly first.
The band often performs in bars in university towns.
Su Ning chose to go there on a day when they were performing. He did not call them in advance because he wanted to see how they performed as usual. Shen Mingzheng knew about this and wanted to go with him too.
They had not yet 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, when he arrived on time, he did not see the person he wanted to see.
That band, or to be more precise, the lead singer who became popular thanks to a post shared by Li Chu, skipped work today.
There are still many people here who came for him and were making a fuss. Su Ning and Shen Mingzheng sat on the side wearing masks to simply cover themselves. They looked at each other when they heard what was happening.
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