Of the five years that have passed, the winter of 1998 was the freest and most carefree winter Liang Liang had ever experienced.
There's no need to rehearse for the Spring Festival Gala, no need to follow the instructions of staff, and no time constraints.
At home, I can do whatever I want and sleep in as late as I want. Life is so good.
The only regret is that there is too little snow in Lianwan.
This is the place in Northeast China with the least snowfall; you often don't see snow more than a few times throughout the winter.
Liang Liang has a special fondness for snow. He believes that the pure white snow can cleanse people's hearts, and that under the blanket of white, people's souls can be elevated.
When he was a child, whenever it snowed heavily, he would foolishly jump, tumble, and crawl in the snow, feeling incredibly happy.
Strangely, the snow actually decreased as I got older.
The heavy snowfalls that used to be a common sight when I was a child are no longer seen, and even light snowfalls are rare these days.
And in Lianwan, it never snows, depriving him of countless opportunities to cleanse his soul.
However, the completion of the Snow City film studio made his wish come true.
Although many of the white scenes in Snow City are not real snow, they can still create a very realistic effect when viewed from a distance.
After the Snow City is completed, the film and television city will have four scenes: Yangcheng Street, Qin Palace, and modern city. The remaining two scenes will not be completed until next year.
Of the two film and television bases by the sea, the one on Black Island is already completed, while the one on Gala Island will take another year to complete.
This film and television city, which cost Liang Liang several hundred million yuan, has hosted hundreds of film crews this year, but has not generated much economic benefit.
The policy of not charging venue rental fees at Pingshan Film and Television City has attracted the attention of domestic film crews. In order to save the tens or hundreds of thousands of yuan in venue rental fees, a large number of film crews have come to Lianwan.
But this also cost Liang Liang tens of millions of yuan in income.
But that's not what we should be worrying about right now. What we need to do now is lay a good foundation for the film and television city. Once we have a good reputation, we will naturally have the opportunity to make money in the future.
This year, the film studio still saw a return of several million yuan.
Liang Liang didn't care about the money. If the film studio only made a few million a year, it would be doomed. It would take a hundred years to recoup the costs.
These film crews expressed satisfaction with the facilities at Pingshan Film City, but raised their concerns about the transportation conditions in Yahe.
Liang Liang then passed these opinions on to the Yahe Municipal Party Committee.
The Yahe Municipal Party Committee then submitted a report to the provincial government, requesting the construction of an airport.
The provincial government needs to report this to higher levels, and even if they approve the construction of the airport, it won't be resolved in just two or three years.
Just wait patiently.
After Liang Liang returned to Lianwan from the completion ceremony of Xuecheng, it was New Year's Day.
Blue Shark Band's love song album "Drunken Beauty" was released on New Year's Day.
This album comes four months after their first album of the year, "Proud Boys".
After four months of sales, "Proud Youth" reached its sales target on New Year's Day, exceeding 10 million in sales, with a total sales volume of 11.5 million.
Of these, CD sales reached 6.03 million and audio tape sales reached 5.2 million.
Moreover, this album is selling very well, maintaining a momentum of 30,000 to 40,000 copies per day. It seems that reaching 15 million copies after the Spring Festival is not a problem.
The premiere ceremony for "Drunken Beauty" was held simultaneously in Beijing and Guangzhou.
Haiyun Audio-Visual is betting on 15 million copies of this album to be sold.
On the day of its launch, the two million copies were sold out.
On the day of its release, the melodies of songs such as "Drunken Beauty," "Embracing Your Departure," "Premeditated," and "38.6 Degrees" resounded throughout the streets and alleys of Lianwan City.
If this album ships smoothly, reaching 10 million in sales before the end of the year shouldn't be a problem.
The company's financial statements for the previous year were released. Liang Liang, who hadn't had time to look at financial statements for several years, carefully reviewed the company's financial situation in 1998 after hosting the album's launch ceremony.
Haiyun Audio-Visual remains the company's cornerstone business.
This year, the company released over a hundred different albums, with total sales reaching over 70 million copies.
Of these, nearly 50 million were music albums, and tens of millions of copies (discs) of feature films and other publications were sold.
The Sea Waves band's new album was released in October this year, and in just over two months, it sold over ten million copies, a sales momentum even stronger than Blue Shark's "Proud Youth".
Beautiful women are always in demand, especially those who can sing and dance.
It shouldn't be long before Ocean Waves' album surpasses Blue Shark's "Proud Youth" in sales.
The albums Blue Shark and Ocean Waves alone sold over 20 million copies.
Next up was Xu Wei's album, which also exceeded Liang Liang's expectations, reaching 7.2 million copies sold.
It's a pity that this album doesn't have a really energetic hit single, otherwise it would have been another album with tens of millions of copies sold.
Both of their albums, "Flash Girl" and "Glamour Girls," sold over two million copies, for a total of 4.3 million copies, firmly securing their fourth and fifth positions in Haiyun's album sales rankings.
When the girls heard that their girl group's album had sold two million copies, they were so happy they almost broke up.
There's also the music festival album, which sold over three million copies.
The "Northeast Rock" and "Northeast Tiger" series together have achieved sales of nearly three million copies this year.
Next down are the dozens of albums published by the company, with sales ranging from 100,000 to 1 million.
Although none of these albums sold more than a million copies, the sheer number of them still brought the total sales to tens of millions.
Another portion of the sales came from older songs from the previous two years.
In 1998, Haiyun Audio-Visual released more than 70 million albums and films, achieving sales of more than 800 million yuan and profits of 200 million yuan.
The profits from film and television copyrights this year are still quite considerable, with two TV series generating over 100 million yuan in profit for the company.
The company's other projects generated a total profit of around 100 million yuan, and the company's total profit for the entire year of 1998 was 426 million yuan.
This year, due to the lack of revenue from Schmidt's copyright purchases, the company's profits are actually significantly lower than last year.
But that's not a problem. Schmidt didn't buy it this year, but he will next year.
This year, most of Haiyun's albums were released in the second half of the year. Schmidt was in a hurry to buy them and publish them. Another reason was that he was busy with Haiyun's band's European tour this year and was a bit overwhelmed.
He'll be busy next year, which will give him time to negotiate copyright matters.
Liang Liang closed the report and fell into deep thought.
He plans to start construction on the cinema chain next year, and this amount of money is really not enough to do anything.
Last year, the company used all its profits to buy land.
This year's profits, after setting aside a portion for working capital, amount to only 350 million yuan that can be used.
Even if this new album sells 15 million copies and generates 30 million in net profit, it still won't reach 400 million yuan.
There are still some shortcomings in using 400 million yuan to build a hundred cinemas.
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