Chapter 309: 270 million U.S. dollars, super dark horse
On May 26, before Zhou Yan was about to return to China, he caught up with "Spring of the Cowherd Class" to be released on Neon.
The movie was released in Neon, with neither ceremony nor press conference.
But Zhou Yanren is in Neon, so the agent will naturally not let go of such a good opportunity. They invited Zhou Yan to go to the cinema to watch a movie together on the 26th.
Zhou Yan originally thought that he would simply go to a movie, and at most he would just invite some media reporters to the scene.
But what he didn't expect was that the agent not only invited many media reporters to the scene, but also booked several halls in the entire cinema that day, and all the movie tickets in these halls were given to movie fans for free.
So when Zhou Yan arrived at the scene, the entire cinema hall was packed with people. Many people couldn't even squeeze into the hall and had to wait outside the door.
Movie fans knew in advance that Zhou Yan would come, so many of them brought Zhou Yan's albums or photos, waiting for Zhou Yan to help them.
When Zhou Yan arrived at the entrance of the cinema, he saw a group of movie fans waving to him with various support items in their hands.
Although Zhou Yan is very popular in Neon, the level of support from his music fans and movie fans is very average. The most eye-catching thing in the audience is a small DIY flag held by a young man with hand-painting on it. It has included the covers of three albums, as well as promotional images for "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly" and "The Sixth Sense".
Others were either holding album photos, waiting to be signed, or holding a small banner that said, "We support you," in both neon and Chinese.
Overall, it is relatively simple.
Zhou Yan was a little confused for a moment when he saw so many people standing at the entrance of the cinema. He turned his head and asked Sang Tian next to him, "What's going on? Why don't we just watch a movie?"
Sang Tian was the same. He was confused because Yingfeng Company didn't tell them that so many fans would attend today's event. He always thought it was just to watch a movie and at most be interviewed by some media on the spot.
Now it’s better, it’s turned directly into a fan meeting.
Seeing the crowded scene, Kuangtian felt a little bit resentful to Kagefeng. It didn't mean that they couldn't hold activities, but they needed to be informed in advance. They had nothing prepared now, so they couldn't help but feel a little passive.
"Teacher Zhou, look..."
This matter is still up to Zhou Yan.
Zhou Yan controlled the muscles on his face to keep smiling. Although the agency was not authentic, it had nothing to do with these movie fans and music fans.
"Slow down, let the staff maintain order, and then you quickly confirm with Yingfeng the approximate number of people who will be at the scene today."
"I went over to find people from Shadow Wind. Teacher Zhou..."
"You just ask the staff to come to me and maintain order. There is no need to translate for them to sign."
"Then...okay."
Sangtian then went to find the staff of Yingfeng to come over to maintain order, and Zhou Yan also took the copy of "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly" from a fan in front of him. Videotape and pen, signed his name on it.
Seeing Zhou Yanzhen signing his autograph, the others also became excited and crowded towards Zhou Yan.
However, the staff were already in place and began to maintain order, asking fans to line up and come one by one to get Zhou Yan's autograph.
Zhou Yan was not in a hurry. He took the things handed over by fans in an orderly manner, signed them for them, and chatted briefly with Chinese people or neon people who could speak Chinese when he met them.
About a dozen people signed the contract, and one person behind him handed it to Zhou Yan with an album "Yu Linglin" and excitedly shouted in Chinese, "I love you."
This person's pronunciation is quite clear, but at first glance he sounds like a neon person.
Zhou Yan signed his autograph and said with a smile, "Auntie washes the railway."
When the people behind saw that this trick worked well, they all came up to talk to Zhou Yanxiu in Chinese. Everyone could say "I love you", and some people had a richer vocabulary and could say "Hello" and "Have you eaten?" .
As long as they speak Chinese, Zhou Yan will respond more or less with one or two sentences.
After signing for a while, I finally signed in front of the young man holding a hand-painted support flag.
The young man directly handed the small flag to Zhou Yan, "Teacher Zhou, please help me sign this."
The young man said it in Chinese, but it must be a neon sign. people.
Zhou Yan was quite surprised to hear him say such a long string of Chinese words, "Your Chinese is pretty good."
The young man bared his teeth and smiled, "I learned Chinese for you."< br>
Zhou Yan smiled and nodded, "Thank you for your support, what is your name?"
"My name is Shun Kawabata, the river of mountains and rivers, the dignity of dignity, and the ten days of Xunri."
Zhou Yan wrote on the open space where the small support flag was: To Kawabata Shun.
Then he wrote: Sincerely thank you for your support - Zhou Yan.
While Zhou Yan was writing, Shun Kawabata kept staring, his eyes widening.
The people next to him also cast envious looks. This was the first time Zhou Yan had signed so many words for someone. He would have known that they would also have a small support flag coming over.
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There were hundreds of people at the cinema today. In addition to the movie fans who got tickets, there were also some people who didn’t have tickets but still came to join in the fun. I didn't expect this fun to be so fruitful.
There were hundreds of people in the audience, and everyone got Zhou Yan's signature. Without exception, even the media reporters and Zhou Yan signed their signatures one by one.
After watching the movie, Zhou Yan was very cooperative and accepted interviews with media reporters at the scene. Basically, he answered all normal questions patiently.
Even if I encountered some questions that I didn’t want to answer, I gently expressed my inconvenience to answer them. In short, the atmosphere at the scene was peaceful, and both the fans and the media reporters were satisfied.
After the event was completely over, the person in charge of Shadow Wind specially came to thank Zhou Yan.
Zhou Yan was also very considerate. He chatted with the other party for a long time and said that he must strengthen cooperation in the future.
The other party didn't expect Zhou Yan to be so cooperative, and he was smiling from beginning to end.
But on the way back to the hotel, Zhou Yan said to Sang Tian, "Call Zhang Youan later and tell him not to cooperate with Yingfeng in the future."
"Huh?"< br>
Zhou Yan suddenly said this, which confused Sangtian. He had just seen Zhou Yan chatting well with the person in charge, and thought he would really strengthen cooperation.
At that time, he was thinking that Zhou Yan was really a big dealer and did not stick to trivial details, and he didn't even go to the Kaiyingfeng Company. Unexpectedly, Zhou Yan turned around and fell out.
"There is no need to cooperate with this kind of company. Problems will occur sooner or later."
Sangtian nodded, and he also felt that what Zhou Yan said made sense.
However, Teacher Zhou's mood is too stable. If it were him, even if he didn't have an attack in front of fans and reporters, he would still blame the other party afterwards and vent his anger.
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After "Spring of the Cowherd Class" was released in Neon, Zhou Yan left for Yanjing within a few days, while Qingyinfang continued to stay in Neon to participate in activities .
During this period, Qingyinfang played the two songs "Snow Flower" and "The Beginning" live, and the response was very good.
Of course, the most important thing is that the episode of "Music House" in which Qingyinfang participated in the recording was broadcast.
After the show was broadcast, many viewers were very interested in "Snow Flower" created by Zhou Yan on the spot.
Zhou Yan will not release a single or album for the time being, so if you want to listen to "Snow Flower", you can only go to Qingyinfang's performance.
Those programs naturally knew this, so they all extended their olive branches to Qingyinfang and invited them to perform "Snow Flower" and "The Beginning" on the program.
In addition to the two songs "Snow Flower" and "The Beginning", the audience is also very interested in the Qingyinfang band itself.
This kind of national orchestra composed entirely of women has never been seen by the audience before. So many outstanding female performers gathered together, wearing beautiful traditional clothes and playing traditional Chinese instruments. Reinterpreting Zhou Yan's music is the ultimate enjoyment, both visually and aurally.
It only took half a month for Qingyinfang to become quite famous for neon.
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Qingyinfang has developed rapidly in Neon, and most of the domestic media have also reported on it very actively.
However, reports about Qingyinfang are not all positive, there are also some criticisms.
For example, in early May, an entertainment magazine "Celebrity Affair" wrote a big title on the cover: All-female band seduces with neon colors?
"Red Star Affair" sounds like it is not a serious magazine. It usually reports entertainment gossip news with no bottom line. It follows the path of those gossip magazines in Xiangjiang.
For example, the other titles on the cover of the same issue of "Celebrity Affair" are "Is there an affair between Jiang Min and Liu Xiaoqing?" "Photos of Hong Kong's third-level movie king and queen" and "The investigation of Liu Xiaoqing's pornographic yellow belt" Documentary".
Originally, this matter was nothing. After all, people were used to writing some messy things in such a low-class magazine, and it would not have any impact on Qingyinfang or Zhou Yan.
However, some formal media also joined in the fun and insisted on reporting Qingyinfang Band from the perspective of "seductive sex".
The fire is burning and it is burning on Zhou Yan. Because Zhou Yan formed the band, some people question whether Zhou Yan has ulterior motives in forming such an all-female band.
Actually, Zhou Yan doesn’t pay much attention to these news. There are always two sides to everything. As long as something becomes more popular, in addition to praise, there will definitely be criticism. As long as these criticisms do not dominate the mainstream, It has no impact.
In all these years, Zhou Yan has never seen a celebrity who was not compiled with some dirty information. It would be too tiring to take everyone to heart.
But this time there is something different, because among the many comments, one article was actually written by Zhou Yan’s colleague Liang Maochun. Liang Maochun is a professor in the Department of Music at Yangyin University. He is in his fifties and has been working at the school for a long time. He is very popular among students in his department and is considered a well-known teacher in the school.
He himself graduated from Yangyin University. After graduation, he has been engaged in teaching and researching the history of modern Chinese music for a long time, and he has made considerable academic achievements.
However, Liang Maochun has never done research related to Zhou Yan before, and this is also the first time he has written an article related to Zhou Yan.
【To promote national music, it is not necessary to "find another way". 】
This is the title of an article published by Liang Maochun in "Music Review". It seems to be relatively euphemistic. It does not mention either Qingyinfang or Zhou Yan.
However, the main text of the article is very targeted, pointing directly at Zhou Yan.
“If you want to promote folk music, you can do it in an upright and upright manner, and you don’t have to follow evil ways.”
“As far as I know, due to the establishment of women’s bands, many female students have to spend all day Thinking about how to put on more beautiful performance clothes instead of focusing more on improving the skills, isn’t this putting the cart before the horse a harm to national music?”
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When Zhou Yan saw this article, he couldn’t believe it.
He and Liang Maochun were in different departments and were very different in age. They rarely communicated with each other. Sometimes they would say hello with a smile when they bumped into each other.
And his impression of Liang Maochun also came from other people's mouths.
This is an amiable and experienced teacher who is not only accomplished academically but also very successful in teaching.
If Yangyin were to make a list of popular teachers, Liang Maochun would definitely be on it. I heard that Liang Maochun was in school and the class was always overcrowded.
Zhou Yan still respected Liang Maochun, so when he saw this article, his first reaction was that he had made a mistake.
But the article was indeed written by Liang Maochun.
Zhou Yan does not think that Liang Maochun wrote this article out of inner justice or persistence to try to "rectify chaos", because Liang Maochun usually does not do this.
This time Liang Maochun suddenly spoke up, which made Zhou Yan feel very strange.
Zhou Yan scratched his head and could not imagine any conflict between himself and Liang Maochun.
After this happened, Zhou Yan was called by the principal Liu Lin before he could make any reaction.
...
When Zhou Yan arrived at the principal's office, Liu Lin was frowning at a document. Seeing Zhou Yan coming, he said in a deep voice, "Sit down."
After about After more than a minute, Liu Lin put down the documents in his hands and walked to sit in front of Zhou Yan.
"Have you seen the article Liang Maochun posted, right?"
Zhou Yan smiled and nodded, "Well, the students from the orchestra showed it to me yesterday afternoon."< br>
Liu Lin glanced at Zhou Yan, then lit up a cigarette, "What do you think of this?"
"Hey, there are indeed some media making bad comments about Qin Qingyinfang, more direct than Professor Liang , there are quite a few vicious ones. To put it bluntly, Professor Liang is putting it mildly."
Liu Lin puffed out his smoke and said, "You have a good attitude. Liang Maochun is a teacher in our school. If this article is published, Now everyone outside is watching us, and some people are already saying that we are fighting internally. Do you think this is an internal struggle? "
Zhou Yan didn't know what Liu Lin's attitude was, so he considered it and said, " Internal struggle is too big a word. Although I don’t know Professor Liang’s specific thoughts, what can I argue with him in the past? We are in different departments and we usually have no competitive relationship.”
Liang Maochun and Liu Lin were basically at the same time. Liu Lin entered school a year earlier than Liang Maochun, but they graduated at about the same time.
Who knows what their personal relationship is like?
Therefore, Zhou Yan couldn't say anything more before he was sure of Liu Lin's attitude.
Liu Lin knew that Zhou Yan had scruples, but he didn't point it out, "I have already asked Liang Maochun, and he said that he had a misunderstanding about your establishment of Qingyinfang, so he wrote it impulsively. That article. But the article has been sent and cannot be withdrawn."
Misunderstanding and impulsive, Zhou Yan felt funny when he heard these two words.
Liang Maochun is already in his fifties, but he is not a young man in his twenties. Is he so impulsive? Moreover, writing and publishing articles cannot be done on impulse.
Zhou Yan tentatively said, "Now..."
"Now that things have happened, we can only prevent further fermentation. What I mean is that both of you should not talk about this matter again in the future. After a while, , the heat will fade away."
Zhou Yan immediately understood why Liu Lin called him here in a hurry. It turned out that he was worried about his revenge on Liang Maochun.
Indeed, if Zhou Yan loses his temper and goes to war with Liang Maochun, no matter what method he uses, it will make the situation more serious.
So, Liu Lin needs to be treated coldly.
But in this way, Zhou Yan suffered a loss. He was slapped, but for the sake of the overall situation, he could not fight back.
Actually, Zhou Yan didn't think much about Liang Maochun at first. He wanted to know why Liang Maochun wrote that article, but now after listening to Liu Lin's words, he was a little unconvinced.
After pondering for a moment, Zhou Yan said, "Principal, I respect Professor Liang very much, so I especially want to know why Professor Liang misunderstood me and why he had to write an article publicly to criticize me. As long as he gives me a convincing reason, I won't say a word."
Zhou Yan's meaning is very obvious. Even if you are slapped, you have to tell me why you slapped me. , cannot be unclear.
Liu Lin sighed slightly. He understood Zhou Yan's reaction. If it were another young man, it might be even more intense than Zhou Yan's reaction.
He actually wanted to know why Liang Maochun wanted to trouble Zhou Yan. After he called Liang Maochun to the office in the morning, he also asked about the reason, but Liang Maochun insisted that he just couldn't understand the practice of forming a girl band. , no other ideas at all.
Liu Lin didn't believe Liang Maochun's explanation, but there was nothing he could do about Liang Maochun.
Liu Lin is a good principal, but that doesn't mean he can deal with anyone in the school casually, especially a prestigious professor like Liang Maochun.
The key point is that Liu Lin is from the composition department. If this matter is not handled properly, it is likely to arouse resistance from the music department.
People from the music department may think that he is helping his relatives but not his parents.
Taking a deep puff of cigarette, Liu Lin put out the half-smoked cigarette in the ashtray, and then said, "Zhou Yan, sometimes retreat is equal to advancement. The national composition competition will be held in a few months." , you can get an award this year, and then be promoted to an associate professor, and then submit a Fok Ying-tung award next year. Originally, these things were postponed for one or two years, but now the road can be paved in advance.”
Liu Lin felt that Zhou Yan had suffered a loss this time, and wanting to make it up to him could be regarded as an exchange of interests.
Although Liu Lin cannot control these things, Zhou Yan is capable. As long as Liu Lin uses his connections to operate, he can easily take them down.
Faced with such temptation, Zhou Yan shook his head, "Principal, I still want to know what Professor Liang is thinking."
Seeing that Zhou Yan was not getting enough, Liu Lin was also a little agitated. Angry, he smoked another cigarette and lit it again, "Since you want to know so much, ask him yourself. But you have to be mentally prepared. Some things may not be answered. I don't know Liang Maochun. I understand. He looks kind, but has a deep mind. You are no match for him."
Hearing Liu Lin's words, Zhou Yan laughed instead. He thanked him sincerely, "Thank you, senior brother."
Before, Zhou Yan was not sure what Liu Lin's attitude was, but after hearing these words, He was sure that Liu Lin was still on his side, and the reason why he was allowed to swallow his anger was indeed for the sake of the overall situation.
Although Liu Lin said this with resentment, it was indeed for Zhou Yan's good.
Hearing that Zhou Yan called him senior brother instead of principal, Liu Lin waved his hand holding a cigarette, "I don't care about this matter. You should pay attention to your own discretion."
" I understand, senior brother." Zhou Yan stood up, "Then I won't disturb you."
"Go."
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After Zhou Yan left Liu Lin's office, he did not take any action against Liang Maochun, as if he had listened to Liu Lin's words and I endured this matter.
However, the news about Qingyinfang soon died out because there were things more worthy of attention.
For example, the box office of "Cowherder's Spring" in Neon, and the North American box office of "The Sixth Sense".
"Springtime of the Cowherd" performed very well in Neon, but the box office was not as good as the previous "The Sixth Sense". Half a month after its release, the allotment revenue was less than one billion Neon coins. In the end, let alone surpass "The Sixth Sense" "Sense", it is impossible to surpass "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly".
This is also the one with the worst performance at the neon box office among the films directed by Zhou Yan.
But no one was disappointed, because this box office has achieved the target, and "Spring of the Cowherd Class" was not very commercial in the first place.
The North American box office of "The Sixth Sense" has completely exploded.
The release of "The Sixth Sense" in North America is coming to an end, and the box office data has basically settled.
As of May 14, the latest data shows that the box office of "The Sixth Sense" in North America exceeded US$270 million.
With a box office of US$270 million, "The Sixth Sense" successfully topped this year's North American box office rankings.
Of course, this is only temporary. Starting from May, there will be many popular movies that can have an impact on "The Sixth Sense".
For example, "Tornado", which was just released a few days ago, had a box office of 41 million US dollars in its first weekend and performed very well at the beginning.
Now all parties are paying attention to whether "Tornado" can surpass "The Sixth Sense".
Although "The Sixth Sense" may not always occupy the top spot at the end, it has accomplished a feat after all.
A movie with a budget of 20 million US dollars has a box office of more than 270 million US dollars in North America alone. This is undoubtedly the biggest dark horse this year.
(End of this chapter)