Perfect Life

Until many years later, the internal annual meeting of Minghu Culture Company held in early 2004 was a grand event that people talked about.

It is generally believed that this is a sign of Minghu culture reaching its peak, and it is a general mobilization before Minghu culture completely moves to dominate the world.

And at that time, it was indeed the general concern of the whole country.

It's just that at that time, very few people could understand that from that day on, a new era really began to open its first page!

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February 9, 2004, at 4pm UK local time.

London.

Elizabeth McCullough walked into the cinema for the fourth time to see "Hulu Baby", and the joke in the middle made her smile for the fourth time.

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Since mid to late February 2004, "Hulu Baby" has been painted in major film markets around the world one after another.

On February 21, after being shown for 59 days, the box office residual value of "Huluwa" in North America seems to have been harvested almost. The animated film was drawn from the last 19 cinemas that participated in the screening, officially ending its entire theatrical journey in North America.

In the past two months after its release in North America, the film has accumulated a total of 162.4 million US dollars at the box office. Although it is still inferior to Disney's "Wigger the Pooh" in the same period, it has become the best Chinese film in North America so far. The second place, "The Door of Life and Death," was $67.44 million.

Moreover, this animated film has a very good reputation among North American movie fans, and even the surrounding areas are sold quite well. The profit share brought to Minghu Culture by its surrounding areas has already far exceeded its box office share. !

Moreover, because the box office is very good and the surrounding area is easy to sell, when the DVD production and distribution rights of this film in North America within five years were signed to Colombia, Du Yihua, who was in charge of the negotiation, won a guaranteed minimum share of 35% and the highest price for Minghu Culture. 45% share ratio.

Although it is only a left-handed and right-handed relationship, business is business, and both parties will try their best to strive for their own best interests. Therefore, this condition will be approved by the Colombian side, which proves that the side believes that this is definitely a profitable business.

On March 24, "Hulu Baby" officially ended its screening in China, and the entire screening period was 91 days. With the end of the screening in China, except for a few areas where the screening has not ended, the film has been completely drawn down in major movie markets around the world.

As the first Chinese film that has truly achieved simultaneous global release, and China's first big animated film, it has achieved quite good box office results in many markets around the world.

The Chinese box office is 365 million yuan, equivalent to about 182 million US dollars, the North American box office is 162.4 million US dollars, the Japanese box office is 29.44 million US dollars, the European box office is 62.18 million US dollars, the Korean box office is 9.42 million US dollars, and the Southeast Asian box office is 17.26 million US dollars.

The cumulative worldwide box office total is $503 million.

Among Chinese films, it has become one of the most successful Chinese films to date after the $541 million global box office generated by The Gate of Life and Death.

Moreover, although it still relies heavily on the box office contribution of China and pan-Chinese cultural regions, the film has achieved quite good box office and influence in North America and Europe. In terms of its ability to harvest box office in the Western world, In fact, it is still far beyond "The Gate of Life and Death".

Of course, it still failed to break the box office record of "The Gate of Life and Death" in China and around the world.

So that when its global box office was finally counted, many media wrote articles with emotion: Although the box office of "Golden Terrace" was somewhat unsatisfactory, Qin Wei, a film master, was a little disappointed in the film for the first time. , but "The Gate of Life and Death" stands there like a monument. In the past 2003, Minghu Culture has successively produced a number of movies that sold well at the box office, but including Li Qian, Minghu Culture and other directors across the country Despite their hard work, they were still unable to surpass the record that "Life and Death" stayed there. Moreover, I am afraid that in a short period of time, the box office record of this Chinese-language film will be difficult to break.

When the media said this, it was the end of March and the beginning of April in 2004.

At the time when "Hulu Baby" was just painted in China.

And just when the media are keen to discuss the various harvests, explorations and data of Chinese films in the past year, and look forward to the new 2004 and the upcoming summer season, on the third day At the end of the month, Minghu Culture suddenly announced the launch of a new production plan.

The first is that Li Qian and Cao Zhan announced that they will start Minghu Animation's second animation film production plan. The new film is not the second "Hulu Baby" that many people expect, but a brand new theme attempt.

The movie is tentatively titled "Kung Fu Panda".

At the press conference to start the production, Li Qian and Cao Zhan attended together. Li Qian announced that in this film, he would only serve as a producer, producer and screenwriter, and would no longer be the director like "Hulu Baby", while Cao Zhan will serve as the producer and director of the animated film.

This is Cao Zhan's first film director role.

According to him, the story and script of this movie were written by Li Qian long ago. He personally likes it very much, and in the production process of this cartoon, it will continue the previous work of Minghu Animation, "Hulu Baby". "The production style, from the art style to the story style, will be a continuation.

He said: I promise this must be a particularly good-looking animated film!

Minghu Animation set out a production budget of up to 240 million yuan for this film, which is equivalent to 120 million US dollars - this is definitely the film with the highest production cost in the history of Chinese film!

Of course, so far.

Just six days after the press conference, Minghu Culture held a new film launch conference again.

This time, Li Qian and Zhao He were present at the press conference.

They are the directors of "Once Upon a Time" and "Once Upon a Time of Man".

Because of this, the reporters who received the invitation to the press conference were all geared up and extremely excited—after the two previous films were hit by word of mouth and box office, among the media and fans, the third film of "Once Upon a Time" was It has long been mentioned and highly anticipated.

However, this time, the two major directors appeared at the same time, and the announced new film launch plan has nothing to do with the "Once Upon a Time" series.

The name of this new movie is "Shaolin Temple".

The director is Zhao He, and this time, he will also serve as a producer. Of course, as always, the screenwriter is Li Qian. The art director and producer is Fang Baijin.

Moreover, under the questioning of reporters, Zhao He revealed with a smile that he admitted that the male lead would be Zhou Baoshan.

But who is the heroine?

Deer rhinoceros? He Yingyu? Qin Jingjing? Bai Yujing? Zhao Yingying?

Zhao He smiled and denied it one by one, and finally kept this question. By the end of the press conference, he did not give any news, but left it to the media and fans to guess.

However, Zhao He and Zhou Baoshan's new martial arts film, Li Qian's screenwriter, and the 70 million production budget announced at the press conference all made the film's launch conference open, and it was quickly hoisted. The appetite of moviegoers across the country - the great success of the two "Once Upon a Time" has made Zhou Baoshan's current box office appeal in the domestic film circle, with the exception of Li Qian and Guo Yulong, almost no one can compare.

Then, in early April, Minghu Culture once again held a new film launch conference.

This time, Li Qian appeared again.

This time the person sitting next to him was replaced by the great director Feng Bicheng, who had long been rumored to be at odds with him.

The production plan announced this time is called "Crazy Stone".

It's still an urban comedy, it's still Li Qian's script, and the investment is still small, it is said to be only 20 million, but the male lead is not Huang Ge.

According to Feng Bicheng, it is said that the hero of this film needs another kind of temperament, and he already has a candidate in mind.

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In this way, in March and April when the domestic film market was sluggish, Minghu Culture kept throwing out the production plan of three films in one go.

Cao Zhan, Zhao He, Feng Bicheng.

It's not over yet.

The film launch conference of "Crazy Stone" has just ended, and the other two albums that show love and love have been released - Li Qian's second solo album "Love Song 2004", four years after Zhou Cong. His solo album "Promise" was officially released on April 14th, the same day!

It shook the entire Chinese music scene.

Zhou Hao's desolate and moving voice was pushed to the top again.

Songs such as "Promise" and "The Edge of Love and Pain" quickly became popular.

Li Qian, on the other hand, continued to push several styles of his debut album to the extreme.

Love songs all the way "Love Like Tide" and "Dusk".

"Dongfeng Break" in Chinese style.

Folk-style "Love Song 2004" and "Match Heaven".

Rap-style nunchucks and love in BC.

There is even a Chinese style of rap style, "Niangzi".

and many more.

And this time, in addition to the regular ten songs, several additional songs that Li Qian had sung at the concert, such as "Facing the Sea, Spring Blossoms" and "Chengdu", etc., were all included. It was recorded in the studio and has been newly composed.

It is conceivable that the two albums were released together, which naturally aroused the great enthusiasm of fans across the country for the first time-because the trailer was released a month in advance, so in the ten days before this day, and after this day In the past 20 days, no other new album has been released nationwide!

Moreover, Li Qian and Zhou Hao's high-profile show of conjugal love and the release of a new album on the same day has also led to another result, that is, people who buy this one will basically buy that one, and those who buy that one will basically buy this one .

As a result, the sales of the two albums have teamed up to explode!

Of course, no matter how popular the album is, the two of them remain faceless as always.

It was only on April 22, 2004, eight days after the two albums were released, that Li Qian suddenly published his first article on his blog.

Three words: Does it sound good?

The blog has been open for more than half a year until the end of April. With the help of QQ's powerful platform and publicity, although the investment in publicity is not very large, it has accumulated more than 10 million users.

On the blog, Li Qian's personal blog existed on the first day it was released on this platform, and within half a year, his blog has more than 6 million followers, and it is always the number one on the entire platform. name.

It's just that he never published his first article.

For the Chinese Internet in 2004, there were about 200 to 300 million users in total, and more than 100 million active users. There were more than 10 million users within half a year of its release, and the activity level was not low, which has already made blogging. , has become an influential platform.

But it is still quite a distance away from the super platform.

And now, when Li Qian finally released his first blog post, although it only had three words, it quickly made the front page headlines of major online platforms on the same day!

Especially the pop-up window of QQ and the publicity of Xunfei.com's homepage, spare no effort!

This level of propaganda is extremely terrifying!

Within three days, the number of registered users of the blog exceeded 30 million in a straight line!

The number of followers of Li Qian's personal blog also quickly exceeded 25 million!

And just under "Is it good?" This blog post with only three words and a punctuation mark received more than one million replies!

Many replies are actually just two words - nice!

In a few more words, it is "It sounds so good!"

Of course, some people will say, "Can you have another one?"

Of course, there are also people who will leave a message below the blog post to reply, and directly write a long post of thousands of words!

With the sudden popularity of blogging, many professional music critics simply uploaded their own music reviews and appreciation articles to the blog, attracting many people who specially registered because of Li Qian to watch the "Nice Sounds" "?" fans liked and commented in succession~www.wuxiaspot.com~ On April 26th, Liao Liao, who was in the United States, suddenly published his first blog post unexpectedly - @李青@周嫫, sounds good!

This blog post and this blog have once again set off a big hit on the Internet!

Because this is the first direct dialogue after the two songs of Liao Liao and Zhou Cong who were exposed to the public!

The increase in the number of blog registrations was slowing down, but on this day, it suddenly accelerated.

Blogging is really starting to heat up.

Those netizens who have registered for blogs because of Li Qian, Zhou Cong, and Liao Liao seem to have suddenly opened up a new world after entering the blog.

It is closely connected with the homepage of iFLYTEK and the news of iFLYTEK, all kinds of things, all kinds of people, all kinds of comments, current affairs, politics, economy, military, technology, culture, as well as entertainment, stars Wait, almost everything, you can find what you want to see here.

As a result, not only the number of registrations is large, but the active users have also increased by a large proportion.

When the time entered May, the total number of registered bloggers exceeded 44 million, and the number of active users was as high as 31 million - it has rapidly become the most popular network application platform on the Chinese Internet in less than half a month!

When the time came to the end of May, the number of his registrations exceeded 60 million, and the number of active people has reached more than 40 million!

Blog is really hot!

At this time, on the evening of June 20, Li Qian finally released his second blog post.

Still very simple, just one line-

"The countdown is 30 days, get ready, "The Matrix" is coming!"

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A serious illness, I feel that I am very empty, everyone, give me a few monthly tickets to make up for it!