Even before the original tape of "Rooftop" has been released, pirated tapes have already been released in various ways.
The cost of some tapes is higher, so the pirates design a cover themselves, with words like "Deep Space Golden Songs Released" and "Ten Songs That Shocked Hollywood" written on it, and the face of a famous star is printed on it.
Side A of the tape plays "Rooftop" sung by Yu Dong and Cheng Yanqiu, and then adds some interludes from TV series produced by Deep Space Company.
The whole thing is made to look stylish, and those who don't know it think it is really a genuine tape produced by Deep Space Company.
Some tapes were a bit casual and put "Rooftop" directly into the so-called new albums of "Tao Jiji" or "Zhang Xueyou", which made some people think that the singing standards of these two singers had dropped significantly.
In China, CCTV's propaganda efforts are too strong. As soon as "Eastern Time and Space" was broadcast, the song became popular all over the country.
It’s a good thing that this song is popular, but we can’t always let everyone listen to Yu Dong and Cheng Yanqiu’s version. If Yu Dong’s readers are okay, they will at least have fan filters and think this singing is okay.
If it weren't for Yu Dong's readers, his singing part would definitely detract from this song.
Taking this into consideration, Deep Space Company leaked "Rooftop", a duet by Jay Chou and Zhang Huimei, and it was not officially produced and was directly sold into the pirated market.
In just one or two weeks, the two versions of this song have become popular across the country.
Baodao is naturally no exception.
The first time Jay Chou heard "Rooftop" outside was in a small video store. It was the version sung by Yu Dong and Cheng Yanqiu.
He also saw the news two days ago, but it was on paper and he couldn't hear the sound.
To be honest, Yu Dong's singing was better than Jay Chou expected.
The news said that Yu Dong's singing was not satisfactory, but in Jay Chou's opinion, at least Yu Dong's emotions were on point, and it was quite appropriate for Yu Dong and Cheng Yanqiu to sing this song, especially the last part, where Yu
Dong's performance is also very good.
Listening to the singing in the video store, Jay Chou was also very emotional. It seems that since this year, there have been more pirated tapes on the roadside. They were sneaky at first, but now they are becoming more and more blatant.
However, Jay Chou still went into the video store and bought a tape. Now if he wants to listen to this song, he has no other way but to buy this pirated tape.
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Only one day passed, when Jay Chou passed by the video store again on his motorcycle, he heard "Rooftop" again, but this time it was his and Zhang Huimei's voices.
When he heard his own voice coming from the video store, Jay Chou immediately stopped his motorcycle, then propped his right foot on the ground and froze in place. He did not move even once until he finished listening to the entire song.
Although he knew that the song he sang would eventually appear in the public eye, the feeling of actually hearing his own voice outside was indescribable.
Jay Chou stopped his motorcycle and walked into the video store.
"Boss, may I ask if "Rooftop" is sold here?"
The boss was an older, somewhat overweight, middle-aged man. He glanced at Jay Chou, then took out a tape from the counter with "Zhang Huimei's Top Ten Golden Songs" written on the cover and placed it on the counter, "Here."
Jay Chou was a little disappointed that his name was not on the tape, but he still paid for it.
After paying the order, Jay Chou asked: "Boss, is this tape easy to sell?"
The boss looked up at Jay Chou and said, "Of course it's easy to sell. Young man, you haven't been to KTV recently. This song is very popular in KTV now."
"I didn't go, is it really popular?"
"I lied to you, you will know for yourself if you go and see. This young man who sang with Zhang Huimei will definitely become famous." The boss rolled his eyes and lowered his head to tinker with what he had on hand, not wanting to pay attention to Jay Chou.
Although the boss had a bad attitude, Jay Chou was in a good mood and hummed songs all the way back.
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Yu Dong's schedule in the second half of Europe and the United States is very tight. He has to complete four book signings all over the world in ten days, and also attend the premiere of "The Butterfly Effect". In the next few days, he will go to Europe again.
"The Butterfly Effect" is a movie adapted from a YU novel, so it is naturally full of gimmicks.
Although the sales volume of "Chaos Diary" in the United States is not very good compared to Yu Dong's other works, as long as the words "Adapted from YU's novel" appear on the movie poster, readers will be willing to pay for the movie.
The movie's box office performance was very good from the beginning. For a movie that cost just over 10 million U.S. dollars, the box office in the first weekend reached more than 23 million U.S. dollars. It was basically far ahead in this period at the end of August.
The quality of the movie is indeed very good and meets the expectations of the audience, so the subsequent box office performance is still very strong.
"The Butterfly Effect" was a hit in the United States, and Yu Dong and the others had already transferred to Europe, stayed in Italy for two days, and then returned to China.
When Yu Dong and the others returned to Jinyi, the students had returned to school one after another, and there were many new people coming and going at the door.
When they passed by the gate, they heard a burst of singing coming from the communication room.
Yu Hua still had a good ear, and she immediately recognized Yu Dong's voice.
"It's the song you sang at the Hollywood Bowl."
Fu Jing listened for a while and said in surprise: "It seems that the voices are really those of Teacher Yu and Teacher Cheng. Has this song spread to China so quickly?"
Yu Dong curled his lips and said nothing. He had probably heard from Yuliang about the situation in China, and knew that this song had quickly become popular in China, but he didn't expect to hear this song in the communication room as soon as he came back.
No need to think about it, it must be a good thing done by Uncle Zhou.
The minibus drove slowly into the school, crossed the avenue and entered the staff apartment.
Everyone got off the car with their luggage. As soon as they got off the car and were about to go upstairs, they heard singing from a house on the first floor. It was "Rooftop" by Jay Chou and Zhang Huimei.
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"It seems that this song is really popular now. I heard it twice in a short while. Who is playing the song?"
Mo Yan stretched out his head and took a look, "It seems to be the home of Mr. Zhang, the oil painter. His daughter usually likes to play songs, so she probably played them."
"Well, young people will definitely like this kind of duet love song." Wang Xiaobo said.
Bi Feiyu said with a smile: "Don't say that young people like it, I like it quite a lot, and the song is quite good. After listening to it, the last few lyrics have been stuck in my mind for the past two days."
What he said is not an exaggeration at all. The last two verses of the song "Rooftop" are indeed quite brainwashing.
Moreover, this song is very popular with women. During this period, Fu Jing suffered from the sequelae of "Rooftop" and would fall ill from time to time. Sometimes while walking, she would suddenly say to Bi Feiyu: "Let me
Love who you are.”
Bi Feiyu subconsciously replied: "It's me."
Fu Jing followed up with another sentence: "Let you love who I am."
"It's you."
The two of them have a secret code and like to play when they have nothing to do.
Wang Xiaobo smiled and said: "If you want to sing, you can go to a KTV. Didn't Shen Kong open a KTV in Jinling?"
Bi Feiyu chuckled and said, "Let's talk about it."
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When Yu Dong and others returned to Jinling, it was also the time when "The Butterfly Effect" was at its hottest in the American film market.
In just ten days, the box office of "The Butterfly Effect" exceeded 41 million. In the end, there is basically no pressure to break the 100 million mark, and there is even hope of hitting the 200 million mark.
And because of YU, this movie was scheduled to be released in other countries and regions from the beginning, and there is no problem with the global box office exceeding 200 million.
The real cost of "The Butterfly Effect" was only over nine million U.S. dollars. It can be said that the money was recouped in the first weekend after its release, and it is now confirmed that the movie has made a lot of money.
As long as the box office of this movie can eventually exceed 200 million, the ratio of box office to cost will exceed 20. This is already a very exaggerated ratio, and ordinary movies simply cannot achieve such a ratio.
Take this year's hit "Titanic" as an example. Its box office is indeed very high, with over one billion in revenue, but its cost is also high.
The cost is as high as 200 million U.S. dollars. Even if the final box office reaches 2 billion U.S. dollars, the return ratio is only ten.
And judging from the current situation, the box office of "Titanic" will not reach 2 billion US dollars.
The movie with the highest return rate recently is probably "Two Smoking Barrels" which cost less than 2 million. The final global box office of that movie was just over 100 million U.S. dollars, with a return ratio of more than 50 times.
"Two Smoking Barrels" was also purchased by Deep Space and then released.
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When "The Butterfly Effect" grossed over $50 million at the box office, Michael Eisner called Jimmy.
After briefly chatting about "Pirates of the Caribbean", Michael Eisner said with admiration: "People in the industry like to call me a genius film analyst, but if I look at it, no analyst in the entire film industry can compare to you.
Deep Space Company. I thought there was some luck in the previous operations, but after the release of "Butterfly Effect" this time, I no longer think there is any luck involved."
Facing Michael's praise, Jimmy laughed and said: "There is still a lot of luck. In fact, YU and I's previous prediction for this movie was that the North American box office would be between US$70 million and US$100 million. But now it seems,
It will definitely far exceed our expectations.”
Jimmy didn't lie. He had talked with Yu Dong about the movie "The Butterfly Effect" before. They were both relatively optimistic about the box office of the movie, but they only saw the North American box office to be upwards of 70 million and the global box office to be 150 million.
about.
And according to the current situation, the box office in North America alone may exceed 200 million US dollars, which is far beyond their expectations.
But Michael didn't believe what Jimmy said.
"I hope that the box office of "Pirates of the Caribbean" will be as good as I want. I don't expect a return of 20 or 30 times, I just hope it can be more than three times."
If it is more than three times, Disney will be able to make huge profits. After all, the cost of "Pirates of the Caribbean" will not be small, and preliminary estimates should be around 100 million US dollars.
In fact, Disney's requirements for this movie are not high at all. It doesn't matter if it doesn't lose money, or even just a little bit. Their original purpose is to promote the theme park, and they don't pay that much attention to the box office.
Jimmy smiled and said: "Actually, the return ratio of "The Butterfly Effect" is not very high. Recently, our company has another movie with a higher return ratio."
"Oh, really? What other movies does your company have recently?"
"Well, there is another movie called "I Lived for Ten Thousand Years", which was released together with "The Butterfly Effect". The box office has now exceeded 5 million."
"Five million?" Michael raised his thick eyebrows. In his opinion, this number was too small.
At the same time, he was also wondering, didn't someone collect recent deep space projects last time? Why didn't he have any impression of "I Lived for Tens of Thousand Years"?
Jimmy probably guessed what Michael was thinking, and explained with a smile: "The box office of this movie is indeed not high, but its cost is very low, it only cost more than 10,000 US dollars."
"More than ten thousand dollars?"
Michael opened his mouth wide and expressed disbelief. He could not imagine that Deep Space Company would spend more than 10,000 US dollars to make a movie.
Although Deep Space Company has only been established for a few years, and it likes to use small things to make big things happen, it is also a serious medium and large company, and there is absolutely no need to make such a low-cost movie. To be honest, even if it is to make money, it will not
Keep the cost of the movie so low.
What surprised Michael the most was that the box office of this movie shot for more than 10,000 US dollars actually reached more than 5 million, and looking at it, the box office will continue to increase.
Maybe the final return ratio will be more than a thousand.
Michael sighed slightly, "You always manage to surprise people. After hearing what you said, I'm going to go to the cinema to watch this movie tonight."
"Haha, thank you very much for your contribution to the box office of this movie."
"Tsk, I thought you would generously give me tickets." Michael joked, and then said: "Don't worry, I will not only watch it myself, but I will also take our company's employees to watch it. I want them to
Let’s see how a movie made with more than 10,000 yuan got such a high box office.”
"I'm sure you won't be disappointed."
In fact, the cost of "I Lived for Tens of Thousand Years" was more than 10,000 US dollars. In fact, this movie should have cost more.
It's just that this movie was shot during the filming of "The Butterfly Effect", so apart from the actors' salary, basically no money was spent. The machines were all used in "The Butterfly Effect". The picture is very good, it can't be a low-cost movie.
The picture quality that a movie can have.
If you are shooting alone and want to control costs, it is impossible to use such a good machine.
Of course, if the picture quality hadn't been so good, the box office of "I Lived for Tens of Thousand Years" would never have reached such a high level. Even with the success of "The Butterfly Effect" and YU's reputation, not many viewers would be willing to leave.
Go to the cinema and watch a movie that is not very exciting and has poor picture quality.
Chapter completed!