Chapter 714: Two Programs
After the second rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala, someone on the Internet exposed the program list of this year's Spring Festival Gala. After this program list was exposed, there was also some discussion on this program list on the Internet.
In the discussion of netizens on the program list of this year's Spring Festival Gala, Xiao Yao is the most discussed.
In this program list, Xiao Yao's name does not appear directly, the performer of the instrumental music performance "Celebration" is signed as "Mystery Garden", and the signature on the back of Liang Xueying's song and dance performance program In addition to Liang Xueying, the name of "YRF" also appears. These two combinations have been very popular in recent months, as long as netizens who pay a little attention to the entertainment news in the past six months, they can find that Xiao Yao will appear twice in this year's Spring Festival Gala.
There are very, very few artists who have appeared twice in the same Spring Festival Gala, and only He Ying has had one in the past 20 years a few years ago, and it is also a chorus song and dance show and a multi-person pop song skewer. Although Xiao Yao's two shows are not performed alone, and there are collaborations with others, but unlike He Ying, these two groups are pre-existing teams and participate in the show as a whole, rather than a show like He Ying that seems to be arranged by the director team of the Spring Festival Gala, which still feels very different.
This is not the first time Xiao Yao has been on the Spring Festival Gala. In terms of his development over the years, it is not surprising that he goes to the Spring Festival Gala every year. However, at the age of his early twenties, being able to appear twice on such an important occasion as the Spring Festival Gala still aroused the curiosity of many netizens. After the list of this Spring Festival Gala was exposed, there was also a lot of speculation on the Internet.
After He Ying had two programs in the Spring Festival Gala was exposed, there were also speculations and discussions on the Internet.
That time, some netizens gave "background theory". Some media have excavated and reported on He Ying's family background, saying that He Ying's grandfather is a military general who has contributed to the founding of the country, and he has a deep background in the military, while some of the elders of the previous generation are engaged in politics and are big names who hold real power, so she can have a smooth ride in the entertainment industry. appeared twice in a Spring Festival Gala, which also made many people turn over these reports about her family background, and it seems that the program list of that year's Spring Festival Gala proves this.
Compared with He Ying, Xiao Yao's family background is much more transparent. Grandpa and stepmother are actors, father is a singer, the deceased biological mother is a model and an orphan, the stepmother's grandparents are ordinary intellectuals, Xiao Yao's family has neither the army nor politics, and the most influential grandfather is just a performing artist, and he will definitely not be able to let CCTV arrange him to appear on two programs alone. The background is that there is no way to talk about it, so some sunspots and conspiracy theorists began to talk about money.
As a star who became famous at a young age, the public knows that Xiao Yao should not be short of money, not to mention that the media once revealed that Xiao Yao has a musical instrument company in the United States, a personal brand in China, and inherited the shares of his biological mother's modeling company. Owning shares in three companies can certainly be considered very rich for ordinary people, but among celebrities, it is not a very special thing. After all, celebrities now have side jobs, and there are many companies that do business, but what the operation is, whether it is profitable or losing, ordinary people have no way of knowing. What really makes Xiao Yao blush is his animated movie this year.
The income of "Wal-E" in terms of copyright is unknown to the general media and the public, but from the box office alone, the media and the public know that Xiao Yao has made a lot of money this time. At the end of July last year in the Gregorian calendar, the Chinese box office of this animated film came out. The total box office is more than 2 billion, and the producer can get about 700 million, which is an account that anyone can calculate. Tong Luo revealed that Xiao Yao accounted for the majority of the investment in this animated film, so Xiao Yao's personal income was at least 400 million.
Xiao Yao spent two years, invested nearly 100 million yuan, and had to pay taxes, which are easy for some people to selectively ignore, when they were stimulated by the number of 400 million, their minds were all on this, and some "forced donation" remarks on the Internet at that time also came out like this.
A few months later, "Wall-E" was released overseas, and the overseas box office came again. After a month-long release period, "WALL-E" has earned a total of nearly $400 million at the overseas box office. Among them, nearly 200 million US dollars in North America have broken the box office record of Chinese films in North America.
Although the previous box office record for Chinese films in North America was a martial arts movie nearly twenty years ago, if inflation is counted, that movie is still higher, and "Wall-E" originally had two dubbed versions in Chinese and English, and the English version released overseas may not be considered a Chinese-language movie, but at least in terms of surface numbers, "Wall-E" is still the highest-grossing Chinese film in North America.
However, overseas box office revenues are not so easy to calculate. Just as the foreign films imported by Huaxia have two forms: buyout and account sharing, Huaxia's films are released overseas, and there are also two forms of buyout and box office sharing. Due to the secrecy of the producers of "Wall-E" and Disney, ordinary media reporters have not dug out whether "Wall-E" is bought out or split overseas, but whether it is a buyout or a split, the producer must have an additional income is certain, but it is just a matter of how much income. Judging from Xiao Yao's behavior of flying abroad to do publicity, the outside world speculates that it is more likely to be in the form of account sharing.
The overseas box office statistics for "WALL-E" came out in early December. At this time, Xiao Yao's "Thousand Qin Project" was also officially launched.
As Xiao Yao expected, after the debut of this public welfare plan, there were many debates and doubts about his practice on the Internet.
Some people think that there are still many children in poor areas who cannot afford to go to school and have enough to eat, and Xiao Yao does not care about the children in those poor areas when he does public welfare, but instead sets up pianos everywhere on the streets of big cities, which is completely flashy and grandstanding.
Since this period of time is the day when Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting's "Mystery Garden" group releases a new album and does publicity, some people associate Xiao Yao's piano plan with the promotion of their group, thinking that this is a publicity strategy for them.
Of course, there are also people who support Xiao Yao's approach. In any case, Xiao Yao is doing public welfare. It is people's own freedom to spend their own money as they want. Moreover, placing pianos in the public areas of these large cities for free use by the public is also a good thing to improve the image of the city and the quality of citizens. Even if Xiao Yao's plan is really to promote the new combination of him and Sun Tingting, it is really a matter of spending money and bringing benefits to the public, it is not flashy, and naturally it is not grandstanding.
Speaking of spending money, some netizens helped Xiao Yao's plan to settle the account.
The piano is a very expensive musical instrument, although Xiao Yao put in the upright piano that occupies a small area, and the price is much cheaper than that of the grand piano, but an upright piano is also very valuable, and the average price is twenty or thirty thousand. A total of more than 1,000 upright pianos were put on the streets of dozens of big cities across the country at once, which is also an investment of 20 or 30 million, which can definitely be regarded as a big deal.
Such a large investment, if it is placed on other publicity methods, its publicity effect will definitely be much more effective than this public welfare activity, not to mention that this public welfare project is carried out in Xiao Yao's personal name, not their "Mystery Garden" group, which did not mention the name of this group. Many netizens also used this to refute some people's claims that Xiao Yao was using public welfare activities to promote the group.
Since such a large-scale public welfare action is Xiao Yao's personal behavior and has nothing to do with the combination, many people think of Xiao Yao's own animated movie again. This proves that Xiao Yao has made enough money on the animated movie "Vali".
When Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting promoted the group's new album together, they were also asked this kind of question many times. However, at that time, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting were active in a group, and they did not respond too much to their personal problems.
has been asked a lot, and Xiao Yao has answered a few times, but his attitude is not good.
"Wal-E is making money, but how much money is made is my personal privacy. As a citizen, I pay taxes according to the rules, and I am not obliged to account to anyone else except the state tax department. ”
"It is my choice to do public welfare activities, and it is also my choice to do how to do it. I know how to play the piano, and I am willing to let more people have the opportunity to play the piano, what's the problem? There are indeed many poor areas in our country, but my job is not poverty alleviation. Is charity voluntary or obligatory?"
As soon as such a choked answer came out, the reporter or host was often speechless when asking questions, and over time, these things slowly faded away.
And after the program list of the Spring Festival Gala came out, these things were turned out again, and Xiao Yao, who said that it was "not bad for money", also spent money on the two programs of the Spring Festival Gala.
In terms of CCTV's level alone, the statement of spending money on a show will definitely not stand up to scrutiny, but it can't stand up to the fact that there is always no shortage of conspiracy theorists and pink eye in this world. As Xiao Yao's fame grows and he has made more and more achievements, there are more and more sunspots of this kind. However, on the whole, this kind of person only occupies a very small percentage. With Xiao Yao's achievements in the past year, the vast majority of the audience still thinks that there is nothing wrong with Xiao Yao being able to appear twice in the Spring Festival Gala.
These sunspots' remarks were naturally seen by the people in Xiao Yao's team. In the past, Xiao Yao was automatically filtered and ignored, ignoring it, regardless of it, Fang still had a lot of things to do, and he was very busy, as long as it wasn't too much and Xiao Yao didn't mention it, Fang still generally didn't bother to pay attention to it. But now it's different, Xiao Yao has set up a personal studio, and there is someone in charge of this kind of thing. If ordinary netizens just say a few nonsense words, as long as an account such as a verified public account marketing account posts this kind of remarks, Xiao Yao's personal studio will always send a lawyer's letter to serve.
Of course, these things are the responsibility of the legal department of his personal studio, and Xiao Yao himself still ignores this, and just needs to concentrate on his work. Therefore, Xiao Yao was not affected during this time, and ushered in his second Spring Festival Gala with a very stable and peaceful attitude.
Xiao Yao's temperament was originally relatively calm, and it was the second time he went to the Spring Festival Gala, and there was no tension in his heart. And Sun Tingting, Zhao Rui, Xu Fei and the other parkour team who partnered with him were all on the Spring Festival Gala for the first time, so it was inevitable that they would be a little nervous.
But fortunately, Sun Tingting, Zhao Rui and Xu Fei have also experienced big scenes, even if they are inevitably nervous, this level of tension is limited, and there will be no big mistakes on the field. Although the performance experience of that parkour team is poor, their performance form is action, and after the connection is skillful and the muscle memory of the body is formed, they will naturally forget the tension as soon as they run. Judging from the results of the two rehearsals, the performance of these people is still very good.
The thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the day of the live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala. The cast and crew basically arrived at CCTV in the afternoon to prepare for the live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala in the evening.
The treatment on the day of the live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala is better than when the program was reviewed, and it is no longer common for all actors of a program type to share a lounge, but the number of lounges is limited, and some actors from different programs are also required to share the backstage lounge.
Since Xiao Yao had to participate in the two shows, the director team also arranged the actors of the two shows in the same lounge. Relatively speaking, Xiao Yao is more at ease with Sun Tingting, Zhao Rui, and Xu Fei, and Liang Xueying, who has participated in the Spring Festival Gala a few times, does not have to worry about Xiao Yao, so during the waiting time, Xiao Yao spent most of his time chatting with the members of the parkour team, and used the little psychological knowledge he learned to try to provide them with psychological counseling and relieve their tension.
Like the Spring Festival Gala, the "Straight to the Spring Festival Gala" program is also a practice before the Spring Festival Gala every year. At around seven o'clock in the evening, the door of the lounge where Xiao Yao and the others were was pushed open, and the interview team of "Straight to the Spring Festival Gala" came in for an interview.
The main interviewees of the reporters of "Straight to the Spring Festival Gala" are Xiao Yao, Sun Tingting and Liang Xueying, Zhao Rui and Xu Fei also said a few words, and the others were ignored by the reporters. However, because Xiao Yao, who was placed in the last interview by the reporter, took the initiative to introduce the parkour team during the interview, the parkour team also took the opportunity to say hello to the audience in front of the camera and show his face.
This interview with "Straight to the Spring Festival Gala" is not like Su Xiao's sudden appearance when Xiao Yao participated in the Spring Festival Gala for the first time, and the reporters interviewed are all according to the script in advance, so the time for this interview is not long. After a while, the interview team completed their task and left.
Although the ratings of CCTV Spring Festival Gala have always been an invincible existence, as entertainment activities become more and more abundant, there are more and more complaints about CCTV Spring Festival Gala every year, and its ratings are actually declining year by year. The CCTV Spring Festival Gala has become more of a habit for people to celebrate the New Year. In terms of habits, middle-aged and elderly people have always maintained it better, which means that young people are watching the CCTV Spring Festival Gala less and less.
Young people are watching the CCTV Spring Festival Gala less and less, so of course, the warm-up program "Straight to the Spring Festival Gala" before the Spring Festival Gala is even less young people watching. There are also more middle-aged and elderly people who watch this warm-up program at home. This group of people is the one who attaches the most importance to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and it is precisely the group of people who do not know that Xiao Yao is a member of the two combination teams of "Mystery Garden" and "YRF", and most of them are also a group of people who have not learned about the program list in advance on the Internet.
Listening to an interview with a reporter that Xiao Yao, a young man, was going to perform two programs in this year's Spring Festival Gala, this crowd also became very interested in him, and secretly paid attention to Xiao Yao's program in the Spring Festival Gala. Through this warm-up show, Xiao Yao also attracted a wave of people's attention.
Before the start of the Spring Festival Gala, Xiao Yao was the most concerned and anticipated of all the participating stars. In this year's Spring Festival Gala, the performance of Xiao Yao and the two teams is enough to live up to the audience's attention and expectations for him.