It wasn't until many years later that the 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 that Minghu culture is at its peak, and it is a general mobilization before Minghu culture completely moves towards global domination.

And at that time, it did receive widespread attention from all over the country.

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

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February 9, 2004, 4 p.m. local time in the United Kingdom.

London.

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

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Since mid-to-late February 2004, "Gourd Baby" has been painted in major film markets around the world.

On February 21, after 59 days of screening, the box office value of "Hulu Baby" in North America seems to have been harvested almost, and the scale and attendance of the release have fallen to a miserable level, so in the end, this Chinese animated film was drawn from the last 19 theaters to be screened, officially ending its entire theatrical journey in North America.

In the nearly two months since its release in North America, the film has accumulated $162.4 million at the box office, and although it is still not as good as Disney's animated "Wig the Pooh" in the same period, it has become the best-grossing Chinese film in North America so far - the second place "The Door of Life and Death" is $67.44 million.

Moreover, this animated film has a very good reputation among North American fans, and even the peripherals are selling quite well, and the profit share brought by its peripherals to Minghu Culture has even far exceeded its box office share!

Moreover, because the box office is very good, because the surrounding area is good, 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 negotiations, won a 35% guaranteed share and a maximum 45% share ratio for Minghu Culture.

Although it is only a left-handed and right-handed relationship, business is business, and both sides will try their best to fight for their own best interests, so this condition will be approved by the Colombian side, which proves that the other 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 lasted for 91 days. With the end of the screening in China, except for a few regions that have not yet finished screening, the film has been completely painted in the world's major film markets.

As the first Chinese film to be released simultaneously around the world, and China's first animated film, it has achieved quite good box office results in many markets around the world.

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

Cumulative global box office, $503 million.

Among Chinese films, it is second only to the $541 million global box office created by "The Gate of Life and Death", making it one of the most successful Chinese films to date.

Moreover, although it is still heavily dependent on the box office contribution of China and pan-Chinese-speaking cultural regions, the film has achieved quite good box office and influence in North America and Europe, and in terms of its ability to harvest box office in the Western world, it is actually far superior to "The Door 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 much so that when its global box office was finally counted, many media wrote articles lamenting: Although the box office of "Golden Terrace" was somewhat unsatisfactory, making Qin Wei, a film master, a little disappointed in the movie for the first time, "The Gate of Life and Death" stood there like a monument, in the past 2003, Minghu Culture has come up with a number of box office blockbuster movies, but including Li Qian, Minghu Culture and other directors across the country are still unable to surpass "The Gate of Life and Death" despite their hard work Records left 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.

The media said this in late March and early April 2004.

"Gourd Baby" was just painted in China at that time.

And just when the media was keen to discuss the various gains, explorations and data of Chinese films in the past year, and to look forward to the new 2004 and the upcoming summer season, at the end of March, Minghu Culture suddenly announced the launch of a new production plan again.

First of all, Li Qian and Cao Zhan announced that they would start the second animated film production plan of Minghu Animation, but the new movie is not the second part of "Hulu Baby" that many people are looking forward to, but a new theme attempt.

The tentative title of the movie is "Kung Fu Panda".

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

This is Cao Zhan's first time as a film director.

According to him, the story and script of this film were written by Li Qian a long time ago, and he personally likes it very much, and in the filming and production process of this cartoon, the production style of Minghu Animation's previous work "Hulu Baby" will be continued, from the art style to the story style, it will be a continuation.

He said: I promise this is definitely a particularly good animated movie!

Minghu Animation paid a whopping 240 million Chinese dollars, equivalent to 120 million US dollars, for the film - this is definitely the most expensive film in the history of Chinese cinema!

To date, of course.

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

This time, it was Li Qian and Zhao He who attended the press conference.

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

Therefore, the reporters who received the invitation to the press conference were all gearing up and extremely excited - after the first two successive word-of-mouth and box office hits, among the media and fans, the third part of "Once Upon a Time" has been mentioned again and again and is highly anticipated.

However, this time, the two big 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 called "Shaolin Temple".

The director is Zhao He, and this time, he will also be 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 actor would be Zhou Baoshan.

But who is the heroine?

Lu Lingxi, He Yingyu, Qin Jingjing, Bai Yujing, Zhao Yingying?

Zhao He denied it with a smile one by one, and finally kept this doubt, and by the end of the press conference, he did not give any news, just left it to the media and fans to guess.

However, Zhao He and Zhou Baoshan's new martial arts movie, Li Qian's screenplay, and the production budget of up to 70 million announced at the press conference all made the launch of this film quickly arouse the appetite of fans across the country as soon as the launch conference was opened - the huge success of the two "Huang Feihong" has made Zhou Baoshan's box office appeal in the domestic film industry now, except for Li Qian and Guo Yulong, almost no one is comparable.

Immediately afterwards, at the beginning of 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 Feng Bicheng, a great director 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 not large, it is said that it is only 20 million, but the actor is not Huang Ge anymore.

According to Feng Bicheng, he said that the actor of this movie needs another 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 threw out the production plans of three films without stopping, and each of them was a big name that attracted the attention of thousands of people.

Cao Zhan, Zhao He, Feng Bicheng.

And that's not all.

The film launch conference of "Crazy Stone" has just ended, and the two albums that are clearly showing affection have been released - Li Qian's second solo album "Love Song 2004", and Zhou Yan's solo album "Promise" after four years, which was officially released on April 14, the same day!

shook the entire Chinese music scene.

Zhou Yan's mournful and moving voice was pushed to the peak again.

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

And Li Qian continued to push several styles of his debut album to the extreme.

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

The Chinese-style "East Wind Breaks".

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

Rap-style "Nunchuck" and "Love Before the A.D.".

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

Wait a minute.

And this time, in addition to the regular ten songs, there are also several additional songs that Li Qian has sung at the concert, such as "Facing the Sea, Spring Blossoms" and "Chengdu", etc., and all of them were recorded in the studio and newly arranged.

It is conceivable that the two albums were released together, which naturally triggered the great buying enthusiasm of fans across the country for the first time - because the trailer was released a month in advance, so ten days before this day, and nearly twenty days after this day, there was no other new album on the market nationwide!

Moreover, Li Qian and Zhou Yan showed their affection in such a high-profile way, and released a new album on the same day, which also led to another result, that is, those 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 exploded!

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

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

Three words: Does it sound good?

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

On the blog, Li Qian's personal blog existed on the first day of its release on this platform, and in half a year, his blog has more than 6 million followers, always ranking first on the whole platform.

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

In 2004, the overall number of users of the Chinese Internet was about two or three hundred million, and the number of active users was more than 100 million, and there were more than 10 million users in the first half of the year, and the activity was quite high, which has made the blog a very influential platform.

But it's still quite a bit of a way from the super platform.

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

In particular, the pop-up window of QQ and the promotion of the homepage of iFLYTEK have spared no effort!

This level of propaganda is extremely terrifying!

Within three days, the number of registered users of the blog exceeded 30 million!

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

And just below the blog post "Does it sound good?", which is just three words and one punctuation mark, the number of replies is as high as more than a million!

A lot of the replies are actually just two words - good!

If you say a few more words, it's "It's so good!"

Of course, there are people who say, "Can I have another one?"

Of course, of course, there are also people who will leave a reply at the bottom of the blog post and directly write a long article of thousands of words!

As the blog suddenly became popular, many professional music critics simply uploaded their music reviews and appreciation articles to the blog, attracting many fans who specially registered to watch "Is it good?" because of Li Qian.

On April 26, 2004, Liao Liao, who was in the United States, suddenly unexpectedly published his first blog post - @李谦@周嫫, good!

This blog post and blog have once again set off a big hit on the whole network!

Because this is the first direct dialogue between Liao Liao and Zhou Yan, who are exposed to the public!

The growth rate of blog registrations, which was originally slowing down, suddenly accelerated on this day.

Blogs are really starting to heat up.

Those netizens who registered blogs because of Li Qianhe and because of Zhou Yan 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, science and technology, culture, as well as entertainment, celebrities, etc., almost everything, you can find what you want to see on this.

As a result, not only the number of registered users is large, but the proportion of active users has also increased.

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

When the time came to the end of May, the number of his registrations exceeded 60 million in one fell swoop, and the number of active people had reached more than 40 million!

Blog, it's really on fire!

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

It's still very simple, just one line of words -

"Count down to 30 days, get ready, The Matrix is coming!"

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A serious illness, I feel that I am very weak, everyone, make up for a few monthly passes!