Chapter Thirty-Eight: Gathering Momentum
Li Qian once again brushed the newspaper headlines for a month. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
January 11, Golden Globe Awards, January 18, China Film and Television Great Wall Awards, January 25, China TV Drama Feitian Awards, January 28, American Oscars, February 3, Grammys.
Take the prize, take the prize, take the prize.
Fly here, fly there.
Golden Globe Awards and Oscars, Li Qian's participation is not high, they are all nominated for original music and soundtracks because of "My-Heart-Will-Go-On", and they are all double mentions, which can be regarded as an international force, in terms of Grammys, more important is Liao Liao, Li Qian's appearance is also for her.
Eventually, of course, a bumper harvest.
Liao Liao's positioning as an international diva can be regarded as stable as Mount Tai.
In China, the Great Wall Award won eleven awards, the glory reached the top, and the Feitian Award, although as we all know, this is a very official award, Huaxia TV also has a great influence in it, but in any case, when it comes to the 1999 TV series, "The Legend of the New White Lady" is definitely something that no one dares to ignore, so, although the award is slightly less than the Great Wall Award, it is basically not given if it can be given, but a few awards that have to be given are still given.
Best TV Series of the Year, Best Director of the Year, Best Screenwriter, Best Actress, Best Newcomer, and Best Supporting Actor - the last one is an accident and a small surprise, to some extent, it is not so much that the role of Fahai is outstanding, but that Zhou Yuhai himself has made a certain amount of effort in the connections cultivated over the years in the circle.
But that's okay, "The Legend of the New White Lady" is another city, and Zhou Yuhai is also honored, and in the end, everyone can be regarded as happy.
Moreover, when Li Qian was busy flying around to participate in various award ceremonies, TV station buyers from East and Southeast Asian countries began to negotiate with Minghu Culture to purchase films.
The export of domestic TV dramas was a common thing in the 80s, and in the 90s, in the cultural circle of East Asia and Southeast Asia, domestic dramas began to become less popular than before, but domestic emotional dramas, Romance dramas and martial arts dramas can still be exported in large quantities, but with the beginning of Japan's film and television industry and the gradual rise of Korean film and television entertainment, domestic dramas began to encounter great competitive pressure, and after 95 years, they began to encounter cultural barriers set up by governments in East Asia and Southeast Asia, and it became more difficult to export.
But all these problems, in front of "The Legend of the New White Lady", are not a problem.
It is so popular that even Japan and South Korea, which have begun to gradually exert their strength in recent years, and have even begun to counterattack the Chinese market, are extremely active in waving checks and running to Suncheonfu, and major TV stations are scrambling to win the premiere rights of this TV series in their own countries, not to mention Southeast Asian countries, which have always been weak and have been dumping places for Chinese cultural products in the past two or three decades.
So, another negotiation close to an auction began, under the auspices of Qi Jie.
Of course, compared with the incomparable strength of "The Legend of the New White Lady", "The Love of Green Onions" It seems to be just a small wave, except for Cheng Suhua who received a nomination for the best newcomer at the Great Wall Awards, he never won anything, and soon was completely buried by various news of the awards season and various New Year's blockbusters during the Spring Festival.
And in such a year-end carnival, all kinds of awards, all kinds of reviews, all kinds of reviews, plus Zhao Meicheng's New Year's comedy began to be released, although in the past year, the domestic film market is still declining, and the domestic record market has finally begun to show negative growth after years of rapid growth, but in the carnival, many people choose to ignore these temporarily.
But there are some things that don't just cease to exist because you ignore them.
In 1997, the domestic box office market was as high as 8.1 billion yuan, while in 1999, only 5.3 billion yuan remained. The box office market plummeted, and one of the first results was that in the past two years, the whole country did not know how many film and television companies and production companies had declared closure, and even many films had not been filmed in time, or they had not had time to be released after filming, and the company was already finished.
With the collapse of a large number of film and television production companies, the film market has become even colder, and then a large number of cinemas and cinemas have begun to be unable to support.
It is conceivable that in one year, at most two years, if the record market has shrunk sharply like the film market in the past two years, there will be a considerable number of domestic record companies facing losses and bankruptcy, and distributors will also be in a catastrophe - very simply, the market has become smaller, and there are fewer people who can be fed.
The strong stay, and the weak eliminate.
In this context, Minghu culture is still in order and orderly.
After the Spring Festival, the copyright output of "The Legend of the New White Lady" was basically negotiated, and Minghu Culture sold the broadcast rights to a total of 11 countries including Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Malaysia. Among them, all the countries in Southeast Asia are bought by Chinese TV stations, and the domestic Chinese version can also be directly broadcast locally, without the need for additional dubbing, and those sold to Japan and South Korea are dubbed by the TV stations on both sides respectively.
Correspondingly, what is sold to Southeast Asian countries is the right to play one or more times, while what is sold to Japan and South Korea is to directly package and buy out the copyright for five years.
Specifically, after the other party buys the copyright in their respective countries, they complete the dubbing of the Japanese version and the Korean version, and within five years, they will have the right to broadcast it as many times as they want, and have the right to produce and distribute videotapes, VCDs and DVDs, and after five years, the license will be terminated, and if they want to continue to use it, they must renew the contract and give another money.
Because of this, the broadcast rights of nine countries in Southeast Asia have only been sold for more than 20 million, but the five-year authorization of one South Korea is as high as 14 million, and the Japanese side is as high as 18 million!
At the same time, "The Legend of the New White Lady" actually sold the manga adaptation rights in Japan!
This is the charm of a ratings drama!
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At the end of February, the accounting firm finally issued a final financial audit report.
They have already given a preliminary figure before, but with the big sales of Rose Power's "Girls' Dormitory" and the various sales of "The Legend of the New White Lady", they have to re-examine the value of the copyrights of those albums and TV series in the hands of Minghu Culture.
Even, in the final report, they not only included the value of Li Qian's He Runqing, Zhou Yan and several albums that he himself has produced in recent months that have not yet had time to go on the market, but also greatly increased the valuation of various copyrights in the hands of Minghu Culture, including creative ability.
In the end, this valuation greatly exceeded Li Qian's own surprise.
In the accounting firm's report, they believe that the net asset value of Minghu Culture as of January 31, 2000 should be 1,672.8 million yuan.
And because almost all of the things in the hands of Minghu Culture are high-quality copyrights that are generating net profits at any time, and a large number of profits earned in the past few years that have been precipitated, and the company is completely debt-free, and its financial situation and future development prospects are so good that it can't be better, so in the report given by the accounting firm, the operation of Minghu Culture is given a high score of 93 points.
According to their evaluation system, this score represents "extremely worthwhile investment"!
As for the points deducted, the other party believes through analysis that although Minghu Culture has always been operating steadily, its business ideas tend to be conservative, and its business scope is too simple, so it is considered that its ability to resist market changes is limited.
Moreover, there is another reason, which is that they have also noticed the abnormal trend of the domestic cultural and entertainment market in the past two years, so they have to slightly lower the score.
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Soon after this report came out, Minghu Culture gathered all the people who had been circled and qualified to participate in this round of share expansion financing, and Cao Zhan and Yu Bojun also attended in person.
The reports were sent out one by one, and Qi Jie personally read out the financing plan this time.
As a result, no one who has been delineated as eligible to participate in this round of financing has given up the opportunity in his hands, and no one is willing to give up the amount he has been allocated.
If you don't have money for the time being, even if you borrow money, you must take the full share you can get.
So it was very pleasant that it only took two days, and even without receiving any news from the outside world, the first share expansion financing of Minghu Culture since its establishment was successfully completed.
After the completion of the financing, Minghu Culture will be changed from the original sole proprietorship company to a limited liability company with dozens of shareholders, and the total assets will exceed 2 billion yuan - in the current country, even if the domestic film and television companies of all sizes are included, this magnitude is definitely a predator.
After the completion of this financing, Li Qian personally owns 80% of the shares, Yu Bojun 2.5%, Cao Zhan 2.4%, Wang Huaiyu 0.1%, Qi Jie 3%, Liao Liao 1.5%, He Runqing 1.5%......
And just a few days after the completion of this financing, after a few years, Li Qian once again personally created the new album "Cloudy Sky" created by He Runqing from beginning to end, which was officially launched.
Soon after the album was released, the major media highly praised this new album that contained a certain jazz and folk style, ordinary comments, calling this album a "masterpiece", and the exaggerated simply thought that this album was definitely a "rescue work" when the current record market began to shrink as a whole!
Saving the market or not, Li Qian doesn't dare to praise Haikou, the general trend of the market is not something that He Runqing or one of his albums can change, for him, this album is selling very well, and everyone basically has a recognized attitude towards He Runqing's "small" transformation, which is enough.
Then, when the time came to the end of March, under the close attention of many domestic TV station peers, the large-scale variety show "Super Girl", which had been prepared for a long time by Minghu Culture and Hunan Satellite TV, finally began to gradually surface.
Before the official registration opened, just the news and propaganda in the early stage were released one after another, which had already made domestic public opinion start to be noisy.
Entertainment variety shows are not uncommon, and the draft is not the first of its kind, but it is definitely the first time in China that a music company and a TV station have joined forces to do a variety show.
Some people are disdainful, some people are cautious and look on coldly, but there are still people, especially those girls who have dreams or are pretentious, when they learn that such a singing talent show that is open to the whole society is about to be held, and the planner and producer of this show is their leader Li Qian, they can't help but get excited.
On March 27, Hunan Satellite TV officially released the program promotional video.
Led by Li Qian, the three mentors He Runqing, Cao Zhan and Zhen Zhen also appeared on the camera to shoot, in three minutes, not only will the general rules be clear, but also do their best to bewitch, and finally even release a big killer move - the top three in the finals will be directly signed with Minghu Culture, and Li Qian, the gold medal producer, will create the first album by himself!
As soon as the promotional video came out, there was no big movement in the upper echelons, or within the music world, but in the people, it quickly set off an uproar!
In recent years, Li Qian, the leader, these two names have really become synonymous with "high quality" in the domestic music scene, Li Qian has created countless popular works, and Li Qian's big names in the music world have also occupied half of the domestic music scene!
Any girl with a dream of singing, after seeing such a promotional video, it is impossible not to be moved!
After last year's "The Legend of the New White Lady" hit air, HUNAN Satellite TV has already emerged in the major provincial satellite TV stations across the country and has become the leading group in the ratings.
After three consecutive days of promotional video bombardment, on March 30, Hunan Satellite TV finally officially announced that the program registration will be fully launched at the same time in the six major regions of the country from April 6th! )