Chapter 378: Beyond Cameron
When Zhang Huasong received endorsements and advertisements in China, after a few days of post-production, the MV video of the theme song "Rok-You" of the 2010 South Africa World Cup was produced and sent to the mailbox of Zhang Huasong's studio.
After Zhang Huasong, Pan Xiaowen and others watched it, they all thought it was quite good, and this MV should satisfy the vast majority of fans.
In particular, the chorus is very imposing, and it is a real recording of more than 1,000 real fans from a local fan association in South Africa who the film crew invited to shout together, which is absolutely shocking.
On February 18, the South African World Cup Organizing Committee and FIFA jointly held a press conference to announce the MV video of the 2010 World Cup theme song "Rok-You" composed by Zhang Huasong and sung by Zhang Huasong and the South African band Freshlyground.
When the video began, there was not a musical prelude, but a popping applause rhythm, and the reporters thought to themselves: "What kind of music rhythm is this?"
And the lyrics sung by Zhang Huasong in the first few lines are not brilliant, they can only be said to be average.
Just when some reporters were disappointed, Zhang Huasong and the members of the freshlyground band in the video suddenly broke out and shouted in unison:
rok-you!rok-you!”
This simple lyric, accompanied by the applause that was still cracking, was simply magical! Many reporters became excited at once.
Later, when everyone watched Zhang Huasong and the freshlyground band in the video, as well as the fans standing in the stadium stands chanting ROK in unison with the rhythm of applause, everyone was convinced!
Some reporters couldn't help but start shaking their legs and stomping their feet to the rhythm of the applause in the video, and even applauding!
The rhythm of the applause and the high-tide lyrics are so emotional!
The press conference was a success, and journalists from all over the world who attended the press conference gave the song a very high evaluation, and some media even called it "the most successful, the most magical, and the most suitable theme song for the football World Cup stage ever!"
After the press conference, the MV was also launched on TV stations and video websites in various countries to start the promotion of the World Cup.
Seeing the news that the MV of the South African World Cup theme song composed by Zhang Huasong was finally launched, Zhang Huasong's fans and many fans were immediately interested and hurriedly found a website to play and watch.
And this song did not disappoint everyone, especially those fans, after watching it, they had a feeling that this song was born specifically for football games, which is simply too suitable.
The other lyrics may not be remembered, but the line Rok is remembered by everyone who has heard it.
In the days that followed, Rok-You spread rapidly among fans around the world, and European fans were even starting to stomp their feet and clapping in chorus during the game.
In China, as Zhang Huasong's motherland and base camp, Zhang Huasong naturally has the most fans and supporters.
There are a lot of football fans in Huaguo, and the song itself is also very suitable for football games, so naturally it swept the country in half a day, and landed first on the new song lists of major music websites.
In universities and middle schools, countless students stomped their feet and clapped and shouted ROK in the classroom during recess or evening self-study, so that those who had not heard the song were instantly attracted, and then joined in and sang in a chorus.
Zhang Huasong and his "Rok-You" are popular again.
"Zhang Huasong is synonymous with miracles, and the World Cup theme song ROK-YOU, which he wrote lyrics and composed and served as the lead singer, is popular all over the world!"
"The simplest lyrics in history, but the most magical World Cup theme song was born, from the work of Grammy Award winner Zhang Huasong!"
"Zhang Huasong is a news maker, as long as you keep an eye on Zhang Huasong, there will never be a shortage of news!"
Indeed, as long as you keep an eye on Hua Song, there will never be a shortage of news.
Since WeChat surpassed 100 million registered users last year, the Matthew effect has become more and more obvious.
As relatives, friends, classmates and colleagues have abandoned other chat software, WeChat has increasingly become the preferred mobile phone chat software for domestic users in China.
The software itself has almost no detours, and the good user experience and Zhang Huasong's fame have made the growth of WeChat users many times faster than the earth in parallel time and space.
Just when Zhang Huasong's World Cup theme song was very popular among fans around the world, on February 25, Zhang Huasong's Feixun Technology Company announced that the registered users of its products WeChat exceeded 300 million, and the weekly active users exceeded 100 million, which immediately caused a sensation across the country and even the world.
100 million weekly active users?
How much is this worth?
Although the outside world has not yet seen the profit direction of WeChat, with 100 million weekly active users, what can you do to make no money?
Conservative valuation, at least $1 billion is fine.
After the World Cup theme song became popular all over the world, Zhang Huasong broke the news again, with the number of registered WeChat users under his name exceeding 300 million and the weekly active users exceeding 100 million. 》
"Zhang Huasong's WeChat conservative valuation is at least more than $1 billion, Zhang Huasong may have become the richest athlete in Bluestar!"
"The all-round king Zhang Huasong is really all-round, after track and field, tennis, and music, Zhang Huasong's first investment in the Internet field was also a great success!"
Not to mention athletes, even those Internet industry insiders who claim to be elites, looking at the strong momentum of WeChat, can't help but express their admiration for Zhang Huasong.
Just when everyone was still estimating the value of WeChat and Zhang Huasong's worth, WeChat made a blockbuster update: the WeChat public account function was launched.
WeChat public account can be said to be the most important function of WeChat on the parallel time and space earth, some well-done public accounts, with only one official account is valued at hundreds of millions of dollars, which can be called against the sky.
People who make a fortune on WeChat public accounts don't know how many.
There is interest to be motivated, and the high-quality text, pictures, and videos based on WeChat are endless, and finally WeChat has been pushed to the position of hegemon.
Zhang Huasong's Feixun Company updated the official account function at this time, which is to completely dominate the mobile phone instant messaging market.
The authentication function of the WeChat official account also gives WeChat the first profit point: the official account certification is charged.
After the official account is on the right track, WeChat will also add a game interface, allowing game companies to develop mobile games and put them on WeChat, and WeChat will charge a platform fee.
In addition, Zhang Huasong also handed over the planning of several of the most profitable mobile games in parallel time and space to Ye Chu, and asked him to recruit people to make these games, and then launch them in the name of Feixun Company to accumulate higher wealth for Zhang Huasong.
In the future, it will take some money to buy football clubs, make movies, etc.
After dealing with WeChat and domestic endorsements, Zhang Huasong flew to Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, on March 9 to attend the 11th Laureus World Sports Awards 2010 ceremony in Abu Dhabi.
Between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009, Zhang Huasong won the 10th World Championships in Athletics, the annual tennis Grand Slam, and the first class honor in the ATP World Tennis Ranking at the end of the year.
Zhang Huasong's main rival is Leo Messi from Barcelona and known as the successor of Maradona.
In 2009, Barcelona won the Spanish Copa del Rey, La Liga, UEFA Champions League, Spanish Super Cup, UEFA Super Cup and Club World Cup, becoming the first and only team to win the "six crowns" in a single year.
Messi also won the 2009 European Ballon d'Or and World Footballer of the Year for his phenomenal performance in the process of Barcelona's six crowns.
Football is obviously much more influential than athletics and tennis, and Messi's performance is phenomenal, and it is no surprise that he was nominated for Laureus Male Athlete of the Year.
However, football is a collective sport, and Barcelona's success cannot be attributed entirely to Messi.
Moreover, Messi is only the successor of the football king, not the real football king.
Therefore, to compete with Zhang Huasong, who won the ten championships of the World Championships and the annual tennis slam, the possibility of Messi winning the award is relatively low.
Sure enough, at the award ceremony on March 10, Zhang Huasong finally won the award and successfully won the Laureus Best Male Athlete Award for two consecutive years.
After the award ceremony, Zhang Huasong and Messi were invited by a sports-loving crown prince of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi to attend his evening.
The life of a local tyrant in the Middle East oil crown prince opened Zhang Huasong's eyes.
There are dining tables made of gold, piles of top sports cars, and several private jets, and the crown prince even proposed to give Zhang Huasong a sports car, but Zhang Huasong politely refused.
It's really that his sports cars are too flamboyant in style and color, and Zhang Huasong feels that he can't afford it.
Moreover, accepting gifts from others for no reason is not Zhang Huasong's character.
The crown prince is a great fan of tennis as well as football.
Therefore, in his mansion there are tennis courts, as well as football fields. Zhang Huasong played a game of tennis with him, and Messi performed a football trick, which made the crown prince very happy.
After the party, the crown prince said that he likes Huaguo very much and will go to Huaguo to participate in a provincial investment promotion conference in the near future.
Zhang Huasong welcomed this and was happy to see it come to fruition.
After leaving Abu Dhabi, Zhang Huasong did not return to China, but flew west to the American continent to prepare for two tennis Masters tournaments in the Stars and Stripes Country in March: Indian Wells and Miami Masters.
Both Masters tournaments are hard courts, and Zhang Huasong won the championship last year.
This year, Zhang Huasong continued his dominance on hard tennis courts, winning comfortably 2-0 in all of them, including the final, and successfully defended the titles of both Masters.
Just when Zhang Huasong left the Stars and Stripes Country and went to the Principality of Monaco in Europe to participate in the Monte Carlo Clay Masters, "Avatar" was finally released in countries around the world after being postponed again and again.
The final box office of "Avatar" reached a terrifying $800 million, far exceeding the box office of "Titanic" of $1.8 billion. (Note: "Titanic" was first released in 1997 with a box office of $1.8 billion, and then reached a total box office of $800 million when it was released in 3D for the second time in 2012.) )
So far, the top two box office lists in global film history have become James Cameron's films, and the box office far exceeds the third place, and James Cameron has become a veritable king of the world.
Some Hollywood media broke the news that according to Cameron's "Avatar" box office dividend contract, Cameron can finally get $500 million in box office dividends.
According to the exchange rate in 2010, this income was as high as 2.3 billion yuan.
A movie has allowed Cameron to earn much higher income than the bonuses and endorsements that Zhang Huasong has accumulated in the past few years.
There is no doubt that Cameron is definitely the highest-paid director in the world today.
In addition to the salary, Cameron also gained a lot in terms of popularity.
When the final box office of "Avatar" was released, Cameron's popularity ranking not only surpassed Zhang Huasong, but also jumped to the sixth place of international superstars.
Moreover, it is conceivable that Cameron will be the object of heated discussions among media and fans around the world for a long time to come, and Cameron's popularity will continue to rise, and it should be no problem to reach the top five positions.
However, Zhang Huasong did not fall to the tenth position.
Because of Zhang Huasong's Australian Open championship, Grammy Music Awards, World Cup theme song and other achievements, Zhang Huasong's popularity is also rising sharply, and Zhang Huasong's ranking has also risen one place again, reaching the eighth position of the international superstar.
Although his ranking is still rising and not falling, Zhang Huasong is also a little blushing when he sees such a high popularity brought by Cameron's movie.
If these popularity were given to him, he would be closer to the first place in the world.
However, whether it is the blue star or the earth in parallel time and space, the top two box office lists in film history are Cameron's works: "Avatar" and "Titanic".
There is no other better commercial film on earth that allows Zhang Huasong to move to Blue Star to surpass Cameron.
Therefore, if you want to surpass Cameron in the film field, it seems that Zhang Huasong can only take the road of originality.
At this moment, Zhang Huasong had the idea of one day creating an original movie that surpassed Cameron.
However, presumably, the scale of investment in such a movie is absolutely unprecedented. With Zhang Huasong's current almost zero film qualifications, he will definitely not be able to attract investment. And his own financial resources are not yet able to bear it.
WeChat's valuation is only a valuation, not cash, and it is impossible for him to directly sell WeChat to invest in movies.
Moreover, the success of "Avatar" is not only the victory of technological revolutions such as 3D special effects and motion capture, but also the success of Cameron's previous "Titanic" and the title of "King of the World" also make him a director with huge box office appeal.
The sky-defying box office of "Avatar" is a combination of many factors.
If Zhang Huasong wants to surpass Cameron, he must not only work the script, directorial skills, and special effects technology, but also have a huge box office appeal.
Therefore, Zhang Huasong needs to move a few blockbuster movies in parallel time and space to cultivate his box office appeal as a director, and then create a higher-quality film to surpass Cameron in one fell swoop and become the new king of directors.
But that's all for later. At present, Zhang Huasong should first consolidate his popularity in the existing field!
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