Chapter 261: Youji is in trouble?
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Generally speaking, if it is a film made in the United States or Canada, there is no strict ratio relationship between the national achievements in the United States and the overall results in the world, some movies may be more in line with the aesthetics of Americans, so the ratio is two to one, and the United States accounts for two, but some movies, the world audience will like them, and the American audience is not particularly appreciative. Then the ratings could be one to two.
Of course, this only refers to local films in the United States and Canada, if it is a foreign film, the overall situation is actually similar, but at the box office in my country, there may be more.
The drama "Ju Day", its predecessor "Juno", according to the information that Zhou Xiao knows, received a box office of 140 million in the United States, and more than 80 million in other parts of the world, which is basically in line with the ratio of 2:1, but now it has become a work directed by him and funded by Canada to become a Japanese work, which won the award for the first time, and also went to the stage of the Venice Film Festival in Europe.
However, Zhou Xiao and AZX are not worried about this, although North America is still 40 million away from his predecessor, but in other parts of the world, especially in Europe and Japan, which are far more famous than in their previous lives, the 40 million box office may not be able to get it back, Zhou Xiao estimates that although there are differences between regions, but overall, the final box office figures should be about the same as his predecessor.
And with a box office of more than 200 million, AZX may finally get a huge share of more than 100 million US dollars, plus the subsequent DVD sales, AZX's original company value of more than 2 billion yen, that is, more than 20 million US dollars, has increased fivefold in an instant, as for the ratio of film investment to income? That's an even more dizzying number.
AZX stuffy to make money. Determined to bring "Ju Day" to North America, Europe, Japan and even Southeast Asia, the Japanese who watched AZX make money were crazy.
How long has it been since Japan has produced this kind of work that can make money all over the world and have a reputation and win awards?
In addition to those names that are shiny and can smash a big bag when they say it, both Japanese directors and actors seem to only like to play on their own one-third of an acre, and in the eyes of the Japanese, investing in 1o works of 100 million yen can earn 1oo billion yen in Japan. In fact, in the world's entertainment industry, the United States is a standard outward type and has a huge aggressiveness, and in other countries, if you make 1o 100 million yen movies in a company, there may not be such a big market in China, only Japan. It is precisely because this small country has a huge market that can be digested internally that it will always ignore the excitement of the outside world.
It's just that all kinds of releases and publicity have nothing to do with Zhou Xiao, from the beginning of this year to now, it's almost October. Zhou Xiao has been busy with movies, the singles have not been released much, and variety shows have not been done very carefully, although these things are also done very carefully. But for Zhou Xiao, he already felt bored and bored after doing it for more than half a year, and Zhou Xiao threw most of the remaining work to AZX. As for the publicity part in Japan, he no longer needs to be famous with the movie, so he gave the opportunity to Aoi Miyazaki.
The first thing Zhou Xiao, who completed this work, did was to prepare a new variety show with Jun Tamura.
The show "God Tongue", under normal circumstances, Zhou Xiao does not appear on the scene, in this show, he wants to simply be a person who makes zuò, the reason is very simple, although he is already twenty years old, but this age is still not suitable for appearing in this kind of too obscene show, so it is still a good choice for Zhou Xiao to appear behind the scenes, but if he really wants to appear on the camera, even if it is just a late-night show, I am afraid that the opposition will not be small at that time.
Although I have been looking forward to the appearance of Jun Tamura when I watched the tongue of the gods before, but when this qiē really started running, Zhou Xiao didn't have any specifics, what kind of concept this show should become, in his mind, there was only a scene of Xiao Mu making a fool of himself and a few other people in the troupe.
Compared with these three, Tamura Jun is a completely different type, although these three people have a poisonous tongue, but their personal image is very good, and even so good that Xiaomu cheated, say it casually, and everyone will not be angry Cheng Dù, but Tamura Jun is different, although he is very capable, but at the same time, his favorability has not been able to go up, in fact, in terms of appearance and ability, he is the top among Japanese artists, but the damn favorability just can't go up, and it's also very helpless.
And a show like the Divine Tongue, you have a high degree of favorability to do it, everyone will not say anything, and they will say that you are fun, but if it is an artist with a favorability like Tamura Jun, some people will start to say bad things, so at the beginning of the broadcast of this Divine Tongue, Zhou Xiao felt that there was no need to pick up those classic projects immediately, if possible, first brush the favorability of Tamura Jun.
It is also very particular about artists to increase their favorability, or even some artists will not like the increase in their favorability, because it often means that their image has changed, and in the face of image changes, not all artists can cope well and make themselves more popular, and some artists often become uncomfortable, and finally end up being eliminated from the entertainment industry.
Therefore, Jun Tamura's agent is also very cautious about the first plan to change his image that Zhou Xiao expects, because everyone knows that this cannot be the fuse for him to leave the entertainment industry.
The plan for Jun Tamura has been in preparation, and before that, when Zhou Xiao participated in a variety show on Fuji Channel, he unexpectedly met a person who surprised him.
"Ueshima-san, hello!" Zhou Xiao bowed respectfully and said hello, yes, this person is the dragon soldier on the island of the Ostrich Club, but surprisingly, the people who came to Zhou Xiao's lounge were only himself and not the other two people he combined.
If you want to talk about the Ostrich Club, their performance form and artist style are actually outdated, which makes them can only survive on their own jokes in the entertainment industry, so the three of them will appear at the same time most of the time, plus they are all very good people and have high seniority, which can maintain their appearance frequency in the entertainment industry.
Zhou Xiao sat down. I'm sorry, but I came to you. Uejima said. To say that he won a big prize from abroad and made so much money, the most intuitive feeling after Zhou Xiao came back is that these people's attitude towards themselves has changed dramatically. In the past, everyone saw that Zhou Xiao was nothing more than a very high-level junior, especially funny artists, Zhou Xiao debuted as a funny artist, he never shy away from saying that he would even take the initiative to mention it, which made funny artists treat him as if they were a non-threatening peer, cordial and don't think much, it is simply the best way to deal with it. But now it's different, after coming back from abroad, almost everyone in Zhou Xiaoxian will take him very seriously, and some jokes and interactions on the show are also a lot more cautious, as if overnight, Zhou Xiao has changed from a funny artist with no taboos to an international director.
Let's be honest...... Zhou Xiao still enjoys this kind of treatment, but he doesn't say that, he usually says that he doesn't like to be treated like this, he is still the same person. I hope you can still treat him the same way you did before.
Zhou Xiao does enjoy being treated specially, but he also knows that his roots are in the Japanese entertainment industry, and he will be a producer rather than a director or singer in the future. So that kind of high-end route is not suitable for him, he needs to be more close to the people.
"Long Bing Sang, is there any difficulty in this?" Zhou Xiao is not a person who is very good at observing words and feelings, but even if he is like this, he can still see a lot of hesitation on Shang Dao's face.
"Yes...... That is true. Zhou Xiao, didn't you inquire about Yoshihiro before, he recently ...... Somewhat troublesome. Uejima said.
"There's Jisan? What happened to him? Zhou Xiao asked.
He ......, "Uejima Dragon Soldier, this person is actually a very pure person. The pure ones were a little natural, and when he talked to Zhou Xiao at this moment, the way he wanted to speak and stopped made Zhou Xiao only think of one possibility.
"Dragon Soldier San?" Zhou Xiao asked.
As if he had made up his mind, Uejima Ryubing said, "It's been difficult for Yuji to be on TV lately, you should know, right?" ”
Zhou Xiao nodded and said, "I know, is it because of the contract?" ”
That's right, because of the contract, he and his previous partner just got a lot of jobs when they debuted, but relatively, the two of them haven't experienced too many ups and downs in the entertainment industry, which makes the two of them much less affordable than other funny artists, so since they couldn't get a job, the two have been breaking up, but because of Ota's previous problems in terms of remuneration, coupled with the profligacy of the two back then, they have been in a state of litigation in recent years, and now Youji actually wants to come out to work. But the contract was not sorted out, making it difficult for him to be on TV. Uejima said.
"So ......?"
"Having a guitar has a lot of potential, I've always thought so, but if he wants to be on TV, he has to get his own contract first, so I thought, if you're interested......" Uejima said with great embarrassment.
Zhou Xiao scratched his head, this request ...... It's a bit excessive.
If he came to borrow money or something before he made the movie, it wouldn't cause people to reverie, but now that he and Youji came out to borrow money or ask him to help get things done, it would inevitably mean that he was a little rich and had distant relatives in the mountains.
"No...... Isn't it possible? Shangdao Longbing himself must have known that this request was too much, so he looked at Zhou Xiao's embarrassed appearance and asked a little nervously.
"How much does it cost?" Zhou Xiao asked.
"Four...... Forty-five million. Uejima said.
"Why are there so many?" Zhou Xiao frowned.
Is this a lot of money? In fact, it is not much at all, and when converted into US dollars, it is only 450,000 US dollars. In Japan, popular artists can usually earn this amount.
But this number is also a lot, the average annual salary in Japan is about 3oo thousand, these 45 million can't be said to be the annual salary of a Japanese for fifteen years, and there are many people who take out this amount in the entertainment industry, and there are a lot of them, but they can be taken out for no reason, to give an outdated funny artist, not to mention whether the artist's own parents and wife can agree, even themselves, I'm afraid they have to consider the risk.
And Zhou Xiao realized that this was the reason why he only made his debut in O4, and the contract problem made him unable to debut, and I am afraid it will be O4 years. He was able to solve his worries with his partner who tore his face. As for the solution, Zhou Xiao estimated that it was very likely that Youji owed a lot of money.
From O4 Ariyoshi debuted from a new debut to 2O14, in the first few years he gradually began to take over the job and became a good artist, after years of accumulation, in O9, 1O year, he began to become popular, and after that, it was a crazy job. Crazy to pick up shows, with a very cheap price to pick up a lot of groups, he doesn't even cherish his image at all, he can not only take on AKB-related programs that are actually very bad quality and take them for several years, but also can take the idol hole, a vulgar program that even makes him feel like he has lost two pounds of discipline even when he types out his name, his own statement is that the hunger and thirst caused by not working for ten years makes him crazy about wanting more work, wanting to take more jobs, but Zhou Xiao estimates. There may be a reason why he owes some money.
"Originally, it was 60 million, but I got together a little bit with Tsuchida and the troupe, and now there is still so much short." Ueshima Dragon Soldier said.
Zhou Xiaodao: "You let him tell me by himself." ”
"Huh?"
"Long Bing Sang. You...... It's good for him, it's okay for one person to be good to another, but it also depends on the situation, like you are now begging for him to be low. I shouldn't be your first choice, but what if he doesn't know, or if he does, he thinks it's normal? Before you help him. I have to teach him to thank you for your kindness. Zhou Xiao said bitterly.
Actually...... He's a complete.
Time is a thing that sees the true and false very clearly, and in today's Japan, I'm afraid no one would have thought that Tamura Jun would one day put away his thousand people and cut off his little jj, get married and live a stable life (of course, it may not be possible to divorce in the future), and no one would think of AKB's success or even Yoshihiro's success again. And after Ariyoshi's success, his respect and care for Uejima Dragon Soldier is also a very famous story in the Japanese entertainment industry, such Ariyoshi is by no means the guy who may not know gratitude in Zhou Xiao's mouth.
But Zhou Xiao knew, the dragon soldiers on the island didn't know, hearing Zhou Xiao say this, the dragon soldiers on the island could only nod a little bit incomprehensibly.
"So, when you go back, you say so, you said that you finally found an opportunity to see me, and my optimism about him came out last year, let him come to me himself." Zhou Xiao said.
"Good...... Well, I got it. The dragon soldier on the island was fooled by Zhou Xiao and didn't know his thoughts very well, and he didn't resist much when he heard Zhou Xiao say this, so he obediently left Zhou Xiao's lounge.
Sent away to the island dragon soldiers, Zhou Xiao also began to think about Youji Hongxing.
Ariyoshi is undoubtedly very powerful, but now, this strength is only potential, his success is not something that he will have immediately after his debut, starting from 04, he needs at least five years to precipitate and train himself before he can embark on the road of success again.
When filming "The Queen's Classroom" before, Zhou Xiao wanted to bring him out, but unfortunately he didn't accept this invitation at the time, and now it seems that Uejima Longbing was not very clear about his situation at that time.
Zhou Xiao didn't ask about the specific content of those contract disputes or anything, and the specific things were handed over to the company's legal related people to deal with, as long as he knew how much money he paid in the end.
As for more than 40 million yen? From beginning to end, he didn't care about this number at all, and the question Zhou Xiao really struggled with was whether he wanted to take advantage of Youji's trouble and take him under his AZX.
After Yuji became popular, he earned 120 million yen a day in 13 and 14 years, and the company could only get more benefits from him than this, not less than this. It can be said that 1o years later, he is Ota's biggest cash cow in terms of comedy artists.
The money that Youji earns, of course, can't be compared with Zhou Xiao's movies, but there are not many movies in Zhou Xiao's head, and there is not much time between now and ten years later, plus all kinds of other things, Zhou Xiao can make four or five more movies when they are full, even if each of these four or five movies gets 200 million US dollars, in the end, what the company can earn is only four or five hundred million US dollars, this number is not small, in the Japanese entertainment industry, even if it is Kimura, he may not be able to earn this number in his lifetime, can be Zhou Xiao's goal, This number is far from enough.
And what about Yukishi? When he becomes popular, he can earn at least one or two hundred million yen a year, and even if he reduces his workload in the future, his generation will be divided, and the salary of each job will be more, and Japanese male comedy artists, even if you have been popular since the age of 36, you can at least be doing it for 25 years, even if you make a profit of 100 million a year, this money is really a lot.
But signing Ariyoshi actually means risk, because Ariyoshi does not mean that he is popular, Ota as the driving force behind it has a big role, with AZX's connections, if you want to push Ariyoshi to the front line, not only AZX has to go all out, I'm afraid Zhou Xiao will have to tear his face and stick it hard. (To be continued......)