The crew of Zhou Yan's "Sense and Sensibility" stayed for more than a week, and on July 11, they went to London again.

Huo Jianqi and they have already brought the filming team over to prepare for the shooting of the concert footage. Although there was only one scene, Huo Jianqi still brought more than a dozen people over.

The first concert of "The Sixth Sense Global Tour" was in London, on July 15, and in order to ensure that the concert would not be affected normally, Huo Jianqi and they came five or six days in advance to make sufficient preparations.

In the first two days, they just measured and selected seats in the concert, and then the orchestra came to the concert hall to rehearse, and they would start rehearsing together.

In this scene, Zhou Yan was completely handed over to Huo Jianqi for guidance, and he basically did not interfere himself, because the concert itself was inseparable from him, and he had no time to worry about filming at that time.

And the plan for this scene was also done by Huo Jianqi at the beginning, and Zhou Yan was relieved to hand it over to him.

At noon on July 13, after dinner, Zhou Yan was about to take the orchestra to the concert hall for rehearsal, but received a phone call.

A middle-aged man's voice rang on the other end of the phone, "Hello, Mr. Y, I'm Jeff Brown from jive, and I'm also the head of Backstreet Boys. ”

After listening to the other party's self-introduction, Zhou Yan smiled, "Hello, Mr. Brown, may I ask if you are calling me for something at this time?" ”

Jeff Brown laughed and said, "I'd like to share with you the good news that 'Yellow' topped the UK Singles Chart last week, which is the first number one for the Backstreet Boys, and it's an airborne title. ”

The song "Yellow" was just released in the UK earlier this month, and Jeff Brown was very confident before the release, he believed that the song would definitely not be bad in the UK, but he didn't expect it to be so good, and it won the championship in the first week.

This is indeed the first championship won by this song, in the United States, the best result of this song is only the second place in the single, and then it drops, although it can still remain in the top five, but the ranking will only get lower and lower, unless there is something special to appear, otherwise, it is unlikely to rush up again.

There is a big gap between the second place and the first place, and there is no title of the crown list, which greatly affects the marketing publicity.

If "Yellow" can win a weekly championship in the United States, I'm afraid the sales will increase a lot, and the gold content of the word crown list is still very high.

"Yellow" got off to such a good start in the UK, and the publicity work will be a little better later, and maybe it can affect sales in other regions.

Zhou Yan was also very happy to hear the news, this song really did not disappoint him.

However, he also knew that Jeff Brown must have something else to say, they had never been in contact before, and Jeff Brown couldn't contact him directly just to share a good news.

"Congratulations, Mr. Brown, and I hope you will continue to work hard and continue to get good results."

"We want to thank you, Mr. Y, it is precisely because of such a good song of yours that we can achieve our current results." Jeff Brown complimented Zhou Yan, and then asked about Zhou Yan's concert, "How are your concert preparations now?" ”

"Okay, we have our first rehearsal in the afternoon, although this concert is a new theme, but overall, it's still an old repertoire, nothing special."

The preparation for this concert went much smoother than Zhou Yan imagined.

Originally, they thought that the tickets would not be sold out, but they did not expect that half a month ago, all 900 tickets for the concert hall had been sold out.

In the past half a month, many people can't buy tickets if they want to.

Originally, they also thought about holding concerts at the Babbitt Center for the Arts, or even at Albert Hall, but they gave up considering that there were too many seats in these two concert halls and tickets might not be able to sell.

The Albert Hall is very large, with a capacity of more than 5,000 spectators, and Zhou Yan has never held a concert of this scale.

The Babbitt Center can accommodate 2,000 people, and Zhou Yan has held concerts of this size several times, but in the UK, tickets are not necessarily easy to sell.

So in the end, they chose the Kadugan Hall in Chelsea, which has a capacity of 950 people.

Removing some of the reserved tickets, the number sold to the outside world is basically at the number of 900.

The first ticket for the theme concert was sold out in advance, although it was not an amazing achievement, but it was a good start, so Zhou Yan was quite satisfied.

After caring about Zhou Yan's concert, Jeff Brown said, "Actually, the members of the Backstreet Boys will hold a small indoor concert in London the day after tomorrow, and we will be in London tomorrow, I wonder if there will be a chance to bring the boys to meet you at that time?" ”

"When are you coming?" Zhou Yan asked.

"We landed at about five o'clock." Jeff Brown said.

Zhou Yan thought for a while and said, "I'm going to have a concert the day after tomorrow, and they're going to have a concert the day after tomorrow, I'm afraid we won't have time to meet in the next two days, if it's tomorrow, it may be a little later, and we'll meet again after the rehearsal with the orchestra here." ”

Jeff Brown laughed, "No problem, no matter how late it is, we can wait." ”

"In that case, I'll see you tomorrow."

"Okay, see you tomorrow."

……

After hanging up Jeff Brown's phone, Zhou Yan took the orchestra to Kadugan Concert Hall.

In fact, Zhou Yan is still very satisfied with the Kadugan Concert Hall, the facilities of this concert hall are very good, a little more advanced than several other concert halls.

The small venue is also suitable for the theme of this time, "The Sixth Sense Theme Concert" has no big music, if it is performed in a place like Albert, it must be performed with the help of sound equipment, the audience can hear clearly, in that case, the effect will be much worse.

The rehearsal didn't end until half past seven in the evening, and by the time Zhou Yan returned to the hotel after dinner, it was almost nine o'clock.

When he arrived at the door, he found Zhang Youan standing at the door, so he asked strangely, "Didn't you say that you will only arrive in London the morning after tomorrow?" Why did you come here today? ”

"Changed the plan for the time being." Zhang Youan smiled, "Backstreet boys, they're coming to London tomorrow, did Jeff call you about this?" ”

"Well, I did." Zhou Yan nodded, "You won't just come here for this, will you." ”

Zhang Youan shook his head and smiled, "Of course not, I'm here to tell you another thing, you open the door first, and we'll go in." ”

"Why is it still mysterious?"

Zhou Yan pouted and smiled, and opened the door.

After entering the room, Zhang Youan took out a stack of scripts directly from his briefcase, "Na, look at this." ”

"What is this?" Zhou Yan took the script suspiciously.

The first page was blank, and when I turned to the second page, I saw a line of headlines written on it - Crazy Night of the Band.

Seeing this name, Zhou Yan didn't even turn it back, so he asked Zhang Youan again, "Where did this come from?" ”

"Would you like to take a look first?"

Zhou Yan rolled his eyes, "Okay." ”

Immediately, he roughly flipped through the script.

It's only a third of it, it's not that Zhou Yan doesn't give face, it's really that this script is too rubbish, and Zhou Yan really can't stand it.

This script tells the story of the "Human Ghost Band", where there are two boys who "don't meet talents" who have nothing to do at school and are bullied every day, but they both have musical dreams and are determined to become musicians.

In order to achieve their dream, they decided to form a band, but they couldn't find anyone to join it, and even if anyone wanted to participate, they were stupid people who didn't even know how to play an instrument.

Until one day, we were in an abandoned warehouse and came across half a band.

This half of the band is very strange, there are only three people in total, and it will only be seen at night.

In order to achieve their musical dreams, the two boys decided to form a band with these three people.

Zhou Yan only saw this, and as for the later story, he was really not interested. And how the story will develop later, he can probably guess.

"You can tell me now where this script came from, right?"

"Warner."

The corners of Zhou Yan's mouth twitched, and he asked again: "What does Warner mean by giving this script?" ”

"They want to ask if you're interested in the script."

"You want me to direct?"

"Hmm." Zhang Youan nodded.

Zhou Yan threw the script back into Zhang You'an's hand with a disgusted face, "They couldn't find anyone to shoot this bad script, so they remembered to find me, right?" ”

"Also...... It doesn't suck. ”

Zhang Youan feels that this script is indeed not amazing, but it is not as unbearable as Zhou Yan said.

Zhou Yan rolled his eyes and looked at Zhang Youan, and said in his heart that this guy had watched too many Xiangjiang movies, and he thought this film was okay.

Although Xiangjiang movies have been brilliant, there are really many bad movies like this type, and this kind of bad movie may still get a considerable box office.

As long as you invite a few well-known actors and add a little joke that makes people laugh, the final finale will be successful, and the audience will definitely buy it.

And Warner wants to find Zhou Yan, it must also take a fancy to Zhou Yan's musical talent, if Zhou Yan is in charge of the music of this movie, it will definitely make this movie a lot more brilliant.

When the time comes, Zhou Yan will write a few high-quality tunes and play them on the band, with publicity and publicity, won't the box office be stable?

Zhou Yan is also sighing, as strong as Warner, he can also take out this kind of bad script.

But if you think about it, you can see that these big companies look very powerful, but no one knows how many bad movies they have made in private.

Zhou Yan has no impression of this "Crazy Night of the Band", but he can't be sure if this movie has been made in his previous life. Maybe the movie was made, but because it was so bad, he didn't watch it.

There are now hundreds of films made every year in the world, not including those unknown short films, and with the development of the times, the restrictions on making movies will become smaller and smaller, and the annual output will increase a lot.

A movie that one person can watch is just the tip of the iceberg in film history.

In fact, just looking at the outline of the story, it is indeed not too bad, but some of the character settings and conflict settings in the script are sparsely written, and they want to highlight the theme, but they are pale and weak.

"Lao Zhang, don't worry about the script." Zhou Yan said.

In fact, what Zhou Yan wants to say is that Zhang Youan should not even worry too much about the movie, because in terms of movies, as long as Zhou Yan and Xu Feng are there, Zhang Youan really doesn't need to worry about it.

When Zhang Youan heard Zhou Yan say this, he knew that Zhou Yan would definitely not want this script.

"Okay, I see, I'll go and talk to Warner about it when I get back. In fact, in addition to Warner's scripts, there are also many scripts sent by companies, but those scripts are not as good as this. ”

"It's not as good as this...... Does Warner want to use this script to open up the Chinese market? ”

"That's not true, they also know that this kind of script is not easy to pass the review in the mainland."

"If they knew, do you have anything else to do besides this script?"

"One more thing, the song "Yellow" is quite popular right now, so it has attracted the attention of many record companies, and many companies have already contacted us, and the one that caught my attention the most was Crave Records."

Hearing the name crave, Zhou Yan thought about it carefully, and finally found nothing, so he asked, "Is this company famous?" ”

"This company is not famous, but its owner is famous."

"Who's the boss?"

"Mary Carey."

"Oh, she's signed to her own company." Zhou Yan was quite surprised, although Mariah Carey was popular, in fact, she was able to sign her own company within a few years of her debut.

Zhang Youan shook his head and said, "That's not it, she mainly collaborates with Columbia Records, and CRAVE is just an assistant, similar to your studio." I heard that she was working on a new album recently, and her company approached us for the new album. ”

"What did the other party say when they contacted you?" Zhou Yan asked.

"I didn't say anything else, so I asked you if you had any ideas for writing a song for Maria Carey."

"What do you say?"

"What else can I say, I'm sure I'll ask you what you mean."

Zhou Yan nodded, "Then you go and tell them, I don't have time now." ”

Zhang Youan sighed slightly, "I knew that you probably wouldn't agree, it's a pity, Mary Carey is now in the middle of the day, and selling songs gives her a lot of benefits." ”

Zhou Yan smiled and patted Zhang You'an on the shoulder, "Lao Zhang, don't sigh, if you think about it from another angle, I even rejected Mariah Carey, isn't it even more powerful?" Don't think about anything else during this time, just arrange my third album well, and if I don't release an album, my studio's phone will be blown up. ”

I don't know how, the front desk phone of Zhou Yan's studio was leaked, and now fans often call to ask about things related to Zhou Yan, and the most mentioned is the new album.

A long time ago, Zhou Yan said in front of the media that his third album would be released last year, but it has not been released until now, and many music fans are not happy.

"Don't worry, the album will be released at the end of next month."

"Well, that's good, do you have anything else to do besides these two things?"

Zhang Youan shook his head, "No, that's it." ”

Zhou Yan is still a little puzzled, is it worth Zhang You'an to come over in advance for this matter?

The matter of crave's invitation to sing can be said on the phone, and the script of "Crazy Night of the Band" is not in a hurry, and it is nothing to take it two days later.

But Zhang Youan didn't say, Zhou Yan didn't ask again, just nodded, "That's okay, that's it tonight, you just came, go back and rest first, I also went to bed early, and I still have work when I get up tomorrow morning." (End of chapter)