Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire Chapter 364

After "Back to the Future" won the championship for three consecutive weeks in North America, it was accidentally cut off by the romantic comedy "Mother and Daughter Love" for a week, and then returned to the championship, and has been in the top spot until now, which is a great achievement.

"Back to the Future" has also achieved good results in Central and South America, Europe, Asia and other continents, especially in Japan - so far, "Back to the Future" has received 6.2 billion yen in Japan. At the box office, Japanese film critics estimate that "Back to the Future" can earn at least 8 billion yen at the box office in Japan.

Since "Back to the Future" has achieved a world-shattering box office result for Xu Cun, Xu Cun's fame has reached a new high - although Xu Cun has publicly stated more than once that "Back to the Future" can achieve this result mainly because of The efforts of Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. But people in the world are more willing to believe that "Back to the Future" is a film directed by Xu Cun independently, and Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale only played an auxiliary role.

In this regard, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale are also very helpless - they can't tell everyone that Xu Cun only directed the first half of "Back to the Future" and participated in the editing, right?

In order to make up for the two wounded hearts of Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, Xu Cun awarded Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale fifty each in the name of the producers of "Back to the Future" $10,000, and promised that the sequel to "Back to the Future" would be directed by the two of them, and they would never interfere, and they were acquired by DreamWorks by the way.

"Back to the Future", a film that combines science fiction, romance, humor, thrills, action, etc., is excellent, but it doesn't mean that "Back to the Future" is uncontroversial - on the contrary, in the film Marty is The scene where the mother Lorraine forcibly kissed has caused widespread controversy around the world, and it has even been raised to the level of morality.

Xu Cun seems to have never heard of these disputes.

Now, how could Xu Cun have time to deal with those boring disputes? He is instilling the idea of ​​movie peripheral products for Cai Zhiming, and helping Cai Zhiming plan the peripheral products of "Back to the Future" - including: accessories, toys, figure models, books, posters, film and television props, pocket watches, watches, wine bottles , cigarette case, pendant, mug, flashlight, pen, chess, toilet paper, watch, telescope, earphone, keychain, pocket knife, etc.

The first buyer of the peripheral products of "Back to the Future" was DreamWorks Studios, more precisely the "Back to the Future" theme amusement park, or more precisely, the "Back to the Future" theme amusement park. tourists.

The "Back to the Future" theme park is far more popular than Xu Cun and Michael expected-the ten buses that Michael prepared for the "Back to the Future" theme park were not enough to pick up tourists. Phoenix Terrace borrowed ten buses to solve the transportation problem for tourists.

With such a large passenger flow, the peripheral products of "Back to the Future" sold better than expected - Cai Zhiming found several factories to manufacture the peripheral products of "Back to the Future", but the supply was still in short supply.

The influence of Back to the Future is time-sensitive. Therefore, DreamWorks Toys, which is seriously under-productive, can only reluctantly cede part of its overseas market to other toy companies.

This incident has taught Cai Zhiming, including Xu Cun, who proposed the idea of ​​movie peripheral products - the movie peripheral market is far larger than they thought, and if DreamWorks Toys wants to take more market share, it must expand as soon as possible. !

On the other hand, the videotape of "Back to the Future" also began to be released - in the United States alone, Ye Zhiming's first batch released 1.8 million boxes, and the first batch sold 3 million worldwide. box.

If all three million boxes of "Back to the Future" videotapes are sold out, there will be more than 100 million US dollars in sales, and nearly 10 million US dollars in profits (because the DreamWorks video tape distribution company has not yet perfect distribution channels, So at the moment DreamWorks VHS has to give up some of its profits to co-distribute "Back to the Future" video with other VHSs.)

Judging from the current situation, it is impossible for "Back to the Future" to surpass "ET" at the box office, or even "Home Alone" and "Ghost Love", but for Xu Cun, "Back to the Future" The significance of "To the Future" is no less than that of "ET" - because, relying on "Back to the Future", DreamWorks has formed the prototype of the industrial chain, and has gradually transformed from a film company to an entertainment group.

January 20, 1984.

This is the day when "Dao Ma Dan" was released in the mainland.

Xu Cun attaches great importance to the release of "Kao Ma Dan" in the Mainland!

In order to show the importance he attaches to this matter, even though it is the end of the year, Xu Cun still personally followed the DreamWorks distribution team to the mainland.

Of course, Xu Cun's trip to the mainland was not all because of the release of "Kao Ma Dan" in the mainland.

Xu Cun has one more thing to do when he goes to the mainland - to take people to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.

Last year, the Spring Festival Gala held by Phoenix TV was quite successful, and CCTV also wanted to hold a similar Spring Festival Gala.

CCTV's move has been supported and valued by leaders at all levels in the mainland. Some of them even thought that if they brought several famous Hong Kong singers to participate in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, it would definitely give the British G, who was negotiating with China and G, a heavy blow. .

At the critical juncture of the Sino-British negotiation, only Xu Cun, the first person in the Hong Kong film and television industry, can invite powerful singers to come here.

Therefore, through reporting layer by layer, the matter of inviting Hong Kong singers to participate in the Spring Festival Gala was finally reported to the central government.

Then, the central government decided to send a comrade from the Hong Kong Xinhua News Agency to ask Comrade Xu Cun to take the overall situation as the top priority to invite some heavyweight singers for CCTV.

This matter is easy for Xu Cun - as long as Xu Cun speaks, even Taiwanese singers like Deng Lijun and Su Rui will definitely go to the mainland to participate in the Spring Festival Gala.

but--

Xu Cun couldn't do that.

First of all, there is no need for this - the mainland doesn't want Taiwanese singers at all~www.mtlnovel.com~Why does Xu Cun need to add to it?

Secondly, Xu Cun also has to take into account the feelings of Deng Lijun and others - although Deng Lijun has settled in Xiangjiang with Xu Cun, Deng Lijun must be from Taiwan, and Deng Lijun has many relatives living in Taiwan. If Deng Lijun participated in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala It is bound to bring trouble to her and even her relatives who are still living in Taiwan, and other Taiwanese singers will also face similar situations.

After some screening, Xu Cun selected six people.

The six people are: Mei Yanfang, Zhou Huimin, Liu Dehua, Lin Tsaixiang, Ye Zhentang and the fairy Yu Yuanwen.

The songs they sing are: "Thousands of Waters and Thousands of Mountains Always Love", "Songs of Thousands of Que", "Chinese", "Men Be Self-improvement", "The Great Wall of Ten Thousand Miles Never Falls".

Mei Yanfang, Zhou Huimin, Ye Zhentang and Yu Yuanwen sang all the songs written by Xu Cun before, while Liu Dehua's "Chinese" and Lin Tsaixiang's "Men Be Self-improvement" were made by Xu Cun specially for Liu Dehua and Lin Tsai. Created by Xiang. It can be said that although Xu Cun did not personally participate in the first CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Xu Cun's contribution to the first CCTV Spring Festival Gala was no less than anyone else's.

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