The richest person in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 394: The lethality of the Chenguang blacklist, netizens are about to quarrel
"Learn mise-en-scène?"

Zhang Yimou was stunned for a moment, then reacted: "Your new movie also has big scenes?"

"Yeah." Zhang Chen nodded, looking at the yellow chrysanthemums all over the ground and hundreds or thousands of extras in armor, a flash of shock in his heart.

It's not like he hasn't seen such big scenes before. After all, he has given concerts with hundreds of thousands of people, and he is no longer surprised by such large crowds.

But when so many people wearing uniform clothes perform neat and orderly arrangements, combinations, attacks and other movements under the direction of the director, the degree of shock looks completely different.

Unless he can go to the Land of Sakura to hold a concert, he really won't be able to experience this feeling.

"Are you going to make a war movie?"

“Modern life themes.”

"So what kind of scene do you want?"

Zhang Yimou found it strange.

Generally speaking, movies with modern backgrounds, even those involving a large number of extras, do not require much scheduling work. All you need to do is explain the scene to the extras and make sure they don't laugh or reveal objects that are not related to the movie.

Only in war-themed movies do extras need to move according to the director's ideas, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve the desired effect.

Now Zhang Chen said that he wanted to use large-scale scene arrangement, but it was not a war theme, which was a bit strange.

"Brother Chen!"

When Zhang Chen was thinking about whether he should reveal some details of his movie to Zhang Yimou to see if the other party had any suggestions, he heard a voice full of surprise.

Zhang Chen didn't even need to look back, he knew who it was just by listening to the voice.

"Xiao Zhou, what's up?" Zhang Chen turned around and saw Jay Chou, who he didn't know whether it was a beard he grew himself or a beard made up by the makeup artist.

"I came here to congratulate Brother Chen on his album's success!" Jay Chou wiped his beard and smiled as he showed off his outfit to Zhang Chen. "How about it? Handsome, right?"

"Not bad!" Zhang Chen patted his armor, wanting to try out the feel.

结果
"Brother Chen."

"Zhang Chen."

Jay Chou and Zhang Yimou looked at the armor that was dented by Zhang Chen's slap, and both were speechless.

"I thought it was real." Zhang Chen raised his hands awkwardly, looking at his masterpiece and quibbling, "Director Zhang, you are not good enough. How can you use fakes?"

"I would like to use the real thing, but reality does not allow it." Zhang Yimou waved his hand helplessly and asked the prop master to come over to see if Zhou Jielun's armor could be saved.

Zhang Chen laughed and understood what Zhang Yimou meant.

In fact, many props in film and television dramas are silver-plated gun tips.

This is especially true in war-themed works.

Because you can't expect an actor to act for a whole day wearing armor weighing dozens of kilograms. After all, he is not a professional soldier and his physical fitness is not that good.

And for movies, as long as there is no visual difference from the real thing, there is no need to deliberately pursue authenticity.

If one really wants to pursue realism, not only will the actors be physically unable to bear it, but the cost of making props is an astronomical figure. Few crews can afford to customize one-to-one replica costumes.

"Brother Chen, I just heard that you are going to the United States?"

"Ah."

"Is it because of the album being on Billboard or your new movie?"

"Do you think I need to deliberately hit the charts when I release an album?"

"Too!"

Jay Chou understood.

Just like him now, he is very different from when he first debuted.

In the beginning, when he just released an album, he needed to go to various places to organize activities. Whether it was a roadshow, a fan meeting, or a show, he needed to take the initiative to promote his new album.

Although he still needs to go on a show from time to time to promote his new album, it is mainly because he needs enough exposure and cannot let his face disappear from his fans for too long.

As for album sales, most of the time, the album can be sold out in the first week after it is released. This is mainly thanks to the digital music sales data and online physical album purchasing channels of Morning Glory Music.

With the combination of these two factors, many first-line singers have felt the benefits brought by Morning Light Music.

They were also grateful for having supported Zhang Chen in launching Morning Light Music and for forming a united front to oppose piracy.

This is how Jay Chou releases his albums now, not to mention Zhang Chen, a world-class superstar.

Before going on stage today, he secretly asked his company about the sales figures of Zhang Chen's new album.

The company gave him a staggering figure.

As of now, less than 12 hours after the release of Zhang Chen’s “Love”, the number of online paid downloads of the entire album has exceeded 300 million in China, and it is said that the number has exceeded 500 million overseas!
You have to know that this was less than a day, and this was the sales data for the entire album.

However, it is rare for Zhang Chen's albums to only offer paid downloads of singles.

Because the quality of the songs in this album is so high.

So most of the data is still the sales data of the entire digital album.

But even if the single has a small number of downloads, it has exceeded 80 times worldwide.

Because it is a new album, the sales price of the digital album is 18 yuan, the price of the physical album tape is 30 yuan, the CD is 50 yuan, and the price of the vinyl hardcover record is 88 yuan.

The price of a digital single is 3 yuan.

Overseas, the cheapest physical album price converted into US dollars is about 100 yuan on average, after all, there are different currencies.

For example, the selling price of a tape in the United States is 12 U.S. dollars, which is nearly yuan in RMB.

Although these physical albums have gradually been replaced by digital music represented by Morning Light Music, because they are Zhang Chen's albums, at least millions of people in the world not only bought the digital music, but also placed orders to buy the physical albums for collection.

The data Jay Chou learned is that nearly 12 million copies of the physical album have been ordered in China within 200 hours, and more than 500 million copies have been ordered overseas.

By this calculation, the sales data of Zhang Chen's new album in these 12 hours can give a rough estimate but also a number that will make Jay Chou stunned.

Domestic sales of the digital album were approximately 5400 million, and the single approximately 90.

Overseas it is about 5000 million US dollars.

Because more people buy cassettes, the average price of physical albums is calculated at 40 yuan in China and 120 yuan abroad.

Domestic sales are approximately 8000 million, and overseas sales are 6 million!
If all converted into RMB, that would be around 11.4 billion!
What is a world superstar?

Jay Chou doesn’t know about others, but the sales data of Zhang Chen’s new album tells him that Zhang Chen is a well-deserved world superstar!

Today, no one can match Zhang Chen in terms of album sales appeal.

Not even Michael Jackson!
In just 12 hours, it raked in more than billion RMB.

No wonder Zhang Chen said something like “It’s only 3 billion, a small amount of money.”

"Brother Chen, if your Chinese song gets nominated for a Grammy this time, will you go to receive the award?" After Jay Chou expressed his admiration for Zhang Chen's ability to make money, he suddenly thought of a key question.

Zhang Chen said two years ago that he would no longer attend the Grammy Awards ceremony.

He also said that it was to give newcomers an opportunity to move forward.

This is something that many people praise Zhang Chen for.

But Jay Chou feels that if a Chinese song could win a Grammy, it would be a milestone event!
As a staunch defender of Chinese music, if he were in Zhang Chen's position, even if he had declared that he would no longer attend the Grammy Awards, he would make an exception because of an award for a Chinese song.

Because this is a sign that Chinese songs have entered the Western world!
"Grammy." Zhang Chen put down the armor that he had damaged. He just wanted to study the material when he suddenly heard Jay Chou's question.

Whatever Jay Chou wants, he naturally wants too.

If a Chinese song could really get a Grammy nomination, he would be in a bit of a pickle.

Should he stick to what he said, or go back on his word in order to become famous for his Chinese songs?
"We'll talk about it when the time comes." Zhang Chen stood up and clapped his hands to shake off the dust on them. "It's too early to talk about whether we can get nominated or not."

"That's right." Jay Chou also fell silent.

It’s so difficult for Chinese songs to win the Grammy Award!

"Well, I should go now. There's an Oscar."

"Oscar?"

This time another person came over.

Zhang Chen looked up and saw Gong Li, who was dressed in a luxurious golden outfit.

"Yeah." Zhang Chen smiled and nodded as a greeting. "Their dean came to China in person to apologize to me and invited me to attend this year's Oscars ceremony."

"The president of the Academy of Sciences?" Gong Li was amazed. "But that's right. You are now the largest individual shareholder of Disney."

"This can only be considered one of the reasons." Zhang Chen did not explain, but just asked, "I didn't expect to see you and Director Zhang collaborate on a movie again."

"Him." Gong Li glanced at Zhang Yimou who was standing aside without saying anything, and smiled helplessly, "The script is good, so I came. After all, I am an actor."

"Really?" Zhang Chen glanced at the two of them with a half-smile, then asked, "By the way, judging from your attire, you should be playing the queen. Then who is your opposite? It can't be this person, right?"

After saying that, Zhang Chen patted Zhou Jielun beside him.

Xiao Zhou covered his chest with his hands and grimaced. His brother Chen was really strong.

"It's Teacher Chen Baoguo." Gong Li pointed to a place far away and asked Zhang Chen to look.

Zhang Chen followed the direction Gong Li pointed and saw this senior who was also a "professional emperor".

"It turns out to be Teacher Chen." Zhang Chen smiled. As long as it wasn't the one from Hong Kong Island, it would be fine.

"Originally, Zhang Weiping wanted to find Chow Yun-fai," Zhang Yimou glanced at Zhang Chen with a strange expression, "but if I really do that, then it will be difficult for my movie to be released in China, right?"

"How could that be? Did Director Zhang also offend those old guys?" Zhang Chen pretended to be surprised.

"Hey" Zhang Yimou just smiled and said nothing.

Zhang Chen has never publicly admitted this matter.

But now the entire mainland film and television circles know that Zhang Chen doesn’t like actors from Hong Kong Island, especially those on the blacklist.

Didn’t you take a look at Chen Kai’s “The Promise” and see how two young Hong Kong people, Xie Tingfeng and Zhang Bozhi, were transformed by Zhang Chen?
In recent months, Brother Chen Kai has been complaining everywhere like a lunatic.

Although Xie Tingfeng and Zhang Baizhi were not included in the so-called blacklist, their status as Hong Kong actors alone caused Chen Kaige's new movie to have such a tragic end.

Although Zhang Yimou and Zhang Chen had some friendship, he would not use it on something that would obviously damage the relationship between them.

And although there is a saying in the mainland that Hong Kong actors can carry the box office.

But Zhang Yimou didn't believe it.

So no matter how much Zhang Weiping tried to persuade him, he still did not consider actors from Hong Kong as actors.

This time he also wanted to find out whether his movie had such a high box office because of him or because of the Hong Kong actors.

"It has to be Director Zhang!" Zhang Chen gave Zhang Yimou a thumbs up and praised, "Our mainland film and television companies don't need so-called Hong Kong actors to boost the box office. I also look forward to Director Zhang's movies being a big hit!"

"Thank you for your words." Zhang Yimou's face lit up after hearing Zhang Chen's praise, "I have confidence in this movie."

“Hahahaha.” Zhang Chen laughed a few times and then said goodbye, “I’ll be leaving now. I still have a lot of things to do in the United States.”

He said hello to Zhang Yimou, Gong Li and Zhou Jielun and then left.

Since I got the answer that satisfied me, there was no need to keep it.

He didn't really come here to reminisce with a few people, nor did he come here just to learn how to direct grand scenes in movies from Zhang Yimou.

He just wanted to see how many Hong Kong actors were in this movie.

For unknown reasons, Zhang Yimou did not reveal much information before filming began, not even the actors' information was revealed.

This made people outside start to speculate what his movie was about and who he used.

It’s also a marketing strategy.

However, this meant that Zhang Chen would not be able to find out who Zhang Yimou had employed without some tricks.

Finally, he decided to come and confirm it himself, so as to avoid the trouble of wasting time and energy to ask someone to investigate.

If Zhang Yimou still used Zhou according to the original trajectory, he would have to think about how to get Zhang Yimou to replace him.

He was thinking that many of Zhang Yimou's movies would be shot in the future. If this matter was not handled properly and he used Zhou as the leading actor without Zhang Chen's knowledge, Zhang Chen would not show mercy to Zhang Yimou.

When it comes to banning someone, he will only be stricter and will not relax for any reason.

The "Morning Light Blacklist" circulating in the outside world was released intentionally by him.

The purpose is to block all the paths for these people.

Fortunately, Zhang Yimou did not listen to Zhang Weiping and insisted on not using Zhou as the leading actor in his new movie, which did not make things difficult for Zhang Chen.

Otherwise, because of this incident, Zhang Chen will not allow his movie to be released in the future, and the conflict between the two will become serious. Then the difficulty of recruiting Zhang Yimou will increase by countless levels.

Just as Zhang Chen returned to the car contentedly, Xue Yining brought him another piece of not-so-good news.

"Boss, there's going to be a big fight on the Internet!"

"what happened?"

"The relationship between you and Yifei is about to be exposed by netizens. Do you need the public relations department to handle it?"

"No, I'll do it myself."

　Today's 8000-word update is completed!
　　In fact, the actual word count should be about 9000 words.

　　I'll try to get back to updating 10,000 times a day.

　　Could you please give me some monthly tickets and rewards to give me some motivation?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)