China Entertainment 2000

Originally she wasn't very interested, but she couldn't stand what those people said, so she had to give it a try.

After all, Zhou Yi also had a "record" in the movie "Hero" in China. The evaluation of him at the time was that it was a pity that he was cast in this bad movie.

Although she doesn’t understand pure music, she knows how to quarrel with people online——

This has received rave reviews. As a fan, how can she brag to others if she doesn't understand it.

"Like this, it's very simple. Someone should make MP3 of Zhouyi's songs. Just go to Baidu MP3 to search for the song title and download it, and then import it to Qianqianjingting."

Li Jiafeng, who was familiar with dialing up the Internet at his girlfriend's house, quickly imported "He's a Pirate" into the player - and then he took the lead and started shaking his legs to the strong rhythm of the music.

While shaking my legs, I didn’t forget to go online to see what this song was about——

"Can anyone tell me what the level of this song is? I have a bad ear, and I think the rhythm is quite strong. It sounds like I want to shake my legs, but it's gone."

"From a classical music perspective, this song is one that can't even pass the threshold."

"I'm dizzy. This song isn't classical music. Is your classical music like this? Why are you pretending to be a big-tailed wolf? Which family's black guy got in?"

"..."

What follows is an endless pink-black battle.

Li Jiafeng, who couldn't find anything useful in the fan forums he frequented, turned to Tianya to see what the old friends here had to say, but found that most of the posts here were about not being able to watch the movie. Know how.

"Don't be impatient, don't be impatient. Those who can't wait can wait for the pirated discs leaked out from Hong Kong and Taiwan. This movie will be released in Taiwan on August 9 and in Hong Kong on August 21. The mainland still needs some procedures and scheduling. At present, The most optimistic thing is that we won’t be able to see it in the cinema until November.”

"Where's the movie soundtrack? What the hell is Warner doing?! Just to hold Zhou Yi back! I wonder if I can buy the CD for Zhou Yi?!"

"To put it bluntly, the soundtrack was also released by Disney, who is also a giant. It is impossible to give this piece of cake to Warner. If you want to blame it, you have to blame the Rolling Stones and EMI."

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Since the Rolling Stones have been worse than the previous year after entering the new century, the CD and tape contracts distributed by Disney in large quantities in mainland China and Taiwan through Rolling Stone Records happened to expire at the beginning of 2003, and both parties have no intention of renewing the contract;

EMI also ended its business of distributing Disney records in Hong Kong and Macau at the beginning of the year.

This directly leads to the fact that Disney currently has no way to simultaneously release the soundtrack album in China.

As for the medium and large-scale pirates who have the ability to record, they are still seizing the time to sell "Warner Love Story II" and a series of albums that can make them huge profits. They have no time to deal with a piece of pure music.

Therefore, everyone can only enjoy watching the external network news brought by the circumvention bosses——

Because of Zhou Yi's joining, Disney spared no effort in promoting the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" at the beginning. He has already returned to China and boasted one after another.

Make money, not shabby.

This project is currently being made by certain factions within Disney with gritted teeth. Not only does it require a large investment of more than 100 million US dollars, but there are also various conflicts during the filming period regarding reducing investment or modifying the plot and character design.

Disney's current CEO, Michael Eisner, even publicly criticized Depp's portrayal of the captain as ruining the movie. Even before it was released, there was a lot of negative news, and the infighting looked like Warner Bros. , putting the ship in danger of hitting the rocks and sinking before it even sets sail.

You must know that before Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean", the last company that dared to invest nearly 100 million US dollars in a pirate movie was called Kalomi Pictures——

It invested more than 90 million US dollars to shoot the pirate movie "Cutthroat Island", but the final box office revenue was less than 10 million, which directly caused the company to go bankrupt. The copyrights of its classic movies such as "First Blood" and "Terminator" were all Carve-up and acquisition.

It is precisely for this reason that, amid internal and external troubles, Disney promoted the film before its release in addition to the main creator, Zhou Yi was also brought in as a frontman, and even the song "Pirates" that he originally wrote for Elva Hsiao was included in the promotion. He appears frequently in European and American news.

In a word - fry it as hot as you can.

Under such high-intensity bombing, naturally, the words Zhou Yi said when he was a guest at New York University were once again translated and "tortured"——

After all, that result was something Disney itself didn’t even dare to think about. Their original idea was that making a little money and building a reputation for the surrounding area would be a victory. A slight loss is not unacceptable. After all, this thing is mainly to advertise their own park.

As for Zhou Yi's "empty talk" goals, they were basically used as "evidence" by many media who hated Zhou Yi. No one within Disney took it seriously at all.

If it can sell around 460 million US dollars globally, it will be a high-end product, and 500 million US dollars is a dream level. Can’t you see that the current Disney CEO himself is not optimistic about it, and you still have more than 600 million US dollars?

That is unless God shows up.

How many years has Kalomi Films been dead?

"Cutthroat Island" The bones are not yet cold!

The words "Spike doesn't understand movies" were even openly shouted out.

As the popularity continues to rise, movies are also being released.

Then, an unexpected thing happened that no one expected -

On the first day of the release of "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", a large number of Zhouyi fans mixed with fans of the movie's leading actor Depp poured into the theater, supporting a pretty good first-day box office.

After that, it was out of control.

The film was released on July 9, and a week later, the box office had reached a jaw-dropping US$46.6 million.

The high quality of the film has delighted audiences across the United States, and the favorable reviews for the theme song "He's a Pirate" written by Zhou Yi are no longer limited to a small group of people who have watched the premiere——

Within this week, it directly resounded in major theaters across the United States, harvesting people one after another who were attracted by Captain Jack's exclusive BGM!

"The King of China strikes again!" Help pirates set sail! 》

"Disney made the right bet!" The legend of Spike continues! 》

"Depp: Spike is the most talented musician I've ever met"

"Disney executive Robert Iger praises Spike's creative abilities!" 》

"Pirate March, another Spike classic!" 》

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Compared with Asia and Europe, which have not yet been affected by this wave of piracy, the speed at which local media in the United States reports related news is almost crazy.

One is a movie that even the current CEO of Disney is not optimistic about or even publicly pessimistic about. The other is Zhou Yi, who has never been responsible for writing theme songs for large-scale movies before. No one expected that the combination of the two would directly create a classic that is popular all over the world. do.

Yes, popular all over the world.

Within a week, all the box office trend analysis of this movie and all the discussions about "Pirates' March" were enough to make people confirm that Disney and Zhouyi hit it off and created a classic worthy of a film and television name.

"It's unbelievable, who would have thought that Spike had never done the theme song for a big-budget movie before."

"The song "He's a Pirate" he wrote is so suitable for the movie. Every time I close my eyes, I see Captain Jack Sparrow stepping on the stage to this music!"

"Audio-visual art, audio-visual art, this is the perfect combination of audio-visual art!"

"I heard that he is holding a world tour concert, why hasn't Warner arranged a US tour?"

"..."

With the intentional intervention of Warner, Disney was happy to reciprocate the movie, helping to boost Zhouyi's reputation and discussion.

Disney executive Robert Iger, who has expressed great admiration for Zhou Yi in many news reports, has gained a higher level of internal voice with the success of "Pirates of the Caribbean", and he did not forget to publicly express his gratitude to Depp, Zhou Yi and others.