Entertainment: I really want to make progress

According to teacher Yu Chenghui's arrangement, Zhou Yutang wore sandbags on his feet and waist.

In the first few days, walking was a bit heavy, but I soon got used to it. As the old saying goes, my physical condition is so good that it would be a pity not to practice martial arts.

After getting used to this intensity and practicing the teacher's waist training methods, Zhou Yutang also specially invited a professional fitness coach to set up recipes and additional training programs for him.

Why?

In this drama, he has a very important scene showing his abs.

The movie is expected to start filming around October, so Zhou Yutang will have to perfect his abdominal muscles during this time.

Body management is also a required course for being a star.

Zhou Yutang's professionalism is still beyond doubt.

He specially shared his training plan and videos with Liu Tianxian, but the girl was shocked.

She originally thought she had worked hard enough, but she didn't expect Zhou Yutang to be more ruthless than her.

Except for bathing, I always wear a set of sandbags weighing dozens of kilograms. I train like this every day, and I also find time to participate in Olympic rehearsals.

Liu Tianxian was completely convinced.

July.

Han Sanping was in a bad mood.

Zhou Yutang looked at Mr. Han sitting on the sofa and sighed several times.

No wonder.

"Red Cliff: Part 1" was released on the 10th of this month, and the box office exceeded 110 million only after 7 days of release.

This box office trend is worse than that of "Assembly", and it poured cold water on Mr. Han.

How much investment does "Assembly Number" cost?

It cost several hundred million to make "Red Cliff", but the total box office of the two movies is less than 1 billion, so it is considered a failure.

According to this trend, even though the film schedule is full, it has not been able to save it. Nearly a month after its release, the box office finally exceeded 220 million. After that, the box office growth rate has plummeted. Although it is still in theaters, anyone with a discerning eye can see it. , the market potential is almost exhausted.

Piracy of the film has long been spread all over the Internet, and the Olympic Games, which the whole country is paying attention to, is about to come. Who would care about this film with an appallingly low reputation?

Mr. Han looked at the ultra-low scores given by the two major professional film review websites, Time.com and Douban, and his face turned dark.

He took a sip of water from the thermos cup, shook his head and sighed.

As the main producer of China Film Group, Mr. Han has placed a lot of bets on Wu Yusen.

However, Han Sanye, who has never failed to dominate the film industry, also looked away.

Mr. Han threw the box office statistical report submitted by the department below on the table and frowned: "Yu Tang, what do you think the problem is? Why don't so many audiences accept it?"

"Mr. Han, I would like to express my personal understanding from the perspective of the audience."

Zhou Yutang took a sip of water: "The most serious problem is probably the cultural flaw and the inability to resonate. I'm not talking about Director Wu's cultural problem, but the Three Kingdoms he understands. It's still the same as Hong Kong movies. The Three Kingdoms we, the audience, watch, What I want to see is heroes rising up together, fighting fiercely, and swallowing thousands of miles with anger. There are huge problems with the script."

Han Sanping rubbed his forehead: "There is a big problem with the script. The screenwriter Wu Yusen wanted to find at first was Lu Wei."

"Isn't it the book written by Lu Wei?"

Zhou Yutang asked curiously.

Lu Wei is a real master. His book "Farewell My Concubine" put Poet Chen on the altar in one step.

"It was not settled. At that time, Lu Wei asked Wu Yusen what the core theme of the Battle of Red Cliff was. Wu Yusen said peace. Lu Wei asked again which character he wanted to have as the main core. Wu Yusen said Xiao Qiao."

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Zhou Yutang's expression twitched.

There is everything in the Three Kingdoms, but there is no peace.

He remembered the classic scene he saw in the cinema with Liu Shishi: Xiao Qiao, played by Zhou Yu and Lin Zhilin, was thinking of naming the horse. Zhou Yu said: "It was born in the land of Jingchu, and the name must reflect it." Sister Zhilin thought for a long time and said, "Let's call it Mengmeng."

Mengmeng, stand up.

According to Mr. Han, this scene was written by Wu Yusen’s wife.

This movie had nine screenwriters, and confusion in the plot was inevitable.

Anyway, Zhou Yutang is very dissatisfied with this group of Xiangjiang directors in making such magnificent historical themes, and the magnificent war scenes can give the feeling of a gang fight.

These remnants of the old era have no ships to carry them in the new era.

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Liu Shishi flew back to the Magic City after watching the movie. The first sister of the Tang Dynasty now has a lot of announcements.

Zhou Yutang is also busy with Olympic singing rehearsals and special film training.

Simple and fulfilling time always flies by.

July went by in a blink of an eye, and finally the day came that the whole world was paying attention to.

Zhou Yutang specifically asked Mr. Han for two additional internal tickets to the core area, so that Zhou Zhengping and Wang Fengqin could watch the event in person.

When time turns to that moment.

Gorgeous fireworks circled the stadium and bloomed like flowers over the Bird's Nest.

A huge sundial emerged, and the light of time emitted by the sundial lit up the giant fou array.

When thousands of people beat their fou and shouted, Zhou Yutang stood at the scene.

He really felt the resonance frequency of thousands of people, and even the earth was shaking slightly.

That kind of magnificent scene shocked Zhou Yutang so much that he couldn't help but admire him.

To play in such a big scene, you have to be a national master.

In other words, Zhang Yimou and the entire behind-the-scenes team are the biggest contributors.

They spent several years conceiving the layout. Starting from the opening ceremony, every second was full of the wonderful ideas and romance of the Chinese people.

The movable type printing skills amazed everyone, the scroll was unrolled, the sacred fire was lit, and Zhou Yutang's blood began to boil faintly.

These few exquisite programs, in a sense, tell the story of the inheritance of China's five thousand years of splendid culture, and also symbolize the rich heritage of this great family.

In Director Zhang’s words, “different snowflakes from all over the world gathered in the capital to become a common snowflake for mankind.”

Before today, China was in a period of dormant development and did not open its doors to look at the entire world.

The vision of Chinese people has always been limited to the previous era.

Many people have a strange mentality.

I feel that China is backward, while the moon in foreign countries is particularly round, and even the air in America is sweet.

But after this world-famous event, the eyes of the entire world will gradually focus on this big eastern country, and some people will gradually wake up.

"Hello, Teacher Liu Huan."

Zhou Yutang also met the great artist Liu Huan, who sang with British singer Sarah Brightman at the opening ceremony, and said hello politely.

"Haha, hello Xiao Zhou."

Teacher Liu Huan was kind-hearted and fat. He took the initiative to greet Zhou Yutang, shook hands and hugged him, and patted him on the shoulder familiarly.

The two sat and chatted for a while backstage, and then asked him to perform well during the closing ceremony, which made Zhou Yutang a little flattered.

"Brother Huan, why are you so polite to that boy?"

On the way back, Brother Huan's assistant was a little surprised.

According to Liu Huan's status in the music industry, younger generations should take the initiative to greet him.

"Haha, this little Zhou, Datian has listened."

Liu Huan smiled and pointed at the roof of the car with his chubby fingers.

"Hold the grass!"

The assistant uttered only one word.

Jianghu status is important, but sometimes it is not important.

The big leader thinks that person is a talent, and that is someone who needs to be a good partner.

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"Yu Tang, do you know Liu Huan? He talked to you for a long time yesterday."

In Jiangdong Studio, Li Shuang looked at Zhou Yutang suspiciously for a long time.

"I really don't know him."

Zhou Yutang was also confused, but he quickly came to his senses: "I remember Mr. Han said that a leader is very optimistic about me. Maybe it has something to do with it."

"It's possible that Mr. Liu Huan is also an old man and you should do more variety shows in the future. Yang Mi and Tang Yan went on variety shows like crazy last month and brought a lot of traffic to the show "Classmates""

"By the way, Sister Shuang."

Just thinking about Teacher Liu Huan's amiable smile, when he heard Li Shuang talking about variety shows, Zhou Yutang had a flash of inspiration in his mind. He suddenly sat upright in the office chair and asked with a little excitement: "You said Jiangdong Studio does it?" How about a variety show?"

"variety show?"

Li Shuang was slightly startled: "What type of variety show?"

"It's a music talent talent show."

Zhou Yutang took a piece of paper and drew a few strokes on the paper: "Look, here is the stage, and then below is the judges' seat. They sit on a specially designed chair, with their backs to the stage, and only listen to the singers singing on the stage. "

"If the singer's singing on the stage can impress the judges, then the judges will press a switch on the chair to turn the chair around."

"This model is a bit novel."

Li Shuang originally just listened, but unexpectedly he was attracted immediately: "Yu Tang, I roughly understand what you mean. Let the judges choose the singer not based on his appearance, but only based on his singing voice. What happens next?"

"after?"

Zhou Yutang chuckled and said: "Let a few judges be mentors, and those selected by him will join his team, and then each mentor team will enter the second stage after the team is full."

"The second stage is for the instructor to go through professional training, let the members of his team perform on the same stage, and then select the most potential and outstanding members."

"Then the PK between several tutor teams will begin to see which team's students can gain more recognition from the audience."

"Hearing what you said, I'm already looking forward to this show."

Li Shuang listened with fascination and also raised a question: "Yu Tang, but there is a very important question. We are not a TV station. Even if the program is produced, there will be no place to broadcast it in the end?"

"What does it matter?"

Zhou Yutang smiled calmly and said: "We can find someone to cooperate with us. This show cannot be supported by our own studio alone. I just calculated it and the initial investment is at least 100 million."

"One hundred million?"

Li Shuang's pupils were shocked.

"yes."

Zhou Yutang said slowly: "According to my idea, if this program needs to be done well, the most advanced audio equipment must be purchased from abroad. In addition, several highly respected instructors must be hired, which is also a large expense."

"You're playing really hard."

Li Shuang murmured: "The production costs of Super Girl and Fast Boy are not that expensive. Who are you going to work with? Mango TV? They have a good relationship with you there."

"I can make it myself."

"Yu Tang, although this program sounds very attractive, I still hope you can consider it carefully. Jiangdong Studio is not yet at the stage where it is easy to invest 100 million in variety shows."

Li Shuang advised tactfully.

The studio has tens of millions of working capital on its books, and there is still a lot of follow-up income from several hit dramas due to the long tail effect.

Even if you bite the bullet and get a loan from the bank, you can still get 100 million.

But how is this different from gambling?

Li Shuang, who believes in making progress while maintaining stability, of course wants to give advice.

Zhou Yutang smiled mysteriously: "Sister Shuang, you will know in two days."

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Zhou Yutang has been practicing hard in the past two days according to Yu Lao's method, and he has not been left behind in the gym. He also took time to watch the Olympic Games with Lao Zhou and Ms. Wang.

Lianshun took us around the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square and several scenic spots in the capital.

For Ms. Wang Fengqin, who grew up in the south, seeing a different world was a novel and joyful experience.

Mainly because I saw that Zhou Yutang was promising, and I felt even more relieved.

Lao Zhou bought a batch of Olympic souvenirs to take back and prepare to give to students in local impoverished primary schools.

Zhou Yutang's project to help local poor students was handed over to Zhou Zhengping and was in good condition.

Two days later.

Tian Ming arrived in Beijing.

This time he brought Zhu Jie to Beijing to watch the Olympic Games.

When he arrived in the capital, he called Zhou Yutang directly, and the two got together as usual.

"Yu Tang, how was the later stage of the drama "Latent"?"

"The later stage will be completed this month, and it is estimated that it will be ready for trial broadcast in October."

"Now your project is being watched by the entire circle. Remember to say hello next time you have any projects. I am very interested in cooperating with you."

Tian Ming smiled.

A person's name, the shadow of a tree.

The golden sign of Jiangdong Studio has already been launched. "Latent" has attracted a lot of attention before filming started. Several TV stations are still thinking of starting in advance, but Zhou Yutang did not nod.

The theme of the main theme belongs to the film and television category strongly advocated above. With the quality of the drama "Latent", there is no need to worry about selling it. It is better to wait for the completion of the film and wait for several TV stations to bid for it and make a big profit.

"Brother Ming, you mentioned the project, I have an idea."

Zhou Yutang said directly: "How about we put on a variety show together?"

When Sister Shuang said she needed a front-line cooperation platform, he immediately thought of Tian Ming.

If this program is successful and very profitable, it will definitely attract some people's covetous attention.

Then someone with a background is needed to protect him. Tian Ming's background is unfathomable and he is a good partner.

"What do you think."

Tian Ming was also slightly stunned and made a listening gesture. Hearing Zhou Yutang finish explaining part of the variety show process, he immediately became interested.

"This idea is very interesting. It can be said that it is a music competition program that has never appeared in China. It is also a highlight to discover amateurs through auditions."

Two bright lights burst out from behind Tian Ming's glasses: "But the investment is not small, top foreign audio equipment, and hiring a music instructor. What do you want to do?"

"We will do it together, one person will do half of it. When the time comes, it will be produced and sold to the TV station."

"It's operational."

Tian Ming is a professional after all, and he quickly sensed the business opportunities: "This year, talent shows have all disappeared. If this program is done well, it will definitely win over this young audience's ratings market, but there are some details, I think Not perfect yet”

"For example, in the first session you mentioned, I think there can be more interaction between the host and the singer to make it more interesting."

"In this case, we can set up an off-site connection in the first session, so that singers who advance from the audition to the blind audition can bring their relatives or friends."

Zhou Yutang added: "Insert some interview clips, and you can also place cameras in the background to record the expressions of relatives and friends when some players are selected by the instructor or when no one turns around for them. You can also record the interaction between the instructors competing for students, which can mobilize the audience very well. The emotions can also make the program more interesting.”

"In the second round, we can film some tutors recording songs and making music with their students, and some life clips of the adaptation process, so that the audience can see the real life conditions, and also see that the tutors are students who have truly been trained with their heart, and then let They compete in pairs, and whoever can win will advance to the next stage."

"Yu Tang."

Tian Ming slapped his thigh and couldn't help but laugh: "You have so many ideas, why don't you stop being a star and do a show with me."

"Brother Ming, let me forget it."

Zhou Yutang shook his head: "I can make some money by doing this show. My main business is film and television projects. When the Olympics are over, I still have a movie to make."

"What did the instructor of the show say?"

"Four please, let's divide into four groups."

"That's it, two in the mainland, one in Xiangjiang, and one in Benzhou."

Tian Ming pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose and looked at Zhou Yutang's slightly stunned expression: "It's good for unity. What do you think of the specific candidates?"

He is worthy of being a talent cultivated by a big family. With this kind of ideological awareness, if you don’t take the top position, who will?

Zhou Yutang was very impressed and suggested: "As for the tutor, it should be both popular and highly respected. In the Mainland, you can ask Liu Huan, Princess, Chen Yixun or Zhang Xueyou of Xiangjiang. If you want to save money, it is best to ask Jay Chou. If you want to take a step back, Harlem is very good. It will stir up the atmosphere.”

"Has the princess retired from the entertainment industry? Will she still come out to do shows?"

"Just throw money at it. If a few million won't do it, then throw 10 million. I really don't believe she can't be moved. If she really doesn't want to live in a world, then invite someone else."

Zhou Yutang disagreed.

Money is still very valuable these days.

The endorsement fees of superstars like Fa Ge and Andy Lau from Tianchao Xiangjiang would not exceed 10 million a year.

"Laying?"

"This doesn't work well. I have enough fame, but the background is too complicated and it's easy to cause problems. If it doesn't work, just invite Mao Amin, one of the most popular celebrities in the music scene in the 1990s. When it comes to ratings, I want all three generations of the old, middle and young people to kill her!"

"If you have a boss, my old man likes this one."

Tian Ming pushed up his glasses and said happily: "A Tang, I'll talk to the TV station about it first. What's the name of our program?"

"Just call it a good voice, a good voice from heaven."

"What a great name!"

Tian Ming is very excited. He seems to have seen the huge potential of this show.

Zhou Yutang looked calm.

Just said silently in my heart.

This is my voice from heaven.