Chapter 549 When Will It Be Released in Japan?

Central Academy of Drama, Teachers' Office.

Chang Li looked at Zhang Ziyi in front of her, looked up and down, and then asked with a smile, "Is it really decided?"

Zhang Ziyi replied firmly, "Well, I've decided."

Chang Li nodded, "Since you have decided, then focus on your studies. The studio should also take it seriously. Our school attaches great importance to this school-enterprise cooperation project. You should perform well in the studio. There will definitely be a lot of rewards.”

"I know, Teacher Chang, we have been rehearsing with director Hu Mei recently, and I feel like I have learned a lot."

"I heard about this. It's a good opportunity to hone your acting skills. Take it seriously. Did you tell him the director Chen Kaige?"

Zhang Ziyi shook her head and said, "Not yet, I'll call him later."

"Well, please explain it to others. Fortunately, this time point should not have much impact on their shooting plan. They have enough time to find actors. OK, you go."

"Okay, goodbye to Mr. Chang."

After Zhang Ziyi left, Huang Dingyu, who was sitting opposite him, said with a smile, "This girl wanted to drop out of school and go to Chen Kaige's crew?"

Zhang Ziyi smiled and nodded, "Well, that's the case, but I'm here to tell me today that she won't go."

Huang Dingyu said with a deep breath, "It's not easy to resist such temptation."

"It's not easy. I'm almost sure I'm going to lose this student, but I didn't expect that she would finally decide to stay. Her transformation happened during the period when she went to Zhou Yan's studio, and it must be related to the studio."

Huang Dingyu nodded, "Zhou Yan's studio is indeed very attractive to students. If I had such a good opportunity when I was a student, I would definitely not be willing to give up."

Tian Youliang on the other side heard their conversation and smiled and said, "When you go to school, you must have the conditions given by Zhou Yan's studio. That's not going crazy."

When Huang Dingyu went to school, it was the end of the 1970s. At that time, it was difficult to eat meat at school, so there was no food like a studio canteen.

At that time, if any unit could eat meat every day, it would be that countless people would have to sharpen their heads and drill in them. This is simply a unit of immortality.

Even now, there are few units that can match the food level in Zhou Yan's studio canteen.

Sometimes teachers such as Huang Dingyu envy the students, and the food is so good.

Although it is okay for the teachers to go and have a free meal, they are not very shameless.

However, Tian Youliang was responsible for school-enterprise cooperation, so he was able to go to the studio frequently and had a lot of meals in the canteen there.

Because of the fact that there was too much food in the studio canteen, Tian Youliang didn’t want to come back for dinner now.

Of course, eating is just one aspect. More importantly, the studio has many practical opportunities, which is very rare for students.

In addition to the many opportunities for practice, there are also many opportunities to meet some big names in the industry, such as the directors signed by the studio.

The biggest celebrity among them is naturally the studio's boss, Zhou Yan himself.

...

After Zhang Ziyi left the teacher's office, she went to the telephone booth to call the director's office of Yanjing Studio.

The phone was quickly answered.

"Hello." A man's voice sounded opposite.

"I'll look for director Chen Kaige." Zhang Ziyi said.

"Oh." The man raised his voice and shouted, "Director Chen, someone is looking for you, it's a girl."

Chen Kaige laughed, "What girl? Don't be Lao Zhou again."

"I didn't lie to you this time. I'm either Zhou Yan or a girl."

"Okay, I'll pick it up."

After a while, Chen Kaige took the call, "Who?"

"Hello, Director Chen, I am Zhang Ziyi."

When he heard it was Zhang Ziyi, Chen Kaige smiled and said, "Oh, Ziyi, are you okay calling me now? Have you taken the leave from school?"

Chen Kaige asked Zhang Ziyi to ask for leave from the school himself, but he never asked about this matter since then. He felt that there was nothing wrong with this matter, and there would be no accidents on Zhang Ziyi, so he didn't care much.

"Director Chen, the school does not ask for leave. If I want to go filming, I have to drop out of school. So I thought about it and still stopped going. I want to stay in school to complete my studies. I hope you..."

Before Zhang Ziyi finished speaking, Chen Kaige said in surprise, "You mean, you want to give up the position of the heroine of "Jing Ke assassination of Qin King" and continue to study in school? What are you thinking?"

Hearing Chen Kaige's words, Zhang Ziyi felt confused. Didn't she explain clearly enough?

"Director Chen, I don't want to give up my studies, so I won't consider taking on big shows before the third grade." Zhang Ziyi explained again.

After a long time of silence on the other end of the phone, Chen Kaige spoke, "I respect your decision and I just hope you don't regret it in the future."

"I'm really sorry, Director Chen."

"No need to apologize, that's it." After that, Chen Kaige hung up the phone.

Listening to the blind voice on the phone, Zhang Ziyi sighed slightly. Of course she could hear Chen Kaige was a little angry, but she had decided and would not change any more.

Now that she had finished talking to Chen Kaige, Zhang Ziyi felt much more relaxed. She suddenly realized that giving up was not as difficult as she thought.

Maybe one day in the future, she will regret rejecting Chen Kaige today, but now, she has to focus on the present and study hard in school and studio, and it is best to get some short film roles in the studio.

...

Chen Kaige put down the phone heavily, and Senior Lu said with a smile, "Director Chen, why are you so generous? This phone was changed only last month, so don't smash it."

Hearing Senior Lu's words, Chen Kaige rolled his eyes, "It's nothing, it's just being rejected."

"Who can reject our Director Chen?"

"A female student who is still in school in the Central Academy of Drama."

Senior Lu was amazed, "This girl is amazing, she can actually refuse your show."

Chen Kaige snorted with his nose and said nothing.

Zhang Ziyi suddenly said that she would not act anymore, which had little impact on his drama. After all, there was still a long time before the filming was started, and he had enough time to find an actor.

The reason why he was unhappy was that he had not been rejected for a long time... In recent years, in terms of movies, except for Zhang Ziyi, only Zhou Yan has rejected him.

But Zhou Yan refused Chen Kaige, and he was not angry because Zhou Yan was very busy and it was normal for him to catch up with the time.

In addition, what is Zhou Yan’s status? Being rejected by Zhou Yan is not a very shameful thing.

But today he was rejected by a female student, and he gave the other party the position of the heroine.

She will definitely regret it soon, Chen Kaige thought.

This drama of her own will inevitably become famous. Not only will it win a good box office, but it will also win numerous awards overseas. At that time, the male and female protagonists of the movie will definitely be in full bloom. At that time, Zhang Ziyi will never regret it.

...

Zhou Yan didn't know that Zhang Ziyi rejected Chen Kaige. If he knew, he would definitely give the girl a thumbs up.

Now he was personally supervising the shed, recording "Fireworks" for Akina Nakamori and Shizuka Kudo. After two days of practice, the presentation effect of this song is already very good and can be recorded.

The recording of the chorus is a little more complicated, but Akina Nakamori and Shizuka Kudo performed very well. It took only half a day to record this song.

Zhou Yan listened to the version he had just recorded again, and then said to the microphone, "Okay, you guys come out."

Kudo Shizuka ran out first, "Are you okay? Let me listen."

Zhou Yan took off the headphones hanging around her neck and put them on her ears, and then called out the song she had just recorded for her to listen to.

Akina Nakamori also walked out. She didn't rush to listen to the song, but picked up the teacup and took a big sip of water.

When recording songs, in order to maintain a good voice, Akina Nakamori basically doesn't drink water. Even if they are thirsty, they just sip a little and can't drink too much.

In the past, singers didn’t understand these things and thought drinking water could moisten their throats, so they often drank water when singing.

But later everyone discovered that drinking water before singing not only did not make your throat moisturize, but instead made your throat drier, which greatly affected your voice state.

After holding it in for most of the day, Akina Nakamori was really thirsty now.

Seeing her drinking water in big mouthfuls, Zhou Yan smiled and said, "You have to protect your throat and eat it so spicy."

This woman usually eats too spicy food and too often. She wants to mix some chopped pepper beef sauce when eating noodles in the morning.

According to what she said, if it weren't for protecting her throat, she could have had spicy food every three meals a day.

Akina Nakamori also knew that she had eaten spicy food too frequently recently, so she said embarrassedly, "I will only eat hot pot once a week in the future."

Zhou Yan smiled. This was already a remarkable concession for her.

At this time, Shizuka Kudo had heard a paragraph. She took off her headphones and put them on Akina Nakamori's head, "Akina, listen."

Akina Nakamori nodded, holding the headphones and listening carefully.

Shizuka Kudo also remembered to drink water. She picked up the teacup and took two sips, and then asked Zhou Yan, "When will "Time and Space Love Traveler be released in Neon?"

Zhou Yan asked in confusion, "Why did you suddenly ask this?"

"I was talking about "Time and Space Love Traveler" when I was on the phone today. She said that Neon fans are looking forward to this movie now."

"Yesterday, news came from Neon, saying that it should be released on April 12th, and the news will be announced in the next two days." Zhou Yan said.

Kudo Shizuka laughed, "The Neon fans are blessed. I will go and watch it when I go back this time."

"Didn't you see it?"

Akina Nakamori and Shizuka Kudo have both watched "Traveler in Time and Space" in China. With their Chinese level, there is naturally no problem watching Chinese movies.

When she was in the cinema, she saw that Zhou Yan and Joey Wong kissed each other very frequently in the movie, and Shizuka Kudo was jealous. She said that she had only kissed Zhou Yan, but Zhou Yan had kissed others through acting.

In fact, Zhou Yan has only kissed Joey Wong in the play, but in Kudo Shizuka's mouth, he seems to have kissed countless actresses.

"Although I've seen the Chinese version, I still want to see the neon version."

"Apart from the different subtitles, there is no difference. This movie is released in Neon and has no dubbing version." Zhou Yan said.

"Will you go to promote the movie when it is released in Neon? You should have time to go before the Forbidden City concert, right?"

Zhou Yan smiled. She turned out to be asking this.

"It depends on the situation. If you have time, you can't go to Neon."

So far, Neon is still Zhou Yan's largest market, and the fans there contribute the most to Zhou Yan's income.

Some time ago, "Raining Bells" released a collector's edition vinyl record, and one record costs 499 yuan.

In the past few years, due to the emergence of CDs, the price of vinyl records was almost halved.

But since last year, vinyl records have become collectible because they are becoming increasingly rare, and the price has begun to soar again.

Compared with three years ago, the price of vinyl records has increased tenfold.

But even so, selling a record for 499 yuan is still relatively expensive.

And this is the basic collector's edition, and there are also 699 honor collector's editions and 999 dazzling limited editions.

Such prices are completely money-making, but Neon music fans are very supportive.

The 999 dazzling limited edition has a total of 1997 copies sold in Neon, and these 1997 copies were almost all booked on the day the pre-sale was opened.

The Honor Collector's Edition sold 120,000 copies within a week, and the Basic Collector's Edition sold 130,000 copies.

The latter only sold 10,000 more than the former, which shows that Japanese music fans have a really strong spending power.

Zhou Yan did not pay attention to the data during this period, but the two versions sold at least 350,000 copies in total.

350,000 copies is not a great achievement for a music album, but this is only the sales of the Collector's Vinyl Records. Before that, the tapes and CDs of "Rain Bells" had been sold for a long time, and even ordinary vinyl records had been sold for a long time.

In addition, the sales of these 300,000 records are very terrifying. If the average price is 600 yuan per copy, the sales volume is 200 million.

The 1997 Brilliant Collector's Editions, each of which is 999 yuan, the total sales volume is also close to 2 million.

Such sales results are very scary no matter which country or which musician.

Zhou Yan can achieve the same results with almost every music album in Japan.

Zhou Yan doesn't mind spending some time to maintain such a profitable market.

"How about we help you promote the movie when it's released?" Kudo Shizuka suggested.

"How can you help me?"

"If you have any premiere or other activities, we can go there. Even if we don't sing, we can help you by showing up."

Zhou Yan shook his head and smiled, "That's not necessary, but you can help me promote the movie while you're promoting the new song."

"That's fine too." Kudo Shizuka smiled and said, "When I'm on the show with Akina, I'll help you promote it." (End of this chapter)