After some negotiations, Li Qing finally received 20% of the total income from each performance of "Phantom of the Opera" for a period of five years.
That is, within five years, for every performance of "Phantom of the Opera", Li Qing will receive 20% of the box office revenue.
In addition, the song "Ghost of the Opera" was also sold for one million US dollars.
This was the highest level of authority that Hoyle could control. He did not bargain too much, but simply released all his authority.
Of course, this is all because Hoyle doesn't know what will happen in the future. He has taken a fancy to many excellent scripts before, but basically none of them can be a big hit. Most of them are only popular in a small area and ultimately earn a lot of money at the box office.
Not much.
If he knew that he was holding a script worth $2 billion, he would certainly not have set the price on his own initiative.
Currently, he only likes the song "Phantom of the Opera". The story of "Phantom of the Opera" is not very attractive. To put it simply, it is just incidental.
Therefore, even if Li Qing asked for one million US dollars, he did not hesitate at all, because "The Ghost of the Opera" was indeed worth the price.
Li Qing is also very satisfied with this figure. Although it will take a long process to collect 20% of the box office revenue of "Phantom of the Opera", this does not prevent him from looking forward to the profit of this script.
If this opera becomes a hit like in his previous life, then for Li Qing, this will be a more profitable industry than writing.
After the contract was signed, Hoyle excitedly returned to Viana with the script and began to recruit candidates to carve out and study the song and its theme song for "Phantom of the Opera".
And Li Qing also got rid of all trivial matters and began to concentrate on the creation of a new album.
After more than half a month of grinding, except for "50-ay-t-ay-gdbye", the remaining nine songs were finally selected.
They are "let-her-g" (let go of love), "i-jt-anna-rn" (I just want to escape), "i'm-yr" (I am yours), "be-hat-y"
-anna-be" (be the person you want to be), "gar" (sweetheart), "gd-time" (good time), "hell" (hello), "five-hndred-mile" (leave home
Five Hundred Miles), and after much thought, the ultimate move "y-are-nt-alne" was finally released.
The song "y-are-nt-alne" translated into Chinese means "You are not alone". It is the second single in the career of Michael Jackson, the king of pop music in the world, and also Li Qing's second single in his career.
A song that I liked very much in my previous life.
Li Qing had witnessed the birth and disappearance of the King of Heaven with his own eyes, and was deeply touched by this song. In his previous life, this song parachuted onto the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart, becoming the first single to top the charts in the history of the Billboard.
The so-called airborne champion single, as the name suggests, means that as soon as the song is released, it directly becomes the number one on the list in the first week without any climbing or falling in the rankings.
This phenomenon directly broke the Guinness World Records and became famous in the music world.
The song topped the music charts in more than ten countries around the world, and was eventually nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance that year.
In the album release plan, the song "Baby" is still set to be the album's title track as originally planned.
But after all, this song has been exposed for a long time, and it no longer has the surprise when I first heard it. Therefore, the song "y-are-nt-alne" was born by chance and became the second hit song of the new album.
In addition, there is also a very special song in the album, namely "hell".
This song is an electronic music song produced in response to global electronic music fans.
After the release of "faded" and "tik-tk", fans all over the world are strongly looking forward to several songs represented by electronic music elements in Taylor's next album.
But before that, countless fans got to know Li Qing through Taylor World Tour, and then through in-depth understanding, they learned that electronic music songs such as "Faded" were written by Li Qing.
So such expectations fell on Li Qing's shoulders.
Among the teenagers and girls who stayed in front of the BGM company, the most popular songs were also electronic music.
In this case, Li Qing of course had to give in, so the song "hell" appeared.
It is worth mentioning that this is an electronic music song without lyrics and is a pure electronic music work.
The album mainly contains pop, rock, electronic music and other genres, which are popular music genres nowadays.
After all fifteen songs were recorded, Li Qing began post-production. Many of the songs in these songs are relatively fresh elements of the modern era. In addition, this is Li Qing's first English album.
Nature is ready.
Another half month passed in the blink of an eye.
In November, Li Qing finished recording all the songs for his new album and started shooting the music video around the world. Due to Li Qing's excessive demands on shooting, the budget exceeded the budget. When shooting the fifth song, the overall budget
Already 10 percent exceeded, and the final budget is expected to be over one million dollars.
At the same time, the name of the new album is the same as the song "baby" of the same name.
The launch date has also been initially determined, which is December 24.
This is a very suitable day. This day is Christmas Eve, which is equivalent to Chinese New Year's Eve for countless Westerners. Early the next morning, children will open the gifts under the Christmas tree. If it is a leein
The new album must be a very good gift for children.
At least that’s what BGM’s publicity and distribution department thinks.
During this time, the cast list for "The Phantom of the Opera" was finally finalized and intensive rehearsals began.
The song "Ghost of the Opera" was strongly recommended by the bearded Hoyle, so it finally got the attention of the Vienna State Opera, so it can be said that it went through a lot of careful selection of singers.
Finally, a new bel canto singer and two famous singers were finalized, and the main storyline of the story characters was initially completed.
After everything is ready, as expected, the first "Phantom of the Opera" will be officially staged next year, that is, on January 1, 2001, at the Vienna State Opera.
On the other hand, the actors for "Titanic" have finally been selected.
The most critical choice for the heroine is the well-known American actress Emma Christiana.
Emma once performed a non-physical performance with Li Qing. Although Li Qing was not satisfied at the time, after several discussions, Emma finally got the role of Ruth.
First, Emma's appearance, temperament, etc. are more in line with Ruth's setting.
Second, there were other qualified actresses who all chose to refuse when they heard that they needed to appear naked. Even if they were to collaborate with Li Qing, these actresses did not seem tempted at all.
But other actresses who don't mind nude scenes don't quite fit the character of Ruth in all aspects.
This made Scott very angry.
But Emma bravely stood up at this time, so with Scott's persuasion, Li Qing finally agreed to Emma's entry.
Li Qing felt a little emotional, sometimes, opportunities really need to be seized proactively.
Of course, before "Titanic" was released, probably only Li Qing knew about its popularity. Before that, it was no wonder that others were ignorant.
Because Li Qing was preparing for a new album, and various facilities for the crew were under construction, after the filming officially started, Scott did not bother Li Qing in the end, but chose to shoot scenes of other actors first to make up for the emptiness.
Lonely and cold heart.
Moreover, the creation of the Titanic model also requires a large amount of money and time. In a short period of time, even if Scott's hands were itchy, he could only hold back the excitement in his heart, immerse himself in it, and read through the script over and over again.
And write down the inspiration in a memo, waiting for the time to come and have a collision of electricity and fire with Li Qing.
At the same time, in China, "The Truman Show", which has been in post-production by Legendary Pictures for half a year, has finally come to be released.