Fengyun Studio teamed up with the three major portals Penguin News, NetEase, Sohu, and Sina, some moderators + experts in Tianya, some bar owners + experts in Baidu Tieba, and also invited some print media and TV news media.
A total of more than 30 online and offline authoritative media, more than 200 well-known entertainment reporters, media and online entertainment experts, and about 1,000 random netizens serve as public representatives.
After half a month of collecting materials, taking inventory, and voting, everyone jointly launched the 2005 blockbuster special entertainment report on relevant platforms.
"2005 China Entertainment Circle Hottest List"
To put it bluntly, it is an annual review. In fact, similar news has been done before, but each platform does its own thing.
This year, a large-scale co-ordinator was established with the help of various parties, uniting many authoritative entertainment media to conduct a systematic and authoritative inventory.
The lists are diverse, including entertainment events, celebrity deaths, songs, movies, variety shows, emerging artists, and declining stars.
Of course, the most popular series is the most popular ones.
For example, the best movie of the year was "The New World" which received both critical acclaim and box office success.
The worst movie of the year is undoubtedly "The Promise" which is still causing controversy in public opinion.
With a comprehensive voting rate of 89%, Director Chen also defeated Liu Zhenwei from "The Great Sage" and Xu Wei from "Seven Swords" with a super absolute advantage, and was elected as the most disappointing director of the year.
In the selection of the best singer of the year, Cao Xuan received 68% of the media votes and 72% of the public votes, and was strongly elected with a comprehensive voting rate of 70%.
And in the selection of the best song of the year, "Thousands of Miles Away" finally won the top spot again, defeating Xiao Zhou's "Nocturne" and Cao Xuan's "Beautiful Myth" with a voting rate of 45%.
It is a pity that "The Ordinary Road", although it was very popular this year and even topped the list many times in the first half of the year, it could not participate in the selection because it was not 2005.
In addition, Cao Xuan, who has a box office of 300 million yuan, has also been successfully elected as the best actor of the year and the most popular star of the year. The entire news page can hardly recognize the word "Cao".
However, Xiao Zhou did not gain nothing. In the final selection, he won the Most Surprising Singer of the Year and the Most Surprising Actor of the Year.
Needless to say, the former is a consolation prize. In fact, in terms of exposure in the Chinese music scene this year, Xiao Zhou is stronger, but Cao Xuan's base is too big to compete with him.
As for the latter, it is because of the outstanding performance of "Initial D" that it is favored by the media and the audience.
It is worth mentioning that one of the top three candidates for the most surprising actor of the year is Nishinomiya Empress Zeng Li.
Whether it was her first performance in the Spring Festival Gala at the beginning of the year, or the female swordsman Ding Baiying in "Xiu Chun Dao 2", Zeng Damei performed very stunningly and became a rising star this year.
If Nishinomiya Empress was not too low-key in her daily life, rarely gave interviews, did not participate in commercial activities and variety shows, and had too little exposure, otherwise her popularity might be comparable to that of some popular little girls.
This set of special reports on the "2005 China Entertainment Circle Hottest List" is a comprehensive inventory and extremely detailed. It can be used as information for the authors of China Entertainment in future generations.
Naturally, it also attracts a large number of melon-eating people who like entertainment and gossip. They can review the hot spots and replenish the melons they have not eaten.
Regarding this topic, some people are happy and some are worried.
If you perform well, you will naturally be happy to have another wave of exposure at the end of the year. Even this kind of authoritative year-end inventory will help improve your status and facilitate the fight for better resources in the company and the industry.
It's hard to do poorly.
Needless to say, Director Chen continued to be incompetent and furious. The International Chapter was named the most disappointing actor of the year for "Memoirs of a Geisha".
Chef Xie was awarded the title of Worst Actor of the Year because of the poor reputation of his two films "The Promise" and "The Great Sage" at the end of the year.
There are also some other winners who received negative reviews. It is difficult to be happy anyway, and some artists directly criticized them.
But the more than 30 media outlets are certainly not afraid, and are even happy to bicker with each other. Another wave of materials is in place, and with a few more, they can all wait for the annual vacation.
Cao Xuan didn't pay much attention to the noise from the outside world.
For his level, this list has very little positive effect on him. It doesn't matter how many first places he gets. On the contrary, there are negative comments, and he may look at it a few more times.
If you have that time, you might as well have some uncool addresses to keep fire for domestic production...
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By January 2006, "The Promise" basically could not pose any threat to "Xiu Chun Dao 2".
After riding on the success of "The Promise", "Xiu Chun Dao 2" soared at the box office, it has slowly reached a bottleneck period. The box office growth has slowed down significantly or even declined.
The industry estimate is 200 million, but Fanxing's internal estimate is only about 180 million. The reason is that the Spring Festival is approaching and "Fearless" will be released in late January.
I don't know whether the producers of "Fearless" are confident, or whether they want to cooperate with the film's release in Europe and the United States. The film's mainland premiere is scheduled to happen two days before the Spring Festival.
At this stage when the Spring Festival schedule has not yet officially taken shape, the choice of "Fearless" is quite bold.
However, this will affect the box office of "Xiu Chun Dao 2" to a certain extent.
But Cao Xuan is not angry, and the impact will not be much. Compared with the box office of 18 million, he hopes that more and more blockbusters like "Fearless" will be released around the Spring Festival to create an impact during the Spring Festival.
In the original time and space, the Spring Festival stalls, along with the New Year stalls and Christmas stalls, were collectively referred to as the Lunar New Year stalls.
It was Cheng Long who opened the Lunar New Year stall, and it was Feng Xiaogang who took the Lunar New Year stall to its peak.
From 1998 until the first decade of the 21st century, Feng Xiaogang's films frequently performed well during the Lunar New Year. Regardless of his reputation as a character, he is indeed the true Lunar New Year king based on his box office performance.
During this period, there were no films released during the Spring Festival, but they were all in twos and threes, and there were not many films that had a scale or became popular.
It wasn’t until 2013 that Xing Ye’s “Journey to the West: Conquer the Demons” was officially announced with a high profile and would be released on the first day of the Lunar New Year.
Then the six-day Spring Festival period grossed 526 million at the box office, with a total box office of 1.247 billion, which shocked the industry.
It also established the shape of the Spring Festival stalls.
Prior to this, among the movies released during the Spring Festival, the highest-grossing movie was also Star Wars, "Yangtze River No. 7" with over 200 million. As a result, "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" raised the movie box office to the last ten digits in one go, and everyone saw it.
The potential of the Spring Festival stalls.
Since then, the Spring Festival schedule began to take shape, and then became more and more popular year by year, eventually becoming the best schedule in the mainland film market.
Cao Xuan has actually been eyeing the Spring Festival stalls for a long time, but the formation of the schedule is not easy to figure out.
It took several years for the Lunar New Year stall to emerge and flourish. Cao Xuan also started cultivating the summer stall from "When Men Are in Love". It took three years before it could barely be called a hit.
Previously, Fanxing won the summer box office championship three times in a row and became the king of summer movies. It gradually laid a certain foundation in the hearts of movie fans and formed a brand effect.
Now is the time for consolidation and deepening. We cannot leave the country we have finally conquered and just abandon it to open up wasteland for the Spring Festival.
Therefore, Fanxing’s current focus is still on the summer season, supplemented by the Lunar New Year season.
However, it does not mean that Cao Xuan just ignores the Spring Festival period. He can slowly lay out the plan, occasionally arrange movies during the Spring Festival period, gradually expand the market and cultivate the market. When the time is relatively mature, he can make a big move and officially open up the land.
Speaking of "Fearless", this movie still has a two-way relationship with Cao Xuan. The film crew wanted to ask Cao Xuan to make a theme song, and the price was 5 million.
However, Cao Xuan was busy with his new album and traveling all over the world to shoot the music video, so he had no time at all.
He could have gone out of his way to write Xiao Zhou's song and give it to others to sing, but Xiao Zhou's song in Original Time and Space had too strong of a personal style, so Cao Xuan felt it was unnecessary.
After going round and round, it was Xiao Zhou who took the lead and sang the "Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo, Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo" song of the same name "Huo Yuanjia" with Fang Wenshan, which has now begun to be released to build momentum for the movie.
At the same time, Cao Xuan's new album "Legend", which is about to be released after the Spring Festival, has also begun to release the first song to promote it and hit the charts.
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Japan, Tokyo
With a sweet smile, Nagasawa Masami said goodbye to the fans waiting at the door, came to the commercial car, breathed a tired sigh, smiled and said to the driver and assistant
"Laixi, you can have a good sleep today."
Cao Xuan came to Japan for the first time in early 2002. She was still a 15-year-old lolita, a small model in a girls' magazine, and had played several minor roles.
Now four years have passed, and the little Lolita has begun to show her charisma as an otaku goddess, becoming a popular idol in Japan.
Perhaps Cao Xuan himself didn't know that the fan meeting he held at the time had a great impact on the debut of the two otaku goddesses. The two little lolita faced the media in public for the first time and gained a certain amount of attention.
Perhaps to ordinary people, these attentions are nothing, but Masami Nagasawa was a magazine model and an actor at that time, and she had only half a foot in the entertainment industry.
This fan club was accidentally promoted by Cao Xuan, and he was immediately noticed by interested people. Within a month, he got a supporting role in a movie.
In 2003, he starred in a movie for the first time and won the Japan Film Academy Award for Best Newcomer, known as Japan's Oscar.
In the next two years, she continued to have film appointments and her fame continued to expand. She was known as Toho's sweetheart, and she crazily harvested Japanese otaku fans with her innocent and cute image.
That's right, Masami Nagasawa, who many people think is not very familiar with sex, actually started her career by being pure and cute.
Later, Nagasawa Masami also went through various styles such as sexy goddess, refreshing girlfriend, cold queen, friendly big sister, intellectual and elegant, etc., so she was also called the ever-changing goddess by fans.
The related personal photos are very popular, and sales have always ranked among the top among Japanese female artists.
It is precisely because of his popularity and high fan loyalty that Masami Nagasawa has been highly praised by Toho and focused on cultivation.
If we make a forced comparison, Masami Nagasawa now looks a bit like Liu Tianxian in China.
She is also backed by a big tree, has certain influential works, and is extremely popular. However, she is not as widely involved as Liu Tianxian for the time being. She is more popular among young people, but she is also one of the most outstanding little flowers of the new generation in Japan.
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The place of work is not far from where I live. In less than 20 minutes, I arrived at the place where Nagasawa Masami lives, a small apartment of about 60 square meters.
Although the entertainment industry in Japan is developed, the money made by artists is really not as good as that of the Chinese entertainment industry in later generations. Especially newcomers like Nagasawa Masami are still severely exploited.
Coupled with the terrible housing prices in Tokyo, Nagasawa Masami could only choose to live in a small apartment first, and then think about other things after saving enough money.
After saying goodbye to the driver and making an appointment for tomorrow, Masami Nagasawa bought some sushi snacks downstairs, then returned to the apartment, lying on the tatami without wanting to get up.
Even though she is quite popular now, the competition in the Japanese entertainment industry is fierce, and the shelf life of artists, especially idols, is too short. There are many who are out of date in two or three years.
Masami Nagasawa is not sure how long she will be popular, so she takes on jobs as much as possible to extend her career.
By the way, I can also make more money. Even if things go bad in the future, I will still have some savings. After all, even if the artist industry is not as exaggerated as in later generations of China, it is still a high-income group. You can make as much as you can.
Under such circumstances, Nagasawa Masami hardly had much rest time.
It's like today to call it a day in the evening, except for filming, which is only a dozen times throughout the year, so even though she is tired, Nagasawa Masami is still very happy to have a few more hours of entertainment time.
Opening a can of beer, Masami Nagasawa took a few sips, then turned on the stereo in the apartment, and Cao Xuan's "Believer" played.
The explosive melody and high-pitched roar made Masami Nagasawa smile and sway in the apartment with a beer.
Different from the innocent and sweet image on the outside, Masami Nagasawa's personality is actually more extroverted.
There are rumors that she is drunk and likes to share some embarrassing things with others. Although I don't know whether it is true or not, her nature is definitely not as well-behaved as she appears now.
You know, in the 2011 movie "Peach Blossom" that made Masami Nagasawa famous, there was a scene where the actor was directly rubbing her. There are also many large-scale scenes in other works.
Okay, you can search at station b, and pay attention to your health...
All fans of Masami Nagasawa know that her favorite singer is Cao Xuan.
Whether it is Chinese songs or English songs, she has listened to all of Cao Xuan's songs and bought the albums. She also often watches Cao Xuan's related film and television works. Even Japanese entertainment reporters jokingly call her Cao Xuan.
The first Japanese fan girl.
For this reason, a large number of Cao Xuan's Japanese female fans were dissatisfied and complained against the reporter, which made a moderate news.
Nagasawa Masami was happy to accept this, and even felt somewhat proud of it.
The admiration accumulated when he was young, Cao Xuan's outstanding appearance, unparalleled talent aura and world-renowned superstar filter, coupled with Nagasawa Masami's preference for bad men, made Nagasawa Masami very obsessed with Cao Xuan.
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"New World" was released in Japan during the summer vacation, and she even skipped a day of work to support her idol's work.
It was a pity that when Cao Xuan and other creative team came to Japan for promotion, she was filming in other places and was not in Tokyo, so she didn't meet her. She was upset for a long time afterwards.
Fortunately, Nagasawa Masami heard that Cao Xuan had a female companion this time, so she did not accept the escort arranged by the local film company and Toho.
While Nagasawa Masami was slightly pleased and admired, she was also jealous for several days because of Cao Xuan's female companion.
A few days ago, there was an interview in Japan asking artists to talk about their New Year's wishes. In addition to some wishes about parents, friends and relatives, Nagasawa Masami also wanted to act in a play with Cao Xuan.
Nagasawa Masami heard that her company, Dongbao, might cooperate with Cao Xuan's company in a movie, and she wondered if there was any hope that she could play a role.
Soon the two cans of beer were empty, and after listening to several songs, Nagasawa Masami stopped dancing without feeling satisfied.
I have to work tomorrow, so I can't drink.
She turned on the TV casually and wanted to watch a comedy show. During the commercial, Nagasawa Masami went to the bathroom to take a shower. After a few minutes, she came out wrapped in a bath towel.
A short, fat Japanese host was making exaggerated noises on the TV.
"This time Cao Sang's new song "wedon't talkany touchre" shows a high degree of sincerity.
The Canadian diva Avril Lavigne was invited to sing a male and female duet, and the music video was shot in Paris, London, Los Angeles and other cities. It is worth mentioning that this was the first time Cao Sang shot a music video with a woman other than his two female leads.
As soon as "Wedon't Talk Any Touch" was released, it ranked 14th on the US Billboard singles chart in its first week, and ranked third on the British music charts.
Since the album has not been officially released in Japan, it has not been included in the Oricon charts for the time being, but the data on other charts may be impressive.
After a year, Cao Sang released another English song, once again shattering all the voices that badmouthed him with his talent. The peerless emperor of the Asian music scene is back..."
The passionate speech of host Zhong Er did not affect Nagasawa Masami. She was more concerned about Cao Xuan's new song.
"It's because I'm so busy these days that I didn't know that Onii-chan released a new song."
Nagasawa Masami is very upset. Cao Xuan’s news in Japan is not particularly developed. For real-time updates, even a special search may be a bit laborious.
Although Cao Xuan himself has a blog, it is either in English or Chinese, which is not particularly friendly to Japanese fans.
Moreover, Cao Xuan doesn't like to talk too much about work on his blog, especially English blogs. He mostly shares interesting things and writes short compositions. He updates from weekly to monthly, so even his biggest fans won't be watching all the time.
After all, Nagasawa Masami is busy with work and cannot pursue stars 24 hours a day.
She only knew that Cao Xuan's movie was being released, and she wanted to watch it when it was released in Japan, but she didn't know that Cao Xuan's new album had begun to be promoted.
However, she didn't worry about it for too long, and was ready to find a channel to listen to the song. She didn't even need to look for it. After a while, the host Balabala took the initiative to release Cao Xuan's new song mv.
Cao Xuan has been debuting for many years, and the number of songs he has accumulated is almost 100.
In addition to songs without MVs, as well as many movie and TV theme songs and special MVs, there are almost more than 50 MVs with female protagonists, all of which starred Hu Jing and Zeng Li as the female protagonists.
Only this time "wedon't talkany touchre" is an exception, mainly because this song is sung duet by a man and a woman.
It doesn't matter if it's just a duet and chorus. "Beautiful Myth" is also a duet between him and Yao Beina, but it directly quoted a clip from the movie "Myth" as the MV, which is more consistent.
But this song "Wedon't Talk Any Touch" is different. The duet is a couple's background, and the MV is also a couple's direction. It is impossible for Cao Xuan to sing a duet with Avril Lavigne, and then find Hu Jing or Zeng to star in the MV, so it would be better not to film it.
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Therefore, for the "first time" since his debut, Cao Xuan was successfully captured by Avril Lavigne, except for the East and West Palaces...
As a big fan of Cao Xuan, Masami Nagasawa naturally understands the significance of this exception.
As a world-famous singer who frequently sells millions or even over ten million albums, Cao Xuan's music video heroine has great temptations for many popular Asian stars.
It is no exaggeration to say that many female stars from China, Japan and South Korea are working hard for it and are even willing to pay some price.
Especially for female artists who are not well-known, they are likely to become famous in one fell swoop and suddenly become popular from a young star.
This is not without precedent. Sister Zhiling first appeared in front of the Taiwanese media through Leslie Cheung's music video heroine. Xiao Zhou's music video heroine always attracted a certain amount of attention.
With Cao Xuan's stature, playing the heroine of his music video will definitely attract a lot of exposure, and she may even travel to Europe and the United States, and she will look familiar even if she is not famous.
But Cao Xuan just doesn't use outsiders, which makes things more rare and valuable. If someone makes an exception, the sensation caused may be enough to slap someone in Asia's face.
Frankly speaking, Masami Nagasawa has never thought before that one day she would be looked upon differently by Cao Xuan and selected as the heroine of the music video.
Not only can you act with idols, you can even get in touch with idols, you can also gain a lot of attention, and you can show your face in Europe and the United States.
Unexpectedly, her dream was preempted by someone today.
Watching Avril Lavigne on the TV, Masami Nagasawa gritted her teeth silently. She remembered this little dwarf.
However, although she was angry, Nagasawa Masami was quickly attracted by the melody and story of "wedon't talkany touch".
The setting of the mv is very simple, just split screen display, with Cao Xuan on the left and Avril Lavigne on the right.
According to the development of the story, it can be seen that the two are a couple who have broken up. They seem to have given up on that relationship, but every bit of their lives shows that both parties are still missing each other.
Even though both parties have found a new partner, they still can't hide their longing for each other.
One night, looking at the photos they had taken before, the two wanted to contact each other on their mobile phones. The text messages had been edited, but they could not be sent.
For example, the lyrics say
wedon”ttalkany touch relikeweu color dtodo
wedon’tloveanymore
Translated into Chinese: Don't miss the promise on the green paper when you return. The rain breaks the clouds and the first love is always weak.
Four words, fate is over!
Compared to the story in the MV, the biggest highlight of this song is actually the melody and rhythm which are very interesting, light and joyful with a lazy and casual temperament.
But under this brisk melody, the lyrics are a little confused, corresponding to the entanglement of the two protagonists in the lyrics and the music video.
Especially in the chorus stage, Cao Xuan's high falsetto and Avril Lavigne's breathy singing gave the whole song a sweet feeling mixed with pain, successfully hitting the topic.
At the end of the song, the melody singing became free and natural again, which was also a sign of letting go of the obsession with the last two protagonists of the MV.
Whether it is the story structure, the meaning of the lyrics, or the arrangement of the melody and rhythm, this song "wedon't talkany touchre" is very stylish.
In the current world pop music scene, there are a large number of sweet, surging, sad, or painful love song styles that are unique and give listeners a refreshing feeling.
Although Masami Nagasawa personally prefers Cao Xuan's explosive rock music, she does not reject such refreshing songs and even appreciates them very much.
"Si Guoyi is worthy of being Asia's number one Ounisang. A talented man is so charming."
Staring at Cao Xuan's handsome face on the TV, Nagasawa Masami's eyes were slightly blurred. After drinking two cans of beer before, she was a little thirsty again...
ps: The Easter Egg Chapter has already arranged a song, but it is being reviewed.
