I Know Everything

Chapter 61: After completion.

"Xiao Shuishui, why couldn't I see uncle Shui?" Chen Huan asked while eating noodles.

"He is very popular now. Reporters and fans are looking everywhere for him. So he dare not to come home until night." Shui Qianyu said boringly, "If it weren't for those business men that keep asking my dad to sing, it wouldn't be so annoying!"

Chen Huan laughed at that.

'Paper Kite' had been released for 4 weeks now and generated 45 million in box office. It became Zhu Mei's highest box office gross movie.

According to the 43% shares, the producer Xuanwu Film received 19.35 million.

The total cost of the movie and advertisement was less than 7 million, which meant that Xuanwu Film earned 12 million!

The investment return ratio was nearly 200%. It wasn't a big production but it was definitely impressive.

Zhu Mei got a reputation boost as she became better known in literary and artistic film.

But even so, 'Love Letter' attention or companies that wanted to invest in still weren't there. There weren't even companies that wanted to discuss.

Was it strange?

This was reality!

Artistic films were artistic films. Even if you made money this time, there was no guaranteed that the next one would make money.

Artistic films were different from commercial films.

But if the five biggest directors bombed a movie or two, those film companies' trust would still not diminish.

Because of their success had rewarded them with a total box office score of over 2 billion, 5 billion or even more than 10 billion! 

There were only five director as strong as them in China, weren't they awesome?

Coming back to the subject.

Even if the movie wasn't on the cinema anymore, 'Mama Do You Remember' popularity didn't weaken.

There were several reasons for that.

The first reason was that 'Mama Do You Remember' was indeed a classic song amongst the classic songs.

The second reason was of course because the song was free and everybody could listen to it and download it without any restriction.

The third reason was that there were many singers covering the song. Tangyuan, Su Mo, Zhu Shengyu, Zhou Jing, Xu Ping and other heavenly kings all sung it. Let alone the other singers.

Hundreds of versions of the songs were uploaded on the internet. It was like blooming flowers competing for who was the most beautiful. Obviously more discussion about it ensued.\

Therefore, 'Mama Do You Remember' was ranked in the top spot in several music or video streaming website and major radio stations.

It was really frenzied and tyrannical news!

It didn't any money on marketing but it still directly ranked first on multiple major music charts!

It had dominated the charts for more than 3 weeks and made countless singers that wanted to breakthrough in the chart helpless.

There was no way to win!

The other party strategy of making the song free and not earning any money could repel anybody.

They couldn't use their previous methods to discredit Shui Qingshan and Lu Xiaofeng.

Because the other party created a song for everyone to listen to and sing for free, it couldn't be a bad thing, right?

This was the high ground of morality!

Moreover, there were so many heavenly emperors and empresses that praised the song. Would they fight against the emperors and empresses just to discredit them? Would they still have a future in that case?

So in this situation, Shui Qingshan's popularity, who retired for many years, was growing again and more people started to know about him and worship him, which was quite reasonable.

It was said that the price for his appearance and sing 'Mama Do You Remember'was 500k, which was about the same as the heavenly emperors and empresses!

But Shui Qingshan wasn't willing to 'show his head again'. With his wife and daughter next to him and living comfortably in retirement, why would he still trouble himself?

So he went away these few days and was unwilling to have any contacts with those people.

Speaking of this, Uncle Shui's cool and casual personality was really good!