"Then let's wait until the new competition rules are released. If there isn't a major time conflict, I should participate."
Su Yu thought for a moment before replying.
The earliest it would be is January or February of next year, which is four or five months away. Su Yu felt there shouldn't be any issues.
Moreover, he felt that the second season would likely not be as gentle as the first season's competition system.
It might even adopt an elimination system, as there would be more participating countries and more lyricists and composers. If one couldn't handle it, they could step aside.
So, even if his schedule was tight, being a substitute player when he had time would still be quite good.
Furthermore, his cultural and entertainment prestige in overseas music had been rising rapidly recently.
Su Yu planned to let overseas fans settle down for a while, and then return to harvest another wave of prestige.
"Your words are enough! Once the rules are set, I'll inform you immediately, and we can discuss your participation then!"
Qian Jin breathed a sigh of relief. Since Su Yu didn't directly refuse, it was tantamount to indirectly agreeing to participate in the second season, which made things much easier.
With Su Yu, this monstrous talent in the music industry, as their fallback, what did they have to worry about? If other lyricists and composers were defeated, they could always unleash Su Yu, their ultimate weapon.
The day after Su Yu returned to Yanjing, the official Weibo accounts of Tianxing Entertainment, Tianxing Animation, and Tianxing Special Effects simultaneously released the shocking news that "monkey king: hero is back" would be released on September 30th.
This news caused a much stronger shock to the industry than to netizens.
It was truly unbelievable that Tianxing Entertainment would invest 150 million to produce a domestic animated feature film; it looked like nothing more than a gimmick!
The box office record for domestic animated films was just over 300 million, so to break even, you would need over 400 million.
So, what else could this be but madness?
A newly acquired animation company, a new special effects company, plus Su Yu's script—Tianxing Entertainment dared to open such a large project?
And without bringing in external investment to share the risk?!
Did you think this was a live-action movie? That Su Yu's name alone could command such great box office appeal?
In any case, the film companies in the industry were very unoptimistic about this animated feature film, even extremely pessimistic.
Also, the decision to release this movie during the Spring Festival was a very unwise choice.
The summer slot would have been better, right? The National Day holiday is packed with blockbusters; aren't you just asking for trouble?
Even if you waited until the Spring Festival, the country would still be supporting animated films with screening policies and requirements at that time.
You would definitely get more screenings!
However, the screening schedules given by major cinema lines for this animated film directly stunned a host of industry insiders.
Taking the largest cinema line, Tiandi Cinema Line, as an example, it actually gave this animated film a 35% screening share!
How could other blockbusters possibly compete with that?
And Tianxing Cinema Line, which had already entered the top ten cinema lines, even gave its own movie over 50% of the screening share.
This was even crazier.
Big brother, aren't your cinema lines trying to make money anymore?
This also caused "monkey king: hero is back"'s national screening share to directly reach 33% for the first three days of its release, placing it at the forefront of all films released during the Spring Festival.
Everyone felt that Tianxing Entertainment and the cinema lines had all gone mad.
But this was just their feeling; it was because they hadn't seen the finished film!
Ren Nanbei, who was in charge of negotiating cinema line screenings with the film, felt that the major cinema lines were still being conservative. Otherwise, with their excitement, getting 40% or even more wouldn't be anything astonishing.
It's an animated film, after all; everyone is a bit unsure, and everyone is actually testing the waters.
Now, they just had to wait for the film's performance after its release to speak for itself.
Unlike the pre-release promotions for previous films, this time Su Yu, the screenwriter and producer, was unusually active, even writing a promotional song for the film.
The promotional song was released across the entire network simultaneously with Tianxing Entertainment's official announcement of the release date.
However, the singer of this song surprised many people.
It was Gong Juren, a male singer who had appeared in "Who is the Singer."
Was Su Yu unable to find a suitable singer among Tianxing Entertainment's artists?
Did he even have to choose a singer from outside?
Didn't you have a plan for "One Song, One Hit" before?
At that time, you scared us music companies quite a bit. What do you say now?
Is the plan shelved??
However, when they saw Gong Juren's new identity, each of them felt as uncomfortable as if they had swallowed a fly.
This guy had actually joined the Music Department of Tianxing Entertainment three months ago, after his contract with his original company expired!
Damn it, why is this Gong Juren so lucky? How could he defeat a host of competitors and successfully join the Music Department of Tianxing Entertainment!
To this, Gong Juren merely chuckled: Only by being obedient!
Back in the variety show, he had already shown a humble and eager-to-learn side.
He had truly meticulously implemented and corrected Wu Anjun's comments and opinions.
This also left Su Yu with an excellent impression of this male singer, who had always been in the second tier.
So, upon hearing the news that Gong Juren's contract had expired and he wished to join the Music Department of Tianxing Entertainment, Su Yu only met Gong Juren once, tested his recent singing skills, and then directly agreed to sign him.
At that time, Su Yu was still filming "the return of the condor heroes" and working on "Four Nations Concert," so he didn't have much time to arrange things for Gong Juren.
And Gong Juren didn't say anything either, as for him, being able to join Tianxing Entertainment was already the biggest surprise of this year.
So, what else could he be greedy for?
Now that everything had settled, Su Yu remembered him.
Additionally, Gong Juren had some foundation in traditional Chinese opera, so Su Yu simply gave him the opportunity to sing the promotional song for "monkey king: hero is back."
This made Gong Juren feel that his wait was truly not in vain. During this period, he had been desperately practicing the song Su Yu gave him.
Until today, when it officially went online, stunning everyone...
And the name of this song was "Wukong"!
Countless netizens immediately clicked the link below the news, directly jumping to the music App to listen to the song.
After all, it was a work produced by Su Yu, so the quality was naturally guaranteed.
Even if the person singing it was still unknown at the time.
However, when the song began, and as Gong Juren's voice came through, everyone who heard it felt something different.
"【The moon sprinkles on the starry river, the long road stretches endlessly,
The smoke has faded, a solitary shadow lingers.
Who made me exceptionally skilled, who made me caught between love and hate,
Until later, my heart was broken.】"
Gong Juren's singing style was clearly not popular music, but rather incorporated elements of traditional Chinese opera, giving it a very unusual feel.
And the lyrics of this song? Were they really about the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Wukong, whom they all knew?
Why did it feel a little different?