Amidst a series of explosions, Lin Qingxia and Hiroyuki Sanada sped out on the rail mine car. By the time Kang Jianfei shouted "Ka", the two of them were already covered with sand and dust.
Seeing that they were safe and sound, the entire crew breathed a sigh of relief. In the scene just now, Luo Lixian arranged a total of 17 explosion points, and the director's rail car had to explode continuously with the two starring actors Lin Qingxia and Hiroyuki Sanada.
Travel through.
Explosion scenes are the most dangerous when filming, and no one can guarantee 100% that there will be no accidents. For example, in another time and space, the reason why Li Saifeng faded out of the film industry was because she insisted on not using a stand-in and was injured by an explosion. From then on, she could no longer adapt to high-definition scenes.
Intense action movie shooting.
As soon as Kang Jianfei stretched out his hand, Lin Qingxia took his hand and jumped off the mine car. Her skills were much more agile than before.
"Okay, the Hong Kong drama is finished," Kang Jianfei said, "I'll arrange for a few of them to go to Tokyo with me, and the others should go home and rest. Everyone has worked hard during this time."
As everyone packed their things and prepared to leave, Kang Jianfei asked Hiroyuki Sanada: "Mr. Sanada, have the arrangements for Shochiku Pictures in Japan been made?"
Hiroyuki Sanada said: "There is no problem at all. Miss Pan Yingzi and Mr. Takeuchi personally selected the filming location, and several actors have also been selected."
Kang Jianfei said: "Thank you very much. Thank you Mr. Takeuchi for me."
From the start to now, "Royal Sister" has been filmed for 42 days.
This kind of action movie can't be accelerated even at Kang Jianfei's filming speed. Often, just to shoot an action, speeding or explosion scene, it takes several hours just to prepare.
So far, the crew has scrapped 23 cars in order to film the speeding scene. Although they are all second-hand cars and some can be repaired and still usable, the money spent is still enough to make Kang Jianfei heartbroken.
Fortunately, he helped Mitsubishi Motors advertise, and the other party also gave Kang Jianfei a luxury car. Bitch Fei was finally able to replace the original China car that he had lost his status with.
During the filming of "The Royal Sisters", New Arts City and Jinbao Film Company each released another movie, with an average box office of about 3 million in Hong Kong.
Especially in New Art City, "Chasing Girls" has just been completed, and they are already planning to shoot "Ghost Horses and Stars". If you think about it for a while, you will know that there must be Lei Juekun behind the scenes who is constantly investing money, otherwise it would be like this
In a short period of time, there is no way to raise funds through overseas box office.
After the Hong Kong drama was wrapped, Kang Jianfei drove Lin Qingxia back to the hotel and rushed to Fengxing Records non-stop.
Columbia Records in the United States wanted to release Kang Jianfei's "Original Scenery of Hometown", and it took three months before they finally sent someone.
When Kang Jianfei came to Fengxing Records, Deng Yiming was having a harmonious conversation with two Americans. One of them was McCourty Beckham, whom Kang Jianfei had met before.
Deng Yiming introduced: "Mr. Kang, this is Mr. Abel from the marketing department of Columbia Records in the United States. You have already met Mr. Beckham."
After Kang Jianfei shook hands with the two ghost guys, he asked Deng Yiming: "How did the discussion go?"
Deng Yiming said: "Their conditions are that you get 13% of the performance and composition share. Li Fanyu gets 0.5% of the producer's share, Fengxing Records gets 1.7% of the copyright dividend, and the remaining 84.8% is given to Columbia for distribution.
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When Kang Jianfei heard this, he became angry and said: "I performed the music I composed myself, but they only gave me 13%. Let them go to hell!"
That McCourty? Beckham understood Cantonese. He turned around and whispered to Abel to translate.
Abel chattered again to Deng Yimin, and Deng Yimin quickly translated it to Kang Jianfei: "Mr. Abel said that this is a pure music record. The market potential is not as big as that of pop music. And 13% is already a lot. New singers will get dividends."
The maximum is 8% to 9%, and the songwriter’s dividend is maximum 3%.”
Kang Jianfei asked Deng Yimin: "How did you talk to him?"
Deng Yimin said: "Of course I hope he can make another step, but we haven't reached an agreement yet and they won't give in."
Kang Jianfei was too lazy to tell him. He turned to McCarty Beckham and said, "I know you understand me. Let me say it again. "Original Scenery of Hometown" is not that kind of junk pop music. It will be released in another ten years.
Ten years from now, people will still listen to it. If you release it this year, you can reissue it in three to five years. So don’t take the regular share of popular records. Let me tell you, my personal share is less than 20%.
Don’t talk about it, Columbia is not the only company on the planet!”
McCourty immediately relayed it to Abel. Abel shook his head repeatedly and spoke bird language to Kang Jianfei.
Deng Yimin translated: "He said 20% is too much, the most they can give you is 14%."
"See you off!" Kang Jianfei said, sitting down on the sofa next to him, too lazy to waste energy with the two ghost guys.
Abel was silent for a moment, then asked: "Mr. Kang, are you selling the permanent worldwide distribution rights of "Original Scenery of Hometown"?"
After Deng Yimin translated, Kang Jianfei shook his head and said: "Of course not. Fengxing Records has its own distribution channels in Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong. What I sell to you is the distribution rights outside these areas, and the distribution period is only 20 years. 20
After the year, if anyone else wants to release this album, the price will have to be renegotiated."
McCourty smiled and said: "We can give you 15%, but I have to buy out the distribution rights of this record, and Mr. Kang will release pure music records in the future, so he must first discuss cooperation with Columbia."
Kang Jianfei smiled and said: "I agree to your subsequent conditions, but 15% is still too little."
McCourty shook his head and said, "No, that's enough."
"Then I can only say sorry." Kang Jianfei said with a smile, and then turned to Deng Yimin, "Let these two gentlemen discuss it here, and let's go out and talk."
Deng Yimin nodded and followed Kang Jianfei to another office.
As soon as he closed the door, Deng Yimin said excitedly: "Mr. Kang, I received a call from Taiwan last night. The original soundtrack of "The Wrong Ride" sold 400,000 copies in 10 days. That's 400,000 copies!"
"Calm down!" Kang Jianfei said with a smile, he had known this result for a long time.
The original "Wrong Ride" came out three years later, and later ranked second on Taiwan's top 100 albums list. Its original soundtrack directly broke the sales record of Taiwanese records for many years. It sold nearly two million. Even at this time
Taiwan's economy will not be developed in three years, but it shouldn't be difficult to sell a million copies.
Deng Yimin said excitedly: "I can't calm down. It was a sales volume of 400,000, and it only lasted for 10 days."
Kang Jianfei smiled and said: "Su Rui has become famous in Taiwan now. You need to work harder. She is suitable for singing Mandarin songs. She has no future in Hong Kong. Your work focus will be transferred to Taiwan in the near future."
Fengxing Records is an old record company in Hong Kong. Its distribution channel in Taiwan is actually through the sales network of Taiwan's old record company Haishan Records. The previous album of the same name for "Happy Ghost" and this time "Hitch the Wrong Ride" were directly purchased from them.
Distributed by Haishan Records.
Deng Yimin nodded and said: "Boss Zheng from Haishan Records in Taiwan used to have some friendship with my father. I have reached an agreement with him, and Haishan Records will help contact Su Rui for performances, and the next album is also being planned.
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When the two were discussing how to promote Su Rui, McCourty Beckham and Abel were also discussing in another room.
McCourty Beckham said: "Am I right? This Chinese is difficult to deal with."
Able shrugged and said: "He thinks he is Elvis Presley? He actually wants 20% of the record dividend."
McCourty Beckham smiled and said: "But Mr. Josephine likes this record very much. We can't return empty-handed like this."
Abel said: "How about we pretend that the conversation has broken down and let them hang out for a few days?"
McCourty Beckham shook his head and said: "What's the point of thinking about it? In fact, we have been letting him go for three months. This Kang doesn't seem to care about releasing "Original Scenery of Hometown". I have investigated. He is still a very good person."
As a director and film company boss, his energy is not focused on music."
Abel asked: "How much do you think is appropriate?"
McCourty said: "Just give him 18% of the share. Any more and the headquarters will disagree."
"It seems like this is all." Abel sighed.
While the two were talking, Kang Jianfei and Deng Yimin knocked on the door and came in.
Kang Jianfei asked: "How did you two discuss it?"
Abel said: "I just communicated with Beckham, and we agreed that 16% is a very appropriate number."
Kang Jianfei smiled and said: "I have to go back and prepare for filming in Japan tomorrow. So don't waste your time. Give us your bottom line data!"
Abel spread his hands and said: "Okay, you win, Mr. Kang. 18%. This is our bottom line, it cannot be more. You have to know that after you leave the Chinese circle, you will not have any reputation. Colombia will
A lot of resources are invested in promoting it.”
"Okay, just 18%. A very wise choice." Kang Jianfei said with a smile.
McCourty Beckham said: "Mr. Kang, Columbia would like to invite you to a concert in the United States, where you will play your Tao Xun."
Kang Jianfei asked: "Is this an incidental requirement of signing the contract?"
Abel nodded and said: "Yes, you must cooperate with us in publicity."
Kang Jianfei asked: "When?"
"Just around Christmas time," Abel said.
Kang Jianfei said: "No problem. Please inform me of the specific time one week in advance."
Abel smiled and said: "Then I wish us a happy cooperation."
"Happy cooperation!" Kang Jianfei said.
To be honest, Kang Jianfei is not too concerned about the release of "Original Scenery of Hometown" because he is rich now, very rich.
"Mr. Zombie" has been strong in Taiwan for several months, and it has not completely failed at this time. The cumulative box office has reached more than NT$38 million. Moreover, after the movie was released in South Korea, it also caused a sensation, surpassing Cheng Long's "Junior Brother".
"Go Out" became the most-watched movie of the year.
Not only "Mr. Zombie", "The Wrong Ride" directed by Chen Xunqi and Yu Kanping is now released in Taiwan because it has Mandarin dialogue.
As soon as "The Wrong Ride" was released, it immediately caused a movie-watching frenzy in Taiwan, and its sensation was even greater than that of "Mr. Zombie". (To be continued) 8
