As soon as the host finished speaking, a tall and thin girl wearing rustic black-rimmed glasses walked onto the stage. She stood still and turned around and made an OK gesture, and then the song accompaniment started playing.
"Looking back slowly, the evenings that once belonged to each other
Honghong is still you, giving me the sunshine in my heart
…”
The girl only sang a few lines. Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui, who had their backs to the stage, couldn't help but turn their heads and look at each other. Anita Mui praised: "The voice is so beautiful."
Zhang Guorong smiled and said: "I am on your level."
The mentors of the third season of "The Voice of China" are all singers from Fengxing Records. In addition to Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui, the other two are Tsui Siu Fung and Ip Dexian.
Xu Xiaofeng only signed with Fengxing Records last month. Her contract with her original employer Kangyi Chengyin has expired, and for some reasons she has had a stalemate with TVB, and Kangyi Chengyin is one of TVB's partners. Xu Xiaofeng
Not wanting to be caught in the trap, she angrily joined Fengxing Records, which didn't have to look at TVB's face - record companies need to promote singers on TV stations. Currently, Xu Xiaofeng has not released a film at Fengxing Records, but has been hosting Phoenix Golden Songs for half a month.
Phoenix Golden Songs is a program launched at the beginning of this year. It usually introduces some popular songs and selects Phoenix's top ten golden songs of the year every year.
Only half a year after its establishment, "Phoenix Golden Songs" has been listed as one of the three major music awards in Hong Kong, along with TVB's "Top Ten Golden Songs" and Radio Television Hong Kong's "Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs".
As for Dexian Ip, she is a veteran singer who has been famous since the 1960s and 1970s. In fact, she doesn't make many records anymore, and focuses more on making movies. She has played important supporting roles in many DreamWorks movies.
But even so, as a once popular singer in Hong Kong, she still has extremely high popularity and countless fans, enough to serve as a mentor for The Voice of China.
In the show, Xu Xiaofeng, Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui were all very respectful towards Dexian Ip, treating her as a senior mentor.
"The future will be full of thousands of songs
Floating far away on my road
The coming sun will be like thousands of evening stars
Brighter than the moon tonight
…”
"beep!"
"beep!"
"beep!"
Zhang Guorong, Anita Mui and Xu Xiaofeng suddenly turned on the lights at the same time, and the electronically controlled seats slowly turned towards the stage after the staff pressed the control switch.
"Wow!!!"
Seeing the three instructors turning around at the same time, the audience immediately roared. Only half a minute later, the remaining Ye Dexian pressed the light and turned around. When all four votes were passed, the stage of Taiping Theater flashed with dazzling colors.
The lighting pushed the atmosphere of the show to the highest level.
After singing the song, Zhang Guorong asked: "Excuse me, what is your name and what is your occupation?"
The girl calmed down her excitement and replied: "Hello, four mentors. My name is Zhou Huimin. I just graduated from middle school and am currently working as a clerk in a video store."
Xu Xiaofeng said: "Hello Huimin, you sing very well. Have you received professional training?"
Zhou Huimin was extremely nervous and excited at this time, trying hard to maintain a smile on her face, and said: "I have practiced piano since I was a child and also learned some music theory knowledge, but it is not very professional training."
"Tell me about your dream." Anita Mui said.
Zhou Huimin replied: "My dream is to be able to make money from music to support my family in the future."
Ye Dexian smiled and said: "What a great dream."
…
Wang Zuxian was like a sloth, wrapping her limbs tightly around Kang Jianfei. The "jiaochuan" sound coming out of her mouth became louder and louder. Suddenly she screamed sharply, her body bent like a taut bow, and her long neck was raised
He got up and pumped out rhythmically all over his body.
The scent of silver still lingered in the air. The man and woman embracing each other on the bed gradually calmed down and caressed each other quietly. The only sound left in the room was the singing coming from the TV.
Wang Zuxian leaned silently in Kang Jianfei's arms, enjoying the man's gentle touch and kiss. After half a month of hooking up, Kang Jianfei finally took the time to get Wang Zuxian into bed, and enjoyed the graceful and tender sex to his heart's content.
Body.
Wang Zuxian glanced at the red stains on the sheets and said shyly, "Mr. Kang, I want to take a bath."
"You still call me Mr. Kang?" Kang Jianfei teased and slapped her on the butt.
Wang Zuxian touched his buttocks and asked, "Then what should I call you?"
Kang Jianfei smiled and said: "Of course I call you Brother Fei. You can also call me husband if you want."
Wang Zuxian naturally chose the former and said, "Brother Fei, I want to take a bath."
"Go." Kang Jianfei took his dirty hands away from Wang Zuxian.
The sound of rushing water sounded in the bathroom, but Kang Jianfei's attention turned entirely to the TV screen, because he happened to see Zhou Huimin singing.
"Interesting, Zhou Huimin actually showed up too." Kang Jianfei said happily.
What surprised Kang Jianfei was yet to come. Just over ten minutes later, a band came on stage carrying all their belongings and actually sang an original rock song.
Zhang Guorong said: "Introduce yourselves."
"Hello, four mentors, we are the beyond band."
"My name is Huang Jiaju."
"My name is Huang Jiaqiang"
"My name is Ye Shirong."
"My name is Chen Shi'an."
Anita Mui looked at the four people in the stands carefully and asked: "Have you participated in other singing competitions before?"
Huang Jiaju nodded and said: "We participated in the Yamaha Guitar Competition two years ago and won the championship. However, we insisted on singing the songs we wrote ourselves, but we were not favored by the record company, so we could only work as an underground band and travel around to make money."
Tak-han Ip, who has the most qualifications, said: "Playing in a band was very popular more than ten years ago, but now whoever plays in a band will die. Look at Teddy Robin, the first band leader in Hong Kong, and now he has switched careers to make movies. I think
Jiaju, your singing skills are very good. If you just sing pop songs as a singer, you should be able to become famous. But if you continue to play in a band and sing original rock, you will probably only be able to continue to be an underground band."
The four members of the beyond band looked at each other and smiled bitterly. Huang Jiaju said somewhat helplessly: "Singing pop songs is not my interest."
The program on the TV was still going on. Wang Zuxian had already finished his bath and returned to bed in his pajamas. He was snuggled into Kang Jianfei's arms obediently and watching TV.
Kang Jianfei reached for the bedside phone, dialed Deng Yimin's number and said: "Old Deng, did you watch Phoenix TV's The Voice of China tonight? Yes, I'm attracted to the singers in it. You put Zhou Huimin and the band beyond
Sign it, I guarantee they will become popular..."
After hanging up the phone, Kang Jianfei saw Wang Zuxian looking at him intently, and asked with a smile: "Is there something wrong with my face?"
Wang Zuxian smiled and said: "No. I just think you are so handsome when you talk on the phone, and your tone of voice is very majestic."
One sentence determines the future of several singers, how can it not be impressive?
After the first episode of the third season of "The Voice of China" was broadcast, Zhou Huimin and Beyond quickly became famous, but they were only slightly famous. If they really want to become famous singers, they have to go through the packaging and promotion of record companies.
Kang Jianfei, who had returned to filming, unexpectedly received a call from Beijing. It was from Hu Juncai: "Ah Fei, I'm getting married in March next year. You must come then."
…
On November 10, the half-month-long first Tokyo International Film Festival came to an end. The Japanese film "Typhoon Club" won the Grand Prix (the highest award). "Shushan", which was invited to participate in the exhibition, and the Canadian film "Jacques and Eleven"
"Moon" jointly won the Grand Jury Prize, and also won a Film Critics' Special Award.
When the news came back to Hong Kong, Oriental Entertainment Distribution Company and Oriental Cinemas naturally took the opportunity to promote it. Soft advertisements for "Shu Mountain" could be seen everywhere in Hong Kong, but the real hard advertisements had not yet officially debuted. If this trend continues, until "Shu Mountain"
"When it is released in the summer, it will cost four to five million in promotional expenses alone. It is equivalent to the cost of a medium-invested Hong Kong film today.
Having won awards at two international film festivals in a row, "Shushan" quickly passed film censorship in the mainland and is expected to be released around New Year's Day. However, the mainland box office of "Shushan" has little to do with DreamWorks, because it was shot in the mainland.
As a co-producer, Xu Ke was able to use national film and television resources at an extremely cheap salary, but the price he paid was to completely give up the mainland box office.
In other words, DreamWorks won't get a penny from the box office of "Shushan" in the mainland, and it will all be divided between the China Film Co-production Company, the film bureau, and theaters around the country.
However, "Once Upon a Time", which was released at the end of August, was once again well received in the mainland due to its display of chivalrous spirit and patriotic sentiment. It has not been released for two and a half months, and the box office in the mainland has reached close to 40 million yuan.
Some people may wonder that around 2000, it was difficult to get a box office of tens of millions in the Mainland. Why in the 1980s, with a ticket price of only one or two yuan, DreamWorks movies could often get tens of millions at the box office?
In fact, it is very simple. From 1981 to 1992, it was the golden age of domestic films. The total box office of domestic films reached a peak of 3.2 billion yuan in 1992. After that, it plummeted. In 1998, the total box office of domestic films fell to 810 million yuan.
It was only equivalent to a quarter of the value in 1992. Even in 2003, this value was only 1.01 billion yuan, less than one-third of the value in 1992.
Therefore, the period from 1994 to 2003 is also called the "lost decade" of domestic films by some people.
Why did the total box office of domestic movies plummet in 1993? The most important reason is that starting from this year, VCD machines began to appear in mainland China, and within a few years, VCD machines and pirated VCDs proliferated.
Piracy can be said to be the main culprit for the decline of domestic films. Since then, foreign films have been introduced since 1994 (there was no formal introduction mechanism before). Not only did it fail to save Chinese films, but it actually raised the horizons of the Chinese people and made people even more disdainful of watching domestic films.
Therefore, it was an extremely happy thing to be able to sell movies into the mainland market in the 1980s. Because now there are few entertainment methods in the mainland, and there are even very few TV sets. There are no pirated VCDs, and there are no video halls showing pirated video tapes.
It has just appeared. After being cultivated by movies such as "Shaolin Temple", Chinese people have gradually developed the habit of going to theaters to watch movies, so that each of DreamWorks' movies can sell more than 20 million yuan at the box office in the mainland - there is no competitor.
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The most important reason why the central government tolerates DreamWorks' films and keeps making money in the mainland market is that Kang Jianfei did not earn foreign exchange from the motherland. China in the mid-1980s was poor, but the poor thing was that there was too little foreign exchange, and there was actually not much shortage of RMB.
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Most of the high box office sales of DreamWorks films were shared by mainland film bureaus and theaters. The share Kang Jianfei received was not earned in the form of foreign exchange, but was distributed directly in RMB.
Part of the RMB was donated directly to the Mainland, and part was used for investment in the Mainland (such as investing in CCTV's "Journey to the West" and other films, such as building cinemas and department stores in the Mainland).
Nowadays, not counting the food company he co-founded with Ye Laosan, Kang Jianfei already owns three cinemas in the mainland (another three are under construction, located in Chengdu, Wuhan and Beijing), and each one
Each movie theater has a department store attached to it, and there is also a Xiongfei Record Company and Shaolin Temple International Tourism Development Company in Guangzhou.
Even with these investments, DreamWorks still cannot use up the RMB it earns in the Mainland, and the RMB cannot be brought back to Hong Kong, so it has to find other ways to spend it.
The production cost of "Shushan" was 63 million Hong Kong dollars, of which nearly 20 million Hong Kong dollars were invested, which were actually spent directly in RMB. Although the exchange rate of RMB was very deceptive at this time, Kang Jianfei finally used the money in his hands.
, because these RMB are of no use in banks and will depreciate greatly in the next ten years.
The Shaolin Temple has also begun to develop. Although the investment has not been fully recovered, it has at least made a profit every month. Especially after the performance at the Spring Festival Gala last year, the Shaolin Temple increased its publicity efforts, coupled with the rapid economic growth of the mainland.
development, so the number of visitors to Shaolin Temple this year has nearly doubled compared to last year.
The outstanding performance of the Chinese team at last year's Olympic Games and the subsequent positive image publicity made the world more interested in China. The number of foreign tourists to Shaolin Temple in the first half of this year tripled compared to the same period last year.
After the business at Shaolin Temple got on the right track, Hu Juncai handed over the daily management work to his subordinates and moved to the capital to live there. The good relationship between this guy and the daughter of the Ye family has been settled, and the two are planning to spend the Spring Festival next year.
Get married.
Kang Jianfei operates his own theaters in the Mainland, and each theater only has one manager who came from Hong Kong. He is suffering from the lack of anyone to take charge of the affairs. Hu Juncai's withdrawal from the Shaolin Temple solved this problem.
Now, all of Kang Jianfei's theaters in the mainland have been renamed Oriental International Cinemas (theatre chain company). Hu Juncai serves as the general manager of the company and gets 15% of the theater chain company shares. It's not that Kang Jianfei doesn't give too much, but
Kang Jianfei himself only owned 49% of the shares, and after giving it to Hu Juncai, only 34% was left. The remaining 51% of the shares were owned by the local government, because when the theater was originally built, it was stipulated that the government must be the largest shareholder.
But now that a third party holds shares, there is room for maneuver. Kang Jianfei and Hu Juncai have already discussed it and plan to gradually spend money to buy back the shares from the local government in the next three years. By then Kang Jianfei
Holding 34% of the shares, Hu Juncai holds 31% and the local government holds 35%. The government is still the company’s largest shareholder and does not violate policy.
When the policy is relaxed one day, Kang Jianfei will pay to buy back all the shares held by the local government. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian () to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, your
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