After Zhao Yazhi decided to return to star in "The Legend of White Snake", Kang Jianfei immediately called the TV production company. In addition to confirming the three starring roles of Zhao Yazhi, Zhu Yan and Ye Tong, he also named Li Hanxiang as the director because he was
A master of Huangmei Opera films. If an ordinary director were to shoot it, he would never be able to capture the charm it deserves.
Li Hanxiang has been making movies in the past few years, but unfortunately he is increasingly unable to keep up with the times. He almost makes one movie at a time, and few companies are willing to hire him.
When Oriental TV Production Company found Li Hanxiang, the old man was recuperating in the hospital, and his illness was not serious. His health was deteriorating, and he was obviously no longer qualified for the director's job.
Although Li Hanxiang could not be the director himself, he recommended his old partner Xia Zuhui, who happened to be the director of the original version of "The Legend of White Snake." It was such a coincidence that he had come full circle and come back again.
Although Xia Zuhui's family is in Hong Kong, he often travels across the Taiwan Strait and the three places. Now he is working as an opera director for a TV series in Taiwan. After receiving the invitation, he immediately rushed back to Hong Kong and was very excited to get the script of "The Legend of the White Snake".
Because this drama suits his taste so much.
While Xia Zuhui was busy forming the crew, Ye Zipei also came to Hong Kong. She was here to attend the Oriental Music Group's year-end shareholders' meeting. Kang Jianfei attended various year-end meetings during this time and was bored to death.
Oriental Music Group is headquartered in Hong Kong. The group president is Cheng Shengming, who once held an important position at Atlantic Records, a subsidiary of Warner Records. In 1990, Time and Warner merged, and Atlantic Records invested in the establishment of Interscope Records. Cheng Shengming was transferred to the new company as an administrator.
Vice President.
As interscope records grew and grew, Cheng Shengming, who was Chinese, was gradually excluded from the decision-making circle. He returned to Hong Kong angrily and was introduced to Oriental Music Group by a friend. He was directly appointed as the vice president of the group by Kang Jianfei. Because of his super work ability
, this guy is now the president.
In addition to Cheng Shengming and Ye Zipei, those who came to the meeting this time also included Peng Guohua and Wu Chuchu from Taiwan's UFO Records, Zhang Peiren from China's Rolling Stone Records, Jiang Zhongguo from Korean Trend Records, Xu Huanliang, Huang Yuancheng, and RB Ai Hui from Singapore's Sea Butterfly Records.
Katsuto Matsuura of music, and Tang Yimin of Hong Kong Pop Records.
Everyone sat together and first talked about last year's situation, analyzed the current global music market situation, and then discussed cooperation between various companies next year.
Kang Jianfei has been sitting nearby and listening, interjecting from time to time.
After an unknown amount of time, Deng Yimin suddenly said: "China Star Records is about to die. I would like to ask Mr. Xu and Mr. Huang from Haidie Records to join forces to eat it."
"China Star Records is not working anymore?" Kang Jianfei was quite surprised. That was Shao Yifu's company, and TVB was helping behind it. Why was it not working?
In fact, China Star Records is really in trouble. Its main business is concentrated in Hong Kong, but it has been attacked by Pop Records and PolyGram, and has suffered losses for two consecutive years. Even if there were no Popular Records, the original China Star Records would have been sold.
For the South China Morning Post Group, it is only half a year ahead of schedule.
Xu Huanliang very much agreed with Deng Yimin's suggestion, because China Star Records also has several branches in Southeast Asia, and acquiring China Star would be conducive to the expansion of Haidie Records. He said: "The South China Morning Post seems to be discussing acquisitions with China Star, and we must hurry up."
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Cheng Shengming suddenly interjected: "The group's layout in Hong Kong and Nanyang has matured. There is no need to acquire another China Star. It will only make our organizational structure more bloated."
Deng Yimin said: "But acquiring Huaxing will be more beneficial to us!"
Cheng Shengming said: "There is really no need to acquire. We just need to take advantage of the opportunity of Huaxing to change hands and poach its outstanding producers and singers."
Deng Yimin and Xu Huanliang wanted to argue again, but Kang Jianfei suddenly said: "That's it, it's settled, there is no need to acquire Huaxing. Mr. Deng, Mr. Xu, when you get back, make arrangements early and try to poach the outstanding employees of Huaxing Records."
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"Okay." Deng Yimin and Xu Huanliang said helplessly. The chairman has already spoken, what else can they say?
Although China Star Records is losing money now, it does have many good singers under its umbrella, such as Andy Hui, Eason Chan, Sammi Cheng, Coco Lee, etc. In addition, China Star also has several gold medal producers, which are more valuable than singers. Popular singers are like eggs.
, and the gold medal music producer is the hen that lays eggs.
If all these people are poached, China Star Records will be left with nothing but a pile of rubbish. Even if the South China Morning Post Group acquires it, it will only be a headache.
When the meeting was over, Kang Jianfei specially asked Cheng Shengming to stay and said, "Asia has almost developed, and it's time to start entering the U.S. market."
"It's difficult." Cheng Shengming only answered in two words.
Kang Jianfei said: "No matter how difficult it is, you have to try."
Cheng Shengming said: "If you want to expand in the United States, there is only one way left, which is to acquire a local American record company and use local American singers to occupy the market. It is impossible for Chinese singers to enter."
Kang Jianfei certainly knows this situation. If European and American record companies want to expand in Asia, they can only acquire Asian companies and use Asian singers. The cultural gap between East and West is too serious.
"How about acquiring PolyGram?" Kang Jianfei asked with a smile.
"Uh..." Cheng Shengming was speechless for a moment. He reacted for a long time before saying with a bitter smile, "Mr. Kang, you are trying to swallow the elephant."
For children born in the 1990s and 2000s, the name PolyGram may be unfamiliar, but it was indeed the oldest, largest and most powerful record company in the world in the 1990s.
"Haha, I'm just talking." Kang Jianfei laughed. He only remembered that PolyGram was acquired by Universal Music 000 years ago, but he didn't know the specific reason or when.
In fact, the bosses of PolyGram had a clear vision. The reason they sold PolyGram was that they believed that traditional records would be replaced by digital (online) music, so they sold PolyGram in 1999 and sold it for a huge sum.
The sky-high price. As a result, with the rise of the Internet, digital music will crowd out the traditional record market in a few years, exactly as PolyGram's decision-makers predicted.
Kang Jianfei thought for a while, wrote down three English names and said: "You are going to acquire a music company in the United States. The scale does not need to be too big, and you can find these three girls by the way."
"Beyoncé, Britney, and Christina," Cheng Shengming glanced at them and said with a wry smile, "there are not even 10,000 but 8,000 of these three names in the United States. How do you want me to find them?"
Kang Jianfei said: "Of course you have to look for someone who is a little famous. I often went to the United States in the past few years, and I paid attention to these three girls and thought they had great potential. Beyoncé once joined a group called Zhenming
The goddess singing group, Britney and Christina are both members of Disney's Mickey Mouse Club. You can find out by asking around in the United States."
"That's good." Cheng Shengming breathed a sigh of relief. What he didn't expect was that among the three girls, Christina had just turned 15 years old, while Beyoncé and Britney were both only 14 years old, and each was older than the other.
young.
Kang Jianfei has no choice. He is not familiar with American singers in the first place. There are even fewer who have not debuted in the mid-1990s and are of the right age.
Perhaps due to luck, Cheng Shengming hired an American private detective and it only took a month to get the exact good news:
After the group disbanded, Beyoncé first signed with Elektra Records, but was abandoned by the company last year and had to return to her hometown sadly;
After MMC disbanded, Britney had no choice but to return to a small town to attend middle school. Now she has formed a student band at the school;
Christina's situation is slightly better. After MMC disbanded, she began to participate in recording record demos, which not only earned some living expenses but also had the opportunity to be noticed by record companies. Last year, the song she recorded for RB singer Keizan Nakanishi also became a best-selling track.
But this is of no help. The demo singer is not a singer at all, and it is difficult for him to get ahead.
These three are all big singers who will become famous all over the world in the future. After Kang Jianfei got the news, he suddenly didn’t know how to operate. Because they are too young now, many song styles are not suitable, let alone sexy and coquettish ones.
possible.
After much thought, Kang Jianfei decided to let the three of them form a group, and the name of the group was "The Right Girl". They would wait until they were all 16 years old before they could develop independently.
Haha, it’s interesting to think about tying these three chicks together. (To be continued)