Deng Yiming was sitting by the window, reading the newspaper and drinking afternoon tea leisurely.
He can be so leisurely thanks to Kang Jianfei. After Deng Yiming obtained the distribution rights of the album of the same name from Kang Jianfei, although he gave up 12% of the profits to Kang Jianfei personally, the company only made more than 400,000 from the busy work
, but the impact does not stop there.
Before the release of the record "Happy Ghost", Deng Yiming was pressed for debt every day. But after Fengxing Records released the record as an agent, those creditors saw the hope of Fengxing Records' revival and finally agreed to suspend the debt, which gave Deng Yiming some leisure time.
Afternoon tea at the Peninsula Hotel.
The newspaper is about the premiere of "Mr. Zombie". Many newspaper reports these days are related to Kang Jianfei. For example, when the case of the Vietnamese robbers came to trial, Kang Jianfei and Pan Yingzi appeared in court as parties and witnesses. Afterwards,
West Kowloon Police Station presented the banner to Kang Jianfei and others.
To be honest, Deng Yiming admired Kang Jianfei. The latter was three years younger than him and was able to start a film company from scratch, while he was still struggling with the company's debts.
Just as Deng Yiming was flipping through the newspaper, Kang Jianfei's voice suddenly came from behind him: "Mr. Deng, I'm sorry, I'm late."
"No, I just arrived early." Deng Yiming smiled.
Kang Jianfei asked for tea, and after chatting for a while, he said politely: "The total sales volume of the album "Happy Ghost" in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia is less than 100,000. It seems that the distribution capabilities of Fengxing Records need to be improved."
Deng Yiming looked very embarrassed when he heard this. If it were an ordinary new singer's record, it would be very good to have a circulation of 100,000. But "Happy Ghost" was the box office champion in Hong Kong and also sold well in Southeast Asia. As a result, the total sales of Hong Kong and Southeast Asian records were not enough.
One hundred thousand, this number is really hard to come by.
Six years ago, life was difficult for Hong Kong singers at that time, and few records sold tens of thousands of copies in the country. However, after Xu Guanjie's "Double Star" became a hit, the album of the same name sold more than 100,000 copies in Southeast Asia alone.
In comparison, for the same popular movie, the operation of Fengxing Records this time was a huge failure - although there is a big gap in the fame and strength of the singers in it, the record market environment is much better now than six years ago.
Deng Yiming explained: "Since my father was paralyzed in bed, many of the units I used to cooperate with have lost contact. But don't worry, Mr. Kang, I have tried my best to repair the distribution channels. This problem will definitely not happen again next time I release a record."
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Kang Jianfei sighed: "At first, I thought that Fengxing Records was an old company with strong business capabilities, so I entrusted you with distribution agency. I didn't expect that I would be so disappointed."
Deng Yiming only smiled awkwardly, but in his heart, he cursed Kang Jianfei: You bastard took 12% of the profit, but you actually got the advantage and still acted like a good boy!
Kang Jianfei changed the subject and said, "I heard that Fengxing Records' debt problem has not been resolved yet?"
The slight smile on Deng Yiming's face quickly disappeared. He felt that Kang Jianfei didn't have a good idea when he asked him out today. He then calmly said: "I will solve the debt problem of Pop Records myself, so I won't bother Mr. Kang."
Kang Jianfei sighed: "It's not an option if you continue like this. The debt will only get bigger and bigger."
"I said it's a waste of Mr. Kang's trouble," Deng Yiming said displeased. You must know that in another time and space, the old company Pop Records still existed until the 21st century. It was just reduced to a small company with only a few employees.
That's all, it shows how capable Deng Yiming is.
Kang Jianfei said with a smile: "Okay, I won't talk anymore. How is the singing training of A-Feng and A-Xia going?"
"Li Saifeng is a little better, and Wen Bixia's progress is also very slow. She is not suitable for singing at all." Deng Yiming sighed. After all, he was only 21 years old, and he was still a little too young. When he was ill, he went to the doctor and impulsively signed the second daughter. .It’s too late to regret now.
Kang Jianfei said: "It doesn't matter if you sing badly, as long as you follow the idol route."
"Idol singer? No matter how good-looking you are, what's the use. If you sing badly, no one will spend money to buy records." Deng Yiming said depressedly.
Nowadays, there is really no concept of idol singers. The main thing is that today's fans listen to singers singing. It is difficult to see the image of the singer. They mainly focus on listening to the singing. The most original MVs are still available, but the singers are all motionless. The camera was present, and at most he only waved and kicked his feet occasionally.
In the truly popular sense, MVs had to wait for Michael Jackson to show his power two years later. From then on, music MVs began to gradually become popular. After a few years of development, there was finally the kind of music videos that sing extremely poorly but are very popular. idol singer.
Today's singers are all talented, and if you sing poorly, you'll even make a fart record!
Kang Jianfei smiled and asked: "Why, does Mr. Deng want to terminate the contract?"
Deng Yiming wanted to terminate the contract, but the contract Kang Jianfei signed with him clearly stated how many records he would send to Li Saifeng and the others in a year. If Deng Yiming breaks the contract now, he will have to lose money. Although the compensation is not much, Fengxing I really can’t get the record out.
Seeing that Deng Yiming was silent, Kang Jianfei asked, "Has Mr. Deng ever thought about selling Pop Records?"
"Absolutely impossible?" Deng Yiming refused.
Kang Jianfei asked again: "What if I buy shares? I will bear all the company's debts."
When Deng Yiming heard that Kang Jianfei was going to bear the debt, he asked excitedly: "How are you going to cooperate?"
Kang Jianfei asked: "How much does Fengxing Records owe now?"
Deng Yiming said: "More than 4.5 million."
Kang Jianfei said: "I will invest 500,000 yuan into the company, and bear another 4.5 million yuan in debt. The 5 million yuan will be exchanged for 90% of the shares of Fengxing Records."
Deng Yiming shook his head and said: "Impossible, I will give you 49% of the shares at most."
Kang Jianfei knocked on his forehead and said: "If it were anyone else, no one would take your company's offer of 1 million."
Deng Yiming said: "In my heart, pop records are worth at least 10 million."
"Then there's no need to talk." Without further ado, Kang Jianfei finished the tea and left.
Deng Yiming also left holding back his anger. The reason why he didn't agree to Kang Jianfei's investment was that he still had a trump card in his hand.
Just half a month ago, Deng Yiming went to Taipei to contact the release of the album of the same name for "Happy Ghost". He discovered a singer named Su Rui in a nightclub. Deng Yiming was shocked by his singing and singing voice on the spot.
When Deng Yiming asked Su Rui, he found out that she had actually worked hard in Hong Kong for several years, and had won the Best Performance Award in the TVB Singing Competition, so speaking Cantonese was no problem.
Deng Yiming felt that Su Rui was the singer God gave him, so he immediately brought her back to Hong Kong from Taipei and is now asking songwriters to write songs for Su Rui. Once Su Rui becomes popular, all the problems faced by Fengxing Records will be solved.
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Kang Jianfei didn't care too much when Deng Yiming rejected his investment. He had a lot to do.
Promotion for the release of "Happy Ghost" has already begun. Oriental DreamWorks spent tens of thousands of dollars on promotion within a week. Kang Jianfei's habit of spending money like water made Zhou Mingfang complain a lot.
In the eyes of outsiders, Kang Jianfei is really spending money lavishly. You must know that many of Shaw Brothers' movies this year have less than 1 million domestic box office. And with the speed at which Kang Jianfei spends money, by the time "Mr. Zombie" is released, the promotional expenses will be
Get more than 500,000.
Summer vacation is coming soon, and this time no one is playing a propaganda war with Kang Jianfei.
It is worth mentioning that in the original time and space, Golden Harvest released a movie called "Qian Zuoguai" in the summer. This is a comedy film directed by Wu Yusen and achieved good results of fourth place at the box office of the year. However, Kang Jianfei released "Qian Zuoguai" in advance.
The leading actor Xu Guanying and the action director Lin Zhengying asked to leave. Wu Yusen actually asked Xu Ke to replace Xu Guanying's role, and also asked Yuan Heping to replace Lin Zhengying as the martial arts director.
As for Shaw Brothers, there is nothing much to say. Scheduled for release in the summer is "Heroes Without Tears" directed by Chu Yuan and starring Zhao Yazhi.
Kang Jianfei didn't pay attention to these two movies, and he regarded other movies as if they were nothing.
A week before the premiere of "Mr. Zombie", Huang Xia finally gathered all the martial arts masters from Kang's class and rented an abandoned factory in Kwun Tong as their base.
That factory is very interesting, and there are a lot of rusted machines. I don’t know why the factory owner doesn’t use it to sell scrap metal. But it’s cheaper. Kang Jianfei, if he makes action movies in the future, this abandoned factory can be used for filming, and he doesn’t need it.
It’s time to spend some time setting the scene.
As soon as the Kang family class was established, there were nine members in total: Huang Xia, Shenxian (Yu Yuanwen), Yang Qingqing (female), Zeng Zhiwei, Dong Wei, Liang Xiaolong, Dasha (Cheng Kui'an), Chen Xunqi, Ye Tao
.
Among them, Shenxian, Yang Qingqing, and Ye Tao were recruited by Huang Xia, Dong Wei was recommended by Zeng Zhiwei, and Dasha was brought by Liang Xiaolong. In addition, Zeng Zhiwei and Chen Xunqi only occasionally guest-starred as Dragon and Tiger Martial Arts Masters when they were making movies.
There is another job.
Among the nine people, except Ye Tao, they were all martial arts masters with quite famous names in another time and space. As for Ye Tao, according to Huang Xia, this person was born in Pi Gua Men, the great sage of Hong Kong, and studied under "Ma Liu".
King Chen Xiuzhong, he has a senior brother named Chen Guantai, a junior brother named Qian Xiaohao, and a junior brother named Huang Qiusheng.
Kang Jianfei looked at several members of Kang's family class and felt extremely satisfied. He thought that Cheng Long's family class now only has five people, and I have nine. There is a great future!
Amidst the sound of firecrackers, Kang Jianfei led everyone to set up wine to worship the gods, and said: "Everyone, today is a good day for the establishment of the Kang family class. From now on, Huang Xia will be the class leader of the Kang family class, Liang Xiaolong will be the deputy class leader, and I will send a special person for finance.
No matter what, your salary is only higher than that of other martial arts classes. In addition, for future action movies shot by Oriental DreamWorks, I will use a portion of them as martial artist dividends based on the specific box office situation... I won’t go into further gossip. Zeng Zhiwei is about to
When making a movie, the most important thing for everyone is to master the technique of hanging wires. I'm not talking about the kind of flying up and then falling down, but the Wia technology on how to make the actors perform fighting movements in the air!"
Kang Jianfei winked at Huang Xia, who immediately took Cheng Kui'an and Ye Tao to the warehouse, the only locked house here, and moved out a set of special Wi-Fi equipment.
