Tina's gratitude gave Chen Feng a sense of accomplishment. He was even more determined to praise her as the queen of the American music industry. To be honest, Tina's voice, singing skills, appearance and temperament are no better than Rihanna in his previous life.
Difference.
However, in the end, Chen Feng still rejected her invitation tonight, mainly because he didn't want to take Miranda to have dinner with her, which made him feel a little weird. So, he simply refused.
When Tina saw that Chen Feng insisted on not going, she had nothing to do, but she was sure that it was not that Chen Feng didn't want to see her, but that he might not be used to bringing his girlfriend to eat with her.
In fact, she herself felt a little awkward asking Chen Feng's girlfriend to go have dinner with him. But if she didn't specifically call his girlfriend, she was afraid that Chen Feng, the boss, would misunderstand. Or his girlfriend from his hometown would misunderstand.
She is now very clear about her boss's feelings for his girlfriend, so he directly made a movie project for her and asked her to be the heroine.
Moreover, she had also met Miranda herself, which made her feel a little ashamed. She did not want to affect her relationship with Chen Feng because of Miranda's misunderstanding.
As a result, Chen Feng now rejected her invitation, which made her a little disappointed, but also a little happy. She actually disliked Miranda very much in her heart, mainly due to the jealousy of women.
A man as rich and talented as Chen Feng was possessed by Miranda.
After Tina left, Chen Feng called Lisa and asked about the company's current song collection situation.
With the current popularity of Tina and Tiffany, Beauty's song collection work has been relatively smooth. In addition to some new creators, some well-known songwriters have also submitted songs.
"Currently, we have collected a total of 18 songs suitable for Tina, 8 of which were collected by us, and the other 10 were specially submitted by creators. Tiffany originally had more songs, more than 20 songs
.It would be great if she can continue to stay in our company, these songs will not be wasted."
Chen Feng did not answer her words, but just said: "Then we will choose from Tina's 18 songs first. First of all, we must ensure the quality. If not, we will collect other songs. We can also give Tiffany the original ones.
Find it among those songs, sometimes the songs are not necessarily exclusive to a certain singer."
Lisa nodded, indicating that she understood.
Chen Feng then said: "I have prepared two songs for Tina, and Tina also composed two songs herself. After listening to them, I thought they were okay, so now she has 4 songs in her album.
It’s confirmed. My two songs have been copyrighted online, but it’s best to go to the Copyright Office to register them. You can do this later.”
Lisa also served as his assistant, so it was natural for Chen Feng to entrust her with the task. Lisa also quickly agreed.
After Lisa left, Chen Feng logged into the company's intranet, followed Lisa's instructions, found the demo of Tina's candidate song in one of the network folders, and listened to it.
After Chen Feng listened to almost ten songs, only two of them satisfied him. The quality of the songs was really uneven. However, this may also have something to do with the singer and the arrangement of the demo. It definitely sounded better than well-produced songs.
The songs after that are a little bit different.
Chen Feng immediately called Lisa and asked her to collect some songs suitable for Tina to sing.
After making the call and checking that it was almost time, Chen Feng got off work. As a boss, he had done his duty in the past two days at work, especially the matter of Tina's new album. He thought that he would come to catch it personally.
When we returned to the villa, it was almost 7 o'clock in the evening. It was not dark yet in Los Angeles at this time, and it would not get completely dark until after 8 o'clock. So people here usually don't have dinner until seven or eight o'clock.
Miranda had already returned and was resting on the sofa in the living room.
"What's wrong? Are you tired?" Chen Feng sat down next to her, lowered his head and kissed her, and asked with concern.
Miranda smiled, sat up and said, "I'm not very tired. It's just that I feel a little uncomfortable thinking about going to New York tomorrow and being separated from you for a few days."
Chen Feng said immediately: "Then I will go to New York with you."
"Ah. Really? What about the beautiful lady? There are still preparations for the movie. Moreover, last time I went there, I heard from Lisa that she would also prepare an album for Tina and Tiffany."
"I have already asked Trauren and Lisa to prepare for the movie. Tina and Tiffany, because Tiffany does not want to sign a new contract with the company, she may terminate the contract, so her album has been postponed indefinitely.
As for Tina, I saw that I had written two songs for her. The other songs haven’t been put together yet, so it won’t be a big deal if I leave for two or three days. I can just keep in touch by phone and online.”
"This... I used to work, so why don't you follow me all the time? You will definitely be bored there alone." Miranda was a little moved, but also a little hesitant.
Chen Feng smiled and said: "It doesn't matter. I will be your assistant when the time comes. After you finish shooting the commercial, we will spend the day there. I haven't been to New York yet."
"Then...Okay. Thank you, my dear." Miranda finally agreed happily. In the end, she still hoped that Chen Feng could go with her. In addition to not wanting to be separated from him, she also wanted to increase her safety.
feel.
The next morning, Chen Feng went to the company first. Since Miranda had a flight to New York in the afternoon, he was not in a hurry.
Not long after I sat down in the office, the phone on my desk rang. It was Lisa calling, saying that an investor had come to the company and planned to invest in the movie "Prada".
The news that Beauty Beauty was going to make a movie only came out yesterday, and investors came to visit today, which really surprised Chen Feng.
A few minutes later, Chen Feng met with the investor in the office with Traun. A middle-aged Jewish man in his thirties introduced himself as Steven, looking shrewd and capable.
"We are a venture capital company. In fact, our boss is very interested in Meili Jiaren. If Mr. Chen can give up his love, our company is willing to acquire Meili Jiaren at a premium."
As soon as Steven opened his mouth, Chen Feng and Laurent were a little surprised.
Chen Feng said lightly: "So in the eyes of your boss, how much is our beautiful lady worth now?"
"Thirty million dollars." Steven quoted directly and unambiguously.
Chen Feng pretended to be disappointed and shook his head: "At this price, you seem too insincere. You have to know that our company only has two future quasi-divas, Tiffany and Tina, and their commercial value is more than three
Ten million. What’s more, our company now still has the copyrights to the two songs "Little Umbrella" and "Let It Go". The copyrights of these two songs are worth at least several million dollars now, let alone in the future.
."
Steven pushed up the glasses on Bi's face and said with a smile: "The price can be easily negotiated. As long as you really want to sell the beautiful woman, then we can give you a satisfactory price."
"Forget it. I have no idea of selling the company for the time being." Chen Feng stopped talking nonsense to him and refused directly. Then he returned to the topic and said, "Okay, let's talk about your investment in our new movie now. You guys seem
You haven’t even read the script, why are you so interested in investing?”
"We are mainly optimistic that you are going to invite Meryl to star in this movie. We are also optimistic about the future development prospects of your company. Since you can create miracles in the music industry, then we think you are very likely to do the same in the film industry.
Success. The budget of your movie is 20 million US dollars, and we are willing to provide half of it, which is an investment of 10 million US dollars."
Chen Feng and Trelawen couldn't help but look at each other after hearing this, both feeling that this matter was a bit unbelievable.
And Chen Feng felt that there was something weird about it.
Chen Feng asked calmly: "Then how many shares do you plan to hold if you invest US$10 million?"
Steven said frankly: "At least 38%."
Chen Feng shook his head and said: "38% is too high. The maximum is 20%."
"Nonono." Steven shook his head repeatedly, "20% is too low."
"Then there's no need to talk." Chen Feng said with his hands pretending to be regretful.
Steven quickly said: "20% is indeed too low. After all, your budget is only 20 million, and we will invest half of it. 20% is really too little. However, if you can guarantee in the contract that this film will have a box office success
If it’s $100 million, that’s fine.”
Chen Feng said frankly: "I am confident that the box office of this movie can exceed 100 million US dollars. But if it is reflected in the contract, if the box office exceeds 100 million US dollars, you can still get 20%, which is a bit much. Isn't it?"
After Steven thought about it for a while, he said: "Then let's sign a betting agreement. If your movie earns hundreds of millions of dollars in box office in North America, we will only get 18% of the share. If it doesn't exceed 100 million dollars, we will only get 18% of the share."
, you have to give us 36% of the box office share. What do you think?"
Chen Feng shook his head and said: "This is unfair to us. If it exceeds 100 million U.S. dollars, you will get 15%; if it exceeds 200 million U.S. dollars, you will get 10%; if it exceeds 300 million U.S. dollars, it will be 5%; if it exceeds 400 million U.S. dollars, you will get 2%..."
Steven quickly interrupted: "No, no, no, this won't work. This is too little. We invested half of the money."
Chen Feng smiled and said: "Aren't you optimistic that our movie will break 100 million?"
"That's not true. If we really invest 10 million US dollars, of course we hope that your movie will sell well. Just for insurance, I think a gambling agreement can better protect our investment. From now on,
Personally, I’m not very optimistic that your movie will break over 100 million yuan. How many movies are released in Hollywood every year, but how many of them can eventually reach a box office of over 100 million yuan?”
"Okay. Let's go with the gambling agreement. You can discuss the specific content with Trelawen. After you have the results, come back to me. Tellen, are you okay?"
Chen Feng didn't want to keep arguing with this guy. Moreover, Chen Feng even suspected that this guy was deliberately entertaining him.
I didn't even read the script, so I just came here to invest in a scam, either for fun or with ulterior motives.
For these two reasons, Chen Feng no longer wanted to serve him.
"No problem, boss. Just leave this to me."
Trelawen's position was very upright. Just now Chen Feng was there and he didn't say anything. Now that Chen Feng asked him to take charge of the matter, he stood up actively and left with Steven. He was very eye-catching.
As soon as the two of them left Chen Feng's side, Tina knocked on the door and came in. This time, she brought strawberry shortcake made by herself for Chen Feng to taste.
Chen Feng happily accepted it, and then said that he was going to New York for a "business trip" this afternoon. Then he said that he had selected two songs for her yesterday. If she had no objection, they could be included in the album.
.
Tina can listen to other songs attentively in the company's recording studio. Although the equipment in the company's recording studio is not very good, the effect of listening to songs in it is still good. She can listen to the dozen or so songs to be selected, and then
Choose the one she is satisfied with.
Tina originally thought she could listen to songs and choose songs with Chen Feng, but in the end she was a little disappointed and went to the recording studio alone.
Chen Feng sent Tina away and was already running away. Although it was only less than ten o'clock in the morning, he still wanted to go back early to pack his luggage and go to New York with Miranda.
While he was browsing the New York travel guide open on his computer, the phone on his desk rang again. It was still Lisa, telling him that the representative of gmg record company and Tiffany's new manager were here and wanted to talk to him.
The company discusses Tiffany's termination of contract.
To put it bluntly, they felt that Tiffany's liquidated damages of US$20 million was too high and wanted to negotiate a lower price.
Although Chen Feng had expected this for a long time, now that it has become a fact, he still feels a little sigh in his heart. He was really optimistic about Tiffany's potential at the beginning, and with the treasure trove of songs brought by his past life memories, he is fully capable of
She cultivated a generation of singing queens, but unfortunately, Tiffany chose to terminate her contract with the company just after she became famous.
In this regard, Chen Feng really had no interest in receiving the two other people. He just asked Lisa to deal with it, emphasizing that the liquidated damages of 20 million US dollars should not be less than a cent.
Half an hour later, Chen Feng packed up his things and planned to leave early. Lisa called him again and informed him that the other party's people had left. The main problem was that liquidated damages had not been negotiated, and the other party had offered a maximum of one thousand and five dollars.
A million-dollar liquidated damages. This shows that gmg Records is really very optimistic about Tiffany, and the other party is also very wealthy.
Lisa told him that gmg is backed by a financial consortium and is currently the record company with the best development momentum in the United States. It has recruited many well-known singers and has also acquired many other record companies. It can be said that now America
One of the top five record companies in China.
The other party is now willing to pay Tiffany $15 million in liquidated damages, which is considered more sincere. But unfortunately, the boss Chen Feng insists on $20 million, and the other party has no choice but to leave temporarily.
In fact, Chen Feng is quite satisfied with the 15 million US dollars liquidated damages in his heart. Because he is very sure that Tiffany will not be able to achieve much good results in the future if she leaves the beautiful beauty and him. What kind of singing queen, just
Can dream.
It's not that you can become famous if you want to be famous because of a major record company. In addition to personal strength and charm, it is also mainly about having excellent music works.