Chen Feng has watched the American version of "Charlotte's Troubles" and is generally quite satisfied with it. However, some of the localized lines and dialogues have been changed. After all, Chen Feng is from the Tang Dynasty, so he can't find the jokes or funny parts in them.
But since MGM has approved it, they must have their reasons.
Therefore, after Chen Feng read it again, he formally replied to the e-mail, expressing his agreement with the adaptation of this version. At the same time, he also called Mr. Watson, who was in charge of the project at MGM, to explain the matter.
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The next day, MGM officially approved the film adaptation of "Charlotte's Troubles" in a resolute and resolute manner, and the investment of 30 million US dollars was quickly received and entered into the bank account of this project. Chen Feng
Bian has entrusted Lared with a special financial officer to follow the team, and entrusted this financial officer with full authority to supervise the crew's capital flow and expenditures.
As for the specific filming of this project, Chen Feng is not very concerned about it. He believes in the strength of MGM. However, as for the actors, Chen Feng of course also has to recruit people. First of all, he will sign the contracts with the Beauty Beauty Company.
The actors, Rebecca and Jonas, were cast in. Initially, the idea was that they would play the roles of the school belle and school bastard.
But after the audition, Rebecca was approved by the producer and director, but Jonas could only wait and see. Apparently the crew was not very satisfied with him playing the role of the school cowboy, a character similar to Yuan Hua in the original work.
Chen Feng did not force this, because what Chen Feng valued most was that he wanted Emily to play a role similar to Ma Dongmei in the original movie.
Emily is currently playing a small supporting role in a film crew, and her scenes can be filmed in two or three days at most.
After Chen Feng called her and told her the news, she immediately asked for leave and went to the crew of "Charlotte's Troubles" for an interview.
But it turned out that it was a pity that the director and producer of the crew were not very satisfied with her role as the heroine. First of all, Emily was a bit old. Even if she could look younger through makeup and filters, this would undoubtedly increase the number of filming
Difficulty. More importantly, Emily cannot show the character and temperament of a macho woman like Ma Dongmei.
To put it simply, she is not suitable for this heroine. Chen Feng can only express regret for this. Although he is also an investor and the copyright licensor, after all, MGM is the biggest financial backer.
And Chen Feng also had to respect the wishes of the director and producer. More importantly, Chen Feng thought about it carefully and found that Emily's personal image was indeed not suitable for the heroine in this movie.
After all, the heroine in this movie is only seventeen or eighteen years old. No matter how young Emily plays, she is already in her mid-twenties. In addition, although Emily's acting skills are passable, she is generally just
Playing some supporting roles, and the kind of supporting roles whose personality is not very obvious and outstanding, it is indeed a little short of her ability to play the role of Ma Dongmei, who has a distinctive personality and dares to love and hate.
Emily was a little frustrated when she failed the audition. But he did not blame Chen Feng, but expressed his gratitude to him. After Miranda comforted her for two days, she actually adjusted.
Emily's mentality is still very good. After all, she suffered countless such situations when she was in Great Britain. Therefore, she can completely withstand the blow.
On this day, Chen Feng received a thank you call from Meng Tingting in China. Meng Tingting seemed very excited on the phone, with a cry in her voice.
"Thank you, Chen Feng. Thank you so much this time. It was you who allowed me to prove myself again and stand at the top of the music industry again. I...I don't know how to thank you? I didn't want to call you at first.
Such a thank-you phone call. But now that my album has achieved such good results, I want to express my gratitude to you. I just went to your company and wanted to thank you in person, but I found out that you still
In the United States, I can only call you to express my gratitude first. After you return to China, you must honor me and let me treat you to a meal and express my gratitude to you in person."
Chen Feng has been in the United States for the past month and has not paid much attention to domestic affairs. Especially some developments in the entertainment industry, he does not pay too much attention to. The reason is very simple. He is now no longer interested in the small pond in the domestic entertainment industry.
Some of them are not interested in it. Instead, they are interested in the big lakes here in the United States. They feel that it will be more enjoyable to make US dollars in the entertainment industry here in the United States.
Therefore, although Chen Feng knew that Meng Tingting called him so excitedly to thank him because her album sales were very good, he did not know the specific method.
However, Chen Feng couldn't explain clearly, so he could only say with a smile: "Sister Ting, you're welcome. I wrote songs for you and I got money and a share of it. Now that your album is selling well, I also have money to share.
So, there is no need for you to thank me like this."
Meng Tingting also smiled and said: "You, why are you so polite to me? Others don't know, and I don't know, how many people are asking you for a song now? I heard that someone asked you for a song some time ago.
The sky-high price of one million songs, but you didn’t agree to it. In this way, I took advantage of it. In short, this time I turned around and became famous all the time. Anyway, this time
, I owe you a huge favor. From now on, if you need help from me, just ask."
"Okay, you're welcome." Chen Feng said with a smile. He had a good impression of Meng Tingting, "You don't have to be too polite to me. When I return to China, I will find an opportunity and we can get together."
"Okay. When you return to China, call me immediately and I will pick you up at the airport."
"No need to be so exaggerated."
"Yes. Just let me do my best, otherwise I won't feel at ease. I always feel like I'm taking advantage of you."
"You don't have to be like this. We are just cooperating with each other, not taking advantage of anything. Okay. When the time comes to return to China, I will call you. Don't worry."
"Well, I'll wait for you to return to China."
While she was talking, someone was urging her. Meng Tingting had to keep the conversation short with Chen Feng.
After ending the call, Chen Feng logged into the domestic search engine and searched for Meng Tingting's album sales.
Chen Feng was stunned when he saw the numbers. Meng Tingting's new album "Conquest" was delayed again and again, and was only released last week. As a result, on that day, it broke the record sales of the past ten years, and only offline physical records.
The sales volume exceeded 200,000 copies. On the second day, due to the word-of-mouth effect, it increased instead of decreasing. It exceeded 400,000 copies in an exaggerated manner. On the third day, it reached 500,000 copies. It was not until the fourth day that the album sales increased under the antenna.
Although the number has dropped, there are still more than 300,000 copies, and the offline album sales in one week are as high as 1.2 million copies. Such results cannot be matched even by the most popular and top players in the domestic music scene. In the past ten years, the number of domestic album sales has reached 1.2 million.
The record market is at its hottest ever.
As for the online digital album, sales exceeded one million in two days, and sales in one week reached over 2.6 million.
If the overall online and offline sales are calculated, Meng Tingting has broken the record sales record in the past thirty years. If we really count, in the era when tape records were popular thirty years ago, only a few of the then superstars could
Compared to her.
In short, Meng Tingting's new album, which she has been honing for several years, not only made her famous again, but also brought her to the highest peak of her entire singing career.
The major domestic media and music critics, not to mention the vast number of fans, have almost unanimously praised her new album.
The reason why Meng Tingting's album has been delayed again and again is entirely because of Meng Tingting's constant pursuit of perfection, especially the songs that Chen Feng wrote for her.
It took several revisions and even a re-recording before she was finally satisfied.
And her approach is now talked about by people. It has also become a proof of the success of her album.
Because the quality of her album is so good and everyone knows what it is, even if it is an offline physical album, so many people are willing to buy it. This has not been seen for many years.
Several songs written by Chen Feng for her album, especially the title song "Conquer", have now been sung all over the country in the Tang Dynasty and have become one of the most popular songs nowadays. They have topped many music charts.
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And Meng Tingting herself is highly praised by everyone as a generation of singers. She has truly established her position as the number one sister in the domestic music scene, and is as famous as Chang Lingyu, who was originally recognized as the number one sister in the domestic music scene.
Even comparing the two, Chang Lingyu's record sales in the past ten years have been completely crushed by Meng Tingting's.
Both of them are contemporaries, Chang Lingyu is slightly older, but Meng Tingting debuted two or three years later than her. In the first few years of that year, their reputations were similar. However, Meng Tingting's stamina was not developed enough later.
, the contracting company did not support her. But Chang Lingyu, with the support of the contracting company, has great stamina and completely surpassed her achievements.
After that, Meng Tingting had no new album for several years. Chang Lingyu basically maintained the frequency of one album every two years, firmly occupying the position of the top sister in the music industry. In the past five or six years, no one has shaken her position. But now
But Meng Tingting suddenly exerted her strength, like a rocket, and soared to her level, and there was even a faint possibility of surpassing her and pushing her down from the top spot in the music industry.
Now everyone just says that Meng Tingting is as famous as her, but as time progresses and brews, especially with the continued sales of Meng Tingting's new album, Chang Lingyu's position as the first sister is really in danger. She will be kicked down at any time.
Therefore, Chang Lingyu suddenly released a new single two days ago, obviously intending to break up with Meng Tingting. As a result, two days later, although it ranked in the top ten of major music charts, it has been in the top ten.
Seven or eight are lingering. Because the first few songs are all from Meng Tingting's new album.
Although it has only been two days and nothing can be seen yet, there is no doubt that everyone is not very optimistic that Chang Lingyu's single can compete with Meng Tingting's songs.
Chen Feng learned about Meng Tingting's new album, and also read the gossip between her and Chang Lingyu, one of the top sisters in the domestic music scene, and found it interesting.
Just as he was thinking this, Chen Feng's cell phone rang again. Seeing that the number belonged to Jia Yong, Chen Feng answered the call.
"Boss, someone has come to ask you for a song through connections. One million songs. Look, why don't you write two or three songs for her?"
Jia Yong went straight to the topic and didn't say any nonsense. The relationship between the two now does not require any politeness.
Chen Feng frowned slightly after hearing this. He had already told Jia Yong before that he would not sell songs for the time being. Now that he is still making this call, it undoubtedly means that the person he is asking for is hard to refuse.
"Who asked for the song? Who asked for it?"
Jia Yong said helplessly: "It's a song requested by Chang Lingyu, one of the most popular singers in the music industry. It has been requested twice before. The first time was when the person in charge of her studio came to our company to invite the song in person. As you know, I called at that time
I gave it to you, and then refused. The second time, her agent came in person. But because you said you wouldn’t sell the song, I refused her. But this time, her agent came with the directors of the Film Association.
The principal is here. I just sent them away and said I wanted to ask for your opinion, so I called you."
"Chairman of the Film Association?" Chen Feng couldn't help but frown. Chang Lingyu, the agent, was taking advantage of the situation to pressure others. The Film Association of Datang has the power to review films. If your film wants to be released in China, you must first
It has to be reviewed by the Film Association. If you offend the chairman, he will deliberately block you during the film review and delay your operation for a year and a half. I want to ask you if you are afraid?
"That's right. The other party realized that our company is interested in movies. That's why they invited the chairman of the association to personally go to our company with her. Their attitude was not domineering, but very polite, including
The chairman also praised you very much for our company. He was so polite, and the manager also said that he was sincerely asking for songs. One million songs. If you think the price is low, it's okay.
Let’s discuss it. If you look at the other party’s attitude, you really can’t say anything. Otherwise, you can just give her two songs. You won’t lose anyway.”
Chen Fengxin said, although the other party is polite on the surface, this kind of bullying behavior really makes people unhappy. Since you don't make me happy, why should I make you happy?
If Chen Feng didn't have a system, forget it. At this time, he would have sized up the situation and given the other party two songs for one million each, and even increased the creator's share ratio, so he wouldn't suffer.
But anyway, he felt unhappy, and he was not short of money now, so why should he let the other party succeed?
"Let's talk about this matter. If the other party asks, just say that my creative inspiration is exhausted and I can't write any good songs. Let the other party talk about it after some time."
Chen Feng was not stupid enough to confront the other party directly and clearly. Instead, he used the dragging technique commonly used by Gongmen people, dragging the other party to talk. In short, the other party would definitely feel uncomfortable in this way.
"Isn't this good?" Jia Yong said hesitantly, "The other party seems to be very eager to get your song, and may want to compete with Meng Tingting."