At night.

In a fast food restaurant in Queens, New York, Wang Qiang walked out of it, and Penny naturally grabbed his arm, Wang Qiang wanted to refuse, but he was embarrassed, so he had to let her go.

Outside, Penny smiled and said, "I just saved you three million dollars, and you invited me to eat twenty dollars of fast food?"

"There's nothing to eat nearby. Wang Qiang spread his hands and said.

"Stingy man. Penny let go of his arm and reached out and scraped his nose in a gesture of intimacy.

Wang Qiang dodged backwards unnaturally.

Penny chuckled, "Okay, I'm not going to tease you, I'll go to China in two days to sign a contract with you, and I'll book your ticket with you?"

Wang Qiang said: "Isn't this good? I understand your kindness." ”

Penny stepped forward, stretched out her slender white fingers and waved her hand back, "It's not good, stop by, and I want you to introduce me to Chinese food." Walking out three or four steps, she suddenly turned her head and blinked her big eyes, "Such a big production of the show, so much advertising money, this time you don't invite the superstar as a mentor, I'm afraid you won't be able to suppress the scene." ”

Well, it seems like that.

Brands have invested more than $20 million, and it doesn't look good to invite some third-tier stars to come.

Wang Qiang waved his hand and said, "Thank you for the reminder." After saying that, I was thinking about how big stars should I invite to come?

What grade of a variety show, the most intuitive assessment is the amount of investment.

Investing millions is a small production.

An investment of three to five million is considered medium-sized.

Tens of millions of dollars have been invested? Now it's a big scale.

But now, Wang Qiang's program budget is 30 million, but the dramatic scene is that the original budget of 15 million RMB in audio equipment and stage lighting has been saved, so since it has been promised that CCTV will invest no less than 30 million, it will definitely have to spend this money.

Who's better?

He estimated that the venue, staff salaries and other expenses would not exceed 10 million, that is, of the 30 million promised, at least 20 million could be spent.

Now with 20 million, you can invite top stars with big and big cards.

Penny walks away.

Wang Qiang returned to the hotel and saw that his father was still waiting for him.

"Dad. ”

"It's back. ”

"You haven't slept yet, have you?"

"Isn't this waiting for you? ”

"Hurry up and take a shower and go to bed, I'm tired from running around with me for the past two days, so I'll make a phone call at this time. ”

"Okay. ”

Father went to the bathroom.

Zhang Wei, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, rubbed his hands eagerly, and a face immediately flashed in his mind, he doesn't know anyone who is now a top singer in the Chinese music scene, if he insists on knowing, it is nothing more than Andy Lau, who has cooperated with him.

Uranus?

Influence?

This couldn't be more suitable.

Wang Qiang knew that Andy Lau had basically not participated in any variety shows, or in other words, the four kings had hardly participated in a certain period of time.

So what causes it?

Some say they don't want to step down from the altar.

Because the purpose of participating in variety shows is nothing more than accumulating wealth and rapidly increasing popularity, these two points are not needed by the later kings, and Liming and Aaron Kwok did participate in variety shows later, mainly because their popularity is already very low, so they are willing to take the initiative to step down from the altar to rejuvenate the second spring.

Andy Lau and Jacky Cheung don't need it.

But that was later, although Andy Lau is now a god, Zhang Wei still has a little confidence in convincing the other party.

So, he made the first call.

Some people may not know that Andy Lau is so popular today, especially in the mainland, that it is even more popular all over the country, and it is incomparable to any Hong Kong and Taiwan singers, at least Zhang Xinzhe and Nicholas Tse have not yet fully risen, and they have not yet been able to end the era of the rule of the Four Heavenly Kings.

But even so, Andy Lau is still very short of finances.

Two years ago, Andy Lau set up a film company and spent a lot of money to train a female star, but the female star seemed to have betrayed not long ago and switched to TVB, resulting in Andy Lau owing a huge debt of 40 million Hong Kong dollars, which means that Lao Liu is short of money.

So Wang Qiang targeted the first target of this heavenly king.

Doodle.

Doodle.

The phone went through.

"Hey, hello, may I ask who you are?" Andy Lau's Cantonese voice came from the other side, listening to it was very quiet over there, and it was estimated that he was at home, after all, according to the time difference, Hong Kong should be at seven or eight o'clock in the morning.

Wang Qiang reported to his home and said: "Mr. Liu, I am Wang Qiang of Guoxing Trade. ”

Andy Lau immediately smiled and said, "It's a strong boy, what's the matter?"

Wang Qiang said: "Are you busy? If you are busy, you can wait until you are done." ”

The last time the promotional song "I Speak for Myself" didn't come in handy, Andy Lau was a little reluctant in his heart, and replied: "Don't be busy, you say it first." ”

Wang Qiang said yes, so he said: "Mr. Liu, I recently cooperated with CCTV on a variety show called "The Voice of China". ”

"Variety shows?" Andy Lau asked, "What nature?"

Wang Qiang carefully talked about the planning of The Voice, he had already registered the copyright of "The Voice", including some overseas copyrights, and asked an agency to register, so he dared to take it out without starting the broadcast.

When he finished, he said, "What do you think?"

Andy Lau's tone immediately changed, and he exclaimed: "Okay! This variety show idea is really good! At least I have seen the best singing talent show ideas since I entered the entertainment industry for so many years, do it, I support you." ”

Wang Qiangle was happy, "Should you just support it verbally?"

Andy Lau was stunned for a moment, just a polite gesture, but he didn't expect Wang Qiang to hit the snake with the stick, "Hehe, how do you want me to support you?

Wang Qiang said: "It's not this, we have six director groups to choose from the contestants, and I want to invite you to join "The Voice of China" as one of the four mentors." ”

Andy Lau said in a surprised tone: "Oh, invite me, to be honest, with our friendship, I promise you that it is not impossible, but ...... It's just that I don't participate in variety shows much, you know, right?"

Wang Qiang said: "I know, how can ordinary variety shows be worthy of your top singer at the king level? I dare to assure you that my show will never insult you as a king." Of course he dared to say this, and later Jay Chou and Eason Chan, the two kings of the music industry, participated, did they ascend to the altar at that time? Are they much worse than Andy Lau today?

It's certainly not far off.

Even when Jay Chou was the most awesome, he may be better than Andy Lau today.

Since these two kings are willing to participate, it means that the voice is indeed worthy of the status of a superstar, so Wang Qiang dares to say so confidently.

Andy Lau smiled bitterly: "I've seen your ghostly "I Speak for Myself" advertisement, and I also believe that you can create an excellent talent show, indeed, after listening to the plan just now, I feel worthy of my participation, but I have a contract with Yineng Kinetic Music, and they will not agree to me to participate in the general price." ”

Wang Qiang said: "How much do you mean by the general price?"

"Two or three million. Andy Lau added, "Actually, the cost of my participation in variety shows is about 5 million RMB." He had contact with Wang Qiang, and at the beginning, for 500,000 Wang Qiang, he also erased all kinds of two-skin faces, so Andy Lau was always worried that Wang Qiang's expenses would not meet the expectations of Yineng Moving, so it was better to implicitly refuse.

But Wang Qiang's next sentence stunned Andy Lau.

"What if I offer 10 million RMB to invite you to participate?" Wang Qiang said loudly.

Andy Lau: "......"

Wang Qiang put on a high hat and said: "If my talent show has a superstar like you in charge, the ratings will definitely be able to increase a lot, and ah, I know that you have also made great achievements in composition and lyrics, and you can give a lot of help to the contestants, please." ”

Who knew that Andy Lau's rhetorical question had nothing to do with his previous sentence, "One, 10 million!?"

Wang Qiang was a little crying and laughing: "Mr. Liu, as the producer and producer of "The Voice of China", do you think I would joke about this kind of thing?"

After a few seconds of silence, Andy Lau said: "Your price is so high, it's impossible for me to refuse, I won't tell you, I'm really short of money now, okay, I agreed, I'll notify the company later, they won't refuse the high price of 10 million." ”

Wang Qiang opened his eyes and smiled: "Great." ”

Andy Lau said: "When do you need me to rush over?"

"Don't worry, the preliminary work will take about a month, you can go to CCTV with your agent to sign a contract first, well, in about half a month, wait for me to go back from the United States." Wang Qiang said.

Andy Lau naturally had no objections and said, "Okay." ”

Wang Qiang suddenly thought of something, "By the way, the answer should be your song......"

"You have offered me a sky-high price of 10 million, why am I embarrassed to ask you to write a song?" Andy Lau is still very kind.

But even if people say so, Wang Qiang can't really rely on it, "That's in the last contract, since I promised to write a song for you, take this opportunity to write one, and by the way, you can make a new song in a good voice." ”

Andy Lau said: "You already have a new song idea, do you have a name?"

Wang Qiang was happy, "I can't wait so much? The new song idea is indeed there, what about the name...... It's called "It's Not a Sin for a Man to Cry", and I'll write it to you when I return to China. ”

Andy Lau said: "Your speed of writing songs is really not slow, let me ask one more question, how is the quality of the song "I Speak for Myself" before?"

Wang Qiang smiled: "Don't dare to say anything else, I dare to guarantee this, at least several times!"

"How many times better!?" Because of the promotional song of "I Speak for Myself" last time, Andy Lau always knew that Wang Qiang was a talented person, and immediately said happily: "Then I thank you here, not to mention the franchise fee of 10 million, but also to write a song for me, thank you so much." ”

Wang Qiang said: "It should be that I thank you for joining us, I know, the Four Heavenly Kings almost don't accept variety shows, the five million you just said is also priceless, if it weren't for your urgent money, I'm afraid you might not agree to open 20 million, okay, this matter is so decided, I will contact you to sign the contract when I return to China." ”

Hung up the phone.

Wang Qiang swung his fist fiercely.

Is 10 million expensive?

It is expensive in the eyes of many people.

But it's not expensive for him at all, this is Andy Lau, one of the four kings who are now popular all over Asia, Wang Qiang believes that if Andy Lau is willing to participate in variety shows, let alone 10 million, 20 million people are rushing to ask for it, so in the final analysis, it is still himself who takes advantage.

Of course, fortunately, the money for audio equipment and stage lighting was saved, otherwise he would not have the confidence to shout 10 million to invite Andy Lau to join, after all, he is really only ready to invest 30 million.