Chapter 648: Saint Tang Music
Shengtang Company is a film and television entertainment company, and it is natural to develop a record business, but that should also be a few years later when the movie "Toy Story" is filmed, as for the reason, it is still Lucas worried, writing songs is a highly professional job, not everyone can do it, even if you can write a song, it may not be acceptable to everyone, and it costs a lot of money to be wasted.
Only Sun Mingren knows the good songs written by Liu Lang, Ye Jinsheng can have the current achievements on Hong Kong Island, Liu Lang has most of the credit, and each of his songs has become a classic, and the popularity is extremely high.
However, whether it is Sun Mingren or Lin Guodong, they have seen Liu Lang's ability with their own eyes today, and the song "sothgjtlikethis" shocked the audience, and the level of lyrics and songs is beyond imagination, especially the Transformers are also mentioned in it, and it is a hidden advertisement for their own company.
At that moment, Lin Guodong felt that his boss also had a talent in composing music and lyrics that ordinary people could not compare, if so, then why not set up a record production department? Lin Guodong even felt that his boss should not focus on any machinery, if he put all his energy to the Shengtang Company, it is very likely that the current Shengtang is already a large company in the United States.
Of course, he only thinks about this idea, he doesn't have any right to care about what the boss is willing to do, and he doesn't dare to care, and other people's IQ is much better than himself.
Lin Guodong and Sun Mingren's words surprised Lucas.
"Jimmy, you performed a song at the Los Angeles Fire Department? What song? Sing it for me!"
"Mr. Lucas, the song created by Mr. Liu has reached the height of the Grammy Award, there is no problem, if this song is made into a single TV, it can sell at least one million copies!"
Quentin Tarantino said at this point.
"A million, what basis do you have?"
Lucas looked at Quentin Tarantino.
Liu Lang introduced Quentin just now, but Lucas didn't care, such people abound in Los Angeles, they all have a dream of directing, but few people have real talent, but since Jimmy fell in love, he didn't say much.
Now this young guy actually said that a single can sell a million copies, you must know that reaching 500,000 copies is the level of a golden record, and a million is platinum sales, and you say that a million copies are a million copies? You think you are a senior analyst at Gallup!
"George, how about this song, you can see the Los Angeles Times news tonight......... This song is also a project that our Shengtang Company is about to prepare, what is the list, publicity and other things will be said when Ye Jinsheng comes, he is an expert in this area, much better than us!"
"That'...... Well, anyway, you promised not to cut the Toy Story production budget, and as long as it doesn't move at all, I won't object to anything you do!"
Since everyone was no longer opposed, the record business budget was discussed, and finally it was decided to come up with 500,000 US dollars first.
500,000 US dollars is actually a lot, and the production cost of the most popular record companies to release a record is generally this cost, of course, this has to be a well-known artist, if it is an ordinary artist, it will be much lower.
The reason why so much money is spent is because Liu Lang knows that this song will definitely be popular, so it must be made to have a feeling of being born out of nowhere, so as to create the greatest influence.
Now there is only this one song, and it can't be made into the form of an album, so it can be made into the form of TV, and 500,000 US dollars is the cost of the actors, TV and publicity, which should be very generous.
The budget was set, and the next step was to look at how to proceed with the operation.
Except for Liu Lang and Liu Lang, everyone thinks that the company should set up a new record business department and let Ye Jinsheng be the head of this department, but Liu Lang has different opinions.
Liu Lang proposed the establishment of an independent subsidiary to be responsible for the record business, which is of course affiliated with Shengtang, but it has independent financial, organizational, personnel and other departments, similar to the relationship between VIE and VIE Software Technology Co., Ltd.
The advantage of this is that the record business will not be disrupted by other business units and can develop with greater efficiency.
Many other large companies do this, such as Warner Bros. Pictures, which has Warner Music Co., Ltd., as well as Fox, Universal and other film companies also have this structure, but it seems to be a little early to use it on Shengtang, after all, Shengtang is still too small.
In fact, Liu Lang did this mainly for Ye Jinsheng.
Ye Jinsheng has made Jingsheng culture a large scale in Hong Kong Island for more than a year, although many ideas come from Liu Lang, but creativity does not represent wealth, and if you want to get wealth, you can only get it through practice, which Ye Jinsheng did very well, and his vision is very accurate, the artists who signed the contract are all later "kings and queens", he does not have Liu Lang's prophetic skills, and the selection of them among hundreds of young artists completely depends on ability.
Moreover, Ye Jinsheng was able to put down his original achievements and run to the United States, which also shows that he trusts himself, whether it is public or private, he cannot be treated badly.
So Liu Lang plans to set up a branch, let Ye Jinsheng be the general manager, and give him all the rights, he can report directly to himself, so that he can do it freely.
Of course, since it is a branch, it must have a share ratio, and Liu Lang decided that Shengtang should have 90% of the shares and give Ye Jinsheng 10%.
Liu Lang's decision is not much for others to disagree with.
"Jimmy, you trust this Ye ...... But what is this person's ability? Is it worth trusting? You give him so much power, what if he doesn't obey you?"
Lucas was a little worried about the other party's character.
"George, don't worry, there is no problem with this Ye Jinsheng's character, he has developed very well on Hong Kong Island, and he has his own entertainment company, and if it is listed, it will have a market value of almost 10 million US dollars.
But now there is a bit of chaos over there, there are gangsters everywhere, especially in the entertainment industry, many companies are controlled by gangsters, even famous celebrities will be blackmailed, this person has a high-level background in our country, generally speaking, no one dares to touch him, but he still decided to give up the company over there and start over in the United States, do you say he is a villain?"
"Hmm...... According to you, he's not really a bad guy......... It turns out that you also have gangsters in China! Isn't your country the strictest country in the world? Why do you still have gangsters?"
"Haha, George, I'm talking about Hong Kong Island, they are not our country's territory now, they won't return until ninety-seven years, and then those gangsters will disappear!"
Liu Lang replied.
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