Chapter Forty-Nine: The Storm of "Good Boys".
Facts have proved that Chen Ping'an's choice is very correct, and the relationship between Zhang Yijia, Luo Dayou, and Li Zongsheng is excellent. Although it was a sudden meeting, Luo Li and Li still took time to come to the Yuanshan Hotel at noon to have a meal with Chen Ping'an and Zhang Yijia.
Under the mediation of Zhang Yijia and Chen Ping'an's efforts, Chen Ping'an quickly became familiar with Luo and Li. Then he directly offered an olive branch and offered generous conditions, hoping that Luo and Li would join forces with him to form a record company.
In Taiwan, Chen Ping'an invested NT$5 million, and Li Zongsheng did not pay a penny to jointly establish the Taiwan Dark Horse Record Company, and the company was handed over to Li Zongsheng to manage. In other words, the record company is completely dominated by Li Zongsheng, and Chen Ping'an is just a hands-off shopkeeper.
For Luo Dayou, Chen Ping'an offered the same conditions, invested 5 million Hong Kong dollars, and established Hong Kong Dark Horse Records, Luo Dayou accounted for 20% of the shares, and fully managed the company.
The heavy sincerity made it impossible for Luo Dayou and Li Zongsheng to refuse directly, but they didn't immediately agree to such an important matter, saying that they wanted to go back and think about it.
Chen Ping'an didn't have time to wait, and he had to finalize things today. As long as it is finalized, he is not afraid that the other party will regret it, those uncles are not in vain!
weighed the current status of Luo Dayou and Li Zongsheng in the music world, and he decided to concentrate his firepower to convince Li Zongsheng first, and Yi Nengjing is the best stepping stone!
After getting up this morning, Yi Nengjing was much more honest, and stayed in the room obediently, waiting for Chen Ping'an to call her before she dared to come out. learned that Lin Yixiao was Chen Ping'an's girlfriend, and saw Chen Ping'an and Zhang Yijia talking and laughing, she didn't dare to say anything, let alone play tricks in front of Chen Ping'an like yesterday.
At lunchtime, she was very excited to see Luo Dayou, but because Chen Ping'an didn't let her speak, she could only bury her excitement in her heart and eat silently. When Chen Ping'an proposed to establish a record company and asked her to sing a few songs in front of Li Zongsheng, she knew that her opportunity had really come, and it was Chen Ping'an who gave her the opportunity!
"Ah Yi, do you remember that I didn't agree with your filming last night? That's because I'm going to make you a popular singer and then think about going into the film industry. Sing well and show your talent and musical talent, understand? ”
Yi Nengjing was moved in her heart, and nodded vigorously: "Thank you, brother, I will not let you down." ”
Yi Nengjing's musical talent is undoubted, although there are still flaws in ventilation, rhythm mastery, etc., but the singing skills from this chronology are enough to move Li Zongsheng and Luo Dayou.
Seeing Li Zongsheng's move, Chen Ping'an struck while the iron was hot, saying that he was filming recently, and created the theme song of the movie by the way, and then sang the song "Good Boy".
In the ears of professionals like Luo Li, his singing skills are definitely not as good as Yi Nengjing, but the catchy song "Good Boy" made Luo Li's eyes shine. What made the two of them even more impressed with Chen Ping'an was the next song that Chen Ping'an sang - "Tomorrow Will Be Better"!
"Gently wake up the sleeping mind and slowly open your eyes; See if the busy world is still going around, lonely and ......"
This song, composed by Luo Dayou and sung by many Taiwanese stars, is known as the most successful public welfare single in the history of Taiwan's modern pop songs, and was born more than half a year ahead of schedule because of Chen Ping'an. And it is still the right side of this Luo, Chen Ping'an sang it calmly.
Everyone present was shocked, the more people who know music, the more they can feel the charm and extraordinaryness of this song. In the box, in addition to Lin Yixia, Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng, Zhang Yijia, and Yi Nengjing all have a deep understanding of music, and their eyes are full of astonishment when they look at Chen Ping'an.
Luo Da raised his head on the right, and when Chen Ping'an sang it for the second time, several people couldn't help but sing along, and the voice became louder and louder, so that it alarmed the waiter of the hotel and the guests next to him. The door of the box was pushed open, well-dressed gentlemen and celebrities, and waiters in hotel uniforms rushed in, and many people couldn't squeeze in and stood at the door, surrounding the box, and they all joined in the singing with slaps and beats.
That is, mobile phones and the Internet have not yet risen in these years, otherwise they would have been recorded and uploaded to the Internet.
The song fell, and the applause was thunderous!
Because of this song, Luo and Li really recognized Chen Ping'an and agreed to his invitation. Li Zongsheng said that after the New Year, he will start to set up Taiwan's Dark Horse Record Company, and Yi Nengjing will be the company's first artist; Luo Dayou said that he needed to rest for a period of time to adjust his state, and he would go to Hong Kong in the second half of the year to discuss with Chen Ping'an the establishment of a Hong Kong dark horse record company!
After the meal, Luo Dayou left in advance, and Chen Ping'an gave Li Zongsheng a note, which said that several names were male and female, and asked him to try to sign them all according to the list.
Looking at the first name on the list, Li Zongsheng was puzzled: "Zhou Huajian? ”
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So far, Chen Ping'an's trip to Taiwan has achieved all the goals. The next day, "Good Boy" was completed, and then a large-scale publicity was carried out under the operation of Zhang Yijia, and the Chinese New Year file was released at the same time as "Police Story", forming a feat of its own movie against the box office, which caused an uproar in the Taiwan industry for a while, and many people secretly laughed.
In their opinion, there are so many box offices in Taiwan, and a company launches two movies in the same schedule and grabs its own box office, isn't it sick?
The media reported on this, saying that Lianhai Pictures' move would be the biggest failure, even if both films were excellent, they would also suffer at the box office due to the company's misarrangement. Zhang Yijia, under the instruction of Chen Ping'an, bribed some media and advocated from the front, saying that the two films of Lianhai Pictures were released at the same time in order to give the Taiwanese people more choices, which is the conscience of the industry.
The media fought a big war of words, and they didn't distinguish between the two dramas until they were painted, but they made the Taiwanese people remember Lianhai Pictures and the two upcoming dramas for the Chinese New Year. There is no way, every day's entertainment version revolves around Hailian Pictures and "Police Story" and "Good Boy", which makes the Taiwanese people know about it.
The "Good Boy" that the children are most looking forward to, and the adults want to see "Police Story", the two camps are distinct, and they are surprisingly harmonious on the opening day of the Lunar New Year.
Watch "Police Story" first, and then take your children to watch "Good Boy", which has become the best choice for the Taiwanese people, and every night I see a large number of Taiwanese people coming out of this theater, and then walking into that theater, and after watching "Police Story" and then watching "Good Boy", as for other movies, it seems to be forgotten.
A few days later, the media was surprised to find that the box office of the two dramas of Lianhai Pictures did not interfere with each other at all, but complemented each other, and the box office soared all the way, dominating the top two on the box office list, and the gap with the third place is getting bigger and bigger.
The shocking explosion scenes in "Police Story" and Cheng Long's fight for his life made adults addicted; The children are crazy obsessed with "Good Boy", fantasizing that they can become chivalrous kung fu boys, imitating the scenes in the movie, hehehe, hey,
"Although I am young, my kung fu is high, Shaolin Wudang Taekwondo, and I have a set of ......"
As soon as "Good Boy" was released, it immediately attracted film companies from all over the world to rush to buy the distribution rights, and Toei launched it in Japan with a package of 200,000 US dollars, and acted as an agent for the copyright in Europe and Latin America, causing an exclamation in the Taiwanese film industry.
Unlike Hong Kong films entering the golden age, Taiwanese films at this time have been mired in the quagmire and are getting deeper and deeper, and the vast majority of the top ten grossing movies every year are Hong Kong films, and it is an indisputable fact that Taiwanese films are in decline.
However, Taiwanese filmmakers also have their own dignity, when "Good Boy" suddenly became a box office hit, causing a sensation on the island and its surroundings, and after setting off a storm of "Good Boy" in various places, some media immediately touted it, saying that it is not impossible to make Gulf movies, but because Taiwanese directors like to make literary films, and if they are changed to commercial films, they can be popular.
That's right, "Good Boy" has been completely regarded by the Taiwanese media as the Taiwanese film. Originally, the actors, staff, extras and other actors in the film are all Taiwanese, what is it if it is not an authentic Taiwanese film?
But there is a name that makes people look very unpleasant - Chen Ping'an. This guy is from Hong Kong, and he is also the director and screenwriter of "Good Boy......
But it doesn't matter, soon the media dug out Chen Ping'an's family background - Chen Ping'an is a Chinese-American, his mother is Taiwanese, and he only immigrated to the United States 20 years ago, from a certain point of view, Chen Ping'an is also Taiwanese!
Now the media have no worries, and with their efforts, the box office of this drama has been raised by a notch, and for a while it was even higher than the box office of "Police Story"! When the painting was finally completed, the box office of "Good Boy" reached 14 million, while the box office of "Police Story" was nearly 17 million.
"Good Boy" was a big hit, and it completely became popular with Yan Zhengguo, Zuo Xiaohu, and Chen Chongrong. With the landing of "Good Boy" in Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia and other places, it suddenly set off a craze. Hailian Pictures completely opened the market, and the big sales of the two dramas made several bigwigs of the Bamboo Union Gang and the Four Seas Gang happy, and they no longer had the slightest suspicion of Chen Ping'an, and fully supported Lianhai Pictures.
The Taiwan box office of "Good Boy" and "Police Story" arrived ahead of schedule, allowing Chen Ping'an to have more than NT$10 million on hand at once. took out 5 million yuan for Li Zongsheng to set up Dark Horse Records Taiwan Company, and bought a 200-square-meter duplex and a 100-square-meter high-end apartment, and Chen Ping'an returned to Hong Kong with an extra NT$5 million in his pocket.
He returned to Hong Kong without informing anyone, but as soon as he got off the plane, he was caught by reporters who had been ambushed at the airport in advance. Dozens of reporters set up long guns and short cannons to surround him, flashing flashing lights, scrambling to throw out questions one after another, asking him surprised, delighted, and angry, and finally he started again, beating the reporter of "Sing Tao Daily" to the head and bleeding......