"Player No. 5, please."

As soon as the host's voice fell, a tall and thin girl wearing rustic black-rimmed glasses walked to the stage, she stood still and turned around and made an OK gesture, and then the song accompaniment sounded.

Looking back slowly, the night that once belonged to each other

Honghong is still you, the sun in my heart

……”

The girl only opened her mouth to sing two sentences, and Zhang Guorong and Anita Mui, who were facing the stage with their backs, couldn't help but turn their heads to look at each other, and Anita Mui exclaimed: "The voice is so beautiful." ”

Zhang Guorong smiled: "I have your level." ”

The mentors of the third season of "The Voice of China" are all singers of Fengxing Records, in addition to Zhang Guorong and Anita Mui, the other two are Xu Xiaofeng and Ye Dexian.

Xu Xiaofeng only signed Fengxing Records last month, and her contract with the original owner Kangyi Chengyin has arrived, and for some reason she has a very stiff quarrel with TVB, and Kangyi Chengyin is one of TVB's partners. Xu Xiaofeng didn't want to be caught in it and be angry, so he joined the popular record without looking at TVB's face - the record company needs to promote the singer on the TV station, and now Xu Xiaofeng has not released a film in the popular record company, but he has hosted the Phoenix golden song for half a month.

Phoenix Golden Melody is a program founded at the beginning of this year, which usually introduces some popular songs, and selects the top ten golden songs of the year every year.

In just half a year since its establishment, "Phoenix Golden Melody" has been listed as one of the three major music awards in Hong Kong, along with TVB's "Top Ten Golden Songs" and Radio Television Hong Kong's "Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs".

As for Ye Dexian, she is a veteran singer who has been famous since the sixties and seventies. In fact, she doesn't release much records now, and more of her energy is turned to making movies, playing important supporting roles in many DreamWorks movies. But even so. As a once smash hit singer in Hong Kong, she still has a very high popularity and countless fans, which is enough to serve as a mentor of The Voice of China.

In the show, Xu Xiaofeng, Zhang Guorong and Anita Mui all have a very respectful attitude towards Ye Dexian, and they completely treat her as a mentor of the current generation.

"The coming day is a song of thousands of people

Drifting in the distance on my road

The coming day is a thousand stars

Brighter than the moon tonight

……”

"Toot!"

"Toot!"

"Toot!"

Zhang Guorong, Anita Mui and Xu Xiaofeng suddenly pressed the lights at the same time, and the electric control seats were also after the staff pressed the control switch. Slowly turn to the stage.

"Wow!!"

Seeing the three mentors turn at the same time, the audience suddenly roared. And only half a minute later, the remaining Ye Dexian turned around according to the light. When all four votes passed, dazzling colored lights flashed on the stage of the Taiping Theater, pushing the atmosphere of the show to the climax.

After singing a song, Zhang Guorong asked, "What is your name?" What is the profession? ”

The girl calmed down her agitation. He replied: "Hello four tutors, my name is Zhou Huimin, I just graduated from middle school, and I am currently working as a clerk in a video store. ”

Xu Xiaofeng said: "Hello Huimin, you sing very well, have you been professionally trained?" ”

Zhou Huimin was extremely nervous and excited at this time, trying hard to maintain the smile on his face, and said, "I have been practicing piano since I was a child. I also learned some music theory knowledge, but it is not too professional training. ”

"Tell us about your dreams." Anita Mui said.

Zhou Huimin replied: "My dream is. In the future, I will be able to earn money from music to support my family. ”

Ye Dexian smiled: "Very good dream. ”

……

Wang Guxian was like a sloth, his limbs tightly wrapped around Kang Jianfei, and the delicate panting sound from his mouth became louder and louder. Suddenly, she let out a shrill scream, her body bent like a taut bow, her long neck lifted up, and her whole body pumped out in rhythmic bursts.

There was still a silvery smell in the air, and the men and women hugging each other on the bed gradually calmed down, quietly caressing each other afterwards, and only the sound of singing came from the TV set in the room.

Wang Guxian silently leaned on Kang Jianfei's arms, enjoying the man's gentle touches and kisses. After half a month of hooking up, Kang Jianfei finally found time to get Wang Guxian into bed and enjoy his graceful and delicate body.

Wang Guxian glanced at the red on the sheets, and said a little shyly, "Mr. Kang, I want to take a bath." ”

"Still call me Mr. Kang?" Kang Jianfei teased and slapped her on the buttocks.

Wang Guxian stroked his buttocks and asked, "Then what should I call you?" ”

Kang Jianfei smiled: "Of course it's called Feige, you can call me husband if you want." ”

Wang Guxian naturally chose the former and said, "Brother Fei, I want to take a bath." ”

"Go ahead." Kang Jianfei took his dirty hands away from Wang Guxian.

The sound of rushing water sounded in the bathroom, but Kang Jianfei's attention was all turned to the TV screen, because he happened to see Zhou Huimin singing.

"Interesting, Zhou Huimin actually appeared." Kang Jianfei said.

To Kang Jianfei's surprise, it was still to come, only more than ten minutes later, a band came to the stage with all their belongings and actually sang original rock songs.

Zhang Guorong said: "Introduce yourself. ”

"Hello four mentors, we are the Beyond band."

"My name is Huang Jiaju."

"My name is Wong Ka Keung"

"My name is Ye Shirong."

"My name is Chen Shi'an."

Anita Mui looked carefully at the four people in the stands and asked, "Have you participated in other singing competitions before?" ”

Huang Jiaju nodded and said, "We participated in the Yamaha guitar competition two years ago and won the championship. However, we insisted on singing the songs we wrote, and we were not favored by the record company, so we could only run around as an underground band to make money. ”

Ye Dexian, the oldest qualification, said: "Playing a band was very popular more than ten years ago, but now whoever plays the band will die. I think Jiaju, your singing skills are very good, if you are a pure singer and sing pop songs, you should be able to become popular, and if you continue to play the band and sing original rock, then you can probably only continue to be an underground band. ”

The four members of the band Beyond looked at each other and smiled wryly. Huang Jiaju said helplessly: "Singing pop songs is not my interest. ”

The program on TV is still going on, Wang Guxian has already returned to bed in his pajamas after taking a shower, and is obediently watching TV in Kang Jianfei's arms.

Kang Jianfei reached out and took the phone on the bedside. After dialing Deng Yimin's number, he said: "Old Deng, have you watched the Voice of China on Phoenix Station tonight?" Yes, I have a crush on the singers in it, you sign Zhou Huimin and the Beyond band, I guarantee that they will be popular......"

After hanging up the phone, Kang Jianfei saw Wang Guxian looking at him steadily, and said with a smile: "Do I have flowers on my face?" ”

Wang Guxian smiled and said, "No. I just think you're so handsome when you're on the phone, and the tone of your voice is particularly majestic. ”

One sentence determines the future of several singers, can it not be majestic?

After the first episode of the third season of "The Voice of China" aired. Zhou Huimin and Beyond quickly became famous, but they were only a little famous, and if they really wanted to become red singers, they had to be packaged and promoted through record companies.

Kang Jianfei, who returned to filming. Unexpectedly received a call from the capital. It was Hu Juncai who called: "Ah Fei, I will get married in March next year, and you must come then." ”

……

On November 10, the first Tokyo International Film Festival, which lasted for half a month, came to an end, and the Japanese film "Typhoon Club" won the grand prize (the highest award). "Shushan", which was invited to participate in the exhibition, won the Grand Jury Prize together with the Canadian film "Jacques and November", and also won a special prize for film critics.

When the news came back to Hong Kong, Oriental Entertainment Distribution Company and Oriental Cinema Line naturally took the opportunity to hype it up. Soft advertisements for "Shu Shan" can be seen everywhere in Hong Kong, but its real hard advertisements have not yet officially debuted. Follow this trend. Until "Shushan" is released in the summer, the publicity expenses alone will cost four or five million, which is equivalent to the cost of a medium-investment Hong Kong film today.

Winning awards at two international film festivals in a row, "Shushan" quickly passed film censorship in the mainland and is expected to be released around New Year's Day. However, the mainland box office of "Shushan" has little to do with DreamWorks, because this is a co-production filmed in the mainland, Xu Ke was able to use national film and television resources with a very cheap salary, and the price he paid was to completely give up the mainland box office.

That is to say, the box office dream factory of "Shushan" in the mainland will not get a penny, and it will all be divided between the China Film Co-production Company, the Film Bureau, and theaters around the country.

However, "Huang Feihong", which began to be released at the end of August, was once again well received in the mainland because of its chivalrous spirit and patriotism, and the film has not been released for two and a half months, and the mainland box office has been close to 40 million yuan.

Some people may wonder that it was difficult to get a box office of tens of millions in the mainland around 2000, why did DreamWorks movies often get tens of millions of box office tickets for one or two yuan in the 80s?

In fact, it is very simple, 1981 to 1992 was the golden age of domestic films, and the total box office of domestic films reached a peak of 3.2 billion yuan in 1992. After that, it plummeted, and the total box office of domestic films fell to 810 million yuan in 1998, which was only a quarter of that in 1992. Even in 2003, the figure was only 1.01 billion yuan, less than one-third of the 1992 value.

So from 1994 to 2003, it was called the "lost decade" of domestic films by some people.

Why did the total box office of domestic films plummet in 1993? The most important reason is that from this year, VCD machines began to appear in the mainland, and within a few years, VCD machines and pirated VCDs were rampant.

Piracy can be said to be the culprit of the decline of domestic films, and then the introduction of foreign films in 1994 (there was no formal introduction mechanism before), not only failed to help Chinese films save the market, but raised the horizons of the Chinese people, and everyone disdained to watch domestic films.

So it was a great blessing to be able to sell movies to the mainland market in the 80s. Because there are few entertainment methods in the mainland, even the number of TV sets is very small, and there are no pirated VCDs, and video halls that play pirated video tapes have just appeared, after the cultivation of movies such as "Shaolin Temple", Chinese people have gradually become accustomed to going to the theater to watch movies, so that every film of DreamWorks can sell more than 20 million yuan at the box office in the mainland - there are no competitors.

The main reason why the central government can tolerate DreamWorks' films that have been making money in the mainland market is that Kang Jianfei has not earned foreign exchange from the motherland. In the mid-80s, China was poor, but the poor was that there was too little foreign exchange, and the renminbi was not very short.

Most of the high-grossing sales of DreamWorks' films were divided by the mainland film bureaus and theaters, and the share that Kang Jianfei got was not earned in the form of foreign exchange, but was directly divided into RMB. Some of these renminbi are directly donated to the mainland, and some are used for investment in the mainland (such as investing in CCTV's "Journey to the West" and other films, such as building cinemas and department stores in the mainland).

Today, not counting the food company that opened with Ye Laosan, Kang Jianfei already owns three cinemas in the mainland (three more are under construction, located in Chengdu/Du, Wu/Han and Bei/Beijing), and each cinema has a department store attached to it, as well as a Xiongfei record company in Guangzhou/Zhou, and the Shaolin Temple International Tourism Development Company.

Even with these investments, DreamWorks has not been able to use up all the renminbi it has earned in the mainland, and the renminbi cannot be brought back to Hong Kong, so it has to find another way to spend it.

The production cost of "Shushan" is 63 million Hong Kong dollars, of which there is an investment of nearly 20 million Hong Kong dollars, which is actually directly spent in RMB. Although the exchange rate of the RMB is very bad at this time, Kang Jianfei finally used the money in his hand, because it is useless for these RMB to be stored in the bank, and it will depreciate greatly in the next ten years.

The Shaolin Temple has also developed initially, although it has not fully recovered its investment, but at least it has made a profit every month. Especially after the performance of the Spring Festival Gala last year, the Shaolin Temple has increased its publicity efforts, coupled with the rapid development of the mainland economy, so the number of tourists in the Shaolin Temple this year has nearly doubled compared with last year.

The excellent performance of the Chinese team at last year's Olympic Games, and the subsequent positive image publicity, made the whole world more interested in China, and the number of foreign tourists in the first half of this year increased by three times compared to the same period last year.

After the career of the Shaolin Temple was on the right track, Hu Juncai handed over the daily management work to his subordinates and moved to the capital to live - the good thing between this guy and the daughter of the Ye family has been decided, and the two are ready to get married during the Spring Festival next year.

Kang Jianfei's theaters in the mainland are all acting independently, and each theater has only one manager from Hong Kong, and there is no one to take care of the affairs. Hu Juncai withdrew from the Shaolin Temple and just solved this trouble.

Now Kang Jianfei's theaters in the mainland have all been renamed Oriental International Cinema (cinema company), Hu Juncai serves as the general manager of the company, and gets 15% of the shares of the cinema company. It's not that Kang Jianfei doesn't give much, but Kang Jianfei himself only has 49% of the shares, and only 34% is left after being distributed to Hu Juncai, and the remaining 51% of the shares are all owned by the local government, because when the theater was built, it was stipulated that the government must be the largest shareholder.

But now that there is a third-party shareholding, there is room for manoeuvre. Kang Jianfei and Hu Juncai have already discussed, and they are ready to gradually spend money from the local government to buy back the shares in the next three years. At that time, Kang Jianfei held 34% of the shares, Hu Juncai held 31% of the shares, and the local government held 35% of the shares, and the government was still the largest shareholder of the company, which did not violate the policy.

When the policy is relaxed one day, Kang Jianfei will pay money to buy back all the shares held by the local government. (To be continued......)