Chapter 132 The surging Hong Kong music scene, the treasure island film businessman is forcing the palace
"Don't want to be like this"
"Lingering in the Eye"
"You'll notice that I'm lonely"
In the car, Andy Lau's distinctive voice came from the radio.
Chen Qiming was looking through the newspapers in Hong Kong during this time.
Since the beginning of his concert tour, he has not paid much attention to the entertainment industry in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
I should be back for a few months this time, and I need to keep up to date with some of the news during this time.
"Dawn's Cantonese version of fairy tales has a unique flavor, not losing the original Chen Qiming"
"Jacky Cheung's new song has you all the way and is popular in Hong Kong"
"The first duel between the four heavenly kings, the battle is scorching, and there is no winner or loser"
"Aaron Kwok's new album pulls his hips, and fans propose to kick out the four kings"
"American blockbuster Jurassic Park swept the world, Stephen Chow was invincible"
"Jigong Baodao failed at the box office, and the Baodao film companies collectively forced Hong Kong to ask for a lower price for the film"
"Treasure Island film companies are all paper tigers, Hong Kong producers decided to suspend the delivery of films to Treasure Island"
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Chen Qiming watched the reports with relish, and he felt like watching a serial.
The middle of the year is definitely a time of breaking news.
First of all, Huang Jiaju's unexpected death caused a stir in the entire Hong Kong and Taiwan regions.
Subsequently, the four kings of Hong Kong actually crashed a car in the past few months.
Dawn's "Summer Love".
Andy Lau's "The Answer is You"
Jacky Cheung's "Legend, Me and Ling"
Aaron Kwok's "Without Your Love"
All four albums were released during this time.
In addition to the title of the same name, Liming's "Summer Love" also has adaptations of Chen Qiming's "Life with You" and "Fairy Tale".
Many golden songs all converged in one album, which made his album a big hit in terms of word-of-mouth and sales.
And his opponent Andy Lau's albums include "Secretly Fascinated" and "Happy Ma Liu".
Jacky Cheung drove the record with a song "I just want to go with you all my life".
The three of them fought in the record market during the summer vacation.
In the end, because the sales figures of all three were about the same, the battle ended in a draw.
As for Aaron Kwok......
This year's Aaron Kwok is very pulling.
No, since joining Huaxing Records, Aaron Kwok has been very crotch-pulling.
If it weren't for the flying saucer to make Chinese records for him to continue his life, he might not know where to pounce now.
Because of his own inadequacy in the Cantonese record market, many print media have proposed to kick him out of the ranks of the Four Heavenly Kings.
Under this pressure of public opinion, some newspapers said that Aaron Kwok seemed to be interested in transferring his Cantonese records to Warners.
Chen Qiming didn't know if it was true or not, but he felt that it was really possible.
In recent years, Huaxing Records has really declined.
Even Anita Mui had a conflict with Huaxing Records, and took her disciple Grasshopper to stand on her own.
In terms of newcomers, although Huaxing is known as the talent pool of the Hong Kong music scene, Huaxing will not use them at all.
At present, Huaxing's singers are also Aaron Kwok, Xu Zhi'an, Leung Hanwen and Sammi Cheng.
But Huaxing has never found a way to use them.
As a result, these people, except for Aaron Kwok, who has the support of his previous popularity, the other three are still at the second-tier level so far.
can't operate, and every day you count on TVB TV for promotion, although this is an advantage that other companies don't have, but if there are no good songs, no matter how much you promote, it's in vain.
Therefore, it is no wonder that Aaron Kwok does not run.
However, Chen Qiming is not too concerned about the above news.
He is more concerned about the fact that the Baodao film company forced the Hong Kong producer to reduce the price of the film.
After reading the news in this regard, Chen Qiming probably understood the ins and outs of the matter.
Speaking of which, it is still to blame Wang Yingxiang for being too greedy and not understanding the trend.
As we all know, Stephen Chow's films pioneered the nonsensical way of comedy.
It is this type of performance that makes his films quite popular with young audiences.
This can be seen from Stephen Chow's blockbuster movies in recent years, which are always in the summer vacation.
And what are young people watching Stephen Chow's movie pictures? It's just about having fun.
But this "Jigong" ......
The director of this movie is Johnny To.
To Qifeng, the director, don't look at his movies, it seems that they have been selling well in recent years.
But he always likes to add something to his movies that young people don't quite understand.
"The Judge of the Dead" is okay, it is a combination of cases and nonsense, and most viewers can understand it.
In the first half of the year, although the film was originally directed by To Qifeng, he didn't shoot it for long, so he handed over the film to Li Lizhi to direct, including Stephen Chow.
Therefore, for the audience, these films can clearly understand what they are talking about.
But "Jigong" is different.
Although the style of this film is the same nonsensical, To Qifeng has added various complex philosophical questions to it, which belongs to the combination of philosophy and nonsense.
Philosophy!
You talk to young people about philosophy.
It's the same as the child's father taking a rattan to teach his rebellious son and saying that you have to study hard.
The starting point is good, but whether you can understand what you mean, it is not necessarily.
Of course, in Chen Qiming's view, Wang Yingxiang's unwise place is not that he is not unclear about the style of the movie and buys indiscriminately.
The main thing is that he doesn't look at the genre of movies of the same period.
Who is the movie facing "Jigong"?
It was a blockbuster that grossed nearly $400 million in the United States.
After the film was released in Asian countries and regions, it almost topped the box office list everywhere with a crushing attitude.
Wang Yingxiang actually used this movie to collide with "Jurassic Park", it is conceivable that if he doesn't pounce, who will pounce.
However, since this has happened, it is useless to judge it now.
What Chen Qiming needs to consider now is that this time the Baodao film companies collectively forced the Hong Kong producers, and at the same time, the Hong Kong side chose to resist and directly chose to suspend the provision of films to Baodao, will this affect him.
You know, he invested 4 million Hong Kong dollars in "New Love".
According to convention, Hong Kong movies generally speaking, unless they are a box office hit in Hong Kong, otherwise, the box office here in Hong Kong can only recover its costs at most.
Even, it is difficult for many movies to recover their costs at the box office in Hong Kong.
If there is no treasure island, the reserve warehouse of Hong Kong films, it will be difficult for Hong Kong films to continue to make money......
Of course, Chen Qiming also knows that no matter whether the final result is the submission of Baodao or the submission of Hong Kong.
There will definitely be a result in this matter.
But this result is related to the income of Chen Qiming's movie.
"It's here!"
I didn't have time to think too much about Chen Qiming, and the car had already arrived at the hotel.
Looking up at this hotel, Chen Qiming felt helpless.
Every time he comes to Hong Kong, he stays in this hotel.
Now that he came back, he felt like he was home.
"You've got to get an early night's rest, and tomorrow morning we need to be at an endorsement event.
At noon, I went to the crew of "Green Snake".
Regarding your round-trip between "Green Snake" and "New Love", we have already communicated with both directors.
At that time, you may be in "Green Snake" in the morning, and you will go to shoot "New Love" in the afternoon......"
While entering the hotel, Li Xiaowen talked to Chen Qiming about the itinerary for the next few days.
The role of the assistant is like this, acting as a position that is responsible for the artist's daily life and even reminding the artist of his work.
"OK, you go get busy first! I have something to contact you! ”
Coming to the room, Chen Qiming spoke.
Hearing this, Li Xiaowen couldn't help but look at him with strange eyes.
"What do you want? I'm going out to find my mom, she's in Hong Kong, and I asked her to set up a clothing company!! ”
Seeing her eyes, Chen Qiming was suddenly angry.
He was really going to find Huang Xiaomei.
The last time she came to Hong Kong to set up a garment company, she was almost done, and now the factory in Shanghai is almost set up.
Next, it's time for Chen Qiming to go out and design a costume to make a name for his clothing company.
(End of chapter)