China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 439 "Beautiful Fairy Tale" and the Deadly Orange Sky Entertainment

[Good evening, audience friends, this is "Entertainment Site"...Let's take a look at some entertainment news below]

[The TV series "Lotus Lantern" produced by Fanxing was popular on CCTV [-], and the villain Erlang played by Jiao Enjun caused widespread discussion]

[Popular King Jay Chou's debut movie "Initial D" is scheduled to be released in June, avoiding the two popular summer movies "Seven Swords" and "New World"]

[It is reported that Cao Xuan, who was on vacation abroad, has returned to China. He appeared yesterday at the North Exhibition of Deyun Club for a business performance. Afterwards, Guo Degang posted a backstage photo with Cao Xuan on his blog]

[A few days ago, Hu Jing's new movie "The Two of Us" was officially released in May. This movie tells the story of an old man living alone and a female college student about loneliness and companionship...

After the film was released, it was recognized by many media and film critics.

Director Ma Liwen said that Hu Jing's performance in the movie was cleansed and showed the most natural and true state. Hu Jing also said in the interview that acting together with Jin Yaqin helped her a lot...]

In the TV screen, Hu Jing, who is also a producer, is holding several microphones with media brands and talking to the camera.

"Because it is a literary film, we did not deliberately pursue the box office, and we will use more TV and DVD channels in the future."

"We have already applied for this year's Golden Rooster Award and several overseas film festivals, hoping to win something."

"At present, there are no new works to shoot, but I have also contacted a few projects. Let's see what happens. If there is no suitable script, I will work behind the scenes."

"..."

After turning off the TV, Hu Jing turned her head to look at Cao Xuan who was reading a book with her legs crossed on the sofa.

"You are quite free. You have been abroad for more than half a month, and you still go to listen to cross talk when you return home."

"This is not the first time that Deyun Society has held a big commercial performance. Lao Guo and Hou Sanye, master and apprentice, made a special call to ask me to show respect. No matter what he said, he also came out from under my hands. Give me face."

"Still talking."

Nishigong Niangniang couldn't help complaining: "It's fine if you go to play, but you have to post it on your blog, making your fans so angry, saying that you have time to travel and no time to hold a concert, and they are condemning you .”

"Forehead…"

Cao Xuan scratched his head: "I didn't intend to post it at first, but they asked to take more photos of food for them to see, why are they blocked now?"

But in fact, he also knows that this has nothing to do with the fans at all. In fact, Dongxi Ergong watched him go out to play by himself, and teamed up to find faults and vent his anger.

In this case, there is no point in arguing, let alone 1V2, first confess, and work overtime at night to coax.

So Cao Xuan didn't get entangled in this matter at all, and directly changed the subject, asking Empress Nishinomiya: "Have you read that script of yours, what do you think?"

"It's hard to say, it always feels a little awkward."

"It's awkward, it's normal, the MV story outline was originally changed, even a bit far-fetched, if you think it's not good, let them change it again."

Zeng Li's song "New Drunken Concubine" in the Spring Festival Gala became popular all over the country, and it is still on the top of the 2005 pop songs list.

Cao Xuan felt that since Zeng Li was suitable for theatrical style, he took another song "Exploring the Window" and wanted Zeng Li to release the first single to consolidate the popularity.

As a result, I never thought about it. Feng Xiaoning, the director who just joined Fanxing, took a fancy to the story of the MV of the song "Detective Window", and thought it could be explored.

The outline of the story is still the same as in the lyrics of "Exploring the Window". The infatuated woman and the heartbroken man are based on the background of the Republic of China. The hero and heroine are childhood sweethearts.

The main purpose is to discuss love, implying elements such as right family, secular prejudice, free love, etc., and some plots of troubled times are added.

Cao Xuan thinks this book is a bit interesting, mainly because it is more suitable for Zeng Li. Whether it is a drama major or the heroine's relatively cold and sad personality, it is more suitable for Zeng Li.

As a result, Zeng Li studied the script by himself, and felt that the writing was too vulgar, a bit like making a movie for the sake of a song.

"Actually, I think you are quite suitable for opera movies. I will ask Director Feng to change it later. There is no need to stick to the song "Exploring the Window". Similar themes are fine."

"I remember your song "Chi Ling" very well. The stage play is quite popular. Let Li Zi perform it in a movie."

Hu Jing made an opinion, Zeng Li felt that changing male roles to female roles would change the whole concept of the film, but Cao Xuan believed that the core of "Red Ling" is "a low position dare not forget worrying about the country", there is no need to be entangled For men and women.

The three of them talked about their own opinions, and finally planned to go back and watch the drama "Red Actress" separately for investigation and investigation.

Zeng Li filmed "The Legend of Condor Heroes" and "Embroidered Spring Knife 2" last year and this year, and has no follow-up filming plans for the time being, and is more focused on the students.

After the summer vacation, the 02 level of Chinese opera is the senior year.

This is also their last year in school, Zeng Damei intends to have a happy ending with this group of students.

And after graduating from the 02nd grade of Chinese opera, Zeng Li doesn't plan to be the homeroom teacher for the time being, but simply becomes a lecturer. In this way, her work will be much easier and she can focus more on her family.

After all, she and Cao Xuan will both be 30 in the new year, so there should be an heir to the big business of the old Cao family...

.........

After traveling abroad for a long time, Cao Xuan had enough rest and started a new job.

"New World" has basically finished the post-production, and at the end of June, it will start to promote.

Several films have been released in a row, and Fanxing already has a standard publicity and distribution process internally. Cao Xuan hardly needs to worry about this. He is more concerned about overseas distribution.

There is one thing to say, gangster undercover films have a stronger market overseas than martial arts films in a certain sense.

After all, "Hero" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" have become famous in recent years, and gangster movies are common themes all over the world, otherwise "The Godfather" would not be regarded as a classic.

Maybe the background and culture are different, but everyone knows the routines of gang crime and police fighting wits and courage.

The relatively good audience acceptance has greatly helped the overseas distribution of "New World".

But at the same time, popular themes also mean fierce competition. How to survive surrounded by related themes in Europe, America, Japan, South Korea, and Xiangjiang is a test for "New World".

In Asia, Fanxing has preliminarily established its own network of overseas contacts, and there are cooperative film producers in Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia.

Even India and Pakistan Railways in South Asia, Fanxing also cooperates.

Needless to say, Ba Tie, India is deeply influenced by European and American entertainment culture, and itself is considered to be more than half of the English-speaking countries. As the king of Asia with a good reputation in Europe and America, Cao Xuan naturally has a certain reputation in India.

Although India can hardly provide any commercial value, the population of 11.5 billion is still very bluffing.

An American entertainment magazine once called Cao Xuan the singer with the most supporters in the world, because behind him is Asia, the most populous continent in the world.

China and India together account for almost one-third of the world's total population.

Although Cao Xuan definitely does not have influence in China in India, but the American media can't help but don't know, or don't care. Anyway, this gimmick came out, and there are really few international singers who can challenge Cao Xuan's "influence".

However, no matter how many Indians there are, the economy and the market are not good enough. Even the [Asan Army], the head of the five permanent members of the Internet, which is famous in the future, does not even have a prototype.

After all, at this time, not many Indians can afford computers...

Indian filmmakers are just doing it conveniently. At least for now, the real market in Asia is still in East Asia.

The first two movies have given Cao Xuan a taste of the sweetness of the Asian market, and they are doing well, even making more money than in China.

Similarly, "When Men Are in Love", "New Police Story" and "Xiu Chun Knife" have also allowed Cao Xuan's films to accumulate a good reputation in Asia.

I dare not say that Cao Xuan's performance must be high-quality, but the quality is above the standard.

Therefore, whether it is overseas film studios or audiences, they trust Cao Xuan's films, and the price and treatment are naturally beneficial.

Especially in Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia, which have been deeply influenced by Hong Kong movies for decades, they have accumulated a large audience of gangster crime themes.

Although the "Infernal Affairs" series in the past two years was not outstanding at the overseas box office, it sold well on DVD and TV channels, and its reputation was also quite good.

"New World" has a similar theme to "Infernal Affairs", so it is naturally more favored by the studio, and even apart from Asia, there are also European filmmakers.

Cao Xuan and Fanxing executives felt that for a film like "New World", the TV and DVD channels were more likely to be popular than the box office, so they were more inclined to sell the rights directly.

Some film studios readily accepted, such as European film studios, who directly packaged the copyright of "New World" in several European countries for US$300 million.

This kind of gangster crime movie is not as easy to ask for in Europe and the United States as the martial arts blockbuster. There are too many similar themes in Europe.Won't break the bank.

This time, the $300 million was given because of the good quality of the film and the fame of Cao Xuan and Liang Jiahui.

Needless to say, Cao Xuan, Liang Jiahui's several literary films are also quite famous in Europe, such as "The Lover", which once made him famous in France.

In Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, Cao Xuan's popularity base is also the place where he can sell the most, and the negotiation conditions are different.

In the end, apart from Japan, the largest market, which retains the screening share, other Asian countries copyright Fanxing directly sold them all in one package.

South Korea $200 million.

$100 million in Singapore.

Southeast Asian countries add up to more than 300 million US dollars.

Other miscellaneous things add up to more than 100 million US dollars.

Including Europe, the cumulative total is just over 1000 million U.S. dollars. Converted into renminbi, and after taxation is thrown away, "New World" directly recovers 6000 million yuan in production and publicity costs.

The rest of the mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan are all pure profits. If the box office is strong, you can try to make another fortune in the Americas.

Fanxing's overseas distribution speed has overwhelmed even the cooperating companies China Film and Phoenix, especially China Film.

But they know that two years ago, Fanxing's film distribution ability was just in its infancy, and it followed China Film at that time.

As a result, in less than two years, a sound overseas distribution channel has been established in Asia, and the film copyright can be sold directly in a short period of time.

Not to mention other private film and television companies, even China Film, there is no guarantee that they will handle it more cleanly than Fanxing.

During the internal meeting of "New World", Han Sanye even said with emotion: "With your current channels, you can already receive some business for overseas distribution of movies."

"Actually, to tell you the truth, Fanxing has set up contact offices in Singapore, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and Thailand to build Fanxing's Asian distribution outlets and help more domestic film and television distribution overseas."

Now that Fanxing has established overseas channels, there is no use in vain.

Now that the overseas market is good, and the film overseas distribution business is very profitable, Cao Xuan has no reason to let it go. In a sense, it can be regarded as cultural export.

Fanxing in Asia is basically capable of receiving business, the United States has also opened up some channels, and Europe, Australia and South America are still in contact.

Cao Xuan's connections in Europe and America are not bad. Those in the European and American showbiz circles all know each other. It's not difficult to get in touch with some film producers. As long as there are interests guaranteed, it's okay to open up a hole if you don't dare to talk too much.

Hearing Cao Xuan's words, Third Master Han was a little envious.

This is the benefit of having the influence of an international superstar. There are people selling face everywhere. If you make two or three friends, you can get in touch with other contacts through friends.

With the reputation of an international superstar as a guarantee, people are more willing to believe in cooperation.

But then again, Cao Xuan is the boss, and he is willing to use his influence to develop channels, so he can take care of things if something goes wrong.

Cheng Long and Yinghuang are just a cooperative relationship, and there is no need to use their fame and connections to expand Yinghuang's territory.

Therefore, it is enough for Yinghuang to use it for a short time, but it is difficult to use it for a long time to develop stable channels like Fanxing.

This meeting was held not long ago, mainly because of the "New World" report, and there were some twists and turns, but fortunately it was resolved by Han Sanye.

Hold a small meeting, mainly to adjust the publicity strategy related to "New World", stop marketing some sensitive topics, and focus on brotherhood, power struggle, anti-killing and so on.

After leaving China Film, Cao Xuan took Boss Yang to Baihua Recording Studio and asked him to listen to the theme song he composed for the movie "Mythology" - "Beautiful Mythology".

The song Yuan Shikong was tailor-made for the movie. Now that Cheng Long and Boss Yang know Cao Xuan, the first choice must be to invite songs like Cao Tianwang.

Cao Xuan generally doesn't take this kind of work, and the song "Beautiful Myth" is indeed a classic, Cao Xuan couldn't help but plucked the wool.

For this reason, Cheng Long still felt a sense of face. Everyone in the industry knew that Cao Xuan seldom wrote songs for outsiders, and this was the first time for a movie theme song.

Cheng Long boasted about "The Beautiful Myth" in front of the media, praising Cao Xuan and himself.

There are two versions of "Beautiful Mythology". Cheng Long and Jin Xishan sang the first version, combining Chinese and English, focusing on overseas promotion; Cao Xuan and his artist Yao Beina sang the first version as the official theme song of the movie.

In fact, at first Cao Xuan wanted to ask Gu Miaomiao to sing, she was the most popular, so Cao Xuan planned to help out.

Later, it was discovered that Gu Miaomiao's singing skills were much worse than the original Han Hong's, but Yao Beina could barely meet the requirements, and finally won this opportunity.

Singing with Cao Xuan is also the theme song of Cheng Long's new movie. For Yao Beina, who has not yet released an album and officially debuted, it can be said to be a step up to the sky. If the effect is good, it may directly catch up with Gu Miaomiao, who has the best development in "Tomorrow's Star".

"In the sad and happy years, only love is an eternal myth
No one has forgotten the ancient oath
Your tears turn into colorful butterflies flying all over the sky

Love is the wind under the wings, two hearts fly freely with each other

......"

The version sung by Cao Xuan is a bit similar to the original version of Sun Nan and Han Hong. The singing style is a bit close to showmanship, especially the high-pitched falsetto in the second half. lingering.

In fact, from the bottom of my heart, Cao Xuan personally prefers Cheng Long's version, which has a stronger sense of vicissitudes and is more suitable for the movie scene.

But of the two versions, Cheng Long and Jin Xishan had to sing one version. In order to make a distinction, Cao Xuan could only pull Yao Beina to show off his skills.

After listening to the song, Boss Yang was fascinated and applauded loudly. The 350 million theme song expenditure was not in vain.

That's right, Cao Xuan charged 350 million for writing and singing the theme song for "Myth".

This price can be said to be unmatched in today's Chinese music scene.

But in the eyes of Boss Yang, the value of the money is not only the quality of the songs, but more importantly, he can use Cao Xuan's fame to promote it. This benefit is not something that can be obtained with 350 million yuan.

If "Mythology" hadn't been invested by Fanxing, Cao Xuan might not have cooperated like this.

"Cao Sheng, have you prepared the theme song for "New World"?"

After listening to "Beautiful Myth", Boss Yang didn't forget "New World". He also invested a lot in it, and he hoped that "New World" would make a lot of money. "

"I'm not satisfied after writing a few poems, so I just don't use it."

Cao Xuan's words are concise and to the point. He picked up quite a few songs, and there are barely any songs that can be linked to "New World".

But later I felt that there is no need to use the theme song to render the plot of the movie. For such a movie with blank metaphors everywhere, the effect of pure music soundtrack may be better.

In terms of music, Cao Xuan is undoubtedly an authority, and Boss Yang believes in his judgment very much.

.........

While Cao Xuan was busy with the overseas release of "New World", a big event happened in the entertainment industry.

Known as one of the top three managers in the mainland, Wang Jinhua left Huayi directly with a dozen artists under her command after her contract with Huayi expired.

Overnight, Huayi's artist resources were directly emptied.

By the time the news came out, former Huayi artists Hu Jun, Xia Yu, Chen Daoming, Yuan Anita, Guan Zhilin, Liang Jiahui and others had all left.

Li Bingbing is the only well-known artist who stated to the outside world that he would stay in Huayi.

Don't look at the fact that the brothers of the Wang family mentioned this matter repeatedly and said it was just a small disturbance, but that has passed. In fact, this matter still had a great influence at that time.

Although Huayi started with film and television production, in the past two years, the artist economy has also become a big territory.

If you say nothing in one breath, you will be gone. Although it is not a catastrophe, it can be regarded as a traumatic injury.

Although the Wang family brothers stood up at the first time, they only said that the contract was terminated normally, but there are rumors that the two brothers are going crazy behind their backs.

In fact, many people don't know that at first, the two of them were not angry but fearful.

Wang Jinhua took away most of Huayi's artists in one go, apparently with a new family, but at this stage, there are not many companies that have the capital to accept so many artists. The Wang family brothers are most afraid of Fanxing going to Huayi.

First dig Wang Jinhua, then Feng Xiaogang, and at the same time use other resources to suppress it. Even if Huayi does not go bankrupt, it will take two or three years to recover.

So when they learned that Wang Jinhua had left, the first reaction of the two brothers was to stabilize Feng Xiaogang, and the second reaction was to try their best to reach a settlement with Cao Xuan.

After talking on the phone with Feng Xiaogang and Cao Xuan one after another, they were relieved to learn that Fanxing hadn't intervened, and then arranged gradually.

Make a heavy promise to keep Li Bingbing and Li Xue sisters, to appease the company's military morale, to publicize externally, and to eliminate negative effects.

In fact, it wasn't just the Wang brothers who were taken aback. At the beginning, Wan Jinhua announced his departure. Many people thought it was Cao Xuan who did it.

Tianya was blown up, and all kinds of insider gossip were flying all over the sky.

There is no way, Fanxing's strength is here, and there is indeed a precedent for poaching Fan Xiaopang before, and the artists under Wang Jinhua, Li Bingbing, Hu Jun, Chen Daoming, Liang Jiahui, Xia Yu all have a good relationship with Cao Xuan.

From any point of view, Fanxing is the biggest suspect, and Jiang Yue, the vice president of Fanxing's artist management and the number one manager in China, is forced to come out to clarify in person.

"Regarding the termination of the contract between Huayi and Ms. Wang Jinhua, Fanxing did not interfere in any way, and there has not been a large number of new artists signing contracts recently. Please do not make unreasonable associations."

In short, Fanxing is the people who eat melons, don't pour dirty water on yourself...

Fanxing's statement had not been released for half a day, and Wang Jinhua finally responded to the public. The company they signed with was not Fanxing, but a company that had just been established - Orange Sky Entertainment.

The media immediately picked up all kinds of information about Orange Sky Entertainment. The owner's surname is Wu. He worked hard in the Japanese entertainment circle in his early years and made a lot of famous names.

In the past two years, he returned to China to develop, and also invested in some film and television dramas. In March this year, he officially founded Orange Sky Entertainment. The first signed artist was "Pink Girl" heartthrob Chen Hao.

It seems that Boss Wu and Wang Jinhua had premeditated, otherwise they wouldn't have left so quickly and signed a contract immediately.

It's worthy of being worked hard by Little Japan, and the methods are really shady...

Frankly speaking, although Cao Xuan didn't like Huayi and the Wang brothers, it was indeed Wang Jinhua and Cheng Tian who did it dishonestly.

Comparing his heart to his heart, if Jiang Yue also gave him such a trick, Boss Cao would have the intention of killing people.

As soon as he said this, Jiang Yue called him. Just now, the artist management department of the company left four managers, and the next home is Orange Sky.

According to reports from artists, managers, and assistants, Fan Bingbing, Liu Yan, Yan Kuan, Hu Yi, Gao Yuanyuan, Liu Tianxian, Gu Miaomiao, and Dong Xuan all received invitations from Orange Sky.

Cao Xuan, who used to gloat over Huayi's misfortune, couldn't laugh anymore.

Fanxing is different from Huayi. Huayi's artist appointments are mostly pinned on Wang Jinhua himself, while Fanxing signs a contract with the company, and then the company manages and arranges a team.

Therefore, Wang Jinhua alone can take out Huayi, and Fanxing can only take away a few artists at one time.

What's more, Fanxing is now the leader in the industry, with the best resources, and is extremely attractive to artists. The newly established Orange Sky can't poach them without spending money, and can only poach a few managers who are not valued.

But no matter what, this matter really disgusted Cao Xuan, he has always had double standards.

He digs others, yes!
Others dig him, no!
Cao Xuan didn't want to intervene in the battle between Chengtian and Huayi, but now, if he keeps silent, no one will dare to ride on Fanxing's neck...

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ps: Pushing the book "Game Bound: High-Quality Male God System", the teenagers in the small town obtained the high-quality male god system and rose from it
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