Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

Chapter 237 Back to Asia

Chen Qiming did not talk to Steven about the cooperation with the film company.

Film cooperation does not happen overnight.

And, it's not even working with regional studios.

Different countries and races, plus some political reasons, make the cooperation between the two parties need to go through a lot of procedures.

In addition, since it is cooperation, whoever takes the lead also needs to communicate well.

Chen Qiming doesn't want to be like Jackie Chan, being called around by an American director, but the final result is that the movie is still bad.

Therefore, until the terms of cooperation are communicated, this cooperation will only be a word of mouth.

After meeting with the CEO of Time Warner, in the next two days, Chen Qiming connected four American TV programs.

Recently, he is not said to be at the top of the American music scene, but he is definitely one of the most popular singers.

Coupled with his identity from the same country as Bruce Lee, this makes many Americans very curious about him.

To be honest, before Chen Qiming came to the United States, he did know that Bruce Lee had a huge influence here.

But what he didn't expect was that this kind of influence could be so huge.

When he attended several TV interview programs with relatively high ratings in the United States, he was often asked if he knew kung fu, and whether Chinese people knew kung fu.

Someone even asked him about Bruce Lee's deeds.

For Bruce Lee, to be honest, Chen Qiming really didn't understand.

Most of his knowledge of him comes from the media, from movies.

Therefore, he has nothing to say, he can only express that he admires him very much, but the two parties are not in the same place, have not been in contact with each other, and the elders in the family do not understand.

……

On August [-]th, there was another good news for the album "That Girl".

About four weeks after the album was released, its total sales in the United States finally exceeded one million, and it was certified platinum.

Note, only the United States, not the world.

If the global data is included, the total sales of the album "That Girl" may not be as good as "Storm of the Stars", but it is definitely not inferior to "The Heart Is Too Soft".

However, because "That Girl" is an EP record, it is completely incomparable with "Too Soft Heart", so no one compares the two.

100 million in the United States!

38 in Canada!
57 in Japan!

South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and other places totaled 61.

Plus the 32 from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

This EP has been released for nearly five weeks, and the total number has reached 280 million, breaking through the 300 million mark immediately.

280 million, although this figure is not comparable to international superstars such as Michael Jackson and Madonna.

But also among the first-class position.

This time, not only Hong Kong and Taiwan media will add the prefix "international superstar" when calling Chen Qiming.

Even when European and American media mention him, they will say that he is an international superstar.

……

On the 16th, seeing that the album "That Girl" has been officially launched in the United States, Chen Qiming also ended the English promotion tour and embarked on his way back.

"Chen, we sincerely hope that you can stay in the United States for a while longer.

We've got a tight publicity plan in place for you.

With a little effort, we're even confident that "Lemon Tree" will be No. [-] on Billboard! "

New York airport, before entering the airport, Mike said solemnly.

Warner very much hopes that Chen Qiming can stay and continue to promote.

Not only the United States, they even plan to take Chen Qiming to Europe to promote.

Previously, because of worrying that Chen Qiming might be unacceptable in Europe and the United States, when the album "That Girl" was released, Europe, another major market for English albums, was not considered.

Now, "That Girl" has achieved success in the United States, and has achieved very dazzling results on the Billboard.

With this achievement, Warner Music is full of confidence in Chen Qiming's album, and plans to release this album in Europe immediately.

However, what Warner Music did not expect was that Chen Qiming would return to China after the EP was on the right track in the United States.

This made Warner angry and helpless.

The reason is that they think this will be a good opportunity. If Chen Qiming can continue to stay and promote, this record still has huge potential to be tapped.

The only thing they can do is that they really have no way to keep Chen Qiming.

First, according to the contract, Chen Qiming has great autonomy in the cooperation with Warner Music, and he has the right to decide his own itinerary.

The second reason is that Chen Qiming has a reason to go back.

The filming of "The Wind and Cloud Hegemony" started in June, and it has been August now, a full two months.

During this period, Chen Qiming was not on the set for half of the time.

This is because Chen Qiming invested in this movie himself, and the money he spent was also his own money.

If this movie had been made by another company, Chen Qiming would have been accused of breaching the contract long ago, given that Chen Qiming hadn't been on the set for half the time.

However, even if this movie is made by Chen Qiming himself, he can't be too willful.

First of all, a movie cannot be made by Chen Qiming alone.

In addition to Chen Qiming, the entire crew of "The Wind and Cloud Hegemony", Liming, Kaneshiro Takeshi, Li Jiaxin, director Liu Weiqiang, and martial arts instructor Cheng Xiaodong are all busy people.

This is because since the beginning of this year, there have been fewer films in Hong Kong, and actors and directors don't have to shoot several films a day like they did in previous years.

If this is the case, Chen Qiming's move will definitely drag down many people in the crew.

And there is money!
At present, all the scenes of other characters in the movie have been filmed, leaving only the scenes related to Chen Qiming.

If Chen Qiming hadn't gone to shoot, the crew would have been in operation and waiting.

For a large-scale production like "The Wind and Cloud Hegemony", the daily cost is calculated in units of [-].

If you wait one more day, the crew will spend a lot of money.

If it continues like this, let alone Hollywood-level special effects, I am afraid it will be the post-editing of the movie, and the crew will run out of money.

In addition, if he only spent his own money, at the rate at which Chen Qiming made money in Europe and America, he would be able to make up for the shortfall.

But the important thing is that Fengyun's investors are not only Qiming Film and Television, but also Changhong and Shanghai Studio.

The combined investment ratio of these two parties can be compared with that of Qiming Film and Television.

If the filming is stopped, the two parties also need to spend money.

That's money, money in tens of thousands.

Why is Wong Kar Wai not liked by investors, even Chen Qiming doesn't like him.

The reason is not just because investing in him will make the investor several times more than the expected investment.

Obviously a few million can be shot well, but it turned out to be tens of millions.

The money was all deducted from the investors.

With so much money, everyone will feel distressed.

Chen Qiming didn't want to become Wang Jiawei himself.

Therefore, if the filming can be finished as soon as possible, he thinks it is better to finish the filming as soon as possible.

As for America...

I have no choice but to let it go first.

(End of this chapter)