Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

Chapter 298 Acquiring Song Copyright
"Congratulations! Another Best Actor!"

"Mr. Chen, congratulations!"

In the luxurious hotel lobby, celebrities and actors walked around holding wine glasses.

Chen Qiming didn't move around, but a large number of people came to the door.

As one of the most popular people in the Chinese-speaking area, there are countless people who want to curry favor with him.

Not to mention that today he won the Best Actor again and became one of the protagonists tonight.

"I have three Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor! I really envy you!"

Andy Lau walked up to him holding a wine glass and said with both envy and jealousy.

Best Actor, this is Andy Lau's obsession.

For many years, his biggest wish was to win a Best Actor award.

But the reality is cruel. In recent years, the closest he has come to winning the Best Actor award was "The Legend of Inspector Lei Luo" in 1991.

Unfortunately, the competition for Best Actor that year was unprecedentedly fierce, with not only the two box-office winners Chow Yun-fat and Stephen Chow, but also the explosive performances of Eric Tsang and Lui Leung-wai.

Since that year, Andy Lau has been further and further away from the Best Actor and has never been nominated again.

“It’s just the blessing of the film!”

Chen Qiming smiled and comforted.

In fact, the reason why Andy Lau has been further and further away from the Best Actor award in recent years is mainly due to his own reasons.

In 92, Andy Lau's business failed and the film company suffered huge losses, so he had to work hard to make money.

If you want to make money, you should naturally choose commercial films first.

Generally speaking, for commercial films, if they don't have a particularly large impact on the market, it's not difficult to win awards.

Look at Stephen Chow, he has been nominated for Best Actor for several consecutive years in recent years.

However, due to the type of movie, he has never won the Best Actor.

Not only him, but also Chow Yun-fat.

Well, in a certain sense, movies with high box office will be shortlisted, but if you want to win awards, it depends on influence.

Chen Qiming's award-winning films in the past two years are also the type of films that benefit from the glory.

Both "New Love" and "Chungking Express" are actually within the scope of literary films.

Among them, "New Love" is more of a romance film.

But it's not commercial at all, as you can see from the ending.

Commercial films are all about having fun, with the protagonist fighting monsters and leveling up, defeating the villain.

Although "New Love" has a high box office, it cannot be classified as a commercial film.

"Anyway, congratulations!"

Andy Lau took a sip of red wine and congratulated again.

The two chatted for a while, and Andy Lau saw that there were several people waiting around, so he took the initiative to say goodbye and leave.

As soon as Andy Lau left, someone from the crowd who had been paying attention immediately came towards Chen Qiming.

As soon as the others saw the person coming forward, they immediately stopped.

"Mr. Chen! Congratulations!"

The visitor smiled and clinked glasses with Chen Qiming.

"Six aunts!"

The visitor has a good background, especially Fang Yihua, the current head of TVB, also known as Li Menghua. Most young people in the industry call her Aunt Six.

Chen Qiming was not surprised that Fang Yihua came to greet him.

He is now not only an actor or a singer, he is also the owner of a record company, a movie company, a theater chain, and a large-scale clothing brand with assets of hundreds of millions.

With various identities, his status is no longer a simple actor and singer, but an entertainment boss in Hong Kong and Taiwan who can play chess.

In the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment circles, when it comes to Fang Yihua, everyone has mixed reviews about her.

She has merits and deeds. She was once known as the villain of the Hong Kong film industry. She was self-centered in her work. In TVB, she let any artist she didn't like directly let him go.

She was stingy and bought inferior props that caused the actor to fall from a height and cause serious injuries.

There are also rumors that if "Shaw Brothers" did not have Fang Yihua, there would be no "Golden Harvest".

As we all know, Zou Wenhuai was actually a member of Shaw Brothers at the time. The reason why he founded Golden Harvest was that he was dissatisfied with the business philosophy of some people in Shaw Brothers.

The person he was dissatisfied with was none other than Fang Yihua.

At that time, Fang Yihua had already taken the position and started to take charge of Shaw Brothers.

It was under such circumstances that Zou Wenhuai left Shaw Brothers and established Golden Harvest, making Golden Harvest Shaw Brothers' biggest enemy, and eventually teamed up with New Art City to force Shaw Brothers to cease production.

"Do you have time? Chat?"

Fang Yihua asked with a smile.

Hearing this, Chen Qiming's eyes flashed.

He heard Fang Yihua's subtext.

The other party did not simply come to congratulate him, but had business to discuss with him.

"this way please!"

The possible business talks with the other party flashed through his mind, and Chen Qiming took the initiative to invite Fang Yihua to the quiet seat next to him to chat.

"I admire you very much. At a young age, you have achieved what countless people can't do in a lifetime."

After sitting on the sofa, Fang Yihua praised.

"Thank you! Just a little lucky!"

Chen Qiming said modestly.

"This is not lucky. Your musical talent is definitely rare in the entire Chinese music world."

Fang Yihua shook his head and said.

After a pause, she said with a pity on her face: "Your record company is too small. I think you should not be limited to such a small record company!"

Hearing this, Chen Qiming's eyes flashed, "Could it be that Aunt Six wants to lure me to Huaxing? If so, I'm afraid it won't work. I prefer freedom now!"

"No!" Fang Yihua shook his head, "I know you can't join another record company."

As she spoke, her face became solemn, "I just want to ask, are you interested in the copyright of Huaxing Records?"

"The copyright of Huaxing Records?"

Hearing this, Chen Qiming's heart moved.

"Yes! I think you should have heard that we are negotiating with the South China Morning Post about acquiring China Star Records."

Fang Yihua explained.

Chen Qiming nodded.

He knows this.

Everyone knows that Run Run Shaw is the boss of TVB, but some people may not know that TVB is actually a large group company, and its equity distribution is very complicated.

Run Run Shaw is just the one with the largest shares.

Behind Shaw, there are many small shareholders. Among them, one shareholder not only holds a large number of shares in TVB, but is also very powerful, and is even richer than Shaw.

This shareholder is Kuok Henian, currently the richest man in Malaysia.

Robert Kuok is Malaysia's most outstanding entrepreneur.

It is known as the "Hotel King" and "Asian Sugar King".

The name Robert Kuok is not only a household name in Malaysia, but has become synonymous with wealth and success.

Robert Kuok's Kuok Group (Kerry Group) has penetrated all over the world.

Under his leadership, it developed into a huge business empire.

In addition to owning many companies in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, China, Indonesia, Fiji and Australia are his main business scope.through
The businesses it operates are also extremely diversified, ranging from sugar cane cultivation, manufacturing of sugar, flour, feed, oils, and mining, to real estate, finance, hotels, industry, plantation, commerce, and shipping.

Robert Kuok controls 80% of the Malaysian raw sugar market and 20% of the world sugar market.

In the 70s, Robert Kuok began to enter the hotel industry and established the Shangri-La Hotel Group.

Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts has become one of the best hotel management groups in the world and the largest hotel group in Asia, with locations all over the world.

Starting from the 90s, Robert Kuok began to settle in Hong Kong and also began to layout industries in Hong Kong.

Not only continued to expand hotels, sugar, real estate and other industries, he also acquired Hong Kong's famous newspaper group South China Morning Post in 93.

In addition, Robert Kuok also began to acquire a large number of scattered shares of TVB, becoming TVB's second largest shareholder.

There is no room for two tigers on one mountain, this is the most reasonable saying.

In today's TVB, although the Shao family is still the boss and has the management rights of the entire TVB, the Guo family also has considerable strength and is eyeing the Shao family eagerly.

Since two years ago, there have been rumors that the South China Morning Post, owned by the Guo family, has begun to frequently encroach on China Star Records.

Recently, there have been rumors that Huaxing Records will be acquired by Nanhua.

"Does Hua Xing own the copyright to all the songs?"

Chen Qiming is very interested in song copyright, especially the song copyright of Huaxing Records.

As the dominant record company in Hong Kong, China Star Records has a very large song copyright library.

The copyrights of many singers from China Star Records, such as Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung, are owned by China Star.

In addition, there are also theme songs for many TVB TV series.

For example, songs from classic TV series such as "Shanghai Beach", "Love in Thousands of Mountains" and The Legend of the Condor Heroes.

The copyrights of these songs are all owned by Huaxing Records.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is not an exaggeration to say that Huaxing Records is the local record company with the most song copyrights in the Chinese-speaking region.

As for song copyright, generally speaking, it is not for sale by the record company. It is the greatest wealth of a record company.It is not easy to obtain these copyrights.

This time, it is also an opportunity for Chen Qiming.

If he can obtain the song copyright of Huaxing Records, it will immediately enrich the copyright library of Qidian Records, making Qidian Records the record company with the most copyrights in the Chinese-speaking region, and can release a large number of selections of those songs in the copyright.

However, these are not the most important for Chen Qiming.

The most important thing to him is the online rights to these songs.

With so many songs, he can bring a lot of benefits to himself in the future, whether he licenses the songs to online music platforms or creates a music platform himself.

"3000 million Hong Kong dollars. If you are interested, we can package the song copyright to you for 3000 million Hong Kong dollars!"

Seeing Chen Qiming's interest, Fang Yihua smiled and spoke.

Hearing this, Chen Qiming's eyes turned, but there was a look of hesitation on his face, "If it is true that Nanhua acquired Huaxing, then if I step in and take away Huaxing's song copyright, will I offend Nanhua..."

"You don't have to worry about this. If Nanhua wants to completely acquire China Star, it will take at least next year. Now that China Star is still under TVBI, I have the right to decide the ownership of these copyrights.

Of course, Nanhua will definitely be dissatisfied with you because of this matter.

However, you shouldn’t give up such a huge benefit just because of this! "

Fang Yihua interrupted Chen Qiming directly and said.

He glanced at Fang Yihua thoughtfully.

Chen Qiming probably understands why Fang Yihua wants to sell the song copyright of China Star Records.

It's just causing trouble for the Guo family.

Huaxing Records was obviously not what Fang Yihua really wanted to sell. It was entirely due to TVB's internal struggle that it was cannibalized by the Guo family and had to be sold.

Fang Yihua obviously didn't want Nanhua to make a fortune, so he came up with the idea of ​​selling the song copyright.

To be honest, if the current Huaxing's song copyrights are removed, the only ones that have value are its singers, such as Anita Mui, and the label.

The so-called label refers to the company's label name and its record production plant.

In this day and age, labels are very valuable.

When many fans buy records, they look at the label.

The quality of records produced by different labels varies.

China Star Records has been in business for many years and has long been entrenched in Hong Kong. When many fans buy records, they don’t even look to see who sings the songs. They buy because of the China Star Records brand.

"3000 million is too much. I have run out of funds due to my recent continuous big moves."

Chen Qiming looked at Fang Yihua and said.

3000 million is actually not too expensive, especially for Chen Qiming.

He was well aware of the value of the rights to these songs.

But knowing the future value is one thing, and the purchase price is another.

If he can negotiate the price, Chen Qiming will never pay a cent more.

Hearing Chen Qiming's quotation, Fang Yihua couldn't help but frown, "3000 million is not much, it is the market price.

The copyright of the songs you bought in Baodao is more expensive than the copyrights of these songs from Huaxing! "

"cough……"

Hearing this, Chen Qiming was a little embarrassed.

He takes copyright seriously.

Therefore, after Qidian Records was established, he began to frequently contact some small record companies in Baodao and purchased the copyright of a batch of songs at a price higher than the market price.

I thought this was done secretly, but I didn't expect that Fang Yihua actually knew about it.

"Twenty-five million! This is my bottom line. After all, because of these copyrights, I may offend Nanhua and the Guo family.

As you know, the capabilities of the Guo family are very large in Asia. If I were targeted, the losses might be even greater. "

Chen Qiming said about the pressure of moving out of the Guo family.

"Let me think about it, and I will give you the answer as soon as possible!"

Fang Yihua pondered for a while and said.

"I'm waiting for your news!" After hearing this, Chen Qiming knew that this business should be close, and couldn't help but raise his glass.

Fang Yihua clinked glasses with him, then stood up, glanced around, and couldn't help but smile: "It seems you are very popular, so I won't disturb you for now."

"By the way, it's enough for you and I to know about this matter. I don't want to get up tomorrow morning and see a lot of news about this matter."

Perhaps she was afraid that Chen Qiming would reveal the matter to the media, so she made an explanation when she left.

"Don't worry, I still hope that this business will be completed!"

Chen Qiming laughed.

Watching Fang Yihua leave, Chen Qiming's smile gradually disappeared, and he stared at the wine glass in front of him and began to think.

He was thinking about whether he would really offend the Guo family because of this matter.

It’s not that I’m afraid, but I want to be prepared.

The Guo family is quite powerful. If they really start to target themselves because of this incident, if they are not prepared, then they may be in a very embarrassing situation.

"What are you thinking about?"

A pleasant voice sounded in his ears, and along with the voice, a figure sat next to him. The faint smell of perfume floated into his nose, and Chen Qiming couldn't help but take a deep breath.

"Miss Zhou!"

Raising his head and seeing the person coming, Chen Qiming's eyes flashed with surprise.

The visitor was none other than Zhou Huimin, who had taken the initiative to greet him at the Academy Awards.

"I didn't think of anything, just a trivial matter! Miss Zhou actually took the initiative to come over and chat with me. Aren't you afraid that your jealous boyfriend will be jealous?"

Chen Qiming joked with a smile.

The Jealous King is the nickname given to Ni Zhen by Chen Qiming.

This guy is a jealous jar, and he will overturn it as soon as he hits it.

“It’s my own freedom to talk to whom I want, he can’t control it!
how?Don't welcome me? "

Zhou Huimin asked, tilting her head.

"Of course not. It's an honor for a beautiful lady like Miss Zhou to sit next to me and chat with me!"

Although he didn't know why Zhou Huimin was crazy, Chen Qiming would not refuse her chat.

After all, she is a beauty!

"You have such a sweet mouth, no wonder so many women like you!"

Zhou Huimin laughed.

"It's a pity that Miss Zhou is not among them!"

Chen Qiming hasn't talked much with Zhou Huimin, but women like to hear good things, and he understands this.

"Ming boy!"

After chatting with Zhou Huimin for a few words, Chen Qiming could not help but curse MMP in his heart.

Then the tall Li Jiaxin walked over quickly and sat directly on the other side of Chen Qiming, with one hand naturally on his arm.

"I've been looking for you for a while, and it turns out you're here. Are you free tonight? Let's go eat together!"

Li Jiaxin's eyes lingered on Zhou Huimin for a moment, and then she said softly.

"can!"

Although he was secretly cursing Li Jiaxin for coming at the wrong time, Chen Qiming still didn't give her a look.

This woman is pretty good to him.

The last time we were at her house, Chen Qiming had a lot of fun. She almost answered everything she asked, which made Chen Qiming feel great.

"Ms. Zhou, are you free? Do you want to come with us?"

Of course, Chen Qiming did not forget Zhou Huimin next to him, he raised his head and asked.

"Forget it! I have something to do tonight!"

Zhou Huimin was a little uncomfortable with Li Jiaxin's arrival. After chatting for a few words, she stood up on her own initiative.

"You guys chat, I'm going to the bathroom!"

"Hiss...what are you doing..."

While his eyes were scanning Zhou Huimin's small round butt, Chen Qiming suddenly felt a pain in his waist and looked at Li Jiaxin hurriedly.

"You said you only loved me that night, but within a few days, you have already focused on other women. You men are not good at all!"

Li Jiaxin looked a little unhappy.

"I have been sitting here all the time, and she just sat down for less than a minute!"

Chen Qiming explained.

After saying that, he whispered again: "Don't be angry, I will go to your house tonight at worst..."

"Who wants you to go to my house!"

Li Jiaxin retracted her arm from Chen Qiming's hand and said with a look of disgust.

"Haha... I don't know who kept calling me that night... If you don't want to, then I'd better go home tonight!"

Chen Qiming laughed softly.

As he said that, he stood up and someone else came over.

It’s Xiang Huaqiang!

(End of this chapter)