Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

Chapter 405 Planning to invest in "Titanic" (4k)

"Chen, it's your turn! The fans can't wait to see you!"

Just when Chen Qiming was thinking about how to negotiate with Fox, the person in charge of the event quickly ran up to him and respectfully asked him to come on stage.

Hearing this, Chen Qiming had to give up thinking about this issue for the time being and start focusing on today's activities.

Today's event is considered a fan meeting.

Nearly five to six thousand people have gathered outside.

An event with so many people gathered is already considered a large-scale event.

Because there are so many people, there is a lot of attention.

In addition to fans, there were also a large number of media reporters who followed Chen Qiming.

With so many reporters paying attention, Chen Qiming did not want his performance to be amplified by the media and turn it into negative news for himself.

Putting the matter of "Titanic" behind him, Chen Qiming followed the person in charge backstage and started changing clothes.

At this point, Linkin Park and Eminem are already here.

The whole group was very excited.

Seeing Chen Qiming come in, several people immediately gathered around him excitedly.

"BOSS, I have fans. I just went to the front to take a look, and there were actually fans holding my posters. There were no less than dozens of them!"

Among them, Eminem was especially excited.

"Believe me, it won't be long before you can have your own concert! Now, this is just the beginning!"

What Chen Qiming said is true.

Just last week on Wednesday, Linkin Park and Eminem's first album was released simultaneously across the United States.

Within a week, both parties' record sales were very good, reaching [-] and [-] respectively.

This result may be countless times worse than Chen Qiming's hundreds of thousands per day.

But among the newcomers, he is at the top.

If the United States hadn't been covered by Chen Qiming's record news recently, I'm afraid Linkin Park and Eminem would have been hailed as this year's super newcomers by the media.

Also, the so-called success is Xiaohe, failure is also Xiaohe.

Linkin Park and Eminem are well known for their frequent public appearances with Chen Qiming.

Naturally, Chen Qiming will be ignored because he is too popular.

After explaining some details about the event to Eminem and Chester, Chen Qiming went to change clothes and put on makeup.

When Chen Qiming came out again, Eminem had already taken the stage and started performing.

In the past two weeks, the song "Lose Yourself" has become popular in the United States due to the explosive sales of Eminem's album and the promotion of the previous Madonna concert.

Many fans regard this song as the pinnacle song of rap.

With the spread of records and radio, this song gave birth to many fans.

So when Eminem was on stage singing this song.

There were bursts of screams immediately from the audience.

The sound was so loud that even the backstage could hear it clearly.

When Eminem finished singing a song, Chen Qiming even heard the loud "encore, encore..." from the fans in front of him backstage.

Obviously, Eminem's singing was very successful.

"Chaster, did you hear the applause my fans gave me?

What do you think? "

After the concert ended and he returned backstage, Eminem immediately approached Chester, who was about to take the stage, with a proud look on his face.

"We will get more applause and cheers than you!"

Of course, Chester heard the cheers of the fans just now.

Although he was a little worried that his performance would not be as good as Eminem, he still said a harsh word before leading the other members of Linkin Park onto the stage.

And it turned out to be the case.

Linkin Park's performance is not inferior to Eminem's at all.

In fact, because the rock audience has a very large fan base in the United States, Linkin Park's performance received more cheers and applause than Eminem, which made Eminem look depressed for a time.

However, his depression about Linkin Park only lasted for a minute or two, and he became stunned because of Chen Qiming's appearance.

There was no trace of depression in his eyes, but instead they were full of excitement.

"Jamie..."

"Ah ah ah ah..."

“…Jamie Chen, ILOVE…”

……

With Chen Qiming's appearance, the fans at the entire event were excited.

Thousands of fans screamed at the top of their lungs.

As soon as a large number of fans saw Chen Qiming, they crowded forward crazily and shouted Chen Qiming's name loudly.

Some of them even cried loudly.

Some people were so excited that they completely forgot that this was a public occasion and took off their clothes and shouted loudly for Chen Qiming.

As Chen Qiming started singing "Baby" on the stage, some fans even began to faint.

More than one.

A total of a dozen little girls who were close to the stage fainted directly because they high-fived Chen Qiming.

Fortunately this is America.

In the United States, fans are so crazy that they lose their minds completely when they get high. Stampedes and other safety hazards often occur.

This resulted in the organizers of every concert and event held in the United States contacting the ambulance.

Ambulances will be stationed outside the venue. As long as someone has a safety problem, the organizer will allow medical staff to treat them as soon as possible.

Although Chen Qiming is Chinese.

But he received the same treatment in the United States.

Because he is so popular, all the news in the United States is about him recently.

Therefore, the organizers arranged seven ambulances at the event site in advance.

Seeing the fans being carried away by medical staff, Eminem and Chester looked at each other.

"That's what being a singer should be like! Let the fans go crazy for you, I will definitely become such a person!"

Looking at the fans being carried away one by one, Chester couldn't help but said firmly.

"Yeah! I don't know when we will reach the BOSS position and let the fans cheer for us." Eminem looked envious.

……

too crazy!

Fans are really crazy lately.

Every time Chen Qiming walks past the front of the stage, a large number of hands stretch out from under the stage.

These fans blushed and screamed crazily, wishing to eat Chen Qiming directly into their stomachs, so that they could be with Chen Qiming forever.

The fans were going crazy, which, according to Warner Records, was a good thing.

This proves that Chen Qiming is heading towards Michael Jackson's position.

But in Chen Qiming's view, this is a very troublesome thing. There is no other way. Anyone who is disturbed by fans [-] hours a day, secretly photographed, or even picked up the trash can to dig through the toilet paper he throws away will probably be annoyed, and even carefully avoid them, for fear of being discovered.

No, Chen Qiming encountered this kind of trouble today.

After his performance, the fans collectively disagreed with his exit.

This was still the case after he sang three more songs in a row.

He had no choice but to leave forcefully.

But before he could leave, the fans showed him what fans are the most annoying to idols.

Groups of fans blocked the backstage passage. Those who wanted autographs asked for autographs, and those who wanted photos were taken with them.

Some people even come just to take advantage of it.

Because the fans were so enthusiastic, the event that was originally planned to last only two hours took nearly four hours, half the time to finish.

When Chen Qiming walked out of the event, his white shirt was already covered in lipstick.

His hands were also sore from signing too many signatures.

"It's so crazy. The last few times you came here, were the fans here also so crazy?"

Back in the car, Liu Ciwei couldn't help but untie his tie and lay down on the car seat with a tired look on his face.

"It wasn't so good before. It's all because of the new record." Chen Qiming glanced at the fans in the rearview mirror who were still following his car quickly, and explained to Liu Ciwei.

“The ‘baby’ record is such a hit.

I knew this record was popular before, but because I learned about it from data and media, I didn’t have an intuitive feeling.

Now, I figured it out.

What the hell is this fire? This is simply an explosion! Liu Ciwei said with lingering fear.

Just now, because he blocked a fan from approaching Chen Qiming, he was hugged by a fat American girl weighing [-] pounds.

If Chen Qiming hadn't stopped him in time, he might have almost ended up in the hospital because of this girl.

"You should know Sister Xiaowen's difficulties by now, right?

It was really tiring for a woman like me to run around like this.

Therefore, it is urgent to increase the number of assistants. "

"I know, I've already arranged for people to be recruited.

However, you must be mentally prepared. According to your requirements, it is difficult to find an assistant who is proficient in Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean and other languages. "

"I know. If you can recruit them, recruit them. If you can't, then lower the requirements."

"Where are we going now? Isn't this the way back to the hotel?"

"Go to the Four Seasons Hotel. I made an appointment with someone from Fox to discuss a project."

……

The car drove for about half an hour and finally arrived at its destination, the Four Seasons Hotel.

In the hall, Mike has been waiting here for a long time.

Seeing Chen Qiming, he immediately came up to him.

"List!"

"Mike!"

The two said hello, and Chen Qiming asked if Fox's people had arrived.

"People were already here, and Cameron came with Jiri Steiner, the production manager at Fox.

After they heard that you were interested in their project, they came directly to the hotel. "

Mike said while leading the way.

After walking a few steps, Mike suddenly stopped and said solemnly: "Chen, have you really decided to invest in this project?

This was no joke. Steiner told me that the project would require no less than $[-] million.

With so much money invested in such a completely unreliable project, you have to be prepared to lose money.

Also, can you come up with so much funds as quickly as possible?
  You know, Fox can't wait at all. Every day they wait, they will lose a lot of dollars. "

"Mike, please believe me, I have carefully considered the risks of this project and I am very interested in investing in it.

As for funding, I don’t have any issues on my end.

It’s just that if I invest, some terms need to be negotiated in detail. "

Regarding the "Titanic" project, Chen Qiming, in addition to knowing some of its plot and high box office, also has information about this project.

This message is.

At the end of 1996, halfway through the filming of "Titanic", the financial chain was in short supply.

[-]th Century Fox has invested too much money in this project, although it is not as likely to go bankrupt as outsiders say.

But Fox executives definitely have doubts about this project.

After all, as Mike said, this project is just a romance film.

The investment for a romance film is close to [-] million. With such a high investment, the entire film and television industry is not optimistic about this project.

Therefore, when Fox did not intend to continue investing money, Cameron had to persuade Fox executives to lobby other film and television companies to join the project.

In the end, Fox executives agreed to the proposal and began to contact other film and television companies.

But other film and television companies also have no confidence in this project like Fox.

Most companies declined to cooperate.

This includes film and television giants such as Warner and Disney.

Finally, after a lot of lobbying, Paramount decided to join the project and invest $[-] million.

If it were just that, this incident would not be enough to impress Chen Qiming.

What impressed Chen Qiming was that after Paramount Pictures joined the project, it was too hasty and the terms of the contract with Fox were not strict.

There is no doubt about the importance of contracts for film and television cooperation.

If there is a problem with the contract, problems can easily arise when it comes to dividing the interests in the end.

This is the case with Titanic. "Titanic" became the world's top-grossing film in 1997. The global box office of 20 billion US dollars made [-]th Century Fox regret it. If it had known that the film would be so To make a blockbuster movie, no matter how much money you spend, you still have to support it yourself, but now Paramount has to get a share of the pie, which makes Fox feel like it's at a loss.

So 20th Century Fox said that since it paid most of the film's cost, it follows that most of the profits should belong to itself, leaving only a small portion of Paramount's profits.

Sixty million US dollars basically accounted for about half of the total investment, but the profit share was only a small half.

Paramount naturally disagreed with Fox's approach.

He came to help when Fox couldn't bear it anymore, and he explained in advance that the profits would be split half and half, but now Fox has made it clear that he is burning bridges and is not doing justice.

So Paramount took Fox to court, and the court finally announced that the U.S. box office profits of "Titanic" should belong to Paramount, and the overseas box office profits should belong to 20th Century Fox.

There is a lesson learned from this experience.

Chen Qiming must make the contract as strict as possible.

Otherwise, based on his Chinese identity.

If what happened in the dream happened again, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to enjoy Paramount's treatment at all.

After all, Fox is one of the giants in the United States.

And, this is an American company.

The United States will naturally favor Fox and will not have any sympathy for Chen Qiming.

Therefore, for future benefits, Chen Qiming must negotiate the distribution of benefits, contracts, etc. before investing.

(End of this chapter)