Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

With the alliance formed by Golden Harvest and Huang Baiming's Oriental Film Company, it formed an antagonistic relationship with Pacific Entertainment Company.

In late June, both sides made major moves.

Oriental Golden Harvest Alliance was the first to announce that it will soon start jointly filming a major production.

"Super Agent".

This is a film that did not exist in Chen Qiming's dreams.

Oriental Golden Harvest Alliance invested HK$1.7 million and invited Jet Li and top Hollywood action star Arnold Schwarzenegger to star.

According to some information released by Jiahe, Chen Qiming speculated that this "Super Agent" is obviously a work inspired by "The Lonely Agent".

As for why Schwarzenegger was invited, it is obvious that Golden Harvest and Oriental Film Company felt that Chen Qiming, Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Lai Lai and others have achieved good box office in Europe and the United States, which shows that Europe and the United States have gradually begun to accept Asians as leading actors. Movie.

Chen Qiming's continuous success made them jealous, so they invested large sums of money and even invited Schwarzenegger to help.

The big move by Oriental Golden Harvest Alliance did not scare off Pacific Entertainment.

On the third day after the other party announced the official launch of the "Super Agent" project, Pacific Entertainment also announced the company's this year's big production "Resident Evil".

Although the stars of this film are not very famous, Charlize is almost not famous in Asia.

But no one dares to underestimate this movie, which is jointly invested and produced by Pacific Entertainment, Warner Bros., and Paramount.

Moreover, the investment in this film is not inferior to that of Oriental Jiahe Alliance.

With a total investment of US$30 million, it is one of the most heavily invested films in Hong Kong and Taiwan this year.

The approval of two big-budget movies has made Hong Kong media people excited.

There are many discussions about which movie of both parties is better.

Especially the Eastern Jiahe Alliance.

The shrinking market in the past two years has greatly affected both companies.

Now they suddenly have 1.7 million Hong Kong dollars to cooperate with each other. If this movie fails, it will have a huge impact on the two movies.

“This is an unbeatable war, I don’t understand why Jiahe is so impulsive.

Pacific Entertainment dares to engage in large-scale productions, and that is entirely because Pacific Entertainment has achieved several consecutive successes in the global market in the past two years.

It is no exaggeration to say that even if "Resident Evil" fails, it will not have an impact on Pacific Entertainment. They also have the bottom-of-the-box "Death", two consecutive successes "Anaconda", and The just-successful "Lonely Agent" tells the story.

For the Pacific, this is a war that cannot be lost.

But Golden Harvest is different from Oriental movies.

In Jiahe, although Jackie Chan's movies in the past two years are still very popular, they are not as good as Pacific.

In addition, except for Jackie Chan's movies, almost all the movies Golden Harvest invested in in the past two years ended in losses.

Jiahe's books are not good, and it even has a lot of debt.

Under such circumstances, they actually dare to play like this. I can only say that Jiahe is crazy. "

Shu Qi, a famous Hong Kong film critic, said this in an interview.

This Shu Qi is not that Shu Qi.

This Shu Qi is a man. He is not only a member of the Hong Kong Film Association, but also a film critic and screenwriter.

After Cai Ziming's Fuyi Film Company was established, he invited Shu Qi to hold important positions in the company.

Shu Qi's remarks were not wrong, but they were very detrimental to Jiahe.

All big companies like to report good news but not bad news.

Jiahe is obviously the same case.

Shu Qi's remarks directly pointed out that Jiahe is now under great financial pressure, which makes Jiahe very angry.

The next day, He Guanchang spoke.

He told the media with an angry look on his face: "Shut up. If you continue to spread rumors, Jiahe will take legal measures and sue certain people for libel and defamation."

Shu Qi is not afraid of Jiahe at all.

After learning about He Guanchang's statement, I once again wrote an article in the Hong Kong Film Journal.

This time, instead of confronting him, he directly compiled a copy of last year's Jiahe income statement and published it in the newspaper.

As soon as this newspaper was published, it caused an uproar in Hong Kong.

Because, according to this report, Jiahe actually lost nearly hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars last year. At the same time, Jiahe still had foreign debts of nearly 200 million.

Seeing this report, the media immediately became excited.

If this report is true.

So Jiahe's investment in "Super Agent" this time is really burning the boat.

Even if this movie is a joint investment with Oriental Film.

However, Oriental Film has insufficient funds to begin with, so Golden Harvest is still the largest investor.

Of the 1.7 million Hong Kong dollars, Jiahe accounted for 1.1 million Hong Kong dollars.

With such a huge amount of money, if the film cannot recoup its cost, Golden Harvest will lose money.

It may even trigger internal turmoil in Jiahe.

"Have you found out? Why does Shu Qi want to engage in Jiahe?"

In Singapore, after Chen Qiming contacted the concert venue here and signed the TV broadcast copyright of the concert with Singapore TV, he called Han Cheng in Hong Kong.

Shu Qi exploded Jiahe's butt for no reason, but Chen Qiming didn't believe that he was trying to help Pacific Entertainment.

In the group, few people reveal the statements and profit and loss issues of such a large company.

Because whenever it is exposed, it offends people, and can lead to death.

Shu Qi has been in the Hong Kong film industry for so many years, so he is obviously not such a brainless person.

So, there is definitely a problem behind this.

"We have found out, according to unreliable information, Shu Qi may be working for Emperor's Yang Shoucheng.

There are rumors that Emperor plans to enter the entertainment industry and he is eyeing Jiahe. "

On the phone, Han Cheng told the unreliable news he had found.

Upon hearing this, Chen Qiming immediately knew that this might be true.

Emperor has been making great moves recently and has repeatedly acquired large and small companies in the entertainment industry. It is said that Emperor has also contacted Golden Harvest and wanted to acquire Golden Harvest. Many Golden Harvest shareholders are very interested in this.

In this way, I also wonder why Tong Jiahe suddenly went crazy and started a big production.

Clearly, Jiahe is making its last move.

If "Super Agent" succeeds, with the cast of this movie, Golden Harvest will definitely be able to turn a profit.

By then, Golden Harvest will be able to provide the company's shareholders with confidence.

And if it fails, the worst case scenario is that Jiahe will be sold directly.

Anyway, Jiahe can hardly hold on anymore.

As for Shu Qi.

He was obviously under instructions from the Emperor.

Since Emperor wants to enter the entertainment industry, given its size, it will naturally be one of the largest.

As for Hong Kong, there are only so many companies that can meet its goals.

Among them, Golden Harvest is the most suitable. It has the most complete equipment and facilities, a huge film library, and it also has box office stars like Jackie Chan.

As long as it acquires Golden Harvest, Emperor will immediately jump into the entertainment industry and become an industry giant.

And acquisitions naturally require payment.

When Jiahe was about to take a gamble, the Emperor was definitely the last thing he wanted to see Jiahe succeed.

Because Jiahe's success meant it was out of financial trouble, and Zou Wenhuai wouldn't even sell Jiahe.

But if it fails.

If the Jiahe project fails, Jiahe will lose hundreds of millions.

This will not only make Zou Wenhuai more determined to sell Jiahe, but also acquire Jiahe at the lowest price.

It can only be said that the Emperor's calculations are ringing.

In order to make Jiahe fail, they even broke the news that Jiahe was short of funds to stimulate Jiahe's shareholders so that they could sell their shares at a low price.

“Since it’s the Emperor’s action, don’t worry about it.

Please pay more attention to the "Resident Evil" crew here.

This is the company's focus this year, and I don't want any surprises. "

Pacific Entertainment has invested in many projects this year.

"Alone 2", "Resident Evil" and "Titanic" have been filmed and are in post-production and are scheduled to be released by the end of the year.

There is also "Black Gold". In addition, Pacific Entertainment has invested in Best Partner, Stephen Chow's Starlight, and Tsui Hark's studio.

Although the investment amounts for these projects are not large, they add up to a huge number.

It can be said that there is no money in the current Pacific Entertainment account.

Pacific Entertainment will no longer have any funds to prepare new projects until a movie is released to recoup its costs.

As for "Resident Evil", this project is a series of works prepared by Chen Qiming for the company.

Even though there may be a few movies in it that don't make much money, this series is undoubtedly profitable.

Chen Qiming didn't want the first film to have an accident, causing subsequent films to be aborted.

"I understand, I will keep an eye on you at all times."

"Well, that's it."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Qiming couldn't help but rub his head.

As the company opened more and more, he became increasingly overwhelmed.

No, just after paying attention to the film company's affairs, he had to call the record company.

Although Qiming Film and Television, Qidian Records and other companies will be merged into a group company, controlled by the newly established Pacific Entertainment.

But like other group companies, Qiming Film and Television and Qidian Records are actually independent.

Therefore, Chen Qiming still needs to pay attention to Qidian Records.

But this year, Qidian Records is still the same.

Produced and released records by Tao Zhe, Jay Chou, Michelle Reis, Andy Hui and Wu Bai.

All four of their records sold well.

Tao Zhe's new album has sold a total of 700,000 copies in all Chinese-speaking regions.

Not much, but not much, which makes Tao Zhe currently firmly in the second tier of the music world.

Jay Chou and Michelle Reis achieved slightly better results, with Jay Chou recording 860,000 copies, while Reis Reis relied on a circuitous route to return from South Korea and her sales exploded, with the total sales of new records exceeding one million.

In addition to the above three people, Xu Zhian and Wu Bai's new album has not been released yet and is planned to be released in August.

Regarding the two people's records, Chen Qiming still needs to pay attention.

Especially Xu Zhian.

He has recently joined Qidian Records. Chen Qiming must make him feel the warmth of home and pay more attention to his records.

Otherwise, others may say that he only recruits people and is not responsible for training them, which will not be conducive to the company poaching other singers in the future.

In addition to the Chinese music scene, Chester, Eminem, and Chen Qiming in Europe and the United States also need attention.

These two are very popular in Europe and the United States. They were shortlisted for the Grammy at the beginning of the year. Although they did not win the award, they still made their presence felt.

Speaking of Grammys, Chen Qiming was shortlisted for several awards this year, but only won the Best Pop Singer award.

Because he was busy filming a movie at the time, he ultimately did not attend the award and had someone accept it on his behalf.

Closer to home.

Chester and Eminem are very popular in America right now.

There are many record companies who want to take advantage of the situation. In order to show their attention, the company is already producing a new album by the two of them, which is planned to be released in September.

After taking the phone and calling one after another, Chen Qiming breathed a sigh of relief after finishing many things that needed to be handled by himself.

"The two brothers from the Lin family made an appointment with you and want to talk to you."

At this time, Li Xiaowen came over.

"Do you know their purpose?" Chen Qiming recalled the Lin brothers in his mind.

Lin Junfeng is a fan of Chen Qiming who has a relatively well-established background in Singapore.

In order to support himself, this guy drove a truck directly to buy records, which really left a deep impression on Chen Qiming.

And his younger brother JJ Lin and Chen Qiming have also met.

He is also a little guy who regards him as his idol.

"I don't know, they didn't say." Li Xiaowen shook her head.

"Where are they?"

"Just in the hotel lobby."

"Ask them to come up."

……

A few minutes later, the two brothers JJ Lin arrived at the exclusive private room of the hotel where Chen Qiming lived.

"Hi, Junfeng, we meet again."

When the two of them entered, Chen Qiming was already waiting at the door.

He smiled and welcomed the two into the room.

In fact, there was no need for him to see the two of them.

But after all, the two brothers are his loyal fans and have good backgrounds. Moreover, Lin Junfeng can almost be called his first fans.

He helped set up Chen Qiming's fan club here in Singapore.

As long as he always supports him, Chen Qiming can't forget his roots and ignore others after becoming rich now.

"Brother Qiming."

"Hello, brother Qiming."

The two brothers had different reactions after seeing Chen Qiming.

Lin Junfeng is no longer as excited as before, but greets Chen Qiming very maturely.

On the contrary, JJ Lin was very excited, just like other fans when they saw Chen Qiming.

"Sit down, you're welcome."

Chen Qiming gently asked the two of them to sit down.

"Brother Qiming, your "Baby" is so awesome. It's the most awesome record I've ever heard.

No wonder we can sell 30 million copies worldwide, I..."

As soon as he sat down, JJ Lin immediately started talking excitedly.

He admired Chen Qiming's English album "baby" so much that he just called it "yyds".

"Those music critics don't think so. If they were like you, I wouldn't be scolded so badly."

The record "Baby" is a typical record with explosive sales but poor reputation.

Because the melody of the song was too popular, the album was almost dismissed as worthless by music critics.

If it hadn't been for the existence of such a well-received masterpiece as "My Heart Will Go On", Chen Qiming might have become one of the so-called salivating singers in later generations who was ostracized and ridiculed by his peers.

"They know nothing, Brother Qiming, don't pay attention to them, we all like your record.

It's so good, it's the future of pop music.

I believe that this record will definitely be renamed in the future. "

JJ Lin looked angry, as if if there were a music critic who criticized this record, he would immediately beat them up.

"Thank you, I appreciate your recognition."

Chen Qiming felt warm in his heart.

It’s better to be your own fans.

He speaks nicely and is not critical.

However, Chen Qiming himself also agrees with JJ Lin's statement.

The album "Baby" is indeed very commercial.

But it is undeniable that it successfully guided pop music in a new direction.

This kind of very forward-looking record song will definitely be rectified in the future.

Even though the song "Baby" doesn't have a very good reputation in my dream.

But that’s because this song was born in the new century.

In the 1990s, this song would have been very advanced.

Just like Jay Chou was criticized for being nothing at first, but as time went by, he gradually became a god.

Chen Qiming believes that in the future, his very advanced album "Baby" will also receive this kind of treatment.

Moreover, not to mention that the sales of this album are explosive, and it already has historical sales data.

(End of this chapter)