The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 202 Zheng Donghan

While Xu Guanwu was preparing a new album for his third brother, the lawyer hired by the superstar manager company brought Gui Zhihong to the court with a lawsuit, demanding compensation for directing movies for other companies without the company's permission. The loss caused to the superstar manager company.

As soon as the news came out, the Hong Kong entertainment circle was in an uproar, and there were many discussions about this incident.

The Hong Kong film industry has always been dominated by Chinese people, and the concept of the legal system is not too high. It mainly focuses on human feelings and face.There is often a contract, and you can also help other companies.

And the company often looks at the face of people, and they are not too harsh, so occasionally smuggling to make a little money is the default unspoken rule of everyone in the entertainment industry.

Director Li Hanxiang incarnated as Simak, and designed the script for director Zhu Mu. For example, the "Flowers Flying in Spring" in the bed scene of Brother Cheng Long was written by his old man.At the beginning of the establishment of New Art City, Wu Yusen from Golden Harvest was also invited to direct the entrepreneurial work "Funny Times".

As one of the big bosses, Mai Jia can also run over to film for rival Golden Harvest. He also combined New Art City's masterpiece "Best Partner" with Golden Harvest's masterpiece "Five Lucky Stars" to create a "Best "Fu Xing" came out.Huang Baiming, who is also one of the big bosses, can also cooperate with the Xu brothers to shoot "Family Carnival" and beat New Art City's "New Best Partner" during the Spring Festival... There are countless examples.

However, it is still very rare in Hong Kong to trigger a lawsuit and bring someone to court.

Of course, Gui Zhihong's outrageous actions this time is also the main reason. Earlier, the actor was injured because of filming, and his image as a "cold-blooded director" was damaged.It is also the first time in the Hong Kong film industry to film a film for a competitor privately this time. Such a bold director should indeed be taught a lesson.

All in all, the entertainment industry's evaluation of the lawsuit against Gui Zhihong by the superstar management company is [-]-[-]. Some people think that the superstar management company has turned a small matter into a big one, and it is justifiable;

Compared with the outside discussion, the person involved, Gui Zhihong, is still there. He pretends to ask for money, and he doesn’t even ask for a lawyer’s fee. Legendary.

Xu Guanwu didn't bother to pay attention to how much the court would fine him. His purpose was not to sue Gui Zhihong for bankruptcy, but to kill chickens as Hong Jingbao said.

As long as the court judges Gui Zhihong to be in breach of the contract and compensates the company for losses, it is enough for others to see this example and know that they cannot violate the contract casually in the future.

In fact, this kind of thing is almost unimaginable in Hollywood. If a Hollywood actor violates the contract and accepts work outside without permission, the agency company can really sue the actor for bankruptcy.

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Xu Guanwu had promised to produce the album for Xu Guanying early on, but later he forgot about it because he was too busy.Now I only remembered it after being reminded, which made Xu Guanwu feel ashamed.

The current scale of Yisheng Records is still small, only Xu Xiaofeng and Wenner Band have two or three big cats and small cats.Although the sales of the records released are very good, but because of the small number of singers and the single style of music, they are still juniors in the Hong Kong record industry.

Xu Guanwu is usually busy planning movies, investing, and media, but he really doesn't pay much attention to Yisheng Records.One is that I don’t know much about the current Hong Kong music scene. I only know that the most popular singers in the 70s were Xu Guanjie, Winner Band, Xu Xiaofeng, Lin Zixiang, Luo Wen, Zhen Ni and other limited singers. Even if I want to poach a corner, I don’t know who to poach. .

The second is that the profit of making records is still too small. A record sold 20 million copies is considered a big hit, but the company’s profit is only 10,000+ Hong Kong dollars, which is not even a fraction of a movie’s box office. How can Xu Guanwu be willing to work hard? This kind of small business?

Although Ma Jiahua used to be the manager of Eternal Records, discovered a talented singer like Xu Xiaofeng, and sold the records of Nanyang singers in Hong Kong, but in terms of making Yisheng Records bigger and stronger, his ability is still somewhat insufficient.

Xu Guanwu bought Eternal Records before and injected 1000 million Hong Kong dollars to poach him. However, after nearly a year, Xu Xiaofeng is still the only one.

This made Xu Guanwu very disappointed with Ma Jiahua, and thought of changing his general.

While Xu Guanwu was busy helping Xu Guanying plan the album, he began to search for talents to replace Ma Jiahua. Soon Zheng Donghan, the lead guitarist of the original Playboy band, entered Xu Guanwu's sight.

Since Teddy Robin disbanded the Playboy Band and went to Canada alone to find his musical ideals, Zheng Donghan switched to Yesung Records and worked behind the scenes.The first album of Winner Band was produced by him.

Xu Guanwu found his name by accident in the list of employees, and then looked for his resume, and knew that he was Zheng Donghan, so he couldn't help but become interested in him.

If Xu Guanwu remembers correctly, this Zheng Donghan should be Zheng Zhongji's father. He has successively served as the president of Polygram and Universal Music Hong Kong, and later established his own gold medal Gale Records. It has launched many popular singers. It is a veritable music scene. predators.

Xu Guanwu naturally admired his ability very much, so he was specially recruited and asked him to be in charge of Xu Guanying's album, so as to test his working ability.

For Xu Guanying's album, Xu Guanwu specially wrote out in advance the classic love songs that Xu Guanying will sing in the future, such as "My Aying Wife", "Whenever Changes", "Shrimp Girl with You", "Love Song of Clown".

Although Zheng Donghan knows that Xu Guanwu is a master of songwriting and has created many classic and beautiful songs, but seeing these few songs he created with his own eyes, he is still a little shocked.

Especially for the song "My Ah Ying's Wife", the meaning of the lyrics and music really fits well with the singer Xu Guanying, and there is nothing more suitable than this song.

"Mr. Xu, this song is simply amazing." Zheng Donghan couldn't help admiring.

Although he is also a master songwriter and has written many beautiful songs, but like this "My Ah Ying's Wife", he thinks he can't create a song that suits the singer so well.

Since ancient times, there is no first in literature, and no second in martial arts. Zheng Donghan is willing to be inferior.

"You don't need to flatter me, just take these few songs and invite other songwriters to make ten songs, and help Ah Ying make an album." Xu Guanwu said with a smile.

"Mr. Xu, with all due respect, the styles of these songs are not consistent. If they are forced to be included in an album, it will only give people a sense of astonishment. It's like celebrating mass in the Wong Tai Sin Temple." Zheng Donghan said hastily.

Xu Guanwu was overjoyed, but frowned slightly, "Are you mocking me for not knowing how to make records?"

"I didn't mean that. The songs written by Mr. Xu are very good. If they are included in an album, the sales will definitely be very high. But for fans who have the ability to appreciate, this album will still have some flaws. So I propose to take out the slow song "Whenever It Changes" and save it for future albums." Zheng Donghan explained to Xu Guanwu in an orderly manner.

Xu Guanwu was very satisfied with Zheng Donghan in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face, he just nodded coldly, "I have already handed over the production of this album to you, I will not intervene in what you do with it, but if the album sales If it’s not high, if you don’t respond well, you have to take full responsibility.”

"Okay, I won't let Mr. Xu down." Zheng Donghan nodded confidently.

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Zheng Donghan's ability to handle affairs is really outstanding, and he quickly prepared ten songs for Xu Guanying, all of which are "ghost horse songs" with bright styles and humorous lyrics.Such as "My Ah Ying's Wife", "Shrimp and You", "Where there is water, no shade", "Love Song of Clowns" and so on.

The reason why all the ghost songs are used is that Zheng Donghan considers that Xu Guanying has made ghost comedies in recent years. His image of a funny and ugly star has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and singing this kind of ghost songs complements each other.

Hearing that the second brother Xu Guanwu was going to release an album for the third brother Xu Guanying, the fourth brother Xu Guanjie also helped out and handed over the theme song "Deed of Sale" to the two brothers to sing together.

Eldest brother Xu Guanwen also worked across borders, and wrote the lyrics of the song "There is water but no shade" for the third brother Xu Guanying.Xu Guanying was very moved and very happy when the whole family helped each other.

When he was busy entering the recording studio to record the album, Zhao Yazhi also officially joined TVB to host the variety show "Big Heart".

The program "Big Heart and Careful" was just launched by TVB, co-hosted by Zhao Yazhi and Lu Haipeng.Zhao Yazhi, who is beautiful and beautiful, and Lu Haipeng, who is weird, are really a combination of beauty and beast. Standing on the stage, she is full of beauty, and it makes people feel funny without opening her mouth.

This program is divided into several groups of content such as prize quiz, celebrity interviews, gossip news, etc. It is typically large and comprehensive, and it is the stage that variety shows have experienced at the beginning.

For example, CCTV's earliest "Variety Show Grand View" and "Quyuan Miscellaneous Forum", Nanhu Satellite TV's "Happy Camp", and TVB's "Happy Tonight", all cover short dramas, songs and dances, interviews, games and many other contents. Like the platter, pretty much everything is covered.

However, with the development of television and the subdivision of audiences, variety shows have also begun to develop towards smaller and better programs, such as "The Voice of China" and "Super Girl", which are pure talent shows, "My Husband Watches You", "XX Direction" Forward” is purely for games, “A Date with Luyu” and “Very Quiet Distance” are purely for interviews…

The subdivision of variety shows can not only attract the attention of the audience to the greatest extent, but also help advertisers to place advertisements.

Xu Guanwu was used to watching the small but sophisticated variety shows in his previous life, but he couldn't even think of watching a variety show like "Big Heart" with a simple setting, backward topic selection, and dull variety shows hosted by him.

On the contrary, sister-in-law Chen Jieying watched with great interest, and personally made Zhao Yazhi stew bird's nest with rock sugar to soothe her throat, which made Xu Guanwu ashamed.

(End of this chapter)