Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

Chapter 244 Jiahe's Little Thoughts

After confirming that Chen Qiming's English theme song was very suitable for the movie, Jackie Chan and Tang Jili immediately called Golden Harvest and told them to transfer money.

As the most popular in the Chinese music scene, even the four kings of Hong Kong have to avoid the edge for a while, the songs composed by Chen Qiming are not easy to get.

In order to invite Chen Qiming to compose the theme song and act as the singer himself, Golden Harvest directly offered 100 million Hong Kong dollars.

Moreover, the 100 million Hong Kong dollars is only the right to use the song, and the copyright of the song belongs to Chen Qiming himself.

It can be said that it is not that simple to ask Chen Qiming to compose and sing songs.

That is to say, the budget of the movie "Red Fan District" is large enough.

The total investment is as high as hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars. So far, Golden Harvest has invested the most in Jackie Chan.

It is precisely because of the large investment and high expectations, hoping to enter the European and American markets, that Golden Harvest is willing to spend so much money to ask Chen Qiming to compose the theme song and act as the singer.

After Golden Harvest received calls from Jackie Chan and Tang Jili, they transferred all the expenses to Chen Qiming's account that afternoon, and then arranged for someone to come and take away the master tape of the song. They only waited for the filming to be completed and put it into the film after the production was completed. middle.

As for Chen Qiming, after Jiahe's people took away the recorded songs, he went out with Jackie Chan and Tang Jili.

Today's Jackie Chan is very enthusiastic, he has been waiting in the recording studio for several hours, just to invite Chen Qiming to have dinner with him after he has finished the song completely.

Although he originally planned to continue recording songs at night, Chen Qiming did not refuse.

Because Jackie Chan said that his godfather Ho Koon Cheong would be there.

Zou Wenhuai is also coming.

This made Chen Qiming feel that this was not a simple gathering of ordinary friends, but a gathering related to some business affairs, so after finishing the recording work in the afternoon, he rushed to the hotel where the dinner was held with Jackie Chan and Tang Jili.

There were not many people at the dinner party. Apart from Jackie Chan and Zou Wenhuai, there were only Golden Harvest General Manager He Guanchang, plus Chen Qiming and Tang Jili, a total of five people.

At the beginning of the dinner, Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang were very polite, and they praised Chen Qiming as the superstar with the greatest global influence like Bruce Lee in the past few years.

In the face of the two bigwigs in the film industry, who are also seniors, Chen Qi is obviously very polite. The two sides had a very happy chat, from movies to soundtracks, from Hong Kong and Taiwan to Europe and the United States.

It wasn't until the dinner was about to end that Chow Wen-huai, who had a status comparable to Run Run Shaw in the Hong Kong film industry, revealed his purpose.

"Xiao Chen, I heard that you have reached a contract with Time Warner to cooperate in movies?"

Upon hearing Zou Wenhuai's words, Chen Qiming's doubts that had been in his heart all night were finally resolved.

At first, Chen Qiming thought that Zou Wenhuai's attendance at the dinner in person might be to invite him to appear in a movie produced by a company under Golden Harvest.

When he arrived at the dinner and found that the other party didn't mention it, he knew it wasn't the reason.

Now, everything is revealed.

It turned out to be for the cooperation with Time Warner.

Just a few days ago, Chen Qiming's privately owned film production company, Qiming Film and Television, officially reached a cooperation with Time Warner, a subsidiary of Time Warner Group.

In the next three years, jointly develop and invest in three projects.

Because Warner valued Chen Qiming's potential in the international music scene, they were willing to give up the leadership of the three projects in exchange for it.

Well, in terms of investment, they are willing to invest big or small, but Qiming will take the lead. They are responsible for auxiliary production and distribution issues in Europe and America.

Don't underestimate the dominance of a film's production.

The dominance of a movie is in the hands of different companies or different people, and the shooting effects will be completely different.

Look at Jiahe.

As the first and most important company in Hong Kong to the European and American markets.

They will cooperate with European and American film companies to shoot movies almost every few years.

Those Jackie Chan movies are like that.

But without exception, apart from the first Bruce Lee movies, the cooperation between Golden Harvest and European and American film companies has basically been taken away by European and American companies.

Let's talk about Jackie Chan's "The Dragon Detective".

Golden Harvest's investment in this film occupies a large part, but because it is a cooperation with a Hollywood film company, most of the production teams are from Europe and the United States.

As a result, Jackie Chan's idea of ​​martial arts guidance was directly abandoned and replaced with Hollywood's three-legged cat action design.

Even because of this, Jackie Chan almost stopped acting.

And if this movie is led by Golden Harvest, assisted by Hollywood, and with Jackie Chan's talent for motion design, this movie may not necessarily hit the streets in Europe and America.

It is precisely because of the importance of film dominance that Golden Harvest has been hoping to take a leading position in cooperation with European and American companies in recent years, so that the company's generals can fully realize their potential.

It's a pity that for many years in a row, even if they cooperate with a company like New Line, they can't occupy a dominant position, let alone Warner.

Therefore, after knowing that Chen Qiming has won the initiative to cooperate with Warner Pictures, it is surprising that Golden Harvest will not take any action.

Not only Golden Harvest.

According to Chen Qiming's estimation, it may not be long before the large film and television companies from Hong Kong and Taiwan will all come to his door, hoping to get a share of the pie from him.

"There is such a thing, but Warner is willing to give up the dominance of the movie.

But in terms of investment and personnel assistance, I am afraid it will not be of much help! "

Time Warner, as one of the Big Seven in the United States, cannot be a charity.

Chen Qiming's record contract is indeed what they urgently need, but at the same time, it is impossible for them to give up too many benefits because of it.

There is such a clause in their agreement with Qiming Film and Television.

"Warner's investment and personnel assistance, and even the scale of distribution, will all depend on the quality of the films produced by Qiming Film and Television."

Well, that is to say, in order to obtain high investment and large-scale distribution and publicity, it all depends on whether the movie script produced by Chen Qiming can impress them.

If the script of the movie is not attractive enough, Warner believes that it will not make money.

They will also invest money, but definitely not much, and will also spend a lot less on other resource allocations.

In the same way, if the script of the film is attractive, they will naturally increase the amount of investment and various resources such as publicity and promotion.

In short, this is a cooperation that Warner is not willing to take too much risk.

There will be many accidents in this kind of cooperation, so many that Chen Qiming can't predict it.

"We know, so, are you willing to share the risk a bit, bring Jiahe, and we will take the risk together!"

He Guanchang next to him adjusted his glasses and said.

After a pause, he continued: "Mingzai, you should know our company's production capabilities. With us, the success of these three projects will only be higher!"

As he said that, he also pointed to Jackie Chan, "Although Aaron is not very famous in Hollywood, he still has a certain reputation thanks to the video market in the past few years.

At that time, he, or any actor under Golden Harvest, you can choose as you like! "

(End of this chapter)