Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

"You two don't have to fight, you both have the opportunity to participate in this project!"

Again, you won’t get far if you go it alone.

Since deciding to form alliances, Chen Qiming has decided to give up part of his profits to these giant film and television companies in future projects.

This will not only allow Qiming Film and Television to avoid being targeted in North America.

At the same time, we can also use the power and resources of these giant companies to strengthen Qiming Film and Television.

"Hahaha! Chen, your decision is wise.

The Hollywood world is such a big one. It is a consensus that everyone eats from the same plate and everyone has meat to eat. "

Anderson and Eric looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.

Obviously, he did not expect that the purpose of this trip would be solved so quickly.

Eric also smiled and said: "Chen, Paramount will not let you down.

You regard us as friends, and we also regard you as friends.

I think we will get along very happily in the days to come! "

"I'm looking forward to that day!"

Chen Qiming responded with a smile.

The contract for "The Lonely Agent" was all settled that afternoon.

After the contract was completed, Qiming Pictures, Paramount and Warner immediately began preparations for the film.

However, although this film is a joint investment, the three parties are responsible for different directions.

Qiming Film and Television, as the copyright owner of Lonely Agent, produced the first film here and it has already achieved success.

Therefore, Qiming Film and Television is still responsible for the production of this project.

Warner Bros. and Paramount are responsible for promotion and distribution.

In short, each performs its own duties and has nothing to do with each other.

As a producer, Qiming Film and Television certainly has more things to do.

But it doesn’t matter, it’s all paid for.

Anyone assigned to this project by Qiming Film and Television is paid a salary, the director gets a director's fee, the producer gets a producer's share, and even all post-production work is done.

All of this money was spent on film investments.

What is the favorite thing for film and television and even record companies in the entertainment industry?

Naturally, the left hand is replaced by the right hand.

The total investment for the second part of "The Lonely Agent" is about 20 million US dollars.

And of this money, about three million will eventually fall into the hands of Qiming Films through various expenditure methods.

For example, post-production, prop production, etc.

Therefore, doing more does not mean losing money.

On the contrary, the profits will be even greater.

In addition to the project "Lonely Agent", it has been officially launched.

Qiming Film and Television also confirmed the project of "Resident Evil" very quickly.

The project is expected to cost US$30 million.

Qiming Pictures took $16 million, while Warner Bros. and Paramount took the remaining $14 million.

Warner and Paramount are not long-winded companies.

After Chen Qiming handed over the script of Resident Evil and various plans to the two companies, the two companies quickly confirmed the investment and transferred the money to the account of Qiming Film and Television.

As soon as the funds were received, Qiming immediately began preparations for the filming of this project.

First, contact the director and actors, and then send someone to set up the scene.

Once all these tasks are completed, shooting can begin immediately.

However, Chen Qiming didn't care too much about these things.

Although he serves as the producer of this project, all the preparation work was handed over to the company by Chen Qiming like "Lonely Agent 2".

At the end of April, he attended this year's Hong Kong Film Awards while still having some free time.

He was also shortlisted for this year's Academy Awards.

He was nominated for Best Actor for "The Storm 2".

However, despite being shortlisted, it is difficult to win.

Chen Qiming himself knows very well that his performance in "Wind and Cloud 2" will not be shortlisted for this award at all.

The reason why he was shortlisted was simply because the Academy Awards wanted to ride on his popularity.

And this is also true. At the Academy Awards ceremony that night, although the host frequently criticized Chen Qiming, it seemed that he was going to win the best actor award.

But the final result was that Zheng Zeshi won the best actor for "Three Injured Policemen".

This is also the second time Zheng Zeshi has won this award.

The first time was "The Wandering Fat Cat" that year.

"It's really not worth it for you. You've gained so much popularity with the award for nothing!"

When the Best Actor Award was presented, Li Ming, who was sitting next to Chen Qiming, complained to Chen Qiming in a low voice.

Chen Qiming didn't look at him, but laughed softly: "You are not worth it for yourself!"

"How is it possible..." Li Ming's face froze, "How could I have such an idea!"

Chen Qiming did not criticize him, "Sha Mao's performance is still very layered. It is not embarrassing to be overpowered by him."

Chen Qiming knew very well why Liming said "not worth it".

He was also nominated for Best Actor this year for "Sweet Honey".

Moreover, before the awards began, he was the one with the loudest voice.

The film "Sweetie" is very popular and won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor in December last year.

Let Liming become the first person among the Four Heavenly Kings to win the title of Best Actor.

Already with the title of Golden Horse Best Actor, when "Sweet Honey" was once again nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, not only the media believed that Lai Lai had a high chance of winning, but even Lai Lai himself thought so.

The greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment.

Just like Lui Liangwei back then, he was the loudest voice before the award was awarded, but was snatched away from the Best Actor by Eric Tsang, causing his mentality to collapse, and he immediately cursed the Academy Awards as unfair after the award.

The same is true for dawn at this time.

You obviously thought that the Best Actor Award was yours, but in the end...

"I just don't understand what these judges think about me. I performed so well in Sweet Honey and yet I can't be accepted by them!"

Dawn muttered.

In this regard, Chen Qiming said nothing.

He really didn't know how to say it.

Because he is also one of the judges.

Not only the Academy Awards, he is also a judge for the Golden Horse Awards.

In the Golden Horse Awards voting two years ago, he voted for Lai Ming.

However, because he was also shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Actor this year, in order to avoid suspicion, he did not participate in the voting for the Best Actor award, and it is not clear who won the award.

He himself is the judge, so naturally it will be difficult for him to accept Li Ming's words.

……

The highlight of this year's Academy Awards was of course "Sweetie," for which Peter Chan won the Best Director, Maggie Cheung won the Best Actress, and Eric Tsang also won the Best Supporting Actor.

Others include Best Film, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Art, and more.

In the Hong Kong entertainment newspapers the next day, news about this film was almost wiped out.

Chen Kexin, a director who was nominated for Best Director twice in 1993 and 1994, finally got his wish and won the coveted Best Director this time.

Maggie Cheung also won the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actress for the third time with this film, and she was extremely popular.

What's even more rare is that just two days after the Academy Awards, news came from the United States that "Sweetie" was selected by Time Magazine as one of the top ten films in the world in 1996, making this film famous internationally. Have considerable influence.

When "Sweet Honey" was being collectively praised by the media in the entertainment industry, Chen Qiming had already rushed to the mainland and started shooting "Swapping Identities" in various locations in the mainland.

Within half a month, he went to BJ and Wudang Mountain.

It's mid-May, and the Chinese scenes of the movie "Swapping Identities" have finally been completed.

After Chen Qiming returned to the United States with the crew to reshoot some scenes, the film was officially completed. After getting together with the crew, Chen Qiming immediately returned to Treasure Island without any further delay.

As soon as he returned to Baodao, Chen Qiming was invited to a restaurant in Taipei by Zhang Yusheng and several other friends in Baodao.

"A Ming, it's okay! I won another Grammy!"

As soon as Chen Qiming arrived at the private room of the restaurant, Zhang Yusheng came up to him and punched Chen Qiming.

"low profile!"

In front of friends, Chen Qiming likes to joke.

"Hey! Give me some color, we really have a dyeing workshop, right?"

Zhang Yusheng punched Chen Qiming again with a look of helplessness.

"Yusheng, what you said is wrong, this guy runs a dyeing workshop.

At last year's Japan Golden Disc Awards, he actually shouted on the stage that he hoped he wouldn't win the award next time! "

"That's right, this guy just pretends to be awesome!"

In addition to Zhang Yusheng, there were also Li Ziheng, Chen Dali and Chen Xiunan in the private room.

These people were all former UFO Record generals.

After the UFO disbanded, everyone went their separate ways.

Zhang Yusheng and Chen Dali continued to follow Peng Guohua to Fenghua Records.

Li Ziheng was invited by Rolling Stone and went to Rolling Stone Records.

Chen Xiunan followed Chen Qiming to establish Qidian Records.

Although the group of people are of different ages, because they all worked for UFO, often interact with each other, and they are all leaders in the music industry, they naturally have a good relationship.

At the same time, they should be regarded as a small faction in the Baodao music circle, just like Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng and Zhou Huajian of the Rolling Stones.

"Don't make fun of me. I just came back. If you don't plan to hold a welcome ceremony for me, forget it.

Just treat me to these? "

Chen Qiming entered the private room, glanced at the environment, and said with a look of disgust.

"Well, you guy, I asked the restaurant to prepare the best signature dishes for you in vain.

Now that the food has not been served, you are beginning to dislike it. "

Zhang Yusheng pretended to be angry.

Of course he knew Chen Qiming was joking.

He knew that Chen Qiming was not that vain person.

And, to be honest, a billionaire like Chen Qiming has never eaten anything.

The reason why I say this is just a humorous joke between friends.

The group chatted while waiting for the food to be served.

"Yusheng, the one you have named Zhang Huimei is pretty good! The album sales in Baodao have exceeded 1.5 million!"

Looking at this, the Guangbao Island area may be looking for two million.

It may not be long before she breaks A Ming's Baodao sales record. "

Li Ziheng is the oldest among them.

He is the person who has been involved in the music circle for the longest time among everyone, and is also a godfather-level existence in Baodao music.

Because his musical literacy is very high.

Normally, everyone, including Chen Qiming, would ask him for advice on music.

Therefore, Chen Qiming and others respect him very much.

Upon hearing his question, Zhang Yusheng, who was still joking with Chen Qiming, immediately stopped talking and replied humbly:

"Brother Ziheng, you are exaggerating. In fact, she is just like that. It's mainly just luck."

"and……"

As he said that, Zhang Yusheng looked at Chen Qiming, "Moreover, this guy has raised Baodao's sales record to more than 2.7 million copies. This achievement is probably not something that ordinary people can break!"

"That's incredible. Two million is already the best result achieved by any Chinese singer in Baodao except A Ming!" Li Ziheng said with a melancholy look on his face.

He was really melancholy.

Two million.

If it is the entire Chinese-speaking market, although this data is amazing, it is not enough to make people feel despair.

But it’s just a treasure island.

That figure of two million is enough to make people feel desperate.

Since the birth of records, singers have begun to release records in Baodao.

In addition to Chen Qiming, four of his albums have achieved sales of one million in Baodao, and two of them have achieved sales of two million.

Among others, there are few who have exceeded one million.

Among the singers from Hong Kong, only Jacky Cheung's "Kiss Goodbye" ranked among them with 1.2 million.

As for the local singers here in Baodao, only Zhou Huajian's records have exceeded one million in the country.

Who would have thought that in addition to Chen Qiming's sales exceeding two million, there would be a newcomer who had just debuted who could surpass two million in sales with his second album.

"To be honest, I was very unbelievable when I saw this news. Brother Yusheng, the new person you discovered is indeed incredible!"

Chen Qiming couldn't help but speak.

To be honest, he himself felt a little unbelievable.

Zhang Huimei, this name exists in the dream.

In her dream, she was indeed extremely prosperous this year, and her record sales topped the Chinese music scene.

But Chen Qiming didn't expect that because of his appearance, she would become even more fierce in reality.

Yes, it's just more intense.

In early April, Zhang Huimei released her second album "Bad Boy".

As soon as this album was released in Baodao, it immediately exploded with terrifying power.

Just over a month after the album was released, sales in Baodao exceeded 2 million, which is close to Chen Qiming's Baodao sales record of 2.7 million copies.

And this is unbelievable.

Especially here with Chen Qiming.

Because in the dream, he remembered that the sales volume of Zhang Huimei's album was actually only 1.35 million.

But now, it has almost doubled in height.

It can only be said that because of his appearance, the world seems to have begun to change.

Not only Zhang Huimei has changed, but many others have also changed.

For example, Ren Xianqi.

In Ren Xianqi's dream, there should have been an album last year with "Heart Too Soft" that became popular all over the Chinese-speaking region, with genuine and pirated copies selling tens of millions in total.

As a result, Chen Qiming sang this song in advance.

As a result, although Ren Xianqi's development momentum last year was good because Chen Qiming gave him a song, it was far behind compared to Mengli.

But everything started to change dramatically this year.

In February of this year, Ren Xianqi released his second album.

This album not only exploded in sales, with sales of four million copies in all Chinese-speaking regions, but also included a song "I Don't Want to" that Chen Qiming had never heard.

The song "I Don't Want to" directly topped the Baodao Golden Songs Chart for seven weeks, becoming a dark horse this year.

In addition to them, some other people have also undergone considerable changes.

Some people whom Chen Qiming didn't know appeared in the music scene, and some familiar singers sang some songs that were unfamiliar to him.

Not just songs, but movies too.

Let’s just talk about the movie “Can’t Help It” which is currently very popular at the box office in Hong Kong.

A movie starring Liu Qingyun and starring Michelle Reis.

This movie has been in theaters for three weeks and has already grossed 27 million at the box office in Hong Kong, and is on track to exceed 30 million.

(End of this chapter)