Chapter 95
: Ninety-Five [Kang Family Class Was Established]
Peninsula Hotel, tea restaurant. [;Starting]
Deng Yiming sat by the window, reading the newspaper while drinking afternoon tea leisurely.
He can be so leisurely, thanks to Kang Jianfei. After Deng Yiming got the distribution rights of the album of the same name from Kang Jianfei, although he gave 12% of the profit to Kang Jianfei himself, the company only earned more than 400,000 yuan per busy work, but the impact did not stop there.
Before releasing the album, Deng Yi was forced to pay debts every day. However, after Fengxing Records released the albums as an agent, those creditors saw the hope of Fengxing Records’ resurgence, and finally agreed to suspend the debt, which made Deng Yiming have the leisure to drink afternoon tea at the Peninsula Hotel.
Newspapers are about the premiere, and many newspapers these days have something to do with Kang Jianfei. For example, in the case of several Vietnamese robbers, Kang Jianfei and Pan Yingzi appeared in court as the parties and witnesses, and the West Kowloon Police Station issued a pennant to Kang Jianfei after the incident.
To be honest, Deng Yiming admires Kang Jianfei, who is three years younger than him and can start a film company from scratch, while he is still struggling with the company’s debt.
Just as Deng Yiming was flipping through the newspaper, Kang Jianfei’s voice suddenly came from behind him: “Mr. Deng, I’m sorry, I’m late.”
“No, I’m just there early.” Deng Yiming smiled.
Kang Jianfei wanted to come for refreshments, and after a few chats, he said bluntly: “The total sales volume of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia is less than 100,000. It seems that the distribution capability of Popular Records needs to be improved.”
Deng Yiming’s face was very embarrassed when he heard this. If it is an ordinary new singer’s record, it would be very good to have a circulation of 100,000. However, it is the box office champion in Hong Kong and also sells well in Southeast Asia. As a result, the total sales volume of Hong Kong and Nanyang Records is less than 100,000. This number is really unmanageable.
Six years ago, Hong Kong singers had a hard life at that time, and there were very few domestic sales of tens of thousands of records. But after Xu Guanjie’s hot release, the album of the same name sold more than 100,000 copies in Southeast Asia alone.
In comparison, it is also a best-selling movie. This time, the operation of the popular record company has been a failure. Although there is a big gap in the reputation and strength of the singers, the current record market environment is much better than that of six years ago.
Deng Yiming explained: “Since my father was paralyzed in bed, many of the previous cooperation units have lost contact. But don’t worry, Mr. Kang, I have tried my best to repair the distribution channel, and this problem will never happen again next time I release a record. ”
Kang Jianfei sighed and said, “At first, I thought that Fengxing Records was an old-fashioned company with very strong business capabilities, so I handed over the agency distribution to you. I didn’t expect to be so disappointed.”
Deng Yiming only smiled awkwardly, but he slandered Kang Jianfei in his heart: You **** got 12% of the profit, and you got it cheap and sold it well!
Kang Jianfei changed the subject and said, “I heard that the debt problem of Fengxing Records has not been resolved yet?”
The little smile on Deng Yiming’s face quickly disappeared. He felt that Kang Jianfei asked him out today. It doesn’t seem like it was a good idea. At the moment, he said with restraint: “I will solve the debt problem of Popular Records. I don’t need to bother Mr. Lao Kang.”
Kang Jianfei sighed and said, “It’s not a solution for you to continue like this, the debt will only get more and more owed.”
“As I said, it’s not Mr. Laokang’s trouble.” Deng Yiming said displeased. You must know that in another time and space, the old company of Popular Records. It still existed until the 21st century, but it was reduced to a small company with only a few employees, which shows how capable Deng Yiming is.
Kang Jianfei laughed and said, “Okay, I won’t talk about it. How is the singing training of Ah Feng and Asia going?”
“Li Saifeng is slightly better, and Wen Bixia’s progress is also very slow. She is not suitable for singing at all.” Deng Yiming sighed. After all, he was only 21 years old, and he was still too tender. When he was in a panic, he went to the doctor and signed the second daughter on impulse. It’s too late to regret now.
Kang Jianfei said: “It doesn’t matter if you sing badly, just go the idol route.”
“Idol singer? What’s the use of looking good, no one will spend money to buy records if you sing badly.” Deng Yiming said depressedly.
There is really no concept of idol singers now, mainly because the current fans listen to singers singing, and it is difficult to see the image of singers. It’s all about listening to music. The most primitive v is also available now, but the singers are all present in front of the camera motionless, at most only occasionally waving and kicking.
In the true popular sense of v, we have to wait for Michael Jackson to show his power two years later. Since then, music V has gradually become popular, and after a few years of development, finally there is the kind of idol singer who sings very badly but is very popular.
Today’s singers are all powerful, you sing badly and send a fart record!
Kang Jianfei asked with a smile, “Why, does Mr. Deng want to terminate the contract?”
Deng Yiming wanted to terminate the contract, but in the contract that Kang Jianfei signed with him, it was clearly stated how many records he would send to Li Saifeng and the others in a year. If Deng Yiming broke the contract now, he would have to lose money. Although he didn’t pay much, he really couldn’t come up with it.
Seeing that Deng Yiming didn’t speak, Kang Jianfei asked, “Did Mr. Deng ever think about selling Pop Records?”
“Impossible?” Deng Yiming refused.
Kang Jianfei asked again, “What about my shareholding? I will bear all the company’s debts.”
When Deng Yiming heard that Kang Jianfei was going to take on the debt, he asked, “How are you going to cooperate?”
Kang Jianfei asked back, “How much money does Fengxing owe now?”
Deng Yiming said: “More than 4.5 million.”
Kang Jianfei said: “I injected 500,000 into the company, and took on another 4.5 million in debt, and 5 million in exchange for a 90% stake in Popular Records.”
Deng Yiming shook his head and said, “Impossible, I will give you a maximum of 49% of the shares.”
Kang Jianfei tapped his forehead and said, “If it were someone else, no one would ask your company to bid 1 million.”
Deng Yiming said: “In my heart, the popular record is worth at least 10 million.”
“Then we don’t have to talk about it.” Without any speculation, Kang Jianfei finished the bill and left.
Deng Yiming also left with anger in his stomach. The reason why he did not agree to Kang Jianfei’s shareholding was that he still had a trump card in his hand.
Just two weeks ago, Deng Yiming went to Taipei to contact the release of the album of the same name, and found a singer named Su Rui in a nightclub. Deng Yiming was shocked by his singing and singing on the spot.
When Deng Yiming asked Su Rui, he found out that she had worked hard in Hong Kong for several years and won the Best Performance Award in the TVB Singing Contest. Cantonese is not a problem.
Deng Yiming felt that Su Rui was a singer given to him by God. He was about to bring her back to Hong Kong from Taipei, and now he is asking a songwriter to write songs for Su Rui. Once Su Rui became popular, all the problems that the popular record company was now facing were solved.
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Deng Yiming refused his shareholding, Kang Jianfei didn’t care too much, he had a lot of things to do.
The release promotion of “Dream” has already started. Oriental DreamWorks spent tens of thousands of publicity expenses within a week. Zhou Mingfang complained very much about Kang Jianfei’s habit of spending money like water.
In the eyes of outsiders, Kang Jianfei is really spending money lavishly. You must know that many of Shaw Brothers’ domestic box office box office this year is less than 1 million. And at the speed at which Kang Jianfei spends money, when it is released, it is estimated that the publicity fee will be more than 500,000.
The summer vacation is coming soon, and this time no one is playing a propaganda war with Kang Jianfei.
It is worth mentioning that in the original time and space, Jiahe will release a film in the summer. This is a comedy film directed by Wu Yusen, which achieved the fourth best result at the annual box office. But because Kang Jianfei asked the male protagonist Xu Guanying and the action director Lin Zhengying to leave in advance, Wu Yusen actually hired Xu Ke to replace Xu Guanying’s role, and also asked Yuan Heping to replace Lin Zhengying as the martial arts finger.
As for Shaw Brothers, there’s not much to say. In the summer season, director Chu Yuan and Zhao Yazhi are the ones who will be screened.
Kang Jianfei paid no attention to these two films, and regarded other films as nothing.
A week before the premiere, Huang Shrimp finally gathered all the martial artists from the Kang family class and rented an abandoned factory building as a resident in Kwun Tong.
The factory building is very interesting, and there are many rusted machines. I don’t know why the factory owner doesn’t use it to sell scrap iron. However, it is cheap for Kang Jianfei. If you shoot action movies in the future, this abandoned factory can still be used for framing, so you don’t need to spend time setting scenes.
As soon as the Kang family class was established, it was strong and strong. There were nine members in total: Huang Shrimp, Shen Xian (Yu Yuanwen), Yang Qingqing (female), Zeng Zhiwei, Dong Wei, Liang Xiaolong, Dasha (Cheng Kui’an), Chen Xunqi, Ye Tao .
Among them, Shenxian, Yang Qingqing, and Ye Tao were brought in by Yellow Shrimp, Dong Wei was recommended by Zeng Zhiwei, and Dasha was brought by Liang Xiaolong. In addition, Zeng Zhiwei and Chen Xunqi only occasionally cameo as a dragon and tiger martial artist when they were filming, and had other jobs at other times.
Among the nine people ~www.readwn.com~ except for Ye Tao, all of them were martial masters with quite resounding names in another time and space. As for Ye Tao, according to Huang Shrimp, this person was born in Hong Kong’s Great Sage Pi Hangmen, and studied under Chen Xiuzhong, “King Ma Liu”. He has a senior brother named Chen Guantai, a junior brother named Qian Xiaohao, and A junior brother named Huang Qiusheng.
Kang Jianfei looked at the members of the Kang family class, and was extremely satisfied. He thought that Cheng Long’s family class only had five members, and I had nine members, so there was a great future!
Amidst the sound of firecrackers, Kang Jianfei brought everyone a drink and sacrificed to the gods and said, “Everyone, today is a good day for the establishment of the Kang family class. From now on, Huang Shrimp will be the head of the Kang family class, and Liang Xiaolong will be the deputy head of the class. I will send someone special to the finance department. Regardless, your treatment is only higher than that of other martial arts classes. In addition, in the future, for the action movies shot by Oriental DreamWorks, I will give a part of it to the martial arts dividends depending on the specific box office situation… I won’t say more gossip, Zeng Zhiwei will ask for it soon. When making a movie, the most important thing for everyone is to be proficient in the technique of hanging the wire. I am not talking about the kind of flying up and down, but the Weiya technique of how to make the actors perform fighting actions in the air!”
Kang Jianfei winked at Huang Shrimp, and the latter immediately took Cheng Kuian and Ye Tao to the only locked house here – the warehouse, and took out a set of specially-made Weiya equipment from it.