China Entertainment 2000

"cheers!"

"Cheers~"

"Congratulations on finishing. Congratulations on finishing."

"..."

That night, at the Victoria Hotel in Hong Kong, Cheng Long, who had reserved the entire venue, happily held a wedding banquet for Zhou Yi and Jiang Wen——

To be precise, it was held by Yinghuang.

Yang Shoucheng, the boss of Yinghuang, was even present in person, allowing many people to recognize Zhou Yi's connections.

This guy is very busy this year.

"I'm just a guest star. I'm a special guest star. I specially organized a closing banquet. There's no need to spend so much time, Mr. Yang."

"As you say, Ayi, you are the king of the world. I definitely cannot treat you badly in terms of treatment."

After clinking glasses, Yang Shoucheng didn't mind: "Besides, this is your first time on the big screen, so you must pay attention to it and leave you a good memory. If you fall in love with this feeling, you will also do it in the future." Think of us first.”

As the largest investor in "New Police Story" and the person who pushed Cheng Long to return to China to film the film, Yang Shoucheng has no problem saying this.

Anyway, after he added investment, there was no news of budget overruns on the film.

Zhou Yi smiled noncommittally and glanced at Jiang Wen, who was communicating with Chen Musheng and others not far away: "Mr. Yang, are you afraid that he didn't stay in the bar because of his drunkenness this time?"

This one is working on a new movie.

Yang Shoucheng, who has always wanted to move closer to the mainland, will naturally not let go of this rare opportunity. It is normal for him to take advantage of the final banquet and give Jiang Wen face.

Many people think that Jiang Wen, a Beijing-based person, has nothing to do with the Hong Kong circle. But in fact, the relationship between Jiang Wen and the Hong Kong circle is not that shallow.

For his directorial debut, "Sunny Days," he went to Hong Kong to find investment from the beginning.

It was just the loss of blood that caused several investment tycoons in Hong Kong to give up on this genius from the mainland.

They felt that this person was simply crazy. He was not doing movies to make money but just to satisfy his own selfish interests.

In the second film "The Japanese Are Coming", the targets of the trap became mainland companies such as Zhongbo Film and Television and Huayi. As expected, Jiang Wen was blacklisted again after the filming of this movie.

Although Jiang Wen is still in the period of Schrödinger's ban from directing, as time goes by, and it is almost 2004, Jiang Wen has begun to prepare for the first movie he will make after he is released from the ban, but this time, this movie The new movie is currently in the embarrassing stage of "no money".

Many investment companies are afraid of Jiang Wen's slow work speed and his money-losing nature.

Yang Shoucheng clearly sees the difference between providing help in times of need and adding the icing on the cake.

He wants to invest in Jiang Wen's new movie.

It doesn’t matter whether the movie loses money or not, the main thing is to look at the talent.

Besides, tens of millions is money? It's just a waste of money, it's not a big deal compared to the future.

But, he doesn't know Jiang Wen.

"Haha, Ah Yi, you still have such a sharp vision. To be honest, in addition to releasing several Cantonese albums next year, Ah Sha and the others also have a goal of polishing a high-quality Mandarin album to facilitate their entry into the mainland in 2005. market.

"I know Huo Wenxi has already talked with your agent, but, you know, I have always treated them as my daughters."

Yang Shoucheng smiled very kindly, as if he really regarded twins as his own daughters: "Since my daughters are preparing to enter the highly pressured mainland market, naturally I, as a father, cannot just sit back and watch. wrong?

"I know you are very busy, Ayi, and Warner prepares a lot of work for you every year. So, I will go out of my way to trouble you and help Asa and the others write a song when I have free time. Don't worry, the writing fee will be paid." I will definitely give it.”

There was no mention of buying out the copyright of the song or buying the song, but only the writing fee.

The raised finger made Zhou Yi narrow his eyes slightly, and looked at him with a smile: "Mr. Yang, aren't you afraid that the song I wrote won't be able to support your expectations?"

"Ayi, you are joking. I absolutely, 100% believe in your talent."

Yang Shoucheng laughed loudly, as if he had really heard a joke, and sighed sincerely: "After all, the progress of this circle is driven by talented geniuses like you, and people like us are only qualified to provide you with funds. "

"Since Mr. Yang thinks so highly of me, I can only bite the bullet and give it a try."

Zhou Yi's words brought a real smile to Yang Shoucheng's eyes.

Since it was a guest appearance in the movie, the next conversation between the two naturally turned to the issue of the role, and then - the conversation naturally turned to Jiang Wen, who had been bumped back and forth by him six times.

Under the recommendation of Zhou Yi himself as an intermediary, Jiang Wen also met Yang Shoucheng, a Hong Kong tycoon who never saw the beginning or end of the dragon.

Also because it was Zhou Yi who appeared as the middleman, Jiang Wen looked at Yang Shoucheng's appearance with a more special eye.

Finding Jiang Wen on his own and getting to know Jiang Wen through Zhouyi's introduction are two different concepts.

"How much did you sell me for?"

Yang Shoucheng, who had just clicked, chose to leave after exchanging contact information with Jiang Wen, leaving space for the two of them. Jiang Wen grabbed Zhou Yi and asked in a low voice.

Zhou Yi chuckled and took a sip of champagne: "Not much, ten million."

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"How much?! Ten million?!"

Yinghuang Building.

After a day's work, A Jiao returned to the company to remove her makeup and rest while waiting for her boyfriend Chen Guanxi to come back. When she heard this, her eyes widened: "Writing a pop song costs 10 million Hong Kong dollars?! Is Zhou Yi's pen inlaid with gold? ? ? ? "

Oh, no, it's not just the pen inlaid with gold, it's a thousand gold coins for every word.

In 2003, the Hong Kong dollar was still a little more valuable than the RMB, with a ratio of about 1:1.0612.

Even if Zhou Yi is popular in the international market, they don't want to buy English songs that can be sold all over the world.

The market for Chinese songs is so small, and they didn't invite him to customize theme songs based on the content of the movie, so why is it so expensive?

Jay Chou's fifteen Chinese songs are not as much as Zhou Yi's one song. When did inflation in the music industry become so severe?

When Zhou Yi wrote songs for Sun Yanzi and Xiao Yaxuan, didn't he always pay according to the market price? Why did it change for them?

"Just be content with this. There are so many people who want to pay him to write but can't."

Mandy Fok shook her head: "There is a premium for sure. This price also includes the intention of asking Zhou Yi to help promote the work. But no matter what, this will also be a publicity point at that time."

"Help promote the work?"

"Chenglong wants to gild his son. Now he is doing well under Li Zongsheng. It's time to arrange for him to join Emperor Entertainment Group next year."

When talking about the Dragon Prince, Mandy Fok had some meaning of regret.

Chenglong didn't leave his son alone as he said.

When his son wanted to learn music, he directly used his past relationship with the Rolling Stones to get his son to be a student under the semi-retired Li Zongsheng.

It's a pity that this student is really not very good.

If he wants to act in a movie, he was directly put into the sequel of "The Matrix 2" this year, which is also quite average.

"The boss is very optimistic about the talented director Jiang Wen from the mainland and plans to invest in him. Chenglong is very smart and also wants to send his son to play a role to gild his reputation.

"In order to be safe, I plan to ask Zhou Yi to help express his opinion at that time, because Zhou Yi will participate in the soundtrack of Jiang Wen's new movie and will have a long communication with Jiang Wen."

Chenglong is still very confident about his son's acting skills.

Other people usually praise him for his sake, but if you really meet a director like Jiang Wen who is good at polishing acting skills, it will be really difficult.

However, Jiang Wen, who takes his time to do things, is obviously very good at grinding people, which can be seen from the musical film "In the Name of the Father" where Zhou Yi was trained to have acting skills and atmosphere.

If Zhou Yi can be polished, then it should not be a problem to polish the Long Taizi.

"My son is not motivated, there is nothing I can do, I can't ignore him, after all, he is my son. ”

Hotel, private kitchen.

After the banquet, Chenglong pulled Zhou Yi and complained about his son sincerely: "I didn't care about him when he was a child, and he already had a lot of complaints about me. Now that he has grown up and wants to enter the circle, I will definitely help him if I can.

"Ayi, I don't mean to make things difficult for you if you ask me for this favor. Lao Yang will talk to Director Jiang Wen at that time. If he asks for your opinion, please say a word for me. If he doesn't ask, then you don't have to say anything."

Zhou Yi drank the specially prepared hangover soup and agreed at once: "Uncle Long, what you said, I will definitely help you."

"I owe you a favor, Ayi, thank you."

Chenglong was very happy.

Zhou Yi could give him face, which means that he really had this face, and did not ignore him, a "former" superstar whose reputation had declined, just because he had become an international superstar.

He thought so.

As for Zhou Yi...

He almost laughed out loud.

In fact, after Yinghuang invested in "The Sun Also Rises", Prince Long joined the crew not long after.

Jiang Wen is not ignorant of the ways of the entertainment industry. On the contrary, he knows a lot. It's just that Chenglong and Yang Shoucheng think he doesn't know because of his "glorious performance" in his first two movies.

This is like picking up a favor for free and earning 10 million.

"It's so cool to turn on the God's perspective."