After Zhao Yazhi decided to return to star in "The Legend of the New White Snake", Kang Jianfei immediately called the TV production company.
In addition to identifying the three starring roles of Zhao Yazhi, Athena Chu and Ye Tong, he also named Li Hanxiang to be the director because he is a master in Huangmei Opera films.
If an ordinary director is allowed to shoot, he will definitely not be able to shoot the charm he deserves.
Li Hanxiang has been making movies in recent years, but unfortunately he is getting less and less able to keep up with the times. He almost made one movie and made one movie after another. Few companies are willing to invite him.
When Oriental TV Production Company found Li Hanxiang, the old man was recuperating in the hospital, and was not ill and his health was getting worse and worse. He obviously was unable to perform the director position.
Although Li Hanxiang could not go out to be a director himself, he recommended his old partner Xia Zuhui, who happened to be the director of the original "The Legend of the White Snake".
It was such a coincidence that I went around for a long time and then back.
Although Xia Zuhui's home is in Hong Kong, he often travels around the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three places. He is now serving as a director of an opera in Taiwan.
After receiving the invitation, he immediately rushed back to Hong Kong and was quite excited to get the script of "The Legend of the New White Snake" because the drama was so good to his taste.
Just when Xia Zuhui was in full swing to form the crew, Ye Zipei also came to Hong Kong. Kang Jianfei, who came to attend the year-end shareholders' meeting of Oriental Music Group, attended various year-end meetings during this period, and was so bored that she was terrified.
Oriental Music Group is headquartered in Hong Kong. The group's president is Cheng Shengming. He once held an important position at Atlantic Records, a subsidiary of Warner Records.
In 1990, Times and Warner merged, and its subsidiary Atlantic Records invested in establishing Interscpe Records. Cheng Shengming was transferred to the new company as the vice president of the executive.
As Interscpe Records grew and grew, Cheng Shengming, as a Chinese, was gradually squeezed out of the decision-making circle. He returned to Hong Kong in anger and joined Oriental Music Group through a friend's introduction. He was directly appointed as the group's vice president by Kang Jianfei.
Because of his super working ability, this guy is now the president.
In addition to Cheng Shengming and Ye Zipei, there were also Taiwanese UFO Records Peng Guohua and Wu Chuchu, mainland Rolling Stone Records Zhang Peiren, Korean trendy records Jiang Zhongguo, Singapore Haidian Records Xu Huanliang and Huang Yuancheng, Japanese Ai Hui Music, and Japanese popular records Deng Yimin.
Everyone sat together, first talked about the situation last year, analyzed the current global music market situation, and then discussed cooperation between companies next year.
Kang Jianfei kept sitting next to him and listened, and interjected from time to time.
After a while, Deng Yimin suddenly said: Huaxing Records is almost out of reach. I want to invite Mr. Xu and Mr. Huang from Haidie Records to join hands to eat it.
Huaxing Records are no longer available?Kang Jianfei was quite surprised. It was Run Run Shaw's company, and TVB was helping behind it. Why couldn't it be done?
In fact, Huaxing Records is really not good.
Its main business is concentrated in Hong Kong, but it has been hit by Fengxing Records and Polykin and has suffered losses for two consecutive years.
Even if there is no Fengxing Records, Huaxing Records from the original time and space will be sold to the South China Morning Post Group, and now it is only half a year ahead of schedule.
Xu Huanliang strongly recognized Deng Yimin's suggestion, because Huaxing Records also has several branches in Southeast Asia. Taking Huaxing will help Haidie Records expand. He said: The South China Morning Post seems to be negotiating the acquisition with Huaxing, and we must do it quickly.
Cheng Shengming suddenly interrupted: The group's layout in Hong Kong and Nanyang is already mature, and there is no need to acquire another Huaxing, which will only make our organizational structure more bloated.
Deng Yimin said: But acquiring Huaxing will benefit us even more!
Cheng Shengming said: There is really no need to acquire it. We just need to take advantage of the opportunity of Huaxing changing hands and poach its outstanding producers and singers.
Deng Yimin and Xu Huanliang wanted to argue again, but Kang Jianfei suddenly said: That's it, there is no need to acquire Huaxing.Mr. Deng and Mr. Xu, you will make arrangements early when you go back to try to dig up the outstanding employees of Huaxing Records.
All right.Deng Yimin and Xu Huanliang said helplessly.The chairman has spoken, what else can they say?
Although Huaxing Records is losing money now, it does have many good singers under its umbrella, such as Andy Andy Chan, Sammi Cheng, Coco Lee, etc.
In addition, Huaxing has several gold medal producers, which are more precious than singers. Red singers are like eggs, while gold medal music producers are the hens laying eggs.
If all these people are dug up, then Huaxing Records will only be left with a lot of garbage. Even if the South China Morning Post Group acquires it, it will only cause headaches.
When the meeting ended, Kang Jianfei specifically kept Cheng Shengming and said: Asia has developed almost the same, and it is time to start entering the US market.
It's very difficult.Cheng Shengming only answered two words.
Kang Jianfei said: No matter how difficult it is, you have to try it.
Cheng Shengming said: If you want to expand in the United States, there is only one way left, which is to acquire a local American record company and use local American singers to occupy the market. It is impossible for Chinese singers to enter.
Of course Kang Jianfei knew about this situation that if European and American record companies want to expand in Asia, they can only acquire Asian companies and use Asian singers. The cultural gap between the East and the West is too serious.
How about acquiring Polykin?Kang Jianfei asked with a smile.
Uh... Cheng Shengming had nothing to say in an instant, and after reacting for a long time, he smiled bitterly, Mr. Kang, you want a snake to swallow the elephant Ah.
For children born in the 1990s and 2000s, they may be unfamiliar with the name Polykin, but it is indeed the oldest, largest and most powerful record company in the world in the 1990s.
Haha, I'm just talking.
Kang Jianfei smiled.
He only remembers that Polykin was acquired by Universal Records before 2000, but he didn't know the specific reason and when.
In fact, Polykin's bosses have a clear vision.
The reason they sold Polygon was that they believed that traditional records would be replaced by digital (online) music, so they sold Polygon in 1999 and sold them at a very high price.
As a result, with the rise of the Internet, digital music squeezed over the traditional record market a few years later, exactly the same as Polykin’s decision-making level had predicted.
Kang Jianfei thought about it, wrote down three English names and said: You start to acquire a music company in the United States, and the scale does not need to be too large. By the way, find these three girls.
Beyoncé, Britney, Christina, Cheng Shengming glanced at it and said with a wry smile, these three names are in the United States, and there are eight thousand or eight thousand. How do you ask me to find Ah?
Kang Jianfei said: Of course, it is a bit famous, so you will be asked to find it.I often went to the United States a few years ago, so I paid attention to these three girls and thought they had great potential.Beyoncé once joined a singing group called True Destiny. Britney and Christina are both members of Disney's Mickey Mouse Club. You will know if you go to the United States to inquire.
That's good.
Cheng Shengming breathed a sigh of relief.
What he didn't expect was that among the three girls, Christina just turned 15, while Beyoncé and Britney were both 14 years old, one younger than the other.
Kang Jianfei had no choice but to Ah. He was not familiar with American singers at first, and even fewer people had not yet debuted in the mid-1990s and had the right age.
Maybe it was because of luck. Cheng Shengming hired a private detective from the United States and only took one month to get the exact good news:
After the group was disbanded, Beyoncé first signed into Erica Records, which was abandoned by the company last year and had to return to his hometown in disgrace;
After the disbandment of MMC, Britney had no choice but to return to the town to study in middle school, and now she has formed a student band at the school;
Christina's situation is slightly better. After MMC was disbanded, she began to participate in recording record sample records, which can not only earn some living expenses but also have the opportunity to be noticed by the record company.
The songs she recorded for Japanese singer Nakanishi Kei three times last year also became a best-selling track.
But this is useless. The singer of the little singer is not a singer at all, and it is difficult to have a chance to make a comeback.
These three are all the big singers Ah who will be popular all over the world in the future. After receiving the news, Kang Jianfei suddenly didn't know how to operate.
Because they are too young now, many song styles are not suitable, so it is even more impossible to be sexy or sexy.
After thinking about it, Kang Jianfei decided to let the three of them combine, and the name of the group was also called "True Destiny".When they all turn 16, they will develop separately.
Haha, tie these three girls together, and three big singers who will become famous in the future will serve themselves in bed. It seems interesting to think about it. I have to say that Kang Jianfei still has not changed his mind no matter how big his career is.
In addition to identifying the three starring roles of Zhao Yazhi, Athena Chu and Ye Tong, he also named Li Hanxiang to be the director because he is a master in Huangmei Opera films.
If an ordinary director is allowed to shoot, he will definitely not be able to shoot the charm he deserves.
Li Hanxiang has been making movies in recent years, but unfortunately he is getting less and less able to keep up with the times. He almost made one movie and made one movie after another. Few companies are willing to invite him.
When Oriental TV Production Company found Li Hanxiang, the old man was recuperating in the hospital, and was not ill and his health was getting worse and worse. He obviously was unable to perform the director position.
Although Li Hanxiang could not go out to be a director himself, he recommended his old partner Xia Zuhui, who happened to be the director of the original "The Legend of the White Snake".
It was such a coincidence that I went around for a long time and then back.
Although Xia Zuhui's home is in Hong Kong, he often travels around the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three places. He is now serving as a director of an opera in Taiwan.
After receiving the invitation, he immediately rushed back to Hong Kong and was quite excited to get the script of "The Legend of the New White Snake" because the drama was so good to his taste.
Just when Xia Zuhui was in full swing to form the crew, Ye Zipei also came to Hong Kong. Kang Jianfei, who came to attend the year-end shareholders' meeting of Oriental Music Group, attended various year-end meetings during this period, and was so bored that she was terrified.
Oriental Music Group is headquartered in Hong Kong. The group's president is Cheng Shengming. He once held an important position at Atlantic Records, a subsidiary of Warner Records.
In 1990, Times and Warner merged, and its subsidiary Atlantic Records invested in establishing Interscpe Records. Cheng Shengming was transferred to the new company as the vice president of the executive.
As Interscpe Records grew and grew, Cheng Shengming, as a Chinese, was gradually squeezed out of the decision-making circle. He returned to Hong Kong in anger and joined Oriental Music Group through a friend's introduction. He was directly appointed as the group's vice president by Kang Jianfei.
Because of his super working ability, this guy is now the president.
In addition to Cheng Shengming and Ye Zipei, there were also Taiwanese UFO Records Peng Guohua and Wu Chuchu, mainland Rolling Stone Records Zhang Peiren, Korean trendy records Jiang Zhongguo, Singapore Haidian Records Xu Huanliang and Huang Yuancheng, Japanese Ai Hui Music, and Japanese popular records Deng Yimin.
Everyone sat together, first talked about the situation last year, analyzed the current global music market situation, and then discussed cooperation between companies next year.
Kang Jianfei kept sitting next to him and listened, and interjected from time to time.
After a while, Deng Yimin suddenly said: Huaxing Records is almost out of reach. I want to invite Mr. Xu and Mr. Huang from Haidie Records to join hands to eat it.
Huaxing Records are no longer available?Kang Jianfei was quite surprised. It was Run Run Shaw's company, and TVB was helping behind it. Why couldn't it be done?
In fact, Huaxing Records is really not good.
Its main business is concentrated in Hong Kong, but it has been hit by Fengxing Records and Polykin and has suffered losses for two consecutive years.
Even if there is no Fengxing Records, Huaxing Records from the original time and space will be sold to the South China Morning Post Group, and now it is only half a year ahead of schedule.
Xu Huanliang strongly recognized Deng Yimin's suggestion, because Huaxing Records also has several branches in Southeast Asia. Taking Huaxing will help Haidie Records expand. He said: The South China Morning Post seems to be negotiating the acquisition with Huaxing, and we must do it quickly.
Cheng Shengming suddenly interrupted: The group's layout in Hong Kong and Nanyang is already mature, and there is no need to acquire another Huaxing, which will only make our organizational structure more bloated.
Deng Yimin said: But acquiring Huaxing will benefit us even more!
Cheng Shengming said: There is really no need to acquire it. We just need to take advantage of the opportunity of Huaxing changing hands and poach its outstanding producers and singers.
Deng Yimin and Xu Huanliang wanted to argue again, but Kang Jianfei suddenly said: That's it, there is no need to acquire Huaxing.Mr. Deng and Mr. Xu, you will make arrangements early when you go back to try to dig up the outstanding employees of Huaxing Records.
All right.Deng Yimin and Xu Huanliang said helplessly.The chairman has spoken, what else can they say?
Although Huaxing Records is losing money now, it does have many good singers under its umbrella, such as Andy Andy Chan, Sammi Cheng, Coco Lee, etc.
In addition, Huaxing has several gold medal producers, which are more precious than singers. Red singers are like eggs, while gold medal music producers are the hens laying eggs.
If all these people are dug up, then Huaxing Records will only be left with a lot of garbage. Even if the South China Morning Post Group acquires it, it will only cause headaches.
When the meeting ended, Kang Jianfei specifically kept Cheng Shengming and said: Asia has developed almost the same, and it is time to start entering the US market.
It's very difficult.Cheng Shengming only answered two words.
Kang Jianfei said: No matter how difficult it is, you have to try it.
Cheng Shengming said: If you want to expand in the United States, there is only one way left, which is to acquire a local American record company and use local American singers to occupy the market. It is impossible for Chinese singers to enter.
Of course Kang Jianfei knew about this situation that if European and American record companies want to expand in Asia, they can only acquire Asian companies and use Asian singers. The cultural gap between the East and the West is too serious.
How about acquiring Polykin?Kang Jianfei asked with a smile.
Uh... Cheng Shengming had nothing to say in an instant, and after reacting for a long time, he smiled bitterly, Mr. Kang, you want a snake to swallow the elephant Ah.
For children born in the 1990s and 2000s, they may be unfamiliar with the name Polykin, but it is indeed the oldest, largest and most powerful record company in the world in the 1990s.
Haha, I'm just talking.
Kang Jianfei smiled.
He only remembers that Polykin was acquired by Universal Records before 2000, but he didn't know the specific reason and when.
In fact, Polykin's bosses have a clear vision.
The reason they sold Polygon was that they believed that traditional records would be replaced by digital (online) music, so they sold Polygon in 1999 and sold them at a very high price.
As a result, with the rise of the Internet, digital music squeezed over the traditional record market a few years later, exactly the same as Polykin’s decision-making level had predicted.
Kang Jianfei thought about it, wrote down three English names and said: You start to acquire a music company in the United States, and the scale does not need to be too large. By the way, find these three girls.
Beyoncé, Britney, Christina, Cheng Shengming glanced at it and said with a wry smile, these three names are in the United States, and there are eight thousand or eight thousand. How do you ask me to find Ah?
Kang Jianfei said: Of course, it is a bit famous, so you will be asked to find it.I often went to the United States a few years ago, so I paid attention to these three girls and thought they had great potential.Beyoncé once joined a singing group called True Destiny. Britney and Christina are both members of Disney's Mickey Mouse Club. You will know if you go to the United States to inquire.
That's good.
Cheng Shengming breathed a sigh of relief.
What he didn't expect was that among the three girls, Christina just turned 15, while Beyoncé and Britney were both 14 years old, one younger than the other.
Kang Jianfei had no choice but to Ah. He was not familiar with American singers at first, and even fewer people had not yet debuted in the mid-1990s and had the right age.
Maybe it was because of luck. Cheng Shengming hired a private detective from the United States and only took one month to get the exact good news:
After the group was disbanded, Beyoncé first signed into Erica Records, which was abandoned by the company last year and had to return to his hometown in disgrace;
After the disbandment of MMC, Britney had no choice but to return to the town to study in middle school, and now she has formed a student band at the school;
Christina's situation is slightly better. After MMC was disbanded, she began to participate in recording record sample records, which can not only earn some living expenses but also have the opportunity to be noticed by the record company.
The songs she recorded for Japanese singer Nakanishi Kei three times last year also became a best-selling track.
But this is useless. The singer of the little singer is not a singer at all, and it is difficult to have a chance to make a comeback.
These three are all the big singers Ah who will be popular all over the world in the future. After receiving the news, Kang Jianfei suddenly didn't know how to operate.
Because they are too young now, many song styles are not suitable, so it is even more impossible to be sexy or sexy.
After thinking about it, Kang Jianfei decided to let the three of them combine, and the name of the group was also called "True Destiny".When they all turn 16, they will develop separately.
Haha, tie these three girls together, and three big singers who will become famous in the future will serve themselves in bed. It seems interesting to think about it. I have to say that Kang Jianfei still has not changed his mind no matter how big his career is.