Entertainment 1998

Chapter 706 Chapter 705, Golden Globe Award
[Beijing Daily:
The king of pop music Jiang Feng has created another miracle. His latest album "Read All About It" has sold over 4 million copies worldwide in just 400 days after its release.

The Kazakh song "Zhurek" in the album was publicly mentioned by the leader of Kazakhstan, who said that it was the Chinese singer Jiang Feng who promoted the Kazakh language to the world.

In order to thank Jiang Feng for this action, we specially invite Jiang Feng to visit Kazakhstan at an appropriate time in the name of the country...】

[Entertainment Weekly:
Jiang Feng's latest music album "Read All About It" created an unprecedented record. The 14 songs in the album were sung in 11 languages.

For this reason, the World Record Certification Company specially issued Jiang Feng a Guinness World Record certificate.

This news was widely reported by major media around the world, including BBC, Fox, Sky TV, Fuji TV, SbS, etc.

…]

【Contemporary music scene:
When the songs from Jiang Feng's latest music album "Read All About It" were topping the music charts in Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Arabia, Germany, France, Spain and other countries, Jiang Feng's music company Universal Music received copyright transfer requests from various countries.

Local music companies in these countries have expressed their willingness to pay high prices to invite local singers to cover songs in their native languages ​​from this music album.

According to the reporter, the first singer to obtain the Chinese cover rights of the Japanese song "ヤキモチ" was Asian pop queen Wang Fei. The Chinese version of this song is called "The Wind Rises"...】

The music album "read all about it" was released.

The person involved, Jiang Feng, seemed very calm. At 12 a.m. on December 25, Christmas Day, he was sitting in a breakfast shop at the entrance of Beijing Film Academy Community, reading a newspaper, eating pan-fried dumplings and drinking spicy soup.

Xiao Jintao, the owner of the steamed bun shop, and Jiang Feng had known each other for a long time. Seeing that the spicy soup in Jiang Feng's bowl was almost empty, he took a spoon and helped Jiang Feng fill another bowl.

"Thank you!"

Jiang Feng, who was concentrating on reading the newspaper, said thank you without looking up.

"Hey, you're welcome."

The dark-skinned lady boss smiled naively, pointed outside the door, and said to Jiang Feng with a smile: "Brother Feng, since you gave us the sign of [Xiaoyao Town Hu La Tang], our business has been much better.

Before, many students from the Beijing Film Academy who didn’t like spicy soup or fried dumplings often come here to support the restaurant.”

"haha, really?"

At this time, Jiang Feng finally closed the newspaper and raised his head.

"Of course. We only earned 300 yuan a day before, but now we can make almost 600." In front of others, they might avoid talking about income, but in front of Jiang Feng, the couple spoke frankly.

"Well, now that you've earned so much money, you should buy a house. The residential areas near the Beijing Film Academy are pretty good and the prices are right.

Even if you don't have enough money, you can still borrow some money from the bank.

You should know that if you buy a house, you can bring your children who go to school in your hometown here. After all, this is Beijing, and the educational resources here are incomparable to those in your hometown."

"Hey, let's buy a house..., is that really possible?" Jiang Feng's thoughts were so broad during the chat that Xiao Jintao and his wife were a little uncomfortable with it.

"of course!"

Jiang Feng smiled, drank the last sip of Hu La Tang, left 10 yuan on the table, then got up and left the breakfast shop named [Xiaoyao Town Hu La Tang] by himself.

When Jiang Feng came out of the breakfast shop, he discovered that heavy snow had already fallen from the sky, and the road where he had been jogging in the morning was now covered in white.

Well, no wonder there are so few people in the breakfast shop today.

It turns out that everyone is unwilling to go out in such cold weather? !

……

Jiang Feng came in from outside the community and walked into the corridor of Unit 3, Building 1. He was stamping his feet with a few newspapers in his hands, trying to shake off the snow on his feet before going upstairs.

At this time, I saw a red BMW X5 slowly driving in from outside the community, and then parked in the parking space in front of Building 3.

After taking a look at the license plate, Jiang Feng immediately raised his hand to say hello.

"Hi, Sister Hua!"

Maybe it was because of the cold weather, Wang Jinghua was wrapped up like a dumpling today, wearing a long black down jacket and a thick twisted wool hat on her head. And that was not enough, she even had a thick scarf around her neck.

This is why Jiang Feng looked at the license plate just now, because from the outside, he couldn't tell who was driving.

"Hey, Jiang Feng, are you cold?"

"Okay!"

Jiang Feng, who was wearing sportswear, smiled and led her upstairs.

After climbing the stairs to the second floor and standing at the door of Room 2, Wang Jinghua pointed at the door and whispered, "Will the people inside give me a surprise?"

"Ha ha…"

Jiang Feng laughed.

"Sister Hua, I've been studying hard lately. I'm determined to graduate from the Beijing Film Academy. To this end, I've been living alone here for five days."

"Tsk, I don't believe you. Yesterday morning, I called you and it was Li Xing who answered the phone." Wang Jinghua muttered softly and followed Jiang Feng into Room 201.

Room 201, the heating is on high.

As soon as she entered the door, Wang Jinghua began to take off her hat, untie her scarf, and take off her down jacket.

Of course, when she arrived at Jiang Feng's house, the old lady was still very rude.

"Jiang Feng, I know you ate outside, but I haven't eaten yet. How about you make me some egg noodles?"

"Don't eat egg noodles. They don't have much nutrition." After entering the house, Jiang Feng washed his hands in the bathroom and went to the kitchen.

"Sister Hua, I still have a lot of meat filling and some skin left from the wontons I ate last night. How about I make you some wontons now?"

"Hey, thank you for your help then."

After saying a few polite words, Wang Jinghua changed into slippers and came to the kitchen. She leaned against the door frame, watched Jiang Feng cooking, and started chatting with him in a relaxed manner.

"I came here today because I want to talk to you about a few things."

"Okay, you say."

"The chief director of the 2003 Spring Festival Gala was changed to Yang Dongsheng. He had invited you before, but I didn't tell you because you were busy.

Now it’s only a month away from the Spring Festival Gala, so it’s time to talk about this.

Director Yang Dongsheng said that the theme of this year’s Spring Festival Gala is “Prosperous China”, and he wants you to create a song based on the theme of the Spring Festival Gala, just like last year…”

"No way, I don't have time!"

Before Wang Jinghua could finish her words, Jiang Feng directly refused.

"Sister Hua, the song Zhurek is very popular right now. Tell the Spring Festival Gala production team that I will sing this song if I participate. If they are not happy, forget it."

"'Zhurek'... Jiang Feng, this song is sung in Kazakh." Without waiting to communicate with the Spring Festival Gala program team, Wang Jinghua raised the question herself.

"Sister Hua, we have Kazakhs in China."

"Well, okay, I'll use this reason to communicate with them."

Wang Jinghua nodded. The two of them had already discussed this matter. "Jiang Feng, as you know, there is an unknown virus in the south now. It is highly contagious, so Director Hu Mei called me yesterday.

It is said that the crew of "The Emperor of Han Wu" now has two options. One is to postpone the shooting date of the TV series until there are no problems at all; and the other option is to shoot in a closed manner, confining the entire crew in Hengdian Town.

She said she wanted your advice.”

"Let's shoot in a closed environment."

Jiang Feng recalled how rampant this disease was in his previous life, and gave direct advice.

"But Sister Hua, you need to tell Director Hu Mei on the phone to prepare medicines for the crew, especially Isatis root."

"Okay, I understand." Having said this, Wang Jinghua paused and quickly added.

"If the entire crew is locked up in Hengdian for filming, you will probably have to join the crew around February 2th. Will you make it in time?

What’s more, if your film is nominated for an Oscar, you will have to go to the United States in March.”

"Um…"

After wrapping the wontons and about to put them into the pot to cook, Jiang Feng hesitated for a moment and turned to look at Wang Jinghua.

"Sister Hua, I can choose not to go to the United States if necessary."

"Row!"

Seeing that Jiang Feng had made up his mind, Wang Jinghua did not raise any objections and continued the conversation.

"In recent days, I received three calls from abroad. The first one was from South Korea. The crew of Dae Jang Geum wanted to buy all the Korean covers of your Kazakh song Zhurek to be used as the theme song of the TV series, but the price was not too high."

“Not for sale!
However, I can help them write a theme song."

"okay."

Wang Jinghua nodded and continued, "The second item is from the Hollywood crew of Pirates of the Caribbean. They want to directly purchase your German song Johnny Boy to be used as the theme song for the movie."

"Sell!

Don't ask the price, just sell it to them as long as they pay. "At this time, Jiang Feng, who had already cooked the wontons, took the wontons out of the pot and said firmly.

"Yeah, that's what I mean too."

Seeing the wontons in Jiang Feng's bowl, Wang Jinghua swallowed deeply. She had to say, Jiang Feng was a great cook.

Not to mention his freshly made wontons, just talk about his wonton soup, which looks very appetizing. The wonton soup is made with chicken broth, and is added with seaweed, dried shrimps, coriander, and finally drizzled with sesame oil.

Just one smell of it is enough to make even the hungry people unable to take their eyes away.

However, although Wang Jinghua was hungry, she had not forgotten the last thing she came here for today.

"Jiang Feng..."

"Ok?"

"There are several performance companies abroad who say that your songs are very popular overseas and are planning to help you organize a solo concert in Europe and America. Do you want to take the job?"

"Um…"

After hearing the news, Jiang Feng fell silent.

He waited until Wang Jinghua sat at the table and ate half of the wontons in the bowl before he sighed and said, "Sister Hua, let's wait a little longer. Although my music albums sell well in Europe and the United States, it is basically due to my marketing planning.

But if you want white people and black people to pay real money to watch an Asian concert, it is still a bit difficult at present. "

"it is good!"

Wang Jinghua, who was leaning over the bowl and eating wontons with big mouthfuls, gave Jiang Feng a thumbs up at this time.

The world is awake!

…………

A snowy day.

Wang Jinghua just chatted at Jiang Feng's house and then drove to go to work. As the top entertainment agent in the country, she is now very busy.

Especially the few new artists she signed, they are all very resourceful. Take Bai Xue, for example. Wang Jinghua had already planned her career path, but she actually met a singer with a very ugly appearance.

They had known each other for a short time, and in less than a month, they were living together.

Wang Jinghua wanted to control her, saying that at such a young age, she should focus on her career.

But before she could finish her words, Bai Xue said, "My husband Yu Fan said that as long as I graduate, marry him and have children, he will use all his connections to support me."

It would be fine if it was just one white snow.

Now here comes Wen Zhang. Wen Zhang accidentally read a post written by a great person on Tianya Forum, saying that even if a singer, actor, and director is as good as Jiang Feng, his career started with the help of Wang Fei...

Wen Zhang, who was strongly inspired, now set his sights on Xu Jinglei.

Whenever he had time, he would always hang around Xu Jinglei's workplace, buy her coffee, buy her drinks, and even sing for her.

Xu Jinglei, who was also an agent, couldn't stand it anymore, so she called Wang Jinghua and said, "If you don't get your new guy away, I'll find someone to chop off his genitals and feed them to the dogs."

Wang Jinghua is busy.

And Jiang Feng had some free time.

Actually, Jiang Feng has only two things to do now. He goes to school to write papers during the day and goes to Beijing Film Studio to oversee the post-production of the movie "The Yellow Sea" at night.

At present, the post-production of "The Yellow Sea" is going very smoothly. Dou Wei has completed the film soundtrack, and the next step is subtitles and sound effects.

Judging from the current progress, let alone releasing it during the 2003 Spring Festival, even if it is released during the New Year's Day period, it probably won't cause any problems.

During the post-production of the movie "The Yellow Sea", Han Shanye has come here several times. Every time he comes, he asks why the post-production has not been completed yet?
Jiang Feng could understand Han Shanye's impatience, because he wanted to submit the film for review as soon as possible to see if there was any possibility of compromise.

As long as there is no obstruction from above, Han Shanye is confident that Jiang Feng can use the movie "The Yellow Sea" to replicate the success of the movie "The Unknown".

However, considering the bloodiness of the film "The Yellow Sea", it is estimated that the film regulatory department will not agree to release this film in China. Even if Jiang Feng condenses the 140-minute film into 90 minutes, it will not work.

Of course, Jiang Feng did not tell Han Shanye this.

What if Han Shanye, who is so powerful, suddenly realizes his wish to have "The Yellow Sea" screened in the country!

Whether you are busy or idle, time passes very quickly.

After Christmas, it is New Year’s Day. On the 15th day after New Year’s Day, the Beijing Film Academy began its winter vacation.

Jiang Feng, whose final assignment had just passed acceptance, also welcomed this rare holiday. However, he was different from the students of Beijing Film Academy who were on winter vacation. The students returned to their hometowns, while Jiang Feng flew to Los Angeles, USA.

On January 2003, 1, the 19th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards ceremony will be officially held.

(End of this chapter)