Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 168 Awards
"Have you really decided to invest in a cinema chain?"

Florence Hui, who was sorting documents, looked up at Zhou Ziheng.

Zhou Ziheng is preparing the application materials.

This time, he not only applied to establish a film and television company, but also planned to set up an investment company.

The difference is that investment companies will choose to register in the mainland.

At that time, both the film and television companies and cinema chains will be controlled by this investment company.

In response to Florence Hui’s question, he nodded, saying that this was already confirmed and would not be changed.

“Except for a few cinema chains in Hong Kong, almost all other cinema chains are operating at a loss.

Are you so confident that your cinema chain can make money?"

Looking at Huo Wenxi who looked worried, Zhou Ziheng said, "I can't guarantee that the cinema can make money for me.

But I have a film and television company and a theater chain, which allows me to be free from the control of certain people."

As for making money, Zhou Ziheng himself is actually not sure that he will definitely make money.

But having a cinema chain in hand can increase Zhou Ziheng's influence.

At the very least, this would allow him to rise to a higher level of capital from being a mere artist at the mercy of others.

Aren’t there many people in the Hong Kong circle who are unhappy with him and exclude him?

I will be promoted directly to be your boss.

If anyone is dissatisfied with me or excludes me, I will use the resources at my disposal to suppress you.

Of course, making money is definitely a priority.

After all, no one doesn't like to have a lot of money.

"I'll leave the film and television company's affairs to you from now on. After Johnnie To and others resign from the Metropolitan, they should immediately start filming after they join the company.

I read the script he handed over, it's pretty good, I may not make a lot of money, but I shouldn't lose money.

You can help me keep an eye on the funds when the time comes."

Zhou Ziheng looked at Huo Wenxi solemnly and said, "You are the person I trust the most. I hope you can help me keep an eye on the accounts."

Florence Hui was stunned.

After a while, he lowered his head and whispered, "I won't let you down."

……

In March, the award season arrives, and most of the Chinese music awards are held during this period.

Music awards from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and even Singapore have begun to be presented one after another.

The first is the Singapore Golden Melody Awards.

Zhou Ziheng's "Fairy Tale" won the Best Golden Song Award, and "Courage" won the Best Composition Award.

Afterwards, Hong Kong Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards and Top Ten Songs.

This is different from last year when only Zhou Ziheng’s version was given a consolation prize.

This year, Zhou Ziheng became famous internationally due to the huge sales of his English albums. We dared not give him just a consolation prize for these two awards, and gave Zhou Ziheng a place in the top ten golden songs of both awards.

The winner of the Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs is "Courage".

"Fairy Tale" also won the Most Popular Mandarin Song Award.

The top ten hits was "Laughing at the Wind and Clouds", and the gold award for the most popular male singer was presented to Zhou Ziheng.

Then there was the Metro Radio awards.

Although the influence of this award is suppressed by the Top Ten Chinese Songs and Top Ten Songs, this award is the one that has been given to Zhou Ziheng the most in Hong Kong.

He won a total of four awards in this category.

Including important awards such as Best Male Singer, Best Golden Song, and Best Composition.

However, among the four major awards in Hong Kong's music scene, Zhou Ziheng did not win any award.

As for the reason!
Of course it’s because of Shuang Muxi.

This guy has a grudge against Zhou Ziheng, and he works for Commercial Radio. Zhou Ziheng once asked Commercial Radio to fire this guy.

But Commercial Radio ignored Zhou Ziheng.

As a result, Zhou Ziheng directly cut off ties with Commercial Radio, and the song broadcasting rights of "Fairy Tale" and the subsequent English album "Zhou Ziheng" were not sold to Commercial Radio.

Without authorization for Zhou Ziheng's songs, commercial radio stations are not only unable to play songs from Zhou Ziheng's two albums, but also unable to play the songs from his two albums.

Even if fans requested the song, he couldn't play it.

This brought the relationship between Commercial Radio and Zhou Ziheng to a freezing point.

Therefore, it is very normal that Zhou Ziheng did not win any award at the Hong Kong Music Awards hosted by Commercial Radio.

Attended several award shows in Hong Kong and held a book signing event in Hong Kong.

On March 20th, Zhou Ziheng officially bid farewell to Hong Kong and embarked on a signing tour in other regions.

Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, then the United States, Canada...

Zhou Ziheng attended one or two sessions in each region under the arrangement of EMi.

While Zhou Ziheng was holding a book signing event, his work on establishing his film and television company and cinema chain did not stop in Hong Kong.

He deliberately left Florence Hui in charge.

Florence Hui did a great job on these tasks.

In April, she and the manager appointed by Zhou Ziheng contacted a total of 16 theaters that needed to be sold and were negotiating the purchase price.

As for the film and television company, Johnnie To has already resigned from Metropolitan.

However, Zhou Ziheng did not ask him to bring out all the other people he knew in the metropolis.

The Metropolitan has not been disbanded yet and the company is still operating.

It doesn't matter if we dig up one or two people.

If Zhou Ziheng directly poached most of the people in the other company, not only would the penalty he would have to pay be an astronomical figure.

It will also directly become a mortal enemy with TVB.

The relationship between TVB and Zhou Ziheng is actually very good.

Unlike Commercial Radio and Radio Hong Kong, there was an obvious intention to exclude Zhou Ziheng when dealing with him.

Perhaps because it’s almost 97, TVB treats mainland singers like Zhou Ziheng quite well.

At least Zhou Ziheng’s songs have never been treated unfairly at TVB.

Whenever Zhou Ziheng's songs are released, they will always receive the exposure they deserve.

Therefore, if TVB had not done something that made Zhou Ziheng unhappy, Zhou Ziheng would not have chosen to deal with them directly.

Moreover, it is obvious that the Met can no longer hold on and will disband next year.

By then, the people in the Metropolis will become free, and the talents that Zhou Ziheng desires can naturally be recruited.

Therefore, Zhou Ziheng specifically reminded Johnnie To not to take a large number of people away directly.

However, in fact, Johnnie To does have a very good position in the Met.

There are actually a lot of people who want to go with him.

As soon as Johnnie To left, many people who had a good relationship with him contacted him and wanted to leave with him.

Although they were all persuaded by Johnnie To.

But it was inevitable that TVB found out about this.

In addition, Johnnie To did not hide the fact that he started a company with Chow Chi Hang after leaving Metropolitan.

This allowed TVB to quickly find out that the source of all this was Zhou Ziheng.

For this reason, TVB's current helmsman Fang Yihua even called Zhou Ziheng specifically for this purpose.

"Hengzi, this is a bit unkind of you! Not only did you poach Johnnie To and Yau Nai-hoi, but you also targeted those ordinary employees of our Metropolitan."

Fang Yihua said with a smile as soon as she got through to Zhou Ziheng.

(End of this chapter)