"Fangfang" was filmed successfully for only 8 days, and the crew was forced to stop operating. The main reason was that Sophie Marceau had a contract dispute with the original company and could not come to Hong Kong for a while.

The whole thing was that when Gao Meng Company had no hope of renewing the contract with Sophie Marceau, he forced Sophie Marceau to take on a movie in the last two months of his contract period.

The current situation is that Sophie Marceau has expired with the agency of Gaomeng Company, but the contract for the movie she is filming must be completed.

The entire plot of "Fang Fang" was greatly modified by Kang Jianfei, for example, the background of the film was placed in Hong Kong. Liang Jiahui plays the male lead, Liang Lehui, a poor intern in Hong Kong who has just graduated from school, while Sophie Marceau plays the female lead, Fang Fang, is a French perfume majoring college student who came to Hong Kong to visit his grandmother during the summer vacation.

As for Liang Jiahui's fiancée in the film, he is his distant cousin. Her cousin's family is relatively rich. Liang Jiahui has been living in her cousin's house for several years since she went to Hong Kong Island to study. Her family members on both sides hope that they can get married.

As for other plots, they are basically similar to the original film of "Fangfang", except that the lines have become more oriental, and the rhythm will be brighter than the original film, and there will be comedy scenes in many places.

To put it bluntly, Kang Jianfei turned "Fangfang" into a Hong Kong romantic comedy, but retained the most interesting thing in the original film.

Doing so can ensure the box office of the movie in Asia. As for whether these changes will be accepted by French audiences and film festival judges, we can only wait and see.

Just as the filming of "Fangfang" was suspended, two major news happened in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

First, a group of film dealers led by Li Xiaoping and Ma Fengguo initiated the establishment of the Hong Kong Film Association. There was also symbolically invited Kang Jianfei to join the association. Unfortunately, only a minion was sent to send an invitation letter. Li Xiaoping and Ma Fengguo did not go there personally. Kang Jianfei was too lazy to see him, so he asked Li Yingfeng to throw the invitation letter directly into the trash can.

Secondly, the Hong Kong Branch of the International Recording Association sued Oriental TV Production Company and Phoenix TV for infringement because the music used in TV series and variety shows rarely paid the copyright fee. Of course, the defendant was not only Kang Jianfei's side, but TVB was also sued, and the situation was even more serious than Oriental TV Production Company and Phoenix TV.

The Hong Kong Branch of the International Recording Association stated in a lawyer's letter that several companies should immediately stop infringement and pay the copyright fees owed in previous years, otherwise all Hong Kong record companies will jointly ban the two TV stations and Oriental TV production companies.

It is naturally impossible to ban it. Wireless TVB and Phoenix TV are monopoly in Hong Kong. Moreover, they also have Huaxing Records and Fengxing Records. Other record companies also need to promote the two TV stations, and it will not be beneficial to each other to break up.

Moreover, it took time to collect evidence for infringement for many years. The lawsuit will last for a long time, and both sides will pay a large amount of lawyer fees. The best result is that everyone sits down privately to negotiate, and the TV station stops the infringement, and then pays the record association a one-time copyright fee as compensation.

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Administrative Building, Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City, No. 1, Kang Jianfei's Office.

Li Yanfeng, wearing an OL uniform skirt, walked in with the documents in her arms. Huizhou reported: "Brother Fei, France sent a message saying that Sophie Marceau would take half a month to come to Hong Kong."

"I understand. After the exact time is available, you will arrange for the crew to pick it up." Kang Jianfei nodded.

Li Yingfeng said again: "In addition, do you want to attend the establishment ceremony of the Hong Kong Film Association next week?"

"What am I going to do? I'm not a member." Kang Jianfei said disdainfully.

It’s not that Kang Jianfei does not support Hong Kong’s professional film association, but that the so-called Hong Kong Film Association is too utilitarian and the initiator is just a bunch of film dealers.

The initiator of the Imaging Film Association and the first chairman, Li Xiaoping, is just a filmmaker who specializes in importing western films to Hong Kong. Sometimes she only buys a western film in two or three years. Her two theaters often show various old films, and during good schedules, they often rent them to the Jiang family's Anle Theater to screen the latest Hollywood blockbusters.

Speaking of which, the theater under Li Xiaoping was previously a member of the new era theater chain temporarily established by Kang Jianfei.

Do you believe that a film businessman who makes money by introducing Western Film and renting cinemas is the purpose of establishing the Film Association to promote the development of Hong Kong films and safeguard the interests of film practitioners?

Let’s talk nonsense. They initiated the establishment of the Film Association just to expand their influence in the Hong Kong film industry and make money in the future.

It can be seen from Li Xiaoping and Ma Fengguo's refusal to invite Kang Jianfei to the meeting in person that they did not want Kang Jianfei, a big shot in the film industry, to join the association, because as long as Kang Jianfei joins, Zou Wenhuai, Mecca, Pan Disheng and others might also join, and Li Xiaoping and Ma Fengguo will no longer be able to sit firmly on the position of the chief and vice chairman of the association.

In order not to make wedding clothes for others, Li Xiaoping and Ma Fengguo formed the Hong Kong Film Association, which actually blocked all the major film giants in Hong Kong.

Without DreamWorks, Jiahe, Xinyi City, Debao and other companies, what is the Hong Kong Film Association? It is a thing that sells dog meat under the guise of sheep.

However, Kang Jianfei is not a god who knows everything. He forgot that Hong Kong's film rating system was created by Li Xiaoping. Two years later, the Hong Kong Film Association, which had no sense of existence, launched a foreign article as an introduction to hype the importance of Hong Kong film rating. In the end, it was really fucking successful. The Hong Kong Film Association has since become well-known to the public in Hong Kong.

With this contribution, Li Xiaoping won the Lifetime Film Achievement Award many years later and received an admission ticket to invest in and build cinemas in the mainland; Ma Fengguo transformed himself into a National People's Congress representative and became the chairman of the Hong Kong Arts Development Bureau after his return to Hong Kong.

Kang Jianfei is not interested in these two people and the association of Laushi, so he focuses on the lawsuit between the Recording Association, TV stations, and TV production companies.

At about 10 o'clock in the morning, Huang Xizhao and Zhong Jinghui walked into Kang Jianfei's office one after another. Huang Xizhao is still the general manager of Phoenix TV Station, while Zhong Jinghui is the general manager of Oriental TV Production Company, and Xu Xiaoming is the deputy general manager and program director of the TV Production Company.

"What do you think of the Recording Association's requirements?" Kang Jianfei asked.

Huang Xizhao said: "If you have a lawsuit, you will have to fight for two or three years. The record companies of the Record Association are also unhappy. As long as the TV station cooperates to counter-ban those companies, the record companies will surrender within half a year. This matter will definitely be left unresolved through negotiations. One thing is very important, that is, Phoenix Channel must reach an agreement with TVB in private to jointly respond to the Record Association's questioning."

Zhong Jinghui's view is different: "I think it's better to be polite first and then soldiers. Everyone sit down and talk to see how much money can be done, so that they can be done once and for all, so as not to be in endless trouble in the future."

Kang Jianfei did not ask in detail and made a decision directly: "Then let's do it, negotiate and resolve it first. If the differences are too big, we can't reach an agreement, and then do as Manager Huang said."

Huang Xizhao and Zhong Jinghui were both surprised. Unexpectedly, the topic of discussion today was decided by Kang Jianfei in a few words.

Then I heard Kang Jianfei say, "I invite you two to discuss what to do in the future. The scarcity of music in TV program production. Although Fengxing Records can compose music, at most it can create theme songs for TV series and variety shows. The demand for interludes is too high and too hard. Fengxing Records also has its own things to do."

There is another thing Kang Jianfei didn't say, that is, Oriental TV production company also needs to pay to ask people from Fengxing Records to write music. If there are all kinds of interludes and background music in a TV series. If you spend about ten TV series throughout the year and ask someone to write music, the production cost will be greatly increased. This is also why TVB and Huang Zhan and Gu Jiahui have a good cooperative relationship, but they refuse to ask them to write, and they always use the music of major record companies without paying.

Generally speaking, when TV stations use the latest creations, they have to pay a certain usage fee. For example, TVB once paid Kang Jianfei the copyright fee for "The Original Scenery of Hometown". However, there is not much attention to old works. The copyright of this song "Shanghai Bund" by Kang Jianfei is still in the hands of Kang Jianfei, but TVB has used it countless times in recent years and has not given a penny.

The Recording Association sued two TV stations this time. This is why almost all the works of record companies in Hong Kong were infringed and used for free by the TV station.

Huang Xizhao and Zhong Jinghui discussed in Kang Jianfei's office for a long time, but they really couldn't discuss any good countermeasures. This kind of thing was obvious. Either continue to use the infringement for free, or increase the production cost in the future and find someone to write the songs by themselves. I really couldn't find any compromise.

The three of them chatted for a while but they couldn't imagine it. Just as Huang Xizhao and Zhong Jinghui were about to leave, Li Yafeng, who gave them coffee, suddenly interrupted and said, "Mr. Kang, Manager Huang, Manager Zhong, I remember that I received a letter three months ago, and someone recommended a mainland composer. The compensation required by mainlanders is very low, so why not try it with that person?"

Huang Xizhao also recalled: "Oh, you are talking about a letter of recommendation written by the Legislative Council employee. I have also received it. A mainland composer who just came to Hong Kong, what good things can he write about? Write about the red sun rising in the east?"

Kang Jianfei ignored Huang Xizhao's contempt for mainland musicians, but suddenly remembered a great man. He asked, "Meifeng, what is the name of that recommended composer?"

"I forgot what name, I'll go find out if the letter is still there." Li Yafeng turned around and ran outside.
Chapter completed!