There are pitfalls that should be stepped on.
Previously, Xu Feng believed that the plot of "Thunderbolt" was too tragic and did not fit Chen Long's character, so he refused to invest in it.
But Chen Long wanted to transform, and the two had differences.
When the matter came to Yang Ye, he played a balancing act.
Zhan Xu Feng did not cast "Thunderbolt", but personally worked on "Men in Black" for Chen Long and Yuan Biao.
This incident caused an uproar in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, and everything was said.
For example, Yang Ye chose women between brothers and women.
Upon seeing this, Jiahe made a careful analysis and believed that the disagreement actually came from Xu Feng and Chen Long, and Yang Ye was a conciliatory person.
And Chen Lung is second only to Yang Ye in the Hong Kong film industry. His movies rarely lose money.
This incident is an opportunity for Jiahe.
With the power of "Red Zone" becoming a global hit, even if this "Human Torch" fails, where can it lose?
To take a step back, it doesn't matter if you lose a little, just think of it as buying horse bones for a thousand gold.
Therefore, Jiahe took the initiative to extend an olive branch to Chen Long and expressed his willingness to invest in "Thunderbolt".
Because "Men in Black" is expected to start shooting in late July, Yang Ye took advantage of this time to help Tom Cruise film "Mission: Impossible".
Chen Long thought, if this is the case, then I should also go and shoot "Thunderbolt".
As a result, Jiahe and Chen Long hit it off immediately, and "Thunderbolt" was launched.
The next thing happened inexplicably in the direction of the original time and space.
Xu Feng previously rejected "Thunderbolt" because the plot was too tragic, and Yang Ye also said he was not sure.
Jiahe and Chen Long themselves became less confident as the filming progressed, and eventually began to change the plot.
The tragedy was changed into a comedy, Chen Long was given a girl, and Anita Yuen was added to the cast.
As a result, the first part of the movie was still a Chen Long-style police movie, but later it suddenly turned into a pure racing movie.
Some fighting was added to support the scene, which made the plot very unsmooth, as if it was forced together.
Because after the revision, literary drama became dispensable, so Chen Jiashang quit midway.
Chen Long also hired Chen Xunqi, Yuan Kui, Hong Jingbao, and Tang Jili to be responsible for action design and large-scale scene shooting.
In order to catch up with the summer release, each director led a team of people and started work at the same time.
Chen Long had no skills at all, so he found a bunch of stand-ins to complete the actions, and then shot some additional close-ups.
Since too many stand-ins were used, in order to avoid being interrupted, techniques such as frame extraction and editing were used to block the stand-ins, resulting in incoherent and unsmooth movements.
In the end, the entire movie looks like it was thrown together, with a nondescript plot and mediocre fighting.
After its release, the box office in Hong Kong was good, but overseas it was worse. The final global box office was US$20 million, less than one-fifth of "Red Zone".
Golden Harvest suffered a huge loss of HK$100 million because of "Thunderbolt", and Chow Wen-huai and Ho Guan-chang almost vomited blood.
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Yang Ye was too lazy to care about these things. As soon as he returned to Hong Kong, he was busy visiting Guan Zhilin.
Guan Zhilin was already three months pregnant. When Yang Ye got the news, she was in Europe and had no time to spare, so she could only wait until the filming was finished.
Good pregnancy. It would be a waste of genes for such a stunning beauty not to have a child.
At Guan Zhilin's house, Yang Ye stroked Guan Zhilin's flat belly and said softly: "I'm sorry, Jiahui, I'm late!"
Guan Zhilin pouted and said, "Are you the first one to see me when you come back?"
"Of course, I ran over as soon as I got off the plane!"
"Okay, I forgive you!"
Guan Zhilin said, arching into Yang Ye's arms.
Yang Ye looked at her moist red lips, quickly lowered his head and kissed her.
After kissing for a while, they didn't dare to continue, and then let go.
"Brother Ye, do you think our baby is a boy or a girl?"
"Didn't the doctor tell you?"
"I didn't ask!"
"Why not ask?"
"I remember you said before, you won't be surprised if you find out!"
"Um...I said it. But if you ask me to guess, I can't guess it either!"
"Then do you want it to be a boy or a girl?"
Yang Ye thought for a while: "It's a boy!"
"Hey, you obviously love your daughter more!"
Yang Ye sighed: "Hey, I went to Europe to promote a movie some time ago, and Xi'er stayed with me. She is sixteen years old and looks like a fairy.
I'm worried, she might be in love, I don't know which bastard will take advantage of her.
Jiahui, you are so beautiful. If we have a daughter, if she looks like you, she will not be as beautiful as heaven.
When I think about her growing up and wanting to fall in love and get married, I get upset. It would be better to have a son. ”
Guan Zhilin also wished to have a son, and said with a smile: "If you give birth to a son, you will be able to harm other people's girls. Will you worry less?"
"How can that be a disaster? Believe me, our children will definitely be outstanding."
But I thought in my heart, no matter how much harm he does, can he still harm me more than him?
Guan Zhilin hugged Yang Ye's arm and said happily: "Brother Ye, when our baby is born, I will definitely teach him well."
Yang Ye stayed with Guan Zhilin for two days and then ran to see Lan Jieying. This girl was also pregnant.
Yang Ye saved Lan Jieying and was kind to her. Later, the White Dragon King showed Lan Jieying her face and tricked her.
From then on, Lan Jieying decided that Yang Ye was the man she was destined to be, and she was completely devoted to Yang Ye.
Speaking of which, Yang Ye used the White Dragon King to trick Lan Jieying, which was a bit underhanded.
But the effect is very good. She now lives a worry-free life, which is better than the original fate of living on the street and dying alone.
After staying with Lan Jieying for another two days, Yang Ye came out of her home and sighed: "My shooting skills are not very accurate. There are only two pregnant women."
So I ran to find Akina Nakamori.
Throughout July, apart from checking the post-production of "The Matrix 2" and preparing for the pre-production of "Men in Black," Yang Ye was juggling family and women and continuing to sow seeds diligently.
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The animated film "Mulan" produced by Blue Bird Animation Studio has been launched in major Asian film markets since July, and has achieved impressive box office results.
In addition to "Mulan", another animated film released by Yang Ji, Studio Ghibli's "Listen Ear", was subsequently released in major theaters.
Relatively speaking, films such as "Mulan" that are suitable for the whole family are more popular, while romantic cartoons such as "Listen Ear" have a much smaller audience.
"Mulan" was released in Hong Kong for one month, with a box office of 27 million Hong Kong dollars.
At the same time as it is Zhou Xingchi's "The Return of the Soul".
The dark humor of "Return to the Soul" was not adaptable to the audience. The box office was only over 10 million, which was a disastrous failure for Zhou Xingchi. "Mulan" grossed NT$100 million in Taiwan. Among the movies released in Taiwan this year, it was second only to "Die Hard 3" with a box office of NT$130 million, which is astounding.
Even Yang Ye didn't expect that it would be so fierce.
However, the Disney version of Mulan is very popular in Taiwan. In addition, the current Mulan looks like Lin Qingxia, so it is not surprising.
"Mulan" also performed very well at the box office in the mainland, taking in 63 million yuan.
Overall, the box office performance of "Mulan" in Mainland China and Mainland China is comparable to that of Disney's original version. Hong Kong is a quarter higher, Taiwan is basically the same, and mainland China is several times higher.
This is naturally because the production team is all from China, the audience is closer emotionally, and the theater construction in the mainland is now better than in the original time and space.
Outside of China, the box office performance in various Asian countries is also very gratifying. Now many children know that in ancient China, there was a heroine named Hua Mulan.
Mulan has also become the idol of many little girls.
At the end of July, "Men in Black" completed preparations and officially started production.
"Mulan" will also be released in European and American theaters in August.
The "Spice Girls", who have been training for several months, came to Hong Kong and began recording the English theme song "Reflection" for "Mulan".
Check out the 16-9 book bar and see the correct version!
The "Spice Girls" will also go to Shenzhen's Guangming Film and Television City to shoot a MV, and then take advantage of the release of "Mulan" in Europe and the United States to make their official debut.
The Chinese version of "Reflection", "Myself", was recorded half a year ago and was sung by Li Wen.
Well, the Disney original version was also sung by Li Wen.
In addition, when "Mulan" was released in Japan and South Korea, corresponding Japanese and Korean versions of the theme songs were also released.
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Many reporters came to the press conference for "Men in Black".
The previous disagreement between Chen Long and Xu Feng caused a stir in the circle.
This time, Yang Ye and Chen Long appeared together, so naturally they would not let this topic go.
"Sir Yang, Brother Long chose to cooperate with Golden Harvest for his "Thunderbolt", is it because you don't like this movie?"
This kind of thing is difficult to explain, Yang Ye can only fool it.
"This was the company's decision. I was promoting "The Matrix" in Europe at the time, and when I knew it, it was already too late.
And I happened to be preparing for "Men in Black" again, so I decided to collaborate with Aaron and A Biao on this movie.
But I believe in Aaron's ability. He will definitely make a wonderful movie and will not disappoint everyone.
As for some people saying that Aaron and I had a falling out, this is simply overthinking.
We have been in the film industry together twenty years ago, and we will always be good brothers. ”
Chen Long said; "You all know the Japanese arcade game "The King of Fighters," right? There is a team in it called the Chinese Dragon Team. It is Brother Ye, me and A Biao. Even the Japanese know that we are good brothers!"< br>
"The King of Fighters 94" is the first generation of the King of Fighters series.
It brings together characters from "Hungry Wolf", "Fist of the Dragon", "Power Rangers" and "Wrath" under the name of SNK.
Originally there were only eight teams, but now there is one more team, the "Chinese Dragon Team" created with the images of Yang Ye, Chen Long and Yuan Biao.
Yang Ye has long been used to becoming a character in Japanese anime, games, or even a big BOSS.
Even though the Japanese company was suspected of infringing Yang Ye's portrait rights, he pretended not to have seen it.
They didn’t say it was you, the lawsuit may not be won, and even if you win, you won’t make much money.
It's better to be more generous, and you can increase your influence in disguised form.
When Chen Long mentions "The King of Fighters", everyone will smile.
Later, Yuan Biao also expressed his gratitude to the two bosses for protecting him. We will always be good brothers.
Then there was the question about "Mulan". Are you confident that it will be a big hit in Europe and the United States?
Yang Ye took the opportunity to introduce the third group "SpiceGirls" created by him after "Girls' Generation" and "F4".
However, he refused to say more about the relevant content, which aroused reporters' curiosity.
Just when Yang Ye was about to bring the topic to "Men in Black", a reporter suddenly asked: How long will the free strategy of "Toutiao Daily" continue?
Yang Ye said strangely: ""Toutiao Daily" is always free, which was stated when it was first published."
The Hong Kong newspaper industry is really going to be driven crazy by Yang Ye.
"Toutiao Daily" has been online for more than half a year, and its circulation has continued to increase. It has exceeded 600,000 copies, making it the largest circulation newspaper in Hong Kong.
However, not only was it unprofitable, it also lost 500 million.
At the same time, the circulation of major newspapers in Hong Kong has plummeted.
The number of copies of "Oriental Daily" dropped from 450,000 to 300,000, and that of "Sing Pao" dropped from 187,000 to 140,000.
The number of copies of "Tiantian Daily" and "Xinbao" dropped from 174,000 and 128,000 respectively to 110,000.
The number of copies of "Ming Pao" controlled by Yang Ye has also dropped to 120,000.
Yang Ye even beat his own people, what can others do?
Hong Kong newspapers often use the phrase "when a chicken dies, a chicken crows" to describe the frequent life and death of newspapers, and this is indeed the case.
The rise of "Toutiao Daily" was accompanied by the demise of many newspapers.
The entertainment newspaper "TV Daily", which had been published for 27 years, as well as the "Hong Kong United Daily News", "South China Economic News" and several publications were overwhelmed and soon closed down.
The Express, which has a history of 33 years, announced that it would cease publication.
Although major newspapers such as Oriental Daily are still alive, in order to survive, they began to engage in large-scale promotions. The promotions were ineffective, and they launched price reductions.
"Oriental Daily" and "Tian Tian Daily" both changed the standard selling price from 5 yuan to 2 yuan per copy. "Xinbao" added fuel to the fire and lowered the price to 1 yuan.
Of course, only Chinese-language newspapers were affected. The South China Morning Post, the English-language newspaper with the largest circulation in Hong Kong, increased its price from 6 yuan to 7 yuan. In fact, it also increased its price.
The price reduction strategy of Chinese newspapers is completely useless, because even if you only sell it for 10 cents, it still costs money, and you can't beat the free version of "Toutiao Daily".
"Toutiao Daily" also runs advertising promotions and steals a large number of advertising users.
As soon as the price reduction began, the stock prices of the seven listed newspaper groups fell sharply, with an average decline of more than 10%.
The style of play of "Toutiao Daily" is so fucked up that it doesn't make any money at all. Publicly announced that it would “burn out one billion” first.
If it’s not enough, then “burn another billion”!
All of a sudden, major newspapers in Hong Kong hated Yang Ye with all their heart.
No wonder there was crazy hype some time ago that Yang Ye and Chen Long were at odds, and that the two were going to part ways.
For Yang Ye, this kind of "horse racing to enclose land" will be all too common in later generations.
This is how many industries in later generations played the game. They first spent money crazily to subsidize users, squeezing all competitors to death, and then calmly reaped the benefits.
Facing the criticism from reporters on the scene, Yang Ye calmly said: "When a new thing appears, the best choice is to join, and at least you have to adapt.
Free newspapers are a general trend. It’s not that I, Yang, am too rich to burn money, or deliberately make things difficult for everyone. Some of you here have actually run free newspapers.
As far as I know, newspapers such as Wen Wei Po, Sing Tao Daily and South China Daily are all online and have electronic versions that can be viewed for free.
It's just that there are only a few people who are able to access the Internet now, and you can't launch the electronic version quickly enough.
But with the popularization of the Internet and the advancement of technology, it will become the norm for people to read news online for free.
I suggest everyone not to focus on the "Toutiao Daily". The Internet is the biggest enemy that all colleagues face! ”
Yang Ye fooled around and changed the topic to the Internet.
Without waiting for the reporters to react, he immediately announced that he would worship the gods, burn incense, cut off the pig's head, and turn on the phone! (End of chapter)