Chapter 240 Wins against TVB for the first time
As soon as Yang Ye returned to Hong Kong, good news came frequently.
First of all, the domestic box office of "Terminator" exceeded the 20 million mark.
Not only was it a success at the box office, the closed-loop structure of the film also triggered heated discussions in major media.
Many writers and film critics in Hong Kong have invested in it and published various articles to express their views.
"Film Fortnightly" even made a special feature, collecting various articles from Hong Kong and even overseas film critics, bringing them together into a special issue!
This special issue is not limited to the evaluation of "Terminator", but also includes some evaluations of Yang Ye's previous films.
In addition to praise, there were also some critics. After the special issue was published, more than 10,000 copies were sold, allowing Shu Qi to make a small profit.
Now, this special issue is placed on Yang Ye’s desk.
Yang Ye flipped through it and saw an article signed by Yi Shu, so he read it.
Yi Shu was called "Master Tai!" by female readers in the 1980s and 1990s
Although Yang Ye didn't have a good impression of this woman, he had to admit that in this era and among women, she was a trendsetter. , has great influence.
In Yang Ye's impression, this woman always had mixed reviews for the movies he made.
For example, she criticized Yang Ye for being an LSP. In every movie, a beautiful woman would be the heroine, and then there would be some passionate scenes with the beautiful woman. Moreover, many times those plots were unnecessary and were done purely for the sake of entertainment.
For example, in "Fist of Heroes", the scene where Momoe Yamaguchi sacrifices herself is purely to take advantage of others.
Also in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Lin Qingxia and she were just lusting after each other from beginning to end.
However, she also admitted that the passionate scenes filmed by Yang Ye are very good-looking, with handsome men and beautiful women, amazing figures, beautiful angles, and beautiful scenes. She loves to watch them!
In the current film review of "Terminator", this woman praised Yang Ye's butt!
She wrote: "I think in this film, Yang Ye just wants to show off his butt to the audience. But I also have to say, Yang Ye's butt is so sexy, I really want to touch it, Master Tai Touch!”
Yang Ye saw a black line, Damn!
But then she wrote:
The world is praising the movie’s gorgeous special effects, the closed-loop plot logic, and the fiery action scenes. They are obsessed with Yang Ye wearing a windbreaker, sunglasses, and cool shooting posture. But I admire Lin Qingxia's Lisa more in the film.
In the beginning, Lisa was just a waitress for M. She seemed a little embarrassed under the pressure of life. During her escape, she disappointedly revealed her thoughts to Li Kai: Will I be that great mother? I can't even take care of my own life now.
Li Kai said to Lisa, your son asked me to tell you: Mom, thank you for your courage in the dark ages. Although I can't help you with what you are about to face. But I want to tell you that the future is still uncertain. You are stronger than you think. You have to survive, otherwise I will not exist!
In the second half of the movie, Lisa transforms into a strong female warrior. I'm glad to see the growth of women in this film. I look forward to seeing Lisa shine in future sequels!
Seeing this, Yang Yexin said that this master was on to something.
Hu Yinmeng walked in. Seeing Yang Ye smiling, he couldn't help but joke: "Whose flattery slapped your buttocks and made you so happy?"
Yang Ye said helplessly: "You won't be able to talk without my butt now, right?"
"Who told you to expose it to the whole world?"
"It's just for a look. You won't lose any meat, so why are you anxious? They can only look at it, but you can touch it. You should be proud of it!"
"Bah, who cares about touching!"
"You not only touched, you also kissed!"
"Say more?"
Hu Yinmeng's eyebrows stood up, Yang Ye quickly said: "Okay, let's stop making trouble. What's the matter?"
"Lei Juekun from Kowloon Bus wants to see you!"
Yang Ye said in surprise: "Why does the old guy see me? Has he done anything recently?"
"He recently invested in a film company called... New Art City Film Company."
Yang Ye nodded, thinking, this thing is still here.
Yang Ye once thought of recruiting Mai Jia's gang in advance, but later gave up.
Bayang Pictures now owns Chen Long, Hong Jingbao, Yuen Biao, Jet Li, Lin Qingxia, and the Xu brothers. If there are more people, they don’t know how to arrange it.
When the time comes when everyone is scrambling for time slots, there will definitely be people who can’t help but leave, so it would be better not to let Maijia and the others go in the first place.
Anyway, most of the films produced by New Art City are comedies, which are just a bit prestigious in Hong Kong. Overseas, they are not comparable to Bai Yang's kung fu films, and it doesn't matter if they don't.
Yang Ye said: "Then I think we want to talk about the theater chain. When will we make an appointment?"
"I told you to ask your intention first."
"See you, coordinate the time with the other side!"
"Okay!" Hu Yinmeng said and left!
“Wait!”
Hu Yinmeng turned around and said in surprise: “What are you doing?”
“Come here for a hug!”
“No Empty! "Uh..."
“Have you been fooling around in the Mainland?”
“Absolutely not!”
“I’ll go to Sister Feng’s house for dinner tonight and I’ll check.”
When Yang Ye heard that, it was not three people... he suddenly smiled: "Okay, okay, I guarantee your satisfaction!"
Hu Yin dreamed that he had a wretched look on his face and couldn't help but rolled his eyes: "Death look!"
...
ATV, conference room.
Everyone at the meeting was beaming with joy and the atmosphere was warm.
ATV's first local drama "The Home of Earth's Love in Pearl River" had a successful premiere, with a ratings of 45.7%.
In the subsequent broadcasts, ATV's viewing share exceeded 50% for the first time, and TVB was forced to make the decision to cut in half the drama series "Turning" starring Zheng Shaoqiu and Zheng Yuling for the first time.
The original filming plan for "Turning" was to be 80 episodes, but it fell apart after 15 episodes.
This is an unprecedented victory for ATV, and the morale of the whole station is naturally high.
In fact, the ratings of "Turning" are not bad, with 46 points. It's just that for a long time, TVB has enjoyed extremely high ratings, at least twice as much as LiTV, so their advertising fees are very expensive.
Before the broadcast of ATV's "The Home of Earth's Kindness in Pearl River", TVB had already pre-sold advertising space for the next six months. Suddenly, the ratings were crushed by ATV. Naturally, those advertisers gave up. We organized a group to ask for an explanation from Wireless.
Fang Yihua had no choice but to make the decision to cut "The Legend" in half.
After receiving financial support from Yang Ye, Huang Xizhao led all Taiwan's elites to formulate a September offensive of "thousands of sails in full swing". And he shouted the slogan "Watch ATV tonight, tomorrow night, and every night"!
The so-called "thousands of sails" means to use multiple long-form dramas and an overwhelming offensive to challenge TVB.
At this time, Wireless’s broadcast model is long drama + unit drama + variety show Happy Tonight. Huang Xizhao's way of coping is to play carefully produced long dramas in these three time periods.
In the original time and space, this approach did achieve very good results, but the disadvantage is that it consumes a lot of funds.
Lishi had been weak for a long time and lacked funds. This offensive only lasted for three months and then came to an end.
When Lishi was acquired by an Australian consortium in March 1981, Huang Xizhao, McDonald's Bear and others packed up and left.
This is why Yang Ye would rather spend more money and get Lishi before August, because... he can just cooperate with this offensive and bring down Wireless.
In the original time and space, Lishi only lasted three months before becoming impotent, but now, with the financial support of Yang Ye, she can continue to rise!
Yang Ye was very satisfied with the ratings of "Love from the Earth" and asked with a smile: "How are they going to deal with the show after TVB's "Serial" was cut in half?"
Huang Xizhao said: "They asked Wang Tianlin to be the producer, Wang Jing to be the screenwriter, and Xie Xian and Wang Mingquan to be the leading actors. They made a drama called "The King of Kings". This drama is very powerful. It is indistinguishable from our "Home in Pearl River"."
Yang Ye nodded, "The King of Thousand Kings" is indeed awesome, and in the end it defeated "The Love of the Earth" in ratings.
McDang Bear said arrogantly: "Young Master Yang, I think we should strike while the iron is hot and uproot our opponents with the strong wind sweeping away the fallen leaves. I request to lead the team north to the capital to film the second part of Earth's Love: Thunder in the Ancient Capital ."
Yang Ye shook his head and said: ""The Love of the Earth" is on hold, and we will stop filming after "Home in the Pearl River"."
As soon as these words came out, everyone felt like they were in trouble. I poured a basin of cold water on it, and it was all inexplicable.
We all have a sure chance of winning, why are you trying to hold us back?
McDang Xiong said anxiously: "Why? It's better to chase the poor bandits bravely, Mr. Yang!"
Yang Ye thought to himself, this guy can still speak well. He explained: ""The Love of the Earth" is so sharp, it should be regarded as a trump card and become the treasure of our ATV. You can make a sequel, but don't make it lightly. It must be strictly planned and carefully produced. , it was a masterpiece as soon as it came out, and it was so popular that TVB was all over the place."
The "Love from the Earth" series is one of the greatest TV dramas in the history of Hong Kong television. When it was originally planned, there were five series in total. Three hundred to four hundred episodes.
But in the end, only the first "Home in Pearl River" was completely filmed. The following "Thunder in the Ancient Capital" and "Jinshan Dream" were greatly reduced. "Hong Kong Heroes" and "Shanghai Hegemony" even disappeared.
Among the three films that have been released, "Home in Pearl River" is the best among the best, while the following two films are not as good. "Thunder in the Ancient Capital" was originally planned to be filmed in Beijing, but in the end it did not happen. It was filmed in Hong Kong and only 22 episodes were filmed. "Dream of the Golden Mountain" ended hastily after only twelve episodes, because at that time Lishi's funds were at the bottom.
Yang Ye said: "I saw your plan. Originally, the second part was "Jinshan Dream", and the third part was "Thunder in the Ancient Capital". Why is it reversed now?"
McDang Bear smiled and said: "I think it is more practical to go to the capital to shoot, instead of going to the United States..."
Yang Ye said: "I just went to the mainland to shoot a movie. If you go to the mainland to shoot a TV series, the goal is too high. Big, it won’t end well then, let’s just follow the original order!”
This McDonald’s Bear doesn’t matter, he said: “That’s fine!”
Yang Ye said: "There is no need to rush into the production of "Jinshan Dream". If you want to make it well, you must restore the history of blood and tears. Director Hu Jinquan has always wanted to make a movie called "The History of Blood and Tears of Chinese Workers". For this, he has already prepared After several years of traveling across the Taiwan Strait and across the ocean, I have collected a lot of information. You can ask him to be a consultant and use the information he collected to make this "Golden Mountain Dream" a success. "
McDang Bear said: "Director Hu collected the information for making movies, so he probably won't give it to us!"
Yang Ye said: "He will give it to me, because I haven't decided yet. Invest in his movie.”
McDang Bear almost laughed out loud, Yang Ye’s move was too damaging.
Yang Ye said: "Let's save "Dream of the Golden Mountain" to be broadcast next year! After "Home in the Pearl River" is finished, "Dragon Movie" will be on!"
ATV’s first Jin Yong drama is finally going online!
(End of this chapter)