Chapter 244 New Art City Opens
TVB's "The King of Kings" is a direct copy of the Hollywood classic movie "The Godfather" series. It also has gold medal producer Wang Tianlin and stars Xie Xian and Wang Mingquan. It took the lead as soon as it was aired and successfully defeated ATV's The local drama "The Love of the Earth".
Xie Xian also starred in this drama as the villain Luo Sihai, and the name "Fourth Brother" spread like wildfire and became a well-known nickname for him.
Liu Hua has a song called "17 Years Old", in which he sings: "I remember that the fourth brother and Fa Ge have already met each other, and then he was promoted to the leading role too suddenly."
However, Wireless Before you have time to rejoice, "Dragon" is here!
ATV published full-page advertisements in newspapers such as Ming Pao and Oriental Daily, directly listing the starring cast and accompanying stills.
The list of leading actors is just that. Leung Jiaren, Zhang Guorong and Zhang Xueyou play Xiao Feng, Duan Yu and Xu Zhu. None of them are very famous now.
As for the heroines, Michelle Yu plays A'Zhu, Yu An'an plays A'Zi, Chen Yulian plays Wang Yuyan, Chen Xiuwen plays Mu Wanqing, and Li Saifeng plays Zhong Ling, which is a bit amazing.
Mi Xue and Yu An'an are both popular stars. Chen Yulian rose to fame through "The Swordsman" starring Yang Ye.
In ATV's "A Thousand Sails" campaign, the nine o'clock TV series "Sunshine in the Shower" is the first youth romance film in Hong Kong, starring Chen Xiuwen.
After it was aired, the ratings were crazy, even more than "Love from the Earth". Chen Xiuwen became famous with just one drama.
As for Li Saifeng, she only played a small role in "Love from the Earth" and is not very eye-catching now.
When it came to the supporting cast list later, readers of major newspapers were stunned.
Duan Zhengchun’s six wives turned out to be Yang Meng, Chen Sisi, Zhang Bingqian, Shangguan Lingfeng, Zheng Peipei, and Hu Jin.
These are all veteran movie stars, two of the Three Princesses of the Great Wall are here, plus two martial arts queens and one Pan Jinlian.
"This Yang Ye, is he crazy?" Fang Yihua looked at the list in the newspaper with a pale face.
“Don’t be impatient. This is the first TV series produced by Yang Ye after he obtained the copyright of Jin Yong. He must have enough gimmicks. Otherwise, how could even Xia Meng be dispatched? But he These people who are invited with their own reputation are just supporting roles and do not affect the overall situation. In the end, it still depends on whether the filming is good or not."
Fang Yihua sighed: "I didn't expect that Yang Ye actually played a trick. He took the initiative and bought out all the copyrights of Jin Yong's novels. "
After helping Jin Yong to propose revisions to the novel, Yang Ye made a decisive move and bought out the copyrights of Jin Yong's novels for a sky-high price of 50 million. The final word came with an assist.
This caught Fang Yihua off guard and he couldn't react at all.
Run Run Shaw said: "This guy makes plans before he makes a move, and his overwhelming momentum is really difficult to deal with. I didn't expect that he would buy Lishi at a premium when Lishi was in a strong position. For this reason, he even bought Nanyang, and even I ate all the beautiful reflections of the Caribbean Sea.”
Fang Yihua was really shocked when he thought about Yang Ye’s debut. When other people make movies, they first make a small-budget movie to test the waters and take their time, but he went on to make a big production and it immediately became a global hit.
I couldn't help but sigh and said: "He ate so many radio stations in one go. Doesn't he have some purpose?"
"The ones in the Caribbean are really worthless and of no use. But those in Nanyang can be used as a springboard to enter the local market. Yang Ye changed the name of the TV station to Asia Television, which proves that his ambition is not in a small Hong Kong island!”
Fang Yihua doesn’t care how big Yang Ye’s ambition is! , she just wants to keep her TVB, and is wondering how she should deal with it if the ratings of "Dragon Movie" are too high.
Run Run Shaw asked: "How is the discussion with Gu Long going?"
Fang Yihua said with a headache: "I want to imitate Yang Ye and buy out his copyright directly, but he doesn't do it because he is also adapting it himself. His works are used to make movies.”
“It’s because you didn’t pay enough. How much did you pay for the buyout?”
“10 million Hong Kong dollars is already a lot, Gu Long. There are not as many readers as Jin Yong. And although he has many works, many of them are bad books, and not even half of them are worth adapting."
Shao Yifu nodded, 10 million is indeed a lot. They used to do it. To make a Cologne movie, the adaptation rights are only given tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars. Even if all Gu Long's novels were filmed, it would only cost a few million.
"Go to Taiwan and talk to Gu Long in person. If he wants to continue making movies after the buyout, we can invest in him!"
Fang Yihua's eyes lit up: "This is a good idea!"
Then he said sadly: "But now I can't find it even if I try to look for it. The Chu Liuxiang movie he made some time ago was released and made some money, but then disappeared."
Gu Long is rich. He would hide, eat, drink, whore, and gamble. In this era of underdeveloped communications, it was basically impossible to find him.
When he appears in the public eye and writes books, scripts, and movies seriously, it must be because... he has no money.
In the early years, a kind of thin martial arts novel was popular in Taiwan. It had a simple cover and rough paper. Each book contained 30,000 to 40,000 words and was sold at a low price.
Because they are cheap, this type of novel is very popular, and even middle school students can afford to buy it and read it.
In fact, this is a sales method used by the publishing house. A martial arts novel has hundreds of thousands of words, and is often divided into more than ten or twenty episodes and released one after another. Although each copy is cheap, buying a dozen or even dozens of copies will naturally be expensive.
Gu Long discovered the business opportunities and began to harvest the wool of capitalists.
This guy first writes an introduction of tens of thousands of words, and then sells it to a publishing house.
When the publisher took a look at it, it was like, holy shit, it’s so well written? Buy buy buy!
Gu Long, however, asked the publisher to advance the manuscript fee for the entire set of novels, otherwise I would find another publisher.
The publishing house had no choice but to compromise. As a result, Gu Long took the money and disappeared directly, hiding somewhere to live and drink.
However, only one or two volumes of the book were published. The readers were enjoying reading it, but the next volume was gone, and they were angry and asked the publisher for an explanation. The publishing house couldn't find this old eunuch, so it had to find someone to write it as a ghostwriter and continue to fill the hole. This is why a large number of Gu Long's novels were ghostwritten or even faked.
Run Run Shaw said helplessly: "Then just wait, he will come out when he has no money."
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In the original time and space, there was the Golden Princess Cinema first, and then there was the new one. Art City Company.
Princess Jin has two bosses, one is Lei Juekun and the other is Wu Zhaocan, both of whom are shareholders of Kowloon Bus.
Before New Arts City became famous, Princess Jin was ridiculed as a glass theater chain because it only screened some bad movies and failed to show up at the box office.
In this time and space, some changes have taken place. Since Baiyang Cinema often rents Lisheng's cinema films, Princess Golden was not established in the end.
Because Li Sheng's Lei Juehua felt that this business was very safe, so he set up another theater chain, but it would be troublesome to find film sources.
For the Lei family, stability is actually the most important thing. As long as the rich second generation does not start a business, they can do whatever they want.
Lei Juehua is Lei Juekun's eldest brother, and Lei Juekun could not object. It was not until Lei Juehua passed away at the end of last year, and Lei Juekun took over the power of the Lei family, that he began to act according to his own ideas.
Mai Jia, Shi Tian, and Huang Baiming drove a Corolla and slowly came out of Lei Juekun's home.
Just now, they had dinner with Lei Juekun and redivided the equity of Xinyi City.
Two months ago, Lei Juekun and Mai Jia formed a "cinema film company", with Lei Juekun holding 51% of the shares and Mai Jia holding 49%.
Mai Jia is a man who came back from studying abroad. He was a hippie in the United States and couldn't stand Hong Kong's clearly differentiated class model.
The boss is the boss, and the clerk is the clerk. The boss can make a lot of money, but the clerk is treated like a dog.
He felt it was unfair, so he started his own business instead of working for others.
Maijia first established a "Pioneer" film company, but later failed and established a "Struggle" film company.
When working with Lei Juekun, he said: "Mr. Lei, the best case scenario is to film the movie well. The worst case scenario is that you give me a chance and I try out two movies. If it doesn't work, then Just close the door!"
Lei Juekun said: "Okay, let's make a bet!"
Mai Jia used to fight alone, but this time it didn't work. There was a sponsor, and he started. Find someone to help.
Mai Jia first approached his good brother Hong Jingbao. They were good buddies. Hong Jingbao said that he could help but not join.
So Mai Jia found Shi Tian again, and he still lacked a pen-wielding person. After being introduced, he met Huang Baiming.
Huang Baiming is a drama enthusiast with a clever mind. Mai Jia thinks that one of his strengths is that he is willing to suffer losses, so he is willing to take him to play.
Now, the "Cinema City" company has been reorganized into the "New Art City" company, and two more people have joined in, and the equity will be redistributed.
After discussion, Lei Juekun and Mai Jia gave 28% of their shares to Shi Tian and Huang Baiming.
In the end, Lei Juekun and Mai Jia held 72% of the new company's shares (including Lei 51% and Mai 49%), Shi Tian 19%, and Huang Baiming 9%.
This kind of equity distribution also laid the fuse for the subsequent breakup of Xinyi City.
Because facts have proven that Huang Baiming is the most awesome one. He is responsible for some super-hit movies, such as the Happy Ghost series, Happy Family Series, "The Wrong Ride" and "A Lang's Story" The ones that came out include New Art City's super ace "Best Partner" series, for which he is also one of the screenwriters.
Doing the most things for the least amount of money is like being taken advantage of!
It was okay at first, but over time, I naturally became mentally unbalanced.
Now, Huang Baiming, who is willing to suffer a loss, is still a little excited because he is also the boss of a film company.
Huang Baiming rubbed his hands and said, "Let's find a food stall and have some drinks. I'll treat you."
Mai Jia smiled and said, "The food at Mr. Lei's house is not delicious?"
Huang Baiming pushed up the frame of his glasses and said: "I feel that everything is ready now. I want to strike while the iron is hot and think about our company's entrepreneurial venture. If we go quickly, we may be able to catch up with the Lunar New Year."
Shi Tiandao: "I still have some doubts. Baiyang Cinema will really give us such a good Lunar New Year schedule?"
Mai Jiandao: "Didn't I say that we can set the schedule anytime we want?" If you rely on your ability to rush for a movie, if you can't beat it, it's because of your lack of ability. You can't blame others!"
Huang Baiming said: "According to my analysis, there is actually nothing to be afraid of, because Yang Ye and Chen Long, the most powerful ones in Baiyang, only release one movie a year. Yang Ye is usually a summer film, and Chen Long likes New Year films, and Chen Long's previous part It's time to go to Jiahe to show the movie. I don't know what they are doing.
The summer schedule is very long, so we can just stagger the release time with Yang Ye, because there is no New Year. Well, Yang Ye and Chen Long’s movies have already been released this year. Our only opponent in the Lunar New Year movie is Hong Jingbao, who can definitely give it a try.”
Mai Jia nodded and said, “Mr. Lei’s. After Lisheng merged into Baiyang Cinemas, we and Baiyang Company will be considered a family. From now on, we can hire any actors from his family, and maybe we can get some discounts."
Shi Tian and Huang Baiming nodded repeatedly. It makes sense.
At this time, the car drove to Kowloon Tong, and Mai Jia found a place to park. The three of them went straight to a food stall, ate barbecue, drank beer, and discussed their entrepreneurial ventures with longing faces!
It was on this night that after a heated discussion, they decided on the core creative content of the new company, which is...making comedies!
(End of this chapter)