The next day, a piece of eye-catching news appeared in the entertainment pages of Hong Kong newspapers.
Yang Ye greeted Hollywood United Artists General Manager Shea, great director Spielberg, and Bollywood actress Madhuri Madhuri at the airport, and speculated that they were going to start a multinational blockbuster.
This news has aroused the interest of many people. Now many viewers have developed an appetite for Yang Ye and love to watch blockbusters.
She’s just a Bollywood movie queen, I’ve never heard of her.
Yang Ye and Spielberg, the two major commercial directors from the East and the West, join forces. Will the movie they make take off?
Because it was too late yesterday, Yang Ye sent a few people to the Peninsula Hotel to rest and then went home.
A few of them were still jet-lagged, so they didn’t bother them during the next day, but directly prepared a welcome dinner.
The dinner was attended by filmmakers such as Xu Ke and Lin Qingxia.
After spending some time with her mother in Taiwan, Hu Yinmeng has now returned to Hong Kong.
She is proficient in multiple languages and is familiar with Xie Yi, so Yang Ye asked her to be their translator while they were in Hong Kong.
We are all in the same industry, and it is quite enjoyable to discuss the art of film during the dinner.
After entering the 1980s, all major Hollywood production companies, except Disney, have changed hands and have been absorbed into larger media and entertainment groups.
The globalization trend of the Hollywood film industry is also increasingly obvious. "High-concept" movies characterized by "big investment, big production, big marketing, and big market" have become the mainstream in Hollywood.
When Yang Ye first traveled through time, the average production cost of a Hollywood movie was less than US$5 million. Now it has increased five times to US$25 million.
Hong Kong is even more exaggerated. Due to the rapid economic development and the rapid expansion of overseas markets, the average production cost of Hong Kong films has increased more than ten times in more than ten years.
The increasing scale of investment makes it difficult for film studios to achieve large-scale production with their own funds.
Moreover, movies are actually a very risky industry. If production companies are not very sure, they are not very willing to invest their own money.
So Hollywood and Hong Kong film companies have all embarked on the path of introducing external investors.
The benefits of this are obvious. The risk is completely transferred to the investors. Even if the box office fails, the investors will be full just by eating.
However, with the rise of new film distribution channels such as video tapes, cable TV, and satellite TV, the film industry is booming, so financing is still very easy.
Nowadays, as long as a movie from a major Hollywood studio is approved, it can get 80% of the budget through overseas pre-sales, basically without spending any money out of pocket.
Hong Kong is even more exaggerated. There is no need to set up a project. Huang Baiming only needs to say that I want to make a movie and I want 10 million, and he can receive 20 million within three days.
Everyone is rushing to invest money, but they are slow to invest, and they don’t even have to drink the soup, because today’s film industry is so profitable.
The market is so strong that many producers and directors in Hong Kong have begun selling films.
As long as you get contracts from people like Liu Hua and Li Lianjie, you can sell them directly for money.
Overseas capital is rushing to invest, regardless of what you shoot.
Under such circumstances, big stars and directors, whether in Hollywood or Hong Kong, have begun to think of leaving the company and going it alone.
Some powerful investors, because they do not want to be controlled by large companies, have also begun to persuade big directors and stars to leave and fund them to establish independent production companies.
It was based on this environment that Spielberg formed DreamWorks, hoping to build his own movie kingdom.
Although it has always been short of breath, DreamWorks is still glorious for a while. It is a large company second only to the Big Six. Twenty years after its founding, it has successfully been shortlisted for the Fortune 500.
There are many people in Hong Kong who think this way.
After Huang Baiming disbanded from Xinyi City, he founded Wanxiang Film Company, and Lei Juekun was still behind it.
But it didn’t take long for him to feel, is it necessary? Do I need investors? No need at all!
So he quit Vientiane Film Company, re-founded Oriental Film Company, and started working alone!
People such as John Woo, Liu Hua, Jet Li, Eric Tsang, and Alan Tam also came out to start their own companies, and Chen Long became a shareholder of Jiahe.
It's simple. When these big-name stars can make more money by working alone, film companies can no longer retain these people.
The same goes for the Chinese entertainment industry in later generations. Stars have established their own personal studios and are no longer controlled by large companies.
The advantage of this is that you can earn more, but the disadvantage is... celebrities need to spend a lot of time and energy looking for projects, which will waste their business capabilities.
Because you are busy socializing every day, how can you have time to think about acting?
Then I can only fool around and trick my stupid fans into helping wash the floor.
Anyway, even if it turns out to be a piece of shit, idiot fans will still praise his acting skills.
At this time, Spielberg had not yet made the world-dominating dinosaur, and ET was also taken over by Yang Ye. He was actually not as confident as Yuan Shikong.
This time he agreed to direct "Memoirs of a Geisha" because he really liked the story and wanted to hook up with Yang Ye, an Asian film tycoon.
80% of the current movie box office comes from the three major markets of North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Central and Western Asia, North Philippines and Latin America can only earn a little pocket money.
South Asia is dominated by Indian films and no one can enter. There is no sub-Saharan Africa.
Yang Ye is an entertainment tycoon in Asia. If Lao Si wants to build his own movie kingdom, it is necessary to hook up with Yang Ye.
And Yang Ye is also very interested in this deal. DreamWorks will be one of the top 500 companies in the world in the future.
Becoming a partner of Lao Si is equivalent to making money while lying down.
However, Lao Si has not yet made up his mind to leave Paramount and go it alone.
Before he spoke, Yang Ye would not say anything more.
...
The guests and hosts had a great time at the welcome dinner. After the banquet, Yang Ye personally sent several people back to the hotel.
Hu Yinmeng came here as a translator, so he also came with him.
Then the two went home together.
Yang Ye first went to buy a doll toy as a gift for his daughter.
"Qing'er should be sleeping at this point."
"What does it matter? I'll put it next to her bed, and she can see it when she comes up tomorrow morning."
"Forget it. You are serious!”
When he got home, Yang Qing was already asleep.
Yang Ye exited from his daughter's room, picked up Hu Yinmeng and walked to the bedroom.
Hu Yinmeng, who had been sleeping for a long time, hugged Yang Ye's neck and began to chew on it. The two of them walked and gnawed and stripped all the way, and their clothes fell all over the floor. Before they even entered the bedroom, they were already clean and slippery.
After finishing, Hu Yinmeng lay lazily in Yang Ye's arms and suddenly said: "You prostitute yourself every day, how come you are not exhausted to death?"
Yang Ye chuckled: " I’m so talented, but I can’t do anything about it.”
Yang Ye couldn’t figure out this matter.
It is said that after a man reaches the age of thirty-five, his hormone secretion decreases, and his sexual interest and other things will decrease, but it has no effect on him.
Yang Ye thought to himself that this might be the benefit brought by time travel.
But this is a good thing. There are still so many beauties waiting for him in this world, so I won’t go into details.
Yang Ye put his arms around Hu Yinmeng's shoulders, kissed her on the cheek, and said, "Yinyin, you immigrate to Germany!"
Hu Yinmeng was confused and asked Said: "Okay, why should I immigrate to Germany? And immigrants usually go to the United States and Canada. I have never heard of people moving to Germany." Language barrier. ”
Hu Yinmeng was even more confused: "I can speak German, so I want to immigrate to Germany? Then I can also speak English and Japanese!"
"That's not what I mean!"
"You dislike me Are you going to drive me away?”
“Don’t worry, listen to me!”
“Say it”
"Now is the golden age of the film industry. Film can not only be used as a tool for cultural exchanges, but also promote the development of various industries such as tourism.
Governments of various countries have taken a fancy to the business opportunities and provided many tax and preferential policies. Attracting film companies to invest and film.
I noticed that Germany recently enacted a preferential film policy, which stipulates that investment in the film industry can obtain tax exemptions
And it does not require film projects. It needs to be produced locally, or local creative personnel must be hired, and the tax deduction can be withheld. There is a huge loophole here. If I sell the copyright of the film to a German company, and then rent the film back at a low price... ”
Hu Yinmeng's eyes lit up: "Can you profit from both ends?"
"That's right!"
"You are such a profiteer!" Hu Yinmeng immediately understood that Yang Ye asked her to immigrate What did Germany do?
“Hey.”
“Won’t Germany fix such a big loophole?”
"Let's wait until we make up for it. Now the major Hollywood studios are gearing up. We can't fall behind with the money we picked up for free."
Others don't know, but Yang Ye knows that Germany will make up for this. Loopholes are already a thing of the millennium.
“In what name should I immigrate to Germany?”
“Invest, the two Germanys will be merged soon, and now you can make money by investing anything there.”
"Then what should we vote for?"
"Buy Bertelsmann."
Hu Yinmeng was stunned. Bertelsmann is a German media giant.
“Do you have that much money?”
“I won’t buy them all, I will only buy his music department, which is BMG Records, one of the six major record companies in the world. ”
“How much will it cost?”
"BMG was made up of six major companies. It should cost about 500 million U.S. dollars to buy it!"
"I have never understood, how much money do you have?"
Yang Ye thought for a while , said: "There are probably as many as Tsai Wanlin, Wang Yongqing, and Zhang Rongfa combined!"
Tsai Wanlin is the boss of Cathay Insurance, Wang Yongqing is the boss of Formosa Plastics, Taiwan's business god, and Zhang Rongfa is Taiwan's shipping king .
The three are the top three richest people in Taiwan and the richest among the Chinese.
Those in Hong Kong now have to queue at the back. It was only after the 1990s that they relied on real estate to rise rapidly and surpass Taiwan's richest people.
As for Guo Taiming, who later became Taiwan's richest man, he is now just a small character worth mentioning.
He developed by taking advantage of the development of the mainland, engaging in OEM work, and absorbing the blood of the people in the mainland.
But having said that, after all, his food is still much better than many domestic dogs.
Among the sweatshops, Flextronics and Foxconn are already the least sweaty.
Hu Yinmeng was dumbfounded: "How do you have so much money?"
"You've earned it. The yen has appreciated in recent years, and I've earned more than three billion US dollars.
< br>In recent years, movies, music, games, TV stations, artist management, etc. have made about 3 billion.
The fifteen Donglai Plazas scattered across Asia have earned a lot of money. .
I also have a dedicated investment team that has made a lot of money over the years, especially during the 87 stock market crash.
All added up, my personal wealth is about nine billion dollars! ”
“Then why don’t you have your name among the top ten richest people in the world? You can at least be in the top three, right? "
"My company is not listed, and many investments are not transparent and they cannot estimate it accurately. But...it can't be hidden for long, and it will be on the list next year at most. "
"Why? ”
“United Artists is preparing to go public! ”
…
Sony has successfully acquired Colombia, attracting a lot of firepower.
Eventually, Americans accepted this fact.
Yang Ye decided not to pretend anymore, I showed my cards.
……
In 1990, it was the 9th Academy Awards in the original time and space, and the 10th Academy Awards in this time and space.
The Academy Awards’ 10th birthday is naturally particularly grand.
This is also the reason why Yang Ye invited Spielberg and Shay to attend the Academy Awards.
In addition to Hong Kong and Taiwan filmmakers, many filmmakers from mainland China, Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea were also invited to attend and witness this glorious era.
The stars of this year’s Academy Awards are even more dazzling than those of the Golden Melody Awards a few days ago.
This is not surprising. Hong Kong films dominate Asia and are marketed around the world. The Hong Kong Philharmonic relies on Hong Kong films for its survival.
If there were no glory of Hong Kong movies, to whom would people like Liu Hua sell their records?
Not to mention that the Hong Kong movie in this time and space is more powerful than the original time and space.
Tens of thousands of movie fans gathered outside the Hong Kong Coliseum to watch the excitement. Not only Hong Kong people, but also many overseas tourists.
Nowadays, Hong Kong will form a small tourism peak every year during the awards season.
The prosperity of Hong Kong films has also brought vitality to all walks of life in Hong Kong.
Media reporters from all over Asia were so busy that their shutters were almost smoking.
"Chen Long, Chen Long!" Suddenly there was a scream from the crowd.
"Chen Long is here, and Seiko Matsuda!"
Chen Long appeared on the red carpet with Seiko Matsuda on his arm, which immediately caused fans to scream.
Chen Long has declined somewhat in the Japanese market in the past two years and is no longer in the top ten.
In order to regain his popularity, Yang Ye helped him invite the super idol Matsuda Seiko instead of the unknown Masako Ikeda in the new film "Eagle Project".
The original Elsa, the granddaughter of the German adjutant, was also replaced by Brooke Shields.
The actress named Eva Cobb in the original version was just a temporary cast by Chen Long, who had only made one movie in his life.
"Eagle Project" has three major heroines, and there is also Ada played by Zheng Yuling, who is also replaced by Zhong Chuhong.
Since Zheng Yuling is not Yang Ji’s artist, might she have a share in such a big production?
After the three major heroines were replaced, the budget also increased, soaring to 120 million Hong Kong dollars.
Yang Ye still doesn’t know if it’s enough, because this movie is a bit troubled.
“Brother Long, do you have the confidence to win the Best Actor Award?”
“Of course I have confidence, but it still depends on whether the judges will give me face.”
A Japanese reporter asked: "Jackie, why are you walking on the red carpet with Miss Seiko today?"
"Miss Seiko is the heroine of my new film "Eagle Project"!"
< br>Of course Chen Long would not let go of such a good opportunity and promoted it vigorously.
Matsuda Seiko also showed her iconic fake smile and sweetly said that she was honored to work with Chen Long.
After a simple interview, Chen Long walked into the Coliseum with Seiko Matsuda on his arm.
In the name of making a movie, Chen Long has already slept with Seiko Matsuda, or in other words, Seiko Matsuda has slept with Chen Long.
Yang Ye didn't care. He was just hooking up with Matsuda Seiko and didn't regard her as his woman.
But in this way, he and Chen Long became like-minded.
As expected of a good brother! (End of this chapter)