Yang Ye’s speech at the theater mainly mentioned that after years of rapid development and the opening up of relevant policies, mainland China will grow into a film market with great potential.
“A person’s success, in addition to personal efforts, is also inseparable from the factors of the times.
Everyone sitting here is very lucky. You were born in an era of rapid development of the country. You are destined to We will make many achievements that our predecessors have not achieved.
Of course, how to stand out in the trend of the times depends on your personal struggle and the platform you choose!”
Yang Ye's words made the theater students very excited, because it indicated that they all had a bright future.
Yang Ye left Shanghai after giving a speech on the show, which made Chen Hong feel a little disappointed.
As for those who signed Aunt Xue, we will talk about it later, they can’t run away anyway.
Before returning to Hong Kong, Yang Ye made a stop in Shenzhen.
The TV series "Beijingers in New York" planned and invested by Liu Xiaoqing has been officially approved and is preparing to go to New York for filming.
According to Yang Ye's suggestion, the directors of this TV series are Zheng Xiaolong and Feng Xiaogang. The male lead is still Jiang Wen, but the two female leads are replaced by Liu Xiaoqing and He Qing.
As long as the right person is the right person, Yang Ye doesn't care. However, these people are going to the United States for the first time. Yang Ye still asked United Artists to help them arrange a contact person to be responsible for some of their affairs in the United States, so as to avoid a dark look.
Yang Ye said to Liu Xiaoqing: "I'm going to New York in a while. Let's meet you there. I wish you a smooth shooting!"
Liu Xiaoqing said curiously: "You go to the United States to do it? What?”
“Lianmei is going public!”
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Back in Hong Kong, this year’s Golden Melody Awards and Academy Awards have ended.
The Golden Melody Awards presented a weird Best Newcomer Award, which was won by the China Voice student group. Because there are so many newcomers who have emerged at once, I don’t know who to award the award to.
Yang Ye is a little speechless. If you do this this year, what about next year?
In terms of Academy Awards, the King of Sunglasses dominates. "Days of Being Wild" won five out of eight nominations, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, and Best Art Direction.
Cheung Kwok-yong has been in the film industry for ten years, and finally won the Best Actor Award for his role as "Xu Zai".
However, the movie failed at the box office and made its investor, Deng Guangguang of Da Rong Company, so angry that he was hospitalized.
Three years ago, Deng Guangrong invested in Sunglasses King to shoot a small-budget film "Carmen in Mong Kok".
Sunglasses made a gangster film very stylized, showing the style of a master. Not only did it do well at the box office, it also won a lot of gold horses and statues.
This greatly increased Deng Guangrong's confidence, and he invested in Sunglasses' new film "Days of Being Wild".
Sunglasses told Deng Guangrong that "Days of Being Wild" is a gangster movie and an upgraded version of "Carmen in Mong Kok".
When Deng Guangrong heard this, he was very happy and felt that he would definitely make money this time.
Then the filming started. Sunglasses didn’t have a script. He thought about it every day and shot a little. After filming for several months, he told Deng Guangrong that what he was filming now was a police romance movie.
What can Deng Guangrong do? I'm already in the car, it feels good like a cop romance or something.
Then we shot and shot again and again, and finally it became a literary film...
And we originally said we would make two parts, one and two, but it ended up costing 40 million Hong Kong dollars. I just rode on the horse and took half of the photo...
As soon as it was released, the box office was 9 million... Deng Guangrong lost all his money and was so angry that he was hospitalized.
This box office was obtained by deceiving the names of celebrities such as Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, and Liu Hua.
As soon as the audience saw this cast, they felt that this movie must be awesome, so they rushed into the theater and cursed after watching it.
At that time, Sunglasses was sitting in a tea restaurant, waiting quietly for people to come out of the theater. When he heard the audience swearing, he asked Chen Jiashang: "Should I change careers?"
Of course he would not change careers. Not long after, Cai Songlin, who used his mouth to fool a scholar, still used a super cast to film "Ashes of Time"...
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Ho Man Tin, Mount Kadoorie.
Yang Ye got off the car, walked to a villa, looked at the house number, and rang the doorbell.
The door opened and Yang Ye walked in. He was led by the housekeeper of the villa and walked into a room. He saw Zhang Guorong, Lin Qingxia, Wang Fei and Huang Zhan gathered around a table, playing mahjong. Fly up.
Sitting next to Zhang Guorong is a sweet-looking girl with long hair shawl, but it is Yang Caini who has filmed Yang Ye's movie.
On the next table, Zhang Xueyou, Liu Jialing, Liang Caowei, and Zhang Manyu were also rubbing their hands.
Yang Ye smiled and said: "Okay, you guys, we will open two tables!"
Lin Qingxia glanced at Yang Ye and said, "Why are you here so early!"
"Nothing to do, just come here early!"
Today is Leslie Cheung's treat to celebrate his award as Best Actor. But he did not celebrate grandly at the hotel outside, but only invited some friends to his home for dinner.
Zhang Guorong waved to Yang Ye: "Boss, sit down by yourself! Eight tubes!"
"What a fool!" Lin Qingxia happily pushed the card: "Give me money!"
Zhang Guorong Depressedly said: "Did you make a mistake, you caught my cannon again."
Lin Qingxia said proudly: "Tch, don't you accept it?"
"You wait, I must take it. You, Dongfang Invincible, give me money!"
Yang Caini took a handful of money and gave it to Zhang Guorong. But he stood up and said to Yang Ye: "Hello, Sir Yang, I am Caini."
Yang Ye nodded and said: "You have filmed my movie, in "Female Boxer" You played A Feng when she was a child, right?"
Yang Caini smiled sweetly: "Yes, you have a really good memory!"
Zhang Guorong said casually: "Cai Ni plans to enter the entertainment industry, so I will sign in. How is our company? "
Zhang Guorong called Yang Caini Auntie. He raised Yang Caini as his daughter and loved her very much.
Yang Ye said: "Okay! Caini wants to film or sing?"
"I want to sing!"
"Then you have to flatter Uncle Zhan and ask him to write two good songs for you. "
Huang Zhan said with joy: "Beautiful girls are given preferential treatment here, not to mention the face of Leslie!"
Yang Ye pulled up a chair and sat down. Asked Wang Fei: "Afei, you are such a beautiful girl, Uncle Zhan must have written some good songs for you!"
Wang Fei turned his head and glanced at Yang Ye, and said shyly: "Yes, there are three songs in the new album written by Uncle Zhan."
Before Wang Fei became a veteran in the entertainment industry, Her personality is a bit shy, she gets shy easily and blushes easily, which is very interesting.
Huang Zhan knocked on the table: "Stop chatting, let's play cards!"
"Oh!" Wang Fei looked at it quickly and played a trip.
Yang Ye sighed: "Wrong call!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Qingxia said cheerfully: "Touch!"
"Qingxia obviously made a note."
After touching it for two more rounds, Lin Qingxia made a fool of herself with a smile. All three families gave the money with a sad look on their faces.
When Yang Ye saw that Wang Fei was playing cards so ignorantly that he almost lost all the money on the table, he couldn't help complaining: "You three old fritters, bullying a little girl who can't play cards, it's too much That’s outrageous.”
Unexpectedly, Wang Fei turned around and said seriously: “Boss, you said I’m not good at singing, and I admit it. If you say I’m not good at playing mahjong, I won’t admit it even to death. ! ”
"Ah this..." Yang Ye complained helplessly!
Speaking of playing mahjong, Huang Zhan once wrote an article to reveal a lot of information about people in the industry playing mahjong. Leslie Cheung is extremely addicted to playing cards, and his playing skills are extremely poor. He is also easily nervous and loses more than he wins.
Wang Zuxian is always absent-minded when playing cards, like a ghost, and is always made fun of by others.
Liu Jialing is as smart as a "trickster" in playing cards, while her husband Liang Caowei is a complete noob.
If Zhang Xueyou loses money playing cards with Liu Jialing, he will go to Liang Caowei to play cards and win back the money he lost from Liu Jialing.
Alan Tam is the best at pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger. He always says that he can't play cards, but once he starts playing cards, he will stuff a lot of money into his pocket.
Anita Mui likes to default on her debts and won’t give her money when she loses.
Li Zongsheng can be called a gambling sage in the entertainment industry. It is said that half of his money is earned from writing songs and half from winning cards.
Lin Qingxia is not good at poker, but she is very lucky. If she plays cards with Dame Lin, she will lose in all likelihood.
Jet Li usually looks calm and composed in movies, but once he goes to the poker table, he becomes very bad-tempered, especially when he loses money.
Chen Long's cards are very good. He played cards with Li Zongsheng and lost a lot, but his expression remained unchanged and he talked and laughed happily.
Yang Ye said to Leslie Cheung: "Ah Rong, you won the Best Actor. You shouldn't celebrate grandly. Why are you just treating guests at home?"
Leslie Cheung said: "There is a company to celebrate grandly. Well, I’ll just invite a few friends to have a little fight.”
Yang Ye was shocked: “When did you become so smart?”
At this time, Wang Zuxian opened the door and walked in: "Wow, you guys came so early."
Then he said happily: "Brother Ye, you are here too!"
Yang Yeyong He glanced at Lin Qingxia from the corner of his eye, and seeing that she had no reaction, he said calmly: "Yes, it's rare for Ah Rong to treat you!"
Zhang Guorong was dissatisfied: "Hey, what do you mean it's a rare treat? I treat guests often. Okay?"
Yang Ye asked: "When will dinner be served?"
Zhang Guorong looked at his watch: "There is still one hour, let's chat for a while."
"You guys are rubbing so hard, chatting for the rest of your life. Do you have any video games at home?"
< br>"Yes, let Xiaoxian take you there, she knows the place."
"Let's go, Xiaoxian, let's play games!"
"Okay!" Wang Zuxian loved it Playing games, he followed Yang Ye happily.
As soon as the two entered the room, Yang Ye pressed Wang Zuxian against the door: "Baby, did you miss me?"
"No, um..."
...
< br>Not long after Yang Ye came back, big news about Yang Ji came out one after another.
First of all, Xu Feng's negotiations to purchase the film libraries of Shaw Brothers and New Arts City were finally concluded. He purchased all the film rights of the two companies for HK$200 million and HK$90 million respectively.
In the original time and space, Shaw Brothers' film library was purchased by Celestial Entertainment.
After Tianying bought the Shaw Brothers film library, it began to restore those old films.
Later generations of audiences can clearly see those old films from decades ago, all thanks to Celestial Entertainment.
Celestial Entertainment purchased the Shaw Brothers film library in 2000 for 400 million.
Yang Ye bought it nine years in advance, but spent 200 million, which is not very cost-effective.
However, Tianying signed an agreement with Shaw Brothers at that time, and all the restoration of these old films would be handed over to Shaw Brothers. This cost another 200 million, which equals a total cost of 600 million.
Yang Ye spent 200 million to buy it out, which is not bad, and when the VCD comes out next year, he can make another fortune, which means he started making money in advance.
Another, more important piece of news is that Yang Ji sent Hu Yinmeng to successfully acquire BMG Records from Bertelsmann in Germany after lengthy negotiations.
BMG Records is the fifth largest record company in the world, and Japanese capital giant Sony is also eyeing it.
Since there were two companies competing at the same time, Bertelsmann raised the price and finally raised the purchase price to 600 million U.S. dollars, which made Yang Ye bleed hard.
Yang Ye was very unhappy and planned to trick Sony into getting this place back.
In fact, Yang Ye has already cut off the little spider of Sony Pictures before. Sony relies on a little spider to dominate the world in Hollywood. Without the little spider, it is nothing.
In May, Yang Ye arrived in New York.
Yang Ye was never present during the IPO process of Lian Mei Pictures. He only contacted by phone to understand the relevant process. It was not until the last moment that he finally appeared.
The Japanese have been waving checks to buy everywhere in the United States in recent years, which has severely touched the nerves of Americans.
In the film industry, Sony acquired Columbia with US$2.7 billion, and Panasonic acquired Universal with US$6.6 billion.
Americans exclaimed that maybe when they wake up, even the Statue of Liberty belongs to Japan.
Yang Ye has a Japanese person in front of him as MT, so things have been going smoothly in the United States.
But he still tried to keep a low profile. This time, when United Artists Pictures went public, Yang Ye went alone, and no one from Hong Kong followed him.
Only the crew of "Beijingers in New York" who happened to be filming in the United States were invited to watch the ceremony.
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New York Stock Exchange!
Yang Ye handed the small hammer to Yang Xi's hand and said: "Baby, knock it, this is the moment to witness a miracle!"
Little Yang Xi happily took the small hammer. The hammer started banging.
The bell rang, United Artists successfully went public.
Afterwards, a group of people gathered together and waited for the opening price.
The listing of new U.S. stocks does not lead to a sharp rise immediately, but requires market makers to participate in transactions to obtain the first price in history.
The IPO price of United Artists Pictures was US$4.8. After everyone waited for more than an hour, the opening price was finally available, which was US$8.1, an increase of more than 50%.
Based on this price, the market value of United Artists exceeds US$3 billion.
The market value of the stocks held by Yang Ye, Ajani, and Yang Xi exceeds one billion US dollars.
White and Shea, the two original shareholders, were very happy and hugged tightly in celebration.
Yang Ye was too lazy to hug the two men. He held Ajani and Yang Xi to celebrate together.
Shay shouted: "Bring the champagne!"
A staff member took the champagne, Shay shook it vigorously, opened it with a bang, and deliberately splashed the champagne To Yang Ye's body.
Yang Ye blocked her daughter and laughed!
He Qing looked at a group of people celebrating and felt very envious. She couldn't help but ask Liu Xiaoqing: "Does Brother Ye have a lot of shares in this company?"
Liu Xiaoqing curled his lips: "He is actually the real boss, but He just let her daughter hold a portion of the shares. Do you think he has a lot of shares? "
He Qing said: "Then...isn't that Yang Xi a billionaire?"
"Yes, the youngest billionaire in the world."
He Qing was a little envious: "Brother Ye is really good to his daughter."
She suddenly secretly made up her mind: "I must give him a son!" (End of Chapter)