The Motion Picture Association of America, or MPAA for short, dominates the American film rating system and represents the interests of Hollywood.
Its members are jointly served by the chairs and presidents of the eight largest companies.
In the time and space when Yang Ye lived, United Artists and MGM were acquired successively, and the Eighth Congress became the Sixth Congress.
Fox was later acquired by Disney, but the MPAA accepted Netflix as a new member to form the new Big Six.
MPAA holds meetings every year, but Yang Ye has never attended. Usually Xie or Adjani attends.
After receiving the invitation, Yang Ye asked John Woo to adjust his schedule and went to the MPAA headquarters for a meeting.
On the way to the MPAA, Yang Ye asked Xie Yi: "What did the MPAA ask me to do?"
Xie Yi said: "We want to enter the Chinese market. You are Chinese. Everyone needs this. Let me hear your opinion."
Yang Ye nodded: "That's it!"
After the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States in 1979, Hollywood movies were able to return to mainland China.
Since that year, China Film Company has used buyouts to introduce some overseas films every year.
However, the funds used to import films are strictly controlled at around US$1 million, and the number of imported films is also controlled at 30.
In other words, each imported film can only be introduced at a low price of about US$30,000 on average.
Such a small amount of money can buy shit, so Hollywood throws old movies from decades ago to China for release. Mosquito legs are also meat.
The first film introduced by China Film Company was "Roman Holiday". The Horse Riding was a film from the 1950s and was still in black and white, but the Chinese audience was still fascinated by Audrey Hepburn.
Although popular movies such as "Star Wars" and "Superman" in North America have been released for ten years, they are still relatively difficult to buy.
Later, Hollywood sold the screening rights of "Superman" to China in the form of "friendly sponsorship" at a low price of US$50,000.
After "Superman" was released, it set off a movie-watching craze in mainland China.
However, Hollywood is obviously not satisfied with this kind of buyout. They hope to truly enter the Chinese mainland market.
In the original time and space, Hollywood and mainland China hit it off.
Because the Chinese film market was in a sharp decline at that time, the annual box office would fall from more than 2 billion in 1990 to less than 1 billion in 1993.
At that time, video halls were rampant all over the world. Audiences would rather go into the video hall to watch Hong Kong movies on inferior video tapes than go into the theater to watch domestic movies.
In order to solve the problem of the collapse of the film market, mainland China began to learn from overseas advanced experience.
The then president of the Hong Kong Directors Guild, Wu Siyuan, proposed the box office splitting system to Minister Tian Chongming of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television.
It is generally believed that China's first major blockbuster was Hollywood's "The Fugitive", but it was actually "Once Upon a Time: The Lion King" co-produced by Siyuan Pictures and Beijing Film Studio.
Starting in 1994, China Film Company and Hollywood reached an agreement to import 10 Hollywood movies every year and screen them on a box-office split basis. At that time, the split ratio was 10%.
"True Lies" introduced in 1995 became the collective memory of that era, allowing the audience to understand what a "blockbuster" is, and Schwarzenegger became the first generation idol hero for Chinese audiences.
After China joined the WTO in 2001, China increased the number of credit-sharing films to 20, with a credit-sharing ratio of 13%, and the agreement is valid for 10 years.
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In this time and space, due to Yang Ye's intrusion and his special contribution, China Film has canceled the unified purchase and sales system in 1986 and changed it to a split-account system.
Mainland China introduces 20 films to Hong Kong every year, of which ten quotas are given to Baiyang Pictures and ten quotas are given to Yindu Agency.
Yang Ye gained entry into the Chinese mainland film market early and generates box office results of nearly one billion yuan in the mainland every year.
The eight major film studios in the Mainland are also faring much better than they were in the original time and space.
This means that the film market in mainland China not only did not decline like it did in the original time and space, but also grew slightly despite the influence of the video hall.
In 1991, the mainland film market increased to 2.8 billion yuan.
Although this amount of money is not much for Hollywood, the dazzling growth rate still attracts the attention of Hollywood.
After all, China has a population of 1.1 billion, its economy is developing rapidly, and its future is limitless. They also want to get a share of the pie.
For Yang Ye, he does not resist Hollywood's entry into the mainland Chinese market, even if it means that Baiyang Pictures has to compete head-on with Hollywood.
As for mainland China, Yang Ye speculated that they actually hope to disrupt the situation and prevent the Hong Kong film industry from becoming dominant.
So, even if Yang Ye doesn't come forward, Hollywood will still negotiate this deal with mainland China.
From a macro perspective, global cultural exchanges are becoming increasingly prosperous, and Chinese-language films cannot do well if Hollywood is blocked from the door.
In Yang Ye’s view, only with competition can progress be achieved.
Besides, due to the existence of United Artists Pictures, Yang Ye himself is a part of Hollywood, and he cannot go against the interests of Hollywood.
After China joined the WTO, Hollywood has unscrupulously impacted the Chinese film market.
So, has Hollywood saved or harmed the Chinese film industry?
Facts have proved that Chinese films are advancing in competition. Against the background of that time, Zhang Yimou, who had been making literary films, began to enter the market and launched "Hero" with a strong commercial atmosphere.
"Hero" learned from Hollywood's business operation model and strictly implemented it from investment, production to distribution and promotion. It earned a total box office of US$170 million worldwide and was a great success.
Chinese directors began to rush to imitate and learn from Hollywood, and even the narrative methods and dramatic conflict models were also closer to Hollywood, and many things that were neither Chinese nor Western were born.
For example, in Brother Kaizi's "The Promise", Zhang Qingcheng is actually the beauty Helen in Greek mythology. Another example is "The Night Banquet" where the anus is sewn, which is directly adapted from "Hamlet".
However, it was hard work all the way, and eventually a unique Chinese science fiction blockbuster like "The Wandering Earth" was born, which firmly held the domestic film market in a head-on confrontation with Hollywood.
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Yang Ye and his party arrived at the MPAA headquarters. The presidents of the eight major companies had already arrived first.
The Big Eight companies were originally established by Jews, but in recent years, the Big Eight companies have changed hands frequently.
MGM was acquired by Las Vegas capitalist Kirk Kerkorian, and United Artists was eaten by Yang Ye.
Twentieth Century Fox was acquired by Murdoch's News Corporation, Columbia was acquired by Sony, Universal was acquired by Panasonic, and Warner Bros. was acquired by Time Group.
In another year, Paramount will be acquired by Viacom Group for US$10 billion, and only Disney will continue to inherit it.
After listening to the opinions of the members at the meeting, Yang Ye nodded and said: "OK, if you want me to come forward, I am willing to take on this responsibility.
I suggest that we can Contact China Film Company first, and then send a delegation to China for negotiations when the matter makes substantial progress.
At that time, I am willing to serve as the leader of the delegation! ”
Yang Ye's words made the CEOs of the eight major companies very happy. Paramount's female head Shirley Lansing said happily: "Sir, you are so refreshing. I like your uncompromising style."< br>
Yang Ye smiled faintly at this Hollywood strong woman and said, "I also appreciate your vigorous and resolute style. How about you represent the MPAA and visit mainland China to make first-hand contacts?"
Sheryl Lan Xin thought for a moment and said, "Okay!"
"Okay, then it's such a happy decision."
After coming out of the MPAA headquarters, Yang Ye said to Adjani: "Shirley Lansing is going to China, so you should go with her. Take Elaine with you, I want her to go to China."
Adjani thought for a while, nodded and said: " Shirley’s trip to China requires advance arrangements and takes at least a month or two. Elaine was on summer vacation at that time, and she had actually been clamoring to go to China for a long time.”
Yang Ye said happily: "Very good, I will make time to accompany you then!"
"Can you find the time?"
""Terminator 3" will probably be released in August Let’s finish filming in a month!”…
The filming of "Terminator 3" continues. In order to save money, many places that people think are CG special effects are actually physical special effects.
For example, after TX saw the big-breasted women on billboards, he made his breasts bigger. This was actually done by putting an inflatable bra under his clothes.
Of course, Halle Berry’s nipples are already super big, and keeping this scene is just for fun.
Some seemingly ordinary scenes in the movie were very difficult to shoot.
For example, in the cemetery scene, the heroine Kate sees her boyfriend Scott, and Scott walks towards her. In the long shot, Scott gradually turns into TX.
The crew had to shoot this shot in three parts, namely the pure background version, the male actor walking version, and the actress walking version.
Since the male body structure is very different from that of women, and the appearance of the two actors is not very consistent, and the male actor wears a sweatshirt and sweatpants, while the actress wears a leather jacket and leather pants, in order to make the scene realistic, not only must Change their body shape, but also change their clothes.
It takes a lot of time to deal with these seemingly simple problems.
However, most of this time was spent in post-production. By August, the real-life shooting of "Terminator 3" was completed on time.
This shooting took a total of four months, which was relatively efficient.
The main reason is that computer technology has improved a lot in recent years compared to the time when filming "Terminator 2". Many shooting problems can be solved by computers.
Although a lot of work has been added in the later stage, the actual shooting part will become easier if you master the skills.
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After the completion of "Terminator 3" was announced, Yang Ye took Akina Nakamori to return to Hong Kong first.
The car passes through Victoria Bay from the undersea tunnel, enters Hong Kong Island, and heads to the home prepared by Yang Ye for Akina Nakamori.
Yang Ye asked Akina Nakamori: "Do you feel regretful that you didn't have a grand curtain call?"
Akina Nakamori shook her head: "No, in fact, I feel like I can't quit completely like a teacher."
Nakamori Akina's curtain call was not as spectacular as Yamaguchi Momoe's, she chose Quietly exited.
After all, Yamaguchi Momoe's retirement because of Yang Ye was sensational enough.
Now that Akina Nakamori announces her retirement for Yang Ye, the Japanese will go crazy.
So, after discussion, Akina Nakamori chose a plan to gradually reduce her work and withdraw slowly.
In fact, in the original time and space, after Akina Nakamori entered the 1990s, her career was in a state of decline.
Due to a series of blows, she started smoking and drinking. Her voice began to deteriorate and she also lost a lot of weight.
Since leaving Warner Records in 1991, her record sales have never been on the Japanese Oricon Chart.
Although she has struggled and tried hard to make a comeback, things have gone against her expectations and her record sales have hit record lows.
Compared with the original time and space, now Akina Nakamori is nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress, and her career is at its peak. She is destined to become an eternal legend in the Japanese entertainment industry.
Yang Ye looked at the blooming crape myrtle flowers on the roadside and said: "Let's release another single!"
Nakamori Akina was stunned and asked: "What song?"
Yang Ye will Nakamori Akina held her hand in hers and sang softly:
"This is such a beautiful and regretful world.
We just hugged each other and laughed and shed tears.< br>
I came from afar to have an appointment with you.
Infatuation lingers in the world, I am wild for her.
I am this dazzling moment, the flame across the horizon.
I risk everything for you to see me, I will be extinguished and never come back.
I am here, right here.
It is as short-lived as a sudden death, and as gorgeous as summer flowers! "
As Nakamori Akina listened to Yang Ye's singing, tears flowed from her eyes.
She felt that this song was written for her.
Ten years ago, In her best years, she emerged and shocked the entire Japanese music scene
In the past ten years, she has swept the Japanese music scene and left a colorful page in the entire Asian entertainment industry. >
All of this is as gorgeous as blooming summer flowers.
And now, she will wash away all her glory and disappear quietly, and her artistic life will come to an end here.
And her future life will enter another stage.
Nakamori Akina leaned on Yang Ye's shoulder and softly read Tagore's little poem: "Life is as gorgeous as summer flowers, and death is as quiet and beautiful as autumn leaves. Oni-chan, thank you for this. Give this song to me!”
But Yang Ye was thinking that with Nakamori Akina retiring and Ai Hui Music’s main pillar gone, a new and dominant talent must be introduced.
It's time for Izumi Sakai to appear.
Oh, and that little girl Nanase Aikawa.
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After settling in Akina Nakamori, Yang Ye began to check the progress of "Kung Fu".
The shots of "Kung Fu" have already been edited. The special effects team only needs to achieve the final effect according to Yang Ye's requirements, so Yang Ye does not need to keep staring.
Today, Ziqi Company's business is very busy and it has begun to outsource some unimportant lenses.
This has spawned a number of downstream special effects companies in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, and the entire industry has become very large.
Yang Ye checked the collected footage and asked Yang Mingxin: "Third brother, it seems that we won't be able to finish this year!"
Yang Mingxin said: "If everything goes well, next year It can be released during the Spring Festival."
Yang Ye said; "Don't rush, work slowly and carefully, you can't be careless in this matter."
Yang Mingxin said: "Then you won't have any movies released this year?"
Yang Yexin said, yes, it's going to be neutral again.
Last year, I almost put it on hiatus, but ended up making a romantic movie to fool people, which made fans very dissatisfied and the box office was not good.
Come on another romance movie this year to fool us?
This is not possible!
It's too late for a special effects blockbuster, so let's make an action movie to deal with it.
What are you doing?
Yang Ye thought that when he was in the United States, he made a bet that "The Bodyguard" starring Whitney Houston would become a dark horse at the box office. At that time, he also said that he wanted to make a Chinese version, and he suddenly had an idea.
Ajie, I'm sorry, I have to watch a movie for you as my teacher. (End of this chapter)