Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Wireless's "The King of Kings" is a direct copy of the Hollywood classic movie "The Godfather" series, with gold medal producer Wang Tianlin as the director, starring Xie Xian and Wang Mingquan. It took the lead when it first aired, successfully defeating ATV's 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 I have already met my fourth brother Fa Ge, but his promotion to the leading role was too sudden."

However, TVB has not had time to be happy, "Dragon Movie" 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.

Michelle Michelle and Yu An'an are both popular stars, and Chen Yulian rose to fame through "The Swordsman" starring Yang Ye.

In ATV's "Thousands of Sails" offensive, 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, including two of the Three Great Wall Princesses, 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, why would even Xia Meng be dispatched? But he used his face to invite These people are just guest roles and do not affect the overall situation. In the end, it still depends on whether the drama is well shot."

Fang Yihua sighed: "I didn't expect that Yang Ye actually pulled the trigger and bought out all Jin Yong's copyrights."

After helping Jin Yong put forward suggestions for revising the novel, Yang Ye took decisive action and bought out the copyright of Jin Yong's novel for a sky-high price of 50 million. Finally, with the help of Xia Meng, the final decision was made.

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 hard to deal with. I didn't expect that he would acquire Lishi at a premium when Lishi was in the spotlight. For this reason, he even bought Nanyang, and even Eat all the beautiful reflections of the Caribbean Sea.”

Fang Yihua was really shocked when he thought about Yang Ye's debut. When others make a movie, they first make a small-budget one to test the waters and take their time, but he then goes on to make a big production and it immediately sells well all over the world.

He 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 useless and of no use. But the ones 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 didn't care how big Yang Ye's ambition was, she just wanted to keep her TVB, and she was thinking about how she should deal with it if the ratings of "Dragon Movie" were too high.

Run Run Shaw asked: "How was your conversation with Gu Long?"

Fang Yihua said with a headache: "I wanted to imitate Yang Ye and buy out his copyright directly, but he refused because he was also adapting his works to make movies."

"You didn't pay enough, right? How much did you pay for the buyout?"

"1000 million Hong Kong dollars is already a lot. Gu Long doesn't have 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."

Run Run Shaw nodded, 1000 million is indeed a lot. In the past, when they made a Cologne movie, they only gave tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars for the adaptation rights. Even if all Gu Long's novels were filmed, it would only cost a few million.

"Go to Taiwan to 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 shot some time ago was released and made some money, but then disappeared."

As soon as Gu Long got 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, these novels are very popular and even middle school students can afford to buy them and read them.

In fact, this is a sales method of 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!

However, Gu Long 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, hiding somewhere to live a debauched life.

However, only one or two volumes of the book were published, and the readers were enjoying themselves, but the rest of the book 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 in 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."

……

In the original time and space, there was Golden Princess Cinema first, and then New Art City Company.

Princess Jin has two bosses, one is Lei Juekun and the other is Ng Siu-chan, both of whom are shareholders of Kowloon Bus.

Before New Arts City became famous, Golden Princess 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, 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 was 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 came back from studying abroad. When he was in the United States, he was a hippie and couldn't stand Hong Kong's stratified model.

The boss is the boss, and the associates are associates. The boss can make a lot of money, but the associates are treated like dogs.

He felt this 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 close the business!"

Lei Juekun said: "Okay, let's bet once!"

Maijia used to work alone, but this time he couldn't. He had a financial backer, so he started looking for 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 has produced some super-grossing movies, such as the Happy Ghost series, Happy Family series, "The Wrong Ride" and "A Lang's Story", including Xinyi He is also one of the screenwriters of the city's super ace "Best Partner" series.

Doing the most things for the least amount of money is simply taking advantage of others!

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 project. 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 Jia said: "Didn't I say that we can set the schedule anytime we want? We rely on our ability to schedule the film. If we fail to beat it, it's because of our lack of ability. We 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 was time to go to Jiahe for a screening, and I didn’t know what they were up to.

The summer schedule is very long, so we can just stagger the release time with Yang Ye. Let’s give in to the Lunar New Year stall. There’s still a New Year stall, right? Both Yang Ye and Chen Long's movies have been released this year. Our only opponent in the Lunar New Year stage is Hong Jingbao, and he can definitely give it a try. "

Mai Jia nodded and said: "After Mr. Lei's Li Sheng is merged into Baiyang Cinema, 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, feeling that it made 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 chapter)