Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Yang Ye put down the phone and breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the situation was not very bad.

What Yang Ye is more worried about is that the brokerage company will not be able to keep it, because once Taiwan implements a large-scale ban, the artists signed by the brokerage company will choose to leave for fear of being implicated.

Now it seems that Taiwan does not want to cause too much trouble, and at most they will ban a few of the main creators of "Sword Rain".

This is much easier to say. Yang Ye has follow-up arrangements for several main actors in "Sword Rain".

He planned to send Jet Li to the mainland for filming, Yuen Biao to Japan, and Hui Yinghong to the United States for filming.

As for Guan Zhilin, just keep her and let her go to ATV to film TV series and hang out.

Anyway, Guan Zhilin has no career ambitions. Her dream is to be Yang Ye's full-time wife.

Then, use this time to slowly unblock the relationship with the help of contacts in Taiwan.

After a year and a half, this so-called ban was over.

Because, there was no explicit banning order in the first place.

……

Las Vegas, inside the Octagon!

In recent years, most of Yang Ye's challengers have been blocked by Binny.

If you can't even beat Yang Ye's disciples, what qualifications do you have to fight Yang Ye?

Only those fighters with larger physiques would be personally attacked by Yang Ye.

Because Binny has no plug-ins, he can't defeat fighters whose weight is much higher than him.

This kind of thing can only be done by a wall hanging like Yang Ye.

UFC has developed steadily in North America over the years and has been divided into five levels of competition: flyweight, featherweight, lightweight, middleweight and heavyweight.

This classification is not very rigorous yet and will be further subdivided in the future, but for now, it is enough.

In terms of level, Yang Ye is a lightweight. The lightweight category also attracts the most attention in the entire series of events. It plays with both speed and power, and is very entertaining to watch!

It happened that Yang Ye came to North America to promote his new film, and someone challenged Yang Ye, so Yang Ye naturally took part in the battle himself!

Although Yang Ye wanders around every day, he never misses training.

Although his training time is much less than that of professional fighters, no one can beat him thanks to his cheats.

Now the one facing Yang Ye on the stage was a heavyweight fighter whose specialty was wrestling.

He dreamed of catching Yang Ye, but it was impossible. His movements were too slow in Yang Ye's eyes, and Yang Ye could easily dodge his attack.

Then he kept taking advantage of the opportunity to counterattack between his attacks, making the fighter spin around.

After the fighter was exhausted, Yang Ye used his famous trick "Three-Step Cannon Fist" amidst the cheers of the audience, knocking the fighter to the ground in one fell swoop.

victory!

Yang Ye raised his hands to greet the audience!

"Ouch!"

The rednecks in the audience cheered loudly!

"Onii-chan, you are so awesome!"

Nakamori Akina carefully wiped Yang Ye's sweat, her fair face full of admiration.

Yang Ye smiled slightly and said calmly: "It seems that no one can take away the five million US dollars!"

Akina Nakamori was extremely happy following Yang Ye around during this period.

Go to Disneyland and visit the movie studios in Hollywood.

I filmed the MV for my new album in the endless desert, and even met superstar Michael Jackson.

Gambling in Las Vegas, I saw with my own eyes what the God of Gamblers is!

Watching UFC games, I saw what the King of Fighters is!

Along the way, my admiration for Yang Ye reached its peak!

On the eve of Thanksgiving, Yang Ye returned to Los Angeles and planned to spend Thanksgiving with Adjani and Elena.

Just then I remembered that the French don’t celebrate Thanksgiving!

Adjani said strangely: "Why should we pass? We didn't kill the Indians!"

However, Yang Ye came back specially to spend the holidays with her and her daughter, and she was quite happy. The family of three had a happy dinner, and then the two of them watched several episodes of "The Smurfs" with their daughter!

At this time, "Sediq Bale" was finally released in North America.

"Sediq Bale" was released on Thanksgiving Day. I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, even though Taiwanese aborigines have nothing to do with North American aborigines.

Since the film contains a large number of beheading scenes and also involves underage murder, it has been rated as an R-rated film and is recommended for those aged 17 and above.

This classification made Yang Ye relieved. If it was classified as the highest NC-17, it would be the end of the world, which meant that it could only be shown in restricted theaters.

For a movie rated NC-17, the highest box office in history is only US$2000 million.

"Sediq Bale" made 480 million at the box office on the first day of Thanksgiving, and more than 1360 million in the following three days on Friday, six and three days, with a cumulative box office of million US dollars on the first four and four days.

Distribution fees in North America are very expensive. The film Yang Ye released this time was not a signature action film, so he adopted a relatively conservative strategy and did not launch an indiscriminate bombing in more than a thousand theaters.

Compared with the distribution scale of 800 Hall, this result is not bad, although the final box office may create a new low for Yang Ye in North America.

In fact, it is difficult for war movies to achieve high box office in North America. The box office of "Braveheart", which was well-known in the 7000s, was only million in North America.

Now, thanks to the fact that Hollywood's fierce war blockbusters have not yet been born, "Sediq Bale" still looks very awesome.

The news reporters conducted random interviews, and the audience gave positive reviews.

"Oh, this movie is so cool!" an old black man said to the camera! "Although Mona chops off other people's heads at every turn, he is a real hero. Nick is so charming!" said a white woman.

"The movie is good, but I would rather see Nick perform his Kung Fu skills in the movie!" said an old Mo.

"Nick is the pride of us Chinese people, I love you, Nick!" said a yellow woman.

In terms of media, film critics in North America also praised it in various ways.

The New York Times: The tribes involved in the Wushe Incident were almost exterminated, but the aboriginal spirit will never die! The barbarism of freedom is far more important than the civilization of slavery. Without freedom, it is better to die!

"Washington Post": The tense offensive and defensive battle, the torturous battle, but the torment is so sacred. Some things must be persisted, they cannot be lost, such as the fighting soul and pride!

"Chicago Sun": This is a movie that makes Americans ashamed. Let go of all the civilization you have previously received to watch this movie and understand why the indigenous people fought. Each of us should reflect deeply!

Yang Ye looked at the newspaper and wanted to laugh. Why did the Americans think about it?

……

In early December, Yang Ye returned to Hong Kong in a low-key manner, making no public appearances or going to work in the company.

He only went to see Jin Yong once and stayed at home the rest of the time. Except for spending time with his wife and children and visiting two pregnant women, he did not go out.

About ten days later, after all the wives had moisturized themselves, Yang Ye finally went out.

As soon as Yang Ye returned to the company, he found a man named Lan Naicai who came to the company to meet him.

Lan Naicai is usually very low-key and difficult to find. Yang Ye found him through Hu Jinquan because he had been with Hu Jinquan.

Lan Naicai worked as a small-time worker at Shaw Brothers Studios in his early days. Later, he switched to a photography assistant and gradually grew into an outstanding photographer.

He later turned into a director, and his use of sound, light, and electricity was very distinctive. He was especially good at special photography. He was the king of CULT films in Hong Kong.

Among the works he directed, the most well-known is... "The King of Power".

Yang Ye smiled and asked: "Mr. Lan, I heard that you learned photography from the Japanese?"

Lan Naicai said: "Young Master Yang, just call me Mouse like everyone else. I did learn from the Japanese photographer Nishimoto Masaru."

"Then you can speak Japanese?"

"Of course!"

"That's very convenient. I have a movie in hand that I want to co-shoot with Japan's Kadokawa Pictures. I hope to hire you to be the director. Would you be interested?"

Lan Naicai was very surprised: "Young Master Yang, why are you looking for me?"

Yang Ye said: "I'm going to make a thriller-themed movie that involves special photography and special effects production. In Hong Kong, you are the only one other than me who has experience in this area. And I've seen the movie you shot for McDonald's before. "Ten Mysterious Cases" is very unique. I think you can make this movie well."

Lan Nai just turned into a director this year, and his first film was a big hit. I didn't expect that Yang Ye would favor him. It was also a large-scale Sino-Japanese co-production.

"Can I read the script?"

"can!"

Yang Ye handed the script to Lan Naicai, who took it with both hands and started reading it on the spot without talking nonsense.

This script is called "Peacock King", and the story is very simple.

It is said that in ancient times, the gods defeated the King of Hell and sealed him deep underground.

The King of Hell has been ready to make a move. He sent the hell messenger Asura to break the seal and return to the world.

A monk named Peacock from the snowy areas of China and a monk named Jixiang from Kyoto, Japan received orders from their masters to go and stop this catastrophe.

Who knows that Asura is a pure and innocent girl? Peacock and Jixiang cannot bear to kill Asura...

In short, after a series of difficult battles, they saved Asura and prevented the King of Hell from coming to the world.

Although the plot is simple, it is very difficult to shoot. When Peacock and Jixiang cast spells, a lot of special effects were involved.

Moreover, in the setting of the movie, the final BOSS Hell King is a giant image as big as a mountain. It involves special photography, which is one of the reasons why Yang Ye asked Lan Naicai to be the director.

Yang Ye asked: "How is it? Are you interested?"

Lan Naicai was very excited after seeing it and said: "It's great. I'm just... afraid of messing up. This is a big project after all!"

Yang Ye said: "This project is indeed not small. We and Kadokawa Pictures plan to invest US$5 million in production. As for the protagonists, we will adopt a dual protagonist setting. Two men and two women, one male and one female each from Hong Kong and Japan."

"Can I ask who the protagonist is?"

"On our side, Yuen Biao plays Peacock, and Lee Saifeng plays Ashura. Over at Kadokawa Films, Hiroyuki Sanada plays Yoshiyuki, and Nana Okada plays Miss Okada."

Miss Okada is a girl that Peacock and Jixiang met when they went to a department store to catch ghosts in the movie. Later, she followed Peacock and Jixiang everywhere throughout the whole process, and she was regarded as the heroine.

Lan Naicai immediately understood that the roles of the two male protagonists in this movie were evenly divided.

That Miss Okada seemed to be added for balance, and she didn't even change her name.

The actor's name is Nana Okada, and the character is actually called Miss Okada. Isn't Yang Ye too lazy?

However, this character appears very naturally and has a very lovable personality. He is a very cute character.

Aano has just been in Japan, and he knows a little about the Japanese entertainment industry. Nana Okada looks very kawaii, which is quite suitable.

This gave Lan Naicai the feeling that... Yang Ye decided on the actors first and then designed the roles based on the actors.

As for Yuen Biao, he is one of the leading stars of Baiyang Pictures. There are rumors that he was banned from Taiwan because of his starring role in "Sword Rain". Yang Ye is trying to find a way out for him!

Just send Yuan Biao to Japan to make a movie and be the leading actor, or invest five million US dollars in a big production, awesome!

Lan Nai didn't want to miss such a good opportunity. He took a deep breath and said, "This task is very difficult, but I am willing to accept the challenge!" (End of Chapter)