Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

The beautiful girl turned around and transformed into a warrior.

Gather strength with love and save the world from death.

The body is surrounded by a halo and you can see everything with your eyes closed.

Bright as Buddha's light, it appears in the sky.

Although there are many tricks, once the beautiful girl changes, the evil outsiders will stand aside...

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The Cantonese theme song of Sailor Moon came from the TV, and Zhao Yazhen shouted, "Haohao, Sailor Moon is starting!"

Yang Ritian quickly threw down the "Blue Bird Pictorial" in his hand, ran to the TV, sat down, and watched it attentively.

Zhao Yazhen teased: "Haohao, you are a boy, why do you like to watch Sailor Moon?"

Yang Ritian said as a matter of course: "My dad likes to watch it, and he also said that Sailor Moon is a must-see for tough guys!"

Zhao Yazhen held her forehead and said, "Brother-in-law is really... Then you must grow up to be a strong man like your father in the future!"

Yang Ritian patted his chest and said, "Of course!"

Then he asked, "Aunt, why do you like watching Sailor Moon?"

Zhao Yazhen said: "Because my aunt is a beautiful girl!"

Yang Ritian thought, although his aunt was a little old, she was indeed very beautiful.

"Moon Prism Power, Transform!"

"Sailor Moon, the Sailor Moon of love and justice! I will punish you on behalf of the moon!"

The Sailor Moons on TV began to transform gorgeously. Yang Ritian was too lazy to pay attention to his aunt and started watching attentively.

"Crown of the Moon, attack!"

"Ah..." The bad guy screamed and was killed by the rabbit.

"Well done, Bunny!" Tuxedo Mask gave a thumbs up.

This made Yang Ritian in front of the TV feel very satisfied. Sailor Moon is so beautiful!
The only annoying thing is... after one episode ends, you have to wait another two weeks for the next one. It’s so hard!
Zhao Yazhen complained: "Go tell your dad later and ask him to do it faster, he's waiting to die!"

Yang Ritian sighed and said, "I haven't seen my dad for a long time!"

As he was speaking, Zhao Yangming came out, and Yang Ritian hurriedly called out, "Grandpa!"

Zhao Yangming agreed, sat down next to him, and asked, "Is your father not in Hong Kong?"

"He went to America to make a movie!"

At this moment, the ATV news on TV began to broadcast and Yang Ye appeared on TV.

Yang Ritian shouted, "It's Dad!"

Zhao Yazhen laughed and said, "Speak of brother-in-law, and brother-in-law will appear!"

The news about Terminator 2 is being broadcast on TV.

"Terminator 2 is being filmed intensively in Los Angeles. In order to shoot a highway chase scene, director Yang Ye used up all the power lines in Hollywood to illuminate a five-mile highway."

"The Terminator 2 crew used ten giant Titan jibs, each equipped with a large 12K gas discharge lamp to illuminate the road. This type of lamp has high brightness, long range and concentration, and is very expensive!"

As the announcer explained, spectacular scenes from the filming of "Terminator 2" flashed across the TV.

"The Terminator 2 crew also used helicopters and hired military pilots to fly the helicopters under the viaduct..."

As soon as the words were spoken, the helicopter was blown up on TV.

"In just one night, the crew of Terminator 2 spent million Hong Kong dollars. This is the most expensive movie ever made in Asia, and it is also a top-notch production in Hollywood!"

Then the scene changed and a building-blowing challenge scene appeared. The three generations of grandparents and grandchildren in front of the TV were stunned.

Afterwards, Yang Ye himself appeared on camera and briefly accepted an interview with ATV reporters.

Yang Ye chatted with the ATV reporter for a few words, and finally said: "Terminator 2 will meet the audience this summer, and everyone is welcome to go to the theater to watch it!"

……

The family sat together for dinner, and Zhao Yangming asked, "Azhi, did this movie really cost 300 million Hong Kong dollars?"

Zhao Yazhi shook his head: "7000 million is just the initial budget. The actual cost in Hollywood is much higher than expected. Now the budget is seriously over budget. In the end, it will probably cost million US dollars!"

Zhao Yangming was surprised and said, "Isn't that 500 million Hong Kong dollars? I saw a statistic last time, and the local box office of all Hong Kong film companies last year was only over 500 million!"

Zhao Yazhen said, "Dad, the box office in Hong Kong is nothing to my brother-in-law. He doesn't even care about it."

Zhao Yangming said: "That's true, but this time it's a bit too big. I remember that Aye's movies have only maintained a global box office of around 70 to 80 million in the past few years."

Zhao Yazhi nodded and said, "Well, before he went to the United States, he told me that action movies are always B-level movies in the eyes of European and American audiences, so they have been stagnant over the years and the box office can't go any further. So, this time we have to go big and challenge Hollywood's first-class productions!"

Zhao Yangming praised: "You have great ambition!"

He picked up a piece of chicken for Yang Ritian and said, "Haohao, you have to learn from your father and be a man of integrity!"

Yang Ritian has always been proud of Yang Ye, and he proudly puffed out his chest and said, "I will, Grandpa!"

"After dinner, lend your picture book to grandpa!"

"Oh!"

Zhao Yazhen said disdainfully: "Dad, you are so old, and you still read the puppet newspaper!"

Zhao Yangming glared at her and retorted, "You are so old, and you still watch Sailor Moon?"

Yang Ritian said quickly: "Grandpa is reading my dad's novel in the newspaper!"

Zhao Yangming put down the bowl and said helplessly: "What can I do? Ah Ye insisted on publishing the novel in the puppet newspaper!"

Mother Zhao suddenly said, "Ah Zhen, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but you do nothing all day. It's ok if you don't work, but I don't see you dating. When can you bring a boyfriend back?"

Zhao Yazhen said, "Mommy, why don't I have a job? I'm the president of my brother-in-law's fan club. I'm very busy at work. If you don't believe me, ask my sister."

"Okay, let's just say it's a job. You're already thirty years old and you're not dating. When are you going to get married?"

“I haven’t found a suitable one!”

"I think the third child of Mrs. Zhu's family is pretty good. Last time I arranged a dinner for you guys, but you stood them up and didn't even go!"

"Mommy, I grew up watching Zhu Lao San naked, and I don't have any good feelings towards him. Also, Mrs. Zhu is such a bad-mouthed person, if she became my in-laws, I would not want to live anymore."

"Alas!" Mother Zhao sighed and said to Zhao Yazhi, "My dear girl, you should also keep your sister's affairs in mind. There are some good young men in your company, you should help keep an eye on them."

Zhao Yazhi said helplessly: "I have introduced several people to Ah Zhen, but she didn't like any of them!" Zhao Yazhen complained: "You are so stingy. What kind of people are you introducing? I like someone, but you don't introduce me to someone else?"

Mother Zhao's eyes lit up: "Who does Ah Zhen like?"

Zhao Yazhi said, "Don't listen to her nonsense. She just doesn't want to find a partner. She deliberately gave me a difficult question to make things difficult for me. She asked me to introduce Li Ming to her, but that kid is ten years younger than her. How is that possible?"

After hearing this, the old couple of the Zhao family were speechless.

……

The commotion Yang Ye caused in Hollywood was so big that many Asian media went to Los Angeles for interviews.

Yang Ye decided to go all out and simply called ATV over to make the footage of the big scenes in "Terminator 2" into news and broadcast it back in Hong Kong.

After the filming of "Terminator 2" was reported on ATV News, it really caused an uproar. For a while, the whole of Hong Kong Island was discussing this matter.

After more than half a year of cold war, the three bosses of Cinema City finally got together again and agreed to hold a meeting at Teddy Robin's house.

Of course, this was Teddy Robin's idea, he felt the company couldn't go on like this.

As soon as the three of them entered the door, they each sat on a chair and read the newspaper without saying a word.

Teddy Robin had no choice but to say, "The failure of the Spring Festival box office is entirely my fault!"

During the 1987 Spring Festival, Bai Yang released "Dragon Brothers" starring Chen Long, which grossed 3540 million Hong Kong dollars at the local box office.

This movie is also very popular overseas. Although it has not been fully released yet, it has already created a whirlwind in Southeast Asia.

The sales revenue in Europe and the United States reached 1800 million US dollars, successfully recovering the cost, and all other places made profits!

Thanks to Yang Ye's help, Chen Long entered the European and American markets much earlier than in the original time and space.

Coupled with the early release of the "Shanghai Noon" series, he has a considerable appeal in Europe and the United States.

It is worth mentioning that due to long-term practice of parkour and the scientific training methods taught to him by Yang Ye, Chen Long's skills are more flexible than in the original time and space. Although he is often injured, the injuries are much lighter than in the original time and space.

"Dragon Brothers" was originally a life-and-death crisis for Chen Long. When he was filming the scene of jumping onto a tree, he misjudged the tree's bearing capacity, causing the tree to break and Chen Long was seriously injured and dying.

If a world-class brain expert had not happened to be holding a meeting nearby, Chen Long would have been dead.

The incident during the filming of "Dragon Brothers" had a great impact on Chen Long's career. After that, his skills were not as flexible as before, and his film production began to decrease.

This time, before setting off, Yang Ye told Zhang Xueyou, Guan Zhilin and others to keep an eye on Chen Long and to stop him in time if they found him playing too much.

Of course, Chen Long may not necessarily listen, and that’s okay, but when shooting dangerous scenes, we must keep an eye on him and take adequate safety measures.

In the end, Chen Long escaped unharmed and only suffered minor injuries!

There is another thing: in this version of "Dragon Brothers", Zhang Xueyou replaced Alan Tam.

Naturally, the songs used in the movie will no longer be Alan Tam’s "Friends" and "Storm Goddess"!
Yang Ye helped Zhang Xueyou change the song to two English songs, one of which was the English version of "Goodbye Kiss" called "Take Me To Your Heart".

In 2004, the Danish pop band "Michael Learns to Rock" covered "Goodbye Kiss", making the song popular all over the world.

Damn, such a good thing... of course let Zhang Xueyou do it himself!
When "Dragon Brothers" was released in North America, Zhang Xueyou was invited to the United States to release an English album.

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D&B released "The Rich and the Powerful" during the Spring Festival, starring Dong Biao and Shen Dianxia. It tells the story of an ordinary Hong Kong citizen who accidentally won the Mark Six lottery. The local box office took in 2700 million and made huge profits.

The key point is that Gao Zhisen mentioned this movie three times when he was at Cinema City, but Wong Jing kept saying no, saying it was a "bad shirt movie" and they wanted to make a "beautiful shirt movie."

Gao Zhisen was so angry that he switched to D&B, and D&B started filming immediately. The result was a huge hit. What the hell...

In contrast, Cinema City launched the science fiction blockbuster "The Legend of Wesley" this year, which cost a huge amount of money. It invited Xu Guanjie to go to Nepal for actual filming, and the final local box office was 1870 million Hong Kong dollars.

The box office is actually not bad. It is second only to "Terminator" among Hong Kong science fiction films. The copyright has also been sold to Europe. But "Terminator" was a movie released many years ago?
Then, not only was the box office crushed by Chen Long, but it was also crushed by the combination of Dong Biao and Shen Dianxia, ​​which was really a loss of face for the superstar Xu Guanjie.

As a director, Teddy Robin first conducted a self-examination.

The three bosses hurried to comfort him, and Mai Jia said: "The movie is very well made, you have done your best."

Wong Jing said: "I missed the treasure, I didn't expect that "The Rich and the Powerful" would be so great!"

Shi Tian said: "In fact, the box office is not bad, and it sells well in foreign countries. Can't "The Rich and the Powerful" be sold in Europe?"

Teddy Robin said, "Okay, you guys are finally talking. Now let's discuss what to shoot next?"

Shi Tian thought about it and said, "How about we continue to make science fiction films? Let's make a sequel to Wesley."

Wong Jing said, "Didn't you read the news? The movie "Terminator 2" that Yang Ye is currently filming is said to have cost million Hong Kong dollars. We can't beat them no matter how much we try."

Mai Jia said with a bit of envy: "Five hundred million...I really don't know how he spent it."

Shi Tian said: "Why should we film others? Isn't it enough to make money?"

Teddy Robin said: "Sci-fi films are too troublesome to make. I spent two years on "The Legend of Wesley" and spent 17 million. I went to the Himalayas to shoot and Taiwan to build the scene. I also had to figure out all kinds of special effects, but in the end it didn't make much money. The cycle was long and the return was small. I won't make it again."

Teddy Robin said he didn't want to do it anymore, so everyone gave up, because science fiction is indeed a tough nut to crack.

Wong Jing said, "Why don't we shoot "Water Margin"? Invite many actors and make a comedy version."

Then everyone started to think and speak, and in a trance, it seemed as if they had returned to the time when the Seven Monsters of Cinema City were working together.

Unfortunately, before anyone could say a few words, Mai Jia came out to interrupt and constantly overturned other people's ideas.

They said that the movie was too funny and lacked action scenes. No other movie had as much action scenes as "The Lucky Stars". Action scenes are popular overseas.

As a result, everyone was very angry. As a boss, you should have gone out to make money, but you kept bringing this up.

Everyone knows that action scenes are popular, but we don’t have awesome action actors!
After a few words, they started arguing. Finally, Mai Jia said, "Since we can't agree, why don't we do it separately!"

Wong Jing asked: "How do we divide it?"

Mai Jia said: "We have suspended our joint creation. The three of us will do our own things. The movies we produce will still carry the Cinema City brand."

Huang Baiming had been unhappy for a long time. He did the most work but got the least money, so he said, "Okay!"

Seeing this, Shi Tian had no choice but to say, "I agree too!"

The three of them looked at Teddy Robin together. He was a talent. Zeng Zhiwei was gone, Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng were gone too, and he was the only one left.

All three of them wanted Teddy Robin to follow them!

Teddy Robin sighed and said, "Three bosses, I choose to resign!"

Mai Jia was shocked: "Where are you going?"

Teddy Robin said: "When Zeng Zhiwei left, he said that it was very hard for seven people to eat from one pot of porridge. I will go out and try my luck, so that there will be one less person to eat from this pot of porridge. Now that I think about it, he was right.

Now all three bosses want me to follow you. I will feel betrayed no matter which one I follow, so I choose not to follow anyone and go find Zeng Zhiwei!" (End of this chapter)