Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

"Terminator 2" was released in Hong Kong for two months and grossed HK$4360 million, significantly breaking the box office record.

Because there is still some momentum, the painting has not been taken down yet.

"Eastern Condors", directed and acted by Hong Jingbao, was strangled by a number of blockbuster films and only earned 1600 million in the local box office, showing a clear decline.

The overseas market was also not satisfactory and suffered heavy losses, which made Golden Harvest very unhappy.

As "Terminator 2" swept the world and continuously broke records, Yang Ye had already shown his dominance.

Now, Yang Ye invited Hong Jingbao to be the leading actor in his new film, and Hong Jingbao immediately agreed.

Everyone makes choices, and Hong Jingbao is not stupid.

Over the past two years, those who followed Yang Ye not only swept across Southeast Asia, but also entered the Japanese and Korean markets.

In comparison, the Taiwan market seems like a chicken rib.

Hong Jingbao's movies have also been big hits in Japan and South Korea. For example, "The Lucky Stars", "Project A" and "My Lucky Stars" all made it into the top ten of the year in South Korea.

But...that was all thanks to Chen Long. Without Chen Long, he would be nothing.

In the past two years, Chen Long has stopped letting him use his products, and his true colors have been revealed. He can't sell for a high price overseas.

After the filming of "Terminator 2" was completed, Yang Ye did not do his main job and produced "Diary of a Real Man" and "Hong Kong Love Story".

But everyone in the industry knows that he is preparing a blockbuster.

If another blockbuster is released based on the success of Terminator 2, what kind of response will it receive in the international market?
It’s unimaginable!
Hong Jingbao didn't expect that Yang Ye would actually invite him to be one of the leading actors in this blockbuster.

Hong Jingbao would not give up this opportunity even if it was banned in Taiwan.

Although Chen Long and his colleagues’ films cannot enter the Taiwanese market, they are still living a comfortable life and even selling their films to mainland China, enjoying great success.

Besides, he left Baiyang Company at a critical moment last time, and Yang Ye didn't say anything.

Now Yang Ye has let bygones be bygones and invited him to be the leading actor. If he refuses again, he will really offend Yang Ye badly.

Yang Ye is usually a very kind person, but if you really make him angry, you will be in trouble.

So Hong Jingbao decisively accepted Yang Ye's invitation.

However, he left and came back, and all his previous treatment at Baiyang Company was reduced to zero.

He had no studio and no share of the box office revenue, and only received a salary of 500,000 yuan.

This salary is a bit low for Hong Jingbao, but as the leading actor in Yang Ye's movie, he can make money just by being in the movie, so Hong Jingbao has no complaints.

……

At the company meeting, Yang Ye said: "After Kitagawa's downfall, there was a huge vacancy in the male idol market in Japan.

This is a bigger vacancy in girl idols than the one created when Yamaguchi Momoe retired.

At that time, there was a lack of a leader, but as a result, a large number of girl idols such as Akina Nakamori, Seiko Matsuda, and Kyoko Koizumi were born.

There is a large shortage of them now, and major entertainment companies in Japan are trying every means to find new male idols to fill the market gap.

However, the gap is too big to be filled, so here comes our opportunity.

Our next key goal is to launch our male idol in Japan!

Among the young artists in our company, Leon Lai and Aaron Kwok are the most promising and will be the focus of training.

The TV series "Hong Kong Love Story", starring super idol Akina Nakamori, has been bought by Japan's Fuji TV for broadcasting in the winter season.

With Mingcai here, the ratings for this drama won't be bad. You should take this opportunity to come up with a complete publicity plan to promote Leon Lai and Aaron Kwok in Japan and maximize the benefits!"

After hearing what Yang Ye said, everyone couldn't help but feel surprised and suspicious.

In the first half of the year, Yang Ye suddenly changed his job and filmed a TV series. He gave the series a new name, "idol drama", and inexplicably found a Japanese idol to be the heroine.

After the TV series was finished, he went to Japan and exposed Kitagawa's scandal, which became known to the world, killed Kitagawa, caused the Johnny's office to fall apart, and caused the Japanese male idol market to collapse instantly.

Then he sold this idol drama to Japan, and now he has asked the company to come up with a plan to promote Leon Lai and Aaron Kwok, so as to occupy the male idol market in Japan.

This... is basically a combination of punches!
It matches, everything matches. No wonder Yang Ye suddenly chose Akina Nakamori to be the heroine in the TV series.

This is obviously an attempt to leverage Akina Nakamori's influence to promote Leon Lai and Aaron Kwok in Japan.

In order to clear the obstacles, he even went so far as to destroy Johnny's office, killing a large number of Japanese male idols with it.

This is a big deal, this is definitely a big deal, he is going to step on the corpses of his enemies to get to the top!

Everyone couldn't help but admire Yang Ye's methods.

In addition, "Terminator 2" set off a global box office frenzy, and even Americans exclaimed that Yang Ye had defeated Hollywood.

Everyone suddenly felt that being able to start a business with Yang Ye was a real blessing in life.

This feeling is no different from that of ancient scholars meeting a wise leader.

……

In fact, Yang Ye’s strategy is very simple: to use the scandal to bring down the Japanese male idol.

Using Akina Nakamori to promote Leon Lai and Aaron Kwok to Japan is exactly the same as Taiwan's later use of mainland actresses to promote its own male idols.

In the Tianya Forum of later generations, there was once a mention of a Taiwanese "star-making plan". Although it was absurd, it did make some sense.

This so-called "star-making plan" is to use mainland actresses to promote Taiwanese actors. The service trade agreement signed in 2003 stipulates the definition of co-productions, one of which is that the main characters must be half from the mainland and half from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Since Hong Kong male stars have greater box office appeal, in order to maximize profits, co-productions have formed a model of pairing Hong Kong male stars with mainland female stars.

This model caused Hong Kong actresses to disappear from the limelight, while mainland actresses, represented by the Four Dan and Two Bing, took advantage of the opportunity to rise.

However, the entertainment market has always been dominated by male stars. The fact that females are more numerous than males in the mainland entertainment industry is a wrong path and will not last long.

As Hong Kong's top men are getting older, the new generation of successors suddenly die, which... gives Taiwan an opportunity.

Since the young generation in Hong Kong died suddenly, Taiwan took the opportunity to launch its own male stars.

This is actually a copy of the mainland's routine: co-productions between the mainland and Hong Kong have led to the collective rise of mainland female stars; Taiwan has followed suit, using the same method to make Taiwanese male stars collectively rise.

Probably since "Red Cliff", a large number of co-produced film and television works have paired popular mainland actresses with Taiwanese idol actors, which has almost become a standard.

For example, Zhou Yuren partnered with Reba to star in "The Flame's Daughter", 576 partnered with Liu Shishi to star in "Startling by Each Step", Ruan Jingtian partnered with Yang Mi to star in "Legend of Fuyao", and Zhao Yache partnered with Yang Mi to star in "Eternal Love"...

576 and Zhao Yacht also abducted Shishi and Yuanyuan. Damn it, the hatred of having your wives stolen!
This is about TV dramas, and there are even more about movies.

Peng Yuyan starred in big productions one after another, Zhao Yaye also got big jobs such as So Young and Detective Dee. If Dong Keyao hadn't been taking drugs, he would have taken off with "Monster Hunt".

In fact, this so-called sinister plan does not exist at all.

Some people swear that Hong Kong director John Woo and Taiwanese director Chu Yen-ping openly promoted the plan of "using mainland actresses to promote Taiwanese actors" on a program in Singapore.

John Woo and Chu Yen-ping are not idiots. If they really had this plan, would they be stupid enough to say it openly on the show?

Singapore is not in a different time and space. Once they say something, the mainland will know about it. Wouldn’t their plan be ruined?
This so-called Singaporean program actually does not exist, otherwise the video of their conversation would be everywhere.

Why would anyone believe this nonsense?

Because people only believe what they want to believe!

Therefore, this conspiracy theory that "there are always evil people who want to harm me" is very popular.

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So, if there is no such conspiracy, why does this phenomenon of Taiwanese male stars dating mainland female stars occur?
Because you deliberately picked this out, it naturally seems like there is too much.

In fact, there are quite a few Taiwanese actresses who have dated mainland male stars. Taiwanese actresses like Chen Qiaoen, Ady An, and Ruby Lin have dated countless mainland male stars.

Before Lin Xinru's reputation was ruined, she co-starred with Yuan Hong in "The Beautiful Country", which had super high ratings. This is obviously a Taiwanese woman leading a Chinese man. How do conspiracy theorists explain it?

As for matching, it’s either a man with a woman or a woman with a man. This is a very common thing.

In fact, this is just a cooperation model that was born under specific conditions.

One reason is that co-production helps expand overseas markets, but the young generation in Hong Kong is dying out, so we can only use Taiwan’s.

Another reason is that most Hong Kong films during the golden age were invested by Taiwanese.

This has resulted in a large number of close relationships between Taiwanese producers and Hong Kong directors.

This group of Taiwanese producers later came to the mainland to invest in film and television dramas, and they were the real driving force behind this phenomenon.

For example, Zhao Yache was able to play Di Renjie because he was recommended by Chen Guofu.

Chen Kuo-fu is Taiwanese, so he naturally likes to promote Taiwanese actors. He was also the one who recommended Peng Yuyan to Hong Kong directors.

It is human nature for fellow villagers to help each other. If fellow villagers don’t help each other, then they are out of their minds.

Of course, Taiwanese people know how to help their fellow countrymen, and mainlanders also know how to protect their own people.

This model was quickly criticized and became a hot topic, and also brought about a wave of conspiracy theories, so a large number of Taiwanese artists returned to Taiwan.

In time, the fact that Yang Ye eliminated Kitagawa in Japan and then took advantage of the situation to launch a Chinese male idol might be turned into a "conspiracy theory."

After all, "conspiracy theories" are very popular all over the world.

Did Yang Ye actually have such a conspiracy? No, he was just following the trend.

But no one will believe it!

Fortunately, it doesn’t matter whether you believe it or not. By the time the Japanese reacted, Yang Ye had already made a lot of money.

The idols he launched will become the youth of a generation of Japanese.

However, Leon Lai and Aaron Kwok alone were not enough, and there were three people in the "Heavenly Banquet".

So, when the meeting was about to end, Yang Ye threw out a piece of information and said, "This trainee named Zheng Yijian has a very good appearance. Let's train him and arrange for him to act in a TV series first!"

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In 1986, Cheng Yikin participated in the TVB New Talent Singer Competition with his friends, and was invited to audition. After passing the assessment, he entered the TVB Artist Training Class.

However, due to his shy, quiet and nervous personality, he was eliminated due to poor performance at the end of the course three months later.

Afterwards, Zheng Yijian found a clerical job in an office building and worked there for a few months, but he felt that he was not suitable for this kind of job and soon resigned.

In the original time and space, he went to TVB for another try and entered the Artist Training Class again. This time he graduated successfully and made his debut.

However, due to the strong position of ATV at that time, Cheng Yikin's second choice was not to go to TVB.

He chose to try his luck at Baiyang Agency and successfully became a trainee.

Fate always leans towards the side that has the upper hand!
This is... when the time comes, heaven and earth will work together! (End of this chapter)