Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 59 Fame spreads all over the world

The Cannes Film Festival is the largest film trading market in the world today, and awards are just the icing on the cake.

It’s just that if you win an award, your film will be more valuable.

"Shaolin Temple" is a commercially successful film. If it wins an award, that's great.

Although it is not a major award, the Palme d'Or logo was used in the promotion, which immediately made it stand out.

Under such circumstances, Yang Ye of course raised the price, but there was still an endless stream of film distributors coming to snap up the film.

The popular screening of "Shaolin Temple" during the film festival has already reassured the distributors, and now the icing on the cake is winning an award.

After buying this film, just lie down and count the money.

But before they were lying down counting the money, Yang Ye was already lying down counting the money.

Jiang Zhiqiang is well aware of the film markets around the world, and he has shown the box office data of Japan and Hong Kong to the distributors, so the prices are negotiated very high.

It's not that Yang Ye doesn't want to sell the profits, but it's a pity that he doesn't have the ability to supervise the box office in so many markets. If he really sells the profits, if someone makes a fake account, you won't get a cent.

You can't go to a foreign country to litigate a lawsuit, right?

The film festival has ended, but the film business is still going on. Yang Yejiang Zhiqiang signs contracts with people every day until he is soft, so Zhao Yazhi and others naturally stay to help.

Hu Jinquan's "The Heroine" was shortlisted for best director and some rights were sold.However, because he didn’t win the prize, his situation was worse than in the original time and space.

The three of them had nothing to do when they went back, so they simply stayed and helped Yang Ye. Anyway, Yang Ye took care of food, housing, and wages.

Of course, the main reason why Hu Jinquan stayed was to discuss the movie he mentioned before with Yang Ye, but it was a pity that Yang Ye was too busy to talk about it.

During this period, "Shaolin Temple" has sold hundreds of copyrights, including Europe, Australia, Central and South America, Africa, and South Asia.Yugoslavia in Eastern Europe also bought it.

Yang Ye made a map, sold a copyright, and then drew a check mark on the map.

In the end, apart from a poor place in Africa, there were only three empty areas left.North America, woolly bears and mainland China.

Mao Xiong was directly ignored by Yang Ye. He was also ignored when the mainland was going through that incident.

Yang Ye has only one goal left now, and that is to sell "Shaolin Temple" into the world's largest film market, North America!
20th Century Fox has offered a price of US$50, but Yang Ye did not agree.

Two years ago, Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon" sold $2500 million at the box office in North America.

The current box office performance of "Shaolin Temple" has surpassed that of "Enter the Dragon". How can you fool the devil with 50 yuan?
Yang Ye decided to wait. There are eight major film companies in Hollywood, and in addition there are some small film companies. I don't believe that they don't know the goods.

Hu Yinmeng summarized the copyright fees and told Yang Ye happily: "Boss, we have sold a total of 713 million US dollars in copyright fees."

Yang Ye was stunned and blurted out: "Only 700 million?"

Hu Yinmeng's eyes widened: "Isn't this a lot? This is almost NT$[-] million, and I won't be able to spend it all in my lifetime."

The reason why Yang Ye dislikes it is because the original film "Shaolin Temple" was sold in Cannes at the time and the copyright was sold in more than 100 markets for a total of US$1000 million.

Then how come my movie won an award and only sold over 700 million?

But he immediately figured it out, because now this film has been released in Southeast Asia and Japan, and the North American copyright has not been sold yet. If all are included, it is higher than the original film.Not to mention that the timeline is seven years ahead of schedule, and even higher after accounting for inflation.

After some film producers obtained the copyright of "Shaolin Temple", they couldn't wait to return to China, dub it, and start releasing it while taking advantage of the popularity.

Within a few months, Shaolin Temple had versions in Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, English, Thai, German, French, Spanish and many more.

Yang Ye and others stayed in Cannes for two full months and did not return to Hong Kong until late June.

By this time, the news that "Shaolin Temple" had won the award had already spread throughout Asia, and major media outlets had published numerous reports.

Needless to say, Hong Kong newspapers made all kinds of wild claims, and Jin Yong even wrote editorials himself.Jiahe once again took out "Shaolin Temple" and re-screened it.It's only been half a year, and it's been re-screened three times, and it's ugly.

Japan's "Asahi Shimbun" published a headline titled "Big success!Chinese film <Lin Si Si>! "Article.

The article said: "At the beginning of this year, it swept the film markets of various countries, centered on Southeast Asia... It aroused strong reactions from people wherever it was..."

Thailand's largest Chinese newspaper "Xingyao Daily" commented that "Shaolin Temple" "created a precedent for real kung fu movies" and believed that "Yang Ye is the second milestone in Chinese movies after Bruce Lee."

When the news spread to Southeast Asia, some overseas Chinese were so excited that they shed tears. They proudly said: "The movie has inspired the Chinese nation, and Yang Ye is a true national hero."

When Yang Ye and his team returned to Hong Kong, the movies had already been released in mainstream European markets and became a hit at the box office.

Taiwan's "Central Daily News" said that European audiences were more enthusiastic about watching Chinese-language films than before, and "Shaolin Temple" caused a "shock" in the European film industry!
The Hong Kong media even excitedly called "Shaolin Temple" an "international blockbuster" and called Yang Ye the pride of Hong Kong!
What is cultural export?This is called cultural export!

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Yang Ye rushed back to Hong Kong in a hurry to attend the premiere of "Drunken Master".

"Drunken Master" is the second film of Baiyang Pictures, so there is no room for error. Yang Ye will definitely stand up for the movie personally.

Yang Ye looked at the sample and found that it was almost as expected, with nothing wrong with it.

As a novice director, Yuan Heping was very cautious. He copied all the jokes designed by Yang Ye.

Compared with the original "Drunken Master", there are only some differences in the fighting movements.

Yang Ye was very satisfied and praised: "Aping, Aaron, you did a good job with this film. Put out the advertisement for the premiere tomorrow. Put my and Lijun's names on it, and I will stand up for you."

"thank you boss!"

The two young men were extremely excited. With their current fame, holding a premiere would be a joke and only a devil would go to see it.

But it's different when Yang Ye's name is on it. It's absolutely hard to get a vote, let alone one that comes with Teresa Teng.

In the eyes of outsiders, this is simply a fake act.

But only Yang Ye knew that they were not foxes, but tigers, but they had not grown up yet.

The premiere of "Drunken Master" attracted many cultural celebrities, and naturally they were all invited by Yang Ye to support them.

Not to mention Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang, "Drunken Master" was published by Jiahe, so they naturally care about it.

There are also Jin Yong and Pan Yuesheng from "Ming Pao".As well as Huang Zhan and Cai Lan, two talented men from Xiangjiang.

As for Ni Kuang, Yang Ye didn't invite him. He was anti-China and Yang Ye didn't want to have any contact with him.

In addition, in the original time and space, Ni Kuang's son took Zhou Huimin's first blood, which had nothing to do with Yang Ye.But now that Yang Ye has traveled through time and raised little Amin at home, he is naturally very taboo about this kind of thing.

In addition to these people, Zhang Minyi and Yang Ye are also must-invite.The future high-ranking official of the Hong Kong government now admires Yang Ye very much, and Yang Ye also gives her a lot of face, treating her as a good friend, and always invites her for important events.And if Radio Hong Kong, where she works, wants to invite Yang Ye to appear on the show, Yang Ye will definitely make time to go.

Yang Ye licked Zhang Minyi like this, naturally because she would be in charge of the entertainment industry in the future. By opening up the relationship first, she would have a talisman on the white road in the future, which would make things easier.

Later, because Golden Harvest failed to maintain a good relationship with the Hong Kong government, the Ax Mountain Road studio was taken back by the Hong Kong government, and new studios were not approved. It has been in decline ever since.

After the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, the Hong Kong government suddenly became extremely clean. Even if there were some dirty things, they all went underground and were carried out very covertly.

So Yang Ye never thought about using money to corrupt Zhang Minyi.

For a woman, the control of emotions is often more fatal than the control of money, so Yang Ye plans to... corrupt her personally, since she is not bad looking anyway.

But Yang Ye would not take the initiative to seduce her, he wanted her to climb up and move by herself!
(End of this chapter)