Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

In his speech at the Shanghai Theatre Academy, Yang Ye mainly mentioned that after the rapid development in recent years and the opening of relevant policies, mainland China will grow into a film market with great potential.

“A person’s success depends not only on personal efforts but also on the times.

Everyone here is very lucky. You were born in an era of rapid national development and are destined to achieve many things that your predecessors have not been able to do.

Of course, how to stand out in the trend of the times depends on your personal efforts and the platform you choose! "

Yang Ye’s words made the students of Shanghai Theatre Academy very excited, because it indicated that they all had a bright future.

Yang Ye left Shanghai after his speech at the Shanghai Theatre Academy, which made Chen Hong feel a little lost.

As for those people who signed Aunt Xue, we’ll talk about it later. They can’t run away anyway.

Before returning to Hong Kong, Yang Ye stopped in Shenzhen for a while.

The TV series "Beijing Natives in New York" planned and invested by Liu Xiaoqing has been officially launched and is preparing to be filmed in New York.

According to Yang Ye's suggestion, the directors of this TV series are Zheng Xiaolong and Feng Xiaogang, the male lead is still Jiang Wen, but the two female leads are replaced by Liu Xiaoqing and He Qing.

As long as the right person is there, Yang Ye doesn't care. However, since these people are going to the United States for the first time, Yang Ye still asked United Artists to arrange a contact person for them to take charge of their affairs in the United States, so that they don't have to be in the dark.

Yang Ye said to Liu Xiaoqing: "I will also go to New York in a while, see you there, I wish you a smooth filming!"

Liu Xiaoqing asked curiously, "What are you going to do in the United States?"

“United Artists is going public!”

……

Back in Hong Kong, this year's Golden Melody Awards and Hong Kong Film Awards have both ended.

The Golden Melody Awards gave out a weird Best Newcomer Award, which was won by the group of students from The Voice of China. There were so many newcomers that it was hard to know who to give the award to.

Yang Ye was a little speechless. If this was the case this year, what about next year?
In terms of the Academy Awards, the King of Sunglasses dominated the awards, with Days of Being Wild winning five out of eight nominations, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, and Best Art Direction.

After ten years of ups and downs in the film industry, Zhang Guorong finally won the Best Actor award for his role as "Axu".

However, the film was a box office failure, and its investor, Deng Guangrong of Dayong Company, was so angry that he was hospitalized.

Three years ago, Alan Tang invested in King of Sunglasses to shoot a low-budget movie "As Tears Go By".

Sunglasses shot a gangster film in a very stylized way, revealing the demeanor of a master. Not only did it perform well at the box office, it also won many awards at the Golden Horse and Golden Image Awards.

This gave Deng Guangrong a boost of confidence, and he invested in Sunglasses' new film "Days of Being Wild".

Sunglasses told Alan Tang that Days of Being Wild was a gangster film, an upgraded version of As Tears Go By.

When Deng Guangrong heard this, he was very happy and felt that he had made a sure profit.

Then they started filming. There was no script for Sunglasses, so he just thought about it a little bit every day and filmed it a little bit. After filming for several months, he told Alan Tang that what they were shooting was a police and gangster romance film.

What can Deng Guangrong do? He's already in the car, and the police-gangster romance doesn't seem bad.

Then they continued to shoot, and it became an art film...

And originally they wanted to make two films, split into two parts, but they ended up spending 40 million Hong Kong dollars and only filmed half of it...

When the film was released, the box office grossed 9 million... Deng Guangrong lost all his money and was so angry that he was hospitalized.

Even this little box office revenue was earned by relying on the names of big names like Zhang Guorong, Zhang Manyu, and Liu Hua.

When the audience saw the cast, they felt that this movie must be awesome and they flocked to the cinema, cursing the movie after watching it.

At that time, Sunglasses was sitting in a tea restaurant, quietly waiting for people to come out of the theater. When he heard the audience swearing, he asked Gordon Chan: "Should I change my career?"

Of course he would not change his career. Not long after, he used his mouth to fool the scholar Cai Songlin and still used the super cast to shoot a movie called "Ashes of Time"...

……

Ho Man Tin, Kadoorie Hill.

Yang Ye got out of the car, walked to a villa, looked at the house number, and rang the doorbell.

The door opened and Yang Ye walked in. He was led by the villa's housekeeper into a room, where he saw Zhang Guorong, Lin Qingxia, Wang Fei, and Huang Zhan sitting around a table, playing mahjong with great enthusiasm.

Sitting next to Zhang Guorong was a sweet-looking girl with long hair, who was Charlie Yeung, who had once starred in Yang Ye's movie.

At the next table, Zhang Xueyou, Liu Jialing, Liang Caowei and Zhang Manyu were also playing chess happily.

Yang Ye smiled and said, "Sure, you guys can open two more tables!"

Lin Qingxia glanced at Yang Ye and said, "Why are you here so early!"

"Nothing, just come over early!"

Today, Zhang Guorong was treating everyone to celebrate his winning of the Best Actor award. However, he did not celebrate at a hotel, but only invited some friends to his home for dinner.

Zhang Guorong waved at Yang Ye: "Boss, take a seat! Eight barrels!"

"Win!" Lin Qingxia happily pushed the cards and said, "Give me the money!"

Zhang Guorong said depressedly: "Are you kidding me? You're trying to catch my gun again."

Lin Qingxia said proudly: "Tsk, are you dissatisfied?"

"Just wait, I will definitely defeat you, the Invincible Oriental. Girl, give me the money!"

Yang Caini took a handful of money and gave it to Zhang Guorong. But she stood up and said to Yang Ye, "Hello, Sir Yang, I am Caini."

Yang Ye nodded and said, "You have starred in my movie, playing the role of Ah Feng when she was a child in "Female Boxer", right?"

Charlie Young smiled sweetly: "Yes, you have a really good memory!"

Zhang Guorong casually said, "Cai Ni is planning to enter the entertainment industry. How about signing with our company?"

Zhang Guorong called Yang Caini "A Nu". He raised Yang Caini as his own daughter and loved her very much.

Yang Ye said: "Sure! Cai Ni wants to act or sing?"

“I want to sing!”

"Then you have to curry favor with Uncle Chan and ask him to write two good songs for you."

Huang Zhan said with great joy, "Pretty girls are treated preferentially by me. Besides, I have Leslie's respect, so it's easy to talk!"

Yang Ye dragged a chair and sat down, and asked Wang Fei: "A Fei, you are such a pretty girl, Uncle Chan must have written a few good songs for you!"

Wang Fei turned his head and glanced at Yang Ye, and said shyly: "Yes, three songs in the new album were written by Uncle Chan."

Before Wang Fei became a veteran in the entertainment industry, she was a bit shy and easily bashful. She blushed easily and was very interesting.

Huang Zhan knocked on the table: "Stop chatting, play your cards!"

"Oh!" Wang Fei quickly took a look and played a three of a kind.

Yang Ye sighed: "Wrong number!"

As soon as the voice fell, Lin Qingxia said cheerfully: "Bang!"

"Qingxia is obviously a cop."

After two more rounds, Lin Qingxia smiled and won a hand of all the same suit, and the three players paid with sad faces.

Seeing Wang Fei playing cards in a daze and almost losing all the money on the table, Yang Ye couldn't help but complain: "You three old foxes, bullying a little girl who can't play cards, it's outrageous."

Unexpectedly, Wang Fei turned around and said seriously: "Boss, if you say that my singing is not good, I admit it. But if you say that I am not good at playing mahjong, I will never admit it even if you kill me!"

"Ah this..." Yang Ye was powerless to complain!
Speaking of playing mahjong, James Wong once wrote an article to tell everyone about the insiders' mahjong experience. Zhang Guorong was addicted to playing mahjong, but his skills were terrible. He was also easily nervous and lost more than he won.

Wang Zuxian was always absent-minded when playing cards, like a ghost, and was always laughed at by others.

Liu Jialing is as good as a con man at playing cards, while her husband Liang Caowei is a complete loser.

If Zhang Xueyou lost money playing cards with Liu Jialing, he would go to Liang Caowei to play cards and then win back the money he lost from Liu Jialing.

Alan Tam is the best at pretending to be a pig and then eating the tiger. He always says that he can't play cards, but once he starts playing, he will put a lot of money into his pocket.

Anita Mui likes to default on her debts and won’t pay even when she loses.

Li Zongsheng can be called the gambling saint in the entertainment industry. It is said that half of his money comes from writing songs and the other half comes from playing cards.

Lin Qingxia is not good at playing cards, but she has great luck with cards. If you play cards with the beautiful Lin, you will lose nine times out of ten.

Jet Li usually appears calm and composed in movies, but once he sits at the poker table, he becomes very bad-tempered, especially when he loses money.

Chen Long is a very good card player. He played cards with Li Zongsheng and lost a lot of money, but he remained calm and kept chatting and laughing.

Yang Ye said to Zhang Guorong, "Ah Rong, you won the Best Actor award, shouldn't you celebrate it in a big way? Why are you treating everyone at home?"

Zhang Guorong said: "There's a company to celebrate, so I'll just invite a few friends to have a small celebration."

Yang Ye was shocked: "When did you become so smart?"

At this time, Wang Zuxian pushed the door open and walked in: "Wow, you guys are here so early."

Then he said happily: "Brother Ye, you are here too!"

Yang Ye glanced at Lin Qingxia from the corner of his eye, and seeing that she didn't react, he said calmly: "Yes, it's rare for A Rong to treat us!"

Zhang Guorong was dissatisfied: "Hey, what do you mean by rarely treating me? I treat me all the time, okay?"

Yang Ye asked: "When is dinner?"

Zhang Guorong looked at his watch and said, "There's still an hour left. Let's chat for a while."

"You guys are having so much fun, what the hell are you talking about? Do you have any video games at home?"

"Yes, let Xiaoxian take you there, she knows the place."

"Come on, Xiaoxian, let's go play games!"

"Okay!" Wang Zuxian loved playing games and happily followed Yang Ye.

As soon as the two entered the room, Yang Ye pressed Wang Zuxian against the door: "Baby, did you miss me?"

"No, um..."

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Not long after Yang Ye came back, big news about Yang Ji came out one after another.

First, Xu Feng's negotiations to purchase the film libraries of Shaw Brothers and Cinema City were finally completed. He purchased all the film copyrights of the two companies for HK$9000 million and HK$ million respectively.

In the original time and space, Shaw Brothers' film library was purchased by Celestial Pictures Entertainment.

After Celestial Pictures bought Shaw Brothers' film library, it began to restore those old movies.

The fact that audiences in later generations can clearly watch old films from decades ago is all thanks to Celestial Pictures.

Celestial Pictures purchased the Shaw Brothers film library in 2000 for million.

Yang Ye purchased it nine years in advance, but it cost him 200 million, which is not really cost-effective.

However, Celestial Pictures signed an agreement with Shaw Brothers at the time, and the restoration of these old films had to be done by Shaw Brothers, which cost another 200 million yuan, making a total of 600 million yuan.

Yang Ye spent 200 million to buy it out, which was not bad. Moreover, he could make some money again after the VCD comes out next year, which means he started making money in advance.

Another more important news is that Yangji sent Hu Yinmeng, and after long negotiations, successfully acquired BMG Records from Germany's Bertelsmann.

BMG Records is the fifth largest record company in the world, and another Japanese capital giant, Sony, is eyeing it.

Since there were two companies competing at the same time, Bertelsmann raised the price and eventually raised the acquisition price to 600 million US dollars, causing Yang Ye to bleed heavily.

Yang Ye was very unhappy and planned to trick Sony and get his revenge.

In fact, Yang Ye had already snatched away Spider-Man from Sony Pictures. Sony relied on Spider-Man to conquer the world in Hollywood. Without Spider-Man, it would be nothing.

In May, Yang Ye arrived in New York.

During the IPO process of United Artists Pictures, Yang Ye was not present at all. He only contacted them by phone to understand the relevant progress. It was not until the last moment that he finally appeared on the scene.

In recent years, the Japanese have been waving their checks to buy things everywhere in the United States, which has really hurt the nerves of Americans.

In the film industry, Sony acquired Columbia for US$27 billion, and Panasonic acquired Universal for US$66 billion.

Americans exclaimed that one day they might wake up to find that even the Statue of Liberty belongs to Japan.

With a Japanese man acting as MT, Yang Ye's operations in the United States have been relatively smooth.

But he still tried to keep a low profile. When United Artists went public this time, Yang Ye went alone, and no one from Hong Kong followed him.

Only the crew of "A Native of Beijing in New York", who happened to be filming in the United States, were invited to watch the ceremony.

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New York Stock Exchange!

Yang Ye handed the small hammer to Yang Xi and said, "Baby, hit it. This is the moment to witness a miracle!"

Little Yang Xi happily took the small hammer and started knocking on it.

The bell rang and United Artists Pictures successfully went public.

Afterwards, the group gathered together and waited for the opening price.

New stocks in the United States do not experience an immediate surge in price upon listing. Instead, they require market makers to participate in the transaction in order to obtain the first price in history.

The IPO issue price of United Artists was $4.8. After waiting for more than an hour, the opening price finally came out at $8.1, an increase of more than 50%.

Based on this price, the market value of United Artists Pictures exceeded 3 billion US dollars.

The market value of stocks held by Yang Ye, Ajani and Yang Xi, a family of three, exceeds one billion US dollars.

White and Shay, the two original shareholders, were very happy and hugged each other tightly to celebrate.

Yang Ye was too lazy to hug the two men, so he hugged Ajani and Yang Xi to celebrate together.

Shay yelled, "Bring the champagne!"

A staff member took the champagne, and Xie Yi shook it vigorously, opened it with a "bang", and deliberately splashed the champagne on Yang Ye.

Yang Ye blocked his daughter and laughed!
He Qing was very envious of the group of people celebrating, and couldn't help asking Liu Xiaoqing: "Does Brother Ye have a lot of shares in this company?"

Liu Xiaoqing curled his lips and said, "He is actually the real boss, but he has let his daughter hold part of the shares on his behalf. Do you think he has a lot of shares?"

He Qing said: "Then... that Yang Xi, isn't he a billionaire?"

"Yeah, the youngest billionaire in the world."

He Qing was a little envious: "Brother Ye is so good to his daughter."

She suddenly made up her mind: "I must give him a son!" (End of this chapter)