Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Early in the morning, Yang Ye, Moon Lee and Chow Hui Min sat together to have breakfast.

Zhou Huimin finished her meal quickly, picked up her bag and left. She had made an appointment with some of her sisters from Girls' Generation to go to Tokyo for a trip during the New Year and had to catch a plane.

Yang Ye asked casually: "Will Xiaoxian go?"

Zhou Huimin hesitated for a moment and said, "Yes!"

Yang Ye said: "Did she ask you not to tell me?"

"Yes!"

"Then you still say?"

Zhou Huimin said sadly: "I...I don't want to lie to you."

Yang Ye thought to himself, my Xiao Min is still very considerate. He said, "You are in a hurry, go quickly!"

Zhou Huimin said "oh", turned around and walked away. After walking a few steps, she turned around and shouted, "Brother Ye!"

"Ok?"

"Do you want to... bring Xiaoxian back?"

Yang Ye had too many women and he couldn't take care of them all.

In the early years, Lin Qingxia, Teresa Teresa, and Rosamund Kwan all broke up, but he coaxed them back one by one.

But coaxing a woman is tiring and takes a lot of energy.

He then privately made a rule for himself that if anyone wanted to leave, he would let her go free.

It’s a pity that I think so, but when the time comes, I can’t bear to do it.

After all, the one who left was Wang Zuxian, with whom he had a very deep relationship.

"I will!"

……

After Zhou Huimin left, Yang Ye was thinking about Wang Zuxian. He was in a bad mood and had no appetite. He put his breakfast aside, picked up the newspaper and started to read it casually.

"Wow, it's all in one pot!"

Moon Lee asked in surprise, "What do you mean by all at once?"

Yang Ye opened the newspaper and let her take a look.

It only said that the mainland police suddenly responded on New Year's Eve and uncovered a major smuggling case worth tens of billions of dollars.

The mastermind behind the smuggling case is Lai Changxing, a wealthy Hong Kong businessman and owner of a fireworks group. He has been smuggling oil, cars and other materials into the mainland for a long time.

On the day of the incident, their entire family was celebrating the New Year in their hometown in Fujian, but they were all caught in one fell swoop.

Moon Lee thought for a moment and didn't have any impression of such a person, so she asked, "Hong Kong tycoon, I've never heard of him. Is he very rich?"

"He is quite wealthy, I guess. He was originally from the mainland and made hundreds of millions from speculating on real estate in Hong Kong. Unfortunately, he was not satisfied and started a smuggling business. In just over a year, he made over 10 billion. It's crazy!"

Moon Lee asked, "Master, do you know him?"

Yang Ye shook his head: "I don't know him, it's just that this is the news reported by our Headline Daily, so I just paid attention to it."

Speaking of Headline News, Moon Lee was very interested: "Master, you are amazing. I heard someone say a few days ago that your Headline News has been the most circulated newspaper in Hong Kong within less than a month of its release."

Yang Ye smiled and said, “It’s free, so you can distribute as many copies as you want. Even if you distribute a million copies, no one will care.”

"Uh..." Moon Lee thought so too. Other newspapers don't publish so many copies because they can't sell them all, so it's not cost-effective.

This "Headline Daily" is not for sale at all, it is given away freely. It is up to you to decide how many copies you want to print.

But she tried to make up for Yang Ye by saying, “I heard that everyone likes this newspaper.”

Yang Ye still laughed at himself: "It's free, how can I not like it? Look at this paper, it's so soft, it can be used to wipe my butt instead of toilet paper, the effect is not bad."

"What? I was clearly praising you." Moon Lee refused.

"Hahaha, I'm just teasing you."

Moon Lee asked, "You give away newspapers for free, how do you make money?"

Yang Ye said, "Newspapers in Hong Kong cost five dollars a copy, the general agent earns one dollar, and the retailer earns four and a half dollars. They are selling at a loss. Do you think they make money by selling newspapers?"

Moon Lee was shocked. It was the first time they knew that newspapers were sold at a loss. She asked, "So you lose 50 cents for each newspaper you sell?"

"How can we lose 50 cents? With labor, manuscripts, and printing, the cost of a newspaper is about 8.5 yuan. We lose 4 yuan for every copy sold."

Moon Lee was speechless. How much money must she have lost in this day?

Yang Ye said: "The newspaper business actually does not make money by selling newspapers, but by selling advertisements.

In addition, some newspapers are published for political purposes and can receive financial support from the forces behind them.

My idea for running Headline Daily was to simply give up the income from selling newspapers and rely purely on advertising for profit.

Now, many brands have seen that Toutiao Daily has a high market share and have come to advertise in it.”

Moon Lee said, "I told you, Master, how could you possibly do a business that loses money?"

"Even so, advertising revenue cannot offset the cost of distribution, especially since our newspaper is just a start-up.

The cost is even higher, as we need to recruit new people, poach talents, increase editorial staff, and advertise heavily. We lost 6000 million last month alone."

"A loss of 60 million...in one month?"

Li Saifeng took a breath of cold air, Yang Ye was really generous.

“My colleagues in Hong Kong are having a hard time too. We are coming at me too aggressively and they are now teaming up to deal with me.

First, they issued a joint statement to maintain the current uniform Chinese newspaper charging mechanism and oppose the free distribution of newspapers.

They also broke with tradition by not selling advertisements on the front page, increasing the value of the newspaper, and using bleeding-edge promotions.

For example, Oriental Daily gave away four commercial houses and gifts worth 28 million yuan on the occasion of its th anniversary.

The New Paper gave away 10 MasterCard cars, Sing Pao regularly gave shopping vouchers to readers, and Tian Tian Daily also gave away books and other gifts..."

Yang Ye casually recounted the plain and simple business war to Moon Lee.

Moon Lee said, "Isn't this bad? It makes it feel like no one can make any money."

Yang Ye curled his lips: "What's wrong with that? They should face up to the fact that Headline Daily appeared in Hong Kong instead of banding together to fight me and compete with me in spending money. What's the point of that?"

Moon Lee agreed and thought that it was insane to compare money spending with my master.

Even if you burn all your money, the master can still afford it, and he admires Yang Ye even more.

Last night, the master told her that he wanted to have a baby with her.

Although she had no name or status, she still agreed.

Anyway, the master will not treat her unfairly.

……

Wang Zuxian’s departure made Yang Ye realize that he should cherish the people around him.

They are not pets and have their own love, hate and vengeance.

She already feels wronged for sharing a husband with other women, and if she doesn't get enough attention, she will really run away.

Although Yang Ye gave a lot, when people have enough money, they will want other things.

If he really had to let go, Yang Ye couldn't bear to do so, as he had chased her with great difficulty.

Then I can only... make it more difficult for them to leave me.

After Yang Ye finished breakfast with Moon Lee, he ran to find Akina Nakamori, and then went to find Rosamund Kwan and Anita Mui...

Try to get them all pregnant!
The production of Hong Kong films has been drastically reduced now, and actresses of Rosamund Kwan's generation are all facing the dilemma of having a high price but no demand and no roles to play.

In that case, then just retire with peace of mind, retreat and have kids!
The film industry also needs a new batch of beauties.

...When Yang Yuying received the news that Lai Wenfeng was arrested and imprisoned, she felt a sudden fear.

If Yang Ye hadn't reminded her, given Lai Wenfeng's crazy pursuit of her, she would have been implicated.

If that were the case, her life would be ruined.

She couldn't help but burst into tears of gratitude towards Yang Ye.

Thinking about the past four or five years since her debut, Yang Ye had taken care of her in every possible way, and she was deeply moved.

She wanted to meet Yang Ye and express her gratitude.

It's a pity that Yang Ye was busy making babies and had no time to pay attention to her.

……

A few days later, Yang Ye resumed work.

As soon as I returned to the company, I heard that Xu Feng and Chen Long were having an unpleasant argument, so I rushed to put out the fire.

"what's the situation?"

Xu Feng said: "I rejected Aaron's new film plan."

"What's his new film going to be about?"

"It's a racing movie called Thunderbolt. He wants 200 million yuan in investment, but I read Gordon Chan's script and I think this movie is not suitable for Aaron. I can't invest in it. It's not about the money."

Yang Ye couldn't help but be very surprised. Thunderbolt was an extremely rare loss-making work during Chen Long's peak period, and Xu Feng was able to judge it.

What's more, after the huge success of "Rumble in the Bronx", Chen Long was in high spirits, but Xu Feng actually rejected him directly. He was really courageous.

You know, Chen Long is now independent and he is not short of investment.

With his box office appeal, if he needed money to make a movie, he only needed to say one word and countless people would come to his door overnight, begging him to invest.

He always asked Yangji to invest in his new films because he had a good relationship with Yang Ye and Yangji’s distribution capabilities were indeed strong.

Yang Ye casually flipped through the script of Thunderbolt and asked, "Aren't you afraid of offending Aaron?"

Xu Feng said: "If it weren't for you, even if I didn't think highly of this script, I would still have accepted it and invested in Aaron."

Yang Ye said, "So... you want me to come forward and solve this problem?"

Xu Feng put aside her attitude of talking about business, and instantly turned into a delicate wife, and said softly to Yang Ye: "Hubby, I actually want to solve this problem myself to prove it to you.

But I also think, you are my husband, since I know you can solve it perfectly, there is no need to force it myself, just let my husband do it. "

These words were very beautiful, Yang Ye felt very comfortable listening to them, and said happily; "Okay, then let my husband do it!"

Yang Ye sat down and began to look through Chen Jiashang's script. Xu Feng made him a cup of tea and stood behind him to give him a massage, which made Yang Ye feel very comfortable.

After Yang Ye finished reading the script, he said, “Actually, this script can be filmed, but we can’t ask A-Long to do it.

Because by then we will definitely adapt the script to Aaron's style.

In the end, it became just like Aaron’s previous film “Crime Squad”, which was neither fish nor fowl.

However, if Aaron was not asked to shoot the film, the film would not have been made.

Because the cost is so high, the cost of these racing cars alone is astronomical.

Aaron has sponsorship from Mitsubishi, so he can save on the cost of the car, which makes him invincible."

The movie "Pili Fire" has too many flaws. For example, Gordon Chan's script was originally a tragedy, but it was forcibly changed into a comedy in order to accommodate Chen Long's style.

Such a forced change caused the plot to be very fragmented.

At the beginning, Ah Huo, played by Chen Long, had his sister kidnapped by the villain, his father seriously injured and unconscious, and his family's old car factory destroyed. All the unpleasant things in life happened in an instant. This is simply a tragic trend.

But as the plot develops, a car race makes all the suffering disappear, and Ah Huo finally wins the girl.

The role of Anita Yuen is also very redundant. Even if all her scenes are deleted, it will not have any impact, because she was added in just to provide Ah Huo with a girl.

Yang Ye called Chen Long and said, "Ah Long, are you free? Let's have tea together tomorrow morning."

"Okay!"

"By the way, call A Biao along as well."

After Yang Ye hung up the phone, she suddenly remembered that Yang Yuying had contacted her before, so she decided to do both things together and called Yang Yuying as well.

"Gang Gang, are you free? Let's have tea together tomorrow morning."

"Okay!"

……

The next day, Yang Ye brought Yang Yuying to the Hong Kong Island Tea Restaurant. Chen Long and Yuen Biao had already arrived.

Run Run Shaw was not here today, and Yang Ye walked past Fang Yihua without paying any attention to her.

Yang Ye walked a few steps, then suddenly paused for a moment, and said "Huh", looking very surprised.

Yang Yuying saw him suddenly stop and asked curiously, "What's the matter?"

"This woman didn't scold me today!"

Yang Yuying looked back and was even more surprised: "You mean Miss Fang...?"

"Well, every time I passed by her, she would curse at me. She thought I didn't hear her, but actually I have very sharp ears and I just pretended not to know."

"Ah...why are you pretending not to know?"

"You can't kill me with scolding! As long as you don't scold me to my face, I will ignore it."

"Then...why did she scold you?"

"Maybe he saw the beautiful girl next to me, but she was getting old and no longer as pretty as before, so he was jealous and envious!"

Yang Yuying suddenly felt a little frustrated, touched her face, and said, "Am I not beautiful enough?"

Yang Ye was convinced. Women’s train of thought was really weird!

He did not respond to Yang Yuying's words, but walked forward and greeted Chen Long and Yuen Biao.

After the four of them sat down, Yang Yuying took the tea set and started making tea.

Yang Ye didn't mention anything about Thunderbolt at all, and said to Chen Long and Yuen Biao: "Do you still remember the movie ET?"

Chen Long said happily: "Of course I remember, A Biao and I even played a cameo role there."

Yuen Biao said: "We are guest starring as the men in black."

Yang Ye nodded and said, “Later, I used your image to serialize the comic strip “Men in Black” in the Blue Bird Pictorial.”

When the two brothers heard this, they immediately understood why Yang Ye wanted to see them.

Sure enough, Yang Ye said: "In fact, I had the idea of ​​filming Men in Black at that time, and I asked you to guest star in "Aliens" as an Easter egg for the movie Men in Black.

Now that the technology is relatively mature, "Men in Black" can be put on the agenda, so I invited you out for tea.

How about I direct it, you two star in it, and the three of us work together to make Men in Black? "

More than a decade ago, Yang Ye once said that maybe one day he would make a science fiction movie about men in black.

By then everyone will find out, hey... these two men in black once appeared in a movie called "Alien".

Chen Long felt at the time that Yang Ye was really good at playing, but he didn't expect that he was not joking.

The comic book "Men in Black" was completed a long time ago and was quite popular at the time.

Each of Yang Ye’s recent movies has been a box office hit, so Chen Long had no reason to refuse.

But because we have to shoot "Men in Black", "Human Torch" cannot be produced for the time being.

But Chen Long still knew clearly what was more important.

He and Yuen Biao looked at each other, confirmed their expressions, and said together: "No problem!" (End of this chapter)