Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 679 Cinema Promotion Conference

Yang Ye chose a Korean movie to help Liu Hua turn things around.

The literal translation of this movie is "Uncle", but it is translated into "The Man from Nowhere" in China.

The reason I chose this movie is because it is very popular and it is a good movie.

Its lead actor Won Bin is a handsome guy who is always showing off in the movie, which is really suitable for Liu Hua as the King of Showoffs.

The whole movie has a coherent rhythm, sharp editing, and blood-curdling scenes. The four lines of the male protagonist, the children, the police, and the gangs are handled cleanly and clearly, which is very consistent with Johnnie To's style.

"The Man from Nowhere" is somewhat similar to "Léon: The Professional", so much so that some netizens call it the Korean version of "Léon: The Professional".

In fact, there is not much relationship between the two, except that the protagonists are an uncle and a little girl.

"Leon: The Professional" is about the illicit love between a middle-aged man and a little girl.

The girl is just young, but she is actually very precocious and an emotionally mature character.

On the contrary, although the killer is old, he is very pure emotionally and has a childlike heart.

The classic aspect of "Léon: The Professional" lies in the sparks created by the contrasting personalities.

In the original version, there was even a scene where Leon and Matilda had sex.

Originally, Leon was unable to defeat so many enemies, but after he had sex with Matilda, his blood boiled, his fighting power exploded, and he killed all the enemies.

It’s just that the fact that adults and minors have sex somewhat crosses the bottom line of human morality, so this part was deleted in the final version released.

The movie "Uncle" tells the story of the father-daughter relationship between a middle-aged uncle and a little girl.

The male protagonist could have had a daughter, but his wife was killed before the child was born.

He became completely hopeless and led a decadent life, but a little girl named Xiaomi walked into his heart and illuminated his life.

Gradually, he treated Xiaomi as his own daughter, and when Xiaomi was in danger, he would do everything he could to save her.

This kind of combination of big and small protagonists can be found in many movies around the world, such as "Terminator 2" and "Logan 3".

"Life Events" starring Zhu Yilong and Yang En also has this kind of configuration, a decadent middle-aged uncle and a little girl redeem each other.

There was a rumor on the Chinese Internet later that "Léon: The Professional" plagiarized "Gloria", except that the woman and the little boy were replaced with a man and a little girl.

This is nothing more than boxers hyping up the topic and fighting for the right to speak.

In fact, these two movies have nothing to do with each other. They just use one large and one small configuration.

If this is considered plagiarism, it would be better to say that "Léon: The Professional" plagiarized "Lolita", as both are about the illicit love between a middle-aged man and a little girl.

You can even say that "Léon: The Professional" plagiarized "My Little Pony: Legend of the Condor Heroes".

Cheng Lingsu is a thin little girl who looks like a loli. She follows the martial arts master Hu Fei all day long, holding a pot of plants in her hand.

Look, isn’t the style of Leon and Matilda’s painting the same as this?
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Yang Ye personally handed the project to Johnnie To and Liu Hua, and even if it was a bad script, it was difficult for the two to refuse.

Yang Ye was obviously there to help them. After they went back and read the script carefully, they liked it more and more.

It's okay for Johnnie To, he hasn't established his own style yet, he just shoots whatever comes his way, it's just that he thinks the script suits their taste.

After Liu Hua read the script, he immediately felt that it was tailor-made for him, and he was full of gratitude towards Yang Ye.

After all, he was selected by Yang Ye and made his debut by filming "ET the Extraterrestrial".

Yang Ye has never treated him unfairly over the years. Eight years ago, he became famous in Asia with the movie "A Moment of Romance".

Two years ago, he left Yang's and started his own business, and Yang Ye was encouraging.

Now that his company has gone bankrupt and is heavily in debt, Yang Ye has given him a hand in time and let him play the role he was going to play. This is truly a great favor.

Basically, once this movie is successful, the two of them will have to work hard for Yang Ye from now on.

Yang Ye is over 40 years old and has already won all the mainstream awards in the world film industry. His works have been a global hit many times. He is destined to be a figure who will be written into film history.

He began to change his identity, gradually retreating from the front stage to behind the scenes, integrating resources, and making all-round efforts in film, television, music, and games to further expand his entertainment empire.

In the film industry, he will launch more projects, which he will control as a whole, and control famous directors such as Xu Ke, Zhang Yimou, Johnnie To, and John Woo to carry out his will.

This is actually Xu Ke's routine. Although Xu Ke is a well-known director, he is better at controlling projects and then manipulating John Woo, Ching Siu-tung, Lee Wai-min, Ringo Lam, King Hu, Benny Chan and others to make movies for him and carry out his will.

This is how movies like "A Better Tomorrow", "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "New Dragon Inn" came about.

But Xu Ke's level was still a bit low. He couldn't control John Woo, and they fell out after their first collaboration with King Hu.

During the years when Hong Kong films were booming, Cheng Xiaodong and Li Huimin also left him and went out to make money on their own.

With the reputation he had accumulated over the past twenty years, Yang Ye had already far surpassed Xu Ke, and he also had a huge amount of funds and resources at his disposal.

Xu Ke can only control those second-tier directors, but Yang Ye wants to control those first-tier directors.

These great directors are like mountains in Chinese-language films. Each of them has his own unique understanding of movies, and it can be said that they are all unruly people.

To control these people, only Yang Ye has the qualifications and energy.

In terms of TV dramas, Shenzhen uses Guangming Film and Television City as its base and takes the reduction of Hong Kong film and television projects as an opportunity to produce a large number of dramas, thereby attracting Hong Kong film and television talents to work in Shenzhen.

In the original time and space, Hong Kong filmmakers did not move north in large numbers until the signing of the Services Trade Agreement in 2003. Yang Ye's move accelerated this process by ten years.

A few years ago, Yang Ye promoted Zhang Xiaoxian to establish the "Asian Screenwriters Center", where he came up with ideas and created many scripts.

TV series such as "Young Justice Bao", "Love Across Time and Space" and "Tai Chi Master" have all started to be launched.

There will also be a second round of Jin Yong and Gu Long dramas, as well as classic dramas from Japan and South Korea, which will be released one after another.

A large number of television stations will be established in the next few years, and there are seven or eight television stations in Hong Kong alone.

These TV stations have great demand for TV programs and are all good customers.

Therefore, there is no need to worry about sales after a TV series is produced.

In terms of games, Kingsoft focuses on computer games.

We are currently mainly producing stand-alone games, and will also produce online games in the future.

At present, in addition to making money by producing stand-alone games adapted from the novels of Jin Yong and Gu Long.

Also working on a massive, large-scale computer game... Age of Empires.

During this period, Yang Ye was filming in Shenzhen, and he would also take time to visit Kingsoft and discuss the features and gameplay of the game "Age of Empires" with them.

Kingsoft has invested a lot of manpower and material resources in this project, and I believe that it will achieve good results after it is launched.

In terms of music, in addition to launching music channels to consolidate its dominant position in the Asia-Pacific region, it is officially entering the European and American markets.

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In August, the Shenzhen government took the lead in co-hosting a cinema promotion meeting with Guangming Film and Television City. Representatives of film and television companies from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and four places gathered in the Special Administrative Region.

In addition to the mainstream TV stations and film studios in the mainland, and film and television companies in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Singapore's Sing Media and some private companies in the mainland, such as Jinyingma Film and Television, were also invited to participate.

Cast a wide net and invite all potential customers.

After these people arrived, they were treated to food, drinks, and entertainment, and they visited the film and television city and ate roasted pigeon at Guangming Farm.

Some people also took the opportunity to go to neighboring Dongguan to enjoy the IOS international standard Dabaojian service.

After two days of fun, the Guangming Cinemas promotion conference was officially held.

First, the Director of the Cultural Bureau and the Mayor of Bao'an District gave speeches. Guangming District had not yet been established at that time and was under the jurisdiction of Bao'an District.

The content mainly introduces the convenient geographical conditions of Guangming Film and Television City. It is located in the central area of ​​the Pearl River Delta and has complete infrastructure. Everyone is welcome to come and film.

Everyone is also welcome to come to Shenzhen to open a film and television company. The Special Economic Zone will offer tax incentives for film and television projects shot in Guangming Film and Television City.

All in all, tax incentives are the biggest killer.

Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore have already entered developed societies. The production costs of film and television dramas are high, and they are facing industrial impacts from Hollywood and Japan, making it difficult to make a profit.

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Guangming Film and Television City not only has convenient transportation, complete facilities and low labor costs, but also has tax incentives. With these four major advantages, there is no doubt that these people will come.

Shenzhen today is replicating the film industry path of New Zealand in its original time and space.

Why can New Zealand, a country with a population of five million, become Hollywood's backyard, with its film and television industry generating tens of billions of dollars in output value each year?
Because New Zealand has low costs, high efficiency, no unions, and speaks English, all the big Hollywood studios like to go to New Zealand to make movies.

Over time, Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, has been built into a world-renowned creative capital, giving birth to top special effects companies such as Weta Digital.

New Zealand's two major cities, Auckland and Wellington, are full of studios and film and television companies providing outsourcing services to foreigners.

These foreign crews provide a large number of jobs for New Zealand, so every university in New Zealand offers a major in film and television production.

After graduation, students can work in local film and television companies. Because they are exposed to many major projects around the world, a large number of film and television talents are born over time.

New Zealand has a population of only five million, but it is home to many world-renowned figures, from directors to actors to producers, so it is truly a country full of talent.

Shenzhen is now copying New Zealand's way of doing things. Shenzhen has low costs, high efficiency, and they speak Cantonese.

The most important thing is that it is a special administrative region with legislative power, which is equivalent to New Zealand in the English-speaking world.

As long as the government is willing to support it, it will be easy to take over the transfer of film and television industries from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and build Guangming District into the New Zealand of the Chinese-speaking world, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs.

After the official representative finished speaking, Lin Baocheng, the person in charge of the film and television city, focused on introducing the various facilities of the film and television city.

After nearly ten years of construction, Guangming Film and Television City now has four major scenic spots: Ming and Qing Palaces, Guangzhou Street and Hong Kong Street, and Along the River During the Qingming Festival.

The Qin Palace will be completed soon, and Han City and Tang City are also under planning. In addition, there are plans to build a Jiangnan garden scenic area in Zhaoqing.

Basically, if you want to shoot film or TV series from all dynasties in China, you can get it done here in one stop.

In addition, Yang Ye previously filmed "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" and "Kung Fu", and also invested in the construction of Mudanjiang Wohu Mountain Film and Television City and Shanghai Chedun Film and Television City.

These are all projects in cooperation with local governments. If you want to shoot in Northeast China or Shanghai, we can also provide one-stop service.

In addition to these infrastructures, Liu Xiaoqing Film and Television Company has also trained a large number of basic film and television practitioners, making it very convenient to recruit people when overseas crews come to Shenzhen.

In short, as long as you come, you can move in with just your luggage, and it can be done with just one click, saving time, worry, and effort, and most importantly, saving money!

Afterwards, Yang Ye came on stage and announced a piece of important news: he would open up the film and television copyrights of Jin Yong and Gu Long that he held, and anyone at home or abroad who was interested in producing martial arts dramas could come and negotiate.

After Yang Ye obtained the copyrights of Jin Yong and Gu Long, they have always been the treasure of ATV.

During that period, only Taiwan’s three major TV stations bought a few of the films, and Hong Kong film companies bought a few of them.

The purpose of releasing it this time is also to stimulate film and television companies from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Macau to cooperate with Yang Ji and to attract business for Guangming Film and Television City.

Before the rise of online literature, Jin Yong, Qiong Yao and Gu Long were the three top writers in the popular fiction world.

The copyrights of Jin Yong and Gu Long have always been controlled by Yang Ye, and the film, television and game works produced by him are very popular.

The copyright of Qiong Yao's works was developed by herself, and no one else can get involved.

As soon as the news of opening up copyright came out, many film and television companies began to get excited and planned to contact Yangji to purchase copyright after the meeting.

Subsequently, the two directors of Asia Television and Star TV announced a new reform measure.

Starting next year, the two TV stations will open up the TV drama purchasing business.

Previously, the dramas broadcast by the two TV stations have always been self-produced, and dramas produced by other companies are rarely broadcast on these two TV stations.

Now we not only open up to outsourcing, but also adopt an advertising profit-sharing model.

In other words, the advertising revenue during the broadcast of the TV series will be shared with the film and television companies in proportion.

The better a TV series is produced, the higher the ratings, the more advertising revenue it will generate, and the more commission the film and television company will receive.

Star TV and Asia Television are both excellent television platforms in the Chinese region. This undoubtedly gave a shot in the arm to major film and television companies and increased their confidence in coming to Guangming Film and Television City to shoot film and television works.

Xu Xiaoming, the newly appointed general manager of Baiyang Television Production Company, launched three TV drama projects, "Tai Chi Master", "Young Justice Bao" and "Love Across Time and Space", and announced open cooperation with film and television companies from all over the country. As long as you have resources to show for it, you can come in and get a piece of the pie.

Among them, "Tai Chi Master" has been confirmed to be directed by the famous director Zhang Xinyan, with Yuan Heping as the action director, and the popular young actor Wu Jing as the leading actor.

Zhang Xinyan is a famous director of Hong Kong's Left Film Company and has shot many classic martial arts works.

"The Master of Tai Chi" stars Zhang Xinyan, Yuan Heping and Wu Jing, and is undoubtedly very eye-catching.

As for "Young Justice Bao", although the production line-up has not been announced, it is supported by the extremely high ratings of "Justice Bao", so I believe it has a great background.

The selling point of "Love Across Time and Space" is its novel time-travel theme. This type of TV series has never appeared in the Chinese world.

Huang Yi's "A Step into the Past" only began serialization this year. Although Yang Ye has already obtained the copyright in advance, he still has to wait until he finishes writing it before he can adapt it into a film or TV series.

In order to promote Guangming Film and Television City, Yangji has made huge concessions and opened up many resources. It can be said that it is full of sincerity, which has greatly excited film and television companies on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and in Hong Kong and Macao.

As long as you can get on Yangji’s bus, you can take away all the valuable goods and make money by opening a store!
At the end of the meeting, Yang Ye announced the official launch of his “Asian Rising Star Guide Program”.

The program aims to support talented young directors across Asia and help them complete their film works.

After several months, we screened short films and scripts created by thousands of young directors.

Finally, we selected five works from five directors from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, gave each of them an investment of one million US dollars, and helped with subsequent production and distribution.

The five works are "Forever Lost My Love" by Feng Xiaokang, "One O'clock in the Midnight" by Wilson Yip, "The Ice Seller's Son" by Wei Desheng, "Ginkgo Tree Bed" by Kang Dae-kyu, and "Love Letter" by Iiwa Shunji.

These films will be released over the next two years, followed by the second phase of the “Asian Rising Star Director Program”.

With the launch of the "Asian Rising Star Director Program", countless future famous directors will become Yang Ye's disciples, and Yang Ye will be the true godfather of Asian films.

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