The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 654 "ET" hits theaters

In the United States, "ET", which was released during the Christmas period, is going to sell like crazy. The ugly alien is so cute, and the story directed by Steven Spielberg really makes people laugh. Tears, revealing a strong breath of warmth, very touching.

After the film was released, it immediately caused a sensation, and soon took the lead in the Christmas schedule. It is estimated that the domestic box office in the United States will exceed [-] million US dollars.And Xu Guanwu's investment in this drama was only tens of millions of dollars. After the sci-fi film "ET" was released, the cute and cute alien became popular, and even the sales of the Reese candy it ate in the movie increased by more than three times, making Xu Guanwu a big profit from advertising fee.

Peripheral products that appeared with the hot movie were also very popular.Things like t-shirts, bed sheets, toys, models, novels, comics, etc. have begun to be released one after another. Some TV stations want to buy the adaptation rights of this movie and make it into an animation. At present, Xu Guanwu is sending people to discuss with them about copyright issues .In addition, Atari Game Company also wants to adapt "ET" into a game, and is also seeking Xu Guanwu's consent.

The success of "ET" is just icing on the cake for Xu Guanwu. In fact, he is now more concerned about the first TVB "Thousands of Stars Awards Ceremony".

Last year, Xu Guanwu put forward his opinion, and TVB also started to organize its own awards ceremony. One is to commend the artists who have worked hard for a year, and the other is to expand their influence...

After Xu Guanwu put forward his opinion, TVB's talents from all walks of life discussed the plan together, and finally decided on a relatively fair and just selection method.It is determined that after Christmas every year, TVB will nominate candidates first, and then announce them on "Daily Daily".

Citizens cut out that page of the newspaper, choose the candidate in their minds, and then return the clipping to TVB, and then TVB will make statistics on the replies, and then the person with the most votes will be elected.In addition, citizens who enthusiastically participated in this activity also hope to win various prizes. The highest prize is a color TV worth more than 5000 yuan.

Last year, TVB launched quite a few good-looking drama series, such as "Shanghai Beach" co-starred by Zhou Runfa and Zhao Yazhi, "Fengshen Yanyi" co-starred by [-]th grade students of Xinghui Art School, "A Thousand Kings" starring Xie Xian, Wang Mingquan, etc. "The King", etc., have achieved extremely high ratings, and they are also the drama series with the highest calls for awards this year.

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TVB is preparing to welcome their "Thousands of Stars Awards Ceremony", compared to Jiayi and ATV, it seems a bit dull.

Although Jiayi TV is currently backed by Carrian Group, investing a large sum of money to find talents, shoot episodes, and produce programs, which has greatly improved the quality of the content shown, but the ratings have not changed much at present. Compared with TVB, it is at most [-], [-] points, and [-] points belong to ATV.

Since Asia Television was taken over by Qiu Degen of the Far East Group a few months ago, it has begun to carry out drastic reforms, convened the old department, tapped new talents, and selected talents. vitality.However, ATV has been suffering for a long time after all, and it is not easy to fully restore its previous glory.

What's more, when ATV was in a difficult situation, TVB and Jiayi did not relax at all, and still rushed forward, thus throwing ATV away by a large margin.Now ATV can be said to have a lot of waste to do. Stars, directors, screenwriters, photographers, props, electricians and other employees have to be recruited separately, basically the same as when it first opened.

After ATV was taken over by an Australian consortium before, many ATV employees fled because of the strategy of letting go and ignoring.After Qiu Degen took over, the employees who had already made a name for themselves were unwilling to return to ATV, which left ATV with almost no available soldiers.

At that time, Xu Guanwu had put a lot of heart into it, but Qiu Degen was worthy of being a man of boldness, and he relied on buying dramas outside to support the first few months.At the same time, the talents are not sticking to one pattern, vigorously promote and select newcomers, and invest a large sum of money to film the series. Sure enough, the atmosphere has taken on a new look after a few months.

However, although Jiayi and ATV have caught up and invested a lot of money in creation, but because TVB TV has become a big trend, no matter the popularity of its artists, the talent of directors, publicity strategies, capital investment, etc., are all higher than this. There are two TV stations, so the most remarkable moment is that TVB and the two of them have half the ratings.If the dramas shown by TVB are very good, even if the two TV stations work together, it will not be enough for TVB.

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TVB's "Thousands of Stars Awards Ceremony" has attracted the attention of the whole city from the very beginning. TVB specially made three special programs for this purpose, inviting the shortlisted actors and creators to appear on the programs to promote. Advertisements were broadcast, encouraging citizens to vote for their favorite artists and dramas.

Because "Thousands of Stars Awards Ceremony" is the first TV station awards ceremony in Hong Kong, and the shortlisted are all popular artists. It will be a pity that it has attracted the attention of the public, and the natural media cannot let go of this grand event.

"Daily Daily" also publishes predictions every day, and also publishes letters from enthusiastic viewers, expressing their love for a certain drama or actor. "Ming Pao", "Sing Tao Daily", "Sing Pao" and so on also do interviews with celebrities, wanting to know what expectations they have for winning awards...

For a moment, as far as the eye can see, it is full of reports about TVB news, even newspapers such as "Sing Tao Daily", "Ming Pao", and "Sing Pao", which are competitors with Xu's, do not hesitate to cover the pages Reporting this matter, Jiayi and ATV two TV stations saw it in their eyes and were anxious in their hearts. They really envied and hated it.

The exposure of TVB's actors who have been shortlisted and those who have not been shortlisted has also increased greatly, and the popularity has naturally increased. Whether it is for TVB or for the artists themselves, it is a great thing. .It can be said that this "Thousands of Stars Awards Ceremony" has been a success from the very beginning.

However, Xu Guanwu did not relax his vigilance, and still reminded Liang Shuyi to be careful and not to make any mistakes.Because now "Thousands of Stars Awards Ceremony" is no longer just TVB's own business, from the day Hong Kong citizens are invited to vote, it has become a matter for all Hong Kong citizens.If there are any mistakes in this awards ceremony, such as scandals such as buying and selling tickets, cheating for personal gain, forming cliques, dealing with unfair affairs and other scandals, it will also seriously damage TVB's healthy image, so we must not be careless.

Xu Guanwu still remembers reading the reports before. Over the years, there will be scandals at the TVB Taiwan Celebration Awards Ceremony, such as buying and selling tickets, unfair handling, gang formation, random distribution of pork, etc. Some artists complained to the media, complaining that they were too wronged Wait, although it won't affect TVB's dominance, but the so-called embankment of a thousand miles is destroyed by ant nests, and if things go on like this, TVB's image will be greatly reduced in the long run.

This is the first time that "Thousands of Stars Awards Ceremony" is being held. Naturally, Xu Guanwu doesn't want all kinds of scandals to come out at the first awards ceremony. The resurrection of the corpse was brought up by others, which made it difficult for future awards ceremonies to continue.Therefore, we must pay attention to it in the first session, and there must be no major mistakes.

Leung Sook Yee also knew that "Thousands of Stars Awards Ceremony" was a grand event, if it was done well, there would be fireworks, hello, hello, hello everyone.But if something goes wrong in the middle, she must be the first person to be responsible, so she also made a rule that no one needs to buy or sell tickets, form gangs, or attack each other, so as not to blame this awards ceremony. cause damage.

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January passed quickly, and Xu Guanwu was busy supervising the "Thousands of Stars Award Presentation Ceremony" all day, staying away from home all day long, which made Zhao Yazhi and Lin Qingxia feel a little uncomfortable.

Before when he stayed at home and wrote every day, Zhao Yazhi and Lin Qingxia always advised him to go out more, but now when he was busy doing things every day, the two women began to worry again.

When Xu Guanwu came back from TVB, Zhao Yazhi and Lin Qingxia greeted him immediately, "Ah Wu, why are you so busy so late? Just leave the awards ceremony to Ms. Liang Shuyi. You don't have to do everything yourself, right?" ?”

"It's okay, I've been idle at home for so long anyway, and it's really refreshing to be busy once in a while." Xu Guanwu said with a smile, "Do you know who is the most popular actress now?"

Zhao Yazhi smiled embarrassedly, "It can't be me?"

"No." Xu Guanwu smiled.

Zhao Yazhi was taken aback, "How is it possible, if it wasn't me, who else would it be?"

"It's Ms. Wang Mingquan. The "A Dream of Beijing" and "The King of Thousand Kings" she starred in are all popular dramas this year." Xu Guanwu smiled and said, "Although your "Shanghai Beach" has exploded in ratings, but you There is only one drama, but others have several dramas, there is no comparison."

"Hmph! Then don't blame you, don't let me film more, otherwise, how could I lose to her?" Zhao Yazhi immediately said angrily.

"Can this also be blamed on me?" Xu Guanwu smiled and said, "Okay, you don't have to be angry anymore, it's just an award, so don't be too angry. I have good news for you. The nominations for the Image Awards have already started, you are nominated for Best Picture for "Crazy Robbery" and "Love in a Fallen City" starring Qingxia, and both of you are also nominated for Best Actress, how about it?"

"Really, wow!" Lin Qingxia said in great surprise, "This is really great, I really didn't expect that I would be shortlisted."

"No way, last year's "Love in a Fallen City" was so popular, it's a miracle that you couldn't be nominated." Xu Guanwu smiled, "I think your chances of winning the Best Actress are very high."

"Then what about me, how am I?" Zhao Yazhi also asked with a smile, "Will my role as Li Wan win an award?"

"It should be possible." Xu Guanwu smiled, "But let's not worry, it is already an honor to be nominated. There are so many actresses in Hong Kong, and this time only six of them were selected, which is already something to be proud of. "

"How many awards has our company been shortlisted for this time?" Seeing that Zhao Yazhi seemed unhappy, Lin Qingxia quickly changed the subject and asked.

"It's not bad. Almost all major awards were shortlisted. Eldest brother was shortlisted for Best Actor for "Rich and Noble World", Zhou Runfa was shortlisted for Best Actor for "Love in a Fallen City", Hong Jingbao's Hong Family Class was shortlisted for Best Action Director Award, Hong Jingbao and eldest brother were shortlisted We won the best director award, as well as male and female supporting actors, best art direction, best film special effects, best soundtrack, best song, etc. Our company's films are also shortlisted, it seems that this year is a bumper year." Xu Guanwu smiled with satisfaction.

"The Xu family is now firmly at the top of the Hong Kong film industry, and it would be a rare thing if they are not shortlisted for awards." Lin Qingxia nodded and said, "How about the luck of Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, and how many awards have they been shortlisted for? "

Xu Guanwu waved his hand, "Shaw Brothers is very unlucky this time, only a few shortlisted awards, such as best art direction, best soundtrack awards, not as many awards as Teddy Robin's Zhucheng Film Company. Although Golden Harvest has been shortlisted for many awards, its overall competitiveness is not very strong. I believe the two companies will have a hard time at this awards ceremony."

(End of this chapter)