Island Tycoon

Chapter 550 Award Ceremony
Yau Ma Tei Theatre.

The theater is temporarily closed today due to special reasons, and a series of venue arrangements are being made inside it, and the relevant personnel are very lively when they walk in and out.

"Hey, let's talk about you guys! It took so long to make a set, is it enough?" Chen Baisheng, who was directing on the spot, was busy preparing for the award ceremony of the first Golden Statue Awards.

After wiping the sweat off his forehead casually, Chen Bosheng walked to the most remote position from the stage. From here to the stage, he could still clearly see the situation in front of him.

Chen Bosheng secretly said that it is indeed the number one theater on Hong Kong Island, and the internal setting can be said to have no dead ends.

At first he was not happy that Ye Jingcheng used the name of sponsorship in exchange for the status of an association chairman, but now it seems that it is more than worth the money, and it is better to do things with money.

According to his original worst plan, if he couldn't get sponsorship from Ye Jingcheng, he could only choose to cooperate with Radio Television Hong Kong, allowing the other party to have the right to broadcast the Golden Statue Awards in exchange for a sponsorship fee of 20.

But 20 yuan is simply not enough to cover the entire awards ceremony, such as the venue, layout, guests, and so on.

Just renting the venue and furnishing it will cost eight or nine out of ten of the money, and the arrangements should be made according to careful calculations.The problem is that in addition to the venue and layout, the guests always need to be served with drinks, right?
If you don't pay to find a few reporters to be the shooters, how can you start the reputation of the Academy Awards?If he really chooses to cooperate with RTHK, one can imagine how simple the first Academy Awards will be.

And he chose to compromise with Ye Jingcheng, except for the fact that the other party wanted to become the chairman of the association, which was difficult for him, he fully cooperated with him in other aspects.

The busiest street in Yau Tsim Mong and the number one theater on Hong Kong Island have a daily turnover of at least hundreds of thousands. Ye Jingcheng borrowed it with a single sentence.Apart from exempting him from the huge rental fee, most people don't mean that they can rent it if they want to.

In addition to the venue of the awards ceremony, Ye Jingcheng also sponsored him an additional 20.This money is definitely enough to decorate the venue, as for the guests at the awards ceremony...

Now there is no need for him to invite them personally, there are a large group of people voluntarily and striving to participate, the reason is because of the aura of the venue, everyone knows that this theater is under Ye Jingcheng's name.

Even if Ye Jingcheng had nothing to do with this awards ceremony, holding the awards ceremony in such a high-end place is enough to prove how strong the backstage of the Academy Awards is.

Artists who want to make a name for themselves in the film industry, they don't need to actually be on the stage of the awards ceremony, as long as they can show their faces at the scene, they are satisfied, at least they can get a chance to appear on camera.

Even the reporters of some major media knew that the award ceremony was so powerful, and they had already come one after another before Chen Baisheng invited them one by one.

So Chen Bosheng originally planned to use it to invite people to show off, but now he saved it, and received a lot of red envelopes from it.They were all given to him by those who were not of sufficient status but wanted to attend the awards ceremony.

There is no need for Chen Bosheng to arrange the staff at the venue, they are all theater staff, and he only needs to be responsible for driving others.The awards ceremony venue in front of him was even more impressive than he had imagined.

As for the awards, Ye Jingcheng was not promised before.Chen Bosheng thought that if it really didn't work out, he would set up the five most basic awards first, including: best film, best director, best screenwriter, and best actor and actress.

As for other awards, we can only wait for the Academy Awards team to overcome the most difficult difficulties before making plans.

Moreover, there are no primary elections or preliminary elections, and the final results are directly announced.But if you do this, it is easy to be criticized.Because you haven't even disclosed the review information, how can you say you are fair and just?

Now with Ye Jingcheng's sponsorship, he can completely let go and add four more awards, including: Best Newcomer Award, Best Photography, Best Art Director, and Best Action Director.

If it wasn't for the rush of time and enough time to make statistics and collect data, he would have thought about collecting at least twelve awards.

However, in order to quickly establish the reputation of the Academy Awards, let's take a look at the heat of the summer vacation.He brought forward the Golden Statue Awards Ceremony, which was originally planned to be held two months later, to today, tomorrow, and the next three days.

Seeing that the layout of the venue was almost the same, Chen Baisheng handed over the work to his subordinates, while he prepared to welcome the guests in the hall.

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the next three days.

On the evening of the first day, the Academy Awards held a welcome and shortlist reception. Basically, those who were eligible to attend the reception did not give up this opportunity to expand their network.

At least [-] to [-] guests came to the scene, so most of them gathered in a banquet hall, one can imagine how lively the scene was.

Fortunately, the capacity of the Yau Ma Tei Theater is large enough. If it were a slightly smaller venue, it would definitely be crowded to the point where there were only one head left, and you would have to borrow someone to pass by.

On the afternoon of the second day, the Academy Awards held another carpet reception. This time, the only guests invited were those who had passed the results of the preliminary competition, as well as reporters or editors from more than a dozen media outlets.

Even so, there were three to four hundred guests at the scene.Compared with the shortlist reception on the first day, those who were lucky enough to pass the preliminary round took the initiative to talk to other people.

Maybe among them, there will be the next Zhou Runfa soon, or even Ye Jingcheng second.If you make good friends with each other in advance, you can always take care of them in the future, right?
On the night of the third day, the Academy Awards finally ushered in the highlight.

Many big names who hadn't appeared in the previous two days came to the awards ceremony one after another.Such as: Xu Guanjie, Xu Guanwen, Zhou Runfa, Chenglong, Hong Jinbao and so on.

Even the heads of the five major film companies will send a heavyweight to testify if they can't come by themselves.

Shaw Films sent Fang Yihua, Shao Yifu's pillow companion, He Guanchang, one of Golden Harvest's major shareholders, to attend, Jiang Zhiwen, who inherited his father's business from Anle Cinema, and Yuan Yangan, the main helm of Yindu Films.

As tonight's important person and award presenter, Ye Jingcheng also came to the venue to participate in the ceremony 10 minutes before the award ceremony started.

"It's Ye Sheng!"

"Where! Where?"

"Is Ye Sheng here too!?"

The appearance of Ye Jingcheng and Li Zhi greeted the eager eyes of many people.Including several 'important people' sitting in the front row, all of them were robbed of the limelight by Ye Jingcheng at this time.

Seeing this scene, the invitees from several other major companies had weird and apprehensive expressions on their faces.When they came to the venue, there were indeed many people who wanted to approach them.But compared to Ye Jingcheng...

They had gathered around a dozen people at most, but Ye Jingcheng was surrounded by almost all of them, and the people behind even crowded forward, hoping to squeeze in, just to say hello to Ye Jingcheng at a close distance.

Unlike them, the cold treatment just now made most people voluntarily give way.But facing Ye Jingcheng, these people were like moths to the flame.

"Okay, all the guests present, please return to your seats, the awards ceremony is about to begin." Zeng Zhiwei, who was still the emcee tonight, helped persuade these people to return to their seats.

Ye Jingcheng sat down in the middle of the first row, and greeted the directors of other film companies on both sides with a slight nod, then focused his attention on the stage.

Except for Fang Yihua's complexion, everyone else, whether it was out of sincerity or coping, Ye Jingcheng returned the gift with an apologetic smile.

When everyone is in place, the lights will shine on a man and a woman on the stage, namely Zeng Zhiwei and Xiao Fangfang. The entire ceremony of the awards ceremony tonight will be presided over by the two.

Zeng Zhiwei first took a step forward, but for some unknown reason, his foot almost 'falled'.

At this time, Xiao Fangfang quickly came up to support her, and said in a reproachful tone: "Wei Zi, what are you doing? Are you crossing your legs wrong or are you planning to salute me?"

"Sister Fangfang, you must give a big gift, otherwise I will get dizzy." Zeng Zhiwei said pitifully with bitter eyebrows.

"Why do you feel dizzy for no reason?" Xiao Fangfang asked, looking ahead.

She knew that Zeng Zhiwei didn't really fall, but wanted to create an atmosphere in the venue so that it would be convenient for them to host next.

"Can't you see so many big people sitting in the front row? They can make us die with just a word." Zeng Zhiwei joked.

"I believe this. But it's not us, it's you alone." Xiao Fangfang quarreled first, and then said to Zeng Zhiwei: "Little girl, I am so beautiful and beautiful, I believe I won't be like you, a beast, others It’s not pleasing to the eye just by looking at it.”

The two of them seemed to have discussed it early in the morning, and you said something to me to attract the attention of the guests to the stage.

"Okay, that's the end of the joke." At the right time, Zeng Zhiwei's original joke ended and he put on a serious look.

"Tonight's awards ceremony is very important, why?" Zeng Zhiwei said: "Because the appearance of this awards ceremony can be said to be a historical moment in the development of movies for Hong Kong Island films."

"That's right, many people who work in the film industry know that. From afar, the United States has the Oscars, France has the Cannes International, Germany has the Berlin International, Italy has the Venice International, etc..."

"Recently speaking, in the entire Asian region, island countries have an Asia-Pacific Film Festival, and Dawan also has a Golden Horse Award. Only Hong Kong Island does not even have an organization that can rate, approve, and notarize movies."

"So tonight, all the guests will join us to witness the birth ceremony of our Hong Kong Film Awards." Zeng Zhiwei stretched out his hand and said, "First of all, let me introduce our important guests here tonight."

"It can be said that they have driven the development of Hong Kong Island films, and they are also leading the development of Hong Kong Island films. They are respectively..."

"The one sitting in the middle is Ye Sheng. I believe there is no one who doesn't know him. Ye Sheng has only been in the film industry for more than three years, but it is because of him that Hong Kong Island films can rewrite milestones time and time again.

From the first work with a box office of tens of millions, to the later 2000 million, 3000 million to [-] million, these are all his honors.He used actions to prove to us that the occurrence of all this is not a miracle, but an opportunity for our Hong Kong Island movies. "

"He guided our Hong Kong Island films on the right track. He brought status and momentum to Hong Kong Island films. In case of losing him, this loss does not belong to individuals, but belongs to our entire Hong Kong Island film circle. This person It is our Mr. Ye Jingcheng!!!"

Zeng Zhiwei's words were so sensational that those who didn't know thought he was trying to curry favor with Ye Jingcheng.But no one at the scene thought so, because what Zeng Zhiwei said was the truth.

Before Ye Jingcheng joined the film industry, it was already a very rare achievement for a film to earn more than 100 million box office.

Ever since Ye Jingcheng appeared, he has shown what it means to have no upper limit.Every movie produced by him, from the initial 500 million to the current 3000 million, the box office has always been higher and higher, and it will not go downhill.

Ye Jingcheng's appearance undoubtedly brought prosperity to Hong Kong Island's film circle, and also brought identity and status to the workers in it.

Take screenwriters as an example. In the past, a script was at most several hundred to several thousand yuan, and due to life and other factors, it was even less likely that they would not sell it.

Now, as long as the quality of the script is not too bad, the price is basically tens of thousands.Today's screenwriters can not only support themselves, but also get respect that they couldn't get before.

So after Zeng Zhiwei finished speaking, there was warm applause from the audience. This is the glory that belongs to Ye Jingcheng alone.

Ye Jingcheng stood up and pressed his hand, after the applause stopped.He took the microphone handed by Zeng Zhiwei from the side, and encouraged him in a formal way: "Hong Kong Island movies do not mean that the glory belongs to anyone, it belongs to everyone, and belongs to every staff member in the industry. I am alone, and it is impossible to have today's prosperity..."

When Ye Jingcheng was speaking, Fang Yihua at the side glanced at him secretly, thinking to himself who wouldn't say nice things?If it were her, it would be ten times, a hundred times more sensational.

The question is, does she have the qualifications?Even in the eyes of the heads of several other major film companies, she is a character who cannot be on the stage at all.

During the time she was in charge of Shaw Brothers, what movies did she produce?It's nothing more than taking the old path of Shaw Brothers - pornographic movies.

Every movie draws audiences in through erotic moments, and there's a lot to do to make it bigger.She is almost called the "Mother of Erotic Movies" now. The most important thing is that this woman can't look down on others. How can such a person get on the stage.

After Ye Jingcheng finished speaking, the microphone returned to Zeng Zhiwei's hand.The two emcees introduced He Guanchang, Fang Yihua and others one after another, but they were not as sensational as the introduction of Ye Jingcheng. Fang Yihua didn't even have a chance to speak, and Zeng Zhiwei's microphone turned to He Guanchang.

Here, except for Ye Jingcheng.Only He Guanchang, who witnessed the birth of Shaw Brothers, and then established his own Golden Harvest family, has enough weight to give an encouraging speech to the lower-level actors and staff as a high-ranking person.

Newcomers like Fang Yihua and Jiang Zhiwen couldn't achieve Ye Jingcheng's achievements, so it's useless to ask them to talk more.

(End of this chapter)