Chapter 1956 1958【Win ATV】
?Hence, Xiang Nan considered Martin Lawrence to play James Carter.
?Martin Lawrence made his debut in the 1980s. He first became famous for performing talk shows, and then began to appear in movies.
?Last year''s "Bad Boys" was his first starring role, and his performance was quite eye-catching, even better than Will Smith.
?In addition, his collaboration with Tim Robbins, "No More to Lose", also achieved very good reputation and box office. In terms of celebrity status and box office appeal, he is much stronger than Chris Tucker.
Paired with Jackie Chan, it’s just right.
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"I''m Crazy About Mary" tells the story of the male protagonist and the female protagonist who met when they were young, fell in love at first sight, and then were forced to separate. After growing up, the male protagonist still couldn''t let go of the female protagonist, so he commissioned a private detective to find the female protagonist.
??As a result, after the private detective found the heroine, he also fell in love with her at first sight. So two men began their crazy pursuit of a woman...
??This play was originally a movie co-starring Ben Stiller, Matt Dillon and Cameron Diaz. But Xiang Nan didn''t like Cameron Diaz''s appearance. He finally decided to star Jennifer Aniston in the movie. The male protagonists could be Ben Stiller and Hugh Jackman. Starring.
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"The Truman Show" is Jim Carrey''s masterpiece. It tells the story of a child who has lived in a studio since childhood, and his reality show is the most popular program in the world.
?He himself knew nothing about it until one day, a large lighting lamp fell from the sky...
This is a movie with a strong metaphorical meaning. The comedy is not particularly strong, but it is enough to make everyone who has watched it think deeply about it.
? Xiang Nan is still planning to cast Jim Carrey as the lead, but as the female lead, Xiang Nan is planning to cast Jennifer Connelly. Only her appearance can make the male protagonist so obsessed with him that he dreams of escaping from the island to meet her.
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"Enemy of the State" tells the story of a lawyer who was inadvertently involved in a political conspiracy and was forced to leave his family and flee. And finally relied on his own intelligence to help him clean up his grievances and punish the real culprit.
?The original version starred Will Smith, but Xiang Nan is planning to star in it himself this time.
"Game of the Brave" tells the story of a boy who accidentally found a magic chess game. He invited his female friends to play together, but ended up being sucked into the magic chess game.
More than twenty years later, a brother and sister accidentally discovered the chessboard and rescued the grown-up boy again...
??This movie originally starred Robin Williams and Kristen Dunst, and achieved very good box office and reputation that year.
Xiang Nan wrote the script a few years ago, but computer special effects were too expensive at the time, so he was reluctant to shoot it. Now that the price of movie special effects has dropped a lot, it''s time for this movie to be made.
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At the end of March, projects under Universal Pictures are in preparation for filming.
Xiang Nan and Liv Tyler got together naturally through their close relationship.
?This made Stephen Taylor very dissatisfied, but he had nothing to do.
?Although he is the most famous rock singer in the United States, he has a high status in the music circle. But Xiang Nan owns one of the world''s top record companies, with countless top stars under its umbrella. Therefore, he couldn''t win the fight, and he could only complain a few times, which was insignificant.
In April, good news came from Xiangjiang. The Lin Group agreed to Xiang Nan’s offer and sold ATV to Xiang Nan’s True Kung Fu Pictures for a price of HK$1.2 billion.
In this way, Xiang Nan has a TV station in his hands.
After the news came out, there was a sensation in Xiangjiang.
On the one hand, although ATV has not developed as well as TVB in recent years, it is still one of the only two TV stations in Hong Kong. Its movements naturally attract attention.
On the one hand, the buyer turned out to be Xiang Nan, which really surprised everyone. Because before this, several consortiums have expressed interest in ATV.
?Including former ATV president Feng Xiaoping, Cheung Kong Holdings boss Li Jiacheng, Chow Tai Fook boss Zheng Yutong, etc. Unexpectedly, it was Xiang Nan who won in the end.
But it’s right to think about it. When Xiang Nan acquired Universal Pictures, his net worth was no less than that of many wealthy families in Hong Kong. After several years of development, Xiang Nan can only continue to grow.
One movie sold for 1.8 billion U.S. dollars, making more money than those wealthy people building buildings. Naturally, they have more financial resources to acquire ATV.
?In addition, Xiang Nan himself is a gold medal producer in Hollywood. All his movies and TV series are blockbusters and have high ratings. Therefore, everyone also wants to see if Xiang Nan can create miracles on ATV.
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?After Xiang Nan acquired ATV, he made the first of three things he did when he took office, which was to significantly improve the treatment of ATV employees. All employees in the company, including the aunt who cleans the toilets, have their salaries doubled.
??As soon as this fire went down, all ATV employees were overjoyed and extremely happy.
ATV has low ratings and little investment from advertisers, so its revenue is naturally low. Therefore, previous owners, in order to make money, often cut costs and reduced employees'' wages.
?It is said that when the Lin Group was in charge of ATV, even the toilet paper in the toilets had to be counted. If the amount was exceeded, the cleaning lady had to pay for it herself, which made employees nervous when going to the toilet.
?This has also resulted in ATV being unable to retain many talents, such as Guan Yonghe, Zhang Jiahui, Lu Songxian, Chen Xiuwen, Jiang Hua, etc., all left ATV to develop in TVB.
?In addition, there are also many people behind the scenes. For example, well-known wireless producers Xiao Shu, Liang Caiyuan, Wang Xinwei and so on.
?All the talents in front of and behind the scenes have been poached. As a result, the quality of ATV dramas is somewhat inferior to that of TVB. No wonder the audience is unwilling to watch it.
So Xiang Nan wants to use high salaries to retain all talents.
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The second fire is to increase the intensity of self-produced dramas.
Over a long period of time, ATV has reduced the number of self-produced dramas in order to save costs. In the 1980s, ATV produced as many dramas as TVB every year, with more than 20 dramas produced each year. So at that time, every ATV artist had a job to film, and with the basic salary plus the remuneration, they were still very wealthy.
However, in the years since Lin came to power, ATV has gradually reduced its self-produced dramas and switched to mainly outsourced dramas. Although outsourcing dramas can save costs, it makes ATV a water without a source and a tree without roots, and it can no longer develop and grow.
ATV artists have no TV series to act in. Not only their income has dropped, but they also have no chance to show their faces. Naturally, they have no future. This is one of the reasons why many ATV artists left in the mid-1990s.
After all, I can tolerate it if I make less money, but I really can’t bear it if I don’t have the chance to become famous and my future is bleak. Therefore, Xiang Nan has increased investment and expects to film at least twelve dramas this year.
(End of this chapter)