Chapter 1957 1959 [New officials took office with three fires]
The third fire is to invest huge sums of money to build a film and television base in eastern Guangdong.
In this way, ATV’s future TV dramas can be filmed at the film and television base instead of borrowing locations everywhere.
You must know that the reason why Hong Kong dramas are always complained about being petty is because the framing is too perfunctory. A waterfall is made of plastic sheeting, dozens of people act as an army of tens of millions, and a villa is used by dozens of rich people...
Now audiences can tolerate watching these dramas. After a few years, after the rise of mainland film and television dramas, there will be no market for Hong Kong dramas. So if you want to be popular, you have to work harder on quality.
And an exquisite film and television base is essential.
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As soon as Xiang Nansan set the fire down, it immediately burned up and down ATV like chicken blood. Everyone was uplifted and beaming, thinking that ATV would finally have a good life.
Wireless executives were a little nervous, after all, each of Xiang Nan's three fires was burning very vigorously. Under his leadership, perhaps ATV will really create a ratings miracle and overwhelm TVB.
As for the middle and low-level employees of TVB, they are all looking forward to whether ATV will poach TVB as much as before. You must know that every time ATV changed owners, it would poach wireless employees in the form of poaching.
From the producer to the screenwriter, from the superstar to the small coffee, all are dug. And every time it poachs people, the salary of wireless employees will increase. So they are all looking forward to it.
But to their disappointment, ATV did not poach talents from TVB, but absorbed talents from the film industry.
Many stars in the film industry have gone to ATV to film. Such as Yuan Biao, Sammo Hung, Guan Zhilin, Liming, Aaron Kwok, Hong Xin, Wen Bixia and so on.
In addition, directors such as Chen Jiashang, Wang Jing, Er Dongsheng, Chen Kexin, Huang Baiming, Lin Chaoxian, etc., as well as well-known screenwriters such as Qiu Gangjian, Luo Qirui, Anxi, Du Guowei, etc., also serve ATV.
With the joining of these filmmakers, the quality of ATV's TV dramas has been greatly improved at once.
After all, when a filmmaker shoots a TV series, the picture, rhythm, and texture are not comparable to the director of a TV series.
TVB's TV series can outperform ATV because of the large number of filmmakers who joined the show at the beginning.
For example, Shen Dianxia, Xie Xian, Wang Tianlin, Chen Honglie, Guan Haishan, Hu Feng, Luo Lan, Li Xiangqin and others were all stars and directors in the era of Cantonese films. So with them joining, TVB dramas are naturally good.
The reason why these people in the film industry give face so much is not all because of Xiang Nan. In the past few years, Hollywood movies have become more and more popular. In Southeast Asia, Hong Kong movies have failed, and their market share has fallen again and again.
If it wasn’t for Xiang Nan’s distribution of Hong Kong films through the channel of Universal Pictures, there would probably be no market for Hong Kong films now. Therefore, these filmmakers are naturally grateful and willing to contribute to the development of ATV.
And even if they are just guest appearances, standing and cheering will be a big help to ATV. At least the momentum of ATV has gone up.
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Back to Hollywood.
In April, May, and June, the big-selling movie is always "Titanic", and no movie can pull it down from the weekly champion.
This also caused other movies to dare not be released, lest they become cannon fodder for "Titanic". Until July, Universal Pictures began to release "The Matrix" starring Xiang Nan.
People have never seen a movie like this, so imaginative, so groundbreaking, and make the whole audience scream.
The New York Times called it "a dazzling and original visual adventure."
The "Los Angeles Times" commented, "This is very similar to an animated but three-dimensional movie screen. Science fiction fans will not want to miss every second of the film."
The "Washington Post" commented, "This is a release, a transformation of energy. The film will ignite you and make you dizzy in dazzlement."
The audience even gave the evaluation of "this is the best science fiction film I have ever seen".
Therefore, after the movie was released, the box office was extremely hot, and it quickly squeezed "Titanic" off the top of the weekly box office chart. However, "Titanic" still ranked second, and did not drop too much.
In the end, "The Matrix" won a box office of 250 million US dollars in North America, and a global box office of 600 million US dollars. Although not as good as "Titanic", it is still the top-grossing movie of the summer.
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After "The Matrix", "Jurassic Park 2" directed by Chris Columbus also officially met with the audience.
The film started shooting two years ago, and because of the use of more advanced special effects technology, it took a little longer. Otherwise, it should have been released last year.
Fortunately, such a delay is worth the money. The more gorgeous special effects make the dinosaurs more vivid and real, and bring more freshness to the audience.
Combined with the power of "Jurassic Park 1", the box office of "Jurassic Park 2" in North America was 220 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office was nearly 500 million U.S. dollars. It was another box office hit.
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After that, "Broken Arrow" in September, "Ransom Storm" in October, "Brave to the Deadly Island" in November, and "Air Force One" in December, several commercial blockbusters were released in succession, stimulating the film market in the second half of the year. extremely prosperous.
Looking around, the champion of the weekly box office rankings is always Universal Pictures. Movies from other companies are often ranked below two or three.
Such achievements make the industry envy and envy. In the first half of the year, a "Titanic" has already beaten them all.
Unexpectedly, in the second half of the year, Xiang Nan will be even more ruthless. There will be six blockbuster films released in a row, and there will be new films every month. Every new film is well received and well received. Such a high yield, but also such a fine yield, how can people not be envious.
"Could it be that Charles is really the **** of movies, otherwise why are his movies so good and so popular?"
"For movies like "Titanic", "The Matrix" and "Jurassic Park", it's a joke for a film company to release one movie a year. Xiang Nan releases at least six or seven movies a year, which is simply amazing. !"
"It is said that Universal Pictures still has two sci-fi blockbusters "Men in Black" and "Independence Day" that have not been released. I really can't imagine, what is the structure of his brain, and how can he come up with so many good stories?"
The industry all lamented that in 1998, they were suppressed by Xiang Nan.
As for the audience, they were very excited. In the second half of this year, they watched six blockbuster movies, and each one was so exciting and interesting that they felt that the movie tickets were not wasted.
And so many good movies have also enriched their entertainment life, making them naturally very happy and satisfied. It also makes [Universal production, must be a boutique] gradually become everyone's consensus in Hollywood.
This has greatly improved the box office appeal of Universal Pictures' films.
(end of this chapter)