Chapter 434: The Rise of Hong Kong's Entertainment Culture
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In France, women do not have a tradition of not fighting back and scolding, and her husband's bad attitude makes Sophie's patience gradually reach the limit.
"Enough ......"
"No, I haven't said that yet. Let me ask you, where did you go after the closing dinner of the Hong Kong Film Festival, and why did you go back to the hotel so late?"
"I don't think I need to report all my trips to you. ”
A hint of unnaturalness flashed across Sophie's face, and after the closing dinner, she had a friendly battle with Wei Xiong in the upstairs room of the hotel.
Although he and Wei Xiong had an overnight relationship.
But just like a highly lethal drug, she found herself a little addicted, so much so that she took the initiative to tease Wei Xiong several times at the dinner party.
It wasn't the first time she had done such a thing, but it was the first time she couldn't wait.
In fact, Andrei Zolaski will take "Silver Planet" to the Hong Kong International Film Festival because of her persuasion.
"You don't have to report everything to me, but I'm your husband, and I want you to respect me. ”
"You know what?
At this time, Andrei Zolaski was on the verge of losing his mind, and Sophie, who was a thief, didn't want to provoke him too much.
"I think you should calm down, the gossip in the newspapers is just made up for the sake of sales. ”
"You are a mature man and should have your own judgment. ”
After saying that, Sophie ignored her husband, got up and walked upstairs, and after a while, she changed her clothes and walked down: "I'll go shopping." ”
Andrei Zolaski was just about to speak, when there was a 'bang' of the door slamming.
"Bastard. ”
Cursing fiercely, Andrei Zolaski picked up a cup on the table and smashed it directly on the ground, he was really annoyed.
People are like that.
At first, they may be influenced by the outside world, but when their anger does not subside, or they cannot get a convincing reason or explanation.
Under the influence of anger, the mind will fall into a state of extremes.
He did not get a convincing explanation from Sophie, and Sophie's 'too lazy to say' attitude deepened his suspicions.
He was now almost certain that his wife had been defiled by that hateful, ugly man.
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After the first episode of the third season of "Twelve Legends" was broadcast, Wei Xiong had a lot of fans, and at the same time, there were many people who hated him.
These extra fans are mainly women.
And the people who hate him are basically men, because their women regard Wei Xiong as an idol, even if it is just an idol.
But this hatred did not hinder the popularity of "Twelve Legends".
According to the agreement, after the first round of broadcasts on Phoenix Satellite TV, TV stations that have purchased the rights can be launched one after another, and the earliest will be broadcast the next day.
For example, Fuji TV in Japan and NBC TV in the United States.
Other television stations, such as Taiwan's Chung Hwa Television and British Independent Television, also broadcast in the following week.
After all, the English channel of Phoenix Satellite TV has just started broadcasting.
Local TV stations must have advantages in terms of popularity, recognition and coverage, and the ratings will naturally surpass Phoenix Satellite TV.
As a result, the popularity of "Twelve Legends" has continued.
It even sparked a fitness craze.
All over the world, countless men who are thin, bloated, young, or old enough to walk into health clubs.
The first question they asked the coach was - how can they get the size of Wei Xiong?
The coaches rolled their eyes in unison.
They still want to have Wei Xiong's body.
But for the sake of money, coaches often run trains with their mouths full, and all kinds of foolish words are fanciful, and there are really many people who believe it.
Life is in motion.
Regardless of whether these people with explosive fitness enthusiasm can finally refine the desired figure, Wei Xiong has inadvertently made a merit.
At this time, Singapore's "Lianhe Zaobao" published a very insightful article -
The all-round rise of Hong Kong's entertainment culture!!
The article is very long, the first third is about the Shaw Brothers' film empire, and the middle third is about the three-legged stand of the Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest and New Arts City.
The last third is the Wei Empire, which was established by Wei Xiong.
The point of the article is that after decades of development, Hong Kong's entertainment culture has matured and begun to expand strongly.
This kind of expansion is based on movies, with music, TV dramas, and variety shows as branches, and it has exploded in an all-round way.
A formidable force was formed.
Under the attack of this force, not to mention the already weak Southeast Asian region, even a strong Japan will find it difficult to resist.
Several examples are also cited.
For example, so far this year, there have been 15 Hong Kong films released in Japan, of which 5 have entered the top 10 at the box office.
For another example, Zhang Xueyou, Zhou Huimin, Zhang Guorong, Liu Dehua, etc. are all well-known Japanese singers.
At least a quarter of the sales of these singer records come from Japan.
Zhang Xueyou, for example, released his latest album "Kiss Goodbye (English Version)" in the middle of the year, has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide so far.
Among them, 700,000 copies were sold in Japan.
Moreover, now in Japan, the most popular entertainment program is "Twelve Legends", and before the start of "Twelve Legends", it was Running Man.
There is also a very striking example.
Nowadays, whether it is a company event or a program to invite guests, etc., Japan is very fond of inviting Hong Kong stars, and the price is generally higher than that of local stars.
Why is this happening?
Because Japanese people like to watch Hong Kong stars, if there are Hong Kong stars, there will be ratings, attention, and more benefits.
This is not the case in a country like Japan, which has a strong entertainment culture in itself, let alone Southeast Asian countries.
As soon as this article was published, it caused quite a stir.
But so what? Hong Kong's entertainment culture has matured, and unless governments adopt administrative measures, they will not be able to resist invasion at all.
However, this article does not mean to stir up hatred for Hong Kong.
In the end, the author classifies Hong Kong's entertainment culture as a general subdivision of Asian entertainment culture, and regards the rise of Hong Kong's entertainment culture as the rise of Asian entertainment culture.
His reasoning is that mainstream Asian cultures are largely homologous.
Wei Xiong also read the article.
I basically agree with the author's point of view,
To be honest, he had a mixed sense of the country of Singapore, neither liking nor hating it, but he had a very special emotion.
The main reason is that Singapore is the only country in the world with Chinese as the main body.
It stands to reason that as a Chinese, he should like Singapore.
But he didn't like it.
Because Singapore's elite has always been culturally Western-leaning, Lee Kuan Yew is known as the only British gentleman east of the Suez River.
How can such a yellow-skinned and white-hearted country make him like.
"Knock knock knock. ”
Chen Mengyao pushed the door and walked in: "Boss, Ms. He is here." ”
"Please come in. Chen Mengyao stepped out of the way, and He Jing, president of Singapore Media Group, walked in with a faint smile on her face.
"Hehe, Ms. He, we meet again. ”
"Mr. Wei's demeanor is still the same. ”
"You may be seated. "At the last Hong Kong International Film Festival, Wei Xiong met He Jing again, when He Jing was discussing cooperation with Tianheng.
The two sat down separately, and then Wei Xiong personally made kung fu tea.
This is his new trick.
A few days ago, he suddenly had a whim, and asked people to make a set of tea sets for purple clay pots, and whenever he was bored or had guests coming, he would make tea by himself.
He thinks this is very good, and it can cultivate one's self-cultivation.
"I didn't expect Mr. Wei to like to make tea. ”
"Hehe, no way, there is an old antique at home, I have learned a lot after hearing and seeing, Ms. He should be used to drinking green tea, right?"
"I don't pay that much attention to what I drink. ”
"Green tea is a good thing, it can relieve the intestines in daily life, refresh the eyes, and if you drink it regularly, it can also prevent cancer. ”
"It seems that Mr. Wei has a lot of research on tea. ”
Smiling slightly, Wei Xiong put the poured tea in front of He Jing: "The matter of cooperation should be almost discussed, right?"
"It's almost settled. ”
Speaking of cooperation, He Jing couldn't help but smile on her face, this cooperation with Wei's was proposed by her, and she also attached great importance to it.
He flew to Hong Kong twice in person, and during this period, he even sent two or three groups of people to come for consultations.
"Then I wish us a happy cooperation. ”
"It was a pleasure to work with. ”
The two of them picked up their teacups and gestured to each other.
There are two main projects that Singapore Media Group has cooperated with Merrias, or Tianheng, the first is to establish a joint venture film and television production company.
The second is to send employees and college graduates to Tianheng for internship.
Both projects can be said to be requested by Mediacorp, and Tianheng has no need to cooperate with Tianheng no matter what aspect it considers.
Therefore, as soon as Mediacorp proposed it, Xu Xiaoming politely rejected it.
But Mediacorp has shown considerable sincerity.
There are two conditions for throwing, first of all, the cinema company under Mediacorp will be sold to Webster Film for distribution. You must know that the scale of this cinema chain is not small.
Not only does it control 70% of Singapore's cinemas,
It also includes 37 cinemas in Malaysia and 25 cinemas in Indonesia, all of which are of a certain size.
The location is also good, and it is considered a high-quality asset.
Second, the joint venture company can make appropriate concessions in terms of new media.
Wu Yusen originally had the intention of entering Singapore, and now Mediacorp took the initiative to throw out its cinema company, which can be said to be in his arms.
In this case, of course, Xu Xiaoming can no longer only care about Tianheng's interests.
Formal negotiations began.
The focus of the negotiation was the valuation of the theater chain, and at first the two sides were quite different, and after the negotiation of the number theory, a price acceptable to both parties was reached.
As for the joint venture film and television company.
Both sides of the shares each account for 50%, from Tianheng 20 million Hong Kong dollars, Mediacorp 30 million Hong Kong dollars.
In addition, Mediacorp also promised that all Chinese TV programs broadcast by Singapore TV in the future, in addition to those produced by the TV station itself,
They must all come from Tianheng Film and Television or a joint venture company.
Of course, Mediacorp sending employees and college graduates to Tianheng for internships is also one of them.
From these agreements, it can be seen that New Media under the leadership of He Jing has shown self-motivation, or ambition, in film and television.
She is not willing to let Singapore forever be a dumping ground for Hong Kong's entertainment culture.
Rather, I want to be a part of it.
Eventually, Singapore will also become a place to export entertainment and culture to the outside world. For this reason, she did not hesitate to sell the theater chain that had been profitable.
But apart from a loss of one profit point, Mediacorp has nothing to lose.
It also has little impact on the country's film and television industry.
Because more than 90% of the movies released in Singapore's cinemas are Hong Kong films, whether the cinema chain sells or not cannot change this situation.
It might as well be used in exchange for more direct benefits.
He Jing sat for about half an hour and left, in fact, Wei Xiong didn't need to see He Jing in person, but after all, she was Lee Kuan Yew's daughter-in-law.
He always has to give some face.
After working in the afternoon, Wei Xiong arrived at Kai Tak Airport, where the three Boeing private jets he had ordered for a year had finally arrived.
In fact, if you just order an airplane, it won't take so long.
More than half of the time is spent on the interior decoration of the aircraft, which shows how extravagant the interior decoration of the aircraft should be.
In addition, upon the arrival of the plane at Kai Tak Airport, a team of 10 people entered the venue.
Five of the 10 were from General Electric and five were from McT?? Road Aircraft Company, and carries the most advanced testing equipment.
They conducted a comprehensive inspection of the three aircraft that lasted half a month.
The safety and reliability of the aircraft is naturally one of the main purposes of the inspection, after all, he just swept the whole of the United States 1 year ago.
Who knows if the Americans will hold a grudge and secretly do something.
It is more important to check whether the monitoring device is installed, to know that he is not an ordinary person now, and who knows if the FBI will target him.
In his memory,
The FBI in another world has even targeted the heads of government of allied countries, and even if it is exposed, it has not stopped.
It would not seem surprising if he, the new richest man in the world, was also targeted for surveillance
As for whether the 10-person team is reliable?
He had no doubts at all.
5 from General Electric in the United Kingdom were personally selected by him for Mai Junyang, and from Mai?? The five men of the Tao, Joseph also promised him.
He still believed in Joseph's character.
After half a month of work, the inspection results showed that the safety and reliability of the three specially built Boeing private jets were fully up to standard.
Much safer than the normal operational Boeing 747-300 and 767-300.
But financially, it's much worse.
Including maintenance costs, repair costs, fuel costs, etc., are several times that of ordinary models, of course, this is not a problem for Wei Xiong at all.
At the same time, no suspicious devices were found on board.
He didn't think there was anything wrong with his behavior of living the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and it was still that sentence, there was nothing wrong with being careful.
The United States has never been a good one.
After coming to the airport, Wei Xiong boarded three planes successively, carefully checked the layout of the plane, and could see that the expression on his face was very satisfied.
Let's start with the 747-300GL.
The aircraft is divided into three levels, the front of the upper deck is the cockpit and the pilot's lounge.
At the rear is an entertainment lounge with several fitness equipment and a standard snooker table, as well as a meeting room and an office.
The space on the middle floor contains most of the living facilities.
There is a master bedroom, five secondary bedrooms, a large bathroom, a kitchen, a living room, and a lounge area for the entourage to rest.
The lounge area is similar to the business class of an airliner.
The decoration style is mainly modern luxury, but also contains a classical Chinese taste, as soon as you enter it, you can give people a noble enjoyment.
The lower level has a large food storage cabinet at the front and a cargo compartment at the rear.
Unlike the cargo Boeing 747, which has a cargo door located in the nose, this aircraft has a cargo door in the stern, like a military transport aircraft.
Once the hatch is lowered, the vehicle can be driven directly into the cargo hold.
According to the design criteria, the cargo compartment can accommodate up to sixteen ordinary sedans, or eight extended Rolls-Royces at the same time.
This is followed by the 767-300GL.
Compared to the 747, the 767 is much smaller and has two floors, with the cab and driver's lounge in front of the upper deck.
At the rear are living facilities.
It is furnished with a meeting room, an office, a master bedroom, a kitchen, a living room and a lounge area for the entourage to rest.
The front of the lower level is a food storage cabinet, and the rear is a cargo compartment.
The cargo door is set up in the same way as the 747-300GL, with rear opening and can accommodate ten regular cars or four extended Rolls-Royces.
In the future, the 747-300GL will be used primarily for long-haul flights.
Two 767-300GLs are used for short and medium haul or as a complement to the 747-300GL.
I looked at all three planes with great interest.
Wei Xiong stepped off the plane, followed by Leung Zhengwen, the president of Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways.
Upon arrival at Kai Tak Airport, Wai Hung signed a hosting agreement with Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways, under which the three private jets will be managed by Cathay Pacific.
The crew for each trip will also be all from Cathay Pacific.
However, the regular inspection and maintenance of the aircraft is directly carried out by Boeing, McT?? A team of experts from Dao and General Electric of the United Kingdom conducted it directly.
In addition, the agreement also has strict regulations on the flight hours and curriculum vitae of the pilots.
Make sure that the best pilots are flying the planes.
"Mr. Liang, my plane will be handed over to you in the future, and you have to take care of it. ”
"This is natural, it is our honor to serve Mr. Wei, and every time you travel, we will arrange the best crew for you. ”
"I still have a lot of confidence in Cathay Pacific. ”
In the next half an hour, Wei Xiong was led by Liang Zhengwen and visited various departments of Cathay Pacific Airways, including the flight attendant training department.
Cathay Pacific is the first airline in Hong Kong to provide civil aviation services.
It is still the largest airline in Hong Kong, with an independent and well-established training mechanism for pilots, ground crew, technicians and flight attendants.