Chapter 1956 1958 [Take down ATV]

   Therefore, Xiang Nan considered Martin Lawrence to play James Carter.

  Martin Lawrence made his debut in the 1980s. He first became famous as a talk show performer, and then began to participate in movies.

   Last year's "Jedi Men" was his first starring work, and his performance was quite eye-catching, even better than Will Smith.

  In addition, "Nothing to Lose", which he collaborated with Tim Robbins, also achieved very good reputation and box office. In terms of coffee status and box office appeal, it is much stronger than Chris Tucker.

  Pairs well with Jackie Chan, just right.

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   "I'm Crazy About Mary" tells the story of the hero and heroine who met when they were young, fell in love at first sight, and were forced to separate later. After growing up, the hero is still hard to let go of the heroine, so he entrusts a private detective to find the heroine.

   As a result, after the private detective found the heroine, he also fell in love with her at first sight. So the two men started their crazy pursuit of a woman...

   The play was originally a movie starring Ben Stiller, Matt Dillon and Cameron Diaz. But Xiang Nan didn't like Cameron Diaz's appearance, so he finally decided to star Jennifer Aniston in this movie. The male protagonist can use 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 lives in a studio from childhood to adulthood, and his reality show is the most popular program in the world.

  He himself knew nothing about it, until one day, a large lamp fell from the sky...

   This is a highly metaphorical movie, the comedy color is not particularly strong, but it is enough to make everyone who has seen it think about it.

   Xiang Nan is still planning to cast Jim Carrey as the leading role, but the heroine, Xiang Nan plans to cast Jennifer Connelly. Only her appearance can make the male protagonist so haunted by his dreams, he even wants to escape from the island to meet her in his dreams.

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  "An Enemy of the State" tells the story of a lawyer who is accidentally involved in a political conspiracy and is forced to flee from his family. And in the end, relying on his own ingenuity and wisdom, he helped himself to wash away his grievances and punish the real culprit.

  The original version was starring Will Smith, but Xiang Nan is going to play it himself this time.

   "James 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 was sucked into the magic chess.

  Twenty years later, a pair of siblings accidentally discovered this chessboard and rescued the grown-up boy again...

   This movie was originally starring Robin Williams and Kristen Dunst, and achieved a very good box office and reputation that year.

  Xiang Nan wrote the script a few years ago, but the computer special effects at that time were too expensive, so he was not willing to shoot it. Now that the price of movie special effects has dropped a lot, it's time to shoot this movie.

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  At the end of March, the projects under Universal Pictures were preparing for filming one after another.

  Xiang Nan and Liv Tyler came together naturally through going back and forth.

   This made Stephen Taylor very dissatisfied, but he was helpless.

  Although he is the most well-known rock singer in the United States, he has a high status in the music circle. But Xiang Nan owns a top record company in the world, with countless top superstars under it. Therefore, he can't fight, and at most he can complain, which is irrelevant.

  In April, Xiangjiang received good news.

  Lin's consortium agreed to Xiang Nan's offer, and sold ATV to Xiang Nan's Real Kung Fu Films for a price of 1.2 billion Hong Kong dollars.

   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 these years, it is one of the only two TV stations in Hong Kong. Its movement naturally attracts attention.

   On the one hand, the buyer was actually Xiang Nan, which was really beyond everyone's expectations. Because before that, several consortiums have expressed their interest in ATV.

  Including Feng Xiaoping, the former president of ATV, Li Jiacheng, the boss of Cheung Kong Industries, Zheng Yutong, the boss of Chow Tai Fook, etc., but it was Xiang Nan who won in the end.

   But it's also right to think about it. When Xiang Nan bought Universal Pictures back then, his net worth was no less than that of many wealthy families in Xiangjiang. After several years of development, Xiangnan can only grow unabated.

  One movie sold 1.8 billion US dollars, making more money than those rich people building buildings, so naturally they have more financial resources to buy ATV.

  In addition, Xiang Nan is a gold medal producer in Hollywood, and all the movies and TV dramas he writes are blockbusters and have high ratings. So everyone also wants to see if Xiang Nan can create a miracle on ATV.

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  After Xiang Nan acquired ATV, there were three fires for the new official to take office, and the first one was fired first, which was to greatly increase the treatment of ATV employees. All employees in the company, including the aunt who cleans the toilet, have their salaries doubled.

   When the fire went down, all ATV employees were overjoyed and extremely happy.

  Because of the low ratings of ATV, the investment of advertisers is small, so the income is naturally low. Therefore, in order to make money, the previous owners often increased income and cut expenditure, and reduced the wages of employees.

   It is said that when the Lin consortium was in charge of ATV, even the toilet paper in the toilet had to be counted, and the cleaning lady had to pay for it if it exceeded the cost, which made the employees worry about going to the toilet.

  This also caused ATV to be unable to retain any talents, such as Guan Yonghe, Zhang Jiahui, Lu Songxian, Chen Xiuwen, Jiang Hua, etc., all left ATV and went to TVB for development.

   In addition, there are many people behind the scenes. For example, well-known TVB producers Xiao Che, Liang Caiyuan, Wang Xinwei and so on.

  The talents in front of and behind the scenes have been poached, resulting in the quality of ATV dramas being a bit lower than TVB. Naturally, it’s no wonder that audiences don’t want to watch them.

  So Xiang Nan wants to use a high salary to retain all the talents.

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  The second fire is to increase the intensity of self-produced dramas.

   For a long time in the past, in order to save costs, ATV has reduced the number of self-produced dramas. In the 1980s, ATV produced more than 20 series of dramas every year than TVB. So at that time, every ATV artist had a movie to shoot, and the basic salary plus the film salary was still very rich.

  However, in the few years since Lin took power, ATV has gradually reduced its self-produced dramas and switched to outsourced dramas. Although outsourcing dramas can save costs, it has turned ATV into a water without a source, a tree without roots, and can no longer develop and grow.

   ATV artists have no TV dramas to act in, not to mention a drop in income, and no chance to show their faces, so naturally they have no future. This is also one of the reasons why many ATV artists left in the mid-1990s.

   After all, it’s okay to earn a little money, but it’s really unbearable if you don’t have the chance to become famous and your future is bleak. Therefore, Xiang Nan has increased his investment and is expected to make at least 12 dramas this year.

  (end of this chapter)