Chapter 1189 Going to the Star! Go to the Stars!

After entering June, the first game to be released globally is "Police Academy 2".

With the distribution network of Disney and United Artists Film Company, coupled with the high praise and good box office of the first part of "Police Academy", this global screening is relatively successful.

It was screened in more than 40 countries and regions, with a total screen count of more than 12,000.

Since last year, the trend of simultaneous global releases has gradually started.

But it has to be a blockbuster, a film recognized by everyone as a good one. It is best to have a proven director and actors paired together. Not every company can do this.

In addition to a good storyline, "Police Academy 2" also has a lot of gimmicks.

For example, Eddie Murphy has confirmed that he will not appear in "Police Academy 3" again. He will gradually focus on Hollywood and develop his own personal film career, so this will be his last "Police Academy 3". Police School" series.

Also making such a decision is Rowan Atkinson, who is now very popular in the UK. The teaching director will also withdraw from "Police Academy 3", which is also his swan song in this series.

With such a gimmick, and the urgent compensation mentality of "If you don't watch it, you will never see them in this series of movies again", of course "Police Academy 2" did very well at the box office.

In the first three days of the weekend, Hong Kong's box office exceeded 10 million Hong Kong dollars, and the global box office exploded to 42 million U.S. dollars. It was very aggressive.

With such good results, Jiahe and Shaw Brothers, both investors, immediately put their hearts back in their stomachs.

After all, they each invested 60 million Hong Kong dollars in real money to produce the movie, and they also had to bear a considerable amount of publicity and distribution expenses. If they lost money, the huge loss of tens of millions would still make them cry.

But now the box office is 42 million US dollars in the first week, which is almost half of the cost. Now movies are released in at least six or eight weeks. No matter how the first one can reach the box office of 150 million US dollars, maybe it can still be achieved. Exceed.

Thinking that this movie will earn a net profit of about 100 million, neither Shao Yifu nor Zou Wenhuai sighed, Yin Jun is still awesome!

Not only because the script written by Yin Jun is great, this story has actors from all over the world, which just caters to most of the audience.

What's more, Yin Jun actually thought of going to Hollywood to acquire two film companies and use their distribution network to help promote Xiangjiang Films globally.

Without United Artists and Disney, "Police Story 2" would only be a big hit and make money in Asia, but in the most important and most profitable European and American markets, it would have to be bought out. Or a low-priced share, if you can get a total of tens of millions to 100 million Hong Kong dollars, it is already very good.

Now that they have their own distribution channels, although they still have to take commissions according to the rules, they treat them like a Hollywood company. There are no additional requirements or squeezes, and it immediately makes people feel like cooperation. Very comfortable.

If Xiangjiang Film is more successful, Yin Jun will be able to earn back the money he invested in Disney and United Artists Film Company in three to five years.

Even without Xiangjiang Movies, the movies produced by Yin Jun in the United States would have made the two major companies a lot of money.

Of course, they couldn't envy Yin Jun's abilities.

If they had this ability, they would have entered Hollywood twenty years ago. How could they wait until now?

Compared to Zou Wenhuai, Shao Yifu was not only happy, but also a little uneasy.

Because at this time, after more than a year of preparation, Kylin TV is finally launched!

As early as May, after the satellite was successfully launched, Kylin Satellite TV had actually started a series of trial broadcasts. At present, all the debugging has been completed, and of course it will naturally start broadcasting on the satellite.

Well, it was broadcast on television across Asia.

In addition to Japan's NHK and South Korea's KBS, Kylin TV is another TV station that can broadcast throughout Asia.

On Monday, June 9, at six o'clock in the morning, Kylin TV officially started broadcasting the first program.

Asia News.

For this program, Kylin TV’s reporter camp quickly expanded tenfold.

They left Xiangjiang and were stationed in big cities such as Huajing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Taibei, Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Jakarta... etc. They conducted news gathering and editing every day, striving to get the news as quickly as possible. The information was sent back to Xiangjiang, and after being edited and reviewed by the program team, it was broadcast as a news program in three time periods a day.

In this way, people can see what is happening across Asia, and their field of vision is far less narrow than before, giving them the feeling of "seeing the world with open eyes."

But at the same time, their workload and expenses increased more than tenfold.

The news department of Kylin TV doesn’t know if this is a good idea. After all, news channels generally don’t make much money and they all lose money.

The biggest role of a news channel is to increase the popularity of a TV station, increase the middle class's love and stickiness for the TV station, and make the TV station's image more upscale.

Don’t underestimate this role. Otherwise, why would those TV stations be news channels? Wouldn’t they just show TV dramas or variety shows?

Not every TV station’s news channel is as boring as the mainland news channels.

For example, the FOX channel and NBC in later generations, these powerful people, make people excited when they mention it. They know that they will come out with violent materials, and their favorable impression of the two TV stations also increases. What do you want to watch? This channel will be opened in a moment.

Kylin TV also wants to produce such news programs, and compared to other TV channels, their biggest advantage is that they are in Hong Kong. The news reporting here has always been unscrupulous, and the topic is even better than that of the United States. They are still fierce and dare to say it.

Although Yin Jun will control its intensity and will not touch some too sensitive topics, the current content alone is enough to satisfy the news channel.

News programs are nothing.

Shao Yifu didn't care. He was the kind of person who ignored news programs.

What he cares about is the TV series and variety shows broadcast by Kylin TV. These are the most important factors that determine the viability of a comprehensive TV channel!

Kylin TV did not disappoint everyone. It leaked the news a few days ago, and during the pilot broadcast, it also broadcast some behind-the-scenes clips from "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

Speaking of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", it is very famous throughout Asia. There are even translated versions in Japan and South Korea.

But what is more important is its influence in the Chinese circle.

Mr. Jin Yong’s decades of hard work is no joke. At that time, people did not have any entertainment programs, so reading was naturally a major hobby.

Mr. Jin Yong’s fourteen novels are all well-known masterpieces, especially the Condor Trilogy, which represents the great hero, is even more popular and is definitely the largest IP under Jin Yong.

The predecessor of Kylin TV was Jiayi TV. Its first film was "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" starring Xue Xue, which made Xue Xue famous all over Asia at that time.

But Yin Jun was dismissive of this.

It's not that he looks down on Pei Xue, but Pei Xue's role is not Qiao Huang Rong at all. She is more suitable for the gentle role of a good wife and mother. Zhao Qiannan in "Huo Yuanjia" is very good.

Qiao Huangrong can only be Weng Meiling from beginning to end.

Only Yin Jun believes this now, and even Weng Meiling himself doesn't believe it.

But starting from June 9th, the boy believed that after Qiao Huangrong appeared in the next few episodes, this concept would gradually be implanted in people's hearts and there would be no way to change it.

In fact, this is also true.

When watching the highlights a few days ago, people's eyes lit up when they saw Qiao Huang Rong, and they felt that her and Huang Rong's images suddenly overlapped.

On the day of the official launch on the 9th, countless viewers across Asia were waiting in front of the TV, waiting for the start of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

As Luo Wen and Zhen Ni started singing "Iron-Blooded Heart", the story got on track.

Because this version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was filmed in more than a dozen places in the mainland, it is superior to the old version in terms of scale, momentum, and sophisticated production. too much.

So from the beginning, people's eyes were firmly attracted.

The scene where Qiu Chuji appeared in the first episode and killed the traitor in the luxurious palace made people hooked.

After Kylin TV became a star, the rules were naturally different from before. They changed to broadcasting two consecutive episodes of TV series every day instead of only broadcasting one episode of a TV series.

So after the commercial, the second episode continued to air, which continued to explain the experiences of the Yang family and the Guo family, and created the first major conflict in the original drama.

That is the dispute between the Jiangnan Seven Monsters and Qiu Chuji.

The plot ends abruptly here, and the second episode ends.

Although the first day of broadcast of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" did not introduce the protagonists such as Guo Jing, Huang Rong, Yang Kang, etc., no one was bored.

Because this first episode, which serves as the prologue, shows everyone a vast world.

It would be fine if there is no comparison. The key is that Jiashi has produced one before and it was very popular.

But compared with the current one, it's completely inadequate.

How can the scenery and backgrounds shot in studios and groves be the same as those shot in the actual mountains, rivers, and vast Central Plains?

Not to mention the scene of hundreds of soldiers appearing on the scene. The momentum at that time was so impressive that people were looking forward to the follow-up.

The local viewership rating in Xiangjiang on the first day was as high as 72%, which shows the public's love and expectation for the new version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".