The Industrial Giant Reborn

Chapter 192 The masterpiece that broke the ratings record
"Come on, let's watch TV." Repulse Bay, Chen's family, and Wu Xiuling called out lively.

"It's just "Little Li Fei Dao", don't be so excited." Chen Zhiwen walked over with a newspaper. He doesn't like TV dramas and movies in this era very much, but he still thinks it's better to read newspapers and books, at least even if In the era of mobile Internet, many books and newspapers have similar content.

Chen Tianfu also came over and said with a smile, "Ah Wen, this is your first masterpiece after joining Wireless, so we both have to save face."

"Okay, let's watch together then." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

"This Zheng Shaoqiu is so handsome?" Wu Xiuling said with a sigh.

"Cough cough cough" Chen Tianfu suddenly coughed dryly.

"As handsome as you were when you were young." Wu Xiuling rolled her eyes and said.

"Adam Cheng is indeed handsome, but I personally named him." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

Originally, Selina Chow's plan at the beginning of the year was to shoot Jin Yong's dramas, such as The Legend of the Condor Heroes, but after contacting Jin Yong, she discovered that the recently established Jiayi TV Station had bought the copyright of Jin Yong's martial arts novels.

Naturally, Chen Zhiwen would not have known about this kind of thing in advance, but since Jin Yong's novels were gone, Chen Zhiwen asked Zhou Liangshuyi to send someone to Wanwan, found Gu Long, who was addicted to alcohol, and bought the copyrights of several novels from him, including The Flying Knife series, the first is "Sentimental Swordsman Ruthless Sword", the second "The Prodigal Son of the Frontier Town", and the third,
There are too many names, and Chen Zhiwen can't remember them, so he asked to change the name of this TV series to "Xiao Li Fei Dao", which is so easy to remember, and the leading role, of course, is Zheng Shaoqiu, who is as handsome as Chen Zhiwen and has good acting skills.

"Have you read Gu Long's novel?" Chen Zhiwen asked again.

"No, I haven't even finished reading Jin Yong's book." Chen Tianfu shook his head and said.

"That's just right, you can understand novels by watching TV." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said, "It won't be so tiring to read novels."

Since the development of electronic technology, except for music, other entertainment is basically related to the eyes, especially video, which is the easiest to accept, because it is relatively easy to passively present information to people, while reading text is more Take the initiative to accept information, so it is tiring.

Therefore, the main entertainment in the world has always been video, and novels seem too tiring. The only advantage is that they can be unconstrained, but this is also the unique feature of web literature decades later.

The content of the TV series unfolded slowly, there were many handsome men and beautiful women, all kinds of martial arts moves seemed boring to Chen Zhiwen, but his parents obviously thought they were pretty good.

But after watching one episode, Chen Tianfu frowned and asked, "Ah Wen, what's the situation? Li Xunhuan gave his cousin to someone else because his sworn brother liked his cousin?"

"Uh, the plot of the novel is like this, and we can only shoot like this." Chen Zhiwen said with some embarrassment. This plot is also very poisonous to him, even more disgusting than the part of Xiaolongnv, but this part is also the whole of Li Xunhuan. There is really no way to change the starting point of the story. Moreover, in this era, obviously many people don't care about this. For example, when Li Xunhuan was filmed in the 90s, the plot seemed to be the same.

"Is this really inexplicable?" Chen Tianfu seemed as uncomfortable as eating a fly.

"Let's just pretend that this part doesn't exist. Maybe it's because Li Xunhuan's lungs are not good. Knowing that he won't live long, he gave his woman to someone he trusts." Chen Zhiwen explained weakly. This is nothing more than consolation. But really quit.

"Okay." Chen Tianfu nodded, accepting the reason, or else he was just making mistakes for himself.

Chen Zhiwen went on to say: "This is also a novel, let's just enjoy it, don't get too addicted."

In order to attract more viewers on the first day, TVB directly premiered three episodes. After watching it, Chen Zhiwen asked his mother, "Mom, do you think this "Little Brother" is better than Jiayi's "Legend of the Condor Heroes"?" How about Li Feidao?"

"I think it's more interesting. The protagonist of the three episodes of Shooting the Condors hasn't even come out yet. This little Li Feidao has already unfolded a lot of plots, and he was number three in the world from the beginning." Wu Xiuling thought for a while and said.

"Then it seems that wireless should be considered a success." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile. Gu Long's novels have always been at their peak at the beginning. It's cool in the beginning.

Chen Tianfu said: "Then wait for the ratings to be announced tomorrow."

"Okay, let's go to sleep in the room." Chen Zhiwen also yawned. He doesn't know much about Hong Kong TV stations in the 21st century, but in the 70s, there were so many advertisements, just like the mainland TV stations in the 90s. It's really painful to stop three times for advertisements in the middle.

"Go, go to sleep."

The next day, the ratings of "Little Li Feidao" were announced: 55%, which immediately broke the performance of Jiayi TV's "Legend of the Condor Heroes" in April. On the third day, the ratings of "Little Li Feidao" were 4% %, Li Xunhuan's flying knife shape has become a favorite among Hong Kong folks.

TVB also registered this patent, and found a plastic factory to produce a batch, and sent it to some small commodity markets. The sales were pretty good. Although it didn’t make much money in the end, it was still the beginning of the surrounding area. .

Having achieved such a result, it is rare for Chen Zhiwen to visit the wireless headquarters in Tseung Kwan O again.

"Is this building also rented?" Chen Zhiwen looked at the historical traces on the surrounding walls and said with a frown.

"Yes, it was rented." Zhou Liang Shuyi said.

"Find a new land near here, or you can negotiate with the Hong Kong government yourself, get a large land at a suitable price, and then build a new headquarters with more style." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said, as Hong Kong's No. A big TV station, still living in such a dilapidated place, I am a bit too sorry to find a "number one".

"Okay, thank you, Mr. Chen." Sylvia Zhou nodded and said, "There is one more thing I need to report to you. We have been communicating with the Hong Kong government for the past few months, hoping that they can approve a piece of land for us. A new movie theater was built, but the Hong Kong government rejected it on the grounds that a small place like Hong Kong does not need two movie theaters.”

"It's fine if you don't approve it. What the Hong Kong government said is actually reasonable. First discuss it with Shao Yifu and sign a long-term contract," Chen Zhiwen said.

There are only over 400 million people in Hong Kong, and maybe 500 million soon. The number of people is really small. It is unreasonable to build two movie theaters, but it is also because the current Hong Kong government has not seen it in a few years, whether it is Hong Kong movies or Hong Kong movies. There will be an unprecedented explosion in TV dramas, as well as the export of their own culture to Asian countries, and even in the film market, they have been beating Hollywood movies in Southeast Asia.

"Actually, there is another way, that is to go to Wanwan to build a movie theater. Although it is a bit far away, the cost is not high. The land over there is easy to negotiate a very low price, which may be cheaper than the cost of the land approved by the Hong Kong government. It should be low." Zhou Liang Shuyi said that although there are many mountains in Wanwan, the open land is far more than that in Hong Kong. In order to attract investment, the land price is naturally very cheap, even like giving it away for free.

"Don't be so troublesome." Chen Zhiwen shook his head and said, "We want the Hong Kong government to approve a piece of land to build a movie theater. In fact, we just want to find a cheap land that is in line with the urban development. Since the Hong Kong government does not agree, then I will buy it myself, and I will ask Hutchison’s real estate company to find a suitable land near Tseung Kwan O, and then buy it together, either not building it, or building one bigger than Shaw’s.”

The reason for choosing Tseung Kwan O is also because of the development of Shaw Brothers for so many years, many related personnel of the crew have settled in Tseung Kwan O. If they go to other places, it will be a lot of trouble.

"Okay, I understand. Let's rent the studio of Shaw Brothers Film Company first." Zhou Liang Shuyi nodded and said, it's cool to have a rich boss behind her.

(End of this chapter)