Therefore, Xiang Nan considered Martin Lawrence to play James Carter.
Martin Lawrence debuted in the 1980s. He first became famous for performing talk shows, and then began to appear in movies.
Last year's "Jedi Men" was his first starring role, and his performance was quite eye-catching, even better than Will Smith.
In addition, his collaboration with Tim Robbins, "No More to Lose", also achieved very good reputation and box office. In terms of celebrity status and box office appeal, he is much stronger than Chris Tucker.
Paired with Jackie Chan, it's just right.
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"I'm Crazy About Mary" tells the story of the male protagonist and the female protagonist who met when they were young, fell in love at first sight, and then were forced to separate. After growing up, the male protagonist still couldn't let go of the female protagonist, so he commissioned a private detective to find the female protagonist.
As a result, after the private detective found the heroine, he also fell in love with her at first sight. So two men began 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. He finally decided to star Jennifer Aniston in the movie. The male protagonists could be 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 has lived in a studio since childhood, and his reality show is the most popular program in the world.
He himself knew nothing about it until one day, a large lighting lamp fell from the sky...
This is a very metaphorical movie. The comedy is not particularly strong, but it is enough to make everyone who has watched it think deeply.
Xiang Nan is still planning to cast Jim Carrey as the lead, but as the female lead, Xiang Nan is planning to cast Jennifer Connelly. Only her appearance can make the male protagonist so obsessed with him that he dreams of escaping from the island to meet her.
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"Enemy of the State" tells the story of a lawyer who is inadvertently involved in a political conspiracy and is forced to leave his family and flee. And in the end, he used his intelligence to help him clean up his grievances and punish the real culprit.
The original version starred Will Smith, but Xiang Nan is planning to star in it himself this time.
"Jumanji" tells the story of a boy who accidentally found a magic chess game. He invited his female friends to play together, but ended up being sucked into the magic chess game.
More than twenty years later, a brother and sister accidentally discovered the chessboard and rescued the grown-up boy again...
This movie originally starred Robin Williams and Kristen Dunst, and achieved very good box office and reputation that year.
Xiang Nan wrote the script a few years ago, but computer special effects were too expensive at the time, so he was reluctant to shoot it. Now that the price of movie special effects has dropped a lot, it's time to make this movie.
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At the end of March, projects under Universal Pictures began filming.
Xiang Nan and Liv Tyler came together naturally through their close relationship.
This made Steven Tyler very dissatisfied, but there was nothing he could do about it.
Although he is the most famous rock singer in the United States, he has a high status in the music circle. But Xiang Nan owns one of the world's top record companies, with countless top stars under its umbrella. Therefore, he couldn't win the fight, and he could only complain a few times, which was insignificant.
In April, good news came from Xiangjiang.
The Lin Group agreed to Xiang Nan's offer and sold ATV to Xiang Nan's Zhen Kung Fu Pictures for HK$1.2 billion.
In this way, Xiang Nan has a TV station in his hands.
After the news came out, there was a sensation in Hong Kong.
On the one hand, although ATV has not developed as well as TVB in recent years, it is still one of the only two TV stations in Hong Kong. Its movements naturally attract attention.
On the one hand, the buyer turned out to be Xiang Nan, which really surprised everyone. Because before this, several consortiums have expressed interest in ATV.
Including Feng Xiaoping, the former president of ATV, Li Jiacheng, the boss of Cheung Kong Holdings, Zheng Yutong, the boss of Chow Tai Fook, etc. Unexpectedly, it was Xiang Nan who won in the end.
But it’s right to think about it. When Xiang Nan acquired Universal Pictures, his net worth was no less than that of many wealthy families in Hong Kong. After several years of development, Xiang Nan can only continue to grow.
One movie sold for US$8.8 billion, making more money than those wealthy people building buildings, so they naturally have the financial resources to acquire ATV.
In addition, Xiang Nan himself is a gold medal producer in Hollywood, and all his movies and TV dramas are blockbusters and have high ratings. Therefore, everyone also wants to see if Xiang Nan can create miracles on ATV.
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After Xiang Nan acquired ATV, he made the first of three things the new official did when he took office, which was to significantly improve the treatment of ATV employees. All employees in the company, including the aunt who cleans the toilets, have their salaries doubled.
As soon as the fire went on, all ATV employees were overjoyed and extremely happy.
Because ATV has low ratings and little investment from advertisers, its revenue is naturally low. Therefore, previous owners, in order to make money, often cut costs and reduced employees' wages.
It is said that when the Lin Group was in charge of ATV, even the toilet paper in the toilets had to be counted. If the amount was exceeded, the cleaning lady had to pay for it herself, which made employees nervous when going to the toilet.
This has also resulted in ATV being unable to retain many talents, such as Guan Yonghe, Nick Cheung, Lui Songxian, Chen Xiuwen, Jiang Hua, etc., all left ATV to develop in TVB.
In addition, there are many people behind the scenes. For example, well-known wireless producers Xiao Shu, Liang Caiyuan, Wang Xinwei and so on.
All the talents in front of and behind the scenes have been poached. As a result, the quality of ATV dramas is inferior to that of TVB. No wonder the audience is unwilling to watch it.
So Xiang Nan wants to use high salaries to keep all the talents.
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The second priority is to increase the intensity of homemade dramas.
For a long time in the past, ATV has reduced the number of self-produced dramas in order to save costs. In the 1980s, ATV produced as many dramas as TVB every year, with more than 20 dramas produced each year. So at that time, every ATV artist had a job to film, and with the basic salary plus the remuneration, they were still very wealthy.
However, in the years since Lin took power, ATV has gradually reduced its self-produced dramas and switched to mainly purchased dramas. Although outsourcing dramas can save costs, it makes ATV a water without a source and a tree without roots, and it can no longer develop and grow.
ATV artists have no TV series to act in, not to mention the drop in income, and no chance to show their faces, so naturally they have no future. This is one of the reasons why many ATV artists left in the mid-1990s.
After all, I can tolerate it if I make less money, but if I don’t have the chance to become famous and my future is bleak, I really can’t tolerate it. Therefore, Xiang Nan has increased investment and expects to film at least twelve dramas this year.
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