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 "Bad Boys" was his first starring role, and his performance was quite eye-catching, even better than Will Smith.

In addition, he collaborated with Tim Robbins on "Nothing to Lose", which 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 had a hard time letting 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 the two men began their crazy pursuit of a woman...

This drama was originally a movie co-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, and Ben Stiller and Hugh Jackman could play the male leads.

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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, and the comedy is not particularly strong, but it is enough to make everyone who has watched it think deeply about it.

Xiang Nan still plans to cast Jim Carrey as the lead, but as the female lead, Xiang Nan plans 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 was inadvertently involved in a political conspiracy and was forced to leave his family and flee. In the end, he used his intelligence to clear his grievances and punish the real culprits.

The original version starred Will Smith, but Xiang Nan plans 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 pair of siblings 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 the computer special effects at that time were too expensive, 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 and has a high status in the music circle, Xiang Nan owns a top record company in the world with countless top stars. Therefore, he cannot win in a fight. It's nothing to complain about.

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 trends naturally attract attention.

On the one hand, the buyer was actually Xiang Nan, which was really unexpected. Because before this, several consortiums had expressed interest in ATV.

Including former ATV president Feng Xiaoping, Cheung Kong Holdings boss Li Jiacheng, Chow Tai Fook boss Zheng Yutong, etc. Unexpectedly, the winner was Xiang Nan.

But it makes sense 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 increase.

One movie sold for 1.8 billion U.S. dollars, making more money than those wealthy people building buildings. Naturally, they have the financial resources to acquire ATV.

In addition, Xiang Nan is a gold medal producer in Hollywood, and all his movies and TV series are blockbusters and have high ratings. Therefore, everyone also wants to see if Xiang Nan can create miracles for ATV.

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After Xiang Nan acquired ATV, he made the first of three things as a new official, which was to significantly increase the salary of ATV employees. All employees in the company, including the aunt who cleans the toilets, had their salaries doubled.

As soon as this fire went on, all ATV employees were overjoyed and extremely happy.

Because ATV has low ratings and little investment from advertisers, its income is naturally low. Therefore, in order to make money, previous owners often cut costs and reduced employee 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 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 also many people behind the scenes. For example, well-known TVB producers Xiao Shu, Liang Caiyuan, Wang Xinwei, etc.

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 self-produced dramas.

For a long time in the past, ATV has reduced the number of self-made dramas in order to save costs. In the 1980s, the dramas produced by ATV every year were no worse than those of TVB, with more than 20 dramas a year. So at that time, ATV artists

Everyone has a job to film, and with the basic salary plus film remuneration, they are still very wealthy.

However, in the years since Lin took power, ATV has gradually reduced its self-produced dramas and switched to mainly outsourcing dramas. Although outsourcing dramas can save costs, it has made ATV a water without a source and a tree without roots.

Nor can it develop and grow.

ATV artists had no TV series to act in. Not only did their income drop, but they also had no chance to show their faces. Naturally, they had no future. This is one of the reasons why many ATV artists left in the mid-1990s.
Chapter completed!