Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 321 The Ubiquitous Fangyuan Computer

"I do have this plan, but if I can't get rid of the reporters' stalking, wouldn't it be the same as exposing the last place of refuge?" Jodie Foster shook her head, "You usually have a small team by your side when you act Stay with me, maybe you can give me a cover."

As expected of a Hollywood female star with a high IQ, under such a bombardment by the media, she did not lose her footing, kept her basic calm, and knew how to find help.

"No problem. I just happen to be going to England to attend Charles's wedding celebration, so I can bring you there." Tang Huan nodded happily.

"I am now a plague god that everyone shouts and beats. Many acquaintances are avoiding me, but your attitude is the same as before." Jodie Foster's tone revealed a vicissitudes of life.

"There is no need to think that the world is so gloomy. It is still the same as you knew it before. It's just that it's human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and I just have the capital not to care about this kind of trouble." Tang Huan shrugged, "By the way , since the incident, your advertisement has been taken down. In business, I also have to respect the decision of my subordinates. "

"It doesn't matter, basically all businesses react like this. I'm more famous now than before, but I no longer have positive commercial value." Jodie Foster laughed at herself and went to the window to look outside. After a while, "The reporters who followed us are still waiting outside."

After Tang Huan stood up and walked over to take a look, he pulled Jodie Foster back a few steps to avoid this area, and joked: "My office is not a high-rise building. These guys have poisonous eyes. You can be spotted with just the naked eye.”

Jodie Foster nodded deeply, "I caused you trouble, what should I do now?"

"It's not a big trouble. I'll just ask the security assistant to lead someone to persuade them to leave." Tang Huan picked up the phone casually and gave orders.

"Don, thank you for lending a helping hand, but I don't have anything in return for you right now." Jodie Foster's eyes were full of complicated meanings.

Tang Huan didn't say any provocative words like "Being a friend should be both sides of the ribs", but replied calmly, "I believe that this difficult stage now will not affect your aspirations for Oscar in the future, as long as you When the scenery is beautiful, it is enough to still remember this friendship."

"Just because a billionaire like you is so optimistic about my future, I will survive this difficulty." Jodie Foster smiled with relief.

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This summer, the Xiangjiang entertainment industry has provided a wealth of entertainment content for young people, such as DreamWorks, which has achieved almost all-round coverage.

Chen Baiqiang, Leslie Cheung, and Paul Chung, who have gradually gained the title of "Three Musketeers", after last year's movie "Applause", this year they also co-starred in the inspirational youth film "Unemployed". Taking advantage of others to the extreme.

Considering the financial affordability of the young audience, DreamWorks reached an agreement with the theaters. Under the background of the average ticket price in Hong Kong of 10.5 Hong Kong dollars, this level was slightly lowered, in order to attract more of moviegoers.

Even with such a profit, "Unemployed" still won a box office of 500 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong.

This level is incomparable with the more than 1700 million Hong Kong dollars earned by "Modern Bodyguard" at the beginning of the year, and it is also insignificant compared to the 1981 million Hong Kong dollars in the annual box office of local films in Hong Kong in 2.4 in the original time and space.

However, the position of the DreamWorks brand among young people has become more and more stable, not to mention that after a few years, they will form a new consumption force in society.

Last year's "Applause" made newcomer Weng Jingjing popular, and this year's "Unemployed" made Xu Jie famous in one fell swoop.

In "Cheers", the glimpse of Chen Baiqiang and Weng Jingjing, who play the male and female protagonists, when they meet by chance in the library is extremely impressive. "The Unemployed" changed this scene to the subway, and Chen Baiqiang and Xu Jingjing, who played the male and female protagonists, Jie is still the old-fashioned love at first sight, but the audience still buys it, and it even affects the order of the Xiangjiang subway in reality.

In fact, this Xu Jie has a lot of background. Her sister is the chivalrous woman Xu Feng who has won two Golden Horse Awards and is now married to the Tang family.

Because of his ex-husband, for a while, Xu Feng, who was burdened with debts alone, was in a very difficult life, and he couldn't even take care of his younger sister and younger brother. So he found a job for Xu Jie with Jiahe and signed an actor contract to let him participate Acted in 1980, directed by Tam Ka-ming's Hongkong New Wave masterpiece "Famous Sword".

It is said that Xu Feng once introduced his sister to Cheng Long.Just because Xu Jie wore red clothes on the blind date, and the so-called bloody disaster is taboo in the martial arts profession, Cheng Long only glanced at him from a distance, without even seeing his appearance clearly, so he retreated and ran away, and the matter ended. That’s it.

Because of Hu Yinmeng's relationship, DreamWorks has become the first choice destination for Baodao artists in Hong Kong.

Xu Feng is well aware of the chaos in the entertainment industry, so he wants his sister to transfer to Hu Yinmeng's subordinates so that he can take care of her.

After all, Xu Jie is a newcomer with very little qualifications, so DreamWorks easily got the artist contract from Golden Harvest, and just in time let her act as the heroine of "Unemployed". Become popular.

With the support of DreamWorks, "The Unemployed" was naturally filmed more delicately. With the guest appearances of Zhao Yazhi, Lin Qingxia and others, as well as the song "Remember Your Love" sung by Chen Baiqiang, the movie itself does have a great quality. popular foundation.

DreamWorks is in the process of distributing the film in other regions, and it is entirely foreseeable that the participating artists will continue to expand their fame as a result.

With the foreshadowing of the movie, the video game "Peerless Twins" released by DreamWorks is also selling well.

Due to technical reasons, the development of this game collapsed in the middle, but the development team, after learning the shame and courage, not only completed the original task after summing up the experience and lessons, but also launched the hardware Fangyuan Computer in addition to the Xiaobawang game console The version of the platform.

It can be said that through its own brand effect, DreamWorks has gradually cultivated a group of prototype audiences for Chinese culture video games.

This achievement was also reflected in the computer knowledge quiz contest sponsored by Zheru Xiangjiang Company. After all, compared with cramming, games can better promote the general public to actively contact computers, which are obscure high-tech products.

In this computer knowledge quiz competition, a team of middle school students led by well-known artists competed and eliminated each other. In the form of a variety show, live audiences were invited to record the program and broadcast it on Media Asia TV and TVB.

In fact, regardless of the prize money, artists can accumulate valuable popularity through this grand event sponsored by Zheru Xiangjiang Company, which has a lot of money to promote Fangyuan Computer.

However, some people didn't realize this. After discovering the mystery, their own team was already out of the game, and their fate of being eliminated was basically determined.

In the end, the teams of Zhang Delan and Alan Tam made it to the finals. The former represented TVB and the latter represented Media Asia TV. The extremely rare form of simultaneous broadcast by the two TV stations attracted tens of thousands of families in Hong Kong to watch.

Because the winning students of this "Tan Zhang Hegemony" won't get bonuses, university tuition fees, and even opportunities to study abroad.

Although Xiangjiang has a prosperous economy, it is an indisputable fact that the gap between the rich and the poor is large. The vast number of people at the bottom who hope to improve their social status through education are naturally concerned about who will fall into such a pie-in-the-sky opportunity. superior.

Alan Tam has been very serious in this event from beginning to end, so he is deeply loved by his team and the students of the associated school, and even won the title of "Principal Tan", but he still can't resist the computer talent Zhang Delan ended up losing.

However, Alan Tam also got what he deserved. With this popularity, his third Cantonese album "I Can't Forget You", which he released later, achieved four platinum sales, thus establishing his position in the Hong Kong music scene.

For the result of this competition, TVB was overjoyed.

You know, Media Asia TV's recent performance has been unsettled, which makes me feel worried.

But the other party lost the chain. In the important event organized by his boss, he didn't win the final victory, which is too ironic.

In order to attack Media Asia TV, TVB wrote a lot about this victory.

Huang Xizhao, who is holding on to old ideas, feels a little uneasy in his heart. As TVB said, Media Asia TV has lost face this time.

However, Zhou Liang Shuyi analyzed with a smile, "This kind of short-term dispute is nothing. The core purpose of Mr. Tang's sponsorship of this event is to let more ordinary people understand Fangyuan Computer. Now it seems that the effect is good, we cooperate The task has been completed, so I can naturally hand it over to Mr. Tang."

After thinking about it, Huang Xizhao realized that this was the truth, so Media Asia TV didn't accept TVB's offer, and kept his head in suspense, doing whatever he had to do.

TVB quickly ended its bragging rights, because it found that this was simply free advertising for Fangyuan Computer.

Moreover, DreamWorks announced not long after that, in view of the good response from the audience of this quiz contest, DreamWorks will expand from this to produce a large-scale puzzle program called "Genius Rush", and the rewards will be See this event that just ended.

No matter how the outside world commented, DreamWorks cheered for this, and its own company started to get involved in variety shows, and those artists who were not famous enough obviously had another job choice.

Seeing that TVB came back and stopped bragging, Hu Yinmeng couldn't help but feel a little regretful, the opponent is still very smart.

After making a phone call and hearing that his father was recuperating well in San Francisco's Treasure Hospital, Hu Yinmeng became more relaxed.

Seeing that it was off-duty time, she called Weng Jingjing, and together they took the company's special car back to the apartment.

Tang Huan is not here, his woman, of course he has to help with training, isn't it.

The two women, one large and one small, are preparing dinner while watching TV. Of course, it is Media Asia TV, which is broadcasting the 20-episode boutique drama "Twenty-Four Flavors of Sweetness" produced by DreamWorks, starring Leslie Cheung, Ni Shibei, Zhong Baoluo, Wen Xueer, and Weng Jingjing, who once again replaced Guan Zhilin, starred.

This TV series tells the story of three young people who have just stepped out of school. They also failed in the college entrance examination and failed to enter higher education. They joined an advertising company and started as low-level employees.

As a fashion film, "Twenty-Four Flavors of Sweetness" resonated with some young people, so the response was quite good.

For this TV series, DreamWorks also used aerial photography to include the typical Hong Kong cityscape in the 1980s as exterior scenes, including Star Ferry Pier, Queen's Pier, City Hall, Bugong Pier, Jardine Building, Victoria Harbor, Kowloon Tong , North Point Pier, Lai Yuen, Kai Tak Airport, Kai Tak Playground and so on.

This seems to have aroused the sense of superiority of Xiangjiang people. In addition to young audiences, other age groups also praised "Twenty-Four Flavors of Sweetness", so as the plot progressed, the ratings rose steadily.

Hu Yinmeng patted Weng Jingjing, who was watching with great interest, and said angrily: "You are a supporting role here, why are you so fascinated by watching?"

"I'm researching. Leslie Cheung's acting skills have improved a lot. In the movie "Unemployed", he was only a supporting role, but he performed very well, almost stealing the limelight from Chen Baiqiang. Wait until he is in "Twenty-Four Flavors of Sweetness" After taking the leading role, Leslie Cheung's performance became more and more prominent. At that time, I didn't have a deep impression on the crew, so I didn't expect the actual effect of the TV series to be so good." Weng Jingjing replied seriously.

"Apart from this, what else did you find?" Hu Yinmeng nodded approvingly.

"Also, Fangyuan Computer's advertisements are so pervasive. The advertising company in the TV series all uses Fangyuan Computer." Weng Jingjing smiled and puffed up her chest, "I estimate that the boss will favor fashion films more in the future. , because it can contain private goods and make soft advertisements for various technological products.”

"I feel the same way." Hu Yinmeng nodded approvingly, "Fangyuan Computer is a ubiquitous technological phantom, even the royal wedding in England is not spared, and the report from Zeng Zhiwei's interview team will be broadcast later. , you can understand to what extent.”

"This little fat man always has lecherous eyes. This time he can get the opportunity to travel to England, which is really cheap for him." Weng Jingjing snorted.

"Don't be dissatisfied, the boss personally decided on this candidate." Hu Yinmeng joked: "The boss said that the purpose of going to England to interview the royal wedding celebration is not to praise the British, but to let everyone know how they entertain. Yes, so the host must impress the audience."

As he was talking, Media Asia TV began to broadcast reports from Zeng Zhiwei, who was far away in the UK.

"Have you seen the card in my hand? Bank card? Wrong." Zeng Zhiwei explained in his own hoarse voice, "This is an identification card. Without it, we cannot be authorized to take close-up pictures of the UK. Royal activities."

(End of this chapter)