Chapter 1429 The Sixth
In fact, if we want to talk about all the gains in cultural undertakings, Ning Weimin's achievements this year are certainly far more than this.
After all, as the saying goes, husband and wife are one.
So in addition to the money earned from arts and crafts and domestic film and television dramas in Japan, Matsumoto Keiko's personal career is of course closely related to him, especially since he is deeply involved in the planning, which can be regarded as an extension of his personal career.
And it must be said that 1987 was a lucky year for them.
Because in fact, no matter whether it is Ning Weimin or Matsumoto Keiko, no one expected that at the end of the year, Suo Fang Yuxiong would appear at the end of the year, believing in the promise of the Asian Sugar King Family and foolishly competing with them.
As a result, he lost more than he gained. After a series of competitions, Suo Fang Yuxiong did not get any good.
Not only did Ning Weimin and Matsumoto Keiko take advantage of this incident to swallow Taurus Palace and Burning Entertainment Agency.
And this guy is extremely vulnerable.
Ning Weimin didn't even have time to fight back, he jumped into the "wheel of the times" and was "crushed to death".
He was like a toad who was seeking his own death just to make people laugh.
It can be said that he acted in a despicable way and died in a humble way.
But outsiders don't know the inside story.
After Suho Ikuo's death, in view of his prestige during his lifetime, and the wonderful counterattack performance of the Kiri Studio, and the god-level revelation of the evidence of secret photography.
A rumor began to circulate in the Japanese entertainment industry, saying that Kiri Studio also used secret photography to grasp the handle of Sawaguchi Yasuko's life, and used Sawaguchi to perform a beauty trap to send Suho Ikuo to the west on the condition of changing the felony to a minor crime.
In the end, Sawaguchi was sent to prison together, and a perfect revenge was achieved with one stone and two birds.
Anyway, no matter whether the logic is self-consistent, many people believe it.
After all, no one who had released hostility to Matsumoto Keiko before had a good harvest.
Whether it was a famous director, a co-star, or a media reporter, all of them were in bad luck.
Now that Ikuo Suho, the leader of the "Japanese entertainment industry", has lost his life, even if Keiko Matsumoto held a press conference to clarify for herself and explained that it had nothing to do with her, no one would believe it.
The Japanese entertainment industry is now a little afraid of Keiko Matsumoto. Just based on these previous examples, no one wants to go against her anymore.
Moreover, after taking over the two companies, Taurus Palace and Burning Art, Keiko Matsumoto's strength has greatly increased, and her position in the industry is now very different.
Now she is not just the boss of a film studio.
Instead, she has become a real industry tycoon with film and television production, music production and distribution capabilities, and has many artist contracts and music copyrights. No entertainment agency can ignore her.
Although in terms of asset size, she is still not as good as the "Big Five" veterans in the film industry.
But compared with those TV-related entertainment agencies, she is a circle bigger and a level stronger.
Even entertainment agencies of the size of Johnny's and Kenon can't compare with her.
It's not impossible to count her as the "sixth largest" in the film industry.
The key is that her career has no shortcomings, which is terrible.
As a female star from the film industry, she is a natural ally of Shochiku Eiga, which cultivated her, and will never be rejected by the "big five" in the film industry.
Now she has absorbed the power of the Burning Entertainment Agency, and with the signed contract, she has a foothold in TV program resources.
In addition, she has funds and production capabilities, and in the film and television drama and music industry, she has contracts with first-line big stars such as Miura Tomokazu, Teresa Teng, Koizumi Kyoko, Go Yumi, and Nagayama Yoko, as well as a large number of second- and third-line stars and artists in the Burning Department.
The original shallow root defect was made up at once.
In the future, if she completely digests and absorbs the power of the Burning Department and Taurus Palace, and adds some fresh blood into her system, who can compete with her in the "Four Super" entertainment agencies of the TV department?
Therefore, now Matsumoto Keiko has indeed become the most glorious woman in the Japanese entertainment industry.
Not only most actors, models, singers, producers, and directors will greet her with respect and smiles when they see her.
Even the heads of the "Big Five" in the film industry, the bosses of various entertainment agencies, and the senior executives of TV stations cannot underestimate her.
Whether willing or not, you must give full respect in person and acknowledge that the other party is qualified to share the pork.
Otherwise, NHK TV would not have invited Matsumoto Keiko and Teresa Teng to participate in this year's Red and White Song Festival specifically to repair the relationship.
Although Matsumoto Keiko gave this opportunity to the original Burning Department artist Koizumi Kyoko, she was also comforted and grateful in her heart.
This move undoubtedly proves that NHK is showing goodwill to her, so it is not impossible to sit down and discuss the conditions with NHK due to the grievances caused by the role change.
Of course, no matter what, all these advantages are still not enough to guarantee that Matsumoto Keiko can continue to grow herself as she wishes and develop her career smoothly.
After all, there are also huge risks in the entertainment industry. If the investment is not careful, a misstep may cause the career to collapse completely.
Otherwise, the "Big Five" would not invest less and less in making movies, and would be less and less interested in making big-budget movies.
And those TV-related art agencies, except for music albums, do not touch film and television production at all, just because they are afraid that huge investments will bring huge losses.
And whether it is film and television dramas or the music industry, it ultimately depends on excellent works to speak.
Without the prosperity of good works, no matter how popular it is, it will only be temporary, just like a building built with sand.
But the problem is that with the help of Ning Weimin, Matsumoto Keiko doesn't have to worry about these two problems at all, which is quite terrible.
Let alone other things, first of all, no one can compare with Matsumoto Keiko in terms of capital advantage.
Other colleagues are not less rich than her, but they really can't make money like her.
You know, for his wife, when to enter the market to buy the bottom, "Crossing Stock God" Ning Weimin must notify her without reservation at the first time.
So don't look at Matsumoto Keiko spending nearly 9 billion yen with the 15.2 billion capital raised through bank loans to buy Taurus Palace and Burning Entertainment.
But after she spent the money, she soon let Watanabe Man invest the remaining 6 billion in the stock market again.
According to Ning Weimin's instructions, double the capital to buy the bottom.
As expected, the stock market soon started to rise. She only needed to win by lying down. Now the stock market value has become 21 billion yen.
The money spent can be easily recovered. This speed of making money is equivalent to cheating. It is completely treating the stock market as an ATM. Which entertainment agency or studio can compare with it?
If we count the box office created by the cooperation between Fog Studio, Shochiku Films and some independent theaters using the French film library.
And the benefits created by Matsumoto Agency and Taurus Palace with artists and copyrights at the end of the year, the funds she can currently control are nearly 22.4 billion yen.
Such a large amount of money is enough to shoot 20 big productions. What else is there to worry about?
So Matsumoto Keiko has asked Okamoto Akira to start preparing for the next movie "The Wandering Princess" in advance.
This historical film was made to meet Fu Jie's wish based on the posthumous works and diary materials of Saga Hiro, who just passed away this year.
According to Ning Weimin's plan, it will definitely benefit from the big hit of "The Last Emperor" shot by Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci.
Therefore, this movie will still be directed by Yoshitaro Nomura, and the script will be written by Shinobu Hashimoto, and it will cooperate with the three major film studios in the Republic.
And because it is expected to have more big scenes and more props, the budget will naturally be higher than "Li Xianglan".
Akira Okamoto roughly calculated that the production cost is about 1.5 billion yen.
In response, Keiko Matsumoto signed and approved it without saying a word, and even generously prepared two more movies with slightly smaller budgets.
Another one is "Bodyguard", a movie with Tomokazu Miura as the male lead and Teresa Teng as the female lead, with an estimated investment of 1 billion yen.
Another one is "Ghost", a love movie with handsome old man Ken Utsui as the male lead, with an estimated investment of 700 million yen.
Yes, that's right, the ideas of both movies were plagiarized by Ning Weimin from American blockbuster movies.
This may be a unique bad taste of his.
As a time traveler, Ning Weimin actually doesn't care whether these two movies are popular or not. What he cares more about is that the two popular movies originally belonging to Hollywood in the United States will disappear and he will replace them with counterfeits.
In this case, "if there is any similarity" is not a coincidence.
He will definitely use legal weapons to sue the bad guy first, so that Hollywood in the United States will bleed and be embarrassed.
No more nonsense, plagiarism is plagiarism.
Either you admit that the American franc does not protect cultural property rights, or you should pay compensation honestly.
Don't say that it's useless, the rest is bullshit!
And it must be said that three movies were scheduled by the Fog Studio at once, and even the movie with the smallest budget is a big production for other film companies.
This kind of shooting plan is undoubtedly of great benefit to the emotional stability of the artists in Matsumoto Keiko's agency, and even the most impetuous people will feel at ease.
Because what do artists fear most?
Isn't it just that there is no chance to stand out.
Not only was Miura Tomokazu happy, he finally had the opportunity to try transformation, and he was even more excited to play a tough action movie hero.
Even Utsui Ken was overjoyed.
He actually never thought that the Mist Studio would really do what it said and really let him, an old actor who had basically transformed into a golden supporting role, take on the main role again. He was more grateful to the new boss.
Even those newcomers and unknown artists were happy together.
Their most direct thought was that the boss really had a lot of money.
Since there were so many movies to be filmed, it was to take care of their own people. How could they get a role with a few lines and a little bit of drama? This was all an opportunity.
In addition, what was even more surprising was that near the end of the year, the Mist Studio had achieved a breakthrough in TV drama shooting.
After the filming of "Black Leather Notebook" was just completed, it began to be broadcast on TBS TV at 9 pm prime time on Friday, December 4.
This is the best time slot that the TBS director gave as an apology and compensation, the prime time slot on weekends.
As a result, the first episode was aired and it got off to a good start - an astonishing average viewership of 27.01% in the time slot.
It is completely worthy of the super luxurious cast and TBS's good time slot.
You know, most TV dramas with luxurious casts, even if they have the advantage of prime time, usually have a first-run viewership of only 18% or 19%. It is considered excellent if it can exceed 20%, and it is extremely rare to exceed 25%.
This undoubtedly represents the audience's extraordinary expectations and satisfaction for this TV series adapted from Seicho Matsumoto's masterpiece and starring many first-line actors.
In Ning Weimin's opinion, the many troubles that happened before were not meaningless.
The Quality and Safety Station has become a bonus for the ratings and increased audience attention.
The rest depends on whether this advantage can be maintained. As long as the ratings don't collapse later, it will be a victory. It can basically be locked in as a 100% hit drama this year.
As expected, in the newspapers of the next day, almost all drama critics from various media gave positive reviews.
Although "Black Leather Notebook" was only broadcast for one episode, because Seicho Matsumoto has a large readership and this is a famous work, the direction of the plot can be discussed.
Many people are satisfied with the fact that the reason why the heroine Yuanzi is greedy for money in the play is attributed to paying off the debts of her deceased parents.
And Ando accidentally saved Yuanzi from the robbers, so the two met unexpectedly.
Most people think that this partial change makes the male and female protagonists seem less hateful, and they have more expectations for the development of the next plot.
In addition, the most talked about thing about this drama is that the mother-san played by Matsumoto Keiko is simply beautiful.
She fully shows the kind of beauty that overwhelms the whole country, making the whole drama look very convincing.
Even the neutral faction of drama critics has no criticism in this regard.
Without exception, they are all overwhelmed by the grace of Matsumoto Keiko in the play, and the praise is overflowing, and the audience is strongly recommended to watch the play.
It is believed that just based on the last scene of the first episode, Matsumoto Keiko is so stunning in the kimono of the mother-san, and this drama is worth chasing.
It is said that the director really filmed the beauty of Ginza Mama-san, making the persuasiveness of this drama very sufficient and unquestionable.
The only worry is that they feel that a new problem has arisen-this drama may become a one-man show of Matsumoto Keiko!
The personal performance is too good, that's it.
Fortunately, the other actors are also big stars, otherwise it is hard to believe that the performances of others can balance with her.
Of course, they also recognized the strength of Wu Production in shooting TV series, and believed that the drama was a rare masterpiece in recent years in terms of exquisite shooting.
Even people in the cultural circle rarely joined in the fun. Generally speaking, these people look down on TV series as "shallow and fast-selling works".
But this time it was different, because it was the work of Matsumoto Seicho, and many people who make a living by writing also praised it unanimously.
Even the old man Matsumoto Seicho called privately to congratulate Matsumoto Keiko.
The old guy said that he was completely overwhelmed by Matsumoto Keiko's peerless beauty, and praised her role as Haraguchi Motoko for having "beauty and style that cannot be described in words and words", which is more memorable than the prototype character he portrayed.
I feel "re-excited" that Mist Studio can shoot such a work.
Needless to say, even though only the first episode was released, the fact that it received so much recognition from all parties, including the original author, was enough to make Matsumoto Keiko feel relieved.
Moreover, Ning Weimin soon told her another piece of good news, saying that the Republic had agreed in principle to pass the review of the Japanese drama "Black Leather Notebook" and agreed to broadcast it, so that she could start translating it in China.