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On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Jiang Heng did not stay in Beijing, but returned to Hong Kong after a long absence.

When he was reborn, he was afraid that he would be harassed by local communities if he made a lot of money, so he stayed in the mainland.

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Now that he has achieved success and fame, he naturally doesn't have to worry about those things, but he plans to stay for a while.

It's not that he wants to take a break immediately, but he wants to come back and run a TV station.

Although the influence of TV stations has been declining in the era of self-media, Hong Kong Satellite TV has suddenly become popular and demonstrated its huge influence.

And Jiang Heng can't make movies forever. If he wants to maintain a huge influence in the circle, media tycoons are a good choice.

Just like Brother Cheng Long, since "Kung Fu Yoga", the box office of the movies he made has continued to decline. Obviously, he can't beat it anymore, but he keeps making new movies. Why?

Because he keeps making new movies, there will be a large group of people around him. If he really closed down and retired, he would just be a former Kung Fu superstar.

Brother Cheng Long, who had been in the limelight for a lifetime, couldn't stand the loneliness!

Jiang Heng didn't like the feeling of being the center of attention, but he felt that after becoming a media tycoon, he would have greater influence and be safer.

"Mr. Jiang, this is the ATV information you want!"

In the Hong Kong Youteng Film Company, a lawyer from the legal department handed over a document.

But after Jiang Heng shifted his work focus to the mainland, his Youteng Film Company in Hong Kong did not close down. He would participate in the investment of low-cost Hong Kong films every year, but his strength and influence were far less than that of the mainland's iYouteng Film Company.

The advantage is that every time he returns to Hong Kong, he has people here to use.

Jiang Heng took the information and flipped through it.

But this ATV is the abbreviation of "Asia Television". It is the first TV station in Hong Kong's history and the world's first Chinese-language TV station.

When it opened in 1957, it was called Rediffusion Television and operated in the form of paid cable broadcasting. In 1973, it was changed to wireless free broadcasting and renamed "Rediffusion Television". In 1982, it was renamed "Asia Television".

During its heyday, it produced classic films such as "The Silkworm" and "The Hero Huo Yuanjia".

ATV's artist training class has also cultivated many well-known artists.

Such as Wan Ziliang, He Jiajin, Yip Tsz-mei, Zhang Jiahui, Zhang Min, etc.

However, after entering 2000, the quality of ATV's programs and the level of competition continued to decline. Due to the change of ownership of the equity several times, the ratings have been weak for a long time, and the operation began to fall into crisis.

Since 2014, due to many disputes over unpaid wages, rumors of bankruptcy have been heard.

In September 2015, CICC purchased ATV shares and proposed to integrate ATV into a media group, but there has been no actual action.

On April 1, 2016, the broadcast signal of ATV (Rediffusion Television), which had dominated Hong Kong for 59 years, was interrupted, and the screen has been blue ever since then.

In general, during the 59 years when ATV dominated Hong Kong, it was beaten by TVB most of the time, and its finances could be described as poor and weak.

For example, during the heyday of Mr. Lin Baixin's tenure (1989-1998), ATV's total loss was as high as HK$3 billion, which was called the most unprofitable deal he had ever made in his lifetime.

To be honest, Jiang Heng had no idea if he really wanted to buy such a TV station!

There were too many problems and a heavy burden.

If he didn't think it was too troublesome to build a TV station from scratch, he really didn't want to jump into the pit of "ATV".

"Okay, I'll take a look first, and let you know if I have any ideas!"

"Okay, Director Jiang, call me anytime if you have any questions!" The lawyer said and turned away.

Jiang Heng sat on the sofa and smoked a cigar silently.

There were only two ways in front of him, either to acquire ATV or to set up a TV station himself.

Just like the popular Hong Kong Satellite TV, which was only established for more than three years.

It completed commercial registration in December 2008, and officially started broadcasting in October 2010.

So if Jiang Heng wants to register and establish a TV station now, it will probably take at least two or three years to officially broadcast and develop.

But on second thought, he didn't want to dominate the Chinese TV circle by setting up a TV station, but just wanted to have his own voice media to expand his influence, so there was no need to rush.

Thinking of this, Jiang Heng called his lawyer and asked him to recommend a few ATV executives who were capable of preparing a TV station.

"Mr. Jiang, are you planning to prepare a TV station yourself?"

"Well, I can only say that there is such a plan. Let's see if there are any suitable talents first!"

"Okay, I will help you contact them right away!"

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Heng stayed in the office for a while and then went home, and asked everyone in the company to leave early.

The Spring Festival in Hong Kong is generally a three-day holiday, and work starts very early.

Most people in iQiyi, Youku, and Bonanza Pictures in the mainland have also taken holidays, and only those responsible for film promotion are still working overtime in the company.

The main thing is to continue to increase the publicity of the film, lead the "Internet water army" to give good reviews and delete bad reviews.

In theory, with the quality of Jiang Heng's films, he originally did not need Internet water army.

However, in recent years, there have been more and more voices of doubt, and the voice of "Jiang Lang's talent has run out", and various smearing comments have emerged in an endless stream. After an investigation, it was found that some companies actually bought "Internet water army" to do tricks.

In this case, iQiyi, Youku and Tencent must also have their own "Water Army Commander".

"I think it's really wise for Director Jiang to quit the industry. This is a typical case of Jiang Lang running out of ideas! The difference between "Fights Break Sphere" and "Lion Camel Ridge" is the difference between "The Matrix" trilogy and "The Three-Body Problem"!"

In the "Fights Break Sphere" forum, someone posted that they thought Jiang Heng's new film was too rubbish and not as good as "100 Million Years BC".

Soon after the post was posted, it attracted a lot of replies, most of which were rebuttals.

As for some posts that have no logic and are purely slanderous, they were basically deleted.

Some netizens also said that the eyes of the masses are sharp. "Fights Break Sphere" made 1 billion in three days, setting a new box office record in the mainland film market. The Douban score is as high as 7.9. Obviously, most people think it is good after watching it, and it cannot be discredited by a few words of "rubbish".

"That's right. Not only do Chinese people like to watch it, but the overseas box office performance is also good. If it's really what the 'haters' say, the overseas performance would have collapsed long ago!"

"However, the total box office of Director Jiang's films in recent years is a bit poor!"

"It should be because he always shoots mythological works, and the audience is aesthetically fatigued!"

"He should continue to shoot science fiction, overseas audiences like this!"

"When can you shoot "The Three-Body Problem 2"? I've been waiting for too many years. I want to see water droplets destroy the human space fleet!"

"That would be so shocking!"

"If you want to shoot, you should shoot "The Hero Company". If you don't shoot it again, the actors will be old!"

"You should shoot "The Legend of the Little Soldier". The box office of the first one was so high, the second one might break the record!"

"Impossible, the first one took advantage of the subject matter and 3D format. Now people watch 3D, which is so so. It's hard to have such a high box office again!"

"I guess it's hard for Director Jiang to break the global box office record of "The Legend of the Little Soldier"!" (End of this chapter)