Chapter 253 Port Current
YG Entertainment.

ATV's first generation boy group HOT has officially started its audition and is preparing to debut in five months.

The reason is simple. Some trainees already have the dance and vocal skills to make their debut.

Back then, Li Ming and Guo Fucheng made their debut after less than a year of training, and they are still among the Four Heavenly Kings today.

Normally, YG Entertainment President Yu Xiaoming is enough to make everyone afraid.

In the practice room, a dozen boys looked at Liu Zhicheng nervously. Apart from Liu Zhicheng's title of the richest Chinese, he is also Hong Kong's media tycoon, Hong Kong's Murdoch.

Liu Zhicheng looked at this group of trainees with full confidence. This was only the first batch. The second batch was recruited last summer vacation and they will recruit every summer vacation thereafter.

Of course, there were those who quit because they couldn't stand the hardship, and there were also those who were fired because they were not cut out for it.

Launch the boy group first. The girl group still needs more practice, and the boy group is easier to open up the market.

In fact, Leon Lai of Hong Kong is the originator of Korean Wave, so many Korean Waves in the past imitated Hong Kong Wave.

The reason why the Hong Kong flow disappeared is that there is no systematic integrated group to manipulate this matter.

Things are different now. ATV invests tens of millions every year in cultivating idols. With Liu Zhicheng, who is familiar with Korean Wave, taking the lead, it is bound to soon set off a Hong Kong Wave in Asia.

Moreover, Liu Zhicheng is developing Hong Kong pop culture in an all-round way, not just cultivating idol singers.

"Let's start!" Liu Zhicheng said to Yu Xiaoming beside him.

Yu Xiaoming nodded excitedly. Only the management of YG Entertainment understood what kind of idols YG Entertainment was creating.

Once he debuts, he will change the entire Asian idol music landscape.

What are the Little Tigers?
They can only be considered idols, but their songs and dances cannot be compared with those of YG Entertainment's idols.

The songs created by YG Entertainment incorporate black rap. Most of the songs have a fast tempo and a strong sense of rhythm, which are suitable for dancing and singing at the same time.

It reflects the rebellious mentality of young people and also represents the voice of many young people.

YG Entertainment's songs, dances, and performances are all created by a dedicated team, and their styles are guided by Mr. Liu Zhicheng, the godfather of Hong Kong pop culture.

At this time, there were also performance teachers, dance teachers, and song teachers in the practice room. Everyone was quite excited. After a year of seclusion, they finally saw hope of harvest.

During this period, the boss personally participated in the guidance many times to ensure that the general direction would not deviate.

At first, everyone thought that the boss liked the entertainment industry, until the boss proposed the concept of developing Hong Kong through Hong Kongization, then they realized that YG Entertainment was an important part of Hong Kongization.

"Divide into three groups and start performing! Don't be nervous, kids, just show your real skills!" Yu Xiaoming comforted.

"Yes!"

Then, the team, which had rehearsed in advance, began to sing and dance to the rhythmic music!
At this time, the division of labor has already been determined. Dancer, RAP singer, lead singer, sub-lead singer, and face of the group have all been engraved in YG Entertainment's canon.

Because this time the group is a five-member group, imitating HOT in the previous life, the YG team picked out the seven best candidates, and today they personally cut two more people.

Liu Zhicheng is familiar with the characteristics of the students here. After all, he comes here almost once every half a month!
Liu Zhicheng enjoyed it very much, as if he had returned to the Korean Wave era in his previous life. In his previous life, he was also a fan of the Korean Wave, but when the restriction was issued, he decisively gave up.

Moreover, he liked the first and second generation groups, and no longer followed the later groups.

After an hour-long selection, Liu Zhicheng said: "We will select five people from among you and prepare for your debut!

For those who were not selected, you should continue to practice. You are the first batch of students to be selected as Hong Kong pop singers. Even if you cannot all debut, ATV will still have job opportunities for you. "

"Thank you, boss!" said a group of students.

Liu Zhicheng nodded, turned around and took the management and teachers to the conference room to discuss the final HOT members.

Soon, everyone decided on a five-member group and arranged to prepare for their debut song and album five months later.

To be honest, it's not that difficult to just follow Liu Zhicheng's outline and fit the content.

After the meeting, Liu Zhicheng brought several female teachers to the girls' practice room.

The reason why they all asked for female arrangers and female choreographers was because Liu Zhicheng wanted to show off his power.

An empty practice room. After Liu Zhicheng and others walked in, a female student walked in nervously after a while.

"Boss, Teacher Sun, I'm Li Huiling!"

Liu Zhicheng nodded, looking at this 18-year-old girl who was good-looking and sang well, and he was very satisfied.

In fact, to put it bluntly, idols need someone to support them, and there are many who are good at singing or have a good look.

"Today, I am here to tell you a plan, which is Li Huiling's solo debut plan!"

Everyone concentrated their attention, and Li Huiling's face was filled with joy. She then looked at Liu Zhicheng nervously.

"Let me talk about her style. First of all, she wants to go for electronic music, something like this: Dong Dong Dong Dong Dong Dong Lee Jung Hyun's Wow.
Secondly, the dance is a fan dance. The style is like this, the fingers are like this. The costume is the Hanfu style. The hair is done with a fork.
I hope you guys can think about it carefully in the next six months. I will come to check on you anytime. We are also preparing for our debut during the summer vacation!"

In their previous lives, HOT and Lee Jung Hyun were the earliest representatives of the Korean Wave, and now they will become the first representatives of the Hong Kong Wave.

Hong Kong flow is a development in all aspects. Liu Zhicheng can only say that he has made a good start, and the subsequent Hong Kong flow will naturally be born in everyone's hands.

After all, food is eaten bite by bite.

Liu Zhicheng brought a tape recorder and gave the tune he hummed to the arranger teacher. As for the dance, he just had to remember a few moves.

Everyone was a little surprised. It turned out that the boss was the expert. He had a way of packaging idols. He was worthy of being a media tycoon.

"Boss, you are such a versatile person!" said a female arranger.

Liu Zhicheng smiled and said, "If the news leaks out, none of you will be able to escape, so what I said today is all your ideas."

Everyone suddenly felt a chill. This boss was a smiling tiger. How could he be so scary even when he was smiling and talking?

"Okay, boss!"

"I'll keep it secret!"

Liu Zhicheng nodded, walked to Li Huiling, and looked at her face generously, making the little girl blush.

"She looks okay, and has some cute style, but she must spend more time on her makeup, Teacher Sun, remember my words!"

"Okay, boss!"

Everyone then realized that the boss was training Li Huiling in all aspects. Liu Zhicheng gathered around and said, "From now on, your stage name will be Li Zhenxian!"

Li Huiling said in surprise: "Thank you, boss!"

The boss even included her stage name, which meant that she must be valued very much, she thought.

Little did they know that Liu Zhicheng was just a person with a bad taste.

"If you don't work hard, you may not be able to debut in the summer, so you have to work harder. Artists are just performing to sell their skills. Without real skills, no matter how you package yourself, your true colors will be exposed in the future. Although what I said is unpleasant to hear, you should understand the truth!"

"I will definitely work hard!"

The little girl cheered herself up and looked quite cute.

Liu Zhicheng nodded and said that he could personally train Lee Jung-hyun in the future. Of course, appearing once every half a month was his limit.

After Liu Zhicheng left, the dance teachers and composer teachers all breathed a sigh of relief. This boss looked kind, but made people feel nervous for no reason.

"Lee Jung Hyun, you must do your best. YG Entertainment spends tens of millions of dollars with ATV every year, all of which is used to cultivate future idols like you!"

"Lee Jung Hyun, you have to work so hard. If you want to be famous, you have to rely on yourself!"

For the first time, Lee Jung-hyun and Lee Hye-ling felt that she was so valued and had a profound influence on her boss, who was actually so talented!

The reason why Liu Zhicheng prepared to let the Hong Kong idols debut in advance is because the show was successfully broadcast on Asia Television, which currently has 800 million viewers and is expected to increase rapidly.

Not only that, as far as he knows, Korean Wave had already been formed in the mid-90s. For example, HOT debuted in 1996.

Therefore, he cannot fall behind, otherwise he will become a plagiarist.

Back at ATV, Liu Zhicheng asked his assistant to prepare a meeting of the female screenwriters of the drama. This team was cultivated by Liu Zhicheng a long time ago and they are currently performing well in the family fashion drama.

Soon, seven or eight female screenwriters came to the conference room, and Zhou Liang Shuyi also attended the meeting.

At the meeting, Liu Zhicheng first said: "I remember when we at ATV decided on the style of family fashion dramas, we captured the hearts of Hong Kong housewives!"

Everyone agreed, and Chow Liang Suk-yee said with a smile: "In recent years, this type of subject matter has always been sought after by ATV and TVB, but we at ATV are still better in this regard!"

This is the momentum. After the success of Big Times, ATV has been unstoppable in this area. Department store family fashion dramas, clothing family fashion dramas, and jewelry family fashion dramas have been launched one after another. There are both business wars and bloody family plots. How can housewives not like to watch it?

Liu Zhicheng nodded, and then said seriously: "Next, we at ATV are going to promote another type of drama, a romantic idol drama. I have a script outline here, called Autumn in My Heart. Take a look!

Of course, this script is just an outline. The important thing is to determine the style of a romantic idol drama. The lovers may be siblings, and brothers and sisters may become non-blood-related lovers. The heroine must be highlighted.

This is why we are looking for your female editor. Tragedy is the main feature. There must be a bad girl among the second and third female characters. The male lead must be handsome, so look for Leon Lai. The female lead must be gentle, kind and pretty. The love story must be tortuous and bloody.

The female screenwriters quickly took up their pens and wrote it down, with expressions of surprise and joy on their faces.

Finally, Liu Zhicheng said: "For this drama, we all worked together, because this is an important part of my Hong Kong pop culture and Hong Kong's prosperity.

I’ll give you six months to study and create, and the other half to shoot.”

"Yes!"

The female screenwriters did not expect that this would be the representative of Hong Kong-style dramas, not even Chow Liang Suk-yee expected it.

In this way, it means that the boss's Hong Kongization will be a brand new entertainment.

Of course, this does not conflict with the outside world. Everyone is developing the Hong Kong entertainment industry and moving it overseas.

After the meeting, Zhou Liang Shuyi stayed and reported last year's financial situation to Liu Zhicheng.

"The total profit was HK$3.05 million, which is estimated to exceed TVB's profit. However, our overseas copyright income alone brought in HK$1.2 million, mainly from programs such as How to Become a Millionaire and Justice Bao. DreamWorks also contributed more than HK$3000 million in net profit!"

Liu Zhicheng asked, "What about the Legend of the New White Snake? Is there anyone who wants to talk about it?"

Zhou Liang Shuyi immediately said: "Yes, there are a lot of them. Taiwan Island, the mainland, and Southeast Asia are all in negotiation. It is expected that the copyright will be as popular as Justice Bao!"

Liu Zhicheng nodded and said, "Zhao Yazhi has been a guarantee of the ratings in recent years. I have already negotiated with her and signed a contract to film a TV series at ATV in the future.

You have filmed a large number of costume love dramas based on the historical Afang Palace, the Guangdong opera Love in Troubled Times and The Number One Scholar. "

"Okay, we'll make sure it's arranged!"

At that time, Zhao Yazhi and Zheng Shaoqiu were both from ATV, but this time they were borrowed by Taiwan Television to film "The Story of Qianlong".

But ATV had a condition, that is, the copyright of Hong Kong should be given to ATV, and it should be exclusive. TTV naturally agreed, otherwise ATV would not let him go.

Adam Cheng and Cecilia Yip had developed very well in ATV and were personally recruited by Liu Zhicheng, so they would naturally consider ATV's attitude.

Ever since Liu Zhicheng took control of ATV, Taiwan’s film and television capital is no longer that important. He has plenty of money!
Since ATV cooperated with Taiwan's TV station to film Justice Bao, it has not only learned the style of filming large-scale TV series in Taiwan, but also directly poached people from several Taiwan TV stations. It can be said that it is well prepared in this regard.

Because of this, the new Legend of White Snake does not have a strong Hong Kong flavor and is more in line with the Chinese flavor that Chinese people like.

If this trend continues, even Taiwan’s Princess Huanzhu will be lost!

ATV shoots so many big dramas, and each one costs around HK$1500 million, so there is naturally financial pressure.

But Liu Zhicheng doesn't care. As long as he is happy, he can immediately let ATV raise funds from the stock market. They will never be short of money. This is the advantage of having a boss who is proficient in finance.

"Are you short of funds?" Liu Zhicheng asked again.

"A little bit, mainly due to the expenses of ATV headquarters and satellite TV. These two investments, based on last year's profits, will consume six years' profits!" Zhou Liang Shuyi said honestly.

Liu Zhicheng thought about it and felt that ATV should belong to the people of Hong Kong, not just himself. Therefore, the more shareholders, the better.

However, the warrants he holds are now worth HK$2.5 million, making a net profit of HK$5000 million.

Therefore, only by raising a large amount of funds can his equity be diluted and there will be more shareholders.

"I will prepare to raise funds through share offering, and conservatively there will be a cash flow of 2 million! Although the ATV headquarters will cost a lot.

But after all, the expenditure will only take four to five years, so there will be no short-term financial problems. Just do your work with peace of mind, ATV is not short of money!"

"Okay, I know!"

Zhou Liang Shuyi showed a relaxed expression on her face. With such a boss, it was indeed easy for the company to make money.

(End of this chapter)