I really never expected that Stephen Chow, who had been behind the scenes for many years, was going to come out on a variety show, and he was doing a stand-up comedy variety show in the name of "King of Comedy".
Some viewers are happy and some viewers are worried, it is indeed worth everyone's expectation to let Xing Ye come to participate in the variety show, but he has been mysterious for so many years, is it a bit of a discount to come out at this time?
Why?
On the one hand, it is because mystery has long been Stephen Chow's background color, and there are not a few celebrities who have been scolded for recording variety shows to make quick money and consuming audience popularity. On the other hand, because Stephen Chow has been criticized for "Jiang Lang's talent" in recent years, this will come out to record variety shows in the name of the king of comedy, is it considered Stephen Chow's consumption of his works again?
Xing Ye's agent has already exposed the company's new trends, the drama version of "The King of Comedy" has been officially announced, the animated version of "God of Food" is also about to be launched, and iQiyi has also announced a deep cooperative relationship with Stephen Chow.
This also means that Stephen Chow is really going to start consuming himself in an all-round way.
Over the years, Stephen Chow has not been able to bring new things to the audience.
"The King of New Comedy" was disappointed at the box office, "The Mermaid" had a box office but no reputation, and after so many years, the second part has not yet been released, and the rest is either to consume "Kung Fu" or to shoot a sexual version of "Shaolin Football".
But for Stephen Chow, does it have to consume the feelings of the public?
After making money for so many years, isn't it enough to spend? In fact, after digging deep into Stephen Chow's assets, I found that he is really not as trenched as everyone imagined, and behind these feelings is all business.
When Stephen Chow was still playing tricks, he received a meager salary of 20 Hong Kong dollars per hour, but ten years later, that is, in 1993, Stephen Chow became the second most paid film in Hong Kong, and a movie could get 12 million Hong Kong dollars.
In 1999, in Wang Jing's "King of a Thousand Kings 2000", Stephen Chow got a salary of 18 million, which was converted into an hourly salary of 138,000.
In 2001, Huang Baiming also invited Stephen Chow to participate with a salary of 20 million Hong Kong dollars, and the exchange rate was also 200,000 yuan per hour, which was 10,000 times worse than the salary when he was playing tricks.
However, Stephen Chow still declined the high salary in order to make other films.
But Stephen Chow turned his head and filmed an advertisement with Feng Xiaogang, and the advertising salary was as high as 10 million, although it was not announced how the salary would be distributed, but the sky-high salary of the star master is also well known to everyone.
In 2004, Stephen Chow took 15 million yuan for "Kung Fu", which cost a total of 150 million, and the other actors were paid very low, focusing on building a pig cage city and special effects.
In 2009, Stephen Chow received a salary of 31.2 million Hong Kong dollars, ranking fifth among Chinese movie stars.
In the years of Stephen Chow's prosperity, of course, it was not just about making a salary, in 1990 Stephen Chow bought his first property, spent 4.75 million Hong Kong dollars to buy Peak View Garden, and in 2007 it tripled.
In 93, he spent 28 million Hong Kong dollars to buy a mansion in Repulse Bay, sold it in 96 years and made a net profit of 14.5 million, and in 96 he spent 83.8 million Hong Kong dollars to buy No. 7 Pule Road on the Peak, and the market value doubled.
In 2004, Stephen Chow also bought the land on the top of the hill and built four villas.
The four villas on this land were sold after they were built, and the total value of each one exceeded 400 million Hong Kong dollars, and Stephen Chow also kept one for himself.
To make a point, the mansion on this piece of land is named "Tianbigao", and the company behind it is "Bigao Group", which is Stephen Chow's company and the company that iQiyi wants to cooperate with.
Stephen Chow has a long and complicated relationship with this company, so it will no longer be deep, but it can be seen that Stephen Chow has long become capital.
In addition to speculating in real estate to open a company to engage in capital, Stephen Chow also bought a lot of shops to collect rent, in 2002 invested 30 million to buy two shops in Mong Kok, two years later sold not only to earn rent, but also to earn an extra 13 million, after which Stephen Chow also bought the shop many times.
A set of shops in Tsim Sha Tsui, Stephen Chow sold it more than a year after buying it for a net profit of more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars.
According to Hong Kong media statistics, in 2004, Stephen Chow became the highest-paid artist with his salary and property speculation, and he got 550 million yuan in just four years of property speculation, which is simply against the sky.
Judging from the several mansions he lives in, they are low-key and luxurious, and the most simple one is worth 200 million Hong Kong dollars, which is really rich!
But the good times did not last long, in 2009, Stephen Chow's road to speculation was interrupted due to the financial crisis, and he directly lost more than 10 million yuan, and this year Stephen Chow was busy with a backdoor listing, spending 300 million Hong Kong dollars to successfully win the predecessor of Bigao Group, Ditong International.
In 2015, Stephen Chow's stock plummeted and evaporated 497 million Hong Kong dollars in an instant.
I don't know if it was to have funds for filming, or to make up for the company's losses, in 2016, Stephen Chow signed a four-year VAM contract, and he completed it in the first three years, but in the last year he unilaterally announced the termination of the agreement.
Until 2021, this new culture company that bet against Stephen Chow was still pursuing it, but the lawsuit has not yet come out.
In fact, since 2015, Stephen Chow has been in constant lawsuits, first suing Huayi for arrears, and Stephen Chow asked for a box office dividend of 86.1 million yuan for "Journey to the West", but lost because both parties to the agreement did not sign and seal.
Later, his ex-girlfriend Yu Wenfeng failed to recover the investment share, but Stephen Chow won the lawsuit but lost his reputation, after all, his girlfriend who has been together for 13 years is really embarrassed in court.
However, in order to prove himself, Stephen Chow also took out evidence of giving Yu Wenfeng 20 million.
But in court, lawyer Yu Wenfeng's words of interrogating Stephen Chow failed the star filter.
Over the years, there has also been news that Stephen Chow needs capital turnover to mortgage the mansion, and Huang Yishan, who has cooperated with Xingye, responded for him, saying that Xingye has a lot of properties, and the emaciated camel is bigger than a horse.
But it is not difficult to imagine that compared with the previous star master, he is no longer in the limelight, and the bowl of cold rice in "The King of New Comedy" is not fried, but has fallen into a bunch of infamy.
Stephen Chow, who has been low-key for many years, is now once again consuming himself for the bowl of cold rice of the "King of Comedy", according to online reports, Stephen Chow and iQiyi are expected to cooperate for five years and invest no less than 1.5 billion yuan. This also means that Xing Ye has to work very hard in the past few years.
The star who used to live in a low-key life in Hong Kong has now been paving the way in advance for the next five years of "business", taking photos with various celebrities to "warm up".
After the variety show starts, can the star master's reputation be returned, and those works that have been taken out and remade can be filmed well?
I hope you don't live up to the audience's love!