MTL - Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire-Chapter 33 The trend is done

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In the office of the general manager of Shaw Brothers Cinema.

At this moment, on the chair that belonged to Wang Hongbing, the general manager of Shaw Brothers Cinema, sat a spirited old man.

This old man is Shao Yifu, the leader of the Hong Kong film industry.

Shao Yifu, formerly known as Shao Renleng, was born in Zhenhai, Ningbo, Zhejiang, and is one of the founders of the Shaw Brothers Film Company.

Among the eight brothers and sisters of the Shao family, Shao Yifu ranks sixth, and many people in the film and television industry call him "Uncle Six". Shao Yifu made more than a thousand Chinese-language films in his lifetime. The Shaw family owned the largest number of cinemas, reaching more than 200 at the peak, and built the largest film shooting base in Asia - Shaw Studios. Shaw Brothers films have been in the film and business circles for 80 years. "Shaw Brothers must be a good product" is known in the streets of Southeast Asia, and its studio property is the largest commercial TV movie city in Asia, known as "Oriental Hollywood".

At this moment, Shao Yifu curled his hands together and supported his chin, not knowing what he was thinking.

Beside Shao Yifu stood a woman in her 40s who still had the charm—she was Shao Yifu's concubine Fang Yihua.

Fang Yihua is also an amazing person - she used to be a female singer in the Southern Ocean, and she was willing to be a concubine for Shao Yifu's withdrawal from the music scene. With Fang Yihua's efforts and support, Shao Yifu spent a lot of money to bid for the right to operate TVB, which was a great success. Later, Fang Yihua took over the wireless film and television empire and became the female head of this huge empire.

Standing in front of Shao Yifu and Fang Yihua were Wang Hongbing and Zhao Zhenqiang, who seemed to be respectful.

"Can we let "Happy Ghost" draw?" Fang Yihua asked Wang Hongbing.

Wang Hongbing shook his head lightly and said, "The liquidated damages indicated in the contract I signed with Xu Cun are the upper limit. If we force "Happy Ghost" to be painted, according to the current box office of "Happy Ghost", we have to compensate him at least five Ten million."

Hearing this, Fang Yihua frowned slightly and blamed: "Hongbing, you've been in the industry for more than 20 years, why don't you keep an eye on it? After the precedent of "Happy Ghost", what should others do?"

"I don't blame Hongbing for this, I asked him to arrange it." Shao Yifu suddenly said solemnly.

Speaking of which, I really don't blame Wang Hongbing for this.

Shao Yifu and Lee Family have been friends for many years - even Lee Stage, the leading theater of the Shaw Cinema chain, is owned by Lee Family, and Lee Family now owns the most shares in Wireless, and most importantly, Li Xiaohe is now the nominal chairman of Wireless.

So, the third child of the Li family found Shao Yifu and said to Shao Yifu, "I have a friend who made a movie and wanted to show it in Shaw's theaters for a month." After that, Shao Yifu agreed without much thought.

Moreover, in order to sell the good Li family, Shao Yifu also called Wang Hongbing in front of Li's third son to let Wang Xuebing go to the door of convenience.

Shao Yifu has made movies all his life, how can he not know how difficult it is to make a good movie?

Therefore, Shao Yifu doesn't believe that a fledgling boy can make a good movie, much less that a movie can have any impact on their Shaw Brothers studio system.

Actually, when Shao Yifu wanted to come, it was probably a movie made by a kid from a wealthy family, and then the third child, Tolly, asked him to go to the theater.

As a result, because of a momentary negligence, Shao Yifu found a lot of trouble for himself...

Shao Yifu took the responsibility on him, and it was impossible for others to say more. Then Fang Yihua and the three remained silent—they were all waiting for Shao Yifu to make a decision.

After a while of silence, Shao Yifu looked at Zhao Zhenqiang and asked, "Xiao Zhao, are you familiar with this Xu Cun?"

"He is the author of "Shanghai Bund" and the screenwriter of "Shanghai Bund". We have been working together for more than a month." Zhao Zhenqiang replied very cautiously.

"If I give him the treatment second only to Zhang Che and Chu Yuan, are you sure you can persuade him to come to Shaw Brothers?" Shao Yifu asked Zhao Zhenqiang again.

Both Zhang Che and Chu Yuan have achieved brilliant achievements in the film industry. Comparing Xu Cun with Zhang Che and Chu Yuan is definitely a compliment to Xu Cun. However, letting Xu Cun enjoy treatment comparable to that of Zhang Che and Chu Yuan would be another matter.

Although Zhang Che and Chu Yuan have great reputations, they can only earn the most basic salary under Shaw Brothers' large-scale studio system. Taking Chu Yuan as an example, "Seventy-two Tenants" directed by him broke the highest box office of Xiangjiang since the opening of the port, but he himself only earned a meager 50,000 yuan.

And if the box office of "Happy Ghost" can reach 10 million, after removing all the expenses, Xu Cun can make at least 5 million in Hong Kong, not to mention that there are more overseas box offices?

The question is, under such conditions, how could Xu Cun give up his own film company and come to Shaw Brothers as an unprofitable filming machine?

So, after listening to Shao Yifu's question, Zhao Zhenqiang gently shook his head.

Seeing Zhao Zhenqiang shaking his head, Shao Yifu sighed in his heart: "If there is no **** satellite system created by traitor Zou Wenhuai, to establish cooperation with filmmakers instead of subordinate employment relationships, and let filmmakers participate in the film's dividends, With the conditions I put forward at this moment~www.novelbuddy.com~ Xu Cun will definitely come under the banner of my Shaw Brothers."

Thinking of this, Shao Yifu's hatred for Zou Wenhuai surged up again.

After a while, Shao Yifu suppressed his hatred for Zou Wen and said, "Red Bing, go talk to Xu Cun about overseas distribution, and tell him that Shaw Brothers is willing to help him in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. , Japan and South Korea released his "Happy Ghost", you can talk about the distribution fee, the bottom line is to get the overseas distribution of "Happy Ghost"."

"Sixth brother, you can't raise tigers!" Fang Yihua persuaded.

"Hey... In the first half of this year, we Shaw Brothers did not have a decent movie except "Shaolin Thirty-Six Rooms", and Jiahe's "Big Devil and Little Sister", "Death Game", "Shaolin" Mr. Zan and Looking for Qian Hua, "Lin Yazhen", "Snake-Shaped Hands", and "Equipment" all achieved good results. There is also the upcoming "Deed of Sale", which is the only one this year that can match the "Happy Ghost" is a movie that competes with each other. The voices of dissatisfaction from Nanyang, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea have already spread. We can't push out the box office champion that we have obtained?" Shao Yifu sighed.

There are some words that Shao Yifu didn't say - the two worst things he did in his life was to push the two movie geniuses Bruce Lee and Xu Guanwen to Zou Wenhuai's side because of 'stingy', so that all these years he could only Watching Jiahe grow stronger and bigger, stand up to Shaw Brothers. Now, "Happy Ghost" has become a trend. If he can't grasp the overseas distribution rights of "Happy Ghost", Jiahe will definitely grab the overseas distribution rights of "Happy Ghost" without hesitation! Perhaps, Jiahe has already sent someone to contact Xu Cun~www.novelbuddy.com~ Welcome to reading, the latest, fastest and most popular serial works are all here~www.novelbuddy.com~ Mobile users, please go to read .