Chapter 236: Which pot is not opened
"Mr. Qiao...."Shao Yifu looked at Qiao Feng with complicated eyes, he didn't expect things to reverse so quickly, the dragon brother who was still half-dead three days ago actually started to rise from the fourth day, and the rise was a straight line.
And he was complaining on the phone before, but now it's really funny to think about it.Brother Long Who came up with the script, is it Qiao Feng, has Qiao Feng failed?
Why did he think that Qiao Feng might fail this time?
Shao Yifu had a lot of thoughts in his heart, both some self-deprecation and some joy, after all, Brother Long and Brother Rat were bullish at the box office, and he still had half of the money he earned.
Although the family is big, there are tens of millions of dollars or even higher profit returns, which is not something he can take lightly.
To put it mildly, he has opened a film company for so many years and has been in charge of wireless for so many years, but his net worth is only a few billion.
If Brother Long and Brother Mouse can sell hundreds of millions of dollars like Qiao Feng's previous movies in the United States, plus the global box office is deep, the money he can get can almost be one-tenth of his entire net worth.
It's just that, thinking about the previous agreement with Qiao Feng, after the Dragon Brother and Brother Rat are sold, his Shaw Brothers Cinema Line will change hands and be in charge for Qiao Feng.
This made Shao Yifu, who had dominated the film industry for decades, feel very uncomfortable, and looked at Qiao Feng in front of him, his eyes were a little sour.
It's as if someone has snatched something very important in life.
"Mr. Shao, when do you think Wang Xuxian's artist contract will be transferred to my company?" Qiao Feng didn't know how bad Shao Yifu was in his heart, the purpose of his coming today was to come to the goddess Xian.
Shaw Yifu said before that if Qiao Feng can make Wang Yixian popular, then let Wang Xuxian go to Qiao Feng's brokerage company, and Qiao Feng is now here to find Shao Yifu to fulfill the agreement.
"Anytime." Shao Yifu thought that Qiao Feng was here for the Shaw Brothers Cinemas, but he didn't expect Qiao Feng to open his mouth and say something about Wang Xuxian, Shao Yifu was stunned in surprise, and then nodded and said.
"Alright, I'll have someone exchange the contract later." Qiao Feng nodded with satisfaction, and then asked instead, "Mr. Shao, I don't know what Director Li Hanxiang has been busy with recently?"
Listening to Qiao Feng's question, Shao Yifu's face became a little dark, and he said a little unhappily: "This Mr. Qiao is going to ask Li Hanxiang himself."
Looking at Shao Yifu's dark face, Qiao Feng secretly scolded himself in surprise, which pot is really not opened.
Li Hanxiang is now about to become a taboo here in Shao Yifu.
As a great director of Shaw Brothers, Li Hanxiang is a famous brand of Shaw Brothers, just like Hu Jinquan and Zhang Che.
But Li Hanxiang is different from Zhang Che and Hu Jinquan in that this person is more capable of tossing.
From five or six years to six years to six or eight years, Li Hanxiang established his status as a super director at that time.
But after becoming famous, Li Hanxiang abandoned the Shaw Brothers and fled to Taiwan, and with the support of Cathay Pacific and the Federal Corporation, he formed his own Guolian Film Company.
At that time, the establishment of the League of Nations had a huge impact, and films such as Liang Zhu and Seven Fairies received great repercussions and success after they were released at that time.
But the good times didn't last long, and the Cathay Pacific high-level plane crashed in 64, the Asian film industry was shocked, and the League of Nations also fell into a financial crisis because of the contradictions with Cathay Pacific and the federal company.
After a few years of ups and downs, Li Hanxiang finally reluctantly returned to Hong Kong in 71, and then found his old club Shaw Brothers.
And Shao Yifu, who has always been stingy and grudgeful, is very surprisingly rare and did not care about Li Hanxiang's previous betrayal and re-accepted the great director.
After returning to Shaw Brothers, Li Hanxiang quickly made a big warlord of movies with high box office and high reputation, and then because the film market was not good, Li Hanxiang began to get involved in Fengyue films to make money for Shaw Brothers.
In 1975, he returned to the route of classical epic dramas, and planned the Western Empress Dowager's film collections "Alluring the Country and the City", "Yingtai Weeping Blood", and the huge work "Southern Dynasty Gold Powder", which describes the tragedy of the merchant girls on the banks of the Qinhuai River and the south of the Yangtze River.
In 1976, he completed "Yingtai Crying Blood", which was a blockbuster in Taiwan but not as good as a film, so he continued to shoot a collection of Fengyue sketches.
Later, due to physical reasons, Li Hanxiang went to the United States for heart surgery, and then went north to the mainland to visit relatives and friends, which touched his opportunity to go to the mainland to make films.
After renewing the contract with the Shaw Brothers, Li Hanxiang renewed the contract with the Shaw Brothers to shoot works such as "Xu Laohu and the White Widow" and "Wu Song", and at the same time established the New Kunlun Film Company in the mainland, which filmed the two magnificent historical dramas of the burning of the Old Summer Palace and the curtain listening to politics respectively, and also let Liang Jiahui win the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Then Li Hanxiang and the Shaw Brothers contract is in name only, this person is going to die in the mainland and not come out, even if he returns to Hong Kong, he is also preparing for the next "Tongzhi Zhongxing", "Reform of the Law", and "Eight-Nation Alliance" The historical drama in the lamp plan.
signed a contract with Shaw Brothers, but ran back to the mainland to open a company to do his own thing, so it's no wonder that Shaw Yifu is not angry.
Not to mention, this is still the always stingy Shao Yifu has forgiven Li Hanxiang once.
Perhaps, when Shao Yifu thought of Li Hanxiang at this time, he secretly scolded himself for being blind.
Qiao Feng asked Shao Yifu about Li Hanxiang's matter, which pot is not opened, which pot is not opened.
Li Hanxiang's matter Qiao Feng had already added a block to Shao Yifu, but when he left, Qiao Feng did not forget to add another block to Shao Yifu.
He got up to say goodbye, and when he walked to the door, he suddenly turned to look at Shao Yifu, and said with a smile: "By the way, Mr. Shao, Brother Long and Brother Rat have a good box office trend, you see, when will we sign the contract for the transfer of this theater chain?"
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In Hong Kong, Southeast Asian film industry peers were shocked that Qiao Feng had two movies released in North America at the same time, and the box office was super good, the box office of the beautiful woman was approaching 100 million US dollars, and the dragon brother won nearly 20 million US dollars in the first week of release, and when he won 11 million box office in the second week of release for three days, another more amazing news shocked Hong Kong and Southeast Asian film circles.
Shaw Brothers Cinemas has changed hands.
New owner Qiao Feng.
For a while, everyone's eyes turned to Hong Kong, to the building on Waterloo Road that had only been returned to Qiao Feng the year before.
In that building there is Qiao Feng's brokerage company, Oriental DreamWorks.
Countless media reporters blocked the downstairs of the Oriental DreamWorks to interview Qiao Feng, and many media reporters went to Shaw Brothers and went to wireless to interview Shao Yifu and Fang Yihua.
But without exception, whether it was Qiao Feng or Shao Yifu, Fang Yihua all refused any interviews.
The parties did not accept interviews, and the media reporters could only use their imagination to guess the unknown inside story after this exciting news.