Chapter 198: Recruiting the Xu Brothers

Salisbury Road in Kowloon, near the Tsim Sha Tsui Waterfront Garden, Zhang Heng looked up at the huge shop sign: TOM LEE MUSIC.

This is the Tongli Music Store that will also be famous in the mainland in the future.

If friends who have watched Hong Kong films are interested, they should have seen this piano store on the end credits of many movies or TV series.

Walking into the store, he was greeted by a whole row of imposing snare drums, Zhang Heng was slightly stunned, and a young man in uniform came over and greeted with a smile: "Sir, may I ask which instrument do you need to see?"

"I'm sorry, but I made an appointment to meet in your BAND room. ”

"What's your last name?"

"My surname is Zhang, and the other party's surname is Xu. ”

"Hello, please come with me, Mr. Xu, they have arrived. ”

Exiting the back door of the shop and walking down a narrow hallway, the waiter pushed open a door with a painted guitar pattern, and a cold guitar sound came from inside, a familiar tune.

Zhang Heng walked in with a smile, and sure enough, he saw Xu Guanjie, who had long hair in a shawl, sitting on a stool in the center of the room, playing the song "The Mark of Rain" that he had played in Wenhua.

"Ah, SAM. He screamed softly.

Zhang ...... Dong, you're here!" Xu Guanjie looked surprised, put down his guitar, and got up to greet him.

The two hugged warmly, and Zhang Heng complained: "I haven't seen you for three months, why haven't you seen each other?"

"You're coming to us today as the boss, so naturally you have to be more formal. Xu Guanjie sneered and pulled him to the wall, where there was a row of three people sitting on the ground, who were busy getting up at this time, and kept slapping the unnecessary dust on their buttocks.

These three brothers are so casual and free.

Zhang Heng was very emotional in his heart, and stretched out his hand from afar.

"You must be the eldest brother of Ah SAM, Guanwen, you are the second brother, Guanwu, you are the third brother, Guanying. He took the initiative to report each other's names one by one, and warmly shook hands with them one by one and praised them.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Wenwu Yingjie, what a good man!"

"Mr. Zhang, thank you for your praise, have you seen us before?" Xu Guanwen, as the eldest brother, obviously played the role of the four brothers' talkers.

"Sort of. "In fact, except for Xu Guanjie, the other three brothers are not famous at this time, and Xu Guanwen is a little famous because he and Xu Guanjie hosted the "Double Star Annunciation" on the wireless station, but Zhang Heng can't say that I have watched a lot of your comedy movies.

"Mr. Zhang, you are a noble person, time is precious, you asked us to come over today, please give us more advice. ”

It seems that this boss has a bit of a straight temperament, but Zhang Heng likes to deal with such people, so he sat down casually and motioned for the four brothers to sit too.

Xu Guanjie is okay, after all, he and Zhang Heng have been in the United States for nearly a month, and the other three brothers were secretly relieved to see him so easy-going, sat down together, and waited quietly for him to speak.

"That's right, maybe you haven't gotten the news yet, just yesterday, I invested in Mr. Zou's Golden Harvest Film Company and became the second largest shareholder of this company. Zhang Heng said with a flat expression, as if he had bought a shirt.

The eyes of the four brothers were wide open, and they couldn't speak for a while, Xu Guanjie was the first to react, leaned over and patted Zhang Heng on the shoulder affectionately: "It's really you! When I was in Hollywood, I thought about when you would make it rain in Xiangjiang, but I didn't expect it to become a reality when we met again." ”

Zhang Heng deliberately grinned and said, "Ah Sam, I know that you have fitness, but you don't need to show off to me, otherwise, let's get up and help." ”

"Knowing that you have real kung fu, I don't dare to compare with you. Xu Guanjie leaned back in horror.

"Congratulations to Mr. Zhang. Xu Guanwen said with a smile with the other two brothers.

"Thank you. Zhang Heng nodded, "I asked you to come over to ask if you four brothers are interested in coming to Jiahe." ”

Xu Guanjie raised his eyebrows, and just wanted to speak, Xu Guanwen shook his head at him slightly, frowning and thinking.

Zhang Heng saw it in his eyes, sat there quietly, and chatted with Xu Guanjie casually.

"Mr. Zhang, there is no big problem with joining Golden Harvest, it is the form, we may still need to discuss it with you. A few minutes later, Xu Guanwen finally spoke.

Zhang Heng smiled and said: "We are friends, even if we talk about business matters, please speak up, Ah Sam understands my temper." ”

Xu Guanwen proposed a plan, that is, the four brothers set up a film company, cooperated with Golden Harvest to shoot new films in the name of this company, and handed over the distribution work to Golden Harvest, and they participated in the profit sharing of the production according to the capital investment.

Sure enough, it's still like that space.

Zhang Heng considered the meeting and put forward his own plan: funded by Jiahe, set up a studio with the four brothers, hanging under the name of Jiahe, the four brothers have relatively large creative freedom, Jiahe only assesses and manages the annual indicators, and when there is a film project, Jiahe fully cooperates with the filming work, and is fully responsible for the post-distribution work.

This is equivalent to the satellite factory model of Golden Harvest in the future.

Compared with Xu Guanwen's plan, Zhang Heng's plan, Jiahe has a much greater control over their four brothers, and the distribution of interests is also more advantageous, considering the amazing performance of these brothers in the future, he is really reluctant to let go of the opportunity to obtain huge benefits from them.

Of course, Zhang Heng is not a harsh boss, if they really perform as amazingly as another time and space, he is willing to persuade Zou Wenhuai and other shareholders to come up with more benefits to distribute to them.

In short, he didn't want them to have a chance to be poached by others!

"By the way, there's one more thing, Ah SAM should know something, I have some connections in Hollywood. Seeing that they were still hesitating, Zhang Heng added, "I have recently invested in two films from Universal, with a total of 5 million US dollars, and the project is about to start, I need to send a production team over there to supervise the scene, two of which belong to film majors, perhaps, you are willing to consider ......."

"Great!" Xu Guanwu, who had been obscure, slapped his thigh, "Mr. Zhang, if we join Golden Harvest, can you let me go?"

In another time and space, Xu Guanwu occasionally made cameo appearances in his brothers' films, and spent most of his time working behind the scenes, so it is no wonder that he is so interested in this matter.

Zhang Heng smiled and nodded: "Not only you, if you four brothers want to go, I also agreed, at most two more people's travel expenses, I don't care so much." ”

"Big brother!" Xu Guanjie was also a little excited, and the three younger brothers looked at Xu Guanwen warmly together.

Xu Guanwen smiled bitterly and raised his hand in surrender, "Mr. Zhang, your conditions are really exciting, but I still have a request." ”

Zhang Heng said generously: "Please just say it!"

Xu Guanwen still wants to try his best to fight for greater economic benefits for his brother, and bargain over the proportion of shares in the studio and the management model of Golden Harvest.

Zhang Heng didn't want to get too involved in these too detailed things, and after agreeing in principle, he was ready to hand them over to Jiahe and Tang Jihua to handle them.

After the basic finalization, the four brothers were in high spirits, and Xu Guanwen was happy and told Zhang Heng the truth about a recent incident.

Just last month, Xu Guanwen, who wants to develop in the direction of a creative filmmaker such as screenwriter, director, star, and producer, handed over a script that he had painstakingly written to Shaw, hoping to share the profits with the Shaw Brothers joint venture.

Xu Guanwen was devastated, at this stage, he already planned to take his brothers to jump out of the Shaw Brothers to find another good master, and today's invitation from Zhang Heng is like a long drought for them.

"That's the time. Zhang Heng thought secretly, but he didn't regret it, if he didn't come to recruit them, they would eventually find Jiahe to cooperate, and they would never be able to jump out of their own big bowl.

"By the way, what's your script called?" he asked curiously.

"The initial title was "Ghost Horse Double Star", and next time I will bring the script to the company to show you. ”

"TF! Sixth Brother Shao, big guy, is this the unsatisfactory script you said?" Zhang Heng complained frantically in his heart.

This is the champion of the 1974 Hong Kong film box office list, right!

Zhang Heng is really depressed for Run Run Shaw, Zou Wenhuai didn't keep it, Bruce Lee didn't keep it, and the Xu brothers didn't keep it, this ......

The big guy's nerve is tenacity!

He had to praise it in the end.

"Well, that's it, you can follow me to Golden Harvest later, I will arrange for Tang Jihua to talk to you, it is best to negotiate today, and you can also go to Hollywood as soon as possible. Zhang Heng smiled, "By the way, when you go there, you must see more, learn more, ask more, I will come here for spot checks in the future." ”