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In the office of the general manager of Shaw Cinemas.

At this moment, there was a energetic old man sitting on the chair that belonged to Wang Hongbing, the general manager of Shaw Brothers Cinemas.

This old man is the master of the Xiangjiang film industry - Shao Yifu.

Shao Yifu, formerly known as Shao Renzhuo, was born in Zhenhai, Ningbo, Zhejiang, and is one of the founders of 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 "Sixth Uncle". Shao Yifu has made more than 1,000 Chinese-language films in his life. The Shaw family owned the largest number of cinemas, reaching more than 200 at its peak, and built the largest film shooting base in Asia, Shaw Brothers Cinemas. Shaw Brothers Films has dominated the film and television industry and the business world for 80 years. "Produced by Shaw Brothers, it must be a good product" is well known in Southeast Asia, and its cinema property is the largest commercial TV and movie city in Asia, known as "Oriental Hollywood".

At this time, Shao Yifu curled up his chin with his hands, not knowing what he was thinking.

Standing beside Shao Yifu was a woman in her forties who still had charm - she was Shao Yifu's concubine Fang Yihua.

Fang Yihua is also a great person - she was once a female singer in Nanyang, 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, and the result 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 the seemingly respectful Wang Hongbing and Zhao Zhenqiang.

"Can we make "Happy Ghost" painted?" Fang Yihua asked Wang Hongbing.

Wang Hongbing shook his head lightly and said: "The liquidated damages indicated on 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 50 million." ”

Hearing this, Fang Yihua frowned slightly, and blamed: "Red soldier, you have been in the industry for more than 20 years, why don't you keep an eye on it?

"I don't blame the Red Soldier for this, I asked him to arrange it. Shao Yifu suddenly said in a deep voice.

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

Shao Yifu and the Li family have been friends for many years - even the Li Stage, the leading theater of the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line, is the Li family, and the Li family now has the most shares of wireless, and the most important thing is that Li Xiaohe is still the nominal chairman of wireless.

Therefore, 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 release it in Shaw Brothers theaters for a month. After that, Shao Yifu agreed without much thought.

Moreover, in order to sell the Li family well, Shao Yifu also called Wang Hongbing in front of Li Laosan and asked Wang Xuebing to make it convenient.

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 kid can make a good movie, and he doesn't believe that a movie can have any impact on their Shaw Brothers' big studio system.

In fact, at that time, Shao Yifu thought that it might be a rich kid who made a movie in the nature of playing tickets, and then Toli asked him for a theater.

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

Shao Yifu took the responsibility on him, and it was naturally impossible for others to say more, and then Fang Yihua and the three of them were silent - they were all waiting for Shao Yifu to make a decision.

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

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

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

Zhang Che and Chu Yuan have both achieved brilliant results in the film industry, and comparing Xu Cun with Zhang Che and Chu Yuan is definitely lifting Xu Cun. However, letting Xu Cun enjoy treatment comparable to Zhang Che and Chu Yuan would be another matter.

Although Zhang Che and Chu Yuan are famous, under the Shaw Brothers' large-scale studio system, they can only earn the most basic salary. Taking Chu Yuan as an example, his "Seventy-two Tenants" broke the highest box office in Xiangjiang since the opening of the port at that time, but he himself only earned a meagre 50,000 yuan.

And if the box office of "Happy Ghost" can reach 10 million, after removing all the expenses, Xu Cun can earn at least 5 million in Xiangjiang alone, not to mention a larger number of overseas box offices?

is to ask, under such conditions, how could Xu Cun give up his own film company to come to Shaw Brothers to be a non-profitable filming machine?

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

Seeing Zhao Zhenqiang shaking his head, Shao Yifu sighed in his heart: "If there is no bullshit satellite system created by the traitor Zou Wenhuai, establishing cooperation with filmmakers instead of employment relationships between superiors and subordinates, and allowing filmmakers to participate in the dividends of the film, with the conditions I put forward at this moment, Xu Cun will definitely come under the banner of my Shaw Brothers." ”

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

After a while, Shao Yifu suppressed his hatred for Zou Wen and said: "Hongbing, you go to talk to Xu Cun about overseas distribution, and tell him that our Shaw Brothers are willing to help him distribute his "Happy Ghost" in Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea, and the distribution fee is you look at and talk, the bottom line is that you must get the overseas distribution of "Happy Ghost". ”

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

"Hey...... In the first half of this year, none of the movies produced by our Shaw Brothers were decent except for "The Thirty-Six Rooms of Shaolin", and Golden Harvest's "Big Star and Little Sister's Head", "Game of Death", "Mr. Zan and Looking for Qian Hua", "Lin Yazhen", "Serpentine Trickster", and "Soraleine" have all achieved good results. and the upcoming "Deed of Sale", which is the only movie this year that can compete with "Happy Ghost". The voices of dissatisfaction in Nanyang, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea have already been heard. We can't push out the box office champion in our hands anymore, right?" Shao Yifu sighed.

There are some things that Shao Yifu didn't say - the two most wrong things he did in his life were because of the 'slamming the door' to push the two movie geniuses Bruce Lee and Xu Guanwen to Zou Wenhuai's side, so that over the years he could only watch Golden Harvest become stronger and bigger and compete with the Shaw Brothers. Now, the general trend of "Happy Ghost" has become a trend, if he can't grasp the overseas distribution rights of "Happy Ghost", Golden Harvest will definitely not hesitate to grab the overseas distribution rights of "Happy Ghost"! Perhaps, Golden Harvest has already sent someone to contact Xu Cun......

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