127. Famous
Sitting at his desk, Run Run Shaw finished reading the latest newspaper, and it could be seen that he was in a bad mood now, and after reading the newspaper, Shaw's face was already clouded.
Run Run Shaw was in a bad mood, Zhang Che and Fang Yihua sat opposite him, how dare he say anything for a while, although Run Run Shaw is not very strict with his subordinates in ordinary times, but he has controlled the company for so many years, and he is not trembling under his power, as long as he is angry, the majesty that naturally flows out is not something that anyone can resist.
"Yihua, have we counted the sales results at the box office this time?" it was Run Run Shaw who took the initiative to open his mouth and the deadlock in the office was broken.
Hearing Run Run Shaw's question, Fang Yihua obviously hesitated, but still said truthfully, "Sixth brother, the situation is not very good, the box office performance of Shaolin Temple launched by our Shaw Brothers this time is only more than three million"
Fang Yihua's words made Shaw fall silent again, Shaolin Temple is a new movie launched by Shaw Brothers, originally Shaw had great expectations for this movie, but he didn't expect that the box office results could only ensure that Shaw Brothers would not lose money.
Golden Harvest Company launched this film during this time, the box office results unexpectedly exceeded 8 million Hong Kong dollars, as Golden Harvest's biggest competitor Shaw Brothers Movies how can it not be in a hurry, Shaolin Temple is a film used by Shaw Brothers to fight against half a catty and eight taels, but unfortunately the box office results are far lower than Golden Harvest.
In 76, Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers competed, their respective movies were only broadcast in their own movie theaters, Golden Harvest movies were excellent, then its cinema naturally had more people, which correspondingly formed a sharp contrast with the desertion of Shaw Brothers Cinema, which made Shaw Brothers Film's biggest boss How could Run Run Shaw be happy.
'Lao Zhang, I remember that you have another film that is being filmed, how is that film progressing now?'
Run Run Shaw has not been silent for too long, as a character who has come through ups and downs, it is impossible not to have this self-control, he has seen the wind and waves, and this little difficulty will not defeat the Shaw Brothers, and the most important thing now is to think of countermeasures.
Zhang Che sat opposite Run Run Shaw, listened to him ask about his new film, didn't think much about it, and immediately replied, 'The film is not finished yet, but it is almost finished'
Run Run Shaw nodded, 'Well, that's good, but we have to speed up the speed, so that the film can be finished as soon as possible, as soon as the film is finished, it will be launched on the market immediately'
Seeing that Zhang Che's face was very bad, Run Run Shaw paused, and then comforted, "Old Zhang, although the results of Shaolin Temple are not very good, you don't have to pay special attention to it."
Zhang Che is a generation of heroes in the Hong Kong film industry, is now the number one signature director of the Shaw Brothers Company, and is the guarantee of the box office of the Shaw Brothers films.
'Yihua, if the company has any new films, let's launch them as soon as possible during this time,' Run Run Shaw said to Fang Yihua.
In 76, Run Run Shaw himself has already paid attention to the TV station, and the Shaw Brothers Film Company is basically Fang Yihua in charge, since the quality of the film cannot be compared with more than half a catty and eight taels of this movie, Shaw has no choice but to suppress Golden Harvest with quantity, even if Shaw Brothers himself has a temporary loss, Shaw only hopes that the box office performance of this movie can be reduced a little under his own suppression, so that it will not be so conspicuous.
"Alas, I still looked away at the beginning, Shaw Brothers shouldn't have let Xu Guanwen go" Shaw said in a somewhat annoyed tone, he did regret it a little, if Xu Guanwen hadn't left Shaw Brothers at the beginning, Shaw would not be so passive now, and it would not be the rival Golden Harvest of Shaw Brothers movies who makes money.
Seeing Run Run Run Shaw say this, Zhang Che and Fang Yihua, who were sitting opposite him, couldn't say anything for a while, in favor of it means that Run Run Run Shaw has no vision, and it is even more impossible to oppose it, after all, the fact is there, after all, Golden Harvest has doubled its strength because of the joining of the Xu Guanwen brothers.
Xu Guanwen had already started writing scripts when he was in Shaw Brothers, but Run Run Shaw was not optimistic about Xu Guanwen's kind of comedy movie, so Xu Guanwen would break away from Shaw Brothers, but even if Xu Guanwen did not break away from Shaw Brothers at that time, he would break away one day, Shaw Brothers basically implemented a vertically integrated business model, and Run Run Shaw was also accustomed to doing his own business, Xu Guanwen was more yearning for the Golden Harvest Reading Producer System, directors like them with their own style, of course, they hope to have more freedom when filming, I don't want people to point fingers.
"Sixth brother, I heard that Wang Tianlin's son seems to be the assistant director of the half-catty eight-two crew."
This movie is a big hit, not only is Run Run Shaw in a bad mood, as the current principal of Shaw Brothers movies, Fang Yihua's mood will not be much better, women's hearts are not as generous as men, Fang Yihua occasionally learned that Wang Jing participated in the half-catty eight-two crew, of course, he was a little dissatisfied with Wang Tianlin and his son, and he wanted to give Wang Tianlin eye medicine in front of Run Run Shaw when he seized the opportunity.
"Don't blame Tianlin for this, he had already told me when he let his son join the crew, and I didn't expect Xu Guanwen's film to be a big hit" Run Run Shaw was shocked when he heard the words of the sixth aunt, frowned and said, If Fang Yihua hadn't talked about it, maybe Run Run Run Shaw himself would have forgotten about it.
Fang Yihua looked at Run Shaw in surprise, what she wanted to say, but she didn't know what to say, she opened her mouth and finally didn't say anything, she didn't expect that Run Run Run Shaw already knew about it, and this matter was agreed by Run Run Shaw.
Run Run Shaw may have remembered the original incident under Fang Yihua's reminder, and didn't pay attention to Fang Yihua's reaction, thought about it, and then said, 'When Tianlin came over, he told me that this film was invested by Chen Yihua, and I didn't care about it at the time, I thought it was just a young man joking'
The more Run Run Shaw said, the more he sighed, Wang Tianlin had found him and explained the situation to himself, he already knew that Chen Yihua was Chen Tingyao's son at that time, although he was surprised that Chen Yihua wrote a movie script, but he didn't care very much, he just thought it was the result of young people not determining their surnames and playing around, but he didn't expect this drama to be so popular.
'Chen Yihua, sixth brother, he is not a half-catty screenwriter, these days the newspapers have always published news about him, saying that he is a genius composer or something, sixth brother, do you know this person' Fang Yihua asked curiously when he heard Run Shaw mention this name.
Seeing Fang Yihua's blank and curious appearance, Run Run Shaw was happy, and smiled, "You should have seen this young man too, have you forgotten the pager advertisement that was broadcast on our TV station?"
In fact, Run Run Shaw has forgotten about Chen Yihua's investment in filmmaking, and he doesn't remember what script he wrote, if it weren't for the name Chen Yihua appearing in the newspaper in the past few days, Run Run Shaw still doesn't believe that this time Golden Harvest's half a catty and eight taels is the script that Chen Yihua wrote at the beginning.
'Ah, it's him, is he that Chen Yihua'
Fang Yihua was really surprised, how could she not remember that Chen Yihua, the pager TV commercial he broadcast at the beginning was very shocking to the filmmaker, it can be said that Chen Yihua played all three TV stations, which made Fang Yihua very impressed, but she really didn't know what genius composer is praised in Hong Kong newspapers now, the genius screenwriter is the same person as that Chen Yihua, if it weren't for Run Run Shaw saying so, Fang Yihua would have thought that it was just two people with the same name and surname.
Who would have thought that the big boss of a company would be a screenwriter or composer, and Run Run Shaw also remembered that Wang Tianlin told him that Chen Yihua invested in Xu Guanwen to make a movie, so he was sure that the Chen Yihua reported in the newspaper was the same person as the Chen Yihua he had met.
"Sixth brother, who is this Chen Yihua" Zhang Che also asked curiously, Run Run Shaw and Fang Yihua were playing dumb riddles, and he had never seen Chen Yihua himself, of course he didn't know what the two were talking about, and he was confused just now sitting next to him.
"It's nothing, it's just a young man I know, the son of an old friend of mine" Run Run Shaw didn't wait for Fang Yihua to explain, and took the lead in saying, he and Chen Tingyao are good friends, and I don't know what Chen Tingyao thinks about this matter, so I don't want Zhang Che to know now that Chen Yihua is still the owner of Tianyi pager.
Fang Yihua is not a fool, he has been with Run Run Shaw for so many years, and he knows that he definitely doesn't want to mention this matter when he says this, so what he was going to say swallowed back his stomach.
Of course Zhang Che didn't know this, he was a little surprised to hear the basis for Run Run Run Shaw say this, but he didn't expect that this Chen Yihua and Run Run Shaw were actually familiar with each other, he had never heard of this person's name before.
'Sixth brother, this Chen Yihua is very talented, I have heard the four songs he wrote, whether it is Xu Guanjie's two Austrian songs or Deng Lijun's two Chinese songs are very classic'
After a pause, Zhang Che continued, 'Sixth brother, if this movie is really written by this Chen Yihua, then his talent in writing movie scripts will not be weak, Sixth Brother, if this person knows you, you can recruit him into Shaw Brothers, you can let him come over to help me and be my assistant."
In fact, when it was sold, Zhang Che had already secretly gone to Golden Harvest's cinema to watch this movie, although it was the work of the opponent, but as a director, Zhang Che still recognized the quality of the film, and felt that the storyline of this film was arranged very tightly and reasonably, plus many movies needed to have excellent theme songs, so when Zhang Che heard that Run Run Shaw knew that Chen Yihua, he would propose to recruit this Chen Yihua.
"Let's talk about this later," Zhang Che proposed, Run Run Shaw never thought that if it was an ordinary person, of course Run Run Shaw would immediately think of receiving such a rare film talent to Shaw Brothers, but Chen Yihua is not only the son of his old friend, but now he is also the boss of Tianyi pager, and he can't let a big boss work under him.
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