Shao Yifu has a good habit, that is, he is never picky when watching movies, he watches good movies with relish, and he watches bad movies meticulously.

In contrast, Zhang Shaoping is far behind, "Descendants of Shaolin" is only half boring, if it wasn't in the small screening room, and it was to accompany Shao Yifu to watch a movie, I'm afraid he would have dozed off.

finally survived until the end of the movie, Zhang Shaoping immediately became fierce and praised: "This film is good." ”

"This is my newly promoted director of Shaw Brothers, I don't have much experience, but I am better than that unworthy Zhang Mingming!"

mentioned his new director, Shao Yifu showed an expression of appreciation, but when he talked about Zhang Mingming, he suddenly became angry again, the guy filmed the movie "Interstellar Blunt Tire", known as the Hong Kong version of "Star Wars", almost didn't him off. For the first time in his decades-long film career, the audience asked for a refund, and you can imagine how frustrated this epic blockbuster has become.

The only thing that made Shao Yifu feel a little better was that Zhang Mingming cheated him, and Xu Ke's "New Shu Mountain Swordsman" also made Jiahe miserable, and both of them were the ones who took revenge.

"It seems that Uncle Six's ambition is still there, promote newcomers and new directors, then cheer up, the Shaw Brothers New Year is not far off!" Zhang Shaoping said with a smile.

In fact, this is a compliment, the problem of Shaw Brothers is not solved by promoting one or two people at all, its dilemma lies in the backwardness of the big factory system, the bloated organization, and the large number of people who eat idle meals, and the cast and crew all get dead wages. And now more and more reading production companies are different, in order to make movies, poaching people everywhere, three or four times the salary is casually opened, and even top stars such as Cheng Long , Xu Guanjie and other top stars have overseas box office dividends to be obtained.

Such a comparison has caused all capable people to leave, and a newly promoted person to change jobs, and the Shaw Brothers can't retain talents at all, and all those who stay are mixed up and waiting for death, and taking dead wages.

To put it mildly, since Fang Yihua became the financial director, Shaw Brothers Pictures has been hanging its life by eating the old foundation, and it has dragged on for more than 10 years, and it is time for the curtain to end. You must know that "Interstellar Blunt Tire" was originally a movie with a big investment and big production, but Shaw Brothers pursued Fang Yihua's "scissors", and the production cost was reduced again and again, and finally became the worst movie in history, not one of them. This led to Zhang Yuming not only carrying the black pot, but even not daring to touch movies about science fiction in the future, which was really harmful to others and himself.

Shao Yifu is a very insightful person, he sighed: "Ah Ping, you don't have to comfort me, I know, the movies that Shaw Brothers are making now are not good." We can't play the current movie at Shaw Brothers, and we can't afford to play it anymore. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Shaoping shook his head secretly, Shao Yifu is old, and he has lost the courage and courage to dare to fight, and since the establishment of Shaw Brothers, more than 20 years of ups and downs have long been dull - like at the beginning of the business, the investment of millions of Hong Kong dollars was bet on Li Hanshen, who was still a newcomer at the time - such a heroic act will not be there anymore.

But what does this have to do with him Zhang Shaoping? On the contrary, the more unintentional the Shaw Brothers is, the easier the next negotiations will be.

The tea was cold, Weng Meiling made a pot of tea again, Zhang Shaoping took the tea, took a sip, and asked, "Sixth uncle, what did you think about the incident I mentioned on the phone before?" ”

Since Yuan Tianfan planned the company's blueprint for him, Zhang Shaoping let go and was ready to do a big job. While poaching people through headhunting companies to see if they can find qualified professional managers and professional directors, they can settle many troubles. And Yuan Tianfan was parachuted into Zongheng Investment Company to clean up the mess.

According to Yuan Tianfan's strategy, there are two things to focus on, one is the establishment of magazines in the United States, and the other is the laying of channels for the video tape rental industry. The most important thing in the rental of video tapes is to have a stable film source, and the source of the film source can be divided into two ways: buy the copyright and fill it yourself, be responsible for distribution, and charge a proportional fee.

For those small companies, the copyright is bought out, because the customer is a big bully, and it can be purchased at a low price. However, when it comes to large companies such as Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, it is mainly responsible for issuance, because the price is not low, and if it is bought out, the capital utilization rate is low, and the risk is also very high.

A tycoon like Shao Yifu, Zhang Shaoping, in order to show respect, personally called to talk, and even came to the door in a hurry.

Shao Yifu sighed: "Ah Ping, the thing you mentioned really embarrassed me, Yu Gong said, I should cooperate with you and make money for the company." But in private, one is that I have a lot of feelings for these film and television dramas and am reluctant to sell them to others, and the other is that you are too deeply involved in the north, and I am caught in the middle and am in a dilemma. ”

Zhang Shaoping scoffed at what Shao Yifu said, between businessmen, as long as the price is sufficient, what can't be discussed?

Shao Yifu has always been a film businessman, he definitely made movies just to make money. The sea slipped to the South Seas, and I was also invited to shoot Yamamoto and Nakano. Now, being a TV station is much more profitable than making movies, so Shao Yifu naturally shifted his focus to TV, and moved the big factory system to TVB to continue playing.

In another time and space, Shaw Yifu sold the rights to 760 Shaw Brothers films to overseas companies at a package price of 80 million US dollars. A businessman can be a patriotic businessman, a philanthropic businessman, but one thing is business.

"Uncle Sixth laughed, your film and television drama library is hidden and has no use, after all, it is not a way, if we cooperate, we can return a lot of funds, which is a good policy." Zhang Shaoping chuckled, "As for my relationship with the north, this is purely a rumor by the media, who is putting me together, you always know." ”

In terms of political philosophy, Shao Yifu agrees with Taiwan. It is lukewarm to the mainland, but Zhang Shaoping believes that the concept can be changed, and as soon as the Sino-British joint communiqué comes out, all positions will change tone.

Zhang Shaoping continued: "Sixth Uncle, I had a small fight before, and the Shaw family has a big business, so I don't care about my little money, but now I sincerely want to cooperate with you for a long time!" Besides, I'm in the bottom end of the videotape rental business, and the demand for film sources is huge, and not only does not clash with your distribution business, but complements it, isn't that a good thing in the long run? ”

Shao Yifu pondered for a moment and asked, "There aren't many people who have video recorders now, right?" ”

"Hehehe, it will slowly increase in the future, I am doing a long-term business, and I fancy it in the future, so I will pave the way first."

Zhang Shaoping said with a half-truthful smile, speaking openly, completely unafraid of Shao Yifu knowing his intentions.

This initial investment is quite a lot, and it is likely to lose money, which is like a chicken rib for Shao Yifu, and it is not attractive at all.

Shao Yifu is an old man, from Zhang Shaoping's words, he guessed that the other party must have a series of supporting plans, suddenly squinted his eyes slightly, and asked tentatively: "How are you going to buy?" ”

Zhang Shaoping smiled and said: "I want all film and television dramas." ”

"All of them?" Shao Yifu suspected that he had misheard, "Black and white films, do you want them too?" ”

Zhang Shaoping said without hesitation: "All of them!" Whether it's Cantonese, Chinese, or Hokkien, as long as the copy is not broken and can still be played, I want it. ”

Shao Yifu really can't figure it out now, the old movie is played, and now it can be said that there is no market at all, let alone get it to the theater to be re-screened, even his wireless TV station will not broadcast this at all.

"I can sell you the copyright of the movie, but the TV series is not, and it is absolutely difficult to approve the buyout on the company's board of directors." Shao Yifu thought about it and said with a smile.

Zhang Shaoping had expected him to say this, in fact, it is not difficult to guess that Shao Yifu has shifted his focus to the TV industry from the simultaneous development of film and television, and now he has the intention of giving up movies; Second, the preservation of the film library is a big problem, and it must be spent on it every year, which is a considerable expenditure, otherwise, the library will be damaged and become a worthless waste; Third, most of these library collections are old films, which are not worth a few dollars. On the whole, it is better to sell the movie copyright.

In contrast, TV dramas have more advantages, they can be repeatedly broadcast on TV stations, and they can also be distributed to mainland TV stations. And the number of episodes in each TV series is extremely large, and after Zhang Shaoping opens the channel, videotapes will become a considerable source of income.

Zhang Shaoping provided two ways to buy and sell the film copyright, he said: "Sixth uncle, the buyout of the film can be bid one by one according to the quality of each film, or it can be packaged and bought according to a unified valuation regardless of the quality of the movie." ”

"The years are not forgiving, and I am tired of talking like this." Shao Yifu waved his hand, not wanting to talk about this, "Let these things be left to the people below, I won't join in the fun." ”

Looking at the old man's energetic appearance, Zhang Shaoping was speechless, but now that the distribution business of Shaw Brothers Pictures and TVB TV has indeed been handed over to Fang Yihua, this excuse is reasonable. When it comes to that difficult woman, Zhang Shaoping feels a headache when he thinks about it, he doesn't want to deal with the other party, so he can only leave it to Hu Mufang and others to talk about.

"Ah Ping, I invited you to come this time, someone asked me to bring you a message, I'm not good at refusing, so I promised to relay it." Zhang Shaoping was picking up tea, but saw Shao Yifu suddenly say.

"Oh, please, I'll listen." Zhang Shaoping's hand holding the cup froze, and then returned to normal, took a sip of tea, and then said slowly.

"You can't favor one over the other!"

Zhang Shaoping smiled bitterly: "Sixth uncle, I'm just a hairy boy, you say, these big people, do you need to care about my statement like this?" ”

Shao Yifu glanced at Zhang Shaoping with a smile, his eyes were full of appreciation, this kid is too demonic, he is penetrating at one point, his mind is precocious and precocious, and he can't be regarded as a young man at all.

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After talking to Shao Yifu for a while and talking about some things, Zhang Shaoping said goodbye.

Weng Meiling also walked along. This is also the greasy thing that the entertainment industry calls actresses to accompany you, anyway, after leaving, you can go whatever you like, and the host doesn't care. Many times, the two sides are targeted, and often go out to roll the sheets.

Zhang Shaoping has no feelings for Weng Meiling, and Weng Meiling is also in love, and the two naturally can't pee together.

"Miss Weng, are you going to ride on the set? If yes, take my car, and I'll be there too. Zhang Shaoping stopped Weng Meiling, who was about to walk to the Shaw Brothers set.

"Thank you." Weng Meiling was afraid that people would see a misunderstanding, so she hesitated a little before getting into the car.

Shaw Brothers set.

The costume dramas, Republic of China dramas and old Hong Kong dramas filmed wirelessly are all filmed here, just because there is a complete Republic of China street and houses and streets of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and if you come to film wirelessly, with the identity of your own family, there is basically no cost. And although ATV and wireless are in competition, who makes Qiu Degen and Shao Yifu brothers, competition is competition, and ATV can still come here to film.

Therefore, if you are on the Shaw Brothers set in Clear Water Bay, you should not be surprised if you see the crews of TVB and ATV filming at the same time.

After Weng Meiling came to the set, she quickly took the bus and left, but Zhang Shaoping walked into the set and found the crew of "One Family from All Over the World".

"One Family from All Seas" is a new short drama of TVB, which is intended to be used to fill the gap after the TV station's feature-length drama is broadcast. The general short dramas are less than 10 episodes, and the short-lived ones such as "Lai Buyi", which aired last month, only have 5 episodes.

The heroine of this play is Chen Yulian, and Zhang Shaoping is from the class.

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