There is a war of words, you come and go, and you are constantly testing each other to give each other a psychological price. Finally, Zhang Shaoping became impatient and said: "That's it, let me say a price, you think it's successful, if it doesn't work, forget it!" ”

Xu Xiaoming and the three of them all nodded, looking like they were listening.

Zhang Shaoping said: "I bought out the mainland broadcast rights of so many TV dramas, and the price must not be calculated in a package!" The longer the time, the lower the price must be, such as "The Sword of the Third Young Master", which was six or seven years ago, and now pirated videotapes are all over the streets, and I will give you $400 per episode, which is considered high. Let's talk about "Hero Huo Yuanjia", the drama of the year before last, I admit that it was very popular, but you don't know how much you sold just by selling videotapes, plus the pirated tapes on the market, I bet that there are more than one million people in the mainland, especially in Guangdong Province. In this case, do you think it is appropriate to ask for a high price? ”

Zhang Shaoping's specious, true and false arguments frightened Xu Xiaoming and the others, they really didn't expect so much. The three exchanged words in a low voice, and Li Zhaohua asked, "What about your thoughts?" ”

"Dramas before '80 are all $400 per episode, and '80, '81 and last year's episodes are all $450 per episode."

"No! The price is too low, at least $50 more for all of them. ”

"It's impossible to add an extra $50......"

"50 is not good, add more ......"

The three of ATV took turns to fight, and Zhang Shaoping fought with each other and negotiated endlessly. Another round of bargaining, the intention to cooperate with difficult births was finally finalized, that is, the pre-80s TV series were $430 per episode, and the episodes of the past three years were $480 per episode.

The main axis is set, and the next step is the licensing negotiation of TV series spin-offs.

The videotape is another important part of film and television distribution, and ATV holds it tightly in its hands, but such as posters, photo albums, stickers, wall calendars, etc., Zhang Shaoping has won copyright authorization. According to the price they negotiated, Zhang Shaoping had to pay ATV 25% of the pre-tax profit for every thing he published.

In fact, there is no such thing as copyright in the mainland at all, and everyone rushes to it when they see what is making money. If he really wants to make money from these, Zhang Shaoping is sure that he will die a miserable death, and it is estimated that he only drank oral soup, and the remaining meat and bones will all be swallowed up by pirates.

Zhang Shaoping didn't want to make money with this, but wanted to rely on this to boost the sales of magazines such as "Film Times" and "TV Times". He is very sure that as long as TV series such as "Hero Huo Yuanjia" land on mainland TV stations, the crowd of moviegoers will definitely sweep the north and south of the country, and thousands of people will be empty. And the accompanying derivative products will definitely take advantage of this spring breeze to enter the lives of the general public, affecting all aspects.

As soon as everyone finished talking about business, Michelle walked in, holding a tray with four bowls of hot sugar water on it.

Mi Xue said with a smile: "Freshly baked red date lotus seed soup, let's try it." ”

Xu Xiaoming laughed and said: "Hui Ling, you are really timely rain, I am hungry, you will send food!" With that, he honestly and unceremoniously took a bowl of sugar water and ate it.

Li Zhuanglie and Li Zhaohua were a little reserved, and they both nodded to Mi Xue with a smile, and then took the bowl.

"How's that going on? Aren't you going to talk all night? ”

"It's been negotiated, just sign the contract tomorrow!"

Zhang Shaoping was eating lotus seed soup while replying to Mi Xue's words.

Xu Xiaoming, who was eating happily next to him, suddenly remembered something, and was stunned, stopped the spoon, and did not move for a long time. Everyone noticed his strange appearance, and Mi Xueqi said, "Brother Ming, what's wrong?" Is this lotus seed soup too sweet? As she spoke, she snatched Zhang Shaoping's lotus seed soup, scooped it with a spoon and ate it, and then frowned, "It's not sweet, it tastes just right!" ”

"Hui Ling, it's not the sugar water, it's that I suddenly remembered something!" Xu Xiaoming smiled bitterly, and then said to Zhang Shaoping embarrassedly, "Zhang Sheng, there is something I forgot to say." In July last year, we sent "The Great Hero Huo Yuanjia" to the Central Television Station in the mainland for propaganda and cultural exchange. If you introduce "Hero Huo Yuanjia", it is estimated that there will be a risk of a crash. ”

"In other words, the copy of "Hero Huo Yuanjia" copied by your ATV is still lying in CCTV's library?" Zhang Shaoping asked with a frown.

"That's right! Zhang Sheng had better find a time to solve this matter, otherwise, the drama broadcast by the two TV stations will not be good-looking! ”

"It's okay! CCTV has not seen any action so far, I think it is because I can't look at this TV series, since I can't watch it, they won't broadcast it in a short time. Zhang Shaoping said disapprerovingly.

CCTV is currently the only television station in the mainland that can broadcast nationwide, and its influence is too great, and it is absolutely impossible to take the lead in experimenting with such an action of buying Hong Kong TV dramas and reforming and innovating the system.

However, from Xu Xiaoming's words, Zhang Shaoping also got a lot of information. ATV's sending "Hero Huo Yuanjia" to CCTV in the mainland is by no means only for propaganda and cultural exchanges, as he said, I am afraid it is also a tentative action to find a way out of the dilemma faced by ATV.

In fact, Zhang Shaoping really didn't guess ATV's wishful thinking, they just hope to break through the current predicament through the release of dramas in other cities.

After Qianli's TV station was taken over by the Australian Gang, it quickly went into decline, and at one point had to reduce its self-produced dramas. It wasn't until August 82 that Qiu Degen became the largest shareholder and took over Li's affairs, and began to gradually resume second-tier self-made dramas. However, at that time, the loss of staff in front of and behind the scenes of the TV station was too serious, and when Qiu Daheng took over, he was unable to start filming a long drama, so he had to start filming a half-hour short story first. In this way, resources can be saved, and secondly, the launch of dramas can be accelerated.

In addition to filming short dramas, in order to resist the momentum of wireless, Qiu Daheng also implemented another strategy, that is, to strive to develop the foreign market. Therefore, since last year, ATV has been attacking everywhere, such as selling dramas to Southeast Asia, which has become one of the main sources of income for the TV station.

The reasons for this are not enough for outsiders, so Zhang Shaoping doesn't know.

Seeing that this matter was mentioned, Zhang Shaoping seemed to be unconcerned, Xu Xiaoming didn't want to say much, and buried himself in eating lotus seed soup.

"When will Zhang Sheng come to our ATV to sign a contract?" When he left, Li Zhuanglie asked.

"The day after tomorrow!"

set the time, Zhang Shaoping sent Xu Xiaoming and the others away.

On the third day, Zhang Shaoping first brought his lawyer and went to ATV to sign an appointment. Then, turn around and go to TVB.

Entering the administrative building of the wireless, I just happened to hit the elevator and came down. The gate opened, and the group walked out.

Zhang Shaoping couldn't help but look at a person, this person he knew, it was Secretary Ma, the assistant secretary of the distribution department who spoke coldly to him at ATV. This person also seemed to see Zhang Shaoping, he nodded with a good attitude, and then lowered his head and whispered something to a man beside him.

The man suddenly walked straight towards Zhang Shaoping and said with a smile: "Zhang Sheng, hello!" I'm Xian Guoxian, when I was in ATV, if there was any neglect, please forgive me! ”

"Do I know you?" Zhang Shao asked a rhetorical question indifferently, and then entered the elevator without looking back.

This is obviously a vicious fight between the two TV stations of wireless and ATV, but it hurt Zhang Shaoping and used him to make fun of him. The night before, Li Zhaohua's words were probably a swollen face and a fat man, how could these two guys be fired, and it was almost the same as changing jobs! Forget about job hopping, and put ATV fiercely.

This kind of vicious fight often occurs between competitors, buying, digging, and asking hooligans to make trouble, anyway, how to hit the opponent. The most famous is the battle between Shaw Brothers and the rival Golden Harvest, from the distribution fight to the theater chain, from the behind-the-scenes fight to the front of the stage, from the competition at the movie box office to invite the hooligan underworld to go to the other party's theater to make trouble, just the sensational film dispute, the saliva lawsuit was fought for millions at that time.

Zhang Shaoping has always been clearly opposed to this thing, Nima's, everyone does this, do you want to make money? A few years later, the underworld entered the Hong Kong entertainment industry, and it was not because the vicious fight between the two entertainment tycoons set a precedent that everyone rushed to get rid of the festival.

Leaving Xian Guoxian with a stunned face, Zhang Shaoping took the elevator to the distribution department of wireless.

The wireless executive who met Zhang Shaoping turned out to be a woman who was almost 50 years old. The cheekbones are convex, the cheeks are slightly slumped, and the eyebrows on the face that still have charm are upright, coupled with the fierce eyes, giving people the feeling of a strong woman.

"Miss Fang?!"

Seeing this woman, Zhang Shaoping couldn't help but be surprised, she was Shao Tycoon's confidante Fang Yihua.

At this time, Fang Yihua had just entered TVB from Shaw Brothers Pictures, responsible for the coordination between artists, production and marketing operations, and began to make her own voice. At this time, she was active, not only supporting her cronies within Wireless, but also participating in various departments from time to time.

"Why, seeing me, does Zhang Sheng think it's strange?" Fang Yihua said with a smile.

"Hehehe, Miss Labor Fang can come out in person, I'm flattered!" Zhang Shaoping said insincerely.

Fang Yihua's reputation in the circle is not very good, and she is a well-known "saving girl". At that time, she first joined the Shaw Brothers to take charge of the two major departments of procurement and finance, practicing frugality and saving money for the company, but many old ministers couldn't bear it, and there were quite complaints, including Zou Wenhuai, who ran away later. Not only that, but she also has a nickname called "One Size Fits All". Just because she is subjective and ruthless, but if she doesn't like it, no matter if it's right or wrong, she will clean you up ruthlessly, and even fire you.

Zhang Shaoping felt a lot of pressure on such a negotiation opponent, and he no longer had any hope of winning more benefits.

(In '82, the renminbi should have been around 1:3 against the Hong Kong dollar and 1.9:1 against the U.S. dollar.) In 83 years, there are details, the yuan is 25.5:100 against the Hong Kong dollar, and 191.1:100 against the US dollar)

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