Li Xuan took a sip of the coffee in his hand and said with a smile: "Sixth uncle, you are really generous this time!" ”

"You offspring waited for me on the Peninsula for a long time today", you won't just talk to me about investing in Hollywood movies, right? Shao Yifu teased.

"How can I be, I have something serious to think about finding the sixth uncle." Li Xuan replied softly.

"Oh?" Shao Yifu glanced at Qiu Degeng next to him with great interest, and continued to ask, "What's the matter with you?" ”

Li Xuan rubbed the coffee cup in his hand and said softly: "Sixth uncle, do you know that Hong Kong held a film award last year? ”

“……”

Shao Yifu was slightly stunned, and then said with a wry smile: "You mean the film award held by the weekly magazine that scolded me for speaking inappropriately in the Philippines?" ”

"Uh, yes!" Li Xuan also nodded slightly embarrassed.

Shao Yifu shook his head lightly and sighed: "Alas, what's wrong with them? Hey? No, judging from the timing of last year's awards, this year should have been held a long time ago. ”

"Who's to say it's not, but it's still a big question whether they can succeed in this year's award." Li Xuan replied helplessly.

"What's wrong with them?" Qiu Degeng interjected on the side.

"Until now, they haven't found a sponsor." Li Xuan shrugged his shoulders and replied helplessly: "They are sponsored by political axes, and they don't want to be sponsored by film companies, but people outside the circle don't understand this business, how many tycoons will venture to invest money for this kind of award?" ”

"That's right!" Shao Yifu took a sip of his coffee, looked at Li Xuan playfully and said, "But you asked me to meet at this time, do you want this time to be sponsored by my wireless TV station?" ”

"Hehe, Uncle Sixth is wise!" Li Xuan smiled: "I just said a few words, you know the reason." ”

Shao Yifu put down his coffee and scolded with a smile: "Don't fight with me, I don't understand, you won so many Golden Horse Awards last year, why do you still want to help people toss what Academy Awards this year?" ”

"Sixth uncle, what you said is wrong." Li Xuan chuckled and explained: "No matter how well he does the Golden Horse Award, it is also from Taiwan." But in recent years, which aspects of our Hong Kong films are not better than Taiwanese films? So why can't we Hong Kong people have a film award of our own? Uncle Six, what do you say? ”

“……”

Shao Yifu and Qiu Degeng were silent, obviously struggling with whether to sponsor the Hong Kong Film Awards, Li Xuan was also quietly drinking coffee, silently looking at the crowded streets outside.

Li Xuan understands Shao Yifu's silence very well, although this old man doesn't care about Shaw Brothers Pictures anymore, but Shaw Brothers and Wireless are the same mother after all. If this Shao Yifu sponsored the Academy Awards through wireless, according to the surname of Chen Baisheng's group, he would definitely come fairly, and the Shaw Brothers would definitely not win a few awards.

This one's own parents leave themselves alone, but they are nursing other people's children, and the employees of Shaw Brothers will definitely have opinions. And at this moment, Li Xuan wanted to see how permissive Shao Yifu had been to the Shaw Brothers.

After half a ring, Shao Yifu finally spoke.

"That Ah Xuan, I'm afraid I'm ...... this busy"

"Sixth brother, wait a minute!" Qiu Degeng suddenly interrupted Shao Yifu's words, looked at Li Xuan and said, "Ah Xuan, what kind of Academy Award sponsorship fee, how much does it cost in total?" ”

"Uh......" Li Xuan was slightly stunned, and then replied: "Four or five hundred thousand should be enough." ”

"So little?" Qiu Degen was also stunned, obviously 'frightened' by this number.

Li Xuan then smiled bitterly: "Although it is less, it is also money, no one likes meat buns to beat dogs, right?" ”

"Sixth brother, you don't sponsor?" Qiu Degeng turned his head to look at Shao Yifu again and asked.

"Alas, there is a weak heart!" Shao Yifu sighed, looked at Qiu Degeng again and said, "What, Brother Qiu wants to sponsor the Academy Awards?" But you're ...... now."

"I'm short of money now, but these four or five hundred thousand are still able to be taken out if they are squeezed to the point where they are squeezed." Qiu Degeng replied.

"Oh? Boss Qiu intends to sponsor the Academy Awards? Li Xuan said with some surprise: "Then I'll mention the people of "Film Fortnightly" first, thank you to Mr. Qiu, ......."

"Ah Xuan, don't thank you first!" Qiu Degeng waved his hand, pointed at Shao Yifu and said: "Whether I can sponsor the Academy Awards or not depends on whether this big boss Shao accepts my things." ”

“……”

Li Xuan paused slightly, he made an appointment with Shao Yifu to meet today, but he didn't expect Shao Yifu to bring Qiu Degeng over, which was strange. Li Xuan knew that Qiu Degeng would soon become the big boss of Lishi and continue to fight with Wireless, but he obviously didn't expect Shao Yifu and Qiu Degeng's personal relationship to be so good.

You must know that in the sixties, Qiu Degeng almost became a competitor with Shao Yifu.

Qiu Degeng also started by running a cinema back then, and has more than a dozen rural cinemas in the New Territories, known as the 'cinema king' in the New Territories. So when Shaw Brothers was fighting with Dianmao, Lu Yuntao, the boss of Dianmao, found Qiu Degeng and wanted to cooperate with him, and Qiu Degeng also agreed. It's just that I didn't expect that only a few days later, Lu Yuntao went to Taiwan to participate in the Asian Film Festival and there was a plane crash, and none of the senior executives of Denmao were spared. And Qiu Degeng's woman was also on that plane.

Since being hit by this, Qiu Degeng has put down the affairs of the theater and concentrated on running his own Far East Group.

It's just now, what does Qiu Degeng want to sell?

Shao Yifu smiled bitterly, looked at Qiu Degeng and said, "Brother Qiu, you really plan to buy Lishi, you must know that the TV station is not so easy to open." Sometimes a year's profit is not even as good as someone else's movie, and I don't think I need to say much about the loss, the ready-made columns of Lishi and Jiashi are there. ”

"Opening a film company or TV station of her own is a big wish of his deceased wife." Qiu Degeng's eyes were a little confused and said: "Although she is no longer here, I hope that I can help her realize this wish." ”

"Hey! The relationship between the noble couple is really enviable. Shao Yifu shook his head lightly and said, "But now that you have sold the equity of this wireless TV station, it will be difficult to buy it back in the future." ”

"Haha, I don't plan to get it back." Qiu Degeng waved his hand and said: "Anyway, it's idle in your hand, it's better to cash out and do something you want to do." ”

Li Xuan looked at Shao Yifu and Qiu Degeng with some consternation, these two guys completed part of the equity transaction of TVB in a few words, and by the way, they also discussed the operation of Lishi. The acquisition of Lishi, which has a great impact on the future of Hong Kong's film and television industry, was completed in the casual conversation between the two tycoons, and it was high-end and high-end.

For Lishi's steamed buns, which are not fragrant or smelly, Li Xuan was also a little tempted. But as Shao Yifu said, the annual profit of a TV station is sometimes not even comparable to a film from a film company, let alone a loss. And Lishi, a TV station that has been established for 25 years, now all the stock prices add up to about 200 million Hong Kong dollars, which is not as valuable as the box office value of Golden Harvest's "Cannonball Speed" in North America.

Now if anyone wants to control Lishi, it is basically enough to spend about 100 million Hong Kong dollars. Li Xuan has been making movies in the past few years, and he has also saved seventy or eighty million Hong Kong dollars, and if Li Xuan opens his mouth to Zou Wenhuai for the rest of the money, the old man will definitely be happy to help.

But except for the artist resources that are a little attractive to Li Xuan, Lishi is useless to Li Xuan. But for a film company that has not mastered the cinema chain, too many artist resources are not only not beneficial, but also a big burden. It's hard to figure out that before the TV station is put together, Li Xuan's film company will be dragged down first.

As for relying on the resources of these artists to open a large manager company to monopolize the market, Li Xuan never thought about it, really when the Hong Kong community in the late 80s couldn't be vegetarian?

thought that Liu Dehua was so popular back then, and the big tree with his back to Xinyi'an, he almost called Xiang Huaqiang to be a godfather, but he was not forced to make a movie by other clubs with guns; When Li Lianjie was popular, his agent Cai Ziming took over everything for him, but as a result, Cai Ziming, who didn't even pay attention to Xin Yi'an, was shot twice and killed; And Chenglong, an internationally renowned star, later carried guns and grenades with him every time he went out to film, in order to protect the two or three artists under him!

Why did Hong Kong's big celebrity brokerage companies only pop up after 1997? It's because of the community. It's okay that you have one or two celebrities who are just popular, let's have something to say, and everyone will make money in harmony. But if you want to pull it all into your hands, you're definitely looking for death.

However, Li Xuan looked at Shao Yifu who was talking eloquently and touched his chin, although he didn't think about the whole TV station to play, but couldn't he also cooperate with Qiu Degeng in depth?

I don't have to get a time like this time to prepare for the filming of "Heavenly Love", I know where the actors are but I can't invite anyone. (To be continued.) )