By the time the two of them left the restaurant after lunch, Shao Yifu never clearly stated the reason for asking Gu Chen for an appointment, but after chatting for more than an hour, Gu Chen still made Gu Chen understand. Today's date was proposed by Shao Yifu, needless to say, the purpose is naturally to improve the relationship with Gu Chen, so what is the purpose of improving the relationship? This starts with the current situation of TVB. Since last year's highly-anticipated Taiwanese drama "Qianlong the Great" lost again to "Joking about Qianlong", which is also an ATV Taiwanese celebration drama, the audience's confidence in wireless has obviously been greatly impacted, and its performance has shown a sharp decline in a short period of time.

According to a data obtained by Gu Chen a few days ago, as of the end of February this year, ATV's share of the Hong Kong TV market has reached 63.4%, and it is actively expanding the market in Taiwan and Southeast Asia, and has achieved good results. In stark contrast, the market share occupied by TVB, which originally dominated the Hong Kong TV market, has shrunk to 22.9%, a figure that even the vast majority of Hong Kong people did not think about a year and a half ago, not to mention Shao Yifu himself. At that time, the Hong Kong TV market share occupied by wireless was still larger than that of ATV now, it can be said that ATV can only survive under the pressure of wireless, even if there is a moment to show the momentum of competing with TVB, but the result turns out to be just a flash in the pan after all, and ATV is completely at an absolute disadvantage in general.

Not only that, with the collapse of the wireless empire, the brain drain within wireless is also becoming more and more serious, and a large number of outstanding talents have jumped to ATV, including actors and other technical talents. No number of measures have been taken to change this situation. Seeing that ATV is thriving and the TV series that are popular with the audience one after another, Shao Yifu is becoming more and more pessimistic about the future of wireless.

And during this period of wireless gradually declining. Hong Kong films are showing a picture of increasing prosperity, not to mention the box office of the film has repeatedly hit new highs in the local market, and it has also gone out of Hong Kong to dominate other markets in Asia, and even made a lot of dollars in the European and American markets, although most of these films are from Gu Chen's Tang Dynasty Film Company, but it does not prevent him from re-focusing on movies when the performance of wireless is dismal, especially Gu Chen's acquisition of AMC and EGK, two major theater companies in the United States. made him more optimistic about the future of Hong Kong films.

It is important to know that AMC and EGK are two of the largest theater companies in the United States, controlling nearly 40% of the theater resources in the United States, so it is needless to say that such a huge proportion of influence in Hollywood is not to mention. At least in the future, it will be much easier for Hong Kong films to be released in the United States than before. Therefore, after careful consideration, he decided to return his focus to Shaw Brothers Film Company in the future.

After selling the theater chain to Gu Chen, Shaw Brothers' film production declined rapidly according to Shao Yifu's plan, and it was almost in a state of semi-shutdown. Only three low-budget films were produced last year as proof of this. And if you want to make a difference in today's Hong Kong film industry. It is essential to have a good relationship with Gu Chen, the actual overlord of the film industry, so he pulled down his face and called Gu Chen in person.

Gu Chen is still welcome for Shao Yifu's preparation to make a comeback in the film industry, although the current Hong Kong film industry is no longer the Hong Kong film industry of the sixties and seventies, and the Shaw Brothers is not the film industry hegemon who dominated Hong Kong in the sixties and seventies, but the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, with the strength of the Shaw Brothers and the influence and financial resources of Shao Yifu in the Hong Kong film industry, as long as you focus on movies. Something can be done. is still the same sentence, it is absolutely not enough for Hong Kong films to rely on the Tang Dynasty Film Company alone. Hollywood films can run rampant in the world by not one or two large film production companies, but the entire developed industrial chain. If Hong Kong films want to compete with Hollywood, the overall development of the entire industry is the king. Gu Chen only wants control, but he doesn't want to dominate the entire market, otherwise he won't cooperate with Yongsheng.

Therefore, after lunch, the two talked happily and discussed some specific matters. In the next two days, Gu Chen met with Zou Wenhuai and Xiang Huaqiang respectively, and those paparazzi who were professional in tracking Gu Chen soon discovered this unusual phenomenon.

In fact, Gu Chen and Shao Yifu had lunch together in Tan Jiaxuan on the same day and were photographed by the paparazzi on the same day, which immediately caused a lot of speculation as soon as the media reported it, because of well-known reasons, the relationship between Gu Chen and Shao Yifu is not an exaggeration to describe it in the eyes of everyone, but such two people are eating together, and according to the paparazzi in question, Gu Chen and Shao Yifu were smiling when they walked out of the box, obviously the lunch between the two sides was quite pleasant, which has to make people think about it, and there are any speculations, Some speculated that Gu Chen wanted to poach people from wireless again, this speculation was abandoned by most people, with Gu Chen's current status, what actor is worthy of him to come forward in person? What's more, Gu Chen, who had poached people from wireless in the past, had never come forward, and it was impossible for him to meet Shao Yifu directly.

There is some speculation that Gu Chen intends to enter TVB, this speculation is also unconvincing, now ATV is already the overlord of Hong Kong's TV industry, and in the case that ATV will be completely taken over in the future, Gu Chen has no need to enter the board of directors of TVB again. Some media speculate that Shao Yifu wants to revive the film industry, and this speculation has been agreed by most people, after all, now that TVB's performance is dismal, it is natural for Shao Yifu to want to make a difference in the increasingly prosperous Hong Kong film industry, and it is also a correct choice.

If it is really the last guess, then the proposer of the lunch date should be Shao Yifu, but Gu Chen met with Zou Wenhuai and Xiang Huaqiang, the owners of two other big companies in the Hong Kong film industry, in a short period of time, which immediately made everyone a little confused, no one would think that this was a coincidence, and there would be no such a coincidence, but they couldn't guess what kind of medicine Gu Chen was selling in the gourd.

At this time, the paparazzi in Hong Kong once again moved in groups, chasing and intercepting several parties and the people around them, but both the parties and others were silent, either silent, or replied with a fluttering sentence - everyone will know the Tao in a few days, the more this is the case, the more curious the outside world becomes, what makes the big men in the Hong Kong film industry so serious and want to keep it secret, and they all speculate in their hearts that maybe Gu Chen will make some big moves, or maybe something big will happen in the Hong Kong film industry.

Amid all kinds of speculation and anticipation, on March 9, almost all the local and foreign media branches in Hong Kong received an announcement from the press department of Tang Dynasty Holdings: Gu Chen will hold a press conference at the Peninsula Hotel at 10 a.m. on March 10.

As soon as this news was released, in addition to being really unrelated to entertainment and current affairs, other media all moved, you must know that Lu Dao now Gu Chen rarely attends press conferences in person, everything is released through the press affairs department of Tang Dynasty Holdings, and every time Gu Chen personally attends the press conference, it indicates that there is something big to announce, and then think of Gu Chen A few days ago, Gu Chen met with Shao Yifu, Zou Wenhuai and Xiang Huaqiang one after another, everyone knew that it should be time to reveal the answer. It was with this idea in mind that countless media flocked to the press conference on the day of the press conference, and there were so many people that it was impossible to fit the venue. In desperation, the staff of the press conference could only invite some minor personnel out of the venue, which made the venue no longer seem so crowded.

At 10 o'clock, the host of the press conference walked up to the rostrum and said loudly: "Fellow journalists, please be quiet, the press conference is about to start, due to the more reporters and friends who came today, I hope you can consciously abide by the order of the venue, well, now I have Mr. Gu Chen, Chairman of Tang Dynasty Holdings, Mr. Zhang Zhengzong, Director of Broadcasting and Publication of Hong Kong, Mr. Shao Yifu, Chairman of TVB, Mr. Zou Wenhuai, Chairman of Golden Harvest Film Company, Mr. Xiang Huaqiang, Chairman of Yongsheng Film Company, and Mr. Wu Siyuan, President of Tang Dynasty Cinema Group, Six gentlemen are invited to appear. ”

As the host's voice fell, Gu Chen, Shao Yifu, Zou Wenhuai, Xiang Huaqiang and Zhang Zhengzong, director of the Hong Kong Broadcasting and Publication Administration, walked into the venue together.

After sitting down on the stage, Wu Siyuan adjusted the height of the microphone, and then faced the many reporters in the audience, and said with a smile: "I believe everyone here is very curious about today's press conference, and before I officially announce it, I will distribute a copy of the information to you." ”

Immediately, more than a dozen staff members each walked to the press booth with a thick stack of materials and began to distribute them, and the reporters who got the information first only saw the content at the beginning of the information, and suddenly their hearts suddenly changed, it turned out to be this matter, no wonder these film industry bigwigs can get together, especially Shao Yifu and Zou Wenhuai, the grievances of these two people are known to Hong Kong people, and they have not been in contact for decades, and now it is reasonable to reunite for this matter. Some continued to look down at the information, while others excitedly whispered to the people around them.

After the distribution of the materials, the discussion at the venue had already resounded, and then Wu Siyuan said again: "Okay, please be quiet, after reading the information in your hands, you all know the purpose of today's press conference, yes, officially for the establishment of the Hong Kong Film Association." As we all know, Hong Kong films have long occupied a very important position in the Asian film market and even the world film market, but there has never been a professional organization to plan and coordinate the entire market, which is obviously extremely unreasonable. (To be continued......)