Chapter Ninety-Six: Winning the Lawsuit
Throwing a bomb at the newspaper and threatening not to talk nonsense, this kind of thing also made other newspapers feel sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox, and the feeling of being hurt by things.
For a time, both the "Oriental Daily" and the "Sing Tao Daily" denounced this matter, and even supported the "Daily Daily".
There seems to be a feeling that although I disagree with your words, I absolutely defend your right to speak.
Even Mr. Jin Yong commented in Ming Pao, saying that the incident of dropping a bomb at a newspaper was a serious violation of press freedom, and called on the authorities to protect the newspaper, find out the perpetrators as soon as possible, and give freedom to the Hong Kong news media.
Although everyone had a tacit understanding and did not mention the Shaw Brothers Company, the eyes of the masses were bright and had already read between the lines.
For a time, the balance of public opinion was completely tilted towards the Xu Brothers Company, and the people's hearts were available!
The Shaw Brothers Company was disgraced by this home-made bomb, and although it had tried its best to explain and clarify, it had no choice but to have a criminal record, and no matter how much it defended, no one believed it.
The so-called yellow mud fell into the crotch of his pants, and it was not but was.
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After the bomb threat in the "Daily Daily", the people's hearts and public opinion instantly tilted in the direction of the Xu Brothers Company, which also made the Xu Brothers Company win the sympathy of the jurors.
After a week-long trial, the court ruled that it was their freedom to hire employees. And it is also their freedom for employees to choose Xu's Brothers.
The court did not uphold the limitation clause in the contract of Shaw Brothers regarding the employee's resignation after leaving the company.
The victory of Hui's Brothers is a blow to the veteran film empire of Shaw Brothers.
After the judge pronounced the verdict, there was a cheer in the courtroom.
The employees who defected from Shaw to Hsu Bros. all hugged excitedly to celebrate their new life.
Shaw Brothers protested loudly, claiming that it must continue to appeal, and even went to the British Supreme Court to file a lawsuit.
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Xu Guanwu won the lawsuit with great difficulty, and successfully left those employees in the Xu Brothers company.
Everyone said that he won by wrestling with Uncle Shao Liu, and they all saw his side of spending money like water.
Because of this lawsuit, Xu Guanwu has become a well-known star in Hong Kong.
What made Xu Guanwu even happier was that the eldest brother Xu Guanwen was treated by the hospital, and his gout symptoms were alleviated and he could finally be discharged from the hospital.
"Second brother, I've already heard about what happened, and it's hard for you these days." Xu Guanwen patted Xu Guanwu's shoulder and said, "Because of my condition, you have to do everything, and my eldest brother can't help you." ”
"Big brother, what are you talking about?" Xu Guanwu smiled, "We are brothers, do we need to be so polite to do something?" ”
"I heard that your newspaper lost a lot of money, and when I go back, I will transfer a sum of money from the company's account to compensate for your expenses." Xu Guanwen said again.
"No need, big brother! That's only two or three million in total. Xu Guanwu waved his hand.
"Two or three million is not a small amount, in my opinion, the lawsuit has been won, so it is better to sell the newspaper, the province will always stay in the hands and lose money." Xu Guanwen persuaded.
"Big brother, you don't know about this." Xu Guanwu said with a smile, "Although my "Daily Daily" is not profitable now, the channel has been established, and the reputation is slowly being created. Now that the advertising revenue is increasing every day, it is about to make a lot of money. I can't bear to sell it now. ”
"Second brother, you lose tens of thousands of dollars a day, can you afford to lose?" Xu Guanying said worriedly, "Let people read newspapers for free, it always feels like a loss-making business." ”
"I injected 10 million Hong Kong dollars into the Daily Daily, which is enough for it to lose money for a year." Xu Guanwu said with a smile, "As for whether it is a loss-making transaction, we will know if we continue to do it." ”
When they saw his confidence, they all laughed.
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Back at the office, Stanley's report on investing in Ms. Qiong Shao's film was finally made and placed on the table in Xu Guanwu's office.
"Why did it take so long for you to do a market research?" Xu Guanwu glanced at the manager of Stanley Market Research Company with some displeasure.
He has high hopes for this company, spending a lot of money to tap key talents from major market research companies in Hong Kong, and trying to build it into the first and most haode market research company in Hong Kong's entertainment industry.
Unexpectedly, the first project took them more than half a month.
How can you adapt to a changing market when things are handled so slowly?
"Boss, don't be angry, in order to ensure the accuracy of the market research, I specially sent the most capable investigators to Taiwan to do the investigation." "In this report, in addition to analyzing the current situation of the Taiwan market, we also included a list of actors with strong box office appeal in Taiwan, as well as a survey on the tastes of movie audiences. ”
"Oh?!" Xu Guanwu was slightly stunned, he couldn't imagine that this market research would be done in such detail, no wonder it would take so long.
"Then you can help me analyze in detail the reasons for the box office fiasco of Ms. Qiong Shao's first two movies." Xu Guanwu looked at the manager and said.
"This manager is surnamed Fang." Xu Guanwu muttered to himself.
Truth be told, he founded Stanley Market Research, and since the day he left the project, he has rarely been seen at the company.
Therefore, Xu Guanwu is a little unfamiliar with the personnel within the company.
Compared with "Daily Daily", Stanley Market Research is more like a stepmother's child.
Manager "Fang" immediately answered the question raised by Xu Guanwu, "According to the market research we did, there are three reasons for the failure of the first film "Full Moon West Building" invested by Ms. Qiong Shao: First, boldly use the new director Liu Yi, who has almost no previous directing experience, so many scenes cannot be scheduled, and the funds invested in the early stage are quickly exhausted, forcing Ms. Qiong Yao to have to add funds, which increases the cost of the film. ”
Second, actors Kang Wei and Jiang Ming are also newcomers and have no box office appeal. Third, there is no scheduled haode movie schedule. Although the movie had a good reputation after its release, because there was no haode schedule, it was only released for a week, so that the movie did not even recover the cost. ”
"So that's the case, so when investing in the second work, Ms. Qiong Shao should learn a lesson." Xu Guanwu said with a smile.
"It's a pity that she didn't," the manager shook his head, "In the second movie "Clover", Ms. Qiong Shao asked Takayama Lan to be the director. But he is also a rookie director, who previously worked as an art director and has no experience directing films. ”
And in order to shoot the beautiful scenery, they also went to Yushan to shoot the exterior scenes, and in order to shoot the scene of flowers in full bloom, they made thousands of plastic flowers as decorations. Although the film picture is very good, the cost is too high. After the release, the investment was also not recovered. The manager introduced.
Xu Guanwu couldn't help but smile when he heard it, he couldn't imagine that Ms. Qiong Shao was really an artist, but artists were not suitable for making movies.
Or that it's not suitable for making money with movies.