On September 9, the Double Ninth Festival, Xu Guanwu moved to a new house, and the mid-level villa he bought in Taiping Mountain was finally renovated.

The new villa is not far from Lin Qingxia's villa, and it doesn't take a few minutes to walk. The surrounding neighbors are also rich and expensive, including the Kwok family of Sun Hung Kai Properties, the Shen family who runs the jewelry business of Silver Building, and the Wan family, chairman of the Hong Kong Shatin Jockey Club......

Because all the people who live here are either rich or expensive, the law and order is quite good. In addition to meticulous property security, the police also send people to patrol here for a long time.

Hong Kong's real estate is expensive, especially on Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula in the past two years. Xu Guanwu's mansion is several acres in radius, not only has a large garden seedlings, but also has a beautiful swimming pool behind the house. But the price of this land is as high as 50 million Hong Kong dollars, and the renovation and decoration price of the entire villa has also reached an astonishing 200 million Hong Kong dollars, claiming to be the first luxury house in Hong Kong.

After moving to a new house, it is undoubtedly much more convenient for Xu Guanwu to enter and exit Lin Qingxia's villa, unlike before, he had to take turns every day, but now he is going wherever he wants, and he has already arrived as soon as he lifts his legs.

After a few days of wandering in this way, in November, a piece of news came and attracted people's attention.

After more than half a year of negotiations, Li's TV and Far Eastern Group finally reached an acquisition agreement. Far Eastern Group will buy Li's TV station for 120 million, which is 10 million Hong Kong dollars lower than the price it previously proposed.

After the completion of the acquisition, Leigh's TV station finally ended the chaos that had lasted for nearly a year. Start packing your bags. Get back on track. Because Li's TV station had a bad reputation under the umbrella of the Australian consortium. The audience is very dissatisfied with the frequent use of old dramas, so this time after the Far Eastern Group took over, Qiu Degen, chairman of the Far East, specially renamed Li's TV station as Asia Television, which is the familiar "ATV" in later generations.

Qiu Dekan is a business wizard who wanted to come to Hong Kong destitute and earn his first pot of gold by showing open-air movies in the New Territories, and later opened a silver account in the New Territories to absorb the savings of these villagers. Later, he slowly established a bank and got involved in real estate and so on.

In the turmoil of the 60s, Far Eastern Bank withstood the pressure and was not crushed by the run on depositors, which also made it win the trust of depositors, and its image and popularity increased greatly, and Qiu Degen also established his position in the banking industry. However, although Qiu Degen is already a well-known banker, the business he wants to do most is the entertainment business, after all, he started with open-air theaters.

However, in the late 60s, when he was planning to get involved in the film industry, his wife was married to Mr. and Mrs. Luk Yuntao, the chairman of the film company. He died in a plane crash in Taiwan, which hit Qiu Degen very hard at that time. also made him break the idea of reinvesting in movies. However, after so many years, Qiu Degen has picked up the idea of entering the entertainment industry again.

However, after careful consideration, he did not choose to enter the film industry again, but chose the television industry. In addition to the fact that entering the film industry will bring him some bad memories, another reason is that Qiu Degen has understood that although the Hong Kong film industry is thriving, the box office has repeatedly hit new highs, and the number of moviegoers has returned, but in fact, there are other hidden worries behind the prosperity.

Now the three largest cinema chains in Hong Kong are in the hands of Hui's, Shaw Brothers, and Golden Harvest, and other companies have to cooperate with these three companies if they want to develop, and this is equivalent to being choked by the throat, although it is nominally an independent production company, but in fact it has indirectly become a vassal of the three major cinema chains.

With Qiu Degen's current net worth, wealth, and status, how could he be willing to be a vassal of the three major film companies, and rely on relying on people to eat, so he would rather give up the most lucrative film industry and switch to the field of TV stations. At least the establishment of a television station will not be controlled by others, and if there are three television stations in Hong Kong, in fact, a monopoly has already formed, and the monopoly money is actually the best to earn.

Far Eastern Group became the owner of Li, Li's name was changed to ATV, announcing that Li's TV station, which had been in chaos for nearly a year, was finally back on track. But for those actors who have just made a name for themselves in the film industry, the news is not very good.

Because once the renamed Asia TV takes out a contract and lets them return to the nest, then their struggle in the film industry for the past year will be in vain. After all, after becoming a TV station artist in the future, the opportunity to go out to make money will be greatly reduced, and when the time comes, you will be trapped in the TV station and make TV series, so you naturally don't have to make movies outside now to make money easily.

Especially young artists such as Wan Ziliang , Yu An'an and other young artists have successfully broken into fame this year, and now they have a few more dramas on their bodies, if Asia TV now lets them go back to filming, the liquidated damages for those movies alone can make them bankrupt.

And now the newly established Xiangjiang Film Club also has constraints on artists, artists who break the contract will be punished, and those who maliciously break the contract and do not want to repent, and even call on the entire Hong Kong entertainment industry to be blocked, this kind of punishment is not something that anyone can afford.

The introduction of this provision is mainly because over the years, there have been cases of actors breaching the contract. The actor signed a contract with the company, but he didn't show up when it came to filming, or he ran away halfway through filming. There are many such phenomena, such as Li's previous filming of "Silkworm Transformation", the starring Xu Shaoqiang was poached by Shaw Brothers to make a movie, and Li had no choice but to change the protagonist.

Because the lawsuit is protracted, the lawsuit here has just been fought, and the TV series over there have all been broadcast, so it will be useless to sue him at that time. Leigh's TV station is a big company, and there is nothing there can do about these rogue artists, let alone those small film companies.

finally raised money to invite a star to star, and pointed to the star's box office appeal to make money, so after this star entered the crew, he regarded himself as an uncle, and it was a trivial matter to be late and leave early, and the key was always to see no one for three or five days. Or patting and patting, and suddenly the world evaporated. I can't find anyone if I try to find it. It's also a waste of money for a bunch of people to stop there. Many small film companies can't afford to fight lawsuits, so they have to consider themselves unlucky.

I think that Wu Siyuan's "Dangkou Beach" made Chen Xing popular, and then when he cooperated with "Hungry Tiger and Dragon", Chen Xing began to be not very dedicated, and always disappeared for no reason to go outside to pick up the film, delaying the filming of "Hungry Tiger and Dragon". Later, when filming "Tiger Descending the Mountain", the whole person disappeared halfway through the filming. Later, I searched everywhere and found out that I was hidden by another director.

Even at that time, Wu Siyuan was already quite famous. But there is no way to deal with a rogue artist like Chen Xing, and in the end, he begged Chen Xing to come back, and finally finished filming this scene, but the two did not cooperate again. Wu Siyuan recalled many years afterwards that he was still a little indignant. Because Chen Xing was just an ordinary artist of the Shaw Brothers, he couldn't even earn a thousand yuan a month, it was Wu Siyuan who made him popular, but he didn't expect that he would become a white-eyed wolf. As soon as he got his will, he went wild.

A well-known producer like Wu Siyuan will encounter such a rotten person, and other smaller film companies will be even more unbearable. Therefore, this question was raised later at the Xiangjiang Film Conference. Later, after everyone's unanimous deliberation. launched such a provision, stipulating that all such rogue artists must be severely punished, and vowing to put an end to this bad habit in the film industry.

So if Wan Ziliang plans to break the contract, if he can't pay the liquidated damages, then one of him will file for bankruptcy with the government, and the other will pretend to be dead and not lose money, and let himself be banned by the film industry. These two roads are all dead ends for him, and they are all impossible to walk, and now he just hopes that the new boss can be considerate and not rush to kill them all.

In addition to Wan Ziliang's thoughts, other people who work outside Li's TV station also secretly pray that the new boss will be easy to speak, otherwise if they are called back now, not only will they not be able to earn their wages but they will also lose a sum of money. This is undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for the employees of Li, who are already in financial difficulties.

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Since Far Eastern Group became the owner of Lidi and announced that it would change its name to Asia Television, Xu Guanwu has also been watching the development of the situation. To be honest, he still admires Qiu Degen's ability, and the ATV he presided over was quite beautiful at that time, "Hero Huo Yuanjia", "Chen Zhen", "Going to Tiger Mountain Again", "Da Nei Qunying" series, "Wu Zetian", "Qin Shi Huang", "Eight Immortals Across the Sea" and other dramas, all have very good ratings, and they are also popular in the mainland, and their influence at that time was not weaker than TVB.

Xu Guanwu also knows that the current ATV is suffering from internal and external troubles, and the internal worry is the loss of internal employees, and half of the actors and behind-the-scenes staff used by Hong Kong independent film companies are from the previous Li's TV station. Now ATV still has nearly 1,000 employees under its name, but there are less than 200 people who have returned at present, and they are all incompetent, not famous, and not very satisfactory outside.

But all those who have some ability and some fame have stayed outside and have not come back, such as Wan Ziliang of the Qingzhuang faction, such as Pan Zhiwen, a time-honored brand, etc., are now busy filming outside, but they only showed their faces once on the reopening of the program announced the name change of Asia Television, which was regarded as an explanation to the new boss, and then all ran out the next day.

With the loss of more than half of its employees, ATV is now suffering from serious blood loss, and if it does not replenish blood in time, it is afraid that it will not be long before it dies. But if the employees are recalled now, it will arouse a lot of complaints, even if they are recruited, the employees will be passive and slacking off, and the TV station will not be able to save them.

The external problem is that in addition to the other two TV stations eyeing ATV, there are other film companies that have also coveted it for a long time. "Only an ATV in chaos is a good ATV." This is the voice of many film companies now, because only in this way can they hire people with higher cost performance at a relatively low price, which can save them a lot of money.

The film company and ATV are just ordinary interests in the struggle, while TVB and Jiayi have a life-and-death struggle with ATV. Once ATV stabilizes, it will inevitably compete with the other two TV stations for ratings, which is already inseparable for Jiayi and TVB, which are already inseparable, and naturally do not want another TV station to disrupt the situation.

ATV under internal and external troubles, how to take a step in the future really makes Xu Guanwu catch chickens.

But before he could help Qiu Degen come up with any good countermeasures, an incident that happened next left him no longer had time to worry about others.

It turned out that news came from Japan that Deng Lijun used a fake passport to pass through customs and was temporarily detained by Tokyo Airport in Japan in the name of illegal entry.

Xu Guanwu was furious when he heard the news, and he couldn't wait to call Zheng Donghan, who was in charge of the record department, over and scold, how could he let his singers make such a mistake in his eyes? ! However, since the matter has happened, it is useless to scold him now, and the top priority is how to eliminate the turmoil, so as not to ferment indefinitely. (To be continued......)