Text Chapter 417, when digging people in progress (big chapter)
Although Oriental DreamWorks is wielding a hoe at the same time, digging into the corners of Shaw Brothers and Jiahe.
But Jiahe and Shaw models are different, and the feelings are different!
Jiahe adopts the satellite company system.
Those who were poached by Lei Weidong were all insiders of the satellite company, and they had little to do with Jiahe! So the upper echelons of Jiahe can't feel it.
As for those big stars and big directors, firstly, these people are not so easy to dig, and secondly, the contracts signed by these people are relatively loose, even if they go to Lei Weidong to film, it will not have much impact on Jiahe.
But Shaw Brothers is different, according to Shao Tycoon's business philosophy, the wages of personnel and activity funds can be said to be saved, as long as the employees do not starve to death.
so that the artists under his command have the lowest artist salary in the world.
Don't talk about the famous Li Xiaolong, it was because of Shao Tycoon's stinginess that he directly killed more than half of the pieces asked by Li Xiaolong, and directly killed the salary of $10,000 to $2,500, forcing Li Xiaolong to take the initiative to defect to Jiahe.
and Xu Guanwen too, since starring in "The Great Warlord" directed by the great director Li Hanxiang, Xu Guanwen became famous in one fell swoop, and successfully broke through from a previous TV comedian to a movie star.
After filming movies such as "Yile Ye" and "Scandal", which were also big hits, the shrewd and capable Xu Guanwen moved the idea of writing, directing and acting by himself.
In private, he prepared a script for "Ghost Horse Double Star", and planned to share the profits with Shao Yifu, the head of Shaw Pictures, but Shao Tycoon rejected it on the spot as a big rebel.
Not only that, but he also wanted to ban him, and the last angry Xu Guanwen defected to Jiahe to create a ghost horse comedy movie.
There are also Dillon and Jiang Dawei, two big stars of the Shaw Brothers, who are now paid less than 10,000 Hong Kong dollars for a movie;
The big star Dillon is so famous that he can't afford a high-end house in Hong Kong, and the great director Chu Yuan directed "Seventy-two Tenants" to make Shaw Brothers earn 3 million Hong Kong dollars, but the director's fee is only 30,000 Hong Kong dollars.
These are all big directors and big stars, like those Shaw Brothers second-tier stars, small directors and ordinary staff, not to mention.
In addition, Shaw Brothers is now controlled by Ms. Fang, a confidant of Shaw Tycoon, because Shaw Brothers has not been profitable in the past two years, and has strictly controlled costs, greatly reducing the investment in the film and the welfare of the staff, so it has also made the Shaw Brothers set complain.
Because many people can't even sustain their daily lives.
When Oriental DreamWorks offered a 50% increase or even doubled in salary at the door of Shaw Brothers, a large number of people were immediately moved.
Oriental DreamWorks is not one of those second-rate and third-rate film companies that can't even get enough food and clothing, and there is no way out for it.
This is a company opened by the richest man in Hong Kong, and its strength is certainly far greater than that of Shaw Brothers.
The most important thing is that the Oriental DreamWorks has just been established, and the personnel reserve is definitely insufficient.
It's not like in Shaw Brothers, you have to talk about seniority! So they were all excited, even if those who couldn't go directly because of the constraints of the contract, but there were a lot of private contacts.
In the face of the menacing Oriental DreamWorks poaching action, Shaw Brothers is also ready to fight.
It's just that because Lei Weidong's reputation is too prosperous, the Shaw Brothers don't have a good way to face Lei Weidong's silver bullet offensive.
In addition to seizing the time to force her artists to renew their contracts, Miss Fang even sent more than a dozen sturdy dragon and tiger martial artists to patrol outside the Shaw Brothers studio, strictly prohibiting idle people from entering to prevent Xiaomi from poaching people.
Shaw Brothers used a large-scale studio system, with its own dormitories, restaurants, a "mini-bank" for staff withdrawals, and luxury buses to get employees in and out of the city.
It can be said that as long as the Shaw Brothers are very popular, the entire Shaw Brothers Clear Water Bay Cinema is almost like an independent kingdom, and the people inside and the outside hardly come into contact.
In the face of Shaw Brothers' countermeasures, Lei Weidong was not to be outdone, and directly asked people to put the recruitment booth at the door of Shaw Brothers, and used a loudspeaker to broadcast DreamWorks' policies every day.
In addition, in order to ensure the safety of recruiters, Dark Horse Security Company also sent hundreds of security guards to the scene to carry out security work, making the Shaw Brothers gate crowded every day, making Ms. Fang miserable.
Because DreamWorks just came to recruit, although there were more people coming, as long as they didn't break the law, Shaw Brothers could only bear it, and it didn't work to call the police!
As for playing black, it can't be done!
The members of the club are not stupid, seeing where hundreds of professional bodyguards are guarding, there is one who dares to come up and tease the tiger's whiskers!
said that Lei Weidong is the richest man in Hong Kong, although he also talks about seniority in Hong Kong, everyone believes in the power of money.
The meaning that money can make ghosts grind is vividly exerted in Hong Kong.
So under the strong attack of the silver bullet of Oriental Dreamworks, it quickly captured the defense system of the Shaw Brothers.
In just ten days, Oriental DreamWorks recruited more than 100 employees from Shaw Brothers, covering lighting, photography, costumes, props, printing, dubbing, publicity, distribution and other industries.
It can be said that the team of Oriental DreamWorks has basically been established, and it can be said that it is strong compared with the original Bigao company.
Of course, being poached by Oriental DreamWorks more than 100 well-trained employees is undoubtedly like biting off a large piece of meat from Shaw Brothers.
Although Shao Daheng didn't care about those employees, he still had to fight back when he was swollen by Lei Weidong's face.
So Shaw Brothers not only scolded Lei Weidong in his company's magazine for not preaching morality, but also contacted a group of literati to denounce it in the newspaper media for days.
Shao has been operating in Hong Kong for decades and has a wide network of contacts, not only owning the largest film company in Hong Kong, but also taking a stake in the city's No. 1 most-rated television station, not only firmly controlling the mouthpiece of the media.
He also has a deep relationship with many cultural figures, and naturally a large number of literati and have been gathered to cheer for them and cheer for them.
Although he withdrew from the fight because of his stake in Lei Weidong at TVB, two Shaw Brothers magazines, Southland Film and Hong Kong Film and Pictures, and Hu Xian'er's Sing Tao Daily, all had front-page attacks on Xiaomi's poaching efforts.
Even Master Jin commented on his own "Ming Pao", saying that it is immoral for DreamWorks Film Company to use capital to oppress people and undermine the market.
The reason why Master Jin came out to speak for Shao Tycoon is not only because he and Shao Tycoon have a good relationship, but mainly because the two of them have the same style of doing things, a pair of famous stingy ghosts.
is very harsh on its employees, and Lei Weidong's use of money to poach can be said to have indirectly damaged the interests of Master Jin.
As for Lei Weidong's opponent in the cultural circles, Ni Huan even sprayed Lei Weidong's scolding with blood, and published articles in the newspaper one after another, criticizing Lei Weidong for poaching despicable and shameless, greatly damaging yin morality, and having no little brother in his son in the future.
He called on all Hong Kong citizens to come out together to boycott this unscrupulous company and not go to their plays.
Lei Weidong had expected this phenomenon for a long time, but he didn't expect Ni Frame to be a pioneer in such a hurry, it seems that Ni Frame's strength is not ordinarily small.
However, public opinion in Hong Kong is actually swayed by money, so Lei Weidong also fought back-for-tat.
not only responded to Shaw Brothers' statement in his own comic magazine, but also pulled newspapers such as "Star Daily" to fight back.
In the newspaper, Lei Weidong specially looked for someone to expose Shao Tycoon's old background.
In the text, he vividly describes how Shaw Brothers exploits employees and artists, and at the same time vividly describes Shao Tycoon's stinginess.
For example, in 1970, an elderly man in a nursing home saw Shao Daheng passing by the door of the nursing home in a Rolls-Royce luxury car every day, so he took the liberty of writing a letter to the movie tycoon, asking him to do good deeds.
Soon after, the nursing home received a cheque from Shao Daheng for only HK$500. The nursing home then returned the check to Shao.
There are also Shaw Brothers stars who are famous, but their salaries are very low, in Shaw Brothers, everyone is just a small screw on the assembly line, even the big star Dillon, although he has made so many films, he can't even afford to buy a house!
and back then, why did Jiahe's Zou Tycoon leave Shaw Brothers because he was dissatisfied with Shaw Brothers' low treatment of employees, and left to found Jiahe Pictures.
Although the Shaw Brothers movie is very popular and makes a lot of money, this money is obtained by Shao Tycoon with a low-wage, assembly-line production model.
When it comes to employees, Shao Daheng can be said to have been ruthless to those guys who have worked hard for him and dedicated their youth.
Finally, he also gave some examples of employees, saying that the director of Shaw Brothers does not make much money, and even if he saves, he can't save money, and once there is no filming, the economy will fall into an embarrassing situation.
So much so that many directors of Shaw Brothers have committed suicide because of poverty, and now there is something wrong with Shaw Brothers employees defecting to Xiaomi in order to seek the best life.
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These deeds were all collected by Lei Weidong in Shaw Brothers, and after being handed over to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper for polishing, they were printed in the "Xingchen Daily" in a grand manner.
In fact, these gossips are naturally not new in the "independent kingdom" of Shaw Brothers studios, but the general public outside the set rarely hears such anecdotes.
Mainly because after the death of Denmao's Lu Yuntao plane, Shao Daheng almost became the king of the Hong Kong film industry.
Even if Jiahe came out later and repeatedly attacked the Shaw Brothers, the status of the Shaw Brothers is still unmoving, firmly sitting in the No. 1 position in the Hong Kong entertainment industry!
In the face of such a powerful figure, no one in the press dared to offend Shao Daheng, and even if someone dared to write bad things about Shao Daheng, they couldn't report it! This is not the 21st century in which the Internet is developed.
Therefore, what people see most in the newspapers are the gossip and scandals of Shaw Brothers stars, and the news of Shao Tycoon is all positive praise without the slightest negative criticism.
It's just that this poaching war broke out, and Lei Weidong, the little guy, didn't know what respecting the old and loving the young was, so he directly broke out Shao Daheng's old bottom.
It can be said that after the gossip about Shao Daheng was published, it immediately attracted the attention of the public.
Hong Kong citizens like to read the news of the eight strange things the most, otherwise Hong Kong would not be able to feed so many newspapers.
The reason why "Next Magazine" was so popular later was not because it was caught by Li Chaoren at the beginning and hyped up the death of Li Chaoren's wife, which became popular, and Li Chaoren was embarrassed at that time.
The news of celebrities like Shao Daheng is more popular to the general public than those celebrity gossip, especially the short and interesting gossip jokes among the parents of celebrities, which are everyone's favorite.
Taking advantage of this shareholder trend, in just a few days, the sales of "Star Daily" broke through the historical record, and in this era when "Oriental Daily" was seized, it became the No. 1 selling newspaper in Hong Kong in one fell swoop.
It also led to Shao Tycoon's gossip, which spread all over Hong Kong, and people were talking about it in teahouses, restaurants, streets and alleys, and became a joke after dinner.
It also made Shao Daheng's glorious image for decades collapse overnight.
Especially in "Star Daily", I climbed the Shaw Brothers' labor salary list in recent years, and saw that the Shaw Brothers' popular stars Dillon, Jiang David and others only paid tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars per play;
As for the supporting roles, it is even more miserable, and some of them are only paid one or two thousand yuan a month, which is no different from the workers in the factory.
In the past, everyone saw stars, glamorous and high-spirited on the screen, where did they think that the stars of Shaw Brothers were so poor in private.
Faced with this phenomenon, the male and female fans of those celebrities were completely angry, and scolded Shaw Brothers for abusing their celebrities in unison.
Some people even rose up and called for never watching Shaw Brothers movies again, demanding that such a blood and tear factory must be closed.
Shao Daheng was also angry about Lei Weidong's attack, although because he and Lei Weidong still cooperated on wireless, he couldn't completely tear his face, but he couldn't give up easily, in addition to sending someone to refute it in the newspaper, and at the same time, in the name of suspected defamation, he sued "Xingchen Daily" and "Painting King" to court.
In Hong Kong, especially in such a defamation case, such a case can be said to be a headless case that is unclear and chaotic, as long as both parties have money, the lawyer can fight for a lifetime.
Lei Weidong has a lawyer company like Chen Dazhuang in his hands, and everyone has nothing to do during this time because of the settlement of the case with Kinmen and other construction companies, and now he can kill time by litiating with Shaw Brothers in the court.
Seeing Lei Weidong's desperate posture, and remembering the lawsuit battle in the construction industry some time ago, Shao Daheng, who loves money like his life, had to give in and took the initiative to find someone to reconcile with Lei Weidong, after all, the two have no hatred for killing their fathers and taking their wives, and they are still doing business and making money in harmony.
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In a hotel's luxurious swimming pool, beautiful women in sexy swimsuits walk around, attracting many eyeballs and saliva.
"Daddy! I don't dare! Lei Weidong cried with a sad face, kowtowing while begging for mercy, and Zeng Zhiwei hurriedly took Cheng Long and Yuan Biao to settle accounts with Lei Weidong.
"People are calling you Dad! What more could you want! Cheng Long looked at Lei Weidong and said to Zeng Zhiwei.
“cut!”
Wang Fatzi shouted and walked over.
"Lei Shao! Your expression is natural, it's a little too fake just now! ”
"That's it!" Honggu sat by the pool, poked her feet into the water and quipped Lei Weidong's performance just now: "Adong, you are serious, this shot has been cut five times, if it doesn't work, it will be replaced!" ”
Lin Xiaohua, played by Honggu, was wearing a dark red dress, and the thin elastic fabric was tight on her, perfectly presenting her sexy and perfect figure.
The two slings on her robe hung loosely on the top of her cold arm, looking a little crooked, from below the shoulder blades to the upper part of her breast, this snow-white and delicate skin, glistening in the sun, the hot figure almost turned the pool water into hot water.
"Look at it! Honggu suddenly found that Lei Weidong's eyes had been staring at her, and she was so embarrassed that she reached out and picked up a big towel to wrap herself:
"You be serious, otherwise you will delay again today, and you can't let everyone wait for you alone!" Honggu said slightly angrily:
"Know! Everyone, pay attention, it's still the shot just now, everyone is doing it again! Fight for it once! Lei Weidong took out the director's privilege and commanded everyone to come from the beginning.
"Understood!"
Although everyone has some complaints about the director's bad acting skills, who is called Lei Weidong is a director and investor.
In addition, Lei Weidong is more cheerful and hospitable, and he usually serves everyone with good wine and food, and everyone still listens to Lei Weidong's words. There's nothing to complain about.
It's okay, the following shots passed at once, and finally there was no too much delay, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
"I said, Mr. Li! You usually go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, how can you have time to watch me film today! Looking at Li Rui, who was sitting by the pool and watching the excitement, Lei Weidong laughed.
"I'm not forced to do it, if there is no reason, you think I will come here to find you!" Looking up at Lei Weidong, who was sneering, Li Rui replied weakly.
"What else are you embarrassed about! You must know that you are now the king of the newspaper industry in Hong Kong, and I haven't congratulated you on the fact that "Star Daily" has firmly sat on the throne of the No. 1 newspaper industry! ”
"It's the first I am distressed, you must know that I used to chase others, I didn't feel anything, but now I have become the first to be chased by others, and I know that this first is not easy to do.
If I can, I don't want to be the first, or the second, not to be in the limelight, but also to hide behind to make money! ”
Li Rui said helplessly:
"The old man of my family has spoken, and I must come forward to solve this matter, otherwise I will not get the old man's inheritance, and it will all be cheaper for my two brothers!"
"It's time to solve it, otherwise it's not good to keep spending there and let others see jokes!" Lei Weidong nodded and said:
"However, Mr. Li, if you want to solve the peace with Shao Daheng, why do you want to run to Master Jin's house, Jin Daxia doesn't seem to have anything to do with this matter!"
Regarding what Li Rui said that Shao Daheng wanted to go to Master Jin's house to negotiate by himself, Lei Weidong was a little confused.
"What's strange, it's not that the sixth uncle wants to save face!" Li Rui shrugged and sneered:
"If you meet outside, once you are seen by reporters, others will have a topic, and now you are known by others, and it just feels like you just happened to bump into it.
Uncle Six and Jin Daxia have been good friends for many years, where is it normal to go to Jin Daxia.
And you are a rookie in the cultural world, it is normal to visit Jin Daxia, a senior.