When Shaw Yifu was admitted to St. Teresa's Hospital in Kowloon City for treatment due to illness, there was news that he intended to sell the shares of TVB held by the 'Shaw Brothers'.

According to the news at the time, Shaw Brothers owned 26% of the shares of Heung Kong Television Broadcasts Co., Ltd. (TVB) and was the largest shareholder of TVB.

In other words, the acquisition of this part of the shares of Shaw Brothers will become the owner of TVB!

After the news broke, the world's top private equity funds, including mainland billionaire Country Garden Group Chairman Yeung Kwok-keung, former Financial Secretary Leung Kam-chung's Blackstone Fund, as well as Besitsu and Carlyle, approached TVB to bid for the shares.

For TVB, TV series such as "Huo Yuanjia" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" produced by TVB have triggered a grand occasion of thousands of empty alleys, and the 'golden generation' of the Hong Kong entertainment industry such as Zhou Yunfa, Zhou Xingchi, Liang Chaowei, and Andy Lau are also from TVB!

Since its opening in 1967 at 77 Broadcasting Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, TVB is the first TVB TV station in Hong Kong, which is generally known as 'Hong Kong TVB' or 'TVB', and is also the world's largest Chinese-language commercial TV station.

TVB's business covers the world, including TV broadcasting, pay TV, program production and distribution, animation agency, satellite TV, magazine publishing and related businesses.

It has two channels, one is the Chinese channel Jade Channel, which broadcasts in Cantonese, and the other is the English channel Pearl Channel. In addition to being once dominated by the rival ATV in the early 80s of the last century, it has been firmly in charge of Xiangjiang TV.

At the same time, TVB also has a high rating in eastern Guangdong, residents in the Pearl River Delta region near Xiangjiang have a convenient location, and many families in the Pearl River Delta watch Xiangjiang TV, even if it began in 2004, after domestic and foreign TV can land in eastern Guangdong, the ratings of Xiangjiang TV dramas still occupy an overwhelming advantage, especially TVB Jade Channel's highest ratings.

In addition, Nanyang has always been an important overseas market for Hong Kong's entertainment industry, especially the overseas Chinese market in Malaysia, Vietnam and other places, and all entertainment programs in Hong Kong have become their important spiritual food, and Singapore's copyright business has become one of the important local entertainment programs since the late 90s of the last century.

It is no exaggeration to say that when you become the owner of TVB, you will have a super media empire covering the global Chinese circle!

The most important thing is that in the mainland, there are policy and regulatory restrictions on obtaining a controlling stake in a TV station, and 'it is only possible in Hong Kong'!

For Li Hao, this is the biggest temptation.

Although according to the evaluation, it is difficult for TVB to avoid the end of decline.

But Li Hao was still interested.

The decline of TVB, on the one hand, is the cause and effect of 'shortage of funds + narrow market + loss of infighting' and "poor content + sharp decline in salary + talent leaving the nest", forming a vicious circle. On the other hand, this is also an inevitable trend caused by the rise of the mainland and the transformation of the comparative advantages of Xiangjiang and the mainland.

The local market in Xiangjiang has declined, and artists have 'looked north to China' and gone north to the mainland to dig for gold.

It can be said that this is why now, no force wants to buy TVB, so from the perspective of capital, it is not a good business

But for Li Hao, none of this is a problem.

First of all, once he joins TVB, there is a huge 'political gain' in it, TVB has a very special position in the hearts of Chinese people around the world, as long as he can buy it, whether it is in the audience of the Chinese circle or here in Beijing, his invisible prestige and influence will increase greatly.

At the same time, from the perspective of copyright resources, TVB's huge film library accumulated in the past 50 years still has high IP value!

Not only can these IPs be redeveloped, but these film libraries can also be filled into the video network of Haotian Media.

Moreover, other people or forces will feel that TVB is in recession, its profits are declining, and it has no investment value, but for Li Hao, these are not problems.

After all, Haotian Media itself produces TV series and movies, and it can also purchase overseas copyrights of TV series and movies from the mainland and then broadcast them on TVB!

As for the actors of TVB, they can go to the mainland to participate in filming, why do they have to be confined to a small Xiangjiang?

Li Hao is sure that he can bring TVB back to life.

However, all this is not in a hurry, negotiations are still underway, and the negotiation team is still in Xiangjiang and Baodao.

Now his energy is mainly focused on "The Wandering Earth".

January 27th, Chinese New Year's Eve!

The country has officially entered the Spring Festival time.

"Ghost Blowing the Lantern: Kunlun Xu" was released for more than a month, breaking 4 billion, and now it has come to 4.25 billion, and as early as half a month after the movie was released, "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: Kunlun Xu" got the key extension.

At this time, the overseas box office has also been decided, with the rest of Asia winning 498 million yuan, and Europe and the United States getting 79 million US dollars at the box office!

"Kunlun Xu" has become the fourth Chinese film to break 4 billion at the box office.

The first three are "Shuimen Bridge of Changjin Lake", "Changjin Lake", and "The Martian"!

This is the advantage of the New Year's stalls, both the prompting of Christmas, and the three-day holiday of New Year's Day, and more importantly, this time period is very friendly to the student group!

The most likely to have enough explosive power is in the Lunar New Year stall!

And "Kunlun Xu" has also become the biggest winner of the entire Chinese New Year file!

Yesterday, the crew of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: Kunlun Xu" held a grand celebration banquet.

To be honest, the box office of "Kunlun Xu" can break 4 billion, and the opponent is definitely indispensable, if it weren't for them to arouse the anger of fans, "Kunlun Xu" will not be a little difficult to reach 4 billion according to the number of films in that row.

And today, the focus of all the media, except for the news of the celebration banquet of "Kunlun Xu", is "The Wandering Earth"!

In the whole month of January, Wang Baoqiang's self-directed and self-starred "Havoc in Tianzhu" did not achieve the expected box office, relying on Wang Baoqiang + Huang Bo + Liu Yan + Yue Yunpeng, barely got 400 million box office.

And you must know that this movie has received a guaranteed release of 1 billion.

Others are like "Space Traveler", which has been released for half a month, and the box office has not yet reached 100 million, and "Star Wars Story: Rogue One" is also a Hollywood blockbuster, but the box office barely reached 200 million after 20 days of release!

As for those that are also in the Spring Festival file, only "Feng Shen Dao: Nezha in the Sea" and "Bear Infested" are left. Fantasy Space", "Teachers Are Crazy", "Frightened", and "Forgetful Village" are four movies released at the same time.

It can be said that "The Wandering Earth" is invincible in the Spring Festival period!

Not a single one can fight!

This is also caused by the fact that various important films have been released in advance or postponed, after all, no one wants to be cannon fodder for "The Wandering Earth".

Even "Kung Fu Yoga" directed by Tang Jili and starring Cheng Long was moved to November, avoiding "The Wandering Earth" in advance!

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