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    Shao Yifu has a very good habit, that is, he is never picky when watching movies. He watches good movies with gusto, and he also watches bad movies meticulously.  In comparison, Zhang Shaoping was far behind. He was boring after watching "Descendants of Shaolin" only halfway through. If he hadn't been in a small screening room and watched the movie with Shao Yifu, I'm afraid he would have dozed off long ago.  After finally making it to the end of the movie, Zhang Shaoping immediately became more energetic and praised: "This movie is good." "This is my newly promoted director from Shaw Brothers. He has little experience, but he is better than the unworthy Zhang Guoming!"  As a new director, Yifu Shao expressed his admiration, but when he mentioned Zhang Guoming, he suddenly became angry. The movie "Star Wars" shot by that guy, which is called the Hong Kong version of "Star Wars", almost made him angry to death.  In his decades-long film career, this is the first time that an audience has asked for a refund. You can imagine how badly this epic blockbuster has suffered.  The only thing that makes Shao Yifu feel better is that Zhang Guoming cheated him, and Xu Ke's "New Shushan Swordsman" also cheated Jiahe, and both of them were taken advantage of.  "It seems that Uncle Liu's ambition is still there. He will promote new talents and new directors. Then cheer up, the new year for Shaw Brothers is not far away!" Zhang Shaoping said with a smile.  In fact, this is a compliment. Shaw Brothers' problems cannot be solved by promoting one or two people. Its dilemma lies in the backwardness of the large factory system, bloated institutions, many people who are freeloaders, and all the actors and actresses are paid dead wages.  , if there is any drama to start filming, I will still get my salary.  Nowadays, more and more independent production companies are different. In order to make movies, they poach people everywhere and offer three or four times the salary at will. Even top stars such as Cheng Long and Xu Guanjie can get overseas box office dividends.  Such a comparison has caused all capable people to leave, and every newly promoted person will change jobs. Shaw Brothers cannot retain talents at all, and those who are left behind are all waiting to die and living on dead wages.  To put it bluntly, Shaw Brothers Pictures has been in decline since Fang Yihua became the financial director. It has been relying on its old foundation to survive for more than 10 years. It is time to end.  You know, "Interstellar" was originally a big-investment, big-production movie, but Shaw Brothers followed Fang Yihua's "cutting the knife" approach, and the production cost was reduced again and again, and finally it turned into the worst movie in history.  none of them.  As a result, Zhang Guoming not only took the blame, he even dared not touch movies about science fiction themes for the rest of his life. He was really harming others and himself.  Shao Yifu is a very insightful person. He sighed: "Aping, you don't need to comfort me. I know that the movies made by Shaw Brothers are not good. We, Shaw Brothers, can't make the movies now, and we can't afford them."  "Hearing this, Zhang Shaoping shook his head secretly. Shao Yifu is old and has lost the courage and courage to dare to fight. Since the establishment of Shaw Brothers, more than 20 years of ups and downs have already become sluggish - just like starting a business.  At the beginning, I bet one million Hong Kong dollars on Li Hanxiang, who was still a newcomer at the time - such a feat would never happen again.  But what does this have to do with Zhang Shaoping?  On the contrary, the more unintentional Shaw Brothers are, the easier the subsequent negotiations will be.  The tea had cooled down, and Weng Meiling made another pot of tea. Zhang Shaoping took a sip of the tea and asked, "Uncle Six, how have you considered the matter I mentioned on the phone before?" Since Yuan Tianfan  After planning the company's blueprint for him, Zhang Shaoping let go and prepared to do something big.  While poaching people through headhunting companies to see if they can find qualified professional managers and professional directors, they are also taking action to resolve many troublesome issues.  And Yuan Tianfan even parachuted into Zongheng Investment Company to clean up the mess.  According to Yuan Tianfan¡¯s strategy, there are two things that are focused on, one is to settle the magazine in the United States, and the other is to establish channels for the video rental industry.  When renting video tapes, the most important thing is to have a stable source of videos. There are two ways to source the videos: buy the copyright and record them yourself, or be responsible for the distribution and charge a proportional fee.  ??For those small companies, all copyrights are bought out, because Keda is bullying the owner and can buy them at a low price.  However, when dealing with large companies such as Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, they are mainly responsible for issuance, because the price cannot be lowered, and if they buy out, the capital utilization rate is low, and the risk is also high.  To show respect for a tycoon like Shao Yifu, Zhang Shaoping personally called and talked to him, and even came to his door.  Shao Yifu sighed: "Ah Ping, the thing you mentioned is really embarrassing for me. From a public perspective, I should cooperate with you to make money for the company. But privately speaking, I have nothing to do with these films and TV shows.  The play is very emotional, and I don't want to sell it to others. Secondly, you and Beibian are too involved, and I am caught in the middle." Zhang Shaoping sneered at what Shao Yifu said. As long as the price is enough, among businessmen, there is nothing.  Can't talk about it?  ??Shao Yifu has always been a film businessman, and he is definitely justIn order to make money, when the Japanese army invaded China, he slipped from Shanghai to Nanyang and invited Japanese Yamamoto and Nakano to make films.  Nowadays, it is much more profitable to be a TV station than to make movies. Shao Yifu naturally shifted his focus to TV and continued to play the tricks made by big factories to TVB.  In another generation of time and space, Shaw Yifu sold the copyrights of 760 Shaw Brothers films to overseas companies for a package price of US$80 million.  Businessmen can be patriotic businessmen or philanthropic businessmen, but one thing is that they are talking about business.  "Uncle Six is ??joking. There is no way to use your film and television drama library. If we cooperate, we can get a lot of money back, which is a good idea." Zhang Shaoping chuckled, "As for my relationship with Beibian, this is purely  The media is spreading rumors, you know who is playing tricks on me." In terms of political philosophy, Shao Yifu agrees with Taiwan and is lukewarm towards the mainland, but Zhang Shaoping believes that ideas can be changed as long as China.  Once the British Joint Communiqu¨¦ comes out, all positions will change.  Zhang Shaoping continued: "Uncle Six, I was just a small person before, and the Shaw family has a big business, so they don't care about my little money, but now I sincerely want to cooperate with you for a long time! Besides, I am in the business of renting low-end video tapes  Business, the demand for film sources is huge, not only does it not conflict with your distribution business, but it is complementary. In the long run, isn¡¯t this a good thing?¡± Shao Yifu pondered for a moment and asked: ¡°Not many people have video recorders now?  Right? "" Haha, there will be more in the future. I am doing long-term business, so I will pave the way first." Zhang Shaoping said with a half-serious smile. He said it openly.  He was afraid that Shao Yifu would know his intentions.  This upfront investment is quite large, and it is likely to result in losses. For Shao Yifu, this is like a piece of chicken ribs and has no appeal at all.  Shao Yifu is an old man. From Zhang Shaoping's few words, he guessed that the other party must have a series of supporting plans. He immediately squinted his eyes and asked tentatively: "How are you going to buy it?" Zhang Shaoping said with a smile: "  I want all the movies and TV shows.¡± ¡°All of them?¡± Shao Yifu suspected that he heard wrongly, ¡°You want black and white movies too?¡± Zhang Shaoping said without hesitation, ¡°I want them all!  As long as the copy is not damaged and can still be played, I want it. "Shao Yifu really couldn't figure it out. There is no market for playing old movies now, let alone getting them re-released in theaters, even his TVB TV station.  This won't be played at all.  "I can sell you the copyright of the movie, but not the TV series. It will definitely be difficult for the buyout to pass on the company's board of directors." Shao Yifu thought for a while and said with a smile.  Zhang Shaoping had expected that he would say this. In fact, it is not difficult to guess that, firstly, Shao Yifu has shifted his focus from the development of film and television to the television industry and has already given up on movies; secondly, the film library  Preservation is a big problem, and money must be spent on it every year, which is a considerable expenditure. Otherwise, if the library is damaged, it will become worthless waste; thirdly, most of these library items are old films, which are not worth mentioning.  How much is it worth?  All in all, it would be more cost-effective to sell the movie rights.  In contrast, TV dramas have more advantages. They can be broadcast repeatedly on TV stations and can also be distributed to mainland TV stations.  Moreover, each TV series has a very large number of episodes. Once Zhang Shaoping opens up the channel, video tapes will become a considerable source of income.  Zhang Shaoping provided two ways to buy out movie copyrights. He said: "Uncle Liu, you can buy out movies one by one according to the quality of each movie, or you can package them according to a unified valuation regardless of whether the movie is good or bad.  Buy it away. "" Time is not forgiving. I'm tired of talking for a while." Shao Yifu waved his hands and didn't want to talk about it. "Leave these things to the people below. I won't join in the fun.  ¡± Looking at the old man¡¯s energetic appearance, Zhang Shaoping was speechless. However, now that the distribution business of Shaw Brothers Pictures and TVB has indeed been handed over to Fang Yihua, this excuse makes sense.  Mentioning that difficult woman, Zhang Shaoping felt a headache just thinking about it. He didn't want to deal with her, so he could only leave it to Hu Mufang and others to negotiate.  "Aping, I'm inviting you here this time. Someone asked me to bring you a message. It's hard for me to refuse, so I agreed to tell you something." Zhang Shaoping was picking up the tea when he saw Shao Yifu suddenly said.  "Oh, please speak, I'm listening." Zhang Shaoping's hand holding the cup froze for a moment, then returned to normal, took a sip of tea, and then said slowly.  "You can't treat one person favorably over another!" Zhang Shaoping smiled bitterly and said: "Uncle Six, I'm just a young boy. Do you think these big shots need to care about my attitude like this?"Shao Yifu glanced at Zhang Shaoping with a smile, his eyes full of admiration. This kid is too evil, he can tell at a glance, his mind is precocious and precocious, and he cannot be treated as a young man at all.  £®  £®  £®  £®  £®  £®  After talking to Shao Yifu for a while and talking about some things, Zhang Shaoping left.  Also walking together was Weng Meiling.  This is also the trick in the entertainment industry when asking actresses to accompany you. Anyway, after you leave, you can do whatever you like, and the host doesn't care.  Many times, both parties take aim at each other, and often go out to have sex right away.  Zhang Shaoping has no feelings for Weng Meiling, and Weng Meiling is also in love, so naturally the two of them can't urinate together.  "Miss Weng, are you going to take a ride to the studio? If so, take my car and I'll go there too." Zhang Shaoping stopped Weng Meiling, who was about to walk to the Shaw Brothers studio.  "Thank you." Weng Meiling was afraid of being misunderstood, so she hesitated a little before getting in the car.  Shaw Brothers studio.  The costume dramas, Republic of China dramas and old Hong Kong dramas filmed by TVB are all shot here, just because there is a complete street of the Republic of China, houses and streets of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Moreover, if TVB came to film the drama, because of their family status,  It costs basically nothing.  Although ATV is in a competitive relationship with TVB, Qiu Degen and Shao Yifu are brothers. Competition is competition, and ATV can still film here.  Therefore, don¡¯t be surprised if you see crews from TVB and ATV filming at the Shaw Brothers Studio in Clear Water Bay at the same time.  After Weng Meiling arrived at the set, she quickly left by bus, but Zhang Shaoping walked into the set and found the crew of "We Are the World".  "We Are the World" is a new short drama launched by TVB. It is intended to fill the gap after the TV station's full-length drama is finished.  Generally short dramas have less than 10 episodes, and short-lived ones such as "Lai Buyi", which was broadcast last month, only have 5 episodes.  The heroine of this play is Chen Yulian, and Zhang Shaoping came from the visiting team.
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