Chapter 701 Support or Destroy, that Is a Question

Yin Jun guessed what Shao Yifu was thinking, but he would not expose him.

"Three plays."

Yin Jun raised his hand and said slowly: "I hope you let Huang Rihua film three movies for me, and the time is not limited. But Kirin Satellite TV will also pay the relevant fees and ask for the consent of TVB before letting him come over. Filming."

"Three plays?" Shao Yifu showed a look of embarrassment, "Our actors, going to film for other companies, this...is difficult!"

The young man smiled inwardly, but said in his mouth: "Uncle Liu, don't you want to strengthen our cooperation? This is a good opportunity! In the future, as long as you can afford the price, our Kylin Satellite TV actors can also do it for you. ATV filming! For example, Zhou Runfa can do it, Wu Weiguo can do it, Liang Chaowei can do it, and Li Xue can do it too!"

Shao Yifu's mouth moved, but he didn't answer.

He thought to himself that the labor of your Kirin TV is so expensive, why should I hire them?

Our TVB is not strong in anything else, but the ability to cultivate talents is second to none. I have cultivated actors myself, so I don’t want your high-priced products!

But there was a smile on his face again, "Okay, since you have said that, Ah Jun, what else do I have to say? Three plays are three plays, you all have to make good use of Huang Rihua!"

"Definitely!" Yin Jun nodded.

"But look, Ah Jun." Shao Yifu climbed up the pole, "You beg Sixth Uncle, and Sixth Uncle will agree to you right away. But you gave Jiahe a script recently, why didn't you think that Sixth Uncle would also have a script for me?" What about the movie company?"

Yin Jun was taken aback, "Shaw?"

"yes!"

Shao Yifu said enthusiastically, "Our Shaw Brothers is also the largest film company in Xiangjiang. We have a lot of talents, but we are short of some ideas and a good script! If you can also give us a good script, then they will definitely be able to deliver very good results of!"

"Uncle Six, do you know what my conditions are?" Yin Jun asked with a smile.

"I know!" Shao Yifu nodded earnestly, "The script will be discounted by 10 million, and it will be invested in the movie, and the dividends will be distributed according to the investment ratio."

"Then are you still willing?" Yin Jun laughed.

Shaw's movies have never been so expensive, and Shao Yifu is not a generous person, and his successor manager, Fang Yihua, can be called an iron cock among iron cocks.

But unexpectedly, Shao Yifu solemnly said: "As long as you give me a really good script!"

Yin Jun thought that Shao Yifu would talk to him about cooperation in the TV station, but he really didn't expect that he was talking about Shao Brothers.

And Shao Yifu actually agreed to the same conditions as Jiahe.

For Yin Jun, he couldn't believe it.

This doesn't look like the Shao Yifu I know!

The Shaw Brothers at the end of 1980 are already different from the Shaw Brothers in 1978 when Yin Jun first came to Xiangjiang.

In 1978, Shaw Brothers produced 20 to 30 films a year. In Hong Kong and other cities, each film earned one to two million yuan. The net profit of Shaw Brothers was 30 to 50 million a year, and the operation was very good.

But such a good operation is actually based on squeezing the salaries of the production staff.

Generally speaking, except for a few directors such as Chuck, Chu Yuan, and Li Hanxiang, the rest of the directors and producers are paid salaries. When the movie box office is good, there are only 10,000 to 20,000 red envelopes.

Even for a few big directors, the salary is at most around 50,000. Although there are bonuses, it is many times worse than directors like Xu Guanwen.

There are also actors, they are far less happy than those movie stars 10 years later, their treatment can be compared to that of TVB TV stars, except that it is a bitter comparison.

In a company, only the boss is the one who makes money, and all the employees and middle-level and high-level employees cannot make money, especially in the entertainment industry. How can such a company last?

Therefore, in the past two years, Shaw Brothers has been losing talents, going to Golden Harvest, New Art City, and some small and medium film companies... Anyway, they will not stay with you Shaw Brothers.

And times change, and audience tastes change too.

Shaw Brothers has maintained the film model for 20 or 30 years without any innovation at all, so it was gradually abandoned by the audience.

From 1980 to the current November, they have made a total of 28 films and released them, but only 11 have made money. When calculated as a whole, they only made more than 2 million yuan, and they have already entered the break-even point.

It is conceivable that in 1981, with the continuous efforts of China Art City and Golden Harvest, and the continuous innovation efforts of Baohe, Siyuan and other small and medium-sized film companies, Shaw Brothers will definitely be worse than this year.

Once Shao's falls into a loss, it will definitely be a vicious circle. In three to five years, I am afraid that Shao's will be ruined directly.

Yin Jun can see this clearly, Zou Wenhuai can also see it clearly, and I believe Shao Yifu himself can also see it clearly.

What puzzled Yin Jun the most was Shao Yifu's stubbornness and refusal to change.

In fact, it is not that Shaw Brothers has no chance of continuing his life.

In the previous life, there were obviously several opportunities for Shao to develop and continue to compete with Golden Harvest, but Shao Yifu gave up without hesitation.

The first Li Xiaolong, needless to say, the pain in Shao Yifu's heart.

But the second one, Xu Guanwen, is the same. He clearly knows that he is a talented director who can make money, but he refuses to give in because of the split issue. Xu Guanwen took a few younger brothers to Golden Harvest in a fit of anger, and since then helped Golden Harvest support Li Xiaolong Ten years after his death.

With the previous two lessons, do you think Shao Yifu will pay attention? Will you repent? Will reflect?

No.

No.

The third one is Wang Jing.

This Xiangjiang No. 1 commercial director who can be used as five directors by himself is from the Shaw Brothers, and his father is also Wang Tianlin, Shao Yifu's most important assistant.

Wang Jing made successes in several films in a row, making Shaw a lot of money, but even so, Shao Yifu did not agree to Wang Jing's normal share request, and still took 200,000 yuan per movie, plus The method of big red envelopes of two to three hundred thousand.

Wang Jing's filming is for money. How can he still stay here under such circumstances?

So Wang Jing left without looking back.

After these three opportunities were lost, and the group of old directors that Shaw relied on had completely disappeared, Shaw naturally disappeared in Xiangjiang's film industry. Even if there were some repetitions later, it was no longer the mainstream.

It is precisely because he knows Shao Yifu so well that when Yin Jun decided to support TVB, he also made a strategy to destroy Shao.

In fact, Yin Jun didn't need to do much, as long as he supported Jiahe and New Art City and took Wang Jing away, the Shaw Brothers would decline at a faster rate than in his previous life.

Unexpectedly, Shao Yifu asked Yin Jun to give him a script in such a serious manner today, and was willing to pay conditions that he was unwilling to pay before.

The script fee of 10 million yuan has to be included in the investment as a share!

Now, affected by various rising costs, Shaw Brothers usually costs about 2-3 million yuan for a movie.

The script fee that Shao Yifu gave Yin Jun was enough for Shao Brothers to make four films.

In Yin Jun's impression, Shao Laojiao is definitely not such a generous person?

Seeing Yin Jun looking at him, Shao Yifu smiled, "Ah Jun, are you wondering why this old man has gone crazy, and he has become as generous and heroic as Zou Wenhuai?"

Yin Jun didn't answer, and he couldn't answer this question.

Shao Yifu naturally didn't expect Yin Jun to answer, but said to himself: "When I was younger, my third brother and I played movies for others in order to survive. The kind of people who are struggling on the line of life and death Feeling, I don’t like it very much, I prefer the feeling that everything is under control. When I came to Xiangjiang, I brought a full 3 million Hong Kong dollars... In terms of purchasing power at that time, it is equivalent to 300 million now! In sufficient With the support of money, I bought the studio, scouted out actors, scouted out rival stars and directors, and finally got to where I am today step by step.

So in fact, Shaw Brothers is not reluctant to spend money, but after the collapse of its biggest rival, MP & GI, Shaw Brothers has no rivals, so there is no need to spend a lot of money to produce movies. In terms of input and output, it is still cost-effective to do small productions, not to mention that Shaw Brothers adopts the system of a large studio, the more you shoot, the more cost-effective.

However, with Lei Meng leaving behind me, and with Li Xiaolong and Xu Guanwen's frequent misses, Shaw Brothers is getting worse day by day. In the past one or two years, I have been thinking about whether to close Shaw Brothers so as to become a TV station seriously? After all, I am old and my energy is limited. It is unrealistic to do both.

And at this time, you suddenly turned out to be born again, and every TV series and movie is such a bestseller.

Especially the last "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and this time "Police Academy" all made me realize that your script is enough to bring Shaw Brothers to another peak. But just spend a little more money! It's not like I didn't do it back then! I'm going to experiment with a few more movies like this, and if it really doesn't work, then I'll make another plan. "

Yin Jun listened to Shao Yifu's words, but there were not many waves in his heart.

Yin Jun knew exactly what Shao Yifu's life was like.

Although Shao Yifu may have paid a lot of money to ask Yin Jun to write the script, and after he succeeds, he will continue to buy Yin Jun's script at a high price.

But he will definitely not be like Jiahe, and he will seriously make good movies by himself.

At the same time, Shaw Brothers made money by cooperating with Yin Jun, which will not bring any benefits to Shaw Brothers directors and actors. The money is still only Shaw Yifu's, and has nothing to do with them.

That being the case, what is the difference between Shaw Brothers and Hong Jinbao's Baohe, and Wu Siyuan's Siyuan?

Baohe and Siyuan are far from being as rigid as Shaw Brothers, at least they know what it means to buy people's hearts and give actors and directors more benefits, but Shao Yifu will definitely not be like this, he will still use talents as cattle and horses and gave them food like oxen and horses.

In other words, the cooperation between Shao Yifu and Yin Jun only benefited him and Yin Jun, and it did not bring any benefits to the Xiangjiang film circle. On the contrary, because of the success of Shao Brothers, the talents of Shao Brothers would be imprisoned , making it impossible for them to exert their abilities.

Seeing Shao Yifu's sincere emotion, the young man remembered that a few years later, when Shaw Brothers ceased production, in order to make a last profit, those serious actresses suffered enough, and many of them were forced to make pornographic films. In pornography, there are not a few who show their bodies.

It's okay not to shoot, otherwise Shaw Brothers will hold the contract and make it impossible for the actress to work in the entertainment industry.

Such an approach is simply a disgrace to the film industry!

Even those small film companies failed to do such a frenzied thing, but it happened that Shao Yifu, a great philanthropist, did it. It really makes people feel deeply moved!

Thinking of this, Yin Jun has a decision in his heart.

"Sixth Uncle, Shaw Brothers is already hard-won." Yin Jun said, "If you ask me to give Shaw Brothers a script, I won't, because I don't like Shao Brothers."

Shao Yifu frowned, and he couldn't help feeling a little angry, "My contribution is the same as that of Jiahe, how can you treat one more than another, Ah Jun?"

"Because Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers are not in the same way. An ambitious company like Golden Harvest does not rely solely on me. They also have elites such as Cheng Long, Xu Guanwen, Hong Jinbao, etc. to strive and pursue independently. Here at Shaw Brothers, All I see is lifelessness." Yin Jun said, "I only made money by giving you the script, and I can't contribute to Xiangjiang Films.

In fact, I think Uncle Six, you can gradually give up the film company and concentrate on your TV station. Then on the film side, it is enough for you to actively do theater chains and participate in the investment of those good films as an investor. "

Shao Yifu snorted coldly: "Could it be that I have become a cancer of Xiangjiang Film?"

"It's not a cancer, but it's out of line with the development of the times." Yin Jun said, "Those who can't conform to the times will be eliminated, whether we like it or not. Anyway, that's all I've said. Uncle Liu, please think carefully! Close After getting the production of the film company, you can also participate in my film."

Shao Yifu's expression changed.

This is the benefit Yin Jun gave himself.

"Could it be that group of elite talents you want from Shaw Brothers?" Shao Yifu asked suspiciously, "That's why you persuaded me to close the film company?"

"Of course not." Yin Jun said with a smile, "There are not many people in you that I like. They are all outdated characters. What do you want them to do?"

"Nonsense!"

Shao Yifu stared at Yin Jun and said, "Let's wait and see! I'll let you see, what is ginger or old spicy!!"

"good."

Yin Jun also became serious, "Then I'll let Uncle Six see what a real modern movie is!"

A flash of light flashed in Shao Yifu's mind, "Sure enough! Sure enough, you are going to make your own movie!"

"Yeah, after accumulating for so many years and doing so many things, I finally have the time to do something I like." Yin Jun nodded and said, "Uncle Six, just wait and see! Xiangjiang Movies must come from me. Let’s start, go to the whole world!!”