Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire

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As a film tycoon, many women hope to be the woman next to Shao Yifu, and Shao Yifu has never concealed his romantic character. When he was interviewed by the famous mouth Huang Zhan in his early years, he even left a famous saying: "I am romantic and not Dirty, I like to be naughty, but never naughty."

"One-armed swordsman" Wang Yu described Mrs. Shao as good-tempered and lustful, but he then added: "Men are lustful."

Shao Yifu, who said that he is not indecent, is not lacking in beauties when he is old, and he is very considerate in taking care of ladies. Chen Songling, who was deeply loved by Shao Yifu, also expressed her regret at the departure of Sixth Uncle, "Sixth Uncle likes food very much, he often eats with me, and he will fax a menu in advance."

In addition, Shao Yifu also loves Miss Hong Kong very much. When he attended the Chinese New Year event in early 2006, Shao Yifu praised Miss Hong Kong's runner-up Lu Shiyun for her fair skin, who wore a low V skirt. In addition, actor Cao Zhong successfully replaced Mo Kexin, the champion of Miss Hong Kong in 1993, and supported Run Run Shaw to attend large-scale events. Later, it was reported that Cao Zhong and Liu Shu went to the theater together, and there was a scandal.

Mrs. Shao is well-known to women, but not to children. He and his first wife Huang Meizhen have four children, Weiming, Suwen, Suyun, and Weizhong. The four children live overseas. Gu Mei, who lives in Canada, once said to others that she felt sorry for Shao Yifu's alienation from his children.

Shao Yifu's two sons seldom come to Hong Kong, and the eldest son, Weiming, devotes himself to managing business in Singapore. Gu Mei said that she also sighed at the lack of love for her children. In 1998, Shao Weizhong's daughter, Shao Shulin, drowned while diving. Shao Yifu learned of his granddaughter's death only after reading the newspaper. It can also be seen that his relationship with his children is quite alienated. According to a person familiar with the situation, few people in the third generation of the Shaw family have a close relationship with the sixth uncle, "Sixth uncle and four brothers? There are dozens of descendants, it is impossible to know everyone!"

Xu Cun really couldn't figure out why Shao Yifu, who had a very bad relationship with his descendants, would use marriage as a way to maintain the relationship between the two of them? Is it just because Shao Yifu doesn't want Shaw Brothers Pictures to fall into the hands of outsiders?

However, no matter what Shao Yifu thinks, it is impossible for Xu Cun to agree to the marriage.

First of all, Xu Cun's vision is not so narrow - it is impossible for him to destroy his own foundation just for the assets of Shaw Brothers Films.

Secondly, it is impossible for Xu Cun to give up a large forest for a crooked neck tree of the Shao family.

Secondly, although Xu Cun is a person who uses all means to achieve his goals, he will never play with his own emotions - he is extremely resistant to such things in his bones! Of course, this can also be regarded as a manifestation of Xu Cun's immaturity.

but--

Although Xu Cun will not marry Shao Yifu, he will not refuse to cooperate with Shao Yifu again.

Putting aside the huge interests behind it, just talking about favors, Xu shouldn't reject Shao Yifu thousands of miles away.

The so-called Nanyang is the back garden of Hong Kong films, which refers to a few years later. At this time, there are only twenty or thirty Hong Kong films that can be sold in Nanyang each year. Among the 20 or 30 films, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest's films accounted for more than half. The films produced by ordinary film companies can only honestly earn local box office. If you are lucky, you may be able to sell them in Taiwan and make a fortune. .

As for Japan and South Korea, even the two big companies, Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers, can't sell many movies - Japan is due to market reasons, while South Korea is due to government restrictions.

In the current Xiangjiang film circle, everyone knows that DreamWorks can already contact overseas distribution by itself, and can obtain very good overseas box office. Therefore, the current DreamWorks has really risen.

Some time ago, an article wrote: "The Xiangjiang film industry in the 1950s was a melee of Shaw Brothers, Great Wall, Phoenix, Cathay Pacific and other companies; The two heroes stand side by side; in the Hong Kong film industry in the 1970s, the Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest shared the world equally; now that it has just entered the 1980s, the Hong Kong film industry is about to enter an era where the Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, and DreamWorks will stand together..."

The reason why DreamWorks was able to run rampant in Asia and even become a film company that shared the world with Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest was because Xu Cun took advantage of Shao Yifu's carelessness to make "Happy Ghost" and "Mr. Zombie" " was launched, and after that, DreamWorks' coquettish films repeatedly won the box office charts in Xiangjiang and Taiwan, and made a lot of money overseas, which completely launched the DreamWorks brand.

Therefore, Xu Cunneng has today's status, and Shao Yifu's contribution is indeed in it.

Of course, it is impossible for Xu Cun to show actual benefits or benefits to thank Shao Yifu—after all, Shao Yifu did not sincerely help Xu Cun.

However, Xu Cun doesn't mind cooperating with Shao Yifu again or even helping Shao Yifu if it doesn't affect him and it's better for him.

Therefore, seeing that Shao Yifu really had the sincerity to cooperate, Xu Cun sat up straight and said, "Uncle Six, in a way, we are the same kind of people, the kind of people who are not willing to be manipulated by anyone. So let me just say that it is impossible for me and you to unite—if we unite, I will definitely try my best to empty you, and you will definitely try my best to turn me into a tool for making money for you. It will definitely become mediocre in internal friction, and even our company may give us funeral objects... I am willing to cooperate with you again. However, our cooperation method is not a merger, but like the release of "ET" this time ——You and Golden Harvest also enjoy the distribution rights of DreamWorks films in Asia except for Taiwan.”

After Xu Cun finished speaking, Shao Yifu's eyes lit up! Then he narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "I'm going to be seventy-three soon, don't you even have the patience to wait for me for a few years?"

"NND! How many years? You can still live for decades, and I almost couldn't survive you. If I consume it with you, can I afford it?" Xu Cun secretly asked.

"Sixth uncle, you will live a long life!" Xu Cun said with a smile.

Shao Yifu looked at Xu Cun for a long time, and then sighed: "No wonder you can rise up in just two or three years!"

Exhaling a foul breath, Shao Yifu's expression immediately returned to the same as when he met Xu Cungang, and he said again: "Lei Juekun canceled the subsidy system and changed it to a share system. Are you still going to be with Princess Jin?"

Speaking of this, Xu Cun also looked helpless - strictly speaking, Xu Cun was responsible for this matter.

Xu Cun brought the elite of DreamWorks to Hollywood to make films, which made it impossible for DreamWorks to make a large number of films-more than half of the 1980s have passed, and only Zeng Zhiwei's "Stolen" was released in DreamWorks.

Therefore, the Golden Princess Theater is of course seriously short of films.

Therefore, Lei Juekun, who was forced to be red-eyed, took a drastic move and changed the subsidy system to a sharing system.

To be honest, the sharing system is definitely a great thing for those independent film companies-they no longer have to worry about showing up, and they have to pay the theaters to show their films in theaters.

However, for DreamWorks, this is not good news.

First of all, the box office of DreamWorks movies is generally higher, and the share is very disadvantageous for DreamWorks!

Secondly, after the Golden Princess Cinemas released this big move, it immediately attracted countless small and medium-sized film companies to join them. The number of films produced by the Golden Princess Cinemas increased sharply, which made it difficult for DreamWorks films to get the most awards as before. Good timeslots and the most theaters.

Of course, it is impossible for Lei Juekun not to be concerned about Xu Cun's feelings-he offered to propose that Xu Cun's films should be rated at four or six points (Golden Princess Cinemas takes four, DreamWorks takes six.), and other directors of DreamWorks Director's movie is based on five or five points. In addition, all DreamWorks films are released in priority.

The distribution ratio between Golden Princess Cinemas and other small and medium-sized film companies is based on six or four points (Golden Princess Cinemas accounts for six, and other small and medium-sized film companies account for six.).

Therefore, Lei Juekun's conditions for Xu Cun seem to be considered superior.

But this so-called superiority means that compared with other film companies, if compared with the previous subsidy system, Xu Cun still suffers.

Therefore, Shi Nansheng talked with Lei Juekun twice on behalf of Xu Cun, and finally decided that Xu Cun's films will be scored at 3.8 and 6.2, while films directed by other DreamWorks directors will be scored at 4.7 and 5.3.

Xu Cun is quite satisfied with this result—although, for some of the DreamWorks bosses, such a score is still a bit of a disadvantage. However, not all DreamWorks films are pornographic, and this distribution method still has certain advantages for those films that are not pornographic. After the two pairs were matched, the change from the subsidy system to the share system did not have much impact on DreamWorks.

In addition, after all, Shaw Brothers still has a large number of films made by its own film company that have to be released in Shaw Brothers theaters.

Therefore, in the face of Shao Yifu's courtship, Xu Cun said with a smile: "Uncle Six, you always eat meat, so you must let Mr. Lei drink some soup, otherwise, he will have to be impatient with you."

After hearing what Xu Cun said, Shao Yifu knew that Xu Cun refused again.

Regarding this, he didn't insist anymore, but changed the subject and said, "Are you really not at all tempted by my conditions?"

"Moved." Xu Cun replied honestly.

After pondering for a while, Shao Yifu looked at Xu Cun and said again: "What if I hand over Shao's completely to you?"

Xu Cuncai did not believe that Yifu Shao would completely entrust Shaw to him. You must know that Yifu Shao has set the world record for the longest-lived and longest-serving CEO of a listed company in the world. He didn't completely step down until he was one hundred and four years old. The question is, is it possible for Xu Cun to believe that such a person will completely entrust Xu Cun to manage his company, which is as precious as his life?

Therefore, Xu Cun said with a smile: "Sixth uncle, when I drank tea here last time, I asked you to tell me about your old and third uncle's establishment of a theater chain in Nanyang. You always talk about it later, this time Your boss can't shirk anymore, can he?"

Seeing Xu Cun's decisiveness in dealing with things, Shao Yifu couldn't help thinking: "How wonderful it would be if I had such a capable descendant!"

Rubbing his eyes lightly, Shao Yifu said: "Let's not talk about that first, A Cun, do you have to show some intention of cooperation?"

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