Chapter 708 To support or to destroy, this is a question
Yin Jun guessed Shao Yifu's thoughts, but he would not expose him.
"Three dramas."
Yin Jun raised his hand and said slowly: "I hope you will let Huang Rihua film three movies for me, and the time is not limited. But Qilin TV will also pay the relevant fees and ask for the consent of TVB before he will come over to film."
"Three dramas?" Shao Yifu showed a sense of embarrassment and went to film for other companies. This... is not easy to deal with!"
The boy laughed in his heart, but said, "Uncle Six, don't you want to strengthen our cooperation? This is a good opportunity! As long as you can afford the price in the future, our Kirin TV actors can also film ATV for you! For example, Zhou Runfa is OK, Wu Weiguo is OK, Liang Chaowei is OK, and Xue is OK!"
Shao Yifu's mouth moved and did not answer.
He thought to himself that the labor of your Qilin TV is so expensive, why would I ask them for?
What’s more, but our ability to cultivate talents is first-class. I train good actors myself, so I don’t want your high-priced products!
But he smiled again on his face, "Okay, since you said that, what else do I have to say? There are only three dramas, you have to use Huang Rihua well!"
"Sure!" Yin Jun nodded.
"But look, Ajun." Shao Yifu climbed up the pole, "You beg Uncle Six, Uncle Six will agree to you immediately. But you recently gave Jiahe a script, why didn't you expect that Uncle Six also has a film company?"
Yin Jun was stunned, "Shao Brothers?"
"yes!"
Shao Yifu said enthusiastically, "We Shaw Brothers is also the largest film company in Xiangjiang. We are full of talents, and we only have some ideas and good scripts! If you can also give us a good script, they will definitely be able to deliver very good results!"
"Uncle Six, do you know what my conditions are?" Yin Jun said funny.
"I know!" Shao Yifu nodded seriously, "The script is discounted by 10 million yuan, invest in movies, and participate in dividends according to the investment ratio."
"Then you still want to bear it?" Yin Jun laughed.
Shaw Brothers' movies have never been so expensive. Shaw Yifu is not a generous person, and his successor Fang Yihua is even more of a rooster among the roosters.
But unexpectedly, Shao Yifu solemnly said: "As long as you give me a really good script!"
Yin Jun thought that Shaw Yifu would talk to him about cooperation on the TV station, but he really didn't expect that what he was talking about was Shaw Brothers.
Moreover, Shao Yifu actually agreed to the same conditions as Jiahe.
In Yin Jun's opinion, this is a bit unbelievable.
This doesn’t look like the one I know!
Shaw Brothers at the end of 1980 are already different from Shaw Brothers in 1978 when Yin Jun first came to Xiangjiang, and it is a bit different.
In 1978, Shaw Brothers produced twenty or thirty movies a year. Each movie can earn one or two million yuan in local and foreign countries in Xiangjiang. Shaw Brothers’ net profit is 30 to 50 million yuan a year, and it runs very well.
But this kind of operation is actually based on the salary and rewards of the pressing production staff.
Generally speaking, except for several directors such as Zhang Ce, Chu Yuan, Li Hanxiang, etc., the other directors and producers are all paid. Only when the box office of the movie is good can you get a red envelope of 10,000 to 20,000 yuan.
Even the major directors have a pay of around 50,000 at best. Although there are red envelopes, they are many times worse than directors like Xu Guanwen and others.
There are also actors, who are far less happy than those movie stars 10 years later. Their treatment can be compared with TVB TV stars, in addition to being bitter but also as bitter as they are.
In a company, only the boss makes money, and all employees and middle and senior employees can’t 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 continuously. He went to Jiahe, Xinyi City, and some small and medium-sized film companies... Anyway, he just won't stay with you Shaw Brothers.
And the times are changing, and the tastes of the audience are also changing.
Shaw Brothers has maintained the film model for 20 or 30 years, and has no innovation at all, so it is gradually abandoned by the audience.
In 1980, until November, they have filmed a total of 28 movies, but only 11 of them have made money. After all, they have only made more than 2 million yuan, and have entered the breakeven point.
It is conceivable that by 1981, with the continuous efforts of Xinyi City and Jiahe, and the continuous innovation efforts of small and medium-sized film companies such as Baohe and Siyuan, Shaw Brothers will definitely be worse than this year.
Once Shaw falls into a loss, it will definitely be a vicious cycle. In just three to five years, Shaw will probably be completely destroyed.
Yin Jun could see this clearly, Zou Wenhuai could see it clearly, and I believe Shao Yifu could see it clearly.
What Yin Jun is most puzzled by the fact that Shao Yifu's stubbornness and refusal to change.
Shaw Brothers actually has no chance to prolong his life.
There were obviously several opportunities in my previous life that Shaw Brothers could develop and continue to compete with Jiahe, but Shaw Yifu gave up without hesitation.
The first Li Xiaolong, there is no need to say, Shao Yifu's heart pain.
But Xu Guanwen, the second one, was the same. He knew that he was a talented and profitable director, but he did not give in because of the share issue. Xu Guanwen took his younger brothers to Jiahe in anger, and helped Jiahe support more than ten years after Li Xiaolong's death.
With the previous two lessons, do you think Shao Yifu will pay attention, can repent, and can reflect?
No.
No.
The third one is Wang Jing.
This is the number one commercial director of Xiangjiang who can be used by five directors by one person. He is from Shaw Brothers. His father is also the most trusted assistant of Shaw Yifu.
Wang Jing made achievements in several consecutive dramas, which made Shaw Brothers make a big profit, but even so, Shao Yifu did not agree to Wang Jing's normal share requirements, and still adopted the practice of 200,000 yuan per movie, plus a big red envelope of 200,000 yuan.
Wang Jing filmed for money. How could he stay here under such circumstances?
So Wang Jing left without looking back.
After losing these three opportunities, the group of old directors that Shaw Brothers relied on were completely declining, Shaw Brothers naturally disappeared in the Hong Kong film industry. Even if there were still some repetitions, it was no longer mainstream.
It is precisely because he knew too well that Yin Jun also decided to destroy Shaw Brothers when he decided to support TVB.
Yin Jun actually didn't have to do anything more. As long as he supported Jiahe and Xinyi City and took Wang Jing away, Shaw Brothers would decline faster than in his previous life.
But what I didn't expect was that today Shao Yifu was so serious that Yin Jun gave him a script, and was willing to pay the conditions he was unwilling to pay before.
The script fee of 10 million yuan must be included in the investment as a share!
Now, affected by various cost increases, Shaw Brothers generally has about 2-3 million to 3 million movies.
The script fee that Shao Yifu gave Yin Jun was enough for Shaw Brothers to make four films.
In Yin Jun’s impression, Mr. Shao is definitely not such a generous person?
Looking at Yin Jun's eyes looking at him, Shao Yifu smiled, "Ajun, are you thinking that this old man is crazy, and he actually becomes as generous and generous as Zou Wenhuai?"
Yin Jun did not answer, and he could not answer this.
Shao Yifu naturally did not expect Yin Jun to answer, but said to himself: "When I was younger, in order to survive, my third brother and I played movies on the streets. I don't like the feeling of struggling on the line of survival and death. I like the feeling of everything being in control. When I came to Hong Kong, I brought a full 3 million Hong Kong dollars... In terms of purchasing power at that time, it was equivalent to 300 million now! With the support of sufficient money, I bought the set, discovered actors, and dug out the stars and directors of my opponents, and then I got to where I am today step by step.
So in fact, Shaw Brothers is not reluctant to spend money, but after his biggest opponent, Diemo, went bankrupt, Shaw Brothers, who no longer had an opponent, had no need to spend a lot of money to make movies. In terms of input and output, it is still a small production, not to mention that Shaw Brothers adopts a large studio system, and the more it shoots, the more it costs, the more it costs.
However, with Raymond's back on me, with Li Xiaolong and Xu Guanwen's repeated mistakes, Shaw Brothers is getting worse day by day. In the past one or two years, I have been thinking about whether to turn off Shaw Brothers and thus seriously start a TV station? After all, I am old and have limited energy. It is unrealistic to take into account both sides.
At this time, you suddenly emerged, and TV series and movies are so popular.
Especially the last "Raiders of the Lost Ark", this time "Police School", I realized that your script is enough to make Shaw Brothers reach another peak. But it's just spending more money! I haven't done it back then! I'm going to experiment with a few more movies like this. If it really doesn't work, then make another plan."
Yin Jun listened to Shao Yifu's words, but there was not much turmoil in his heart.
Yin Jun knew clearly what Shao Yifu's life was like.
Although Shao Yifu may be spending a lot of money to come to Yin Jun to write the script, and after success, he will continue to buy Yin Jun's script at a lot of money.
But he will never make good movies seriously like Jiahe.
At the same time, Shaw Brothers made money through cooperation with Yin Jun, which would not bring any benefits to Shaw Brothers' directors and actors. The money was still only Shaw Yifu's and had nothing to do with them.
In this case, what is the difference between Shaw Brothers and Hong Jinbao's Baohe and Wu Siyuan's Siyuan?
Baohe and Siyuan are far less rigid than Shaw Brothers. At least they know what it means to win people's hearts and give more benefits to actors and directors, but Shaw Yifu will never do this. He will still treat talents as a cow and horse and give them food like a cow and horse.
In other words, the only thing that made the cooperation between Shaw Yifu and Yin Jun profitable was him and Yin Jun. It did not bring any benefits to the Xiangjiang film industry. Instead, it would imprison the group of talents who were Shaw Brothers because of Shaw Brothers' success, so that they could not use their abilities.
Looking at Shao Yifu's sincere feelings, the boy remembered in his heart that when Shaw Brothers stopped production a few years later, in order to make a final profit, those serious actresses had suffered enough, and many of them were forced to film erotic films, and there were many people who showed their bodies.
It wouldn't work if you don't shoot it, otherwise Shaw would hold a contract and make the actress completely unable to work in the entertainment industry.
Such an approach is simply a shame to the film industry!
Even those small film companies were unable to do such a crazy thing, but it was done by a great philanthropist like Shao Yifu. It was really touching!
Thinking of this, Yin Jun made a decision in his heart.
"Uncle Six, Shaw Brothers is now hard to return." Yin Jun said, "If you ask me to give Shaw Brothers a script, I would not want to, because I don't like Shaw Brothers."
Shao Yifu frowned, and couldn't help but feel angry, "My efforts are the same as Jiahe, how can you be more favorable to one or the other?"
"Because Jiahe and Shaw Brothers are not the same as each other, an ambitious company like Jiahe is not just relying on me. They also have elites such as Cheng Long, Xu Guanwen, Hong Jinbao, etc., to fight and pursue each other. But what I only see here is lifelessness." Yin Jun said, "I gave you the script, but I just made money, and I can't contribute to Xiangjiang movies.
In fact, I think you can gradually give up the film company and focus on your TV station. Then, on the movie side, you actively build theaters and participate in investment in those good movies as an investor. This is enough."
Shao Yifu snorted coldly: "Did I still become a cancer of Xiangjiang movies?"
"It's not a cancer, but it's no longer in line with the development of the times." Yin Jun said, "If you can't adapt to the times, you will be eliminated, no matter whether we want it or not. Anyway, I'll say that, please consider it carefully. After closing the production of the film company, you can also participate in my movies."
Shao Yifu's face moved.
This is the benefit Yin Jun gave himself.
"Is it the elite group of Shaw who you want?" Shaw Yifu said in confusion, "That's why you advised me to close the film company?"
"Of course not." Yin Jun smiled, "There are not many of the people in you who I like, they are all outdated people. What do you want them to do?"
“Bad talk!”
Shao Yifu stared at Yin Jun and said, "Let's go and see! I will let you see what ginger is or what is old spicy!!"
"good."
Yin Jun also became serious, "Then I'll let Uncle Six, see what a real modern movie is!"
A flash of inspiration in Shao Yifu's mind, "Sure enough! You are really going to make your own movie!"
Chapter completed!