230. Two big money-attracting companies that are beginning to show scale.(1/3)
Although the cooperation between Black and White and Golden Harvest was carried out quietly, two days after they signed the contract, Shaw Brothers' CEO Yifu Shao had already received the news.
It can be seen that not only Jiahe has its own insiders in Shaw Brothers, but also Jiahe also has Shaw Brothers insiders.
In Shao Yifu's office on the Clear Water Bay set, Shao Yifu sat there with a calm expression, as if he had not heard the news at all.
Fang Yihua could no longer sit still.
"Brother Six, you have to make an idea. Chu Huan is obviously thinking of taking advantage of both sides. If Chu Huan continues to develop like this, Black and White Image will be able to create their own Black and White Image in less than five years.
With the distribution network of foreign channels, and judging from Chu Huan’s attention to black and white images, he will definitely build his own studio in the future. By then, no one in Xiangjiang will be able to stop Chu Huan!"
Shao Yifu sat there and preached slowly: "What you can think of, Zou Wenhuai can't think of?"
Fang Yihua said anxiously: "I don't care whether Zou Wenhuai can think of it or not. All I know now is that Chu Huan's black and white image has threatened our status in Shaw Brothers!"
This is a very strange mentality. Before this, both Shao Yifu and Fang Yihua hoped to overthrow Jiahe first after joining forces with Chu Huan.
But when Chu Huan's black and white image was about to reach this point, Fang Yihua found that she could no longer accept such a result.
Maybe they didn't expect that Chu Huan's black and white image would be so successful in overthrowing Jiahe!
In their imagination, even if the black and white image defeated Jiahe, they would suffer eight hundred losses, but now!
Black and White Image actually did not suffer any losses in this process, but instead further expanded the scale of its company.
This makes it a little difficult for them to accept.
"The Chu Huan now is no longer the Chu Huan before!" Shao Yifu said without any end, then looked up at Fang Yihua and asked: "Since you want to target Chu Huan, let me ask you, what do you want?
How to target Chu Huan?"
Fang Yihua said directly: "This is simple, suspending their rental contract for the Clearwater Bay studio and the distribution of their company's films through overseas channels!"
Shao Yifu knocked on the table and said calmly: "Now Black and White has signed a rental agreement with Jiahe for the Jiahe studio. If we stop the rental agreement for Black and White, will it have any impact on Black and White? Or are you prepared to compensate Black and White?
Image loss?”
Fang Yihua didn't know how to answer.
Yifu Shao continued: "You also said that you would terminate the company's contract to distribute black-and-white films in other places. Do you know how much money the company has made by distributing black-and-white films in the past year?"
"If it stops, who will bear the losses?"
Fang Yihua's face became even more gloomy, and she had no answer to such a question.
Now she is like a furious and incompetent person, full of anger towards Chu Huan, but there is nothing she can do!
In the end, I could only look at Shao Yifu helplessly and asked: "Is there nothing we can do?"
Shao Yifu chuckled, "Now the initiative is still in our hands. If we want to find a way, it's not impossible."
Fang Yihua immediately asked excitedly: "What can we do?"
Yifu Shaw's eyes were a bit deep, like an abyss with no bottom: "Black and White Film can continue to use the Clear Water Bay studio according to the contract, but our Shaw Brothers movies also need to use the Clear Water Bay studio. How to arrange the time?
It’s our word that has the final say!”
Fang Yihua's eyes immediately shone with light. With a simple reminder from Shao Yifu, she had already thought of a way to deal with it.
"I understand, we can put the black-and-white movie in first, and then when they are halfway through filming, we suddenly tell them that our company also needs to use this venue, so the black-and-white movie will naturally be postponed."
"In this case, their movie is already halfway through filming. If they were to change to Jiahe's studio at this time, the scenes would not match up."
Yifu Shao did not comment on Fang Yihua's method, but continued: "As for the issue of overseas distribution, although Black and White Image has its own employees overseas to calculate the box office, in the end it is only a rough calculation. The real box office revenue is what we are talking about.
Calculated."
Fang Yihua had to sigh... He is indeed a cunning person!
Why didn't I think of this method of making black and white images suffer?
"Brother Six, I understand!" Fang Yihua said immediately with a smile.
Shao Yifu nodded slightly and continued to remind: "At the beginning, don't go too far, at least don't make the black and white image too offensive."
"Understood!" Fang Yihua was silent for a moment and asked tentatively: "Brother Six, actually I have another way!"
Shao Yifu looked at Fang Yihua with an interested expression and asked: "What can I do?"
Fang Yihua said carefully: "Zou Wenhuai must hate Chu Huan to death now. If we extend an olive branch to Jiahe at this time and jointly deal with black and white images, I think Zou Wenhuai will be very willing!"
Shao Yifu's expression suddenly changed and he said loudly: "I would rather let Chu Huan's black and white image replace Zou Wenhuai's Jiahe than cooperate with Jiahe!"
Fang Yihua's neck shrank and she didn't dare to say anything anymore.
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Only people from Shaw Brothers and the film industry are paying attention to the cooperation between Black and White Image and Golden Harvest. For ordinary Xiangjiang citizens, they don't care about it.
Two months have passed. Although the stock market crash is still continuing, ordinary Xiangjiang citizens have begun to accept it in their hearts.
Since you didn't jump off the building, you have to continue living after all.
But some changes still exist. At this time in the vegetable market, the maids who buy vegetables are no longer so lavish. They start to argue with the vendors, and they have to calculate every cent or two for a long time.
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If you lose your job, your whole family will have nothing to eat.
In the past, everyone would immediately check how the stock market in Xiangjiang was doing today, but not anymore. They would only occasionally glance at the news about the stock market in the newspaper, and then they would sigh and continue their work.
It was under such circumstances that the citizens of Xiangjiang suddenly discovered that there seemed to be some subtle changes in their lives.
Where they live and work, suddenly there is a convenience store decorated with clouds.
Yunhai Convenience Store!
In fact, Yunhai Convenience Store already had some reputation in Hong Kong in the past, but at that time it was more concentrated among white-collar workers and some young people in Central.
In fact, convenience stores are small supermarkets. As for the supermarket industry, even in Hong Kong, it was only in the 1970s that the first supermarket with self-selected goods - Wellcome Supermarket!
Wellcome Supermarket was originally a subsidiary of the Dairy Milk Company, but with the success of Land's acquisition of the Milk Company, Wellcome Supermarket now naturally belongs to Jardine!
By the early 1990s, there were 167 Wellcome supermarket chains in Hong Kong.
In addition, another supermarket chain in Xiangjiang, PARKnSHOP, was established this year, and the company behind them is PARKnSHOP, a subsidiary of Watsons under Hutchison Whampoa!
Also in the 1990s, the PARKnSHOP supermarket chain already had 155 stores in Hong Kong, almost as many as Wellcome!
But the current Yunhai convenience stores are fundamentally different from these two large supermarkets. Their space area is much smaller. Each Yunhai convenience store is only about 700 square feet, and the goods are naturally not as large as those in large supermarkets.
Therefore, the competitors of Yunhai Convenience Store are not large supermarkets like Wellcome and Parknshop at all, but traditional supermarkets in Xiangjiang.
Compared with Shiduo Store, Yunhai Convenience Store appears much taller, and at this time, Yunhai Chain also put forward its own business slogan: Convenient, Fast, Clean!
Compared to messy supermarkets, Yunhai Convenience Store is very clean and tidy, and the goods are arranged very neatly. Customers can clearly know where the products they need are without having to search for them.
This model is very popular among young people and white-collar workers.
Not only that, Yunhai convenience store also has advantages that other stores do not have.
Most taxi shops in Xiangjiang are open until 90 pm and then close for rest.
But Xiangjiang is a city that never sleeps. Even late at night, there are still people living their lives. Another advantage of Yunhai convenience store is that it is a 24-hour convenience store. When people rest, the store does not rest!
At the same time, the convenience store also has a variety of convenience foods for customers to choose from, including quick-frozen steamed dumplings, steamed buns, siomai, soup dumplings; ready-to-eat foods such as pastries, bread, and biscuits; and drinks such as milk, coffee, and juice.
There is a microwave in the store for customers to warm their food.
Such considerate service is very useful to night shift drivers and white-collar workers in Central.
In addition to these fixed groups of people, there are other groups of people.
For example, people like Xiao Yun just finished work tonight and immediately turned on the TV when they got home to watch the Miss Xiangjiang beauty pageant on TVB.
His favorite thing is Deborah in it. Every time he sees Deborah through the TV screen, he feels impulsive.
After he watched Miss Xiangjiang's program, the little flame in his heart couldn't be suppressed, and he immediately called his girlfriend.
Invite the other person to your home, watch his cat do backflips, and do some regular exercise by the way!
The girlfriend also agreed to the other party's request very thoughtfully, and soon the man and woman started playing poker.
"T-zi, T-zi!"
"We've used it up a long time ago. Let's do infantry today!" Xiao Yun said impatiently.
However, my girlfriend quit the job and made it clear that she would not be able to do it without a wife. After all, she would be getting married in a while, and she didn’t want to let things go wrong at this time!
Xiao Yun said helplessly: "It's time now. Where do you want me to buy T-shirts? All the stores are closed."
The girlfriend said: "When I just came here, I saw that the Yunhai convenience store downstairs from your house was still open. There is something to buy there. You go!"
Xiao Yun showed a suspicious expression, but in the end he had no choice but to go downstairs to Yunhai convenience store to try it out.
He remembered that some time ago, there was no Yunhai convenience store like this near his home. Why is there one now?
When he found the signboard of Yunhai Convenience Store, he remembered that he had seen it being renovated some time ago.
Without any time to think about it, Xiao Yun immediately rushed into the Yunhai convenience store and was attracted by the clean environment here. However, Xiao Yun did not think much about it. It was better to buy the T-shirt as soon as possible and go back to play poker to beat the king.
Then he saw that Yunhai Convenience Store thoughtfully had a small shelf selling T-shirts near the counter, with various styles of T-shirts on them.
After thinking for a while, Xiao Yun took five boxes directly, and then saw the cigarette cabinet behind the salesperson, which contained various brands of cigarettes.
To be continued...