The next day, still in a coffee shop, Yu Jiajia met another negotiation partner, not Chen Baisheng, but an executive director of ATV named Ye Jiabao.
She came to Hong Kong this time and stayed for a relatively long time. She came to see anyone seeking cooperation in various aspects or asking for help. She had visitors almost every day.
This Ye Jiabao came to him on his own initiative.
This person's attitude was more correct than that of Chen Baisheng. He chatted for a few words and immediately got into the topic, saying: "Boss Yu's contribution to Hong Kong films in the past few years since he has been in charge of Golden Harvest is obvious to all. Hugelive is also an international platform. You have the ambition to expand overseas. I don't know."
Are you interested in investing in ATV?”
"What does my overseas expansion have to do with investing in ATV?"
"ATV's decades of branding and operating experience, as well as a complete set of program production and TV series shooting teams, are also a window to speak out to the outside world. If we join forces..."
"ha!"
Yu Jiajia smiled without any shame and said: "Your second shareholder is suing the major shareholder. He lost more than 300 million last year. He also caused such a big accident in 2011. Now advertisers don't look for you. How can you be so embarrassed?"
Talk about a strong alliance?"
In 2010, Wang Zheng, a mainland businessman, took over ATV.
Because Hong Kong's management of television stations is very strict and non-Hong Kong residents cannot be shareholders, Wang Zheng found an agent with suitable status.
At that time, the largest shareholder was Wang Zheng, and the second largest shareholder was Cai Yanming, the chairman of Taiwan Want Want Group. Cai Yanming was not a Hong Konger, so he also found an agent.
Then the tradition of ATV shareholder infighting returned.
Wang Zheng and Cai Yanming fought to the death. Cai Yanming directly sued Wang Zheng, saying that he controlled ATV as a "dictator" and demanded that an independent supervisor be appointed to the board of directors...
There is currently a lawsuit going on.
Not to mention the misbroadcast incident in 2011.
"How dare you come to me to invest in a situation like this? What should I invest in? To pay wages to your more than 700 employees, right? Or to be your cash machine?"
"I agree that ATV is at a low point, but I do think that owning a TV station is also beneficial to you."
"There are benefits, but doing business is essentially about weighing the pros and cons. In the early years, I would have bought ATV without hesitation, but now I feel it is unnecessary. It is a bottomless pit, and whoever jumps will die."
Yu Jiajia said it very clearly.
Ye Jiabao looked downcast and didn't want to keep stalking. He forced a smile and said: "Okay, I know what you mean, so I won't bother you today."
With that said, he stood up to leave, but was stopped by Yu Jiajia again.
"Although I don't want to invest, ATV still has some value. Why don't we talk about copyright?"
"copyright?"
"I bought the rights to several of your dramas before. There are many people who like to watch old Hong Kong dramas. I also have to enrich the film library. In this way, I will pack up all your dramas and the Asian sister beauty pageant and take them away. 100 million, you can consider
one time."
"100 million is too little!"
"There are quite a few. You are all old dramas. They are only for those nostalgic drama fans and the number of broadcasts is limited."
"We have more than 300 dramas, not to mention the Asian beauty pageant!"
"More than 300 movies are not all classics... Otherwise, for 50 million, I will only choose 100 movies + the Asian beauty pageant!"
Ye Jiabao quickly changed his mind, hoping to negotiate more prices and more money to give ATV a bowl of life-saving water, otherwise his salary would not be paid.
Yu Jiajia, on the other hand, is better than nothing and talks casually.
ATV has many good dramas, such as "I Have a Date with a Zombie", "I Have a Date with Spring", "Zombie Taoist", "Love from the Earth", "Snowflake Excalibur", "Silver Fox", "Celestial Silkworm Transformation", etc.
But for the mainland, it is limited to these top dramas, and they have to be restored in high definition, otherwise who will watch them?
"You are taking advantage of the situation!"
"Wow, you can go to the mainland and ask what the price of the TV series is. I'm very fair!"
"You should study it and tell me if it works. If it doesn't work, don't ask me."
Yu Jiajia got up and left.
Hong Kong's television industry has long lost its glory as "the most beautiful Mount Wutai" and is in decline.
ATV has always been ill-fated. Endless shareholder infighting has led to the lack of a stable development period, otherwise it will definitely make more brilliant achievements than in history.
Unfortunately, ATV stopped broadcasting in 2016 and later resumed broadcasting, but there was no movement. TVB also fell into losses and began to sell goods on Taobao.
after a few days.
The news about the biweekly was quickly released: "Jiahe may become a new investor, and "Film Biweekly" is expected to resume publication!"
It didn’t cause much impact, and people within the circle paid more attention than outside the circle.
Who still reads paper magazines these days?
Reading is also about reading tabloids: "Jackie Chan flew 5 meters in the air while beating up a bad boy", "Xiong Dailin massacred the city for 33 hours", "A bus from a wealthy family enters a wealthy family"...
This was news that Jiahe took the initiative to release. Unexpectedly, a brief meeting between Yu Jiajia and Ye Jiabao was actually photographed by the Hong Kong media with great savvy.
There is a lot of talk about the speculation that "President Yu will forcefully take over ATV".
She could only lament that the Hong Kong reporters ran so fast!
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The Peninsula Hotel’s afternoon tea is famous throughout Hong Kong, and many celebrities are regular customers here.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Jiang Zhiqiang listened to the live classical music played by the band and sipped authentic British refreshments. He was elegant, unhurried and typical of an old gentleman.
His father's name is Jiang Zuyi, a native of Foshan.
In my early years, I worked as an assistant manager in a theater in Mong Kok, and later I established my own theater chain. I had no money to make movies, so I could only buy movies. I couldn't buy local Hong Kong movies because I couldn't compete, so I could only buy cheap foreign language movies.
That's right, Hong Kong movies were expensive and Western movies were cheap.
Therefore, Anle Pictures is a family business, and the Jiang Zhiqiang family is not very powerful. They just caught up with the rise of Hollywood and followed behind to drink soup.
"Mr. Jiang!"
After waiting for a while, another older gentleman with a similar temperament came over.
This person is named Zhang Jiazhen, a veteran producer and a close associate of John Woo. He has participated in almost all of John Woo's movies, including Hollywood's "Broken Arrow", "Face/Off", "Wind Whisperer", and the Northbound "Red Cliff".
"Mr. Jiang is so excited. The weather in Hong Kong Island is about to change, but you still have the heart to have afternoon tea here."
Zhang Jiazhen was like an ancient lobbyist. He said, "Ah, the general must die! I am here to save the general..."
"The weather is bright and sunny now, how can the weather change?"
Jiang Zhiqiang smiled lightly.
"Boss Yu from the Mainland has been causing trouble in Hong Kong recently. The guys are very dissatisfied. They have no choice but to recommend me to be the leader. Let me ask you what you want."
"Ask me? I don't dare to take it seriously!"
"Now that Hong Kong movies are in decline, everyone has to protect themselves. If you do well, you can help the guys have a bowl of food, but if you don't do well, it's difficult to make a living. You are familiar with Hollywood and the mainland, so you are naturally our leader.