I don't know when Shi Zhijian was already dressed neatly, with a straight suit, a slicked back hair, and a tie. He looked like a loyal butler, and brought the prepared milk, coffee, and ham sandwiches to her on a small round tray.
Pan Yingzi glanced at Shi Zhijian and wanted to get up, but she felt weak all over and let out a charming "Ah" in her mouth.
"What's wrong with you? Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?" Shi Zhijian stepped forward with concern, put the tray on the bedside, picked up the pillow, helped Pan Yingzi up, and put the pillow on her waist.
The poor pillow worked hard last night and took on a lot of pressure and support. Now it has become a treasure in Pan Yingzi's waist.
"You still say? My waist is almost broken." Pan Yingzi rolled her eyes at Shi Zhijian.
Shi Zhijian smiled and said, "You can't blame me. You are not good at mathematics. I have no choice but to teach you 'square root' all the time!"
Square root?
Pan Yingzi thought for a moment and immediately understood what it meant. In an instant, her eyes were about to drip with honey, her cheeks turned into shame, she pointed at the milk sandwich and changed the subject: "Did you prepare this?"
"Yeah, I didn't expect this small hotel to be so user-friendly." Shi Zhijian personally picked up the fresh milk on the tray, blew on it, and felt that the temperature was about the same, then handed it to Pan Yingzi.
Pan Yingzi took the milk and lightly opened her lips and took a sip. White milk overflowed from the corner of her mouth.
Shi Zhijian picked up the bedside tissue and wiped the corners of her mouth very gently.
"Isn't it dirty?!" Pan Yingzi gave him a gouging look.
Shi Zhijian looked at the tissue and said, "It's very clean!"
Seeing his answer, Pan Yingzi couldn't drink the milk anymore, so she picked up the sandwich again, only to see a piece of ham in the middle. She didn't know what she thought of, so she quickly put the sandwich down again and picked up the coffee.
Then he breathed a sigh of relief.
Shi Zhijian looked at the milk, then at the ham on the sandwich, "Why, these are not to your liking? I thought you liked these!"
Pan Yingzi was furious and glared at Shi Zhijian with her beautiful eyes, "I only like to drink coffee!"
"Roger! I'm overthinking it! I'll make more coffee for you when I have the opportunity in the future!" As he spoke, Shi Zhijian took out a contract from his back like magic, placed it in front of Pan Yingzi, and said with a smile: "Ah
Zi, look, this is a contract I drafted specially for you. Do you like the content? If you are not satisfied, I can modify it at any time!"
Pan Yingzi was startled for a moment, glanced at the contract, and the joy and happiness in her heart immediately dissipated.
At this moment, she finally understood that no matter how intimate, loving and considerate she was last night, the relationship between her and him could only be regarded as a transaction.
Transactions that solidify mutual trust.
Shi Zhijian seemed to know what she was thinking. He put his hand on her shoulders and said, "Don't be unhappy. We are all adults. You should understand what I am doing."
Pan Yingzi smiled, and her beautiful eyes flashed again, "You are right, we are all adults, there is no need to worry too much!"
After saying that, Pan Yingzi let go of the contract, picked up the signature pen and wrote her name on it without hesitation: Pan Yingzi!
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Golden Harvest Film Company.
When Shi Zhijian threw the contract signed by Pan Yingzi to He Guanchang, He Guanchang, Chen Ziqiang and others could not help but look at Shi Zhijian with admiring eyes.
None of them expected that Shi Zhijian would sign a contract with such a big-name female star without saying a word.
Especially now that it is January, the contract between Pan Yingzi and Shaw Brothers was signed on an annual basis, and now it is expiring. Unlike Wang Yu, the original contract has to be destroyed.
Now the company can openly publicize that Jiahe has a big-name female star like Meili Pan to build momentum for Jiahe's new drama.
Of course, Pan Yingzi is not a little girl who has just joined the industry, and she will not sign a contract casually just because she and Shi Zhijian did some super friendly things last night.
The main reason is that the conditions given by Shi Zhijian are too tempting. After signing the contract with Jiahe, Jiahe will favor her and use all resources on her. Not to mention promoting her as the heroine, the signing bonus for her transfer is as high as 200,000.
Hong Kong dollar.
In other words, regardless of whether Jiahe is filming a movie this year, she will have to pay a signing bonus of 200,000 yuan. If there is a movie, the salary will start at a minimum of 20,000 yuan, and dividends will be calculated separately.
Such high-level treatment is simply unimaginable at Shaw Brothers.
At Shaw Brothers, Mr. Shaw is arbitrary and does not like to coddle big stars. Your salary is not what you want, but what he thinks you are worth.
Therefore, the highest-paid male star in the entire Shaw Brothers only earns 30,000 yuan per movie. Even if he makes ten movies a year, he only earns 300,000 yuan. As for dividends, there is no profit at all.
So in 1971, Bruce Lee approached Shao Yifu and asked for 10,000 US dollars for a movie, but Shao Yifu refused directly. In the end, Golden Harvest took advantage and hired Bruce Lee for 7,500 US dollars (about 42,000 Hong Kong dollars that year).
In 1974, another big star of Shaw Brothers, Xu Guanwen, went to negotiate with Yifu Shao about the film "The Two Stars" and asked for box office dividends, but Shao Yifu sternly refused. Later, Xu Guanwen joined Golden Harvest and "The Two Stars"
The box office of this drama was as high as 6.5 million, directly breaking the Hong Kong box office record, which made Shaw Brothers feel regretful.
In Shao Daheng's view, it's great that Shaw Brothers gives you a stage and allows you to make money, but you have no right to negotiate terms with Shaw Brothers.
Just when everyone was discussing how to use Pan Yingzi's contract to expand publicity, Zou Wenhuai also came back from outside.
Zou Wenhuai looked tired, but his eyes were shining, and he walked with a breeze. When he entered the room without saying a word, he took out the contract that Shi Zhijian dumped on him last night, then slumped on the chair and uttered two words: "Finish it!"
Shi Zhijian took out his cigarettes, knocked out one and handed it to him, and struck a match himself to light it for him.
Zou Wenhuai was not polite. He held the cigarette in his mouth and took a long puff of it. Then he slowly blew out a smoke ring and said the second sentence: "Damn, I'm exhausted!"
Being able to make Zou Wenhuai say dirty words shows that he was really tired last night.
According to what Zou Wenhuai said, he stayed in the hospital with Wang Yu all night yesterday.
Xu Shaoqiang, the gangster, said he was Wang Yu's good brother and he was very loyal and wanted to take care of him.
When Wang Yu vomited the wine, Xu Shaoqiang couldn't bear it anymore and directly urinated and hid in the toilet.
Helpless, Zou Wenhuai had no choice but to hold a spittoon and pat his back, making Wang Yu vomit again and again.
Later, Xu Shaoqiang called a friend to pick up girls at a dance hall, leaving Zou Wenhuai alone to accompany Wang Yu.
Wang Yu took glucose to relieve the hangover, and Zou Wenhuai pulled up a chair and lay down beside the bed.
Wang Yu woke up and wanted to drink tea, so he poured tea for him.
Wang Yu wanted to pee, so he helped him go to the bathroom and helped him take off his pants.
Zou Wenhuai was tortured to death all night long. According to Zou Wenhuai's words, "I have never worked so hard to serve my biological father."
Zou Wenhuai's behavior moved Wang Yu, and Wang Yu was a very trustworthy person. Since he lost the bet, he would admit defeat.
So after reading the contents of the contract, he signed it for Zou Wenhuai without saying a word.
According to the contract, Wang Yu switched to Golden Harvest, and Golden Harvest paid Wang Yu a signing bonus of 500,000. In the future, the minimum salary for each film will be no less than 30,000 Hong Kong dollars. In addition, for every film filmed, Wang Yu will receive a certain percentage of the box office.
Dividends.
In other words, 700,000 of the 1 million raised by Jiahe has been spent on signing two big-name stars, with 300,000 left.
In this era, 300,000 yuan is more than enough to shoot one or two movies, but the problem is how to release the movie after filming is completed?
Shi Zhijian is the kind of person who is very cautious in doing things. Now that Jiahe has poached Wang Yu and Pan Yingzi from Shaw Brothers, no matter how generous Shao Daheng is, he will not sit idly by.
In particular, Wang Yu still resorted to "stealing contracts", so it can be expected that Shaw Brothers will soon counterattack or even strangle Jiahe.
And the best way to strangle Jiahe is to ban it!
You have made a movie and it is not given a chance to be released, and it is not released in theaters. That is the most terrible thing.
Money is spent, but the box office cannot be recovered, so there is only one result of waiting for Jiahe, and that is--hitting the streets!
For this reason, the last thing Shi Zhijian has to do now is to acquire theater chains!
Let Golden Harvest have its own theater chain and not be influenced by Shaw Brothers.
"Lao Zou, Lao He, please do your hard work and immediately investigate how many cinema chains there are in Hong Kong! If we at Jiahe want to avoid being choked by others, we must have our own cinema chain!"
"Huh? Here we go again?!"
Zou Wenhuai, He Guanchang and others were directly shocked by Shi Zhijian's ever-expanding ambitions. First he established a company, then raised money through crowdfunding, then signed contracts with Wang Yu and Pan Yingzi, and now he wants to acquire theater chains.
