Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 357 A Rare Cooperation

At the end of May 1980, a major event that shocked the Hong Kong film industry happened quietly.

In the morning, a large group of office workers were waiting for the bus on the side of the road. As usual, they bought a newspaper they often read from the newsstand nearby.

But when everyone spread out the newspapers they bought, the headlines on them almost made most of them open their eyes wide.

Because an explosive news was published on the front page of almost all entertainment pages.

"Sammo Hung Yuen Biao switched to New Oriental Golden Harvest and lost two superstars"

"Hong's class left Golden Harvest for a long time"

This news, like a virus, immediately began to spread up and down Xiangjiang. Anyone who cared about the news in the film and television industry was shocked.

At this time, in the headquarters of Golden Harvest Company, several newspapers were placed in front of Zou Wenhuai's desk.

The always gentle and refined man now has blue veins on his forehead, which is ridiculous to say, and he only found out about it after reading the newspapers.

He and He Guanchang never expected that Hong Jinbao and Yuen Biao would leave like this, and they had no knowledge of this matter before.

If they hadn't read the news in the newspaper, they still couldn't believe that Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao had left.

Both Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang were silent, because they didn't know what to say now.

"It can't be like that."

Almost gritted his teeth and said this sentence, Zou Wenhuai seemed very angry at Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao's job-hopping behavior.

Moreover, this move caused Golden Harvest to lose two generals. It can be said that this time they switched to New Oriental, Golden Harvest can be said to be seriously injured.

"With the backing of Lin Daoqiu, they naturally don't take us seriously."

Of course He Guanchang knew why Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao wanted to leave, and it was all because they thought things too simply.

They thought that as long as they avoided seeing Yuen Biao temporarily, they would talk to him after the incident and there would be no problem.

But I didn't expect Yuen Biao and Sammo Hung to do such a great job, they left without even saying anything, which made Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang unacceptable.

"Lin Daoqiu... What's so great about Lin Daoqiu, since he dares to poach our Jiahe's corner, then I won't make it easy for him."

Zou Wenhuai didn't intend to let it go, he couldn't just watch himself being poached by two generals and do nothing by himself.

He Guanchang didn't understand what Zou Wenhuai was going to do. After all, Lin Daoqiu was different now, and it was basically impossible for Jiahe to deal with him.

You must know that Lin Daoqiu now owns New Oriental Cinemas, plus [-]% of ATV's shares, and hundreds of millions of cash in his hands, what can Golden Harvest do to him.

"Go and meet Fang Yat Hua, and talk to her about the double-screening of Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers."

After hearing what Zou Wenhuai said, He Guanchang immediately opened his eyes wide. He didn't expect that Zou Wenhuai would make peace with his arch-enemy Shao.

"I'm worried that Shaw Brothers will take this opportunity to speak loudly to us lions."

He Guanchang is not very opposed to the double-screening. After all, they have cooperated once before because of Lin Daoqiu's relationship, and the box office is still very impressive.

If this method is used to deal with New Oriental, it will definitely play a certain role, and even shake those directors and actors who have switched to New Oriental.

"It's just to share the box office revenue and it's not to form a company. I believe that Uncle Liu will not refuse to cooperate with us. After all, Shaw Brothers is not as good as before."

Moreover, Shaw Brothers had issued a ban on New Oriental before. Recently, because of ATV's relationship, Wireless and Lin Daoqiu started fighting again. At this time, when they seek cooperation with each other, Run Run Shaw will definitely not refuse.

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When Fang Yihua received the call from He Guanchang, it happened that there was a morning newspaper on her desk, so she naturally knew the purpose of He Guanchang calling her.

But as to whether to cooperate with Golden Harvest to deal with Lin Daoqiu, Fang Yathua could not make a decision on this point, she had to ask Run Run Shaw for his opinion.

In the afternoon, Fang Yihua arrived as scheduled. She seemed to be planning to watch a good show.

"Mr. He is in such a hurry to ask me out today. I don't know if there is anything important to talk to me about?"

Fang Yihua pretended not to know anything, which forced He Guanchang to shake his head with a wry smile.

If it weren't for Lin Daoqiu's sudden poaching of Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, Zou Wenhuai and him would definitely not be willing to cooperate with Shaw Brothers. After all, they have had grievances for so long, and how could they resolve them in a short while.

But it's different now, Lin Daoqiu's action directly made Zou Wenhuai make up his mind to drive this annoying guy out of Xiangjiang's film market.

"Miss Fang asked the question knowingly. I believe you have read the news in the morning. You should know why I asked you out to meet."

He Guanchang didn't want to play charades with Fang Yathua, after all, they were too familiar with each other, before Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang left Shaw Brothers, it was also because of Fang Yathua's relationship.

"It's one thing to know, but I'm not a roundworm in your stomach. How can I know what you want to do?"

Before Fang Yat-hua came here, he had already been instructed by Run Run Shaw to cooperate with Golden Harvest to deal with New Oriental as long as conditions permit.

"Miss Fang was joking. In fact, I invited you out today because I hope Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers can join forces and let the films produced by our two companies be screened together."

Fang Yihua nodded while listening to He Guanchang's words, she had already guessed what the other party said before coming.

After all, it is impossible for the two of them to form a company, so the purpose of He Guanchang approaching her this time must be for the double screening.

"Double screening is a good suggestion, but I don't know how much share Golden Harvest plans to take."

If calculated by the box office, Golden Harvest's income in a year must be more than that of Shaw Brothers, but that was before.

Now that Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao are leaving Golden Harvest, this will greatly affect Golden Harvest's next box office revenue, so if Shaw Brothers cannot be satisfied with this share, this matter may not be discussed.

"Four to six points."

He Guanchang made a tentative offer.

But when he finished speaking, Fang Yihua just smiled and said nothing, it seemed that she was not very satisfied with the share that He Guanchang reported.

"If I heard correctly, Mr. He means that Golden Harvest gets four and Shaw Brothers gets six right?"

"Miss Fang may have misunderstood. What I mean is that Shaw gets four and Jiahe gets six."

As soon as He Guanchang finished speaking, Fang Yat-wah immediately shook his head. This share would have been fine in the past, but now that Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao are missing, the Shaw Brothers would not earn much from such a share, so she would not accept it.

"Uncle Six has already explained before coming here that if Golden Harvest is sincere enough, we can cooperate, but if you have such an attitude, then the possibility of our cooperation will be zero."

He Guanchang nodded first, and then asked a question.

"I don't know how Miss Fang wants to divide it?"

"No one takes advantage of anyone else, and the double-screened movies share the box office revenue equally..."

(End of this chapter)