Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 79 I got tricked again (third update)

Fang Yihua, who was spraying happily, suddenly fell silent.

It has to be said that compared to the box office revenue, Fang Yihua cares more about whether he can make his own star popular.

Golden Harvest already has Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, plus the Xu Brothers, they have overwhelmed the Shaw Brothers in recent years.

It is even foreseeable that if there are no influential stars, Golden Harvest will definitely surpass Shaw Brothers in the future.

For Run Run Shaw, movies are his favorite. When he went to the United States to buy equipment for making movies, his ship hit a rock and sank. He fell into the water with a wooden sampan and was lucky to be rescued after drifting overnight.

If ordinary people encountered such a thing, they would have given up on the film business long ago and turned to other things, but Run Run Shaw still continued on the film road.

So for him, movies are his career, and TVB can only be regarded as a tool for him to make money.

It can be seen from the fact that he keeps four leading theaters and only rents them out but does not sell them. It is impossible for Run Run Shaw to be separated from the film industry in his life.

As his woman, Fong Yat Hua knows Run Run Shaw's love for movies better than anyone else. If there is any way to strengthen Shaw Brothers, it doesn't matter if TVB loses a little profit.

"You ask him to come over tomorrow, I want to talk to him."

If it was just money, Fang Yihua wouldn't particularly care about it, what she valued was Lin Daoqiu's ability to praise people.

As soon as Shi Wenyan heard it, Fang Yihua was already moved. As long as Lin Daoqiu made a slight concession on the share, then Liu Songren would immediately become Li's man.

The next morning, Lin Daoqiu arrived as scheduled. This time, he didn't need to pretend his thoughts, nor did he need to be as cautious as yesterday.

"I can basically agree to the latter two conditions, but you have to share half of the box office proceeds, so I will not obey."

Fang Yihua first expressed her own opinion, she had to let Lin Daoqiu figure out that if she wanted to talk, she couldn't follow his wishes completely, otherwise she would become something.

Lin Daoqiu was not surprised by this, because Shi Wenyan told him on the phone yesterday that Fang Yihua's bottom line was [-]%.

"Well, it's a face for Miss Fang. I only need [-]% of the box office revenue."

Lin Daoqiu suddenly stretched out two fingers towards the other party, which frightened Fang Yihua.

Before, Lin Daoqiu clearly asked for [-]%, but now it suddenly dropped to only [-]%, which made her really puzzled, how could Lin Daoqiu have such a big change after just one night?
"Mr. Lin should have something to say?"

Regarding Lin Daoqiu, Fang Yihua still knew a little about him, she didn't believe that the other party would give up [-]% of the profit to her for no reason?This kind of thing is impossible even if you think about it.

Lin Daoqiu nodded, and continued, "I want to share [-]% of the proceeds from the overseas box office."

If it is impossible for Fang Yihua to accept [-]% of the local box office in Hong Kong, then it is even more impossible for her to agree to [-]% of the overseas box office.

Even Shi Wenyan, who was next to her, couldn't help shaking her head in her heart when she heard Lin Daoqiu finished speaking. She thought Lin Daoqiu had figured it out, but now it seemed that she was thinking too much.

"Mr. Lin, I still have a lot of work to do, so I don't have time to chat with you here."

Fang Yihua shook his head, not even interested in bargaining with the other party.

If Lin Daoqiu's movie can sell well in Xiangjiang, then the overseas box office will definitely be very good, and it will definitely be no problem to get tens of millions.

Just doing the calculations like this shows that Fang Yihua would rather leave all of Xiangjiang's box office revenue to Lin Daoqiu than let him participate in the share of overseas box office.

"The last bid, Xiangjiang's local box office will give you [-]%, and overseas box office will give you [-]%. If you agree, you can take Liu Songren away today."

Basically, this is Fang Yihua's bottom line, and it was also what Shi Wenyan told him on the phone yesterday.

"Miss Fang, do you think I will agree?" Lin Daoqiu looked at Fang Yihua and asked with a smile.

"It depends on what Mr. Lin wants. I have done my best. It would be best if you are willing to cooperate. If you don't want to, I can't force you."

Fang Yihua probably never expected that she had fallen into the trap set by Lin Daoqiu.

In fact, at the beginning, Fang Yihua didn't think too much, she just thought it was impossible to give Liu Songren to Lin Daoqiu.

But then Lin Daoqiu started with movies and slowly built up a sense of expectation for Fang Yihua, and then drew two big cakes for her, one was a huge box office revenue, and the other was a star who could make Shaw Brothers popular.

Once she had a sense of expectation, Fang Yihua took it for granted that those things would be realized immediately, after all, she had Liu Songren who Lin Daoqiu wanted very much.

"If that's the case, forget it. It's only about two years, and I'll sign a contract with Brother Ren by then."

After Lin Daoqiu finished speaking, he got up suddenly, and then shrugged his shoulders towards Fang Yihua. It seemed that he did not intend to agree to the conditions proposed by Fang Yihua.

At first, Fang Yihua felt that she had the upper hand, and she relied on Lin Daoqiu's obsession with Liu Songren, but if the other party gave up this idea, then Fang Yihua would have no chance of winning.

It doesn't matter if Li doesn't sign Liu Songren, they have other people they can use, and it doesn't hurt for TVB to keep Liu Songren, anyway, he is also a popular niche.

But for Shaw, if he misses such a great opportunity, it may be very difficult to meet him again in the future.

What made Fang Yathua even more nervous was that if Lin Daoqiu refused to cooperate with Shaw Brothers, then he could only cooperate with Jiahe.

Those two rebellious boys already have so many popular movie stars, if they get Lin Daoqiu to join them, they don't need many, just two plays are enough to overwhelm Shaw Brothers.

What worries Fang Yathua even more is the overseas market. Once Golden Harvest breaks through Shaw's siege and becomes famous in Southeast Asia, Shaw's closing date will be getting closer and closer.

"Mr. Lin, is this the way you should talk about business?" Fang Yihua said something to Lin Daoqiu before he left.

Lin Daoqiu turned his head to Fang Yihua and smiled, "Then I wonder what Ms. Fang thinks, what kind of business should it be like?"

Seeing the smile on Lin Daoqiu's face, Fang Yihua was very angry, but she had nothing to do with him. If she pushed too hard, Lin Daoqiu would probably switch to Golden Harvest directly.

Tapping the table with her index finger, Fang Yihua seemed to be thinking about something very important. She looked at Lin Daoqiu silently, as if she couldn't make a final decision for a while.

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