The King of Directors 2000

Chapter 121 Fang Yihua Arrives

""Winter Sonata" ATV ratings reached 18.00%, ATV said that it will consider a second round of airing."

"After "My Fair Princess" became popular on Hong Kong Island, the ratings of "Winter Sonata" reached a new high."

"Yan Danchen, Zu Feng, and Guo Feili participated in the promotion of ATV."

"Yan Danchen won the endorsement of Hong Kong Island, 80 a year."

"A rich woman from Hong Kong Island offered 50 to have dinner with Zu Feng."

""Winter Sonata" is popular in the peninsula, island countries, and now there is an additional Hong Kong Island, let us wait and see the situation of Xinmatai."

"Liu Dehua wanted to make a movie with Zhao Yang, and Wang Jing invited Yan Danchen to play "The Big League of Pork Chop"."

"Winter Sonata" became popular not only in the island country, but also in Hong Kong Island. Yan Danchen and the others rushed to Hong Kong Island non-stop after returning from the island country.

The crew of "Stairway to Heaven" was speechless. They had already found the heroine and were about to start the film, but the heroine was still away.

Li Shengyao suggested that they start the machine first, and then rush over to shoot after Zu Feng finished his work.

On this day, Li Shengyao asked Guo Xiaodong, Yan Bingyan, and Zhang Zhijian to hold a script seminar. At this moment, the assistant came and said that someone was visiting, and the person who came was Fang Yihua, the boss of TVB.

Since it was Aunt Six who came, it was natural to welcome him. The high school and university he attended in his previous life had "Shaw Buildings".

He has a lot of respect for this couple.

Li Shengyao greeted him immediately, and then invited Fang Yihua to a seat, and poured tea for him himself.

Fang Yihua can speak Mandarin, and she is very standard. She is in her sixties and is in good health. She looks like a rich wife.

"Young people are really amazing. The drama you made is very good, and I watched it too."

Li Shengyao laughed, but he didn't take it seriously.

Fang Yihua is basically the boss of TVB now, how can he have time to watch dramas?

The two sides exchanged pleasantries, and Fang Yihua then revealed the purpose of coming to find Li Shengyao this time.

"Young boy, I hope that TVB will have the right of first refusal for all TV series produced by your company in Hong Kong Island."

This time "Winter Sonata" became so popular that ATV's ratings were even tied with TVB, which surprised everyone in TVB.

They didn't expect that there would be another TV series like "My Fair Princess".

Many TVB screenwriters said that the plot arrangements of "Winter Sonata" and "Love Hotel" are very interesting, and "Funny Family" is also of high quality and very funny.

ATV may be able to maintain this wave of ratings for a long time.

This makes TVB uncomfortable.

Originally, ATV was severely suppressed by TVB. ATV's high-level management has been in turmoil in the past few years. Maybe if they try harder, the TV station's license will be cancelled.

But I didn't expect to be brought back to life now.

TVB executives immediately made a decision to completely cut off ATV's chance of turning around from the source.

It just so happened that Fang Yihua came to Beijing on business, so he went to Li Shengyao to negotiate with him in person.

Li Shengyao didn't immediately agree when he heard the words.

He respects his six uncles and aunts, and admires their determination and actions to do charity, but in terms of business, ATV didn't offend him, so why lower the level of a partner for nothing?
Fang Yihua saw Li Shengyao's expression in his eyes, and knew that he had to show some benefits.

"Xiao Li, I have seen your previous interviews."

Li Shengyao smiled, "It's all incomprehensible words, I made you laugh."

"No, I think it makes sense. There are no new and good stories in the film and TV circles of Hong Kong Island, so the market has shrunk considerably."

Li Shengyao didn't answer, he knew that Fang Yihua hadn't finished speaking.

"Although you are very young, you are very talented. You said that your goal in the future is to make movies. I support you very much. The influence of movies is much greater. We need new big directors in the Chinese film industry."

"You are welcome."

Fang Yihua shook his head, "I'm not being polite, I'm telling the truth. If Shaw Brothers can't do it, we'll just make a New Year's movie."

Shaw Brothers sold its theaters on Hong Kong Island a long time ago and announced a complete discontinuation of production.

However, in recent years, Shaw Brothers has produced some spicy chicken Lunar New Year comedies every year in Hong Kong Island, which are low-cost and can make money.

They started to make movies again, and they just made Lunar New Year comedies, all using TVB actors, and the cost was very low.

Li Shengyao didn't answer.

Fang Yihua went on to say: "Your TV series have excellent purchase rights in Hong Kong Island TVB. In the future, your movies will be distributed by TVB in Xinmatai three places for you, and only [-]% of the distribution fee will be charged."

Li Shengyao's eyes lit up when he heard that, "Sixth Aunt, really?"

"real."

Fang Yihua smiled, with complacency and determination in his tone.

Although the Shaw family withdrew from theaters and film production on Hong Kong Island, their theaters still exist in the Three Kingdoms of New Malaysia and Thailand.

In Po Village, Shaw Cinemas is one of the three major cinema lines, the other two being Cathay Pacific and Ka Wah.

The boss behind Jiahua is Golden Harvest, and the boss behind Cathay Pacific is the former richest man in Xinma, the Lu family.

Ka Wah Cinemas is not doing well in Malay, but Cathay Pacific and Shaw Brothers still have cinemas in Malay.

Shaw Brothers even has theaters in Tyrande and Annan. In this regard, the other two are incomparable.

The three Shao brothers have separated long ago, but they are one family after all. Fang Yihua is the wife of the sixth uncle, and she and the sixth uncle are the highest seniority members of the Shao family.

She spoke, believing that the Shao family in Po village would save face.

Although the box office of Xinmatai is not very high, it is not bad to add up to 1000 million.

But if it can be released in these three places, it can be hyped.

When the time comes to publicize that the attendance rate of the three shows is high, the box office is gratifying, and the news spreads back to the mainland, won't it be able to hype it up?

Li Shengyao nodded immediately, "Okay, Aunt Six, I made an agreement with you that TVB will have the right of first refusal for Fenghua Film and Television's TV series in Hong Kong Island."

Fang Yihua breathed a sigh of relief, she was really afraid that this young man would refute her face.

She then smiled and asked, "Xiao Li, you are a visionary. Tell me about TVB's current situation. If it were you, how should you improve?"

It is becoming more and more difficult to sell TVB dramas in Xinmatai, and Wanwan does not buy their dramas, and their profits are getting less and less.

Hearing this, Li Shengyao thought for a while and said, "Sixth Aunt, my point of view is still the same as before. I think TVB's current stories are not good enough and not attractive enough."

"I don't recommend TVB to shoot dramas like "Genesis" and "The Great Times". Such dramas are definitely good dramas, but the cost is too high, can they really pay back?"

TVB themselves said that "Genesis" cost 2000 million yuan, even if they sold it all over Xinmatai and the mainland, it is still a question of whether they can get [-] million yuan back.

As for selling advertisements on this island, can it sell for 2000 million?

The show obviously lost money, and a lot of it.

"Hong Kong Island's economy is developing well now, and the people's living standards are high. It is absolutely possible to make romantic dramas, workplace dramas, and police dramas. It must be good-looking and beautifully shot to make other people yearn for it."

Although Hong Kong Islanders live in pigeon cages, their wages are still very high.

Li Shengyao has never understood why they don't make idol dramas. They are businessmen fighting cops and bandits all day long. This kind of dramas don't attract girls and housewives.

If you give up this market, it's not because Korean dramas have taken over.

"The last point is the writer of the story. If you don't have a story, you can find it in the Mainland. There are many good stories in the Mainland now."

More than ten years later, those screenwriters of Korean dramas are waiting to copy mainland novels every day, and Hong Kong Island has no talents who can dig out mainland stories.

Fang Yihua nodded when he heard the words, "Okay, I will think about it when I go back."

(End of this chapter)