The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 506
Just when Wu Siyuan got angry and contacted the media by himself, throwing out papers to swipe favor cards to help promote "Butterfly Change", the Hong Kong media was paying attention to the love life of Xu Guanwu, Lin Qingxia and Zhao Yazhi.

Because Xu Guanwu is a rich man who is famous in Hong Kong, Lin Qingxia is a pure actress who is famous in Asia, and Zhao Yazhi is the leading actress in Hong Kong, so the three of them together are really like a drama, and the climaxes make people want Stop but can't.

Although there were no paparazzi at the end of the 70s, there were already reporters reporting celebrity gossip. They stayed outside Xu Guanwu's house in groups, without sleep or food. activities inside.

Because freedom of speech and freedom of the press are advocated in Hong Kong, it is not illegal for journalists to take pictures. For publishing these private photos, they will only be fined by the government, but there are no more severe punishments.Compared with the benefits brought by the increased sales of magazines, those fines are only a drop in the bucket. Therefore, magazines often use everything in pursuit of news, such as monitoring, stalking, secretly filming, etc., are just child's play.

Xu Guanwu naturally didn't like these dog-skin plasters guarding outside at all, but he couldn't find someone to beat them up, so the only solution was to move to the hotel first, and directly rent the presidential suite on the top floor. It is difficult for anyone to enter.

And those newspapers and magazines that published Xu Guanwu's private photos also received letters from Xu's lawyers. In addition to asking them to stop false reports, they also demanded compensation of up to tens of millions.

Although such a lawsuit may end in defeat, but not any magazine can afford such high legal fees.

The fees of lawyers in Hong Kong are very high. The more famous the lawyers are, the higher the fees are. Those who are not rich cannot afford it.And even for rich people, if they go to court for a long time, it will be a considerable burden on money.

Like Gong Ruxin's property dispute case, the lawsuit went on for several years, and in the end the lawyer fee was so heavy that the plaintiff had to declare bankruptcy. From a billionaire with a net worth of hundreds of millions before, he suddenly fell into a broken household.

With Xu Guanwu's net worth and the team of lawyers hired by the Xu family, it is no problem to go to court, and he can persist no matter how long it takes.But for those magazines and newspapers, going to court is an unbearable burden.

They reported Xu Guanwu's pornographic news and published Xu Guanwu's private photos. These are all on the edge of the law. It can be said that it is for the freedom of news reports, but it can also be called an invasion of privacy.

It depends on how the lawyer defends and how the court pronounces the sentence.The lawyers hired by Xu's high salary are naturally more capable than the lawyers hired by these magazines, and Xu Guanwu's influence in Hong Kong is unmatched by these magazines and newspapers. The newspaper office had to pay for the lawyer's fees alone.

Therefore, apart from several well-established newspapers such as "Sing Tao Daily" and "Overseas Chinese Daily", other media immediately went to Xu's to apologize after receiving the lawyer's letter, and pleaded guilty to Xu Guanwu in a low voice, with the purpose of avoiding being prosecuted , And also avoid the fate of being punished and ruined.

Xu Guanwu naturally knew that these people came to beg now, they were nothing more than being forced.In fact, as long as we let them go this time, we can report as we should next time. After all, the purpose of opening a newspaper is to make money. Naturally, we can report whatever news is popular.As for being sued again next time, then please humbly beg again.

Xu Guanwu also had no intention of being an enemy of the media in Hong Kong, so seeing that they softened this time and published an apology letter, he let them go.

In fact, these newspapers and media also see that it is impossible for Xu Guanwu to be an enemy of the entire Hong Kong media, so they have a little confidence.After all, Hong Kong is a free society, even if Xu Guanwu wants to monopolize the media, it is impossible.Not only does he not have the means to do this, but the government will not allow this to happen.

These media also figured it out, anyway, the reports had already been published, and the money had already been pocketed.Now pretending to be a grandson is also indispensable. On the contrary, a bulging wallet is a real benefit.So they are also used to the vicious cycle of reporting, apologizing, and reporting again.

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While Xu Guanwu was fighting with these media, "Butterfly Transformation" also began to be screened on a large scale in Golden Harvest Cinemas under Wu Siyuan's spending money on publicity.

Because Wu Siyuan invested millions of Hong Kong dollars in the movie "Butterfly Change", he must not sit back and watch its box office performance be sluggish, so he spent a lot of money on publicity.

But He Guanchang didn't care so much about the movie "Butterfly Change". This movie was invested by Wu Siyuan, and whether it wins or loses has little to do with Golden Harvest, so when Wu Siyuan said that he hoped that Golden Harvest would pay for it to help with publicity Only then did He Guanchang flatly reject the proposal.It also made Wu Siyuan very disappointed in He Guanchang.

In fact, He Guanchang wished that the box office of the movie "Butterfly Transformation" was not high, and it would be better for Wu Siyuan to suffer a small loss of three and a half million Hong Kong dollars.Three and a half million Hong Kong dollars is not a lot of money to Golden Harvest, but to Wu Siyuan, it is not a small loss.

With this loss, Golden Harvest can legitimately participate in the company's operations in the future, and Wu Siyuan will no longer dominate the overall situation.And if possible, Golden Harvest can continue to increase capital until it finally takes full control of Siyuan Film Company.

Wu Siyuan also saw through He Guanchang's sinister intentions, so he would rather spend his own money to boost the box office of "Butterfly Transformation" than just watch it fail at the box office.Because he knows that Siyuan Film Company is his root, and the market value of this company now exceeds [-] million, although it is not worth mentioning compared to big film companies such as Xu, Shaw, and Golden Harvest.

But among the large and small film companies in Hong Kong, Siyuan Film Company is also ranked high.It also has more than a dozen blockbuster movies in its film library, and its employees are all old people who followed him to fight the world, which is one of his most valuable assets.

If Golden Harvest was allowed to take control of Siyuan Film Company, even though Wu Siyuan still held the shares, it would be almost worthless.Because the major shareholders of the joint-stock company can completely squeeze out small shareholders like Wu Siyuan.Unless Wu Siyuan can be richer than Golden Harvest, and Golden Harvest increases his capital and shares, he also increases his capital and shares to maintain his advantage in shares, otherwise he will only have the fate of being swallowed by Golden Harvest.

The reason why Li Jiacheng did not dare to conduct an anti-acquisition after Xu Guanwu acquired Cheung Kong was because Xu Guanwu had more funds than him.If there is an anti-acquisition, Xu Guanwu will swallow it at any time. When the time comes to take control of Cheung Kong, the stocks in Li Jiacheng's hands will become like waste paper.

This is why, in the Hong Kong business war TV series, once they hear the news of a consortium acquisition, those listed companies will be so panicked.Because in the capital market, the richer people are, the easier it is to call the wind and rain, and the law of winners takes all makes losers almost desperate.

Wu Siyuan was worried that Golden Harvest would seize the opportunity to gobble up Siyuan Film Company, so he was forced to spend his own money on publicity. It was only because the media were reporting Xu Guanwu's sexuality recently, so although he spent a lot of money, "Butterfly" The publicity effect of "Change" is not obvious.

In addition, the movie "Butterfly Change" is too different. Not only is the setting of the protagonist unique in Hong Kong movies, but even the storyline is unique.Therefore, although people said that it was very innovative after it was released, the market response was not very good. It belongs to the type of movie that is popular but not popular.

The box office was only 110 million in one week of release, which was already a small profit for those films whose investment was less than 30 million.But for "Butterfly Change", which invested millions, the box office situation is not optimistic.

Taking "Butterfly Change" as an example, the box office in Hong Kong must be at least 200 million Hong Kong dollars, and the overseas box office must be at least 100 million Hong Kong dollars, in order for Wu Siyuan to make some money back.

However, a week after "Butterfly Change" was released, the box office data should have shown an upward trend, but now it has shown a downward trend.

Coupled with the fact that Xu's major play of this year, "Project A", was also released, people lined up to buy tickets to see "Project A", but on the contrary, no one cared about this extraordinary "Butterfly Change".

Seeing that the movie "Butterfly Change" was going to lose money, and he had no money to promote it, Wu Siyuan's hair almost turned gray in a moment of anxiety.This is also the embarrassment for small film companies. If a film fails in investment, it is enough to make the company fall into business difficulties.Unlike big film companies, which invest in dozens of films every year, even if a few films lose money, it does not affect the overall situation.

When the media flocked to report Xu Guanwu’s sexual news, after Xu’s lawyer’s letter was finally released, and the major media started to stop, he thought his chance had come, but Xu launched “Plan A” again.

"Project A" invested 500 million US dollars in filming earlier, and it has already caused a sensation in Hong Kong. When it was released in the United States and won a box office of 5000 million, it immediately made Hong Kong people excited.Therefore, as soon as this blockbuster movie was announced to be screened in Hong Kong, there would be a long queue at the gates of Brilliant Cinemas, and there were too many people who needed to call the police to maintain order.

Colliding with such a blockbuster movie, Wu Siyuan really wanted to cry, if he had known it would be released two weeks earlier.Now people are running to watch "Project A", and "Butterfly Change", which was not watched by many people, has fallen to the point where no one appreciates it.

Seeing the box office of "Butterfly Change" continue to drop, Wu Siyuan really wanted to cry.He invested a million Hong Kong dollars in the filming of this movie, and spent another 20 Hong Kong dollars in publicity later. He has spent 120 million before and after, and has spent most of the company's working capital. If he continues to invest money in it , I am afraid that in the end even the wages of the employees will not be paid.

In addition to the fact that the box office of local movies in Hong Kong is not high enough, selling copyright overseas is not as easy as imagined.Taiwanese filmmakers thought the film had no stars to support it, and the director was also an unknown novice, so the copyright was kept quite low, making Wu Siyuan just want to slap the table and scold his mother.

In addition, the film studios wanted to snatch the blockbuster "Project A", and everyone knew that this was the hottest movie right now. It was a good movie worth watching if it achieved such a high box office in the United States.Since "Project A" is so famous, and the three brothers Hong Jingbao co-starred for the first time, the cast is quite strong, so the higher copyright fee is reasonable.

All the filmmakers want to buy this film and release it back, so naturally the prices of other films will come down, otherwise there is no way to get so much budget to buy the film.

As a result, "Butterfly Transformation" was caught in a catastrophe. Overseas copyrights made the price very low. Even old friends in Taiwan refused to pay a high price, which made Wu Siyuan feel sad.

Just when he was really desperate, Xu unexpectedly introduced the movie "Butterfly Change" in the "Oriental Phantom" magazine for several consecutive issues, from its narrative skills to story deconstruction, from director techniques to film The connotation, everything was introduced, and this film was praised as one of the best movies in Hong Kong this year.

When Wu Siyuan saw the report on "Oriental Phantom", he almost suspected that there was something wrong with his eyes, because he didn't pay "Oriental Phantom" for advertising, why did they come back to help him promote it?And you really want to praise the movie "Butterfly Change" to the sky? !

(End of this chapter)