The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 622 Passport incident

On September [-]th, Double Ninth Festival, Xu Guanwu was happy to move to a new house. The villa in the mid-levels of Taiping Mountain was finally renovated. After hearing the news, Xu Guanwu chose a good day and auspicious day, and couldn't wait to move there.

The new villa is not far from Lin Qingxia's villa, and it takes only a few minutes to walk.The neighbors around are also rich or expensive, including the Guo family of Sun Hung Kai Properties, the Shen family who runs the silver building jewelry business, the Wan family of the chairman of the Hong Kong Sha Tin Jockey Club, etc...

Because all the people living here are either rich or expensive, the public security is also quite good.In addition to meticulous property security, the police also sent people to patrol here for a long time.

Real estate in Hong Kong is extremely expensive, especially on Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula, which have remained high in the past two years.Xu Guanwu's mansion is several acres in area, not only has a large garden seedlings, but also has a beautiful swimming pool behind the house.But the price of this land is as high as 5000 million Hong Kong dollars. As for the renovation and decoration of the entire villa, the price has also reached an astonishing [-] million Hong Kong dollars. It is known as the number one luxury house in Hong Kong.

After moving to a new home, it is undoubtedly much more convenient for Xu Guanwu to go in and out of Lin Qingxia's villa. Unlike before, he had to take turns to come every day, but now he wants to go wherever he wants to go, and he has arrived as soon as he lifts his legs.

In this way, a few days passed leisurely, and in November, a piece of news came, which attracted people's attention.

After more than half a year of negotiations, Li's TV Station and Far East Group finally reached an acquisition agreement.The Far East Group will acquire Lai TV at a price of 2000 million, which is 1000 million Hong Kong dollars lower than its previous price.

After completing the acquisition, Li's TV station finally ended the chaotic situation that lasted for nearly a year, began to pack its bags, and started to get back on track.Because Li's TV station had a bad reputation under the Australian consortium before, the audience was very dissatisfied with the frequent use of old dramas to make up for it. Therefore, after the Far East Group took over this time, Qiu Degen, chairman of the Far East Group, specially changed the name of Li's TV station to Asia TV, which is Later generations are familiar with "ATV".

Qiu Degen is a prodigy in the business world. He thought that when he came to Hong Kong with nothing to do, he earned his first pot of gold by showing open-air movies in the rural areas of the New Territories. Later, he opened a bank in the rural areas of the New Territories to absorb the savings of these villagers. Later, he gradually established Banked, dabbled in real estate, and more.

In the 60s bank run crisis, Far East Bank withstood the pressure and was not crushed by the depositors' run, which also won the trust of depositors, and its image and popularity increased greatly. Qiu Degen also established his position in the banking industry.However, although Qiu Degen is already a well-known banker, the business he most wants to do is the entertainment business. After all, he started his business by relying on open-air cinemas.

But at the end of the 60s, when he planned to get involved in the film industry, his wife died in a plane crash in Taiwan together with Mr. Lu Yuntao, chairman of MP & GI Film Company. It was a great blow to Qiu Degen at that time, and it made him stop. Invest in movie ideas.But all these years have passed, and Qiu Degen once again picked up the idea of ​​entering the entertainment industry.

However, after careful consideration, he did not choose to enter the film industry again, but chose the television industry.In addition to entering the film industry will bring him some bad memories, another reason is that Qiu Degen has already understood that although the Hong Kong film industry is thriving, the box office has repeatedly hit new highs, and the number of moviegoers has returned, but in fact behind the prosperity Another worry.

At present, the three largest cinema chains in Hong Kong are in the hands of Xu Corporation, Shaw Corporation, and Golden Harvest. If other companies want to develop, they have to cooperate with these three companies. An independent production company, but in fact it indirectly became a vassal of the three major theaters.

With Qiu Degen's current net worth, wealth, and status, how could he be willing to be a vassal of the three major film companies, relying on others to make a living, so he would rather give up the most profitable film industry and switch to the TV station field.At least the establishment of a TV station will not be controlled by others, and there are a total of three TV stations in Hong Kong. If in fact they have formed a monopoly, the money from the monopoly is actually the best way to earn it.

The Far East Group took over Li's, and Li's changed its name to ATV, announcing that Li's TV station, which has been in chaos for nearly a year, has finally returned to the right track. For a while, many of Li's remaining old people cheered, thinking that it was finally safe and sound. .But the news wasn't all that good for the actresses who were just making a name for themselves in the film industry.

Because once the rebranded Asian TV station comes up with a contract to let them return to the nest, then their struggle in the film industry for the past year will be in vain.After all, after becoming an artiste of Li's TV station in the future, the chances of going out to make money will be greatly reduced. When the time comes, you will be trapped in the TV station and shoot TV dramas, so you don't have to go out and make movies easily and make money.

Especially young artists like Wan Ziliang, Yu Anan, etc., have successfully made a name for themselves in the past year, and now they still have a few movies in their bodies. If ATV now lets them go back to filming movies, it will only be for those few movies. Liquidated damages can make them bankrupt.

Moreover, the newly established Xiangjiang Film Association has also imposed restrictions on artists. Artists who break the contract will be punished. For those who break the contract maliciously and do not want to repent, they will even call on the entire Hong Kong entertainment industry to block them. Not everyone can afford the punishment.

The introduction of this provision is mainly due to the fact that actors have been in breach of contract over the years.Actors signed a contract with the company, but did not show up when it was time to shoot, or ran away halfway through the shoot.There are many reasons for this kind of phenomenon, like Li's previous filming of "The Change of the Silkworm", the lead actor Xu Shaoqiang was poached by Shaw Brothers to make a movie, and Li had no choice but to change the leading role.

Because the lawsuit is protracted, and the lawsuit here has just been fought, and the TV series over there are all over, so it will be useless to sue him by then.Li's TV station is a big company, and if they can't do anything about these rogue artists, let alone those small film companies.

After finally raising money to invite a star to play the leading role, I just count on the star’s box office appeal to make money, so after the star joined the crew, he regarded himself as a master. It’s a trivial matter to be late and leave early, the key is always three to five days No one is seen, or the world suddenly evaporates while patting, and you can't find anyone if you want to find it. It is a waste of money for a group of people to stop there.Many small film companies can't afford to fight lawsuits, so they have to admit that they are unlucky.

I think that Chen Xing was popular in Wu Siyuan's "Dang Kou Beach", and then when he collaborated with "Hungry Tiger and Dragon", Chen Xing was already not very dedicated, and he always disappeared for no reason and went outside to take on the show, which was delayed The filming of "Hungry Tiger and Mad Dragon".Later, when filming "Tiger Down the Mountain", the whole person disappeared halfway through the filming.After looking around, I realized that it was hidden by another director.

Even though Wu Siyuan was quite famous at the time, there was nothing he could do to deal with a rogue artist like Chen Xing. In the end, he had to beg thousands of dollars to let Chen Xing come back. At any rate, the filming of this movie was over, but the two never cooperated again. .Wu Siyuan recalled the incident many years later, and he still felt a little bit aggrieved.Because Chen Xing was just an ordinary artist of Shaw Brothers back then, and he couldn't even earn 1000 yuan a month. It was Wu Siyuan who made him popular, but he didn't expect that he was a white-eyed wolf.Once successful, he became rampant.

Well-known producers like Wu Siyuan still encounter such bad people, and other smaller film companies are even more troubled, so this question was raised at the Xiangjiang Film Festival.Later, after everyone's unanimous discussion, such a clause was introduced, stipulating that all such rogue artists must be severely punished, and vowed to put an end to this bad habit in the film industry.

So if Wan Ziliang intends to break the contract, if he can't pay the liquidated damages, then he will either file for bankruptcy with the government, or pretend to be dead without paying any money, and let himself be banned from the film industry.These two roads are all dead ends for him, and they cannot be taken. Now, I just hope that the new boss will understand and don't kill them all.

In addition to Wan Ziliang's thinking, other people working outside Li's TV station also secretly prayed for the new boss to talk, otherwise if they were called back now, not only would they not be able to earn their wages, but they would also lose a lot of money.This is undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for Li's employees who are already in financial difficulties.

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Ever since the Far East Group took over Li's and announced the name change to Asia Television, Xu Guanwu has also been watching the development of the situation.To be honest, he still admires Qiu Degen's ability. The ATV under his leadership was quite beautiful at the time. "Wu Zetian", "Qin Shihuang", "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" and other drama series all had very good ratings, and they were also popular in the north and south of the mainland, and their influence at the time was not weaker than TVB.

Xu Guanwu also knows that the current ATV is suffering from internal and external troubles. The internal worry is the loss of internal employees. Now Hong Kong Independent Film Company uses half of the actors and behind-the-scenes staff from the former Li TV station.The current ATV still has nearly a thousand employees in name, but there are currently less than 200 people who have returned, and they are all the kind who have no skills, no reputation, and are not doing well outside.

But all those who are capable and well-known have stayed outside and have not come back. For example, Wan Ziliang of the young and strong school, such as Pan Zhiwen of the old brand, etc., are now busy filming outside. I showed my face once on the opening program, which was an explanation to the new boss, and then all ran away the next day.

With the loss of more than half of the staff, ATV is now suffering from severe blood loss. If the blood is not replenished in time, it may die soon.But if the employees are recalled now, and there is a lot of complaints, even if they are recruited back, the employees will be passive and sabotage, and the TV station will also be difficult to save.

The foreign problem is that in addition to the other two TV stations eyeing ATV, there are also other film companies that have been eyeing ATV for a long time. "Only an ATV that is in chaos is a good ATV." This is the voice of many film companies nowadays, because only in this way can they hire people with high cost performance at a relatively low price, which can save them a lot of money.

Film companies and ATV are just competing for common interests, while TVB and Jiayi have life and death disputes with ATV.Once ATV stabilizes, it will inevitably compete with the other two TV stations for ratings. For Jiayi and TVB, which are already inextricably fighting, they naturally don't want another TV station to disrupt the situation.

Under internal and external troubles, ATV's next step really made Xu Guanwu catch chickens.

But before he could help Qiu Degen come up with any good countermeasures, something happened next, which made him no longer have time to worry about others.

It turned out that there was news from Japan that Deng Lijun used a fake passport to pass the customs and was temporarily detained by Tokyo Airport in Japan under the name of illegal entry.

Xu Guanwu was furious when he heard the news. He wished he could call Zheng Donghan, who was in charge of the record department, to scold him. How could he let his singers make such a mistake? !But since the matter has already happened, it will not help to scold him now, the most urgent thing is how to eliminate the disturbance, so as to prevent this matter from escalating indefinitely.

(End of this chapter)