The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 94
Throwing a bomb at the newspaper and threatening not to talk nonsense, this kind of incident also made other newspapers feel sad and hurt others.

For a while, both "Oriental Daily" and "Sing Tao Daily" denounced the matter, and even expressed solidarity with "Daily Daily".

It seems that although I don't agree with what you say, I definitely defend your right to speak.

Even Mr. Jin Yong commented on Ming Pao, saying that throwing bombs at the newspaper is a serious violation of press freedom, and he called on the authorities to protect the newspaper, find out the perpetrator as soon as possible, and restore the freedom of the Hong Kong news media.

Although everyone had a tacit understanding and did not mention Shaw Brothers, the eyes of the masses were sharp and they had already read between the lines.

For a while, the balance of public opinion was completely tilted towards Xu Brothers Company, and the public support was available!
The Shaw Brothers Company was disgraced by this home-made bomb. Although they tried their best to explain and clarify, but they had a criminal record, no matter how much they tried to explain, no one believed it.

The so-called yellow mud falling into the crotch is either shit or shit.

……

After the "Daily Daily" experienced the bomb threat, public opinion and public opinion instantly tilted in the direction of Xu Brothers, which also allowed Xu Brothers to win the sympathy of the jurors.

After a week of trial, the court ruled that Xu Brothers' recruitment of employees is their freedom.It is also their freedom for employees to choose Xu Brothers.

In the contract of Shaw Brothers Company, the restrictive clause concerning the post-retirement of employees was unreasonable, and the court did not support it.

Xu Brothers won the lawsuit, which is a heavy blow to Shaw Brothers, an old movie empire.

Immediately after the judge pronounced the verdict, there was a burst of cheers in the courtroom.

Those employees who defected from Shaw Brothers to Xu Brothers hugged each other excitedly, celebrating their new life.

Shaw Brothers protested loudly, declaring that they must continue to appeal, and even went to the British Supreme Court to file a lawsuit.

……

Xu Guanwu won the lawsuit with great difficulty and managed to keep those employees in Xu Brothers Company.

Everyone said that he won the arm wrestling with Sixth Uncle Shao, and they all saw that he spent money like water.

Because of this lawsuit, Xu Guanwu became a well-known star figure on the streets of Hong Kong.

What made Xu Guanwu even more happy was that his elder brother Xu Guanwen's gout symptoms were relieved after treatment in the hospital, and he was finally discharged from the hospital.

"Second brother, I've already heard what happened, and it's hard for you these days." Xu Guanwen patted Xu Guanwu on the shoulder and said, "Because of my illness, you have to do everything, brother, I'm sorry you."

"Brother, what are you talking about?" Xu Guanwu smiled, "We are brothers, so why should we be so polite when we do something?"

"I heard that your newspaper office has lost a lot of money, and I will transfer a sum of money from the company's account to compensate your expenses later." Xu Guanwen said again.

"No need, big brother! It's only two or three million in total." Xu Guanwu waved his hand.

"Twenty-three million is not a small amount. In my opinion, the lawsuit has been won. Why don't you just sell the newspaper, so as not to keep losing money in your hands." Xu Guanwen persuaded.

"Brother, you don't know about this." Xu Guanwu smiled, "Although my "Daily Daily" is not making money now, the channels have been established and word-of-mouth is slowly being created. Now the daily advertising revenue It's all increasing, and it's time to make a lot of money. I can't bear to sell it now."

"Second brother, you lose tens of thousands a day, can you afford it?" Xu Guanying said worriedly, "It always feels like a loss-making business to let people read newspapers for free."

"I injected 1000 million Hong Kong dollars into "Daily Daily", which is enough to make it lose money for a year." Xu Guanwu said with a smile, "As for whether it is a loss-making business, we will know if we continue to work."

Seeing his confidence, everyone laughed.

……

Back at the company, the Stanley Market Research Company's report on investing in Ms. Qiong Yao's film was finally made and placed on the desk in Xu Guanwu's office.

"Why did it take you so long to do a market survey?" Xu Guanwu glanced at the manager of Stanley Market Research Company with some displeasure.

He has high hopes for this company, spends a lot of money to recruit key talents from major market research companies in Hong Kong, and strives to make it the first and best market research company in Hong Kong's entertainment industry.

Unexpectedly, they spent more than half a month on the first project.

How can you adapt to a changing market when things are processed so slowly?
"Boss, don't be angry. In order to ensure the accuracy of the market survey, I specially sent the most capable investigators to Taiwan to do the survey." The company manager explained, "In this report, we not only analyze the current situation of the Taiwan market , and also includes a list of actors with box office appeal in Taiwan at present, as well as related surveys on the tastes of movie audiences."

"Oh?!" Xu Guanwu was taken aback for a moment. He didn't expect this market research to be so detailed. No wonder it took so long.

"Then help me analyze in detail the reasons why Ms. Qiong Yao's first two films failed miserably at the box office." Xu Guanwu looked at the manager and said.

"This manager's surname is Fang." Xu Guanwu muttered to himself.

To be honest, he founded Stanley Market Research Company, and since he abandoned the project from the day of its creation, he rarely showed up at the company again.

Therefore, Xu Guanwu is not familiar with the personnel inside the company.

Compared with "Daily Daily", Stanley Market Research Company is more like a stepmother's child.

Manager "Fang" immediately answered Xu Guanwu's question, "According to our market research, there are three reasons for the failure of Ms. Qiong Yao's investment in the first film "Moon Man Xilou": First, boldly employ new directors Liu Yi, this person has almost no directing experience before, so many scenes cannot be adjusted, and the funds invested in the early stage are quickly exhausted, forcing Ms. Qiong Yao to increase funds, which increases the cost of the film."

"Second, the actors Conway and Jiang Ming are both newcomers and have no box office appeal. Third, there is no scheduled movie schedule. Although the movie has a good reputation after its release, because there is no good schedule, it has only been released for a week. The fall of the painting made the movie not even recover the cost."

"So that's the case. Ms. Qiong Yao should have learned a lesson when investing in the second work." Xu Guanwu laughed.

"Unfortunately, she didn't," the manager shook his head and said, "Ms. Qiong Yao asked Gao Shanlan to be the director of the second film "Clover". film experience."

"In order to capture the beautiful scenery, they also went to Yushan to shoot the location, and in order to shoot the scene of flowers blooming, they made thousands of plastic flowers for decoration. Although the picture of the film is very good, the cost is too high. After the release , also did not recover the investment." The manager introduced.

Xu Guanwu couldn't help smiling when he heard this, he didn't expect that Ms. Qiong Yao is really an artist, but artists are not suitable for making movies.

In other words, it is not suitable to use movies to make money.

(End of this chapter)