Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 1194 Who pays the money

"There is news from ATV that they are preparing to remake "Legend of Sword and Fairy"."

When Fang Yihua heard the news, she was a little surprised.But after thinking about it, this should be Lin Daoqiu's counterattack against them.

And judging from Lin Daoqiu's high standards for producing film and television dramas, even if "Legend of Sword and Fairy" is just a TV series, it would cost at least tens of millions.

At this time, the production cost of Xiangjiang's TV series is in the millions. If ATV really spends tens of millions to shoot "Legend of Sword and Fairy", TVB will definitely be beaten badly by then. This is really unavoidable. Defend.

"ATV's remake of "Legend of Sword and Fairy" is indeed very convenient. The main actors are all their artists, and it is easy to coordinate schedules."

Run Run Shaw didn't think too much about it, and it was within their expectation that Lin Daoqiu would choose to fight back.

If ATV really invests a huge sum of money to remake "Legend of Sword and Fairy" this time, it may affect the production budget of their TV series next year.

After all, TV stations are not theaters, and they make money by selling tickets. TV stations broadcast dramas for free, and rely on advertisers to place advertisements on TV stations to make money.

After "Legend of Sword and Fairy" is broadcast, their advertising volume will not increase dramatically. Therefore, ATV's huge investment in the remake of "Legend of Sword and Fairy" will get huge ratings in the short term, but in the long run It seems to be a disadvantage.

"I really hope that ATV can taste the sweetness this time, and there will be a few more big productions with a level of tens of millions. I am afraid that Qiu Degen will not be able to sustain this level of investment."

Run Run Shaw was very open about this, he didn't think there would be any threat to TVB this time, and he even hoped that ATV would make more such big productions.

Although the ratings will increase at that time, the TV station will not be able to make ends meet because of too much production costs. By then, I believe Qiu Degen will start to reduce the TV station's budget.

"One or two big productions like this are definitely no problem for Qiu De, but he will definitely not be able to withstand more, after all, ATV has not made any money so far."

ATV has been turning a profit for some time, but it doesn't make much money. Excluding the necessary expenses, the annual income that Qiu Degen can bring is only a few million.

The money earned in one year is only enough to make a TV series, but it takes a whole year and a lot of energy to handle the affairs of the TV station.

"If ATV really wants to remake "Legend of Sword and Fairy" at that time, how should we deal with it?"

Fang Yihua planned to prepare a countermeasure in advance. Although she knew that she would definitely lose this time, she didn't want to lose too outrageously.

Hearing Fang Yihua's question, Run Run Shaw closed his eyes as if he was thinking seriously.

After a while, after he opened his eyes, he suddenly remembered something.

"Isn't Tianlin filming "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" before, the theme song is quite popular, I think if ATV really remakes "Legend of Sword and Fairy", let Tianlin use the original crew to film An episode of Shooting the Condors."

In order to deal with ATV's "Little Li Feidao", Fang Yihua listened to Wang Tianlin's opinion and remade Jin Yong's novel "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

At that time, in terms of ratings, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was beaten by "Xiao Li Feidao", and there was no room for fighting back.

Unexpectedly, Run Run Shaw still wanted to use the sequel of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" to confront "Legend of Sword and Fairy", which is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg.

"Isn't this going to be a bad thing? The original show was beaten badly against "Little Li Feidao". If the sequel is against "Legend of Sword and Fairy", it might be even worse."

Although Fang Yihua also knew that TVB would be miserable with "Legend of Sword and Fairy", but if "Legend of the Condor Heroes" was used, the performance of the ratings would be even worse.

"You don't have to worry, they are all newcomers in that play. Anyway, they have already lost once before. It doesn't matter if they lose again, but if we can close the gap or even tie, then we will make a lot of money."

Run Run Shaw never thought of winning "Legend of Sword and Fairy", after all, the play had a very broad public base from novels to movies.

And adding special effects must be done by Magic Studio. As long as enough investment is made, it will definitely be no problem to get high ratings.

So no matter what method the wireless side came up with to deal with it, it would be wrong, so why not use this opportunity to train newcomers.

"You may be right."

Fang Yathua didn't have any good solutions, since Run Run Shaw had already spoken, Fang Yathua would naturally follow the other party's wishes.

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Qiu Degen did not expect that Lin Daoqiu would take the initiative to invite him to drink tea. It has been a long time since the two met last time.

Although they are the major shareholder and second shareholder of ATV, there are very few opportunities to meet each other throughout the year.

Qiu Degen vaguely felt that what Lin Daoqiu wanted to talk about when he asked him to meet this time should be about the play "Legend of Sword and Fairy".

Arriving on time at the teahouse that he had made an appointment with Lin Daoqiu, Qiu Degen entered the box under the guidance of the waiter.

"Mr. Qiu, long time no see, please take a seat."

As soon as Qiu Degen entered the door, he heard Lin Daoqiu's hearty laughter. After shaking hands with the other party, Qiu Degen took the seat next to Lin Daoqiu.

For Lin Daoqiu, Qiu Degen actually still has a very appreciative attitude. After all, if ATV didn't have Lin Daoqiu's help, I still don't know what the situation would be.

But on the other hand, Qiu Degen is also very contradictory. The point of his contradiction is that Lin Daoqiu, the second shareholder, has never intervened in ATV's affairs, and only helped ATV when it was severely suppressed by TVB.

However, almost everyone in ATV, including Qiu Degen, knew that Lin Daoqiu, the second shareholder of ATV, would sooner or later become the boss of ATV.

This feeling made Qiu Degen uncomfortable, but he couldn't refuse Lin Daoqiu's help, and even became a little dependent.

And Lin Daoqiu's experience can also be called a legend. In just a few years, from an ordinary person who swam to Xiangjiang, he turned into an international movie tycoon. This alone makes Qiu Degen have to admire him.

"Mr. Lin, what can you do with me today?"

After exchanging pleasantries, Qiu Degen took the initiative to ask Lin Daoqiu.

Hearing Qiu Degen's question, Lin Daoqiu put down the teacup in his hand.

"ATV is going to remake "Legend of Sword and Fairy", Mr. Qiu should know about it?"

Qiu Degen nodded, he was the one who decided on this matter.

After all, it took tens of millions to make a film, without Qiu Degen's approval, Huang Xizhao alone could not have made this decision.

"The purpose of inviting Mr. Qiu here today is to discuss the production fee of this film with you."

Qiu Degen had heard Lin Daoqiu's reply from Huang Xizhao before, and the other party wanted ATV to pay 5000 million for the production fee, but this was obviously impossible.

Not only was it impossible for Qiu Degen to agree, but even Huang Xizhao and Xu Xiaoming felt that this was too outrageous.

"Mr. Lin, the 3000 million investment in Xiangjiang's TV drama production fee is already a sky-high price, any more will be outrageous."

Qiu Degen hoped to persuade Lin Daoqiu, but he obviously misunderstood what Lin Daoqiu meant.

"Mr. Qiu, in fact, the purpose of my inviting you here today is not to ask ATV to pay the money."

Hearing what Lin Daoqiu said made Qiu Degen even more confused. Could it be that Lin Daoqiu planned to pay the money?

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