Chapter 260: Ambitious

"Their performance is very good!"

Speaking of the film and television industry peers from the Mainland, Li Zhuanglie was full of praise.

"It feels to me that they are all very professional!"

"In some professional jobs in the television drama production department, the professional personnel from the Mainland have gradually become the main force, and their abilities are quite outstanding!"

"Moreover, they seem to attach great importance to the temporary secondment opportunity to ATV, and they are very serious and responsible in their work, at least their attitude is quite good!"

"Not only that, but their abilities shown in the filming process of many genre films are quite outstanding!"

In front of Wu Feng, Li Zhuanglie praised them well.

"Don't just say good things; I want to hear the shortcomings!"

Wu Feng laughed: "The talents cultivated by Mainland film studios must have no problem with their abilities!"

Still the same sentence, the film and television industry in Hong Kong had quite a lack of understanding of Mainland film studios.

But as long as one knew some situations of the Soviet Bear and the big film studios in the United States, one could compare them to the Mainland film studios.

At the very least, in terms of professional talents, Mainland film studios were not bad at all!

Looking at the whole world, there were not many countries that had proper film academies.

The professional talents cultivated by the Mainland's several film academies were not vegetarian.

"Uh, it's not that there are no problems!"

Li Zhuanglie said awkwardly: "First is the communication problem; of course, if the time is a bit longer, it's not a difficult problem to overcome!"

"The biggest problem is that some seconded personnel from Mainland film studios have always been unable to adapt to the work rhythm of the television station, and for this, the television station has already returned a part of the seconded personnel who were not suitable!"

"And there is the problem of the style of television drama production; the seconded personnel from Mainland film studios and ATV's employees often have different opinions, which has caused quite a few contradictions!"

"Of course, everything is within a controllable range and has not affected the normal operation of the television station!"

Speaking of this, he laughed: "There are a few with particularly outstanding abilities, and the television station directly recommended them to Fengrui Film and Television, and I heard they have already started filming movies!"

"Not bad!"

Wu Feng nodded with satisfaction: "In the future, there will be more and more peers from the Mainland, and the television station should also do a good job in reception, and also let them exert their own talents, preferably forming a perfect process!"

"Wusheng, the number of employees in the television station is already enough, right?"

Li Zhuanglie was a bit confused and asked curiously: "If we continue to increase, the number of programs and television dramas will increase by then, and the two channels probably won't be able to distribute them!"

"If two channels are not enough, then add new channels!"

Wu Feng said indifferently: "For the television station, I already have a certain plan in my heart!"

At the very least, it should be made into a comprehensive television station!

Like ATV and TVB at this time, having only two channels is far from enough.

In the future, it will definitely be upgraded to a satellite television station, radiating the entire Southeast Asia and East Asia region.

Of course, this is just a long-term plan for the future, and there is no need to say it out now.

It's not that I'm worried about Li Zhuanglie not being able to accept it, but I don't want to attract the attention of some forces.

Wu Feng didn't know why Li Ershao created the predecessor of Phoenix TV, Star TV, while TVB and ATV didn't go on satellite?

To say there is no trickery in this, anyway, he doesn't believe it.

Seeing Wu Feng express his stance like this, Li Zhuanglie didn't intend to continue asking. He just needed to do his own job well, and there was no need to pay attention to other things.

After all, ATV's boss is Wu Feng!

After understanding some situations, Wu Feng, accompanied by Li Zhuanglie, patrolled the ATV building.

At this time, the ATV building was clearly a bit small.

Especially with the explosion of the two programs "Unlimited Fighting Tournament" and "Beauty Pageant," as well as the filming and production of a large number of television dramas, the number of television station staff had skyrocketed.

There were only two free television stations in Hong Kong, and they didn't implement the so-called production-broadcasting separation system.

With the scale of the two television stations at this time, and the number of channels, there was no need to engage in any production-broadcasting separation.

Every variety show was a team, and every newly filmed television drama was also a team.

When it was busiest, three to five variety shows were filmed at the same time, and at least three television dramas were also being filmed at the same time, requiring quite a lot of manpower.

Plus news programs, location reporters, and a huge logistics department, in short, the number of employees at ATV at this time was quite considerable.

This didn't count the professional personnel seconded from Mainland film studios; just preparing the staff dormitories for these seconded personnel was not a small matter.

Even so, the ATV building and the internal photography studios were just simple sets.

Whether it was TVB or ATV, the sets of the television dramas they filmed were often criticized.

Even, sometimes scenes like waterfalls could be arranged through photography studios.

One could imagine how poor the quality and viewing experience of such set standards were.

When Wu Feng patrolled, he happened to see the filming in the internal photography studio, which was quite an eye-opener.

You know, when he just entered the film industry, the fantasy folk movies he cooperated with Yindu Institution were all filmed on location in the Mainland.

This was also one of the main reasons why this type of movie had a viewing group in Hong Kong's leftist cinemas.

While watching the movie, one could also appreciate the great rivers and mountains of the Mainland, which was quite cost-effective.

At the same time, this was also the main reason why those small-scale film companies in Hong Kong couldn't copy and imitate on a large scale and shoot the fantasy folk movie type into rot.

Although going to the Mainland to film movies at this time was not troublesome, the cost was not small.

Ordinary leather bag film companies didn't necessarily have such capital.

Or perhaps, some film companies didn't want to be too laborious; they wanted to lie down and make money more.

"The ATV building is a bit crowded!"

After patrolling a circle, Wu Feng didn't say much, just stated a fact indifferently.

Li Zhuanglie echoed, and he also felt that the ATV building was a bit small.

Unfortunately, there wasn't much space in Wutaishan, and there was no extra land around the ATV building for ATV to continue expanding the building.

He didn't consider that with the continuous expansion of ATV's scale and the increasing number of employees, the demand for dormitories would also slowly increase.

Wu Feng couldn't do what Sir Run Run Shaw did!

At the very least, the seconded personnel from the Mainland all had staff dormitories arranged by the television station.

Even for the Hong Kong employees of the television station, if there was a need, they could also apply for collective dormitories.

Just this point alone was not very easy to solve in Wutaishan.

The housing problem of ordinary families in Hong Kong was already quite severe at this time.

Often five, six, seven, or eight people lived in a room with an area of less than thirty square meters.

Why were the small-sized housing designs of about thirty square meters in Hong Kong quite bright in later generations?

Almost utilizing the space to the extreme, wasn't it forced out by the reality?

But even so, many employees were willing to rent the collective dormitories provided by the television station at a very small cost.

At the very least, they could have a private space of less than ten square meters!

In fact, the living environment of Hong Kong residents was similar to the tube buildings in the Mainland.

At most, it was more beautiful than the tube buildings, and the layout was more modern.

By the time ATV opened new channels, the number of employees needed would only be more!

By then, the television station's provision of dormitory benefits alone would be a not small expense.

Wu Feng's idea was very simple, which was to move the television station as a whole to Sai Kung.

The Hong Kong British government had plans to develop Tseung Kwan O in Sai Kung, and there were plenty of cheap land plots there.

Not only could the television station have a larger and broader workspace, but it could even establish a corresponding film and television city; as for the dormitory area, it was naturally a small matter.

Of course, there was no need to say it out now.

If the inner thoughts were really leaked, the opposition voice from the television station would definitely not be small.

Even, some elite-level staff among them would choose to defect to the old rival without hesitation.

Wu Feng's idea was to first establish a film and television city in Tseung Kwan O!

After the staff and actors of ATV were familiar with the environment in Tseung Kwan O, it wouldn't be too late to mention the overall relocation of the television station; one could establish a branch first.

For the next few days, he was running around patrolling the major companies under his command.

Fengrui Film and Television was as powerful as ever!

Seventeen movies were filmed throughout the year, five of which had a box office exceeding twenty million, seven had a box office exceeding ten million, and the remaining five movies didn't lose money.

Just from the movie box office, Fengrui Film and Television's annual income was almost over one hundred million.

There were also overseas copyright sales, as well as video tape sales, etc.; compared to the overall box office data, it was only about thirty percent less, and the profit was quite exaggerated.

In addition, peripheral income sharing, as well as actor income sharing, etc., added up to a scale of tens of millions.

It could be said that Fengrui Film and Television's profitability could absolutely make outsiders feel shocked.

This didn't include the rise in the value of the stars who became popular because of the good movie results.

Like Wen Bixia, the company's first sister, she had completely sat firmly in the position of a first-line female star in Hong Kong.

The remuneration for one movie had reached the level of five hundred thousand.

In addition, there were endorsement fees, and the number of endorsed products began to increase.

At the same time, she was also the company's internal goods-carrying champion; this year's goods-carrying income sharing exceeded three million, plus advertising endorsement income, easily breaking the five-million mark.

Don't think it's little, and don't use the standards of later generations to apply to the Hong Kong stars at this time!

Why was the status of Hong Kong stars not high?

It wasn't because of the so-called saying of the lower nine streams, but because the income of Hong Kong stars was not high.

It was estimated to be similar to senior white-collar workers, and even couldn't compare to those gold-collar workers sitting in offices.

Hong Kong was a standard capitalist society, and money income represented social status!

If the star's income was not high, how could the social status rise?

Otherwise, why would so many Hong Kong actresses be single-mindedly determined to marry into wealthy families?

If their annual income was tens of millions or hundreds of millions, let's see how many first-line female stars would be so active in marrying into a wealthy family to be a canary!

Recommend a period novel written by a little brother in the same residential complex, "Rebirth 1998 Starting from a Small Town Youth"

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