159【Lease Leading Cinema】

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"Zombie Family" Scene 27, take12!" The scene reporter smacked the board crisply.

Summer hugged the little zombie in his arms and walked into the distance with Lin Zhengying.

Behind it are flashing police lights and busy cops.

After walking a few steps, I met Zhong Fa standing in the middle of the road.

He stood there stiff, motionless.

Xia and Lin Zhengying both had puzzled expressions on their faces.

At this moment, Zhong Fa's body suddenly collapsed, revealing Curry and Lou Nanguang hiding behind him.

Their faces are dark, their eye sockets are deep, their fangs are exposed, their nails are slender, and they have turned into zombies at the first sight of a corpse poison.

"Whew!!" the two roared, baring their teeth and claws.

Summer and Lin Zhengying turned around and fled!

"OK, cut!!" Xia Shuliang shouted.

"Yay!!" With his "CUT!" sound, the entire cast and crew cheered happily.

After a month and a half of hard shooting, "Zombie Family" was finally successfully completed today.

"Thank you very much, thank you for your great support and hard work. In the past month and a half, my brother has been able to do it or not, and everyone has forgiven me. Tomorrow at eight o'clock in the evening, the Neptune Restaurant will set up a banquet for everyone, and I hope everyone will come to enjoy their faces. Summer announced loudly.

"Yay!!Long live the boss!"

"Mr. Xia is so good!!"

Everyone cheered.

……

Summer was directing everyone to finish the finishing work, when Xia Shuliang came over.

"Ah Tian~" he beckoned.

"What's the matter, Dad?" asked Summer as he walked over to him.

"About Xiaoxian's contract, I said hello to Boss Shao. If you take 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, you can get the contract back. Xia Shuliang said with a smile.

"Really?!That's great!" Summer listened. Happy way.

He had wanted to buy Wang Zhengxian's contract from Shaw Brothers before, but Miss Fang Yihua valued Wang Zhengxian's potential very much, so she was never willing to let him go. Even if the price has been bid to 1 million Hong Kong dollars in the summer, Fang Yihua has never let go, and insists that it is not a matter of money.

Since money can't touch her heart, she has to ask her father to come out in the summer. Communicate more with Uncle Shao Liu and exchange feelings. Knowing it with affection, moving it with reason.

In the end, Boss Shao saw that Wang Qixian was Xia Shuliang's daughter-in-law, so he finally gave a face, raised his noble hand and let Wang Qixian come out. The termination fee has also been reduced from 1 million to 500,000, to be honest, it is a big bargain in the summer.

"Thank you, Dad. Summer looked at her father gratefully.

There is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure, this sentence is really not wrong. If you do it yourself in the summer. I'm afraid that people won't talk to him.

"Father and son have something to be thankful for. Xia Shuliang smiled and said, "If you want to thank you, I want to thank you." It's not that you made me cheer up again, I don't even have the face to see Boss Shao. ”

"Okay, let's not talk about the past. Summer waved his hand and said, "Since Xiaoxian is no longer an employee of Shaw Brothers, it is not suitable to live in the Shaw Brothers dormitory anymore." I'm also going to buy a big house outside, Dad, why don't you move in with us. He sincerely invited again.

If you change it before. He definitely didn't want to live in the same room with his dad anymore. However, after these days of getting along, the relationship between him and his father has gradually recovered. I no longer exclude living in the same house with my father.

"No, you young people have the life of your young people, so I won't follow it. Besides, I'm used to living in a house in the New Territories, and I don't like to move around again. Xia Shuliang shook his head and said.

"Oh well. Hearing what his father said in the summer, he had no choice but to nod and say.

……

Inevitably, there are many dreams at night, and there will be another incident. In the afternoon of the same day, Xia took a check of 500,000 yuan to the Shaw Brothers to get Wang Zhengxian's contract back.

"Young man, you are really young and promising. Shao Yifu handed the contract to Xia and looked at him thoughtfully.

If only summer had come out a year or two earlier. He didn't have to let Shaw shut down. There are summer, Wang Jing, and Zhang Jianting, these cutting-edge directors, he has the confidence to lead Shaw Brothers to create brilliance. It's a pity!!

"Thank you, Uncle Six, for the compliment. Summer smiled, "How dare you be a kid!"

"Deserved. Shao Yifu nodded and smiled.

In less than half a year, he went from a low-level dragon and tiger martial artist to a tycoon in the Hong Kong film industry, which made Shao Yifu admire.

"Sixth uncle, I take the liberty of asking about something. Summer smiled and said suddenly.

"What's the matter, just ask. Shao Yifu nodded.

"That's the case, can you rent me a few Shaw Brothers Cinemas in your hand?" asked Xia with a shy face.

Shao Yifu was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, "You kid is not very ambitious, and he just came out, so he wanted to hit the theater chain?"

Summer nodded. Film producers, distributors, and theater operators form an industrial chain related to life and death. It's like a river, with producers upstream, distributors in the midstream, and cinema operators downstream.

If the three work together, the river will flow unimpeded and moisten both banks. But if the publishers and theater operators in the middle and lower reaches are obstructed, the river will be cut off.

As a producer upstream, Summer certainly wants to be able to control distributors and cinemas and keep the river flowing smoothly.

It's just that he didn't have the funds before, so he didn't have the strength to get involved in the theater chain. However, after the recent sale of the overseas distribution rights of "Mr. Zombie", "Zombie Family" and "Detective Chocolate", he has 100 million Hong Kong dollars in his hands this summer, so he naturally has the idea of getting involved in theaters.

"Yes, yes, I like it! Young people, just have this kind of momentum. Shao Yifu smiled and nodded, "But it's a pity that you are a step late, I have already reached an agreement with Debao's Pan Disheng, and he will take over my Shaw Brothers Cinema Line." ”

"......" Summer was stunned, and I couldn't tell what it was like, and I had mixed tastes for a while.

"Young people, don't be discouraged, if you want to become a cinema company, it's not like there's no other way. Shao Yifu said with a smile again.

"Please also ask the sixth uncle to give me some advice. When Xia heard this, he hurriedly asked with a smile.

"That's right, Debao has only bought 12 of my 16 theaters, and I still have four leading theaters that I have not sold and are going to rent them out in the form of leases. However, there is no negotiation with Debao on the issue of rent. Are you interested in these four theaters?" asked Shao Yifu with a smile.

"Four leading theaters?!" Summer was overjoyed.

He remembered reading the materials before. Debao Pictures did buy most of the theaters of the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line, and then rented the four leading theaters of the Shaw Brothers before the theater chain was established.

Because the four leading theaters are too important, Sir Shao has never been willing to sell, and hopes to keep them in his own hands and make a comeback one day.

The so-called leading cinema. It refers to a theater located in a bustling downtown area, with a large business area, good hardware facilities and strong profitability. If there are four such theaters, and then contact some independent small and medium-sized theaters, then you can build a very good theater chain.

There are only a few leading theaters under the Golden Princess Cinema Line and Golden Harvest Cinema Line, and most of the rest are small and medium-sized theaters.

"Okay, I'm interested. Sixth uncle. I don't know how much you want to rent it out?" asked Xia quickly.

"That's the number!" Shao Yifu said, holding out four fingers.

"Forty million?!" was shocked in the summer, this price is a bit high.

The annual rent of 40 million is equivalent to the annual rent of 10 million for a theater, and it is barely possible to maintain the capital by making a profit of at least 30,000 yuan a day.

At present, the average ticket price of Hong Kong films is 17 yuan, and according to the calculation of 55% of the producers and cinema operators, the daily attendance must exceed 3,000 people.

A leading theater has a seating capacity of between 800 and 1,050, which is equivalent to at least three full shows. in order to ensure that they will not lose money. And a theater can only show eight times a day, if the attendance rate is less than 50%. Then there is a high probability that you will lose money, and the risk is very high.

"No wonder with Pan Disheng's wealth and generosity, he also has to be entangled. Summer couldn't help but think.

Maintaining more than 50% of the theater's occupancy rate is easy to say, but it is not easy. Because unless it is a **** release like "Lucky Star Gaozhao" and "Best Partner", the audience will line up for a long time to buy tickets. In general. If a movie can have a 60% attendance rate, theater owners and producers can die of laughter.

And the audience likes the new and hates the old, unless it is a particularly good film, it can be screened for more than half a month, and it can maintain an attendance rate of more than 50%. Otherwise, the average film only needs to be released for a week or ten days. Attendance will drop below 50%.

However, that is for the average cinema company, and the summer is not an ordinary theater company. He has a golden finger and a cheat, as long as good movies are continuously filmed, he dares to guarantee that the attendance rate of the theater will not be less than fifty percent.

"Uncle Shao, can it be a little cheaper, you also know that I have just started, and the funds are not too abundant. Summer asked tentatively.

Although he is confident that he will not lose money, it would be great if he could reduce the rent a little.

"Okay, for Shuliang's sake, thirty-five million, no less. Shao Yifu thought for a while, and then said.

"Well, that's it. Summer immediately agreed.

35 million is just the cost of selling a movie. With these four theaters, you only need to contact more than six independent theaters to form a theater line of your own.

After having your own theater, you don't have to worry about being constrained by theater companies, you can make your own movies freely, and you don't have to worry about the lack of schedules.

"Well, the young man is really happy. Shao Yifu nodded approvingly. Shoot when it's time to shoot, decisive and powerful, and indeed bold.

"I also want to thank Uncle Shao for his success. Summer is also grateful.

These four leading theaters are four cornucopias, and it is the same when people rent them to Debao. Now I can sublet it to myself, and I am really grateful for it. (To be continued.) )

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