Hong Kong cinemas reached their peak in the 60s, when the film industry was the world of Shaw Brothers, followed by the Great Wall Cinemas, Phoenix Cinemas, Xinlian Cinemas, and Lisheng Cinemas. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Later, Zou Wenhuai, He Guanchang and others established Golden Harvest Company, in order to solve the restrictions of the cinema line, leased several theaters to become the backbone cinema, and then signed contracts with several theaters, including Lei Juekun's Lisheng Cinema Line, established Golden Harvest Cinema Line in one fell swoop, and then merged and merged with a large number of film companies, and then inclined to the mainland film companies also began to reorganize, Great Wall, Phoenix, New Union and reorganized into Central Plains Film Company, and filmed "Shaolin Temple", in this way, Hong Kong gradually formed three Hong Kong film cinema lines, Shaw Brothers Cinema Line, Golden Harvest Cinema Line, Shuangnan Cinema Line, Shaw Brothers, Both Golden Harvest cinemas show their own films.

Before Wang Zifan devoted himself to the movie, Lei Juekun turned his energy to the film industry, took back the Lisheng Cinema Line and established the Golden Princess, since then the Golden Princess officially began to operate the Lisheng Cinema Line, renamed the Golden Princess Cinema Line, and sometimes called the Lisheng Cinema Line, the Golden Princess Company mainly distributes films and operates the cinema line, and invests a small amount in the production of films.

In Wang Zifan's view, the biggest achievement of the Golden Princess is to abolish the theater package system, reduce the pressure on the film business, and improve the enthusiasm of independent production companies to schedule films and the vitality of the operation. Liren and other companies have released their own films in the Golden Princess, which reflects the good development of independent production provided by the Golden Princess after its establishment.

With the merger of DreamWorks with Princess Jin and Prince Cinemas replacing Princess Jin, these companies were also absorbed by Wang Zifan.

The backbone of DreamWorks Huang Baiming and Zeng Zhiwei have invested in making the box office revenue of the new art city follow Golden Harvest and become the largest satellite company in Hong Kong.

Ninety percent of the films are produced on the Clear Water Bay studio, and now that Shaw has decided to rent out the Clear Water Bay studio, it is to show his attitude, that is, to withdraw from the film competition sequence, so it is natural for Wang Zifan to covet the Clearwater Bay Cinema Line.

What a big ambition!

Yi Yifu concealed his inner surprise, in the past, Wang Zifan engaged in the cinema alliance, and everyone made the decision together, but now it is clearly to engage in unification and make his own decisions, he was originally very grateful to Wang Zifan for giving tea and renting out the Clear Water Bay studio to ease the competition between the two sides, but he was worried that DreamWorks would become bigger, and then promote the growth of Jiashi TV, so wouldn't the TVB TV under his command be suppressed!

Wang Zifan said with a smile: "Sixth uncle, whether it is renting or selling, as long as you say a word, I will accompany you to the end." ”

Such a determined attitude made Yi Yifu laugh in his heart, thinking that he would be eaten in this way, he really underestimated him, and played with taste: "I have one condition!"

"Sixth uncle, if you say anything, as long as you can agree, I will definitely agree, and if you can't do it, I will find a way to do it for you. Wang Zifan used honorifics, and his excitement can be imagined, it is his long-cherished wish to dominate the entertainment industry, and the merger of the theater chain is the first step, and with the theater chain, he will have the right to speak, and then all Hong Kong filmmakers will have to look at his face and act.

Shaw lowered his head and slowly tasted the ginseng tea, in his opinion, Wang Zifan's ambition was too great, and he couldn't do this at the beginning, and now the Hong Kong film market is becoming more and more prosperous, and the newly established film company is like a carp crossing the river, DreamWorks wants to act against the sky, isn't it worried about arousing public anger, and thinking about pessimism, as long as the franchisees within Golden Harvest and even Prince Cinemas stand up and raise their arms, what else can DreamWorks do!

Wang Zifan quietly waited for the results, as early as when the two sides were plotting a cinema alliance, he proposed a similar method, but at that time, the Shan family could barely maintain, and Shaw also invested in Hollywood blockbusters such as "Blade Runner", and now "Blade Runner" is hitting the street, and the box office after the release is not enough to make up for the publicity costs, and all the investment has been wasted, which makes the Shan family very cold.

Yi Yifu smiled: "Afan, I can lend it to you from the Clan's Cinema Line, but not now!"

"Sixth uncle, you are really ......" Wang Zifan cried blindly, this answer made him happy and uncomfortable, like a cake placed in a high place, you can see it but you can't eat it!

Yi Yifu smiled like an old fox, and said: "You kid knows the specific situation of the Shan Cinema Line better than me, I won't talk nonsense, the rent is 23 million a year! According to the box office of Shan Shi and DreamWorks films, I will not lose money on this figure, and it is definitely cheap for you." ”

Wang Zifan frowned and said, "Sixth Uncle, I am sincere in doing this business!"

This time, Kui Yifu sat firmly on the Diaoyutai and said slowly: "If you want to become fat in one bite, you have to pay a price!"

Wang Zifan's eyes lit up and said, "What if I want to buy it!"

Acquisition?

In 1971, with the Hong Kong stock market boom, he announced that the company would be listed, which is also one of the earliest listed companies on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the stock price in 1973 had reached a maximum of 35 Hong Kong dollars per share, last year Jianing Group had planned to buy Shaw Brothers at a price of 75 Hong Kong dollars per share, he refused, and then the Hong Kong crisis broke out, the company's business was affected, the stock trading volume continued to be sluggish, as of yesterday's close, the single share price has fallen below 47 yuan.

And Wang Zifan's style has always been quite unreasonable, otherwise outsiders would not be given the title of 'sniper in the stock market', and major listed companies avoid it.

As far as Wang Zifan is concerned, he was kind enough to negotiate, but he was tricked, and he was even more angry than Shaw, and he half threatened: "A few months ago, I prepared 5 billion Hong Kong dollars to acquire Hutchison Whampoa, and the sixth uncle should have heard of it!"

Billion!

This kid won't come for real, right?

Shaw is weak-minded, listed companies are most afraid of forcible acquisitions by financial predators, and Wang Zifan's record is there, public and private, it is not good for him to turn his face, and said tentatively: "Afan, I know some of the agreement between you and the Li family, five billion is such a big deal, you want to buy all the theater chains in Hong Kong?"

It is impossible for Wang Zifan to buy all the cinema chains in Hong Kong, as long as he can grasp the absolute advantage.

Shaw started out in film, of course, he understands the structure of Hong Kong films, has a further understanding of Wang Zifan's ambitions, and smashed five billion yuan in the small film industry, which is to engage in monopoly, thumbs up, and praised from the bottom of his heart: "Afan, with this courage, I began to admire you a little, no matter what, dare to spend so much money, you are the first person in Hong Kong films, I had to have this determination, and there will be no Golden Harvest to add to the blockage." ”

Wang Zifan felt that an old fox like Yi Yifu could only listen to the back, and it was estimated that the other party wanted him to invest all his funds in the movie, just to reduce the pressure on wireless, but unfortunately he was just talking, and a fool would invest 5 billion Hong Kong dollars at one time, even if he monopolized the Hong Kong film market, it would take ten years to earn it back, and if he encountered some accidents, it was estimated that he would be trapped in it for the rest of his life.

Kui Yifu was silent for a while, and then emphatically said: "No matter what the result is, my condition just now remains the same! That is, to take a stake in your Jiayi TV station!"

"Impossible!" The refusal was very simple, Wang Zifan blushed, just thinking about the prospect of the TV station, and came out without paying attention to what he said, Jiayi TV is a very important part of the layout of his media empire, unlike domestic, foreign TV stations can be privately held, he plans to take Hong Kong as the core, acquire Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Europe, The United States and other regional TV stations will radiate the discourse culture to the world, what is such a big plan to do with Shaw, invest in Jiashi, and won't he have a share of the exaggerated territory in the future!

It turns out that you are only allowed to buy my company, and I am not allowed to covet your property!

Yi Yifu said unhappily: "Afan, whether it is business or life, what you pay attention to is that you come and go, how can you make me think of you like this!"

Wang Zifan smiled and said, "Sixth uncle, do you still have the funds to invest in Jiashi?"

Yi Yifu said lightly: "I'm not as good at tossing as you, but I can still get hundreds of millions of funds in savings!"

Hundreds of millions, does this old fox want to control?

Wang Zifan's expression was cold, putting aside his age and friendship, now what qualifications does Kui Yifu have to negotiate with him, isn't Lei Juekun's experience enough, in terms of TV stations, TVB is under the double pressure of JiaTV and ATV, and the ratings of the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant broadcast have fallen to a historical freezing point. Even if the brothers don't go out of business, they will lose half their lives!

The idea of taking a stake in Jiashi has been planning for a long time, and further proposed: "In order to reduce competition with each other, how about TVB and Jiashi swap shares?"

Wang Zifan said lightly: "Sixth uncle, let's drink tea!"

Shaw frowned, deeply realized Wang Zifan's domineering, he had to eat alone in everything he did, don't invest in making movies, don't invest in running a company, don't invest in a company, and now he wants to monopolize Hong Kong films, even the eight major American film companies in the fifties and sixties were not so domineering, if he was thirty years younger, he would definitely fight with Wang Zifan to the end, but now he feels powerless, and what if he wins, no descendant is willing to inherit the entertainment career in such a big family.

"The most important thing in this tea is wild ginseng, if the sixth uncle needs it in the future, just command!" Wang Zifan took a sip of the teacup, thinking that if you don't agree, I will give you a few white radishes first.

Shaw was defeated by the words "no successor", and sighed: "Afan, let's talk about it again!"