Chapter 239: Shuangnan Cinema Line
The revenge of the bigwigs came in a hurry.
Xinlian was stunned at the beginning.
In fact, it is not difficult to understand that these Cantonese opera bigwigs have such influence.
Think about the theater at this time, there is basically only one super hall, and in addition to showing movies on weekdays, the theater also has another important purpose is to perform opera.
These bigwigs and theater owners are naturally very familiar with each other......
It is naturally very easy to use this relationship to suppress a small film company that has just been established.
Moreover, not afraid of retaliation.
Even if everyone knows who is standing behind Xinlian, do you dare to shout it openly?
Even the Great Wall, now the big boss on the surface, is still an overseas Chinese capitalist in Canada.
From the perspective of structural relationship, Xinlian is just a similar small film company.
Don't be afraid of him!
Besides, our theater sends a large number of films, and I really can't spare a schedule to give it to you, so it's not easy for you to be strong.
If you want a film not to be released in your own theater, there are too many excuses for those theater owners.
So Xinlian took the film all over the Xiangjiang to look around, but no theater was willing to show their movie.
In fact, it is said that Southern Pictures has just acquired so many theaters, but there is a place for Xinlian to show films.
But these theaters were not so much for the Great Wall Phoenix as for the distribution of mainland and Soviet films.
This theater line in preparation is, fundamentally speaking, actually a Chinese theater line.
Xinlian's Cantonese movie is naturally inappropriate......
So......
The desperate Xinlian suddenly fell into a predicament.
But!
Relying on the motherland is easy to do.
Just when everyone thought that the new federation would give in, and then give up the theory of 'Lingxing splitting' and apologize to the bigwigs, things took a turn for the better.
The first to lend a helping hand to Xinlian was the Cathay Pacific organization that Yang Qiu never expected.
Cathay Pacific's Hong Kong manager, Odell, released "The Loser" to Singapore and Malaysia before the movie was released in Hong Kong.
This alone has greatly alleviated the shortage of funds in Xinlian.
There was a glimmer of light in the new union.
Then, Xinlian did another big thing, which is even more amazing than the release of its film to Xingma.
The Taiping Line, one of the four major cinema chains of Cantonese films, was directly contracted by Xinlian!
Huh——
You don't show me a film!
All right!
Let's just spend money to contract the theater!
Smash smash!
To be rich is to be capricious!
Don't ask them where the money comes from......
In recent years, there have been too many patriotic businessmen who have suddenly popped up.
However, Xinlian's so-called contracted cinema line is not the so-called all-inclusive, it only contracts the Taiping Line for 168 days a year, that is, 24 weeks.
However, because these 24 weeks are scattered contracting, in fact, all the good schedules of the Taiping Line have been taken into the hands of Xinlian.
Xinlian has truly become the principal of the Taiping Line!
The Xiangjiang film industry has not yet recovered from this surprising news, and Xinlian has just mastered the Taiping Line for less than half a month, but there is another big news that has detonated the Xiangjiang film industry.
The warehouse rented by Harvest Entertainment on Morrison Hill Road in Wan Chai was renamed Nanyang Cinema with the completion of its official renovation.
At the same time, Fengnian spent more than 2.7 million yuan to buy the Waldo Theater in the prosperous district of Mong Kok.
and renamed Nanhua Cinema.
Forthwith:
Southern Pictures officially published a newspaper and announced the establishment of Shuangnan Cinemas!
The so-called Shuangnan is to take the two theaters in Nanyang and Nanyang as the double leaders to jointly lead the development of the theater chain.
Among them, it is divided into two lines-
Led by Nanyang Cinema, the 'Hong Kong Island Line' was established with two cinemas, Cathay Pacific and Gao Sheng, and the 'Kowloon Line' was established with Nanhua Cinema and Xianle and Puqing.
The two cinema lines work together to communicate with each other and develop together.
The double in the Shuangnan cinema line mainly comes from this.
Yang Qiu also saw the Shuangnan Cinema Line that he had heard of a little in later generations after seeing the somewhat familiar Shaw Brothers.
After all, this theater chain also released "Shaolin Temple" later.
And the news of the establishment of Shuangnan Cinema Line has also suppressed the topic of 'Lingxing Splitting', which has been making a lot of noise recently, and the bigwigs are a little dumbfounded when they see these people being beaten by them more and more bravely.
In the end, it was a Cantonese opera boss surnamed Xue who made peace on both sides, so that the matter of 'Lingxing splitting up' could not be stopped.
It's just that after that, whether it is Xinlian, or Cantonese film companies such as Zoomlion, Guangyi, and Overseas Chinese derived from Xinlian, they have basically never cooperated with those bigwigs.
Of course, among them, they have always supported the 'Lingxing separation', except for the red-line female couple who were almost kicked out of the Cantonese opera industry.
But this is all off topic, so I won't say much about it here.
With the official establishment of Shuangnan, the Taiping Line was also controlled by Xinlian, and everyone who came back to their senses found that there was a behemoth in the film industry of Xiangjiang across the two worlds of Guangdong and Guangdong.
To have talents, to have technology, to issue and distribute!
Even the Xingma region seems to have seen this powerful force, and they have swallowed their saliva and planned to come up.
Cathay Pacific naturally took the first step and obtained the distribution rights of Xinlian in the Singapore and Malaysia regions.
And on our side Yang Qiu, he was also a little stunned by a series of actions by the leftists.
He didn't expect that in the 80s Hong Kong entertainment, a group of leftist filmmakers who were not even a background board would be so strong today!
Compared with the Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest that came later, they are more than half a layer taller!
At least the Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest in later generations have always had opponents, but at this time, Xiangjiang could not find anyone who could compete with this big collective in terms of scale.
The current Golden Harvest is not good!
After all, Yang Qiu's five theaters, needless to say, have been rebuilt, and most of the decoration has only been repaired.
In addition to the unfinished building on Milton Road and the Eastern Side of Great Summer in Wan Chai, Yeung Chiu-hou bought three properties in Argyle Street in Kowloon, Jaffe Road in Wan Chai, and Pei Ho Street in Sham Shui Po to carry out his cinema project as part of his cinema project.
With the addition of Cao Dahua's cinema in Dapu, the total number of cinemas in Golden Harvest has reached six.
But unfortunately, it is basically still under construction.
At this time, Shuangnan Cinema has begun their first agency film distribution, and the first film released is "When the Grapes Are Ripe" in the domestic real estate.
This film has an average box office.
But it really marks that the film of the mainland and the Great Wall Phoenix has a stable landing site in Xiangjiang.
Well......
Of course!
The current Great Wall still has a screening contract with Jinguo, and it won't be able to go to Shuangnan for a while.
However, Yang Qiu thought about it now, and suddenly understood why Yuan Yangyu was not doing his job.