Chapter Seventy-Seven: Shaw Cinemas
Hibiscus tent warm, *** enjoyable. Wang Jie felt that he had the style of Kang Mazi.
When he woke up in the morning, Wang Jie gently moved Lan Jieying's jade arm around his waist, sat cross-legged on the bed and tried to run the "Thirteen Taibao Heng Lian", the result surprised Wang Jie, he had completely broken through the blood refining realm and reached the early stage of the marrow refining realm, in addition, Wang Jie found that his divine consciousness was further condensed, and within eight hundred meters around it, it could sense the dynamics of each insect, and using the power of divine consciousness, within ten meters, he could move any item weighing no more than 500 grams in the air, which was a manifestation of the release of spiritual power. Wang Jie's personal space has also expanded to 300 cubic meters, and the treasure hunt plan can finally continue.
The waiter helped up the delicate and weak, and it was the time of the new inheritance. Lan Jieying opened her eyes and saw Wang Jie's naked upper body, she blushed instantly, and immediately wrapped herself in the quilt, living like a quail.
"I've seen everything I should have seen last night, why are you shy, but then again, you can be regarded as an old cow eating tender grass!" Wang Jie teased.
"You ......" Lan Jieying sat up and glared at Wang Jie angrily.
Wang Jie took Lan Jieying into his arms, scratched her Qiong's nose, and said with a smile: "Okay, get up quickly, wait a while the maid should call the door." Wang Jie kissed Lan Jieying, jumped out of bed and got dressed, and walked out of the bedroom.
Lan Jieying saw Wang Jie leaving, so she got up and looked for clothes to put on. Because at the last moment last night, Wang Jie gave Lan Jieying a breath of Yuanyang Qi through the merger, and the wounds in her lower body have basically healed at this moment. Lan Jieying looked at the blooming plum blossom on the bed sheet, was shy for a while, found a pair of scissors, carefully cut off the plum blossom, and put it into the lady's leather bag she carried.
After having breakfast with Lan Jieying, Wang Jie drove to the Shao Mansion not far away, where Wang Jie visited Shao Yifu to discuss things about the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line.
Under the instigation of Wang Jie's little wings, while the prosperity of Xiangjiang films is accelerating, Shaw Brothers Pictures is declining in advance.
The sign of Shaw's decline is not that the number of films produced each year is decreasing. On the contrary, it has skyrocketed this year, producing 17 films in the first half of the year alone.
Why is this happening?
is because the attendance rate of Shaw Brothers' movies is too low, and each movie has to be released in advance within a few days. And the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line has a big stall there, and it loses money every day if it doesn't show movies, so the Shaw Brothers has to increase the production of films to meet the needs of its own cinemas.
This creates a disgusting cycle, the poor quality of the movie causes low attendance, the decrease in attendance causes the number of days of a single film to decrease, and the decrease in the number of days of release must make more movies to make up for the scarcity of film sources, and in order to make more movies, the production cost of a single film will inevitably be reduced, and the reduction of production costs will lead to a decrease in the quality of the film.
It's a dead knot that can't be untied at all.
Shaw Brothers Pictures and Shaw Brothers Cinemas, two companies that should complement and promote each other, are now dragging each other down and becoming each other's burden.
Shao Yifu was aware of this, but he was at a loss for it.
Compared with Shao Tycoon, Wang Jie, the owner of DreamWorks, is very idle. When the Shaw Brothers company was first established, Shao Yifu was already a rich man, he was 51 years old at the time, and he still directed or produced films himself, and Shao Yifu was in his 60s when he became a shareholder of TVB, but he ate and lived on the set every day to guide work.
Whether it is Shaw Brothers Pictures or TVB, it is Run Run Shaw's hard work, and he can't give up any of them.
However, now that the film sector has become more and more sluggish, coupled with Fang Yihua's vigorous efforts to develop a TV station, Shao Yifu has to favor TVB's younger son, and gradually reduce his support and attention to the eldest son of Shaw Brothers Pictures. Especially recently, after Qiu Daheng took control of ATV, he launched a crazy poaching of Jiayi and TVB, Wang Jie's Jiayi is okay, with Liang Shuyi's gatekeeping and high wages and benefits, but a few third-tier stars and five or six small directors of idle departments who are not taken seriously have been poached. Shao Tycoon's wireless is miserable, due to Shao Yifu's consistent slamming of the door, wireless was poached two producers and a deputy manager of the production department, as for the artist, more than ten were poached, and even the host Shen Dianbian switched to ATV, although this will not make the big wireless station hurt his muscles and bones, but it also made Shao Yifu anxious, and became more and more indifferent to Shaw Brothers Pictures.
Shaw Brothers and Shaw Cinemas have been losing money since the third quarter of last year, and they have lost even more this year.
On the film company's side, it can also make back the money it loses through the box office in other cities, but the money lost by Shaw Brothers Cinemas has no possibility of making it back.
There are a total of 16 cinemas under the Shaw Brothers Cinema Company, but only 11 really belong to Shaw Yifu, and the remaining 5 are all joined by others, and they are large cinemas located in the downtown area.
Those 5 large movie theaters, if there are good film sources, will generate a lot of profits every day. But if the attendance rate is very low, then they are much more expensive to operate than other theaters, so the loss situation is even more serious.
Due to the recession of Shaw Brothers' films, the five franchised cinema owners of Shaw Brothers Cinemas have broken up with Shaw Brothers Cinemas in early April.
Wang Jie was led into the living room by the servant, and Shao Yifu beckoned Wang Jie to sit down and said, "What kind of wind made Mr. William deign to visit me, an old man, today?"
After taking a sip of the black tea served by the maid, Wang Jie put down the cup and said, "I won't go around with Mr. Shao anymore, I want to buy the Shaw Brothers Cinema in Mr. Shao's hand." ”
Shao Yifu had plans to rent or sell the cinema at this time, and the rumors had already been released in March, but at this time, the Xiangjiang stock market and real estate were in a comprehensive depression, and almost no one cared.
Shao Yifu thought for a while and said: "I only rent the four leading cinema chains, and I will sell the remaining three medium-sized cinemas and three small cinemas to you together with the land for 100 million Hong Kong dollars." ”
Wang Jie was about to be laughed at by Shao Yifu, and said seriously: "If you want to buy it, I will buy it together, and Mr. Shao had better think of a reasonable price, and now I am the only one in Xiangjiang who has the will to buy Shaw Brothers Cinemas." ”
Seeing Wang Jie's resolute attitude, Shao Yifu thought for a while and said, "In this way, Shaw Brothers and the four leading theaters will sell you a total of 300 million Hong Kong dollars." ”
Shao Yifu's offer of this price actually wanted Wang Jie to retreat, he still didn't give up on the film industry and wanted to wait and see for a while.
Wang Jie pretended to think for a moment and said, "At this price, the deal will be sold." ”
After hearing Wang Jie say this, Shao Yifu was suddenly stunned. In fact, no matter how much Shao Yifu offers, Wang Jie will agree, because at this time, Debao Pictures has not yet been established, and Pan Disheng, the famous brand king, has not thought of leasing Shaw Brothers Cinemas, so this is the best time, and Wang Jie is not bad for money, and now it seems that spending 300 million Hong Kong dollars to buy ten theaters seems to be a big loss, but after a few decades, the land value of these theaters alone is dozens or hundreds of times higher than at this moment.
For fear of long nights and dreams, under the supervision of Wang Jie, the two parties signed a contract on the contract for the transfer of the cinema line on the same day. However, at the request of Shao Yifu, there is an additional clause in the contract, and the films produced by Shaw Brothers Pictures will be given priority to be released in theaters, and the appropriate number of screens and broadcast days will be given according to market conditions.