Chapter 0625 Cinema Interests Under Real Estate Hegemony
"Thank you Mr. Tang for taking it seriously, but I'm afraid it's difficult for me to take on the heavy responsibility, I mainly rely on my true colors to act in "Slaughter the City". Wu Hanrun was not touted by the sudden arrival of various honors, and had a clear understanding of his own ability.
He was originally a doctor, and before starring in "Slaughter", he did not receive any professional acting training, let alone any acting experience, and the reason why he won the best supporting actor was mainly because the Oscar opened the golden finger.
Seeing that the other party was so calm, Tang Huan nodded appreciatively, "Mr. Wu doesn't have to worry too much, the purpose of making a movie is to better borrow your Oscar-winning influence and promote Funan, which is now in ruins, and what really depends on Mr. Wu is your professional ability." I want to build a hospital in Funan, and I would like to ask you to be the director, Dr. Wu. β
Obviously, Tang Huan intends to praise local Chinese like Wu Hanrun in Funan to quickly integrate a local non-governmental force. It is precisely because of this purpose that his communication with the other party can be called heart-to-heart. He was immediately persuaded and readily agreed.
"Have you done all the media interviews?" Finally, Tang Huan asked.
Even the Oscar gave the Best Supporting Actor to Wu Hanrun, which naturally further became a hot topic of Western public opinion, and the media, including People magazine, issued a series of interview requests.
"It's over." Wu Hanrun nodded, "If I can, I want to go back to Funan to have a look." β
The other party's idea was exactly what Tang Huan meant, "Then let's go together, and take the opportunity to transfer to Xiangjiang, I will introduce you to the film industry over there." β
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Tang Huan went to Xiangjiang this time mainly to accept the results of the cinema alliance. The Hong Kong film industry is beginning to enter its golden age, and his patience for this battle is running out.
Seeing that the time for Silicon Valley One to take off was approaching, Tang Huan casually asked his assistant: "Apple CEO John Scully." Didn't you want to take our plane and transfer to China, why haven't you arrived yet? β
Recently, Apple has obtained a license to export computers to China, which could be a good incentive for the slow-selling MAC.
In fact. American computer manufacturers are happy to bring their products to the Chinese and even Soviet markets, and some important members of American politics also support this approach.
Of course, the motives were not so pure, and the fact that the personal computer became more and more powerful and began to play an increasing role in the fields of journalism and publishing was very much in line with the minds of these people - to launch a "revolution from below".
This brings us to the use of tools β a kitchen knife can help with cooking. It can also be used to injure people.
Although computer-importing countries are more or less aware of this intention, the computer is a high-tech tool that plays an irreplaceable role in the development of the national economy.
However, U.S. export controls are an unbridgeable chasm, even for Fangyuan Computer. It's getting more and more constrained.
Apple has been granted permission to enter the Chinese market, ostensibly on the same starting line as Fangyuan Computer. But little progress was made on the Soviet side.
John Scully, who was about to go to China to sign the agreement, wanted to take a hitchhiker because he wanted to ask Tang Huan for advice, but I don't know why, the other party has not appeared until now.
At this time, an Apple employee. Panting for breath, a note arrived.
Tang Huan opened it and saw that John Scully had explained that he had suddenly been in an emergency, temporarily canceled the trip, and apologized Yunyun. The scribbled handwriting seems to indicate that the owner is not ordinary upset.
"Moham. Apple's moth again? After this thought flashed in Tang Huan's heart, he didn't think about it anymore, and waved his hand to signal that his team didn't have to wait for anyone.
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After more than ten hours of flying to Xiangjiang, Tang Huan got the news from the United States that Apple was really in trouble, and Jobs, who was still trying to mend relations with John Scully at the birthday party, planned to take advantage of his trip to China to launch a coup d'Γ©tat and oust the other party, but the conspiracy was revealed and the target canceled the trip.
Cupertino is a big place, how can Apple hide this little palace fight drama from his old neighbor, John Scully angrily questioned Jobs, and the other party's eloquent arguments were faxed.
"Still so uncompetitive." Tang Huan shook his head helplessly.
"Who you off?" After Zhao Yazhi put the soup on the table, he asked with concern.
"No one me off, I just got a message and I was impressed." Tang Huan smiled and waved his hand, "I heard that you are taking on the drama again, hurry up and show me the makeup photos." β
Zhao Yazhi returned to Xiangjiang from the United States after the Lunar New Year, for no other reason, he was very quiet, and his old club TVB often tested his tone, so he wanted to enrich himself with work.
In fact, the deeper reason is that Tang Huan's thinking is very unique, and he hopes that his woman can use her work ability instead of being locked up at home and become a housewife.
Therefore, Zhao Yazhi's move is to please his man.
However, her style of acting can only be regarded as decent, at least she brought the child to be more than two years old, and Lin Qingfang, who only gave birth at the end of last year, also plans to make a comeback this year.
Of course, this does not mean that Tang Huan's women lack motherhood, the conditions of the Tang family are too superior, and there is no need to worry about taking care of the children, not to mention that there is also the mother's family to help.
Although Zhao Yazhi has been temporarily away from work for more than three years, the audience popularity of some artists is too good to explain, as soon as she returned to Xiangjiang, she took over two plays - playing a supporting role in Jin Yong's martial arts drama "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" Ma Chunhua, and playing the protagonist Miao Shan in the mythological TV series "Guanyin".
Obviously, the latter was influenced by the success of the DreamWorks mythological TV series "Eight Immortals Across the Sea".
Zhao Yazhi knew that he was a man's hobby, and after giving him a roll of his eyes, he took the makeup photo of "Snow Mountain Flying Fox".
"This appearance is so smart." Tang Huan was sincerely amazed.
"What do you mean, do you think I'm old and yellow, pretending to be tender?" Zhao Yazhi was coquettish.
"Of course not. I mean, it's more glamorous than it was at the beginning. Tang Huan laughed out loud and grabbed the other party's slender waist, "It's better for me to help you play against each other." β
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Xiangjiang's Chinese New Year stalls this year can be described as a battle of mourning and defeat.
Golden Harvest's "Lucky Stars" and Golden Princess Entertainment's "Best Partner: The Queen's Secret Order", which was filmed a year later. Together, they challenged DreamWorks Cinemas' "Once Upon a Time 3: The Lion King".
As a result, compared to the 1984 Lunar New Year stalls, which hit a new box office high, no heavyweight work in this year's Lunar New Year stalls exceeded HK$30 million at the box office.
You must know that in the original time and space, "Lucky Star Gaozhao" and "The Best Partner: The Queen's Secret Order" were both **** with a box office of about 30 million in the city, which shows the tragedy of this business war.
In fact, DreamWorks Cinemas, which still maintains its advantage, does not only use the movie "Once Upon a Time 3: The Lion King" to face the competition, but relies on the flexible scheduling method of multi-screen theaters. caters to the tastes of the movie-going group to the greatest extent, for example, a comedy movie starring a child star like Xiao Binbin was released at the same time, which has become a unique highlight.
The multi-screen miniature cinema in Hong Kong first appeared in 1982, and the previous cinemas were large cinemas with only one big screen, and only one movie could be shown at a time.
The reason for this situation is nothing more than the natural selection of the development stage, the more capital investment and complexity of the equipment of multi-screen theaters. There is always a need for a lowering process.
Founded in the 1970s, Golden Harvest Cinemas and Golden Princess Cinemas, which developed from the longer-established Lisheng Cinemas, are obviously impossible to compare with the DreamWorks Cinemas that were just formed. Just for this reason, I directly closed down for renovation, which involved too many things.
It is this difference between the two theaters that creates a difference in resource utilization, which in turn allows DreamWorks Cinemas to grab a large number of audiences.
In addition, there is another business war hidden in this area, that is, the Spring Festival sales season. In the promotion war of retailers represented by Wellcome and Parknshop, all parties have used a variety of means such as price reductions, discounts, and lucky draws, and movie tickets have also become one of the means to win over customers.
It's a pity that it is still DreamWorks Cinemas and Wellcome, which is under the name of Qinhe, and such activities are held by Golden Harvest and Golden Princess Entertainment. In the end, it became a four-dislike, not only the effect was unsatisfactory, but also because of the chaos caused customers to complain.
Golden Harvest, which was already powerless, became more and more disheartened with the plan to take advantage of the resources of other large conglomerates.
In order to achieve the same results as DreamWorks Cinemas, you can only achieve a level of intimate trust by becoming a real family.
But how could Zou Wenhuai give away his hard work for many years to others, rather than that, it is better to follow Tang Huan's meaning and form a unified scheduling theater alliance.
Once his thinking changed to this extent, Zou Wenhuai didn't want to advance and retreat with Lei Juekun, who came from the real estate industry to grab food, and directly sent a letter of surrender to Tang Huan.
After Lei Juekun learned about the situation, let alone be annoyed, didn't he think of himself as a stupid boy who was slow to react? The last party who is lonely and has to be sent to the knee is so passive!
Therefore, at the meeting convened by Tang Huan, Lei Juekun did not give Zou Wenhuai a good face, and Shao Yifu was an old god sitting on the ground watching the tiger fight.
Shao Renmei passed away in early March this year, and although DreamWorks expressed it on his behalf, Tang Huan still made a special offer of condolences to Shao Yifu.
When the greetings were over, Zou Wenhuai took the lead in complaining: "Tang Sheng, it's been a hard time lately. β
"Then let's work together, and I believe we will be able to make up for it soon." Tang Huan's words seemed to be smiling, and directly blocked the other party's intentions.
He didn't have time to waste time on small things, so he went straight to the topic, "Our largest cinema chains that also have their own film sources, since they are sitting together, they have agreed to form a cinema alliance, right?" β
Tang Huan's eyes swept over Zou Wenhuai and Lei Juekun, and the other party clearly said "yes".
Bowing slightly in satisfaction, Tang Huan continued: "I know that the two of you have some ideas on some specific interests. But what I want to say is that these are small things, and as long as everyone is sincere, then it is easy to discuss. β
Speaking of this, Tang Huan distributed the documents in front of him to Shao Yifu, Zou Wenhuai, and Lei Juekun, "We are sitting at the top of the food chain of the Xiangjiang film industry, and we should focus on the overall situation and the macro level. There is a lurking crisis that needs to be discussed together. β
The three of them opened the document as they said, and saw that there was an excerpt from the latest "Hong Kong Development Outline" above. Looking at the specially marked part, they all frowned slightly.
The Hong Kong Development Plan originated from the Land Use Plan prepared by the Hong Kong Government in 1965, and after several revisions, the Land Use Plan was finally renamed as the current Hong Kong Development Plan.
In the "Hong Kong Development Plan", there will naturally be a relative plan for cinemas, which from the outset will be included as Recreational Facilities, and it is listed that there should be 38 cinema seats for every 1,000 people.
With this program document to standardize, the Hong Kong government will carefully refer to the guidelines when developing new towns or selling land, and insist that new real estate projects need to be equipped with corresponding cinemas and entertainment facilities to enrich the lives of residents in the area.
In addition, the land designated by the Hong Kong government as a cultural and entertainment facility will not be leased to restaurants or famous shops after it is leased to a movie theater.
However, in the latest version of the "Hong Kong Development Plan", cinemas have been removed from the ranks of cultural and entertainment facilities and have been changed to Retail Facilities, and there is no limit on how many cinema seats are needed per population in the district planning.
Everyone is a discerning person and knows what this change may mean for the cinema chain.
In addition, the land designated by the Hong Kong government as a cultural and entertainment facility will not be leased to restaurants or famous shops after it is leased to a movie theater.
However, in the latest version of the "Hong Kong Development Plan", cinemas have been removed from the ranks of cultural and entertainment facilities and have been changed to Retail Facilities, and there is no limit on how many cinema seats are needed per population in the district planning.
Everyone is a discerning person and knows what this change may mean for the cinema chain. (To be continued.) )