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More than a month later, Asia Cinemas was officially transferred to Ambrera, and Asia Cinemas officially changed its name to Western Bad Boy Cinemas, and the company was registered in the United States under Ambrera.

Zhao Xiaoyun is the president of the company, Chen Bosen is the CEO of the company, Ling Shizhe, the chief financial officer and personnel manager, and Ma Zhaoqin, the former manager of the personnel department, is the manager of the American branch, responsible for the development of the North American cinema line.

After Ma Zhaoqin arrived in the United States, he first conducted a survey of the Chinese cinema chain in the whole of North America (including Canada), there were more than 2 million Chinese in the United States in the 70s, the population was less than half of that of Hong Kong, the largest Chinese settlement area was Los Angeles Chinatown in the United States, with a population of about one million, accounting for half of the total population of the United States, and the rest were scattered all over the United States.

After being busy for more than a month, Ma Zhaoqin finally selected more than 60 Chinese theaters in North America as acquisition targets, and it seems that there is no time to negotiate for a few months.

One day on April 10th, a report of "Asian cinemas changed hands, Ling Shizhe became a cinema tycoon" shocked the whole of Hong Kong, although Ling Shizhe and Ling Shirong were extremely low-key on the day of the signing, and did not hold any public signing ceremony, but they couldn't hide the media and film insiders with a keen sense of smell, they had long known that Asian cinemas were going to change hands, so they have been staring at it these days, and the transaction between Ling Shizhe and Ling Shirong has been hidden from those reporters at all.

Hong Kong's two major film tycoons, Run Shaw and Wrinkle Huai, have long coveted Asian cinemas, and they were suddenly intercepted by a third party, which caught them off guard.

In the Golden Harvest Company, Wrinkle Huai put down the "Hong Kong Business Daily" in his hand and sighed, and said to his old partner He Guanchang: "Lao He, the Asian Cinema Company is the second largest cinema chain in Southeast Asia after Cathay Pacific, with nearly 300 cinemas throughout Southeast Asia and Japan, which is much larger than Run Run Shaw's cinema chain, and the property rights of these 300 cinemas are completely owned by the Asian Cinema Company, which is a big gold mine. As a result, I didn't expect the bamboo basket to be empty. ”

He Guanchang comforted: "Ah Huai don't be discouraged, it is obvious that the transaction of the Asian cinema chain is completely within their Ling family, not only can we not eat Old Man Shao, but we can still continue to cooperate with the Ling family." ”

Wrinkle Huai shook his head and said: "I don't mean this, I mean Ling Shizhe and his Ambrera company, I am worried that he will enter the film and television industry, Ling Shizhe is different from his second brother, he has strong financial resources Once he enters the film and television industry, I and Old Man Shao will not sleep well." ”

"No, movies and high-tech are completely different ideas, how to make movies, that kind of movie has a market is not something that a layman can understand, and he will only lose money if he rushes in, he might as well specialize in theaters as before."

"Ling Shizhe doesn't understand movies, but some people do."

"Who is it?" He Guanchang asked.

"His second wife, Zhao Xiaoyun." A crisp voice outside the door replied.

The door of the office was pushed open, and a woman in her thirties came in, this woman is called Liu Lianghua, she was a big star of Shaw Brothers Film Company, and later married Luo Wei, the director of Shaw Brothers, after Wrinkle Huai ran away from Shaw Brothers to establish Golden Harvest, Luo Wei and his wife also followed into Golden Harvest, but Wrinkled Huai likes people/wives, Liu Lianghua rolled into bed with Wrinkle Huai not long after entering Golden Harvest, and brought a big green hat to Luo Wei, Liu Lianghua then divorced Luo Wei, and now concentrates on Wrinkle Pregnancy**.

Wrinkled Huai saw her come in, brought her a chair, and said, "Did you find out any news?" ”

Liu Lianghua sat down on the chair and said, "I just had afternoon tea with Ling Shizhe's secretary Bai Lu at the Peninsula Hotel. ”

He Guanchang asked a little surprised, "Do you know Ling Shizhe's secretary Bai Lu?" ”

Liu Lianghua replied: "Bai Lu used to be a contracted actor of the Shaw Brothers, and the Shaw Brothers were going to support her, but she quietly became Ling Shizhe's secretary and flew on the branches to become a phoenix. I dealt with her a few times when she was at Shaw Brothers, and I also instructed her how to act, and I had a bit of a friendship with her, so I asked her out for afternoon tea today. ”

"What did you find?"

"The Asian cinema line has changed its name, the English name is Western Bad Boy Cinema Company, the Chinese name is Wanda Cinema Company, he is the second wife Zhao Xiaoyun as the president of the company, Chen Bosen is the company's CEO that is, the general manager, and the personnel manager Ma Zhaoqin is the head of the North American cinema line, and he went to the United States to acquire Hollywood Cinema more than a month ago."

"What? Buying theaters in the U.S.? Shaw stood up in surprise.

"Yes, the acquisition of American theaters, but not mainstream theaters, but Chinese theaters in Chinatown and non-mainstream theaters in Japanese and Korean residential areas."

He Guanchang asked: "What is the purpose of not buying mainstream theaters and buying Chinese theaters?" Yes! I see, what a clever plan. ”

Wrinkle Huai also understood, the acquisition of North American Chinatowns and theaters in Japanese and Korean residential areas, of course, is to screen Hong Kong films, these places do not have the problem of cultural barriers between the East and the West, the Chinese in the entire North America add up to more than 5 million Chinese and the population of Hong Kong, the acquisition of theaters in these places is equivalent to recreating a Hong Kong market, although this market can not be compared with the entire North American market, but the good income is also US dollars, assuming that a Hong Kong dollar has a box office of one million US dollars in North America, Converted into Hong Kong dollars, it is more than 7 million, so although the North American Chinese market is a niche, it is much larger than the Hong Kong market, not to mention that in addition to the Chinese market, there are also Japanese and Korean markets in North America, although the single box office is not much, but the box office of several things together is very objective.

Thinking about Guan Qiao here, the three people in the room admired Ling Shizhe one after another.

Ling Shizhe is a complete layman to movies, but he has seen the film market that everyone has never seen or ignored, if he is given a few years to become familiar with movies, can they still resist it? Thinking of this, the three of them shuddered.

Wrinkle Huai slowly sat down in his chair and asked, "Lao He, let's go buy some Chinese theaters in the United States now, okay?" ”

He Guanchang thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "It's too late to be useless, the Chinese in North America except for the Chinatown in Los Angeles think that the rest are very scattered, this kind of scattered acquisition is useless at all, and if you want to acquire, you have to do a lot of investigation first, I think Ling Shizhe has already done all these things well, Ma Zhaoqin went to the United States to buy directly, and Ling Shizhe's influence in North America is very deep, we have no chance." ”

"Hey! Ling Shizhe has good means, no wonder he can break into such a big family business at such a young age, if the film producers in Hong Kong and Taiwan/Bay know about it, why don't they rush to slap him? Being able to sell their films to the United States is the dream of many filmmakers. Wrinkle Huai sighed, and then said to Liu Lianghua: "By the way, you just said that Zhao Xiaoyun was the president?" ”

Liu Lianghua said: "Yes, Ling Shizhe's second wife is the president of Wanda Cinema Line, this woman is the daughter of Shou Acai, the owner of Yingyi Society, a few years ago, Yingyi Society established a film company in order to launder money, which Zhao Xiaoyun is responsible for, although this company later collapsed, but this woman is a good fan of movies, not a layman, which is why Ling Shizhe asked her to sit in charge." ”

"Now Asian cinemas, oh no, it should be called Wanda Cinemas, its main problem is that there is no stable source of films, do you think she will directly set up a film company to make movies?"

Liu Lianghua said: "I learned from Bai Lu's mouth that Ling Shizhe has no such plan at present, and no one can say whether it will be in the future, but I was surprised to find out that Ling Shizhe will cancel the theater package fee in order to solve the problem of film source." ”

"This ...... Are you telling the truth? Wrinkle stood up in surprise for the second time.

"It's completely true, this news has now spread all over Hong Kong, and they deliberately released it, and now many film production companies are actively contacting Chen Bosen, hoping to take their films to Wanda for screening. Many of our independent film studios have fallen over to their side, and Golden Harvest is in trouble now. ”

Golden Harvest has just had its own small cinema line since its establishment, just when Wrinkle is ready to show his strength, Ling Shizhe's cancellation of the theater package fee undoubtedly gave him a blow to the head, and its independent film companies have defected, which will make Golden Harvest suffer heavy losses, maybe it is possible to go bankrupt, Golden Harvest can have today, Wrinkle Huai has paid a lot of hard work.

He Guanchang asked, "Ah Huai, what now?" If the company's independent film companies all defect to Wanda, the company will be finished immediately, and if they want to be caught and not leave, they must cancel the theater package like Wanda, but in this way, the company's losses will be very large, and we have paid too much price for this theater chain. ”

Wrinkle Huai was in a very bad mood now, he felt extremely irritable before he lit a cigar and took two puffs, so he pressed it out in the ashtray, looking at the cigar that had just been extinguished, he suddenly thought of something, and said to Liu Lianghua: "Ah Hua, can you ask Bai Lu to bring a message to Ling Shizhe?" I want to meet Ling Shizhe. ”

"Okay, I'll try, but he might not meet you?"

"It doesn't matter if he doesn't want to see me, just bring the words, if Ling Shizhe can't do it, Zhao Xiaoyun can do it, in addition, Guanchang will contact Chen Bosen, and if both sides can't do it, Chen Bosen will be asked out."