The entire Jufu Building was contracted by the wealthy Ambrera Company, or it was contracted for three consecutive days, and the flowing water seats were opened for three consecutive days, which caused a sensation throughout Hong Kong, and the rich people in Hong Kong were all deeply shocked by Ling Shizhe's wealth and the strong strength of Ambrera Company.

Since January this year, many wealthy people in Hong Kong have felt that Ambrera Company has made great progress in its business last year, that is, in 71 years, when Ambrera CEO Alison and Hong Kong President Foster personally announced that Ambrera Company's turnover exceeded 10 billion US dollars last year, that is, in 71 years, not only the entire Hong Kong, but even the world was shocked.

The news media all over the world didn't believe it for the first time, the global sales of 10 billion US dollars, this is still 10 billion US dollars in 71 years, or 10 billion US dollars in the golden dollar period, what kind of idea is this, as if IBM did not have such high sales in its most glorious days, right? And Ambrera, an emerging semiconductor company that started with ceramics, has achieved annual sales of more than $10 billion in just a few years, which even IBM has not done for decades, is he even more powerful than IBM? The media immediately went to the Federal Tax Service to find the relevant tax list of Ambrera, and the final results proved that Ambrera did not brag.

As soon as the news confirmed that the world was shaken again, and the news returned to Hong Kong, it instantly caused a sensation, and all the media in Hong Kong, except for the leftists, carried out hyped reports on Ambrera and Ling Shizhe, among which "Sing Tao Daily" called Ling Shizhe the most outstanding young entrepreneur in Hong Kong.

In this case, the news that Ambrera Company contracted the entire Jufu Building for three consecutive days has attracted the attention of the entire Hong Kong media, many Hong Kong rich people with heads and faces, have come to Jufu Building, hoping to have a relationship with Ling Shizhe, for these local heroes Ling Shizhe also did not refuse, all gave a friendly reception, those rich people also knew and knew that this was Ambrera Company for their employees to hold a celebration banquet, did not tear their faces and did not leave, and Ling Shizhe drank a glass of wine, said some auspicious words, After exchanging business cards, he left.

The three-day flowing water banquet cost Ling Shizhe 10 million, he only appeared on the first night, and never appeared again.

Today Foster made a report to Ling Shizhe, after several months of negotiations, the British government of Hong Kong has agreed to Ambrera Company's billion-chip industrial park plan, the Hong Kong government decided to expand the Kwun Tong Industrial Zone, and set aside a piece of land as Ambrera Company's industrial park, the entire industrial park covers Kwun Tong, Kowloon and Tseung Kwan O part of the preparatory work, the preliminary demolition preparations have begun, the foundation can be laid in late May, and the first factory with an annual output of 10 million chips will be put into production by the end of December.

After listening to Foster's report, Ling Shizhe made a call to his second brother Ling Shirong and made an appointment to meet at Ling Shizhe's home in Qingshuiwan.

After making the call, Ling Shizhe took care of some official business, and seeing that the time was almost up, he drove to Zhao Xiaoyun's house in Qingshuiwan.

After waiting at home for a while, Ling Shirong came, Zhao Xiaoyun served tea to the two and then withdrew, Ling Shizhe took the tea and saluted Ling Shirong and asked: "Second brother, I received news a few days ago, I heard that you are going to sell the movie theater chain in your hand, is there such a thing?" ”

Ling Shirong put the teacup on the coffee table and said, "That's right, Old Seven, I plan to sell the theater chain, including a small theater chain in Nanyang and Japan, I don't want to do it." ”

"All sold? Aren't you running a good business, why do you suddenly want to sell all the theaters, you must know that you just acquired a small theater chain in Japan last year, did you encounter any difficulties? Ling Shizhe gestured and said, Ling Shirong's sudden decision really didn't make him understand, so he asked him to ask carefully to see if there was any place for his help.

Sure enough, after Ling Shirong listened to Ling Shizhe's words, his spirit became sluggish, and he instantly seemed to be ten years old, Ling Shizhe saw that his second brother had just reached the age of fifty, and he was full of white hair, and he couldn't help but feel distressed, what happened to him, which made him so disheartened.

Ling Shizhe doesn't know anything about running a movie theater chain, but he has read a lot of online novels in his previous life, including many YY novels that are entertainment tycoons in Hong Kong, and the theater chain in the hands of the second brother has as many as 36 movie theaters in Hong Kong alone, all of which are in prosperous areas, and there are as many as 4 luxury theaters with more than 2,000 people alone, plus nearly 300 theaters in Nanyang, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan.

Ling Shirong sat on the sofa and was silent for a long time, and finally spoke: "Old Seven, do you know that your second brother usually only runs a theater chain, but never runs a production line, and the source of films has always been from Europe, Hollywood, Japan, and Hong Kong film companies to buy and screen films?" ”

"It's unusual to run a cinema chain and not to run a producer, the current film company in Hong Kong is not a cinema chain and a producer go hand in hand, but the second brother is concentrating on running a theater and not running a producer, which is different." Ling Shizhe vaguely seemed to have guessed the answer, it must be that other filmmakers saw that the second brother's theater did not have their own film source, so they took the opportunity to blackmail.

Sure enough, Ling Shirong went on to confirm his thoughts, it turned out that Ling Shirong had opened a film company in the fifties to provide film sources for his own theaters, but unfortunately, the films shot by the second brother's own film company were not popular with the audience, and investing in movies was a small investment and a small loss, a big investment and a big loss, and he couldn't open it for two years, and found that he was not good at investing in making movies, Ling Shirong simply closed the film company and concentrated on running his Asian theater chain, and all the film sources were purchased or played in cooperation with third-party production companies.

Ling Shirong's cinema chain in Hong Kong has been cooperating with Hong Kong's electric company, the full name of electric company is called International Film Mao Industry Co., Ltd., is a film company integrating film production, distribution and cinema management, throughout the fifties and sixties Electric Mao company has been the most powerful competitor of Shaw Brothers, the boss Lu Yuntao is Ling Shirong's best friend, so the second brother's cinema chain has been showing movies produced by electric company.

Founded in 1955, although it has its own cinema chain, the number of theaters cannot be compared with the number of theaters in the hands of Shaw Brothers or the second brother, Lu Yuntao is good at making movies, Ling Shirong is good at operating theaters, and there are theaters all over Southeast Asia, and the cooperation between the two can be described as a strong combination.

The two have been working together very well, and maybe one day the company will become the largest entertainment giant in Hong Kong or Southeast Asia, but in 1964, the chairman of the company, Lu Yuntao, was killed.

After the plane crash, there was chaos within Denmao, which was inherited by Lu Yuntao's brother-in-law, Zhu Guoliang. In 1965, Chu Kwok-leung announced the reorganization of Dianmao into "Cathay Pacific Organization (Hong Kong) Limited".

Although Zhu Guoliang extended the life of Dianmao, he, like Ling Shirong, was not good at running a film production company, so he lasted for several years, and Cathay Pacific Film Production Company was closed, and its parent company was left with only film distribution and theater operation.

And what about Ling Shirong's Asian cinema chain? After Lu Yuntao's air disaster, Denmao naturally disappeared, and Hong Kong films formed a monopoly on Shaw Brothers Film Company, because when he cooperated with Lu Yuntao before, he competed too fiercely with Shaw Brothers, so Shaw Brothers has not supplied a film to Asian theaters for so many years.

Later, Ling Shirong bought films from Treasure Island, Japan, Hollywood, and Europe, but these films could not compete with Shaw Brothers' films at all, so they have been struggling to support, two years ago the establishment of Golden Harvest, Ling Shirong cooperated with Golden Harvest again, last year's hit screening of "Tangshan Big Brother", so that Ling Shirong is very beautiful, but unfortunately at this time Golden Harvest is not the future Golden Harvest, the number of films produced is very small, and it cannot meet Ling Shirong's needs at all. Even if there is a film, no one will watch it, it is all Western films, a huge theater, empty, there are less than 100 people who come to watch the movie, and there are less than 200 people in good times, so Ling Shirong has survived until now, I don't want to hold on, I hope it will end as soon as possible.

After understanding the whole story, Ling Shizhe asked, "What companies in Hong Kong are willing to take over?" ”

"Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers have sent people to contact me, and they are willing to buy, but the price is not negotiable."

"What's the price in your mind? How much do they bid? ”

"There are more than 360 theaters in the theater chain, including the whole of Southeast Asia and Japan, and 1000 million Hong Kong dollars is very reasonable, but Shaw Brothers only wants to swallow my theater chain if he only wants to spend 600 million, and Golden Harvest can't come up with so much money at all."

Ling Shizhe nodded, Asian cinemas all over Southeast Asia, one billion is indeed very reasonable, he remembers that in the mid-to-late 80s, Run Run Shaw closed the Shaw Brothers films, and several of his children and grandchildren sold some of the theaters of the Shaw Brothers Cinemas in Nanyang, and sold nearly one billion; In the 80s, only some theaters in Nanyang sold nearly 1 billion, except for inflation, in the 70s, Asian theaters throughout Southeast Asia and Japan, 1 billion is not expensive.

"Isn't there a third company besides these two companies?"

"Yes, Hollywood's Universal Company shouted $20 million, clearly trying to take advantage of the fire." Ling Shirong said angrily.

"The theater can't continue to operate, mainly because there are no good films to play, and no one has come to watch Western films, has the second brother ever thought of finding an independent production company in Hong Kong?"

Ling Shirong shook his head and said: "Don't you know, Lao Qi, Hong Kong has been a confrontation between the two major companies of Shaw Brothers and Dianmao for so many years, and there is no living space for independent films at all. ”

"And! Independent productions don't have the soil to survive, is that because there are no theaters to show their films? Isn't your cinema chain without a film source, they just happen to have a film source, look for them! Ling Shizhe was speechless by him and asked Cangtian, it is true that Hong Kong films are in the era of big monopoly, but it is impossible that there are no independent producers, as long as Ling Shirong looks for it well, he will not worry about no movies being released, nine times out of ten his son-in-law has a temper attack and looks down on those independent producers.

"After the electric car closed, I also looked for those independently produced films to play, but most of the films were on the street, and the average attendance rate of a theater was less than 20%, and even less than 10% in many cases. Do I dare to go find their videos to play? ”

"Second brother, how many seats is in your theater?"

"An average of 1,000 seats, what's wrong?"

"In a theater with 1,000 people, the average attendance rate is less than 20%, that is, less than 200 people, and in many cases even less than 100 people......" Reading this, Ling Shizhe suddenly remembered the key, the current theaters are all single-hall theater systems, a movie theater is a hall, hundreds or thousands of seats, and it is not uncommon to have thousands of seats. In this era, people have very few ways to entertain, and there are very few people who can afford to buy televisions, and people's entertainment and pastime at night are basically watching movies to pass the time, so the movie theaters in this era are all large theater systems. This is not like the entertainment activities of later generations are becoming more and more colorful, there are very few people who watch movies, and they are limited to young people, and the large cinema system is naturally replaced by multiplex cinemas.

There are many screening halls in a movie theater, each hall only has a hundred seats, and even the main hall only has two hundred seats, isn't this kind of multiplex theater very corresponding to what Ling Shirong said? Organizing the language in his heart, Ling Shizhe said: "It seems that there are no independent producers, but it's just because the audience attendance rate of independent producers is not high, right?" Easy to solve. ”

"Old Seven, you can solve the problem of attendance, do you have a way to get the audience to come to my cinema to watch the movie?" Ling Shirong's eyes lit up when he heard Ling Shizhe say that there was a way.

Seeing the second brother's hopeful eyes, Ling Shizhe nodded and said, "A solution that is not a solution, I don't know if it works?" ”

Ling Shirong waved his hand and said, "Let's talk about your method first, it's okay to listen to what your method is saying." ”

"Okay, then I'll say it," Ling Shizhe took a sip of the teacup and said, "Second brother, you just said that the attendance rate of the movies provided by those independent production companies is not high, and there are less than two hundred people in a theater on average, and even less than a hundred people in many cases, right?" ”

"Yes, the quality of these independently produced films cannot be compared to that of Shaw Brothers and Denmao, so the attendance rate of the films has not been high." Ling Shirong explained.

"Well, based on the low attendance rate of these independently produced films, has the second brother ever thought about changing the structure of the theater?"

"What do you mean by changing the structure of the theater?" Ling Shirong asked strangely.

Seeing that Ling Shirong didn't understand, Ling Shizhe asked again: "Second brother has no idea to go to Hollywood, in recent years, Hollywood has risen a kind of theater called multiplex cinema. ”

Ling Shirong became strongly interested in the new term in his mouth, and said, "Multiplex cinema? This is so fresh, Lao Qi, tell me what a multiplex cinema is? ”

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