readx; In the 80s, Hong Kong film companies, there were only two ways for a movie to be released, one was to choose these three film companies to cooperate in filming when making a movie, so that it could easily occupy the theater chain without considering the problem of the theater chain; The second is to put aside these three and build their own cinemas. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The first consideration is that the profit is thinned out by the plain and white. It's not very cool, and sometimes it gets ripped off because of disagreements.

The second consideration is that the reading ability is autonomous, and there is no need to be angry with others, but the capital investment is large, and it is also necessary to find powerful people to cooperate, and the development is also extremely difficult.

Under the guidance of Li Yihua, Longsheng Pictures has always paid attention to the development of its own theaters, but the results are not ideal. In the final analysis, they all regard movies as fragrant and sweet, and in the booming period of movies, no one is willing to give up the cash cow in their hands, and the location of those movie theaters is not good, too biased!

In Hong Kong, a cinema line, Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories .......... The number of thirty or forty is enough to cover these places. Calculate, building a cinema chain with the coverage of the whole of Hong Kong is a great deal of 30 or 40 million Hong Kong dollars!

Li Yihua has this economy and the strength to build his own cinema chain, but the investment is large, and the economic benefits are not so good, the cake is so big, and there is nothing to do with more plates, it is more appropriate to acquire the existing cinema chain, which is why he has always asked Fu Baorong to buy cinemas.

He has been waiting, waiting for Shao Yifu to sell the theaters in his hands, especially those overseas theaters, which is definitely the top priority of Li Yihua, because with these theaters, his company has the ability to distribute overseas.

"Yi Shao, the company has acquired eight movie theaters." Fu Baorong frowned, sighed and said: "But they are all small theaters, and the location is very remote, basically they are all losing money and making money." ”

Eight movie theaters are said to be a lot, you must know that the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line only has 16 theaters in Hong Kong, the key is that these 16 theaters are all over the most prosperous area in Hong Kong, both in terms of distribution capacity and the number of moviegoers, and Li Yihua's theater line is not one or two grades worse than it, if he is not greedy, he can't.

The 16 movie theaters are all in good locations, and now the housing and land prices in Hong Kong are rising, and these movie theaters may double in value in a few years.

I remember that in history, although it was a foregone conclusion that Shaw Brothers Pictures would cut production and end it, Shao Yifu only rented it out, not sold it. In the 90s, the golden age of Hong Kong films, Shao Yifu, who couldn't stand the loneliness, registered a leather bag company, and returned to the film industry from scratch, and these theaters are the opportunity to make a comeback, and the capital he relies on.

Li Yihua is not short of money now, after the establishment of Longsheng Pictures, his funds in his hands have increased geometrically, especially the popularity of the North American film market, which has made him one of the billionaires, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a huge money-absorbing director.

Longsheng Pictures' liquidity is more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars, plus "Police Story", which will be released in the summer, once the funds are withdrawn, the liquidity will be more. If Li Yihua buys Shaw Brothers Cinemas, with the funds in his hands, he can eat most of it, and if he rents it out, he can definitely eat it all with his strength, and few film companies in Hong Kong can come up with so much cash at once.

Li Yihua looked at the information about the Shaw Brothers Cinemas in his hand, these sixteen theaters are like sixteen diamonds set in the downtown of Hong Kong, but looking at their turnover, it is completely shrouded in a layer of dust for these sixteen gems. And the overseas cinema chain is also the best among the diamonds, all of them are in a good location, and the cinema chain is big enough, but the turnover of the cinema chain can only reach the break-even, which is a huge shame for such a large distribution company.

"These are all market surveys, and there are no internal records of Shaw Brothers, and all the content is estimated, but the gap is not big, and the actual number should be almost the same."

Looking at Li Yihua looking down at the information in his hand, Fu Baorong said on the side, this kind of data was obtained by him through a great relationship, although it was not very accurate, but the most reference could not be wrong.

Shaw Brothers cinemas can release more than 30 movies every year, and the average release time of each movie is 10 days, due to the reduction of Shaw Brothers films, coupled with the unsatisfactory box office performance, it is basically a problem to return to the cost, and only a small part of the more than 30 movies are Shaw Brothers films, and the rest are films produced by other film companies.

The average box office of these films is only about 1.5 million, if you follow the average release time, the total daily box office of the 16 Shaw Brothers theaters should be between 120,000 and 150,000, that is to say, the box office of each theater is about 10,000 yuan a day, excluding the share of the film production and distributor, you can get about 5,000 yuan of income, and you can get about 155,000 yuan per month.

Among the 155,000 yuan, in addition to the monthly salary of about 60,000 yuan, plus the monthly utilities, taxes, ticket making, poster publicity and other miscellaneous expenses, each theater can save about 50,000 or 60,000 yuan, which means that the annual profit of each theater is about 600,000 yuan.

This is not counting the expensive annual maintenance and machine repairs of the cinema, and the renewal of the cinema every few years, such a figure is definitely a huge amount of income for a small company, but for the cinema that occupies a prime location, even a simple shop rental can reach this figure every year.

The sixteen theaters of the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line have an annual income of about 9 million, which is not even as good as the profit of a blockbuster movie in Hong Kong, just like the script written by Li Yihua, "Mr. Zombie", which has just been painted, has reached a box office of nearly 30 million, excluding the cost and the theater's share, almost 15 million profits have fallen into the pocket of the boss of Golden Harvest Zou, and it is no wonder that Shaw Brothers wants to rent out the theater, and only fools can do the thing of losing money and making money.

"Nine million a year seems like a lot, but for a company like Shaw Brothers, it's really pitiful, and it hasn't made much money by putting an advertisement on TVB, if you don't maximize the benefits of these theaters, Uncle Shao Liu will not be a tycoon of Shao." Li Yihua closed the information in his hand, looked at Fu Baorong who was sitting next to him and said slowly, "But if you don't want to have some blood, it's impossible to win these theaters." ”

"Let's add fifty percent to the number of nine million, how about Yi Shao?" Fu Baorong looked at Li Yihua and said, after he got this number, he began to enter the estimation stage, trying to calculate the most suitable price that was acceptable to both parties.

"Thirteen and a half million, hehe!" Li Yihua smiled slightly and shook his head, "Brother Fu, you are too underestimate the sixth uncle, although the extra four and a half million yuan seems to be a lot, it is nothing in the eyes of the sixth uncle, take this money to talk to the sixth uncle, I'm afraid you won't even be able to get the rental, this is not what I want, what I want is absolute control of these theaters." ”

"Absolute control?" Fu Baorong was a little surprised.

"Yes, it's absolute control." Li Yihua said affirmatively: "Brother Fu, I told you before, I don't like to put my fate in the hands of others, my life is up to me." ”

"Yes..... But there is little perseverance, and Longsheng Pictures' funds are pressed up, and they only win these Hong Kong theaters, let alone overseas theaters. Fu Baorong said worriedly.

"Brother Fu, you actually want to do beautiful things! It's just that I want to buy all the Shaw Brothers theaters at once, and the old fox of the sixth uncle won't agree, it's a golden rooster that can lay eggs, what I want to win is a controlling stake in the theater chain, and there is absolutely no problem with our company's funds. Li Yihua's tone was soft, but the domineering tone between his tones was unstoppable, "If Uncle Shao Liu plans to buy these theaters, I will also take it if I put all the funds of Longsheng Pictures under pressure." (To be continued.) )