This was very strange news, which made Li Xuan have to be surprised.

The Jiang family's Anle Cinema Line has only five cinemas all the way, and it has always been a dispensable small role in the Hong Kong film industry. In particular, the two brothers of the Jiang family have just caught up with the mainland again, which has led to the recent low-key relationship of Anle Cinema Line in Hong Kong.

But no matter how you say it, Anle Cinema Line is also a cinema chain, and if it is a cinema chain, there will be a leading theater.

Anle Cinema Line is a cinema chain with only five cinemas, and it is very good to have a leading cinema, but Jiang Zhiwen is now renting their leading cinema to Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong. This news gave Li Xuan the feeling that Xu Kechenglong stopped making movies and ran to set up a stall.

Isn't this Anle Cinema Line self-destructing its future?

But......

Li Xuan thought about it deeply, and it seemed that this was not a self-destruction of the future. Western films have always been difficult to sell at a good price in Hong Kong, and only one or two outstanding films disappear every year, so the Jiang family's Anle Cinema Line has not developed and grown after opening for so long. Now that the Jiang family has taken the line of the mainland again, it is impossible to transform to screen Hong Kong films, which film company dares to use its own films to be screened in leftist theaters?

That is, Shao Yifu didn't want to make movies for the time being, so he was able to leave the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line and go to the mainland openly, and Taiwan had to turn a blind eye.

The two brothers of the Jiang family obviously don't have such great ability now.

Therefore, since the business of Anle Cinema Line is cold and the situation is not good, it is better to rent out the theater to collect a rent, and the two brothers of the Jiang family have recently increased their cooperation with the mainland. This cooperation can't be short of money, isn't it, Shao Yifu can donate a hundred million.

Thinking about it this way, it is not surprising that the rental of Puqing Theater is not surprising.

It's just that they tossed so much, which made Li Xuan feel a little troublesome. While thinking about things, he knocked on the table casually, Li Xuan frowned and asked, "How many theaters are there in their house, this new theater line?" ”

Xian Qilu also lost the excitement at the beginning, and replied in a very cautious tone: "Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong already have 7 theaters in their hands, plus the remaining 12 Shaw Brothers, and now they have rented a Puqing from Anle, and I don't know if there are other small theaters to join." Even if it's a simple math. This new cinema chain has at least 20 theaters. ”

"Ha, another strong competitor!" Li Xuan sighed, suddenly moved in his heart, and asked again, "That's not right." Where did Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong get so much spare money in their hands? ”

Renting a theater is not something that can be done for a few dozen dollars. And the basic lease is guaranteed to be more than three years. Twelve theaters in Shaw Brothers plus one Puqing. Even if it is calculated in the shortest period of three years, it will take 100 million to 200 million yuan to get it done.

But as Li Xuan said, where did Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong get so much spare money?

Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong's families are engaged in foreign trade and real estate. Although these two are also well-known rich men in Hong Kong, in fact, the assets of these two second bosses are still not as good as Lei Juekun, the big boss of Princess Jin. But Lei Juekun, a well-known rich man in Hong Kong, fell heavily in this Hong Kong stock market crash, as long as Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong got involved in the real estate industry, this unlucky stock market crash naturally happened to them, but where did these two people find such a large amount of money to rent a theater?

So Li Xuan felt a bit of weirdness, unless- they still had a third-party partner

Really......

Hearing Li Xuan's question, Xian Qilu paused, and only after half a sound did he say tentatively: "I heard a piece of gossip, say yes, say yes ......" Xian Qilu glanced at Li Xuan who was frowning again, and then continued: "It is said that Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong can afford to open a theater now, and most of the money is helped by Boss Cai." ”

"Boss Cai? Which Cai ......" Li Xuan didn't react at first, and after repeating half a sentence, he asked in surprise: "That Boss Cai in Taiwan?" ”

"Hmm." Xian Qilu nodded slightly.

"Shhh——! This Boss Cai is really ......" Li Xuan took a breath, shook his head with a wry smile and said: "It's really a good thing, think about how the Hong Kong film industry has been made by him for most of the year, and now he has tossed a theater out again." ”

Speaking of this, Xian Qilu actually began to sympathize with Cai Songlin, and said very calmly: "Boss Cai has no way to do this, think about our cinema chain with only about 20 theaters, and every year we have to make more than 40 movies to fill in the schedule, Boss Cai has such a big industry in Taiwan, more than 100 theaters begging for food under him, and the annual film source is estimated to be more than 200 films. ”

"It's a ......"

Li Xuan listened to Xian Qilu's words and muttered half a sentence, and finally stopped helplessly, because what Xian Qilu said was indeed the truth. Isn't this the case in later generations, it is precisely because there is a market that there is demand, so there is a large amount of hot money from Taiwan and Southeast Asia pouring into Hong Kong, and Cai Songlin is just one of the representatives of this hot money.

It's just that in this way, it is estimated that the era of bad movies in Hong Kong movies will come in a few years.

However, Li Xuan is not capable of making any fight against the forces behind this hot money, it is a huge business of hundreds of billions of dollars, it is really a super profit that can make people stop and kill gods and Buddhas, and leave bad movies or something to those pure filmmakers to protest.

Thinking too much about these strange things and having nothing to make up, Li Xuan turned to the things he was most concerned about, and asked directly: "Did Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong contact any filmmakers?" Do they want to support any filmmaker? ”

Hong Kong's cinema chains have a long tradition of supporting big film companies, such as Shaw Brothers' Shaw Brothers Pictures, Cathay Pacific's Denmao, and later Golden Harvest's Golden Harvest Pictures and Golden Princess's New Arts City. In fact, it was not only Hong Kong, but also Hollywood back then, but later Hollywood issued an anti-monopoly bill that separated film production companies from theaters. Hong Kong, as a copy and photocopy of Hollywood, naturally followed the same example from the beginning.

Moreover, the quality of the large film companies they support is also directly related to the survival of the theater chain itself.

For example, if the electricity collapses, Hong Kong Cathay Pacific will be directly gone; For example, Shaw Brothers dominated Hong Kong later, and Shaw Brothers Cinemas was also in the limelight in Hong Kong for a while; For example, Xinyicheng later achieved great success, helping the cinema star Golden Princess successfully defeat Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest and gain a firm foothold.

In this way, the person selected to support this new cinema line has naturally become the top priority of Li Xuan's attention. If the candidate is poorer, Li Xuan will naturally not take this new cinema chain to heart, why should he continue to do it. But if this person is extremely competitive, such as Xu Kehong Jingbao and others, Li Xuan will have to carefully plan how to deal with the future Four Kingdoms War.

Regardless of whether he is a cinema line funded by Cai Songlin, he has to rob this business when it is changed, otherwise how can it be called business.

It's just that Li Xuan still underestimated the thoughts and courage of Cai Songlin and Chen Feng, the lease of this theater has been signed, and a lot of different information has begun to come out.

I saw Xian Qilu raise his eyebrows and replied directly: "According to the news I have got, the filmmakers that this new cinema wants to support can now be said - no!" ”

"No!?"

Xian Qilu nodded heavily in response: "Well, no." ”

"Impossible, so what do they want to do?" Li Xuan asked in amazement.

Xian Qilu said in a deep voice: "Ah Xuan, you may have forgotten that Boss Cai I just mentioned is likely to be a direct investor in this cinema chain." ”

"You mean......" Li Xuan paused and said, "You mean Cai Songlin wants to borrow a big shell and the next big egg?" ”

"Hmm."

Laying eggs through the backdoor is Cai Songlin's most commonly used trick, such as Xiang Huaqiang's Yongsheng, such as Teddy? Robin's good friend, almost all of these film companies have Cai Songlin's shadow, and the movies they make can be regarded as Cai Songlin's eggs, but this time he wants to lay bigger and more eggs.

Now that he has a big cinema chain, if he uses a lot of foreign capital to cast a net everywhere, Hong Kong filmmakers are piled up everywhere, and he is not afraid of not being able to catch a few fat fish.

This new cinema chain has become a veritable super 'intermediary'.

And Li Xuan even saw that the establishment of this new cinema chain was a big disadvantage to his cinema chain, they had no key support objects, that is to say, they did not have the ability to eat alone in various prime stalls. Now the small sole proprietorship film companies and filmmakers who are attached to several large theater chains, such as McDonald Bear and Debao, who have always been dissatisfied with their movie schedules, see a glimmer of hope for squeezing into prime time. This is indeed a fatal attraction for filmmakers who want to make a lot of money.

If this new cinema attracts these filmmakers, although it may not be able to beat Li Xuan or Golden Harvest in prime time, the average result throughout the year will definitely be very good.

Cai Songlin's move to cast a net everywhere is a good move, so in the future war of the Four Kingdoms, there must be Li Xuan's excitement and headache.

I just don't know what Lei Juekun, one of the parties to the incident, looks like now...... (To be continued......)