"The Hong Kong film industry has changed dramatically, and another super cinema chain has risen! ——Ming Pao Evening News"

"The six major cinema chains are fighting, prosperity or chaos? - Oriental Daily"

"With the rise of the Hong Kong film industry, cinemas are blooming everywhere. ——Sing Tao Morning Post"

"What is the name of Lee's Cinemas? Explore the hard journey of movie ghosts. ——Overseas Chinese Daily"

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Hong Kong's entertainment reporters are not vegetarians, and not long after the major film and television tycoons in Hong Kong received the news, these sharks who smelled the smell of blood also gathered under the building of Li Xuan's company, and they squatted down to seize the first-hand news materials.

At this time, it was not only these reporters who were lively, but also the owners of independent theaters and wholly-owned film companies, who also ran to the door to pull connections, just asking the theater to join or help the movie be released.

Li Xuan sent these people out, the boss of the sole proprietorship film company was handed over to Xian Qilu to deal with, and the owner of the independent cinema was handed over to Wang Liquan, asking him to review about ten good theaters among these people, and then join his new theater line.

In the past two years, Hong Kong's financial industry, real estate industry and manufacturing industry have all been gloomy, but only the film industry is thriving. This is a very interesting phenomenon, the economy is good, the film industry is thriving, and the economy is bad, the film industry is still a peaceful and dazzling image.

For example, in 1929, the Great Depression in the United States bankrupted countless people, but Hollywood developed even stronger.

The same is true of Hong Kong, a place with a big palm.

Among the ten theaters under Li Xuan's name, except for one gem theater, the other theaters were all dug from real estate companies. It's not that independent theaters are expensive and can't afford them, but that most of the owners of independent theaters refuse to sell them. Seeing that the movie world is good, what are you doing selling the theater?

And Li Xuan was also very busy during this time, not only did he have no time to worry about a bunch of trivial matters in the new cinema line, but he also had to coordinate and take care of the company's move.

Since he has bought so many office properties, Li Xuan naturally does not need to continue to rent other people's land to open a company, and it just so happens that the geographical location and environment of Sihai Building are very good, so Li Xuan coordinated everyone to start moving.

The floors of the building are used as shops, and then a space on the second and third floors is divided into four multi-functional movie screening halls, which are directly called the Four Seas Cinema. In the end, the top four floors were left for the company's own use, and the other floors continued to be rented out for rent.

Not only did the company move here, but Li Xuan also began to set up three post-production rooms here. Since the news of his establishment of a cinema chain came out, it was no longer possible to rent any equipment from the Golden Harvest studio. Now he doesn't have much spare money to build his own studio, and instead of renting other people's small venues, it is better to build a few spare ones himself.

It's just that Wang Jin suffered, because the post-production room was still under construction, so at this time he could only go to rent the production room to cut the film.

But he's quick, and that's not a problem.

In short, this April, there are no more exciting news in Hong Kong than two, one is that the serial killer Lin Guoyun, known as the "Butcher on a Rainy Night", was convicted of murder in the High Court and sentenced to death according to the rules; The other is the uproar about Lee's new cinema line, and many people have analyzed a lot of the future, prospects, and impacts of this cinema chain.

However, many Hong Kong filmmakers know that the Hong Kong film industry is going to be lively for a while this summer.

Hong Kong Kowloon Tsim Sha Tsui, Guoxin audio-visual products store.

"Ah Xin, rent me 1 to 20 episodes of "Dragon Babu"." A stocky middle-aged man in a white vest walked into the store and shouted.

The owner of the shop, Li Guoxin, who is very young, asked, "Ah, Uncle Quan, you want to rent so much at one time?" That's not a low rental price. ”

"It's only the beginning of May, it's so hot. I'd better rent a little more, I'm too lazy to run over every day to change the tape. Renting 20 episodes at a time is enough for me to watch for two days, and then I'll change to other tapes. The middle-aged man, that is, Uncle Quan in Li Guoxin's mouth, wiped the sweat on his forehead and said.

"That's okay, 20 episodes is 10 boxes of videotapes, the daily rent is 20 Hong Kong dollars, 10 boxes of videotapes, the deposit is 2000 Hong Kong dollars, and when Uncle Quan still checks out, the rent will be deducted from the deposit, give, Uncle Quan wants the videotape, take it!" Li Guoxin babbled a lot, and by the way, he helped Uncle Quan wrap the tape and hand it over.

"Put it on the counter first, I'll rest in your store, I'm hot to death, take the money." Uncle Quan tugged at his vest, took out the deposit and handed it over.

"Ok, boiled water is given away for free, you can rest all the time, even if you accompany me to and from work." Li Guoxin took the money and joked.

"You ...... Decrepit Boy"

Li Guoxin, a name full of the atmosphere of the times, is similar to names like Kang Aiguo and Hu Yuejin.

When Li Xuan was so depressed that he was washing dishes at Liang Kee Tea Restaurant, this person with the atmosphere of the times also ran away from southern Fujian to Hong Kong. Li Guoxin was penniless at the time, but what was better than Li Xuan was that he had an uncle in Hong Kong, and his uncle also owned a cloth factory.

After working in a cloth factory for a few months, Li Guoxin followed his uncle, who was optimistic about the video tape business, and began to sell video tapes from house to house.

It was sold for three years......

It wasn't until the beginning of 1982 that Li Guoxin finally used the 20,000 Hong Kong dollars he saved to set up a small store in Tsim Sha Tsui and have his own video tape store.

And Li Guoxin also used this small video store to engage in the sale and rental of video tapes, and in just one year, he increased his assets tenfold and became a veritable little rich.

At this time, although the video recorder was a luxury product, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba and other video recorder brands were sold for more than 10,000 Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong. But there are still middle-class families who buy video recorders so that they can enjoy some of their favorite movies at home.

However, video tapes are indeed too expensive, basically more than ten times the ticket price of the movie, and the price of one or two hundred Hong Kong dollars is not something that ordinary people can afford, so video rental shops came into being.

And Li Guoxin relied on this business to make a fortune.

However, there is also one thing that makes Li Guoxin very worried, with the fire of the Hong Kong video tape market in the past two years, more and more people have joined the video rental industry. And there are many video rental shops with very simple backgrounds, and his small shop has been harassed several times.

The more competitors there are, the harder it is to do business!

"Ah Xin, your small shop is doing well, right? I think it's a day in the money. Uncle Quan said with a smile while looking at the various loose tape wrappers on the wall.

"What...... Li Guoxin said with a smile: "It's just enough to support his family." ”

Uncle Quan turned his head and scolded with a smile: "Hey, you street boy is still lying to me, don't think that I don't know that the best people in Hong Kong are those of you who play movies now." ”

"Ha, Uncle Quan, what movie did I play? I'm just a good guy when I open a store. Li Guoxin shouted and hit the sky.

"Anyway, you're also selling movies, so you're a movie player." Uncle Quan waved his hand nonchalantly, and continued: "I just came from the four seas, tsk, the entrance of the building is crowded with reporters, and I am not afraid of heat stroke on a hot day. ”

Li Guoxin said with a smile: "What are you coveting, if I have two ancestral businesses to collect rent, I will not do anything, just like you wander around every day, this life is called beautiful." ”

"What nonsense, it's not easy to rent a house now, my rent has been reduced three times, but there are still a lot of people moving out, it's all money." Uncle Quan said regretfully.

"This money can't be earned." Li Guoxin replied, and suddenly asked, "By the way, Uncle Quan, you just came over from the four seas, and you saw that there was a new cinema when it opened?" ”

"No, these guys are hiding it to the core, what, why are you asking this?" Uncle Quan asked suspiciously.

"No ......"

Li Guoxin just spit out a word and suddenly paused, and then after thinking for a while, he gritted his teeth and asked, "By the way, Uncle Quan, are you really interested in this video store?" ”

"What are you going to do?" Uncle Quan asked curiously.

"I want to get it out!" (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe (this site), reward, your support is my biggest motivation. )