"Taiping Theater! What's going on? Didn't the Yuan family sell it, Zou Wenhuai and Lei Juekun didn't get their hands on it for a long time." Li Xuan looked at the photo on the information and asked in surprise.

Zhang Chubai shook his head and explained: "It's not that it won't be sold, it's that the Yuan family's price is too high, and they think it's not worth buying it, and I'm just putting it here to give Mr. Li a reference." ”

Li Xuan frowned slightly and asked, "How much does the Yuan family offer?" ”

"40 million ......"

Li Xuan didn't bother to ask what he said next, and directly turned the page to look at the next piece of information.

The Taiping Theater is not an office building or a commercial building, it can have additional added value, and the price of such a piece of land plus a theater is indeed too expensive. Li Xuan didn't think that his mouth and face could be higher than Zou Wenhuai and Lei Juekun, and then let the Yuan family willingly sell the Taiping Theater to him at a lower price.

"Hey, it's a pity that it's such a good theater." Zhang Chubai sighed to himself.

"What a pity?" Li Xuan said to himself: "Isn't this theater still there?" ”

Zhang Chubai shook his head and said: "It's still there, but it's not going to be there soon, I heard that if no one buys this theater anymore, the Yuan family plans to tear it down and build a shopping mall, such a big and old theater ......"

"Mr. Zhang!" Li Xuan abruptly interrupted Zhang Chubai's words and said in a cold voice: "I'm not a philanthropist, and I'm not a tycoon, so don't say such boring things in front of me." ”

"Uh......"

Zhang Chubai was slightly stunned, then lowered his head and said: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Mr. Li, I just remembered that I used to watch movies in the Taiping Theater, and I felt it." ”

"Feeling it? Forget it, as long as you don't have anything else on your mind. Li Xuan sighed helplessly, and then pointed to the information and asked: "This gem theater has only been opened for ten years, the equipment is okay, the geographical location is good, and there are more than 1,400 seats, it is a big theater, why is it only 4 million?" ”

"Oh, the whole building of this building is a private property, basically divided into hundreds of households, if Mr. Li buys this private theater, 4 million to buy a two-story property of the theater must be enough, but there is no need to think about the land below." Zhang Chubai explained.

Li Xuan frowned after listening to the explanation, this gem theater is located in Hung Hom, it is one of the largest theaters in Hung Hom District, and it is good in terms of geographical location and foot traffic. At the beginning, he chose to buy a theater and buy it with the land, because many theaters will close down after the golden decade of Hong Kong films, and he can continue to make a fortune by keeping some land.

However, 4 million to buy a 1,400-seat theater is indeed very cost-effective in terms of property alone.

Li Xuan hesitated for a while, and finally said, "Then buy it." ”

……………………………………

In mid-March 1983, Li Xuan's series of actions finally began to be implemented.

On March 11, Li Xuan spent 5.5 million yuan to buy Jin Maoping Cinema;

On March 13, 4 million won the Jewel Cinema;

On March 15, Li Xuan spent another 850 Hong Kong dollars to buy the Daguang Cinema;

On March 21, he bought Sihai Building and spent 31 million;

On March 25, Li Xuan negotiated with Qiu Degeng and used 6% of ATV's shares to get the Universal Cinema and Cosmos Cinema in Kowloon, as well as the Tsuen Wan Cinema in Tsuen Wan;

On March 26, Li Xuan purchased the 'Xingning Building' on the 10th floor of Enping Road in Causeway Bay from Hysan Development Company for 21 million.

Hysan Development is a listed company under the Lee family, and since the death of Lee Hsiao Ho, the Lee family has changed its conservative policy and listed the major companies under the family's name. Even in the past, outsiders were rarely allowed to "share" the ancestral business, and they have been put up for sale, such as this 'Xingning Building'.

The Li family did not suffer in this stock market crash at all, and such a strange action naturally aroused a lot of suspicion, and many people thought that the Li family had gotten inside information and was preparing to emigrate en masse, so there was a lot of chaos in Hong Kong.

But Li Xuan doesn't care so much, as long as he can get a good property in a good location.

On March 29, Li Xuan spent 25 million yuan to get the 12-storey 'Huafeng Building' from Yutaifeng Real Estate, which likes to buy and sell old buildings.

On April 3, Li Xuan finally spent 48 million to get the coveted entertainment building from China Entertainment.

At this point, Li Xuan's more than 160 million Hong Kong dollars have only been spent about 17 million, although he can still buy one or two small theaters, but Li Xuan is not ready to buy again for the time being.

The renovation of the old theater, the construction of the theater in the new building, the company's regular operation and the guaranteed funds for the new theater all require Li Xuan to leave this money as a guarantee, and only after the foreign account of "The True Color of Heroes" is in hand, he can continue to do things lavishly.

However, the time for the distribution of accounts in other cities is almost up.

In this way, when all the theaters are built and renovated, Li Xuan will have at least ten theaters in his hands, most of which will be Hong Kong's emerging multi-functional screening halls. Among these four theaters, the Entertainment Theater and the Gem Theater can be used as leading theaters, and if more than a dozen Reading Theaters are brought together to form an alliance, it is entirely possible to fight with Golden Harvest and Princess Jin.

Reading Cinema is actually very disadvantaged, and the lack of a film source is definitely a major disadvantage, such as the Daguang Cinema and the Gem Cinema, which are both very well located, guarding such a large resource, but they can only screen second-round films and ** films, and the income for no reason is less than half.

Therefore, when Huang Baiming came out to do his own cinema chain in later generations, he called in Hong Kong and wooed more than 30 theaters at once, but there was no source to make trouble.

As for good film sources, will Li Xuan have fewer here?

Wang Jin is filming his "Happy Ghost", and this fast gunner is almost finished. Wu Yusen submitted a script for "Bloody Heroes", and Li Xuan nodded and agreed. At this time, hero films became popular, and Lin Linggu also followed the trend to shoot a hero film, a name that Li Xuan is very familiar with - "Dragon and Tiger".

Fortunately, the renovation and renovation of these two movies and theaters do not need to take out the money at once, and they can be invested slowly, otherwise Li Xuan will soon go to the bank for a loan.

But now that this theater is available, what about the people who can manage the theater?

………………………………

"Sixth brother, do you know what that Li Xuan has been doing lately?" Qiu Degeng asked with a chuckle as he looked at the endless flow of people outside the Peninsula Hotel.

"What is Li Xuan doing?" Shao Yifu thought for a while and asked suspiciously, "Aren't you making a movie?" ”

Although Shao Yifu and Qiu Degeng are the two big bosses of wireless and ATV respectively, they have a clear distinction between public and private, and they are still very good friends in private. This is similar to the current Shao Yifu and Zou Wenhuai, these two life and death enemies who have been fighting for more than ten years, and now they can sometimes sit together and drink tea and chat.

This is quite a feeling of seeing through the world and smiling at each other.

Qiu Degeng said with a smile: "It seems that the sixth brother doesn't know yet, the entertainment building on Queen's Road has now changed its surname to Li." ”

"Huh?" Shao Yifu was slightly stunned, and then asked, "What did he buy the entertainment building for?" Do you do real estate? ”

"Haha, he's not just doing real estate." Qiu Degeng picked up the teacup and replied, "That kid Li Xuan took three theaters from me a few days ago. ”

"Shhhh

Shao Yifu gasped and said in shock: "Li Xuan wants to engage in a theater? ”

"Not bad!" Qiu Degeng nodded and took a sip of tea, and then said: "I asked people to check, this kid now has at least 7 theaters in his hands, as well as three business buildings facing the street." ”

“……”

Shao Yifu shook his head with a wry smile, and said slowly: "Ha, this is really the back waves of the Yangtze River pushing the front waves!" ”

1982 was a year of rapid development of Hong Kong films, and according to the tax statistics of the Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department, the total box office of Hong Kong films last year was 450 million Hong Kong dollars, 150 million more than the 280 million in 1981.

Hong Kong films are booming like never before, but Shaw Brothers is bitter.

Shao Yifu knew that very sad data, in 1981, Shaw Brothers' annual Hong Kong box office was 68 million, but in 1982, it was a little lower, and only got ** million......

Although Shaw Brothers had the god film "Smiling Proud Jianghu" in 1981, these two data at least prove that the box office of Shaw Brothers has not risen at all in the past two years.

Don't forget, movie tickets in Hong Kong are rising every year.

Shao Yifu did not forget the movie, he invested in the Western film "Blade Runner" last year, but unfortunately the box office failed, and then invested in the god-level sci-fi film "Interstellar Blunt Fetus", which was supposed to invest 12 million, but was blown by Fang Yihua Pillow Phoenix, the budget was cut again and again, and finally a nondescript thing was filmed.

Shaw Brothers has been losing money in the past two years, and Fang Yihua once said that Shaw Brothers is now losing a high-end car every day. Even if the Shaw family is rich, it will not be able to support it for so long.

The current Shao Yifu has been completely disappointed in Shaw Brothers Pictures. (To be continued.) )