Chapter 6 Large-scale production
After Jiang Jingguo received him, Shen Chong took a bunch of worthless but commemorative gifts collected from the mainland that night, and went to Wei Jingmeng's residence with Zhang Aijia, where he stayed that night.
The next day, Shen Chong, under the leadership of Wei Jingmeng, went to Taipei University, ripped off the "knowledge economy" that had been in full swing, and then announced that he would donate 1ouu to an education foundation at National Taiwan University.
After completing this qiē, Shen Chong flew back to Hong Kong that afternoon.
Now he has so many things to do that he doesn't have time to stay in Taiwan for a long time.
At the end of October, before Shen Chong went to Beijing, he authorized HSBC to help him buy a lot of things, and when he returned to Hong Kong more than 20 days later, most of these things became his property, and the prices were very reasonable.
Private banking, although the fees are staggeringly expensive, but you get what you pay for, and the quality of this service is really nothing to say.
Among the acquisitions, the most expensive is the seven-storey office building in Wan Chai, which is in a good location and not very old, worth nearly 100 million Hong Kong dollars, but HSBC provides a mortgage that only costs UU million, and it can be afforded.
Although Shen Chong knew that in two or three years, the Hong Kong property market would plummet, and it was the most suitable time to buy at that time, but money is easy to make, time waits for no one, and having your own office building early can be more than many things.
For example, after the office building is renovated, it is very convenient to integrate the editorial offices of "Far Eastern Economic Review", "Asian Weekly" and "Hong Kong Economic News" together......
"Asia Weekly" is the product of the two editors of "Far Eastern Economic Review" after leaving, and Shen Chong is ready to reorganize the two of them, "Far Eastern Economic Review" continues to be mainly English, and "Asian Weekly" is revised to Chinese, making it the most authoritative political and economic news magazine in the Greater China circle and becoming the "Time" in the Chinese world.
Shen Chong plans to use the Far Eastern Economic Review to influence the commercial activities of neighboring countries and regions, and the Asian Weekly to influence the policymaking of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three places, so as to escort the Hong Kong film industry.
You must know that although Southeast Asia is a traditional market for Hong Kong films, these countries and regions are not friendly to Hong Kong films.
Since the mid-70s, Indonesia has implemented a quota system, and the quota for imported films has been reduced from 76u in 19 years to 1oo in 1978, which has basically deprived Hong Kong films of this market.
Singapore has raised the film import tax since 1976, if a Hong Kong film sells 3o million pieces in Singapore, it has to pay 1 million taxes, and if it is split, after the box office has passed a certain amount, 4o percent of the profit must be handed over.
Since 1976, Thailand's tax per meter of film for imported films has soared from the previous baht to 3o baht, and the box office of imported films has to pay 35% of the tax, while local films only need to pay
In Malaysia, cinemas are required to show foreign and local films alternately, and the import, transportation, transportation, and number of copies of foreign films are strictly restricted.
Taiwan, like the mainland, has an extremely strict censorship system, and there are a lot of sensitive content, such as "unorthodox thoughts", "propagation of superstition", "excessive description of the criminal process", etc., which may be banned.
All this makes the living environment of Hong Kong movies very bad.
Moreover, as a colony, Hong Kong's political position is very embarrassing, and without strong government support, if you want to break the film protection system of these countries, you can only save the country by relying on public opinion and media to exert pressure.
Financial magazines seem to have nothing to do with movies, but as long as Shen Chong's wealth continues to accumulate, when he is rich and becomes the focus of the world's attention, these magazines will subtly create an atmosphere of public opinion, thereby amplifying his willingness thousands of times, and when there is any turmoil in the market, such as an economic crisis, it can easily break down the rules and regulations that restrict Hong Kong films.
Magazines are like movies, newspapers are like TV stations, they complement each other to exert the greatest power, so Shen Chong also acquired the "Hong Kong Economic Journal", which is similar to the "Wall Street Journal".
It's just that the relatively "soft" business of running a media can't be rushed, and the style orientation of the magazine, the ideology of the editors, the recruitment and training of reporters, etc., all need to be pondered slowly.
So after Shen Chong came back from Beijing, he only did one thing - to raise the salaries of all the employees of these three media outlets, and the rest was as usual.
In addition to the media and office buildings, Shen Chong also acquired the printing company that made the printing of "Crazy Robbery".
In the process of printing film film, a large amount of toxic waste will be generated, and if you build a new printing factory, in addition to buying land and building buildings, you also have to consider environmental protection and other issues, which is very troublesome.
The company was acquired, firstly, because it could use the original waste treatment system, secondly, the employees were all skilled workers, and the training was faster than that of newcomers, and thirdly, although the equipment of this company was old, it was more advanced than the equipment of the mainland studios in the forties and fifties.
The UK's P is the world's top supplier of motion picture printing equipment, providing a one-stop service to build a printing factory from scratch - and of course the price is amazing.
However, Shen Chong doesn't care about money, the more expensive the better, he can raise the threshold and block later competitors, which is beneficial to monopoly.
Of course, it's not all about buying what you want, and there are also acquisitions that fail......
Film production, film printing, and film promotion, these Shen Chong all have, three are missing, and he still has one less movie screening.
If you don't have your own theater, you can't be considered a movie tycoon.
With Shen Chong's current financial resources, he can quickly build a cinema chain in Hong Kong by renting or buying, but he doesn't want to do so.
First, the Hong Kong film market has limited capacity and even fewer talent reserves, Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, and the Golden Princess, who is about to re-release Chinese-language films, have almost exploded, and if Shen Chong comes to another theater line, it is equivalent to detonating the seeds of the decline of Hong Kong films ten years ahead of schedule - because there are too many theaters and lack of content in the UU era, independent production companies flocked to the top, vicious competition, grabbing people everywhere, stars going everywhere, and making a large number of garbage movies, as a result, the reputation was bad, and Hong Kong films collapsed quickly.
Second, multiplex cinemas are the mainstream of the future, and the current old-style cinemas in Hong Kong will soon be eliminated by the market.
Although the acquisition of cinemas, when real estate is hot in the future, it will be transformed into shopping malls, which will make a lot of money, but Shen Chong is not very interested in real estate, just digging in the soil, and the landlords and old wealth in the feudal era, there is not much difference, building 10,000 buildings, it can't change anything, and it is too cheap to play this through the party......
Shen Chong only plans to buy a cinema in a prime location, and then stuff stereo, giant screens, high-power projectors, and so on, all the latest and most advanced film projection equipment, into the flagship of Hong Kong cinemas, as a demonstration point, and promote the reform of Hong Kong's film industry -- Dolby stereo has been around for three or four years, and there is no cinema in Hong Kong that can show stereo movies, and the response is really slow enough
"It is good to be good at the southeast and all the countries to be well-dressed, and the dance is full of edicts to protect the Tai Xiao pipe."
Shen Chong took a fancy to the Li Stage Theater with this couplet.
Lee Stage was built in 19 years, located in the prime area of Causeway Bay, the shape is modeled after the French and Italian opera houses at the end of the 19th century, the interior is supplemented by Chinese decoration, built of marble, there is a small tower built on the top of the gate, the main entrance and the side are built with canopies, the top is built with a round arched vault, and the painting is decorated with gold leaf on the nine golden dragons, the top of the stage has the carving of Danfeng Chaoyang, the lower layer has the carving of two dragons fighting for pearls, the stage can be rotated 36o degrees, and the scenery is automatically changed.
Lee Stage is Hong Kong's top entertainment venue, in addition to showing movies, it is often used as a venue for Cantonese opera, opera, concerts and other entertainment activities, and the final of the Miss Hong Kong contest is held here every year.
This cinema, a combination of East and West, is very distinctive, has a history and heritage, and enjoys a good reputation throughout Southeast Asia, if it can be obtained, after modernization, in addition to showing movies, it can also be used as the venue for the awards ceremony of the Academy Awards, and will become a legendary building like the Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
However, it is a pity that the Li family does not sell ......
It is said that more than half of the real estate in Causeway Bay is their family's, and the boss of the Li family, Li Mingze, has served as a director of UU, more than 9o administrative positions, including many heavyweight positions such as members of the Municipal Council, members of the Legislative Council, and members of the Executive Council, and Li Xiaohe, the third elder of the Li family, is a director of British American Tobacco, Cathay Pacific, and Shanghai Commercial Bank, and is the founder and chairman of the board of directors of hR.
In front of such a wealthy family, Shen Chong can only be regarded as a tyrant, and if the Li family does not sell, he is helpless.
Since you can't buy it, let's build it yourself...... After the gold futures investment is over, buy a good piece of land and build a unique world-class cinema.
However, before building a movie theater, Shen Chong was ready to create a large-scale zuò movie that shocked the world.
After "Crazy Robbery", he was busy running around, half to plan the future of the film industry, and half to build the foundation of the film company.
Although he is busy all the time, all for the movie, the world has forgotten the madness of "Crazy Robbery" and regards him as a business wizard, not a movie wizard.
This is not good, Shen Chong needs to refocus the world's attention on movies, especially Hong Kong movies.
That "Buried Alive" is still a pile of films, lying in the warehouse and sleeping soundly, Shen Chong has no time to toss it for the time being, and this movie is too strong and niche.
Weng Weiquan's "Rules of Conduct" and Yu Yunhang's "Murder List" are both engaged in post-production, these two films, there are new ideas, but the pattern is not large, typical Hong Kong low-cost films.
None of the three films that have yet to be released in the hands of Oriental Charm have the ability to shake the world, so when Shen Chong went to the United States in October, he commissioned Ovitz to recruit filmmakers from Hollywood - he was going to create a Hong Kong film with a Hollywood pattern.
The industrial level of Hollywood is far more mature than that of Hong Kong, and the skills are not as good as others, so we should study hard, learn well, and then use their technology to tell our own stories.
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