"Lao Luo, thank you."

"Gotta get out of the car." Luo Weiming urged: "I have to hurry back to dance." ”

"It's okay to dance, but you can't go wrong." Shen Chong picked up his backpack, sorted out the food box, and said with a smile: "Be careful of the roar of the Hedong lion." ”

"If my family is a Hedong lion, your family is the Buddha." Luo Weiming teased, "I live in a mansion in the middle of the mountain, and I go home on time before ten o'clock every night, which shows that the skill of your family to control men is as unfathomable as Buddhism." ”

"The house is hers, under the fence." Shen Chong laughed at himself and said: "It's too late to come back, so I can only sleep on the recliner in the community." ”

"Boss Shen, I don't admire other skills, but I admire your ability to eat soft rice." Luo Weiming laughed and was amazed, "And the heart of eating is at ease, the face does not change color and the heart does not beat, no wonder the world says that only by being thick-skinned can you make a lot of money, or else, take advantage of the fact that there is no one now, teach me some experience?" ”

"You can't do it, it's old and dirty, and you have a lustful heart and no lust, you only dare to run the train with your mouth." Shen Chong also smiled, pushed the door and got out of the car, and said, "Be careful when driving." ”

Luo Weiming waved his hand, turned the front of the car, and walked away.

The last issue of "Film Times" used Xu Anhua as the cover, and the sales of "Crazy Robbery" soared, from more than 40,000 copies to 60,000, an increase of more than 4o%.

The emperor is not bad for hungry soldiers, such a dazzling performance, naturally needs to be rewarded, Shen Chong tonight Yong Kee Restaurant held a celebration banquet, rewarded all the colleagues of the magazine, after the wine and food were full, everyone wanted to dance, listen to the song, Shen Chong did not like to move, he was not interested in the noisy place, and promised that after the event funds were all reimbursed, let Luo Weiming, who had a private car, send him back to Mid-Mountain.

Luo Weiming's car passed by a white Mercedes-Benz at the turn, Shen Chong saw the license plate, was slightly stunned, and stopped at the gate of the community.

"Why did you just come back?" Mercedes-Benz stopped in front of Shen Chong and opened the window, it was Li Kaiyuan, who had just gotten her driver's license.

"The dinner party has just ended." Shen Chong opened the back door, sat in, and asked, "Spent a day in the factory?" ”

"yes." Li Kaiyuan moved the car and said: "The new Rubik's Cube needs to adjust the production process, and I have to keep an eye on it." ”

"Nicholas is back in the United States?"

"It's back, it's the first flight today." Li Kaiyuan smiled and said, "After getting those new Rubik's Cube designs, he can't wait to cross the Pacific Ocean with one foot." ”

Shen Chong also smiled.

Nicholas invested millions of dollars to build a Rubik's Cube factory in North America, and within a month of opening, a bunch of patented products suddenly appeared on the market.

And when Shen Chong decided to make a Rubik's Cube, he took precautions against this situation.

Indeed, after detonating the Rubik's Cube market in advance, Rubik completely lost the opportunity to apply for the copyright of the third-order Rubik's Cube, but with the hot sales and diffusion of the Rubik's Cube, there will inevitably be people who have Rubik's Rubik Cube's patents that are not protected by international patent law, so that the Rubik version of the Rubik's Cube that does not require patent licensing fees will definitely flood the market at a low price, and Shen Chong's monopoly will collapse.

Tetris and Visica1c are both nearing completion, even if the Rubik's Cube's ability to absorb gold is greatly weakened and does not have much impact on Shen Chong's future plans, how can he be willing......

You must know that from 8o to 85 years, in just five years, at least 1o billion people in the world have played the Rubik's Cube, even if one in ten people buys it, it is hundreds of millions of sales, and the current situation is that the sales volume per month is less than one million, and each Shen Chong can earn at least 5 US dollars, the prospects are huge, and the profits are amazing, how can you say give up?

When Shen Chong was doing his graduation project in his previous life, he consulted a lot of information on the popular era of Rubik's Cube in the early 8o's and knew that there were two very important characteristics of the Rubik's Cube wave that swept the world - one was low grade and poor quality; The second is that there is a single variety, with only a third-order Rubik's cube. (Note 1)

The low grade and poor quality are understandable, and the small British company that is now Rubik's Cube has little strength, and their foundry in the United States has also caused a farce of insufficient production capacity, leading to a "Rubik's Cube famine", and finally being squeezed bankrupt by pirated Rubik's Cube.

In response to this situation, the structure of the Rubik's Cube that Shen Chong originally took out was a version that had been continuously carved by various masters over the past 30 years, and it was much better than Rubikming's first version of the Rubik's Cube in terms of feel and firmness.

Hong Kong has become the world's toy capital since the early 70s, and the level of craftsmanship in making toys is naturally good.

As for the single variety, it is not a problem, Shen Chong has already prepared, when the Rubik version of the Rubik's Cube appears, immediately put all kinds of special-shaped Rubik's Cubes, such as Diamond Rubik's Cube, Pyramid Rubik's Cube, Magic Ball Rubik's Cube, Snake Rubik's Cube, etc., all of them are released, and they are smashed into the market.

The third-order Rubik's Cube is the largest selling variety of the Rubik's Cube, and Shen Chong is not ready to give up in this market, he asked Li Kaiyuan and Nicholas to cut the price of the third-order Rubik's Cube currently on the market in half, and then use the "National A Generation" as the prototype to produce a new Rubik's Cube with "new and upgraded technology and structure", and sell it at the current price.

"National Rubik's Cube" is a professional-level entry-level Rubik's Cube, specially designed for novices, whether it is the feel, or smoothness, it is far better than the ordinary Rubik's Cube, just to open the gap with the inferior Rubik's Cube on the market, this is the routine of Apple's war against copycats.

Of course, the fourth-order Rubik's Cube is indispensable, the structure and gameplay of this Rubik's Cube are extremely complex, far from being comparable to the third-order Rubik's Cube, which can be used to make flagship products and establish the company's high-end professional image.

With such a multi-pronged approach, although it is still inevitable to lose part of the low-end market, the majority of the profits of the Rubik's Cube market can still be guaranteed.

Nicholas hurried to Hong Kong in a hurry, and then hurried back to Los Angeles in a hurry......

"Ah Chong, it's time for you to learn to drive." Li Kaiyuan parked the car in the garage, pulled down the handbrake, and said: "It will be much more convenient to have a car." ”

"How can I be free." Shen Chong complained bitterly and said: "How can a man not love cars, he really has no time." ”

"Then you buy a car first and find a driver to help drive it."

"Well, I'll buy it when I come back from the mainland." Shen Chong carried the food box, pushed the door and got out of the car, and said, "You ate a boxed lunch at the factory at night, right?" I'll bring you some takeaways. ”

Li Kaiyuan smiled and said, "I'm really a little hungry, what's the matter?" ”

"A few of Yong Kee's signature dishes, as well as some pastries." Shen Chong said as he walked: "It may be a little cold, go back and reheat it." ”

When he got home, Shen Chong saw that Li Kaiyuan looked tired, and volunteered: "I'll go to the hot dishes, you go to take a bath first." ”

"Let's go take a shower, I smell of alcohol and smell bad." Li Kaiyuan took the food box and said, "And I'm afraid that you will break the good things." ”

Shen Chong took a casual shower, and when he came out wrapped in a bathrobe, Li Kaiyuan sat cross-legged on the floor, using the coffee table as a dining table, eating and watching TV at the same time.

"TVB is still showing TV dramas so late?" Shen Chong glanced at it a few times, heard Xiao Yu'er's name, and asked, "This is "The Peerless Twins"?" ”

"yes, it's pretty good." Li Kaiyuan said: "Recently, I have been running the factory every day, and I have no time to watch, so I asked the secretary to help me record it." Do you want to eat something? ”

Shen Chong twisted a black pastry with his fingers, watching TV while eating, and when he got together at night, the guys from the magazine were also discussing this TV, and it was said that more than 30,000 people in Hong Kong watched it every night, which was the most watched TV program since the opening of Hong Kong.

After watching it for a while, Shen Chong recognized a few acquaintances, Huang Yuanshen who played Xiaoyuer, Huang Xingxiu who played Tie Xinlan, Mi Xue who played Su Ying, Feng Qufan who played Jiang Beihe, and the one who played the flower without flaws, although he couldn't name it, but looking familiar, he thought that it should be that the future exhibition was not going well, and he was reduced to a supporting role.

At present, Hong Kong's film industry is very weak, let alone TV dramas, the sets are rough, the costumes are simple, the fights are protracted, and the dialogue is verbose.

A modern film empire should be a three-dimensional media group, with film as the flagship, television as the foundation, print media as the wings, and financial consortiums as the backing, so as to be invincible in the market.

Several major Hollywood film companies, after the 8o, have been grouped, which is in line with this trend.

Viacom, the company behind Paramount, has 39 TV stations such as cBs, mTV, and shoTIme, as well as a publishing house that publishes thousands of books every year.

Behind the world is first Weiwangdi, and then General Electric, which owns nBc, one of the three major television networks in the United States, and GE occupies the top ten positions of the world's top 5oo all year round, with annual sales of hundreds of billions of dollars.

Time Warner has world-renowned TV stations such as TnT, net, and hBo, as well as influential news and financial magazines such as Time Magazine, Fortune Magazine, and People Magazine.

The News Corp. behind Fox is the quintessential multimedia empire, with Fox Network, Sky TV, Star TV, and many more, the Wall Street Journal, The Sun, The Times, and many more are world-class newspapers.

Behind Colombia is Sony, although it seems that there is no TV station and print media, but it is a Japanese consortium, with intertwined resources behind it, and it can produce enterprise-level film production equipment, and can produce video recorders and dVd and other consumer products, with a complete industrial chain, whether horizontal or vertical, the integration ability should not be underestimated.

And Disney, which owns aBnet, one of the three major television networks in the United States, has theme parks, book publishing, toy manufacturing, online games, and so on.

MGM, the only one who has not been collected, after the rise of television, has been bought and sold like a slave girl since the seventies, tossed for decades, encountered bankruptcy crises several times, and finally inevitably died of being eaten.

From the beginning of the 8o years to the end of the mid-to-late 90s, after the large-scale grouping of several major Hollywood film companies, a strong monopoly situation was formed on a global scale, and no new forces could rise.

The new line relied on "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" to make a lot of money, and was immediately acquired by Warner, relying on "The Lord of the Rings" to earn more than 6o billion US dollars worldwide, and finally did not escape the life of being ravaged by Warner.

Miramax was quickly swallowed by Disney with his indie productions such as "Sex Lies Tape" and "Pulp Fiction".

DreamWorks had Spielberg in front of it, Paul Allen and South Korea's Samsung consortium, which burned billions of dollars, and ten years later, it collapsed and went into Paramount's pocket.

If you want to build a film empire, TV stations are indispensable, on the one hand, they can be interdependent with movies, and there is a natural mutual benefit space between the two in terms of funds, talents, influence and content, and on the other hand, it is to build a bottomless moat to protect itself against external risks.

Movies are flagships, leaders, and invincible weapons in the cultural industry, which can break through the policy barriers of the nation-state upwards and spread their influence to all parts of the world, and can provide sufficient content and appealing stars for TV stations to improve their production level and market share.

When Shaw Brothers had a production business, TVB was full of talents, unlimited starlight, and its influence radiated to the Chinese community throughout Southeast Asia and the Americas, and after stopping production, it was only more than ten years, and TVB could hardly come up with an appealing star......

With Shen Chong's current net worth, playing TV is a bit too reluctant......

TVB must be unshakable, with Run Run Shaw in front of the stage, HSBC and Hutchison Bank behind it, and Li's TV, although it is surviving, has a strong British background, and it will take another two years to have a chance.

However, according to rumors, the Jiayi TV station went bankrupt in August last year, and after it died, Hong Kong Commercial Radio still held the TV business license and did not return it to the British government in Hong Kong for cancellation.

I don't know how much this TV license is worth?

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Note 1: See "Rubik's Cube Analysis"

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