Chapter 116: The idea of integrating cinemas
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The intention has been reached, and the next thing is not to talk about this issue again with Li Mingbao and Uncle Liu, naturally the following lawyers will solve all the problems. sold the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line, and the expression on Uncle Six's face was also much richer.
"Li Sheng, I'm not afraid of your jokes, sell the Shaw Brothers to you, to be honest, I'm a little reluctant. Shaw Brothers Cinemas can be said to have been established little by little by our Shaw family. I want to come to Hong Kong alone, our Shao family has nothing, and it is really not easy to reach the current height by relying on one movie after another.
As soon as the Shaw Brothers Cinemas were sold, the Shaw Brothers movies basically declined. A good career, before I left, it was gone, and I was a little sorry for my brothers. ”
"Sixth uncle, why are you so sad? The Shao family is not really in decline, with the sixth uncle here, how can your Shao family not decline. It's just that your business has shifted its focus. Besides, what I bought was only Hong Kong's cinema chains, aren't your Shaw Brothers' cinemas in Nanyang still in your own hands, Uncle Six?
Shaw Brothers is just dormant now. When Uncle Six, you want to make a movie again one day, the rise of Shaw Brothers is not a difficult matter. With your prestige Sixth Uncle, is there anyone in Hong Kong who will not give you face to Sixth Uncle? With money and connections, it is not easy to want territory. Uncle Six is no better than a little guy like me, if he wants something, it is more difficult than climbing to the sky. "Li Mingbao, who won the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line, is in a good mood, so he doesn't mind patting Uncle Six's ass.
"Li Sheng, you are still young, and you have opportunities. When you were so young, I was still a stunned young man who didn't know anything, so Li Sheng, your future must be broader than mine. Now that Li Sheng has won the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line, there must be the next move, and Uncle Sixth can also help you refer to it. After all, you and I both know the current situation of the Shaw Brothers, and there are still Jiahe and Princess Jin who are eyeing each other outside, and these two are not fuel-efficient lamps.
In the past, this pressure was carried by Uncle Six, but now, this pressure has to be resisted by Li Sheng. Zou Wenhuai and Lei Juekun are both ambitious people, if you just accept the Shaw Brothers, it will inevitably be unstable, and when they come to eye medicine again, it will not be so easy to settle down. The sixth uncle said with a smile.
Hearing the sixth uncle talk about Jiahe and Princess Jin, Li Mingbao secretly scolded in his heart, the sixth uncle, the old fox, now let go of the Shaw Brothers Cinema, and there is no direct conflict with Zou Wenhuai and Lei Juekun. But the sixth uncle is not enough, he actually put eye medicine in front of him, it seems that the sixth uncle still has resentment in his heart, he is not happy with himself, and he is not even happy with Zou Wenhuai and Lei Juekun.
But when the sixth uncle said this, he was not talking nonsense, the Shaw Brothers were in the hands of the sixth uncle, and in the past few years, it was really a piece of fat, not to mention Li Mingbao, even if it was Zou Wenhuai and Lei Juekun, they didn't have the idea of beating the Shaw Brothers. After all, the decline of Shaw Brothers is not a problem of the theater itself, but a problem of movies.
Regarding this issue, Zou Wenhuai and Lei Juekun are more confident than the sixth uncle. Now that Li Mingbao is so involved, these two bosses must be unhappy, so they naturally have to make some small moves.
But fortunately, Li Mingbao didn't plan to fight hard, for these two theaters, they had already made arrangements and really got things done, these two bigwigs naturally won't target themselves, and Uncle Six's worries are redundant for Li Mingbao.
"Golden Harvest Cinemas and Golden Princess Cinemas, I actually had plans for a long time. Uncle Six, don't you think, what are the current Hong Kong theaters? How big is Hong Kong? The population is just over 6 million. has such a small population, but there are four major cinema lines. Although the leftist cinema chain has little influence on the Hong Kong market.
But there are also three major theaters left. In such a big market in the United States, there are only five large theater chains. Why are there so many cinemas in Hong Kong? This is not good news for the Hong Kong film industry.
If a movie is released in this theater, it can't be released in that theater. Now except for my latest film, all other movies in Hong Kong are basically in this mode. The already small film market has been divided into several pieces. In this way, even if a good film comes out, it is not easy for everyone to be full, and it has become a normal situation for the theater to lose money.
In this case, why do Hong Kong have so many theaters? If there is only one cinema chain, then Hong Kong's film market will definitely be much better than it is now. And my plan is to unify the Hong Kong cinema market, so that it is a good choice for cinema owners and film merchants.
Just look at my "True Colors of Heroes" to know how powerful the three major theaters are combined. With a box office of more than 60 million, if there is no three major theaters joining forces, there is only one theater chain, and it is impossible to get so much box office. Although it is not denied that the quality of this movie is indeed very good, if there is only one theater screening, no matter how good the quality of this movie is, it is impossible to have such a high box office.
So, at the beginning, I was thinking about how to make the Hong Kong film market more prosperous, thinking about it, one is open source, and the other is to reduce expenditure. Open source is to make more good-looking movies, and throttling is to minimize the internal friction in the Hong Kong film industry. And the integration of cinemas is one of the biggest actions.
If I hadn't had such confidence before, but now, since Uncle Sixth and you have sold Shaw Brothers Cinemas to me, then I may be able to speak in front of Boss Zou and Boss Lei. Regarding the plan to integrate the theater chain, Li Mingbao did not hide it from the sixth uncle.
Such a big thing is not something that Li Mingbao can hide if he wants to, as long as he starts to act, the sixth uncle will definitely receive the news. Instead of playing sloppy with Uncle Six at this time, it is better to speak out generously about your thoughts.
Li Mingbao's idea of integrating Hong Kong cinemas is definitely not the first thing he came up with in Hong Kong. The sixth uncle must have had such a plan at the beginning, and Zou Wenhuai is the same, even Lei Juekun, who has just entered the industry, may not have such thoughts.
If this idea was still hazy before, then when Li Mingbao's "True Colors of Heroes" was screened across the board, these bosses didn't have such an idea in their minds, and they could only say that there was something wrong with their brains.
But the integration of cinemas is not something that anyone can integrate if they want to. On this issue, Li Mingbao has an innate advantage. This advantage is even greater than that of the sixth uncle. At least Uncle Six wants to acquire Golden Harvest Cinemas, and the resistance is definitely many times greater than Li Mingbao's acquisition of Golden Harvest or merger with Golden Harvest. The grievances between the sixth uncle and Zou Wenhuai can't be finished for a few days, if it weren't for the absolute power, the sixth uncle wanted to swallow the Jiahe Cinema Line, it was basically impossible.
Boss Lei's side may be better, but since Boss Lei wants to make money in this industry, his expectation price will also be very high. The sixth uncle may have the money to buy it, but the sixth uncle wants to fade out of this industry, and it is a chicken rib to buy it. So even a hegemon like Uncle Six wants to integrate the theater chain, let alone others.
On the contrary, Li Mingbao wants to integrate the theater chain, which is the easiest. The first and most important condition is that he has money. In Hong Kong these days, not everyone has $300 million in cash in Standard Chartered Bank, and even the top families in Hong Kong may not have such activity funds. Don't talk about Zou Wenhuai, Lei Juekun, even if it is the sixth uncle, he only needs to be envious.
And the second point is that Li Mingbao and these three bigwigs do not have many contradictions. Of course, it doesn't mean that there is no contradiction at all, but that this contradiction has not penetrated deep into the bones, so that it is not like the sixth uncle and Zou Wenhuai, who don't even want to touch it. Although Li Mingbao and Lei Juekun had some contradictions at the beginning, the contradiction was solved before, and now, with Li Mingbao's financial resources, as long as it is not a great enmity of life and death, Lei Juekun himself should not see it.
There are these two points, Li Mingbao wants to integrate the theater chain, it is not an empty word, at least it can be implemented.
"Li Sheng, your heart is very big. It's really big, I didn't expect that you just got the Shaw Brothers cinema chain in your hands, and you immediately wanted to integrate the entire Hong Kong cinema chain. The stakes are huge. Especially some of these key issues, if you don't get it right, the integration of theaters is a joke.
I didn't have such an idea at the beginning, but an idea is an idea, and it is difficult to implement it. This place in Hong Kong is a temple of small kings. If you want to integrate the theater chain, the first thing is to have money, which you don't lack. The second is to have a relationship and ability, and let others know that you have a head start when you integrate the theater chain. You don't lack this, although you entered the industry late, less than two years, but just the three movies you have made, you can also let others know your ability.
However, the most important point is that the integration of theaters will touch the interests of others. Whether it's the Golden Princess, or Golden Harvest. What are they doing with the cinema chain? It's not about collecting the money from the theater chain.
Hong Kong's film industry is sluggish, and it is difficult to recoup the cost by relying solely on theaters to make money. So even if it is the newly opened Golden Princess, their theaters are mainly serving their own movies. The newly opened film company in Xinyicheng is still profitable. Although it can't compare to Li Shengyou, it is much better than other film companies in Hong Kong. Even if it's compared to Golden Harvest, it's not bad.
You integrate the theater chain, so what about the films of these studios? The cinema chain is not a money-making thing, but movies make money and can support each other, if you cut off the road of the cinema chain to those film companies, where will their movies go? This is clearly cutting off people's money, even if the theater chain is not profitable, others will not be willing to sell it to you. "Maybe it's because his own theater chain has been sold, and Uncle Sixth is not taboo at all when it comes to this matter.