Chapter 237: The Power of United Cinemas

Li Mingbao's anger is definitely not indiscriminate. The sponsorship fee of 3 million Hong Kong dollars, if it had been changed before talking about the chocolate advertisement, Li Mingbao felt that it was so-so, after all, this money is not a small amount now.

But the problem is that now that there is a benchmark for chocolate advertising, the Xiang brothers actually made such an oolong, which is simply embarrassing him. Although the money is not collected by himself, the concept of this advertisement was originally proposed by Li Mingbao, and it should have had a perfect result, but being stirred up by the Xiang brothers like this must have some impact on his future arrangements, although the impact will not be too great, but after all, it is a bit disgusting. So Li Mingbao didn't give Xiang Huasheng face, and they scolded him in front of Liu Dehua and Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan and Zhong Chuhong have seen Li Mingbao strong, and they can embarrass Xiang Huaqiang in front of Xiang Huaqiang, and make Xiang Huaqiang soft, so they don't have much feeling for Li Mingbao to put the phone and scold his mother, at most they feel that Li Mingbao is awesome. But Andy Lau was a little waxy at this time.

What is the identity of the Xiang brothers, as long as they are born and raised in Hong Kong, they know, and now Li Mingbao actually scolds this in front of him, for Andy Lau, it is simply too uncomfortable, whether he sits or stands. He felt that such a hot news was really not something that a small person like him could listen to, so he was so embarrassed that he didn't know what to do.

Fortunately, Li Mingbao also scolded, and he won't talk about this matter later. However, due to such a call from Xiang Huasheng, Li Mingbao's mood was not so happy, so it didn't take long to chat, so he asked everyone to take their places and start shooting.

Li Mingbao also knew that Xiang Huasheng must have his reasons for doing this, otherwise with the greed of the Xiang brothers, it would be impossible to lose his money and give face to others. Even if this person is a gambling king, it can't be.

As for why the casino's advertising fee was sold for 3 million Hong Kong dollars, Li Mingbao didn't have to think about it, he knew that this must be the Xiang brothers secretly having other negotiation projects with the gambling king. According to the historical situation that Li Mingbao is familiar with, it must be that Xiang Huasheng has obtained certain benefits from Lisboa and can meddle in the gambling industry, so he sold it well and came up with such a price. Anyway, they are not at a loss, only the income of the movie "God of Gamblers" has decreased, and the income in the secret must be balanced, so there is no actual loss for them by doing so.

The real loss, that is, Li Mingbao, of course, is not a loss, because he didn't get money from it, but the publicity effect is weaker and a little unhappy, but it is also an income of 3 million Hong Kong dollars. In this way, the movie "God of Gamblers" can be regarded as creating a new history in the Hong Kong film industry.

A film that has not yet been filmed has already recovered its cost and has a certain surplus. It's not a last-of-its-kind thing, but it's absolutely unprecedented. As long as such news is released, it will definitely attract the attention of many people. Especially those laymen who are already interested in working hard in the film industry, maybe they can be netted into this circle in advance, such as a certain famous brand Pan.

Because the mood is not so comfortable, Li Mingbao's filming has obviously accelerated a lot, which is not only reflected in the crew of "God of Gamblers", but also in the crew of "Happy Ghost" and "Baby Zhiduoxing".

As the producer of the film, and the producer who grasps the quality, under normal circumstances, such a producer is almost the same as filming a scene in the same time period. But Li Mingbao is not an ordinary person, after getting the crew of "God of Gamblers" right, he also started the two Shaw Brothers movies at the same time.

The director is still looking for Wang Jing and his second brother, although they made a bad result when they were filming the second sequel, but it was because they didn't understand the meaning of the script, but with Li Mingbao to grasp the direction, it is not difficult to make these two teasing them regular.

On the side of his second brother Li Minghui, let him be a little more flexible when filming the movie, Wang Jing's side, let him not carry his own adult private goods, there is basically no problem with these two dramas, with the previous two movies with the same theme, Li Minghui and Wang Jingjing are easy to get into the state, so the two crews over there don't need to spend too much effort on Li Mingbao, the real bitter person is actually Zhong Chuhong, who told him to have his own role in "Happy Ghost"?

Fortunately, although the play "God of Gamblers" is to let Zhong Chuhong be the heroine, but because this drama is biased towards male dramas, the number of appearances of the heroine is not much, so the two crews ran and did not tire Zhong Chuhong down, but because the two crews were also produced by Li Mingbao, so that he and Zhong Chuhong basically meet every day, eat a barbecue today, drink afternoon tea tomorrow, the relationship between the two sides is heating up in a straight line, otherwise Zhong Chuhong would not have been teased like Zhou Yan before.

Since the Christmas file has begun, the films in the United Cinema Line have been completely piled up recently. Li Mingbao's filming is not fast, and as a result, among the more than ten scripts he gave out, some fast-moving movies have already begun to be released.

With Li Mingbao's screenwriting signboard, these movies have basically won the quota for all co-screenings, and in recent times, movies written by Li Mingbao have almost become a major feature of Hong Kong cinemas. But fortunately, these movies did not disgrace Li Mingbao, and they all achieved good results.

But after the results came out, there were always some people who were not very happy. After all, for such a period of time, it was basically Li Mingbao singing a one-man show, and although the number of screenings of the movies made by other filmmakers has increased due to the integration of theaters, their actual interests have increased to a certain extent, at least 30% more profit than before.

But compared to Li Mingbao's movie, their little income is insignificant. United Cinemas is also the first time to show how much he, as a unified cinema chain, has helped the box office of the Hong Kong film industry. Even Uncle Six and Zou Wenhuai didn't expect that just after integrating the theater chain, the income of the United Theater Line would become so brilliant.

Although the profits of the United Cinema Line are not so exaggerated compared with the profits of the movie, the profits of the United Cinema Line in this regard are stable, and the cinema chain that used to be almost equivalent to the poverty alleviation unit has actually begun to make a profit, and the profit is not small, this is still before the cinemas in the cinema chain have not begun to renovate, if they wait for the transformation, increase the ticket price, and increase the number of screenings, then the cinema chain will definitely become a cornucopia.

Hong Kong people are the most unprofitable, especially as a group of tycoons, and the desire for money is definitely not something that ordinary people can think of. Although everyone knew before that there would be great benefits after the theater chain was united, this can be seen from the box office of "The True Color of Heroes" alone.

The box office revenue of 60 million is not a small amount for any movie. What is the total population of Hong Kong now? The box office of 60 million is definitely an astronomical amount for the total population. But the movie "The True Color of Heroes" has reached such heights.

In the past, everyone would think that this was because of the good quality of Li Mingbao's movies, but now even if it is not Li Mingbao's movies, their income has increased by 30%, which is not just a problem of movies, but a problem of the system.

A 30 percent increase is not a small amount in any industry. Take a small-budget movie as an example, if it was before, the box office income of their film in Hong Kong would be about 1 million Hong Kong dollars, but now counting the growth rate of United Cinemas, the box office income can be 1.3 million Hong Kong dollars.

If it is a box office income of three million, then the box office income now has a box office income of more than four million. If it is 10 million box office revenue, it will be more than 3 million more now, and the larger the box office base of the movie, the more income it will have, which is good news for the entire industry.

What's more, the system of joint cinemas not only ensures the revenue of the box office, but also makes the circulation of movies rise substantially. In the past, when I wanted to go to a single theater, maybe because I didn't have enough movies on hand, it was illuminated that some movies that were not good at the box office had to be screened even if no one watched them, so that the theater lost money, and it became a foregone conclusion.

And now the measures implemented by the United Cinema Line are those who are capable and those who are mediocre are down. This means that if the box office of the movie is not good, then even if it is not time to paint, it is mandatory to paint. With the support of Hong Kong films, it will not be wasted in theaters. Although this will make garbage movies have no place to mix, it also indirectly improves the quality of Hong Kong movies.

Even if it is the sixth uncle, he is not willing to make some bad movies, because that means that the movie will not make money, and he will have to pay for labor costs in vain. It's definitely a loss-making deal, and even if you want to have a mandatory two-day screening, others will not be happy.

In such a situation, Uncle Sixth would rather everyone not move than cause more losses. But the profits of the United Cinema Line, Uncle Sixth can also see it, if he gives away his share in vain, someone will definitely top his share, so his income will only be the income of the theater, which is not in his interests.

In a dilemma, Uncle Six had to urge Li Mingbao to shoot the two movies in his hand faster and release them as soon as possible. Because Uncle Sixth has only really appeared now, the movies that can really guarantee to make money in his hands, except for "Happy Ghost" and "Baby Zhiduoxing", other movies really don't have this guarantee, even if it was the gold medal director of Shaw Brothers in the past, there is no guarantee that the movies he makes will definitely make money now.

This made Uncle Six deeply realize for the first time that if the Shaw Brothers movie does not make some changes, young people in the future may not be able to hear the name of the Shaw Brothers movie. And to change, it is not a simple matter, the Shaw Brothers have accumulated a lot of problems for so many years, even if the sixth uncle wants to change, it is not so easy. Let the Shaw Brothers movie be reborn, the sixth uncle doesn't have that energy now, but it's not that there is no way at all, at least he knows that Li Mingbao, a kid, has a lot of ideas in his head.

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