Chapter 151: Sellers and Buyers
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"Since you said so, Uncle Six, the kid is offended. Although I am a late entrant to the Hong Kong film industry, I also understand some rules. Just like Uncle Six said, it doesn't matter what kind of movie is made in Hong Kong, the most important thing is that it needs to be supported by a theater.
Without a theater, no matter how good the movie you make, it will only be moldy in the warehouse. Don't hide it from Uncle Six, in fact, I'm really drooling over the theater. It's a pity that I was born a few years late, and now I can't even catch the last train of the theater.
Since Boss Lei pulled the last batch of good movie theaters in Hong Kong into his hands, Hong Kong's cinema pattern has actually been formed. Sixth uncle, you have a share, Jiahe Zou Tycoon has a share, and the rest is Boss Lei's. In this case, even if I have money, it is not easy to get a bone, Hong Kong is so big, and the current cinema chain also meets the needs of Hong Kong people.
Unless I come up with a new cinema chain in addition to this plan, the cinema chain in Hong Kong will not have my share of meat. But if you really want to do this, it will not only waste money, but also make Hong Kong's cinema chain reinvest, and in the end, it will make everyone unhappy. So I really don't know how to solve this problem. Sixth uncle, you are well-informed, you must have a good idea for me, right? Li Mingbao pretended to be sincere and said.
Since Sixth Uncle you deliberately brought up this topic, Li Mingbao is not polite. Anyway, among the theaters in Hong Kong, the only one who really has a fish belly is Uncle Six, your Shaw Brothers. If you wait a while, it is a good choice for you to fool around and say that Princess Jiahe Jin, Li Mingbao will not listen to it, and Li Mingbao will not lose anything.
Anyway, in Li Mingbao's view, at the end of 83, a large number of British capital left the country, resulting in a window period for Hong Kong real estate.
But later, Li Mingbao dispelled such an unreliable idea. Li Mingbao has the money to build a theater by himself, and the funds used will not account for all of his funds. But not only will there not be too many benefits in doing so, but it will involve your own funds in an unreliable place, affect your own plans, and it will not take a year or two to recover your costs.
What's more, Hong Kong is so big, and everyone can make money by maintaining about a hundred theaters, but if Li Mingbao makes twenty or thirty more movie theaters, or modern movie theaters, then he will immediately offend the current film industry giants, not to mention that the sixth uncle has to make trouble for himself, Zou Wenhuai and Boss Lei will jump to their feet.
One monk had water to drink, three monks had no water to drink. Now that Li Mingbao wants to be the fourth monk, the first three monks who have no water to drink will have to use all their energy on themselves, maybe the movie theater has not yet been established, and the others will form an anti-Li alliance and turn themselves into targets all of a sudden.
So in the end, Li Mingbao himself dispelled such a ridiculous idea. If you want to gain a foothold in the Hong Kong film industry, you can buy other people's theaters, but if you want to open up another theater chain yourself when other theaters have zĂ i, that is to cut off other people's financial routes. Cutting off people's financial means is tantamount to killing their parents. At that time, relying on the Li family, they will not be able to withstand such a big pressure.
Originally, I planned to quietly enter the village and shoot without a gun. But now the sixth uncle raised this question so openly, and said it again and again. Li Mingbao didn't care whether the sixth uncle was showing off or something else, he immediately said what was in his heart, don't you like me to say it, then I'll say it.
Just now, Uncle Sixth asked you to be my army, so now I will come to your army, I want to see what the hell Uncle Sixth is fighting you are doing.
Hearing Li Mingbao's honest words, the sixth uncle's face did not change much, but the sixth aunt's face was startled at first, and then became a little lonely, and this loneliness was mixed with a little relaxation. If Li Mingbao hadn't carefully observed it after he finished speaking, maybe he wouldn't have seen the subtle change in Aunt Liu's expression. This face-changing kung fu, if it is just acting, then the sixth aunt's acting talent will not be inferior to that of the actress.
But when it comes to the status of the sixth aunt, what kind of actress is a floating cloud to her. Therefore, the change of the sixth aunt must be out of true feelings. But in Li Mingbao's view, this true feeling is a little confusing.
The sixth aunt was surprised, this is the easiest to understand, because Li Mingbao's coveting of the cinema is completely naked. And Hong Kong is so big, there are only three cinemas. Unfortunately, Uncle Six happens to be one of them, and he is the weakest of them.
Even if it is the strongest one, when it encounters a dragon like Li Mingbao, and he makes no secret of his appetite for the theater, it will be a headache, not to mention the sixth uncle who is now focusing on wireless, Li Mingbao really wants to eat, and the sixth uncle really doesn't have much capital to resist. So it's not unusual for the sixth aunt to be surprised.
As for loneliness, it is easy to understand, after all, the industry of Shaw Brothers Cinemas can be said to be the current scale after the sixth uncle's family worked hard for decades, and the rise of the Shaw Brothers to the current appearance, poured most of the sixth uncle's life's hard work, and now it looks like this hard work is about to be severely challenged by others, and there is not much ability to resist, Li Mingbao really wants to start, and the sixth uncle can't stop it. Worries about the future of the Shaw Brothers will naturally make the sixth aunt lonely.
The first two expressions are easy for Li Mingbao to understand, but the last expression of the sixth aunt makes Li Mingbao feel incomprehensible, if he sits in the seat of the sixth uncle, after knowing that there is a raptor who has taken a fancy to his own one-third of an acre, he can't resist it, and he will definitely not be in a relaxed mood. As for this time, Li Mingbao would not have such an idea no matter how he thought about it.
But Aunt Six's expression doesn't look like a fake, she really has a relaxed feeling, for Li Mingbao, who doesn't know what medicine is sold in the gourd of the sixth uncle and six aunts, such an uncertain factor outside of her own control is really unbearable. At this time, Li Mingbao didn't know that after the release of "The True Color of Heroes", Uncle Six had the idea of shooting Shaw Brothers, but this idea was immature at the time, so only Uncle Six thought about it alone, and even Aunt Six didn't know.
But now, after Li Mingbao got back such a big amount of money from Hollywood, the idea of Uncle Sixth is actually very marketable, so he doesn't mind sharing his idea with Aunt Six. At the beginning, Aunt Sixth naturally thought that Uncle Six was old and confused, but after Uncle Six's explanation, Aunt Six also understood Uncle Six's thoughts to some extent, so she reluctantly agreed.
But Uncle Six's thoughts were still hot at that time, and what Li Mingbao thought was unclear. Although as long as Li Mingbao wants to exhibit in Hong Kong, he must grasp the cinema chain. But the problem is that there are now three cinema chains in Hong Kong, and Li Mingbao has three options.
Zou Wenhuai and Boss Lei don't know what Uncle Six thinks, but Uncle Six knows that even if it is such a scarce material as the theater chain, if there are enough benefits, he is willing to sell, and others may not be willing to sell. Especially for a person like Boss Lei, who is a monk halfway, if the theater chain can sell at a good price, Boss Lei will definitely not sell it.
He entered this industry to make money, and his enthusiasm for movies is even worse than that of Uncle Six, although it seems that there will be some markets in the film industry in the future, but how can the money in the future compare to the current money, you can earn money now, why wait for that illusory future?
After having such a preconceived idea of selling the theater line, the sixth uncle has the possibility of selling the theater line, whether he looks at Zou Wenhuai or Boss Lei. In such a situation, if you want to sell your own theater, you have to look at Li Mingbao. Therefore, before Li Mingbao came back and started to share the box office accounts of "The True Color of Heroes", the sixth uncle took the first step to invite Li Mingbao here.
On the surface, it is for Li Mingbao's future considerations, but in fact, he has made up his mind to sell the theater line, for Uncle Six, the theater line is to sell early and not late, because the Shaw Brothers Cinema has been bleeding in the hands of Uncle Six, and if you sell it one day earlier, you will stop the loss one day earlier, which is more beneficial for controlling the wireless.
He is different from Golden Harvest and Princess Jin, Golden Harvest's cinemas and Jin Gonggong are mainly sold, that is, they sell late and not early, after all, these two cinemas are still on the rise, and the later they sell, the more they can increase in value, but the sooner they sell, the more profitable they are, because when the sixth uncle wants to stop the bleeding, how many assets can the Shaw Brothers have left at that time?
So as soon as Li Mingbao came, Uncle Six couldn't wait to talk about the theater, in order to sell the theater. But Li Mingbao doesn't know about this situation! Even if Li Mingbao has the memory of later generations and knows that the sixth uncle will sell the theater, the problem is that it will definitely not be now, at least two or three years later.
There are advantages and disadvantages to having the memory of later generations, and the disadvantage is that Li Mingbao is convinced of some historical things, such as the theater, although he has been playing the idea of Shaw Brothers, but he knows that the sixth uncle does not have this idea now, so he has always expressed that he is very honest, and he is afraid that the sixth uncle will have any ideas.
As a result, Li Mingbao thought that the sixth uncle would not sell, and the sixth uncle thought that Li Mingbao would not buy it, so the previous hints of the sixth uncle would have had no effect, if Li Mingbao had not finally become angry, maybe the sixth uncle's hard work would have been in vain. If Li Mingbao didn't have the influence of later memories, with his intelligence, he would have understood what Uncle Six meant when he talked about the theater line again and again. But fortunately, it is not too late for Li Mingbao to say his thoughts now.
After Li Mingbao said that he had thoughts about the theater, the sixth uncle couldn't wait, and even the kindness on his face couldn't pretend to be a little bit and said to Li Mingbao: "Since Li Sheng, you also have thoughts about the theater, what do you think of our Shaw Brothers theater, Li Sheng?" â