Those media came to contact us again and wanted to ask us whether the acquisition of Debao was true?

"Don't admit it, don't deny it, inform Director Zhu, let him deal with those media, and bring my words to him by the way......"

"Boss, ask from "Cheng Pao", can you give you an exclusive interview......"

"Not recently, let's take a break......"

"Lin Dong, Meiya is calling, Li Dong wants to talk to you......"

"For the time being, let's help me get rid of it, let's just say that I've been working on too many things lately. Oh yes, by the way, help me contact Mr. Zhang on the art side, and the meeting time will be scheduled for next Tuesday......"

Lin Xiaozhi scratched his scalp, although the door of his office was hidden, the hurried aisle outside was not a busy footstep, which made him feel irritated when he was concentrating on reading the documents.

Since meeting with the famous brand king Pan Disheng a week ago, after some bargaining, the two sides finally finalized his own 7.4 billion Hong Kong dollars in cash to acquire Debao Film Company, Debao Cinema Company, as well as some theaters and distribution channels outside Debao, as well as 37 privately held by the famous brand Wang Pan Disheng. After 76 Arts, he ushered in the busiest days. It's been a busy few days, and I've been working overtime for several days in a row.

There is no way, Debao, as one of the three giants of Hong Kong films, even if it is the weakest one, its comprehensive strength is far above that of New Asia, and it is not something that can be done overnight in a few days to take it over from the hands of the famous brand king, reorganize and formulate a new development charter or something. Now on his desk, the first thing to do is the reception of more than 1,700 employees, artists, directors and others of Debao Film Company and Debao Cinema Line

Lin Xiaozhi originally wanted to cover it up for a while, and he didn't want the outside world to know that he had acquired Debao so early. Who would have thought that the vast media of the supernatural power heard the rumors not long after he signed the agreement with Pan Disheng, and now he has no time to think about where the rumors leaked from, and his biggest headache now is that after discovering that Debao was acquired by him, his news channels told him that several companies such as Golden Harvest, Xinyicheng, Golden Princess, Xinbao Cinemas and even Yongsheng are staring at Debao, which is now unstable, and can't wait to pounce on it and take the opportunity to bite off a piece of meat.

Lin Xiaozhi frowned and threw the document in his hand on the table, which he had basically finished reading.

"Done?"

He wasn't the only one in the room, there was another man sitting on the couch not far away, reading the newspaper boredly, but he was also looking at him distractedly. Therefore, Lin Xiaozhi had just made a move, and he immediately raised his head and asked.

"Hmm" Lin Xiaozhi nodded, and the other person sitting in his office was Cen Jianxun, the president of Debao Cinemas.

"I'll read it roughly first, and I'll take it home in the evening and look at it in detail."

"It's okay, the basic information of Debao Cinema is here, Lin Sheng, since you have roughly read it, do you have anything to ask me?"

Lin Xiaozhi thought for a while, "You can summarize the situation first, I have a lot of questions I want to ask, but my thinking has not been straightened out."

Cen Jianxun nodded, and directly introduced him to the situation of the Debao Cinema Line, "The Debao Cinema Line now has a total of 37 theaters, of which 16 are franchised theaters, and each screened film needs to hand over the box office dividends to us as a franchise and unified management fee, in addition to the theaters that really belong to us."

"There are only L ......" Lin Xiaozhi was stunned, he remembered that there were at least 30 Shaw Brothers cinemas in the past, why now there are only L in Debao's own theaters.

"It's only L, because the landlord raised the rent the year before last, the two expired theaters stopped renewing their leases and had to sell their equipment. In addition, in the past two years, Pan Sheng was unwilling to continue to allocate money, and last year was affected by the political storm, and the performance was very bad for a while, and we had to sell a few theaters with poor performance. Cen Jianxun frowned and answered his doubts, since he was kicked out of Debao Film Company by Pan Disheng, the relationship between the two is not quite right. Therefore, when Lin Xiaozhi mentioned to Pan Disheng that he was going to dig Cen Jianxun, the famous brand king immediately softened his attitude. is because he knows very well that Lin Xiaozhi is really going to dig, and there is a great chance that this man, who is recognized as the most talented man in the Hong Kong film industry, is likely to slap his ass and leave.

"Moreover, among these l theaters, only 15 are truly wholly owned by us, and some of them are joint ventures."

Lin Xiaozhi frowned slightly, "Let's not mention joining the theater first, what is the scale of our l theater?" ”

"Fortunately in terms of scale, when Pan Sheng bought a cinema line with Shao Yifu, Pan Sheng's dilapidated and old theaters were not wanted by Pan Sheng, resulting in the number of our Debao theaters Although the number of cinemas is not much, the quality is not bad. Among them, there are 1,300-seat theaters and single screening halls; In addition, there are 7 280-seat dual-screen cinemas; 3 cinemas with more than 400 seats in three auditoriums...... The equipment is relatively new, and the oldest batch is almost the same as the one purchased around 78 years......"

Lin Xiaozhi was stunned, although he didn't specialize in eating the bowl of rice in the theater, he still had some understanding of the specific situation of the movie theater, after all, he ate the bowl of rice in the movie, and he inevitably had to deal with the theater. As soon as he heard Cen Jianxun's introduction, he immediately discovered one of the problems, and hurriedly asked: "Why are the seats in the theater different?" Mr. Cen, hasn't our Debao Cinema Line formed a standard?

Instead, it was Cen Jianxun's turn to be stunned, he frowned and stared at Lin Xiaozhi, and asked, "Standard? What standard? ”

Lin Xiaozhi's mouth opened slightly, and he smiled dumbly.

Well, he only saw the glory of Hong Kong films today, but forgot that it was a group of grassroots Hong Kong filmmakers who created this glory like those who worked hard in Hollywood at the beginning of the century.

From Lin Xiaozhi's point of view, the current theater planning in Hong Kong is undoubtedly unreasonable. He is not clear which country and which cinema giant first established the standard for cinema construction, but combined with some new cinemas in the mainland that he has seen in later generations, there is no doubt that the current Hong Kong cinemas have obviously not formed a system and standards.

Before his rebirth, in the mainland, various cinemas had basically formed a standard. For example, the large theater system of the early decades was basically abandoned, and it was replaced by a small theater with multiple screening halls. In the past, the old movie theaters and cinemas on the mainland were all large movie theaters with thousands or even thousands of spectators, and some counties only had one, which could fully meet the demand.

This kind of old cinema in the market-oriented competition, the efficiency is relatively low, only one screening hall leads to the audience's demand is not met, so that the attendance rate has not been high, and finally eliminated one by one and transformed into a small cinema. There are only one, two, two, or three hundred spectators in a hall, but the entire theater has two, three, four, or five or even more screening halls, so that audiences who like to watch horror movies can choose to watch horror movies, those who like to watch war movies can watch war movies, and those who like to watch action movies can watch action movies, which can increase attendance and box office revenue

In fact, many cinemas in Hong Kong are also aware of this situation, so more than half of the new cinemas in recent years are multiplex cinemas, and even Xinbao Cinema Line was born, which is completely composed of multiplex cinemas, serving the audience with a new concept, no wonder it has just appeared and quickly achieved profitability. You must know that the Golden Princess Cinema Line and the Debao Cinema Line were profitable in those years.

"The standard I am talking about is to abandon the large screening hall and multiple seats, and instead fix the number of screening halls in each theater and the seating and design in the screening hall, and follow the new cinema chain like KFC and McDonald's and adopt the same design standards to operate. Mr. Cen, you have been in charge of the Debao Cinema Line for two years, and you must have discovered that a theater with a single screening hall, unless it encounters the kind of theater that can release blockbusters, the income is not as good as that of a theater with more screening halls on weekdays......"

Cen Jianxun just wanted to retort that there were far more seats in multi-screening theaters than single-screening theaters, but his thinking quickly caught up with Lin Xiaozhi, and he lowered his head and thought seriously.

After a while, he nodded slowly and said, "That's true......"

"That's it, I was also researching Xinbao Cinemas recently, and I noticed some of their innovations. For example, Xinbao Cinema Line is all using multi-screen theaters, so that the audience has more choices, and almost every audience who walks into the theater can capture the hearts of audiences. For example, our single-screen cinema has only one movie to choose from, but they have three or four different types of movies for audiences with different hobbies to choose freely, and it is this kind of humanized innovation that allows the audience to quickly recognize Xinbao Cinema Line, so that it can quickly make a profit and gain a firm foothold in Hong Kong after its birth in just over a year, becoming one of the four major theater merchants

Lin Xiaozhi doesn't know much about cinemas, so he can only try to recall some of the situation of cinemas in later generations, and briefly tell him: "In the future, our cinemas also need to keep pace with the times and make changes......