"I understand the reason, but it is also difficult to transform according to Lin Sheng's intentions. After all, many of our theaters are built in prosperous areas, and more than half of the venues are leased, so if you want to renovate on a large scale, you will inevitably have to contact the property owner, and the cost may be expensive. Unless ......"

"Unless what?" Lin Xiaozhi doesn't know much about cinema management, and he also wants to hear his opinions and suggestions.

"Unless Lin Sheng, you are going to build a new theater, the new theaters we add in the future will all be standardized, and the single screening hall will be completely abandoned, and only double or even triple screening halls will be built......"

As soon as Cen Jianxun's words fell, Lin Xiaozhi's brows furrowed. He understood what Cen Jianxun meant, once he wanted to follow the kind of standardization he proposed, it was equivalent to directly declaring that most of the theaters held by Debao Cinema Line now were outdated, and he needed to give up directly.

However, without standardization and modern design, Lin Xiaozhi knows better than anyone else that when the United States sells in the world after two years, the black-hearted British, in order to pit China, almost completely agreed to some more open agreements proposed by the United States for Hong Kong to join in the future, including opening up American capital to Hong Kong cinemas and the film industry

The Turvo Cinema Line must begin to standardize

With a ruthless heart, Lin Xiaozhi also began to think, "How much does it cost to build a single screening hall with 100 seats?" ”

"In Wan Chai, the construction cost of a small screening hall with 100 seats, including the rent, costs about 1 million Hong Kong dollars for the decoration of the screen and seats; The Yau Tsim Mong area probably needs about RU 10,000, and some areas of Hong Kong Island are also at this price, so it should be cheaper in the offshore area; Kwun Tong and the New Territories, I estimate that it should be difficult to take down more than 10,000 UUs. Lin Sheng, this equipment is actually not expensive, we just eat this bowl of rice, just the equipment counting the seats or something, at most more than 200,000 can be done, mainly because the housing prices in Hong Kong have been copied too high in recent years, and the rent remains high, and it is not possible to rent for three or five years without three or five hundred thousand......

If a single screening hall, the average cost is calculated according to RU million, a three-hall theater is almost 2.4 million Hong Kong dollars, and ten three-hall theaters are 24 million......

With such a calculation, Lin Xiaozhi's eyes suddenly lit up, and counting the labor cost, they only need less than 100 million Hong Kong dollars to establish a large-scale cinema network covering the whole of Hong Kong. And 100 million Hong Kong dollars is not a big number for him now, and he Lin Xiaozhi can afford this money.

Originally, he didn't know much about the cinema line, Lin Xiaozhi was still worried that his money was not enough, but now after knowing the specific construction cost, he was completely relieved, and said directly to Cen Jianxun with a wave of his hand: "Within a month, I will give Debao Cinema Line an additional 50 million allocation, all this money will be used to build a new cinema, and when you go back, you will transfer a few people who are proficient in this part from the cinema chain, I will communicate with them, draw up a suitable standard, and then send someone to Hong Kong to choose the most suitable construction site, we will buy the land directly, Opened a cinema. I will leave three years for Debao Cinemas, and after three years, we will definitely change to new cinemas with more than three halls. It doesn't matter if the theater chain loses money temporarily, we still have a film company, as long as we can make money on one side, there will be a steady stream of funds on the other side to support ......"

When Song Nianhui came to the door, Lin Xiaozhi had an idea, and took advantage of the opportunity of the Middle East madman Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait to spend 60 million yuan to let Song Nianhui tinker with oil futures on his behalf. Under the ten-fold leverage, with the turbulent situation of international oil futures in the past two months, Lin Xiaozhi earned a huge amount of more than 150 million US dollars in his capital account early. At this time, the international price of oil had risen to $37 or $38, more than twice as high as when he first bought it.

Although Song Nianhui still babbled and did not want to get out of the game, he even pushed in his ears every day that if the international community could not force Saddam Hussein to spit out Kuwait, then the price of international oil by the end of the year is likely to exceed the last Middle East oil crisis, exceeding $40 a barrel and even climbing to a higher $50. At that time, Lin Xiaozhi will make more money.

That being said, Lin Xiaozhi has a lot of places where he needs money recently, and the acquisition of Debao and Yinengjia Universal Pictures directly cost him nearly 400 million, in addition to Lin Xiaozhi's recent acquisition plans, there are really a lot of places that need money. Therefore, he has instructed Song Nianhui to sell the massive oil futures he holds as soon as possible to cash out. Now that he has a huge amount of money in his hand, Lin Xiaozhi is willing to spend money for the future.

Cen Jianxun raised his eyebrows, and his face was also overjoyed. Although he wants to return to the film company more, if Lin Xiaozhi lets him continue to manage the theater chain, watching the theater line grow bigger and stronger is also a sense of achievement.

immediately agreed: "Okay, I'll transfer a few young people from the theater to come over when I go back, Lin Sheng, do you have any better plans, tell them about it when the time comes, and we'll see how to get the most suitable one later."

"Hmm" Lin Xiaozhi nodded, "You have to take this matter to heart, by the way, this time I mainly called you over, in addition to asking you about the Debao Cinema Line, there are two other things to tell you." The first thing to do is to arrange the release of our new film Red Alert in New Asia. We have just signed a distribution agreement with the UK for this film, and it will be released in the UK at the end of the month before Christmas. At the same time, we are still in contact with publishers in Spain and Italy. We spent more than 43 million Hong Kong dollars on the pre-production of the movie alone, and there is really no moisture, and we are very confident that we will take the opportunity to impact this year's box office off-season, and it can be regarded as a good start for our newly acquired Debao Cinema Line......

"No problem, I'll arrange it when I get back. If the publicity can keep up, you can consider releasing it in mid-October."

Lin Xiaozhi thought about it, there is propaganda about "Red Alert", and Hong Kong has already begun to do it. Originally, the publicity should have caused some sensation, but after he broke the news of the acquisition of Debao, Dengshi paid more attention to the media, and was attracted by this big news that changed the pattern of Hong Kong's local films, which turned out to affect the publicity plan of "Red Alert".

However, Lin Xiaozhi quickly nodded and agreed that "Red Alert" would be released in mid-October. One is because he has confidence in the movie, and the other is that there is still a big killer weapon in this movie Xinya that has not been sacrificed, that is, several sets of promotional videos made by him in imitation of later films, but they have never been released. Calculate that there is still half a month left until mid-October, and it is almost time to release a promotional video. With his relationship with Lin Jianming, the current president of Debao, coupled with the momentum of ATV's fire in Hong Kong, and now relying on Lin Xiaozhi's 'poaching strategy's poisonous plan, the audience covered by Ria TV has nearly doubled from the millions of people who were suppressed by H to death in a short period of time. Although it has not stabilized, these sudden surges in ratings may slip away at any time, but these are not issues that Lin Xiaozhi should consider for the time being, because ATV is not his.

"In terms of publicity, I will urge to speed up the pace, and it will be released in mid-October, and you will notify me as soon as you arrange the schedule and release time...... As for the other thing that I invited you over today, Mr. Cen, do you know anyone in the theater chain who can fully assume the management responsibility after you immediately? ”

Lin Xiaozhi tapped his finger lightly on the table: "If there is a suitable person, I want to transfer you to the film company......"