Lin Xiaozhi's announcement of these news is undoubtedly a few shocks, not to mention the previous rumors alone, which can be reported by major media in Hong Kong for a month to acquire Debao, and now this widely questioned rumor has finally been finalized, which is definitely the biggest news in the Hong Kong entertainment industry this quarter.

The public is obviously very interested in the acquisition of this giant enterprise, which was once one of the four major film companies in Hong Kong and one of the four major cinema chains, and was also acquired by Lin Xiaozhi, who is known as the "rebel son of a wealthy family" and "a wealthy man". The more grassroots citizens are, the more interested they are in the gossip and news of the so-called rich circle keeping up with high society and the entertainment industry, otherwise this news that has not been officially confirmed would not have been popular for a month before it gradually fell silent.

In addition, the two new notices that have been broken out now are also stable on the homepage and even the headlines of the entertainment version in the past. This second one is not enough, strategic investment in two film companies that have never heard of the name, it is not expected to be a big company, but it has invested in two film companies at once, and at the same time bought the copyright and permanent use rights of more than 80 films from six film companies, which shows the expansion ambition of the wealthy rebel

But the weight of the third notice is not much lighter than Lin Xiaozhi's acquisition of Debao, which is also a heavyweight big news. As the second largest newspaper in Hong Kong in terms of circulation, Sing Pao was the first to release its stake in Sing Pao at the beginning of the year, some media did not hesitate to exaggerate the report for the sake of news sales, and even shouted the slogan of "Hong Kong's Murdoch" for Lin Xiaozhi.

Who Murdoch is, Hong Kongers will not be unclear. The owner of the global media giant News Corp. owns dozens of newspapers, including the influential English-language newspapers "The Sun" and "The Times" in Hong Kong, and has also acquired the American Twentieth Century Fox Film Company in the past few years. Of course, what really makes Hong Kong people call 'Murdoch's 'king of media' is not just because he holds one of the world's largest media empires, but because he has met with Hong Kong film and television tycoon Shaw Yifu six times in the past seven years to buy Hong Kong's king of media, TVH. It is his heart for HR that completely makes Hong Kong people remember such a number one person.

can be called 'Hong Kong's Murdoch' by the media, although it is just a gimmick and hype, but Lin Xiaozhi has indeed received more attention from all walks of life in Hong Kong, which is one of the reasons why he can be a film company owner with a net worth of only hundreds of millions, and has a lot of attention in Hong Kong that is not inferior to that of many business tycoons.

And now it has only been more than half a year, Lin Xiaozhi has completed the acquisition of Hong Kong film giant Debao and paper media giant - Cheng Pao Newspaper Group, if the Hong Kong media hyped him as 'Hong Kong's Murdoch, it was just a gimmick, then now it seems that he really wants to follow the path that Murdoch has walked, across the film and television and media industries, to become Hong Kong's Murdoch, once the news is published in the newspaper, it will definitely attract many citizens to pay money.

And in fact, it is.

After the press conference ended, the more than 100 Hong Kong media who had come to attend the press conference hurried back and obtained several explosive news; although they could no longer catch up with today's morning paper, this does not mean that the major Hong Kong media, especially the most convenient newspapers, will miss the publication of this news today and give up the opportunity to be the first to break the news.

As a result, on this day, there was an unexpected scene in Hong Kong, that is, a number of media outlets printed evening newspapers one after another, and the evening newspaper market, which has always been inferior to the morning newspapers, had a hot scene that shattered people's eyes.

In the early years, Oriental Daily had an evening newspaper but with poor performance, it had ceased circulation in the first two years, and was replaced by a 'supplement' that was born to deal with breaking news, and occasionally when there was big news and competing for the first time, it would choose to print and publish in the afternoon. Undoubtedly, this time Lin Xiaozhi's movement was considered by the senior management of the Oriental newspaper industry to use the 'supplement' to report.

As Hong Kong's largest newspaper in circulation, the "Oriental Daily" undoubtedly had the fastest reporting speed, and the press conference was held at about 8 o'clock in the morning, but after the news was fed back to the newspaper, the hundreds of editors of the editorial team of the "Oriental Daily" quickly combined the news and intelligence from all quarters to produce dozens of articles, and picked up some news that could not be published in today's newspaper, and put together a supplement before noon to report on the news at the press conference. Just after noon, the six-page 12-page supplement of the Oriental Daily was put on the market, and the first batch of 80,000 copies was printed.

"Boss, get a newspaper"

After getting off work at noon, Xu Fei stretched his waist and prepared to go to a food stall he frequented. Passing by a newsstand and seeing a few people standing there, he remembered that he had forgotten to bring the newspaper out. Eating at noon is a break, after all, there is still a break before going to work in the afternoon, and it would be too boring if there was no newspaper to pass the time. After shaking it and finding that there were still a few coins in his pocket, Yu Crisp walked over to buy a newspaper

"Take what you want, by the way, this is the latest arrival of the Oriental Daily Plus Supplement......" The newsstand owner took a newspaper and read it there with relish, only looking up to remind him when he spoke.

"Any big news?" As an old Hong Kong, Xu Fei's heart moved. In the past few years, he has been subscribing to this newspaper since he went to work, and naturally he knows that only when big news comes out, "Oriental Daily" will print a sub-edition.

The wealthy man named Lin Xiaozhi held a press conference, and the newspaper said that he spent NT$1.8 billion to acquire Debao and "Cheng Pao", as well as several other film companies. The wealthy family is different, this melon baby is amazing......"

Hong Kong and Taiwan have very close economic ties, so the media close to Taiwan have always been accustomed to using the Taiwan dollar instead of the Hong Kong dollar to calculate assets and large-scale acquisitions. Just as the pro-British faction is accustomed to using the British version, other foreign media in Hong Kong are accustomed to using the US dollar and the Japanese yen.

As soon as he heard that there was another big news about Lin Xiaozhi, Xu Fei suddenly became interested, took out a ten-yuan coin from his pocket and handed it to the newsstand owner, "Then I'll have a supplement of "Oriental Daily". ”

Immediately picked up a copy of the "Oriental Daily" supplement that had just been sent and still exuded a strong ink fragrance, Xu Fei saw at first glance the photo of Lin Xiaozhi, which took up a quarter of the entire page, standing on the press table to read the announcement, and the piercing headline - "Debao has finally changed hands, and the wealthy rebel son spent 1.8 billion Taiwan dollars to launch a series of acquisitions at the end of the year, and a new giant in the Hong Kong film industry was born"

Although "Oriental Daily" took the initiative to lift the ban on Lin Xiaozhi and New Asia for more than half a year in order to cope with the challenge of the emerging enemy "Next Magazine". However, the Oriental Press Group is still very aware of the negative impact that the Cheng Pao Newspaper Group, which is second only to them in sales of Hong Kong's local newspapers, will be taken over by Lin Xiaozhi, and where will it be given free publicity. As a result, the newspapers gave a cold treatment to the part related to his acquisition of Cheng Pao, and almost all of them were understated.

However, as the first newspaper to report in detail on the morning press conference, the "Oriental Daily" was undoubtedly the first to eat crabs, and the reprinted supplement had only been put on the market for a few hours, and when dozens of evening newspapers, large and small, were put on the market at 3 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon, all the 80,000 copies of the supplement printed by the "Oriental Daily" had already been sold out, and another 50,000 copies were printed and put on the market at the urging of newsstands and distributors from all over Hong Kong.

It has to be said that in addition to the grasp of readers' reputation, the courage of its top management to dare to be the first is also a major reason why "Oriental Daily" was able to beat dozens of newspapers older than him in just a decade after its birth and become the first brother in Hong Kong's local newspaper industry.

"Expansion, expansion, expansion, the rise of a giant" - Cheng Pao Evening News

Cheng Pao Newspaper Group, which was acquired by Lin Xiaozhi, has two newspapers under its name, but its influence is very different. Among them, the one with the better results and the most extensive influence is naturally the "Sing Pao", which firmly holds the throne of the second largest circulation newspaper in Hong Kong, while the other newspaper, "Sing Pao Evening News", not only has poor results, but its influence is even barely at the second-rate level among the dozens or hundreds of evening newspapers in Hong Kong. Although it was topped by Oriental Daily, with the special relationship brought about by the acquisition by Lin Xiaozhi, Cheng Pao Evening News also obtained more detailed and comprehensive reports and first-hand data than Oriental Daily and other newspapers in Hong Kong.

“…… A month ago, our brother newspaper "Cheng Pao" revealed that Lin Hsiao-chih, the owner of Xinya Film Company, spent about NT$1.2 billion to launch an acquisition of Debao. This news was a big hit a month ago, but with the silence of Xinya, Lin Xiaozhi and Debao, it was misreported as a false report. However, this is not the case, after more than a month of digestion, after finally taking over Debao completely, the boss of New Asia, known as the rebel son of the wealthy family, finally held a press conference today to officially announce the completion of its acquisition of Debao. ”

"As one of the three giants of Hong Kong's former films, Debao's strength is unquestionable. Under his name, Debao Film Company is one of the largest film companies in Hong Kong, with the ability to shoot more than a dozen films every year, and its influence covers the whole of Southeast Asia. At the same time, the Debao Cinema Line under its name is also one of the four largest cinema chains in Hong Kong, and it is a veritable courtyard merchant who stomps his feet and stomps on the Hong Kong film industry. At the same time, the New Asia Film Company owned by Lin Xiaozhi is also the largest, most potential, dynamic and most profitable film company in Hong Kong. After the acquisition of Debao, New Asia not only has all the resources of Debao, but also restricts its own development of talents, scale and other constraints have been broken one by one, purely in terms of scale, the power of the combination of the three has surpassed the Golden Princess Art City is its subsidiary) and Golden Harvest, becoming a veritable Hong Kong film industry. l”

This is not the only news that has been announced, and this newspaper has also noted several other acquisitions. The acquisition of Chengbao Newspaper Group will not be mentioned first, and this newspaper will analyze several others. The heavy purchase of more than 80 film copyrights and permanent use rights of seven film companies including Liu's Pictures and Baohe has supplemented the heritage of New Asia and Debao, making it the third largest film source library in Hong Kong after Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, and the source of nearly 200 commercial films. ”

Although Li Xiuxian's Universal Pictures and Chen Xunqi's Yongjia Film Company are only influential film companies in Hong Kong, they are far from being comparable to Debao. However, it is reported that Lin Xiaozhi has completed the formal acquisition of these two film companies, making Magnum and Yongjia subsidiaries of his film empire, shooting specific types of films for them. Pan Disheng, the famous brand king, was once the major shareholder of Arts Entertainment, and Xu is the famous brand king has completely lost interest in the film industry, not only selling Debao, but also packaging and selling more than 14UU of entertainment shares under his name. Founded in the 70s, Arts & Entertainment is an integrated entertainment company with a business of distribution, brokerage, film production, etc., and was once one of the Hong Kong film companies known as the "Big Five" along with New Asia. According to the information learned by this newspaper, Lin Xiaozhi has been in frequent contact with Zhang Guozhong, the boss of the entertainment industry, in recent days, and has reached a strategic cooperation agreement, and Zhang Guozhong will sell his shares in the entertainment industry, so that his shareholding in the entertainment energy will increase to 40, which is the first time that Zhang Guozhong has sold the shares of the entertainment energy since he bought back some of the shares of the entertainment energy from Pan Disheng at the end of last year. It is worth mentioning that Yineng may use this as a condition to receive resources and financial support from New Asia and Debao, and even become another subsidiary of Lin Xiaozhi's film empire, just like Magnum and Yongjia Film Company."

“… There is no doubt that after completing the annexation of Debao, and strategically controlling Magnum and Yongjia, and taking a stake in Artseng, Lin Xiaozhi, who still owns Hong Kong's second largest local record company - New Asia Records, has become a veritable giant and overlord in the Hong Kong film industry and even the entire entertainment industry. According to the news learned by this newspaper from some channels, it has not stopped its expansion, and is still in contact with a leading enterprise in the industry, and is also actively seeking to open up new markets such as the mainland, Japan, South Korea, and even Europe and the United States. The box office has exceeded 800 million yen, shaking all walks of life in Japan, not only praised by the media in Japan as "the best foreign language film of the year", but also praised by the film master Mr. Akira Kurosawa, "the only movie I have seen in recent years to remember my youth with tears, and personally predicted that the box office in Japan may eventually exceed 100 million yen......"

The relationship between Sing Pao Newspaper Group and Lin Hsiao-chi is now well known in Hong Kong, and with its special relationship with Lin Hau-chi, it has obtained a lot of first-hand data and news, although the sales of "Sing Pao Evening News" are not as good as "Oriental Daily", but it has also obtained sales volume second only to "Oriental Daily". After the launch in the afternoon, 50,000 copies of the newspaper were sold out in just a few hours, and then two additional prints of 20,000 copies were put into the market, and finally only more than 4,000 copies were recovered, which not only broke the previous high of 49,000 copies of the "Cheng Pao Evening News", but also increased this figure by nearly 40,000 copies, which made the whole Cheng Pao Newspaper Group very happy.

"Debao is favored by the wealthy again, and the rebel son of the wealthy family takes over the famous brand king, and achieves a new giant in the industry" - "Ming Pao"

"Reprimanded "Hong Kong Fortune" for false information, Lin Xiaozhi spent huge sums of money to annex several companies, and swallowed elephants to become a movie tycoon" - "Sing Tao Daily"

"Cheng Pao newspaper industry changed hands, Lin Xiaozhi is determined to be a Hong Kong Murdoch" - "Ta Kung Pao"

"Lin Xiaozhi proudly said that 'there is a lot of private property, and the 1.8 billion acquisition and acquisition are all paid in cash, and the Kowloon Bank is not controlled by the family, and the money is taken." ——South China Times

As soon as the press conference came out, several explosive news in a row not only made the news of the acquisition of Debao by New Asia, which had been silent, once again turned over. At the same time, Lin Xiaozhi, who has always been underestimated, has been a crazy feat of swallowing elephants, which has also made him once again the center of conversation in Hong Kong, which has a reputation as a news-making machine in Hong Kong, not only once again made the headlines of Hong Kong's major entertainment pages and even current political pages, but even some business tycoons who originally looked down on the film and entertainment industry were also sideways.

All of a sudden, New Asia, Lin Xiaozhi, the acquisition of Debao, Film Empire, Hong Kong's Murdoch, etc., became the most frequent words in newspapers.

Lin Xiaozhi was very happy to see the advertisements made by the major media in Hong Kong for free, not only accepted the interview invitation from ATV, participated in the interview program of Shen Dianxia and Zeng Zhiwei, two Hong Kong gold medal hosts who were poached by Lin Jianming, but also gave an exclusive interview with Ming Pao who was repeatedly invited. Under the overwhelming exposure, New Asia's currently released movie Red Alert has undoubtedly become a big winner. It has been more than half a month since it was released, and after two weeks of box office popularity, the box office in the third week should have taken a big dive according to inertia, but it only showed a small decline, and it is still stubbornly advancing towards the box office of 40 million Hong Kong dollars.

And the day before Lin Xiaozhi was about to drive to his girlfriend Li Jiaxin's home to visit, Li Guoxing, who had learned of Lin Xiaozhi's most embarrassing warning from Chen Qiang, vice president of New Asia, finally took the initiative to call him and announced his reply after a few days of contemplation.

With the sentence that came out of his mouth: "If the conditions are right, I agree to the merger of Meiya and Lin Sheng's Xinya and Debao", Lin Xiaozhi, who was originally lying on the bed on the phone, clenched his left fist excitedly, and he knew that a large-scale film and television group spanning distribution, production, cinema and other comprehensive businesses that should not have been born in the barren soil of Hong Kong was born