In Lin Zixuan's industry, publishing houses and record companies are not yet profitable, and they need a lot of capital to grow and grow, and these funds can only be misappropriated from banks and film companies.

Therefore, the film company is a very important link in his capital chain.

Shooting blockbuster movies is only a part of the film industry, and the focus is on the operation of theaters, and theaters need a large number of film sources if they want to make money, and domestic films alone are far from enough.

At present, these film companies in Shanghai shoot less than 20 domestic films every year, which is simply not enough to meet the screening of theaters.

Those foreign-run cinemas can directly obtain copies of films from abroad and obtain the right to screen the first round, which not only has a large audience, but also has high ticket prices and is lucrative.

After they finish the screening, a week to two weeks later, they will sell the rights to the film to other cinemas.

By that time, the audience has long lost its freshness, and the ticket price cannot be raised, so it can only be regarded as better than nothing.

In Shanghai, foreign cinemas have always had a monopoly on Western films.

If you want to break this monopoly, in addition to shooting domestic films with better quality, you must also be able to directly contact foreign film companies and get the latest foreign film copies.

But it is difficult for Chinese film companies to get in touch with Western film giants, and they usually do so through intermediaries such as foreign companies.

For example, Shanghai Baidai Records is responsible for the introduction of French films.

However, these middlemen are not very reliable, and sometimes they spend a lot of money to get just a bunch of bad movies.

Without the coordination of people you are familiar with, you can only be the fate of being pitted by foreign film companies.

Lin Zixuan's next step is to open the offices of Star Film Company in the United States and France, not only to introduce European and American films to China. It is also necessary to introduce Chinese films to Europe and the United States and other countries.

As for the operation of the cinema chain, he reached an agreement with the Spaniard Remas. Implement a strategy of source sharing.

The films of the Star Film Company will be screened in the theaters of Remas, and the European films in the hands of Remas will also be scheduled in Lin Zixuan's theaters for the first time.

Remas has been running a cinema in Shanghai for more than a decade. From a homeless man to a wealthy man, it can be said that he is a legend.

For foreign businessmen, Shanghai is a paradise for adventurers, and these guys can't get along in their own country, so they come to China and start their entrepreneurial journey.

Some succeed, some fail.

The founder of Shanghai EMI Records earned his start-up capital by playing the laughter of foreigners on the streets of Shanghai, while the destitute Rehmas took over a movie projector from his fellow countrymen. Now he has become the king of the theater.

This is Shanghai, a metropolis of opportunities.

With the deterioration of the current situation in China and the imminent start of the Northern Expedition, the current Rhamas has long lost the pride of working hard at the beginning, and is not willing to stay in China to take risks.

He had plans to return to his hometown, but the businessman was pursuing profits, and he couldn't let go of the high profits of the movie theater, so he hesitated.

What's more, he owns a number of movie theaters in Shanghai. It's not something you can do if you want to, it takes a process.

Remas admires Lin Zixuan's vision, and sound movies are indeed very popular.

At present, only Star Film Company in Shanghai shoots sound films. So cooperating with Lin Zixuan is a win-win situation.

Moreover, Lin Zixuan can grasp the psychology of Chinese people and know what films Chinese like to watch.

For example, the movie called "The Battle of a Thousand Kings" is being screened now. It caused a strong response in Shanghai.

The storyline of the movie is not complicated, it is about the early years of the Republic of China. The Thousand Kings of the North came to Shanghai with their apprentices to fight against the Thousand Kings of the South. The apprentice of the Thousand Kings of the North and the daughter of the Thousand Kings of the South fell in love at first sight.

However, there are no fathers and sons at the table, and the two sides not only compete at the table, but also compete off the court.

Eventually, the Thousand Kings of the North and their apprentices were killed, and the daughter of the Thousand Kings of the South left Shanghai with her child in mind and went to Guangzhou.

This is a foreshadowing for the next sequel.

Even people like Remas, who don't like to watch Chinese movies very much, watch it with relish, because the movie shows a lot of superb gambling skills, such as listening to dice, counting cards, hiding cards and changing cards, and peeking at each other's cards through various means.

Not to mention the dazzling shuffling techniques, as well as the superb psychological tactics of the leading actors.

It's simply a vivid gambling lesson that makes people believe the plot in the movie.

Many viewers just want to learn the gambling skills in the movie so they repeatedly go to the theater to watch this movie, and then go back to get cards to practice, the purpose is to practice magic skills and make a fortune.

Because of this, many scholars believe that this movie is suspected of advocating gambling and will make more gamblers ruined.

But Lin Zixuan has long taken this into account, and he designed a lot of lines in the movie to persuade people to quit gambling, which gave the movie a lot of positive energy, and as the protagonist of the movie, it didn't end well, and they all died.

This also illustrates the main purpose of the movie, which is to persuade people to quit gambling.

However, in Shanghai, what the audience sees is not the fate of the thousand kings in the movie, but the unfathomable gambling skills.

They see getting rich overnight, but they don't see that they will die, this is the psychology of gamblers.

Lin Zixuan runs a film company, it is impossible not to shoot such a lucrative theme, as for those gamblers, since they go to gamble, they will have to bear the corresponding consequences.

It's their luck to win, and they can only blame them for not being good at learning when they lose.

The other studios couldn't help but shake their heads and sigh.

It seems that this time they are going to follow the trend and shoot gambling films again, when will this kind of day end.

Last time, they followed the trend to shoot mythological dramas, except for Zhang Shichuan's "King Su and Su Daji" to make money, other film companies mostly lost money.

Compared to star film companies, those film companies shoot silent films, and they are shoddy, so they have no advantage at all.

They fool the audience, and the audience naturally won't buy it.

Just like Star Film Company's "Three Dozen White Bone Spirits", even when mythological dramas are flooded, it still wins with quality, good special effects and good actors are a good movie.

On January 21, 1924, in the Soviet Union, Lenin died, and the Soviet Union entered the Stalin era.

At this time, Hitler in Germany was imprisoned for launching the beer hall riots and the failed coup d'état.

In the United States, Roosevelt suffered from polioinflammation, and the prospect of high fever, pain, numbness, and lifelong disability did not dampen him, and in the process of recovery, he read a large number of biographies and historical works of famous people.

In Britain, Churchill switched from the army to politics and ran in elections, but was defeated, and for the sake of his political future, he distanced himself from the Liberal Party and joined the Conservative Party.

These people who will be able to control the destiny of the world in the future are walking on the path of their lives. (To be continued.) )