The plane drew a trajectory in the sky, and in the cabin of the plane flying from Beijing to Hong Kong, Shao Yifu was sitting with Kang Jianfei, and the picture was as harmonious as two old friends chatting.

Shao Yifu said: "Shaw Brothers' four leading cinemas in Hong Kong have a rent of 60 million yuan for at least 5 years, and there is no need to talk about how low the price is. ”

Kang Jianfei pursed his lips and smiled: "Okay, at this price, 120 million in 10 years." ”

The difference between the rent of 60 million yuan in 5 years and the rent of 120 million yuan in 10 years is very large, after all, the economy needs to develop and the currency needs inflation.

Regarding Kang Jianfei's little trick, Shao Yifu just shook his head and smiled, and said: "10 years is too long, no one can tell what will happen in the future, both you and me are at risk, and the maximum lease period is 5 years." ”

Kang Jianfei said: "If you only rent it for 5 years, the rent of 60 million yuan is too expensive, and I can buy land and open a new theater by myself." ”

Shao Yifu argued: "You may be able to open four theaters of this scale for 60 million, but it is not easy to get a good location." Moreover, my four theaters have accumulated the reputation of Shaw Brothers for decades, and many fans have the habit of going there to watch movies, and the newly opened theaters are far from comparable. ”

"The audience always watches the movie, and they don't really care which theater the movie is shown in," Kang Jianfei picked up Shao Yifu's scar without hesitation, "The attendance rate of Shaw Brothers Cinemas in the past two years is not high, but DreamWorks has never lacked good movies." Moreover, Boss Shao, you offer such a high price, it seems that few people are willing to take it over except me. ”

Shaw Brothers is such a good theater, naturally there are countless people who want to take over, but those who want to take over have no money at all. Although Princess Jin and Golden Harvest are rich, the scale of these two theaters is already large enough, and it is useless to add more theaters.

Now Shao Yifu wants to rent out and transfer the Shaw Brothers' theater, and the biggest difficulty is here. That is, the price is too expensive: those who can afford it are not interested, and those who are interested cannot afford it.

There are many rich people in Hong Kong, but there are no rich people who can spend one or two hundred million yuan to develop cinemas like Pan Disheng in parallel space. Even at this time, Pan Disheng, his Debao Film Company has been established for several months, and now a movie has not been filmed, so is it useful for theaters?

Shao Yifu is now facing such an embarrassing situation, he is unwilling to rent and transfer the theater at a low price, the price is too high and no one is willing to take over, and if he keeps it and does not sell or rent, he will lose money every day.

Not to mention. Before the Sino-British negotiations are over, Hong Kong's stock market will not really get up, and the rich are in urgent need of cash to fill their holes, who will have spare money to buy a theater to play?

On the plane from Beijing to Hong Kong, two foxes, an old man and a young fox, were wishful thinking. Start your back-and-forth bargaining.

Why did this happen?

The delegation of cultural circles visited Beijing for three days in Beijing, and Mr. Zhao Shaoang stayed in Beijing to have business. On this plane, Kang Jianfei and Shao Yifu returned.

As the owner of only two television stations in Hong Kong. The central leaders met with the two of them individually, and the meeting lasted for three hours. Except for Shao Yifu and Kang Jianfei, no one knows what they talked about that time, and few people even know that Kang Jianfei and Shao Yifu went to the capital during that time.

After a secret meeting with the leaders, Shaw decided to cease Shaw Brothers' production business and lease or sell its cinemas.

And Shao Yifu intends to shoot the theater. Kang Jianfei intended to take over again, and the two of them naturally "released their previous suspicions" and sat together to discuss business with a friendly attitude.

When the plane landed at Hong Kong Airport, the two have reached a preliminary cooperation intention:

Kang Jianfei will spend 70 million Hong Kong dollars. leased the four leading cinemas of Shaw Brothers for 8 years; At the same time, it invested 30 million Hong Kong dollars to buy Shaw Brothers 3 medium-sized theaters together with the land; Later, he bid another 13 million Hong Kong dollars to buy three other small cinemas and land in the hands of Shao Yifu.

That is to say, Kang Jianfei invested a total of 113 million to buy 6 theaters in the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line and lease 4 Shaw Brothers leading theaters for eight years.

Shao Yifu made concessions on the lease term and rent of the leading theater, but Kang Jianfei had to pack and take over the other theaters.

After that, what Shao Yifu had left was only one theater in a certain building, which he planned to use to convert into a shopping supermarket, or rent out Lu to make an office, anyway, he was not going to show movies again.

Judging from the current housing prices and land prices in Hong Kong, Kang Jianfei is at a loss in this transaction, but if it is put into next year, Shao Yifu will probably not be so "cheap and cheap".

Kang Jianfei bought 6 theaters at one time, and then rented 4 leading theaters, which means that the Oriental Cinema Line instantly added 10 theaters.

However, in terms of the current market potential and scale of Hong Kong, a cinema chain with 25 cinemas is basically at the limit, and if the number of cinemas is large, there will be internal friction - competing with yourself for the audience.

Therefore, the three worst-quality theaters bought from Shaw Brothers, Kang Jianfei is ready to sell them or just invest in real estate. As a result, the number of theaters in the Oriental Cinema Line is just 24, of which 12 are wholly owned by Kang Jianfei and 8 are franchised theaters, and the last is the 4 leading cinemas rented from Shao Yifu.

As a result, the Oriental Cinema Line has become a well-deserved giant in the Hong Kong film industry, with 8 large theaters that can be used as leading cinemas alone, and their ability to attract money far exceeds that of Golden Princess and Golden Harvest.

Kang Jianfei and Shao Yifu walked out of the airport with a smile and a smile, and then got into the car, because the secrecy work was done well, it did not arouse too many people's ideas.

Fang Yihua, who came to pick up the airport in person, looked at Kang Jianfei behind him, and asked Shao Yifu: "Sixth brother, what did you talk about just now so happy?" ”

Shao Yifu said lightly: "I sold the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line to him." ”

"What!" Fang Yihua was taken aback and said, "You can't sell it to anyone and Kang Jianfei, this decrepit boy is against us all day long, and selling the theater to him doesn't boost his arrogance?" ”

"Besides him, who will take over the entire Shaw Brothers Cinema chain?" Shao Yifu asked unhurriedly.

Fang Yihua immediately stopped talking, if it was just the 4 leading theaters of the Shaw Brothers, then whether it was Princess Jin or Golden Harvest, they would be happy to buy it. But Shao Yifu wants to package and sell the entire theater chain, and the most important 4 leading theaters are only rented and not sold, except for Kang Jianfei, who is the unjust boss, no one will really do such a stupid thing.

After a while, Shao Yifu said again: "In the future, the ratings of the wireless station will still compete with Phoenix TV, but don't play small tricks, lest everyone get angry." Kang Jianfei has promised just now that Phoenix Channel will not deliberately shoot TV series similar to TVB because of grabbing ratings. ”

"I know." Fang Yihua said a little depressed.

In parallel time and space, the relationship between ATV and TVB at this time is very strange. The two TV stations compete fiercely for ratings, but the major shareholders of both sides are good friends in private, and sometimes there are even some small cooperations. And when ATV caught fire, TVB lent the office to ATV employees to use, which ensured that ATV was not off the air.

Of course, Phoenix TV and TVB will not get along so well, but after the private communication between Kang Jianfei and Shao Yifu, at least everyone will not maliciously compete in order to defeat each other in the future, which is actually not beneficial to anyone.

Just when Fang Yihua was depressed, Zhao Yazhi, who came to pick up the airport, was also very curious and asked Kang Jianfei: "I saw that you had a very pleasant chat with Mr. Shao just now, could it be that my eyes are glazed?" ”

Kang Jianfei said with a smile: "I just negotiated a deal with him, and everyone felt that they had made money, so it seemed that they had a good conversation." ”

"What business?" Zhao Yazhi asked.

Kang Jianfei looked at the traffic outside the window and said with a sigh: "After this summer, there will be no Shaw Brothers in Hong Kong." ”

"Shaw is going to be discontinued?" Zhao Yazhi exclaimed, for Hong Kong people who grew up watching Shaw Brothers movies, the news of Shaw Brothers' discontinuation of production is indeed enough to surprise people.

"Not only will Shaw Brothers stop production, but even Shaw Brothers Cinemas will be merged into Oriental Cinemas." Kang Jianfei's mood is also very complicated, a huge Shaw family has entered death, and he has shoveled a handful of soil on his grave at the very least, which is somewhat sad for a rabbit and a fox.

"You bought Shaw Cinemas?" Zhao Yazhi was surprised by the news that Kang Jianfei said.

Kang Jianfei nodded and acknowledged, and continued: "This time I went to the capital, I went to Beijing Film Studio for a turn, and I also contacted the China Film Cooperation Company. The first part of "Shushan" will be filmed in the mainland next month, although you are not the heroine, but the role is also very heavy, I am afraid that you will be banned by the Taiwan authorities because of this. ”

"Anyway, I don't go to Taiwan much, so it doesn't matter if it's blocked or not." Zhao Yazhi said with a smile. She has been very idle in the past year, and she has made a TV series and a movie, and at other times she can do whatever she wants.

Kang Jianfei didn't say more, the filming time of the first part of "Shushan", the most optimistic estimate will take at least seven or eight months. Like Jiuzhaigou framing is slightly better, after all, it has gradually been developed, and the traffic to Zhangjiajie is difficult, not to mention, the weather in the mountains is unpredictable, sometimes waiting for a good shot may take half a month, and many shots have to contact the military helicopter to assist in shooting.

Coupled with post-production, when the first film of "Shushan" is completed, it will be at least a year later.

Zhao Yazhi quietly leaned on Kang Jianfei's shoulder, enjoying a rare warm moment.

Zeng Bolin suddenly asked in a sinister manner: "Boss, there is still an hour and a half before the premiere of "Love Saint", should you go directly or ...... first?"

"I'll go to Ah Zhi's side first," Kang Jianfei quietly scratched Zhao Yazhi's palm and said to Zeng Bolin, "You just get off in front and go to the premiere site to make arrangements." ”

Zhao Yazhi bit his lower lip, and there was a faint sense of shame on his face, and he naturally knew what bad things Kang Jianfei was going to do. (To be continued......)