"Cinemas?"

Huang Shusheng looked surprised, his boss is really engaged in a theater?

Liu Jizu immediately made a phone call and asked about the Taipan of HSBC, and asked him how many cinemas he had acquired, because in this era, many cinemas are connected to the land, and the bosses of these cinemas are basically waiting for the appreciation of the land to build commercial office buildings.

And some movie theaters are bought property rights, not rented, so if you want to buy these scattered theaters, it is most appropriate for the landlord HSBC to come forward, and those bosses who are unwilling to sell have to sell HSBC more or less to save face.

However, there is no such thing as an impermeable wall, and some bosses thought of shopping around to see if they could sell for more money, so they reached out to Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest to see if they were willing to pay a higher price for their movie theater.

So, although HSBC agreed to Liu Jizu to do it secretly, it was still known by Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, so there was the opening scene, and the DreamWorks movie was not released, and Lao Tzu made a special card for your company, how about it?

When the wave of happy ghosts has passed, no matter how good Liu Jizu's movies are, the audience at that time was aesthetically fatigued, and they were bombarded by countless copycat happy ghosts for several months, and not many people would pay for it.

"Boss, are you really buying a theater chain? No wonder, no wonder the two of them just like they agreed, and they all ignored our movie"

"Well, don't be afraid, after a few days of decoration, we will be released in our own theaters, HSBC has told me that we have successfully acquired more than a dozen, and then engage in some franchises, we will rent a few more ourselves, and we can get together thirty or forty, and we can operate directly."

"Boss, should we hold a press conference?" Huang Shusheng said excitedly, although he doesn't have shares in the theater chain, but DreamWorks has it, it's good to enjoy the shade with his back against the big tree, and the theater line is there, so I'm afraid that the film company won't be able to develop.

"No, why do you engage in those fictitious things, well, by the way, to publish a news in the newspaper is to invite the owners of those retail movie theaters to join, we can give a penny and not make a profit, but we must manage it in a unified manner." Liu Jizu thought about it and released another big move.

After joining, in addition to unified management, payment management fees and the like, Times Cinema does not earn a penny from you franchisees, are you tempted? Happy? Rejoice?

There are a lot of cinemas on Hong Kong Island, in addition to the two giants, there are also some leftists, who specialize in leftist films, and then some Westerners, which specialize in foreign films.

In addition, there are some salty and wet factions, because Huang makes money, their movies dare not say that they are full, but the audience is more loyal than the big theater chain, as long as there are new movies, there is definitely an audience.

In the end, there are some people who play literature and art, and put some artistic movies, in the past, these theaters didn't want to join the two giants, but the two giants didn't look down on them.

You can rent it yourself, you can buy it, why do you need someone else's joining? Therefore, if you want to join, you must follow their share, and the majority of the profit is taken away by them, so the small cinema line simply does not join, denying the maintenance of its own site, labor, water and electricity, etc., all of which are at a loss.

Liu Jizu told Huang Shusheng his thoughts and asked him to mobilize the bosses of these small theaters to join, but when he heard Liu Jizu say that he didn't want those small bosses for a penny, Huang Shusheng was stunned.

"Boss, if you don't earn a penny from them, what does the Times Cinema rely on to make a profit?"

"Of course it's by the movie, the better the movie, the more we make ourselves, and the first time we joined was three years, and after three years everything stabilized, they had to add money if they wanted to continue to renew the contract-"

Liu Jizu smiled, the reason why he did this, without him, just four words, rich and rich, and recently made a windfall, so it doesn't matter if the theater franchise in this era is not profitable, let's talk about it first.

"Okay, I'll do it, by the way, over there in the Times Cinema Line, do you want to manage it yourself?" Huang Shusheng suddenly thought of an important question and said with a little embarrassment.

"I'm going to make movies and manage DreamWorks, so I probably can't afford to take care of a second company."

He prefers making movies to management.

"I'll ask Fang Ting to come over there to help, and I also hired a four-eyed boy, his name is Martln, the office address is already looking for it, it will be opened in the next few days, and as long as the company has a movie released, you can find him-"

Martln, the four-eyed referee before, Liu Jizu never asked what his name was, and he didn't know his name until after the celebration banquet.

Then I heard Four-Eyed Boy say that he was unemployed, so Liu Jizu thought about whether to ask him to help with his newly opened Times Cinema-

Although the four-eyed boy is greedy for money, his ability is not questionable, and he dares to wander among many killers and sell intelligence, this courage can be described as extraordinary, in Liu Jizu's view, greed for money is not terrible, what is terrible is that he is not a talent.

Hearing that Liu Jizu invited him to be the manager, and he could also become a shareholder, the four-eyed boy Martln immediately said that there was no problem, and he immediately handed over a letter of resignation to the foundation, anyway, the foundation was ready to be dissolved-

Huang Shusheng nodded, but before leaving, he suddenly remembered something, "In this way, then I will rest assured, then I will go and get busy first, by the way, boss, the theater chain is better to be fast, there are more than a dozen of them to open up first and let the movie be released, and now there are more than a dozen films produced outside, in the evening for a month, I'm afraid that our genuine happy ghosts will be cold~"

Liu Jizu patted him on the shoulder, "Don't worry, I'm measured, I also made an appointment, you go and get busy, I'm going to be busy too~"

After Huang Shusheng left, Liu Jizu picked up the phone and called his foreign lawyer Pete. Cinnabar.

"Hey, Lawyer Pete, help me secretly buy a jackpot for Liuhecai, and I pay more than 20% of the price, why should I? Of course it's a giveaway."

"By the way, I also want a horse ticket, help me buy a few at a high price, I want to give it away"

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In the office building of Golden Harvest -

An old man with a unique charm and reading glasses is sitting in the office, drinking tea and chatting with his old partner He Guanchang.

This old man is the boss of Jiahe, Zhou Wenhuai, who is also a long-lived man, and he lived for more than ninety years before he passed away.

"The young boy is young, he entered the film industry after making some money, you said that he made movies, even if he wanted to engage in theaters, I really don't know how thick the sky is~"

Zhou Wenhuai was drinking tea, he was talking about Times Cinemas, and one after another, the owners of movie theaters came to ask him if he wanted to buy their theaters at a high price, because someone wanted to buy them, and they were exposed all of a sudden.

No matter how confidential HSBC is, it can't stand those greedy bosses who want to shop around, and those people took the initiative to contact Golden Harvest and wanted to sell at a higher price, and they were immediately known by Zhou Wenhuai.

It's okay to make a movie, after all, the audience won't pay for the movie if it's not good, so it's healthy competition, but the theater chain is the lifeblood of Golden Harvest, the two are already crowded enough, and now there is a third one who wants to go into this fish pond to grab food, so what's the point?

Therefore, Zhou Wenhuai asked his old partner to contact the Shaw Brothers side and directly blocked the DreamWorks movie, and the two sides also reached a series of cooperation, as long as it is a movie between the two companies, the latter will not be allowed to go to Times Theaters to release it.

On the one hand, Liu Jizu's film company is blocked, and on the other hand, Liu Jizu's theater is blocked, both of which are two-pronged to see how long he can last-

"I don't know how thick the sky is, but young people are like this, young and vigorous, you and I were also young at the beginning, so I had the courage to leave the Shaw Brothers and go out alone, hehe." He Guanchang said with a smile.

"Yes, in a blink of an eye, we are all old, and we are no longer young~" Zhou Wenhuai sighed, remembering the difficulties of starting a business at the beginning.

In order to ban Zhou Wenhuai, the old owner of the Shaw Family, who came out of his house and flew alone, it was no surprise, and all kinds of open and secret means were used, and he was really conscientious in starting a business at that time, on the one hand, he threw money to make friends with the underworld, and on the other hand, he threw money to make friends with the white way, and finally stood still.

Zhou Wenhuai asked, "I heard that more than a dozen have been acquired, and you plan to open one day?" ”

He Guanchang nodded, "Although it's not much, it's already operational, we banned his happy ghost, it seems that he plans to release it in his own theater." ”

Zhou Wenhuai closed his eyes, leaned back on the sofa and thought about it, "Blocking his movies and theaters, that also gave him time to breathe, he must be strangled in the cradle, and help me go to Shao Liu for tea tomorrow, this young man, he must let him retreat from the difficulty——"

How to retreat in the face of difficulties? Of course, it's a means, it's either black or white, and if it's white, it may be useless, because the white means only work for associations, and it's very little for the rich.

So it's only possible that it's black.

The old owner of Shaw Brothers, who runs TV stations and movies, makes a lot of money, but who would dislike having more money? It will definitely not let the third giant theater appear.

Zhou Wenwei is sure that the old club, the Shaw Family, will definitely agree to join forces and strangle this young boy who doesn't know the height of the sky in the cradle

He Guanchang nodded, "Okay, but isn't it a bit of a fuss?" In the entire film industry on Hong Kong Island, which production company dares to offend Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest and dare to go to his era theaters to release it? ”

Zhou Wenhuai smiled, "Don't forget, the old club also blocked us like this, forcing us to open our own theaters, and then our theaters opened, and they made the entire Hong Kong Island people dare not come to our theaters with movies, and now someone wants to repeat our old ways, we definitely can't let him get his wish"

In a word, movies are okay, this bowl of rice can be eaten by you, but the theater line can't, because this is a rice bowl for drought and flood protection, you occupy one, and others will have one less.

"Okay, I'll do it~" He Guanchang nodded, opened the door and went out to arrange, and at this time, Zhou Wenhuai's words came softly from behind.

"Remember, don't get killed"

Sorry, I'm too busy, I almost forgot to update, the new computer has arrived, and the update should be resumed tomorrow, and it's still about 5-8K every day

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