"What? Five dead? Didn't you say don't kill anyone? ”

Zhou Wenhuai frowned and said, although he is not afraid of trouble, but trouble is trouble after all, and if you die, you will be in trouble.

"It's not their side, it's the community's side that five died." He Guanchang responded.

"Oh, the club, since it's the old boy, it's fine."

Troubled boys, rotten boys' lives are worthless, they are not taxpayers, except for collecting protection money and creating disasters on Hong Kong Island, there is no benefit at all, no matter how many deaths there are, there is no police investigation, I don't see that sometimes the two societies grab land, and the police wait for them to cut before they go in to clean up the mess.

"However, I heard from some friends that the owner of Times Cinema donated a lot of money to the police, and now the police on the entire Hong Kong Island are ready to escort Times Cinema at any time."

Zhou Wenhuai frowned and asked, "A big sum?" How big is it? ”

He Guanchang smiled bitterly, "Ten million dollars"

“.”

Good boy, you really dare to spend money, 10 million US dollars, it seems that the club can't deal with him, Zhou Wenhuai heard this number, opened his mouth, and didn't know what to say, Nima, his annual film income of Jiahe may not be less than 10 million US dollars

Of course, this is only Hong Kong Island, because Hong Kong Island is just a city, with so much population, and of course there is an upper limit to the box office contributed every year, so Golden Harvest will actively carry out overseas business, the Southeast Asian market, the American market, repeatedly defeated, repeatedly defeated -

"It seems that the boss of Times Cinema has a lot of money, sometimes you can solve ninety percent of the troubles with money, and then find someone to lick and block this posterity~"

"Well, but today, the police swept the whole field of Dongxing, and I estimate that in less than a month, no club will dare to move his theater."

"It doesn't matter, I've already had tea with Shao Laoliu, and then no one will take the movie to his theater to show it, even if he can make some movies by himself to maintain it, and there will be no overseas businessmen to buy his copyright, see how long he can last, and if his income and expenditure are not balanced every month, it will be a loss of money, hehe."

Zhou Wenhuai smiled, "The post-born boy made some money, and he didn't know how thick the sky was when he became a nouveau riche, if there was no film source for this theater line, the daily expenses would be about the same as burning money, and hundreds of millions of assets would want to play a money-burning war, but it would be a little tender."

Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, at the moment the annual profit is over 100 million, the company's price in the stock market is as high as billions, of course, the stock market must be a bit inflated, but it also proves their energy, especially Shaw Brothers, also operates a TV station, and the annual profit in the TV station is also more than 100 million.

As for Zhou Wenhuai's overseas businessmen buying copyrights, it is because Hong Kong Island cannot recover the cost of large-investment films at this time, and only by adding overseas box office and selling copyrights can it make a profit.

The overseas mentioned here refers to Southeast Asia, because of different customs and cultures, Europe and the United States have always been not interested in Hong Kong Island movies, so in addition to Southeast Asia, Golden Harvest is still actively developing towards Hollywood, but unfortunately it has not yet reached the threshold.

Once Liu Jizu's overseas copyright cannot be sold, and he does not have his own cinema chain in Southeast Asia, the overseas market is insulated from him, and this income will undoubtedly drop sharply.

And the production of movies with small investment cannot have such a hit as a happy ghost every time.

If Liu Jizu is an external force, then he will be greeted by a zero-yuan purchase of the community day and night, and then no one will go to the police after calling the police.

But now, Liu Jizu has paid a large amount of protection money to the police on Hong Kong Island, so their idea of borrowing the power of Bai Dao will be invalid.

"In addition, Times Cinema also put a trick."

"Oh~" Zhou Wenhuai said in surprise, "What tricks did they put on?" ”

"All the movies that go to them for release have a box office of three or seven points"

"Sanqi? It can't be the three of them, right? ”

He Guanchang smiled bitterly and nodded, "That's right, it's 30% of the theater chain, they want to give 70% of the box office to the producer, and some people are already eager to try"

This time, Zhou Wenhuai couldn't sit still, so he stood up directly and walked around twice, "Are you crazy?" If he does this, he is completely losing money and has to get the source of the film first, Sanqi, does he have any money to earn."

He Guanchang said, "Three or seven points, if the source of the film is enough, it will not be a loss"

No, the premise is that there are films released every day, and they will not be empty, not to mention making money, at least the capital can still be saved, as long as the theater is not empty, it will not lose money.

Most of the movies go to Golden Harvest He Shaw Brothers to show 64, who is 6, of course, it is 6 in theaters, and the producer is only 4, and there is a charter fee ten years ago~

Now only those well-made movies that are sure to be box office hits can talk about five or five points in theaters, which is already the biggest discount, and the producers have to pay for the publicity.

That's why I said that no matter whether Golden Harvest's movies hit the street or not, the cinema chain is its lifeblood, drought and flood harvest, and it is never afraid of losing money, which is also the reason why it can tacitly partner with Shaw Brothers, an old rival, to deal with Times Cinema.

Zhou Wenhuai said angrily, "Hmph, then there will be a Jianghu banning order, as long as someone dares to take the film to Times Cinema, they will never be allowed to come to Golden Harvest to screen it in the future, I will call Shao Laoliu later to talk to him."

"If you want to be blocked by the theaters on the entire Hong Kong Island, go to the Times Cinema to try it~"

He Guanchang was worried, "Will this completely force those independent producers to the side of Times Cinemas?" ”

Zhou Wenhuai shook his head, "Impossible, the boss of Times Cinema is just a nouveau riche, his funds can't last so long, he will have to go out of business in half a year at most, okay, that's it, you find someone to block him, I'll find Shao Lao Liu to drink tea, unify it."

As a self-made Jiahe in the 70s, during that chaotic time period, no one knows how many connections he has in this city, and yesterday was just the first step in his efforts.

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"Thirty-seven points? So we're not a net loss? ”

In the office building of DreamWorks, a meeting is being held, Huang Shusheng is here, and Fang Ting, although the four-eyed boy Martln is the executive manager of Times Cinema, but the finance is managed by Fang Ting, and Huang Shusheng runs part-time on both sides, no way, at the moment there are few people, one person uses more, and those who can work more.

"Well, after my calculations, three or seven points will not be a loss~" The four-eyed boy Martln took out a piece of paper, on which he wrote some data he calculated, he graduated from a famous foreign financial school.

"As long as the theater line is not empty, there is about one-third of the seats each time, and there will be no loss, and the franchisees will not charge any franchise fees and other fees except for a little unified management fee, and they will not lose one-third of the attendance, but a little profit."

"Before joining, they didn't have so many film sources and so many attendances, although Sanqi, they got less box office share, but as long as people watch movies every day, they won't lose money, which everyone can rest assured."

"On the contrary, it is our directly operated theater, the rent paid, and the money for acquisition, as well as the daily labor expenses, there will be a little loss, of course, the data I calculated is not so accurate, if every movie released in our theater is so popular in the future, it may also turn a loss into a profit~"

Liu Jizu waved his hand, not caring at all, "Don't worry, four-eyed boy, you spread the news, I believe that as long as the profit is big enough, there will definitely be independent producers coming to us, as long as there is the first one to eat crabs, the people behind will continue to come over, and the two of them can't be blocked." ”

Liu Jizu remembered that the golden princess of another time and space was also forced to work hard in the early stage, except for the little source of his new city, there was no other source at all, but what about later? The two of them teamed up to screen it.

is a popular movie, which can be screened at the same time in Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, which is absolutely impossible before the appearance of the new city.

"Continue to send some news, we welcome all producers to come to our film schedule, Times Cinema will adopt a fair and just film scheduling system, and will definitely not replace them because their movies are released, everything is spoken by the box office, and all the money will be settled within a month after the release~"

Speaking of money, Liu Jizu suddenly remembered something, turned his head and asked Director Huang, "By the way, Director Huang, does Golden Harvest owe us Happy Ghost 1 The box office hasn't been settled yet?" ”

Huang Shusheng nodded, "Yes, the box office of about 11 million, I dragged the relationship to find acquaintances to go to Golden Harvest to arrange films, 5.5 and 4.5 points, we have 4.5 million, so far we have only got 2 million~"

Liu Jizu nodded, "Notify Attorney Pete, sue them, and also, the overseas copyright is not sold~"

Huang Shusheng shook his head, "No, according to the rules of the industry, overseas copyrights are sold only when the box office comes out~"

Liu Jizu touched his chin, "Find a time, check the publishers in Southeast Asia, which one has the strength, just find him to cooperate, and find a time to talk later~"

Huang Shusheng nodded, "Okay~"

"Well, then you get busy first, I'll go to the police station to deal with the problem, I heard that a few old boys died last night."

Regarding the distributor, Liu Jizu actually already has an object, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest have been operating for many years, and they have long had their own channels in Southeast Asia, so cooperating with them is undoubtedly seeking skin with the tiger, so if you want to find it, you must find a distributor with strong strength, but there is no source of its own film on Hong Kong Island, and Meiya seems to be a good choice, because Meiya is a very powerful one among many distributors.

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Liu Jizu rushed to the police station, on the one hand, to record a confession, on the other hand, because of the death of last night's incident, Tian Yangsheng's side killed three old boys, and then one died in the melee on Liu Jizu's side, and one was hacked to death by Hongxing's people in the melee of other theaters.

Five people died, of course he had to deal with it, although it was nominally self-defense, and the evidence was conclusive for the old boy to get together for zero yuan to buy and smash and rob, but the process still had to go.

The one who received Liu Jizu was the Seraph, oh, now retired, called Chen Guozhong. [Note 1]

Chen Guozhong walked in front of Liu Jizu with a smile, "Here, it was quite majestic last night, I heard that it was the people from Dongxing who were looking for trouble, and they were reversed, you were prepared~"

Liu Jizu handed over a cigarette and said with a smile, "I still want to trouble you, there is no thousand-day thief prevention, this wave of those old boys have suffered a little loss, and they will definitely not give up, and when the theater is no longer guarded by security personnel, it is estimated that they will sneak in to make trouble." ”

Chen Guozhong took the cigarette and smiled slightly, "You are majestic, last night all the police stations on Hong Kong Island were dispatched to help you sweep the field of Dongxing."

Last night, after beating the old boy, it was confirmed that the people who came to make trouble were from Dongxing, Liu Jizu made a call, and then the police, who had been preparing for a long time, directly attacked with heavy punches, specifically looking for Dongxing's field to sweep, Dongxing Five Tigers were directly arrested three, and I don't know if anyone will grab Dongxing's territory tonight.

Liu Jizu accompanied him, as well as a lawyer, because of the dead man, no matter how he had to go through the legal process, Liu Jizu brought a lawyer to of course lose money if he should lose money, of course he should sue if he should sue, if you need to give some compensation to the five dead old boys, it doesn't matter, leave it to a professional lawyer to deal with.

In a word, the problems that can be solved with the ability to use money are not problems.

"Ah, let go, let go of me"

Suddenly, there was a scream from the police station, and after Liu Jizu heard it, he looked at Chen Guozhong curiously, and Chen Guozhong's face changed, and he immediately rushed over.

Liu Jizu also followed closely, and when he ran over, he saw a big fat man, oh no, this person should be fat on the surface, but in fact he should be strong, and his burly body is full of muscles.

The big silver-white back and beard on his face have a feeling of Zhang Fei, the difference is that the other party's eyes are all unruly and ruthless, and this fat man is pressing a police officer's hand on the iron door and crushing it hard.

So arrogant?

The police officer who was pressed by the other party pressed his fingers on the iron door was screaming, Chen Guozhong hurriedly shouted to him to stop, but the fat man turned a deaf ear, and instead stared at the police outside the iron gate with fierce eyes.

"Take the key~" Chen Guozhong commanded his assistant, stared at him gloomily, "After tonight, you will be finished-"

The fat man was not only not afraid, but stared at the few police officers outside the iron gate like a hungry tiger, "I let you bastards can't get out of the police station"

Liu Jizu stood behind and touched his chin, he seemed to know who this fat man was, a fool who dared to threaten the police in person.

When he came to Chen Guozhong's office, Liu Jizu opened his mouth and asked, "That fat man was very arrogant just now, what is it called?" ”

Chen Guozhong nodded with a gloomy face, "That bastard's name is Wang Bao, when he went to court three years ago, because the witness died halfway, so there was no way to testify, and he was at large for three years. ”

Liu Jizu nodded, sure enough, it was him-

"Then you're not going to take him directly"

Liu Jizu stretched out two fingers, as well as a thumb, and made a gun pose.

[PS, in the Seraphic Angel movie, he is called Chen Sir, there is no name, and the police officer in Killing the Wolf is called Chen Guozhong, and they are merged together, anyway, they are all surnamed Chen, and they are still an actor. 】

(End of chapter)