Sir Shao, 50 million can't be more. Zhang Moren was hunched over and looked a little bowing to Run Run Shaw, but his tone was very rude. You also know that the third round of negotiations between the Communist Party and the United Kingdom had begun, but there was no sign of solving the Hong Kong issue at all.If the fight starts at that time and Mr. Kang buys so many cinemas, wouldn’t it be for nothing to give it to the mainland?
Run Run Shaw is almost 80 years old, but he is very energetic. He slowly shook his head and smiled: Your boss, Mr. Kang, secretly bought land and houses in Hong Kong and built a set in Tseung Kwan O. These things are no longer a secret. How could he be afraid that the People's Liberation Army will come here?
That's it, but this is the situation in Hong Kong now. Zhang Moren finally raised his head and said, "Shaw Brothers had so many cinemas in Hong Kong and Nanyang, and when the Japanese came over, they were all gone. Who knows if the People's Liberation Army will be like the Japanese?"
What Zhang Moren said is the truth. Before World War II, the Shaw family had already established a huge foundation in Hong Kong and Nanyang, but unfortunately everything was destroyed by the Japanese.
The current Shaw family business was basically rebuilt by the Shao family brothers after the war.
But can the Japanese compare with the People's Liberation Army?
Zhang Moren was simply making trouble, and Run Run Shaw was too lazy to argue with him anymore, and only said: 150 million.
Zhang Moren smiled and said: 150 million is certainly OK, but it must include Shaw Brothers' four leading theaters.
Run Run Shaw shook his head and said: Shaw's leading theater is only rented but not sold.
Zhang Moren asked: What is the price of rent?
Run Run Shaw said: The three-year rent for four theaters is 50 million.
Sir Shao, are you kidding?Judging from the current land prices and housing prices in Hong Kong, it is far from spending 50 million to rent land in prime locations.Zhang Moren asked with a smile.
Run Run Shaw said calmly: I rarely joke.
The price tags offered by both sides are too different, so if you don’t have any speculation, you will naturally break up.
After Zhang Moren left, Run Run Shaw couldn't help but sigh.
Since the news of Shaw Brothers Cinemas being sold, many people have talked to Run Run Shaw, but these buyers want to take the opportunity to lower the price, and none of them can reach an agreement.
To be honest, Shaw Brothers and Shaw Cinemas are almost unable to hold on, and their box office is always suppressed by Shaw Brothers, DreamWorks and New Art City.
In parallel space, Shaw Brothers released two movies this Christmas season, namely "Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu" directed by Huashan and "Suncai" directed by Chu Yuan.
But the starring actors of these two movies, Leslie Cheung, Chung and Er Dongsheng, are now artists under Kang Jianfei, and have nothing to do with Shaw Brothers.
"Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu" was filmed, but Yang Guo's actors were replaced by Leslie Cheung to Andy Lau, while the movie "Suncai" disappeared out of thin air, replaced by "The Sword of Blood" adapted from Jin Yong's famous work.
"Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu" starring Andy Lau has been lost, with the box office in this city only 1.68 million, which is a very ugly data in the summer season.
Shaw Pictures may be able to make a lot of money from overseas box office, but Shaw (Hong Kong) theaters have lost money in real terms.
As for "The Blood Sword", which collided with "The Deadly Express", it was released only three days after it was released. If the attendance rate continues to be released, Shaw Brothers Theater will only lose more.
Run Run Shaw is very conflicted now. He wants to take action to reduce the losses as soon as possible, but he is reluctant to sell the theater chain that he worked hard to the past to others.
Fortunately, there is also a TVB station. Although TVB's ratings have been suppressed by Feng Huáng Station for three consecutive months, it is actually not too bad to lose, and it still has the upper hand in variety shows.
Run Run Shaw has many assets, and has its own cinemas in Southeast Asian countries, and also owns real estate and playgrounds in Singapore and Malaysia.
Even if Shaw Pictures and theaters lose all their money, Shaw's personal assets are several times that of Kang Jianfei, and even Kang Jianfei can't catch up with the family assets.
But Run Run Shaw's love for the film and television industry is definitely purer than Kang Jianfei. The brothers of the Shao family sold their ancestral property to make movies, and Run Run Shaw almost died of a shipwreck in order to buy equipment in the United States.
Run Run Shaw Awesme film industry has been very unwilling to be forced to close the film company by young people for a long time.
To be honest, the movie produced by Shaw this year is not without highlights.
Like "The Frog Prince" directed by Wang Jing, the box office is more than 15 million, which gives Run Run Shaw some hope to continue to persevere.
A few minutes later, Huang Jiaxi, the current general manager of Shaw Pictures, came in and said: Uncle Liu, Liu Jialiang wants to make a kung fu film. I thought it was good after hearing his thoughts...
Speaking of which, Huang Jiaxi, the general manager of Shaw, was also frustrated. Now, even if a drama can be filmed, we have to ask Run Run Shaw to tell you, because the company's funds on the books are really tight.
What is he going to take?Tell me.Run Run Shaw asked.
Huang Jiaxi said: Liu Jialiang was preparing to film Yang Wulang of the Northern Song Dynasty, but was framed by a treacherous minister and defeated the army. He became a monk and learned the gossip stick for monks, and then went down the mountain to avenge his revenge.
It’s another set of grudges and hatreds!
Run Run Shaw felt that the directors under his command were all elm-headed, so why didn’t he learn from Jiahe, Princess Jin, and DreamWorks as they were?
Huang Jiaxi continued: Uncle Six, Yindu Institution will release "Shaolin Boy" during the New Year's Eve, which is starring Jet Li in "Shaolin Temple".This film will most likely sell well. If we want to film "Wulang Gossip Stick", it is best to start the film as soon as possible and be released after "Shaolin Boy" is sold.
Run Run Shaw was still very relieved about Liu Jialiang. Although Liu Jiaban didn’t make much money in the movies, he has not failed much yet.
Now that we can take advantage of the east wind of "Shaolin Boy", it is definitely no problem to get the cost back. Run Run Shaw finally nodded and said: Then let's shoot.
However, Huang Jiaxi hesitated for a moment and continued, Liu Jialiang wanted to let Hui Yinghong be the heroine.
Run Run Shaw hated traitors the most. He had no good impression of an actor like Hui Yinghong who jumped to DreamWorks. He said unhappyly: Is there no actress in Shaw Brothers?If Liu Jialiang can't find a suitable actor at Shaw Brothers, then let him go to the wireless station to choose!
Huang Jiaxi dared not say much, so he had to accept it.
In fact, according to Huang Jiaxi's idea, if Shaw Brothers is filming now, it would be best to hire one or two popular female stars under Oriental Entertainment, which would have a much considerable box office.
But now he only mentioned Hui Yinghong, but Run Run Shaw directly rejected it, and Huang Jiaxi had no choice but to stop this idea.
The filming plan for "Good Gossip Stick" was approved. As the producer, Huang Jiaxi immediately ran to contact Ni Kuang to write the script after leaving Run Run Shaw's office.
Shortly after Huang Jiaxi left, Run Run Shaw opened a book on his desk. The following was a newspaper today. I saw the headline on the entertainment page, "Forty-one theaters are screened in Hong Kong, and the box office of the fatal express broke the record on the first day."
Forty-one cinemas show a movie at the same time, which is definitely an unprecedented grand occasion in Hong Kong.
A few years ago, Princess Jin's predecessor, Lisheng Theater, was attached to Jiahe Theater. Combined with some other retail cinemas, the number of Jiahe Theater companies' cinemas once reached 35, accounting for half of the first round of theaters in Hong Kong.
Now, due to the rapid prosperity of Hong Kong films, the number of cinemas in Hong Kong has increased, with a total of 107, which has caught up with the level of 1985 in parallel time and space.
What does it mean to release 41 cinemas at the same time? That is to say, one-half of the first round theaters in Hong Kong are screening the movie "Deadly Express".
Under the strong appeal of Jackie Chan and Brigitte Lin, combined with the distribution capabilities of Jiahe and DreamWorks, and the influence of Kang Jianfei, the first-day box office of "Deadly Express" turned out to be 4.63 million.
The box office of 4.63 million on the first day!
It is equivalent to the box office of most Shaw Brothers movies. This huge gap makes Run Run Shaw, who has been making movies for decades, very uncomfortable.
But Run Run Shaw has to admit that Kang Jianfei and Zou Wenhuai are both people who can take it and let it go. The movies of the two companies were still competing for box office in the first half of the year, but they were able to work together in the second half of the year. This is not something that ordinary people can do.
Office of the General Manager of the Golden Princess Theater.
Lei Juekun held the box office data of "The Deadly Express" for a long time, and finally said to theater manager Li Maowen: Delay the release time of "The Best Partner" and show other movies first during the Christmas season.
That's all.Li Maowen said helplessly.
It is precisely because of the huge publicity of "The Deadly Express" and the cooperation of two major companies that Lei Juekun doesn't want to fight one and two, and moved the release time of "Best Partner 3" by a few days.
But the box office data of "Deadly Express" is so scary. 41 theaters were released at the same time, with an average attendance rate of more than 90%.
Although "Best Partner 3" was filmed in France and although the cast of 007 was also invited to play guest roles, neither Lei Juekun nor Mai Jia nor others had the confidence to fight with "Deadly Express".
Li Maowen suddenly said: "Shaolin Boy" will be held in Yindu Cinema during the Spring Festival, and the box office of that movie should not be low.
No matter how good the Yindu Institutional drama is, where can it be sold?"Shaolin Temple" is a big hit, but it is just a real-life shooting in the mainland.
Lei Juekun didn't take "Shaolin Boy" seriously. His biggest competitors were Jiahe and DreamWorks.
Lei Juekun's other major industries are listed companies, and he has lost money in the past two years. He has to seek development in the film industry.
In 1978, the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index was only 383 points.
However, with the reform and opening up of the mainland, Hong Kong's political and economic environment has greatly improved. At the same time, relying on the mainland market, the status of Hong Kong's trading port has been restored.
While Hong Kong's economy is developing rapidly, the Hang Seng Index soared from 383 points to 1810 points in just three years. In those years, people who traded stocks could make a profit by buying any stock.
Not only that, the housing prices at that time were also frighteningly high, almost two to three times that of today.
However, in the summer of 1981, as banks adjusted deposit interest rates, the Hong Kong property bubble was instantly burst.
The sharp decline in the real estate market has affected the stock market, and the Hang Seng Index has also fallen from 1,810 points to around 1,000 points.
At that time, Lei Juekun's two listed companies had already suffered a lot of losses. At the same time, Lei Juekun lost his position as the first shareholder of the bus company due to the acquisition of Sun Hung Kai.
Next is the Sino-British-Hong Kong negotiations. During the first round of negotiations, the Hang Seng Index fell from 1,000 points to more than 600 points.
After that, the Hang Seng Index gradually rebounded to more than 900 points, but this summer it fell back to more than 600 points again, and now it has only rebounded to around 800 points.
With such ups and downs in the Hong Kong stock market, many investors made a lot of money because of stock speculation, but more investors lost and jumped off the building. Even major shareholders of listed companies like Lei Juekun had no choice but to have any way to change the story caused by this general environment.
Lei Juekun was very satisfied with the performance of Xinyi City. Even Chen Xunqi's Yongjia Film Company has been selling well at the box office.
It can be said that the entire Princess Jin and her satellite company are now more capable of making money than Lei Juekun's other businesses.
But Lei Juekun was always worried about DreamWorks' departure and joining a group of retail investors to establish a new era theater.
Lei Juekun hated Kang Jianfei a little, and regretted it because he forced Kang Jianfei to leave, but he had to admit Kang Jianfei's ability. In the good period, he had to go to the screening date with DreamWorks films.
Anyway, whenever Lei Juekun mentioned Kang Jianfei, he felt like he was stuck in his throat.
Run Run Shaw is almost 80 years old, but he is very energetic. He slowly shook his head and smiled: Your boss, Mr. Kang, secretly bought land and houses in Hong Kong and built a set in Tseung Kwan O. These things are no longer a secret. How could he be afraid that the People's Liberation Army will come here?
That's it, but this is the situation in Hong Kong now. Zhang Moren finally raised his head and said, "Shaw Brothers had so many cinemas in Hong Kong and Nanyang, and when the Japanese came over, they were all gone. Who knows if the People's Liberation Army will be like the Japanese?"
What Zhang Moren said is the truth. Before World War II, the Shaw family had already established a huge foundation in Hong Kong and Nanyang, but unfortunately everything was destroyed by the Japanese.
The current Shaw family business was basically rebuilt by the Shao family brothers after the war.
But can the Japanese compare with the People's Liberation Army?
Zhang Moren was simply making trouble, and Run Run Shaw was too lazy to argue with him anymore, and only said: 150 million.
Zhang Moren smiled and said: 150 million is certainly OK, but it must include Shaw Brothers' four leading theaters.
Run Run Shaw shook his head and said: Shaw's leading theater is only rented but not sold.
Zhang Moren asked: What is the price of rent?
Run Run Shaw said: The three-year rent for four theaters is 50 million.
Sir Shao, are you kidding?Judging from the current land prices and housing prices in Hong Kong, it is far from spending 50 million to rent land in prime locations.Zhang Moren asked with a smile.
Run Run Shaw said calmly: I rarely joke.
The price tags offered by both sides are too different, so if you don’t have any speculation, you will naturally break up.
After Zhang Moren left, Run Run Shaw couldn't help but sigh.
Since the news of Shaw Brothers Cinemas being sold, many people have talked to Run Run Shaw, but these buyers want to take the opportunity to lower the price, and none of them can reach an agreement.
To be honest, Shaw Brothers and Shaw Cinemas are almost unable to hold on, and their box office is always suppressed by Shaw Brothers, DreamWorks and New Art City.
In parallel space, Shaw Brothers released two movies this Christmas season, namely "Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu" directed by Huashan and "Suncai" directed by Chu Yuan.
But the starring actors of these two movies, Leslie Cheung, Chung and Er Dongsheng, are now artists under Kang Jianfei, and have nothing to do with Shaw Brothers.
"Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu" was filmed, but Yang Guo's actors were replaced by Leslie Cheung to Andy Lau, while the movie "Suncai" disappeared out of thin air, replaced by "The Sword of Blood" adapted from Jin Yong's famous work.
"Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu" starring Andy Lau has been lost, with the box office in this city only 1.68 million, which is a very ugly data in the summer season.
Shaw Pictures may be able to make a lot of money from overseas box office, but Shaw (Hong Kong) theaters have lost money in real terms.
As for "The Blood Sword", which collided with "The Deadly Express", it was released only three days after it was released. If the attendance rate continues to be released, Shaw Brothers Theater will only lose more.
Run Run Shaw is very conflicted now. He wants to take action to reduce the losses as soon as possible, but he is reluctant to sell the theater chain that he worked hard to the past to others.
Fortunately, there is also a TVB station. Although TVB's ratings have been suppressed by Feng Huáng Station for three consecutive months, it is actually not too bad to lose, and it still has the upper hand in variety shows.
Run Run Shaw has many assets, and has its own cinemas in Southeast Asian countries, and also owns real estate and playgrounds in Singapore and Malaysia.
Even if Shaw Pictures and theaters lose all their money, Shaw's personal assets are several times that of Kang Jianfei, and even Kang Jianfei can't catch up with the family assets.
But Run Run Shaw's love for the film and television industry is definitely purer than Kang Jianfei. The brothers of the Shao family sold their ancestral property to make movies, and Run Run Shaw almost died of a shipwreck in order to buy equipment in the United States.
Run Run Shaw Awesme film industry has been very unwilling to be forced to close the film company by young people for a long time.
To be honest, the movie produced by Shaw this year is not without highlights.
Like "The Frog Prince" directed by Wang Jing, the box office is more than 15 million, which gives Run Run Shaw some hope to continue to persevere.
A few minutes later, Huang Jiaxi, the current general manager of Shaw Pictures, came in and said: Uncle Liu, Liu Jialiang wants to make a kung fu film. I thought it was good after hearing his thoughts...
Speaking of which, Huang Jiaxi, the general manager of Shaw, was also frustrated. Now, even if a drama can be filmed, we have to ask Run Run Shaw to tell you, because the company's funds on the books are really tight.
What is he going to take?Tell me.Run Run Shaw asked.
Huang Jiaxi said: Liu Jialiang was preparing to film Yang Wulang of the Northern Song Dynasty, but was framed by a treacherous minister and defeated the army. He became a monk and learned the gossip stick for monks, and then went down the mountain to avenge his revenge.
It’s another set of grudges and hatreds!
Run Run Shaw felt that the directors under his command were all elm-headed, so why didn’t he learn from Jiahe, Princess Jin, and DreamWorks as they were?
Huang Jiaxi continued: Uncle Six, Yindu Institution will release "Shaolin Boy" during the New Year's Eve, which is starring Jet Li in "Shaolin Temple".This film will most likely sell well. If we want to film "Wulang Gossip Stick", it is best to start the film as soon as possible and be released after "Shaolin Boy" is sold.
Run Run Shaw was still very relieved about Liu Jialiang. Although Liu Jiaban didn’t make much money in the movies, he has not failed much yet.
Now that we can take advantage of the east wind of "Shaolin Boy", it is definitely no problem to get the cost back. Run Run Shaw finally nodded and said: Then let's shoot.
However, Huang Jiaxi hesitated for a moment and continued, Liu Jialiang wanted to let Hui Yinghong be the heroine.
Run Run Shaw hated traitors the most. He had no good impression of an actor like Hui Yinghong who jumped to DreamWorks. He said unhappyly: Is there no actress in Shaw Brothers?If Liu Jialiang can't find a suitable actor at Shaw Brothers, then let him go to the wireless station to choose!
Huang Jiaxi dared not say much, so he had to accept it.
In fact, according to Huang Jiaxi's idea, if Shaw Brothers is filming now, it would be best to hire one or two popular female stars under Oriental Entertainment, which would have a much considerable box office.
But now he only mentioned Hui Yinghong, but Run Run Shaw directly rejected it, and Huang Jiaxi had no choice but to stop this idea.
The filming plan for "Good Gossip Stick" was approved. As the producer, Huang Jiaxi immediately ran to contact Ni Kuang to write the script after leaving Run Run Shaw's office.
Shortly after Huang Jiaxi left, Run Run Shaw opened a book on his desk. The following was a newspaper today. I saw the headline on the entertainment page, "Forty-one theaters are screened in Hong Kong, and the box office of the fatal express broke the record on the first day."
Forty-one cinemas show a movie at the same time, which is definitely an unprecedented grand occasion in Hong Kong.
A few years ago, Princess Jin's predecessor, Lisheng Theater, was attached to Jiahe Theater. Combined with some other retail cinemas, the number of Jiahe Theater companies' cinemas once reached 35, accounting for half of the first round of theaters in Hong Kong.
Now, due to the rapid prosperity of Hong Kong films, the number of cinemas in Hong Kong has increased, with a total of 107, which has caught up with the level of 1985 in parallel time and space.
What does it mean to release 41 cinemas at the same time? That is to say, one-half of the first round theaters in Hong Kong are screening the movie "Deadly Express".
Under the strong appeal of Jackie Chan and Brigitte Lin, combined with the distribution capabilities of Jiahe and DreamWorks, and the influence of Kang Jianfei, the first-day box office of "Deadly Express" turned out to be 4.63 million.
The box office of 4.63 million on the first day!
It is equivalent to the box office of most Shaw Brothers movies. This huge gap makes Run Run Shaw, who has been making movies for decades, very uncomfortable.
But Run Run Shaw has to admit that Kang Jianfei and Zou Wenhuai are both people who can take it and let it go. The movies of the two companies were still competing for box office in the first half of the year, but they were able to work together in the second half of the year. This is not something that ordinary people can do.
Office of the General Manager of the Golden Princess Theater.
Lei Juekun held the box office data of "The Deadly Express" for a long time, and finally said to theater manager Li Maowen: Delay the release time of "The Best Partner" and show other movies first during the Christmas season.
That's all.Li Maowen said helplessly.
It is precisely because of the huge publicity of "The Deadly Express" and the cooperation of two major companies that Lei Juekun doesn't want to fight one and two, and moved the release time of "Best Partner 3" by a few days.
But the box office data of "Deadly Express" is so scary. 41 theaters were released at the same time, with an average attendance rate of more than 90%.
Although "Best Partner 3" was filmed in France and although the cast of 007 was also invited to play guest roles, neither Lei Juekun nor Mai Jia nor others had the confidence to fight with "Deadly Express".
Li Maowen suddenly said: "Shaolin Boy" will be held in Yindu Cinema during the Spring Festival, and the box office of that movie should not be low.
No matter how good the Yindu Institutional drama is, where can it be sold?"Shaolin Temple" is a big hit, but it is just a real-life shooting in the mainland.
Lei Juekun didn't take "Shaolin Boy" seriously. His biggest competitors were Jiahe and DreamWorks.
Lei Juekun's other major industries are listed companies, and he has lost money in the past two years. He has to seek development in the film industry.
In 1978, the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index was only 383 points.
However, with the reform and opening up of the mainland, Hong Kong's political and economic environment has greatly improved. At the same time, relying on the mainland market, the status of Hong Kong's trading port has been restored.
While Hong Kong's economy is developing rapidly, the Hang Seng Index soared from 383 points to 1810 points in just three years. In those years, people who traded stocks could make a profit by buying any stock.
Not only that, the housing prices at that time were also frighteningly high, almost two to three times that of today.
However, in the summer of 1981, as banks adjusted deposit interest rates, the Hong Kong property bubble was instantly burst.
The sharp decline in the real estate market has affected the stock market, and the Hang Seng Index has also fallen from 1,810 points to around 1,000 points.
At that time, Lei Juekun's two listed companies had already suffered a lot of losses. At the same time, Lei Juekun lost his position as the first shareholder of the bus company due to the acquisition of Sun Hung Kai.
Next is the Sino-British-Hong Kong negotiations. During the first round of negotiations, the Hang Seng Index fell from 1,000 points to more than 600 points.
After that, the Hang Seng Index gradually rebounded to more than 900 points, but this summer it fell back to more than 600 points again, and now it has only rebounded to around 800 points.
With such ups and downs in the Hong Kong stock market, many investors made a lot of money because of stock speculation, but more investors lost and jumped off the building. Even major shareholders of listed companies like Lei Juekun had no choice but to have any way to change the story caused by this general environment.
Lei Juekun was very satisfied with the performance of Xinyi City. Even Chen Xunqi's Yongjia Film Company has been selling well at the box office.
It can be said that the entire Princess Jin and her satellite company are now more capable of making money than Lei Juekun's other businesses.
But Lei Juekun was always worried about DreamWorks' departure and joining a group of retail investors to establish a new era theater.
Lei Juekun hated Kang Jianfei a little, and regretted it because he forced Kang Jianfei to leave, but he had to admit Kang Jianfei's ability. In the good period, he had to go to the screening date with DreamWorks films.
Anyway, whenever Lei Juekun mentioned Kang Jianfei, he felt like he was stuck in his throat.