Chapter 453 Return to Hong Kong

9days ago Celebrity fiction 8
The plane drew a trajectory in the sky, and in the cabin of the plane flying from Beijing to Hong Kong, Run Run Shaw was sitting in joint seats with Kang Jianfei, and the picture was as harmonious as two old friends were chatting.

Run Run Shaw said: Shaw's four leading theaters in Hong Kong have a rent of at least 60 million yuan for five years. No matter how low the price is, there is no need to negotiate.

Kang Jianfei smiled: OK, just this price, 120 million in 10 years.

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

Regarding Kang Jianfei's trick, Run Run Shaw just shook his head and smiled, saying: 10 years is too long, and no one can explain what will happen in the future. There are risks for you and me, and the maximum rental period is only 5 years.

Kang Jianfei said: If I only rent it for 5 years, the 60 million yuan rent would be too expensive. I can buy the land myself and open a new theater.

Run Run Shaw argued: You may be able to open four such large-scale theaters with 60 million, but it is not easy to get a good location.Moreover, my four theaters have accumulated Shaw Brothers' reputation for decades, and many movie fans have the habit of watching movies there, and the newly opened theaters are far from comparable.

The audience always watches movies, and they don’t really care which theater the movie is shown in. Kang Jianfei takes on Run Run Shaw’s scar without hesitation. Shaw’s theater has not had a high attendance rate in the past two years, 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 over except me.

Of course, countless people want to take over such a good theater under Shaw Brothers, but those who want to take over have no money at all.

Although Princess Jin and Jiahe are rich, the scale of these two theaters is already large enough, and it is not very useful to add theaters.

Now Run Run Shaw wants to rent and transfer Shaw's theater, the biggest difficulty is that the price is too expensive: those who can afford money are not interested, and those who are interested cannot afford money.

There are many rich people in Hong Kong, but there are no rich people who can spend 100 million or 200 million to develop theaters like Pan Disheng in parallel.

Even Pandison at this time, his Debao Film Company was founded for several months, and he has not even made a movie yet. Is it useless to have theaters?

Run Run Shaw is now facing such an embarrassing situation. He is unwilling to rent or transfer the theater at a low price. The price is too high and no one is willing to take over. If he keeps it, he will lose money every day if he doesn't sell it or rent it.

What's more, before the Sino-British negotiations end, the Hong Kong stock market will not be able to really get up. The rich all need cash to fill the holes. Who has the spare money to buy a theater to play?

On the plane from Beijing to Hong Kong, two foxes, one old and one young, started to bargain with their wishful thinking.

Why did this scene happen?

The cultural circle visited Beijing group and stayed in Beijing for 3 days. Mr. Zhao Shaoang stayed in Beijing and had affairs. Kang Jianfei and Run Run Shaw returned on this plane.

As the owners of only two TV stations in Hong Kong, the central leaders met with them alone, and the meeting lasted for 3 hours.

Except for Run Run Shaw and Kang Jianfei, no one knew what they had talked about that time, and few people even knew that Kang Jianfei and Run Shaw had been to the capital during that time.

After a secret meeting with the leaders, Run Run Shaw decided to stop Shaw's production business and rent or transfer its theaters.

Run Run Shaw intends to go out to the theater, and Kang Jianfei intends to take over, so the two of them naturally settled their past grudges and sat together to discuss business in a harmonious manner.

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

Kang Jianfei spent HK$70 million to rent Shaw’s four leading theaters for 8 years; at the same time, he invested 30 million Hong Kong dollars to buy three medium theaters in Shaw’s medium theaters together with the land; finally bid 13 million Hong Kong dollars to buy the other three small theaters and land in Run Run Shaw’s hands.

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

Run Run Shaw made concessions in terms of the lease period and rent of the Longtou Theater, but Kang Jianfei had to pack up and take over the other theaters.

After that, Run Run Shaw's remaining only had a theater in a building. He planned to convert it into a shopping supermarket or rent it out to work as a writing room. He was not going to show the movie anyway.

Judging from the current housing prices and land prices in Hong Kong, Kang Jianfei is at a disadvantage in this transaction, but if it is put into next year, Run Run Shaw will most likely not be so sold at a low price.

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

But with the current market potential and scale of Hong Kong, a theater chain has 25 theaters, which is basically the limit. If there are many theaters, it will cause internal friction to compete with itself for the audience.

Therefore, Kang Jianfei is planning to sell the three worst-quality cinemas bought from Shaw Brothers or just invest in real estate.

In this way, the number of theaters in Oriental Cinemas is exactly 24, including 12 wholly owned by Kang Jianfei, 8 theaters, and finally 4 leading theaters rented from Run Run Shaw.

In this way, Oriental Cinemas has become a well-deserved giant in the Hong Kong film industry. There are 8 large cinemas that can be used as leading theaters alone, and their money-making ability is far greater than that of Princess Jin and Jiahe.

Kang Jianfei and Run Run Shaw walked out of the airport with a smile and laughter, and then got on the bus. Because they did a good job of confidentiality, they did not attract too many people's ideas.

Fang Yihua, who came to pick up the plane in person, looked at Kang Jianfei's car behind and asked Run Run Shaw: Sixth Brother, why are you so happy just now?

Run Run Shaw said lightly: I sold Shaw Cinema to him.

What!Fang Yihua was shocked and said, "No one can sell it to Kang Jianfei Ah. This slacking boy is against us all day long. Isn't selling it to him to encourage his arrogance?"

Apart from him, who would take over the entire Shaw Brothers Cinema?Run Run Shaw asked slowly.

Fang Yihua stopped talking at once. If it were just Shaw Brothers' four leading theaters, then both Princess Jin and Jiahe would be happy to buy them.

But Run Run Shaw wanted to sell the entire theater in package, and the four most important leading theaters were only rented but not sold. Apart from the sucker Kang Jianfei, no one would do such a stupid thing.

After a while, Run Run Shaw said: In the future, the ratings of the TVB will still be contested with Feng Huáng TV, but don’t play tricks, so as not to make everyone angry.Kang Jianfei had promised just now that Feng Huáng TV would not deliberately shoot TV series similar to TVB because of catching ratings.

I see.Fang Yihua said with some depression.

In parallel space and time, the relationship between ATV and TVB is very strange at this time.

The two TV stations competed very well to grab ratings, but the major shareholders of both sides were good friends in private and sometimes even had some small cooperation.

When ATV was in a big fire, the TVB even lent the office to ATV employees, which ensured that ATV did not stop broadcasting.

Of course, Feng Huáng and TVB will not get along so well, but after private communication between Kang Jianfei and Run Run Shaw, at least everyone will not compete maliciously in order to defeat each other in the future. Doing so will not be beneficial to anyone.

Just when Fang Yihua felt depressed, Zhao Yazhi, who came to pick him up, asked Kang Jianfei very curiously: I saw you having a very happy chat with Mr. Shao just now. Did I see my eyes dazzled?

Kang Jianfei smiled and said: I just started a business with him, and everyone felt that they had made a profit, so it seemed that they had a good chat.

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 Brothers wants to stop production?Zhao Yazhi exclaimed that for Hong Kong people who grew up watching Shaw Brothers movies, the news of Shaw Brothers discontinuing production is indeed shocking enough.

Not only is Shaw Brothers suspended production, but Shaw Brothers Cinema will also be merged into Oriental Cinema.

Kang Jianfei's mood was also very complicated. A huge Shaw Brothers entered his death. He finally shoveled a handful of soil on his tomb, which was somewhat sad.

Did you buy Shaw Cinema?Zhao Yazhi was surprised by the news that Kang Jianfei said.

Kang Jianfei nodded and admitted, and continued: When I went to Beijing this time, I went to Beijing Film Studio for a walk and contacted the Chinese Film Cooperation Company.The first part of "Shushan" will be filmed in the mainland next month. Although you are not the heroine, you are also very serious, and you are afraid that you will be banned by the Taiwan authorities for this.

Anyway, I don’t go to Taiwan much, so it doesn’t matter whether I ban it or not.

Zhao Yazhi smiled.

She has been very idle in the past year, so she only made a TV series and a movie. At other times, she can do whatever she wants and do whatever she wants.

Kang Jianfei didn't say much. The most optimistic time for the first part of "Shushan" is probably going to take at least seven or eight months.

The scenes of Jiuzhaigou are a little better, after all, there has been gradually being developed. Not to mention the traffic difficulties in going to Zhangjiajie, the weather in the mountains is unpredictable. Sometimes it may take half a month to wait for a good shot. Many shots still need to contact military helicopters to assist in shooting.

In addition to post-production, it will happen at least a year later when the first movie of "Shushan" is completed.

Zhao Yazhi quietly leaned on Kang Jianfei's shoulder and enjoyed the rare warm moment.

Zeng Bolin suddenly asked in a disgrace: Boss, it’s still one and a half hours before the premiere of "Love Saint". Should I go directly or first...

I went to Azhi's side first, Kang Jianfei quietly scratched Zhao Yazhi's palm and said to Zeng Bolin, "Just get off in front and arrange it at the premiere."

Zhao Yazhi bit her lower lip, and a faint sense of shame appeared on her face. She naturally knew what bad things Kang Jianfei was going to do.