Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire Chapter 287

After winning the two parcels of land next to the Hong Kong Island, the Land King and the old wing of the Miramar Hotel, and being served by He Chaoqiong, Mei Aifang, and Lizhi for half the night, Xu Cun was in a very good mood.

But Shi Nansheng's phone call completely wiped out Xu Cun's good mood!

A few days ago, Shi Nansheng approached Jiang Ran, the general manager of the Golden Princess Cinema, to discuss the release of "The True Color of Heroes" in the Lunar New Year.

But Jiang Ran has been evading and perfunctory about this matter.

In the past few years, Shi Nansheng was not a scumbag when he found that things didn't seem right. Shi Nansheng immediately went to the insiders of the Golden Princess Cinema to ask about the situation.

When asked, Shi Nansheng was instantly furious. It turned out that the Golden Princess Cinema had already been arranged. On February 5th, all 24 theaters in the Golden Princess Cinema would screen together "The Best Partner Shows His Magical Powers".

This matter is no longer something Shi Nansheng can handle. Therefore, Shi Nansheng called Xu Cun's several homes immediately, and finally found Xu Cun at Lizhi's home and reported the matter to Xu Cun.

To say, Lei Juekun's move is understandable.

After all, Xinyicheng is the son of the Golden Princess Cinema, and DreamWorks is just an outsider who helped the Golden Princess to make some money and tide over the difficulties.

Earlier, the son of Art City had not grown up yet, so the Golden Princess Cinema naturally had to rely on an outsider like DreamWorks.

Now, the son of Xinyicheng is an adult, and he has also handed in such good results as "Best Partner". As a father, how could Lei Juekun not support his son?

In this regard, Xu Cun, who has always been considerate, will never be angry.

But Lei Juekun shouldn't have informed Xu Cun in advance, and let Xu Cun be blinded during the golden period of the New Year's Eve!

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Xu Cun can also understand the small abacus in Lei Juekun's heart, knowing that Lei Juekun is afraid that Xu Cun will become angry and then use "Heroes" to snipe "Best Partner" like "Heroes and Thieves" sniping "Happy Fairy Nest". ".

But understanding is understanding, but Xu Cun can't tolerate Lei Juekun's despicable practice!

After covering He Chaoqiong and Mei Aifang with quilts, Xu Cun took Lizhi away from Lizhi's house, and then went to DreamWorks.

As soon as he arrived at DreamWorks, Xu Cun called Shao Yifu personally and borrowed the cinema line from Shao Yifu.

As a result, Shao Yifu politely said to Xu Cun: "A Cun, it's not that I don't want to help you, but the people below have already arranged to screen "Interstellar Blunt 2" on the whole line on the 7th. Therefore, this time, the sixth uncle only I can say sorry..."

Before calling Shao Yifu, Xu Cun was mentally prepared to be rejected by Shao Yifu. Phoenix TV forced TVB to be so miserable. It was normal that Shao Yifu did not lend him Xu Cun's cinema!

Knowing that he would be rejected by Shao Yifu, why did Xu Cun make this call to Shao Yifu?

The answer is very simple, because Xu Cun lacks a reason for withdrawing the rights to distribute overseas in Asia.

Countless overseas cinema chains, including Cathay Pacific, have long wanted to connect directly with DreamWorks, eliminating the need for middlemen (Shaws and Golden Harvest) to earn the price difference.

In addition, Xu Cun already has half a theater chain and is very rich. He is fully qualified to form his own theater chain, and he does not need to rely on Shaw Brothers Cinemas, Golden Harvest Cinemas and Golden Princess Cinemas to distribute DreamWorks. movie too.

Therefore, Xu Cun had no reason to let Shaw Brothers and Jiahe continue to make their own money.

After hanging up Shao Yifu, Xu Cun called Zou Wenhuai again.

In 1982, Zou Wen had a very unhappy pregnancy!

In the whole year of 1982, Jiahe only had one "Long Master" that could be considered a success, and the other films were almost wiped out.

Not to mention DreamWorks, an opponent that makes Zou Wenhuai unable to compete, even Xinyicheng and Yin have stepped on Jiahe's "Best Paidang", "Difficult Brothers", "Little Lives Afraid". The results of "Fear" and "Cry Night" were good, and even Yin had produced a "Shaolin Temple" and a "Fight to the Furious Sea" (Xu Anhua attached "To the Furious Sea" to Starlight Entertainment Co., Ltd., produced by Blue Bird Films The company issued it, and the Blue Bird Film Company used the Yindu cinema.) Disgusting Zou Wenhuai.

How can Zou Wenhuai, who is dedicated to carrying forward the film career, go well?

Therefore, Zou Wenhuai combined Jiahe's generals Cheng Long, Hong Jinbao, and Yuan Biao to come up with "Plan A", and wanted to use "Plan A" to fight a beautiful turnaround in the Lunar New Year.

Therefore, Zou Wenhuai also politely rejected Xu Cun's decision to borrow the cinema.

After hanging up Zou Wenhuai, Xu Cuncai called Jiang Zhiwen, the person he really wanted to call.

Jiang Zhiwen is also a bit famous in the Chinese film circle, but his fame is far less than that of his younger brother Jiang Zhiqiang. Jiang Zhiqiang will have the title of behind the scenes of Chinese films in the future. Li An's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and Zhang Yimou's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" "Hero" was released in North America with the help of Jiang Zhiqiang and achieved excellent box office results. From this, we can see that Jiang Zhiqiang's reputation is evident.

The reason why Xu Cun personally called Jiang Zhiqiang's older brother Jiang Zhiwen was because the Jiang family had four theaters with about 1,000 seats in the Anle Cinema Line (the dark horse of the 1980s box office "The Painful War" was released by the Anle Cinema Line) , and the affairs of the Anle Cinema Line are now taken care of by Jiang Zhiwen.

Now, although Xu Cun has eight theaters in his hands, it is very unfavorable for DreamWorks to compete with Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, and Cinematheque with these eight theaters alone~www.mtlnovel.com~ and these eight theaters simply cannot Unlock the box office potential of a movie like The Color of Heroes.

Therefore, before there is no complete theater chain, Xu Cun plans to set up a temporary theater chain.

What is a temporary theater line?

In the last life, after the decline of the Hong Kong film industry, the cinema chain could no longer survive. Take Huang Baiming's Yonggao Cinemas as an example: due to poor management, the Yonggao Cinemas lost more than 300 million Hong Kong dollars in just three years, and in the end they could only declare dissolve.

Later, no one set up a theater chain anymore.

If there is no cinema, how will the film be shown?

Simply when a new film is ready to be released, the distributor of the new film will take the initiative to contact each theater to form a temporary theater chain (without paying the distribution fee to each theater), and plan the film to show the film.

Once the film is finished, the temporary theater chain will be disbanded, and they will continue to operate their own theaters, and will form a temporary theater chain when a new film is released next time.

Xu Cun's eight large theaters, plus the four not-so-small theaters in the Anle Theater Line, and a dozen smaller theaters, then these twenty or thirty theaters can form the largest temporary theater chain in Xiangjiang. A temporary theater line that is much larger than the Golden Princess theater line.

As long as this temporary theater chain can be formed, Xu Cun is sure to let Shaw Brothers, Jiahe, and Xinyicheng kneel in front of DreamWorks again and sing conquest!

(To be continued.)

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