The rise of heroes begins with Hong Kong movies

While Huo Wenyao was waiting for news from Gao Jin, Yao Keke came in with a stack of documents and reported to Huo Wenyao about the release of the movie"Play Back to School".

She looked ugly.

Not long ago, Huo Wenyao asked her to try to contact Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, and Princess Jin to see if they could be released at the same time. Naturally, she was rejected.

There are three major theater chains in Hong Kong: Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, and Golden Princess.

Let’s talk about Shaw Brothers and Jiahe first.

The main founder of Jiahe is Zou Wenhuai, and the other founder is named He Guanchang. Both of them are veterans of the Shaw Brothers and have made great contributions to the expansion of the Shaw Brothers. However, the sixth uncle of Shao gave too little, which made them extremely dissatisfied and left their jobs angrily..

In 1970, the two jointly established Golden Harvest Company, purchased the former Cathay Studios site, and changed its name to Golden Harvest Studios.

From then on, the two sides began to fight!

The Hong Kong film and television industry has since entered a situation where Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest are competing for hegemony. The former has strong funds and produces movies every year that its own theaters cannot screen, and rarely shows movies from other companies.

Even if it is shown, it is not given during the prime time period. From 7 to 11 pm, it is basically arranged for its own movies.

Golden Harvest's funding is not as good as that of Shaw Brothers, and its production capabilities are even worse.

If we follow the Shaw Brothers way, we will never be able to compete, so Zou Wenhuai came up with the idea to give major production companies great autonomy. As long as these production companies are affiliated with Zaijiahe, they will receive preferential treatment.

This is the satellite company model!

The advantage of this model is that production companies have more freedom, film schedules are guaranteed, and profits are made more. Golden Harvest has the priority to play movies from major production companies.

Later, it was because Uncle Shao Liu was too stingy that he missed Bruce Lee.

This golden rooster was caught by Jiahe!

With Bruce Lee's several blockbuster movies and the fact that he was not as harsh on production companies as Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest turned around.

After fighting for so many years, Shaw Brothers and Jiahe wanted to trample each other to death.

In this case, it is impossible for even two to be released at the same time, let alone three.

Finally, there is Princess Jin.

Compared to Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, Golden Princess is a little less interesting. It entered the game last, and the only one that can make a difference is Golden Princess Cinema.

The own studio is a joke.

Other film and television production companies that can turn to Golden Harvest will definitely turn to Golden Harvest, because Golden Harvest, like Shaw Brothers, has very strong overseas distribution capabilities.

At this time, there were only 92 cinemas in Hong Kong Island.

Among them, there are 18 Shaw Cinemas, 22 Golden Harvest Cinemas, and 20 Golden Princess Cinemas. The other two major cinemas are not popular, either because they are related to the mainland, or because they are too small in scale. There are 17 cinemas in total between them. , the remaining 15 are all independent cinemas.

These cinemas alone will not be able to recoup their costs by relying on local box office unless the movie sells well.

The box office from other places is the big one!

Especially Baodao, Sangguo, Goguryeo, and the Southeast Asian countries, because these countries either belong to the Confucian cultural circle or have a large number of Chinese people.

It is by relying on the box office from other places that the film and television industry in Hong Kong is simmering and blooming.

Although there are only 18 Shaw Brothers Cinemas on Hong Kong Island, it has more than 100 cinemas in the entire Nanyang region!

Although Golden Harvest is not as strong as Shaw Brothers and does not have its own cinemas overseas, they have very good relations with Cathay Cinemas in Baodao and Nanyang. They are almost wearing the same pants.

In fact, this is because Shaw Brothers is too strong, forcing Golden Harvest and Cathay to join forces, otherwise they will be slowly cannibalized by Shaw Brothers.

This is the situation of the three major theater chains, Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, and Golden Princess.

Yao Keke didn't get to see Shao Liushu and Zou Wenhuai, but they were both amused by her whimsical ideas. In addition, they had a big-budget movie to be released recently, so they decisively refused to release"Play Back to School".

Of course, they didn't refuse, but the filming was either in broad daylight or midnight.

This time it was Yao Keke's turn to refuse.

When Yao Keke found Lei Juekun, the person in charge of Golden Princess, something interesting happened.

He had seen the movie and thought it was pretty good, so he agreed to schedule"The Dragon Back to School" for prime time release, but there was a condition.

That means Dongzheng Media must be affiliated with Golden Princess Cinema!

For movies produced by Dongzheng Media in the future, Golden Princess Cinemas will have priority to play them.

Lei Juekun is confident because"The Dragon Back to School" will not be released in Shaw Brothers or Golden Harvest. The only choice is his Golden Princess Cinema!

In addition, he also asked to meet the boss behind Dongzheng Media.

Huo Wenyao was stunned and said,"See me?"

"right!"Yao Keke nodded and said angrily,"I think he should see that"The Dragon Back to School" is a good movie, and maybe he plans to join Zhengzheng Media.

Huo Wenyao said in surprise:"It's just a movie. Are you overthinking it?" Yao

Keke shook his head and said:"Boss, Princess Jin can't compare to Shaw Brothers and Jiahe. She will try her best to increase her satellite company.""

"If there are no movies, then the Golden Princess Cinema is just a decoration"

"This time, he just raised the price. Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest wouldn't release our movie, so Golden Princess became our only choice. He used this condition to force our company to affiliate with his Golden Princess!"

Huo Wenyao sneered. He made movies but didn't have his own theater chain. He was really constrained in every way.

In this case, he would change his approach.

Use his money power to acquire them!

Shaw Brothers? Golden Harvest?

A huge company, without even thinking about it, use it All kinds of methods, even if they can be reluctantly acquired, will still be strained, so it is better to use Princess Jin to operate.

Huo Wenyao said:"What's the situation with Lei Juekun?"

Yao Keke quickly said:"He is also considered a rich man in Hong Kong. It is not clear how much he is worth. He is mainly engaged in public transportation and real estate. He has only entered the film industry in recent years. He has two core assets."

"One is the 20.38% equity of Kowloon Bus. Kowloon Bus has HK$5 per share and a market value of 800 million. The market value of other shares is about 160 million."

"The second one owns 28% of the equity of Kowloon Construction. The net asset value of Kowloon Construction is about 2 billion. The market value of his shares fluctuates between 600 and 700 million."

"The basic situation is these."

Huo Wenyao said again:"Where is the Golden Princess Cinema?"

Yao Keke said:"Golden Princess Cinema Line is affiliated to Golden Princess Co., Ltd., with a total of 20 cinemas. There are three major shareholders. Lei Juekun owns 8 cinemas alone, and he also rents 4 cinemas."

"There are two major shareholders left, one is Feng Bingrong and the other is Xu Maocai. They each own 4 cinemas."

"Within Princess Jin, Lei Juekun is the only one who dominates. He is domineering and domineering, and often gets into trouble. Feng Bingrong and Xu Maocai are dissatisfied. Lei Juekun has deep conflicts with Feng Bingrong and Xu Maocai."

"Boss, I think this can be used!"

Yao Keke's eyes flashed and she said excitedly.

She boarded the ship very early in the entire Huo Group and is the absolute veteran.

She knows exactly what Huo Wenyao is best at. She really has to deal with Lei Juekun, Feng Bingrong and Xu Maocai. These two guys can definitely be used!

She has already begun to look forward to it!

I wonder what means the boss will use to plot against Lei Juekun this time.

Unfortunately, she was disappointed this time.

Huo Wenyao was too lazy to listen anymore and interrupted:" Don't talk about this, just tell me how much it will cost to buy the 20 movie theaters of Golden Princess."

Yao Keke:"？？？"

Uh, you mean...acquisition?

So simple and crude?

Boss, he has changed!