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Volume 3 Chapter 6 Big Production

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    After Jiang Jingguo's interview, Shen Chong went to Wei Jingmeng's residence with Zhang Aijia that night, bringing a bunch of worthless but commemorative gifts collected from the mainland, and stayed there that night.  The next day, Shen Chong, led by Wei Jingmeng, went to Taipei University, talked about the hotly hyped "knowledge economy" again, and then announced a donation of 10UU to an education foundation of National Taiwan University.  After finishing all this, Shen Chong flew back to Hong Kong that afternoon.  Now he has so many things to do that he has no time to stay in Taiwan for a long time.  At the end of October, before Shen Chong went to Beijing, he authorized HSBC to help him purchase a lot of things. When he returned to Hong Kong more than 20 days later, most of these things had become his property, and the prices were very reasonable.  Although the fees for private banking services are shockingly expensive, you get what you pay for. The quality of the service is really nothing to say.  Among a bunch of acquisitions, the most expensive one is the seven-story office building in Wan Chai. It has a good location and is not very old. It is worth close to HK$100 million. However, HSBC provides a mortgage with a down payment of only UU 0,000, which is affordable.  from.  Although Shen Chong knew that the Hong Kong property market would plummet in two or three years and it would be the best time to buy at that time, money was easy to make and time waited for no one. Owning your own office building early could save you a lot of things.  For example, after the office building is renovated, it will be very convenient for communication and integration to put the editorial offices of "Far Eastern Economic Review", "Asia Weekly" and "Economic News" together "Asia Weekly" is the "Far East Weekly"  After the two editors of the Economic Review left, Shen Chong prepared to reunite them. The Far Eastern Economic Review will continue to be mainly in English, while the Asia Weekly will be revised to Chinese.  To become the most authoritative political and economic news magazine in the Greater China circle and the "Times" in the Chinese world.  Shen Chong plans to use "Far Eastern Economic Review" to influence the commercial activities of neighboring countries and regions, and "Asia Weekly" to influence the policy formulation of the three places across the Taiwan Strait and protect the Hong Kong film industry.  You must know that although Southeast Asia is the traditional market for Hong Kong films, these countries and regions are not friendly to Hong Kong films.  Indonesia began to implement a quota system in the mid-1970s. The quota for imported films was reduced from 76 films in 1919 to 100 films in 1978, causing Hong Kong films to basically lose this market.  Singapore has raised film import taxes since 1976. If a Hong Kong movie sells 300,000 yuan in revenue in Singapore, it will have to pay a tax of 100,000 yuan. If it is a split account, after the box office exceeds a certain amount, 40% of the profit must be handed over.  Since 1976, the tax on imported films in Thailand has soared to 30 baht per meter of film from the previous baht, and 35% of the box office of imported films has to be paid tax, while local films only need to pay. Malaysia stipulates that theaters must  Foreign films and local films are alternately screened, and the import, transportation, distribution, and number of copies of foreign films are strictly restricted.  Taiwan, like the mainland, has an extremely strict censorship system, and a lot of sensitive content, such as "unorthodox ideas," "promoting superstition," "describing the process of crime in too much detail," etc., may be banned.  All these things make the living environment of Hong Kong movies very bad.  ¡° Moreover, as a colony, Hong Kong¡¯s political positioning is very awkward. Without strong government support, if we want to break the film protection systems of these countries, we can only save the country through curveballs and rely on public opinion and media to exert pressure.  Financial magazines seem to have nothing to do with movies, but as long as Shen Chong's wealth continues to accumulate, and when he becomes extremely wealthy and becomes the focus of the world's attention, these magazines will subtly create an atmosphere of public opinion, thereby amplifying his influence a thousand times.  Willingness, when there are any disturbances in the market, such as an economic crisis, can easily overcome the restrictions on Hong Kong movies.  Magazines are like movies and newspapers are like TV stations. They complement each other to exert their greatest power. Therefore, Shen Chong also acquired the Hong Kong Economic Journal. The positioning of this newspaper is similar to the "Wall Street Journal".  It¡¯s just that when running a relatively ¡°soft¡± business like the media, you can¡¯t rush for success. The style and positioning of the magazine, the editor¡¯s ideology, the recruitment and training of reporters, etc. all need to be considered slowly.  So after Shen Chong came back from Beijing, he only did one thing - to raise the salaries of all employees of these three media companies. The rest was business as usual.  In addition to the media and office buildings, Shen Chong also acquired the printing company that originally produced "Crazy Heist".  During the printing process of film, a large amount of toxic waste will be produced. If you build a new printing factory, in addition to buying land and building a building, you also have to consider environmental protection and other issues, which is very troublesome.  After acquiring this company, firstly, the original waste treatment system can be used. Secondly, the employees are all skilled workers and can be trained faster than new employees. Thirdly, although the equipment of this company is old, it is better than that in the mainland.  The studio's equipment from the 1940s and 1950s must be advanced, and you can borrow flowers and offer them to Buddha as a personal favor.You don¡¯t need to worry too much about the reconstruction of a printing plant. P in the UK is the world¡¯s top supplier of film printing equipment. It provides one-stop services and can build a printing plant from scratch - of course the price is also astonishingly expensive.  But Shen Chong doesn¡¯t care about money. The more expensive the better, it can raise the threshold and block subsequent competitors, which is beneficial to monopoly.  Of course, it¡¯s not all about buying whatever you want. There are also acquisitions that fail Shen Chong has all of these, including film production, film printing, and film promotion. He is short of three and one, and he still lacks a movie to show.  ¡°You can¡¯t be considered a movie tycoon without your own theater chain.  With Shen Chong¡¯s current financial resources, he can rent or buy a theater chain in Hong Kong soon, but he doesn¡¯t want to do that.  First of all, the Hong Kong film market has a limited capacity and a pitiful talent pool. Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, and Princess Golden, which is about to switch to Chinese-language films, are almost full. If Shen Chong comes to another theater chain, it will be equivalent to detonating ten years in advance.  The seeds of the decline of Hong Kong movies - in the UU era, due to too many theaters and lack of content, independent production companies swarmed in, vicious competition, robbing people everywhere, stars wandering around, and making a lot of junk movies, which resulted in a bad reputation.  Let Hong Kong movies collapse quickly.  Secondly, multiplex cinemas will be the mainstream in the future. The current old-style cinemas in Hong Kong will soon be eliminated by the market.  Although he would make a lot of money by purchasing a theater and converting it into a shopping mall when real estate is booming in the future, Shen Chong has little interest in real estate and is just digging for food. He is not much different from the old landlords in the feudal era.  Buildings can't change anything. Traveling through the party to play this is too cheap Shen Chong only plans to acquire a theater in a prime location, and then put in stereos, giant screens, high-power projectors, etc., all the latest and most advanced film projection equipment,  Put them all in and build it into a flagship theater in Hong Kong. It will serve as a demonstration point to promote the reform of the Hong Kong film industry - Dolby Stereo has been around for three or four years, but there is not a single theater in Hong Kong that can show stereo movies. The response is really slow.  "Li is good at dressing up all the countries in the southeast and visiting the resort. He dances to conquer the imperial edict and protects the whole stage. The flute and pipe play in the sky." What Shen Chong was interested in was the Li Stage Theater where this couplet hung.  The Lee Theater was built in 1919 and is located in a prime location in Causeway Bay. Its appearance is modeled on the French and Italian opera houses at the end of the 19th century. The interior is decorated in Chinese style and made of marble. There is a small tower on the top of the gate, and canopies on the main entrance and sides.  There is a round arch on the top with nine golden dragons decorated with gold foil. The top stage has a carving of a red phoenix and a rising sun, and the lower level has a carving of two dragons fighting for the pearl. The stage can rotate 360 ??degrees and automatically change the scenery.  Lee Stage is Hong Kong¡¯s top entertainment performance venue. In addition to showing movies, it is also often used as a venue for Cantonese opera, opera, concerts and other entertainment activities. The annual Miss Hong Kong finals are held here.  This theater, a combination of Chinese and Western, is very unique, has history and heritage, and is famous throughout Southeast Asia. If it can be acquired, after modernization, in addition to showing movies, it can also be used as the venue for the Academy Awards ceremony.  , will become a legendary building like the Chinese Theater in Hollywood in the future.  However, it is a pity that the Lee family is not for sale The Lee family is one of the four major families in Hong Kong. It has extraordinary influence in Hong Kong's political and economic circles. It is said that more than half of the real estate in Causeway Bay belongs to their family. The boss of the Lee family, Li Mingze, has served as UU leader for many times.  Director, with more than 90 administrative positions, including many heavyweight positions such as City Council Member, Legislative Council Member, Executive Council Member, etc. The third oldest member of the Lee family, Li Xiaohe, is a director of British American Tobacco, Cathay Pacific Airways, and Shanghai Commercial Bank, and is also the founder and CEO of HR  Chairman of the Board.  In front of such a wealthy family, Shen Chong can only be regarded as a nouveau riche. If the Li family doesn't sell, there is nothing he can do.  Since you can't buy it, then build it yourself After the gold futures investment is over, buy a piece of good land and build a unique world-class cinema.  But before building a cinema, Shen Chong prepared to create a big-budget movie that would shock the world.  After "The Heist", he was busy, running around, half to plan the future of the film industry, and half to build the foundation of the film company.  Although all the busy work is for the movie, the world has forgotten the madness of "Crazy Heist" and regards him as a business wizard rather than a movie wizard.  This is not good. Shen Chong needs to focus the world's attention on movies again, especially on Hong Kong movies.  That movie "Buried Alive" was still a pile of film, lying in a warehouse and sleeping. Shen Chong didn't have time to mess with it for the time being. Moreover, this movie was too eccentric, too experimental, and too niche.  Weng Weiquan's "The Rules" and Yu Yunhang's "The Fierce List" are both in post-production. These two movies have some new ideas, but they are not big in structure. They are typical Hong Kong low-cost movies.  None of the three unreleased movies owned by Oriental Charm have the ability to shock the world, so when Shen Chong went to the United States in October, he commissioned?Witz recruited film production talents from Hollywood-he was going to create a Hong Kong movie with a Hollywood format.  Learn from foreigners and develop skills to control foreigners. The industrial level of Hollywood is far more mature than that of Hong Kong. If the skills are not as good as others, we should study hard, learn well, and then use their technology to tell our own stories.
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