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Text Chapter 351 The man behind the scenes

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    This very strange news surprised Li Xuan.  The Kang family's On Lok Cinema chain has always had only five theaters, and has always been a dispensable little player in the Hong Kong film industry.  Especially since the two Jiang brothers have just established ties with the mainland, Anle Cinema has been keeping a low profile in Hong Kong recently.  But after all, Anle Cinemas is also a cinema chain, and if it is a cinema chain, it has leading theaters.  Anle Cinemas is a theater chain with only five theaters. It is very good to have a leading theater. However, Jiang Zhiwen has now rented their leading theater to Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong.  This news gave Li Xuan the feeling that Xu Kecheng stopped making movies and ran a street stall.  ¡°Isn¡¯t this Anle Cinema chain self-destructing its future?  ¡°But¡­¡± Li Xuan thought deeply, and it seemed that this was not considered self-destruction.  It has always been difficult to sell Western films at a good price in Hong Kong, and only one or two outstanding films disappear every year. Therefore, the Jiang Family's Anle Cinema Line has not developed and grown even after it has been open for so long.  Now that the Jiang family is on the mainland again, it can no longer even switch to showing Hong Kong movies. Which film company dares to show its movies in left-wing theaters?  ¡°That is to say, Shao Yifu doesn¡¯t want to make movies for the time being, so he can abandon the Shaw Brothers theater chain and go to the mainland openly for a while. Taiwan has no choice but to turn a blind eye.  The two Jiang family brothers obviously don¡¯t have such great abilities yet.  So since Anle Cinema's business is sluggish and the situation is not good, it is better to rent out the theater and collect a rent. Besides, the two Jiang brothers have recently increased their cooperation with mainland China. This cooperation cannot be short of money, isn't it? Shao Yifu can  One donation is 100 million.  Thinking about it this way, the rental of Puqing Theater is not surprising.  It¡¯s just that their fussing made Li Xuan feel a little troublesome.  While thinking about something, he knocked on the table casually. Li Xuan frowned and asked, "How many theaters does their new theater chain have now?"  Answer: "Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong already have 7 theaters in their hands. In addition to the 12 remaining theaters of Shaw Brothers, they have rented a Puqing theater from Anle. I don't know if there are other small theaters joining.  Even with a simple calculation, this new theater chain has at least 20 theaters guaranteed. "Ha, it is another strong competitor!" Li Xuan sighed, and suddenly his heart moved.  Then he asked, "That's not right. Where do Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong get so much spare money?" Renting a theater is not something that can be done for just a few dozen yuan, and the leases basically are guaranteed for more than three years.  To build Shaw Brothers' twelve theaters plus one in Puqing, even if it were to be completed within three years, it would still require a capital of one to two hundred million to complete.  But as Li Xuan said, where did Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong get so much spare money?  Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong¡¯s families are both engaged in foreign trade and real estate.  Although these two are also well-known wealthy people in Hong Kong, in fact, the assets of these two second bosses are still not as good as that of Princess Jin's big boss Lei Juekun.  But even Lei Juekun, a well-known tycoon in Hong Kong, suffered a heavy fall in the Hong Kong stock market crash. As long as Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong got involved in the real estate industry, this unfortunate stock market crash would naturally involve them, but  Where did these two people find such a large sum of money to rent a theater?  So Li Xuan felt a little weird, unless¡ª¡ªthey still had a third-party partner. Sure enough Hearing Li Xuan's question, Xian Qilu paused.  After a while, he tentatively said: "I heard a rumor, it said, it said" Xian Qilu glanced at the frowning Li Xuan again, and then continued: "It is said that Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong can now  "Boss Cai? Which Cai" Li Xuan didn't react at first, and then asked in surprise after repeating half of the sentence.  That Boss Cai?¡± ¡°Yes.¡± Xian Qilu nodded lightly.  "Hey! This Boss Cai is really" Li Xuan took a breath, shook his head with a wry smile and said, "He is really good at fixing things. Think about what he has done to the Hong Kong film industry in the past six months.  Now he has troubled a theater chain again. "Xian Qilu actually started to sympathize with Cai Songlin.  He said very calmly: "There is no way Boss Cai can do this. Think about it, our theater chain only has about 20 theaters, and every year we have to make about 40 movies to fill the schedule. Boss Cai is in Taiwan  With such a big industry, more than a hundred theaters are begging for food under his hand, and the film source is estimated to be more than 200 films per year. Considering the current production rate and quality in Hong Kong, I guess Boss Cai still feels that this is really lacking" Li Xuan murmured for a while after listening to Xian Qihu's words, and finally stopped helplessly, because what Xian Qihu said was indeed the truth. Isn't it the same in later generations? It is precisely because there is a market that there is demand. That's why.  With a large amount of hot money pouring into Hong Kong from Taiwan and Southeast Asia, Cai Songlin is just one of the representatives of this hot money. But in this way, it is estimated that the era of bad movies in Hong Kong movies will come in a few years. But Li Xuan is.  There is no way to fight against the forces behind this hot money. It is a huge business worth tens of billions. It can really make people kill gods and Buddhas and kill Buddhas with super profits. Bad movies should be left to those people.  Pure filmmakers should protest. Thinking about these strange things will not help. Li Xuan turned to what he was most concerned about and asked directly: "Have Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong come into contact with any filmmakers?  Are there any filmmakers they would like to support?  " Hong Kong's cinema chains have always had a tradition of supporting large film companies, such as Shaw Brothers' Shaw Brothers Pictures, Cathay Pacific's D&M, and later Golden Harvest's Golden Harvest Pictures and Princess Jin's Art City. In fact, it's not just Hong Kong.  , it was the same in Hollywood back then, but later Hollywood passed an anti-monopoly bill to separate film production companies and theaters. As a replica and copy of Hollywood, Hong Kong naturally followed the same pattern at the beginning, and they supported it.  The quality of large-scale film companies is also directly related to the survival of the theater chain itself. For example, if Television Network collapsed, Cathay Pacific Hong Kong would disappear; for example, later Shaw Brothers would dominate Hong Kong, and Shaw Brothers Cinemas would also be in Hong Kong.  The popularity was unparalleled for a while; for example, New Art City achieved great success later, helping the new theater chain Golden Princess to successfully defeat Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest and gain a firm foothold. With all this, the new theater chain was chosen to support it.  Naturally, it has become Li Xuan's top priority. If the selection is poor, Li Xuan will naturally not take this new theater seriously and continue to work. But if the selection is extremely good.  Competitiveness, such as Xu Kehong Jingbao and others, Li Xuan has to carefully plan how to deal with the future four-nation war. Regardless of whether he is a theater chain invested by Cai Songlin, this business must be snatched when it is changed, otherwise it is not called a business.  . But Li Xuan still underestimated the thought and courage of Cai Songlin and Chen Feng. The lease of the theater had been signed, and a lot of different information began to come out. Xian Qilu raised his eyebrows and answered directly.  : "According to the information I have received, the filmmakers that this new theater chain wants to support can now be said to be - none!  "    "No!  ?  Xian Qilu nodded heavily and said, "Well, no."  " "Impossible, then what do they want to do?  Li Xuan asked in astonishment.  " "You mean" Li Xuan paused and said, "You mean Cai Songlin wants to borrow a big shell and lay a big egg?  "    "Um.  " Laying eggs under the guise of others is one of Cai Songlin's most commonly used tricks. For example, Xiang Huaqiang's Yongsheng, or Teddy Robin's good friend. Almost all of these film companies have Cai Songlin's shadow, and the movies they produce are all considered  Cai Songlin laid the eggs, but this time he wanted to lay bigger and more eggs. Now that he has a big cinema chain, if he casts a net everywhere with a lot of foreign capital, there will be piles of Hong Kong filmmakers.  They are everywhere, and they are not afraid of not catching a few fat fish. This new theater chain has become a veritable super 'intermediary'. And Li Xuan has seen the impact of the establishment of this new theater chain on his own theater chain.  One of the big disadvantages is that they have no key support targets, which means they are not able to support themselves in various prime time slots. Now they are dependent on several small independent film companies and filmmakers in large theaters. For example, they have always been dissatisfied with their film schedules.  Everyone in McDonald's and Debao sees a glimmer of hope in getting into the prime time slot. This is indeed a fatal attraction for those filmmakers who want to make a lot of money. If this new theater chain takes all these filmmakers.  Although they may not be able to beat Li Xuan or Jiahe in prime time, the average results throughout the year are definitely very good. Cai Songlin's move of casting a net everywhere is a good move, so in the future.  The Four Kingdoms War must have caused excitement and headache for Li Xuan. But I don¡¯t know what Lei Juekun, one of the parties involved in the incident, looks like now
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