"Sir Shao, 50 million can't be more," Zhang Moren hunched over, looking a little bowing to Shao Yifu, but his tone was very rude. "You also know that the third round of negotiations between the G Party and the UK have begun, but there is no sign of solving the problem in Hong Kong. If the fight starts at that time and Mr. Kang buys so many cinemas, wouldn't it be for nothing to give it to the mainland?"

Shao Yifu is almost 80 years old, but he is very energetic. He shook his head slowly and smiled: "Your boss, Mr. Kang, secretly bought land and houses in Hong Kong and built a set in Tseung Kwan O. These things are no longer a secret. How could he be afraid that the People's Liberation Army will come here?"

"That's it, but this is the situation in Hong Kong now," Zhang Moren finally raised his head and said, "Shaw Brothers had so many cinemas in Hong Kong and Nanyang. When the Japanese came over, they were all gone. Who knows if the People's Liberation Army will be like the Japanese?"

What Zhang Moren said is the truth. Before World War II, the Shaw family had already established a huge foundation in Hong Kong and Nanyang, but unfortunately they were destroyed by the Japanese. The current Shaw family business was basically rebuilt by the Shao family brothers after the war.

But can the Japanese compare with the People's Liberation Army?

Zhang Moren was simply making trouble, and Shao Yifu was too lazy to argue with him anymore, and only said: "150 million."

Zhang Moren smiled and said, "Of course 150 million is OK, but it must include Shaw's four leading theaters."

Shaw Yifu shook his head and said, "Shaw's leading theater is only rented but not sold."

Zhang Moren asked, "What is the price of rent?"

Shao Yifu said: "The three-year rent for four theaters is 50 million."

"Sir Shao, are you kidding? With the current land prices and housing prices in Hong Kong, I would not be able to spend 50 million to rent land in prime locations." Zhang Moren asked with a smile.

Shao Yifu said calmly: "I seldom joke."

The price tags offered by both sides are too different, so if you don’t have any speculation, you will naturally break up.

After Zhang Moren left, Shao Yifu couldn't help but sigh.

Since the news of Shaw Brothers Cinemas being sold, many people have talked to Shaw Yifu, but these buyers want to take the opportunity to lower the price, and none of them can reach an agreement.

To be honest, Shaw Brothers and Shaw Brothers Cinemas are almost unable to hold on, and their box office is always suppressed by Shaw Brothers, DreamWorks and New Art City.

In parallel space, Shaw Brothers released two movies this Christmas season, namely "Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu" directed by Huashan and "Risk Joe" directed by Chu Yuan. However, the starring Zhang Guorong, Chung Chuhong and Er Dongsheng of these two movies are now artists under Kang Jianfei, and they have nothing to do with Shaw Brothers.

"Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu" was filmed, but Yang Guo's actors were replaced by Zhang Guorong to Liu Dehua, while the movie "Sun Jie" disappeared out of thin air, replaced by "The Sword of Blood" adapted from Jin Yong's famous work.

"Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu" starring Liu Dehua has been released, with a box office of only 1.68 million yuan in the local area, which is a very ugly data in the summer season. Shaw Brothers Pictures may be able to make a lot of money from overseas box office, but Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) theaters have lost money in real terms.

As for "The Blood Sword", which collided with "The Deadly Express", it was released only for three days and was directly released. If the attendance rate continues to be released, Shaw Brothers Theater will only lose more.

Shao Yifu is very conflicted now. He wants to take action to reduce the losses as soon as possible, but he is reluctant to sell the theater chain that he worked hard to the past to others.

Fortunately, there is also a TVB station. Although TVB's ratings have been suppressed by Phoenix Station for three consecutive months, it is actually not too bad to lose, and it still has the upper hand in variety shows.

Shao Yifu has many assets under his name, and has its own cinemas in Southeast Asian countries, and also owns real estate and amusement parks in Singapore and Malaysia. Even if Shaw Pictures and theaters lose all their money, Shao Yifu's personal assets are several times that of Kang Jianfei, and even Kang Jianfei can't catch up with his family's assets.

But Shao Yifu's love for the film and television industry is definitely more pure than Kang Jianfei. The brothers of the Shao family sold their ancestral property to make movies, and Shao Yifu almost died of a shipwreck in order to buy equipment in the United States.

Shao Yifu has been a big shot in the film industry for a lifetime and is very unwilling to be forced to close the film company by young people.

To be honest, the movies produced by Shaw Brothers this year are not without highlights. For example, "The Frog Prince" directed by Wang Jing has a box office of more than 15 million, which gives Shaw Yifu some hope to continue to persevere.

A few minutes later, Huang Jiaxi, the current general manager of Shaw Pictures, came in and said, "Uncle Liu, Liu Jialiang wants to make a kung fu film. I heard his thoughts and thought it was good..."

Speaking of which, Huang Jiaxi, the general manager of Shaw, was also depressed. Now, even if a drama can be filmed, I have to ask Shaw Yifu to tell me, because the company's funds on the books are really tight.

"What is he going to take? Tell me," asked Shao Yifu.

Huang Jiaxi said: "Liu Jialiang is preparing to film Yang Wulang of the Northern Song Dynasty. He was framed and defeated by a treacherous minister. He became a monk and learned the gossip stick for monks, and then went down the mountain to avenge his revenge."

It’s another set of grudges and hatreds!

Shao Yifu felt that his directors were all elm-headed, so why didn’t he learn from Jiahe, Princess Jin, and DreamWorks as they were?

Huang Jiaxi continued: "Uncle Six, Yindu Organization, will release "Shaolin Boy" in the New Year, which is starring Li Lianjie, who plays "Shaolin Temple". This film will most likely sell well. If we want to film "Wuron Gossip Stick", it is best to start the film as soon as possible and release it after "Shaolin Boy" is sold."

Shao Yifu was still very relieved about Liu Jialiang. Although Liu Jiaban didn’t make much money in the movies, he has not failed much yet. Now he can borrow the east wind of "Shaolin Boy", so it is definitely no problem to get the cost back. Shao Yifu finally nodded and said, "Then let's shoot it."

"However," Huang Jiaxi hesitated for a moment and continued, "Liu Jialiang wants Hui Yinghong to be the heroine."

Shaw hates traitors the most. He has no good impression of actors like Hui Yinghong who switched to DreamWorks. He said with displeasure: "There is no actress in Shaw Brothers? If Liu Jialiang can't find a suitable actor in Shaw Brothers, then let him go to the wireless station to choose!"

Huang Jiaxi dared not say much, so he had to accept it.

In fact, according to Huang Jiaxi's idea, if Shaw Brothers is filming now, it would be best to invite one or two popular female stars under Oriental Entertainment, which would have a much considerable box office.

But now he only mentioned Hui Yinghong, but was directly rejected by Shao Yifu, and Huang Jiaxi had no choice but to stop this idea.

The filming plan for "Wuron Gossip Stick" was approved. As the producer, Huang Jiaxi left Shao Yifu's office and immediately ran to contact Ni Kuang to write the script.

Shortly after Huang Jiaxi left, Shao Yifu pushed open a book on his desk. The newspaper below was today. I saw the headlines of the entertainment page - "Forty-one theaters are screened in Hong Kong, and the box office of the deadly express broke the record on the first day of the box office."

Forty-one cinemas show a movie at the same time, which is definitely an unprecedented grand occasion in Hong Kong.

A few years ago, Princess Jin's predecessor, Lisheng Theater, was attached to Jiahe Theater. Combined with some other retail cinemas, the number of Jiahe Theater companies' cinemas once reached 35, accounting for half of the first round of theaters in Hong Kong.

Now, due to the rapid prosperity of Hong Kong films, the number of cinemas in Hong Kong has increased, with a total of 107, which has caught up with the level of 1985 in parallel time and space.

What does it mean to release 41 cinemas at the same time? That is to say, one-half of the first round theaters in Hong Kong are screening the movie "Deadly Express".

Under the strong appeal of Cheng Long and Lin Qingxia, combined with the distribution capabilities of Jiahe and DreamWorks, and the influence of Kang Jianfei, the first-day box office of "Deadly Express" turned out to be 4.63 million.

The box office of 4.63 million on the first day!

It is equivalent to the box office of most Shaw Brothers movies in the local area. This huge gap makes Shaw Yifu, who has been making movies for decades, very uncomfortable.

But Shao Yifu has to admit that Kang Jianfei and Zou Wenhuai are both people who can take it and let it go. The movies of the two companies were still competing for box office in the first half of the year, but they were able to work together in the second half of the year. This is not something that ordinary people can do.

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Office of the General Manager of the Golden Princess Theater.

Lei Juekun held the box office data of "The Deadly Express" for a long time, and finally said to theater manager Li Maowen: "Let's postpone the release time of "The Best Partner" and show other movies first during Christmas."

"That's all." Li Maowen said helplessly.

It is precisely because of the huge publicity of "Deadly Express" and the cooperation of two major companies that Lei Juekun doesn't want to fight one and two, and moved the release time of "Best Partner 3" by a few days.

But the box office data of "Deadly Express" is so scary. 41 theaters were released at the same time, with an average attendance rate of more than 90%. Although "Best Partner 3" was filmed in France, and although it also invited 007 actors to play guest roles, neither Lei Juekun nor Mecca nor others had the confidence to fight with "Deadly Express".

Li Maowen suddenly said: "The box office of the movie should not be low when the Yindu Cinemas will be held during the Spring Festival."

"No matter how good the Yindu Institution's drama is, where can it be sold? "Shaolin Temple" is sold well, but it is just a real-life shooting in the mainland." Lei Juekun didn't take "Shaolin Boy" seriously. His biggest competitors are Jiahe and DreamWorks.

Lei Juekun's other major industries are listed companies, and he has lost money in the past two years. He has to seek development in the film industry.

In 1978, the Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong was only 383 points. However, with the reform and opening up of the mainland, Hong Kong's political and economic environment improved greatly. At the same time, relying on the mainland market, the status of Hong Kong's trading port was restored.

While Hong Kong's economy was developing rapidly, the Hang Seng Index soared from 383 points to 1810 points in just three years. In those years, people who traded stocks could make a profit by buying any stock. Not only that, the housing prices at that time were also scary, almost two to three times that of today.

However, in the summer of 1981, as banks adjusted their deposit interest rates, the Hong Kong real estate bubble was instantly burst. The sharp decline in the real estate market affected the stock market, and the Hang Seng Index also fell from 1,810 points to around 1,000 points.

At that time, Lei Juekun's two listed companies had already suffered a lot of losses. At the same time, due to the acquisition of Sun Hung Kai, Lei Juekun lost his position as the first shareholder of the bus company.

Next is the Sino-British-Hong Kong negotiations. During the first round of negotiations, the Hang Seng Index fell from 1,000 points to more than 600 points. After that, the Hang Seng Index gradually rebounded to more than 900 points, but this summer it fell back to more than 600 points again, and now it has only rebounded to around 800 points.

With such ups and downs in the Hong Kong stock market, many investors made a lot of money because of stock trading, but more investors lost and jumped off the building. Even major shareholders of listed companies like Lei Juekun had no choice but to change the story caused by this general environment.

Lei Juekun is very satisfied with the performance of Xinyi City. Even Yongjia Film, which is Chen Xunqi, has been selling well at the box office. It can be said that the entire Golden Princess and its satellite company are now more capable of making money than Lei Juekun's other businesses.

However, Lei Juekun was always worried about DreamWorks' departure and joining a group of retail investors to establish a new era theater chain. Lei Juekun hated Kang Jianfei a little, and regretted it because he forced Kang Jianfei to leave. However, he had to admit Kang Jianfei's ability. During the good schedule, he had to go to the screening date with DreamWorks' films.
Chapter completed!