Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 593 The Benefits of Theaters under Real Estate Hegemony
"Thank you, Mr. Tang, for your attention, but I'm afraid I won't be able to take on the heavy responsibility. After all, I mainly rely on my true colors to act in "War and Slaughter City." Wu Hanrun was not flattered by the various honors that came suddenly. Ability to have a clear understanding.

He was originally a doctor. Before he starred in "The Massacre of the City", he had not received any professional acting training, let alone any acting experience. The reason why he won the Best Supporting Actor was mainly because of Oscar's golden finger.

Seeing the other party's calmness, Tang Huan nodded appreciatively, "Mr. Wu, don't worry too much. The purpose of making a movie is to better leverage your Oscar-winner influence to promote Funan, which is now in a state of waste. The place depends on your professional ability. I want to build a hospital in Funan, and I want to invite you, Dr. Wu, to be the dean."

It is obvious that Tang Huan intends to support local Chinese in Funan like Wu Hanrun in order to quickly integrate a folk force that takes root in the local area.It is precisely because of this purpose that his communication with the other party can be said to be heart-to-heart.He was immediately persuaded and readily agreed.

"Have all the media interviews been dealt with?" Finally Tang Huan asked.

Even the Oscar awarded Best Supporting Actor to Wu Hanrun, which naturally further became a hot topic in Western public opinion. The media, including People magazine, issued a series of interview requests.

"It's over." Wu Hanrun nodded, "If possible, I would like to go back to Funan."

The other party's thoughts were exactly what Tang Huan wanted, "Then let's go together. Taking the opportunity of transferring to Xiangjiang, I will introduce you to the film industry over there."

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Tang Huan went to Xiangjiang this time mainly to check and accept the results of the theater alliance.Xiangjiang's film industry has begun to enter its golden age, and his patience for this battle is running out.

Seeing that it was almost time for Silicon Valley One to take off, Tang Huan asked his assistant casually: "Apple CEO John Sculley, isn't he going to take our plane and transfer to China? Why hasn't he arrived yet?"

Recently, Apple has obtained a license to export computers to China, which may be a good incentive for MAC, which is struggling with slow sales.

In fact, American computer manufacturers are very happy to push their products into the Chinese and even Soviet markets, and some important figures in the American political circle also support this approach.

Of course, the motives are not so pure, because personal computers are becoming more and more powerful, and they are beginning to play an increasing role in the fields of journalism, publishing, etc., which is very in line with these people's minds - launching a "bottom-up revolution" ".

This involves the use of tools - a kitchen knife can be used to help cook, but also can be used to hurt people.

Although computer-importing countries are more or less aware of this intention, computers, a high-tech tool, play an irreplaceable role in the development of the national economy.

However, U.S. export control has always been an insurmountable gap, and even Fangyuan Computer Company is increasingly feeling constrained.

Apple was granted permission to enter the Chinese market, apparently on the same starting line as Fangyuan Computer, but little progress was made on the Soviet side.

John Sculley, who was going to China to sign the agreement, wanted to take the downwind plane because he wanted to ask Tang Huan for advice, but for some reason, the other party hadn't shown up until now.

At this time, an Apple employee sent a note out of breath.

Tang Huan opened it, and it turned out that John Sculley explained on it: I had a sudden emergency, so I temporarily canceled the trip, and I'm sorry.

The scribbled handwriting seemed to indicate that the owner was not usually upset.

"Could it be that Apple is causing trouble again?" This thought flashed through Tang Huan's mind, and he stopped thinking about it and waved his hand to indicate that his team didn't have to wait any longer.

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After more than ten hours of flight on Silicon Valley One, after arriving in Xiangjiang, Tang Huan got the news from the United States that Apple had indeed gone into trouble. Jobs, who was still trying to mend relations with John Sculley at the birthday party, planned to He took the opportunity to go to China, staged a coup, and ousted the opponent from power. As a result, the conspiracy was exposed and the target canceled the trip.

Cupertino is only a small place, so how could Apple hide this bit of drama from an old neighbor with a heart, John Sculley angrily questioned Jobs, and the other side's plausible arguments were all faxed over.

"Still so disappointing." Tang Huan shook his head helplessly.

"Who made you angry?" Zhao Yazhi asked with concern after putting the soup on the dining table.

"No one pissed me off. It's just that I just got a piece of news, and I just sent it out because of my feelings." Tang Huan smiled and waved his hands, "I heard that you're taking on the show again, so hurry up and show me the makeup photos."

Zhao Yazhi returned to Hong Kong from the United States after the Lunar New Year. For no other reason than she was restless and restless. In addition, her old employer TVB often tried to test her voice, so she wanted to use work to enrich herself.

In fact, the deeper reason is that Tang Huan's thinking is very unique. He hopes that his woman can display her working ability instead of being locked at home and becoming a housewife.

Therefore, Zhao Yazhi's move was more to please his man.

However, her behavior can only be regarded as quite satisfactory, at least she brought the child to over two years old, and Lin Qingxia, who gave birth at the end of last year, also plans to come back this year.

Of course, this does not mean that Tang Huan's women lack motherhood. The conditions of the Tang family are so superior that there is no need to worry about taking care of the children, not to mention the help of her mother's family.

Although Zhao Yazhi has been away from work for more than three years, the audience popularity of certain artists is so good that it cannot be explained. Once she returned to Xiangjiang, she took on two plays——in Jin Yong's martial arts drama "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" Played the supporting role Ma Chunhua, and played the leading role Miao Shan in the mythological TV series "Avalokitesvara".

Apparently, the latter was influenced by the success of DreamWorks' mythological TV series "The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea".

Zhao Yazhi knew her man's hobbies, so after giving him a look, he took the makeup photo of "Flying Fox in the Snow Mountain".

"This appearance is so juicy." Tang Huan admired sincerely.

"What do you mean, do you think I'm old and young, pretending to be young?" Zhao Yazhi was very coquettish.

"Of course not. What I mean is that the charm is even better than before." Tang Huan laughed loudly, and wrapped his arms around the other's slender waist, "Why don't I help you match the scene."

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Xiangjiang's New Year's Eve this year can be said to have killed people everywhere and hurt both sides.

Golden Harvest's "Fu Xing Zhao Zhao" and Golden Princess Entertainment's "Best Partner: The Queen's Secret Order", which was filmed a year later, challenged DreamWorks Cinemas' "Once Upon a Time: Once Upon a Time: The Lion King".

As a result, compared to the 1984 Lunar New Year film, which had a new box office record, this year's Lunar New Year film did not have any heavyweight works breaking through 3000 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office.

You know, in the original time and space, "Fuxing Gaozhao" and "Best Partner: The Queen's Secret Order" were both blockbuster movies with a box office of around 3000 million in this city, which shows the fierceness of this commercial war.

In fact, the DreamWorks theater chain, which still maintains its advantage, does not only use "Once Upon a Time 3: The Lion King" to meet the competition, but relies on the flexible film arrangement method of the multi-screen theater to cater to the audience to the greatest extent. Group tastes, for example, a comedy movie starring child stars like Xiao Binbin was released at the same time, and it became a unique box office highlight.

Xiangjiang’s multi-screen micro theater first appeared in 1982. Previous theaters were large cinemas with only one big screen—only one movie could be shown at the same time.

The reason for this situation is nothing more than the natural selection of the development stage. More capital investment and technical complexity in multi-screen theaters always require a process of reduction.

The Golden Harvest Cinemas established in the 1970s and the Golden Princess Cinemas developed from the longer-established Lisheng Cinemas are obviously impossible to compare with the newly established DreamWorks Cinemas, and they closed down for renovation just for this reason. There are too many things involved.

It is this difference between the two theaters that causes resource utilization to be high and low, which in turn allows DreamWorks theaters to grab a large number of audiences.

In addition, there is another business war hidden in it, that is, during the peak sales season of the Spring Festival, retailers represented by Wellcome and ParknShop launched a promotional war. Means, and movie tickets have become one of the bargaining chips to attract customers.

It's a pity that DreamWorks Cinemas and Qin He's Wellcome cooperated tacitly; such activities of Golden Harvest and Golden Princess Entertainment turned out to be different.

Jiahe, who was already unable to do what he wanted, became more and more frustrated with the plan of taking advantage of the resources of other large consortiums.

If you want to achieve the same effect as DreamWorks Cinemas, you can only achieve the level of intimate trust by becoming a real family.

But how could Zou Wenhuai give away his years of hard work to others?Instead of doing that, it's better to follow Tang Huan's wishes and form a theater alliance with unified scheduling.

Once his thoughts changed to this level, Zou Wenhuai didn't want to join forces with Lei Juekun, who came from the real estate industry to grab food, and sent a letter of surrender to Tang Huan directly.

After Lei Juekun learned of the situation, let alone being annoyed, didn't he treat himself as a slow-witted idiot?The last party who is alone and has to be sent to the knee, how passive the position is!

Therefore, at the meeting called by Tang Huan, Lei Juekun did not give Zou Wenhuai a good look, while Shao Yifu was an old god sitting on the ground and watching the tigers fight.

Shao Renmei passed away in early March this year. Although DreamWorks expressed on his own behalf, Tang Huan still expressed condolences to Shao Yifu.

After the greetings were over, Zou Wenhuai took the lead in complaining, "Tang Sheng, life is hard these days."

"Then let's work hard together, and I believe it will be made up soon." Tang Huan said with a half-smile, and directly blocked the other party's intention.

He didn't have time to waste time on small things, so he went straight to the topic, "Since we, the largest theater chains with their own film sources, have sat together, we have agreed to form a theater alliance, right?"

Tang Huan glanced over Zou Wenhuai and Lei Juekun, and they both said "yes" clearly.

Nodding slightly in satisfaction, Tang Huan continued: "I know that the two of you have some ideas about some specific interests. But what I want to say is that these are small things, as long as everyone is sincere, it is easy to discuss."

Speaking of this, Tang Huan distributed the documents in front of him to Shao Yifu, Zou Wenhuai, and Lei Juekun, "We are sitting at the top of the food chain in Hong Kong's film industry, and we should focus on the overall situation and the macro. There is a potential crisis in front of us." , We need to discuss how to deal with it together.”

The three of them opened the file as they said, and saw a part of the latest "Xiangjiang Development Outline" excerpted above.Looking at the paragraphs with special marks, they all frowned slightly in unison.

The "Hong Kong Development Outline" originated from the "Land Use Plan" compiled by the Hong Kong government in 1965. After several revisions, the "Land Use Plan" was finally renamed the current "Xiangjiang Development Outline".

In the "Hong Kong Development Outline", there will naturally be a relative plan for cinemas, which have been included as Recreational Facilities from the very beginning—recreational facilities, and it is listed that 1000 cinema seats are required for every 38 population.

With this program document to regulate, the Hong Kong government will carefully refer to the guidelines when developing new towns or selling land, and rigidly stipulates that new real estate projects must be equipped with corresponding entertainment facilities such as movie theaters to enrich the lives of residents in the area. Life.

Moreover, the land designated by the Hong Kong government as entertainment facilities will not be leased to restaurants, famous shops, etc. after being leased to movie theaters.

However, in the latest version of "Xiangjiang Development Outline", cinemas were removed from the ranks of entertainment facilities and changed to Retail Facilities - commercial retail facilities; and in the regional planning, "Xiangjiang Development Outline" did not continue to limit How many movie theater seats are needed for each population.

Everyone is a discerning person, and they can immediately know what this change may mean for the movie theater chain, and even the entire movie industry.

After Xiangjiang officially entered the transition period, the stock market and real estate industry also prospered.And how strong the profit-seeking energy of Xiangjiang Real Estate is, almost everyone knows it well.

At this stage, Xiangjiang Cinema, whether it is its own property or leased property, cannot avoid this influence.

Without the original rigid regulations, real estate developers naturally do not need to consider reserving space for movie theaters when they are working on projects; and existing movie theaters located in prime locations also face competition from tenants such as famous brand stores.

Perhaps, the profitability of movie theaters is still very attractive, but with the further prosperity of real estate, can the owners withstand the attraction of bling?

(End of this chapter)