Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire

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Xu Cun was in a very good mood after winning the Land King by the waterfront of Hong Kong Island and the old wing of the Miramar Hotel, and being served by He Chaoqiong, Mei Aifang, and Li Zhi with all their strength for half the night.

But Shi Nansheng's phone call made Xu Cun's good mood disappear!

A few days ago, Shi Nansheng approached Jiang Ran, the general manager of the Golden Princess Cinemas, to discuss the release of "The True Colors of a Hero" in the Lunar New Year file.

But Jiang Ran has been evading and perfunctory about this matter.

In the past few years, Shi Nansheng has not been fooling around for nothing - when he realized that something seemed wrong, Shi Nansheng immediately went to the inside staff of the Golden Princess Theater to inquire about the situation.

After asking, Shi Nansheng was immediately furious—it turned out that the Golden Princess Cinemas had already arranged for it. On February 5th, the 24 theaters of the Golden Princess Cinemas will jointly screen "The Best Partner Shows His Magical Powers" ".

This matter is no longer something Shi Nansheng can handle at this level. Therefore, Shi Nansheng called several of Xu Cun's homes immediately, and finally found Xu Cun at Lizhi's home, and reported the matter to Xu Cun.

In other words, Lei Juekun's move is understandable.

After all, New Arts City is the real son of the Golden Princess Cinemas, and DreamWorks is just an outsider who helped the Golden Princess Cinemas earn some money and overcome some difficulties.

Earlier, New Art City's own son hadn't grown up yet, so the Golden Princess Cinemas naturally had to rely on DreamWorks, an outsider.

Now, the son of Xinyicheng has grown up, and he has also handed over such good results as "Best Partner". As a father, how can Lei Juekun not support his son?

For this, Xu Cun, who has always been considerate, will never be angry.

But Lei Juekun shouldn't have not notified Xu Cun in advance, so that Xu Cun would be caught blind during the golden time of Lunar New Year!

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Xu Cun can also understand the small calculations in Lei Juekun's mind, knowing that Lei Juekun is afraid that Xu Cun will become angry and then use "The True Colors of a Hero" to snipe "Best Partner" like he used "The Male and Female Thief" to snipe "Happy Fairy's Nest". ".

But understanding is understanding, but Xu Cun can't tolerate Lei Juekun's despicable practice!

After covering He Chaoqiong and Mei Aifang with quilts, Xu Cun took Lizhi away from Lizhi's house, and then went to DreamWorks.

As soon as he arrived at DreamWorks, Xu Cun called Shao Yifu himself and borrowed the theater line from Shao Yifu.

In the end, Shao Yifu said to Xu Cun very politely: "A Cun, it's not that I don't want to help you, but that the people below have already arranged to screen "Interstellar Blur 2" on the whole line on the 7th. So, this time, Uncle Six only I can say I'm sorry..."

Before calling Shao Yifu, Xu Cun was mentally prepared to be rejected by Shao Yifu-Phoenix TV forced TVB so badly, it was normal for Shao Yifu not to lend him Xu Cun's theaters!

Knowing that he would be rejected by Shao Yifu, why did Xu Cun call Shao Yifu?

The answer is simple, because Xu Cun lacked a reason to withdraw the overseas distribution rights in Asia.

Countless overseas theater chains, including Cathay Pacific, have long wanted to directly connect with DreamWorks, eliminating the need for middlemen (Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest) to earn the difference.

In addition, Xu Cun already owns half of the theater chain and is very rich. He is fully qualified to form his own theater chain. He does not need to rely on Shaw Brothers Cinema, Golden Harvest Cinema, and Golden Princess Cinema to distribute DreamWorks. movie.

Therefore, Xu Cun has no reason to let Shaw Brothers and Jiahe continue to make his own money.

After hanging up Shao Yifu's call, Xu Cun made another call to Zou Wenhuai.

In 1982, Zou Wen's life was not going well!

In the entire year of 1982, Golden Harvest had only one "Master Dragon" that could be regarded as a hit, and almost all other films were wiped out.

Not to mention Dreamworks, an opponent that made Zou Wen feel hard to fight against, even Xinyicheng and Yindu stepped on Jiahe's head - Xinyicheng's "Best Shooting", "Brothers and Difficult Brothers", "Brothers and Difficult Brothers", " The results of Xiao Sheng Afraid and Scary Night are good, and even Yindu has produced a "Shaolin Temple" and a "Rage to the Rage" (Xu Anhua affiliated "Rage to the Rage" with Starlight Entertainment Co., Ltd. Released by Jade Bird Film Company, which uses the theaters in Yindu.) Disgusting Zou Wenhuai.

How can this make Zou Wenhuai, who is determined to carry forward the film industry, happy?

Therefore, Zou Wenhuai brought together Golden Harvest's generals Cheng Long, Hong Jinbao, and Yuan Biao to come up with "Plan A", and wanted to use "Plan A" to make a good comeback during the Lunar New Year.

Therefore, Zou Wenhuai also politely rejected Xu Cun's loan to the theater.

After hanging up Zou Wenhuai, Xu Cuncai called the person he really wanted to call - Jiang Zhiwen.

Jiang Zhiwen is quite well-known in the Chinese film circle, but his reputation is far less than that of his younger brother Jiang Zhiqiang. "Hero" was released in North America with the help of Jiang Zhiqiang and achieved excellent box office results. From this we can see a glimpse of Jiang Zhiqiang's reputation.

The reason why Xu Cun personally called Jiang Zhiqiang’s elder brother Jiang Zhiwen was that Jiang’s family had four theaters with about 1,000 seats——Anle Theater Line (the box office dark horse "Painful War" in the 1980s was screened by Anle Theater Line) ), and Jiang Zhiwen is now taking care of the affairs of the Anle Cinemas.

Now, although Xu Cun has eight theaters in his hands, it is very detrimental to DreamWorks for these eight theaters to compete with Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, and New Art City. "The box office potential of a film like this.

Therefore, before there is a complete theater circuit, Xu Cun plans to build a temporary theater circuit first.

What is a temporary theater?

In the last life, after the decline of the Hong Kong film industry, the cinemas could no longer survive—Take Huang Baiming’s Yonggao Cinemas as an example: due to poor management, Yonggao Cinemas lost more than 300 million Hong Kong dollars in just three years, and finally only can declare dissolution.

Later, no one set up theaters anymore.

How can a film be screened without theaters?

Simple - when there is a new film ready to be released, the distributor of the new film will take the initiative to contact various theaters to form a temporary theater circuit (without paying the distribution fee to each theater), and arrange the film to be screened in a planned way.

Once the film is out of print, this temporary theater chain will be disbanded, and then continue to operate their own theaters, and then form a temporary theater chain next time a new movie is released.

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Xu Cun's eight big theaters, plus four not-so-small theaters in Anle Cinemas, and more than a dozen small theaters, then these 20 or 30 theaters can form the largest temporary theater circuit in Xiangjiang ——A temporary theater circuit that is much larger than the Golden Princess theater circuit.

As long as this temporary theater chain can be formed, Xu Cun is sure to make Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, and New Art City kneel in front of DreamWorks again and sing Conquer!

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