"Mr. Jin! You want to enter the film and television industry but you're not making movies, so what are you trying to say? Oh, I get it, you want to sell scripts!"
Jin Hao was frustrated: "What kind of script am I supposed to sell? Where am I supposed to get one to sell?"
"Huh? Not making movies, not selling scripts... then what exactly do you want to do?"
"As I just said, I worked so hard to make a movie, and the theaters took half of it without doing anything. I feel terrible about that!"
Is this old scoundrel planning to open a movie theater chain?
"You mean you want to get into theatrical releases?"
"Smart! I love dealing with smart people." Jin Hao beamed.
What's so smart about that! You've already said all that; if you still can't guess it, you're no different from an idiot.
"Hehe! Mr. Jin! You're planning to build a new cinema chain in Xianggang? There are already several cinema chains in Xianggang, right? Can you compete with the established ones?"
Jin Hao curled his lip: "Why would I build a cinema chain in Xianggang? What future is there in building a cinema county in such a tiny place?"
He actually complained that Xianggang was too small.
Liang Liang's eyes lit up: "Mr. Jin, do you want to build a cinema chain in Guangdong Province?"
Don't be surprised, building a cinema chain in the Dongguan urban cluster isn't out of the question.
"Hehe! I want to build a cinema chain in mainland China."
Liang Liang slumped back in her chair with a thud.
"Nationwide?"
"I can't afford to build one nationwide, so I plan to build a cinema chain in a developed coastal area."
Building a cinema chain in a coastal area would be too expensive.
Holy crap! This old scoundrel is quite cunning and ambitious.
"Mr. Jin! The scale of economically developed coastal areas is astonishing. Do you have that much money?"
“I have several hundred million yuan of my own money. Your city’s investment promotion can help me with some loans, and I can borrow some more. I plan to invest around one billion yuan.”
A billion dollars investment was a really big investment in the 1990s.
According to land and construction budgets in the late 1990s, building a film and television city in a city wouldn't cost much. Two million yuan was enough to build a film and television city of considerable size. One hundred film and television cities would only cost two hundred million yuan. If Jin Hao invested one billion yuan, he could build five hundred film and television cities.
"Mr. Jin! Your idea of building a cinema chain is good, but what does it have to do with me? You're not planning to borrow money from me, are you? Let me make it clear first of all, all my money is currently being used to build a film and television base. I've already invested 500 million yuan, so I don't have any money to lend you."
Jin Hao laughed: "I'm not asking you for money."
"Then what are you doing in the north?"
"The country is such a big place, it's impossible for me to cover it all by myself. What I'm suggesting is that you build a cinema chain in the north, and then we can connect our cinema chains in the future. Wouldn't that cover a much larger area?"
Liang Liang rolled her eyes twice, but didn't reply.
He does indeed have plans to build a cinema chain.
Jin Hao is right. You work so hard to make a movie, and half of it is taken by theaters after it's released. And this is still the case now.
In the future, cinemas will take 57% of the box office revenue, and with other cuts handed over to film and television departments, the film distributors will only have about 30% of the money left in their hands.
What a sad fact this is.
To retain most of the box office revenue, the only option is to invest in theaters themselves.
He plans to buy a plot of land in a major northern city next year, and then build a cinema chain when he has enough money in the future.
Now that Jin Hao has brought up this issue, there's no harm in thinking about it.
Jin Hao builds cinema chains in the south, while he builds cinema chains in the north. When the two chains connect, it will be equivalent to having his own nationwide cinema chain.
This plan is worth considering.
"Mr. Jin! The government hasn't lifted any restrictions on private investment in cinemas yet. Aren't you afraid your investment will go down the drain?"
"As far as I know, investment in private cinemas will be opened up in a few years, otherwise I wouldn't have had this idea."
Jin Hao's words surprised Liang Liang.
These people are really well-informed; they even know about policies four or five years from now.
To be precise, the opening up of private cinema chains began in 2001.
The number of cinemas is growing at a rate of 30% per year, and box office revenue has increased from several hundred million yuan to tens of billions of yuan.
Liang Liang is a reborn person, so he naturally knows this timeline. He can't remember the exact year, but he has a general idea.
"Mr. Jin! Your plan is indeed excellent. I'm going to give it serious consideration."
"What are you still considering? If you agree, I'll go back immediately and start implementing it, and strive to build this cinema chain within three years."
If such a cinema chain is built in three years, they will become the first private cinema chain owner in China once the policy for the development of private cinema chains is released.
However, building hundreds of cinemas in three years is no easy task.
The prospect of earning half the box office revenue of a movie tempted Liang Liang.
Twenty years from now, a blockbuster movie could gross in the billions…
But don't just see the feast and ignore the beatings; without a blockbuster movie, theaters might also lose money.
Regardless, this deal is worth doing; the sooner you do it, the sooner you'll profit.
After the music festival, Liang Liang planned to put the cinema project on the agenda.
The plan is to develop the major and medium-sized cities in the three northeastern provinces and then expand into North China and the Central Plains.
First, establish a framework in first- and second-tier cities, then develop third- and fourth-tier cities. As for small counties, they are not included in the development plan and will be discussed later.
"Let me discuss this with the company's senior management and draft a plan. We'll do some preliminary preparations this year and try to start construction next year."
Jin Hao was relieved.
Logically, once you've finished your business, you should go home. Don't you miss your wife?
Does he not want his first wife but also his second wife?
After finishing his business, Jin Hao, that old scoundrel, actually asked Liang Liang to take him to experience the pleasure quarters of Lianwan.
He looks like an old lecher.
Liang Liang really didn't know anything about the entertainment venues in Lianwan, so he had to ask someone to take him to experience the northern customs.
Two days later, I finally managed to fool him away.
Jin Hao left on May 3rd. By the time Liang Liang returned to Pingshan Film and Television City, the music festival was down to its last day.
Because Liang Liang was not there, the Blue Shark Band did not perform at this year's music festival. Although they did come, they only provided accompaniment for two other people's performances.
The Yahe municipal government was overjoyed, as more than 60,000 people gathered in Yahe, bringing in more than 10 million yuan in tourism revenue.
This is not a concern for Liang Liang. No matter how much money these fans spend, he doesn't earn it all back, not even a third of it.
He said after last year's music festival that starting this year, tickets would only cost one dollar.
This year, he really only charged a symbolic one yuan for the music festival tickets.
Although the ticket price is only one yuan, the performances are held in many venues and attract a large audience, generating a ticket revenue of eight million yuan.
All the money was used to pay the appearance fees for those small bands, and after paying those fees, there was hardly anything left.
This year, the music festival's main revenue came entirely from advertising.
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