Chapter 1756: Losing Face and Asking for Help

After a few more pleasantries, more guests arrived one after another.

Yin Jun's identity was different. In order not to overwhelm the guest, Yin Jun walked in first.

"Master Jun!"

Everyone inside was from the Xiangjiang film industry. Everyone stood up quickly and greeted Yin Jun respectfully.

But those who did not stand up were Zou Wenhuai, the boss of Jiahe, and Lei Juekun, the boss of Xinyi City.

The two of them were sitting at a table alone, obviously because no one else had the same status as them, so no one else dared to sit over.

In the Hong Kong film industry, status is also important. Movie stars can mingle with actors who are new to the industry because they are all actors.

But the bosses of the film company are different. They are the leaders of the film and television industry, and the rest work for them. How can you think the two parties can be as close as brothers?

Yin Jun was not polite. After greeting familiar people such as Cheng Long, Lin Zhengying and others along the way, he sat next to them.

"Hey, Brother Sanmao invited so many guests today." After sitting down, Yin Jun found that there were at least thirty tables inside, and everyone was chatting and laughing. It was very lively.

"It's a rare moment for him to feel proud and proud. How can he be willing to do this without publicizing it?" Zou Wenhuai chuckled.

Lei Juekun, who was next to him, rolled his eyes and said, "Old Zou, what you said is not kind! Even Hong Jinbao applauded him and finally felt proud? Then hasn't our Xinyi City been in vain in the past few years?"

Zou Wenhuai wasn't angry either.

Although part of the profits from the success of Cheng Long, Hong Jinbao, Lin Zhengying and Yuan Biao were shared with the cooperating Qilin Culture, Jiahe itself also benefited a lot.

Not counting theaters and distribution, in terms of film production alone, Golden Harvest's net profit last year exceeded HK$1.5 billion, and it is more likely to exceed HK$2 billion in net profit this year.

Three to five years ago, such a good thing would have been unthinkable.

"Our New Art City has fallen further and further behind in the past two years." Lei Juekun didn't know what he was thinking, so he complained there, "Look, last year, "The Best Partner 3" was still ranked at the top of the box office in Hong Kong. Ten, but how much is the box office of this year’s fourth movie? After all, we are also one of the three major film companies, but in the end we can’t even reach the top ten, but let the people from Xin’an Company catch up. What should we do? "

"Mr. Lei, the Xiang brothers are very serious about making movies. Don't look at them with a perverted eye." Yin Jun smiled, "And they only have one movie, "The Royal Sister", that is good, and the rest of the movies Isn’t it all just a little fight?”

"But one "Royal Senior Sister" can overwhelm us!" Lei Juekun said with a sad face, "Master Jun, you can't favor one thing over another!"

"Do you favor one over the other?"

Yin Jun vaguely understood what he meant.

Are you... asking me for a script?

"In these years, whether it is in the Golden Princess Cinema or the New Art City Film Company, I, Lao Lei, have never held you back, Mr. Jun. Even if it is Mr. Shao Liu, I will follow you. This But it’s clear and obvious.” Lei Juekun said, “In addition, our Kowloon Bus Company, I have been working hard and don’t let you worry about it. Whenever the Kirin Group has any requirements, Kowloon Bus will do its best. I will do it!”

Lei Juekun is showing off his merits.

indeed.

In the past two years, with the continuous construction of infrastructure in Hong Kong and the continuous increase in population, the scope of Kowloon Bus has become larger and larger, and the business has been getting better and better.

But in the past two or three years, Kowloon Bus borrowed billions and opened many routes for Yin Chun's Tin Shui Wai Industrial Park and Ngau Tau Kok real estate.

After so many years of rapid development, most of Kowloon Bus's profits have been used to repay loans, leaving very little dividends to shareholders.

Moreover, it also encountered an unprecedented super stock market crash, so as the chairman, Lei Juekun has been scolded by investors no matter how many times, and he has been complained many times.

But Lei Juekun was worthy of being a thunder tiger. He took on all these matters directly and did not draw the blame on Yin Jun at all.

From this point of view, even Le Yiling admired him very much and felt that he was a person who did things well and was very worthy of cooperation.

Therefore, in the past two years, Lei Juekun's Kowloon Construction and Kowloon Real Estate companies have received some support from the Kirin Group, allowing him to make a small profit.

For another example, just a few months ago, Huo Jianning went on a spree to acquire real estate projects. He acquired three properties of the Kowloon Real Estate Company at a price that was 10% higher than the market price. This was obviously a compliment to him.

Even under Huo Jianning's guidance, Lei Juekun himself took the money to invest in several pieces of land that now seemed a little remote. The price increase in the future would make him laugh out of his dreams.

When it comes to movies, Lei Juekun's thoughts are not that simple.

The cooperation between Golden Princess Cinema and Qilin Cinema is the general trend.

Qilin Cinema Line must resolutely refuse the release of inferior films. Golden Harvest has already joined in, and Princess Jin will definitely have to join in.

Moreover, they also own one of the top three film companies in Hong Kong - New Art City.

Now that the theater chain has reached an alliance, Xinyicheng's movies will naturally be able to get more screens and the box office will be higher.

Not to mention that Kirin Cinemas started its overseas expansion as early as two years ago, and Princess Golden has no distribution channels in Asia.

With this kind of cooperation, isn't it natural for New Art City's movies to enter the Asian distribution channels of Kirin Cinema?

But the problem is that Princess Jin is willing to cooperate with Qilin Cinema, but New Art City has its own ideas.

To put it bluntly, the group of filmmakers in New Art City are very conceited. They don't think they are any worse than Yin Jun and insist on making their own movies.

Micah and others are indeed talented.

In the previous life, New Art City was at its peak as soon as it was established, dominating the world for seven or eight consecutive years.

Shaw Brothers was so beaten that it closed down business, and Golden Harvest, even with superstars such as Cheng Long, Hong Jinbao, Xu Guanwen, etc., could only parry.

The decline of Xinyi City lies in two aspects.

The first is that their success came too easily. No one in Xiangjiang was their opponent, so the rapid expansion of power made their seven founders a little arrogant. They all felt that it was their own merit, and then they all wanted to get more. Dividends and multiple dominant powers.

Then Xinyi City fell apart.

Teddy Robin ran away, Zeng Zhiwei ran away, Xu Ke and Shi Lansheng ran away.

Later, only Micah, Shi Tian and Huang Baiming were left.

Even because he held too few shares, Huang Baiming finally left.

The creative team is almost gone. Can the movie win the love of the audience by relying on random fabrications?

What happens to a movie without sincerity?

Shao Liuye's Shaw Brothers movies are the best example!

So in the end, New Art City really didn't have the strength to make movies, so it had to go bankrupt.

Another reason is that the era when New Art City reached its peak happened to be another crazy stage for the stock and property markets in Hong Kong.

Micah goes to stock trading every day, and Shi Tian goes to real estate trading every day.

Originally, there were only two giants left, and they didn't care about the company's affairs. Do you think Xinyi City can be better off?

Of course not!

Therefore, Xinyi City's collapse was faster and more dramatic than anyone imagined.

In this life, Xinyi City has also encountered many difficulties.

For example, just like in the previous life, Teddy Robin ran away, Zeng Zhiwei ran away, Xu Ke and Shi Lansheng also ran away.

Only Mika, Shi Tian and Huang Baiming were left.

But now, New Art City does not dominate the world, there are behemoths like Qilin Films outside; secondly, Lei Juekun holds a large amount of shares, and the shares given to the three of them are very even, so they can't make any waves.

So the three of them worked together sincerely and made some good movies.

Although it does not break out of the constraints of their current era, it is also very consistent with the aesthetics of people of this era. It not only has a good box office in Hong Kong, but is also a good sign overseas.

Under such circumstances, if you say that they want to be like Jiahe and surrender to Yin Jun and ask him to give him the script, that is simply impossible!

However, Lei Juekun is different!

Seeing that Jiahe will earn 2 billion Hong Kong dollars this year just from movies, but he has invested so much in Xinyi City, but he can only get a profit of 5.6 billion Hong Kong dollars, and then after the shareholder dividends, he can only get 3. With more than 100 million, can Lei Juekun balance it?

He's certainly not balanced.

Especially seeing that Hong Jinbao's Jiabao Company was so popular, Lei Juekun felt that it was time to put down this old face.

Looking at Yin Jun's thoughtful look, Lei Juekun said simply: "Look, Sanmao has such good film works, can our New Art City also buy a few of your scripts? I don't want more, Three or five is enough.”

Zou Wenhuai was watching a play and immediately followed him when he saw this. "Yes, Mr. Jun, the Jiahe family has a great cause. Please give us three or five scripts! The price is easy to say, 30 million or 50 million is not available." question!"

Lei Juekun's eyes widened immediately.

Lao Zou, you are harming me, right?

30 million to 50 million for a script?

Is there such a sky-high price in this world? !

But if you think about it carefully, Yin Jun's script is really worth the price!

For example, today's "Five Lucky Stars" has an obvious profit of HK$500 million. You said you bought this script for 50 million, did you lose money?

It’s definitely not a loss!

Where can you find a movie with 500% profit?

But Yin Jun is not selling scripts. He chooses to use the scripts as shares and obtain 20% of the net profit as a cooperation method. Last year, the dividend was only 10%, but this year it has increased to 20%!

no way.

Yin Jun was responsible for providing the script, but it was Yu Zheng who negotiated the specific dividend conditions.

Yu Zheng, a strong woman, has always been very smart. Seeing others making a lot of money, how could she fall behind?

If she saw the crazy money-making style of "Five Lucky Stars", she might have to increase the profit dividend to 30% next year!

So Zou Wenhuai is very smart. What he said directly is the script buyout price, so the production company will naturally get more!