Dreams of the Fragrant River

"The average occupancy rate of Lianhe Theatre yesterday was 53%. [;First appearance]"

"The average occupancy rate of Huamao Cinema yesterday was %."

"The average occupancy rate of Jinyu Cinema yesterday was 47%."

"The average occupancy rate of the Golden Sing Cinema yesterday was 51%."

"The average occupancy rate of Taiping Theatre yesterday was 52%."

"The average occupancy rate at Queen's Theatre yesterday was 67 per cent."

"..."

In the conference room of the headquarters of the New Era Cinema, the owners or managers of the major theaters are listening anxiously to the attendance reports of the theaters.

The release in Hong Kong was a bit bad, and it was worse than Kang Jianfei had expected. Among the five films in the Spring Festival, there are comedies for comedies, and kung fu movies for kung fu movies. The rest of the audience who like to watch sci-fi movies have been snatched away.

Even with the massive publicity before its release, its presence is still too low. When 18 theaters are shown at the same time, not only the box office is not as good as that of only 14 theaters, but even the ones shown in only 10 theaters are not comparable.

Only on the third day of the show, cracks appeared in the loose alliance of the new era theater chain. In addition to Kang Jianfei's own 9 theaters, the other 9 theaters have requested to reduce the number of screenings, even if Zhang Jianting is replaced, they are willing.

Although the Anle Cinema Line was quite unhappy with Kang Jianfei, it was Jiang Zhiwen who was in charge, and Jiang Zhiqiang was still the general manager of the New Era Cinema Line. He turned his attention to Kang Jianfei and Zhang Moren, and was about to say something, when he suddenly heard a good news in the sadness.

"The average attendance at Fanling Cinema yesterday was... 100%."

Everyone in the conference room looked at the owner of the Fanling Cinema. Zheng Cuisheng, the owner of Fanling Cinema, just smiled and said nothing.

Why is the Fanling Cinema the only one to be full when the average attendance rate of other cinemas is only about 50%?

Because Fanling Cinema is a country cinema.

Fanling is located in the northeastern part of the New Territories, and it is almost bordering on Shenzhen/Shenzhen. Moreover, Fanling Cinema is the only cinema in the three districts of Sheung Shui, Fanling and Tai Po. In other words, if people in Sheung Shui and Dapu District want to watch a movie, they have to go to Fanling by car.

As such. As long as the movies shown in Fanling Cinema are not too bad, the attendance rate of the Spring Festival stalls is basically above 90%. It's a pity that the ticket price of this theater is low, and there are only more than 500 seats.

The predecessor of Fanling Theatre was an open-air theatre. It has been in business since 1949 and has changed several owners over the decades. For example, Qiu Degen has run the Fanling Theatre for several years.

Because the New Territories North District is too backward, and the surrounding countryside is full of inconvenient transportation, the Fanling Cinema has always been poorly equipped and small in scale. For a long time, most of them have been showing second-run movies or old movies, relying on low ticket prices to attract farmers. Audience - the fare is too high and the farmers are reluctant.

However, since 1978, Hong Kong's economy has developed rapidly, and the pockets of farmers in the northern districts of the New Territories have also gradually increased. In the past two years, the ticket price of Fanling Cinema has increased a lot. At the same time, peasant audiences are not willing to watch only old movies and second-round movies. In addition, Kang Jianfei promised to reduce the copy rent for Fanling Cinema, so this rural theater chose to join the new era cinema chain.

Zheng Cuisheng, who was not worried about attendance, did not speak. However, the manager of Jinyu Theater said: "The attendance rate is less than 50%. If other films are not arranged to replace it, Jinyu Theater will definitely withdraw from this joint screening."

Zhang Moren, the old man, asked gloomily, "I wonder which good film is going to be shown after Manager Di quits the joint screening?"

The manager Di said with a stern face: "This will not bother Mr. Zhang."

"Isn't it?" Zhang Moren chuckled.

Manager Di sat there without saying a word. It seems to be the default.

"Cough cough!" Jiang Zhiqiang used a cough to cover up his embarrassment. On the one hand, he is the general manager of New Era Cinemas, and on the other hand, he is Jiang Zhiwen's younger brother and one of the shareholders of Anle Cinemas. At the same time, he also has a good personal relationship with Kang Jianfei, but his film arranging work has made him in a dilemma. , Frustrated.

The owner of Huamao Cinema also said, "Mr. Kang, Huamao Cinema is taking the risk of arranging screenings for your own sake. Why don't you come up with a charter now? 50% of the movie's attendance is still in the off-season. It doesn't matter, but now is the golden time of the Spring Festival."

"The film directed by Xu Ke has been filming for half a year, right?" the boss of the Hongyun Theater suddenly said, "It's not the same."

In the face of these fast-moving academies, Kang Jianfei has been laughing disdainfully in his heart. Most of their theaters used to be second-round theaters. If it wasn't for the backing of DreamWorks' film sources and discounts, he would not be qualified to talk about the first round of the Spring Festival stalls now. What movie.

Now that each one's wings are growing hard, and the attendance rate of only one movie is not good, I can't help jumping up and down to ask for a new movie after only two or three days.

Although according to the practice of the theater chain, the attendance rate of the Spring Festival stalls is too low, so the number of screenings should be reduced, or even put on other movies. The actions of these theater businessmen are not wrong, but Kang Jianfei is still very unhappy.

Because these theaters can develop rapidly, they all have the convenience and support of DreamWorks. It is only for the sake of Kang Jianfei's face. At least one week after the screening, he should talk about other things.

Kang Jianfei doesn't care about other people's face, but he really doesn't like others not giving him face. Facing the faces of the gentlemen in the conference room, he strengthened his determination to re-create the theater company.

Kang Jianfei didn't show the sullenness in his heart, but said with a smile: "It's still early, half of the progress is not there."

Kang Jianfei didn't lie, he really only took a little bit.

The speed of Xu Ke's filming is not sluggish. There is a special reason why only a little bit of filming occurs in half a year.

It took some time to first go to Hollywood to invite the special effects team, and then came back to make special effects models. It was already November when I went to the mainland to film.

Xu Ke first went to Zhangjiajie for a walk. Immediately, I was shocked by the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. Then Xu Ke went to Jiuzhaigou again. After he got there, he didn't shoot a scene, so he called Kang Jianfei directly, saying that he wanted to overthrow the original idea and rewrite the script.

God is pitiful, Xu Ke has been filming in Zhangjiajie for more than half a month, and rewriting the script means that half a month of filming is basically invalid.

As for Xu Ke's rewrite of the script, the reason is very simple, the natural beauty with great visual and spiritual impact. Gave him so many ideas and inspirations.

Now most of the crew members have returned to Hong Kong, only Xu Ke and his wife Shi Nansheng are still in the mainland, and under the guidance of mainland guides, they go to visit famous mountains and rivers in various places.

As for when it will be filmed, only ghosts know. This time Kang Jianfei was not lightly beaten.

"It's been half a year and it's not finished yet? That's really long enough." The owner of Huamao Theater sighed.

The owner of Jinsheng Theater said: "Mr. Kang, since joining the new era cinema chain, the number of seats in our Jinsheng Theater has doubled. Such a 50% attendance rate is really hurting. I also support the rearrangement."

The owner of the Jinsheng Theater is also a strange person. His theater originally only had 300 seats. Because I made a lot of money after joining the new era theater chain, the seats could not satisfy more and more audiences, so I thought about expanding the size of the theater.

However, this guy did not choose to build a multiplex theater. Instead, they rented the room next to the theater and installed more than 300 seats directly after opening the wall.

The occupancy rate is only 50%, which means that more than 300 newly added seats in Jinsheng Cinema are vacant.

Jiang Zhiqiang turned his attention to Kang Jianfei, apparently asking about his plans.

Right now there are two paths to take. One is to cut down, and the other is to replace it with other DreamWorks movies, such as Zhang Jianting's.

From Jiang Zhiqiang's standpoint, it is natural to hope that the more the box office can be released in more theaters, the more distribution shares Anle Pictures will earn, and Jiang Zhiqiang is also one of the shareholders of Anle Pictures.

"No." Kang Jianfei shook his head and said, "The current attendance rate of this movie is about 80%, but please note that this is only in 10 theaters, so it can be said that the box office potential has reached its limit. If your theaters also The attendance rate of the platoon will be quickly pulled down, and I am afraid it will not be much better than that."

After Kang Jianfei said this, those academies also reacted. Except for one or two who still had expectations, everyone else gave up their plans to cooperate with Jiang Zhiwen, and hoped that DreamWorks would release a new film.

Kang Jianfei raised three fingers and said, "Give me three more days. If the box office doesn't improve, I'll show McDonald's."

"Is that the film starring Zhang Guorong, Wen Bixia, Li Lizhen and Wu Mengda?" asked the boss of Jinsheng Cinema.

Kang Jianfei explained: "It's that film, which was completed after New Year's Day. It just passed the film inspection a few days ago, and it was originally planned to be released after the year."

The sequel to the film was proposed by Kang Jianfei and written by Wen Jun. It is a film that pays equal attention to both art and business.

At the time of the release, it was a hit and a hit, as its sequel, and Zhang Guorong, Wen Bixia and other people joined the starring, and it was still a big hit at the box office.

Kang Jianfei made a promise for three days. After all, those academies would have to rely on DreamWorks to provide film sources in the future. Naturally, they couldn't force it too much. They all agreed.

After the meeting, Jiang Zhiqiang stopped Kang Jianfei and said, "Mr. Kang, I'm really sorry about this incident. After all, my brother is in charge of Anle Films."

"I know that you are in a dilemma when you are caught in the middle." Kang Jianfei said with a smile, he was still very satisfied with Jiang Zhiqiang's Spring Festival film arrangement this time. Among those members of the New Era Cinema, only 6 followed the Anle Cinema, and the remaining 9 theaters were all screened by Jiang Zhiqiang.

Jiang Zhiqiang sighed: "I am afraid there will be more and more situations like this in the future. I want to resign as the general manager of the New Era Cinemas and go back to help my brother run the Anle Cinemas."

"What's the future of those four western movie theaters?" Kang Jianfei suddenly laughed, "I'm going to rebuild a theater chain company, why don't Brother Jiang be the general manager?"

Jiang Zhiqiang looked at Kang Jianfei in surprise, and quickly reacted, smiling: "I know Mr. Kang, you will not be satisfied with a loose temporary theater chain, and one day you will create a regular theater chain. I just don't know why you chose it. I'm the general manager, isn't Mr. Zhang Moren very suitable?"

Kang Jianfei explained: "He is old and has problems with his waist and cervical spine. He cannot sit for a long time and cannot be tired due to bone hyperplasia. It is already extreme to manage several theaters, and he does not have the energy to manage an entire theater chain."

In fact, Kang Jianfei liked Cen Jianxun very much. He planned to let Zhang Moren be the general manager of the theater, and then sent Cen Jianxun to be an assistant to Zhang Moren, and he would be promoted after two or three years of training.

But Kang Jianfei never expected that Cen Jianxun, who was actually a friend of Pan Disheng, handed in his resignation two days before the Lunar New Year holiday.

Compared with working in DreamWorks, Debao Films, which has not yet been officially registered, is small, but after all, Pan Disheng gave Cen Jianxun some shares. Cen Jianxun would naturally choose to be his own boss instead of working for Kang Jianfei at DreamWorks.

Jiang Zhiqiang was hesitant. After his father died, the four cinemas of the Anle Cinema Line were the inheritance, and the two brothers each got a share. But the problem is, everything about the theater is his brother Jiang Zhiwen's final decision~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Jiang Zhiqiang can only go back and forth in Europe and America to buy films.

Jiang Zhiqiang is an ambitious young man. Although he is only 30 years old, he has been running around the world since he was 13 years old.

Now Jiang Zhiqiang has two choices. One is to stay in Anle Cinemas as the second owner and continue to run around to buy films to develop four family cinemas; the other is to accept Kang Jianfei's invitation to serve as the general manager of the new cinema company. Judging from the prosperity of the factory, maybe in a few years the theater chain will develop to Nanyang and Taiwan.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Kang Jianfei added with a smile, "I'll give you 10% of the shares of the theater company."

Dry shares can only be distributed and not traded. Jiang Zhiqiang will take it back after he resigns. Naturally, it cannot be compared with his shares in Anle Cinema.

But the development prospects of the two theaters are different. Jiang Zhiqiang thought about it, and the temptation to be alone made him unable to refuse. After all, after returning to the Anle Cinema, he can only help his brother Jiang Zhiwen.

"I'll do it with you!" Jiang Zhiqiang exhaled.