Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 566 Meatballs

   "Chen, stop watching, let's eat."

  Xue Yufei held the plate and walked towards the table while shouting at Yang Chen who was sitting on the sofa in a daze.

   Yang Chen heard the greeting, threw the newspaper on the sofa, and walked towards Xue Yufei, "What delicious food did you make today?"

   "Come and taste the meatballs, I made them myself." Xue Yufei took the chopsticks and brought a meatball to Yang Chen's mouth.

  Yang Chen opened his mouth and ate the meatballs into his mouth. While chewing, he nodded, gave a thumbs up, and boasted: "It's delicious, Yu Fei, your craftsmanship is getting better and better."

   said, Yang Chen was about to reach out and hug her.

   Xue Yufei quickly took two steps back when she saw this, and reached out to block Yang Chen's movements, "Don't move, there is oil on my apron."

  Yang Chen looked down at the apron on Xue Yufei's body, then glanced at the white clothes on his body, and took his hand back after thinking.

   If the white clothes are stained with oil, it is really difficult to wash. Although he lives like the old landlord in the early days, he lives with clothes, food, and mouth, but he does not want to increase the workload of his nanny.

   Xue Yufei took off her apron and said to Yang Chen, "Chen, today's winter solstice, shall we go out to watch a movie?"

   "Watching a movie?" Yang Chen took the chopsticks and put another meatball into his mouth, looking at Xue Yufei with some doubts.

  Xue Yufei stepped forward and hugged Yang Chen's arm, with a slightly coquettish tone, and said, "Aqiong and I haven't had time to read your new police story, so why don't you accompany us today."

Some time ago, she had been busy with the launch of the game console, and she couldn't tell the time. Now that the game console is selling out, she finally has free time, and she doesn't need to rush so much. Naturally, she wants to go to the cinema to watch Yang Chen's movies. , relax your body.

   Looking at Xue Yufei's eyes full of anticipation, Yang Chen would refuse, he nodded and said, "Okay, Carrefour has recently renovated several multiplex cinemas. After dinner, I will show you guys to experience it."

  ‘Carrefour renovates the cinema? ' When Xue Yufei heard the words, her face was bewildered. When is it time for supermarkets to open movie theaters?

   Yang Chen saw her expression and knew what she was thinking, so he quickly explained: "Carrefour will build several large city squares in Xiangjiang next, including food, drink and entertainment, all of which will be concentrated in the city square.

  This cinema, as one of the most important entertainments, is naturally indispensable.

Before   , Carrefour acquired several small squares in Kowloon and Hong Kong Island. After renovation, the top floor was transformed into a multiplex cinema. "

Seeing that Xue Yufei didn't quite understand, Yang Chen immediately explained: "This multiplex cinema, as the name suggests, is to divide a cinema into several auditoriums, Shaw Brothers, Jiahe and Princess Jin's cinemas, small one or two hundred and seats. , the big ones have hundreds or thousands of seats.

   If it is a good movie, many people watch it, and it sells well, those big cinema operators will naturally make money, but once the movie is not very good and does not sell well, it will be released soon.

  If the movie does not sell well, the big movie theaters will not make any money if they continue to show it. A slow-moving movie is often released directly before its potential is realized.

   To a large extent, this is not only a waste of resources, but also because the release time is too short, some movies have been released from release to release, and many people have not even heard of them. "

"As for multiplex cinemas, most of them are built in bustling streets and areas with high traffic flow. Each auditorium is not large. Usually, one auditorium can seat about 200 people, and a cinema that can accommodate thousands of people is divided in the middle. Suddenly, it turned into a screening hall for four, five, or two hundred people.

If there are more screening halls, then a movie theater can show several more movies at one time. For movies that sell well, add a few more screening halls. For those that do not sell well, reduce the number of screening halls, so that the release of a movie can be extended. time…"

   Since the end of World War II, with the popularity of TV dramas, everyone’s enthusiasm for spending money to go to the cinema to watch movies began to decline sharply. In the early days, large-scale cinemas with thousands of people began to suffer serious losses because of fewer and fewer audiences.

  The change in the entertainment trend in the 1950s not only caused great losses to the theater chain operators, but also brought a devastating blow to the American film industry.

   This crisis, which lasted until the mid-sixties, when multiplex cinemas appeared, was completely broken.

  In the early days of the United States, the large-scale movie theater operators made a lot of money with their huge movie theaters. However, with the passage of time, after the end of World War II, various entertainment industries were enriched.

  Movies are no longer the only entertainment option for everyone. The once bustling big movie theaters went empty, and most movie theaters began to suffer losses.

   But there is an exception in the middle, that is, the small movie theaters in the countryside, they are not affected by it, and the flow of people is still very hot.

   Influenced by rural cinemas, American big cinema chains began to try to make their own cinemas smaller. Due to the unprecedented market effect of this change, American big cinema chains began to actively change the cinema chain model.

A movie theater shows several movies a day. In the 1970s and 1980s, theater chain dealers were even more versatile. A movie theater, from the standard three or four screening halls in the early days, now has seven, eight, eight or nine, or even ten. more than one.

  A movie theater has more than a dozen or 20 movie themes for the audience to choose from at a time. Different types of movies give the audience more choices. It is no longer like one or two single movies in the early days.

   As soon as people enter the cinema, they can basically find the movies they like. Few people leave because they can't find the movies they want to watch like before.

The emergence of    multiplex cinemas and the change of cinema operators have made people re-enter the cinema again, and finally developed into one of the most important entertainment venues between couples and their families.

   Of course, multiplex cinemas are only effective in crowded downtown squares. If they are placed in the countryside, they will lose money. After all, a projector is not cheap, and the flow of people is not large, so it will lose money.

   After listening to Yang Chen's introduction, Xue Yufei showed a regretful expression, "Why didn't you say it earlier, if you knew we wouldn't cook, it would be great if we just went out to eat."

   Yang Chen couldn't help laughing bitterly when he saw this, but he didn't refute it.

  This woman is sometimes unreasonable, you can't be true to them, once you are true, you will lose.

   Xue Yufei ignored Yang Chen's bitter face, and asked casually, "Chen, are you planning to fully enter the film industry?"

  Yang Chen: "Almost, although ATV is cooperating with Princess Jin now, no one can tell how long it will last.

  The reason why Princess Jin cooperated with us was because Boss Lei had no talent available and needed us to help him make a movie. Once he was hired, it was hard to say whether the two of us could continue to cooperate.

   Even if the cooperation between the two companies can continue, ATV can't always rely on Princess Jin to see other people's faces.

   Before this businessman and businessman, there was only interest. Today, ATV can cooperate with Princess Jin, and tomorrow the two can part ways.

   I don't want that day that Boss Lei had a convulsion in his head, cut off the cooperation with ATV, and did things that hurt others and not himself. "

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   Thank you Lonely Drift 12345 for the reward, thank you for your support, and serve tea to the boss.

   (end of this chapter)