Reborn in Hong Kong as a Tycoon

Chapter 481 Movies and Markets (Two in One)

On the next Saturday afternoon, Shen Porridge contacted Lin Baicheng.

The two went to the Peninsula Hotel for afternoon tea.

The two chatted for a while first, but didn't immediately get to the point. Lin Baicheng was not in a hurry. Anyway, it was Shen Congee who contacted him for this meeting, and Shen Congee was in a hurry.

Both of them were sitting here drinking afternoon tea. Of course, Shen Congee was not in a hurry, but after all, he was the one who contacted Lin Baicheng, so after the small talk, he took the initiative to talk about the business: "Lin Sheng, this time I mainly want to invite you Do me a favor, it's about our agreement."

"Ok?"

Lin Baicheng looked at Shen Congee with some doubts when he heard the words: "The stock price of Hutchison Whampoa fell below 40 Hong Kong dollars yesterday, but it quickly rebounded due to a large number of buying orders. This is caused by your HSBC buying too much in a short period of time. You want me to How can I help?" Since it was an agreement with HSBC, he guessed it should be related to this matter.

Shen Porridge heard the words and explained: "When the stock price fell below 40 Hong Kong dollars, it was not our HSBC who bought a large amount of money. We wanted to build a position of 20 billion Hong Kong dollars. How could such a violent purchase be possible? Third-party funds entered the market." HSBC must buy It is to buy slowly and carefully, and manipulate the stock price to fluctuate within a narrow range, instead of rising and falling sharply.

"So coincidentally?"

Lin Baicheng was very surprised, this is too much of a coincidence.

"It's really a coincidence."

Shen Congee nodded, looking at Lin Baicheng's reaction, it doesn't look like he did this, but it is also possible that Lin Baicheng is acting, but Shen Congee thinks that the possibility of Lin Baicheng acting is relatively small, and he is more inclined to be a real third party funds.

"We have already found out that the funds come from the branch of Bank of Mitsubishi in Hong Kong. I also talked with the president of Bank of Mitsubishi Tachibana Yamada here in the morning, but the other party said that they would keep the customer's information confidential, so I think Lin Sheng, please help find out who the other party is. No matter how bad it is, you can find out how much money the other party will use to buy Hutchison Whampoa shares. "

"Shen Daban, I think you think highly of me. I have a cooperation with Mitsubishi Bank, but someone who can spend tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars to buy Hutchison Whampoa stocks is definitely not an ordinary person, it must be A big customer of Mitsubishi Bank, how could they leak the information of a big customer to me. To put it bluntly, I am also a big customer of Mitsubishi Bank. If they do this, they are not afraid that I will be worried that my information will be leaked to others by them, so as to change The cooperative bank is not working?"

Lin Baicheng shook his head. Although the fact that third-party funds bought Hutchison Whampoa stocks surprised him, he would not easily agree to Shen Congee's help in finding out the news.

Shen Congee heard the words and said, "Lin Sheng, please help me find out. If you really can't find out any news, then you have no choice but to give up."

"Since Daban Shen said so, it would be unreasonable for me not to help."

Lin Baicheng murmured and agreed, but even though he agreed verbally, he would also take action to ask Yamada Tachibana, but that was just for Shen Congee to see, he would only ask, and would not specifically seek advice on this matter. Mineryu Iwasaki helps.

"Then I will leave this matter to you, Lin Sheng."

Shen Congee gestured with his teacup, but he didn't really have much hope.

"You're welcome, we have an agreement, and this is what I should do."

Lin Baicheng smiled slightly, and it is best to help without paying anything.

"Lin Sheng, there will be some negative news on the market next week that is not conducive to the stock price of Hutchison Whampoa. Here I will let you know first. I hope you can understand."

Shen Congee said aloud that this is what he wanted to talk about when he met with Lin Baicheng today. By doing so, he could not only suppress the stock price of Hutchison Whampoa, but also test the bad news of the big money in Hutchison Whampoa yesterday. Will you continue to buy stocks?

"Negative news can exist, but it cannot affect the business development of Hutchison Whampoa."

Lin Baicheng reminded aloud that this was an agreement between the two parties, so he cannot go back on his word. What he can do is to prevent HSBC from crossing the line.

Shen Congee nodded: "Don't worry, Mr. Lin, HSBC will not violate our agreement."

"Shen Taiban, the stock price of Hutchison Whampoa has fallen below 40 Hong Kong dollars yesterday, so according to our agreement, HSBC will lend me a three-year low-interest loan of 5 million Hong Kong dollars."

Lin Baicheng reminded aloud that this was related to his interests, so he couldn't help but not care.

"Lin Sheng, don't worry, you can have someone come to HSBC Bank to find me to handle the loan procedures on Monday."

Shen Congee smiled and agreed, this is the promised reward for Lin Baicheng, of course he will not go back on his word.If he really repents, Lin Baicheng will definitely not cooperate with HSBC again, and HSBC will only lose at that time.

"Okay, I will send someone to go to HSBC next Monday to go through the formalities."

Lin Baicheng smiled when he heard the words, and he will cause damage to HSBC in the future, so it is better to get the loan as soon as possible.

After the two chatted for a while, Shen Porridge took his leave first.

"Lin Sheng!"

Just when Lin Baicheng was about to leave after a while, someone came over to say hello.

"Lei Sheng!"

Lin Baicheng got up and shook hands with the visitor.

This is a man in his fifties. His name is Lei Juekun. He is the chairman of Kowloon Jianye. acquired.

Hutchison Whampoa's acquisition of Kowloon Bus was a wholly-owned acquisition, and directly delisted Kowloon Bus. Now Kowloon Bus has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa.

Losing the controlling stake in Kowloon Bus was a major loss for Lei Juekun, but he sold the stocks at a high price, plus Hutchison Whampoa cooperated with his Kowloon Construction Industry in real estate development, so Lei Juekun There is no loss, but a lot of benefits, so Lei Juekun does not hate Hutchison Whampoa and Lin Baicheng.

Lin Baicheng has met Lei Juekun several times, but the two are not very familiar, so they can only be regarded as nodding acquaintances.

"Lin Sheng, I take the liberty of interrupting you, may I have a moment of your time?"

Lei Juekun said sincerely that in terms of wealth and status, he was no match for Lin Baicheng.

"of course."

Lin Baicheng sat down with a smile, and at the same time called the waiter not far away.

Lei Juekun also sat down and ordered tea from the waiter.

Before the waiter brought the tea, Lei Juekun said: "Lin Sheng, the thing is like this, I have Lesheng, Lisheng, Kaisheng and other theaters under my name, which were leased to Jiahe before, but now my Kowloon Bus was acquired by Hutchison Whampoa, so I just wanted to start another business, I wanted to buy a few more theaters, and form a theater chain together with the original theaters.”

"It's a good choice."

Lin Baicheng nodded when he heard the words, let alone whether the establishment of a theater chain can make money, the real estate of the theater alone will continue to increase in value as the housing price rises, so it is a very good investment method.

Lei Juekun said: "Lin Sheng, your Star Cinemas can be said to be spread all over Xiangjiang. I am going to enter this industry now, so I would like to say hello to Lin Sheng first, and I hope there will be no misunderstandings, so that my theater chain has just opened. suppressed."

"Lei Sheng, you are too polite. You don't need my approval if you want to enter this industry, and I myself have no ability to suppress your theater chain."

Lin Baicheng waved his hand, and then said: "Anyone can do this business, and Lei Sheng is no exception. But I want to remind Lei Sheng that no matter whether it is the theater chain under my name, or the theater chains of Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, With the support of their respective film companies, Lei Sheng, if you set up a theater chain without film support, I am worried that your theater chain will not last long."

As far as the film industry is concerned, theaters are very important, yes, but the film companies that make movies are equally important, and the two are interdependent.

The current structure of the Xiangjiang film industry is that Star Films, Shaw Brothers, and Golden Harvest are the top three. The three film companies have their own theaters, and all the films they shoot are only shown in their respective theaters.

In addition, there are other small film companies in Hong Kong, yes, but the films produced by those film companies are usually shown in Star Cinema and Golden Harvest, while Shaw Brothers only shows their own films.

In this case, Lei Juekun's establishment of a theater chain can only compete for films made by other small film companies, and also compete with Star Cinema and Golden Harvest, especially Golden Harvest.In addition to showing the movies of Star Pictures, Star Cinema also shows the movies of other film companies in which it holds shares. It can be said that there is not much shortage of movies to be released.

It is not so easy for Lei Juekun's newly established theater chain to compete with Golden Harvest, and if it cannot compete with Golden Harvest, then the theater chain's profitability will be a big problem.

The waiter came over with tea, and after he left, the two continued their conversation.

"Lin Sheng, I don't know if the film produced by the film company under your name can also be released in my theater?"

Lei Juekun asked tentatively. Of course he knew the importance of the film and had a general idea, but if he could win the support of Lin Baicheng, his theater chain could develop better in the early stage.

"I'm sorry Lei Sheng, my theater chain is enough to cover the Xiangjiang market, so the film can be screened at the Star Cinema."

Lin Baicheng declined aloud, his theater chain almost covered the city of Xiangjiang, there was absolutely no need to show the movie in other theaters and let others earn the money.

"That's such a pity."

Lei Juekun sighed regretfully, but he didn't say anything anymore, he knew that such a thing could not be forced.

"Lin Sheng, I will find some people to set up a film company when the time comes. If I borrow actors from you to make a movie, I hope you will not refuse."

"Of course this is not a problem, as long as the actors are paid in line with their worth."

Lin Baicheng does not refuse to allow TV stations or artists signed with film companies to shoot movies of other film companies. Even if the artists under the contract are prevented from filming, the other party can completely replace them. If the film is popular, the only losses will be their own artists and their own company. So there is no need to stop this kind of thing.

Lei Juekun said with a smile: "Of course, if you invite them to film, you must pay them."

After chatting with Lei Juekun for a few more words, Lin Baicheng excused himself and left first.

After leaving, Lin Baicheng asked someone to contact Yamada Juto, the president of Mitsubishi Xiangjiang Branch, to meet him. This is what he promised Shen Congee, and he would definitely meet with Yamada Juto and show it to Shen Congee.

Not long after, the people below reported that Tachibana Yamada should meet with Lin Baicheng, and said that the time would be decided by Lin Baicheng.

Lin Baicheng asked someone to arrange the time for tomorrow morning, and he has a date with Zhong Chuhong in the evening.

On the date that night, Lin Baicheng and Zhong Chuhong first went to the hotel to have dinner together, and then they went to the movies together.

"Money's Mischief", Lin Baicheng's impression should be a movie released in 1980, but it was released this year.But it's normal to think about it. Originally, this movie should have been produced by Golden Harvest. Now that the Xu Brothers, Hong Jinbao and others have been poached by Lin Baicheng, there is nothing wrong with this movie being shot in advance.

The work "Money's Mischief" was co-produced by Xu's Film Industry and Seven Little Fortune Film Company. The two parties shared the cost equally, and the main actors who starred were also from both companies. The actors alone are very different from the version before rebirth. Big difference.

In fact, Lin Baicheng has never seen this movie. He only knows about this movie because he has written a novel.

Therefore, when watching the movie this time, Lin Baicheng took it very seriously.

"It's still the petty bourgeois style of the Xu brothers."

After watching for a while, Lin Baicheng made a judgment.And if there are no accidents, in this day and age, the philistine style of the Xu Brothers is very popular. As long as the story is not bad, the box office will not be bad.

Of course, Lin Baicheng has been influenced by future diverse films, so the plot of the film is still a bit old-fashioned in his opinion, and he doesn't like it much.

"Baicheng, this movie is really good."

Unlike Lin Baicheng, after leaving the cinema, Zhong Chuhong praised him greatly.

"its not bad, right."

Lin Baicheng made an honest evaluation.

Zhong Chuhong said: "Is it just not bad? I think it looks very good."

Lin Baicheng shook the girl's hand: "Everyone has different preferences, and it's normal for me to not like you as much."

"Too."

Zhong Chuhong quite agrees with this statement.

In Lin Baicheng's opinion, the movie "The Mischief of Money" is not as good as Xu's film industry's "Deed of Sale" last year. If there is no accident, the box office of "The Mischief of Money" should not be as good as "The Deed of Sale".In other words, the total box office of the film will be less than 700 million Hong Kong dollars.

Of course, whether this is the case, Lin Baicheng can't guarantee.After all, this is just his judgment, he can't represent others, maybe he doesn't like Xiangjiang citizens, but he doesn't necessarily like them.

For the film company, Lin Baicheng actually doesn't care that much now, mainly because he earns too little.Even if a film is a big hit at the box office, it can top seventy-eight million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, counting overseas profits of more than 800 million Hong Kong dollars.

After a few years, the box office of a movie in Hong Kong can reach about 2000 million Hong Kong dollars. At that time, if the overseas income is added, it is possible for a film to earn 3000, [-] million Hong Kong dollars or even more. The profits of the movie are not low.

Only at that time, Lin Baicheng will pay more attention to the film company, put more energy into it, and even end up doing it himself.

　(Thanks to 'Low-key Banerzhuan 01' for the big 500-point reward support!)

　　
　
(End of this chapter)