Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 933 931 Comprehensive Building

The next day, Chu Xiangqian followed the crew and boarded a cruise ship. It only took one morning to finish filming all the scenes.

The behind-the-scenes production was completed in just half a month.

As a result, Chu Xiangqian, who had taken time out to go to London to accompany Margaret and his second son Chu Jingxing, had to say goodbye to Margaret and her son and fly back to Hong Kong Island temporarily to attend the premiere.

In Causeway Bay, a cinema that was converted from a warehouse a few years ago has become a 1-storey building covering an area of ​​16 square meters after one and a half years of construction.

This area is really nothing in China, but in Hong Kong Island, many high-rise buildings in Central are smaller in area than this building.

The first floor consists of shops facing the street and small daily necessities stores inside the building.

The electrical appliance store on the second floor.

The third floor is home to various snack bars, tea restaurants, and fast food restaurants.

It attracts a large number of office workers and nearby residents to dine here every day.

The fourth floor is the billiard room and 6 theaters.

Although each screening room looks quite large, it can accommodate 150 people.

But compared to those large cinemas in Hong Kong Island with 300 to 500 seats.

This type of screening room is more flexible for filming and actually costs less.

Not every movie is a hit.

A cinema with a capacity of 3 people looks very cold if only a few dozen people are sitting there.

But with a venue that can hold 150 people and can seat dozens of people, it seems like a hot seller.

In addition to the traffic brought by small shops, snack bars and tea restaurants, the cinema’s decoration is also better and the sound effects are better.

This cinema has quite a good customer flow.

After only four months of opening, the business of an old cinema and a theater nearby was reduced by more than half.

Above the fourth floor is the office building for rent.

Chu Xiangqian simply offered a 7% discount to attract tenants, and the discount lasted for a full year.

In just one month, all floors 5 to 16 were rented out.

There are more than a thousand office workers working in the building, which in itself is a considerable number of potential customers.

After three months of operation, Xue Jinglan was grinning from ear to ear.

A monthly profit of more than 80 means that the entire investment in this building can be earned back in just one and a half years.

Simply building a building would not cost more than HK$1500 million.

But the decoration of the cinema, billiard room and the interior and exterior of the building cost more than 400 million.

But the cinema makes a profit of more than 20 yuan a month.

So much so that Bai Fanyu approached Chu Xiangqian several times, wanting to demolish the cinema in Wan Chai and build a high-rise building.

Chu Xiangqian naturally had no objection, since the ownership of the cinema belonged to Bai Fanyu anyway.

This cinema chain is actually a joint cinema chain formed by the cooperation of two companies.

Chu Xiangqian has 7 branches, located in Sham Shui Po, Prince Edward Road, Mong Kok, Yau Ma Tei, Jordan, Ho Man Tin and Causeway Bay.

Including the two new stores opened by Zheng Shufen, the total number is 9.

There are 5 Baifanyu restaurants, all of which are located in the prosperous areas of Hong Kong.

Although Kowloon is a little poorer, the population is more densely populated.

Due to the lack of entertainment activities, movies, which are relatively cheaper to consume, are more popular.

However, if we look at it from a real estate perspective, Baifanyu’s five cinemas will definitely be more valuable in the future.
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Chu Xiangqian took Xue Jinglan, who had just finished her confinement and was appearing in such an occasion for the first time, out of the car.

There were more than twenty reporters, holding cameras and taking pictures non-stop.

Fortunately, Xue Jinglan has gradually participated in many charity activities in recent years.

He was not at all stage-frightened and waved to several reporters with a smile.

He also took a few photos with Chu Xiangqian.

Chu Xiangqian didn't try to avoid reporters now. He couldn't keep a low profile in the past two years. As the Japanese broke the news, he made hundreds of millions of dollars on the British pound exchange rate.

Coupled with his actions to rescue the market during the bank run crisis a few days ago, his reputation has long spread throughout Hong Kong Island.

Even though he deliberately avoided being photographed, he still spent money to buy advertisements in other newspapers in exchange for these newspapers not printing his photos in the newspapers.

But after bribing off medium and large newspapers, there were still some brave people in some tabloids who leaked his photos.

It's easy to get into trouble with these tabloids.

But after one, two, three, and five times, Chu Xiangqian no longer cared.

Since it can't be stopped, just let it be.

The former was Xue Jinglan's hand, and after the reporter took the photo, Chu Xiangqian saw Linda in a police uniform next to these people with wrinkles.

Linda and her husband nodded, then called Xue Jinglan "sister".

During the horse racing auction a few years ago, Linda worked as Xue Jinglan's assistant, assisting Xue Jinglan with the security of the auction.

Zheng Shufen followed Jinglan and helped her deal with various chores.

So Xue Jinglan and Linda were actually very familiar with each other. She smiled and nodded to Linda, then asked in a low voice about today's security.

Chu Xiangqian didn't care what the two of them were whispering about, and talked to Zhou Wenhuai and others about the premiere and the release in Southeast Asia.

After talking for a few minutes, guests began to arrive.

The boss Chu Xiangqian could only put the previous topic aside for the time being.

Smilingly, he took Xue Jinglan to greet the guests who were invited to attend the premiere today.

What was beyond the expectations of Chu Xiangqian, Zhou Wenhuai and others was.

I thought that at most there would be enough guests to fill up one hall.

But I didn't expect that friends and partners from four halls and many local celebrities with whom I had little interaction would come.

Many of them brought their families with them, sometimes four or five at a time.

Fortunately, this cinema is big enough, with 6 halls, which can easily accommodate 900 people.

It can also be played in a loop.

At around 11 o'clock in the evening, when the guests in the last hall came out after watching the movie, most of them looked excited, just like the previous guests.

While walking, I chatted with people around me about the plot of the movie, especially the gambling techniques.

When many people saw Chu Xiangqian, they asked him, like the previous guests, whether he really knew how to gamble.

Chu Xiangqian naturally smiled and said that they were all movie props.

Unfortunately, some people believed what he said, but there were even more people who firmly believed that he was really good at gambling.

Otherwise, how could it be possible to take pictures so naturally.

Especially the fancy shuffling techniques, which made people know that Chu Xiangqian really knew more than a dozen shuffling techniques.

Also, Chu Xiangqian's fancy swordplay is more exciting than watching juggling.

After sending away those curious guests, Chu Xiangqian said to Wrinkle Huai, "You guys should go back and rest early too.

Judging from the performance of the guests tonight, it should be easy to make over a million at the box office.”

Wrinkle nodded, but he and other senior executives of the company did not hope that the local box office would exceed one million.

A few years ago, if a movie grossed four or five hundred thousand at the box office after it was released, it was considered a big hit.

But this year, there are already several films that have grossed over one million.

Two million is everyone’s common expectation.

But the boss asked everyone to go home early, which means he cares about his employees.

If anyone really goes home so early, Zhou Wenhuai, the manager, will definitely ask that person to pack up and not come to work in the company anymore.

Chu Xiangqian took Xue Jinglan home. Zhou Wenhuai and the company were busy until noon the next day, after receiving the data that the attendance rate in the morning was 6%.

Only then can I sleep peacefully.

(End of this chapter)