Dongfang and Five Thousand Years have made a lot of money with their new brands, so Zhao Donghuai will consider supporting Ah Heng and Jialing's film company.

Isn’t this, the project is already there!

By the time Zhao Donghuai and Ah Heng separated and returned to the holiday villa, the idea had already been decided, so let Er Dongsheng come out and shoot one in advance (new love).

In the original trajectory, in 1993, when Hong Kong movies were filled with bi-weekly movies starring Ajie, martial arts, police action and star-style comedies, Er Dongsheng actually took Yuen Yongyi and Liu Qingyun to film a Hong Kong box office of 3000

Wan, also won the Academy Awards for Best Film, Academy Awards for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Director!

These are all real trophies for winning.

It is truly worthy of both fame and fortune.

This movie is also set in Temple Street, has citizen prototypes, and has undergone some artistic processing. It is a love story between a down-and-out musician and a talented female singer.

Tragedy... the heroine died of cancer after the love story.

It was because of this movie that the pretty Yuan Yongyi became a blockbuster and won the Best Actress Award.

It's not impossible to leave it to Liu Jialing to play the heroine now. After all, Jialing's acting skills are still worthy of recognition.

As Xia Yu is famous in the Hong Kong film industry, she is also one of the leading actors in acting. After all, Carina Lau was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in Days of Being Wild.

Subsequently, she was nominated for Best Actress for three Academy Awards again for (Chicken and Duck Love) (Self-Groomed) and (Infernal Affairs). However, it was just because she was born in mainland China and was discriminated against by the industry, and she never received the Academy Award trophy.

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On July 16, when Zhao Donghuai returned to the ATV office, he decisively said to Azhen, "Go ahead and arrange the announcement of (The New Oolong Courtyard of Xiaolin Boy) and "Water Margin" (Peerless Two Prouds) together. Now (Jurassic Park)

2) It was released in just over two weeks.”

"The three movies are announced for one week and will be released on July 23rd, 24th and 25th. Pay attention to flexible adjustment of the film schedule. They are not very good movies. At most, if they continue, each will account for 20% of the film schedule and will be released for three or four weeks.

.”

These movies have been waiting for a long time, but there are many good movies in the big schedule, so let’s watch them together and watch them compete against each other. Starting next week, (Jurassic Park 2) will be compressed back to 30% to 40%

The film schedule rate is probably better than the box office performance of these three movies.

It's really August, around the 10th, and the time-travel version of Ip Man 2, which has been waiting for more than half a year, is about to be released.

As for Xing Zai’s (God of Cookery) and (Legend of the Mermaid), it’s better to arrange them to be released after the summer. Anyway, during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, the schedule is actually not bad.

We don’t expect to make much box office hits in North America, but (God of Cookery) and (Legend of Mermaid) occupy the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day slots, plus weekends, etc., so their performance will not be bad in East and Southeast Asia.

Azhen nodded and took note, then asked curiously, "Isn't the beautiful scenery of Taihu Lake fun?"

Zhao Donghuai nodded, "Yes, I will take you to play with me next time."

A-Zhen originally wanted to ask, "Which one is more fun, the beautiful scenery of Taihu Lake or A-Xin?", but upon hearing this, she stuck out her tongue and hid.

Wang Zuxian came over and said, "Boss, Mr. Chen from Hong Kong Island Commercial Bank, has brought Mr. Xie from Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Group to visit you. There was no appointment before, but Mr. Chen's relationship?"

Zhao Donghuai was speechless, "Please come quickly."

With an old relationship like Lao Chen, it didn't matter whether we made an appointment or not. After a while, when Chen Youqing and a man of nearly fifty years old came over, the two parties exchanged simple polite words.

Chen Shengcai introduced with a smile, "Sheng Zhao, Mr. Xie is here to give you a gift, which can be regarded as a way to pay homage to the dock."

Zhao Donghuai laughed, "Xie Sheng's Zhengda Group is so famous, why do you need to come to my place to pay homage to the dock? The Zhengda Variety Show launched by Mainland China in April had very good ratings."

Xie Sheng's smile was also bright, "I don't dare to take it seriously. Thank you very much for Zhao Sheng's praise. I came here this time to say that we have built 100 theater chains within supermarkets in Thailand. Each theater has six screening rooms, similar to Zhao Sheng's."

Wanjia Group.”

"If Mr. Zhao is willing, I can resell this theater line to you for one Hong Kong dollar. I can help you with the expansion of the theater line in the future. At the same time, if Mr. Zhao wants more Thai people to watch ATV's TV series and

For other programs, such as giving away satellite TV receivers and satellite dishes, I can also help with the work."

Zhao Donghuai was surprised and said, "Such a big gift??"

100 theaters similar to Wanjia Supermarket, 600 big screens? In the past, the island country’s plus-star, Malaysia, Thailand, and other places were sold out of Hong Kong. A blockbuster film in Hong Kong cost 30 million Hong Kong dollars, and the theater chain was often sold out for only about 30 million Hong Kong dollars.

.

Xie Sheng laughed, "My Chia Tai Group wants to enter the comprehensive retail chain. On the surface, the biggest competitor is the Zheng family's Shangtai Group. But in reality, if your Wanjia Group enters Thailand, Mr. Zhao and I will

Zheng’s retail business will die.”

"Even if it doesn't die and turns into a business model like Samsung's Li family... the loss of wealth will far exceed the loss of 100 theaters and 600 big screens."

Chen Sheng smiled and interjected, "Lao Xie just used theaters and donated satellite antennas to pay protection fees. I hope Zhao Sheng and your Wan family will not easily enter Thailand. He and Lao Zheng simply can't handle it."

This era was when Thailand's economic development was in full swing. Around the 1990s, Thailand was also known as one of the Four Little Tigers after the Four Asian Tigers, and ranked second among the Four Little Tigers.

To put it simply, in 1985, Chen Youqing’s Chen family was founded in Bangkok Bank, Thailand, and was known as the top ten richest people in Asia. The top ten richest people... You must know that in the past few years, the world’s richest man has been an island country real estate developer!

In other words, before the Plaza Accord came into force, Chen Youqing’s Chen family was the richest family in Asia!

And the Xie family of the CP Group in front of us is known as the food provided by the Chen family for three meals a day. More than 50 million Thai people cannot do without the food provided by the Chen family. Their family is the most powerful food consortium in Thailand. In recent years, Thailand has become the world's No. 1 food consortium.

Top five food exporting countries!

As for the Zheng family of the Shantai Group mentioned by these two people, it is also a wealthy Chinese family gradually created by Hainan Chinese who immigrated to Bangkok. However, the Zheng family already has a Thai surname, and the family name there can also be called the Chirasivat family.

In 2022, the younger generations of the Qilasiwat family all have the nickname of Taisicong, which is aimed at Wangsicong from the mainland.

In the 2020s, the Zheng family had stores, warehouses, and logistics systems all over Thailand. It had the foundation of the Thai version of JD.com. It owned thousands of hotel chains all over Thailand and even surrounding countries. In this era, Shangneng Retail was the largest in Thailand.

Retail Group.

It’s similar to Samsung Lee’s retail store, and it looks like the original Lotte retail store.

No, the Zheng family’s Shanneng retail store is similar to Samsung Lee. In front of me, Chia Tai Group’s Xie Sheng entered the market at a later stage. Its Lotus Retail Supermarket soon became the second largest retail store in Thailand. Lotus Retail Supermarket started in the 1990s.

Thailand's development also began in Hong Kong and the mainland in the 1990s.

Chia Tai Group, also owned by Xie Sheng, has won the right to operate the 711 convenience store chain in Thailand.

His original trajectory was like that of Mr. Li from Hong Kong Island. He owns Watsons and PARKnSHOP Retail, is building a 711 convenience store, and owns one of the largest cash cows in Thailand.

Now...he definitely won't be able to develop the CP Lotus retail group on Hong Kong Island.

Regardless of Hong Kong Island or the mainland, Xie Sheng's retail conglomerate has no competitiveness at all. If Zhao Donghuai's Wanjia enters Thailand, whether it is Zheng's Shangtai or his upcoming Lotus? It also entered Thailand in the 1990s.

Ying Lunte, Tesco, etc. also need to be completed.

Thinking about it carefully, he seems to remember that CP Lotus Retail Group only built its first large-scale comprehensive retailer in Bangkok in 1994. It's only been 90 years? There's a butterfly effect, because CP Group's development in Hong Kong Island is not going well.

Xie Sheng's original trajectory was to enter Hong Kong Island last year and develop retail stores, real estate, and finance. In this aspect, he had no chance to come to Hong Kong Island to engage in retail, and only the one that went to the mainland (Zhengda Variety Show) was launched as scheduled.

A series of thoughts flashed through his mind, and Zhao Donghuai laughed and said, "Buying 100 theater chains for one Hong Kong dollar is really... Actually, Mr. Xie, I shouldn't have the energy to develop retail terminals in Thailand in two or three years."

Both Xie Sheng and Chen Sheng smiled and took the two cups of Longjing from Wang Zuxian. After thanking him politely, Xie Sheng said, "There will definitely be something like that in three or four years, four or five years. I am not afraid of dealing with things like retail groups.

Tesco, Carrefour, Walmart.”

"But really, I can't beat Wanjia! Even if we develop according to Wanjia's model, the losses will be too great. At this stage, the 100 theater chains are mainly concentrated in major cities such as Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Pattaya, etc. That's what I'm planning to do.

The location of the largest retail complex in China.”

When he glanced at Chen Sheng of Hong Kong Island Commercial Bank, Chen Youqing coughed lightly and said with a smile, "Thailand TV stations are mainly run by several government agencies and are owned by the government. The only large-scale private enterprise TV station, Seventh TV Station, has military forces behind it.

Mr. Fang supports me."

"That's the mouthpiece of the military."

"However, our Chen family can work with Xie Sheng to allow satellite dishes and other receivers to receive ATV programs to fill the market relatively smoothly. Thailand has a population of more than 50 million, and the overall economic growth is not as good as South Korea, but the gap is gradually narrowing.

of."

"What Lao Xie means is to help Zhao Sheng handle these things with one Hong Kong dollar."

Xie Sheng added again, "When my lotus blooms, I will not charge any channel fees for Zhao Sheng's products such as strong beer, iced black tea, Wanjia instant noodles, Han Tianxia, ​​Five Thousand Years, etc. The rent of the specialty store will be free of charge.

.”

Zhao Donghuai didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This was really unusual. He extended his hand and said, "Happy cooperation!"

When the first Wanjia store opened, Li Chaohe and Yihe's Wellcome also paid hundreds of millions in checks, and promised that all Zhao's fast-moving products would be free of channel fees, and could be freely placed in Parknshop and Wellcome supermarkets.

Xie Sheng laughed and said, "It's a pleasure to cooperate! Now that we can negotiate this cooperation, I'll give you a call. The Zheng family's Central Retail can also move space and renovate and renovate it into hundreds of thousands of theaters."

"We strive to have 600 Wanjia screens open by the end of July, and by October or November, the total number of screens will exceed 1,000."

After roughly discussing the agreement verbally and making an appointment to have dinner together at the Good Luck Lai flagship store in Tsim Sha Tsui in the evening, the two super-rich Thais left.

Zhao Donghuai personally escorted the two of them into the elevator. When the elevator came into view, Wang Zuxian said excitedly, "There is another ticket warehouse."

“Thailand’s population last year was more than 54 million, which is more than two and a half times that of Ben province!”

This basically means that a Hong Kong movie with a box office of 30 million in the city will be able to get more than 30 million, or even 40 to 50 million Hong Kong dollars in Thailand.

Although the ticket price of Hong Kong Island and Wanwan movies has not been mentioned for many years, it is still 15 Hong Kong dollars per ticket, but don’t forget that in this era of tourism, there are tens of millions of tourists every year, and the box office contributed by the tourists is also

very big.

A movie released on Hong Kong Island with 60% Cantonese version, 20% Mandarin version, and 20% English version is enough to witness a lot of things.

Zhao Donghuai smiled and nodded, "Then let ATV prepare to open a Thai channel."

At this stage, Thailand is indeed not bad. In 1990, Thailand's per capita GDP was US$1,508, while that of the mainland was only US$334. Can you believe that Thailand's per capita GDP was almost five times that of the mainland?? From 1987 to 1995, economic growth exceeded 8% for nine consecutive years.

It wasn't until the Asian financial crisis started in 1997 that it collapsed... Although it was not as serious as the bursting of the stock market and real estate bubbles in the island countries, the sequelae were still huge.
To be continued...