It is not uncommon for film companies to enter theaters in the United States. As early as the 1920s, Hollywood completed the merger of film companies and theaters.

At that time, the United States formed five major film companies (Paramount, MGM, Warner, Fox and Thunderbolt)

and Sanxiao Film Company (Universal, United States and Colombia) have monopoly on the US screening market.

Until 1938, the U.S. Department of Justice sued the eight major Hollywood film companies for monopolizing the film industry and violating the antitrust law. The lawsuit lasted for 10 years. This is the famous "Paramount Act" in the history of film.

In the end, American film companies compromised and sold their own theater chains. They only managed film production and distribution, and the theater chain management achieved independent and self-reliable theater system in a modern sense.

But after the 1980s, the U.S. government relaxed its supervision of production companies, Colombia, Global,

Paramount, Warner and other companies have once again purchased the American cinema business, and have so far accounted for about 16% of all about 22,000 screens in the United States.

In addition, a considerable number of theater chains are controlled by several theater chains such as Regal Entertainment Group, AMC and Cinemark.

Tao Yushu shouted the price of "500 million US dollars, 10% shares", which was a bit higher, but with Sony's wealth and ambition, as long as they were optimistic, it was not impossible to take out the money.

With this money, Tao Yushu has additional funds to obtain some of the American theater resources.

Then Lin's Pictures has the qualification to go to the card table, rather than just being a fish on the chopping board.

With Sony Pictures as a helping hand, Lin's Pictures' future development in the United States will be safe.

Moreover, the introduction of Sony Pictures, a multinational capital, can also allow Hollywood to relax its hostility to Lin's Pictures.

In addition to its impact on the development of Lin's Pictures itself, Sony Pictures has an invisible benefit to investing in it.

Japan is the second largest market in the world now after the United States. Sony Pictures has become a shareholder of Lin's Pictures, and Lin's Japanese business will also usher in further development.

Using this as a springboard, Star TV, Mingpao Enterprise, Bubble Universe and other companies' Japanese businesses are also expected to go further.

Tao Yushu has always had a worry in his heart that the white society in Europe and America is ultimately apart for Chinese and even Asians.

Asia is the basic foundation of her company, and this place must be operated as solid as a living place.

No matter how well developed in Europe, America and Western societies are, it will be icing on the cake. Maybe one day someone will be wiped out from the bottom of the pot.

For this reason, Tao Yushu decided to transfer part of Lin's Film's interests in exchange for the company's future development space and strategic depth.

As March approaches, Central is still full of traffic and bustling scenery.

The Benda Center, which has been renamed Huazhang Tiandi, is busy inside and outside. In the past two days, Lin's Film, the largest film company in Hong Kong, will soon move into Huazhang Tiandi.

"Hua Zhang" means brilliant achievements, and Tao Yushu likes this name very much.

In the future, all properties acquired by Huadu Real Estate will be named after the word "Hua".

"Spray!" Tao Yumo was visiting Huazhang Tiandi Building while squirting and full of love.

"Sister, you are really replacing your guns now. It's not a problem to install tens or 20,000 people in such a large office building, right?"

Tao Yushu said with a relaxed expression: "It's not all for Lin's family. The area of ​​100,000 square meters is for rent."

"The rent collection is only 600 million to 700 million a year, what else do you have to worry about?" Tao Yumo's tone was full of envy.

At the beginning of this year, the rent of office buildings in Xiangjiang has increased again. Many office buildings in Central have increased to a price of 50 yuan per month, which is simply a robbery of money.

Huazhang Tiandi is the core C position of Central, and the price is even higher. Even if maintenance, taxes, and depreciation are deducted, the annual income will be 500 million yuan.

After spending more than one billion Hong Kong dollars, the interest on bank loans can be easily covered, and coupled with the investment benefits of building appreciation and mortgage capital turnover and reuse, this transaction is a big profit.

"When can we build such a large-scale office building in Bubble Universe?" Tao Yumo said with infinite longing.

"Don't let Xiao Jingyuan be so good, but I'll think about how to run the company well." Tao Yushu reminded.

"What does Gao Aoyuan mean? This is called a dream. Ordinary people also have dreams. Tell me your dream!"

When Tao Yumo said this, his eyebrows flew up involuntarily, imitating the tone and actions of Hong Chaofeng, the head of Star TV host.

The phrase "Speak your dream" is the catchphrase that Hong Chaofeng often said when interviewing contestants in another big variety show "The Got Talent" on Star TV after the New Year.

"The Got Talent" is another heavyweight variety show that invested more than HK$50 million after Star TV's "Asian Idol".

The concept of the program is not novel, but it is borrowed from the "TalentContest" broadcast in the UK in 1949.

But Star TV is bold and innovative based on "TalentContest".

Implement the style of "no shocking words" to the end, with unlimited performances of the program, action performances,

Singing, dancing, juggling, crosstalk, magic, oral skills, and many strange and unclassified magical performances have appeared on the show.

It took only one episode to win the ratings championship of "The Got Talent" and made great progress in the following weeks, showing a more prominent influence than "Asian Idol".

"Asian Idol" has been held for three years. No matter how popular the program is, it has its own lifespan and cannot be popular forever.

The third season of "Asian Idol" has shown signs of fatigue compared to the popularity and novelty of the first season.

"Asian Idol" has not yet been extinguished, but it has only revealed some decline. "The Got Talent" immediately emerged, making Star TV the focus of attention of the people in Hong Kong again.

The popularity of "The Got Talent" has gradually become a cultural phenomenon, and has also caused discussions in many media in Xiangjiang.

In addition to discussing the program itself, the topic that these media are most concerned about is Star TV.

In recent years, Star TV has spent a lot of money to produce batches of popular programs, and its ratings in Xiangjiang have always ranked first in the local area.

Affected by this, the revenue of TVB's parent company's TV broadcast advertising decreased by 11.5% year-on-year. TVB, the original overlord, gradually showed a decline in the face of Star TV's dominance.

This is not because the TVB station is too weak, but because there are too many bugs in the Star TV card.

Because it is a satellite TV station, once Star TV takes off, the audience and potential advertising revenue it covers are simply beyond the reach of local TV stations such as TV stations such as TVB.

This is also the fundamental reason why Star TV dares to invest huge amounts of money to produce excellent programs.

In addition, Star TV has an invisible local card planning.

Creativity, capital, production strength, everything is a crushing situation. How can TVB compete with Star TV?

After several years, many media have gradually seen the advantages of satellite TV stations over free TV stations, which is almost a dimensionality reduction strike.

When the Hong Kong government issued satellite TV licenses, it actually considered this issue.

Two additional conditions were specifically stipulated, namely, no Cantonese programs are allowed and no charges are allowed to be charged to users. The "No Cantonese programs are allowed" is to limit the competition between satellite TV and Xiangjiang Free TV Station for users.

But shortly after the establishment of satellite TV, the second son of the Li family successfully lobbled the Hong Kong government to lift this restriction due to their good relationship with the Hong Kong government, and Star TV also benefited from it.

Since last year, many media have discussed that Star TV should be restricted and its power to broadcast Cantonese programs is cancelled, so that it will be fair to the TV industry in Xiangjiang.

If this public opinion trend appears in the outside world, several other TV stations in Hong Kong will inevitably support you.

However, Tao Yushu didn't care too much. Star TV has expanded rapidly in Southeast Asia, East Asia and South Asia in the past two years. Currently, there are 12 stations including Hejia Huantai, Chinese Channel, Film Channel, Cassette Channel, etc., with a total of 46 TV channels.

The ratings covered cover 17 countries and regions including Mainland China (Guangdong), Wandao, Xiangjiang, Haojiang, India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Singapore, etc., with a viewership of 640 million.

In 1993, Star TV achieved advertising revenue of HK$3.05 billion, with an astonishing growth rate. The advertising revenue exceeded HK$3 billion by two years earlier than the Xinbao estimates.

However, Star TV has a rapid development momentum, but it has not brought much profit to Lin's Pictures and Mingpao companies. Most of the money that Star TV has made in the past two years has been invested in channel opening and program production.

Tao Yushu is not in a hurry to make money. In her opinion, Star TV is an international TV station based in Asia, and expanding its territory and influence are the top priority at present.

After turning his eyelids, Tao Yushu was too lazy to pay attention to her sister's fault. She glanced at her watch again. As soon as she was about to ask her assistant Lai Wanqin, Liang Botao was there, and Liang Botao appeared.

Seeing that his face was full of spring breeze and seemed to have a happy event, Tao Yushu did not ask directly, but took him to the office on the top floor of Huazhang Tiandi.

"It seems there is good news?" Tao Yushu asked in a light tone.

"Yes." Liang Botao was straightforward, "After this period of attention, we have screened out a group of suspicious accounts, which are likely to be the dark lines arranged by News Corporation in advance."

After hearing what he said, Tao Yushu browed lightly, "Are you sure? Is there any evidence?"

"It is difficult to capture conclusive evidence, but transaction data will not lie." Liang Botao said this, paused for a moment, and said cautiously: "And I have a piece of information."

Tao Yushu's face turned to Liang Botao, she knew that this was the highlight of what Liang Botao wanted to say.

"What information?"

"Just a week ago, HSBC approved a loan of up to $400 million!"

$400 million!

Converting to Hong Kong dollars is about 3 billion, and it is a huge loan number whether in Hong Kong or anywhere in the world.

Banks are not charities, and such a huge loan-related company is impossible to borrow.

Looking at Xiangjiang, there are only a handful of companies that can get HSBC to give this kind of treatment.

"The lender cannot be found, right?" Tao Yushu asked.

"right."

If it is a loan from a large company in Xiangjiang, there is no need to conceal the news. It is difficult to conceal such news.

Then it can only be a foreign loan.

In most countries in the world, large-scale capital flow is not an easy task, and it is normal for foreign capital to carry out business activities through loans.

But there is a problem here. It is difficult to borrow such a large amount of money for ordinary business activities, unless it involves large-scale mergers and acquisitions or investment and financing.

The business world in Xiangjiang has been calm recently. At least at the level of Tao Yushu and Liang Botao, no foreign capital will make big moves.

In this way, the possibility of where the loan funds go is becoming clearer and clearer.

"Botao, I remember that the eldest son of the Li family is now a director of HSBC Bank?"

Tao Yushu's bloody spurts Liang Botao into silence.
To be continued...