After the news that Kiwi Cinemas acquired the British Odeon Cinemas and merged it with Victoria Cinemas to become the "Kiwi European Cinemas", it immediately made film companies and stars around the world
Shocked.
Before the acquisition of Victoria Cinemas, Kiwi Cinemas was already the world's largest cinema chain.
Because Kiwi Cinema has more than 2,000 screens in China, plus the 5,010 screens from AMC, the second largest theater chain in the United States, there are more than 7,000 screens, which is enough to stand out from the crowd.
Now they have not only acquired Europe's second largest cinema chain, Victoria Cinemas, but also Europe's largest cinema chain, Odeon Cinemas, which has added 3,300 screens, adding up to more than 10,000 screens!
In the future, as long as any film company's film can impress the Kiwi Cinema chain, it will be released on at least 10,000 screens. How much profit will this bring to the film?
In the past, the standard for American blockbusters was that the starting price was more than 3,000 screens, and the most was only more than 6,000, and such a large-scale release only took about a week!
No matter how bad a movie is, as long as the production cost is not too exaggerated, as long as the Kiwi Theater can show it for you for a week, then the cost will definitely be recovered.
Coupled with video tapes, peripheral copyrights, etc., making profits is easy.
In response to this, people, whether related or not, began to pay close attention to the Kiwi Film and Television Group. The impatient ones even made many connections and began to practice the Kiwi Film and Television Company.
Especially for companies that have movies to be released recently, they didn't care about the reputation of Hollywood giants and directly called the people at Kiwi Film and Television, hoping to have a good talk with the person in charge of their theater chain.
Of course, these people are all estranged and have really good relationships. There is no need to beat around the bush to find someone.
"Boo~boo~"
On the other end of the phone, Megan kissed her several times and shouted excitedly: "Xiao Qi, I love you to death!"
Xiao Qi broke out in cold sweat when he heard this.
It’s not that Megan is not beautiful or Xiao Qi’s type, but it’s because Megan is now interested in the Kiwi Cinema Line.
If you say it is a movie invested by her brother David, then we can discuss how to maximize profits, but this girl only knows how to make literary films, and she is not a money-making material at all!
If her films were released in full-line theaters at Kiwi Cinema, the cost would probably not be recouped!
Cost is one of the reasons, but the more important reason is that if the Kiwi Cinema Line always shows movies that audiences don't like to watch, over time, the audience's reputation for the Kiwi Cinema Line will become very bad.
This is not good for a movie theater chain.
But it was really hard for Xiao Qi to refuse Megan.
Because she has a good relationship with her two wives... no, three wives, plus Du Feixing.
In addition, "The King's Speech" was produced by Kiwi Film and Television Group, so Meghan would call Qiao Guoer from time to time. Her naturally cheerful personality was very suitable for Qiao Guoer's temper. Over time, the two of them fell in love.
Although they are not really good friends, they still have a good relationship.
Xiao Qi thought that given this girl's public relations skills, it was unlikely that Qiao Guo'er would be her good friend.
Look, Megan has a good relationship with Xiao Qi's wives. If she rejects her bluntly, there's no telling how this girl will arrange Xiao Qi, or she may have to create something for Xiao Qi.
Furthermore, Xiao Qi himself has a good relationship with Megan. This girl is kind-hearted and willing to help people in need. She is also very sunny and cheerful, making her a good friend.
So Xiao Qi could only explain to her first: "We have to agree first that your movies that have no commercial value at all cannot be released to the public. At most, 300 venues can be selected for screening, and the long-term cannot exceed 100 screens.
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"Xiao Qi, why are you so stingy? No wonder others say you are a miser!" Megan immediately turned her back, "What does it mean to have no commercial value? They don't understand! The audience still likes it very much! Give it to me
There are 300 venues, a maximum of 1,000 screens, and a long-term broadcast is only 100 yuan. Are we still good friends? Is this how you support me? Don’t forget, both your wives have shares in Hope Pictures!"
"My eldest lady, movie screening is a commercial product, you just say that I am useless!" Xiao Qi said with a bitter smile, "If we can't make money, the employees below will say it, and the top management will laugh at us for being stupid.
Do you want to be laughed at?"
"I don't care about them!" Megan said angrily, "If it's a commercial film, I want at least 5,000 screens. If it's a general literary film, I want 2,000 screens! If it's a long-term broadcast, I want 500 screens!"
"You can also make commercial films?" Xiao Qi asked in surprise.
"Asshole! I will also invest in interesting commercial films!" Megan scolded Xiao Qi: "You cunning businessman, tell me, do you meet my requirements?"
"You should discuss this matter with Guo'er yourself!" Xiao Qi pondered for a moment, then directly pushed her to Qiao Guo'er, "I'm only responsible for paying. As for the operation, I'll leave it to her to do it herself."
"Tch, I've been talking for a long time, but I found someone who can't make the decision!" Megan sighed and hung up the phone neatly.
This girl is so full of character!
Xiao Qi smiled and shook his head. After putting down his cell phone, he immersed himself in his work again.
Xiao Qi returned to Chengdu yesterday and told his father about the sharing and listing of beautiful pictures. Xiao Xu was very satisfied with his son's actions.
Although Xiao Qi suffered a little disadvantage, overall the benefits were considerable in several aspects.
The capital has given Hong Kong a face, and Hong Kong has also received reassurance. Fairy Company has once again created an investment myth, which outsiders are envious of.
Xiao Qi has an extra 5 billion US dollars in his hands, but for him, this small amount of money is not worth a surprise.
It's easy to be scolded when you say this, but the fact is that, not counting bank deposits, Xiao Qi's cash flow in various currencies exceeds 280 billion US dollars.
Although Apple claimed to have a cash flow of about 130 billion US dollars at the end of 2013, which shocked the world, Xiao Qi's cash flow has already far exceeded them.
Moreover, Xiao Qi's cash flow is not like Apple's, which pulled in tens of billions of dollars in revenue for the quarter to top up the figure, but is actually Xiao Qi's pure profit income.
Xiao Qi knew that the RMB would appreciate. Even with his efforts, the appreciation of the RMB was volatile, but very slow and far from the high face value of the previous life.
Moreover, China's foreign exchange control is still very strict. If you convert the U.S. dollars you earn into RMB, banks will welcome it, but if you want to convert RMB into U.S. dollars again, it will be a little difficult.
Especially Xiao Qidu's currency exchange of tens of billions or hundreds of billions of dollars, the bank will definitely not agree.
Therefore, Xiao Qi naturally wanted to make some currency investments.
For example, in Japan, Xiao Qi knew that their exchange rate would soar for a period of time in the past two years, and then depreciate rapidly. Therefore, Xiao Qi invested 120 billion US dollars in exchange for Japanese yen, and deposited them in major banks in Japan.
No need.
Then Xiao Qi also has 60 billion US dollars in cash at Citibank, which he plans to use on various family properties, especially the Xiao family properties that have not yet made a profit and the private properties of his wives.
Xiao Qi wisely converted the remaining 100 billion US dollars into RMB and deposited it in Fairy Bank.
This satisfied the big guys who supervised the bank. Xiao Qi was quite sensible. He knew how to earn foreign exchange for the country and how to behave.
For them, the more dollars in their hands, the better, so that they can purchase more products, raw materials, etc. during trading activities.
Xiao Qi's cash flow in RMB does not involve the daily operations of Fairy Company.
The domestic procurement of spare parts of Xiaoyao First Series and Fairy Company, the payment of workers’ salaries and benefits, the construction of roads in disaster areas, ecological agricultural bases, etc. are all paid in RMB, but these funds are all derived from the profits of Fairy Company.
The income cannot be fully spent on expenses.
The young man took these RMB to prepare for the land purchase and warehouse construction of Xiaoyao Logistics.
Therefore, if you count carefully, Xiao Qi has too much cash flow. It is only 5 billion US dollars, which is only 35 billion yuan when converted, which is nothing at all.
But this does not mean that Xiao Qi has no place to spend money.
After the place was empty, Xiao Qi began to think about what he had thought about before, which was to launch agricultural construction on a large scale in Southeast Asia, that is, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Laos, China's neighboring countries.
To be honest, if you want to completely implement ecological agriculture for things like rice and wheat, it is too difficult with the current agricultural technology.
This is what Europe does, so they rely on imports for a large amount of their food. There is no other way, they can't even get enough from the land they grow on their own.
Therefore, Xiao Qi plans to develop a new type of agriculture in these countries, which is to learn from Japan, which can not only ensure the output of rice, but also ensure the quality of rice.
Japan's cultivated land area is very small, but they can basically ensure that their 150 million people are 70% self-sufficient in rice, and the quality of the rice is very high. That is something worth learning from.
Burma, Vietnam and Laos have much more arable land than Japan, and most people have two or three crops a year, so the yield is higher.
With the efforts of Japanese experts, the study of Chinese experts, and the cooperation of Xiao Qihui who recruited a large number of agricultural experts from Europe, several countries will become the rice hometowns of China, which is just around the corner! (To be continued
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