Lei Shidong has been operating in the northeast for decades, and that network of contacts is definitely not blown. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

In just two days, Lucas and Spielberg were awarded contracts for 132 cinemas and 638 screens.

That's not all, Lei Shidong took these contracts and went straight to North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and other places in the southeast, striving to get 1,000 screens in the entire east.

This time, it's not just the battle of "Raiders of the Lost Ark", but the war between Lei Shidong and his national entertainment company, and the war against the seven giants of Hollywood.

Once he succeeds this time, then Lei Shidong will be able to form more such cinemas in the future and become the overlord of the eastern cinema chain.

From now on, the seven giants of Hollywood will definitely please him, give him more good films, and give him more conditions, just to get more box office.

As for the fact that he violated Paramount's ban this time and helped Lucas and Spielberg, it was a fart, and Paramount didn't dare to ask.

But if Lei Shidong fails this time, to be precise, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" failed, and the temporary theater alliance organized by Lei Shidong suffered serious losses and could not win, then there will definitely be no one to listen to Lei Shidong in the future.

At that time, Paramount will settle the old accounts together, and let Lei Shidong know what the seven major films are!

Spielberg and Lucas went straight back to Los Angeles, and then Spielberg would prepare the "E.T." of his dreams, and Lucas would also find some local theaters to see if they could help release it.

In Los Angeles, Lucas still has some connections.

Big theaters can't be found, but some small theaters, in big cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco, can still be found with 200-300 screens.

It's just that the location is a bit not very good, not a bustling area, and there are not enough seats in the small hall.

But something is better than nothing, right?

It stands to reason that the release of "Raiders of the Lost Ark", which is the most difficult to deal with, is no longer a big problem, and by June, it should be released on at least 1,500 screens.

Although it is not as good as many blockbusters, it is not a bad treatment.

As for the publication of the novel, an agreement was also reached that the book would be available for sale as soon as Henry Press had printed it.

Even, in the digital field, a special effects company, Yin Jun has spent a lot of money to make a layout.

So Ding Linxiang, who has done everything and has been sweeping the streets of Los Angeles for two days, is also asking Yin Jun if he wants to go back.

"Going back? We're not going back now. Yin Jun replied with a smile, "We still have big things to do!"

Before, whether it was "Raiders of the Lost Ark", or novel publishing, or the digital field, Yin Jun didn't say anything "big things", but now that he suddenly said so, Huo Jianning suddenly became interested.

Before he could ask more, Yin Jun took out a few tickets.

This is to Toronto, Canada.

"Let's buy a company that has an important impact on the film industry!" Yin Jun then gave each of them a piece of information.

I saw that the cover page had a few big words written on it, "IMAX Company".

"IMAX?" Huo Jianning was more knowledgeable after all, and he thought back, "This is ...... It's the kind of ...... that is played inside the museum. The name of that giant screen?"

"That's right!"

Yin Jun nodded.

At the same time, he was also very satisfied in his heart, Huo Jianning deserved to be an elite genius, and he had written down a lot of things, which could be described as a blog and a wide memory.

Although IMAX has been established for more than ten years, it is still a trendy company, far from the situation that has been in full swing more than 30 years later.

Due to technical limitations, their IMAX screen can only support about 40-50 minutes of playback at most, so it is still a very niche category and is considered impossible to commercialize.

As a result, IMAX has never been famous.

Even 3D movies have been booming for years, and they haven't moved.

This company from Canada should be doing its own technology now, and strive to break through as soon as possible!

In Yin Jun's memory, it was not until around 2000 that IMAX technology was truly applied to the commercial field.

But when it is fully developed, it has to be "The Matrix 2 - Reloaded", which really amazes the world with the gorgeous and moving IMAX.

In the future of film technology, regardless of the shooting skills and techniques, in terms of the effects presented, in the next 40 years, there should be only a few.

One of the most non-technical playback effects is the current film projection, which has been invented more than 90 years ago, using film technology, which is called 2D graphic expression technology in the Internet era.

This technology is the most mature and the least technical, and it is also the most important driving force for the continuous establishment of large and small cinemas. - Because anyone can make such a projection device.

And the other technologies, either individually or in combination, are not so easy to imitate.

They are the 3D and IMAX technologies that will be widely used 30 years later.

3D technology alone will cost a lot of money just to say that the screen and projection device, which is not available in ordinary movie theaters at all.

And then there is, if anyone takes this picture with a camera in the cinema, then everyone knows that it must be ghosted, and it looks particularly uncomfortable.

No one wants to see such a pirated version.

The copying is also very complicated, and if it is not a very high-end technology, it is impossible to copy it with good results.

Even if you steal the copy back, and you take it to a normal copy factory, they will not be able to convert 3D into a normal version of 2D, and no one can crack this aspect of anti-counterfeiting in 2020, let alone the 20 years from 1980 to 2000.

IMAX is more demanding, it is not just to enlarge the picture, it is the same as 3D movies, it is necessary to use special IMAX camera equipment to shoot when shooting, so that the filmed movies can be played on the IMAX screen, that is, the giant screen.

Such an IMAX movie, if you take it to an ordinary movie screen and reflect it, you can't see the whole picture at all.

Not to mention that I want to convert it into ordinary 2D, which takes a lot of time and energy, and I can't do it with the technology of Xiangjiang, Baodao and the mainland.

In the future, pirated movies from the mainland will basically come from South Korea and Japan, and the computer technology and photographic conversion technology there will be higher.

And the kind of traditional film converted to IMAX movies is usually not a real blockbuster and can be ignored in this sequence.

Compared with the thousands of patented technologies involved in 3D, compared to the technical patents owned by dozens of companies, IMAX's patents are very concentrated and only in their own hands.

Therefore, Yin Jun wants to buy IMAX, and then buy or license 3D technology as much as possible, so that in the next 30 years, he can ensure that his movies will not be destroyed by piracy to the greatest extent, at least in blockbusters, and can fully guarantee his interests.

In Europe and the United States, it is good to say that the cinemas in the mainland, especially those in the mainland within 30 years, really need to be the most cautious in order not to be washed away by the torrent of pirated editions.

Of course, IMAX isn't all that perfect.

One of the reasons is that IMAX is too expensive to invest in equipment in the early stage, including the transformation of the projection system, theater, seats, audio, etc., the annual maintenance of equipment, etc., so an ordinary blockbuster, the 3D version may only sell for 60 yuan a ticket, put it on IMAX, you have to sell 100 yuan a ticket, if it is IMAX plus 3D, at least 150 yuan a ticket.

Such a high cost is definitely not affordable for ordinary people, and even in the United States, there are not many IMAXs.

In 2011, there were more than 1,000 IMAX screens, and in 2016, due to the strength of the Chinese market, the number increased to more than 1,600.

Compared to the United States and China in 2016, each country has more than 40,000 screens, the world's more than 1,600 IMAX screens are simply an insignificant number.

Cost and patent licensing are undoubtedly the two most important reasons restricting its development.

After Yin Jun bought it now, the first element is to develop technology, so that more advanced and better technology can appear on IMAX, giving people the best impression - the IMAX company in the previous life, after becoming famous, actually accounted for only 6% of the revenue of R&D funds, which is simply a great waste and unenterprising.

The second element, Yin Jun, is to reduce the cost.

In fact, the cost of IMAX is not very expensive at all, but the gringos are used to selling their monopoly technology at a high price, which is why it causes such expensive fares.

Compared with the annual income of IMAX companies of one or two hundred million US dollars, the hundreds of movies in Yin Jun's hands are the majority of the big ones.

I don't dare to say that the IMAX screen can reach half of the ordinary screen, or even half of the 3D screen, but Yin Jun hopes that by 1990, the number of IMAX screens in the world can be increased to 2,000, and by 2000, this number can be expanded to 5,000 under the drive of the market, and by 2010, it will break through to 10,000.

With such 10,000 IMAX screens, Yin Jun will have an absolute head start in digital cinema in the future.

It's still hard to say how to do that.

Now IMAX has not even broken through the technical bottleneck of 90 minutes, let alone commercialization.

And now, what Yin Jun has to do is to buy IMAX first, and then talk about it, what is not in his hands is never so stable.

"I'm very optimistic about the IMAX screen for the future of cinema, and it will multiply the viewing effect. Yin Jun said eloquently to Huo Jianning and Ding Linxiang, "What they lack now is to apply the effect to commercial films, and with their current small workshop form, I am afraid that there has been no progress in more than ten years, I am ready to buy it, invest a lot of money in it, and develop it for them, so as to obtain this vital technology." ”

Huo Jianning's mouth moved and he didn't speak.

In his opinion, Yin Jun's real estate business is the most correct, this kind of movie entertainment with more investment and less output at the same time is simply a matter for children.

But Huo Jianning also understands that Yin Jun was born in the TV and film industry, so he has a lot of feelings for this industry, which is understandable.

Huo Jianning is not as ruthless as he will not stop in order to achieve his goals, but he now feels that it is also a very interesting thing for Yin Jun to invest for his own preferences.

Anyway, the film and television industry will definitely not occupy Yin Jun's most important asset project in the future.

Fok Jianning is confident that with Yin Jun's 5 million square feet of land in Tin Shui Wai alone, he can operate a super profit chain of more than 3 billion Hong Kong dollars for Yin Jun!

Ding Linxiang's interest was greater, "Jun Shao, we are going to acquire European and American companies, how much are you going to invest?

"This is an investigation report I did with Merrill Lynch in the United States. Yin Jun said, "IMAX is now worth about 35 million to 40 million US dollars, and if we want to acquire, it should be at least about 30% premium." The premium is not the most important thing, the three founders don't care about money at all, but about developing this technology. Therefore, the investment and development plan after the acquisition is what impresses them the most. ”

After a pause, Yin Jun said, "If we can meet their needs for developing experiments and give them more resources, I believe it is completely possible to take more than 90% of the shares." And this fund, I plan to pay in batches within five years, and it is enough to give them about $20 million a year. ”

Ding Linxiang nodded slightly when she heard this.

Although Yin Jun is now recognized as one of the super-rich people in Xiangjiang with a net worth of more than 1 billion, Ding Linxiang, who is a person close to Yin Jun, knows that Yin Jun does not have much cash now.

Even Yin Jun's loans are more than one billion, and the monthly repayment interest is very much.

If it weren't for the cash cow of "Kirin Weekly" and the single book, Yin Jun's income from movies and TV scripts alone would not have been able to sustain it.

Not to mention that Yin Jun also promised to donate 500 million Hong Kong dollars to the Heung Kong Police Force, which is another large expense.

If you rashly buy a Canadian company and invest too much, it will shake Yin Jun's business to a certain extent.

If according to what Yin Jun is saying now, he only has to pay 70 million US dollars, about 320 million Hong Kong dollars, in the first year, which is nothing.

Ding Linxiang knew that in a month or two at most, Yin Jun's shares in Taohua Datong would be sold, and the income would exceed 300 million Hong Kong dollars.

Of course, Ding Linxiang didn't know that Yin Jun's reliance was not Taohua Datong's stock at all, but the stock market of Wharf, which was destined to skyrocket.

Once Yin Jun sells Wharf's shares at the market price, this will be enough to shake out more than 1.6 billion Hong Kong dollars in cash!

With such a large amount of money, what else can't Yin Jun invest in?

That is, the 3D technology patents are too scattered, otherwise even if Yin Jun uses up all the 1.5 billion Hong Kong dollars, he will have to buy all the 3D patented technologies.

At that time, if others want to make 3D and IMAX movies, they can only beg Yin Jun to grant the patent.

In this way, 3D and IMAX technology are the real long-lasting golden hens, which will bring a steady stream of money to Yin Jun!

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