Chapter 491： There are still major things not done yet!

Lei Shidong has been operating in the Northeast for decades, and that network of connections is definitely not a blow.

In just two days, Lucas and Spielberg had received 132 movie theaters and 638 screen projection contracts.

This is not all. Lei Shidong took these contracts and went straight to North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and other places in the southeast. He tried to get 1,000 screens throughout the east.

This time, it was not just the battle of "Raiders", but the war between Lei Shidong and his national entertainment company, facing the war of the seven giants in Hollywood.

Once let him succeed this time, then Lei Shidong will be able to form a lot of such theaters in the future and become the overlord of the eastern theater.

From then on, the seven Hollywood giants will certainly please him, give him more films, and give him more conditions, just to get more box office.

As for the fact that this time he violated Paramount's blockade and helped Lucas and Spielberg, it was a fart, and Paramount dared not ask.

However, if Lei Shidong failed this time, to be precise, it was the "Raiders of the Lost King" that failed, and the temporary theater alliance organized by Lei Shidong suffered a serious loss and was unable to win. Yes.

At that time, Paramount will calculate the new and old accounts together, let Lei Shidong know what is called the seven major in the film industry!

Spielberg and Lucas returned directly to Los Angeles, and then Spielberg would prepare his dream "ET", and Lucas would also find some local theaters to see if they could Can't help showing it.

In the Los Angeles base area, Lucas still has some connections.

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

Even though the location is not good, it is not a busy area, and there are not enough seats in the small hall.

But it ’s better than nothing, right?

It stands to reason that the most difficult to deal with, "The Treasure Hunt" is not a big problem. By June, it should be at least 1500 screens.

Although it can't be compared to a lot of blockbuster movies, it is not a bad treatment.

In publishing novels, an agreement has also been reached, and only after Henry Publishing House has printed the book, it can be sold.

Even for the special effects company in the digital field, Yin Jun spent a lot of money to do a good job.

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

"Go back? We don't want to go back now." Yin Jun replied with a smile, "We still have big things to do!"

In the past, no matter whether it was "The Treasure Hunt", or the publication of a novel, or in the digital field, Yin Jun did not say anything "big thing", but now he suddenly said so, Huo Jianning suddenly became interested.

Before waiting for him to ask more, Yin Jun took out several tickets.

This is for Toronto, Canada.

"We are going to buy a company that has an important influence on the film business!" Yin Jun then gave each person a separate document.

I saw the words "IMAX" written on the cover page.

"IMAX?" Huo Jianning is more knowledgeable after all, he thought back, "This is ... this is the kind of ... playing in the museum ... that kind of giant screen name?"

"Yes!"

Yin Jun nodded.

At the same time, he is also very satisfied. Huo Jianning is worthy of being an elite genius. He has written a lot of things, which can be described by the blog post.

Although IMAX has been established for more than ten years, it still belongs to a trendy company, which is far from what is happening more than 30 years later.

Due to technical limitations, their IMAX screens can only support playback of about 40-50 minutes at most, so they still belong to a very niche range and are considered to be impossible for commercial use.

Therefore, IMAX has not been famous.

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

This company from Canada should be doing its own technology now, striving for an early breakthrough!

In Yin Jun's memory, IMAX technology will not really be applied to the commercial field until around 2000.

But until it develops completely, it must be "The Matrix 2-Reloading", and it is really gorgeous and moving that makes the world marvel at IMAX.

In the future film technology, no matter the shooting technique and technology, only the effect of the presentation, in the next 40 years, there should be only a few.

One of the least technical effects is the current film show. Since it was invented more than 90 years ago, it has used film technology, which is the 2D flat photography performance technology in the Internet era.

This technology is the most mature and has the least technical content. It is also the most important promoter of the continuous establishment of large and small movie theaters. ——Because anyone can make such a projection device.

Other technologies, either alone or combined, are not so easy to imitate.

They are the widely used 3D and IMAX technologies after 30 years.

The 3D technology alone means that the screen and projection device will cost a lot of money, which is not something that ordinary movie theaters can get.

Another thing is, if anyone took this picture with a video camera in a movie theater, then everyone knows that it must be a ghost image and looks particularly uncomfortable.

No one wants to see such pirated copies.

Copying is also very complicated. If it is not very high-end technology, it is impossible to copy good results.

Even if you stolen the copy back and you took it to a general copy production factory, they cannot convert 3D into a normal version of 2D. No one can crack this aspect of anti-counterfeiting in 2020, let alone It was 20 years between 1980-2000.

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, so that the film can only be shot on the IMAX screen-that is, giant Played on the screen.

Such an IMAX movie, you can get it on the ordinary movie screen to reflect, there is no way to see the whole picture.

Not to mention that I want to convert it into ordinary 2D. This takes a lot of time and energy. With the technologies of Xiangjiang, Baodao and the mainland, there is no way to do it.

In the future, pirated .version movies in the Mainland are basically from South Korea and Japan, and the computer technology and photography conversion technology there will be higher.

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

Compared to the thousands of patented technologies involved in 3D, and compared to the dozens of companies that have patents on it, IMAX's patents are very concentrated, only in their own companies.

Therefore, Yin Jun wants to buy IMAX, and then buy or obtain 3D technology authorization as much as possible, so that within the next 30 years, he can ensure that his movies are not subject to piracy to the greatest extent. The devastation, at least on the blockbuster, can fully guarantee their own interests.

For European and American countries, it is better to say that movie theaters in the Mainland, especially those within 30 years, really need to be the most cautious to prevent them from being stolen.

Of course, IMAX is not so perfect.

One of the reasons is that IMAX is too expensive because of the early investment of equipment, including the transformation of projection systems, cinemas, seats, sounds, etc., and the annual maintenance and repair of equipment. If one yuan is placed on IMAX, you will have to sell a ticket for 100 yuan. If it is IMAX plus 3D, you will have to get at least 150 yuan for a ticket.

Such a high cost is definitely not affordable to the average person. Even in the United States, IMAX is not a lot.

In 2011, the IMAX screen was worth more than 1,000 pieces. In 2016, due to the strength of the Chinese market, this number only increased to more than 1,600 pieces.

Compared with 2016, the United States and China, each country has more than 40,000 screens, for more than 1600 IMAX screens worldwide, it is a trivial number.

Cost and patent authorization 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 appears on IMAX, giving people the best look and feel effect-IMAX company in the past life, after its success, it has only R & D funds Occupying 6% of income, this is simply a great waste and unpredictable.

The second factor, Yin Jun, is to reduce costs.

In fact, the cost of IMAX is not very expensive at all, except that foreigners are used to selling their monopoly technology at a high price, so it causes so expensive fares.

Relative to IMAX's revenue of US $ 100 million to US $ 100 million a year, the hundreds of movies in Yin Jun's hands are the big ones.

I dare not say that IMAX screens can reach half of ordinary screens, or even half of 3D screens, but Yin Jun hopes to increase the number of IMAX screens in the world to 2,000 before 1990. This number can be expanded to 5,000 by the market, and by 2010, it will break to 10,000.

With such 10,000 IMAX screens, Yin Jun will have an absolute first chance in the future of digital cinema.

How to do it is still difficult to say.

Now IMAX hasn't even broken through the 90-minute technical bottleneck, let alone commercialization.

Nowadays, what Yin Jun has to do is to buy IMAX and then say that things that are not in his hands are not always so stable.

"I'm very optimistic about the IMAX screen's promotion of future movies, which will double the viewing effect." Yin Jun talked to Huo Jianning and Ding Linxiang, "Now they lack, just apply the effect to commercial movies. And, with their current small workshop form, I am afraid that there will be no progress in the past ten years. After I buy it, I will invest heavily in it and develop it for them to obtain this vital technology. "

Huo Jianning moved his mouth and said nothing.

In his view, Yin Jun is the most correct way to do a profitable real estate business. This kind of investment with more output and less film entertainment at the same time is simply a matter for children.

But Huo Jianning also understands that Yin Jun was born in the television and film industry, so he is very affectionate about this industry, and this is nothing wrong.

Huo Jianning is not as fierce as he is to continue to achieve his goals. He now feels that, like Yin Jun, investing for his own liking is also a very interesting thing.

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

Huo Jianning is confident that with Jun Jun ’s 5 million square feet of land in Tianshuiwei alone, he will be able to run a super profit chain of over 3 billion Hong Kong dollars for Yin Jun!

Ding Linxiang ’s interest is even bigger, "Jun Shao, we are going to acquire European and American companies. How much are you planning to invest? How to acquire?"

"This is an investigation report I made with Merrill Lynch in the US before." Yin Jundao said, "IMAX now has a value of around US $ 35-40 million. If we want to buy, it should be at least a premium of about 30% The premium is not the most important thing. The three founders did n’t care about money at all, but about the development of this technology. Therefore, the investment and development plan after the acquisition is the thing that will impress them the most. ”

After a pause, Yin Jun again said, "If we can meet their needs for developing experiments and give them more resources, I believe it is entirely possible to get more than 90% of the shares. And this fund, I am ready for five years It ’s enough to pay them in batches within a year.

Ding Linxiang nodded slightly.

Although Yin Jun is now recognized as one of the super rich billionaires in Xiangjiang's net worth ~ www.novelhall.com ~ but Ding Linxiang, who is beside him, knows that Yin Jun does not have much cash now.

Even Yin Jun ’s loans exceeded one billion, and the monthly repayment interest rate was very high.

Without the cash cow of "Kylin Weekly" and the single book, Yin Jun's income from the film and TV script alone could not be maintained at all.

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

If you rush to buy a Canadian company and invest too much, it will basically shake the business of Yin Jun to a certain extent.

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

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

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

Once Yin Jun is allowed to sell the shares of Wharf at the market price, this will shake out more than 1.6 billion Hong Kong dollars in cash!

With such a large amount of money, what other investment can Yin Jun not make?

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

By that time, if someone else wants to make 3D and IMAX movies, they can only ask Yin Jun to authorize the patent.

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

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