Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 1133 The highest box office in history

The next day's newspaper headlines focused on Golden Harvest and Dibao's joint venture to invest huge sums of money to establish a special effects film company.

After all, such a large investment of one billion is definitely a big event for Xiangjiang Films.

Although compared to Magic Studio, Jiahe and Dibao's investment this time is not much, but it will indeed have some impact on Magic Studio.

"There's news from the Magic Studio. During this time, Jiahe and Dibao are sending people to privately contact the employees of the Magic Studio, trying to lure them to their new company."

If the special effects company of Jiahe and Dibao wants to be established as soon as possible, what they need most is talents in special effects.

In Xiangjiang, almost all the people who can do special effects are in Magic Studio, so if they want to poach people, they must attack Magic Studio.

Anyway, everyone is already tearing their faces apart, and Zou Wenhuai and Pan Disheng have nothing to worry about.

"As long as the core team is kept, it's no big deal for those bottom-level people to be poached by them."

It is impossible for Lin Daoqiu to stop Zou Wenhuai and Pan Disheng from poaching people. All he has to do is to stabilize Dykstra and his team.

As long as these people don't make trouble, Magic Studio will naturally have no major problems.

"Mr. Lin, Golden Harvest and Dibao are coming aggressively this time. I'm worried that a large number of members will be poached by them."

Fang Jinsheng's worries are not unreasonable, after all, no one can guarantee that Dykstra and his team will not be lured by high salaries.

"Let's just wait and see what happens."

Lin Daoqiu is not in a hurry, because it is useless to be anxious now.

Can only let Zou Wenhuai and Pan Disheng make their move first, and they are trying to break the move.

It has to be said that the power of money is indeed not small. Zou Wenhuai and Pan Disheng waved the check and achieved considerable results.

Three members of Dykstra's team announced that they would join Zou Wenhuai and Pan Disheng's new company a week later.

However, in order to find these three people, Zou Wenhuai and the others paid a full price of 500 million US dollars.

"Mr. Lin, I'm sorry, I couldn't let them stay."

After the team members left, Dykstra came to New Oriental Lin Daoqiu's office with an apology.

"John, don't say that. I know you have tried your best. It doesn't matter if they are poached, because time will prove that their choice is wrong."

Dykstra seemed to be in a bad mood because of this incident. After all, this team was formed by him alone, and all the members were found by him. Unexpectedly, under the temptation of money, they would switch to another team. side.

"The task of Magic Studio this year is not small, so if necessary, I will go to Hollywood to help you find someone."

Many people have been poached from Magic Studio during this period, and Lin Daoqiu must help Dykstra add some fresh blood.

"Of course, there is a shortage of people in the Magic Studio, even if they have not been poached. I plan to go back and look for talents in this area after a while."

The success of "Godzilla" has triggered the pursuit of special effects movies all over the world, and talents in special effects technology have suddenly become upstarts in the film industry.

The best special effects team in the world right now is not only the magic studio led by Dykstra, but also Lucas' team.

If Dykstra is willing to act, he can still attract a lot of talents to join the Magic Studio.

"If that's the case, I'll go to Hollywood with you in a while, and I'll get the proceeds from "Godzilla" by the way."

It has been five months since "Godzilla" was released. When it was released in North America, "Godzilla" had a full box office score of 15 billion, which made everyone dumbfounded.

However, this is also due to the efforts of the three companies, Universal, Fox, and Warner, to create this miracle.

In other major regions, "Godzilla" also maintained a trend of sweeping the leaves in autumn, searching for the box office.

According to statistics, by the end of April, the global box office of "Godzilla" had reached 25 billion US dollars.

You must know that this does not include revenue such as video tapes, but this has made "Godzilla" easily the highest-grossing movie in history.

Lin Daoqiu simply calculated that this time "Godzilla" would probably earn him nearly one billion US dollars in revenue. It is no wonder that Zou Wenhuai and Pan Disheng would spend one billion to start this special effects company.

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Although there is still some time before the three-month buffer period given by the Hong Kong government, Run Run Shaw still invited Lin Daoqiu and the others to his villa to discuss the acquisition of theaters.

Now that the overall situation has been decided, everyone has no other ideas. The theater chain is definitely going to be sold, and there is only one seller, and that is Run Run Shaw.

Run Run Shaw, who was sitting in the main seat, looked extraordinarily energetic today. After all, after today's meal, he would very likely control [-]% of Xiangjiang's theaters in one go.

Even at the peak of the Shaw Brothers, Run Run Shaw failed to do this, and he never expected to be able to get his wish now.

Lin Daoqiu, Zou Wenhuai, Pan Disheng, Liao Junhao, the four theater bosses sat on the left and right.

"I invited everyone here today to discuss the issue of theaters. You can speak freely if you have anything to say. You don't need to be polite with me."

Run Run Shaw took the initiative to bring up this topic, and the four people present were not surprised at all.

"I don't have any ideas. According to what Uncle Liu said at the beginning, add [-]% to the market price to buy, then I will be fine."

Lin Daoqiu didn't have too many thoughts, anyway, the matter has come to this point, and Run Run Shaw has completed the agreement between them, let Li Maowen be responsible for the overseas agency rights of Xiangjiang Films, he will naturally sell New Oriental Cinemas to the other party.

"What Mr. Lin means is what I mean."

Zou Wenhuai nodded with a smile. He didn't have any thoughts on this matter. Although he was very reluctant to sell Golden Harvest Cinemas, it was not a matter of reluctance now.

"We didn't have too many objections either."

Since Lin Daoqiu and Zou Wenhuai didn't express any opinions, Pan Disheng and Liao Junhao naturally wouldn't object to it, and even if they objected to Uncle Six, they probably wouldn't take it seriously.

After hearing what Lin Daoqiu and the others said, the smile on Run Run Shaw's face became stronger.

"Okay, if that's the case, then I'll ask a team of accountants and lawyers to calculate the value of your theater chains. I hope it will be convenient for everyone."

After all, the transaction this time was carried out under the nose of the Hong Kong government, and the superficial work that should be done still needs to be done. It is impossible to negotiate here and then sell it with a single sentence. This is obviously impossible.

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