Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 1209 Xu Hu cooperation?

"Mr. Lin, from the past to now, New Art City has been good at comedies. It can't be helped if it doesn't win the Academy Awards."

Mai Jia doesn't think there is any harm in specializing in comedy films. If New Art City is asked to make literary films, it is just a waste of their time. After all, literary films do not make money no matter where they are.

Although the investment in literary and artistic films is small and the scale is not large, New Art City has never had much interest in literary and drama films because of too little money.

That is to say, in the previous generation, New Art City set up a branch office in Baodao, and it was shooting some literary films to expand the market in Baodao.

In the area of ​​Xiangjiang, most of the movies shot in New Art City are comedies.

"I know that literary films don't make money, so you must have little interest in this type of film."

Lin Daoqiu could see what they were thinking at a glance, but it was the truth after all, even if Lin Daoqiu guessed right, Mai Jia and Huang Baiming didn't think there was any problem with it.

The purpose of the establishment of New Art City is to gather the strength of seven people to make movies and make money. If anyone wants to make a movie of the type of literary or drama, let them find investment and make it themselves.

"But don't you think that New Art City seems to have reached a bottleneck?"

The most famous movie in New Art City before was "Best Partner". Now that "Best Partner" has temporarily stopped filming, New Art City's rising momentum like a rocket stopped suddenly.

Hearing Lin Daoqiu's words, Mai Jia and Huang Baiming suddenly fell silent at the same time, as if Lin Daoqiu poked their sore spots all of a sudden.

Since the filming of "Best Partner" stopped, New Art City has entered a very strange situation, although "Merry Christmas" has brought them quite a lot of money at the box office.

But since then, the films produced by Xinyi City have not been able to cause such a huge response in Xiangjiang as before.

"Mr. Lin, could this happen because everyone watches too many comedies?"

While Mai Jia and Huang Baiming were silent, Gao Zhisen cautiously expressed his opinion.

"Comedy will never go out of style, but if there are too many films of the same type, I believe the audience will also develop immunity. How long can such money continue to be earned?"

Lin Daoqiu didn't want Xinyicheng to devote most of its resources to comedies. He hoped that Maijia and the others would turn their attention to other types of movies.

Whether it's trying or trying, at least it's better to have the courage to explore those unknown areas than to keep shooting comedy films.

"Today is the end of May, and there is still half a year until the end of the year. Have you decided what movie to release during the Spring Festival next year?"

Asked by Lin Daoqiu, Mai Jia and Huang Baiming were unable to speak, because they really hadn't thought about what film they would show during the Spring Festival next year.

Seeing that Mai Jia and Huang Baiming were unable to say a word, Lin Daoqiu couldn't help but shook his head.

"Well, let's have a meeting in the conference room tomorrow to discuss the future direction of New Art City."

Lin Daoqiu didn't want them to keep going like this for a day. Before, he could let these people go, but now he decided to give these guys some planning and motivation.

If you always make comedies, New Art City may not be a good thing even if it continues to exist like this.

So Lin Daoqiu had to find a way to get them to make changes, but fortunately at this time, except for Shi Tian, ​​all of Xinyi City had returned to their positions, which was somewhat a good thing.

And it's been a long time since I have been in charge of filming in New Art City. It seems that I still haven't done enough in terms of caring for New Art City.

After Lin Daoqiu finished speaking, Mai Jia and Huang Baiming naturally did not dare to have any objections. In fact, they also hoped that Lin Daoqiu could help them make suggestions and even decide the future direction of New Art City.

Although it is easy and profitable to make comedy films, if they continue to shoot like this, they will actually be muttering in their hearts.

In case the audience doesn't buy their comedies one day, then if they are trying to find a way to transform, they will face a very big dilemma.

After Maijia and the others left, Lin Daoqiu turned his head and found something that surprised him.

Tsui Hark was chatting with Hu Jinquan at this time, and it seemed that the two of them were chatting very speculatively.

Lin Daoqiu didn't even have to think about what kind of sparks these two people would create when they got together.

"Actually, I have always liked Mr. Jin Yong's martial arts novels, especially "Swordsman". I think if it is remade at this time, with some changes, it will definitely be very popular."

Tsui Hark was chatting with Hu Jinquan at this time because he wanted to remake the movie "Swordsman", and Hu Jinquan can be said to be a director Tsui Hark admires very much.

At the Academy Awards dinner, Tsui Hark took the initiative to chat with Hu Jinquan, hoping that he could participate in the filming of "Swordsman" and be the director of this film.

As for Hu Jinquan, his mentality at this time is completely different from what Tsui Hark approached him in the previous life.

In his previous life, Hu Jinquan had already been in a semi-retired state, and few people would ask him to make movies, so when Tsui Hark approached him and asked him to be the director of "Swordsman", Hu Jinquan was very happy.

And for the drama "Swordsman", it can be said that Hu Jinquan spent a lot of energy. Jin Yiwei, the father-in-law of Dongchang, and the tone of speaking like singing, these are the characteristics that Hu Jinquan injected into "Swordsman".

But at this time, Hu Jinquan didn't have to worry about not having any filming at all. After all, with Lin Daoqiu around, as long as Hu Jinquan asked, the investment of about 1000 million yuan would definitely be obtained.

Even if he wants to make money, he can definitely make a sequel to "Legend of Sword and Fairy". After all, the first film only filmed the Zhenyao Tower, and there is a long story behind it.

However, compared to these, Tsui Hark's "Swordsman" more or less moved Hu Jinquan, because Hu Jinquan had also read this novel.

"Director Xu is right. "Swordsman" is indeed a very good novel. The protagonist Linghu Chong is very special, but it takes a lot of energy to adapt it well."

Judging from the meaning of Hu Jinquan's words, I don't know whether he is willing to participate or not to participate in the production of Tsui Hark's "Swordsman".

"I heard you guys chatting from afar, I don't know what you guys are chatting about?"

At this moment, Lin Daoqiu's hearty laughter suddenly came from beside him. Tsui Hark and Hu Jinquan saw Lin Daoqiu coming, and immediately stood up from their chairs.

(End of this chapter)