Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 1629
"Boss, this Mr. Milt, Lenderson, and Mr. Jovis, and several of their theater chains are interested in joining MGM."

When Lin Daoqiu was still filming "Living at Dawn" in Monaco, Richardson was not idle. He had been actively contacting those theater bosses, and the results were quite effective.

If MGM is still under the control of Kerkorian, these people probably won't even look at MGM.

But now that MGM has been bought by Lin Daoqiu, this film company that was at the bottom of Hollywood has now turned into a piece of meat and potatoes. The owners of these theaters are naturally more interested in MGM.

"Welcome everyone. Thank you for your appreciation of our company. If you have the opportunity to cooperate with us, I believe that the profits that MGM will bring to you will definitely satisfy you."

Unlike in Hong Kong, the United States is still under the shadow of the "Paramount Act" at this time, and the business of distribution and screening must be separated.

Even though there have been signs of loosening in the past few years, the signs belong to the signs, and the current film companies can only produce and distribute.

"Hahaha, with Mr. Lin here, I believe MGM's future will be very bright. As a businessman, we certainly hope to cooperate with successful people."

Everyone knows that Lin Daoqiu's movies are very popular, and he is willing to cooperate with MGM because of his name.

What Lin Daoqiu has to do now is very simple, that is to try to win as many theaters as possible to cooperate with them, so that he can control more movie seats.

The negotiations with the other party went very smoothly. The bosses of these theaters agreed to immediately end the previous contracts with other film companies and directly transfer to MGM to join the battle for the Christmas schedule.

The cooperation mentioned here does not mean that these theaters will directly fall to MGM and only release MGM movies. After all, this is completely impossible. You must know that MGM can't make a few movies a year.

The cooperation here actually refers to the priority. For example, if other movies are released at the same time as the MGM movie, then the theater chain that cooperates with MGM will let the MGM movie be released first.

As for other movies, wait if you can. If you can't wait, you can only give up this time period and get them to be shown in other theaters.

In order for Lin Daoqiu to win the priority of filming, he naturally had to give corresponding benefits to the other party. Otherwise, they would not be able to give this priority to MGM just based on Lin Daoqiu's name.

However, the total number of screens in these theaters is only 400 yuan, which is quite a lot, but it is still far from the 3000 yuan screen that Lin Daoqiu had in mind.

After sending them away, Richardson returned to the office and sat opposite Lin Daoqiu.

Although the negotiations went smoothly, so far the number of screens in theaters that MGM has cooperated with is only 500 yuan.

If a movie like "007" is released, you can still get about 2000 yuan from other places, but this can only be done if you don't encounter strong movie snipers.

"If we can get the priority of ACC, then our number of screens will be greatly increased."

Lin Daoqiu had heard the name of this cinema chain, but he had never dealt with them.

"Are there any problems?"

Lin Daoqiu knew that with Richardson's ability, if the negotiation could be done, it would have already been done. Since it hasn't been settled yet, it means that he must have encountered a difficult problem.

"ACC has a very good relationship with Fox and Paramount, especially Fox, and if you want them to raise our priority, you have to go and talk to the owner of ACC in person.

As one of the largest movie theater operators in the United States at this time, ACC has 5000 theaters, and the number of screens has reached nearly [-] yuan.

If Lin Daoqiu can make ACC raise MGM's priority to the highest, it will definitely be great news for MGM.

However, Richardson has also mentioned to Lin Daoqiu that ACC has a good relationship with Fox and Paramount, especially with Fox.

It is said that because these companies have cooperated for decades, no matter how you think about it, it is impossible for ACC to easily lower the priority of Fox and Paramount.

"How sure are you of success?"

Lin Daoqiu looked at Richardson and asked.

Asked by Lin Daoqiu, Richardson lowered his head and hesitated for a while, then raised his head and answered.

"Twenty percent."

In Richardson's view, the chances of success are zero if he goes out on his own, but it's different if Lin Daoqiu goes out, at least it can increase from zero to 20.00%.

After listening to Richardson's words, Lin Daoqiu couldn't help laughing out loud.

Emotional self-discipline only increased the success rate by [-]%. It seems that this trip to meet the chairman of ACC may not be a pleasant meeting.

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Under Richardson's arrangement, the next day, he made an appointment with Chris Wolf, the chairman of the ACC, at Chris Wolf's office.

For Lin Daoqiu, who has been in Hollywood for many years, Chris Wolfe has long admired him.

These years, Lin Daoqiu's movies have actually been played in ACC theaters, but the two parties have not met each other.

When Christopher's secretary invited Lin Daoqiu into his office, as soon as the door opened, Lin Daoqiu saw an old man standing up and looking at him with a smile.

"This is our chairman, Mr. Chris Wolf."

"Hi, Mr. Wolf, I'm Lin Daoqiu, thank you for taking the time to meet me."

As soon as Lin Daoqiu stepped forward, Chris Wolf also spared the desk and walked towards Lin Daoqiu.

After the two shook hands, Chris Wolf invited Lin Daoqiu to sit on the sofa beside him.

"Although we haven't met each other these years, we have actually cooperated since Mr. Lin's first movie "Mission Impossible" released in Hollywood, and we have been cooperating all these years."

A large part of Lin Daoqiu's movies released in Hollywood in recent years have been screened in ACC theaters, especially "Godzilla" has made a lot of money for ACC.

Judging from Chris Wolff's words, he seems to have a good impression of Lin Daoqiu. If this is the case, then today's negotiation should be a good start for Lin Daoqiu.

But what Lin Daoqiu couldn't understand was, how could Richardson think that the possibility of the negotiation was only [-]%?Could it be that he made a mistake in his judgment?

Maybe Richardson's previous judgment was wrong. He misjudged the relationship between ACC and Fox, Lin Daoqiu thought.

But is the fact really as Lin Daoqiu expected?

(End of this chapter)