Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 1659
After meeting Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang that night, Xu Guanwen called Lin Daoqiu.

The content of the call was very simple, to tell Lin Daoqiu that he was willing to join New Oriental.

However, Xu Guanwen did not become an artist in New Art City, but used the same model as Golden Harvest before, using the Xu Shi Films he founded to cooperate with Lin Daoqiu.

Of course, since it is a cooperation, it is impossible for Xu Guanwen to make films for other film companies, unless it is with the permission of Lin Daoqiu or the arrangement of New Oriental.

Although these were just verbal promises, Lin Daoqiu did not think that Xu Guanwen would deliberately violate them. After all, in Lin Daoqiu's opinion, Xu Guanwen was still a very disciplined person.

And for Xiangjiang's generation of comedy masters, Lin Daoqiu still has enough respect for him.

So in this matter, Lin Daoqiu did not embarrass Xu Guanwen, but business as usual.

Xu Guanwen is also very happy about Lin Daoqiu's trust. After all, mutual trust is the basis of cooperation. If they can't trust themselves in this kind of matter, then how can they continue to cooperate in the future.

Not long after Xu Guanwen switched to New Oriental, the outside world also got the news one after another.

Although Xu Guanwen's joining New Oriental was a big help to Lin Daoqiu, it did not reach the point of adding wings to a tiger.

After all, Xu Guanwen's momentum in recent years has not been as good as before. Although he joined New Oriental, he was still reported by Xiangjiang's media.

However, the focus of the report this time was not on Xu Guanwen, nor on New Oriental, but instead they all went to Golden Harvest.

Xu Guanwen can be said to be Golden Harvest's signature. After he left New Oriental, Golden Harvest's plight became even more difficult as one can imagine.

According to the reporter's statistics, last year Golden Harvest produced a total of five films, and the best-selling film was "Shaolin Boxer" starring Jet Li and Liu Jiahui during the Spring Festival last year.

This year's Spring Festival, Golden Harvest made persistent efforts and used the combination of Jet Li and Liu Jiahui to shoot a sequel "Shaolin Boxing King" of "Shaolin Boxer".

It seems that Golden Harvest intends to gradually increase Jet Li's popularity in Xiangjiang through the Spring Festival, and then continue to tailor other movies for him.

Although everyone thinks that Golden Harvest's approach can be regarded as steady and steady without rash advances.

However, in Lin Daoqiu's view, the reason why "Shaolin Boxer" was able to sell 2000 million last year was because of the freshness of the audience, but because there were no strong films to attack them during the Spring Festival.

But this year is different. The two dramas "Best Partner" and "Rich Train" have more than doubled the intensity of last year's Spring Festival.

If Golden Harvest still wants to use old routines to win the box office this year, Lin Daoqiu thinks their chances of success are very slim.

However, it is definitely no problem that "Shaolin Boxing King" will break [-] million at the final box office. After all, Jet Li's personal charm can still attract the love of some audiences at this time.

But the only person who can really bring out Jet Li's strength, apart from himself, is only Old Freak Xu can do it.

But at this moment, Mr. Xu is busy with "Swordsman" and "A Chinese Ghost Story", so he has no time to shoot "Once Upon a Time".

Even if you want to shoot "Huang Feihong", you have to wait at least two or three years, or even longer.

Moreover, it is impossible for Lin Daoqiu to help Golden Harvest cultivate stars. If he wants to cultivate Jet Li, there is only one possibility, that is, the other party jumps to New Oriental, otherwise Lin Daoqiu would rather do nothing.

Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang didn't know Lin Daoqiu's views on this year's Spring Festival.

If Xu Guanwen does not leave, they even plan to let Jet Li and Ho Guanchang co-produce a movie next year to hit the Spring Festival.

It's just that now this idea has come to naught, Xu Guanwen has left New Oriental, and Golden Harvest has faced a heavy blow.

Reporters came to Golden Harvest every day to interview Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang, but they were unable to do so. These two people were not willing to be interviewed by reporters at this time.

Now Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang are the first two, and Xu Guanwen's departure has had a great impact on them.

For Golden Harvest, Xu Guanwen is no longer just an ordinary star, his significance to Golden Harvest is extraordinary.

In the early days of its establishment, Golden Harvest relied on martial arts films and kung fu films to gain a firm foothold, especially with the addition of Bruce Lee, which not only allowed them to gain a firm foothold in Xiangjiang, but also rushed to Hollywood.

It's just a pity that Bruce Lee died young, which made Golden Harvest instantly lose hope of entering the international market.

It would be fine if it was just like this, but in Xiangjiang, Golden Harvest would face competition from Shaw Brothers. At that time, Run Run Shaw regarded Golden Harvest as a thorn in his side, not to mention that they were traitors who betrayed Shaw Brothers.

Just when Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang were still worrying about finding the second Bruce Lee, Xu Guanwen came to him at this time.

I believe that Zou Wenhuai at that time would not think that Xu Guanwen would get such a great result.

But the previous movie starring Xu Guanwen still got a good box office, so he decided to invest in Xu Guanwen and give it a try.

Unexpectedly, the three Xu Guanwen brothers became popular after that, and after losing Bruce Lee, Jiahe got another general to help them get through that difficult period smoothly.

It can be said that everyone's impressions of Golden Harvest and Xu Guanwen are almost bound together, but they did not expect Xu Guanwen to leave New Oriental suddenly at this time, which can be said to surprise everyone.

What surprises everyone is not that Xu Guanwen jumped to New Oriental, but why did he wait until now to leave?It's really too late to say.

If he could jump to New Oriental earlier, his achievements would definitely not stop there.

It's just that his departure is undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for Jiahe.

Everyone is watching whether Xu Guanwen's departure will be the last straw that crushes Golden Harvest.

For this year's Spring Festival, Golden Harvest has announced the release of "Shaolin Boxing King" starring Jet Li and Liu Jiahui.

Looking at it this way, Golden Harvest seems to have put all its hopes on Jet Li.

Even at this time, conspiracy theories emerged, saying that Xu Guanwen's departure was because Golden Harvest did not arrange his film for the Spring Festival, but let Jet Li do it, and it has been for two consecutive years.

This caused Xu Guanwen's dissatisfaction, which is why he chose to leave New Oriental.

Although Golden Harvest hastened to clarify and explain to everyone that Xu Guanwen's departure was not the kind of conspiracy theory they spread, many people still believe that this is the truth.

In the end, Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang didn't bother to explain. Their only idea now is to do everything possible to make Jet Li the best martial arts star in Xiangjiang, so as to make up for the impact of Xu Guanwen's departure.

(End of this chapter)