Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 2217 Oscar

This year's Christmas, "Tomb Raider 2" is the biggest schedule of the year in Hollywood, which can be said to kill the Quartet. Originally, MGM won the annual Christmas schedule with "Rain Man". The box office champion of North American movies, but because of Lin Daoqiu's relationship, this movie was not made.

Barry Levinson once approached Richardson with the script of "Rain Man", hoping that MGM could invest in the production of this play.

Richardson was also very interested in this story, but when it came to casting, Tom Cruise's name suddenly appeared in the cast, so there was no further action in the play.

Of course, since MGM is unwilling to invest in this movie, it is naturally impossible for Barry Levinson to hang himself on a tree, and he will naturally find other companies to cooperate with.

However, even if this touching "Rain Man" is released this year, it is impossible to take away the light of "Tomb Raider 2", but only a week after its release, "Tomb Raider 2" won 8000 million box office.

If it weren't for the fact that this movie is not a super special effects blockbuster, even Richardson would estimate the North American box office of "Tomb Raider 2" to be more than one billion.

But from the current point of view, after "Tomb Raider 2" is released, his box office performance in the North American film market will probably be around [-] to [-] million, which is already the limit of this movie.

"An invitation to the Oscars? I'm not interested."

Lin Daoqiu received an invitation letter from Oscar, hoping that he can attend the Oscar award ceremony next year.

However, Lin Daoqiu had no interest in such things at all, and he even felt that going to the Oscars was a waste of time.

Even though the Oscars have great influence in the world, for Lin Daoqiu, such Oscar awards are not needed at all, and the Oscars will not give too good awards to his commercial films.

In addition to Lin Daoqiu's own Golden Statue Award, he would naturally not condescend to go to the Oscars to be a guest of some award ceremony.

So he directly rejected Oscar's invitation without even thinking about it. This was not the first time, but every time Lin Daoqiu would refuse an invitation, it had become a routine.

Even in North America, Lin Daoqiu was offered odds on whether Lin Daoqiu would participate in that year's Oscars, but the odds that he would not attend could be said to be astonishingly low.

So if "The Emperor of Hollywood" does not attend this most influential film awards ceremony in Hollywood and even in the world, it becomes an unsolved case. Everyone wants to know why he is unwilling to go.

"Oscar also sent me an invitation letter this year, and invited me to be one of the selection committee members. Do you think I should accept this invitation?"

Brigitte Lin also received an Oscar invitation. After all, she has become the highest-paid female star in Hollywood. If she can be invited to attend, it will naturally cause a high degree of topicality.

"Don't overestimate the identities of those Oscar judges. The more people who become judges, the more useless the identity of the judges will be."

In Lin Daoqiu's view, the Oscar judges don't need so many people at all, what is needed is rotation, not a fixed group of people as judges.

But Oscar likes to use the method of broadening everyone's opinions. In later generations, he even recruited a group of stars and well-known people from all over the world to join the ranks of judges.

But this approach itself is of no use in selecting a film, so Lin Daoqiu is not surprised that Oscar is getting more and more lonely.

"If I have this time, I might as well watch TV at home. Anyway, I have no interest in the Oscars at all, let alone attend this awards ceremony."

Lin Daoqiu's thoughts will largely affect Lin Qingxia. After hearing what the other party said, she also felt that Oscar was not as authoritative as she thought.

And did Lin Daoqiu tell Brigitte Lin that the reason why the Oscars are influential is not because of how good the awards ceremony is, but because of the strength of North America.

If one day this place is no longer the strongest place on earth, then the Oscars will not receive as much attention as they are now, and it is very likely that it will become a self-contained award like the Hong Kong Film Awards.

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"Lin Daoqiu rejected our invitation again? Why?"

The chairman of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Bidi Ander, was very puzzled that Lin Daoqiu rejected their Oscar invitation again. In his opinion, Lin Daoqiu should not and would not refuse their invitation again and again. .

"I don't know, but from the current point of view, it seems that Lin Daoqiu has no possibility of participating in the Oscar, even if we send him more invitations, it is impossible."

Hearing what his subordinates said, Bidiande immediately showed a very unhappy look on his face.

In his opinion, the Oscar is the kind of supreme award, as long as the filmmakers on the earth should flock to the Oscar, but Lin Daoqiu is so repulsive.

It's fine if it's someone else, but Lin Daoqiu can be said to be very influential in Hollywood, not to mention that the box office he has won in Hollywood over the years is more than the sum of other people's lifetime.

"As the president of MGM, shouldn't he come out to support Oscar? I think we need to have a good chat with Lin Daoqiu."

Bi DiAnde plans to go to MGM to meet with Lin Daoqiu in person and persuade this arrogant guy to attend the Oscars.

After Richardson received a call from Bidi Ande to visit, he immediately told his boss Lin Daoqiu the news.

"Bideande? He's coming to see me? Why? I'm not interested in meeting Oscar's people."

Lin Daoqiu was sitting on the sofa in the hotel enjoying Brigitte Lin's head massage.

When Lin Daoqiu heard that the person in charge of Oscar was coming to see him, Lin Daoqiu's first reaction was to refuse. He really didn't want to have any interaction with Oscar's people.

"I guess Mr. Ander should be looking for you for next year's Oscars ceremony. He probably wants to persuade you to participate and attend the Oscars."

Richardson's guess is not wrong at all, after all, it is impossible for Bidi Ande to come to MGM in person for other things.

After thinking about it for a while, Lin Daoqiu decided not to see Bidiande. He planned to let Richardson come forward to receive him.

If Bidiande still insists on letting him attend the Oscars, Lin Daoqiu will not agree to the other party, at most he will send Richardson to attend the Oscars instead of him.

(End of this chapter)