Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 276
Witnessed by Richardson, Lin Daoqiu agreed to the conditions proposed by Landry and sold "Mission Impossible" to Fox for a price of [-] million US dollars.

"Congratulations to your company for purchasing such an excellent work."

"I also congratulate Mr. Lin for making a lot of money."

This transaction can be regarded as getting what they need for Lin Daoqiu and Landry.

Fox can use "Mission Impossible" to open up their short board of action movies.

And after Lin Daoqiu gets the money, he can consider building his film and television empire in Xiangjiang. Now it seems that both parties are very satisfied with what they got.

After sending Landry and Richardson away, Lin Daoqiu, who was still calm before, started yelling in the room.

"I'm so fucking out of my head, wow..."

The reason why Run Run Shaw and Zou Wenhuai tolerated Lin Daoqiu before was also because he could bring huge profits to the other party.

But if one day Lin Daoqiu's filming doesn't make any money, these people won't even give him a straight look.

Moreover, Lin Daoqiu never thought of making a living by making films all the time. If he did so, his personal time would be completely taken up.

Therefore, for Lin Daoqiu, the top priority is to have his own movie theater chain in Xiangjiang, because only in this way can he have the supreme right to speak.

In the future, he won't need to worry about the schedule, he can show his movies however he wants, and he doesn't need to watch other people's faces.

At this time, the door of the room opened suddenly, and Brigitte Lin, who had just finished the promotion, returned to the hotel.

As soon as she entered the door, she saw Lin Daoqiu standing on the sofa, with her hands raised in front of the window, she didn't know what she was doing.

"what happened to you?"

Brigitte Lin looked at Lin Daoqiu in confusion, she closed the door and walked into the room just about to say something.

But then Lin Daoqiu suddenly ran up to her with excitement on his face, and hugged her all at once.

"You're crazy, let me down quickly, don't turn around... ah..."

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Compared with "Mission Impossible", the box office of "Killer Trenches" in North America can be said to be a mess.

This film, which was co-produced by Golden Harvest and Warner, only earned 850 million U.S. dollars, which shocked both Chow Wenhuai and Jackie Chan.

Jackie Chan, who originally wanted to rely on this movie to enter Hollywood, now can only honestly gain a foothold in Xiangjiang.

In the end, Yuen Biao followed Lin Daoqiu's suggestion and invited Jackie Chan to come over and let the three of them star in the movie together.

On this day, when Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Jackie Chan and others were rushing to shoot "Flying Dragon" at Golden Harvest's Fushan Road studio, Zhong Fa suddenly walked in with a newspaper in his face in shock.

"Come and see, Mr. Lin is really terrible this time."

Hearing Lin Daoqiu's name, he immediately attracted the attention of the three leading actors present.

"Lin Daoqiu's New Film North American Box Office Breaks [-] Million"

Ordinary filmmakers don't pay attention to the North American box office market at all. If it weren't for newspaper reports, I believe that most people would not know about it.

"The box office of Mr. Lin's new film has exceeded [-] million?"

Both Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao stared wide-eyed. Although they knew that Lin Daoqiu was very aggressive in making movies, it was Hollywood.

Jackie Chan's previous "Killer's Trenches" only took 850 million at the box office. Comparing these two plays is simply far apart.

Seemingly feeling a little embarrassed, Jackie Chan could only turn his head and leave the scene silently after listening.

Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao looked at each other, and they could only shake their heads wryly.

"It seems that Mr. Lin will probably stay in Hollywood to make movies in the future."

I don't know who said such a sentence suddenly, which shocked Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao and others.

But if you think about it carefully, it should be like this. You must know that a movie over there can sell for [-] million U.S. dollars, almost [-] million Hong Kong dollars.

The highest-grossing movie in Hong Kong is only 2000 million Hong Kong dollars, which is a full 25 times worse.

If it were them, I'm afraid they would choose to stay in Hollywood instead of returning to the small place of Xiangjiang.

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"Do you think Lin Daoqiu will really choose to stay in Hollywood and not come back?"

Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang have been paying attention to the box office situation of "Mission Impossible", and they received the news immediately when the movie just broke [-] million.

"I think it's possible. After all, Xiangjiang is too young. With his ability, staying in Hollywood is the best choice."

Both Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang agreed that Lin Daoqiu should stay in Hollywood and not come back.

Thinking of this, both of them couldn't help shaking their heads, because Lin Daoqiu's departure was a big loss to them.

They originally expected to cooperate with Lin Daoqiu in several blockbuster films in the future, but now it seems impossible.

And such rumors began to slowly spread in Xiangjiang's movie circle, and almost everyone agreed that Lin Daoqiu would not come back.

While those people were envious, they also regretted that Xiangjiang had lost such an outstanding film talent.

But just when everyone thought that Lin Daoqiu would definitely stay in Hollywood and not come back, everyone didn't know that Lin Daoqiu had already returned to his home.

As soon as Zheng Danrui and Wen Jun heard that Lin Daoqiu was back, they rushed over happily.

"Brother Qiu has shown his prowess this time. I think Xiangjiang will have another movie tycoon in the future."

"Who says it's not? This is something that even Mr. Zou and Uncle Liu have been working hard for so many years and can't do it."

Lin Daoqiu didn't even care about the flattery of these two guys, but I'm afraid he will hear it many times in the future.

When Wen Jun and Zheng Danrui saw Lin Daoqiu's appearance, they knew that their flattery was not in the right place.

"Has anything interesting happened recently?"

Lin Daoqiu simply changed the topic to another place, he didn't want to listen to these two guys flattering him all the time.

"It is said that Yuen Biao's new film "Flying Dragon" has invited Jackie Chan."

I didn't expect Yuen Biao to be so open-minded, but it's right to think about it. After all, "Killer's Trenches" has become like this, which should make him less depressed.

Although I don't know what the effect will be if this drama is replaced by Yuen Biao, but Lin Daoqiu is very sure that there is definitely no need to worry about the action scenes in this drama.

At this time, the phone on the table rang suddenly, Lin Daoqiu walked over to pick up the phone, only to find that it was Fang Yihua calling.

"Mr. Lin, if you don't mind, I'd like to treat you to tea tomorrow. I wonder if you have time."

Fang Yihua knew that Lin Daoqiu had returned to Xiangjiang, so she made a special call to ask Lin Daoqiu to meet.

Before that, both she and Run Run Shaw knew that Lin Daoqiu had sold the copyright of "Mission Impossible" to Fox.

And Lin Daoqiu's approach annoyed them very much, because in their opinion, they had a share in this drama, and Lin Daoqiu's approach was very inappropriate.

Fang Yihua even felt that it was reasonable for Lin Daoqiu to give half of the copyright sale money to Shaw Brothers.

(End of this chapter)