Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 315 Special Effects Studio

"Liu Luanxiong recently sold shares in Lidi, which has dropped from 7000 million to 5000 million, but still no one bought it."

Lin Daoqiu has been asking Fang Jinsheng to pay attention to Liu Luanxiong's movements. It can be said that this guy has been cheated by the [-]% of the shares recently.

Sometimes Lin Daoqiu didn't know what Liu Luanxiong was thinking, and just entered the market based on his own feelings, without carefully investigating Li's profit situation at all.

It is true that there are only two TV stations in Xiangjiang, but the TV stations are not ordinary companies, and their operation cannot be understood with the thinking of ordinary companies.

You must know that Li's is a TV station that has been losing money for a long time. If you can't become a major shareholder, what's the use of buying a part of the shares.

"Liu Luanxiong has suffered a lot this time. It's not the right time for him to play such a clever trick. If you don't have money, don't speculate like others. Really."

Speaking of this, Lin Daoqiu couldn't help shaking his head. Even if he wanted to speculate, he had to weigh his pockets. If it wasn't deep enough, he would be in big trouble, just like what he encountered now.

"Unfortunately, he thought he could earn 2000 million from the boss at the beginning, but he didn't expect that he didn't make any money now, and he might even lose 2000 million."

Fang Jinsheng couldn't help but started teasing beside him.

I am afraid that Liu Luanxiong will not reduce the price in a while, he will only reduce the price by 500 million at most. If no one buys it, Liu Luanxiong may cry.

"Leave him alone for the time being. Everyone's interest in Li's has dropped now. Unless Li's business situation improves, otherwise, his shares will continue to fall."

Lin Daoqiu didn't plan to contact Liu Luanxiong for at least half a year, so let him hold these shares for the time being.

Moreover, Liu Luanxiong had to pray to gods and pray to Buddha, hoping that Li's situation would be greatly improved, but is this possible?

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Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport is as busy as usual.

John Dykstra and his two assistants got off the plane in a hurry. They were a little tired after a long journey of more than ten hours.

"Welcome John."

Lin Daoqiu stepped forward and gave the other party a big hug.

In order to invite him to Xiangjiang, Lin Daoqiu spent an annual salary of one million US dollars plus the box office share, as well as [-]% of the shares in the special effects studio, to lure him from Industrial Light & Magic.

This John Dykstra is one of the founders of Industrial Light & Magic. His identity is an expert in optical special effects. With his joining Lin Daoqiu's special effects studio, it can be regarded as a prototype.

In addition to Dykstra, Lin Daoqiu also recruited several special photography professionals from Neon to join the studio.

With the current technological means, there are many things that cannot be presented, so Lin Daoqiu intends to temporarily make up for it with special photography technology.

"It's my honor to work with Mr. Lin. Those idiots in Hollywood haven't realized what kind of changes special effects will bring to movies. They all think that special effects are too expensive. They are simply stupid."

Dykstra couldn't help shaking his head when he said this. Although the special effects technology is expensive, the benefits they bring are also very generous. Unfortunately, most companies can't support them to burn such money.

But Lin Daoqiu is different. He invested 2000 million US dollars in the start-up capital of the studio, and promised that the investment fee will increase every year.

If it weren't for this, Dykstra would not have left Industrial Light & Magic and went to Xiangjiang to cooperate with Lin Daoqiu to open a studio.

Before Dykstra arrived, Lin Daoqiu had already spent 2000 million to buy an open space as the base of the special effects studio.

Originally, Lin Daoqiu planned to take Dykstra to rest first, but the other party insisted on going to see the land that Lin Daoqiu bought first.

Unexpectedly, the other party's enthusiasm for work was so high, so Lin Daoqiu had no choice but to take him there.

Because not long after I bought it, work on that construction site has just started, and the factory for special effects production is under construction, and it will take about three months to complete at the earliest.

"There will be four special effects factories and an office building here, which can be completed within half a year at the earliest, and the remaining open space can be used for future expansion."

Several people walked into the construction site wearing hard hats after getting out of the car.

Holding the drawings, Dykstra looked while walking, and it seemed that he was quite satisfied with Lin Daoqiu's plan.

Compared with when they first established Industrial Light and Magic, the current conditions are many times better.

"By the way, what name does Mr. Lin plan to name this studio?"

Suddenly, Dykstra asked Lin Daoqiu this question.

"I'm going to name this special effects studio Magic."

"Magic Studio? It's an interesting name. I like this name very much."

Dykstra was very satisfied with Lin Daoqiu's name, which was simple and easy to remember.

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After settling in Dykstra, Lin Daoqiu had to go back to New Oriental to deal with things.

The special effects studio has just been established, and it will take half a year until everything is done. During this time, there is only one thing Lin Daoqiu has to do, and that is to keep burning money.

The purchase of New Oriental and the investment in Moli Studio have already cost more than 2 million yuan, and now he only has [-] million yuan left in his hands. From this point of view, Lin Daoqiu is quite rich.

But he knew very well that if he didn't expand his sources of income, it might not be long before Dykstra burned all the money.

"Mission Impossible" has been bought by Fox, so Lin Daoqiu has to think of another movie if he wants to make US dollars.

Originally he planned to make an action movie, but "Raiders of the Lost Ark" has already been made by Spielberg, and it will be released this year.

Without the help of special effects technology, Lin Daoqiu can only make some movies that do not use special effects but can still sell well, such as the movie "Home Alone".

This movie is a movie produced by Fox, and the production cost was 800 million US dollars, but that was in 1990.

It would definitely cost no more than $500 million to make this movie now, and it's a movie that could make a sequel.

This time, Lin Daoqiu still wanted to sell the copyright, and he also planned to cooperate with Fox, because the other party was generous and not grumpy.

Early the next morning, as soon as Lin Daoqiu arrived at the company, he called Landry, the director of the Fox production department.

Landry was about to get off work and go back to sleep when he received the call from Lin Daoqiu. If Lin Daoqiu was later, he might not be able to find him.

"Hello, Mr. Lin, why did you think of calling me?"

Landry was a little surprised when he received Lin Daoqiu's call, but his intuition told him that Lin Daoqiu's call would definitely surprise him.

"I want to collaborate with Fox on a movie, a comedy. I don't know if you are interested."

"Comedy? Since when did Mr. Lin make comedies?"

Landry was a little surprised, because in his opinion, Lin Daoqiu's strengths should be action movies. How could he suddenly switch to comedy movies? This span is not ordinary.

(End of this chapter)