Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 381
As an aspiring director, Tsui Hark doesn't want to just make some comedy movies, he has more pursuits.

But it's a pity that other people in New Art City have completely opposite ideas to him. All movies are close to comedy, which is not what Tsui Hark wants to see.

Because of this, there was a disagreement between the two parties in the creation, which caused Tsui Hark to be temporarily excluded from the creative team, so he simply went to the Magic Studio to learn from Dykstra.

"You mean, you have no interest in comedies?"

Although Tsui Hark said it very euphemistically, Lin Daoqiu could still hear the meaning in his words.

It is normal for Tsui Hark and New Arts City to have conflicts. After all, they are not the same kind of people at all. One side only wants money, and they can make whatever movie is easy to sell.

But Tsui Hark is different. Of course he also hopes that the movies he makes will be hits, but he belongs to the kind of pursuit.

"It's not that I'm not interested, it's just that I want to make some movies I like, but Mr. Mai and the others don't seem to agree with my idea."

Lin Daoqiu didn't have a good solution for this. After all, New Art City is famous for its comedy movies. If you ask them to make something else, or some in-depth movies, it will easily hit the street.

I remember that in the previous life, Lei Juekun let him start a film studio independently in 1983 because he admired Tsui Hark's relationship.

But now it is only 1980, and it is more than 2 years before Tsui Hark came out to open a studio. At this time, it is definitely not a good thing for New Art City to let Tsui Hark go out independently.

"It's good to have pursuits, but it's not realistic to reach the sky in one step. It's good for you to have your own ideas, but accumulating experience is what you need to do most now."

Lin Daoqiu has no plans to let Tsui Hark become independent from New Art City for the time being, at least he will not consider this matter until after the filming of "Best Partner".

Tsui Hark never thought that Lin Daoqiu could help him out. After all, this matter still needs to be resolved by him and those in New Art City alone.

"Since you don't have any filming tasks right now, you can stay and help The Mummy."

It can be said that besides Dykstra and his team, Tsui Hark has a good understanding of special effects. Letting him stay and serve as Yuan Heping's assistant director should be of great help to this film.

And Lin Daoqiu also wanted Tsui Hark to get in touch with these special effects technologies earlier, which would definitely be of great help to his future development.

At least when he goes to cheat Jiahe, the movie he makes should be better. After all, this is also the first fairy tale movie.

At the beginning, Tsui Hark was worried that Lin Daoqiu didn't intend to let him stay and study, but he didn't expect Lin Daoqiu to let him stay here so generously, which made Tsui Hark really overjoyed.

"Thank you, Mr. Lin, I will definitely study hard and not disappoint your expectations of me."

After Tsui Hark finished speaking, he bypassed him and walked towards Dykstra's office, leaving only Lin Daoqiu with a look of astonishment on his face.

"This old monster Xu..."

He couldn't help but shook his head, but Lin Daoqiu could somewhat understand it. After all, opportunities to learn from the world's top special effects masters are rare, so it's no wonder Tsui Hark is so diligent.

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"This is the company's most recent financial statement, please have a look."

He has been floating around outside for several months, and Li Maowen is basically responsible for New Oriental's affairs.

However, during Lin Daoqiu's absence, Li Maowen handled the company's affairs in an orderly manner, and Lin Daoqiu was relieved a lot.

"It's been hard work for you during this time, but you still have more hard days, because I'm going back to Hollywood soon."

Li Maowen quickly shook his head, he didn't dare to say the word "hard work" in front of Lin Daoqiu.

"Mr. Lin is too polite. These are what I should have done, and compared to you, what I have done is really insignificant."

Lin Daoqiu didn't intend to worry too much about it. Anyway, Li Maowen helped him watch New Oriental, so he could concentrate on other things.

Looking through the recent financial statements, Lin Daoqiu found that the single "Mr. Zombie" helped New Oriental make a lot of money.

Now this movie is being screened in Neon and other places. According to preliminary estimates, excluding the dividends paid to Lin Zhengying and others, a "Mr. Zombie" will at least bring in more than 4000 million Hong Kong dollars in revenue for New Oriental.

But Lin Daoqiu can only take a look at the money and can't even move a dime, because all the money has to be left to the company for next year's activities.

But for Lin Daoqiu, because of the joint efforts of New Art City and Lin Zhengying, he doesn't need to worry about New Oriental's operating funds and filming funds next year.

Even if they want to open a few big productions, it doesn't matter at all, and now New Oriental still has a few movies that have not been released, namely "Ghost Horse 2" and "Chasing Girls" by Xinyi City, and "Thousands of Stars" by Wang Jing. Wang Dou Qianba".

I don't know if these guys agreed that all of them will be released until the end of the year, but after these movies are released, New Oriental's liquidity will be greatly improved.

"Mr. Lin, Uncle Jiu came to you a few days ago and said that he wanted to start a play, but because you were not here, I told him to come over in a few days, or should I call him now?"

Since Lin Zhengying finished filming "Mr. Zombie", the title of Uncle Nine has been crowned on him. It can be said that now everyone calls him Uncle Nine when they see him, which annoys Lin Zhengying very much.

But this also reflects how popular his "Mr. Zombie" is.

"Well, you can tell him to come over, and you can make up your own mind about the movies under 300 million in the future, and you don't have to ask me everything."

Li Maowen just stood up, and after hearing Lin Daoqiu's words, he froze in place, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Because when he was the general manager of Princess Jin before, he had never been treated like this.

And let alone him, even the general managers of other companies would never have such great power.

It can be said that Lin Daoqiu gave him such a big right because of his great trust in him. You must know that even if the production cost of the movie has increased several levels, the 300 million movie can be said to be a real big production at this time.

Fang Jinsheng next to him looked at Li Maowen enviously, but he didn't even have to think about such a thing, because his responsibilities were different from Li Maowen's, so he could only envy him.

"Mr. Lin, I..."

Standing there, Li Maowen didn't know what to say. He really wanted to thank Lin Daoqiu for taking him so seriously, but he didn't know what to say when the words came to his lips.

"Okay, I don't need to say more about those extra words. I know that with your talent, I can definitely bear my trust in you."

Li Maowen stood there gratefully after listening, then he bowed respectfully to Lin Daoqiu, then turned and walked out of the office without saying anything.

"If there is anything important to call me directly in the future, I don't want to see such a thing happen again."

Lin Daoqiu casually said something to Fang Jinsheng who was standing beside him.

As soon as Fang Jinsheng heard it, he knew that Lin Daoqiu must be dissatisfied because Lin Zhengying came to open a new play and did not get an immediate response.

"I'm sorry Mr. Lin, I will definitely pay attention in the future."

Although this was just Lin Daoqiu's understatement, it really shocked Fang Jinsheng.

Recently, Fang Jinsheng was really a little flustered, so Lin Daoqiu had to give him a little reminder, lest he make more mistakes when the time comes.

(End of this chapter)