Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 1190 The Ambition of the Academy Awards
For Lin Daoqiu, 1985 was the third year he held the Academy Awards. Compared with before, the experience of the preparatory committee was more abundant than before.

But just this year, Lin Daoqiu lost Xiangjiang Cinemas, leaving only the film production company.

In addition, last year, Leung Ka Fai was banned, resulting in a feeling that the popularity of this year's Hong Kong Film Awards is not high compared with previous years.

In everyone's opinion, being able to win an award is definitely a good thing, but it is completely different from the mentality of winning awards in later generations. This is actually not a good thing for the Academy Awards.

After all, only with competition can everyone find ways to improve and improve themselves.

If the Academy Award is just an awards ceremony and cannot promote the advancement of Xiangjiang's film industry, then Lin Daoqiu really has no interest in continuing to do it.

"Mr. Lin, this year's new best special effects, the number of films registered is very rare..."

This year, Lin Daoqiu added a new best special effect to the Academy Awards, but in Yu Teng's view, there is no doubt that the award-winning movie this year must be "Godzilla".

This new award added by Lin Daoqiu, I am afraid that in the next few years, the winner will be New Oriental itself.

Although Yu Teng thought so in her heart, she didn't say it directly. After all, she still had some sense of propriety in front of her boss.

"Special effects movies are an emerging technology and business, and they are also the trend of future movie development. "Godzilla" has won such a high box office. I believe it should let everyone clearly see the power of special effects movies."

Lin Daoqiu felt that no matter how much he said, it would be better for everyone to see the real success. "Godzilla" is sweeping the global film market, and those film companies and producers cannot see it.

Plus the previous "Star Wars" and "ET Aliens", these are real examples.

For ordinary movies, the box office in Hollywood is basically around 6 million. Adding in the income from overseas and peripheral sales, the peak is only more than [-] million. It is still several years before such a movie will appear.

But if it is an excellent special effects movie, the global box office plus the sales revenue of peripherals will be at least one billion, let alone "Godzilla" which is still being released globally.

"Mr. Lin is right. I went to the theater and watched the movie "Godzilla" seven or eight times. I believe that special effects movies will become popular in the future, but..."

Yu Teng couldn't help shaking her head when she said this. What she was worried about was that the production cost of special effects movies was extremely high, and if a movie was shot on the street, the loss would be very heavy.

Even a big movie company doesn't have the guts like Lin Daoqiu to spend 5000 million US dollars to make a special effects movie like this.

And once special effects movies become the mainstream trend, those traditional types of movies will definitely be oppressed, and their situation will be even more difficult by then.

"We don't need to discuss the issue of special effects technology, because it will inevitably happen, and it's useless for you to worry about it. It's better to open your eyes and embrace special effects."

Lin Daoqiu didn't intend to explain too much to Yu Cheng on this issue, it will take time to prove it.

Moreover, the production cycle of special effects movies is very long, only one movie a year, and most of the theater's schedule will still be reserved for traditional movies.

"By the way, Mr. Lin, you said that you should reserve 5 minutes for the opening. I wonder if the answer to this mystery can be announced now?"

Yu Teng remembered that Lin Daoqiu told herself before that when the Academy Awards started, she had to set aside 5 minutes to come out. She still doesn't know what Lin Daoqiu wants to do.

When Yu Cheng asked such a question, Lin Daoqiu replied with a smile.

"Actually, it's nothing. I've prepared a 5-minute special effects film and plan to show it to everyone at the opening of the Academy Awards."

Lin Daoqiu had put Magic Studio to prepare this 5-minute special effects film before. Although it didn't take long, this short 5-minute film cost Lin Daoqiu 2000 million.

The reason why Lin Daoqiu wanted to show this video at the Academy Awards was simply to promote Magic Studio.

After all, the Golden Image Awards have begun to attract the attention of the Asian film market. It is undoubtedly a good publicity to show the special effects film produced by Magic Studio on the Golden Image Awards.

Even though Magic Studio has produced many special effects blockbusters before, the promotion of this kind of thing can only continue without any pause.

"So that's it. I thought Mr. Lin had prepared some interesting program."

As soon as Yu Cheng heard it, he immediately guessed the purpose of Lin Daoqiu's special effects film, but she would not be so stupid as to say it directly.

"This video cost me 2000 million, how do you think it compares to a normal cabaret show?"

Lin Daoqiu looked at Yu Cheng and asked with a smile.

Hearing what Lin Daoqiu said, Yu Cheng's eyes widened, and he looked at Lin Daoqiu in surprise, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Although the previous two Academy Awards did not lose money, they did not actually earn much.

It wasn't until this year's Golden Statue Awards that there was any profit, and Lin Daoqiu had already told him that in the future, all the profits from the Golden Statue Awards would be donated to the Performing Arts Association, excluding all necessary expenses.

But no matter what, the organization of the Golden Image Awards will not cost 2000 million yuan, and a short 5-minute special effects film will cost 2000 million yuan. Lin Daoqiu really has money and no place to spend it.

"The Academy Awards must be innovative, and cannot be a ceremony that only presents awards. Even though this movie cost so much money, the effect on the Academy Awards is definitely far greater than the investment."

Lin Daoqiu's words caused Yu Cheng to think deeply. In fact, she couldn't figure out what use such a film would be to the Academy Awards at an awards ceremony.

But Lin Daoqiu is the lifetime honorary chairman of the Academy Awards. Since he chose to do this, it is naturally impossible for Yu Teng to have any objections.

"The focus of the next few Academy Awards will be on the whole of Asia. In the next 20 years, the focus will be on the whole world. I hope that we will all move towards this goal together."

Lin Daoqiu's ambition is not small. He wants to make the Hong Kong Film Awards into an award-winning film that can be as famous as the Oscars.

Although it seemed very difficult for Lin Daoqiu to achieve this goal, he felt that as long as he persisted, there might be such a day.

"I didn't expect Mr. Lin to have such a big ambition, but I still prefer this kind of difficult challenge to living a mediocre life. As long as Mr. Lin doesn't fire me, I am willing to help you fulfill this wish."

Yu Cheng was aroused by Lin Daoqiu's words. If the Golden Statue Award really becomes what Lin Daoqiu said, she is willing to do her best to help him realize this wish.

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