Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 1375
I'm afraid Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang never expected that in the past few years, Golden Harvest Films has fallen from the previous overlord of Xiangjiang to the embarrassing situation it is now.

With Golden Harvest losing its theater chain, its influence has been further weakened.

Although there is a lot of money in hand, the movies produced are no longer box office hits like before.

In particular, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, and Jackie Chan left one after another, which made Golden Harvest feel like there was no successor.

Although Li Yuanba was added later, compared with Jackie Chan, his influence in Xiangjiang can be said to be more than one level worse.

Now Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang are focusing on training Jet Li to become a top martial arts star in Xiangjiang.

So this time, they found the combination of Liu Jiahui and Liu Jialiang to cooperate with Jet Li to make a film "Shaolin Boxer", hoping to make Jet Li famous.

But it's a pity that after the filming of the film was finished, as soon as they released the news, the outside world's interest in the film seemed to be quite different from what they had expected.

"Actually, this is only Ajie's first movie, and Liu Jialiang praised Ajie very much, saying that he has a bright future."

In Zou Wenhuai's office, He Guanchang was chatting with the other party about the promotion work of "Shaolin Boxer".

From the lines of Zou Wenhuai's speech, He Guanchang felt that he seemed to have a little lack of confidence in the drama "Shaolin Boxer".

Jet Li went to the United States to bring it back by himself. It can be said that he is very optimistic about this young man.

"You said that we asked Ajie to make a kung fu movie in his first film, did we do something wrong?"

Zou Wenhuai has even begun to doubt whether the movie they chose was a wrong choice.

If I had chosen an action movie, or a Kung Fu comedy, maybe I wouldn’t have encountered the situation like this.

"Dibao filmed "The Iron Man". If we also made an action movie, we would directly run into them. Judging from the current situation, I am afraid it will be even more difficult."

The movie "Dare to Fight" is an action movie, and it is a combination of Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao.

For a newcomer like Jet Li, if he and Li Yuanba are arranged to make an action movie to collide with Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, I believe it will not be too difficult to guess what will happen.

"As for comedies, New Arts City already has "The Working Emperor", and Ajie is obviously more suitable for making kung fu action movies. Comedy is not what he is good at."

Zou Wenhuai actually knew this was the case, but judging from the current situation, it seems that they chose the worst genre to shoot.

Regarding Zou Wenhuai's worries, He Guanchang also thought about how to comfort him.

"The production cost of this movie is not high. Even if it doesn't get a high box office, at least it won't lose money. Moreover, our original intention is to make Ajie famous, and we will find ways to make it better later."

Regarding He Guanchang's statement, Zou Wenhuai didn't say a word, just nodded his head.

If he had known the current situation earlier, he would not have cooperated with Dibao anyway, and it is even more impossible for him to agree to the "Xiangjiang Film Management Act" in order to pull Lin Daoqiu into the water.

If it weren't for those things he did before, now Jiahe still has theaters in his hands, and Jackie Chan would not be poached by Lin Daoqiu.

"Forget it, let's try this for now."

Zou Wenhuai waved his hand, and seemed to be somewhat dispirited.

He Guanchang couldn't say anything about it, after all these years, Golden Harvest suffered a much heavier blow than they expected.

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Before the Spring Festival, the schedules of the three dramas New Oriental, Dibao, and Golden Harvest have already been set.

As the three major plays of this year's Spring Festival, in terms of the distribution of theaters, Xiangjiang Cinemas is very fair.

"Dare to Fight" was distributed to [-] theaters, "The Migrant Emperor" was distributed to [-] theaters, and as for Golden Harvest, it was distributed to only [-] theaters.

The rest of the theaters show movies made by independent producers, but as long as the attendance rate of those movies falls below [-]%, they will be forcibly dropped.

Most filmmakers are paying attention to the movement of the Spring Festival file, but for Lin Daoqiu, he doesn't think much about the Spring Festival file.

Even he has handed over this matter to the people of New Oriental to handle it, and he himself is thinking whether to stay in Xiangjiang for this year's Spring Festival, or to fly abroad for the festival as before.

At least until the end of the festive New Year party, Lin Daoqiu will still stay in Xiangjiang, and he will even make an appearance at the party that night.

Originally, Huang Xizhao and others proposed whether Lin Daoqiu could go on stage and sing a song with everyone.

But Lin Daoqiu rejected this proposal without even thinking about it, because he had never sung in front of others, let alone had a golden voice on TV.

"Don't blame me. I'm not interested in showing off on TV. There are so many artists who sing. Just let them sing. I'll be in charge of applauding in the audience."

Lin Daoqiu's will is very firm, not to mention singing on stage, he would not even perform a small show on stage.

Hearing Lin Daoqiu's rejection so simply, Huang Xizhao and others couldn't say anything. After all, he is the boss of the TV station now, and he is the boss of the TV station.

"Instead of wasting time on me, it would be better to spend time on more meaningful things and come up with some interesting programs, which would be better."

Lin Daoqiu gave Huang Xizhao a supercilious look, and he even thought about whether he should simply let Huang Xizhao come on stage to sing a song on behalf of the TV station's executives.

At this moment, Lin Daoqiu suddenly glanced at Wen Jun and Zheng Danrui who were sitting below.

He suddenly remembered that he had let them and Huang Ying be in charge of the scriptwriting department of the TV station before, and he hadn't had time to ask about it since he came back.

"By the way, how are you handling the screenwriting department? If I remember correctly, I handed over the screenwriting department to the three of you."

When Wen Jun and Zheng Danrui were named by Lin Daoqiu, their eyes widened.

They originally planned to come to listen, and even thought that Lin Daoqiu would not ask them today, but unexpectedly, Lin Daoqiu suddenly remembered about the screenwriting department.

In fact, Wen Jun and Zheng Danrui have been dealing with this matter seriously.

However, the screenwriter department of the TV station, it can be said that during this period of time, it seldom played a big role.

After all, the TV station has always been inclined to find some famous novels to be adapted into TV series.

For the script written by the screenwriting department, even if it is adopted, it is difficult to get good investment.

So their usual work is to revise those novels and change them into scripts that can be used for TV dramas.

Seeing Wen Jun and Zheng Danrui froze there without speaking, Lin Daoqiu frowned slightly.

(End of this chapter)