Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 2215 Breaking one billion?
"After a few years, Brigitte Lin finally brought her "Tomb Raider 2" to us. It can be said that "Tomb Raider 2" is the most watched movie in this year's Christmas schedule."

The publicity campaign of "Tomb Raider 2" has officially started. This action movie with female protagonists has successfully attracted a large number of diehard fans with its sophisticated production and unparalleled martial arts action design.

The news that the long-awaited "Tomb Raider 2" will be released on Christmas soon aroused a lot of discussion in the North American market.

However, the discussion of this drama is much hotter than Lin Daoqiu had expected before, which made him feel very strange, and even made Lin Daoqiu feel a little unusual.

Because "Tomb Raider 2" is not a movie that can attract people of all ages to watch, and it is not a movie that can be a big hit, Lin Daoqiu expected "Tomb Raider" before. 2"'s box office hovered between 5000 million and [-] million, and it could make more money in the video tape market.

But the popularity of this drama suddenly exploded, which was really beyond Lin Daoqiu's expectation.

The reason for this situation is entirely due to the recent series of events.

Brigitte Lin's salary of tens of millions, coupled with the recent "Time" magazine's selection of Lin Daoqiu as the man of the year, made Lin Daoqiu and Brigitte Lin's popularity in Hollywood suddenly increased a lot.

A highly topical character like this will naturally attract the attention of the public, and the most indispensable thing in this world is people who like to follow suit, even if they have never watched "Tomb Raider 2" before, but once they meet others When talking about this movie, they will also put on airs and participate in the discussion, so "Tomb Raider 2" soon became the most frequently discussed topic among young people.

But for Lin Daoqiu, even if "Tomb Raider 2" suddenly gained popularity that he didn't expect before, the quality of this movie is definitely worthy of everyone's attention.

Looking at other films in the Christmas schedule, Lin Daoqiu does not think any film can rival "Tomb Raider 2".

"I think this time you can raise the box office forecast for "Tomb Raider 2" by a hundred million."

When Richardson talked about the box office of "Tomb Raider 2" with Lin Daoqiu, because of the influence of the recent popularity, he was very impressed with the box office of "Tomb Raider 2" which won [-] to [-] million US dollars. Have confidence.

"If you can get [-] million box office in the North American market, then the global box office should add up to one billion. Do you think it is possible?"

In this era, "Tomb Raider 2" can actually win a billion box office revenue worldwide. For Lin Daoqiu, this is simply too unbelievable.

Asked by Lin Daoqiu, Richardson shrugged.

"Is there anything impossible? "Tomb Raider 2" is so well-produced that ordinary Hollywood gunfights and action movies can't match it. I definitely think "Tomb Raider 2" won ten A box office of [-] million is not an impossible thing."

Richardson is very optimistic about the future of "Tomb Raider 2". He even thinks Lin Daoqiu should start preparing for the shooting of "Tomb Raider 3" now.

"Although I also hope that "Tomb Raider 2" can win a box office of over one billion, but I can tell you that this is impossible, so it is best not to have such unrealistic ideas, or to be pragmatic A little better."

Lin Daoqiu worried that Richardson would make a wrong decision on the distribution of "Tomb Raider 2" on the screen because of his overly optimistic relationship.

Now except for super blockbusters such as "Godzilla" or "1992", or movies that Lin Daoqiu pays close attention to, Richardson is basically responsible for the screen distribution of movies. .

Originally, Richardson thought that Lin Daoqiu would support his idea, but he did not expect that the other party would be so cautious in predicting the box office of "Tomb Raider 2".

But thinking about it carefully, Lin Daoqiu may be right. After all, movies with women as the protagonists have rarely been able to sell well. The success of "Tomb Raider" is already a very special example.

You must know that Brigitte Brigitte's first "Mission Impossible", which was released in Hollywood, was bought by Fox and has been rumored to be filmed, but until now the film has not been produced.

According to Richardson's understanding, the reason for this situation is that Alan Ryder Jr. couldn't find a suitable person to play this role, because now it is necessary to find a male lead who is more popular than Brigitte Lin It's not an easy task, at least from the current point of view, Fox really can't do it.

"The screen allocation of "Tomb Raider 2" should be based on the general situation. Don't be too special. If the attendance rate remains high at that time, just continue to add screens."

Lin Daoqiu is not greedy at all, at least he will not equip "Tomb Raider 2" with a screen worth tens of thousands of yuan from the very beginning, because it will definitely lose money.

"Don't worry, I know what to do."

Richardson is still very happy about Lin Daoqiu's decentralization, because it means that Lin Daoqiu has great trust in himself.

If it were someone else, he would be in charge of a movie like this that was released during the Christmas period from beginning to end, and he could only be a helper by the side.

But even so, Richardson would not have any dissatisfaction with this. After all, Lin Daoqiu is the boss of MGM, and he is just a part-time worker.

This time Lin Daoqiu did not take Brigitte Lin to various shows or interviews for the promotion of "Tomb Raider 2". interviews only.

Although in the interview, those reporters would ask Brigitte Lin about the tens of millions of dollars in salary, and even asked whether her salary in "Tomb Raider 2" has exceeded the tens of millions mark.

As for the questions raised by those reporters, Lin Qingxia just responded with a smile.

"Although I don't know where this news came from, I can be sure, and I'm very sure that my salary is not as exaggerated as you said, but I can't tell you how much it is, because in my It is clearly stated in the contract with MGM that the remuneration is a secret of the cooperation, and if any party leaks it out, it will have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation..."

"Of course, if you are willing to help me pay the money, I can consider telling you how much I got paid for the film."

(End of this chapter)