Rebirth of Xiangjiang - 1978

Even though "Rush Hour" and "The Living Daylights" had fewer screens than "Star Trek 4: Save the Future," they still achieved very impressive results.

However, for Lin Daoqiu, it is obviously difficult to persuade Jason Green to raise MGM's priority to the highest level.

In fact, he had also thought about whether he should invest money into the theater chain to ensure that MGM would get the highest priority.

But unlike Xiangjiang, the competition in Hollywood is very fierce. If you want to monopolize the best schedule of a theater chain and get the highest priority, you will definitely offend other film companies.

Unless Lin Daoqiu allows MGM to produce at least 20 movies a year, plus the movies produced by Universal, he can definitely book a theater chain's entire schedule.

It's just that Lin Daoqiu can only shoot two or three movies a year at most. Even if he leaves Hong Kong alone and puts all his energy into MGM, Lin Daoqiu won't be able to increase production much.

At most, it's about three movies, and this is already the limit. After all, he can't spend all his time making movies. He still has many things to deal with in Xiangjiang.

Lin Daoqiu had thought before that, excluding the movies produced by MGM itself and adding the movies invested by MGM outside, the quantity would definitely be able to meet the requirements of RT Cinemas.

It's just that Lin Daoqiu couldn't guarantee the quality of this type of movie, so he didn't dare to actually implement this idea.

Lin Daoqiu arrived five minutes earlier than Jason Green. While he was still thinking, Jason Green had already arrived at the coffee shop they had arranged.

When he entered the coffee shop, he saw Lin Daoqiu already sitting inside, waiting for him. Unexpectedly, Lin Daoqiu would come earlier than him, so Jason Green had to hurry up and walk over.

"Welcome Mr. Green, please take a seat."

Seeing Jason Green walking towards him, Lin Daoqiu quickly stood up.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Lin, there was a traffic jam on the road, so I'm late. Please forgive me."

In fact, Jason Green was only two minutes late, but for him, it was too shameful to make Lin Daoqiu wait for him. After all, the other party was a world-renowned movie tycoon.

Lin Daoqiu didn't mind this, he didn't take it seriously at all.

After the waiter brought the coffee ordered by Jason Green, Lin Daoqiu officially started the conversation with Jason Green.

"I'm sorry, I didn't expect that "Rush Hour" and "The Living Daylights" would have such a big impact on RT theaters this time."

I don’t know if Lin Daoqiu’s apology was sincere, or if he was deliberately trying to show off his power in front of Jason Green.

This time, RT Cinemas used half of its screens to screen "Star Trek 4: Save the Future," and the remaining half was allocated to other movies.

Under the attack of "Rush Hour" and "The Living Daylights", "Star Trek 4: Salvation" only got off to a good start, and then the attendance rate gradually began to decline.

If RT Cinemas had used all their screens to screen "Rush Hour" and "The Living Daylights", they would have made a lot of money by now.

"Mr. Lin is so polite. Your movies have never failed. I think it's natural that those two films can achieve the results they have now."

Although Jason Green regrets it very much, if he had to do it again, he would still choose "Star Trek 4: Save the Future" instead of cooperating with Lin Daoqiu.

There is no way, because Paramount and Fox are much more powerful than Universal and MGM. It is impossible for Jason Green to put all his chips on Lin Daoqiu under such circumstances.

"Actually, I asked Mr. Green to meet today because I wanted to continue the topic we talked about when we last met."

Jason Green nodded while listening. He had already guessed that Lin Daoqiu's meeting with him this time would definitely be about talking about priorities.

But he felt that Lin Daoqiu was a bit too whimsical.

Yes, "Rush Hour" and "The Living Daylights" did achieve great results, and they did make Jason Green jealous.

Just relying on these two movies to let Jason Green put his treasure directly on Lin Daoqiu, that is obviously impossible.

"Mr. Lin, RT Cinemas hopes to cooperate with you. This has never changed from the beginning to the end, but I also hope that you can understand our difficulties. What I can do is to adjust the priority of MGM to Hepai

Ramon and Fox are on the same level."

At the same level, pretending to hit the schedule is more expensive than the film's production fee, script, director and stars.

Although RT Cinemas also has its own set of internal standards for judgment, generally speaking, the benchmarks of the North American film market are based on what is mentioned above, and it is unlikely that there will be too many variables.

At this moment, Lin Daoqiu suddenly brought up a topic that shocked Jason Green.

"What if I buy shares in RT Cinemas?"

"Wha...what?"

Jason Green had just picked up his coffee and was about to take a sip when Lin Daoqiu suddenly brought up a topic that shocked him.

Lin Daoqiu actually wanted to invest in RT Cinemas. This was really beyond Jason Green's expectation. He had never thought that Lin Daoqiu wanted to invest in RT Cinemas before.

"I am not a major shareholder. I hope to acquire 20% of the shares of RT Cinemas, so that it will not affect the business ecology of RT Cinemas."

Lin Daoqiu had asked before that if he bought 20% of the shares of RT Cinemas, he would become the second largest shareholder of the cinema and could also occupy a position on the board of directors.

In this way, I can have some say in RT Cinemas, but this will not cause worries to the original directors and bosses.

Jason Green knew very well that Lin Daoqiu hoped to exchange for MGM's priority, but he was just a part-timer and could not be the master at all.

And in Jason Green's view, even if Lin Daoqiu invested in RT Cinemas, he would not be able to provide too many conveniences to MGM.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Lin, even if you do become a shareholder of RT Cinemas in the end, I can't do what you asked for."

Jason Green's attitude is very firm, and he does not want to offend Paramount and Fox.

But if you carefully read what he said, you will realize that he did not dare to offend those two companies, but he was willing to offend MGM for them. From this, we can see that MGM is in the eyes of Hollywood theater companies

How low is the portion.

"Well, if that's the case, just pretend I didn't say it. I'm sorry for wasting so much of Mr. Green's time. If there is a chance in the future, please give me a chance to compensate."

Lin Daoqiu didn't expect Jason Green to be so stubborn. He never thought of adopting the suggestions he made. For those who didn't know better, he thought Paramount and Fox were his ancestors.