Rebirth of Xiangjiang - 1978

After talking to Zou Wenhuai, Lin Daoqiu immediately asked Li Maowen and Fang Jinsheng to collect the latest information on Jiahe and Shaw Brothers as soon as they returned.

A few days later, Li Maowen and Fang Jinsheng put together the collected information and put it on Lin Daoqiu's desk.

"Interesting...it's so interesting."

Lin Daoqiu didn't know before that Jiahe was cheated so miserably by Shaw Brothers. It's no wonder that Zou Wenhuai suddenly came to him to resolve the previous grudges.

Unexpectedly, Golden Harvest actually lost more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars last year just because of the lack of the Hong family group. In addition to local box office revenue, there was also money from outbound sales.

As a result, Shaw Brothers only added fuel to the fire, and the two-line screenings were all old-style kung fu comedies, or martial arts movies.

This resulted in the Golden Harvest Cinema's attendance rate continuing to decline over the past six months. At that time, both Jackie Chan and Xu Guanwen were filming in Hollywood, and there was no one who could come to the rescue.

"Mr. Lin, if Jiahe continues like this, I'm afraid it will close down in a few years."

No matter how hard a theater chain operates without attendance, it is useless. After all, Golden Harvest is an independent production company and does not have its own team at all.

In normal times, there may not be any problems, but once something goes wrong, Jiahe will suddenly become a shell company.

"The possibility of this is too low. At most, they will only lose a little money every year, but it will not stop them from being able to continue operating."

Lin Daoqiu doesn't think that this small setback will cause Jiahe to close down. After all, with Jackie Chan and Xu Guanwen here, it won't be a big problem for them to sustain it for a few years.

But if a film company relies on this method to survive, it is equivalent to walking on a tightrope, and every step will be on thin ice.

There is no need to think about large-scale investments. Maybe in the future, Golden Harvest’s investment direction will be to invest in films with small production budgets. This way, there will be less financial pressure, and it will not hurt even if it loses money.

If it were anyone else, Lin Daoqiu might think that the other party would do this, but the helmsman of Jiahe is Zou Wenhuai. This gentleman has the ambition to enter Hollywood and promote Jiahe to the world.

Let him only make some low-cost movies to make a little money. Even Lin Daoqiu would not believe that Zou Wenhuai would be willing to do this, so the only way for them to solve their predicament now is to bow to themselves.

After all, Zou Wenhuai had already found Shaw to cooperate, but in the end he still couldn't eliminate himself. On the contrary, it even cost the attendance of Jiahe Cinema Line, so they had no way out.

At first, neither Li Maowen nor Fang Jinsheng knew why Lin Daoqiu asked them to investigate Jiahe and Shaw Brothers.

But now when they heard what Lin Daoqiu said, they both suddenly had a very vague concept in their minds, but they didn't dare to think in that direction because it was simply too exaggerated.

You must know that it is something that even Shaw Run Run and Zou Wenhuai cannot accomplish, and Lin Daoqiu is still so young, so they do not think that such a thing will happen.

"Jiahe is in a half-dead state now, and Shaw Brothers are not much better, so they must be eager for change now, and Jiahe is probably the most urgent among them, so I plan to do them a favor."

Lin Daoqiu's words made Fang Jinsheng and Li Maowen very confused. Jiahe was now at odds with New Oriental. Logically speaking, Lin Daoqiu should just watch them fall into the abyss step by step. How could he help the other party at this time?

Are you busy?

"Mr. Lin, I think the best way now is to wait and see what happens. In two or three years, New Oriental's position in the Hong Kong film market will be getting higher and higher. There is no need to help them at this time."

Li Maowen thought that Lin Daoqiu really wanted to help Jiahe get through this difficulty. If Lin Daoqiu really did this, it would be hard to say what would happen next if the other party breathed his last.

But as soon as Li Maowen finished speaking, Lin Daoqiu raised his head and looked at the other party with a very confused look, as if he didn't understand what Li Maowen's words meant.

"Helping them get through this difficult time? How could Melvin think so? Do you think I am such a kind person? Hahaha..."

After Lin Daoqiu finished speaking, he couldn't help laughing, leaving Fang Jinsheng and Li Maowen confused.

Lin Daoqiu just said clearly that he wanted to do Jiahe a favor. Could it be that they misunderstood what Lin Daoqiu meant?

Looking at Fang Jinsheng and Li Maowen who looked confused, Lin Daoqiu had to explain to them what he meant by what he just said, so as to prevent these two people from guessing for a long time.

"I think having three cinema chains in Hong Kong is too much, so I would like to take this opportunity to have a good talk with Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers about forming a joint cinema chain."

As soon as Lin Daoqiu finished speaking, Fang Jinsheng and Li Maowen immediately understood what he meant.

But they understood, but they didn't expect that Lin Daoqiu was so ambitious and wanted to become the overlord of Hong Kong movies.

However, judging from the current situation, neither Jiahe nor Shaw Brothers are rivals of New Oriental. Even if they join forces, their lives will be very bleak, so Lin Daoqiu's idea may really be realized.

"I had this idea a year ago, but when I was talking to Golden Harvest, the other party only wanted to occupy the largest share of United Cinemas, and naturally we broke up in the end."

This was the case a year ago, but the situation a year later is completely different. Even if Lin Daoqiu took the initiative to talk to Golden Harvest about this matter, they would not dare to say that they would become the major shareholder of United Cinemas.

As for Shaw Brothers, let alone that. If it hadn't been for the double-screening with Golden Harvest, I'm afraid life would have been even more bleak now, so they didn't have the capital to negotiate with them at all.

It doesn't matter if Shaw Brothers doesn't want to join. Lin Daoqiu can do a double-screening with Golden Harvest and exclude Shaw Brothers by then.

I believe that within a year's time, Shaw Brothers' attendance rate will have dropped to a disastrous level. At that time, it will either join United Cinemas or wait to sell the theater chain.

But in the end, no matter who buys Shaw Brothers Cinemas, Lin Daoqiu believes that as long as the other party is not a fool, he will definitely join the United Cinemas led by New Oriental immediately.

I don't know if Lin Daoqiu has been really lucky recently. Just a few days after he said these words, He Guanchang came to New Oriental Company in person.

But this time, it was not Lin Daoqiu who met him, but Li Maowen, the general manager of New Oriental's theater chain.

Although he was a little unhappy, He Guanchang still showed a very happy smile when he saw Li Maowen.