"Police Story" has also been released in the United States for a while, I have seen this movie, and I have to admit that Jack Chen's performance in this movie is really hard, but from the perspective of film art, I think "Illegal Immigrant" should be the best picture, and now this result should be deliberately arranged by Mr. Lin, right?" As the first foreign face to appear on the red carpet of the Academy Awards, the Hong Kong media did not pay much attention to him, which is why he was able to avoid the eyes of reporters and catch Lin Youlun's "ride" after the awards ceremony

"Mr. Thomas overestimated my skills, and although I am the president of the Academy Awards, I cannot influence the opinion of the jury."

Lin Youlun said this, Thomas just smiled, he didn't believe that there would be no greasy in the judging process of the Academy Awards. Nowhere is the Oscars more adept at "splitting the cake", which has been learned by the Cannes Film Festival in the past two years, and now at the Hong Kong Film Awards, a compromise between art and commerce.

The more he understands Lin Youlun, the more Thomas feels that Lin Youlun is very ambitious, and Lin Youlun's control over Hong Kong films has begun to guide the development from simply controlling the theater chain to a deeper direction.

Last year, Lin Youlun did not intervene in the review of the Academy Awards, firstly to avoid suspicion, and secondly, because he had just completed the integration of the original cinema chain in Hong Kong, and he was facing competition from the newly established Xinbao cinema line, so he couldn't spare his hand for the time being. Now that the Xinbao Cinema Line is overwhelmed, Lin Youlun's position in the Hong Kong film industry is getting stronger and stronger. The Best Picture win for Police Story is a clear sign of the Academy Awards' turnaround.

This kind of change has nothing to do with Lin Youlun, and Thomas refuses to believe it.

Thinking that the young man sitting across from him would become the "godfather" of the Hong Kong film industry in the foreseeable future, Thomas felt that if he could gain the friendship of the other party, it would be of great help to his future career.

Of course, Thomas took the initiative to find Lin Youlun today not just to set up friendships, the last time Lin Youlun asked him to help check the script of the time machine in the Writers Guild of America, he guessed that Lin Youlun should be brewing a script about this aspect. Later, Lin Youlun really wrote such a script, but it was handed over to Xinyicheng Film Company to shoot.

At first, Thomas didn't believe that Hong Kong could make a rigorous and interesting sci-fi movie, even if the screenwriter of the film was Lin Youlun. Thomas didn't expect too much from this movie, and what really made him change his attitude was "Lin Sheng and Lin Tai", which was recently released in North America.

Although the film was criticized by American film critics as vulgar and old-fashioned, American audiences found the film wonderful and popular. And the heroine in the film is sexy. The film was released simultaneously in 1,000 theaters under the umbrella of United Arts, and the first week box office achieved $20 million, ranking second in the weekly box office list in North America, and by the time the box office data was faxed to Thomas, United Arts was ready to expand the film's screening scale to 1,500 stores.

According to this trend, "Lin Sheng and Mrs. Lin" can at least win $50 million to $70 million at the box office in the North American market, and it is not Lin Youlun's increasingly tough attitude that makes Thomas faintly worried, although Lin Youlun has increased the box office share ratio of the film to 30% this time, but this ratio is still within the acceptable range of United Arts, and what really makes Thomas vigilant is the recent actions of several other theater companies in North America.

"Tales of the Night" and "Lin Sheng and Lin Tai" were box office hits in the North American market. Several other cinema companies in North America saw the market potential of Hong Kong films, so they naturally would not let United Arts enjoy this cake exclusively. They can't look at ordinary Hong Kong films, and only a few big-budget movies in Lin Youlun's hands can satisfy their appetite. …,