Huayu: From an ordinary person to a happy director

Chapter 125 Shock at Home and Abroad
The box office of "300" in ten days was only 1.5 million US dollars, with the highest daily box office of more than 3000 million US dollars. Such results are comparable to those of Hollywood blockbusters.

If the investment was over 300 million, the evaluation would be acceptable, but the investment in "6500" was only million US dollars.

In other words, "300" made money, and a lot of money. Just based on the global box office, the profit of this film is over million. It is quite rare for a film to make a profit of over million just from the box office.

The most important thing is that this film may start a series of the same style.

"Sparta" is not just about the Battle of Thermopylae, there are other battles as well, so it is highly developable.

So Warner is likely to have one more series.

Warner made a fortune.

While other Hollywood companies were envious, they were also analyzing "300", and the results of the analysis were very clear, and director Shi Lei played a key role in it.

Participate in investment and reduce Warner’s investment risks.

The unique dark style made this film a big hit.

Shi Lei's status in Hollywood has risen again, and the valuation of Shuimitao Film and Television has also increased.

Sometimes when others want to invest, they don’t look at the company’s revenue, but at the boss.

As the boss’s value increases, the company’s valuation will naturally increase as well.

The changes brought about by this have resulted in more Hollywood companies expressing interest in acquiring a stake in the company.

That's not right. It should be said that there have always been many Hollywood companies that are interested in investing, but they were not familiar with Shuimitao Films and had never met Shi Lei before. They felt that Shi Lei's company was not worth the price, so they took a wait-and-see attitude.

Now that everyone has acknowledged Shi Lei's ability in commercial films, they have naturally become interested in Shuimitao Films.

Some companies are even more interested in Shi Lei than Shi Lei's company.

At Shuimitao Films, a Disney manager is negotiating with Shi Lei.

"Director Shi, we are planning to make a dark-themed animated film and would like to invite you to be the director." Disney's manager Avar went straight to the point.

The director determines the style of the animation.

Shi Lei was stunned when he heard this, and after thinking about it, he realized that he had never watched any dark-style animations in his previous life.

Therefore, this dark-style animation is most likely just an attempt by Disney, and since he has no memory of it, the attempt must have failed.

If successful, cartoons will usually have sequels and be made into series.

He doesn't remember any dark cartoons.

There is a pseudo-dark series called "Hotel Transylvania", but "Hotel Transylvania" is actually a family-friendly film under the guise of a dark movie, and has nothing to do with the style of "300".

It should be said that the core selling point of all Hollywood cartoons is family fun. No matter what the style, it is necessary for the whole family to laugh together, otherwise it will not sell well worldwide.

Shi Lei shook his head and refused: "I'm sorry, I don't have time recently and can't be the director of the cartoon."

He was also jealous of Disney's cartoons, so he planned to copy them instead of working for Disney.

Now the animation department of Shenzhen City has been put on the right track, and the production of "Kung Fu Panda" is proceeding step by step. When the production of "Kung Fu Panda" with hair is completed, the technology of the animation department will be mature. At that time, he can produce two animations at the same time and officially enter the animation industry. Disney's manager Avar felt a little regretful when he heard this, but he did not force it.

I just sighed and said, "It's a pity that I can't work with Director Shi."

The company sent him here just to give it a try. The status of an animation director is not as important as that of a live-action director. It is a bit too much to ask a live-action director who is at the peak of his career to be an animation director.

After seeing off the Disney people, Shi Lei met with many Hollywood companies in succession, and even people from Wall Street came to contact him.

Inside Wall Street, many venture capital firms knew that an economic crisis was coming.

While Wall Street is transferring risks overseas, it is also starting to look for other profitable projects.

The risks have been transferred overseas, and the money is in hand. Under the premise that depositing money in the bank is unreliable, it is natural to make some investments.

They must also be relatively stable companies that will not be wiped out by the economic crisis.

Shuimitao Films owns many series of films, so even if the box office of the films is affected, the company will not go bankrupt.

This is crucial. If a company survives the economic crisis, it will surely take off.

Shi Lei was quite straightforward in rejecting the investment from Wall Street.

Wall Street is too playful and one might get ripped off if he is not careful, and he doesn't want to be ripped off.

Wall Street directly rejected it, but other Hollywood companies did not. He responded with the same statement, saying that they would talk again after the 06 annual report came out.

In fact, he wanted to wait until the subprime mortgage crisis broke out. As long as the crisis broke out and consumption downgraded, it would have a certain impact on the film industry. The time of investment could be pushed back a few months, and the valuation of Peach Film and Television could be increased again.

Because "Iron Man" will be released at that time, and together with "Captain America" ​​and "The Incredible Hulk" to open up the Marvel Universe, the valuation of Peach Film and Television, which has a certain investment in the Marvel Universe, will inevitably rise.

Unfortunately, Columbia and Warner would not give him the chance to delay, and delaying until early 07 was already the limit.

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If it were him, he would use Ah San to make "The Big Short", then release it everywhere and sell pirated copies everywhere, thus detonating the subprime mortgage crisis. For North America now, the sooner the crisis is detonated, the less debt will be transferred, and the greater the losses to North America will be.

Of course, this is a rather angry approach. A qualified manager should hold back and try to transfer the bomb in his hand. For those Chinese capitalists who have received the news in advance, the later the bomb is exposed, the better.

I don’t know which group the financial backer behind Liu Yifei belongs to.

Which financial sponsor in the previous life disappeared for ten years? I wonder what will happen in this life under the control of his butterfly wings.

Forget it, don't think about it. Although he claims to be a capitalist, he is actually a pseudo capitalist. All his cash has been invested in the special effects animation branch, theater construction, and Feixun Technology branch. Although he has a lot of cash, he doesn't invest everywhere. His investments are all purposeful.

For example, he plans to make some investments abroad and domestically in the near future.

Others want to invest in Shuimitao Films, but he also wants to invest in a company that can make a lot of money in the future.

After sending away the people from the Hollywood company one by one, Shi Lei immediately took Lin Yuer to the headquarters of a game company. He wanted to acquire a game company.

TV series, movies, singing, dancing, drama, animation, comics, novels, games and other contents are the mainstream entertainment programs in the 21st century.

Now all that’s missing is the game, so he naturally won’t forget it.

(End of this chapter)