Coquettish Rebirth

It can be said that Jia Hongjian is quite good at inciting hatred, at least now Katzenberg is a little bit loose.Yes, for Katzenberg, when his immediate boss clearly announced that it was impossible to take over in the future, it was like slapping Katzenberg in the face!He has worked hard at Disney for decades, making "Beauty and the Beast" and "Aladdin". He is so talented and talented in business, but Eisner doesn't even want to look at him. He didn't even want to give him a "trial" chance!Isn't that the greatest insult to a man of talent?

"Second point, we are all idealists. I can tell you that the most popular Sherlock Holmes company in the Internet concept is actually my sole proprietorship company, which will be listed in the future. So I am not short of money, and I even have I don't need us DreamWorks to make me a penny! I hope that what we make is really interesting and really attractive. I believe Mr. Spielberg can understand this! Also, because we don't care about the box office, Only then can we produce better movies, at least movies that are easier to be applauded, we can go all out to hit various movie awards, we can make money without worrying about making money, we can set the goal to kill Disney! We can completely win in ten years In 20 years, it has quickly become a heavyweight manufacturer that can rival Disney!" After taking a sip of water, Jia Hongjian continued to speak professionally, "Third, I have money, so to speak, if Stephen wants To make a film, we don’t even need to find someone else to invest! I can afford it alone. Let me tell you, my family is now negotiating with A in the United States in China to build a dedicated connection from our parent company to the west coast of the United States Optical cable, the project cost about 5 million US dollars. In addition, our company is also preparing to invite global tenders to build a skyscraper that breaks the limit of human construction height. It is estimated to be 520 meters and cost about 20 billion US dollars. In addition, our parent company can earn 1 million US dollars a month .Pure profit! So basically, if Stephen needs an investment of [-] million U.S. dollars to make a "Titanic" similar to James Cameron's just starting to shoot, it's no problem! I'll pay for it!"

Spielberg is now interested!But after he was pleasantly surprised, he immediately smiled and said: "I appreciate your generosity. But sir, maybe you don't know, Hollywood is full of ridicule of James Cameron now. Everyone thinks that investing 2.5 million US dollars The largest investment in history, to shoot a shipwreck film, the box office of this film will sink like the Titanic, I don’t want to be like him.”

"No, Stephen, I think Cameron, like you, has a talent for making interesting films, so I'm not worried that he will trap investors, not at all." Who knows Jia At this time, Hung-chien replied like this!His answer.Suddenly Spielberg became curious.

"Okay, Stephen, let's listen to Mr. Jia first. He still has a fourth point to say." Unexpectedly, Katzenberg pressed Spielberg's arm at this time, and stopped with a smile. "Crooked building" behavior.He suggested that Jia Hongjian should continue talking.

Jia Hongjian didn't mind at this time, he smiled and said, "As I said before, after we have Pixar, we don't need to build an animation department from scratch, we have a ready-made animation department that can be used! Trust you I also know that we jointly produced "Toy Story" with Pixar and Disney. Although this film took 4 years, its quality is very high. If you are willing to sign a non-disclosure agreement, I can even give three Play the clip and show off what we at Pixar are capable of!"

Katzenberg and Spielberg are obviously very interested. Spielberg has never seen the quality of Pixar's animation record before, and Katzenberg knew it before, but he didn't understand the finished film. How about the whole film.Jia Hongjian took out the video tape and put it in the video recorder, and soon a short clip appeared.This scene is nothing but the plot of "Toy Story", when the owner's little boy gave birth, all the nervous Toy Story mobilizers wanted to know if the owner would receive any new toys, which would make them fall out of favor.In this clip, there are green plastic troops subtly and slightly warped to go downstairs like special operations.

For this clip, Jia Hongjian is quite confident!You must know that in this year, there is no motion capture technology!Moreover, in the previous [-]D animations, there were no humanoid characters at all, basically all kinds of small animals, which did not require so much "realism" - because human beings are particularly sensitive to the movements of humanoid characters. Care, even subconscious care, as long as you look at it at a glance and see unreasonable actions, you will find it at that time!

Therefore, in this era without motion capture, basically no one would touch humanoid characters.But Pixar dares to touch!Moreover, in order to make the most suitable and realistic appearance, a group of Pixar "naughty boys" employees gave full play to the "Chinese special effects" spirit of local methods, and put a wooden plank under their own feet. Then imitate the actions of the toy soldiers, and then use the camera to take pictures from various angles, and then give the modeler a reference for modeling actions!

Sure enough, after this clip was played, the three members of DreamWorks had a full understanding of Pixar's world's number one skill in this era! "But this is the last of the five points that Mr. Jia just said? The fourth point, what about the Chinese market? The Chinese market doesn't seem to be doing well now?" Although he knew Pixar's skills well, Katzenberg Still asking in a tone similar to that of an investigation.

"Gentlemen, please allow me to explain. Now the Chinese market does not seem to be big, but this is because there are too few movie screens in China and the income of the Chinese people is relatively low, but please remember that China has 13 billion people! One of the biggest markets is that a person only spends one dollar to watch a movie, and there can be a huge market of 13 billion US dollars at the box office! Even if there are 9 million farmers in China and only 4 million urban residents, this 4 million market is just like the United States. The total population is almost the same! With a population of 4 million, even if it is due to various factors such as exchange rates, it is not an exaggeration for our works to obtain one-third or even one-half of the US market in the Chinese market? And Don't forget that such a market is still growing at an annual growth rate of more than 10% of GDP! This means that China's GDP can double in just 7-8 years! I know there are many The theory of China's collapse is spreading, but come on, in the 50s, China had just experienced World War II, and its land was withered. At this time, it went to North Korea to fight the United States. The domestic economy did not collapse. Now it will collapse again. Where are you going? Have you fought a war with the United States? And China is still far from the middle-income trap. We may not need to worry until the per capita GDP reaches 1000-3000 US dollars. This is estimated to be more than 10 years later, so here Are we going to do nothing in ten years?"

After talking about this, Jia Hongjian was still a little unsatisfied, "And what you need to know is that I am Chinese and my company is a Chinese-controlled company, so in theory, if the two of us merge, the films we invest in will be regarded as It is not difficult to co-produce a film, or even a cao operation to meet the Chinese authorities' definition of a Chinese-made film. Our funds are Chinese funds. As long as the proportion of Chinese nationals in the staff reaches 50%, it is a Chinese film, which is not difficult. , Right? Then as a domestic film or a co-production film, our company’s film products will not be restricted by the Sino-US film import agreement, and each of our films can be released in China as long as it passes the review of the Chinese authorities , and we can get about 50% of the share, instead of about 15% of the big Chinese imports!"

If Katzenberg cared a little bit about the merger before, he really doesn't mind now!Listen, this is the advantage!It can be bypassed, a film made by Americans can actually become a Chinese film!It can actually bypass the quantity regulations of import control!In this way, the box office share that can be obtained from the Chinese market every year is much higher than that of other companies, especially Disney!In this way, when the total annual box office in the Chinese market is higher, DreamWorks will have more advantages over Disney!Ha ha!In this way, it may even be possible to make it obvious that both parties are releasing movies together in the United States, but in the Chinese market, Dreamworks' movies can be released at most every one or two months, and Disney's movies may even be delayed by a year. Release!In a place with a lot of piracy, is there any need to explain the damage to the box office caused by postponing the release for a year?

Just when Katzenberg was about to speak, he heard Jia Hongjian say to David Gefen: "I heard that DreamWorks doesn't have any record release plans, so Mr. Gefen, you are a bit boring. However, the Chinese music market is still very backward and primitive. It is not as industrialized as the United States. If you are interested, how about we develop the Chinese market together? Use the mature packaging and operation experience of the United States to operate the Chinese pop music scene, and then We release records and hold concerts there, and become the godfather of Chinese pop music, are you interested?"

Katzenberg suddenly had a feeling that Jia Hongjian was a bad person—why did Jia Hongjian seem to scratch everyone's itch when he said something?Now David Gefen doesn't come to the company very often, that is, he only comes to visit during regular meetings, making him seem like a non-staff member. If we can give him a place where he can display his power, it is really possible for him He pushes for mergers!