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Chapter 635 New film, new genre, brand new challenge! (The second update asks for a subscription! Ask for a monthly pass!)
"Director Hua Guo tried to buy the Los Angeles Lakers, the funniest joke of the year!"

"The Lakers are a Los Angeles team, and they are absolutely not allowed to be acquired by Chinese people!"

"Is Great America going to repeat the shame of the 80s, when Japan bought Rockefeller Center, and more than 20 years later, the Chinese want to buy America's greatest basketball team!"

"Boycott Chinese director Tang An's film, this is an insult to Los Angeles and the United States!"

"Huaguo director Tang An has acquired three Hollywood film and television companies in succession. Huaguo people are invading Hollywood!"

With the news that Midnight Investment Company and its three companies, Flash Film, Kailu Film, and Digital Domain, were acquired by Tang An, Tang An seemed to be a big topic at the end of the summer vacation in North America.

Originally, these three companies were nothing, and together they were not as good as an AMC theater.

However, thinking of Tang An boasting that Haikou would acquire the Los Angeles Lakers, combined with the recent acquisition of these three companies, Lakers fans panicked.

And some racists in the United States were also very angry, and news of him attacking him frequently appeared in the newspapers.

The major TV stations also followed the trend, and the hosts of many talk shows also mentioned Tang An, but most of them were ridiculed, and occasionally accompanied by some ridicule.

Tang An didn't have time to talk to them, he was going back to his country soon, and when he left, all these news should disappear.

After all, he is not from the United States. There are so many film and television and sports stars in North America, which one is not as well-known in North America as Tang An.

The people below were in charge of the acquisition of the three companies. Tang An and the major companies began to talk about the DVD, TV, and Internet copyrights of "Interstellar".

Although Kailu Pictures has the strength to distribute DVDs in North America, it still has a certain distance from big companies after all.

And after the previous two films, this time you can get a higher price, and if you give it to Kailu Films, you may not be able to earn much more.

Moreover, the acquisition of the three companies cost a lot of money, and the three-party negotiation on domestic Weibo is basically coming to an end, waiting for the money to be used.

However, Tang An did not choose Fox as the distributor, and it was not Columbia, which he had worked with before, but Disney Pictures.

In a conference room, Tang An and Disney Pictures CEO Iger signed a contract for the sale of physical media and network media copyrights.

Except for Huaguo, the price of global physical media and network media copyright is 5200 million US dollars.

This price is not high. After all, based on the current trend in North America, the box office should reach 5200 million in the end, and overseas will only be higher. A copyright buyout of [-] million is not expensive at all.

Of course, being able to trouble Disney CEO Iger to come forward must be more than the copyright of a movie.

The two parties signed a second contract. Disney will authorize Hantang Media to adapt the 1967 cartoon "The Jungle Book" and have a 30% priority investment right.

That's right, it's that fantasy movie, a full CG live-action animation movie, Tang An will make a bold attempt.

The fantasy theme is another brand new theme, and the production time may take almost five years.

Although there is still a gap between domestic special effects and Hollywood, this is not a technical gap.

This gap comes from concept and style.

It can even be said that the top special effects companies in China do not have too many technical problems with the special effects in Hollywood movies.

Wumao special effects is a joke that domestic special effects companies have been responsible for those directors for decades.

Special effects companies such as Industrial Light & Magic and Weta Digital have a large number of special effects personnel from Huaguo in high positions. In the past two years, Tiangong Yicai has offered high prices, and has dug back several Huaguo special effects talents who can lead a team alone. They are all top special effects talents in the world.

This time he won the digital field, Tang An will send a group of people to the digital field to exchange and study every six months, not to learn technology, which is not lacking in this country, but to learn advanced concepts.

Domestic special effects have been misunderstood so deeply that the special effects of "Love Apartment" decisive battle on the top of the Forbidden City can be praised by the audience.

Of course, this is relatively speaking. From the perspective of a professional special effects technician, it is average, let alone the peak of special effects.

That is to add CG after the green screen shooting, to render the background, the actors are not stiff, and they are cool and beautiful.

But after all, it is a low-cost TV series, so it is impossible to have a high standard.

But why is that level of special effects praised by the audience? It is because the perspectives of the audience, special effects professionals, and directors are different.

The special effects in "Love Apartment" don't have much technical content, but they are gorgeous enough, and the audience will buy it.

Good-looking in the eyes of the audience ≠ technically good.

For the audience, the requirements are very simple, as long as it is cool and beautiful. As for the technical level, the audience doesn't care at all.

Another thing is that special effects serve the plot, so "The Great Wall", which is the pinnacle of special effects in Chinese film and television dramas, was scolded for its special effects.

From a technical point of view, "The Great Wall" is the best Chinese film, but it is affected by the plot.

Special effects, like design, need to figure out product positioning, customer needs, product style, and customer aesthetics.

The same is true for special effects. The special effects producers don't know what effect the audience wants to see, they can only get it from the director.

If the director doesn’t know, just say something spectacular and magnificent, not to mention the domestic special effects team, it’s useless for you to find Industrial Light & Magic and Weta Digital.

The special effects of "Avatar" have been imitated in China, and it can be produced almost exactly the same in seven or eight years. But first, a director must accurately convey this effect before he can do it.

It's never the technology that's missing.

Moreover, the special effects director in Hollywood has to participate in the whole process of a movie from the preparation to the end, so that he can fully understand the movie and know what the people under him should do.

Domestic special effects directors will only follow up after the film is finished.

Hollywood directors will guide on the front line and accurately convey their ideas, while domestic directors don't understand special effects at all.

Cameron can describe a beautiful planet of Pandora, and let the special effects staff understand their own ideas.

Domestic directors may only say that this planet should be beautiful and spectacular.

how beautifulWhat type, style of beauty?

What kind of style do you want for the plants and background, magic or something?
What about mountains and water?What about animals?
What is the overall rendering style?
The same lens can render more than ten different styles.

No matter how good the technology is, it is possible to make five cents special effects.

At present, several departments of Tiangong Yicai are headed by top Hollywood special effects talents who have returned to China. In addition, the digital field is already a top-notch special effects company in Hollywood. It is absolutely certain to complete this "Fantasy Forest".

It just takes a long time, and any wonderful special effects movie needs a long time to polish.

The special effects in "Interstellar", "The Martian", and "Edge of Tomorrow" are actually not many.

In five years, thousands of people have polished a wonderful full-CG live-action animation film.

It took a lot of effort to convince Disney to authorize Tang An. The movie itself took nearly [-] hours to talk about.

In addition, Disney has not yet released a live-action animation. It will not really pay attention to live-action animation until next year when the two live-action animation films "Maleficent" and "Cinderella" are released.

Moreover, the domestic market is also a sharp weapon. With the growth rate of the domestic market box office and Tang An's ability and appeal, the box office is definitely not bad. If Disney's live-action movies are popular in China, it is equivalent to opening up a new era for this genre. huge market.

Even a movie like "Pacific Rim" can be brought back to life by relying on the domestic market, and in the face of the mess in North America, Legendary Pictures plans to make a sequel because of the super high domestic box office.

Taking the opportunity to expand the domestic market is Disney's ultimate goal.

And there are too many classic Disney animated films, a "The Jungle Book" is completely worth such a gamble.

After seeing off the CEO of Disney, Tang An was about to leave for China.

"Fantasy Forest" is just an idea at the moment. When Tang An comes up with a complete set of plans, including the overall style, animals, location style, and special effects, the design and three-dimensional images of all animals will also be given, and several of them will be produced. A dynamic video of the animal was tested by Disney to make sure that Tang An's team met the technical requirements.

Otherwise, nothing is discussed.

At Los Angeles International Airport, Tang An told Zhao Yi, who came to see him off, the follow-up matters of the three companies, and boarded the plane back home.

The acquisition of 70% of the shares in the digital field cost 3 million yuan.

80% of Trailblazers paid $2300 million.

Midnight invested 51% of the company's shares and spent $8670 million.

A total of $1.558 million was spent.

The overseas copyrights were only sold for 5200 million U.S. dollars, and this trip to North America also paid more than 1 million U.S. dollars.

After talking about business for several days, Tang An was a little tired.

The company is full of professional filmmakers and marketing planners. Although there is a professional investment, there is still a CNO, the chief negotiator.

There are very few companies that actually have this position. The Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China has an international trade negotiator who is concurrently held by the deputy minister, and there is also a professional deputy representative.

In private companies, Ah Li is mainly led by the chief financial officer Cai Chongxin for some major acquisitions and mergers, or the heads of major business departments.

The financial director of Hantang Media was promoted from an ordinary manager of the audit department under the finance department two years ago, and he has no such ability at all.

However, the chief business negotiator is still a relatively rare job, and it is hard to find. It is definitely impossible to be like the character in "Negotiator". That kind of negotiator will be unlucky for any company.

Once you get on the plane, take off, and stabilize, you can sleep well.

Yang Mi next door came to make a noise again.

"Ange...Ange"

"what happened?"

Tang An opened the curtains, puzzled.

Yang Mi, who was sitting next door, looked at the stewardess who was not far away, and she walked away tactfully.

They are the only ones in the first class cabin.

The idle and bored Yang Mi asked curiously, "Brother An, you really need five years to make a movie."

"What's the matter, can't you?"

Yang Mi whispered, "Then you haven't released any movies in the past five years, and everyone will forget about you by then."

"Forget it and forget it. Besides, the pre-production will take two or three years, and the post-production will take two years after the filming. I have time to make other films."

"Okay, go back and talk, I'm tired."

Tang An stopped talking, closed the curtains, closed his eyes and went to sleep!
(End of this chapter)