China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 422 The Internet Manga Change and the Busy Director Cao
Fanxing Building, located near North Third Ring Middle Road

The 20-storey building started construction in the second half of 2002. Up to now, it has been basically completed, and the interior decoration is almost complete, leaving only some soft furnishings and some office and equipment layout.

"Boss, I predict that the new building will be ready to move in in December, which is earlier than the original plan. Do you think we will move here on New Year's Day, or after the Spring Festival?"

Li Yan, the general manager of Fanxing who was in charge of the work of the building himself, took Cao Xuan around and asked respectfully.

"After the New Year's Eve, we started to do some pre-relocation. Before the Spring Festival holiday, we all moved here. After the Spring Festival, we held a housewarming ceremony or meeting in the building, and then directly worked in the new building."

After admiring his own private office on the top floor of more than 500 square meters, Cao Xuan gave instructions.

Since November 1997, Fanxing has been established for seven years.

The company's employees have also grown from three or two big cats and small cats such as him, Jiang Yue, Zhang Chong, and Hu Ya at the beginning, to the present, and the number of direct employees of Fanxing Company has reached 600+.

If you add Guolan Entertainment, Fengyun Studio, domestic employees of Light and Shadow Special Effects Company, the headquarters of Fanxing Cinema Line, Tomorrow Charity Organization, etc., who plan to move into the building together.

Counting cleaning, security and some support staff, this time Fanxing Building is likely to be moved into Xiaoqian people in one go.

Moving so many people and miscellaneous things is not a small project. For the sake of order, it is more appropriate to move in batches.

Of course, this is also more efficient, so as not to delay everyone's work in the next year and affect the company's efficiency.

Boss Cao's little abacus was crackling...

It is worth mentioning that although the new building will soon be filled with nearly [-] employees, the floor area of ​​tens of thousands of square meters and the space of the building as high as [-] floors make the building quite empty.

However, Fanxing and other companies will recruit a group of people in the future, and there will be some supplements.

But even so, probably less than 1/3 of the Fanxing Building was used. .

In fact, at the beginning, Cao Xuan intended to relocate companies such as Box Game and Sunshine Venture Capital together, but later for various reasons, he stopped the relocation.

In addition to not wanting to arouse outside associations, it is also because these companies are a bit special.

Sunshine Ventures, for example, involves a lot of investment and financial information, and requires extremely high confidentiality. If you work with other companies, there may be other problems. It is better to find a quiet and safe separate office and an independent portal. .

With the assets that Solar Ventures can use, it is easy to acquire a safe and low-key base camp in any city in the world.

There are also box games, and the more reason why they are not allowed to relocate is because their development speed is too fast.

As of now, as one of the top three companies on the Internet in China, BoxGame has outsourced some work, but the number of its employees once exceeded 1000+, and the momentum continues to increase fiercely.

The top management of Box Game has already discussed with Cao Xuan that they are planning to buy a new land to build a future headquarters that is more magnificent than Fanxing Building.

A "small" starry building cannot accommodate a future Internet game giant.

In order to prevent the primary from being reversed, Cao Xuan did not let the box game enter, otherwise, within two or three years, the Fanxing Building should become a box building...

Also at this opportunity, Cao Xuan made a rough division of his main industrial companies.

Scorching Sun continues to manage investment and commercial capital operations; Box Games is deeply involved in the Internet and game industries; and the company headed by Fanxing in Fanxing Building focuses on the entertainment industry.

Cao Xuan took a look at the building layout of his own company. Fanxing’s company occupies 11-20 floors, other companies use 2-10 floors, and the 1st floor is mainly used for security, cleaning, logistics and other purposes.

The building has a lot of space and a large area. Each company has its own office location. They do not disturb each other, but they are not far away. You can contact them directly when you need them.

Cao Xuan took a look and clicked on the 8th floor: "Next to this certain office area, add a new office area, and new companies will move in later."

"Okay boss, please tell me the contact information of their person in charge. I will let them contact you later and ask about the requirements."

"I'll ask Hu Ya to sort out the information for you in the future, and you can take a look at it later. It will also be a great supplement to our company's business."

"You're not talking about anime, are you?"

Although Li Yan was the big housekeeper in Fanxing, he had contact with various businesses, and he remembered Cao Xuan's words by heart, and he guessed Cao Xuan's thoughts immediately.

"Well, I just acquired an animation production company before. I will produce some original animations, and then make some adaptations of comics and animations for online articles. If some projects of our company are suitable, we will also do comic adaptations."

Animation has always been an important part of the entertainment industry, and Cao Xuan has never neglected it. After acquiring a certain point, he has been working on acquiring an animation company.

The first thing he set his eyes on was Aofei, but unfortunately, Boss Cai didn't sell it, so Cao Xuan could only settle for the next best thing and bought an animation company in the capital.

Then he invited talents with a lot of money, and the targets were well-known companies in the industry such as Aofei and Mosaic, and even the core members of the famous Xuanji Animation in the future were poached by Cao Xuan.

Although Xuanji was not established until 2005, the talents could not be hidden. Cao Xuan knew that its headquarters was in Hangzhou, so he sent people to search nearby, and immediately caught them all.

Even Shen Leping, the future chairman of Xuanji Animation, was overwhelmed by Cao Xuan's initial investment of 5000 million.

He directly gave up his idea of ​​starting a business and came to Beijing to serve as the vice president and production director of [Fox Animation], which was renamed and reorganized under Cao Xuan.

Fox, Hu Jing's [hu], Zeng Li's [li].

Cao Xuan, whose name was abandoned, is now in a panic whenever he gets a new company, so he can only use various combinations of names.

In addition to domestic talents, Cao Xuan was not idle when he went to Japan this time. He recruited a few talents from the Japanese animation industry to contribute to Fox Animation.

At present, Fox Animation mainly has three projects.

One is the "Qin Shi Mingyue" series in which Shen Leping is the chief screenwriter, chief director, and chief producer.

A large part of the reason why Cao Xuan was able to recruit him was that he agreed to invest in this project and agreed to make "Qin Shi Mingyue" in 3D, which is not popular in the animation industry nowadays.

The other is a children's animation that Fox Animation's predecessor company is currently working on. It's about a child's growth fantasy animation. Cao Xuan doesn't have much impression of this one, so naturally he doesn't like it.

But considering appeasing the old employees, he did not stop the project, but felt that there was no need to apply this script, and planned to buy a mature IP, such as "Naughty Boy Ma Xiaotiao" and the like.

The third one is the comic book adaptation of web novels, the first of which is the popular web novel "Zhu Xian" last year.

It is worth mentioning that "Zhu Xian" was not serialized at a certain point at the beginning, but was published in the Huanjian Shumeng, which was later distributed to major websites.

However, Cao Xuan doesn't care about these things. What he cares most about is that he has obtained the film, animation and game adaptation rights of "Zhu Xian".

Film and television copyrights aside, "Zhu Xian" game and animation projects have already been approved. Among the three projects of Fox Animation, Cao Xuan is most concerned about "Zhu Xian".

Of course he is aware of the influence of "Qin Shi Mingyue", but whether "Zhu Xian" can succeed or not is related to the strategy of network IP manga reform, and may even affect the future of the two industries, which is more important is self-evident.

Therefore, apart from Shen Leping's Xuanji department's research on "Qin Shimingyue", most of the elite backbone of Fox Animation are working on the "Zhu Xian" project, trying to make a good start for the web comics.

After chatting about Fox Animation's moving, Li Yan took people away, and Cao Xuan went to the office by himself.

The 500-square-meter office looks very big, and it can accommodate an office area of ​​nearly 200 square meters, including a bedroom, a small fitness room, a cloakroom, a study room, a tea-tasting quiet room, a bathroom and toilet, and an audio-visual room Wait.

Seeing this scene, Cao Xuan understood why those entrepreneurs could sleep for two hours every day to be energetic.

It's not that they have non-human talents, but because they can comfortably sleep and play casually while working...

Sitting on the boss chair, coming to the balcony with French windows, looking at the scenery of Shuangxiu Park, Cao Xuan was so proud.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, Cao Xuan called to come in, and Hu Jing walked in with a smile.

"Well, the office is not bad."

"You designed it?"

"how do you know?"

Hu Jing was taken aback, and Cao Xuan pointed to the glass showcase in a corner of the office, on which were replicas of important awards such as the Golden Eagle, Golden Rooster, and Grammy that Cao Xuan had won.

"Where do outsiders know my hobbies? When I look at the glass display case, I know it's you."

"I didn't mix too much, I just made some suggestions."

Hu Jing looked around the office, a little envious: "It's better to be the boss. The office has 500 square meters, the general manager is less than 100 square meters, and the vice president is 30-50 square meters, which is almost the same as the ministers and directors below."

"you're so dumb."

Cao Xuan raised his forehead: "They have such big offices, they are all equipped with bedrooms, bathrooms and entertainment facilities like this. Do you let them come to work or to enjoy themselves?"

"Yes."

It was only then that Hu Jing realized that she was not only an executive, but also a proprietress, and she should be thinking about "squeezing" the employees, so why did she feel empathy.

However, Empress Donggong was still a little angry: "My office is only 35 square meters, not even your bedroom."

"In the new year, I plan to mention you as the Minister of Supervision, enjoy the treatment of the vice president, and change your office to a bigger one.

Besides, what is the difference between my office and yours? Then arrange your office next to mine, open a small door, and use it as you want. "

"It's not impossible."

Hu Jing was convinced, and began to use her imagination: "I want to add a cloakroom, preferably with a place for makeup, and change the bed sheets and quilt covers. The black is too depressing, and the pillows are a bit high."

"Is it tall?"

"It's high, a pillow that high will stiffen your neck."

"A pillow doesn't have to be a pillow to sleep on, it can also be used for other purposes."

"What else can I do... Ah, there are people outside."

"I'll close the door, and then I'll teach you other magical uses of the pillow, and then try the soundproofing of the office."

"Well……"

.........

When Cao Xuan returned from Japan, in addition to promoting the new album "I Love" as usual, he also took time to fulfill the duties of the director team of the Spring Festival Gala.

The director of this year's Spring Festival Gala is called Lang Kun, who can be regarded as a veteran of CCTV's Spring Festival Gala. He has participated in the director group of the Spring Festival Gala twice before, and was even the chief director of the 1994 Spring Festival Gala.

In fact, this time Cao Xuan became the director team, which means that Lang Kun is in charge of the Spring Festival Gala after many years. He is a little nervous, so he seeks strong support.

It was precisely because of his strong invitation and related promises from CCTV leaders that Cao Xuan came out.

After trying his best to invite Cao Xuan, Lang Kun naturally wouldn't regard him as a mascot: "Director Cao, the third round of rehearsals is about to begin. What do you think about the programming?"

"My idea is this..."

Since Cao Xuan entered the game and intends to take advantage of CCTV, he will not hide it.

In singing and dancing programs, except for some programs, most of them watch singers. This year, Cao Xuan and Xiao Zhou teamed up and brought in Cheng Long. The lineup is still quite sufficient.

However, in consideration of being more outstanding, Cao Xuan still intends to invite 1 or 2 more big names to participate.

He was originally running for Wang Fei, but because of the scandal, Wang Fei obviously kept a low profile in the second half of the year and was unwilling to show up. Cao Xuan set his target on the Four Heavenly Kings to see if he could invite one of them.

Before he made a test in his private capacity, Li and Zhang were not very interested, but Liu and Guo responded positively, and finally invited Liu Tianwang.

In the original time and space, Liu Tianwang's "Gong Xi Fa Cai" was sung by Cao Xuan, and he asked someone to write a similar happy song, which was specially used for the Spring Festival Gala.

With Cao Xuan, Xiao Zhou, Cheng Long, Liu Tianwang, and Naying invited by the director team, the lineup is still very strong.

And Cao Xuan didn't stop there, he found Cai Yilin, Pan Weibo, Zhang Shaohan, Joey Yung and several young Hong Kong and Taiwan singers who were popular this year, and then stuffed Cheng Liuzi into it, and came up with a pop style skewer.

After the medley of young singers from Hong Kong and Taiwan, Cao Xuan gathered online singers such as Yang Chengang, Dao Lang, Wang Rong, and Pang Long, who just became popular because of "Two Butterflies", and came up with a big medley of popular Internet songs.

In addition, this year's most popular variety show "Tomorrow's Star" has a lot of popular contestants. If it goes to the Spring Festival Gala, it will also attract many fans of the show.

Of course, there is Cao Xuan's selfishness in it, but it is indeed a bright spot for the Spring Festival Gala.

There were already two skewers before, and Cao Xuan simply asked some of the top ten or popular players in the country to sing together.

The songs are all off-the-shelf. This year's very popular "Rising Star" theme song "Dream Pursuit" is hot and positive.

The proposal of "Tomorrow's Star" was finalized by the director team as soon as Cao Xuan said it.

These contestants want to go to the Spring Festival Gala, and the Spring Festival Gala is also greedy for the influence of "Rising Star". The cooperation is win-win and a consensus is easily reached.

In the previous two skewers, young singers from Hong Kong and Taiwan passed quickly, but for online songs, everyone was still hesitant.

Under Cao Xuan's argument, the rehearsal was held first, and finally the specific performance and leadership opinions were considered before considering whether to stay or not.

These few programs almost cover more than half of the singers in the pop music scene this year. If they can all play, they will definitely satisfy the audience.

Cao Xuan was busy with these popular programs, and let others take care of the rest.

Every Spring Festival Gala is a battle of fame and fortune, and the relationship behind it is intricate. Cao Xuan, who has attended the Spring Festival Gala six times, will not fail to understand this.

Guaranteed that there are several available shows in the pop music category, Cao Xuan ordered as many as he could, he had to let others eat soup after eating the meat himself.

Cao Xuan has a lot of control over the out-of-town singers in the outside world, and even holds great power. There are too many singers in the system, and Cao Xuan hardly mixes them too much.

However, Cao Xuan still helped some works with good quality.

For example, Han Hong's "Road to Heaven" this year was greatly appreciated by Cao Xuan, and he strongly recommended it to the program group as one of the finale songs and dances this year.

In addition to serving as the artistic consultant for the director of singing and dancing programs this year, Cao Xuan also served as a special guide and even director for several programs of the Spring Festival Gala.

"Road to Heaven" is the first, Cheng Long's song that he pulled is the second, and there are two other special programs.

One is the song "Tianyao Zhonghua" written by him himself, sung by a fellow elder sister.

The eldest sister heard that he was the director of the song and dance category of the Spring Festival Gala this year, so she invited a song. Cao Xuan immediately wrote a song "Tianyao Zhonghua" with excellent lyrics and music quality and meaning, and acted as the director of this show, taking charge of it personally.

As for the last program, it is the dance "Avalokitesvara of Thousand Hands", which was just appointed not long ago.

This program does not need too much introduction, but the road to the Spring Festival Gala in the original time and space is actually a bit bumpy. Now Cao Xuan is the special director, basically regarded as the backer of this program, and helped to say a lot,
At the same time, Cao Xuan sometimes went to the training ground to visit the dancers. Although he was not proficient in choreography, he knew quite a few big names in the dance industry, so it would be no problem to find a few for help.

Moreover, although these dancers are all deaf-mute girls and cannot hear Cao Xuan's songs, they have watched Cao Xuan's movies and TV shows, and many of them are his fans.

Cao Xuan went around for a while, as a mascot, to appease and encourage, it will still be of great help to stabilize the morale of the army.

Except for these four programs, Cao Xuan didn't have any special guidance, even the programs of Empress Nishinomiya.

Of course, there is no bright side, and some hands-on private guidance is inevitable...

A group of people held a meeting for two hours, during which Cao Xuan bumped into the language director.

There will be three rounds of rehearsals for the Spring Festival Gala soon, and the overall program structure is still a bit bloated. The director team intends to cut 8-10 programs.

Among them, there are 3 language programs, and the others are singing and dancing. The difference in the number is because the language programs are longer. On average, 1 language program is worth 2 to 3 singing and dancing programs.

The language director wanted to keep a few more language programs, but this would mean squeezing out space from the singing and dancing category, and Cao Xuan definitely didn't want to.

After staying in the Spring Festival Gala for a long time, Cao Xuan knows how great an opportunity it is for many ordinary actors to go to the Spring Festival Gala. If they are rejected, the disappointment will be unbearable.

In the past, Cao Xuan was just an actor and couldn't control so much. Now that he is the song and dance director of this year's Spring Festival Gala, he has to be responsible for all the programs under his command.

If you want to stay, rely on your strength, don't play with balance.

The Spring Festival Gala has always been dominated by language. When Cao Tianwang attended the Spring Festival Gala at the beginning of the year, he was not unreasonable, both openly and secretly.

After arguing for a while, everyone finally decided that the results of the rehearsal were the main decision, and Cao Xuan, the director, was naturally one of the judges for the rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala.

To be honest, he has participated in a lot of rehearsals in the past few years, but this is the first time he has scored someone else's rehearsal, and the experience is completely different.

But now, Cao Xuan has no time to experience different experiences. He is more concerned about the performance of the third round of rehearsal for singing and dancing programs.

After the meeting, Cao Xuan went directly to the training grounds of several key programs in Beijing, and made a temporary surprise review, urging everyone to prepare for the third round of rehearsal.

(End of this chapter)