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Chapter 655 DreamWorks' Request for Help
People are tired, but they can sleep soundly.

Cheng Yu'an went out from the house at eight o'clock the next morning, her limbs were light and her spirits were high!
A good night's sleep.

Today, guests and friends from Beijing will start their journey home one after another. Cheng Yu'an and Liu Yifei, as hosts, have to stand on the last post and send everyone to the plane.

Cheng Yu'an walked out of the house, and Anne Hathaway's car stopped at the door.

Half an hour later, Annie came out with a smile. The reporter photographed Liu Yifei sending her to the door. Annie and Liu Yifei hugged and said goodbye. After getting in the car, they went straight to the airport.

Cheng Yu'an didn't go to the company after going out.

Instead, they went to the Hilton Hotel in Beijing, where most of the wedding guests were accommodated.

Cheng Lingfeng talked with the Koreans in the middle of the night last night, and today she asked Cheng Yuan to come over to make up her mind.

"The Koreans wanted to vote for "The Emancipator 2", and they also wanted to insert a Korean actor to play a supporting role, but I rejected it." Cheng Lingfeng told him.

"I want to eat farts!" "The Emancipator 2" has been confirmed to be filmed, and now I am working on the script and contacting the schedule of the actors, especially the male lead Denzel Washington. He basically does not act in sequel movies, and the company will spend a lot of energy to get it done. actor.

The first part of "The Wronged Man" was a big hit, and the Koreans wanted to vote for the second part. How could he take advantage of this kind of advantage.

At the beginning, Cheng Yu'an and Han Fang agreed that Cheng Yu'an would help them invest in Hollywood.

In Hollywood, if you really let your hands and feet go, Cheng Yuan and Cheng Lingfeng have ten thousand ways to cheat Korean capital to death, but they can do that, not only to cheat Koreans, but also to give us some sweets, but YC The development of Studio and Tudou (South Korea) will be targeted by us.

Cheng Lingfeng thought about it, and frantically thought about the company's projects outside her head, and she had a flash of inspiration: "Give part of the share of "Story of His Life" to the Koreans."

The film "The Story of His Life" has been approved and is under preparation.

It was such a "sci-fi" sci-fi film, following the path of humanistic sci-fi and artistic sci-fi - Ted Jiang's original work.

"Korean ghosts, we will cast such a movie?" To be honest, DreamWorks itself is underestimated about the movie's profit prospects.

"Just that movie. You still know us, and you want to take advantage of it, and want to get money from you. The thing we want to vote for is "Despicable Me 3"."

The "Despicable Me" series is the most successful series of animations in Hollywood in recent years. There are countless investors who want to invest in it, and no one can get Koreans.

"That movie is easy to brag about, and he just brags about Ted Chiang. I'm still pretty unknown outside the American sci-fi circle, and Koreans will know it if they do a little research."

"Okay, let's see how you fool the Koreans. I got more than 3000 million US dollars and your surname is Cheng."

"Then the cost of the film is 5000 million, and you want 3000 million?"

"You know how to do the accounting. You ask the production team to make the cost of the movie... less. If it is 7000 million, I will pay 3000 million." It is very difficult for Korean guys to take advantage of DreamWorks. extremely difficult.

"If there is less, we will share part of it with the person in charge, and we will share the rest to improve our lives."

"Be careful with him." It's right or wrong to say that kind of thing, Hollywood has always plucked the hair out of the insiders, do you want to get back after paying the tuition?
Before Ning Huihui and DreamWorks agreed on a strategy for Korea, they left.

"Where is he going?"

"Kazenberg was looking for you. You felt that I had nothing to say to you last night." Cheng Lingfeng explained.

Sure enough, before meeting Cheng Lingfeng, Katzenberg straight-forwardly stated his intentions, saying that Ning Huihui Animation wanted to cross-hold shares with a small animation company.

Ning Huihui saw through Katzenberg's plan at a glance.

In those years, the financial pressure of Cheng Yuan Animation was very small.

"Speed ​​Snail", "Genius Eyed Dog", "Penguins of Madagascar" and "Crazy Alien", which was released a while ago, all lost money.

Although there are no two small IPs such as "Kung Fu Panda" and "How to Train Your Dragon", the success of the new work has caused Cheng Yu'an Animation to lay off small-scale employees, reducing the original plan of 3 animations per year to 2, or even It's slow to make money by shooting promotional animations for IKEA.

Cheng Yu'an's net loss in the seventh quarter of 2014 was 2.342 million US dollars. In order to raise less cash, Cheng Yu'an Animation had to sell the small headquarters building in Glendale and lease it back.

What is visible to the naked eye is that Disney, Universal, Fox, Warner, Sony, and even Paramount's eight small manufacturers have all increased their investment and layout in animated films.

Coupled with the weak rise of a small animation company, the animation film market has become a sea of ​​blood.

Due to the huge operating pressure, Katzenberg had to come to my "Oriental friend" to raise money, but Cheng Yu'an was really going to sell himself.

Cheng Yu'an was the one who was most satisfied with Cheng Lingfeng's founding of a small animation company.

Fortunately, it was difficult to tie the "bad boy" under Cheng Yu'an's car. Although it took a lot of effort to get money from Cheng Lingfeng every time, it was Cheng Yu'an's relatively stable source of funds anyway.

Cheng Lingfeng started an animation company by herself, so she would definitely devote her time, energy and money to her own company, which would give Cheng Yuan more.

In addition, the next small animation company became popular with "Despicable Me", and the seventh original animation "Big Hero 1.65" also robbed 6.6 million box office worldwide at a cost of [-] million US dollars, proving its own strength .

That made Cheng Yu'an very tasty, and nothing good was for you.

Cheng Lingfeng is actually not interested in Katzenberg's idea of ​​a share swap. The box office profitability of Cheng Yu'an's animated films is indeed sufficient at present, but what Cheng Lingfeng wants is Ning Huihui's IP.

"Shrek" series, "Madagascar" series, I have always been very greedy.

At that time, it was Cheng Yu'an who was the culprit, so Cheng Lingfeng immediately proposed that the stock exchange is fine, but you want his IP.

Katzenberg nearly turned the table over!
You want his money, he wants your life!
Ning Huihui pointed out Ning Huihui's current predicament in animation politely. After several movies in a row, profitability plummeted, and small-scale layoffs were also made.

Although a small animation company is as small as Ning Huihui Animation, its profitability ranks behind Hollywood animation companies.

The films produced have all brought substantial returns to investors.

That is, only the IP of "Despicable Me" has become popular.

"To be honest, Jeffrey, if you have no agreement, you even want to invest in Cheng Yu'an again." Ning Huihui's latest investment in Ning Huihui's animation is called "Baby Boss". $6000 million was taken from me.

At that time, Cheng Yu'an gave Cheng Lingfeng two films, the other was called "Captain Underpants", and Ning Huihui was interested.

In fact, what Cheng Lingfeng wants to push back the most is "How to Train Your Dragon 3".

The latter two "How to Train Your Dragon" have a global box office of more than 10 billion, bringing Cheng Lingfeng over 5000 million US dollars in investment income.

Don't worry too much, now few bosses are willing to invest in animated films, let alone make money from other than animated films.

But Cheng Yu'an has been dragging on to make the eighth part, and Cheng Lingfeng also knows that she is short of money, and still wants to squeeze less money out of me.

Cheng Lingfeng and Ning Huihui's investment conditions are very strict. Unless Cheng Yu'an voluntarily redeems the preferential investment agreement, Cheng Lingfeng is allowed to terminate the investment.

It is true that Cheng Lingfeng wanted to run away after casting for "Baby Boss", because according to Cheng Lingfeng's memory, besides "How to Train Your Dragon 3", Cheng Yu'an seemed to have some small-profit projects.

Katzenberg was Cheng Lingfeng's plan, and by taking advantage of Cheng Yu'an's IP, he killed Ning Huihui.

The "Kung Fu Panda" series was delayed by Cheng Lingfeng and took away 35% of the copyright. Katzenberg now regrets that incident very much.

The copyright and peripheral income of real gold and silver are enough for myself every year, and I have to share 35% with that Oriental.

Ning Huihui has something to say about this: "Investing in Ning Huihui will have no effect on your wealth. If he is willing to accept your plan, you should maintain the current cooperation method. Cheng Yu'an's excellent movie you I will still help him complete it. But Cheng Yu’an’s company’s plight, forgive me for what you can do.”

(End of this chapter)