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Chapter 782 "The Lion King" and "Aladdin"

After all, the bad reviews still affected the box office of "Journey to the West: Fu Yao".

After the third year of junior high school, the new addition was overtaken by Jackie Chan's "Kung Fu Yoga".

"Havoc in Tianzhu" was also drowned in the audience's saliva. Bao Qiang's experience is sympathetic, but this is not the reason for him to feed the audience shit.

The good-looking results of the film are more due to the fact that there are fewer films to choose from during the Spring Festival.

Han Han's performance is fairly stable, and "Riding the Wind and Waves" is supported by Deng Chao, Peng Yuyan and Zhao Liying, and the results are gratifying.

On the sixth day of the lunar new year, the last day of the holiday, just as everyone began to calm down and headed home, on the other side of the ocean, Disney dropped two depth charges in one breath, catching the world film industry by surprise.

Disney announced the launch of the remake of the classic animated film "The Lion King" and the preparations for the live-action "Aladdin"!

These two films are all written by Cheng Yu'an. After a major film company lacks original drive, it aims at the classic remake market.

"The Lion King" and "Aladdin" are the results of Cheng Yu'an's personal discussions with Disney.

A major film company bought the remake rights of two films and put them on Disney's label.

We talked about copyright last year, but it was not really ready until now.

Fans are immersed in the anticipation of classic remakes, but the focus of the circle is not this.

After more than ten or twenty years, why did Disney suddenly want to remake these two cartoons?
After a careful investigation, it was found that the actual operators of these two projects were both Cheng's aunt and nephew.

The profitability of the two films is still difficult to judge. The judgment given by domestic filmmakers is that after a major film company broke up with Universal, it had no choice but to switch to Disney, the most powerful in the six major countries.

And "The Lion King" and "Aladdin" are hot potatoes that Disney posed to a big film company, and they are also Cheng Yu'anna's nomination certificate.

The two animated films have countless fans around the world. If a major film company messes up these two films, then Disney's internal rating of a major film company will definitely drop, which will not be beneficial to the subsequent cooperation between the two parties.

Numerous domestic companies immediately expressed their willingness to help.

Although Cheng Yu'an put forward very harsh investment conditions, they still swarmed up like flies.

Earn box office?
What will happen, no one knows.

After 20 years, no one knows whether the audience still likes to watch it or not.

Gambling at the box office is childish.

What they want is the banner of "The Lion King" and "Aladdin", to speculate in stocks and attract investment!

Will Cheng Yu'an satisfy them?
Really will!
The cost of these two films was close to half a billion dollars!
A big film company can't afford and is unwilling to pay so much money, and, in the contract with Disney, the subsequent streaming media and peripheral revenue of the two films are not given to a big film company.

No matter what Cheng Yu'an said, Disney would not let go.

It's a joke, the box office only makes a few dollars, and Disney makes a lot of money selling dolls and peripheral licensing.

How can the profit of this piece be given up.

Therefore, in the end, a major film company only had the box office revenue of the film--this piece of Disney didn't want it, if he took another bite at the box office, a major film company would switch to Fox.

Moreover, Disney is considered "kind", and only charged a friendly price for the global distribution of the two films.

This led to the extremely high cost of the two films and huge pressure on profitability!
Cheng Yu'an had to find a partner to share the risk.

The official announcement of the two films on the sixth day, and it was found out on the seventh day that Cheng Yu'an was behind it.

In the following days, Cheng Yu'an never came back before 1 o'clock in the evening.

Not only domestic capital, but even Japanese and Korean film companies have been mobilized.

Senior Japanese filmmaker Ichiyama Shozo was entrusted by Dongbao to bring people to the capital that night.

Chris Jung, vice president of Showbox, led the company's production and investment team to check into the Beijing Hotel in the last step.

On the Asian side, Cheng Yu'an was in charge, while North America and Europe were handed over to Cheng Lingfeng.

The estimated cost of the two films is 5 million US dollars. A major film company’s own film fund can spend up to 1.5 million US dollars. It’s not that it can’t get it out, but it’s unnecessary. The company’s other films are still waiting for money.

Long-distance free ferry tickets cost 1.1 million US dollars.

This is already the largest single investment in overseas film and television in the past two years, and no company is willing to invest.

Cheng Yuan handed over the matter to the professional team to discuss, while he went to the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences first.

Do you know why it is so rare to recruit leadership departments remotely?

In addition to working hard and satisfying the leaders with the results, a large part of the reason for gaining the attention and love of the leadership department remotely is the brilliance of nature.

Tiangong Yicai is the first private company in China to cooperate with the National Supercomputing Center to build a special effects rendering center.

The country has always wanted to promote the commercial use of supercomputing, but firstly, there is little domestic demand, and most companies are unwilling to invest resources in this field; Supercomputing software is very scarce. Although the state has very generous subsidies, few companies are still tempted.

But Tiangong Yicai is different. As a special effects company with technology as the strongest driving force, he dares to be the first person to eat crabs.

It has reached a cooperation with the Jinmen Supercomputing Center early. Over the years, Tiangong Yicai has become the company with the most related patents in the field of supercomputing commercial use in China.

This must be due to the long-distance R & D investment regardless of cost, as well as Cheng Yu'an's influence in the world film industry, which can attract a steady stream of orders for Tiangong Yicai from all over the world to train the team.

More than 80% of the special effects of "The Lion King" and "Aladdin" will also be handed over to Tiangong Yicai and its seven R&D centers around the world.

These two films, especially The Lion King, required a lot of top-notch special effects.

Tiangong Yicai invited the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to develop graphics rendering tools and special effects software for the two films during the preparatory stage.

This is what the state encourages, and it is what the computer is willing to cooperate with.

With thousands of PhDs and dozens of academicians, Cheng Yu'an really can't figure out why other companies don't use such a team.

Why is Cheng Yu'an willing to accept such harsh remake conditions from Disney?
The most important reason is that I have taken a fancy to the training of the special effects team from these two films!
As long as the production of the film can be completed excellently, the special effects patents and various tools accumulated during the period will be enough for Tiangong Yicai to break out of Asia and go to the world, becoming a truly world-class special effects company.

Therefore, a large part of the high cost of the two films will be invested in the development and use of special effects tools.

These are all invisible wealth other than monetary interests.

This is the most important weapon for the industrialization of a country's film industry!
Not only the Institute of Computer Science, but even the scientists of the Institute of Plants and Animals were fooled by the extraordinary splendor of nature.

In the name of sponsoring scientific research, scientists are invited to Africa to investigate and do research for the scene construction of "The Lion King".

The scientists of the Institute of Zoology and Botany were of course happy. Funds were already tight, so how could outside companies think of sponsoring them.

They have been in Africa with the special effects team since they negotiated the cooperation of the film last year. Hard work is hard work, but they are happy in their hearts.

No company boss in China would make a movie like Cheng Yuan.

This is his respect and devotion to the film, and it is also an important reason why he has been affirmed by his superiors.

　I don't know much about the technical aspects, but I feel like I still have to write this paragraph. It would be nice if there were people who really valued technology development so much in reality.

　　
　
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