The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 164 Treasure Team
Wang Shiyong, general manager of Tianhe Animation, drove Wuhan to the suburbs of Beijing in his car.

On the way, Wang Shiyong explained the whole story to Wu Han.

In fact, a week ago, Wang Shiyong received a call from DreamWorks, and he was also the owner of DreamWorks, a waver in the Huaguo film market, and a genius director Chen Jingxing.

For DreamWorks' clear acquisition request, Wang Shiyong was shocked at first and then mixed with sorrow and joy.

Wang Shiyong first started as a video website, and was one of the founders of the earliest video website Tomato.com in Huaguo. After that, the website was acquired by Huanshi.com, and he also got his first pot of gold.

Once people don't have to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation, they have the foundation to pursue their dreams, and Wang Shiyong's dream turned out to be animation.

Wang Shiyong's generation has been deeply influenced by American comics and Japanese comics, and has also witnessed the development of American comics' global marketing through the film and television industry.

However, domestic animation has not advanced but retreated in the past 20 years of development, which gave him the idea to establish an animation company and develop Huaguo's non-sub-supply animation. As a former Internet entrepreneur, he was the first to One shouted the slogan, the rise of Guoman.

It was also through his relationship that "Star God" was finally sold to Huanshi.com at a sky-high price for domestic animation at the time.

However, the pinnacle of his debut also made him dazzled, he was coerced by the slogan he yelled, and he did not fully understand the current situation of the domestic animation industry and the film market at that time, which brought his second venture into the brink of death .

In the past two years, we have built a relationship with CCTV, and the sub-supplied animation produced can only barely maintain the team. After all, many of the team formed by Wuhan are animation talents who came back from the United States and Japan. They are not so talented. Such a team can't produce a high-quality national manga like "Xing Shen Ji". Even if such a team uses ideals to draw big cakes, the basic treatment can't be too bad.

Barely maintaining the team, but unable to repay the debts, Wang Shiyong has no hope at all, and he is really reluctant to let Wuhan, a very combative animation production team, go his separate ways. In the past few years, he has also thought about selling himself. See if there is any Someone can take over this team.

But they all hit the wall one after another, and there are not none who are willing to take over. Although the price offered is very low, no one wants to continue to support the high-paying team of Tianhe Animation.

How much money can TV animation sell to CCTV?It is completely unnecessary to maintain such a high-standard team, and they don't plan to make any animated films. How can TV animation broadcast in China require so many high-tech talents to produce?Therefore, the conditions given are to either cut salary or lose weight.

The salary reduction team will definitely not be able to maintain it, and it is also strongly opposed to the slim Wuhan, and it will definitely not be able to maintain the team.

Therefore, Wang Shiyong is of course happy with Dreamworks as a big customer, but he is also worried that Dreamworks will not know Tianhe Animation's current debt situation, and whether Chen Jingxing can accept the harsh conditions he put forward in the eyes of outsiders.

Regarding the debt problem facing Tianhe Animation, Chen Jingxing must have done a lot of background research before deciding to acquire, and Chen Jingxing gave an affirmative answer to this concern.

As for the requirement of maintaining Tianhe Animation's current team, Chen Jingxing was naturally extremely happy in his heart, because he himself came for the team.

The "Star God" three years ago, even now, no other domestic animation can surpass it. It's not how amazing the story is, but its character modeling, art design and screen expression are completely beyond the current Chinese animation. horizontal.

Even compared with the excellent Chinese manga works that Chen Jingxing had seen in his previous life, there are few others. It is no wonder that many anime fans still can't forget it, and set off a wave of the rise of the national manga on his own. He interrupted with a palm of his own.

"Star God" can barely be regarded as a science fiction work, involving the setting of spaceships and many lives on various planets, whether it is spaceship design, weapon design, alien planet design, character image design, all reflect extremely high visual art design Skills, this is what Chen Jingxing values ​​most.

He even thinks that the talents in charge of visual art design in the animation team will definitely be able to make a difference even if they switch to industrial design.

Even if he didn't do detailed background research, Chen Jingxing could tell that this team was definitely a great treasure, and through detailed understanding, he also knew that there were many talents in this team who had returned from the animation industry in the United States and Japan, and this meant that The Tianhe animation team has sufficient potential for training and improvement.

Chen Jingxing's goal is to produce an animated film of the level of "Wall-E". Tianhe Animation is already the team with the highest starting point and potential that he can find so far. The surplus leads to salary cuts and weight loss.

However, although Chen Jingxing readily accepted Wang Shiyong's request in his heart, he still had to maintain a basic attitude and not be too enthusiastic, allowing the other party to get the capital for the bid—what matters is what matters, and the purchase price still needs to be priced in pennies. There is the gold-eating beast of "Gravity".

Therefore, he proposed that Wang Shiyong bring Wu Han, director of the animation team, to come to him, and the two parties should have sufficient communication before making a final decision.

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"Gravity" was filmed in a special effects studio built by DreamWorks.

And this studio is located in the digital industrial park on the outskirts of Beijing. It was built by Guoying alone. "Source Code" was also filmed here. As the investor of "Gravity", Guoying has already followed Meng The factory signed a 20-year lease agreement.

What DreamWorks acquired is the largest single studio, covering an area of ​​1.6 square meters, and the rental price is only 1200 million per year. When DreamWorks has no shooting tasks, it can also rent the studio to other companies. With the approval of Guoying, it can be said that it is similar to giving away for nothing.

Qin Zhonghe's persuasion also dispelled Chen Jingxing's worries - after all, it was a state-owned property, and Chen Jingxing had to worry about the possible risks after Qin Zhonghe's retirement.

What Qin Zhonghe meant was that not only the other leaders of Guoying, but also the leaders above were very satisfied with Chen Jingxing and DreamWorks.

According to Qin Zhonghe’s mysterious gossip, in the chapter of the work report on Huaguo’s cultural undertakings at the NPC and CPPCC next year, the two films of DreamWorks, especially “Signal” are likely to be in the “domestic cultural undertakings… especially The vigorous development of the film and television industry... and the export of film and television culture" appeared.

After all, this is the first time in nearly ten years that Huaguo's film and television works have once again achieved outstanding results and praise from mainstream media in other major markets in the world, especially developed countries in Europe and America.

Doesn't this mean that the country's various policy support for the film and television industry in recent years has yielded fruitful results so quickly?

The Confucius Institute of traditional culture is in full swing, and the popular culture of film and television has also been successfully exported overseas. The cultural department is not happy?Is there a more solid performance than this?
Qin Zhonghe even patted Chen Jingxing on the shoulder, telling him not to worry about the funding problem of "Gravity"—if it exceeds the budget or DreamWorks' funds have problems with other projects—if other commercial banks dare not give "Gravity" After all, the loan from Gravity is too risky, but as long as Chen Jingxing applies for the cultural industry loan from CDB, he can definitely get it.

(End of this chapter)