The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 266 DreamWorks wants to build a headquarters building
"Operation Mekong" is the fourth time since 2015 to break the box office record of Huaguo's film history. It has not only been reported by the media, but also caused discussions and complaints.

Huaguo's film history record has become a meme now, because if it is to be true, "Mermaid" has to be counted, but when he broke the film history record, he was about to be surpassed by "Mekong River", so There is no media and netizens paying attention to the short-lived box office record of "The Mermaid".

In more than a year, the box office champion of the Huaguo film market was broken five times in a row, which not only became a proof of the rapid expansion of the film market, but also became a topic of ridicule by the people who eat melons.

Of course, it also made the big and small companies and practitioners in the film and television industry even more crazy. Dreamworks was even spread several times as "fake news of going public", and even many institutional investors came to inquire and even persuaded Chen Jingxing to launch it as soon as possible. listing plan.

DreamWorks obviously does not belong to the kind of company that everyone thinks that "new shares will break out". There are too many such companies listed on the domestic secondary market.

There are currently only five 20 billion+ movies in the domestic market, and DreamWorks is the main producer of two of them. Whether it’s Chen Jingxing’s level or DreamWorks’ luck, the underwriters obviously feel that DreamWorks’ IPO is a rare one. opportunities to make money.

Chen Jingxing naturally has plans to go public, it has nothing to do with his personal wishes.

Executives and employees of modern companies, from top to bottom, who doesn't want to go public?Only when you go public can your equity incentives be realized. The company cannot be supported by the boss alone, and the collective will from top to bottom must also be satisfied.

Xu Wenshen has also been promoting the work in this area. The common idea of ​​the two is that they tend to be listed on the Hong Kong stock market. After all, the mainland stock market is a bit neurotic.

It's just that the preparatory work takes time, and you have to find the most suitable time to maximize your benefits.

Chen Jingxing thinks that "Gravity" is a good time after it is released, so he is not in a hurry to promote the IPO.

Of course, it is a big event in the film and television industry that "The Mekong River" once again created a record in film history, but it was not enough for the leaders of the capital city to inspect it.

DreamWorks has created a lot of tax revenue for the capital, but it doesn't actually rank high in this super city.

20 billion box office is amazing, but compared with other industries, it is really not a big number. Even the total size of the domestic film market of tens of billions is not enough compared with many industries. The annual turnover of some large companies is higher than this high.

However, as the core part of the cultural industry, the film and television industry's influence and significance far exceed the volume of the film and television market itself.

The film and television series of DreamWorks in the past two years have not only created a double harvest of word-of-mouth box office in China, broken Hollywood's monopoly on domestic audiences' demand for industrial films, filled many gaps in domestic film and television content, and can also export film and television works overseas.

The country attaches great importance to the cultural industry from a high level, and DreamWorks is now the face of Huaguo's cultural industry export, and it is a very good face.

Including the animation industry, the state has introduced various support policies for the animation industry. The support has not improved much for many years. It was not until the birth of DreamWorks that the rise of domestic animation really made substantial progress, and the support of the animation industry for so many years Finally, there is an explanation.

"Battleship", "Evolution" and "Star God II" were packaged and sold to Youtube TV, with a total broadcast volume of more than [-] million, and won the amazement of many foreign netizens. Amway's recommendation has become a successful case of domestic animation going global.

Coupled with the main theme project that DreamWorks participated in, not only "The Mekong River", but also the most expensive space-themed sci-fi movie "Gravity" in the history of China that has not yet been released, these are all in the eyes of the above.

Not only has high creativity, but also has the courage to think and do, and the results are not bad.

That's why it was awarded last year's "Top 30 National Cultural Enterprises" and "National Copyright Demonstration Unit".

And after the amazing debut of three animation products and "The Mekong River", DreamWorks has further produced the performance that is rightly praised by the official.

Then the higher authorities stepped up their efforts. According to the information Qin Zhonghe disclosed to Chen Jingxing, the upper authorities wanted to use DreamWorks as a demonstration enterprise, or a representative enterprise, of the film and television industry and even the cultural industry.

Only then did batches of leaders from the propaganda department to the capital city government inspect.

And DreamWorks' harvest is naturally very impressive. Excluding the long-term benefits, the existing fruit is that within a few days after the inspection by the top leaders of the capital city government, the land for DreamWorks' headquarters building was approved.

DreamWorks will finally have its own office building. Of course, the employees of DreamWorks and Mo will not need to squeeze into an office building that is not spacious enough to have a headache for the gradually expanding number of employees, and they can work together. This is also a great impact on the DreamWorks brand image. Building a sense of belonging with employees goes a long way.

Of course, it was still a few years before the office building was finally completed and Chen Jingxing moved in with his bags.

The construction capital is actually not expensive. According to the previous budget, it can be built within 10 billion to 15 billion. Including the cost of land acquisition, the total cost will not exceed 20 billion.

The estimated construction cost of Penguin Group's capital headquarters building is only 25 billion, and the combined employees of DreamWorks and Mo are not as many as Penguin Group's employees in Beijing.

As long as the avant-garde design is not pursued too much, the construction cost is still controllable.

And the financial pressure is not too great for DreamWorks. DreamWorks’ debt is the lowest among film and television companies. All commercial banks will be happy to provide credit financing behind the headquarters building.

According to the current profitability of DreamWorks, there is no difficulty in repaying the loan. In just the whole year of 15, DreamWorks' net profit reached 8 million.

In the first year of 16, "The Mekong River" became a big hit again. Just because of the box office share of this movie, DreamWorks can get more than 4 million pre-tax accounts, which can be called a cash cow among domestic film and television companies.

The good news that DreamWorks will have its own office building has excited the whole company. Both DreamWorks and Mexico are now facing the growth rate of the number of employees exceeding the growth rate of office space.

Both DreamWorks and Mo's office buildings have relatively high occupancy rates, and it is difficult to rent an entire vacant floor. Even if they can, the floors are not next to each other, and the distance is relatively large, making it inconvenient to work.

As for changing the office building, the overall move is too troublesome, it is meaningless to toss it all over again, especially Mo still has a lot of equipment, and now he is in the middle of the intense production of two animation films, changing the office location is time-consuming and labor-intensive and delays the progress of the project .

The two animated film projects "The Return of the Great Sage" and "Your Name" started production in September last year, and have been in production for nearly half a year. The progress is still very smooth, and it is even expected to be completed ahead of schedule.

"Your Name" is a two-dimensional animation, as long as there are enough animators, the production speed is quite fast.

"The Return of the Great Sage" is a 3D animation, and it is a high-level 3D animation. Technically, the benchmark is Hollywood's 3D comic animation film. It may not be able to reach the advanced level of Hollywood at present, but it must be as close as possible, and Mo is in this respect. There are sufficient technical reserves.

Although 3D animation does not need to be drawn one by one, it takes more time and resources to render.

Judging from the current production progress, "Your Name" can basically be completed before July, while "The Return of the Great Sage" will not be completed until at least October.

This also means that these two animated films are basically guaranteed to be released within the year.

In Mexico, Chen Jingxing announced the good news that DreamWorks will start the preparations for the construction of the headquarters building. By the way, after confirming the current production progress of the two animation films, he came to Guoying without stopping to discuss his next film with Qin Zhonghe. Cooperation in the movie "The Martian".

Also present at the same time was Director Ren of the China Space Administration's Press and Propaganda Center.

"Isn't your "Matrix" a trilogy? Did you finish all the trilogy in one go?" Qin Zhonghe asked doubtfully.

After the three of them greeted each other and exchanged a few pleasantries, Qin Zhonghe asked his doubts.

When Chen Jingxing told him that he wanted to discuss cooperation with him in the next movie, he was already puzzled.

"Matrix" is a trilogy of movies. This is the news that DreamWorks has revealed long ago. Chen Jingxing also confirmed this information in an interview. In addition, the actors signed contracts for three movies. "Matrix" will It is well known that three films were made.

"Could it be that you don't have confidence in "Matrix"? This is not like your character. You have released all your big talk about innovative kung fu-themed movies. If you encounter Waterloo, it will be interesting." Qin Zhonghe teased jokingly.

According to Qin Zhonghe's idea, since the trilogy has been determined long ago, it is enough to shoot one after another, one a year.

Otherwise, you are not sure whether the first film will be successful, and you have to decide whether to make a sequel based on market feedback. This is also the most normal psychology.

The main reason is that Chen Jingxing has released the gimmick of "New Kung Fu Movie", which triggered a war of words, and also announced the news of the trilogy. Obviously, this is a performance with full confidence, without any uncertainty and doubts about the results. No matter what the box office is, I have the courage to make this trilogy.

Chen Jingxing said with a smile: "The scripts of the "Matrix" trilogy have already been written, and the filming will definitely be finished, but there is no rush, let's film slowly. To make the audience feel a sense of expectation, they must first give them a sense of hunger. "

In fact, it is not impossible to shoot the "Matrix" trilogy together. In the previous world, the Wachowski brothers shot the second and third movies together, and cut them into two movies.

Because the entire story of "The Matrix" is complete in itself, it wasn't after the first film became popular that the Wachowski brothers began to conceive a sequel.

It's just because the film crew is out of risk considerations. After all, it is an original science fiction script with a lot of investment. They want to make a test first, and then make a sequel if the box office is good.

If Warnerken had paid generously, the Wachowski brothers would have finished the three films in one go.

But Chen Jingxing didn't intend to film the story in one go, and then cut it into three movies, which will be released consecutively.

Many big IP sequel movies in Hollywood are often only released after a few years, which is different from Huaguo's current mentality of wanting to release one a year when a movie is popular.

The film studio needs to make the audience feel hungry. This is the way to maximize the benefits of a series of movies.

In the previous world, the last two parts of "The Matrix" were released almost back to back, which did affect the box office performance of the third part.

(End of this chapter)