Rebirth 1984: Starting from the development of Hanka

Chapter 208 Family
"Resident Evil" is a game developed by Wujiang Group, and it can be adapted into a live-action movie now.

The plot of "Resident Evil" is already very clear. There is no need for Zhao Ye to write the story, and the screenwriters of Shanghai Animation Film Studio can write a good script.

Therefore, Zhao Ye said to Xu Xiangming at this time: "There are too few special effects projects, so we will make the movie ourselves. I think we can shoot "Resident Evil". The heroine invites..."

Just halfway through the conversation, Zhao Ye suddenly realized that Milla Jovovich, the heroine of "Resident Evil", seems to be very young now, and her fame and acting skills may not be enough to support the role of the heroine of "Resident Evil".

However, apart from Milla Jovovich, Zhao Ye really couldn't think of anyone more suitable to play the heroine of this movie than her.

Zhao Ye hesitated for a moment. This movie has a lot of game fans, so it is not a big problem as to which actress will play it.

Zhao Ye is still willing to give Milla Jovovich a chance.

"For the heroine, let Milla Jovovich play the role, but some important supporting roles in this movie can be played by Chinese actors! This movie is aimed at global users, otherwise the cost will not be recovered!"

Xu Xiangming nodded.

Zhao Ye had other things to do later, so he left.

As soon as Zhao Ye left, Xu Xiangming looked at the people around him and asked, "Do you know who Milla Jovovich is?"

Everyone shook their heads.

Milla Jovovich has debuted since she was a child and is considered a child star.

Moreover, at this time, he had already starred in an action movie called "Wonderful Detective Veyron", which was released in January 1992.

During this period, most of the Hollywood movie stars were not well-known in China.

Not to mention Milla Jovovich.

It is normal that everyone has not heard of her name.

However, as long as people in Hollywood inquire, they will definitely be able to know her information.

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Shanghai Animation Film Studio soon formed an acquisition team and headed to the United States.

After arriving in the United States, the acquisition team was divided into two groups.

All the way to meet with Jobs, ready to buy Pixar animation studio.

The other way to Marvel Corporation.

At this time, Jobs actually regretted the acquisition of Pixar Animation Studios. Making computer-animated films was more difficult than he imagined. He had injected capital into Pixar for many years. So far, Pixar has become a hot potato. He just wanted to sell it. No one wants to buy it either.

Pixar Animation Studios has been losing money, and the real success will have to wait until the release of "Toy Story", but that is three years later.

As a result, Jobs was worth as much as 10 billion U.S. dollars, so he was invited back by Apple again.

Zhao Ye didn't know whether Jobs could continue to return to Apple when Shanghai Animation Film Studio acquired Pixar?

"Mr. Jobs, hello, I'm Fan Yuquan, Director of the Investment Department of Shanghai Animation Film Studio, nice to meet you!"

Fan Yuquan smiled and stretched out his right hand.

"Hello, Mr. Pan!" Jobs said, shaking hands.

"Mr. Jobs, we have expressed our company's purpose to you on the phone. I wonder if you are willing to sell Pixar Animation Studio?" Fan Yuquan asked.

Jobs said in a deep voice, "How much are you willing to pay?"

"As far as we know, Mr. Jobs, when you bought Pixar from George Lucas, you spent 1000 million US dollars, and then you successively injected capital into Pixar, which was about 3000 million US dollars. That is to say, you spent a total of 4000 million US dollars. Dollar."

Fan Yuquan paused and said, "So, our company is willing to spend 7000 million US dollars to acquire Pixar."

Jobs shook his head, dissatisfied with the price, and said, "7000 million dollars is too little, I want [-] million dollars! Without [-] million dollars, I will not sell Pixar!"

Jobs' tone seemed firm.

Fan Yuquan frowned, and spent [-] million dollars to acquire Pixar Animation Studios, which he felt was a bit expensive.

Although Pixar now has a strong technical advantage in computer animation production, Pixar has not proved that computer animation films can achieve box office success.

Fan Yuquan immediately bargained with Jobs.

But Jobs insisted that he wanted 1 million US dollars, and the negotiations between the two sides fell into a stalemate for a while.

Fan Yuquan can only express regret, and we will talk about it next time.

Jobs left apprehensive.

He also owned a computer company called NeXT Corporation. NeXT launched its first workstation computer product, the NeXT Computer, in 1988, followed by the smaller NeXTStation in 1990.

However, annual sales are less than 400 units.

Until the company was acquired, a total of four to five thousand products were sold.

Businessland, its retail partner, followed suit, and the company's big bet on NeXT wasn't the only blow that caused the demise, but it definitely mattered.

At this time, Jobs can be said to be in the worst moment.

By next year, nearly all of NeXT's vice presidents, including the original five who co-founded the company with Jobs, have all left.

However, this series of experiences is very important to Jobs. When Jobs evolves into Jobs 2.0, the whole world will be crazy about it.

Right now, NeXT is struggling to develop, with annual sales of less than 400 products, and Pixar as an oil bottle, Jobs is not to mention how troubled he is.

Jobs is thinking now that he can sell Pixar, and then exchange the funds for the development of NeXT.

Stand up wherever you fall.

Apple's board of directors kicked him out of the company, and he wanted to prove that the choice of Apple's board of directors was wrong.

It's just that it's so embarrassing now that NeXT has developed into such a ghost, which makes Jobs lose face.

Jobs opened his mouth wide and dared to ask for a price of 1 million U.S. dollars. In fact, he has no confidence in being strong outside but doing well in the middle.

If Shanghai Animation Film Studio is unwilling to pay such a high price for Pixar, he can lower the price.

But on the other hand, the negotiator of Shanghai Animation Film Studio met and chatted with Ronald Perelman.

Back in 1988, Marvel was resold to Ronald Perelman for $8500 million.

Ronald Perelman is more concerned about how to make more money for Marvel through capital operations than operating comics.

Under the operation of Perelman, Marvel went public in 1991.

After going public, Marvel began to expand aggressively. In addition to desperately launching comics, it also frantically acquired other companies, including toy companies, card companies, comic distribution companies, etc., and also incurred huge debts.

Moreover, in 1991, a group of star painters such as Jim Lee and McFarlane withdrew from Marvel and established their own company, Image Company.Marvel has lost its most charismatic author.

Right now, the comics industry is in a downturn, a large number of comic shops have gone bankrupt and closed, Marvel's sales channels have been damaged, and the stock price has also fallen all the way.

However, Perelman has already gone public with the help of Marvel, not only did not lose money, but made a lot of money.

At this time, Marvel had already started to go downhill. Unexpectedly, Shanghai Animation Film Studio came to the door and wanted to acquire Marvel, which made Perelman overjoyed.

"Haha, the parent company of Shanghai Animation Film Studio is Wujiang Group, which is rich and powerful. I will make a lot of money this time!" Perelman was ecstatic and couldn't help laughing.

He looked at the negotiator on the opposite side and said, "You want to buy Marvel, yes, as long as you have enough chips, I can sell Marvel to you!"

Fan Jingtong was the leader of the negotiating team, so he did not make an offer immediately.

"Mr. Perelman, under your capital operation, Marvel has merged toy companies, card companies and other companies into Marvel, thereby piling up the stock price of Marvel, making its market value exceed US$10 billion! But We all know it’s unreasonable, and right now, Marvel’s turnover is high, but it’s actually losing money. Who wants to buy a company that’s losing money?”

After a pause, Fan Jingtong said firmly, "Our Shanghai Animation Film Studio really wants to acquire Marvel, but the premise is that other messy companies need to be spun off!"

Perelman's expression changed slightly upon hearing this.

How can I sell Marvel at a high price after spinning off the messy company?It's a bundle sale!
Perelman immediately disagreed.

"If you want to buy Marvel, you have to buy the entire Marvel, there is no reason to buy it separately!!!"

Fan Jingtong frowned, and asked tentatively, "Mr. Perelman, if it's a package purchase, what is the purchase price?"

"At least $15 billion!" Perelman replied.

When Fan Jing and the others heard the offer, they immediately looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Mr. Perelman, with all due respect, Marvel is not worth the price. When you bought Marvel, you only spent 8900 million US dollars, and now it has risen to 15 billion US dollars. This is too exaggerated!" Fan Jingtong Shen He said, if he hadn't cultivated himself well, he would have scolded them a long time ago. This old man is so greedy that he would slaughter them as if they were taken advantage of!

Fan Jingtong was not used to the other party, so he immediately stood up and took everyone away.

On the way back to the hotel, Fan Jingtong called Xu Xiangming and reported the negotiation situation on his side. Xu Xiangming was stunned, $15 billion, what kind of international joke?
Xu Xiangming immediately called Zhao Ye and relayed the situation.

"Boss, Perelman's appetite is too great. The asking price of 15 billion US dollars is completely taking us for a fool! We will definitely not meet Perelman's request!" Xu Xiangming said angrily.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Ye nodded, thought for a while, and said, "Then give up the acquisition of Marvel for the time being, and wait until it goes bankrupt!"

Within a few years, this guy Perelman put Marvel Games into bankruptcy. The number of employees has grown from more than 5000 to two to 300, which is really amazing.

What's more disgusting is that this guy has been selling superhero characters during this period. If Wujiang Group acquires Marvel, it will have to find a way to recover superhero copyrights from other film and television companies. What a pain.

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Putting down the phone, Zhao Ye looked at a black machine on the table, with a smile on his face again.

"Everyone has worked hard, and finally developed the super VCD. All members of the development team can travel to Hainan, and the company will reimburse all expenses. In addition, there will be a generous project bonus at the end of the year!"

"Long live the boss!!!"

Deafening cheers came from the laboratory.

Zhao Ye also smiled happily. Once the Super VCD is developed, Wujiang Group will be sure to tear apart the European and American video markets.

Right now, DVD has not yet been invented, and the picture quality of VHS video recorders is similar to that of VCD disc players. As a result, VCDs are very popular in developing countries, but the sales volume in developed countries is average, because VHS video recorders occupy the first-mover advantage and have been deeply entrenched in European and American countries. .

However, the emergence of super VCD will break this deadlock.

Super VCD is a brand-new disc format developed on the basis of VCD. Its picture clarity is obviously better than that of VCD. The horizontal definition of Super VCD image reaches 350 lines, while VCD only has 250 lines.Judging from the replay sound of the disc, the audio signal of 4 channels can be recorded in the super VCD disc, while the audio signal of 2 channels can only be recorded by VCD.

Due to the adoption of a more reasonable encoding and compression method, the super VCD player can minimize image errors and enhance the coherence of the picture when reading super VCD, VCD and other discs, eliminating the mosaic phenomenon!
In terms of technical capability and image quality, the level of Super VCD falls between VCD and DVD.

Zhao Ye immediately ordered the factory to start full-scale production of Super VCD.

This time, Wujiang Group will set off a storm of "video discs" all over the world!
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With the successful development of Super VCD, Zhao Ye already has a plan to promote "The Lion King".

Super VCD discs cost less than VHS tapes.

DVD players are also cheaper than VCRs.

The picture quality and sound of Super VCD are stronger than VHS.

Therefore, it is only a matter of time before super VCD replaces VHS.

Come to think of it, Hollywood studios can recognize this.

Wujiang Group wants to release the animated film "The Lion King" in the United States, and major Hollywood film companies will definitely rush to cooperate with it.

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After a month.

Wujiang Group has already produced a batch of super VCDs.

However, the English theme song of "The Lion King" is still unfinished, Zhao Ye wants to hang it, but if people know that he can even write English songs, isn't it a bit too exaggerated?
At this moment, Zhao Ye thought that his younger sister was a music student. It is better to ask her to help "write" this song. The author is "Anonymous".

Zhao Ye has been working hard to protect his family and prevent them from being exposed, so as not to cause some trouble.

Some people might take the risk and kidnap them or something.

It is also possible to approach them with some special purpose.

Zhao Ye wants his family to live a normal life, not like him, when he goes out, there must be a group of bodyguards, and he has no chance to go shopping like an ordinary person.

There is no way, if you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight.

There are always bad people trying to harm me!
Have to guard against it!
Fortunately, Zhao Ye's secrecy measures are not bad, most people don't know the situation of his family at present.

Zhao Ye's parents were ordinary workers before. His father's name was Zhao Jianguo, and his mother's name was Wu Chunmei. When Zhao Ye got rich, he asked the two elders to retire and enjoy life, traveling around the country when they had nothing to do.

Zhao Ye also has a younger sister and a younger brother, both of whom are in college now.

The younger sister is Zhao Yue, 21 years old, the second eldest, studying music at the Capital Conservatory of Music.

The younger brother is Zhao Xing, 19 years old, the third eldest, studying at the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and dreams of becoming an astronaut on the moon.

The life trajectories of the younger sister and younger brother have all changed. In the previous life, they did not get into the university of their choice.

My younger sister Zhao Yue likes to sing, but she ended up studying accounting.

The younger brother Zhao Xing dreamed of being an astronaut, but ended up studying civil engineering.

Zhao Ye was about to pick up the phone and call his sister, but just as he was about to dial the number, he stopped.

"I'm in Shanghai now. I'm going to the capital in a few days. I'll contact her then..."

Zhao Ye smiled, turned around and told his secretary Liu Yinyin to book a ticket to the capital in three days.

(End of this chapter)