Entertaining Children

  Chapter 1027 Animation Exhibition

  New York International Comic Con is a very influential animation exhibition in the eastern United States. It attracts more than 100,000 audiences every year. It is a major event in the eyes of American animation fans.

  The exhibition with more than 100,000 visitors is a grand event in the eyes of animation fans, and it is naturally a business opportunity in the eyes of manufacturers. In addition to traditional comics and books, many game manufacturers and film and television companies will also take their works to the animation exhibition.

Every year at the New York International Comic and Animation Fair, Hollywood’s major production and distribution companies will choose to use the most commercial feature films such as science fiction, manga adaptations, horror, fantasy, and action as the most cutting-edge publicity positions. The Internet will also promote its best commercial dramas.

  The distribution company that has reached an overseas distribution agency agreement with Tong Luo and Xiao Yao is one of the eight major Hollywood film companies, and Walt Disney Films under Disney. This is a film company that specializes in producing and distributing animation works. Every year, it regularly reserves a large booth at the New York International Comic and Animation Expo. This year, Disney did not have any outstanding animation film works. The "Wali" introduced from China is the focus of their promotion at this animation exhibition.

  The release time of "Wali" in the United States is in mid-October. The New York Comic Con was held in early October, and it was only ten days after the official release. Disney is preparing to screen the entire film "Wali" at the Comic Con, which is almost equivalent to a trial screening before the official release.

  Film screening, the main creative staff must be there. Xiao Yao's promotional activities for "Wali" in the United States started from this New York International Comic and Animation Fair.

  This year’s New York International Comic Con will be held from October 4th to 7th, lasting for four days, which happens to be during China’s National Day holiday.

  On October 1st, as soon as China had a holiday, Xiao Yao set off for New York, USA.

  The number of Xiao Yao and his party is not very large. Tong Luo and some of his company's backbones are the main ones who accompanied him. He still only brought Pei Minyi with him.

This time in the United States, Xiao Yao’s main task is to promote "Wali". Although he will also appear on some American TV shows, these arrangements are all arranged by Disney to help Xiao Yao. Pei Minyi, an assistant, will be enough to help communicate and communicate. , It is not that Defang still has the agent present. The domestic personal studio is still in the stage of establishment, and Xiao Yao Jiang Fang still stays in the country to host.

  Disney is headquartered in Burbank, in Los Angeles County in the western United States. However, this time when it comes to New York to participate in the exhibition, Disney must have sent someone to New York for preparatory work. After Xiao Yao and his party arrived in New York, people from Disney were naturally responsible for receiving and arranging the itinerary.

  Although Xiao Yao is a Chinese native, he has come to New York quite a few times, so there is no need for people from Disney to arrange for him to travel or visit. After arriving in New York, they took a rest in the hotel for a day, and the next day they went to the exhibition site with the Disney staff.

  The New York International Comic Con will be held at the Javits Convention Center in New York. This is the largest convention and exhibition center in New York, with an area of ​​more than two million square feet and various supporting facilities. Xiao Yao used to come to New York not for Sun Tingting or for photography projects. This convention and exhibition center was only for large-scale exhibitions and was not suitable for show venues for press conferences. Therefore, it was the first time that Xiao Yao came to this place.

  However, Xiao Yao and others are most concerned about Disney's booth. After a hurried stroll around the Javits Convention Center under the leadership of Disney staff, the group came to the Disney booth.

  The New York International Comic Con will not open until the day after, and the booth construction has not yet been completed. However, from the standpoint of this uncompleted booth, Xiao Yao also had to praise Disney as a big company with confidence. Regardless of the location of the booth, the various equipment and scene layouts are also exquisite and atmospheric. Just a giant display screen hanging above the booth is enough to make people stunned.

  Disney is a large global enterprise, and it is also very good in animation derivatives. In addition to handing over the distribution rights of theater chains in North America to Disney, Xiao Yao also licensed the movie derivatives to Disney. However, Xiao Yao, in line with the idea of ​​making money while appropriately supporting domestic enterprises, retained the copyright of the Huaxia region, and gave Disney the authorization to produce and sell derivatives outside the Huaxia region.

  It has only been more than a month since the two parties reached an agreement. The handbook of derivative products that Disney can produce at this exhibition is already very rich and exquisite.

There are a lot of movie character dolls and small models and other gift figures, not to mention, the anti-gravity flying toy of "Eve" can not be made with the current level of technology, but the "Wali" made by Disney It's much more advanced.

Before the movie was released in China, Xiao Yao also found a domestic manufacturer to make a "Wali" toy car, but the "Wali" made in China can only run around, at most, move his arms. Disney’s "Wali" toy car can not only run, move arms, and open and close the chest. Just like in the movie, you can sweep the garbage on the ground into your own "belly" by hand, similar to the current one. The only difference for the sweeping robot is to squeeze the garbage into cubes and then release it.

When "Wali" was released in China, especially in the early stage of its release, some large models of "Wali" were also made in various theaters of China and placed in the lobby of the theater for publicity purposes, but they were similar to those at the Disney show. Compared to the large model, it pales in comparison.

  On both sides of Disney’s booth, there are two giant “Wali” models that are more than two meters high and can be moved by remote control. Of course, these two are definitely not the protagonist "Wali" in the movie, but are based on the giant "Wali" that cleans up the garbage in the spaceship in the film. The most obvious difference is that they don't have that pair of particularly smart eyes. But putting this thing here, this physique is quite eye-catching.

  Seeing these things, in addition to feeling that Disney is rich, Xiao Yao also sees that Disney attaches great importance to this animation exhibition and really put a lot of effort in the promotion of this movie.

  After understanding the layout of Disney's exhibition area, Xiao Yao couldn't fault everything that Disney did, and could not make any better suggestions. He waited for the animation show to open with peace of mind.

  New York Comic Con is only the beginning of the promotional activities of "Wali" in North America. In addition, Xiao Yao also cooperates with the distributor to carry out other promotional activities, such as participating in American TV shows, such as road shows. These activities are arranged by Disney's help for Xiao Yao, and it is also necessary to communicate with Xiao Yao's team to determine the itinerary.

  This time Xiao Yao brought Pei Minyi with him and did this. Although Pei Minyi said it was Xiao Yao's assistant, under the subtle influence of Xiao Yao and Fang, Pei Minyi also unknowingly took on part of the work of the agent. Although he was very resistant to business negotiations on behalf of Xiao Yao, Pei Minyi could still do things like confirming the itinerary with the partner and helping Xiao Yao arrange travel plans.

  The opening of the animation exhibition is the day after tomorrow. Other publicity activities are after the animation exhibition. After visiting the exhibition venue and Disney's booth, Xiao Yao also has a day of free time. Contacting, communicating, arranging itineraries Pei Minyi did these things, and Xiao Yao used this day's free time to do some personal affairs and visited his old friends in New York.

Among Xiao Yao’s acquaintances and friends in the United States, most of them live in Los Angeles. After Sun Tingting returned to China, Xiao Yao’s friends in New York were the only two leaders of the "Rapid Current" dance troupe who started dancing in New York. The studio's Paul Nairn and Terrence Jackson are also TJs.

  Some pre-advertisements for "Wali" have already begun. In terms of publicity, Yang Xiao, a producer, director, screenwriter, dubbing and other identities of Hua Xia Tian, ​​is the focus of publicity in addition to the movie itself. As early as Disney announced on its official website that it would make "Wali" appear at the New York Comic Con, and also announced that the core creator Yang Xiaohui will appear at the Comic Con, so TJ and Paul know that Xiao Yao will come to New York in the near future.

   Before coming to New York, Xiao Yao also sent a message to Paul and TJ, but he was not sure about the itinerary at the time, and did not meet with the two of them. The two knew that Xiao Yao was here for publicity, and they did not take the initiative to contact Xiao Yao to disturb him.

  At this time, Xiao Yao was free. After contacting the two, the two of course welcomed Xiao Yao very much.

  Xiao Yao has been to TJ and Paul’s studios, and he didn’t need anyone to pick him up. He got there by himself. After arriving, they found that TJ and Paul were already waiting for him in the studio.

  The two first congratulated Xiao Yao's film for being released in the United States, and then they chatted about their current situation.

  The recent situation of Xiao Yao is very exciting. Both TJ and Paul had seen their performance in the Masters at the beginning of the year on TV. Then Xiao Yao went to South Korea to participate in the film festival, TV shows, these are not unusual for the two, but grabbing anti-fans and participating in e-sports competitions and also won a team championship, so the two of them were dumbfounded. Up. Then the animated film "Wali" was released in China. He took people to the United States to make parkour movies, and finally came to the United States to promote "Wali" recently.

  Compared with Xiao Yao's wonderful life, the lives of these two people are much more prosaic. I ran a dance studio and taught some students how to dance hip-hop. Whenever I had the opportunity, I would serve as a choreographer instructor in a film and television crew, and lead students to perform some roles. In the four years since the studio was established, they are still doing this basically.

   "Yang, see you often come to the United States and New York, we always want to visit China!" After talking about each other's current situation, Paul said to Xiao Yao.

"Go if you want!" Xiao Yao smiled, "Dean and the others went to China for the summer vacation last year, and I took part in the China TV show together. If you want to play for China, I It must be a good treat."

   "Okay!" The two happily said, "We have long wanted to go to China!"

"But I will stay in the United States for a while, and then I will go to Europe to run a lap." Xiao Yao said, "If you want to go to China in the near future, I am definitely not here, but I can arrange for other people to receive you. That's right. , Rick is working at a fashion brand that my sister and I cooperated with. He has been in China for several years and speaks Chinese very well. If you go to China, you can let him receive you and take you to play ."

   "Actually, we want to go to Huaxia. In addition to traveling and playing, we are also wondering if there is a chance to develop in Huaxia!" Paul looked at Xiao Yao.

   "What? Are you not doing well in the United States?" Xiao Yao asked strangely.

"It's not bad, it's just a bit boring." TJ Tanshou said, "There is very little work in the film and television crews as choreographers and guest roles. It takes about a year to have one or two. Here in the dance studio, we both The students who teach are already able to take students, and now some new students don’t need us to teach by ourselves. We just want to find something else to do."

"We want to go to China to see it. Traveling is costly. It would be better if we could make some money by the way." Paul laughed, "You didn't mean that Dean participated in China with you when they went to China. TV show? Do we have that kind of opportunity?"

   "Dean and the others participated in the show and I was dragged to help, they were not paid!" Xiao Yao smiled.

   "That's okay without payment!" Paul said immediately.

   "But I rarely participate in dance shows in China!" Xiao Yao said, "And I won't be back to China recently!"

   "Then you can recommend some opportunities for us!" TJ said, "You don't have to be with you!"

   "Recommend?" Xiao Yao smiled, "What else do you do besides dancing?"

   "Does the choreography count?" Paul asked.

"Forget it!" Xiao Yao nodded with a smile, "I know a lot of star singers in China, and they need choreography when they hold concerts! Or let me ask, see who is going to hold a concert in the near future, and recommend you guys. give them?"

  TJ and Paul are relatively well-known in the American street dance circle, and they also have a certain reputation in the choreography industry in the film and television circle. If you can invite these two to do choreography and backing dancers for the concert, I believe most singers in China will not refuse.

   "Concert?" TJ asked, "Will it be on TV? Will there be features? Will we introduce our names?"

   "So you actually want to show your face on Huaxia's TV?" Xiao Yao said that he could see the real purpose of the two, and said funny.

   "Yes!" Both of them nodded, "How can we increase fans without showing our faces on TV?"

"Let's do it," Xiao Yao thought for a while, and said to the two of them, "China has some dance TV programs, but it is definitely not appropriate to participate in the competition as a student based on your level and resume. If you don't mind If you do, I can recommend you to be a choreographer in China’s dance reality show. Although you will not be on stage and will not appear on stage, but those shows will show a lot of behind-the-scenes scenes. You can still show your face. fulfilled."

   "Dancing reality shows, there are also in the United States!" Paul said.

   "Yes!" Xiao Yao said, "But don't you just want to show your face on China's TV show? I can only recommend you to be a choreographer on China's dance reality show!"

   "Yes!" The two looked at each other and nodded together, "We can also see if the Huaxia people learn to dance so fast, just like you!"

   "But," Xiao Yao emphasized again, "I just recommend it, and I can't guarantee it will work! In fact, I think it will definitely work, but I don't know when it will happen. It may be next year at the latest!"

With the level and experience of these two people, it’s no problem to be a mentor in China’s reality dance show. However, Xiao Yao is not sure whether the current dance reality show in China has already found a teacher. Can you temporarily cram people? But in any case, at least book the next season's show in advance, and let them go to China for a visit next year at the latest. Xiao Yao thinks it should be no problem.

   "OK, no problem!" Both of them said.

  This kind of thing is nothing more than to find out about the TV stations and video websites that do dance reality shows. Xiao Yao doesn’t have to do it himself. Fang still has a lot of dealings with several domestic TV and video websites in recent years. The contacts are already very familiar, and he happened to stay in the country. Xiao Yao still contacted Fang and handed the matter over to Fang. still.

  Fang still came to New York with Xiao Yao, not only met Paul and TJ, but also spent a lot of time together. She has watched these two people dance and heard Xiao Yao talk about their experiences, and she has a better understanding of their abilities and experiences. Hearing Xiao Yao's explanation of the whole story, Fang still took it without any problems.

  (End of this chapter)