Chapter 134： Business and non-business (1/2)
Pappappap! When the founder of the image engine and Greg Holmes signed his name in Lingtong, there was an applause in the bright conference room. ”The senior representatives of the two companies all smiled happily and stood up to each other. Shaking hands and congratulations: ”Happy cooperation! ”,” Flame movie and image engine will have a bright future! ”
Wang Yang, dressed in a black suit jacket, headed for Greg Holmes, shook his hand vigorously, and said with a smile: ”I believe that soon, the image engine will become a first-class sustainable production company. But Gray Ge, it depends on you. ”Greg chuckled and nodded confidently:” In a month's time, I will bring a whole new look to the image engine. ”Wang Yang nodded with a smile:” Well, of course!”,
Seeing that they separated lightly, the crowd applauded warmly. Amidst applause and laughter, Flame Movies finally completed the acquisition, and obtained 85% of the shares of the image engine at a price of 6 million. 25% of the stock is ready to be given to the talents who will join the company; at the same time, 50 million of operation and development funds are injected, including the purchase and research and development of technology, the expansion of employees, the expansion of business, etc.
The North American box office of ”Junuo” was finally fixed at 212 million, and the overseas box office also had 300 million. The total global box office of 375 million US dollars, with a total of 138 million after-tax income for the flame film; The 30 million brought by the DVD, and the normal profit of the follow-up peripherals and other businesses of the movie ”High School Musical 2” and other businesses, 50 million. If you do n’t spend money, the flame film can reach 300 million US dollars in cash.
However, the studio currently under construction in Vancouver has invested 50 million yuan; the production cost of ”Sweetheart” is 20 million yuan; the cost of 17 million yuan that has been spent on the upcoming ”High School Musical Ninth District”. After completing the acquisition and injection of the image engine, Flame The movie's account also has 225.5 million dollars.
Next year's Flame Movies will have multiple large-scale film release plans, and it is expected that ”High School Musical 3” will bring a profit of at least 100 million, and the money is good enough to cope. At present, the production cost of 60 million to 80 million in this Ninth District, of course, a considerable part of the money will be earned by the image engine and fell into the pocket of the special effects team formed immediately.
Now determine the backbone of joining the company ”Sean Walsh, Peter Wools and others, they will become the company's commissar, and also hold key positions. For example, Sean Walsh will be the visual effects supervisor, he also Will be the computer production director of the ”Ninth District”, and the captain of the entire special effects team, including the need to call a modeler, cg animator, etc., to build a team that can do a good job in the ”Ninth District”. Team.
And Peter Wools will be the director of visual effects. His focus is to establish a new department ”i & b” with Blue Sky Studio, to gather programmers and other talents, and research and development projects including 3d engine, software system, cg synthesis technology, etc .; There is also a core project that will become the company's ”killer” goal in the blueprint for the near future. Which movie wants the best results in this area will say ”Go to the image engine”!
This project is ”creation of creatures, creative creatures like aliens in” The Ninth District ”, as well as animals and insects such as wolves, tigers, lions, birds, fish, butterflies, etc. The main technology in research. Although the blue sky is a ”cute” animation style, and the image engine is a real chalk style of ”live”, but like biological skeletonization, texture generation and texture technology of hair, clothing and other elements, etc. , Many are interlinked.
”The forthcoming establishment of Four Shao” made Chris Wakee and Peter Wools very excited, full of confidence and expectation, and said seriously and jokingly, ”This will be the beginning of an image revolution! ”
Expanding the company, convening talent to form new teams, researching and developing new technologies ... these are the work of Greg Boms, Sean-Walsh, Peter Wools and others.
And Wang Yang ’s work is to start the formation of the crew of the ”Ninth District”, and the equipment, venues, props, etc. required for filming. One of the points that science fiction movies are different from real-life movies is that many of the props need to be designed and specially made. Guns and other weapons and equipment, of course, there is also a set; after the crew has done all the preliminary work, Sean-Walsh has also assembled a support team, you can officially start shooting, this time is scheduled for early September .
After signing the contract, everyone laughed happily for a while, and ended the meeting. After Wang Yang and Max Rand sent Greg Holmes and others away, he returned to the chairman ’s office and immediately put He took off his suit and put on his shirt and trousers for summer. He stood by the floor-to-ceiling window and looked at the street scene outside. ”He could feel the martial arts. The strongest day abandoned the young Dazhou week, the night will kill the god, the throne, the royal throne God will kill God God Seal Throne in the night and beg the **** Ao Ninth Heaven to throw away the heat waves of the young and big Zhou royal family. If it is not air-conditioned, it will have been dead!
”Go to the beach!” Wang Yang exhaled with a smile and left the office to the beach not far away, where several friends such as Jessica, Joshua, Zachary and Elin were waiting for him. I just walked out of the company door and saw Nolan coming towards me. Wang Yang raised his right hand and smiled hello: ”Hey, Chris! Why are you here?”
”Yang.” Nolan also greeted him. ”He continued walking and said with a smile:” I'll scoop some files. ”It's a matter of” Memory Fragment. ”
Wang Yang nodded with a smile: ”Oh,” he didn't know what was going on. The company had too many affairs. That was not within his management. He only knew the approximate progress of ”Mr. Hughes”.
As early as April, this biographical film was officially filmed in the studio, using the order of interior view and exterior view. The current interior part is nearing completion; the starring Howard Hughes is ”King of Comedy” Kim Il-Kerry. The media is really surprised, funny, exaggerated body language ... Howard Hughes? Unimaginable! But Nolan and Kim Il-Kerry both said that this was a major screen transformation.
”Chris” Um ... ”Wang Yang suddenly realized something was wrong, and looked at Nolan up and down, only to see that he was wearing a white shirt and black trousers, and a black blazer, under the hair that was combed three to seven There was a layer of sweat on his forehead and a water bottle was scooped on his hand. He smiled doubtfully: ”Man, take your jacket off if it's hot? ”He looked at it like this, and he felt sultry all over.
Nolan shook his head gently and smiled, ”It's okay, it's okay, I'm used to wearing like this.” After a pause, he humorously said again: ”No heat stroke.”,
”Haha! Then I'm relieved.” Wang Yang smiled and gave him a shoulder, pointing in the direction of the beach, and said: ”I'm going to the beach to play, my girlfriend and some friends, paparazzi; swimming , Beach volleyball, do you want to come together? ”Nolan said simply:” No ”Thank you. ”, Wang Yang nodded and smiled:” Ok, I know. Then go in quickly, the air conditioner inside is very cold! ”,
He patted Nolan again on the shoulder: ”Chris, see you later.” Then he walked to the beach.
The news that Flame Movies acquired the image engine and built its own performance company was reported by some media that focused on the film industry the next day. This is also a new thing, because almost no independent film company will have a performance department. The reason is very simple, they are even reluctant to protect themselves, let alone develop a supportive company.
But this thing happened to the flame film, it seems that it is not surprising, ask which independent film company has an animation production subsidiary? At that time, the flame movies with assets of less than 100 million dare to ”snake the elephant” and now it is common to acquire small characters such as the image engine.
However, within a few days, something worthy of some surprise happened. According to some lace gossip media reports, Wang Yang “invested erroneously” to establish a new game development company “Tinder”, and recruited famous rgp game developers Some members of the Black Island studio, no one knows what Miracle Yang is going to do, and the source is his blog, which eagerly writes: ”This is great! The company has recruited a large number of outstanding employees who are full of talent and full of omissions in the game, — ”
After receiving Wang Yang's invitation, Chris Taylor and others considered for half a month and finally nodded in agreement. But they demanded that they have sufficient creative freedom and stable financial support in the development of the game. Of course, Wang Yang agreed that every kind of creation needs freedom. No matter whether they require it or not, he will not be sloppy and professional. It is best for professionals, he is just a player.
With an initial investment of 15 million, he accounted for Tinder's core shares, and Chris Taylor and others held a 25% stake in technology. ”Tinder's company now has to do is to find a game publisher to cooperate: also I talked to Re, who has a good relationship with Black Island Studios, to buy the right to use the game engine.