Video Game Empire

The Oriental Group used to recruit talents from the United States, mainly targeting Chinese people, especially the first-generation immigrants from Asia to study in the United States. Because most of these new immigrants have not yet fully integrated into American society.

The difference between Eastern and Western cultures is actually very obvious, which is also an important reason why Chinese often encounter glass ceilings in American workplaces. The main reason why they choose to stay in the United States is that there are better development opportunities there. But when the Chinese-speaking cultural circle can provide the same opportunities, most of them are willing to come back to develop, because there is a living environment that can make them feel more familiar and comfortable!

The situation facing DreamWorks Asia is completely different. The presence of Chinese in the American film industry is very low. Although Los Angeles, like San Francisco, is one of the cities with the most Chinese in the United States, the intersection of Chinese and Hollywood is far less close than that of Silicon Valley! Therefore, the teams that Asian DreamWorks brought back from the United States are almost all white.

Just like when Chinese people go to the United States, they are rarely able to integrate into American culture in the first place, and it is unlikely that Americans will really be attracted to this city after they come to Hong Kong, and then they will take root here! What's more, Hong Kong's economic level, although it is already at the forefront in Asia, still has a big gap compared with the world's number one boss, the United States.

Like John Lasseter left Di 』⌒ dǐng 』 ⌒ǎn 』 ⌒ Xiao 』⌒ said, .2 ∷ ↙ Disney, the most important reason is that Disney can not meet his future development plan! The reason why he is willing to come to Hong Kong to develop is because he needs to produce a perfect computer animation to prove his vision is correct.

Now only Li Xuan can provide Lasseter with sufficient funds, but when he proves his worth, he is bound to return to Hollywood soon, because that is the center of world cinema!

So if Kung Fu Panda is a success, at most John Lasseter will make one more animation for DreamWorks Asia. Because two consecutive successful works are enough for him to convince Disney or other Hollywood film companies to invest in himself!

DreamWorks Asia must be done before these Americans return to Hollywood. Let the successor team you cultivate learn enough! The production process of the previous "Kung Fu Panda" lasted three and a half years, and the grass-roots team of Asian DreamWorks has initially understood how to use computers to make animated films.

Regardless of the next box office of "Kung Fu Panda", DreamWorks Asia will continue to invest. In fact, the company's next new project has been completed, and Fang Weimin will participate in the new project as an assistant director.

There is still a big difference between making a game and making a movie. In particular, the director has a very professional position, and he is simply not competent if he has not been immersed in this industry for a few years. Fang Weimin can be regarded as the backbone of the young and middle-aged generation of Shanghai Art Studio, so he was selected by DreamWorks Asia.

In 1979, Huhai Art Studio began to produce an animated feature film "Na Zha Nao Hai" after the chaos was set. Fang Weimin was one of the art designers of this animation. After that, he independently directed and filmed two short animated short stories about ten minutes.

In 1982, Huhai Art Studio began to shoot the first animated feature film from the 1980s, "Fantasy Books", and Fang Weimin had been promoted to the assistant director of the film at this time! You must know that Wang Shuchen and Qian Yunda, the two directors of "Book From the Sky", are both veterans who have started art production before the founding of the People's Republic of China!

If Fang Weimin stayed at Shanghai Art Studio, he would wait five or six years until the directors of the older generation retire. Naturally, he can wait until the opportunity to take the lead, but he still chose to go out! Of course, this is also inseparable from the seduction of Asian DreamWorks. DreamWorks can not only provide many times higher wages, but also help him immigrate to Hong Kong.

This kind of temptation was really hard for the Chinese in the 1980s to resist! Over the years, as long as the domestic talents are favored by the Oriental Group, when they launch a recruitment offensive. There are almost no misses! After all, people go to high places, and water flows to low places. And the treatment that the Eastern Group can provide. Much higher than the national average!

"Abiao, you have just joined the job, and you will receive a period of training next! This time must not be wasted. Your current English level is not bad, so improving your computer skills is the top priority! Wait for half a year to practice. After the end of the period, you will have a positive assessment!

If your grades are good enough. Brother, I can think of a way to transfer you directly from China to Hong Kong! The core of our DreamWorks is in Hong Kong, and the branch over the deep sea will only undertake some secondary tasks in the next few years!

Don't think that the salary offered by the deep sea branch has been doubled compared to the previous time at the Shanghai Film Studio. Just feel satisfied! If you can transfer to Hong Kong next year, I guarantee your salary will start from 6,000 Hong Kong dollars! "Fang Weimin exhorted Rolubiao patiently.

Fang Weimin will then participate in the production of DreamWorks' next animated film as an assistant director. This also means that Fang Weimin has become a major training target of Asian DreamWorks. The director of the new project is still Lasseter, but this is likely to be his last animated film at DreamWorks Asia.

And the team that DreamWorks has cultivated itself will soon need to start acting on its own. Fang Weimin is determined to do something, and naturally he will not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so he has already intentionally started to form his own team in advance!

He's not the only seeded player at DreamWorks, knowing that competition is ubiquitous within the company. In the next project, together with Fang Weimin, there is another Chinese director who will help Lasseter. Fang Weimin's competitor was born in other TV animation production companies of ATV Group, and his strength is not inferior to him!

"Big Brother Fang, I remember everything you mentioned! In the next six months, even if I have a stab at the head, I will definitely supply the computer!" Luo Lu nodded his head and said.

DreamWorks set up a branch in the Deep Sea Special Zone this time and recruited more than 50 people in one go. There are also more than a dozen new employees who came to the Hong Kong headquarters to visit and study in the same group as Luo Lubiao. The reason why Fang Weimin fell in love with Luo Lubiao at a glance, in addition to the relationship between the two are alumni, Luo Lubiao's ability to communicate fluently in English is also a very important factor!

When Luo Lubiao was studying at the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University, he had a romantic story with a girl from Shanghai International Studies University. The girl is determined to study abroad, and Rolubiao wants to sleep and fly with the person she loves. It was also prepared to compete for the places to study abroad at public expense.

It's a pity that this love withered for some other reasons before the end of the university! But Rolubiao's English ability has improved by leaps and bounds, and he is not learning dumb English.

The two people who were in sweet love at the beginning all used English to communicate with each other, which also greatly exercised Rolubiao's English ability. Luo Lubiao a few years ago never imagined that good English would become an important boost in his career.

Just after the movie screening ended. The core production team of "Kung Fu Panda" had a free exchange with these new employees from China for more than an hour! Because the main creative team of the film is mostly blue-eyed and blonde Americans, the scene naturally communicated in English.

Among them, only Fang Weimin and two other new colleagues can barely communicate directly with these foreigners in English. In DreamWorks Asia, fluent English is the most basic condition for quickly integrating into the team. After all, if you want to learn from foreigners as much as possible, you must take the initiative to accommodate them!

"Lao Luo, it seems that you are also well-kept, and you still have a backer in the Hong Kong headquarters!" Luo Lubiao just separated from Fang Weimin, and several other colleagues from China came together. He stepped forward and joked.

"Brother Fang also came out of Huhai Beauty Film Studio, and he is my senior! He asked me to know the current situation of some old friends in the factory, and it has nothing to do with the backing!" Naturally, they will not reveal all the previous conversations between the two.

"This "Kung Fu Panda" cost 30 million US dollars, and it has exceeded 100 million yuan in RMB. Is it true or false? How can an animation cost so much money!" Others are obviously not true The concern of Luo Lubiao and Fang Weimin's concern is just casual talk. Everyone's attention is now focused on the cartoon that has just been watched.

"Do you think it's necessary for the company to cheat in front of us? It's not even necessary to resort to this method! Our schedule for tomorrow morning. It's arranged to visit the rendering farm used for animation production!

I have seen reports before about the supercomputer that was successfully developed in our country not long ago - 'Galaxy-1'. The computing power is 100 million operations per second. And this rendering farm was refitted with the "Pearl of the Orient" supercomputer developed by Hong Kong itself, with a computing power of up to 5 billion times per second!

The cost of this rendering farm alone is as high as 5 million US dollars, which already accounts for one-sixth of the total cost! So really, $30 million doesn't seem like a lot of money! Didn't General Manager He just say that the production budget of the next cartoon is 25 million US dollars! I guess the main reason for the drop in costs is that many existing devices do not need to be repurchased! "The other person immediately analyzed.

"You said that our company spends so much money. How many movie tickets must be sold to recover the cost?" Another person began to worry.

In fact, these newcomers are not the only ones who are worried. The director of the distribution department of the Asian film industry has not slept well after flying from Hong Kong to Los Angeles! "Kung Fu Panda" is already in the works for release, and the production cost of this film is so high that the Asian film industry has never imagined it. The Asian market alone will recover the cost, and only the North American market will be the key to the success or failure of this film!

In fact, Asian Films also has its own distribution channels in the American film market. But for a big production like "Kung Fu Panda", only a large-scale release can have the chance to recover the cost! In the United States, there are only a few giants that have such distribution capabilities.

Asian Pictures initially planned to seek cooperation with Disney. After all, for animation, the profit of peripheral products is sometimes even more important than the box office. And Disney's ability to operate in this regard is significantly stronger than other major Hollywood giants.

However, the conditions set by Disney are extremely harsh. They are only willing to buy out all the North American copyrights of the movie at a price of 15 million US dollars, and they are not willing to split the account at all. This is simply unacceptable to the Asian film industry, so the company finally chose to cooperate with Universal Pictures. After all, the two sides have already had a good example in the release of "Sleepless in Hong Kong" before!

The distribution department of Universal Pictures directly set a budget of 15 million US dollars for the advertising plan of "Kung Fu Panda" in two days. Promotional costs are half of production costs, as has been the norm for Hollywood film distributions for many years. But this part of the expenses are all on the producer side, which is the total investment of Asian Pictures in the "Kung Fu Panda" film, which will actually reach 45 million US dollars.

According to Hollywood's accounting ratio, the actual box office revenue received by the producers is only about half of the total box office! That is to say, if "Kung Fu Panda" wants to make a direct return through the box office, its total box office must reach at least 90 million US dollars. In the U.S. last year, fewer than ten films grossed more than $90 million at the box office.

Therefore, the entire team responsible for the distribution of "Kung Fu Panda" at Asian Pictures is naturally under enormous pressure! In contrast, Li Xuan, the big boss, is very relaxed! Even if "Kung Fu Panda" really loses money, it is not a traumatic thing for him!

In fact, he had already made plans to accept failure before. After all, a new thing always has to experience all kinds of setbacks from birth to maturity! Therefore, Asian DreamWorks is not actually a wholly-owned subsidiary of Asian Pictures, on the contrary, its major shareholder is Asian Holdings.

Because the financial data of Asian Films must be included in the statements of the listed company Asian Entertainment Holdings. And if a project like "Kung Fu Panda" with an investment of up to 30 million US dollars falls into the sand, it is likely to swallow most of the profits of the listed company in an instant.

Once this happens, it will definitely be a disaster for Asia Entertainment Holdings. Therefore, Asian Pictures only has a 20% stake in DreamWorks, and is mainly responsible for the later distribution work. The company's main funds come from Li Xuan himself, and only his net worth can afford to play such a game!

"Mr. Spielberg~www.readwn.com~ Do you think this video developed by the Oriental Graphics Studio can reach the level of being fake?" Li Xuan asked the Jewish guy in front of him with a smile.

"Kung Fu Panda" is not Li Xuan's ultimate killer. Compared with the character in front of him, Lasseter can only be regarded as a nobody! Li Xuan just watched "Kung Fu Panda" with the most famous director in Hollywood.

Spielberg expressed his amazement and admiration for a Hong Kong company that could completely rely on computers to produce such a sophisticated animated film! But after all, he is a character who is used to seeing big scenes, which is not enough to completely calm him.

What really shocked Spielberg was the 30-second Easter egg placed at the end of the film! A Tyrannosaurus rex with a **** mouth and a big mouth broke into the screen very abruptly. The murderer's bloodthirsty eyes, sharp teeth, and tight muscles while running made him feel like he was really in the Jurassic era!

But all of this is computer-generated! The computer technology shown to him by the richest man in the world today has completely surpassed the level that Spielberg enjoyed at ILM! He had to start taking it seriously, the script on his lap! (To be continued.)