After all, the negative reviews affected the box office of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons".

After the third grade of junior high school, the number of newly added movies was overtaken by Jackie Chan's "Kung Fu Yoga".

"Havoc in Tianzhu" was also drowned in the saliva of the audience. Baoqiang's experience is sympathetic, but this is not the reason for him to feed the audience shit.

The film's good performance is mainly due to the fact that there are fewer movies to choose from during the Spring Festival.

Han Han's performance is quite stable, and "Riding the Wind and Waves" is also supported by Deng Chao, Peng Yuyan and Zhao Liying, and the performance trend is gratifying.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the last day of the holiday, just as everyone was beginning to calm down and head home, on the other side of the ocean, Disney dropped two depth bombs in one go, catching the world's film industry off guard.

Disney has announced the launch of a remake of the classic animated film "The Lion King" and preparations for a live-action version of "Aladdin"!

Cheng Yu'an is behind these two films. After a major film company lacked original driving force, it aimed at the classic remake market.

"The Lion King" and "Aladdin" were both the result of Cheng Yu'an's personal discussions with Disney.

A major film company bought the rights to remake two films under the Disney label.

We talked about copyright last year, but it’s only now that we’re really ready.

Fans are immersed in the anticipation of the classic remake, but the focus of the circle is not this.

After ten or twenty years, why did Disney suddenly want to remake these two cartoons?

A careful investigation revealed that the actual operators of these two projects were Cheng's aunt and nephew.

It is difficult to judge the profitability of the two films. The judgment given by domestic filmmakers is that after a major film company broke up with Universal, it had no choice but to switch to Disney, the strongest among the six major film companies.

And hot potatoes like "The Lion King" and "Aladdin" are the problems Disney poses to a major film company, and it is also Cheng Yuanna's investment certificate.

The two animated films have countless fans around the world. If a major film company messes up these two films, Disney's internal rating of a major film company will definitely drop, which will not be beneficial to the subsequent cooperation between both parties.

Countless domestic companies expressed their “willingness to help” immediately.

Although Cheng Yuan proposed very harsh investment conditions, they still swarmed up like flies.

Make money at the box office?

How it will turn out, no one knows.

Twenty years later, no one knows whether the audience still likes it or not.

Betting on the box office is too childish.

What they want is the banner of "The Lion King" and "Aladdin" to speculate in stocks and attract investment!

Will Cheng Yuan satisfy them?

He really knows how to do it!

The cost of these two films was close to $500 million!

A major movie company cannot or is unwilling to pay so much money. Moreover, in the contract with Disney, not a cent of the subsequent streaming media and peripheral income of the two films will be given to a major movie company.

No matter what Cheng Yuan said, Disney would not let go.

What a joke, Disney only made a few bucks at the box office, but Disney made a lot of money selling dolls and licensing peripherals.

How can you give up this profit?

Therefore, in the end, a major movie company only has the box office revenue of the film - which Disney does not want. If it takes another bite at the box office, a major movie company will switch to Fox.

Moreover, Disney is quite "kind" and only charged a friendly price for the global distribution of the two films.

This resulted in extremely high costs for the two films and huge pressure on profitability!

Cheng Yuan must find a partner to share the risk.

The two movies on Chu Six were officially announced, and on Chu Seven it was found out that Cheng Yuan was behind the scenes.

In the days that followed, Cheng Yuan never came back before 1 o'clock in the evening.

Not only domestic capital, but also Japanese and Korean film companies are involved.

Senior Japanese filmmaker Naozo Ichiyama was commissioned by Toho and took people to the capital that night.

Showbox Vice President Chris Jung led the company's production and investment team to stay at the Beijing Hotel.

Cheng Yu'an is in charge of Asia, and Cheng Lingfeng is in charge of North America and Europe.

The estimated cost of the two films is US$500 million. A major film company's own film fund can allocate up to US$150 million. It's not that it won't be able to spend more, but it's unnecessary. The company's other films are still waiting to use the money.

Free long-distance ferry tickets cost US$110 million.

This is already Yuan Yuan’s largest single investment in overseas film and television in the past two years, and no matter how many companies are willing to invest in it.

Cheng Yuan left the matter to the professional team to discuss, and first went to the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Do you know why remote recruiting is so rare for leadership departments?

In addition to working hard on the work and satisfying the leaders with the results, a large part of the reason for gaining the attention and love of the leadership department remotely is the brilliance of the workmanship.

Tiangong Yicai is the first private company in China to cooperate with the National Supercomputing Center to build a special effects rendering center.

The country has always wanted to promote the commercial use of supercomputers, but firstly, domestic demand is low, and most companies are unwilling to invest resources in this area; secondly, the commercial use of domestic supercomputers started late, and the related supporting facilities are very imperfect. Domestic commercial use

Supercomputing software is very expensive and scarce. Although the state has very generous subsidies, few companies are interested in it.

But Tiangong Yicai is different. As a special effects company with technology as its strongest driving force, he dares to be the first to try something new.

Having reached an early cooperation with the Tianjin Supercomputing Center, over the years, Tiangong Yicai has become the company with the most relevant patents in the country in the field of commercial supercomputing.

This must be due to the long-range investment in R&D regardless of cost, as well as Cheng Yuan's influence in the world of film circles, which can attract a steady stream of orders from around the world for Tiangong Yicai to train the team.

More than 80% of the special effects for "The Lion King" and "Aladdin" will also be jointly handled by Tiangong Yicai and its seven global R&D centers.

These two movies, especially "The Lion King," required a lot of top-notch special effects.

Tiangong Yicai sent an invitation to the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the early preparation stage, asking them to develop graphics rendering tools and special effects software for the two movies.

This is what the country encourages and what the government is willing to cooperate with.

With thousands of Ph.D.s and dozens of academicians, Cheng Yuan really can’t understand why other companies don’t use such a team.

Why is Cheng Yu'an willing to accept Disney's harsh conditions for a remake?

The most important reason is that these two films exercised the special effects team!

As long as we can complete the production of the film excellently, the special effects patents and various tools accumulated during the period will be enough for Tiangong Yicai to break out of Asia and go global, becoming a truly world-class special effects company.

Therefore, a large part of the high costs of these two films will be invested in the development and use of special effects tools.

These are invisible wealth beyond monetary benefits.

This is the most important tool for a country’s film industrialization!

Not only the Institute of Computer Science, but also the scientists at the Institute of Botany and Zoology were fooled by the brilliance of the work.

In the name of sponsoring scientific research, scientists were invited to Africa to conduct research on the scene construction of "The Lion King".

Of course the scientists at the Institute of Zoology and Botany were happy. Funds were already tight, so no outside company would think of sponsoring them.

They have been spending time in Africa with the special effects team since they agreed to collaborate on the film last year. It has been hard work, but they are happy in their hearts.

There is no boss of any company in China who would make movies like Cheng Yuan.

This is his respect and piety for movies, and it is also an important reason why he has been recognized by his superiors.
Chapter completed!