"Back to the future, I'll leave it to you." Qiao Feng smiled and stretched out his hand and said in English after signing the kiss contract.

"Mr. Qiao is polite, this is what we should do, Mr. Qiao, your company is our old customer." The bearded man opposite Qiao Feng stretched out his hand and shook Qiao Feng, and said with a smile.

"Now let's go back to the future, and in the second half of the year, I still have a movie special effects in my hand to trouble Mr. Lucas's special effects team." Qiao Feng said with a smile.

"The special effects of our industrial light and magic are absolutely the best, and Mr. Qiao can rest assured to cooperate with us." George Lucas, the bearded man who is also the owner of Industrial Light & Magic and Lucasfilm, said proudly.

"This is natural, otherwise the outside world would not say that Mr. Lucas can make a lot of money by creating a department casually." Qiao Feng complimented.

"How come, Mr. Qiao is too good at joking, when it comes to making money, our company doesn't make as much as Mr. Qiao in a movie." Lucas said with a look of envy.

Qiao Feng shook his head in disbelief: "Mr. Lucas is too modest, the Star Wars trilogy and the Indiana Jones series produced by your company are among the top few at the annual box office, which one doesn't make hundreds of millions of dollars, and the Star Wars series is even more popular in the periphery, I heard that in recent years, Star Wars dolls and dolls have been sold all over the world, and we Hong Kong children often see people buying them."

Speaking of this, Qiao Feng paused, raised his eyes to look at Lucas, and continued in a somewhat joking tone: " Not to mention Mr. Lucas, you industrial light and magic, no one knows how the box office is going before the movie we make is released, whether it is a profit or a loss, every time you make a movie is a gamble, the risk is really big.“

Now Lucas really smiled bitterly, Qiao Feng was right, Star Wars and Indiana Jones, that is, the Raiders of the Lost Ark series, did make his Lucasfilm make a lot of money, it can be said that he is the richest director, and the richest director in the next few decades is still George Lucas.

But if you make money, you lose money, take the feature film Yukio Mishima produced by Lucasfilm last year, Lucasfilm did not invest much, but there were millions of dollars, and the box office was only 500,000 US dollars.

And because the protagonist of the film, Yukio Mishima, is an outstanding family, and his book is worshiped as a god, regarded as a treasure, and translated into various languages, but this person is an ultra-nationalist right-winger who wants to restore Yukio Mishima's militarism, and the result is that because of the fear that the right-wingers who worship Yukio Mishima will take the opportunity to disrupt the venue, last year's Tokyo International Film Festival turned away this sensitive film involving Yukio Mishima's homosexuality.

Lucasfilm was very unwilling at the time, because the box office was already bad and there was no hope of recovering the cost, so it was not allowed to participate in the Tokyo International Film Festival award chase, and it even strangled Lucasfilm to let the film win the award at the Tokyo International Film Festival, and then with the award, it was said that it had a good box office.

Lucasfilm did not do anything, and launched and organized a signature campaign with more than 90 foreign filmmakers and writers, including many world-famous directors and playwrights, to protest it, and the Tokyo International Film Festival organizing committee resisted the pressure and insisted on rejecting Yukio Mishima's film.

Even if the film was shortlisted for the main competition unit at the Cannes Film Festival later, and won the technical award and the best artistic contribution award, it still failed to recover the bad box office.

Who let it not take the Palme d'Or?

After smiling bitterly, George Lucas warmly invited Qiao Feng and his party to visit the various departments of his Lucasfilm, because he felt that Qiao Feng's words were alluding to the fact that the five million dollars that ILM earned back to the future two or three parts of the contract just signed was too easy.

George Lucas took Qiao Feng and his entourage to visit the various departments of Lucasfilm, while introducing, while pouring bitter water and saying how this department spends money like running water, how does the input but not output.

Just listen to what he said, it seems that his Lucasfilm is a money-losing goods, and no one will want it for nothing.

Of course, in addition to pouring bitter water, George Lucas also took Qiao Feng and his entourage to visit the showroom, and was particularly interested in telling Qiao Feng which movie used a certain prop in it, focusing on some props in Star Wars, such as the most classic Star Wars cute pet robot R2-D2.

This robot model is also the most popular among movie fans among the best-selling Star Wars peripheral doll toys all over the world.

"Mr. Qiao, don't look back at the future and think that the production is easy because there are not many special effects shots, but in fact, it is quite time-consuming and laborious to make." George Lucas said while taking Qiao Feng and them to a department, which looked like a dilapidated factory, only to find that it turned out to be really like a dilapidated factory, but the staff and various prop models inside would let people know that although it looked broken, it was really something inside.

"Here is the special effects production site of our company's new movie this year, look, this duck hood and this pair of duck feet are the special effects costumes of the protagonist in the movie." Lucas explains, "The main character is a duck from an alien planet."

"We've made more than a dozen sets of this special effects costume for this one alone, ready to change at any time." Lucas paused and emphasized.

Lucas introduced the same, Qiao Feng and his party were amazed by the cooperation, in fact, Qiao Feng and Shi Nansheng were very hard to hold back their smiles.

Because Americans feel that they are the leaders of the film industry, and Industrial Light & Magic is the boss of the special effects industry, plus Qiao Feng has always been very good at letting his subordinates hide, and those special effects artists who follow the Industrial Light & Magic stealers are even more instructive, plus Qiao Feng's special effects company has been learning and developing, and has never made any special effects movies, and is not famous at all, so George Lucas didn't know that Qiao Feng had a special effects company under him, and he had always had a special effects team.

Therefore, George Lucas introduced it very carefully, for fear that Qiao Feng would not understand, and sometimes repeated the introduction, in his opinion, this is also a great opportunity to show his industrial light and magic strength.

Just going back to the more than 100 special effects shots in the next two films, Qiao Feng paid five million dollars as if he had been wronged, such a big customer and a good customer must hold on tightly.

"Mr. Lucas, what does this department do?" After coming out of the model making room and transferring to another department, Lu Cas could not introduce Qiao Feng and asked curiously.