Chapter 281: Precious Moments
It's still that conference room, it's still that table, Qiao Feng and George Lucas still sit opposite each other, and then sign their names on the acquisition contract.
Then the two smiled and shook hands again, one was happy to sell and the other was happy to buy.
It's a pity that at this time, no one knows how much impact this transaction will have and how much value the things in the transaction will become, so only a dozen people from both sides can see the signing scene.
At the moment of shaking hands with George Lucas, Qiao Feng was thinking that it would be nice to have a flashing spotlight at this time, many years later, it will be a very precious thing in the history of film, and then his handsome face will appear in many TV shows with photos reviewing the history of film.
It's a pity, Qiao Feng sighed secretly and didn't prepare early.
Of course, he can also let the people from Lucasfilm take pictures, this is a film company, and the most important thing is the photographic equipment, let alone taking pictures, even from beginning to end it is no problem to shoot videos compared to movies.
But I can't afford to lose that person, let Lucas hold his hand and wait, or wait until he is ready to take a picture and shake hands again, I really can't afford to lose that person, and I can't leave the impression of a dirt bun in front of the Yankees.
Forget it, formalism is unacceptable.
Qiao Feng comforted himself.
Finally signed and the dust settled.
Qiao Feng's hanging heart also let go.
He was not afraid that he would not be able to buy it in the end, because the only possible competitor, Jobs, did not have much money at this time.
A few years ago, when Apple went public, Jobs did become a billionaire, and more than 100 million US dollars, but since last year, because the price of newly developed products is too expensive, and the blue giant IBM has also begun to wake up, and has also launched personal computers, seizing a large part of the market, Apple's stock price has plummeted.
At that time, Jobs sold all his shares and left Apple, you can imagine how much money he can sell, and ten years later, when Toy Story was released, Pixar's stock price rose sharply, and Jobs was worth a billion dollars, so he was re-invited back by Apple, and you can imagine how much money Jobs can have ten years ago who left Apple in embarrassment.
It's dead, and Qiao Feng estimates that it's one or two hundred million dollars.
Then how much money can he come up with to compete with Qiao Feng, he will definitely not be able to compete with Qiao Feng, but Qiao Feng doesn't want to make George Lucas, a fisherman, profit because of the competition between the two sides.
It's good now, it's really good, I bought it with nine million dollars, which is one million dollars less than the purchase price of the original space-time Jobs, Qiao Feng is very satisfied.
After buying the computer animation department, Qiao Feng immediately changed his name, DreamWorks Animation Studio, which Qiao Feng wholly owned.
I don't know what Jobs's mood will be after learning that the computer animation department was bought by Qiao Feng, maybe angry, maybe indifferent, but no matter what, it has nothing to do with Qiao Feng.
I don't know if Jobs will be able to return to Apple without Pixar, but Qiao Feng has always been at the level of Jobs's evil, even without Pixar, he will still be the boss of the IT industry, and he is still likely to be invited back to Apple.
However, it has nothing to do with Qiao Feng.
After a period of publicity, the last emperor is finally going to be released.
Liang Jiahui, Gong Li, Chen Hong They don't know if they are known by some American audiences, and they don't know how many they know and remember, but the movie of the last emperor is understood and remembered by many people, and Pu Yi, the last emperor of the mysterious ancient Oriental country, is also remembered by many people.
One day in April, the last emperor advanced to the field.
Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and other cities have held advance screenings, and then Twentieth Century Fox invited many media people and film critics to participate in the advance screening.
Not only are these people invited to watch movies for free, but they also give souvenirs, and they also give money in private.
Qiao Feng from the 21st century looks down on the so-called film critics, how many of these people are really film critics for the sake of film criticism, and how many of them are film critics who have a position for money, Qiao Feng knows the urine nature of these people very well.
In the Internet era of national self-media, film critics are bullshit, thinking that they are independent after their legacy, that they have unique tastes, that they are elegant, and that the truth is always in the hands of their few.
However, except for those films that are maliciously smeared by competitors, basically all films that film critics don't like and don't like will basically have a good box office, and all films that film critics see as classics basically don't want to make a difference at the box office.
But that is the 21st century, the national self-media, no longer a few people have the right to speak, and now it is the eighties, I have to say that the film critics at this time are still very weighty, it is not an exaggeration to say that a group of film critics can influence hundreds of thousands of people or even millions of people to watch the movie.
Therefore, Twentieth Century Fox will give thousands, tens of thousands of dollars to invite these film critics, even if these people don't praise the good movies in the column, don't let them say bad.
"It's a fascinating story...... Pu Yi has become history, and he symbolizes the idea that through education, the individual can be radically changed, and this film allows the audience to have an objective understanding of the red regime in the East."
The director uses flashbacks to show the complicated life of Pu Yi, the last emperor of the ancient Oriental Kingdom, in order to show the historical waves of China in the past century, which can be called an epic work. The film's cinematography, art, and costumes are extremely exquisite, striving to show the real China at that time. There is no lack of wonderful photography in the film, and the use of light and shadow is also a textbook-level skill, especially the use of natural light in photography, which is very proficient. In the scene where Pu Yi ascended the throne, the backlight effect created by natural light created a strong sense of history and highlighted the loneliness of the Qing Dynasty. When all of this unfolded before my eyes for the first time on the big screen, I was left with nothing but amazement."
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"The evaluation is good, no matter what the box office is, at least, in terms of depth, you are considered successful this time." Qiao Feng put down the newspaper in his hand and said with a smile.
"Really?" Gong Li asked in surprise, and Chen Hong also looked at it with a blank eye, for fear that Qiao Feng would just read it, and now he was talking about teasing them.
"Of course, what's in it for me to lie to you." Qiao Feng glanced at the two beauties, then looked at Li Hanxiang and said with a smile: "Director Li, you can rest assured now, you can sleep peacefully at night, right?"
Qiao Feng is half joking and half really concerned, Li Hanxiang is not in good health, directing such a movie of the last emperor that is extremely large in terms of content and participating cast and crew is quite laborious, and after filming, he is busy doing the post-production, and after the post-production, he is busy running publicity, and he hasn't had a good rest for almost a year.
As the release time gets closer and closer, the pressure in his heart is getting bigger and bigger, he is very old, the quality of sleep is not good, plus all kinds of worries, don't want to sleep well at night.
There was still a time when Liang Jiahui said that he leaked his mouth, and Qiao Feng knew that during the time when Li Hanxiang came to the United States, he basically relied on sleeping pills to sleep at night.
Now that the movie reviews are coming out in advance, most of them are praised, and I can finally feel less stressed.
Qiao Feng was also relieved, otherwise he was really worried that if he continued to be so high-pressure, Li Hanxiang would hang on to his hands.