Chapter 761 Decision
The next day, Chu Yu and Huang Ming, Zhao Qinyin and Su Wei had a detailed conversation about the production of the two works again!
In fact, there is nothing to talk about, the net worth of the three of them is basically obtained with Chu Yu, and they have no opinion on whether the investment in the two works such as Spirited Away is high or low!
Their worries are mainly on Chu Yu's side, after all, according to Chu Yu's conception, Chu Yu, who has invested nearly seven or eight billion yuan, is out of the bulk alone, so if the work is broadcast and the results are not good, then Chu Yu may lose a lot!
Especially Spirited Away, the investment of 450 million yuan, calculated by about one-third of the box office share of the electronic music industry, this work is conservatively estimated to have a box office of 1.3 billion to pay back!
Of course, there are many ways to return the cost of animated films, peripherals, advertising placement, copyright sales, adaptation and licensing, and the way to return the cost of serialized animation is almost the same.
But the core of these things is linked to the popularity of the movie, and the popularity of the movie determines the box office and the income of subsequent works.........
If the box office fails, it means that the reputation of the work is not good, and the popularity is sluggish, and in this case, it is basically difficult to rely on other ways to recover the cost!
So..........
There are hundreds of movies released so far this year, but only thirteen of them have grossed more than one billion Dragon Coins!
If Spirited Away sets a box office investment of 450 million, it means that Chu Yu wants to rely on Spirited Away's box office revenue to return to its original cost......... At least this movie has to rush into the top ten of the box office list of all dragons next year........ It's possible!
It's not that Huang Ming doesn't believe in Chu Yu's strength, but indeed, the film industry is still a little unfamiliar to everyone, of course, Huang Ming can forcibly expand his contacts in related aspects, after all, he is a friend of all kinds, film filing, distribution, theater arrangement, publicity or something, as long as there is money, he is confident that he can do it!
But........ After all, I haven't done this before, and my heart is still very empty!
However, after talking with Chu Yu for nearly an hour, he wanted Chu Yu to take it easy and reduce the investment amount appropriately, after all, the uncertainty was too great, and he didn't want Chu Yu to lose too much by then!
A two-hour animated movie, 100 million investment is more than enough, we don't need to compare with the stars!
Huang Ming's idea is simple!
But Chu Yu's mind, Chu Yu knows very well that the finished product of the Spirited Away parallel world version has been seen by Chu Yu, and it is only an investment of 100 million.......... The effect of that is definitely worse than the Miyazaki version is not much worse!
Coupled with the slam dunk master, Chu Yu only took out a quarter of his total net worth, and Chu Yu would not hurt his muscles and bones if he lost all this loss!
Not to mention.......... Slam Dunk and Spirited Away, is it possible?
Chu Yu considered the question of how many times he could earn in the end!
But it was difficult for him to explain to Huang Ming the source of his confidence!
In the end, Huang Ming, who suffered from gains and losses, left!
In the afternoon, Huang Ming also wanted to open!
What kind of person is Chu Yu? Why should you doubt him? Just the investment amount of seven or eight billion yuan scares you?
"It's a shame!" Huang Ming poured down his coffee, and his eyes became bright!
Brother Chu is not afraid, what am I afraid of?
As for Su Wei and Zhao Qinyin, the two of them are basically messing with Chu Yu, since Huang Ming and Chu Yu have decided to do this, then they have no opinion!
Of the total funds of 850 million yuan, the four will contribute their own funds in the proportions of 89.5 percent, 8 percent, 1.5 percent, and 1 percent....... Scrape together the money!
Su Wei and Zhao Qinyin, although they only contributed about one percent, one was 8.5 million yuan and the other was more than 12 million yuan........ This time, most of the share given to them by the previous works has also been taken out to invest in new works!
"After a whole year of hard work, once back to a year ago!" Su Wei paid for it very simply, but it was still inevitable that his heart hurt!
After all, she has never been so generous, and even if the money has only been in her pocket for a few months, she has never taken it out to see it, so she threw it out again, and it is inevitable that she will feel emotional!
"Sister Su, there's nothing to feel sorry for, you know, this is an opportunity that Chu Yu deliberately gave us! Without Chu Yu, we are still working as a street cartoonist and editor........" Zhao Qinyin is very calm!
"To make it clear, it was you who hit the street, and my words have a bright future!" Su Wei immediately corrected Zhao Qinyin!
Of course, Su Yu understands this truth, Chu Yu has paid more than 700 million yuan alone, so naturally he will not care about her two or two hundred million, Chu Yu is the kind of person who attains the Tao alone, and the chicken dog ascends to heaven!
If you make money by yourself, your good friends will definitely make money together, but giving money directly is not in line with Chu Yu's approach, so he deliberately let the two of them become shareholders when the animation company was established!
This is nominally reasonable, and it also takes care of Su Wei and Zhao Qinyin to a certain extent, including Huang Ming's self-esteem!
Otherwise, with the income of this 10% share so far, how many top executives in the industry can Chu Yu ask to help him manage the company?
But to put it mildly, the reason why Chu Yu has few friends is because he doesn't trust people easily, and those people who are invited, even if they call him Chu's father every day, Chu Yu can't get much in on the relationship with others, and after a long time, he will definitely feel angry!
But to help friends, there must also be a name, the company began to develop when the money into shares, to the middle of the development of the money to make works, otherwise why the work has income after the dividends!
Everyone understands the reason, Su Wei is not complaining, but ........ Reluctant!
Although Su Wei is not the kind of person who can give up the bottom limit for money, it doesn't mean that she doesn't love money, gentlemen love money, of course she loves it, but there will be more such things in the future, maybe she will get used to it!
At this moment, the meeting between Huang Ming and Chu Yu ended, the two came out of another room, pushed the door in, and Su Wei and Zhao Qinyin immediately sat upright, arranging their hair and clothes with slight movements, trying to maintain a perfect image!
Of course, this has nothing to do with Huang Ming, the two of them have been staring at Chu Yu all the time!
"Okay, now we all have a unified opinion........." Chu Yu spoke!
Although other people and Chu Yu disagree and can't stop Chu Yu, it's good that there is no disagreement anyway!
"Then from tomorrow, the animation production project of Spirited Away and Slam Dunk will be officially established!"
"But before that, everyone must have known what I had in mind about these two works at the beginning.......... The purpose is to fight against Tianxing!" Chu Yu said in a calm tone.
"So, since it's decided, it doesn't matter if the relevant news is released in advance, the time for the confrontation will be in April and July next year, but from November now.......... We can disgust the stars in advance!"
Chu Yude's words were concise and to the point, and his eyes were mainly focused on Zhao Qinyin!
Zhao Qinyin let out a sigh, knowing what Chu Yu meant.
"Understood, I'll record a video when I go back in the evening, and tell me the news that I have two new works.com.com.cn, Push, fans on Weibo!, and then spread some remarks that make Tianxing's side uncomfortable!"
Chu Yu is sometimes a child, and there is no benefit to this kind of behavior, but Chu Yu is willing to do it!
Although this may make Skystar hate himself, it is not ......... Whatever?
Zhao Qinyin doesn't care about those, as Chu Yu's vest, she not only enjoys the praise that should be enjoyed by Chu Yu, but the hostility between the sunspots and hostile companies in the animation industry is also the first to come to her!
"I will also release this news in the name of the company!" Su Wei, who manages the official website account of the animation company, also said at this time.
"Then I'll go to the Internet water army and some anime critics, and build momentum for the two works first!"
Huang Ming usually connects with Su Wei to external companies!
Huang Ming is more responsible for outsourcing companies and technology, while Su Wei is more responsible for negotiating with partners, such as advertisers!
"Also, such a big investment, and judging from your requirements, Brother Chu, our company's production strength may be insufficient.........." Huang Mingmo also said!
"I think so too!" Chu Yu frowned.
Animation, animation, and screenwriting are really important, but the strength of the producer, director, and person who supervises these positions of the work is equally important!
Martial arts remakes are a good example, different people can shoot different feelings!
Chu Yu has Miyazaki's original Spirited Away animated movie, theoretically speaking, he only needs to imitate the finished product, but how to say it?
Wang Xizhi's calligraphy and painting are there, but you are not a master here, and you are not even qualified to imitate!
As for the slam dunk master, needless to say, the level of animation production of the original work is indeed very average, Chu Yu feels that as long as he gives his company's subordinates and the production funds of normal animation, he doesn't need to talk nonsense, and the level of production is better than the original!
Of course, it's only for painting, and the original production team is not useless, at least the music is really good!
And now, Chu Yu himself thinks that the production staff under his company is a little bit worse!
It's not that they can't, as a low-level employee, the people under Chu Yu's company are very good, after all, the grassroots draftsmen, who is not the same, just like farmers farming, you can still grow golden cabbage?
But high-level personnel ......... It's really a bit worse!
Huang Ming didn't mention this in the past because it was unnecessary!
After all, the works that Chu Yu came up with are some love animations, there are no machine battles, bloody explosions, three-dimensional mobile armor like Attack on Titan, and a high-altitude and difficult shot of quickly shuttling through the city, spinning, and jumping!
At most, it's not the scene where the male and female protagonists kiss and blush........... The difficulty is that the protagonist's micro-expressions make him a little richer, and the difficulty of painting is not a level!
This kind of animation is the same as taking the elementary school math addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, you let undergraduates do it, it's so much, graduate students and doctors do it, it's also so much, who can make flowers?
It's not that high-level talents can't be noted, but it's obviously a waste, so Huang Ming didn't mean to expand high-level talents before!
But now......... The situation has changed!
Slam Dunk is a sports competition at least from the perspective of painting, whether it is the lens or the rendering power, there is a lot of room for high-level talents to play, the difficulty in this world is how to get the money of krypton, not how to find how to maximize the efficiency of kryptonite people!
Since there is such an investment, Huang Ming must also want to make a high-level animation that makes the audience shout for kneeling and kowtowing for the level of the production members after watching it!
And Spirited Away needless to say.......... Two hours of animation and an investment of 450 million yuan mean that the production cost of each minute of animation is about 3 million dragon coins.........
The production cost of a one-minute animation screen in Spirited Away is the production cost of a Slam Dunk episode, which is equivalent to the cost of a house in a remote part of the Tokyo area!
If you don't set up a decent team, Huang Ming feels sorry for the money spent!
Of course, animation production is like this, Spirited Away is not an exaggeration, the production cost of the American animated movie Frozen in the parallel world is nearly one billion RMB, and the hair of the protagonist is really built one by one, a total of 400,000 hairs......... To this end, a software was also developed to serve the hair production of the heroine, which cost tens of millions of dollars!
But the end result is, you get what you pay for!
"Then do you have any ideas?" Chu Yu looked at Huang Ming!
There is a specialization in the art industry, Chu Yu can only provide some technical support on the animation production screen, like this kind of poaching thing, Huang Ming has always been the number one hero!
Otherwise, why did Chu Yu cooperate with Huang Ming for so many years? A multi-functional talent like him, with technology, can brag, make contacts, know how to communicate, and most importantly, he is the only one who can make Chu Yu trust!
"If you have money, everything is easy to do! There are people in this world who are pure-hearted and have few desires, but we don't need that kind of person! With hundreds of millions of production fees, what is it to poach some people? The animation production companies in the Tokyo area are so deductible, and when many people drink and talk freely with me, they just have to stab the boss with a knife behind my back!"
"Ordinary senior talents, it's easy to dig up with a little more money, but the top ones, close to the master-level talents, basically all of them are carrying contracts for several years or even more than ten years, and the original company's liquidated damages start at least 10 million, and most of them have company equity, and they are half the owners of the company, it is not impossible to forcibly dig them, but the cost is indeed too high!" Huang Ming muttered!
"But I thought hard about it today, and I still thought of someone who was a master level, but didn't have all kinds of contracts on his back........." Huang Ming raised his head and looked at Chu Yu.
"Who?" asked Chu Yu.
"Matsuoka Chong!" Huang Ming didn't sell Guan Zi, and said directly!
Mitsuru Matsuoka?
Chu Yu thought about it in his mind.........
Completely......... Not impressed!
Zhao Qinyin and Chu Yu looked at each other, and they were also confused!
But Su Wei pondered for a while........ Suddenly speak!
"Brother Huang, you are not talking about the director who made the animated film of Red Paradise twelve years ago, but after its release, its popularity was dismal, which eventually led to the loss of 200 million dragon coins on the investor, and then collapsed and basically withdrew from the Japanese animation circle......... Matsuoka Mitsuya!"
Su Wei's words depicted all the characteristics of this guy!
When Chu Yu and Zhao Qinyin heard this, their expressions were a little confused!
"That's the person!" Huang Ming smiled.
"This .......... Lost 200 million? What's the situation with this guy?" Chu Yu didn't directly veto this person, but asked about the situation!
Under Huang Ming's narration, Chu Yu gradually understood the background of this person!
In fact, it's very simple, Matsuoka Mitsuru's life experience is similar to that of Chen Kge, a great director in the parallel world, after a peak masterpiece animated movie (Overlord Don't J), unsatisfactory works are one after another.
There is no doubt about the professional level of being a director, but there are many consecutive works that make investors lose money, what's the use of your talent? Talent that can't make investors make money is just a fart!
In the end, he broke the boat, gambled all his fame, and after credit, in exchange for the last trust of investors, an investment of 380 million dragon coins, which lasted two years, and produced the animated film Red Paradise (Wuji), and finally lost 200 million.........
Chen Kage in the parallel world is at least well-connected, although it is rumored that the overlord is directed by his father, and he is a nominal person, but there is no factual basis, so he won't talk about it, but he himself, the connections left by his father at least did not make him completely cold!
But Matsuoka Mitsuru of the Japanese island is really completely cool, although the directorial ability in the animated film industry is the top in the industry, but the nickname of box office poison is daunting!
So he signed a contract with an animation production company because he hit the street many times, and he became a direct hit, and in the 12 years since Red Paradise, no work has been released!
But he is indeed very in line with Chu Yu's requirements, Matsuoka Mitsuru's previous works hit the street, all of which were caused by the script not grasping the needs of the market audience, but he himself is the director and one of the many screenwriters of the works, and participated in the creation of the script!
But Chu Yu's script is there, and what he needs is someone who can let him bring the master animation of Spirited Away to this world!
What is needed is his animation ability, and from this point of view, he really fits!
"Isn't this guy already retired?" this situation!" Chu Yu asked directly.
"It's just what the outside world thinks of him!" Huang Ming sighed!
"It's not that he's retired, it's just that no one wants it!"
"Although the contract with the original company was signed for ten years, it expired after seven years after the broadcast of Red Paradise, and the original company did not renew the contract with him, and he faded out of the Japanese island animation industry for such a long time, and he couldn't find any investors or companies to cooperate with him!"
Now he runs a medium-sized supermarket somewhere in Tokyo with his previous savings, although he has no worries........... Although he is in his fifties, he still talks to his friends about his childhood dream of becoming an animation director on the island of Japan! But if you want to say that if he can make up tens of millions of dollars to restart his dream of restarting animated films, it is not enough for him to sell his old house!" Huang Ming sighed!
Sometimes, life is so helpless, Matsuoka is not much ahead of him in terms of animation production level, but he Huang Ming reported that Chu Yu's thigh is worth hundreds of millions, and such a talent has been buried on the street for more than ten years! Huang Ming's sigh is also very touching!
"How do you know so clearly about him?" Chu Yu asked suspiciously!
"Otherwise, do you think that when I go out to party with friends and drink at night, I really just go to have fun? Although I don't know him, my friends know him!" Huang Ming's expression was excited!
"How can someone like you, brother, understand how I have accumulated so many contacts?"
Huang Ming complained directly, and he was not afraid that Chu Yu would be angry!
"How's that? What do you think? Matsuoka Mitsuru is a candidate!"
"I think it's okay, but we still have to investigate, and people may not be willing to come to our company!" Chu Yu said after thinking about it!