It's the beginning of November, and Xizi Pictures has been established for nine months, during which three self-made animated films of Xizi Pictures are in production, and none of them have been completed, let alone released and released, and there are a lot of movies distributed by agents, after all, there is a big platform to support, and the money that should be made is indispensable.

Xizi Animation Studio, a subsidiary of Xizi Pictures, plus the in-depth cooperation of Shanhai Animation Studio, the division of labor between the two studios is different, the technical members of the two studios alone have more than 500 people, plus other cooperative studios and outsourcing studios, the total number of people is very large, so many people are currently serving three animated films in production at the same time.

The first batch of people who were previously sent to Neon by Shanhai Animation Studio to participate in the animation production of "Strange Man of Mountains and Seas", as well as the first batch of personnel who went to Pixar to participate in the study and production, have all returned and joined the production of these three animations.

The team building has achieved initial results, and there will be no less investment in this area in the future.

At present, the progress of the three animated films is okay, and the fastest one will be completed before the summer vacation next year, and it may be released during the summer vacation.

If it is released on New Year's Day slowly, the production cycle will be about eighteen months, which is not a long or short production cycle for an animated film, but if you delve into the production quality, it is definitely fast, the main reason is that the funds here are really enough, and there will be no stuckness in the funds. In this regard, it can be regarded as catching up with Hollywood's animation production, and even Hollywood, including Pixar, not every movie can have enough funds to burn.

To be honest, even though the other two major shareholders of Xizi Pictures, Penguin and 8 Station, are considered to be wealthy, they are somewhat panicked in the face of such an exaggerated investment proposed by Meng Fan. However, this situation was alleviated soon after, for the simple reason that the animated film exploded at the box office and broke out an animated movie with a box office of more than 5 billion.

Facts have once again proved that as long as it is a sincere work in the Chinese film market, it is possible to harvest unexpected box office, and there is a huge market for local animated films in the Chinese market.

From the big fish to the great sage to Nezha, everything is like this. It is also worth mentioning that the bear infested series, which has been of consistent quality, has always had very good box office returns.

After seeing or seeing the "miracle" of the animation box office, the senior management of Xizi Pictures had the opinion that they hoped to release a film to harvest the box office as soon as possible, but in the end, these ideas were gone, they are all people in the industry, and they know too well what kind of results will appear if they follow the trend, such as the one that followed immediately after the explosion of local science fiction films in China is a very typical example. Moreover, Xizi Pictures is still more inclined to long-term word-of-mouth, and the immediate interests are still relatively light.

In addition to the animated films made by Xizi Pictures, there is also a "five-year three" plan with Pixar, the progress of the first part is faster than here, and the first item of today's meeting is about this film, in addition to the management of Xizi Pictures, there are also staff from Pixar who participate in the form of video conferences.

The result of the negotiation is that it will be released after the Spring Festival, after all, no matter how much cooperation is formed, this film will not be released during the Spring Festival.

This release time is a week earlier than the North American release time, which is not unusual.

After agreeing on the time, it is about the plan for the promotion of the film, in this part, Meng Fan basically has no right to speak, and the layman does not understand.

The content of the second meeting is related to the establishment of the project in the new year, in addition to the film, Xizi Pictures will also be responsible for the production and distribution of some animated series due to the subordinate animation studio and Shanhai Animation Studio. The meeting preliminarily decided that next year's projects include three (seasonal) animations and one animated film entering the production stage.

The most important reason for this is that the current "production capacity" of Xizi Animation Studio and Shanhai Animation Studio is excessive.

The last content of the conference is also the most important content of this conference, that is, about the second Shanhai Animation Festival.

The time is the same as the first one, February 22, and after more than three months, it is now necessary to enter the preparatory stage.

Because the Shanhai Animation Festival is closely related to Penguin and 8 stations, and Xizi Pictures is now the largest animation film company in the Chinese animation industry - even if there is no output yet, but this scale cannot run away - so Xizi Pictures is one of the organizers, and the preparatory meeting was directly thrown here. The difference is that after the first two meetings, some people from the industry came in to participate in the discussion and deliberation.

The first Shanhai Animation Festival was very successful, but in any case, there were indeed some chaotic scenes, and because the place where it was held underestimated the appeal of this animation festival or Meng Fan, there were too many accidents and temporary changes.

The same selection mechanism as the first session is still divided into two parts: ordinary netizens and practitioners at the same time.

The biggest difference is that the time of the Anime Festival has been changed to a week, during which it will host a number of evenings and activities including the opening and closing ceremonies and award ceremonies, COS events, and animation concerts.

The next step is to cooperate with each department to arrange the venue, the guests to be invited, and various rehearsals, etc., and another very important link is to invite animation practitioners and related manufacturers and merchants to set up an animation festival management committee to be responsible for this matter.

The scale of the first session is enough to make the Shanhai Animation Festival the largest animation festival in China, and this time it is necessary to raise the scale of the scale.

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"How's it going? It's okay here, right?"

At the end of the meeting, Meng Fan met with Xing Tage, who was wandering around.

"What's the matter? You're the largest animation film company in China, and I'm qualified to evaluate it. Xing Tage said with a smile.

Meng Fan asked, "Then are you interested in joining?"

Xing Tage was stunned, thinking about it, how could his careful thoughts escape Meng Fan's eyes.

Meng Fan said again: "Why don't I arrange an actor assistant director for you?" raised his eyebrows, "Your favorite." ”

Xing Tage rolled his eyes: "Don't talk nonsense, am I the one who needs to take advantage of this position to do that or something?" paused, laughed and scolded, "Besides, you are a special animation film company, an actor and assistant director, who can I put a red sofa for!

Meng Fan laughed, walked out of Xizi Pictures with Xing Tage and walked towards Damei Studio, and said sincerely: "We just set up three animated drama projects today, one of which is a love fan, are you interested in participating in the screenwriting work? The director and screenwriter who has been decided is Director Liang Chun, whom you like very much, when we chatted before, he mentioned "Campus Love Refers to Men" to me, and asked me about the plot of this ......"

Xing Tage didn't understand Meng Fan's intentions, slapped the helper's shoulder, and said, "If I can, I want to start with his screenwriter's assistant." ”